Re: [PLUG] experiments - OT: FiOS auxiliary power for BBU

2010-04-21 Thread Tom
Keith Lofstrom keithl at kl-ic.com writes: I fiddled a bit with the Auxilliary Power Supply DC 12V input to my FIOS BBU. The barrel connector seems to be a 0.15 inch barrel (approximately 6mm), center positive. I clipped the connector and cable off an obsolete wall wart, and proceeded.

Re: [PLUG] sed regex corrections

2016-08-16 Thread Tom
On Sat, 2016-08-13 at 17:48 -0700, Rich Shepard wrote: > On Sat, 13 Aug 2016, David Fleck wrote: > > > > /s/\([A-Z]\)\([A-Z]+\)/[A-Z]\L\2/g > > > Are we the only people here today? Anyway, this works for me: > > David, > >Apparently so. :-) > > > s/\([A-Z]\)\([A-Z]*\)/\1\L\2/g > > Your

Re: [PLUG] Other options besides VNC (or RDP)

2017-02-17 Thread Tom
Beside already mentioned TeamViewer, I also successfully used Nomachine (nomachine.com) and NetViewer renamed to GoToMeeting (gotomeeting.com) They are not free to use as VNC, so your OSsupport/longevity/cost/exist ence will likely change over time. Tomas On Fri, 2017-02-17 at 17:16 -0800,

Re: [PLUG] "Installing" the Debian installer - How?

2017-02-23 Thread Tom
Please see my comments inline... On Thu, 2017-02-23 at 06:07 -0600, Richard Owlett wrote: > On 02/23/2017 02:36 AM, Tom wrote: > > > > As about your direct ISO file usage - Please realize that .iso > > > > is > > > > disk > > > > image

Re: [PLUG] Running a Python application in the background

2017-02-23 Thread Tom
I'd second the use of screen as that will allow you to reconnect with the shell where you started the command should you need it. Another alternative to nohup I often use: at -f commandToRun now The dependency is to start atd.service The advantages to nohup that is that you will get the command's

Re: [PLUG] question on Mozilla Firefox holding up Yast2 system admin program

2017-02-23 Thread Tom
by adding & to the end of your command lines - like this: firefox & yast2 & That way the commands will not block your terminal from executing further commands. Does that help? Tomas On Thu, 2017-02-23 at 09:57 -0800, logical american wrote: > On 2/22/2017 10:38 PM, Tom wrote: > > Can

Re: [PLUG] Remote host lost ssh key verification [UPDATED]

2017-02-24 Thread Tom
You have two choices here Rich: a) Yes it will wipe all existing entries from known_hosts file, but they will be all recreated when you login to those hosts again in the future. b) delete only the line in known_hosts file corresponding to the host you have difficulties to login to. When you do

Re: [PLUG] boot filled

2017-02-24 Thread Tom
Hi Denis, Need to run to remove unused old versions of kernels and other packages? Run: sudo apt autoremove --purge That should fix that for you automagically. If you want to prevent the problem happening in the future without remembering the command, you can configure it by following this

Re: [PLUG] Remote host lost ssh key verification [UPDATED]

2017-02-24 Thread Tom
for the next time... That is what I do with confusing and infrequent issues... Perhaps even automate the setup, so that you can easily reset the configuration. Tomas On Fri, 2017-02-24 at 14:46 -0800, Rich Shepard wrote: > On Fri, 24 Feb 2017, Tom wrote: > > > a) Yes it will wipe

Re: [PLUG] ownCloud/nextCloud

2017-02-25 Thread Tom
Changing topic/subject to own/nextCloud ... I am using ownCloud to replace G..gle services as well as to synchronize/access personal data around many devices. I use the storage, address book, calendar, bookmarks and photo modules exclusively from ownCloud keeping no such data with G. That being

Re: [PLUG] question on Mozilla Firefox holding up Yast2 system admin program

2017-02-25 Thread Tom
I still do not think that what you see is Firefox related. Are you trying to use Yast2 remotely from another machine? If so, how do you log in? Ssh/VNC/.? To give you head start for further follow up, here is little Yast2 trivia if you run on local machine: * Yast2 needs to be started as

Re: [PLUG] question on Mozilla Firefox holding up Yast2 system admin program

2017-02-22 Thread Tom
Can you describe what do you mean? How is Firefox blocking Yast2? Are you: a) Downloading some one-click package from OBS expecting Firefox to start Yast2? b) Starting Yast2 from command line and something tells you that Firefox prevents it from running? If a) is you problem: * Check your MIME

Re: [PLUG] "Installing" the Debian installer - How?

2017-02-23 Thread Tom
> > As about your direct ISO file usage - Please realize that .iso is > > disk > > image file format, not a file system where you can access and > > execute > > individual files. > > That basically was the point of my post. > Perhaps my subject line could have been "How to translate iso-hybrid >

Re: [PLUG] Translating spreadsheet file: XessSE to LO calc

2017-02-09 Thread Tom
I deal with these things by exporting to universally digestible format from the original application. I recall Xess was reliably reading/wring to Exel's .xls which would be most likely 100% digestible by LibreOffice unless you used macros. I've been fairly successful in converting not only data,

Re: [PLUG] Translating spreadsheet file: XessSE to LO calc

2017-02-09 Thread Tom
: > On Thu, 9 Feb 2017, Tom wrote: > > > I deal with these things by exporting to universally digestible > > format > > from the original application. > > Tom, > >Except that I gave up on Xess years ago (when they raised their > price) and > no longer h

Re: [PLUG] acroread for 64-bit machines?

2017-02-14 Thread Tom
, 2017-02-14 at 10:45 -0800, Rich Shepard wrote: > On Tue, 14 Feb 2017, Tom wrote: > > > I regularly use okular and evince for presenting from PDF. To go to > > full screen (presentation) mode use: > > evince - F11 > > Tom, > >I just tried this and whil

Re: [PLUG] Needed: Modern equivalent of a "null-modem cable"

2017-01-18 Thread Tom
I have been watching this threat for a while - unsure how to respond to such quest and be contributing without writing complete how-to on how to use networking wrong way. Since you now discovered USB to serial convertors it appears to me that: a) You have the resources to purchase two

Re: [PLUG] Temperature and Raspberry Pi.

2017-01-17 Thread Tom
As mentioned by Chuck and his links - the beauty of these sensors is that you can connect quite a few of them together to 1-wire bus and address them by their unique ID. DS18B20 are really much better choice than USB thermometers when you need to measure temperature at more than one/two places. a)

Re: [PLUG] Temperature and Raspberry Pi.

2017-01-17 Thread Tom
You will need to calibrate the sensors to get real/absolute measurements out of these devices, in my experience. I used them for datalogging and they were +-3C between the three of them I had. They were self heating by the read process, so you need to let them stabilize before calibrating and then

Re: [PLUG] ownCloud/nextCloud

2017-02-25 Thread Tom
and sharing expiry dates, and other little bits and pieces. I do not believe that it would work on PalmOS, though, you could sync your windows copy. Tomas On Sat, 2017-02-25 at 15:54 -0800, Rich Shepard wrote: > On Sat, 25 Feb 2017, Tom wrote: > > > I am using ownCloud to replace G..

Re: [PLUG] Evolution/Android Contact/Calendar Sync

2017-03-01 Thread Tom
I keep my calendar and contacts in ownCloud on the web and synchronize everything to it. It works like charm with Android, iOS, Linux (Evolution/Kontact/Kmail) ... did not try Win (but other people say that it works too). In Android, I use iCal and CardDAV apps to do the synchronization with the

Re: [PLUG] Linux and AWS: Cloud Chronicles

2016-08-31 Thread Tom
On Tue, 2016-08-30 at 23:40 -0700, Michael Dexter wrote: > On 8/30/16 1:23 PM, Paul Heinlein wrote: > > Amazon's services are often expensive compared to the cost of > > running > > those services in-house on bare metal -- but once you factor in the > > costs of leasing space and building out your

Re: [PLUG] I have an Ansible joke...

2016-08-31 Thread Tom
I suspect that here maybe something fishy on your side somewhere ... Did you try: -v, --verbose --> verbose mode (-vvv for more, - to enable connection debugging) On x250 laptop: $ time -p ansible localhost -m shell -a 'echo helloworld' localhost | success | rc=0 >> helloworld real 0.24 user

Re: [PLUG] Gkrellmd on RPi

2016-09-24 Thread Tom
Firewall on Pi? Can you connect to gkrellmd locally? If yes, look at Pi's system logs to see if the firewall is dropping your gkrellm client connection requests. T On Thu, 2016-09-22 at 23:21 -0700, Chuck Hast wrote: > Folks, > I have been trying to run gkrellmd on some RPi's. But when I try to

Re: [PLUG] Email reply robot for PSU wifi access?

2016-09-25 Thread Tom
You can feed the link to curl on your mail server based on the address/subject combination. Like custom spam filter. I would try to do that manually as a proof of concept first. If accessing the link by a bot (your email server running curl for example) fails to give you WLAN access, it might be

Re: [PLUG] Possible reasons why tarball creation would fail

2016-09-25 Thread Tom
Try it without the last '/' like this: tar czvf caddis-home-2016-09-24.tgz /home/rshepard Although, if you run it like that, you can only restore /home/rshepard Thus, I find following equivalent more flexible: cd /home tar czvf /mnt/hd/caddis/caddis-home-2016-09-24.tgz rshepard This way you can

Re: [PLUG] Bash: pause running script and continue it in background [FIXED]

2016-10-06 Thread Tom
Nobody mentioned fg command for taking job to foreground yet!? Summary: Start something in background: ./send-nl.sh & Get job number (1 in this example): jobs Bring job listed as 1 to foreground: fg %1 Kill job 1: kill %1 Yet another way to stop job 1: kill -s 19 %1 Stop any process you own by

Re: [PLUG] Another reason to NOT buy HP

2016-09-25 Thread Tom
I buy HP printers/scanners exclusively because of their trouble free Linux support. In order to save on consumables later (after cca. 2050), I have chosen enterprise (not customer) printer/scanner; thus trading the cost of the printer for the price of the consumables. In my case it is zero cost

Re: [PLUG] Re-doing ssh key phrase and key type

2016-10-25 Thread Tom
See comment below. On Tue, 2016-10-25 at 15:13 -0700, Rich Shepard wrote: >Having new installations of Slackware-14.2 on three hosts now (two > more to > go after I get these three fully functional), I want to change my ssh > private and public keys using a new passphrase and type. > >

Re: [PLUG] Enabling bi-directional ssh

2016-11-08 Thread Tom
ted by remote machine's public key. I hope that this explanation makes sense and it is not circular. Tomas On Tue, 2016-11-08 at 07:47 -0800, Rich Shepard wrote: > On Mon, 7 Nov 2016, Tom wrote: > > > If you want the public key ssh to work the same way in the other > > direction

Re: [PLUG] Enabling bi-directional ssh

2016-11-08 Thread Tom
Do not use ssh-agent to add public keys to authorized_keys file, it is intended for something else. The easiest is to simply copy the public key line in your local id_ed25519.pub to the authorized_keys file in your remote hosts. Please note that if your ssh is configured to use ssh v.1 protocol

Re: [PLUG] Enabling bi-directional ssh

2016-11-06 Thread Tom
Hi Rich, I struggle to understand what is local and what is remote and what files you have where. So here is the minimum what you need to do/audit: Local machine .ssh/: id_ed25519 - r/w by user only (600) id_ed25519.pub - r/w by user + r by group and others (644) Remote machine(s) .ssh/:

Re: [PLUG] Clarifying -- Re: Permissions for an entire PARTITION

2016-11-09 Thread Tom
I am afraid that what you want to do cannot be done: * access control at physical partition/disk level cannot be done. Maybe in newest NTFS versions, but that is not a Linux realm * you could control access to disk at BIOS boot time by setting HDD password, though I suspect that it is not quite

Re: [PLUG] Enabling bi-directional ssh

2016-11-07 Thread Tom
I'm glad that you resolved the /etc/ssh host key files. It is common to stop sshd, remove the files and start sshd again to generate new set of host files. It is normally done when you create a host from disk image either locally or in the cloud. Otherwise you would have multiple hosts with

Re: [PLUG] Which linuxquestions.org forum most appropriate?

2016-10-24 Thread Tom
For what it is worth, I run every mainstream Linux except Slackware and Arch on on Thinkpads. I am just not familiar with those distros. In fact, I use Thinkpads because of their longevity and trouble free Linux experience. Trouble free meaning, no exotic hardware which needs special drivers,

Re: [PLUG] freegeek New Building Access Policy

2016-10-21 Thread Tom
If Michael's assessment is right, helping them fund raise for better/manageable meeting room security could give the community a few more years of this great and open arrangement/partnership. That is, if they are after security, not a discouragement by adding that barrier. I am sure that it will

Re: [PLUG] Linux Laptop Recommendation

2016-11-14 Thread Tom
dual boot way; Or blogs about that it can be done - not really elaborating about the practicality of doing it. Thanks, Tom On Mon, 2016-11-14 at 13:46 -0800, Chuck Hast wrote: > Google is your friend: > install linux on chromebook > will return you a long list of hot to and what to d

Re: [PLUG] more desktop issues

2016-11-27 Thread Tom
Hi Denis, I hope that I did not miss this obvious suggestion in your past posts. If so, I regret pointing the obvious. Did you check the file system on the drives? If you did not, here is how to do this safely: 1. check what filesystems you have at what partitions, in case that you you need it

Re: [PLUG] laptop error msg out of space for /boot

2016-11-19 Thread Tom
Need to run to remove unused old versions of kernels and other packages? Run: sudo apt autoremove --purge That should fix that for you automagically. If you want to prevent the problem happening in the future without remembering the command, you can configure it by following this guide:

Re: [PLUG] Linux Laptop Recommendation

2016-11-13 Thread Tom
I use the original HP Stream 11 for $199 new (much improved now - more RAM (2->4GB) and better screen) as general machine for kids with Ubuntu. It has been running great for over year and half, lasts about 8 -10 hours on battery, depending what the kiddos are up to. Much better & cheap machine

Re: [PLUG] laptop error msg out of space for /boot

2016-11-19 Thread Tom
I am glad that it sorted your problem. All you need to do, what I do anyway, is to run the auto remove command every few months, or as often as you feel like in order to remove old packages and kernel versions. It took a while to fill your /boot partition, so you should have about the same time

Re: [PLUG] Linux Laptop Recommendation

2016-11-14 Thread Tom
As I mentioned before, I got HP Stream 11, but I am thinking about getting one cheap laptop to prevent over-subscriptions teen fights. I understand that my life will become more interesting looking for two laptops, instead of one, hidden somewhere "by accident". While another "blue" laptop is

Re: [PLUG] my printer is out of ink, recommendations for a new printer?

2016-10-28 Thread Tom
cartridge T On Fri, 2016-10-28 at 19:30 -0700, Tom Sharples wrote: > My experience with recent vintage HP (and other) inkjet reliability > over > the last several years has been abysmal. Not to mention irritating > nagware that prompts you - on all your desk and laptops - to buy new &

Re: [PLUG] Problems Turning Off USB Booting

2016-12-10 Thread Tom
It seems that your BIOS is doing something wrong by not accepting the boot order OR that your boot process is corrupted somehow and the BIOS is falling back to the USB after failing to boot from the HDD. I have following ideas to explore: 1. You could try to reset the bios to defaults, reboot

Re: [PLUG] 4k displays with video card recommendations?

2016-12-13 Thread Tom
On Tue, 2016-12-13 at 12:25 -0800, Russell Senior wrote: > > > > > > "Tom" == Tom <tomas.kuchta.li...@gmail.com> writes: > > Tom> Maybe you do not need a graphics card on your i7 if your desktop > Tom> has DisplayPort ... depending on the screen you get

Re: [PLUG] 4k displays with video card recommendations?

2016-12-13 Thread Tom
Maybe you do not need a graphics card on your i7 if your desktop has DisplayPort ... depending on the screen you get. 2nd/3rd Generation Intel® Core - 2560 x 1600 over DP 4th Gen H-Processors: 3840 x 2160 over DP 5th/6th Gen H-Processors: 4096 x 2304 over DP and HDMI 1.4 Assuming that you are not

Re: [PLUG] Help with v4l2 Video Driver

2016-12-17 Thread Tom
This is what I use for v4l webcams - which maybe be identical to your video capture card: * Finding webcam (part of v4l-utils package) : v4l2-ctl --list-devices Integrated Camera (usb-:00:14.0-8): /dev/video0 * list formats available for the device: ffmpeg -f v4l2 -list_formats all -i

Re: [PLUG] T430 fan problem under Debian but not Windows

2016-12-31 Thread Tom
For what it is worth it, I have run (and still do) various versions of openSuSE and Knoppix on T430 without any strange fan control problems. The only fan issue I have encountered was noise from fan's dead bearings after heavy 3 years use, resolved by replacing the fan/heatsink assembly. I'd

Re: [PLUG] recommended hardware question on VPN router

2016-12-20 Thread Tom
I second that - check with what the particular VPN enpoint needs/supports. One thing I do not understand from the original post: * I assume that the VPN connection is to be terminated at the stock trading house * Purpose of the VPN connection is to maintaining secure connection for the purpose of

Re: [PLUG] Emacs: convert all uppercase words to capitalized

2016-12-20 Thread Tom
I am not into that Emacs thing, but since you mentioned sed - I know a few ways that work guaranteed in sed: 1. by letter for letter translation: echo "I've looked in both the emacs" | sed 'y/qwertyuiopasdfghjklzxc vbnm/QWERTYUIOPASDFGHJKLZXCVBNM/' returns: I'VE LOOKED IN BOTH THE EMACS 2.

Re: [PLUG] Linux Mint / Evolution <--SYNC--> Galaxy S7 ?

2017-03-27 Thread Tom
I use iCal for synchronizing evolution calendar and cardDav for the address book with android's default calendar and address book via self -hosted ownCloud. I guess that you could do it without ownCloud, but it need quit a bit of manual synchronization without always on and always accessible

Re: [PLUG] question on upgrading

2017-03-30 Thread Tom
To be honest, I do not fully understand what is your partitioning scheme and what do you mean by scrubbing /usr, /var, /lib, /bin, /etc partitions. Scrubbing, in my mind, means cleaning, keeping your old stuff, but cleaning/removing temporary or unused files <-- I am afraid that that old 13.2

Re: [PLUG] Raspbian sqlite project...

2017-03-22 Thread Tom
Hi Michael, I assume that you are somewhat familiar with C and SQL. If you need SQL introduction (essential for using any SQL DB) I would recommend: https://www.w3schools.com/sql/ and replicate the examples using sqlite3 command line interface. You will see plenty SQL examples how to count rows in

Re: [PLUG] HP laptop

2017-03-28 Thread Tom
My experience with UEFI on HP and Lenovo laptops goes like this: * Unless you can import your distribution signing keys (openSuSE and SuSE installers do that automatically) or disable secure UEFI boot you will have various degrees of trouble double booting. Although the UEFI boot menu (usually

Re: [PLUG] Monitor... dead audio

2017-03-25 Thread Tom
Before replacing any parts, it may be worth to try to inject some audio signal to the amp amplifier first there are other failure modes possible such as PCB, capacitor, mixer/volume control, DAC, .. In any case, when you get all the way here into the TV - you could even explore

Re: [PLUG] CentOS 7 iso too big to burn...

2017-03-31 Thread Tom
I would advise you against trying to install Linux to drive you just booted from - the things will likely go wrong as soon as the installer start partitioning the drive. While you could pre-partition the drive for the install before booting from it - avoiding partitioning - you could still run

Re: [PLUG] USB to ethernet adapters

2017-03-19 Thread Tom
USB2 with maximum transfer speed 480 Mb/s is plenty fast for fast ethernet (100Mb/s) but not fast enough for 1 Gb/s ethernet - hence those come mainly wit USB3 (or 3.0 or 3.1 v1 to confuse people) which is 5Gb/s. Please note that USB3 gigabit ethernet adapter will work just fine with recent linux

Re: [PLUG] USB to ethernet adapters

2017-03-20 Thread Tom
I have used the adapter Wes suggested and it works like a charm on Linux, and it is good price for $10. If you need to buy local (limited choice) and want to be sure that it works, why not bring a laptop and try to plug it in it should show as a network card. You should be able to see and inspect

Re: [PLUG] serial communication over ethernet (VY)

2017-03-20 Thread Tom
While I do not have direct experience with the device, I see a few misconceptions in what you describe. 1. I assume that you want to configure, setup, control and use the Lantronix device from a Linux PC. 2. You need to have working network which you can use to communicated with the Lantronix

Re: [PLUG] Ubuntu and NFS during boot

2017-03-18 Thread Tom
You could use "user" and "noauto" mount options in fstab instead of relying on "bg" and then run mount command with timeout by a script in a loop very couple of minutes until it is mounted. Or give up after so many unsuccessful attempts. Would that work for you? On Fri, 2017-03-17 at 20:36 -0700,

Re: [PLUG] Multiple hard drive types in SAS raids.

2017-03-21 Thread Tom
Here is how I look at this... There are couple of potential issues with mixing different disks and speeds - 1. reliability 2. economy 1. Reliability - The level of risk depends mainly on whether you are using software or hardware RAID. There is no additional risk for software RAID as long as the

Re: [PLUG] Raid confusion

2017-04-03 Thread Tom
Why new filer? They take more than one disk, no? Some of them can have expansion enclosures too. On Mon, 2017-04-03 at 15:31 -0700, John Jason Jordan wrote: > On Mon, 03 Apr 2017 14:40:39 -0700 > Tom <tomas.kuchta.li...@gmail.com> dijo: > > > Raid 0 is striping - it combines

Re: [PLUG] Examples of customized grub2 configuration files?

2017-04-03 Thread Tom
Would these articles help you to get started? https://www.suse.com/documentation/sled-12/singlehtml/book_sle_admin/bo ok_sle_admin.html#cha.grub2 https://nnc3.com/mags/LM10/Magazine/Archive/2010/111/058-060_grub2/arti cle.html http://www.linuxjournal.com/article/10830 - page 2 Tomas On Mon,

Re: [PLUG] USB enclosures

2017-04-04 Thread Tom
I understand that you are choosing RAID0 because you need 8+8=16GB of storage space instead of redundancy. I would advise you against using RAID0 if you care about your data - single disk failure and you loose everything. JBOD will give you the same storage space at about the same performance over

Re: [PLUG] Backup RPi SD card

2017-04-09 Thread Tom
wonder how smart is the circuit in avoiding the charge/discharge battery cycles when the power is on - it relates to the battery life. Tomas On Sat, 2017-04-08 at 18:57 -0700, Chuck Hast wrote: > On Sat, Apr 8, 2017 at 3:42 PM, Tom <tomas.kuchta.li...@gmail.com> > wrote: > > &g

Re: [PLUG] Tarnished chromium

2017-04-10 Thread Tom
Going to https://www.key.com I can reproduce your findings. Firefox, Chrome - no issues Chromium the same error related to transparent certificate chain (possibly Symantec related) I seems to recall that Symantec was caught issuing unauthorized certs again and the browsers decided to stop

Re: [PLUG] Re Tarnished Chromium

2017-04-10 Thread Tom
It seems that you are fighting an epic battle against security features - if you win and your gateway/router or ... is compromised, your victor y against the browsers could cost you. If you want, contact me off list with your bank's URL and I will try it with my Firefox/Chromium/Chrome/ to see

Re: [PLUG] Movie fan needs storage space

2017-03-31 Thread Tom
On Fri, 2017-03-31 at 14:59 -0700, John Jason Jordan wrote: > On Fri, 31 Mar 2017 13:18:32 -0700 > Tom <tomas.kuchta.li...@gmail.com> dijo: > > > I wish other companies would publish yearly hardware failure rates > > like > > this one: > > https://www.backbl

Re: [PLUG] Awk script repositories?

2017-03-31 Thread Tom
While this is not the answer you are looking for - if you are looking for all sorts of data manipulation libraries - I would turn your attention to Python or Perl - both have more libraries than you could discover/learn in one lifetime. While awk is supper fast and convenient, especially when used

Re: [PLUG] Finding appropriate USENET group or mailing list?

2017-04-01 Thread Tom
Try Google searching for: Comcast site:lists.pdxlinux.org https://www.google.com/search?q=Comcast+site%3Alists.pdxlinux.org=ut f-8=utf-8 See other Google search details: https://support.google.com/websearch/answer/2466433?hl=en https://www.lifewire.com/advanced-google-search-3482174 Best luck,

Re: [PLUG] Movie fan needs storage space

2017-04-01 Thread Tom
That is to be expected for a drive behind simple USB to SATA controller. If the drive is internally SATA, pull it out of the enclosure, connect it to SATA port in your PC and get the info. >From my experience the drives in USB enclosures are typically fine and have clean Smart data. Data

Re: [PLUG] Finding appropriate USENET group or mailing list?

2017-04-02 Thread Tom
aintain flow of thought;} > On 04/02/2017 12:47 AM, Tom wrote: > > On Sat, 2017-04-01 at 09:18 -0500, Richard Owlett wrote: > > [SNIP] > > > > > > Search engines aren't intelligent enough. They can retrieve > > > individual posts with a keyword. They will like

Re: [PLUG] Public SSH server configs

2017-04-11 Thread Tom
That is what contracts, firewalls, monitoring and compliance tools are for. If you do not trust users to start a process or use network ports - disable their login and physical access to computers. There are so many avenues which can be exploited beside ssh or any myriad of other server processes.

Re: [PLUG] monitor drops to lower resolution after OS upgrade

2017-04-09 Thread Tom
will be reinstalling it to 42.2 this or next week before handing it over, and your experience could save me time researching the same issue. Thank you, Tomas On Sat, 2017-04-08 at 18:01 -0700, logical american wrote: > On 4/8/2017 12:53 AM, Tom wrote: > > I am able to set the resolution to max and lower

Re: [PLUG] Backup RPi SD card

2017-04-09 Thread Tom
on a timer so the power cuts, it drains > > the > > battery for a while, then charges back up if that was advantageous > > for > > battery life... > > > > On Sun, Apr 9, 2017 at 2:39 AM Tom <tomas.kuchta.li...@gmail.com> > > wrote: > > > &g

Re: [PLUG] Backup RPi SD card

2017-04-08 Thread Tom
dd nor rsync alone will not be able to do full backup of running computer (RPi). The best course of action is to separate the OS from your data - whatever your RPi is normally writing - then backup each separately. * When you separate the data, you could even store it off the RPi avoiding need

Re: [PLUG] Public SSH server configs

2017-04-12 Thread Tom
d actors. LOL Tomas On Wed, 2017-04-12 at 13:08 -0500, Cryptomonkeys.org wrote: > Sure. and that would be fine for all the people who aren’t malicious. > > > > On Apr 11, 2017, at 7:53 PM, Tom <tomas.kuchta.li...@gmail.com> > > wrote: > > > > That is what c

Re: [PLUG] 'tree' output not in US-ASCII character set

2017-04-20 Thread Tom
Disclaimer: I have no experience with Alpine or urxvt. In fact, I have never hear of either and since I have not clue what they might be google is not really helpful either. With the above out of the way - your Copy & Paste action is most likely routed through your Desktop environment. In

Re: [PLUG] 'tree' output not in US-ASCII character set

2017-04-19 Thread Tom
Have you considered those files/directories to be showing their correct UTF-8 names? If that is so, and you do not like it, rename them. If you cannot easily rename them because of their "funny" names, I recommend using find with its plethora of options to pick up those files individually.

Re: [PLUG] computer freeze forcing manual reset and reboot question

2017-04-24 Thread Tom
Instead of different keyboard, You could also try to press power button and wait a minute, which is separate from keyboard, and should shut down your PC/laptop by default. If the crashes are HW related and there is no kernel panic - there is little you could do in the absence of logs. Is your fan

Re: [PLUG] Reverse SSH tunnel

2017-03-03 Thread Tom
Reverse ssh tunnel is secure solution, if configured properly and using robust keys, access control and strong password. It keeps control over the connection with the connecting user/site as it should be in normal customer/supplier relationship. I do not want to speculate about what you've heard.

Re: [PLUG] Browsers and banks

2017-03-08 Thread Tom
Did you try with some other Linux computer, perhaps with different distribution? I know that this is hard to hear and do - If this truly is your Bank's problem - maybe the time has come to move the accounts to somewhere where they can serve your needs. I had to do this couple of times in my life,

Re: [PLUG] Wireless video cameras?

2017-03-13 Thread Tom
While I will not be recommending any HW beside R-Pi - here is my experience with the use of security cameras for similar purpose in the past: * If you want your recording actionable by PD - please talk to them first about what they need. * If the image quality or camera placement is not good

Re: [PLUG] Job running in background

2017-03-02 Thread Tom
To see if your background process does something with the CPU rather than just hang around waiting for user input for example - you could see the process CPU load and wall clock time - the time should be increasing. The easiest way is to fire: top and see what CPU percentage the process uses and

[PLUG] Linux Fest Northwest - Bellingham - May 6-7 2017

2017-04-02 Thread Tom
Conference details at: https://www.linuxfestnorthwest.org/2017 If anybody plans to go to LFNW and would like to share ride with me, I can take up to 3 people for the annual pilgrimage North. I plan to leave Portland on Friday 5th at about 3pm, returning back on Sunday 7th after the conference

Re: [PLUG] Raid confusion

2017-04-03 Thread Tom
Synology can auto expand storage volume by adding disks to redundant RAID types such as RAID1,5 or 6. In your case, adding disk and asking the filer to integrate it will add it to RAID1 configuration - you will gain redundancy, not capacity. If you add another 2 disks and ask the filer to

Re: [PLUG] monitor drops to lower resolution after OS upgrade

2017-04-08 Thread Tom
I am able to set the resolution to max and lower values my monitor supports in 42.2 KDE: Configure Desktop --> Display and Monitor What is you graphic card/CPU? I had no issues with Intel internal graphics forever. If it is not graphic card related, then your problem may be - the monitor is not

Re: [PLUG] Cheap printer for Raspberry Pi idea

2017-08-12 Thread Tom
I am great fan of HP printers and multifunction devices - because they just work on Linux (with some rare exceptions). My current one HP 8600, in the past: HP 3510, HP 1505N, . Generally, it just prints and also scans with some minor love. I have also owned Epson C88 (I think) - the printer

Re: [PLUG] Migrating Win 10 on new machine to VirtualBox

2017-08-12 Thread Tom
Alternatively, you could create Windows recovery USB media before installing linux on the box. It can be used to fully reinstall already activated Windows in VM or on the laptop when you want to give it away. I store the USB media on a filer as VDI disk image, forever. I have never used any of

Re: [PLUG] Migrating Win 10 on new machine to VirtualBox

2017-08-13 Thread Tom
And a third might be better with 10. > > -Denis > > On Sat, Aug 12, 2017 at 5:23 PM, Tom <tomas.kuchta.li...@gmail.com> > wrote: > > > Alternatively, you could create Windows recovery USB media before > > installing linux on the box. > > It can be used to ful

Re: [PLUG] ENU,Inc R.I.P.

2017-08-13 Thread Tom
You could still do this "rummage in the bins for " in surplus gizmos in Hillsboro Just a RIP thought: I had an interesting experience while visiting local CenturyLink store a few weeks ago - there are so many people without basic networking and computer knowledge - not even a clue. In the past

Re: [PLUG] Century Link sales at the door

2017-08-13 Thread Tom
To compare .. I switched to CenturyLink fiber about month ago for $45 for 100Mb/s down 50Mb/s up (-router+paper-less bills+autobilling) in SE Portland. I had to get the router and return it. Local alternatives - Comcast increased my price from $50 to $90 for 100Mb/s down 10Mb/s up last month. I

Re: [PLUG] Thoughts on Linux Distros & Desktop Enviro

2017-07-12 Thread Tom
I would be very careful to check sha256sum and compare it against known, published source before installing anything off a public torrent these days. Better be safe than sorry. Just my 2c, Tomas On Mon, 2017-07-10 at 19:10 -0700, John Jason Jordan wrote: > On Mon, 10 Jul 2017 16:40:13 -0700 >

Re: [PLUG] Choosing a USB headset mounted microphone - was [Current state of Linux voice recognition]

2017-07-08 Thread Tom
I have found that USB headsets generally just work with Linux. I am using recent 2015+ openSuse and Ubuntu. I used many models from Logitech, Plantronics and Jabra with zero issues. I cannot remember the exact models, I usually use them at work, but it must have used about 10 different wired and

Re: [PLUG] Printing PDF files

2017-07-09 Thread Tom
You shy away from naming the bank ... My bank - First Tech FCU encrypts the statements and restricts their printing in PDF. I have no idea why would one wanted to do this, they apparently do no have any idea themselves too. However, they also do not seem to be able to do anything about it. I do

Re: [PLUG] Bluetooth A2DP and audio streaming fidelity

2017-07-01 Thread Tom
Yes, even something like this will sound sound better than Bluetooth as well as better than RPi for that matter when connected to amplifier or car stereo. It works under linux without hassle. RPi uses RC circuit instead of real/active DAC that is why it does not sound too good. I have equally

Re: [PLUG] Bluetooth A2DP and audio streaming fidelity

2017-07-04 Thread Tom
0-ish, then a case $15-ish Best luck, Tomas On Sun, 2017-07-02 at 08:44 -0700, VY wrote: > Thanks. > > I found this yesterday: > > https://www.hifiberry.com/shop/boards/hifiberry-amp-plus/ > > Which is an RPi add-on. Is it worth trying? > > -v > >

Re: [PLUG] Convert MPEG2 to MPEG4...

2017-07-06 Thread Tom
+1 for HandBrake - it is great for casual simple converting use - it comes in two parts: CLI and GUI If you ever need it, use ffmpeg for more complex tasks such as muxing in/out different streams, and converting formats HandBrake does not understand. I would also recommend combination of x264 for

Re: [PLUG] Century Link sales at the door

2017-08-17 Thread Tom
Hi Denis, As about "CL, Comcast and just about anybody else ranking down in the mud" - Isn't this the general trend including politics, health, car dealers, etc., etc., etc.? With very few exceptions such as Amazon's customer service, . That being said, we still have to get on living and it

Re: [PLUG] Does my Lenovo desktop support msata?

2017-08-19 Thread Tom
You should have asked locally for a loaner msata device to try in your device. I have bunch of low capacity ones laying around from old laptops. I am sure that thy are pretty common around drawers and bins - they were once used ac hdd cache on 32GB capacities Sometimes, just trying things is the

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