That's minor stuff. Thunderbird versions greater than 91.13.1 are completely
broken with self-signed certificates. While yes there's always Lets Encrypt,
why go through the extreme bullcrap of setting up LetsEncrypt on a mailserver
that is buried behind firewalls and does not have port 80
UPS Lead Acid gel cells are not what they used to be. A decade ago I could get
a 12v 7ah gel call from Panasonic that would sit in a box
For 6 months, not significantly sulfate, then work in a UPS for 5 years.
Today everything on the market is complete crap. Even the AGM versions are
hardly
What is the goal for the target population? Just to get them Internet
connectivity? And when they get Internet connectivity what will they be using
it for? The reason I'm asking is if the target population has so little
computer ability that the result of them getting Internet connectivity
These letters are standard when people use their real company names and
addresses on the
WHOIS data for the domain. I get them a lot. Yours, tripod.com, is concealed
behind a fake
Company name so of course you won't ever receive such a scam letter.
(www.tripod.com does
Not match the whois
I believe the current version of Ubuntu enables Wayland while Ubuntu 20 does
not, it is possible the latest Zoom is expecting Wayland to be enabled the
older one uses xorg?
There's a ton of compatibility layers where xorg and wayland apps can run on
each others managers, in theory that is.
https://www.lirc.org/
Put it in a Raspberry Pi with a 5v rechargeable battery and Bob's your uncle
Ted
-Original Message-
From: PLUG On Behalf Of Michael Rasmussen
Sent: Saturday, August 5, 2023 7:43 AM
To: Portland Linux/Unix Group
Subject: [PLUG] Seeking a Universal Remote
Looking
, Jul 31, 2023, 17:31 Ted Mittelstaedt wrote:
>
> > a dead-end solution with a future of pain, fragility, and
> >(probably) unpatched security vulnerabilities while people scramble
> >to
> find
> and implement a solution (that may no >longer exist within even a
f Debian needs a modern system
to run their moinmoin wiki I'd be happy to set them up with a Slackware 15.0
installation with python2.7.
-Ben
--- Original Message ---
On Monday, July 31st, 2023 at 5:31 PM, Ted Mittelstaedt
wrote:
> > a dead-end solution with a future of pain, fra
Per https://moinmo.in/MoinMoin2/InstallDebian and
https://github.com/moinwiki/moin version 2.0+ it is
"unstable, for production please use 1.9.x."
Ted
-Original Message-
From: PLUG [mailto:plug-boun...@pdxlinux.org] On Behalf Of Russell Senior
Sent: Tuesday, August 1, 2023 1:06 AM
breaking on updates (was: Re: Upgrage Breaks
MediaWiki - why?)
I wonder how far you would get by asking Bard or chatgpt or one of the other AI
things to translate Python 2 to current python
On Mon, Jul 31, 2023 at 5:31 PM Ted Mittelstaedt
wrote:
>
> > a dead-end solution with
> a dead-end solution with a future of pain, fragility, and
>(probably) unpatched security vulnerabilities while people scramble to find
and implement a solution (that may no >longer exist within even a reasonable
set of parameters).
I feel compelled to point out that if people spent half the
> Using a swap file on SSD will allow fine tuning
I'm not sure this is a good idea. SSD bits degrade every time they are
written. While modern SSD chips have a memory manager chip that is supposed to
lock out failed bits, you still are degrading it when you write to it. And
there's a LOT of
The entire point of swap is to have a place to put stuff that can't fit in
main ram because "back in the day" ram was expensive so we almost always put
too little of it in computers.
Today ram is cheap and the idea now is that they know you probably are going
to have more ram than your programs
Original Message-
From: PLUG On Behalf Of Dick Steffens
Sent: Thursday, June 15, 2023 11:43 AM
To: plug@pdxlinux.org
Subject: Re: [PLUG] Sluggish response
On 6/14/23 07:43, Tomas Kuchta wrote:
> On Wed, Jun 14, 2023, 01:41 Ted Mittelstaedt wrote:
>
>> If it is a magnetic media dri
If it is a magnetic media drive that is older the drive could be suffering end
stage sector failure where the bad sector table is filled up. I've seen it
many times and it always makes the drive get very slow
Ted
-Original Message-
From: PLUG On Behalf Of Dick Steffens
Sent: Tuesday,
I've read the same thing about USB drives. But I will point out that the last
time I bought them from Best Buy that 32GB was the smallest size I could find
there and they were like $4 each or something.
Note that there is a program written for Linux for testing USB drives to make
sure they
just a bare bones monitor app for a large screen. The
monitor folks can use their laptops to look at a specific camera, but the large
screen is for others who are also monitoring.
On Sun, May 21, 2023 at 4:40 PM Ted Mittelstaedt
wrote:
> As a mobile app ZMNinja isn't that complicated, w
t works. I did a OS upgrade and thought
I had dropped a bomb on it turns out I had NOT killed the old Focal PPA and
that was causing major issue, killed the PPA and made sure the latest one was
working did a quick reload, and it came back nice and stable as always.
On Sun, May 21, 2023 at 12
I had some problem with it myself, seems only to work when I use the "admin"
user that has all rights. ZMNinja seems that it's -supposed- to be happy with
just view access but I don't think it is - I don't know if it's errors in
programming assumptions or whatever - but it seems to assume that
e sort of
XDG standard they are looking for.
The workaround is to save the file to disk, then attach to an email you
composed in the client of your choice. If google doesn't want to see your
client.
-Ben
--- Original Message ---
On Thursday, May 18th, 2023 at 9:28 PM, Ted Mittelstaedt
wrote:
> If y
xlinux.org
Subject: Re: [PLUG] Sending a Google-Earth Pro image via email
On Fri, 19 May 2023, Ted Mittelstaedt wrote:
> What is the operating system/version/make/model/year of Linux you are using?
Ted,
Slackware64-15.0 the most current production distribution.
Rich
What is the operating system/version/make/model/year of Linux you are using?
Ted
-Original Message-
From: PLUG On Behalf Of Rich Shepard
Sent: Thursday, May 18, 2023 1:30 PM
To: plug@pdxlinux.org
Subject: [PLUG] Sending a Google-Earth Pro image via email
I'm trying to send myself a KML
I try to build 'em so they only bork when I want 'em to borkLOL
Seriously, I think there's a big value in the idea of separating the computing
you need to do to interface with the users from the computing you need to do to
get real work done.
In "the olden days" a user logged in and typed
ProtonMail mobile
Original Message
On May 12, 2023, 2:22 PM, Ted Mittelstaedt < t...@portlandia-it.com> wrote:
-Original Message- From: PLUG On Behalf Of Ben Koenig Sent: Friday, May
12, 2023 5:47 AM To: Portland Linux/Unix Group Subject: Re: [PLUG] Any Ubiquiti
E
-Original Message-
From: PLUG On Behalf Of Ben Koenig
Sent: Friday, May 12, 2023 5:47 AM
To: Portland Linux/Unix Group
Subject: Re: [PLUG] Any Ubiquiti Experts?
>Something about this Verizon hotspot network is different from the others.
>What is it?
>By far the easiest thing to do
u all for your time anyhow. Unfortunately, it was more an exercise in
frustration and futility for me.
Michael
On Thu, May 11, 2023, 21:55 Ted Mittelstaedt wrote:
>
> -Original Message-
> From: PLUG On Behalf Of Russell Senior
> Sent: Thursday, May 11, 2023 2:46 PM
Probably should reply to plug-talk on this one.
-Original Message-
From: PLUG On Behalf Of Chuck Hast
Sent: Thursday, May 11, 2023 8:12 PM
To: Portland Linux/Unix Group
Subject: Re: [PLUG] Zoneminder server build instructions
>Based on what I see of the news in PDX, looks like PDX has
-Original Message-
From: PLUG On Behalf Of Chuck Hast
Sent: Thursday, May 11, 2023 8:06 PM
To: Portland Linux/Unix Group
Subject: Re: [PLUG] Zoneminder server build instructions
See below:
> Of course that may have been one of the company apps that was doing that.
It was. I setup an
-Original Message-
From: PLUG On Behalf Of Russell Senior
Sent: Thursday, May 11, 2023 2:46 PM
To: Portland Linux/Unix Group
Subject: Re: [PLUG] Any Ubiquiti Experts?
On Thu, May 11, 2023 at 1:07 PM Ted Mittelstaedt
>Bridging when both ends are cooperating is not difficult (se
MOST worked (it booted and ran for 30 seconds or so before
panicking).
--
Russell Senior
russ...@personaltelco.net
On Thu, May 11, 2023 at 8:50 AM Ted Mittelstaedt
wrote:
> Yeah one of the problems with schemes like this is you are running
> double and sometimes triple network addre
He needs to tell us how the bullet is configured, it will "work" (as in pass
packets) either way just sub optimally if on the wrong network.
Internet connectivity has no real meaning unless the people providing it are
cognizant of where translation is happening.
Ted
-Original Message-
Yeah one of the problems with schemes like this is you are running double and
sometimes triple network address translation and it can be SLOW if it even
works at all.
Here is my suggestion:
Get an Atheros-based chipset router. Install either dd-wrt or Openwrt on it.
Configure the unit as a
-Original Message-
From: PLUG On Behalf Of Chuck Hast
Sent: Monday, May 8, 2023 7:54 PM
To: Portland Linux/Unix Group
Subject: Re: [PLUG] Zoneminder server build instructions
>Telegraphy abbreviation for Weather. Very old one. Like RX = receive, TX=
>Transmit, and many others. SMS
-Original Message-
From: PLUG On Behalf Of Richard Owlett
Sent: Monday, May 8, 2023 7:47 AM
To: plug@pdxlinux.org
Subject: Re: [PLUG] Looking for a paid POP/IMAP email provider
>Fastmail shoots self in foot with with focus on "gee whiz" and pretty
>pictures. No obvious link to
-Original Message-
From: PLUG On Behalf Of Chuck Hast
>The usual culprits in the big box stores.
>Arlo, Lorex, NiteOwl, etc.
>My brother in law bought Arlo, I looked at it and said nothing.
Oh My God that stuff is horrendous.
Do a search on Home Depot's website for security cameras.
n. I run SeaMonkey
>> on Debian. Wishing to avoid ads, I specified "paid" in the subject line.
>
> Richard,
>
> How about gmail? Or proton mail <https://proton.me/mail>?
>
> Rich
>
>
There is *NO* such thing as a free lunch ;!
As Ted Mittelstaedt wrote of
ail to your own mail server. I'm looking to add them
alongside Fastmail with a second custom domain so that I don't have all my eggs
on one basket.
On Sat, May 6, 2023, at 7:14 PM, Ted Mittelstaedt wrote:
>
>
> -Original Message-
> From: PLUG On Behalf Of MC_Sequoia
> Se
-Original Message-
From: PLUG On Behalf Of Chuck Hast
Sent: Saturday, May 6, 2023 7:50 AM
To: Portland Linux/Unix Group
Subject: Re: [PLUG] Zoneminder server build instructions
>> It always shocks me how poor "home security" video is that gets posted
>> on TV news clips. A brand new
-Original Message-
From: PLUG On Behalf Of MC_Sequoia
Sent: Saturday, May 6, 2023 11:08 AM
To: Portland Linux/Unix Group
Subject: Re: [PLUG] Looking for a paid POP/IMAP email provider
>Protonmail doesn't support POP / IMAP client connections but it's Ad-free,
>they do have free
But it's known that they scan email to scrape marketing data from it. That's
why when you use the webinterface to gmail all your popups now start showing
advertisements for topics you cover in your email.
Ted
-Original Message-
From: PLUG On Behalf Of wes
Sent: Saturday, May 6, 2023
The issue with Gmail is they are now mandating 2FA even on IMAP access so you
have to have a phone and I think maybe a smartphone. They also have this
online 2Fa thingie that if you "join" your windows box into their service that
might work.
If you are able to access a brand new Gmail account
Well it's worth mentioning that the Windows way of doing this is to run
Mailwasher Free, then use your free ISP email account. Mailwasher downloads
the mail from the ISP via POP3 then scans it and removes all the spam then
delivers it to your Outlook or Thunderbird or whatever email program
cation that
needs to be able to pull up a monitor and hear the audio along with the real
time video.
Best Regards.
On Fri, May 5, 2023 at 8:42 AM Ted Mittelstaedt
wrote:
> As I said during the PLUG talk last night I will post the instructions
> I used to build a ZM server.
>
>
As I said during the PLUG talk last night I will post the instructions I used
to build a ZM server.
There were 2 ZM questions I could not answer during the presentation. First
was if ZM can run under Nginx, yes it can here's instructions:
Nginx, Ubuntu and ZoneMinder - Chiral
> I'm sure it worked though, if i don't disable it i get 1 -2 hours maximum and
> then it blanks out.
You were asking how to automatically disable it. I figured you could get some
ideas on how to do that from the link.
To run commands like this before the display manager starts up (the
d which may only happen at boot.
Brian
On Mon, 17 Apr 2023 03:36:32 +
Ted Mittelstaedt wrote:
> X and friends have insisted on actuating the screensaver for a long time now
> and they use dpmi
>
> I have found this does lock up some hardware. Not just on Linux I've had
>
The main reason exfat is used on USB is so that your typical user can yank the
stick out without properly unmounting it - which of course, they do all the
time as they assume since it's USB the computer will magically know the second
before that they intend on yanking it out and thus flush disk
aking a day to write an honest and
significantly less toxic response. Most people would have doubled down on their
BS rather than explain it.
-Ben
--- Original Message ---
On Sunday, April 23rd, 2023 at 3:23 PM, Ted Mittelstaedt
wrote:
> Well as I have been on the autism scale mys
Well as I have been on the autism scale myself since I was born and I have read
quite a bit about it in an effort to understand what my differences are, I
perhaps have a radically different view of it than you do. It is not a
disorder unless someone is severely autistic. It is, in fact, an
mps everyone else.
> Small, inexperienced minds that see their own personal use case as
> superior to all others.
> -Ben
>
>
> --- Original Message ---
> On Wednesday, April 19th, 2023 at 4:43 PM, Ted Mittelstaedt <
> t...@portlandia-it.com> wrote:
rn linux community that seem to
believe that their understanding of IT trumps everyone else. Small,
inexperienced minds that see their own personal use case as superior to all
others.
-Ben
--- Original Message ---
On Wednesday, April 19th, 2023 at 4:43 PM, Ted Mittelstaedt
wrote:
>
My guess is that it's not the MediaWiki install that's the problem it's the
dependencies.
On Ubuntu for example if you install apache first then php, it won't enable
mod_php and may not even install it.
This causes endless problems with people who don't have a lot of experience
installing
> options.
>
> We shall conquer!
>
> On Tue, Apr 18, 2023, 3:21 PM Ted Mittelstaedt
>
> wrote:
>
> >
> >
> > -Original Message-
> > From: PLUG On Behalf Of John Jason
> > Jordan
> > Sent: Tuesday, April 18, 2023 2:00 PM
>
-Original Message-
From: PLUG On Behalf Of Ishak Micheil
Sent: Wednesday, April 19, 2023 7:29 AM
To: Portland Linux/Unix Group
Subject: Re: [PLUG] 3rd party vpn Defense evasion
>We shall conquer!
Ah, no you won't. But go ahead and think that if it makes you sleep easier.
And if
-Original Message-
From: PLUG On Behalf Of John Jason Jordan
Sent: Tuesday, April 18, 2023 2:00 PM
>It would be nice if VPN services advertised how effectively they stop others
>from finding out who and where you really are.
They are never going to do this because they are
I have to say reading this I had to get a floor jack to put my jaw back into my
face it dropped so far.
This contractor has apparently discerned that you do NOT want him running a
personal VPN on your network. But, he doesn't give a crap about what you want,
he's doing it anyway. And on top
It's not going to be possible to block all VPNs. If the users are smart and
they have their own Internet connection at home then they can setup a SOCKS vpn
proxy server on a PC on their home network then use dynamic dns with their home
PC. If you discover the traffic they can just reboot
half Of Rich Shepard
Sent: Monday, April 17, 2023 11:10 AM
To: Portland Linux/Unix Group
Subject: Re: [PLUG] mini-phone plug splitters
On Mon, 17 Apr 2023, Ted Mittelstaedt wrote:
> I would be leery of putting 2 headsets off one audio output I would be
> concerned with overloading the outpu
Checking the Ebay sold listings the average price for one of those with cables
and PCIe x1 card is above $250. The price for a 64 bit PCI card with cables
is above $150 and a 64 bit PCI card without cables is under $100.
However there's a TON of idiots hoping to score sales of $300 or above
Maybe.
Much depends on the input impedance of the devices you are powering. With
audio you have "speaker" type loads (like a headphone) and "line input" type
loads like an audio input to an amp. A powered computer speaker is a line
input while the headphones are probably unpowered and thus
-Original Message-
From: PLUG On Behalf Of Rich Shepard
Sent: Monday, April 17, 2023 9:21 AM
To: Portland Linux/Unix Group
Subject: Re: [PLUG] Audio card for clear voice output => Internet apps voice
quality
>I guess it's that most linux users won't pay $$$ for proprietary software
Looks like it. What do other linux uses do who need to participate in Zoom
meetings? Does the Zoom browser work better?
I believe that the Microsoft Teams web browser client runs on Chrome on Linux
Also supposedly Microsoft has Linux binaries for teams, see
Here's my solution to that:
https://www.ebay.com/itm/274405540451
https://www.thinkpenguin.com/gnu-linux/penguin-usb-20-external-stereo-sound-adapter-gnu-linux-tpe-usbsound
Ted
-Original Message-
From: PLUG On Behalf Of Dick Steffens
Sent: Sunday, April 16, 2023 3:36 PM
To: PLUG List
My mother is a piano teacher and during covid had to give lessons over zoom.
Zoom deliberately degrades audio quality to save bandwidth.
There is discussion on this here:
https://support.zoom.us/hc/en-us/articles/360046244692-Configuring-professional-audio-settings-for-Zoom-Meetings
Note that
X and friends have insisted on actuating the screensaver for a long time now
and they use dpmi
I have found this does lock up some hardware. Not just on Linux I've had
Windows lock up various laptop hardware as well attempting to "save the LCD
screen from burn in" (I wasn't aware LCD screens
certainly there is some Windows user who could still make use of it.
Ted
-Original Message-
From: PLUG On Behalf Of Rich Shepard
Sent: Wednesday, April 5, 2023 3:40 PM
To: Portland Linux/Unix Group
Subject: Re: [PLUG] Print jobs fail [UPDATE]
On Wed, 5 Apr 2023, Ted Mittelstaedt wrote:
&g
-binary-input-nonsense-to-printer
couldn't die quickly enough.
Ted
-Original Message-
From: PLUG On Behalf Of Rich Shepard
Sent: Wednesday, April 5, 2023 11:59 AM
To: Portland Linux/Unix Group
Subject: Re: [PLUG] Print jobs fail [UPDATE]
On Wed, 5 Apr 2023, Ted Mittelstaedt wrote:
> R
Rich, According to the following:
https://www.pcmag.com/reviews/lexmark-c3326dw
" In addition to Lexmark's standard page description language (PDL), the
C3326dw aims to provide better compatibility with desktop publishing and
graphics design applications, as well as integration with a few
n of your favorite Linux distro, then plugged in your printer, it
would work out of the box.
Otherwise you are going to have to get very dirty and grubby with the cups
config file I'm afraid.
Ted
-Original Message-
From: PLUG On Behalf Of Rich Shepard
Sent: Tuesday, April 4, 2023 5:57 AM
What does /var/log/cups/error_log say?
What versions of linux?
Is ghostscript installed?
Ted
-Original Message-
From: PLUG On Behalf Of Rich Shepard
Sent: Monday, April 3, 2023 3:36 PM
To: Portland Linux/Unix Group
Subject: Re: [PLUG] Print jobs fail [UPDATE]
On Mon, 3 Apr 2023,
terest.
-Ben
--- Original Message ---
On Thursday, March 30th, 2023 at 12:41 AM, Ted Mittelstaedt
wrote:
> What is COMPLETELY STUPID about that advice is the OST file is ONLY created
> when Outlook is connected to an Exchange server and it is a duplicate of the
> mailbox in the Exc
How is it that a 2nd vpn tunnel coming in is authenticating in?
Ted
-Original Message-
From: PLUG On Behalf Of American Citizen
Sent: Thursday, March 30, 2023 4:45 PM
To: plug@pdxlinux.org
Subject: Re: [PLUG] a question for Google Bard
Paul:
I am acquainted with nmcli. What I have to
What is COMPLETELY STUPID about that advice is the OST file is ONLY created
when Outlook is connected to an Exchange server and it is a duplicate of the
mailbox in the Exchange server database.
You also can't delete cached mode since the Exchange server sends out a GPO
that enforces whatever
I read through that and my rule of thumb on those is anyone offering investment
advice better have 100M in net worth if I'm going to pay any attention to what
they have to say. If his AI isn't working to get him 100M it's definitely not
going to help me.
The fundamental problem with AI
The obvious solution would be to compile a newer sshd and libraries on the
older machine
Ted
-Original Message-
From: PLUG On Behalf Of Keith Lofstrom
Sent: Wednesday, March 29, 2023 6:14 PM
To: plug@pdxlinux.org
Subject: [PLUG] Google Bard - entry level sys-admin, learning fast?
A
Air gapped backups are super important. One of my clients once was gunned by
an attacker that erased the backups off their NAS. I had pushed for them to
have air gapped backups and they did but they didn't really believe in them.
That made them a believer!
Ted
-Original Message-
I noticed that Free Geek switched to Mint for those PC's they sell a while ago.
Screenshots of mint mate seem to be a mix of win 10, win 11 and MacOS desktop
stirred together with a strong win10 motif
But the $64k question can you still run older GTK2.0 apps on the desktop?
Ted
-Original
/Unix Group
Subject: Re: [PLUG] External drive issue
On Fri, 24 Mar 2023, Ted Mittelstaedt wrote:
> I never depend on RAID either RAID5 or mirroring for backup purposes.
Ted,
Since having 2 drives in a RAID1 array and mirrored in a logical volumne for
backup, and both drives were somehow wi
I never depend on RAID either RAID5 or mirroring for backup purposes.
RAID's usefulness is if in the middle of the day (or in the middle of a backup)
a hard drive fails then the server does not unceremoniously shut down.
Instead I can take a final backup of the server then do whatever to
I thought this killed it:
https://devblogs.microsoft.com/appcenter/announcing-apache-cordova-retirement/
When the owner of github turns it's back on a tech it's probably a good idea to
ask why
You may only be interested in developing iphone apps but Google has Android 13
deploying now (I just
Does
Mdadm -Q /dev/data2 or mdadm -Q /dev/sdX (whatever th actual disk is) show
the disk is part of an array?
cat /proc/mdstat does that show the array is reassembling?
Take a look at the commands here:
I carry a box full of video adapters with me because I see this CONSTANTLY with
people buying new monitors that lack whatever port on them is directly
compatible with whatever port is on the video card.
Let me explain the nitty-gritty of these adapters.
DisplayPort was designed for use with
I thought the driver is what did the DPMS queries so if those are wrong due to
some protocol screwup then I think it is likely a driver bug. And yes it can
(usually) be overridden by an xorg config file. It's been a long time since I
had to screw with any of that stuff but back in the bad old
to the
standard driver. You can see all of this in the x log.
Ted
-Original Message-
From: PLUG On Behalf Of Rich Shepard
Sent: Monday, March 20, 2023 2:50 PM
To: Portland Linux/Unix Group
Subject: Re: [PLUG] New monitor issues
On Mon, 20 Mar 2023, Ted Mittelstaedt wrote:
> I'm guess
I'm guessing your video card is:
08:00.0 VGA compatible controller: Advanced Micro Devices, Inc. [AMD/ATI]
Device 6995
So if you don't have the amdgpu driver installed X defaults to using the
default 2D VGA driver with no 3D acceleration
I assume you already checked compatibility and all of
I thought current X queried the monitor and only relied on resolutions and
frequencies defined in the configuration file
If it could not get usable data from the monitor.
What is the output of xrandr
There is also this program:
https://gitlab.freedesktop.org/xorg/app/xdpyinfo
Note this isn't
How old is the monitor? My experience with the flat panels is over time their
backlight power supplies get squirrely usually the result of failing
electrolytic caps. Sounds like yours is borderline.
Ted
-Original Message-
From: PLUG On Behalf Of Rich Shepard
Sent: Sunday, March 19,
They use a box that has a chip in it where it converts the fax tones from your
fax machine to some protocol I forget the name of (fax over internet) then when
that protocol comes out into the PTSN it's converted back to a fax.
Unfortunately your fax machine has to support this protocol. It's
-Original Message-
From: PLUG On Behalf Of Tomas Kuchta
Sent: Tuesday, March 7, 2023 11:43 AM
To: Portland Linux/Unix Group
Subject: Re: [PLUG] Venue for next month ...
On Tue, Mar 7, 2023, 13:59 Ted Mittelstaedt wrote:
> IMHO the problem with that is an excessive number of
in on the Hillsboro commute. The max from near PSU to Hillsboro
airport is hour and ten minutes to hour twenty minutes, depending on
connections. This is my daily grind of commuting, right now.
On Tue, Mar 7, 2023, 07:27 Ted Mittelstaedt wrote:
> Retail everywhere has been hard hit by Amazon.
6th, 2023 at 5:21 PM, Ted Mittelstaedt
wrote:
> There's lots of places afterwards near Hawthorne Farms. But like any
> suburban place they expect you to be driving cars to get to them. Mass
> Transit is sort of a novelty out there. It's kind of like the token
> green thing
Verizon pay's a "spiff" to anyone bringing them a customer so yes, people can
build a business out of selling telephone or Internet or cable service. In
past years the spiffs from phone companies were a lot higher but if someone
wanted to make "beer money" going from door to door, there's
We have tried that repeatedly, with Google Fiber and Clear and others and it
has failed repeatedly. I don't think you are going to ever see it for the
following reasons:
1) The large data consumer apps are watching TV over the Internet. Back in
"the olden days" when you bought "cable tv"
Actually what is happening more and more (especially in other countries) is
"micro cells"
Verizon for example has these micro cell stations. They don't really advertise
them but they sell them. You can buy one
And plug it into your cable or other land line and it pumps out cell signal at
the
phone I may NEVER make use of the money I'm
paying him.
Ted
-Original Message-
From: PLUG On Behalf Of Russell Senior
Sent: Monday, March 6, 2023 6:00 PM
To: Portland Linux/Unix Group
Subject: Re: [PLUG] Verizon towers for internet
Ted Mittelstaedt writes:
> Consumer Cellular is
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From: PLUG On Behalf Of wes
Sent: Monday, March 6, 2023 5:37 PM
To: Portland Linux/Unix Group
Cc: General Linux/UNIX discussion and help, civil and on-topic
Subject: Re: [PLUG] Verizon towers for internet
>$17 a month is only achievable as an add-on service to
There's lots of places afterwards near Hawthorne Farms. But like any suburban
place they expect you to be driving cars to get to them. Mass Transit is sort
of a novelty out there. It's kind of like the token green thing they drag out
and show people to prove they care about the environment.
: General Linux/UNIX discussion and help, civil and on-topic
Subject: Re: [PLUG] Verizon towers for internet
On Mon, Mar 6, 2023 at 4:23 PM Ted Mittelstaedt
wrote:
> It works but of course it's very easy to go over 300Mbt and then they
> charge overage fees which can be quite high
>
the 300
It works but of course it's very easy to go over 300Mbt and then they charge
overage fees which can be quite high
At the end of the 30 days ask them the price of an unlimited account.
I always ask people doing this why don' t you just get an unlimited data cell
plan and tether to your phone.
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