Re: FreeBSD install?

2023-12-08 Thread Ed via PLUG-discuss
I would recommend FreeBSD and OpenBSD. They and many of the other BSD are very high quality software and very production ready. Also, yes very different - but in a good way. ;) On Fri, Dec 8, 2023 at 3:30 PM Snyder, Alexander J via PLUG-discuss wrote: > > It powers my pfSense FW. It's

Re: Docker

2023-05-04 Thread Ed via PLUG-discuss
Also for kubernetes deployments the Dockershim has been deprecated and the move to containerd for your CRI runtime is a good option. Nice thing about podman is that all your Docker files still work - plug & play 8) On Thu, May 4, 2023 at 11:08 AM Snyder, Alexander J via PLUG-discuss wrote: > >

Re: Arizona BOF at SCaLE 20x?

2023-03-10 Thread Ed via PLUG-discuss
@SCaLE interested in meeting up - good to see everyone again On Thu, Mar 9, 2023 at 6:15 AM Shawn Badger via PLUG-discuss wrote: > > Dos there going to be a BOF for people from Arizona at SCaLE this year? > --- > PLUG-discuss mailing list:

Re: PLUG discount for SCaLE

2023-01-23 Thread Ed via PLUG-discuss
See you all there - check out the Hilton's location when booking On Mon, Jan 23, 2023 at 12:27 AM Phil Waclawski via PLUG-discuss wrote: > > I am looking forward to going again. Last one I attended was just before the > pandemic shutdown in March 2020. > > Phil W > > On Sun, Jan 22, 2023 at

SCALE 20X - 1 Week Left for Early Bird Pricing (till the end of 2022)

2022-12-26 Thread Ed via PLUG-discuss
Use promo code PLUG save even more! SCaLE 20x – the 20th Annual Southern California Linux Expo – will take place on March 9-12, 2023 at the Pasadena Convention Center in Pasadena, CA https://register.socallinuxexpo.org/reg6/ For more information on SCALE 20X, visit

Re: Skills for the future

2022-12-01 Thread Ed via PLUG-discuss
you should look up the difference between a recession and a depression. Odds are we will have a middling recession, but the real problem is and will be inflation. Inflation is a ratchet, it only goes in one direction and hits everyone and everything*. It's like a network that has more and more

Re: Using a VPN for Security

2022-03-22 Thread Ed via PLUG-discuss
try Wireguard On Tue, Mar 22, 2022 at 3:03 PM Keith Smith via PLUG-discuss wrote: > > > > Hi, > > One of the things I see suggested for security is using a VPN. Any > thoughts and which is the best? > > What should I look for? > > Thanks!! > --- >

Re: ot - gas price

2022-03-18 Thread Ed via PLUG-discuss
Michael, AAA does a good job of tracking gas prices - https://gasprices.aaa.com/ On Fri, Mar 18, 2022 at 4:20 PM Jim via PLUG-discuss wrote: > > After the good manners and courtesy shown in your reply, I had to make a > reply of my own. It's true that on day 1 of the Biden administration

Re: PLUG and Politics

2022-03-18 Thread Ed via PLUG-discuss
+1 On Fri, Mar 18, 2022 at 6:36 PM Brian Cluff via PLUG-discuss wrote: > > This is a place for discussing Linux and subjects surrounding Linux. > This is not the proper place for general political discussions. > No matter where you fall politically, you are going to offend around 1/2 > the

Re: SSH Tunnelling and more at Wednesday GoLUG meeting

2021-11-29 Thread Ed via PLUG-discuss
Welcome - Greater Orlando Linux user group - please note all times at the GoLUG site are understandably Eastern Standard Time... On Mon, Nov 29, 2021 at 4:00 PM Steve Litt via PLUG-discuss wrote: > > Hi all, > > Wednesday night, 7PM Eastern (New York) time, Wednesday, 12/1/2021, > Linux guru

SCALE 19x is coming to Pasadena CA, March 3-6 2022 - the plan is IRL

2021-11-18 Thread Ed via PLUG-discuss
A good time to get your plans in place - Registration is Open and CFP is open until November 30th 2021 Anyone know if we have a discount code? ;) --- PLUG-discuss mailing list - PLUG-discuss@lists.phxlinux.org To subscribe, unsubscribe, or to

Re: Internal DNS Zone ...

2021-08-11 Thread Ed via PLUG-discuss
you may be trying to do this - see section "Dnsspoof or 'Split horizon' with Unbound DNS". It's the last one on https://calomel.org/unbound_dns.html sorry - can't help with AD On Wed, Aug 11, 2021 at 1:53 PM Snyder, Alexander J via PLUG-discuss wrote: > > Hi Folks -- > > Looking for some

Re: Keeping on topic

2021-08-04 Thread Ed via PLUG-discuss
There's a foundation for that (if currently interested) https://longnow.org/ you know, the folks with the clock ;) ISO-8601 is the standard (now extended)(I like the basic format) and there is OWL-Time if needed: https://www.w3.org/TR/owl-time/ It's Astounding; Time is Fleeting... On Wed,

Re: Keeping on topic

2021-08-04 Thread Ed via PLUG-discuss
+1 On Wed, Aug 4, 2021 at 1:25 PM Brian Cluff via PLUG-discuss wrote: > > Please keep the conversion roughly on topic of Linux and the topics > surrounding Linux such as computers, software. We can even talk about > politics as long as it's the politics that directly have something to do > with

Re: KeePass2 versus KeePassX

2021-06-18 Thread Ed via PLUG-discuss
I like KeePassXC https://keepassxc.org/docs/KeePassXC_UserGuide.html#_importing_external_databases and I can empathize with anyone moving from one secrets manager to another - no problems yet, Daumen drücken !! A little ansible keeps everything in order for me, and it does yubikey too (well

Re: flash.keithsmithinternetmarketing.com

2021-06-09 Thread Ed via PLUG-discuss
don't forget to check your hosts files - also try dig to get your dns records On Wed, Jun 9, 2021 at 9:31 AM James Mcphee via PLUG-discuss wrote: > > whois your domain. it'll list the authoritative dns servers > > On Wed, Jun 9, 2021 at 9:28 AM Keith Smith via PLUG-discuss > wrote: >> >> I

Re: looking for file system changes on a shared hosting account?

2021-05-11 Thread Ed via PLUG-discuss
Sounds like you want AIDE - and your service was doing it backwards, check the files you know are there unchanged, all else is suspect: https://www.howtoforge.com/how-to-configure-the-aide-advanced-intrusion-detection-environment-file-integrity-scanner-for-your-website Good Luck On Tue, May 11,

Re: FLOSS thermostats?

2021-03-16 Thread Ed via PLUG-discuss
Hans - looks like project time -> https://opensource.com/article/21/3/thermostat-raspberry-pi On Mon, Mar 8, 2021 at 6:17 AM Michael Butash via PLUG-discuss wrote: > > I actually had/have (in a junk pile somewhere) a couple of these exact units > - they were all but useless devices as-is. The

Re: OT: Looking for FOSS Recommendations for Telephone Speech to Text Devices for the Hard of Hearing

2021-02-22 Thread Ed via PLUG-discuss
Hi Mark - just a suggestion as I don't have a link to share: There are call center headsets made to work with hearing aids and that might work for your mother-in-law and some are in "operator" style, vs "road warrior" style, that might be easier to use. Ed On Mon, Feb 22, 2

Re: Built for Failure

2020-12-30 Thread Ed via PLUG-discuss
Sounds like you are looking for a RAID case - and time to keep it up and running. I would see it as an opportunity to try out ZFS https://openzfs.org/wiki/Main_Page zfs is ideally suited to working on a bunch of "about to fail" drives - and it might be the easiest at replacing drive while not

Re: Creating PDFs on CentOS 7

2020-11-17 Thread Ed via PLUG-discuss
um... https://www.pdflabs.com/tools/pdftk-the-pdf-toolkit/ I like https://github.com/xournalpp/xournalpp On Tue, Nov 17, 2020 at 4:13 PM Keith Smith via PLUG-discuss wrote: > > Hi, > > I need to create PDFs from collected data on a CentOS 7 box. I'm not > coming up with much when searching for

Re: Usable screenshot tools

2020-11-02 Thread Ed via PLUG-discuss
For the screen shot - log out and log in again, but select the X11 option as your DE - my guess (as a long time Fedora user) is that your distro has made Wayland the default compositor and this has broken the screen shot tools(some Wayland specific ones are developing, but in Gnome AFAIK). When

Re: OT: Looking for Some WiFi Networking Advice

2020-10-15 Thread Ed via PLUG-discuss
gt; Linux that ERLite uses. (goes to do internet reading) > > On Thu, Oct 15, 2020 at 10:36 AM Ed via PLUG-discuss > wrote: >> >> The Edgerouter Lite will also run OpenBSD, even has encryption >> hardware boost available for VPN(but no WiFi). >> Ubiquiti just (~2020

Re: OT: Looking for Some WiFi Networking Advice

2020-10-15 Thread Ed via PLUG-discuss
The Edgerouter Lite will also run OpenBSD, even has encryption hardware boost available for VPN(but no WiFi). Ubiquiti just (~20200705) EOLd the UniFi-Video product to move folks into a newer product(done badly, hardware drop etc*), but if you don't use UbiFi-Video then no problem... *signs of

Re: start zoom from command line

2020-09-30 Thread Ed via PLUG-discuss
If you use Zoom through a browser? works for me chromium-browser --app=https://us02web.zoom.us/wc/join/82466379827?pwd=Z0xERGZib2VqZTlMSjlIY1pXUW80Zz09 On Tue, Sep 29, 2020 at 4:53 PM Michael Butash via PLUG-discuss wrote: > > The linux version of the zoom binary playing with mine doesn't seem

Re: start zoom from command line

2020-09-28 Thread Ed via PLUG-discuss
If you expand the Zoom.us link - the /j/ part to /wc/join/ the meeting will happen in a limited way in the browser - this would enable passing a URL directly to a browser at launch from the command line. Is that what you are looking for? On Sun, Sep 27, 2020 at 2:43 PM Steve Litt via

Re: talks for Thursday

2020-09-06 Thread Ed via PLUG-discuss
Sorry - back in classes, free time all gone On Sun, Sep 6, 2020 at 2:05 PM der.hans via PLUG-discuss < plug-discuss@lists.phxlinux.org> wrote: > moin moin, > > I've been striking out on getting talks for Thursday :(. > > Anyone have something they want to do? > > Since we're remote, we can have

Re: playback speed in playlist

2020-07-19 Thread Ed via PLUG-discuss
VLC does have playback speed settings, but I don't know if there is any tempo correction. didn't Beethoven compose on a piano? so Speed Spruce? On Sun, Jul 19, 2020 at 9:41 AM Matt Graham via PLUG-discuss wrote: > > On 2020-07-18 15:54, der.hans via PLUG-discuss wrote: > > can a playback

Re: coment NEOWISE

2020-07-17 Thread Ed via PLUG-discuss
A couple suggestions: In the valley - Shaw Butte Trail Going north, just as the I-17 crests into the Verde Valley, maybe Oxtail draw* - or Flowerpot or Misake tank should be far enough out there for dark skies with a NW look over the Verde. Williamson Valley north of Prescott is perfect for this,

Re: is my power supply dieing?

2020-07-13 Thread Ed via PLUG-discuss
If you are looking at thermal paste, you should check that none of your motherboard's capacitors have swollen up - they can go out of spec. If they are new, or little cubes then this won't be a problem. If your motherboard is older and has cylindrical capacitors, there was a batch that would age

Re: Password Management Services

2020-05-24 Thread Ed via PLUG-discuss
Keepass(xc) - It may be a fork of a fork of a...also, I like keeping passwords in house. If you need it on the Intertubes, just push it up to Tarsnap. doubleplusgood Have a Good Memorial Day everyone - much thanks and respect to all that made this possible On Sun, May 24, 2020 at 9:38 AM

Re: question about Java

2020-05-05 Thread Ed via PLUG-discuss
oops corrected - OpenJDK is GPLv2 with classpath exception https://adoptopenjdk.net/about.html On Tue, May 5, 2020 at 9:00 AM Ed wrote: > > Flash is dead, and Java isn't a zombie, it is a Godzilla. > > And if you want to see a mess, try running $3B in claims through a > jav

Re: question about Java

2020-05-05 Thread Ed via PLUG-discuss
Oracle has begun to monetize it's distribution of Java - it should be considered commercial and will trigger licensing if used for business. Java 8 is the last free to use Java from Oracle that we could deploy at work(policy policy policy compatibility vendor vendor habit ack!) In addition, Oracle

Re: music speed change w/ pitch correction

2020-04-24 Thread Ed via PLUG-discuss
Maybe a distro for your music needs? 8) https://labs.fedoraproject.org/en/jam/ you might be thinking about Planet CCRMA? a project from Stanford? http://ccrma.stanford.edu/planetccrma/software/ On Fri, Apr 24, 2020 at 12:19 PM der.hans via PLUG-discuss wrote: > > moin moin, > > I need to

Re: Anyone Have USB wifi adapter or 50ft ethernet cable they want to sell?

2020-03-29 Thread Ed
Or maybe the tariffs took out their cash reserves and they are trying to refill their supply channels - COVID-19 will likely push them into a chapter On Sun, Mar 29, 2020 at 5:55 PM Jim wrote: > > There have been reports from Frys location all over the country about them > not having anything

Re: standalone mic

2020-03-28 Thread Ed
You want to use the bluetooth dongle that comes with the mic if it comes with one because, I think, there are bluetooth profiles that vendors can use that are specifically designed for audio. The chips in your laptop may have a profile for a more general use. Not all bluetooth are the same, the

Re: standalone mic

2020-03-27 Thread Ed
For a more general discussion - with hot mic action about 2/3rds of the way through - https://dailytechnewsshow.com/2020/03/25/dtns-special-how-to-stream-video-from-home/ On Fri, Mar 27, 2020 at 4:42 PM der.hans wrote: > > moin moin, > > With everyone else suddenly going online I need to finally

Re: Slack for PLUG

2020-01-03 Thread Ed
Is there a presentation for January? I would enjoy learning to IRC at the one PLUG meeting I can make before summer... On Fri, Jan 3, 2020 at 10:39 AM Michael Butash wrote: > > I've had so many services over the past 25 years or so, at this point I don't > do any more than I have to. I like

Re: Slack for PLUG

2019-12-31 Thread Ed
When you think Slack, think Yahoo Groups I've used Slack too - sometimes it is useful(like them bots), sometimes not. I wouldn't depend on it, same goes for Discourse For PLUG, it should be something free - as in speech, beer too if lucky Happy New Year Everyone On Tue, Dec 31, 2019 at

Re: SSDs versus spinning-rust drives

2019-12-03 Thread Ed
Hi Bill & All Mount your SSDs with noatime if you aren't running anything that needs it(some email clients) also check and make sure your SSDs are good to run trim - some had problems and were listed in kernel as not able to use trim. That was a while ago, most are fully functional these days.

Re: OT: html code to open a document in kwrite?

2019-06-02 Thread Ed
This is an over the top suggestion - not lightweight in any sense, but you do get to write the script in HTML/CSS/JS and you can access local files. look at Electron from https://electronjs.org/ not simple, not small wouldn't a bash wrapper around kwrite be better? or a python program,

Re: Building a cluster

2019-04-17 Thread Ed
Are you thinking about something like this: https://medium.com/@coladibriatico94/blender-cluster-with-docker-1a943d58a1d8 If you are going to use one application, it may make more sense to run an app that can coordinate helper nodes. If you will have a variety and want to manage "compute" as a

Re: Net Neutrality bill going to committee, AZ representative

2019-03-23 Thread Ed
O'Halleran is a good representative to reach out to - he has a technology background On Wed, Mar 20, 2019 at 11:12 PM der.hans wrote: > > moin moin, > > There's a new Net Neutrality protection bill going to committee in DC > (H.R. 1644, S. 682). > > The EFF says this is the only bill that fully

Re: Motherboard and graphics card recommendations for building a Linux Box

2019-03-04 Thread Ed
I prefer an AMD based motherboard, more cores is important with containers, and the new Nvidia 1660 is looking good - more research is needed beyond that - also https://camelcamelcamel.com can be helpful. I don't think Intel boxen (nucs) are upgradable very much. On Mon, Mar 4, 2019 at 4:52 PM

Re: python, sorting a dict/json

2019-02-24 Thread Ed
oops - my bad - I completely missed the Python context On Sat, Feb 23, 2019 at 1:18 AM der.hans wrote: > > Am 22. Feb, 2019 schwätzte James Dugger so: > > moin moin James, > > Thanks! > > The lamda is what I needed. It simplified what I was doing. > > I also added datetime.strptime() for when I

Re: python, sorting a dict/json

2019-02-22 Thread Ed
Hans - have you tried jq? https://stedolan.github.io/jq/ On Fri, Feb 22, 2019 at 12:21 PM der.hans wrote: > > moin moin, > > I'm trying to sort some data that is currently in json being imported into > a dict. > > It's essentially bibliography information, but without a unique ID. > > I mostly

Re: Plug

2019-01-31 Thread Ed
+1 Mike and everyone make PLUG a better place - usually ;). & thanks - best wishes for '19 On Thu, Jan 31, 2019, 5:10 AM Eric Oyen wrote: > No. He is definitely not a troll and like me, he has some challenges that > can get in the way of properly dealing with the world. So, yeah, his brain >

Re: CentOS 6/7

2018-12-04 Thread Ed
On Tue, Dec 4, 2018 at 12:40 PM Snyder, Alexander J wrote: > > Why did things have to change so dramatically between CentOS 6 and 7? > because VMS from DEC has faded from current memory > Does anyone know why networking devices aren't eth0/1/2/3 but are now > ens0f0/enp0d0. > because interface

Re: SCaLE cfp closes tonight

2018-11-01 Thread Ed
Got mine in - even on a busy week! LibrePlanet - unfortunately I have more questions than presentations Hope to be blessed by the selection commit - fingers crossed & Hans, Drück mir die Daumen! On Thu, Nov 1, 2018 at 12:26 AM der.hans wrote: > > Am 31. Oct, 2018 schwätzte Phil Waclawski so: > >

Re: zfs on linux

2018-09-23 Thread Ed
I think Allan has implemented booting ZFS from a GELI encrypted drive: https://www.bsdcan.org/2016/schedule/attachments/382_BSDCan2016_GELIBoot.pdf and again http://www.allanjude.com/bsd/AsiaBSDCon2016_geliboot.pdf new and improved - with unattended booting

Re: zfs on linux

2018-09-22 Thread Ed
Michael - ZFS will run on Linux, but is most at home on FreeBSD - and the only way to boot from an encrypted partition that I have heard of. Might be worth a look. On Sat, Sep 22, 2018 at 9:29 PM Michael Butash wrote: > Good to know, thanks for that. > > Encryption is high on my list, as aside

Re: Linux friendly NICs

2018-09-05 Thread Ed
good to know: http://www.tldp.org/HOWTO/Hardware-HOWTO/ On Wed, Sep 5, 2018 at 6:53 PM Kevin Fries wrote: > > Most NIC's come on the board nowadays, and have not seen one fail in years. > But Intel based anything is generally a safe bet. > > Kevin > > Sent from BlueMail > On Sep 5, 2018, at

Re: OT: Google Voice problem

2018-09-02 Thread Ed
try: https://www.google.com/voice?noredirect=1#phones The "new" UI is FUBAR. once in, you can navigate to the Inbox . Sounds like you've been grandfathered in - and maybe consolidated. AFAIK The rule was always, One gmail account=one gvoice number but if you had it before Google bought the

Re: Questionable Google Alerts

2018-08-27 Thread Ed
That is Phishing Mark, look into Yubikey as a 2nd factor.[1] it's a two step process, add your phone to set up second factor and then add Yubikey token as the preferred 2nd factor. If you use a phone to check on your Google account, add the Google Authentication as an alternative. (and print out a

DevOps Days 2018 - October 25th 8-5

2018-08-20 Thread Ed
Anyone have a PROMO code? Early Bird Tickets still on sale! --- PLUG-discuss mailing list - PLUG-discuss@lists.phxlinux.org To subscribe, unsubscribe, or to change your mail settings: http://lists.phxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug-discuss

Re: Security meeting tonight?

2018-04-19 Thread Ed
Tor? On Thu, Apr 19, 2018 at 6:29 PM, Ed <p...@0x1b.com> wrote: > Any plans? --- PLUG-discuss mailing list - PLUG-discuss@lists.phxlinux.org To subscribe, unsubscribe, or to change your mail settings: http://lists.phxlinux.org/mailman/list

Security meeting tonight?

2018-04-19 Thread Ed
Any plans? --- PLUG-discuss mailing list - PLUG-discuss@lists.phxlinux.org To subscribe, unsubscribe, or to change your mail settings: http://lists.phxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug-discuss

20180417 CSAA AZ IT Job postings

2018-04-17 Thread Ed
Solution Architect Glendale, Arizona | R2083 | Posted 30+ Days Ago Big Data-Hadoop Administrator Glendale, Arizona | R2142 | Posted 30+ Days Ago Guidewire Application Developer Glendale, Arizona | R2231 | Posted 30+ Days Ago Thanks & Regards, Ed Nicholson IT Applicat

Re: HTML5 as JS

2018-01-04 Thread Ed
More like raccoons to oranges... 8) On Thu, Jan 4, 2018 at 4:59 PM, der.hans wrote: > Am 04. Jan, 2018 schwätzte Andrew McRobb so: > > moin moin Andrew, > > cool, sounds like having umatrix or NoScript blocking javascript is still > sufficient. > > Need to make sure

Re: BTLE tags

2017-12-24 Thread Ed
On Sun, Dec 24, 2017 at 10:09 AM, David Schwartz wrote: > There are several companies that make these little BTLE “tags” that can be > used for proximity detection. > > Some are passive (unpowered) and some are more active and require power. > > TrackR Bravo has small

Re: Hardening WIFI

2017-12-10 Thread Ed
If you want security and Wifi, do the security outside the context of Wifi - like, require all Wifi traffic to be done through a vpn. On Sun, Dec 10, 2017 at 4:28 PM, Carruth, Rusty wrote: > > ONLY 32? Aren’t you allowed 128? > > > > Yeah, for the longest time mine was

Re: American Airlines sysadmin opening

2017-12-09 Thread Ed
Hans, So was this admin in charge of the app scheduling pilot vacations? how goes the SCaLE speaker selection? looking forward to hear about your experiences at PLUG on the 14th. Ed On Tue, Nov 14, 2017 at 2:18 AM, der.hans <pl...@lufthans.com> wrote: > moin moin, > > a system ad

Re: Video: Ed Nicholson - Project Atomic and Immutable Linux - Now with the correct link

2017-11-16 Thread Ed
ngly attributed the video to Joseph as well. > > Just uploaded a new video of Ed Nicholson presenting Project Atomic and > Immutable Linux. > > This presentation is about the changes to a system's life cycle as an > Immutable Linux such as Fedora-Atomic. > > Immutability of a sys

Re: annotation with gimp

2017-10-11 Thread Ed
To annotate a PDF look at Xounal http://xournal.sourceforge.net/ On Wed, Oct 11, 2017 at 9:34 AM, Brian Cluff wrote: > Try using okular, KDE's PDF viewer, to annotate PDFs. I won't do it in > gimp. It not really the tool for the job. > > Brian Cluff > > On 10/10/2017 11:39

Re: Sep, Okt, Nov presentations

2017-09-08 Thread Ed
Hans, I can present Oct or Nov on the following if interested: 1) Project Atomic and immutable Linux 2) Community onBoarding - Wikipedia, Openstreetmap, MusicBrainz and Archive.org always happy to hear about SSH - Ed On Thu, Sep 7, 2017 at 10:08 PM, der.hans <pl...@lufthans.com> wrote:

Re: OT: Best cell phone plan for light use?

2017-08-18 Thread Ed
Joe, Google Project Fi does some network switching at the radio level so the phones must be built that way - as Google phones are. I don't know of any other manufacturer that work with Fi. On the other hand, Google does provide 0% financing. If you are thinking about getting a Pixel phone, you

Re: OT: Best cell phone plan for light use?

2017-08-17 Thread Ed
Michael, your small phone dreams may become reality - if the Jelly phone ships - https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/jellyphone/jelly-the-smallest-4g-smartphone also if IF you can get VoIP to work (sorry Apple profit centers) your phone bill could be $35-50/year - not including WiFi - or free w/

Re: OT: Best cell phone plan for light use?

2017-08-17 Thread Ed
How low? - https://ting.com/ also check out Google Fi https://fi.google.com they refund unused unused time On Thu, Aug 17, 2017 at 5:20 PM, wrote: > What do y'all recommend as the best cell phone plan > for "light" use? > > I have been using a AirVoiceWireless.com

Git Subversion & Mercurial users - security exploit - attacker can execute arbitrary code

2017-08-12 Thread Ed
Time to patch all the dev things: http://www.esecurityplanet.com/threats/git-svn-and-mercurial-open-source-version-control-systems-update-for-critical-security-vulnerability.html --- PLUG-discuss mailing list - PLUG-discuss@lists.phxlinux.org To

Re: Maker Challenge - Beagle Blue and Lepton

2017-07-14 Thread Ed
What are the complete rules - what hardware are you covering? NDA? Open Source Hardware Association Certification? What if I want to propose a project, how does that work? Tell me(PLUG) a bit more about all this - sounds interesting For those with text email - https links you may have missed:

Re: accessible web-authoring system

2017-05-25 Thread Ed
Google has a Accessibility Scanner for Android: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.google.android.apps.accessibility.auditor=en and the home site: https://www.google.com/accessibility/ I have not used it yet, but it looks like a good addition to any deployment pipeline. On Thu,

Re: EFF and John Oliver want us to contact FCC

2017-05-10 Thread Ed
also of note: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IaNgRzuNc64 and https://resistbot.io/ oliver funny On Wed, May 10, 2017 at 2:47 PM, der.hans wrote: > moin moin, > > so does everyone else who wants to protect Net Nuetrality. > >

Fwd: [tech] regarding OpenSSL License change

2017-03-24 Thread Ed
More OpenSSL drama brewing behind the scenes ... just FYI -- Forwarded message -- From: Theo de Raadt Date: Thu, Mar 23, 2017 at 9:18 AM Subject: [tech] regarding OpenSSL License change To: t...@openbsd.org Lots of people have been receiving emails like the

Lets Encrypt clients and a view of sandboxing

2017-02-05 Thread Ed
acme is the client I prefer for working with Lets Encrypt, but sometimes you get the unexpected! Sandboxing applications has enjoyed an uptick with the OpenBSD pledge and FreeBSD capsicum kernel level tools - along with others. Taking the acme code into portability has produced an interesting

Re: the timestampz in a pdf, oh my

2017-02-01 Thread Ed
On Wed, Feb 1, 2017 at 1:29 AM, der.hans wrote: > moin moin, > > I have some dynamically generated PDFs coming from a pool of web servers. > > Each server should be generating a PDF that looks exactly the same as from > all the other servers. > > The PDF generation includes

Re: cyanogen/LineageOS phone recommendations

2016-12-28 Thread Ed
Save on the monthly bill Get it cheep and unlocked at CostCo and/or look here - https://ting.com/shop?Brand=Samsung=Motorola I like project Fi, but I'm sure Google's alarms would go off with your registration... ;) On Wed, Dec 28, 2016 at 3:09 PM, Stephen Partington

Re: update systemd

2016-10-02 Thread Ed
no no no BSD is not a Linux "flavor" - but yes it can run an "emulated" systemd - aka systemd with stub services covering dependencies in the kernel and elsewhere. On Sun, Oct 2, 2016 at 3:57 PM, Steve Litt wrote: > On Fri, 30 Sep 2016 14:26:05 -0700 > Anon Anon

Re: 2FA over SMS considered harmful

2016-07-28 Thread Ed
1) yes 2FA is better than only a password 2) yes SMS is not secure and 2FA via SMS is just security theater 3) yes Yubikeys work better and are even more secure in their now "not free" hardware* but NFC is needed for Android phones and iPhones are SOL (thx Appl)... so? 4) U2F Yubikey are $18 and

Looking to convert document formats for resumes?

2016-07-17 Thread Ed
check out pandoc.org - cli converter that might be useful http://pandoc.org/README.html --- PLUG-discuss mailing list - PLUG-discuss@lists.phxlinux.org To subscribe, unsubscribe, or to change your mail settings:

PLUGeast July 14th prep

2016-07-14 Thread Ed
- https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=physical_web.org.physicalweb=en :) --- PLUG-discuss mailing list - PLUG-discuss@lists.phxlinux.org To subscribe, unsubscribe, or to change your mail settings:

Re: need talk for Thursday

2016-07-11 Thread Ed
so - not interested On Mon, Jul 11, 2016 at 11:51 AM, Ed <p...@0x1b.com> wrote: > Got any plans for the 14th? - I could do a quick intro on Bluetooth beacons. > > On Mon, Jul 11, 2016 at 10:31 AM, der.hans <pl...@lufthans.com> wrote: >> Am 11. Jul, 2016 schwätzte Bryan

Re: need talk for Thursday

2016-07-11 Thread Ed
Got any plans for the 14th? - I could do a quick intro on Bluetooth beacons. On Mon, Jul 11, 2016 at 10:31 AM, der.hans wrote: > Am 11. Jul, 2016 schwätzte Bryan O'Neal so: > >> You know me I can always talk ;) > > > I hadn't noticed :). > >> It looks like Stephen has this

Re: UML and ERD Software

2016-06-10 Thread Ed
Plantuml for diagrams +1 also check out what the eclipse project has on offer: https://eclipse.org/papyrus/ On Thu, Jun 9, 2016 at 9:10 PM, Tomasz Stechly wrote: > http://plantuml.com/ > > On Thu, Jun 9, 2016 at 6:43 PM, Kevin Fries wrote: >> >>

Re: Darn lightning....

2016-06-02 Thread Ed
Any Cloud / Lightning jokes out there? On Wed, Jun 1, 2016 at 8:34 PM, Brian Cluff wrote: > Lightning strikes go well beyond what a surge suppressor can handle. I good > lightning strike can jump across several inches and through surge > suppressing circuits and even across

Re: Podcast for android

2016-05-29 Thread Ed
or DTNS? or Material? You want PocketCasts On Sun, May 29, 2016 at 2:17 PM, Stephen M wrote: > Hey everyone, > > I'm trynig to look for software for android to listen to podcast while > offline? I am looking to listen to jupiter boardcasting or Tech guy. > > -- > Stephen

Fwd: TPP Meeting Rescheduled to 3/11

2016-03-02 Thread Ed
FYI -- Forwarded message -- Subject: TPP Meeting Rescheduled to 3/11 The meeting at Global Chamber on benefiting from TPP that was 'snowed out' has been rescheduled to March 11th, 8-10am. Benefiting from TPP by USTR Meeting Rescheduled to Friday, March 11th, 8-10am at Global

Re: Upgrade old laptop with SSD

2016-02-29 Thread Ed
First - The SSD will outlast your use of the computer - even if it becomes your new favorite toy. The life time of these drive is just not much of a problem. When it does die, your new hotness laptop will be ready to take it's place as the handmedown. Second - a couple things to check - what

Re: Domain Name / Hosting

2016-02-22 Thread Ed
yes - a good thing all round On Mon, Feb 22, 2016 at 9:59 AM, Stephen Partington <cryptwo...@gmail.com> wrote: > Letsencrypt is slick and easy to set up. I just like that Dreamhost has > embraced it as a hosting provider. > > On Mon, Feb 22, 2016 at 9:31 AM, Ed <

Re: Domain Name / Hosting

2016-02-22 Thread Ed
g someone! ;) > > > > On Mon, Feb 22, 2016 at 6:53 AM, Stephen Partington <cryptwo...@gmail.com> > wrote: >> >> One of my biggest joys is that you can get LetsEncrypt Certs for free at >> Dreamhost. >> >> On Sun, Feb 21, 2016 at 10

Re: Domain Name / Hosting

2016-02-21 Thread Ed
I have moved many domains over to Google: https://domains.google.com/registrar Nice to have free privacy and if you use any other google service there is a good level of integration On Sun, Feb 21, 2016 at 11:27 AM, Wayne D wrote: > About to set up a domain name and

Re: OT: Who is my Google Calendar Administrator?

2016-01-26 Thread Ed
Do/Did you have Google+ ? On Tue, Jan 26, 2016 at 3:38 PM, Victor Odhner wrote: >> If you delete a birthday in contacts, it will not appear in your calendar. > > Nope. You can add your birthday in Google, and you can change it, but once > you add your birthday they’re going to

Re: REST API gen tools

2016-01-23 Thread Ed
does this help - still in beta, but looks interesting: https://www.wagonhq.com/ On Fri, Jan 22, 2016 at 6:58 PM, David Schwartz wrote: > Are there any tools that can be used to inspect a MySQL database and > generate code for pairs of JSON/REST interfaces for

Re: Looking for Backup Service Recommendations

2016-01-11 Thread Ed
On Sun, Jan 10, 2016 at 9:16 PM, Mark Phillips wrote: > I have been using altdrive for a few years, but I have recently discovered > that I cannot access my backup files, even though their application says > the backups are created successfully. After going around in

Re: PGP keys

2016-01-05 Thread Ed
ack! - they toll all my ezzez On Tue, Jan 5, 2016 at 2:37 PM, Todd Millecam wrote: > I just keep a copy on my personal box and in my home directory on two of my > servers and it's worked wonderfully for the better part of 7 years. > > On Tue, Jan 5, 2016 at 1:42 PM, Steve B

Re: PGP keys

2016-01-05 Thread Ed
GnuPG is what you want - and likely already have - put your keys in Keepass2 or myPasswdsafe - online solution like Tarsnap are good too. also Seahorse (GnomeKeyring) https://wiki.gnome.org/Apps/Seahorse and for bigger problem try: FreeIPA (Dogtag project)

Re: systemd [NOT?] (was Re: Void Linux tips)

2015-10-23 Thread Ed
about systemd: 1) change is never easy 2) an admins life is easier if all the machines are systemd or are not systemd - a mix is a pain 3) migration is not a discontinuity - any SysV init scripts you have will continue to work - systemd will do it's async thing and then go through any legacy init

Re: POLICE WEB APPLICATION DEVELOPER

2015-10-14 Thread Ed
So, job 1 is install Linux on Apple hardware... ;) On Wed, Oct 14, 2015 at 9:17 AM, Keith Smith wrote: > > My Pleasure Shawn!! > > I've talked with Shawn several times about this position. This is a great > opportunity for someone. At the PLUG meeting he said they

Re: RHEL 8

2015-10-13 Thread Ed
Kieth - not for years, besides most biz are still looking at the 6->7 migration as a TODO. If you are itching for RHEL8 - get your fix with Fedora - 23 is due soon. On Tue, Oct 13, 2015 at 1:23 PM, Keith Smith wrote: > > > Hi, > > I was looking around for some info for

Re: memory usage

2015-09-19 Thread Ed
smem On Sat, Sep 19, 2015 at 8:46 AM, Fabian Santiago wrote: > Sorry, lower case top > > -- > > Fabe > > > On Sep 19, 2015, at 11:45 AM, Fabian Santiago > wrote: > > Top > > -- > > Fabe > > > On Sep 19, 2015, at 11:43 AM, Michael Havens

Re: Live streaming server

2015-09-08 Thread Ed
Icecast - not just for audio! On Tue, Sep 8, 2015 at 5:21 PM, Steve Litt wrote: > On Tue, 8 Sep 2015 14:41:04 -0700 > Shawn Badger wrote: > >> I am looking for a way to stream an RTSP stream to a bunch of people >> internally, so kind of a locally

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