Ambient light networking

I saw this today, a rather neat concept that got me thinking of this as rather cool and finally. https://www.purelifi.com/products/light-antenna-one/ Your lighting is your wifi antenna, and modulates IR spectrums (like your remote control) for data streams between access point "lights" and a

Re: Slow Windows Box

ce the 16" is out. My Lenovo Thinkpad is pretty good hardware at the core, but things like their TB4 dock and even their jank website annoy the hell out of me. It doesn't even work in firefox under linux. -mb On Thu, Jul 13, 2023 at 1:19 PM wrote: > On 2023-07-13 10:03, Michael But

Re: Slow Windows Box

is a Dell computer I suspect the Win install will not > complain about the different HD. > > Will an OEM install require a key? > > Any thoughts are most welcome. > > Keith > > > > > > > On 2023-07-07 17:06, Keith Smith via PLUG-discuss wrote: > > Thank you

Re: cringeworthy question...

I can't speak to the hosting side, but why not just get a windows license to feed the beast? I presume this is a windows server, if the hosting is cheap enough, might be worth just getting the license vs moving, but someone has to pay microsoft, and it's always going to be you one way or another.

Re: kernel panic on a debian machine...

Kernel panics are usually hardware related in my experience, I'd unplug all unnecessary usb and pci cards, then iso-image boot to run memtest86 on it. If you can see the logs of the panic or leading up to it, see what component or driver is complaining, but if nothing else after everything is

Re: Public raspberrypi https/mail/dns... on Cox Cable

t; > -David Schwartz > > > > > On Jul 9, 2023, at 10:34 PM, Michael Butash via PLUG-discuss < > plug-discuss@lists.phxlinux.org> wrote: > > On using openwrt on legacy routers, start here, find anything that is > *well* supported and hunt on ebay, or go to a thrift shop

Re: Public raspberrypi https/mail/dns... on Cox Cable

to give to family and friends when they complained about their crappy router and wifi not working. Probably still have one or two floating around... https://openwrt.org/toh/start -mb On Sun, Jul 9, 2023 at 10:27 PM Michael Butash wrote: > Most consumer routers won't, but the nice part is m

Re: Public raspberrypi https/mail/dns... on Cox Cable

Most consumer routers won't, but the nice part is most older router hardware *can* typically run ddwrt/openwrt that will. I often see decent older routers at goodwill and thrift shops, or always ebay if you have a hardware platform you want to target. Ideally find one that is dual core, decent

Re: Slow Windows Box

Task manager and/or Resource Manager should show you where your bottlenecks lie, but sounds like either disk (spinner vs ssd), memory, or cpu is getting pegged. This should show you what processes are using said cpu/memory/io, either kill them, or feed them more hardware resources. The

Re: I read chip maker TSMC is a sweatshop

I would not be surprised if the US also happened to grant them a load of H1B visas as part of the deal to do just that, and I'm sure people will line up across the island to get on that gravy train, particularly to escape while they still can before China says No. Like most any one here on visa,

Re: windows in a virtual machine

sts.phxlinux.org> wrote: > "I always get keys from gkeys24.com, win10 is like $7 bucks for a legit > key, win11 a bit more (but ew)" > > Why 'ew'? is 11 garbage? > also... I can't enter my payment information at http://gkeys24.com/ > > On Tue, Jul 4, 2023 at

Re: windows in a virtual machine

UG-discuss < plug-discuss@lists.phxlinux.org> wrote: > Thanks. 10 is only $7. And I thought it was so much more. > > On Tue, Jul 4, 2023 at 10:13 PM Michael Butash via PLUG-discuss < > plug-discuss@lists.phxlinux.org> wrote: > >> > Why not Qemu? >> >>

Re: windows in a virtual machine

iscuss@lists.phxlinux.org> wrote: > Michael Butash via PLUG-discuss said on Tue, 4 Jul 2023 08:07:17 -0700 > > >Agreed, use Virtualbox, > > Why not Qemu? > > SteveT > > Steve Litt > Autumn 2022 featured book: Thriving in Tough Times > http:/

Re: windows in a virtual machine

Agreed, use Virtualbox, get the windows 10/11 iso from microsoft's own site, install windows in a VM just like you would another PC. I've been doing this for ~20 years, as long as I've used linux as a full-time system, and the only way to run windoze. This also comes with the advantage of being

Re: Android phone question

Most of my experience when exceeding hardware spec/capacity is that it won't register the full amount, but as much as it *can* mostly per backward compatible spec. It might not at all if the disk controller is too foreign or behind, but usually gives something. Same as it's mostly been since the

Re: CHIRP on Kubuntu 22.04

Looks like it's just creating a generic usb serial port, so I'd presume you need to tell the program your hardware device serial speed, flow control, bits, etc and have it misconfigured currently it's erroring in that seeing bits it expects returned. Being legacy serial vs like a hardware sdr,

Re: Phoenix is emerging as the city of the future

ay I ... > > https://www.amazon.com/Smart-Cities-Dummies-Computer-Tech/dp/111967994X/ref=sr_1_1?keywords=smart+cities+for+dummies=8-1 > > On Thursday, June 22, 2023 at 04:00:44 PM MST, Michael Butash via > PLUG-discuss wrote: > > > >> I've only lived in AZ except for a sti

Re: Phoenix is emerging as the city of the future

a trend towards using 1099's because they can be rented for > just the period they are needed. > > I personally would never want to work W2 with a boss and coworkers.. > Being self employed comes with it's challenges as well. > > Could be an interesting decade ahead of us. Ex

Re: Phoenix is emerging as the city of the future

Meh, I've heard this since the dot.bomb implosion of 2000, when I happened to move back from silicon valley at the beginning of 2001 with everything going under there. Seemed like half of Cali moved here with me after, and tons of like speculation at the time of a Silicon Desert. While I think

Re: Windoze licenses, "Bring us your Poor" edition

(bah, humbug!) ;-) > > > On 6/15/23 18:22, Michael Butash via PLUG-discuss wrote: > > So interestingly enough, if/when I need windoze, I often buy from a place > > like THIS, as a method of getting Windoze officially licensed, flat > cheap. > > < > http://mail.sendma

Re: Windoze licenses, "Bring us your Poor" edition

Microsoft paved the way to hell on this one, yet they oddly remain profitable! -mb On Sat, Jun 17, 2023 at 9:00 PM Michael Butash wrote: > Great input, thanks! > > I'm as much as economist as a lawyer, (ie. not, too angry), but love > exploring these weird corner cases. Most cases my

Re: Windoze licenses, "Bring us your Poor" edition

ou could do a quick compare just in case. > > On Fri, Jun 16, 2023 at 7:24 AM Keith Smith via PLUG-discuss < > plug-discuss@lists.phxlinux.org> wrote: > >> Thanks for sharing this Michael!! If I can get a legit copy of Win10 >> and Win11 for cheep I will eventual

Re: Windoze licenses, "Bring us your Poor" edition

15, 2023 at 11:15 PM Steve Litt via PLUG-discuss < plug-discuss@lists.phxlinux.org> wrote: > Michael Butash via PLUG-discuss said on Thu, 15 Jun 2023 18:22:08 -0700 > > >So interestingly enough, if/when I need windoze, I often buy from a > >place like THIS, as a method of

Re: Windoze licenses, "Bring us your Poor" edition

and project keys I also get there on the cheap ($20 vs $600 in the US), which are the real reasons I'm usually using windoze at all. -mb On Thu, Jun 15, 2023 at 11:15 PM Steve Litt via PLUG-discuss < plug-discuss@lists.phxlinux.org> wrote: > Michael Butash via PLUG-discuss said on Thu, 15

Windoze licenses, "Bring us your Poor" edition

So interestingly enough, if/when I need windoze, I often buy from a place like THIS, as a method of getting Windoze officially licensed, flat cheap. It updates itself,

Re: r u familiar with Docker?

023 at 10:17 PM Michael Butash wrote: > One cannot downplay the importance of things like this today, particularly > with k8s and various iterations of it around docker. NAT is not a foreign > concept, or shouldn't be in 2023. > > I remember working in Silicon Valley circa 1999

Re: r u familiar with Docker?

ust too many variables involved”. In my mind, > it’s a vanilla Windows Server 2016 running on a VPN hosting a service built > according to his plans. How many variables can there be? > > -David Schwartz > > > > > On Jun 13, 2023, at 5:32 PM, Michael Butash via PLUG-discuss &l

Re: r u familiar with Docker?

n each other. > > If you want a visual, portainer was a Handy tool for this. > > There is some really solid docker documentation out there and walk > throughs. > > > On Tue, Jun 13, 2023, 8:33 PM Michael Butash via PLUG-discuss < > plug-discuss@lists.phxlinux.org> wrote

Re: r u familiar with Docker?

s just not as easy > as plugging a wire between a couple of sockets. > > Docker is optional. > > How can I do something like a "signal trace” in Windows? > > -David Schwartz > > > > > On Jun 13, 2023, at 2:19 PM, Michael Butash via PLUG-discuss < >

Re: r u familiar with Docker?

Docker should be an inside to outside port mapping for your application. The outside port maps needs to reflect your firewall, load balancer, or whatever forwards traffic to it as the destination. [internet]-[firewall]-[host]-[docker] - you want to thread the needle of ports. This to That. If

Re: I read chip maker TSMC is a sweatshop

> QUESTION? > > I understand TSMC produces the most chips in the world, and is located > in Taiwan . Where did they get that technology and who paid for that > technology? Being old enough to be there and experience the start of mass-production of copy/duplicate/counterfeit goods in the late

Re: I read chip maker TSMC is a sweatshop

Most Southeast Asian (SEA) countries' standards of work hours would horrify most Americans if applied, but same as there (likely) will be no canings here, labor laws tend to frown on mandating 60 hour work weeks. Of course they will frown on the lazy American's "only" working 40 hours a week,

Re: How does one make a suggestion to librecalc?

They have to be in linear sections, or you have to get creative with formulas or such. Or if just that weird and discontiguous, manually grabbing bits with old cut/paste and a mouse click. You'll want to learn to use at least basic (and not so basic) formulas if you are at that point. I use

Re: Need Some Help Configuring OpenVPN

hen the > Internet is not working (ping and dns tests), and reboots my router and > access points when needed. > > Thanks again! > > Mark > > On Fri, May 19, 2023 at 10:41 AM Michael Butash > wrote: > >> Some comments: >> >> >> 1. I believe the clie

Re: Need Some Help Configuring OpenVPN

Some comments: >> 1. I believe the client.ovpn file goes into /etc/openvpn/clients - correct? This is variable, depending on how you use your client. I'd say 99% of the time you'll want to use NetworkManager to do so, install the network-manager ovpn plugin and reproduce those settings as these

Re: computer recomendations

I would say Framework has a chromebook edition as probably the "best", but the framework laptop can also be anything else like windoze/linux, or probably even a hackintosh if you really wanted. I'm not sure other chromebooks are

Re: Consultants ...

Snyder, Alexander J < alexan...@snyderfamily.co> wrote: > The work is done, though -- LOL ... Did I just short myself a few hundred > dollars? > -- > Thanks, > Alex. > > > > > On Thu, Mar 16, 2023 at 12:23 PM Michael Butash via PLUG-discuss < > plug-dis

Re: Consultants ...

Those sorts of things you typically would want to do as some sort of Statement of Work (SOW) you build based on some consulting or at least a good grilling session to pick out what they have, what they want, and determine how long you'd need to do it, complete with contingencies. You could do it

Re: https://www.zerotier.com/

t; > On Tue, Mar 14, 2023 at 3:47 PM greg zegan via PLUG-discuss < > plug-discuss@lists.phxlinux.org> wrote: > >> we just started using it at work. >> thanks for the confirmation we are on a good path >> >> On Tuesday, March 14, 2023 at 12:40:25 PM MST, Mich

Re: https://www.zerotier.com/

I love zerotier, I've used it for a good 10 years or so now, and recommend it to everyone I know including customers. It's great as an always on vpn connection betweens hosts and servers. Funny, I was just literally talking to a customer a half-hour ago thanking me again for telling them about

Re: samsung premature wear on nvme

b On Mon, Feb 13, 2023 at 3:30 PM greg zegan wrote: > Hello, > A quick check on that says this will work on other medium such as sda > drives. Is that correct? > thanks, > Greg > > On Monday, February 13, 2023 at 03:12:23 PM MST, Michael Butash via > PLUG-discuss wrote

Re: samsung premature wear on nvme

an report the > SSD wear levels? > (I just bought a couple of 2TB Samsung 970 SSD's, and am curious if these > might also be affected.) > > > On Mon, Feb 13, 2023 at 12:48 PM Michael Butash via PLUG-discuss < > plug-discuss@lists.phxlinux.org> wrote: > >> >&

samsung premature wear on nvme

https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2023/02/samsung-releases-firmware-fix-for-rapid-failure-issue-in-new-990-pro-ssds/ This is pretty sad, I've been a fan of samsung since my first few generations of ssd's all died quickly from crucial/micron and adata, never really looked back with samsung's wear

Re: PiRack ...

Very cool project, I've watched Geerling's videos on doing that, though if I could actually buy some cm4's just do the Super6C with the built in ethernet switch and such. It's always hokey with vendors, but that's where hp, ibm, cisco, etc shine with the blade server chassis systems, ala cray

Re: Linux and Intel RST

y out of high school for 8 > years. > > I've seen a lot of stuff. I've watched things become increasingly > Complicated. I've mentioned this before. Most will shine me on. > > I'm currently a PHP developer. Over the years I have had my hands in a > lot of related technologies. &

Re: Linux and Intel RST

That sounds like what they call "fakeraid" using the rst controller, really there is no need to anymore. For probably 15 years now i've used two disks in a linux mdraid volume for boot/rest in raid 1 for redundancy, usually a crypt volume with luks atop the rest physical volume, and lvm atop

Re: fsck -f ??????

If using nfs, a disconnect will crash your system. Sad it's 2022 and this still happens but it's a shit show from like ever. I'd love to hear of NFS doing something not to be utterly dumb in crashing a kernel with a network disconnect - let me know, never found one. It's a linux-ism. -mb On

Re: Special-Use Domain 'home.arpa.'

CNAMEs? > > Thanks!! > Keith > > > > > > > On 2022-11-23 12:51, Michael Butash via PLUG-discuss wrote: > > General rule of thumb is not to spoof real domains, as you'll break > > anyone using it elsewise, just about anything else is open game. I > >

Re: Special-Use Domain 'home.arpa.'

for like 7 bucks. -mb On Wed, Nov 23, 2022 at 12:51 PM Michael Butash wrote: > General rule of thumb is not to spoof real domains, as you'll break anyone > using it elsewise, just about anything else is open game. I can make a tld > domain, .xyz (assuming this isn't a free-for

Re: Special-Use Domain 'home.arpa.'

General rule of thumb is not to spoof real domains, as you'll break anyone using it elsewise, just about anything else is open game. I can make a tld domain, .xyz (assuming this isn't a free-form tld now), and so long as things point at that naturally (like an internal resolver), it will pretend

Re: How do I take a partial screenshot in KDE?

; >> Thank You Rusty!! > >> > >>> On 2022-11-17 12:46, Rusty Carruth via PLUG-discuss wrote: > >>> If you don't mind a heavy application, I use GIMP for this (on > >>> WIndblows and Linux, but on W you can't do capture region). >

Re: Oracle's VirtualBox RANT

I've not used vbox under ubuntu in a while, and use it literally all day every day, and honestly in the 10+ years I've used virtualbox, I've never found it complicated or broken, so I suspect some pebkac here. Under ubuntu or arch that I use with vbox, it should create at least a Nat network and

Re: df command and free/available space.

I've got a base 20.04 server image I clone out, looking now it's using 2.5gb with some updates, things like snmpd installed, small stuff. I remember when ubuntu server install was like 600mb, but even linux has grown significantly. Sounds like you had some other crap creep into the install, or

Re: How do I take a partial screenshot in KDE?

In Spectacle, set the Capture Mode Area to rectangular region, then you can play with delay if you need to click on something then shoot it in a few seconds. Works like a champ usually, I use it mostly every day. -mb On Thu, Nov 10, 2022 at 7:08 PM Keith Smith via PLUG-discuss <

Re: I'm wanting to get my son into computers....

Funny, a buddy has been going through this with his 80 year old father, the teen nephew they were supposed to teach about what a raspberry pi is didn't care for fakebook or tweeting, but his grandfather took a few and building stuff on them now. It's as much or as little as anyone wants to put

Re: software to edit dvds

I always laugh with new format introductions by the media cartels to get people to buy the same thing all over again, now these streaming services, and still somehow get fed ads for your patronage. Or I can just download a clean, perfect version of that already in about 2 minutes of effort from

Re: toshiba laptop with vista presently

Most any dist will work clicking next next next these days, trick is the aftermath. Search the model, see if anyone else complained about issues. First thing I do before buying anything. -mb On Sat, Nov 5, 2022 at 2:15 PM Michael via PLUG-discuss < plug-discuss@lists.phxlinux.org> wrote: >

Re: T-Mobile Home Internet followup

/sprint and verizon do the same on their networks. I know various carrier folk for eons now, I thought to ask for my own cell cell data apn, but they care little of the little fry and laughed mockingly asking how much cash I had. Not that much, natch. -mb On Mon, Oct 31, 2022 at 4:09 PM Michael

Re: T-Mobile Home Internet followup

On Starlink, now that you mention it, I'm kinda curious too. What *do* they allow for ports? I've been on a list asking for a starlink for years, but I don't tweet with twits, so guess I don't get invited. My guess: They treat it like a cellco, ie all cgnat with no inbound ports, only outbound.

Re: T-Mobile Home Internet followup

vision. > > My guess is that T Mobile's service went down the crapper because people > signed up for it, they don't have the capacity to handle the demand > customers are placing on the network and either are unable to correct the > problem or unwilling to spend the money to fix it.

Re: Boot up from cold boot no network

I've used a lot of usb-based devices, and still do technically with a thunderbolt dock for like the past 5 years, and not really run into this on either ubuntu or arch. I've run into some weirdness before though with wired or wireless nics. Basic linux network 101 applies... test it like a

Re: are these two modules interchangeable?

t; a 4GB with no ill effects. >> >> On Wed, Sep 14, 2022 at 6:01 PM Michael Butash via PLUG-discuss < >> plug-discuss@lists.phxlinux.org> wrote: >> >>> I would highly recommend NOT mixing and matching sticks of ram, this has >>> never ended well fo

Re: are these two modules interchangeable?

I would highly recommend NOT mixing and matching sticks of ram, this has never ended well for me, particularly since most everything is dual-channel configs these days and really need to be paired exactly per bank. If you do/must, match them up as close as possible in terms of speed, cas/ras

Re: Shred

SSD/NVME usually have secure wipe functions in the controller for this not to destroy the flash with shred or like. From my notes: ## if SSD ## if you need to wipe the disks, use a security erase on them ## you will sometimes need to unfreeze drives, a suspend and awaken works sudo hdparm -I

Weird Display Scaling Issues on Thinkpad T15g G2

So I've got a fresh arch up on my new box, a lenovo thinkpad T15g G2 (blame Stephen Partington, props too though, it's tight), but so far it's been very weird with the display with KDE, and biggest issue so far remaining is the desktop scaling, or at least it doing so horribly. Main Problem: The

Re: Recommended affordable hardware for 4k video playback?

Do yourself a favor and get an nvidia shield, which ever model really, they all do 4k dope with kodi. Probably get a cheap old one on ebay even. I've still got an OG pro from like 5 years ago, and it's always been on point playing any media including super pimp 60gbyte 4k/60 dolby atmos BR rips

Re: Right now my computer is in the shop.

I'll second arch, I've been using it for a good 4-5 years now, and only thing I run on personal hardware anymore. That said, it can be cranky, even with rolling updates. I've had them randomly blow up at least one system that I couldn't figure out how to fix, and upgrades can be a pain with AUR

Re: OT: Linux Laptops

I just bought a new laptop, a lenovo t15g g2 laptop, and it took some hunting. Normally I would not have considered Lenovo, but blame Stephen Partington for extolling the virtue of Lenovo thinkpads, and they actually are the beefiest boxes out there. I never buy new, always used (like a car, let

Re: face book keeps crashing it's tab

That's them probably installing their backdoors on your system. Pay no attention, nothing to see here. -mb On Thu, Aug 11, 2022 at 7:25 PM Michael via PLUG-discuss < plug-discuss@lists.phxlinux.org> wrote: > facebook keeps crashing it's firefox tab. is it just me or is it a > facebook thing?

Re: Domain Registering and Hosting/Website Funny Business

of the company is behaving smart. > > -Eric > From the Central Offices of the Technomage Guild, Intelligence Div. > > > On Jul 24, 2022, at 10:38 AM, Michael Butash via PLUG-discuss < > plug-discuss@lists.phxlinux.org> wrote: > > I doubt threatening them with a lawyer will do

Re: Domain Registering and Hosting/Website Funny Business

I doubt threatening them with a lawyer will do much, they'll see your lawyer and raise you 5 of their lawyers. It's a losing battle for the little person. Rather go to their abuse team, explain it's a legal matter, and see if you can talk to a rational human vs. a call center monkey. Those guys

Re: Domain Registering and Hosting/Website Funny Business

is probably doable via various archival crawling methods ala google spiders and wayback machine. -mb On Sat, Jul 23, 2022 at 7:12 AM wrote: > > > On 2022-07-22 19:01, Michael Butash via PLUG-discuss wrote: > > In my experience, when a domain goes up for grabs, the registrar >

Re: Domain Registering and Hosting/Website Funny Business

In my experience, when a domain goes up for grabs, the registrar basically usurps it and auctions it off with first right of refusal having it under their stewardship in the first place as registrar. I saw this with butash.com, of which I own .net and .org, but the dude that owned .com was old,

Re: Dock Replacement under Wayland

t; functionally does what you're looking for, but it will give you that OSX > look and feel and integrates nicely with KDE. > > Brian Cluff > > > > On 7/15/22 21:59, Michael Butash via PLUG-discuss wrote: > > GLX-Dock is actually the older form of Cairo dock, go figure, pro

Re: Dock Replacement under Wayland

try this one yet? > > https://glx-dock.org/mr_article.php?b=5=73 > > On Sat, Jul 16, 2022, 12:44 AM Michael Butash via PLUG-discuss < > plug-discuss@lists.phxlinux.org> wrote: > >> I've used cairo-dock forever, sort of an unforgiving bastard, but the >> best dock out

Dock Replacement under Wayland

I've used cairo-dock forever, sort of an unforgiving bastard, but the best dock out there imho for linux still. I've tried a lot, but found cairo doesn't work under wayland that is my weekend adventure to replace the infernal xorg compositors worth about shite for anything 4k res or higher.

Re: sites on localhost

This is something I posted here a while back, how sites like banks and other financials were making scripted local queries to check for open "services" or ports as referrals to localhost and ports known to be malicious ala some worm or botnet if they should trust you or not. Quick way for them to

Re: Should an opensource dev know Linux

If someone proclaimed themselves an "open source dev" but didn't know linux to at least some extent, my inside voice would dub them heretical and proclaim yet another fool that doesn't even know what they're saying. I would probably be compelled to at least ask sarcastically just exactly what

Re: Kodi

I think he's asking for something of a one-stop shop for media aggregation across services, paid or not. I'm not sure such exists now that all the fragmentation has occurred. My nvidia shield or any android tv does have google voice search capabilities, and I think if you have the service apps,

Ubuntu moving to rolling releases

This is interesting news - ubuntu moving to rolling releases. https://www.neowin.net/news/ubuntu-becomes-a-rolling-release-with-rolling-rhino/ This is largely what drove me to using arch, as every release upgrade of ubuntu was a goddamn nightmare, and haven't really considered ubuntu outside of

Re: GNOME or KDE?

>> I never know on which monitor an application will launch in after I start it. Funny, this is one of my biggest complaints about KDE since the 4.x days. I use a thunderbolt dock for my 2 external displays, and occasionally will lose power or accidentally wiggle the laptop too much, power down

Re: ot - gas price

Don't like gas prices? Guess you could always try your luck with this approach... https://www.cnx-software.com/2022/03/19/gas-pumps-insecure-typical-router/ Wouldn't surprise me to find out those things hang out on probably insecure wireless at the more janky stations that can't be bothered or

Re: external U.S.robotics fax modem

I suppose maybe some industries are still weird like that still and require some sort of fax, but for probably a better chunk of a decade I just edit the PDF, apply a transparent png of my signature I created, and "sign" docs as needed to email back to someone easy enough. Saves on dead trees,

Re: m.2 2280

I'm not so much a fan of crucial anymore, I lost a few of their earlier SSD's and mostly wrote them off as incompetent. Really the trick is just match up the pcie bus, so if a 3.0 bus, get a 3.0 m.2, or if a 4.0, get a 4.0 m.2. That and make sure the slot supports up to a 2280, but most disks

Re: Demand for programmers who know system admin stuff

With the whole transition to libera.chat for irc and taking some time off from work, I've taken to hanging out there a bit, and this is a common thing I'm seeing in the #networking chat. I'm seeing a lot of devs showing up in #networking asking for hosting/sysadmin stuff lots, ala "how to make

Re: Compile firefox on arch

Not worth the time honestly. Unless you have a very distinct reason to do so, ie you're optimizing something, adding a feature that wasn't compiled in (ie debugging/testing new), it's simply not worth it for weirdness like you found that someone smarter than you and I already has fixed, so why

Modern mobo/component upgrades for old IBM Thinkpads

Hi All, I know many of you have expressed your love of Thinkpads over the years, particularly back in the days when IBM still made them with quality. I came across this where there's a crowdfunding project to make complete drop-in replacement mobo's for the most loved models with fully modern

Re: wifi and arch (or perhaps I should say systemd or iwd)

Not sure, I very rarely ever do, and generally just the networkmanager gui aspect. I'd much recommend largely the same. Probably using that, just omit the password statement all together. Otherwise probably someone has done it on google. Should you? Probably not, you're unencrypted at that

Re: wifi and arch (or perhaps I should say systemd or iwd)

vated with > '4e83077c-e4c4-4de6-9e6b-4f5ca37c451e'. > > and after that wifi worked. Now I can take my computer with us when we go > away for the weekend and need two computers! > > On Sat, Nov 20, 2021 at 11:12 AM Michael Butash via PLUG-discuss < > plug-discuss@lists.phxlinux.o

Re: wifi and arch (or perhaps I should say systemd or iwd)

37c451e'. > > and after that wifi worked. Now I can take my computer with us when we go > away for the weekend and need two computers! > > On Sat, Nov 20, 2021 at 11:12 AM Michael Butash via PLUG-discuss < > plug-discuss@lists.phxlinux.org> wrote: > >> That seems weird,

Re: wifi and arch (or perhaps I should say systemd or iwd)

; network manager? well I installed arch via the ISO and typing >> 'archinstall'. >> >> On Fri, Nov 19, 2021 at 2:54 PM Michael Butash via PLUG-discuss < >> plug-discuss@lists.phxlinux.org> wrote: >> >>> Did you install a full desktop on it? If so

Re: wifi and arch (or perhaps I should say systemd or iwd)

Did you install a full desktop on it? If so, you should have NetworkManager in some flavor present, if not, highly suggest using that. It's probably a bit easier to troubleshoot with nmcli and the gui itself. If you look at logs with journalctl -f while doing so, any logs there point to

Re: Reliable ISP?

Sorry, CenturyLink. -mb On Thu, Nov 18, 2021 at 2:41 PM wrote: > > Sorry... who is CL? > > > On 2021-11-18 14:25, Michael Butash via PLUG-discuss wrote: > >>> You think CBS service is pricey compared to residential? I pay > > $79/mo for CBS for Internet on

Re: Reliable ISP?

ature called Virtual Hosts > that let's you host multiple websites behind one static public IP. Works > great, except that only ONE of the sites hosted that way can have SSL > enabled, due to the way Virtual Hosts works. This is how I'm currently set > up.) > > On Thu, Nov 18

Re: Reliable ISP?

have hit my limit with running a server... may not need/want to go > any further. Was satisfying to be able to be able to get things running > though. Bind and Postfix/Dovecot where the challenges for me. Especially > Postfix/Dovecot. > > > > > > > On 2021-11-18 13:15,

Re: Reliable ISP?

>> I am told I can rent more static IPs... I assume I will need some hardware to be able to accommodate more than 1 IP unless I am port forwarding to different boxes. Not really, just about any *nix-y system can accommodate that with NAT as a firewall/router/gateway, whatever you want to call it,

Centurylink Internet Broken Today?

Just curious if others here have noticed CL internet being super flaky today. Saw some news earlier today there was rampant reachability issues on the internet across services, still waiting for updates to that, but having a lot of random reachability issues routing to different networks, and see

Re: cmos battery

s holding the board > down. My little screwdriver doesn’t provide enough leverage. > > On Sun, Nov 14, 2021 at 7:26 PM Michael Butash via PLUG-discuss < > plug-discuss@lists.phxlinux.org> wrote: > >> Don't take it somewhere, what sort of self-respecting geek are you? >&

Re: cmos battery

Don't take it somewhere, what sort of self-respecting geek are you? They'll probably know less than you do and screw it up. Doesn't look hard, order a new battery and watch this. https://youtu.be/GOtEPymBLBI Get yourself a phone repair kit ala ifixit

Re: Reliable ISP?

It would help to start with who and what service you have today, as well as where you are roughly currently. Some parts of town are ancient and just get the booty end of the stick, but mostly everywhere around phoenix is decently serviced. Fringes, it's more selective and variable. -mb On

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