catching the hand that is spying on me

2024-04-10 Thread Mike Bushroe via PLUG-discuss
I found the reason someone was spying on me. It was me. I was. I was searching around on the other camera and found that it not only interface with the same software but read a file in the album. Eventually I watched the only video completely. The room in the background seemed familiar. But the

Catch the hand that is spying on me

2024-04-04 Thread Mike Bushroe via PLUG-discuss
not notice a wireless doorbell suddenly showing on their front door. Perhaps even just wireshark watching for which WiFi groups suddenly light up when somebody walks in front of the camera. Such as CoxHiFi, Nighthawk. Sorry for the long gap between messages and then the big request. Mike Bushroe

RE:valve onboarding suckath

2022-02-27 Thread Mike Bushroe via PLUG-discuss
der:hans, if you have not completely tired of experimenting with what should already be easy to use, try approaching the problem backwards. In this case assume that somehow their software has already found a password for you and this is all just a poor way to report the problem. If the screen you

Re: PLUG-discuss Digest, Vol 194, Issue 2

2021-08-03 Thread Mike Bushroe via PLUG-discuss
conspiracy'. Since the two or three little blrubs were all they could find is almost proof itself that there was nothing going on. >What is it you wish to achieve? What so you want us to do? Try to save the World? Mike Bushroe On Mon, Aug 2, 2021 at 12:00 PM wrote: > Send P

RE:cost to operate.

2021-07-22 Thread Mike Bushroe via PLUG-discuss
I usually use a mental rule of thumb that for every watt of 24/7/365 power consumption costs about $1 per year. Obviously this is failing as electric rates keep going up. So to first order of magnitude a 100 watt server would cost around $100 a year, but if the server was using the whole 400 watts

Re: gimp dark/dark theme

2020-10-18 Thread Mike Bushroe via PLUG-discuss
der.hans, Misha here. Does the same thing in Ubuntu. I looked in .gimp but I couldn't find anything that looked like it set the theme colors. Then I went to gimp itself. Try opening gimp, pull down Edit menu, select Preferences, scroll down to Interface/Theme. Mine shows about 5 themes,

Re: Linux Mint mutes parts of music

2019-04-30 Thread Mike Bushroe
What about writing a batch file to concatenate an mp3 of 5 seconds of silence onto the front of every song and modify the file names to show they have been padded. Consider it like the dead space between tracks on the old vinyl records. Mike -- "Creativity is intelligence having fun." — Albert

Re: Bonding

2018-09-10 Thread Mike Bushroe
It is actually probably going to be even worse than that. Consider what would happen in the setup you are talking about. If you sent ten 1Kbyte packets over the giga bit and one 1Kbyte packet over the bonded 100M. Each giga-bit packet would take roughly (1K+64)*8*1.25 nano seconds or a bit over

Re: Rock Me Like a Hurricane!

2017-09-12 Thread Mike Bushroe
Well I live in Florida now and hurricane hermine just pass by and I survived yay Does that men you do data backup by getting a giant USB external drive, copying all your files onto it, and then placing it inside WATER TIGHT PELICAN CASE? :) Which would still be more system backup than I have

Re: OT: Best way to shrink size of video?

2017-07-10 Thread Mike Bushroe
I recently had to take a video of a product I had purchased that failed to send to the vendor before they would ship me a replacement. (they said not to bother sending the defective unit back, it was not cost effective). I believe that I used 'handbrake' to change the encoding mode, the screen

Re: PLUG-discuss Digest, Vol 144, Issue 6

2017-06-06 Thread Mike Bushroe
On Tue, Jun 6, 2017 at 12:00 PM, wrote: > Send PLUG-discuss mailing list submissions to > plug-discuss@lists.phxlinux.org > > To subscribe or unsubscribe via the World Wide Web, visit >

Re: no moving parts

2016-09-05 Thread Mike Bushroe
What about NAS backups? Everything I have seen so far is either very expensive (tape drives), or very tedious (recordable DVD or BlRay) I started building a FreeNas, but the BSD that it runs on would not read the extra SATA card I bought, so I had to buy more and more expensive. Then the

Re: ... and fingerprint authentication has problems too

2016-08-02 Thread Mike Bushroe
This is scary. I would hope that as caselaw becomes more extensive and complete they split this into two parts. I have no qualms about allowing police to compel finger prints of any degree of fidelity. It is already standard practice to photograph and finger print every arrested person, so this is

RE: Lightining

2016-06-02 Thread Mike Bushroe
Kevin, on mt house in Tucson I have put a whole house surge/lightening arrestor on the main panel box outdoors and giant clamp on ferrite beads on each circuit feed line coming out of a circuit breaker. The surge suppressor does not kick in until a higher peak voltage than the ones in a power

RE: OT : looking for a silhouette image

2016-06-01 Thread Mike Bushroe
I was fairly artsy with the rebuilding the hand after removing the bottle, but I did not modify the body outline so I would say that mine are less appropriate for public use. Fortunately you have Brian's more fully interpreted work to use! Mike -- Forwarded message -- >>> >>

Recommendations for C++ IDE?

2016-05-19 Thread Mike Bushroe
I am starting a project at home and called up the Ubuntu Software Loader and looked for C++ IDEs. The only thing that came up that I recognized and that actually claimed to deal with C++ was Code::Blocks. But I am very frustrated with its interface, no tabs on the edit windows, no pull down menus

Re: Dr Horrible DNS geekery

2015-09-26 Thread Mike Bushroe
Mine was pretty boring until I added traceroute bad.horse --resolve-hostnames I am betting that everyone who was not impressed also did not have default set to DNS names. If you didn't see the fun try it again with the switch. Mike >traceroute bad.horse >no really... -- "Creativity is

RE: kinda quiet out there in plug-land.....

2014-11-12 Thread Mike Bushroe
Well, I could mention all the trouble I am having with gEDA gatting gschem to connect the pins together on a hierarchical design with a top sheet and 3 copies of a repeating sub circuit. I finally had to upgrade my 10.04 through 12.04 to 14.04 to get schm2pcb to stop generating a syntax error

Re: OT: Wanted: Android App Developer $??? Reward

2014-08-05 Thread Mike Bushroe
-- Forwarded message -- From: techli...@phpcoderusa.com To: Main PLUG discussion list plug-discuss@lists.phxlinux.org Cc: Date: Mon, 04 Aug 2014 17:16:26 -0700 Subject: Re: OT: Wanted: Android App Developer $??? Reward ... Your CIO example was not lost on me. I get it. I'm

Re: Debian desktops (Re: SUSE Linux Days Road Tour)

2014-07-26 Thread Mike Bushroe
I am still running Ubuntu, but after all the horror stories I have heard, I am still running 10.04LTS both at home and on all the test computers in the LAN Lab at work. It is getting a bit harder now that they have pulled the plug and the repositories no longer mix new software releases with lucid

Re: SUSE Linux Days Road Tour

2014-07-25 Thread Mike Bushroe
I haven't used SUSE in many years. Think I would still be welcome? :) Mike -- Creativity is intelligence having fun. — Albert Einstein --- PLUG-discuss mailing list - PLUG-discuss@lists.phxlinux.org To subscribe, unsubscribe, or to change your

Re: Anyone with experience in Cross-Compiling, especially to an embedded powerPC?

2014-05-14 Thread Mike Bushroe
Kevin, I started trying to play with this cross compile for the router awhile back and found crosstool. But I got too confused and stopped short of getting even a first run in. I agree that if this can be made to work, that is the best route for me to take. And I would be doing ppc from x64.

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2014-05-14 Thread Mike Bushroe
*Author: *Douglas Jerome doug...@ttylinux.org *Date: *2014-05-13 20:48 -700 *To: *Main PLUG discussion list plug-discuss@lists.phxlinux.org *Subject: *Re: Anyone with experience in Cross-Compiling, especially to an embedded powerPC? If it that easy, then maybe migrate through the files in

Re: Anyone with experience in Cross-Compiling, especially to an embedded powerPC?

2014-05-14 Thread Mike Bushroe
*Author: *Michael Havens bmi...@gmail.com *Date: *2014-05-14 01:03 -700 *To: *Main PLUG discussion list plug-discuss@lists.phxlinux.org *Subject: *Re: Anyone with experience in Cross-Compiling, especially to an embedded powerPC? wait a second. forgive my ignorance but I thought space

Anyone with experience in Cross-Compiling, especially to an embedded powerPC?

2014-05-13 Thread Mike Bushroe
I am working on the switch/routers that form the backbone of the Space Station LAN (Joint Station LAN or JSL). The ppc processors that control the switching fabric, perform the routing functions, SNMP, and all other network functions are about 10 years old. Parts of the Flash have been updated

Cross-Compiler

2014-05-13 Thread Mike Bushroe
To avoid any confusion or concern I may have inadvertently caused, when I said that we were not likely to get the original header files, I meant that we would then have to work with the open source header files we thought closest to when they forked off their own kernel, not that we should find

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2014-03-20 Thread Mike Bushroe
*what good is it? *Finally, a useful comment on cryptocurrency. When all is said and done, it is just a pattern of magnetic fields in a thin film of magnetic material. Now, you can say the same thing for the work I do. Looked at in simplest, physical terms, I get paid to make patterns of tiny

Re: Why is Firefox so slow (and degrades over time)?

2014-03-14 Thread Mike Bushroe
Thanks for the advice! I will try that as soon as I get home tonight. My Firefox at home has also been getting very sluggish. I have often wondered, while waiting for a page to load, if there are scripts or Java apps running in the background, chewing lots of CPU time even after the webpage

Re: Network Sniffers

2013-11-23 Thread Mike Bushroe
Now I'm curious. How fast is their internet connection? I said _LAN_, not _WAN_! I work primarily on the LOCAL area aspect of their network. However, during times of DNS coverage (or the opposite of what we normally talk about, the call ZOE's, or Zones of Exclusion, there is an upload/download

Re:Network Sniffers

2013-11-22 Thread Mike Bushroe
owever, I want to be able to view what some of the applicances on my home network are sending outbound. These would be things such as my kids Xbox, the smart TV and a few other such devices where I would be unable to load an application such as wireshark onto. I was poking around my router's

RE: Network Sniffers

2013-11-21 Thread Mike Bushroe
Wireshark, definitely. We use it extensively in our lab for testing firmware changes and problem reports on the International Space Station LAN. work great for catching individual packets and analyzing them layer by layer, protocol by protocol, tracing back and forth traffic of protocol

Re: video cables: 2 out of 3 ain't bad

2013-11-04 Thread Mike Bushroe
der.hans, because there is so much difference in how they implement VGA (limited resolution, analog out, sync pulses, etc) and digital they many dual head display drivers have one of each to make sure that what ever type of display you have, they can drive at least one. So I fear that you quest

a mild request for post trimming

2013-08-05 Thread Mike Bushroe
I usually get the PLUG in daily digest form. When replies to replies to replies with full contents and the list header and trailer addons even a one line post becomes quite large. When the recursion reaches 12-13 layers deep, my email program truncates the digest to 1/2 to 2/3 of the original

RE: Arizona Internet Speed Test

2013-05-10 Thread Mike Bushroe
I got something like 39M download, 10M up load. But that is at work where we have a large campus network and lots of shared bandwidth. Mike -- But he lives on in a Horcrux named Siri --- PLUG-discuss mailing list - PLUG-discuss@lists.phxlinux.org

Re: Home Office Server Security

2013-04-03 Thread Mike Bushroe
I do not have any answers for the original question, but based on my own experience, I would not be satisfied with any of the solutions so far suggested. That is probably because my bizarre approach to the issue too far off the beaten path to have been worth anyone's time to try an implement. I