Re: Oh boy... We *ARE* criminals!!!

Is that news? FOSS is where individuals can find tools to preserve privacy and free speech, regardless of who wants to deny them these rights. Some might suspect NSA has managed to arm-twist major software publishers into installing backdoor features into popular software, and has planted

OT: CiviCRM promotion event Jan 28th

for discussion and demonstrations of how PACH uses Civi. Any questions, please contact me. Thanks, Victor Odhner vodh...@cox.net. --- PLUG-discuss mailing list - PLUG-discuss@lists.phxlinux.org To subscribe, unsubscribe, or to change your mail

Re: Is SSL protocal bouncing potential customers?

I’ve been told that SSL of any flavor is unfixably insecure, and that TLS is the way to go. But maybe you meant TLS, some people call it SSL generically because it’s still HTTPS. __ On Mar 26, 2015, at 16:26:18, Eric Cope eric.c...@gmail.com wrote: do your apache logs show

Re: OT: How to send an email anonymously ...

Why don’t you just play it straight? The old “don’t tell others, tell us!” policy. Do you think your neighbor would hate you if you mentioned that you’d heard of people losing a bundle because they had to tear out a non-compliant structure? I’m presuming that your motive really is for them to

Re: non-traceable email

Mike, did you look for that? Look here: https://www.startmail.com/home#section-why They’re hosted in the Netherlands, so they are subject to all the Euro privacy laws. I’ve been using Startpage.com as my browser for some time, just to spite Google. They use Google but don’t let ‘em know who

Re: ot- HD ota

Try putting it up high, or near a window facing South Mountain. So much depends on your location. I took down our roof antenna because we were getting a new roof. To spare my family the grief of several days without TV, I bought an indoor antenna and put it in our crawlspace facing south

Re: ot- HD ota

B004HB2X4Y%3FSubscriptionId%3DAKIAILSHYYTFIVPWUY6Q%26tag%3Dduckduckgo-d-20%26linkCode%3Dxm2%26camp%3D2025%26creative%3D165953%26creativeASIN%3DB004HB2X4Y> > > On Thu, Nov 12, 2015 at 6:12 PM, Michael Havens <bmi...@gmail.com> wrote: > >> an amplifier! why didn't I think of that! any suggest

Re: Dr Horrible DNS geekery

I’m sure I’d used it before, maybe it was left behind by a library upgrade. I can’t install it now because of an obsolete repo. It’s time to wipe and replace my linux system. My Macbook has traceroute, bad.horse worked fine, and we just viewed Dr. Horrible again. _ On Sep 26, 2015,

OT - Looking for host for my bounce mailbox

r and provides paid services to non-profits that use this free CRM software. He supports some low-budget organizations for free who serve under-served populations. Thanks, Victor Odhner --- PLUG-discuss mailing list - PLUG-discuss@lists.phxli

Re: 2016

Happy New Year, everyone. Y2k is an interesting case. It went by so quietly that I think the world will look back on it as an unnecessary panic or an outright boondoggle. But here is a case where IT management worldwide listened to their techies, saw a genuine disaster coming on, and responded

OT: Copying text from PDF to text on Mac corrupts words containing "t"

OK, I have an amusing OSX puzzle for y’all. I am taking messages from Thunderbird and pasting them as text into Word. Many words containing “ti” or “tt” or some other combinations with the letter “t” get corrupted when I use copy and paste, from PDF text that looks normal. Some software

Re: Verizon

I like TMobile except that I often have trouble getting a signal. But the ability to make calls through WIFI helps with that. Original Message From: Stephen Partington Sent: November 29, 2015 3:36:00 PM MST To: Main PLUG discussion list

Online Asynchronous Board Meeting Tools?

ote: On 01/09/2016 05:26 PM, Victor Odhner wrote: > Many words containing “ti” or “tt” or some other combinations with > the letter “t” get corrupted when I use copy and paste, from PDF > text that looks normal. Some software interprets the PDF correctly > for display and printing,

Re: edit photo

Brian wrote: There is no amount of massaging that you can do in Darktable that will make a good looking image out of an image that has been stretched by that amount. But … what’s that thing that they use on the TV shows? It involves a magic phrase I think: Enhance that … It can even see around

OT: Hiring for Unix Production Support with Scripting

in on-call production support rotation. This includes after hours and weekends. Good Luck, Victor Odhner --- PLUG-discuss mailing list - PLUG-discuss@lists.phxlinux.org To subscribe, unsubscribe, or to change your mail settings: http://lists.ph

Re: printer opinions

I’m happy with our old HP OfficeJet 550. Its paper tray is big enough for a lot of copies, its four ink tanks have a long lifetime, and it prints pretty fast. It was sold to me as an alternative to a laser printer, and I think we’ve done well with it. We’ll see how it does with the cheaper ink

Re: Look at these photos I restored with darktable... cool!

Please give an example of file IDs that are “before” and “after” of the same picture. Sorry for being blind. :) __ On Jan 28, 2016, at 10:35:23, Stephen Partington wrote: DarkTable is some Top Shelf software. On Thu, Jan 28, 2016 at 10:13 AM,

OT: Hiring for *NIX Production Support with Scripting

kends. Good Luck, Victor Odhner --- 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

OT: Who is my Google Calendar Administrator?

OK, so one of the windmills that I like to tilt is limiting how much Google knows about me. :) I do use Google Calendar. I had the “Birthdays” checkbox enabled, and it wished me a happy birthday. I spun through my busy calendar to see how many birthdays are listed, and it’s a tiny handful, I

Re: OT: Who is my Google Calendar Administrator?

, Stephen Partington <cryptwo...@gmail.com <mailto:cryptwo...@gmail.com>> wrote: Google has kind of merged much of its backend data. So if any Google services have that information they all do. On Jan 26, 2016 1:26 PM, "Victor Odhner" <vodh...@cox.net <mailt

Re: printer

Keith wrote: "HP is very good about providing drivers for their printers.” Not necessarily so, after they weary of supporting it. We have an HP OfficeJet K550, a nice printer that’s working well but maybe as much as 10 years old. My recently installed Mint system doesn’t show the K550; it

Re: printer

HPIJS)." Brian Cluff On 02/20/2016 10:44 AM, Victor Odhner wrote: > Keith wrote: "/HP is very good about providing drivers for their > printers/.” Not necessarily so, after they weary of supporting it. > > We have an HP OfficeJet K550, a nice printer that’s working well but

Re: printer

for your help and patience. :) On Feb 20, 2016, at 12:53:03, Victor Odhner <vodh...@cox.net> wrote: I found HPLIP was already installed. I added HPIJS for good measure. I was able to select a driver "HP Officejet Pro K550 hpijs, 3.15.2”. The printer is still “not resp

Re: 2FA over SMS considered harmful

I’m just glad we have a Social Security office here in our northeast Phoenix neighborhood. I have never used “My Social Security” and don’t mind once every few years spending 45 minutes in their waiting room. I have also actively rejected my medical providers’ offers of handy online access to

Re: youth activities for SCaLE

Is this just a daytime thing? I acquired an 8” computerized telescope, giving stargazing parties for kids, but it has to be at least a little dark for that to be any fun. (If anyone is interested in this, even outside of SCaLE, I might be available for some random opportunities.)

Re: ... and fingerprint authentication has problems too

I’m getting old, and last time I had a fingerprint card created it took them a while to pull what looked like a real print. I volunteer at a place where paid staff check in and out with their fingerprint. It’s good I’m “unpaid staff” because they might not be able to read my finger. Speaking

Re: youth activities for SCaLE

e: Am 29. Jul, 2016 schwätzte Victor Odhner so: moin moin, > Is this just a daytime thing? I acquired an 8” computerized telescope, In this case, mostly. What I'm talking about is daytime, but there's a game night activity on Saturday night. It's still in downtime Pasadena, so not too much

Re: the timestampz in a pdf, oh my

Hi, Hans. My complicated C-programmer mind says to take each PDF, process it in binary form and spit out a new PDF with all timestamp digits changed to zeroes, then use the postprocessed files for comparison. That’s probably not a practical approach as it stands, but it might spark an idea

OT: Need a Campaign to Secure WIFI Sites

I’m really annoyed that so many companies offer open WIFI when it would be so easy to secure those hot spots. Restaurants, hotels, and the waiting rooms of auto dealerships are almost 100% open. I am not one to say “there ought to be a law” because we have too many doggone laws, and I’m not

OT: Need a Campaign to Secure WIFI Sites

I’m really annoyed that so many companies offer open WIFI when it would be so easy to secure those hot spots. Restaurants, hotels, and the waiting rooms of auto dealerships are almost 100% open. I am not one to say “there ought to be a law” because we have too many doggone laws, and I’m not

Re: Microsoft has created an A.I. that can write its own code

We’re talking about computers understanding people. Do people understand people? Actually, as my friend Randy Galbraith once pointed out, computers have been writing code for us since 1957 when FORTRAN was first released. More recently we have Java … Using Java, you tell the computer what you

Re: Microsoft has created an A.I. that can write its own code

Hmmm. Did my post get blocked? __ On Mar 9, 2017, at 16:59:21, Keith Smith wrote: Yep what we need is smart computers. When all this started computers were supposed to create a shorter work week. Now look what we have. Racist computers - LOL!!

Re: OT: video player with controls on other monitor

tro64...@gmail.com> wrote: Mpv from the command line. Then all the controls work off the command line or the minimal gui. > On Sep 17, 2017, at 5:22 PM, Victor Odhner <vodh...@cox.net> wrote: > > Is there a video player that can display a video on one monitor (a > projec

OT: video player with controls on other monitor

try a Linux guest (or even windows as last resort) if that’s the only answer. Thanks, Victor Odhner --- PLUG-discuss mailing list - PLUG-discuss@lists.phxlinux.org To subscribe, unsubscribe, or to change your mail settings: http://lists.phxlinux.org

Re: The demise of the programmer

I just found time to catch up with PLUG, and now as an obsolete programmer (in recovery for 4.5 years) I have to ramble a bit. But in a few words, my point is: human thought builds on the past. Of course, learning details of old skills may be interesting, but ceases to be profitable for most.

OT: Chromebook to Network Printer

Wow, this is crazy. I got a new network printer so my wife’s new chromebook could print, and it still turns out to be a major project to get this hooked up. It’s eaten my whole afternoon, with no success. The only official connection they support is via a server at Google, which is downright

Re: OT: Chromebook to Network Printer

ome. I think the CUPS implementation would be a preferred way to go unless you want to print from android and the like as well. On Sun, Aug 27, 2017 at 10:01 PM, Victor Odhner <vodh...@cox.net <mailto:vodh...@cox.net>> wrote: Wow, this is crazy. I got a new network printer so my wif

OT: Mac Mini obsolescent? When next release?

Spun off from the Genius discussion: The Apple CEO reportedly says Mini is still part of their product line, but he won’t say anything about the next release. I was another Mini shopper, for supportability and video resolution reasons. Our church music team needs to update a 2009 Mini. I want

Re: Good Cheap PC to play MP3s and MP4 video? (Was: OT Mac Mini obsolescent?)

so I have no idea how cruddy this thing has gotten over the last 6 years. -eric from the central offices of the Technomage Guild, Sales and Trades Dept. On Dec 6, 2017, at 10:46 AM, Victor Odhner wrote: > OK, I’ve decided on Linux. (No longer OT!) > > I need recommendations on an ade

VPN recommendations, again

I’m due to renew my subscription to Hotspot Shield as my VPN provider. Before I spend more on this, anybody have another recommendation? I’m willing to pay. What I want in a VPN is some protection of my ID and data, most importantly when I’m using a public hotspot but even when I’m at home on

Good Cheap PC to play MP3s and MP4 video? (Was: OT Mac Mini obsolescent?)

ubject: Re: OT: Mac Mini obsolescent? When next release? I’d be tempted to get an all-in-one Windows machine (most seem to have touch-screens now) or a small iMac. AIO Windows machines are well under $1k. Stick to the KISS principle here. :-) -David Schwartz On Nov 30, 2017, at 11:32 AM, Victor

Trust Recycled Desktops? (Was: Good Cheap PC < Was: OT Mac Mini obsolescent?)

ou can get a part replaced reasonably fast. Fry's never fails to let me down when I need some critical in a pinch not having it, and there's really no where else left local. -mb On Wed, Dec 6, 2017 at 10:46 AM, Victor Odhner <vodh...@cox.net <mailto:vodh...@cox.net>> wrote: OK, I’v

Re: Good Cheap PC to play MP3s and MP4 video? (Was: OT Mac Mini obsolescent?)

google home mini. Google Chromecast $35 Google Home mini. $30 currently (requires internet) Chromebook $100-$400 You could get all 3 for under $200 Does the church have wifi? if not, you'd have to add that in. On Dec 6, 2017 10:46 AM, "Victor Odhner" <vodh...@cox.net <

Cheap new Linux laptop advice?

A friend needs a cheap Linux laptop for light duty business work: Libre Office, printing via USB connection, WIFI, email, and light browsing. His business (piano tuning) hangs on this. He would like the provider to be established with a decent reputation, whether the computer is new or

Re: Need a cheap graphics card

, 2018 at 1:49 PM, Victor Odhner mailto:vodh...@cox.net>> wrote: Can anyone sell me a cheap graphics card? Needed: 1080p, fairly recent, open source Linux drivers. Not needed: gaming-level speed or the most delicious color. I’m thinking someone out there might have upgraded their graphics a

Need a cheap graphics card

have some more diagnostic angles, but not time to work them right now. So I need a Plan B to get things working ASAP. Thanks, Victor Odhner --- PLUG-discuss mailing list - PLUG-discuss@lists.phxlinux.org To subscribe, unsubscribe, or to change your

Re: Cheap new Linux laptop advice?

. ___ On 20180618, at 12:36, Victor Odhner wrote: I want to thank everyone who has contributed to this thread! My friend Tom also appreciates the concern. I’ll feed back what I’ve collected from this so far, but first I should explain why $200s and 4GB memory is not as stupid as it might seem

Re: Cheap new Linux laptop advice?

I want to thank everyone who has contributed to this thread! My friend Tom also appreciates the concern. I’ll feed back what I’ve collected from this so far, but first I should explain why $200s and 4GB memory is not as stupid as it might seem. Tom’s business is going out and tuning pianos, or

Re: Lecture on used computers: was Cheap new Linux laptop advice?

for worthy causes — I worked with a refugee years ago who was using an AZSTRUT machine. On 20180620, at 12:35, Steve Litt wrote: On Mon, 18 Jun 2018 12:36:05 -0700 Victor Odhner wrote: > I think Somebody off-line mentioned Data Doctors so I dropped in > there. The ma

OT: Major Intel Memory Vulnerability - worse than Y2K?

So, Eric — You don’t think Y2K had consequences? :) It just happened to be a raft of stupid bugs that the industry dealt with in time. I was coding around Y2K bugs as early as 1979, as were lots of other people, just matter of factly planning on Y2K, but some of the older and more primitive

Re: Post : INTEL’S SECURITY FLAW IS NO FLAW

This is just another result of monoculture. When Apple gave up on Motorola CPUs, it occurred to me that we would have basically a single computer structure. It appears that this “management” thing (actually a very cute name for something that manages everybody, if true) would go around a lot of

OT: New Email Home?

I want to open a new email account, using a good solid provider with decent security. My requirements aren’t paranoid, but I don’t want another Yahoo. I’m willing to pay something like $20 - $40 a year for a reputable service with no ads. I could use Startmail (I do my searches via StartPage),

Re: OT: Cell Phone Advice

concept, but I am not sure how well it is doing as it went on sale for prime day and dropped over 50% off MSRP. On Wed, Jul 25, 2018 at 8:40 PM Victor Odhner mailto:vodh...@cox.net>> wrote: My Samsung Galaxy Note II has been left behind. * Samsung/T-Mobile offer no updates, I’m stuck a

OT: Cell Phone Advice

nd pay) a consultant who has done this kind of thing repeatedly, without recent bricking events. Please advise . . . Thanks, Victor Odhner --- PLUG-discuss mailing list - PLUG-discuss@lists.phxlinux.org To subscribe, unsubscribe, or to change your mail se

Re: Any way to keep my non-Google email contacts from Google?

information about anyone. Take care, Victor Odhner _ On 20180904, at 13:27, Matt Graham wrote: On 2018-09-03 19:25, Victor Odhner wrote: > So on my old phone, I only synchronized my calendar items with Google. > I avoided synching everything else, there was n

OT: New Chromebook won't reach printer

My wife’s Chromebook died (broken charging port) so we got a new HP Chromebook. The old one worked perfectly with CUPS. Now our printer shows up in CUPS, but if I try to set up a print, Chromebook says it can’t connect. Any theories about why this computer won’t connect? Google’s Cloud Print

OT: Charging a Macbook in the woods

I researched power inverters, figuring that I can charge my Macbook while camping. It turns out, as far as I can tell from the user reviews, that the affordable inverters (even some less affordable) don’t satisfy a PC’s AC quality requirements. There are happy customers, but the reports of

Unrecognized Monitor

I'm trying to bring an unknown monitor up to full resolution. It's a Visio E241-A1 (TV set), claiming 1920x1080. I’m running Linux Mint 18.3 Sylvia, with Mate. The computer (a new desktop) also drives an HDMI cable to a projector, but that’s turned off right now. I used --newmode with xrandr and

Re: Unrecognized Monitor stuck at 1024x768

having with it? ET __ Victor Odhner writes: I'm trying to bring an unknown monitor up to full resolution. It's a Visio E241-A1 (TV set), claiming 1920x1080. I’m running Linux Mint 18.3 Sylvia, with Mate. The computer (a new desktop) also drives an HDMI cable to a projector, but that’s turn

Re: Clementine music player, or something better?

ot sure if it will fill your needs, but it seems to check a lot of the boxes you wanted checked. Brian Cluff On 03/03/2018 05:58 PM, Victor Odhner wrote: > I’m using Clementine to keep playlists, playing songs one at a time. > > (I have migrated from my Mac Mini because it’s vintage

Re: Unrecognized Monitor

Thanks, all. I ran out of time to play with the VGA connection, although I might have done better by fixing the typos that were pointed out to me. I concluded that I should simply get with current technology and go all HDMI. That same monitor/TV automatically came up on 1080p, rock solid.

Clementine music player, or something better?

I’m using Clementine to keep playlists, playing songs one at a time. (I have migrated from my Mac Mini because it’s vintage 2009, out of support. I looked for a newer Mac Mini but the newest model is five years old. I went to Linux because I don’t trust Apple or Microsoft not to jerk us around,

Mint Cinnamon with a default login

A vendor loaded Tom's new PC with Mint Cinnamon. It powers up without authentication to a default user account. How do we disable that? The details: It was set up with one temporary admin user, named “user”, with password “password.” So we set up the “tom” account, with admin status, and then

Re: OT: Stupid Thunderbird Problem

system). -Eric Blind computer user, Mac and Linux guru. > On Oct 3, 2018, at 1:14 AM, Victor Odhner <mailto:vodh...@cox.net>> wrote: > > Using Thunderbird on my Macbook. > It has my old and new accounts. > I have been moving old messages from Yahoo to Zoho. > &

OT: Stupid Thunderbird Problem

Using Thunderbird on my Macbook. It has my old and new accounts. I have been moving old messages from Yahoo to Zoho. Some moves don’t work, and I get a notification in a little bubble that appears fleetingly in the upper right-hand corner, something like a notice of an incoming email. The

Any way to keep my non-Google email contacts from Google?

I use Google for the calendar, but make only occasional use of GMail. I have this little game of seeing how much I can avoid handing over to Google. So on my old phone, I only synchronized my calendar items with Google. I avoided synching everything else, there was no need. That was in the

Re: google cloud print

The setup to do this depends partly on what brand and model of printer you have. Of course it won’t work unless your printer is able to be reached over your Internet network, and that you have Internet connection at the moment. I don’t know if you have to be using either a Chrome browser or a

How to direct audio output

My Mac Mini's Preferences > Sound window lets me “select a device for sound output.” This works well driving my sound system. It detects other devices but lets me select my converter: USB > Digital-to-Analog converter > mixer board. Everything I find online seems to indicate that nobody’s

Re: How to direct audio output

output device is as well under output does too as they can work independently. -mb On Thu, Feb 7, 2019 at 10:49 PM Victor Odhner mailto:vodh...@cox.net>> wrote: My Mac Mini's Preferences > Sound window lets me “select a device for sound output.” This works well driving my sound system. It

Re: Linux Mint mutes parts of music

19, at 11:13 PM, Victor Odhner mailto:vodh...@cox.net>> wrote: > A computer I built, dedicated to play music in church, is muting pieces of > the music. It used to run smoothly. > > Can someone suggest a more stable music-playing distro of Linux, and/or a > better

Linux Mint mutes parts of music

trol adapter, then to the Mackie mixer board.) MINT 18.3 (MATE 1.18.2 Metacity Marco) x86_64 Linux - OS Release 4.10.0-36 generic Memory: 8 GB. Thanks for any suggestion you might have for me. Victor Odhner --- PLUG-discuss mailing list - PLUG-dis

OT: Non-Geek wants honest Registrar and Host service

-of-local-providers], so my bias is towards running away from [that], but I don’t really know what choices are “out there” for innocent button-pressing clients. Thanks for any advice, Victor Odhner --- PLUG-discuss mailing list - PLUG-discuss

OT: Non-Geek wants honest Registrar and Host service

-providers], so my bias is towards running away from [that], but I don’t really know what choices are “out there” for innocent button-pressing clients.Thanks for any advice,Victor Odhner--- PLUG-discuss mailing list - PLUG-discuss@lists.phxlinux.org

Re: OT: Non-Geek wants honest Registrar and Host service

n2. Shared hosting tends to overload the servers after > a while, but they usually don't put as many "reseller" accounts on a host as > regular (single cPanel) accounts — maybe by a factor of 10-to-1 or more — so > they don't fill up as fast. > > But if your shared hosti

OT Repair with Minimal Lost Time

o keep. P.S. — Yeah, they asked me for a plug. It was a pleasure. Thanks for listening, Victor Odhner --- PLUG-discuss mailing list - PLUG-discuss@lists.phxlinux.org To subscribe, unsubscribe, or to change your mail settings: https://lists.phxlinux

OT: How launch Linux (WSL) in Win10 ?

on that computer if I can. But I’m stuck. Anyone know the steps? I selected Ubuntu 20.04 LTS, and selected WSL 1. I got a message saying it was installed, but I can’t find a way to start it up. I can’t find any control panel for it. Any idea how to do this? :) Thanks, Victor Odhner

Re: OT: How launch Linux (WSL) in Win10 ?

https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/wsl/install-win10#install-windows-terminal-optional <https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/wsl/install-win10#install-windows-terminal-optional> Don’t use wsl 1 but use 2 if you can help it. > On Jun 24, 2021, at 8:40 PM, Victor Odhner via PLUG-dis