Re: [PLUG] Cannot access cell from USB (Chuck Hast)

While this is not direct answer to your question about fixing the USB access on the phones. I too, run into the same problems, especially with newer phoneOS versions. I could not solve it reliably myself by USB, PTP or the other nasty protocols phone makers implement to push people to their

Re: [PLUG] Cannot access cell from USB (Chuck Hast)

Yes that would be a solution as this machine is my desktop machine, and I am figuring that as soon as I update the whole OS it will probably go away, given that none of my other machines have this issue. And to a certain point that is kind of how I am doing it now. I just plug the phone into a

Re: [PLUG] Which CPU

I suspect the i5 and especially the SSD will be a solid upgrade. If you haven't, getting a handle on what is loading the processor is worthwhile. If you are using Windows (oh the irony on this list) they tend to load up over time and some judicious use of process explorer and msconfig goes a long

Re: [PLUG] Which CPU

Windows?? In a VM when necessary. All of my machines are running Linux, all of them are Ubuntu Mate 16.04. I do use Compiz. But it does not seem to load things that bad, I got used to the cube a long time ago, so I will have several things running at the same time on each desktop (face of the

Re: [PLUG] Question for the sysops -- IoT devices and email

On 03/04/2018 11:52 AM, plug-requ...@pdxlinux.org wrote: If I sold you an IoT device that sent email, how would you want it to do so? I forgot to mention, The FreedomBox. https://freedomboxfoundation.org/learn/ What is FreedomBox? * Email and telecommunications that protects privacy and

[PLUG] Question for the sysops -- IoT devices and email

If I sold you an IoT device that sent email, how would you want it to do so? I'm looking for the ideal compromise between minimum work programming the thing, reliably getting emails to people who need them (i.e., not getting caught in spam traps), and not asking the IT people at the

[PLUG] USB drive not connected but shown mounted

I'm puzzled. /var/log/messages shows: Mar 4 12:31:06 salmo kernel: [190439.582430] sd 9:0:0:0: [sdb] 31240704 512-byte logical blocks: (16.0 GB/14.9 GiB) Mar 4 12:31:06 salmo kernel: [190439.583125] sd 9:0:0:0: [sdb] Write Protect is off Mar 4 12:31:06 salmo kernel: [190439.615316] sdb:

Re: [PLUG] Question for the sysops -- IoT devices and email

Thanks John. You've kind of summed up what I know -- at least I know I have it right. Need to think of how to make it work as you said, without burdening any non-technical people with too much work. On 2018-03-04 11:51, John Meissen wrote: Sending email is easy. The device simply connects

Re: [PLUG] Question for the sysops -- IoT devices and email

What is the purpose of the message? Maybe you can send a message instead to a central server (e.g. via a UDP packet to a particular port), do some validation on that message (perhaps with public key cryptography) and have the central server send the email for you? On Sun, Mar 4, 2018 at 12:35

Re: [PLUG] Question for the sysops -- IoT devices and email

On Sun, Mar 4, 2018 at 12:41 PM, Russell Senior wrote: > What is the purpose of the message? Maybe you can send a message > instead to a central server (e.g. via a UDP packet to a particular > port), do some validation on that message (perhaps with public key >

Re: [PLUG] Question for the sysops -- IoT devices and email

Sending email is easy. The device simply connects to the MX host for the destination (specified in the destination domain's DNS records) and hands off the email. The problems arise when ISPs block outgoing connections to port 25 (to mitigate spam from compromised systems inside their network)

Re: [PLUG] Question for the sysops -- IoT devices and email

On 03/04/2018 01:39 PM, plug-requ...@pdxlinux.org wrote: do some validation on that message (perhaps with public key cryptography) and have the central server send the email for you? Knowing just enough about BlockChain to be dangerous, Russel's comment makes me think that if BlockChain was

[PLUG] Configuring a router: finding the missing step

Configuring a new Ubiquity EdgeRouter-X I'm missing a step between connecting to the unconfigured router on its default IP address and connecting to it on the LAN address. Connecting the laptop to the router on the 192.168.1.0 network I upgraded the firmware to the newly-released version

Re: [PLUG] Question for the sysops -- IoT devices and email

On 2018-03-04 13:11, Mke C> wrote: On 03/04/2018 11:52 AM, plug-requ...@pdxlinux.org wrote: If I sold you an IoT device that sent email, how would you want it to do so? I'm looking for the ideal compromise between minimum work programming the thing, reliably getting emails to people who need

Re: [PLUG] Question for the sysops -- IoT devices and email

On 2018-03-04 12:44, Russell Senior wrote: On Sun, Mar 4, 2018 at 12:41 PM, Russell Senior wrote: What is the purpose of the message? Maybe you can send a message instead to a central server (e.g. via a UDP packet to a particular port), do some validation on that

Re: [PLUG] Question for the sysops -- IoT devices and email

A. Thanks for clarifying! Maybe I still don't understand what you're asking but SNMP, email push and text notifications have been around for decades. Now most ip devices have either a web gui or telemetry app. But anyway, I personally don't do IoT mostly due to security but also b'cuz

Re: [PLUG] Question for the sysops -- IoT devices and email

On 03/04/2018 02:52 PM, t...@wescottdesign.com wrote: Not a device that lets YOU send email -- a device that sends you email when it needs attention (i.e., it fails a built-in-test, or it's out of feedstock, or whatever). Are you a sysop?  Do you have to take care of IoT devices (nuclear

Re: [PLUG] Configuring a router: finding the missing step

Why don't you ask Ubiquiti? It's their product, not ours. Although it is running linux under the covers, the connection to PLUG is a bit tenuous. Also, write this down and repeat it often: "DHCP is your dear and faithful friend." On Sun, Mar 4, 2018 at 2:26 PM, Rich Shepard

Re: [PLUG] Question for the sysops -- IoT devices and email

Outbound email is amongst the most likely thing to be blocked, so getting your "fix-me-feed-me" message outside the local network by some other means seems necessary. How far away does the message need to get? Conceptually, you need the sender and receiver of your message to rendezvous some how.

Re: [PLUG] Configuring a router: finding the missing step

On Sun, Mar 4, 2018 at 2:26 PM, Rich Shepard wrote: > Configuring a new Ubiquity EdgeRouter-X I'm missing a step between > connecting to the unconfigured router on its default IP address and > connecting to it on the LAN address. > > Connecting the laptop to the

Re: [PLUG] Question for the sysops -- IoT devices and email

Lots of factors to weigh here, and not a ton of detail. In the abstract (and I'm sure loads of other PLUG folks have more experience running email servers than i do), contracting with an existing provider of bulk email (e.g. mailchimp) so that they can provide features like rate limiting,

Re: [PLUG] Configuring a router: finding the missing step

On Sun, 4 Mar 2018, Ken Stephens wrote: When I did this stuff, I often forgot to do both ends of the line. If you changed your network IP on the router and have a fixed IP on the device, you need to change the IP on the device, too. Ken, Did so. I had no problems connecting to the