Re: [GTALUG] You may already have a Windows licence and not know it …

2021-04-14 Thread Chris F.A. Johnson via talk
On Tue, 13 Apr 2021, Giles Orr via talk wrote: On Tue, 13 Apr 2021 at 19:48, Znoteer via talk wrote: ... # cat /sys/firmware/acpi/tables/MSDM MSDMU:_ASUS_Notebook ASUS-K--K-K# (License string obfuscated.) 'strings' not required. My current maching, a Dell laptop,

[GTALUG] Remote Connection/Boot Woes

2021-04-14 Thread Peter King via talk
There is a computer several hundred kilometres distant from me that I use for backing up data. The other day I had to reboot it, and things have not been the same. Most of the time I can't get in: my ssh connection hangs on the key exchange (usually expecting KEX_ECHD or some such). But every no

[GTALUG] The state of Mozilla with Mike Hoye; Dec 2020 meeting video.

2021-04-14 Thread Alex Volkov via talk
Hello everyone, The video of December 2020 talk, The state of Mozilla with Mike Hoye, is now available here -- https://youtu.be/un4K0uK6sJk Alex. --- Post to this mailing list talk@gtalug.org Unsubscribe from this mailing list https://gtalug.org/mailman/listinfo/talk

Re: [GTALUG] You may already have a Windows licence and not know it …

2021-04-14 Thread D. Hugh Redelmeier via talk
| From: mwilson--- via talk | Sorry for the misinformation: the non-free firmware was needed to get Wifi | to work. (It was a Debian netinstall, so I guess my mind conflated that | with booting.) There is firmware for UEFI and ACPI and SMM and all those things. This is almost always in "ROM".

Re: [GTALUG] You may already have a Windows licence and not know it …

2021-04-14 Thread mwilson--- via talk
Sorry for the misinformation: the non-free firmware was needed to get Wifi to work. (It was a Debian netinstall, so I guess my mind conflated that with booting.) > Znoteer wrote: >> On Tue, Apr 13, 2021 at 07:42:47PM -0400, Stewart Russell via talk >> wrote: >>> If the file /sys/firmware/acpi/tab

Re: [GTALUG] You may already have a Windows licence and not know it …

2021-04-14 Thread mwilson--- via talk
Znoteer wrote: > On Tue, Apr 13, 2021 at 07:42:47PM -0400, Stewart Russell via talk wrote: >> If the file /sys/firmware/acpi/tables/MSDM exists (it's read-only to >> root), >> there's probably a key embedded in there you can pull out with strings >> > > I don't seem to have that file, and I'm not s

Re: [GTALUG] You may already have a Windows licence and not know it …

2021-04-14 Thread James Knott via talk
On 2021-04-14 9:14 a.m., Znoteer via talk wrote: I don't have it on my Thinkpad.  But then, it doesn't have the original drive. Mine is a thinkpad, too (x240), that I'm pretty sure probably started life with windows on it (I bought used so I'm not sure), but the file is not there, so it's not a

Re: [GTALUG] You may already have a Windows licence and not know it …

2021-04-14 Thread Znoteer via talk
On Wed, Apr 14, 2021 at 08:41:49AM -0400, James Knott via talk wrote: > On 2021-04-14 7:10 a.m., Dave Collier-Brown via talk wrote: > > > > Cool: strings found > > > > MSDMU > > LENOVOTP-GL    # > > PTEC > > X-XX-X-X- > > > > on my Thinkpad. > > > > I don't have it on my Th

Re: [GTALUG] You may already have a Windows licence and not know it …

2021-04-14 Thread James Knott via talk
On 2021-04-14 7:10 a.m., Dave Collier-Brown via talk wrote: Cool: strings found MSDMU LENOVOTP-GL    # PTEC X-XX-X-X- on my Thinkpad. I don't have it on my Thinkpad.  But then, it doesn't have the original drive. --- Post to this mailing list talk@gtalug.org Unsubscri

Re: [GTALUG] You may already have a Windows licence and not know it …

2021-04-14 Thread Dave Collier-Brown via talk
Cool: strings found MSDMU LENOVOTP-GL    # PTEC X-XX-X-X- on my Thinkpad. --dave On 2021-04-13 7:42 p.m., Stewart Russell via talk wrote: If the file /sys/firmware/acpi/tables/MSDM exists (it's read-only to root), there's probably a key embedded in there you can pull out w