Mike Wright wrote:
>> The mount point doesn't exist. Create it:
>>
>>mkdir -p /run/media/soles_40/desde_fedora_37
Samuel Sieb:
> /run is a tmpfs area. That mount point will only persist until the next
> reboot. It would be better to make a mount point somewhere permanent.
Also, isn't
On Tue, 2024-05-28 at 07:37 -0400, Jonathan Billings wrote:
> One thing that’ll interfere is that the httpd process might not have
> permission to read the files, and that you need to add the right UNIX
> groups to the files and directories.
Just to add: The right permission should be owned by
On 5/20/24 10:31 AM, Tim Evans wrote:
Woke up yesterday to terminal messages about /var/log being read-only;
all graphical apps (Thunderbird, Chrome) had crashed. So, I decided to
reboot.
Background first: this is a new (3-months-old) PC. It came with two
disks, an NVME with Windows 11 pre
On Sun, 2024-05-26 at 18:57 +0100, Barry Scott wrote:
> Try removing rhgb and quiet options from the kernel command line by edit it
> in grub.
> Do you see more information?
I can't see any reason to keep those options, at all. Unless you like
staring at a screen wondering what's going on while
Tim:
>> Is there a good write-up on this?
Andre Robatino:
> There's
> https://discussion.fedoraproject.org/t/gnome-suspends-after-15-minutes-of-user-inactivity-even-on-ac-power/79801
> which I have bookmarked.
>
Yes, I've seen that. I've already linked to it in thi
On Thu, 2024-05-23 at 18:37 -0400, Robert McBroom via users wrote:
> This thread has been on before but I lost it. I need my system to run
> long simulations without my intervention. It keeps going to a reboot
> intermittently. The program has recovery that all is not lost with a
> shutdown
On Fri, 2024-05-24 at 09:49 +1000, Michael D. Setzer II wrote:
> These are the changes that I made to keep machine from not sleeping by the
> default setting.
> # cat /etc/systemd/sleep.conf
> # This file is part of systemd.
> #
> # systemd is free software; you can redistribute it and/or
On Fri, 2024-05-24 at 11:02 -0400, Jeffrey Walton wrote:
> This smells of Captive Portal and MAC Randomizations.
I had a ISP-supplied router that behaved that way. I'd continuously
have to re-authenticate my phone with it. And I don't mean while going
around the house using it, you could spend
Tim:
>> For some networks, it's simply going to be the DHCP server assigning
>> you an IP to a MAC address it knows about (hardware details about your
>> network). This will get messed up if your hardware supplies random MAC
>> addresses each time it makes a connect
On Thu, 2024-05-23 at 17:32 -0500, Ranjan Maitra via users wrote:
> I have a strange issue after upgrading a laptop (Dell XPS 13, 2013
> edition). That is that I am connected (whether through WiFi or
> ethernet cable) to a university network which claims after the
> upgrade that the laptop is no
Tim:
>> ISPs get a hard "NO" from me and have to be very forcefully moved
>> onto the next step on their script...
Patrick O'Callaghan:
> Depends on the ISP. Mine (zen.co.uk), are a smallish outfit and their
> tech support is very good. Any time I've had to call them
Tim:
>> If it's an ISP-supplied one, it's a good chance that a hard reset
>> will return things to the ISP-configuration rather than manufacturer's
>> default. It's a risk, but that's the general way they work here
>> (supplied pre-configured to suit their little foible
On Thu, 2024-05-23 at 00:10 -0700, Samuel Sieb wrote:
> I would never suggest a hard reset of an internet modem since that is
> highly likely to require ISP intervention afterwards, if not a return
> and replacement.
If it's an ISP-supplied one, it's a good chance that a hard reset will
return
On Wed, 2024-05-22 at 00:33 -0700, Mike Wright wrote:
> Now I don't see how that affects your inability to login to the router
In bridge mode it's virtually a pass-through from input to output as
direct as it can be, becoming just some kind of media converter (from
ISP using fibre/cable/DSL to
On Mon, 2024-05-20 at 18:13 -0400, Jeffrey Walton wrote:
> I had a stubborn laptop like you are describing. I bought it new. I
> could not update the UEFI or select a different boot device until I
> booted into Windows and updated Windows. My takeaway was... some OEMs
> seem to do some tying of
On 5/20/24 3:35 PM, George N. White III wrote:
On Mon, May 20, 2024 at 11:31 AM Tim Evans <mailto:tkev...@tkevans.com>> wrote:
Woke up yesterday to terminal messages about /var/log being read-only;
all graphical apps (Thunderbird, Chrome) had crashed. So, I decided to
Woke up yesterday to terminal messages about /var/log being read-only;
all graphical apps (Thunderbird, Chrome) had crashed. So, I decided to
reboot.
Background first: this is a new (3-months-old) PC. It came with two
disks, an NVME with Windows 11 pre-installed and an empty second HDD. I
On 5/17/24 11:40 AM, Tim Evans wrote:
I have sendmail (sendmail-8.18.1-1.fc40.x86_64) on my three home
systems, its purpose being handling of LOCAL-ONLY mail. That is, output
from cron jobs, local backup scripts, and the like. (I review these
messages using good-ole command-line 'mailx
Tom Horsley:
> So, my question is: How to override DNS the same way, but only for
> my hardwired ethernet connection, while allowing me to disable that
> connection and use my hotspot in time of comcast outage?
>
> Heck, it would be even better if I could use both at the same time,
> the local
I have sendmail (sendmail-8.18.1-1.fc40.x86_64) on my three home
systems, its purpose being handling of LOCAL-ONLY mail. That is, output
from cron jobs, local backup scripts, and the like. (I review these
messages using good-ole command-line 'mailx'.) External mail is handled
by my hosting
On Thu, 2024-05-16 at 21:40 -0400, Alex wrote:
> Hi,
> I have a fedora38 server with postfix-3.7.9 (although this problem
> has existed for a long time) that fails to start because I believe
> the server has multiple interfaces.
>
> ifconfig shows just the primary ethernet interface, but "ip addr"
On Tue, 2024-05-14 at 08:27 -0700, richard emberson wrote:
> Back on 05/03/2024 I posted the question:
> "How to increase size of /boot partition"
> I had the same problem.
>
> As was noted by some, I had not upgraded for a long, long time:
> "This type of layout and partition sizes is
On Mon, 2024-05-13 at 05:35 -0700, ToddAndMargo via users wrote:
> One of the other things I like about remote assistance
> software is that I can doodle on the screen. I love to
> make a YUGE red arrow to what they say does not exist
> on their screens. I love to hear them say "oh".
I hate
ToddAndMargo:
>> Anyone know of a source that gives the number of users of
>> Fedora vs CentOS vs RHEL?
George N. White III:
> Anyone can make up numbers. There may be good numbers for RHEL
> installations, but not numbers of users (at my former work lots of people
> had RHEL logins that were
On 5/9/24 5:02 PM, Samuel Sieb wrote:
On 2024-05-09 13:59, Tim Evans wrote:
Since (I think) the gnome-software app is flat-pack based, have I
messed anything up by running its upgrade instead of the dnf/rpm-based
one?
There are no flatpacks installed by default. The gnome-software app
On 5/9/24 4:20 PM, Samuel Sieb wrote:
On 2024-05-09 12:50, Tim Evans wrote:
Command-line dnf upgrade (F39->F40) failed yesterday, barfing on a
missing GPG key for Fedora 40, leaving 2.5GB of rpms sitting in
/var/lib/dnf/system-upgrade. 'dnt clean' does not remove these.
dnf system-upgr
On 5/9/24 4:00 PM, Jeffrey Walton wrote:
On Thu, May 9, 2024 at 3:51 PM Tim Evans <mailto:tkev...@tkevans.com>> wrote:
Command-line dnf upgrade (F39->F40) failed yesterday, barfing on a
missing GPG key for Fedora 40,
The key is automatically imported when followin
Command-line dnf upgrade (F39->F40) failed yesterday, barfing on a
missing GPG key for Fedora 40, leaving 2.5GB of rpms sitting in
/var/lib/dnf/system-upgrade. 'dnt clean' does not remove these.
Is it safe to manually clear out this subdirectory?
(FWIW, I tried the now-recommended GUI
On Wed, 2024-05-08 at 11:08 +0100, John Pilkington wrote:
> It occurs to me that my new 'dual-boot' problems with F40 KDE might be
> related to this, but I'm not clear how I could test it. I've posted
> both here and on the kde list.
>
> I have two screen-devices, HDMI tv and vga monitor. By
On Tue, 2024-05-07 at 17:36 -0400, Jonathan Billings wrote:
> Some home router/gateways will remember the hostname a system used as
> part of their network, and when handing out the same IP to a new
> host, re-uses the saved hostname.
I've yet to come across a home gateway that handles name
On Sat, 2024-05-04 at 22:32 +0100, Patrick O'Callaghan wrote:
> "Support" isn't binary. I have a 10-year old MSI motherboard and get a
> slew of ACPI errors every time I boot. They don't seem to affect
> anything but they're there. I presume that a more modern mobo would
> have fewer of these, if
On Sat, 2024-05-04 at 08:28 -0300, George N. White III wrote:
> Over the years, linux has had workarounds for hardware
> idiosyncrasies. I think some of those workarounds are being dropped
> or lost as support for newer hardware is added with new and improved
> code.
>
> You should not be
George N. White III:
> In some cases, "established behaviour" means text files using ASCII
> character sets, which creates problems for the majority of the world,
> and should be considered "broken". In this day and age, we need to
> pay attention to text encodings.
The notion of "plain
On Mon, 2024-04-29 at 21:20 -0400, Go Canes wrote:
> If you are worried about missing a software package, you can make a
> list of installed rpms on the USB drive and use it to confirm the new
> install isn't missing anything that was on the USB.
When ever I did an install, any further packages I
Tim: (re xeyes)
>> My guess would be that something monitoring mouse movements when those
>> mouse movements could be related to another app is considered insecure.
>> Well, *I* would consider it insecure if any app could see what I was
>> doing with the mouse at any
Tim:
>>> Did that xv security issue get sorted out before the release?
Patrick:
>>AFAIK that was fixed almost immediately after it was announced.
Kevin Fenzi:
> You mean xz? xv was a pretty cool (but not open source) image viewer
> back in the day. :)
Yes, I did mean tha
On Thu, 2024-04-25 at 16:00 -0500, Michael Hennebry wrote:
> I'll bite: Wassa matter with xeyes?
My guess would be that something monitoring mouse movements when those
mouse movements could be related to another app is considered insecure.
Well, *I* would consider it insecure if any app could see
On Thu, 2024-04-25 at 11:51 +0100, Patrick O'Callaghan wrote:
> I've updated to F40. Everything works as expected, (I don't have an
> Nvidia card at present so YMMV). I do have some comments on the new
> KDE/Plasma but I'll post on the Fedora KDE list after a bit more
> testing.
Did that xv
On Sat, 2024-04-20 at 19:48 -0300, George N. White III wrote:
> There are things Wayland won't permit (xeyes), and things that are yet to
> implemented.
No xeyes? Who doesn't want a pair of googlie eyes goofily staring at
their mouse pointer?
Actually, I do have a pair of them on this PC, I
Joe Zeff:
>> In all the years I've been using Linux, I've never yet run across a .pdf
>> file that Linux's default viewer couldn't read. What is it about those
>> files that requires Windows to read?
George N. White III:
> a) fillable forms that explicitly say they must be completed using
On Wed, 2024-04-17 at 13:47 -0400, John Mellor wrote:
> However, given that absolutely everyone today has compute power
> on their desk and everyone has a gpu for things like compositing instead
> of what was available back when X was designed
Bullshit!
--
NB: All unexpected mail to my
Tim:
>> Let's be clear, we're not talking about annoying changes to how the
>> desktop looks, that can be put up with. But when you find essential
>> software and/or hardware doesn't work anymore, or doesn't exist
>> anymore, and support libraries are incompatibl
On Sun, 2024-04-14 at 09:49 -0400, Fulko Hew wrote:
> Then in corporate life, I needed to ensure a stable development
> environment.
This is one of the big problems with computers in the work place. You
may have single-task computers which you want to work, and not mess
around with. You may
your real
ethernet interface), specifying interfaces to ignore, and timeout
parameters.
Another thing that springs to mind, is do you have IPv6? And if not,
is it waiting for it in vain?
Bye,
Tim.
--
NB: All unexpected mail to my mailbox is automatically deleted.
I will only get to see the mes
On Tue, 2024-04-09 at 23:20 -0700, Samuel Sieb wrote:
> Perhaps more importantly, why can't that happen in the background? Why
> does gdm care if the network is connected?
It'd need to be *if* people are using a network share for their
homespace, or other "expected to be there" directories.
On Tue, 2024-04-09 at 22:12 -0400, Sam Varshavchik wrote:
> I've been made aware that it takes two minutes for systemd-networkd-wait-
> online.service to spin its wheels, before giving up with a squeal:
>
> Apr 09 22:03:30 shorty.email-scan.com systemd[1]: Starting
>
On Mon, 2024-04-08 at 10:57 +0200, Walter H. via users wrote:
> always get 500
Loading that link is working fine here, too. I didn't try to log in,
though.
For what it's worth: Always put your *entire* message in the message
body, don't split it across the subject line and the message.
--
On Sat, 2024-03-30 at 17:15 +, John Pilkington wrote:
> The rpmfusion nvidia howto says it may take 5 minutes to build. That's
> a long time to wait with no obvious progress during a reboot.
Many years ago I had to put up with that (different hardware now).
But, I didn't hide the textual
Tim:
>> Brute force and ignorance is a tried and tested method. Trying to be
>> clever with boot menus, and carefully selecting specific partitions
>> while installing, often goes awry. Not to mention the times you come
>> across an installer that only wants to do
On Tue, 2024-03-26 at 17:58 +, Beartooth wrote:
> Sure enough, my own machine has (with apologies for formatting):
>
> btth@localhost:~$ cd /etc/yum.repos.d
> btth@localhost:/etc/yum.repos.d$ ls
> brave-browser-rpm-release.s3.brave.com_x86_64_.repo google-chrome.repo
>
On Tue, 2024-03-26 at 16:41 +, Beartooth wrote:
> I normally have two or three browsers open. Most have been
> installed for so long I no longer remember what dnf calls them.
>
> My wife, who also runs F39, has been having trouble with the ones
> she has, and I have yet to
On 3/26/24 16:21, Beartooth wrote:
On Tue, 26 Mar 2024 15:31:30 -0400, Jon LaBadie wrote:
On Tue, Mar 26, 2024 at 04:41:33PM -, I Beartooth wrote:
It couldn't find brave, falcon, opera, nor vivaldi. VERY Dumb
Question : How do I look up what it calls them?
If you know the path
Thomas Cameron wrote:
>> I've actually set up my Linux machines so that they mount /home on an
>> NFS file server in my home office. I can nuke my desktop and reinstall
>> it in less than 10 minutes with a kickstart, and my home directory is
>> unchanged. Makes it a lot easier when I do the
On Fri, 2024-03-22 at 11:45 -0500, Thomas Cameron wrote:
> You will almost certainly not be able to connect between devices on a
> commercial wifi network. They don't want folks to attack other machines
> on the network. It would be a huge scandal if a hotel allowed a guest to
> connect to
On Tue, 2024-03-19 at 09:00 -0500, Thomas Cameron wrote:
> But I will never buy another HP again. They screw you on the ink, and
> they are apparently using DRM so you can't use third party ink. Screw
> that. Never again.
It's a shame we can't override such shenanigans with custom drivers.
On 3/13/24 14:42, Joe Zeff wrote:
On 03/13/2024 12:33 PM, Mike Wright wrote:
I couldn't find any way to pass grep options to -g but grep itself has
-A and -B for showing "n" number of lines After or Before the matched
context.
If you need to pass options to grep, consider piping the output
On Sun, 2024-03-10 at 22:29 +, Patrick O'Callaghan wrote:
> It shortly became clear that the user experience of interacting with
> Discourse via email was significantly worse than a traditional mailing
> list, so a bunch of us set up a new list
> (evolution-us...@lists.osuosl.org) where we
Joe Zeff wrote (about web forums):
> why don't you simply set as many of them as possible to email you
> when there's a reply?
Have you noticed how many of them won't let you reply to an email
notification? Essentially you get a "someone left you a message"
message, no details on what the
On Sun, 2024-03-10 at 11:32 -0700, Kevin Fenzi wrote:
> However, realize that you spend a long time setting all that up.
> The subscriptions, filtering, how things look in your email client, etc.
> For someone new or just wanting to ask a question or two, lists are
> horrible.
I say forums
Thomas Cameron:
>> I hate using fora. I generally have to open a separate tab for each
>> forum I'm on, and I'm on a LOT.
Joe Zeff:
> Why keep a separate tab for each forum open at all times? How many of
> them do you actually need to look at each day?
Firstly, I thoroughly agree with all of
On Sun, 2024-03-10 at 09:50 +, Barry wrote:
> The majority of user traffic is on https://discussion.fedoraproject.org/
> these days.
I flatly refuse to use webforums. They're extremely inconvenient.
Email comes to me, I can go through it in my spare time as I see fit.
Websites waste my
** *
* **
some tumbleweeds drift through
So, is everything working fine, or did a new release break everyone's
systems so badly they can't email any more? ;-)
--
uname -rsvp
Linux 3.10.0-1160.108.1.el7.x86_64 #1 SMP Thu Jan 25 16:17:31 UTC 2024 x86_64
Tim:
>> A program ought to be able to detect a stale lock file
>> still remaining and handle it itself.
Joe Zeff:
> And how do you suggest that it detects it?
Other programs manage it, dunno what's so magic about it. It's not a
problem that *I* need to solve.
After
On Tue, 2024-02-27 at 11:19 -0500, Robert McBroom via users wrote:
> Power failure is what left Thunderbird in a state. The lock was in the
> ".thunderbird" tree as a link to a nonexistent file
> "192.168.1.218:+7103". Deleting the entry enabled Thunderbird to start.
Software really ought to
On Tue, 2024-02-27 at 08:54 -0600, Thomas Cameron wrote:
> Every once in a while, Thunderbird just loses its mind. No idea why. But
> I will generally just rename my ~/.thunderbird directory to something
> like ~/.thunderbird.old and launch Thunderbird again.
Is Thunderbird one of those apps
Tim:
>> I still have one ancient motherboard that cannot boot from USB
>> sticks.
Go Canes:
> Once upon a time you could use "plop boot manager" to boot off of USB
> devices if the motherboard didn't provide support. Of course this
> meant that you had to have
Samuel Sieb (re: lost & found directory):
> That directory is also special. There might be consequences for
> recreating it. I don't know if it's accessed by name or inode.
I would imagine there'd have to be reserved space in the partition so
it doesn't otherwise fill up 100% making it
Tim:
>> I'm curious how you installed it in the first place, then?
home user:
> That was about 11 years ago, so my memory of that is foggy and
> incomplete.
>
> I installed windows-7 first, probably from a CD purchased from a
> local (near Washington, D.C) store.
>
On Sat, 2024-02-24 at 13:58 -0700, home user wrote:
> No other computer.
> No live boot. Tried making one multiple times with multiple sticks
> and multiple ports. Even a local youngish professional programmer
> (specializing in embedded and micro) could not figure it out.
I'm curious how you
On 2/22/24 16:40, ToddAndMargo via users wrote:
No to ask too stupid a question, but do we have an
RPM of Star Office in the repos?
Seems like we have the libraries, but not the
main program
# dnf list | grep -i star | grep -i office
libstaroffice.x86_64 0.0.7-11.fc39 @fedora
StarOffice is
On 2/20/24 08:57, Tim Evans wrote:
On 2/20/24 07:51, Richard Shaw wrote:
On Tue, Feb 20, 2024 at 6:43 AM Tim Evans <mailto:tkev...@tkevans.com>> wrote:
The new BackupPC server starts up--I can see it in process listing;
httpd web server is working as well. I get prompt
On Tue, 2024-02-20 at 07:43 -0500, Tim Evans wrote:
> The new BackupPC server starts up--I can see it in process listing;
> httpd web server is working as well. I get prompted to log in to the
> server admin page as expected, then get the following httpd "503" error:
>
On 2/20/24 07:51, Richard Shaw wrote:
On Tue, Feb 20, 2024 at 6:43 AM Tim Evans <mailto:tkev...@tkevans.com>> wrote:
The new BackupPC server starts up--I can see it in process listing;
httpd web server is working as well. I get prompted to log in to the
server a
[ I have also posted this to the low-traffic BackupPC-Users list, but
wanted a broader look ]
I'm replacing the very old computer that has run as my local BackupPC
server, and want to retain the server's data pool (i.e., all the
existing backups).
The old server wrote its data (including
Recently connected a very old HP-1300 LaserJet printer to my Fedora 39
workstation, via USB cable. CUPS found and configured the printer as
"HP LaserJet 1300 Series Postscript (recommended)."
Print jobs are okay, but with every job I get an extra page, with the
following error message
On Wed, 2024-02-14 at 22:04 -0600, Chris Adams wrote:
> I expect it's that motherboard firmware knows how to activate two kinds
> of input devices - PS/2 via the emulation of the legacy chips that date
> back to the 1980s, and USB. A PCIe device is neither of those. It's
> not just a matter of
ToddAndMargo:
> Just found this on their web site:
>
> "***Don't support CMOS or MS-DOS"
>
> Even if it did not arrive dead, it would have still
> required the OS to boot. Lesson learned.
>
From what I'd read, that ought to be the case with any PCI-E based
card. Apparently the slots
Tim:
>> I'm kind of surprised someone still has PS/2 keyboard/mouse that they'd
>> like to keep using.
ToddAndMargo:
> One word. It is a "Unicomp". Best typist keyboard ever made.
I was always partial to the IBM Selectric typewriter keyboards. But,
these days, I'm us
On Tue, 2024-02-13 at 20:22 -0500, Felix Miata wrote:
> I too would much rather have a working PCIe card, though I have found
> USB-to-PS/2
> dongles generally more reliable. I haven't bought one in over a decade, so
> can't
> recommend against any in particular that don't work.
*Some* of those
On Sat, 2024-02-10 at 19:05 -0500, Robert McBroom via users wrote:
> What is updating files without a command and writing these entries?
Had you done any manual updates anytime before you shutdown? Perhaps
they were completing their install.
--
uname -rsvp
Linux
DJ Delorie wrote:
>> Wasn't the original quote "With great power there must also come
>> great responsibility" ?
José Matos:
> Yes, and it first appeared in the comics before the movies. :-)
It's a wee bit older than that...
"Voltaire, the French author first coined the phrase “with great power
On Tue, 2024-02-06 at 20:21 -0700, home user wrote:
> A footnote leads me to believe that a tool "H2testw" could detect bad
> sticks and maybe fix them.
I wouldn't trust any ability to "fix" them. If they've faked the size
identification, they'd have no qualms about selling reject memory
chips,
On Sun, 2024-01-28 at 08:12 +, Strahil Nikolov via users wrote:
> I do control the DHCP and the DNS servers in my network and I did
> manage to make the DHCP stop proposing 'domain-search' and yet
> NetworkManager (after OKD update and my interventions with
> /etc/resolv.conf systemd-resolved
On Sun, 2024-01-28 at 07:31 +, Strahil Nikolov via users wrote:
> That's true but right now I have no control over OpenShift/OKD
> behavior.
Bug report... If it's a software fault, they may fix it. If it's not,
they may point out where a configuration problem is.
> I even managed to make
Thomas Cameron:
>> I'm reading articles saying procmail is dangerous and unmaintained
>> (https://anarc.at/blog/2022-03-02-procmail-considered-harmful/).
Wolfgang Pfeiffer:
> Quote from the page above - seems to be old and, to put it mildly,
> wrong:
> "procmail is unmaintained. The "Final
On Mon, 2024-01-22 at 15:50 -0700, Joe Zeff wrote:
> Well, I am a BOFH, you know. Letting him find out the hard way was the
> easiest way to get rid of the git, especially when you consider that the
> tech he connects to when he calls back to clean up his mess won't be
> anywhere near as
On Mon, 2024-01-22 at 09:57 -0700, Joe Zeff wrote:
> Back around the turn of the Millenium, I had a caller who wanted to know
> if he could use MS Home Web Server (I think it was) to set up a
> website. (If you have to ask, you probably shouldn't be doing it.) I
> tried to explain the risks,
On Mon, 2024-01-22 at 00:02 -0800, ToddAndMargo via users wrote:
> Add to injury, if they get hacked and they pencil
> whipped, they become responsible for all costs
> involved. Telling them that their grandchildren
> will need lawyers does not phase them.
You would think that "you hate your
On Sun, 2024-01-21 at 16:39 -0800, ToddAndMargo via users wrote:
> I needed a password eight characters long
> I picked "Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs".
>
> Okay, that was a "Dad Joke" but it probably is a really
> strong password and easy to remember. I recommend run on
> phrases to my
ToddAndMargo via users wrote:
>> Multi-Factor Authentication is a technique to try to get around
>> the users response to the obnoxious nature of passwords.
>> Whether or not it improves things or just manages to
>> further annoy the poop out of the users is up for debate.
& this:
> Certain
On Sun, 2024-01-21 at 02:56 -0800, ToddAndMargo via users wrote:
> This all goes back to using easy passwords. And the
> same passwords on different sites:
>
> https://www.nist.gov/itl/smallbusinesscyber/guidance-topic/multi-factor-authentication
>
> "In fact, databases of known breached
On Sat, 2024-01-20 at 17:54 -0800, ToddAndMargo via users wrote:
> c) Something you are, such as a biometric. This method
> involves verification of characteristics inherent to the
> individual, such as via retina scans, iris scans, fingerprint
> scans, finger vein scans, facial recognition, voice
On Sat, 2024-01-20 at 22:08 +0100, Walter H. via users wrote:
> not really, because, the knowledge of user and password is somewhere else;
There are a lot of people who'll have an unsecured phone, because it's
a pain to them.
> so neither the person who stole your phone (the 2FA device) nor you
On Sat, 2024-01-20 at 20:00 +0100, Walter H. via users wrote:
> buy an iPhone ...
>
> exact this what you want is the other way of it sense;
>
> 2FA = 2 Factor Authentication
>
> example you login on a site, there you have the knowledge of
>
> user and password
>
> and then the 2nd factor,
On Wed, 2024-01-17 at 01:43 -0800, ToddAndMargo via users wrote:
> CUPS driver ays is has two sides and puts it as
> "sides=one-sided" for the default.
>
> But I can find anywhere in my print properties
> of my programs to put it at two sides.
Try printing from a different program, e.g. a word
On Tue, 2024-01-16 at 01:18 -0800, ToddAndMargo via users wrote:
> Fedora 39
>
> I do not have a stinkin' smart phone.
Me neither, I keep mine nice and clean. My friend has one that feels
like it's been slid along a public toilet floor.
Pet hate, some service that asks people to scan a QR code
Tim:
>> Which I received base64 encoded, for reasons unfathomable.
Dave Close:
> I wonder what did that. It wasn't sent that way:
> Content-type: text/plain; charset="utf-8"
> Content-transfer-encoding: 8bit
These days, 8-bit mail ought to be able to traverse the int
On Fri, 2024-01-12 at 21:33 -0800, Dave Close wrote:
> Speaking of email clients modifying received messages ...
>
> {This message was not written in HTML. If you are reading it as such,
> the presentation is dishonest and not what the author intended.}
Which I received base64 encoded, for
Sherman Grunewagen:
>> When I send a message to the list, the "From" field has my
>> name and e-mail addr. But when it appears on the list, it's
>> been magically changed to "fedora users".
>> Some posters have their name preserved in the
>> From: field. Is there a list setting that controls
On Wed, 2024-01-10 at 12:19 -0600, Thomas Cameron wrote:
> I assume the installer chose the block size, since I basically did a
> "next, next, next" installation. Should I have chosen something different?
I didn't choose block sizes, just some partition sizes in bytes on my
systems. So I'd hope
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