I would never tempt the angry and ever-watchful tow goblins of College Park.
Luther Richard Clark Jr. OITC Systems Analyst Earth System Science Interdisciplinary Center University of Maryland On Wed, Jul 3, 2024 at 11:30 AM peter teuben <teu...@umd.edu> wrote: > of course parking at The Hall is (still) free. In theory you could park > there and walk to The Hotel. in theory. > On 7/3/24 11:17, Thomas G. Sweeting wrote: > > Yes, parking can be steep in all of College Park. When the weather is > conducive I usually walk from my office. > > > ======================================= > Thomas Sweeting > Maryland Fire and Rescue Institute > University of Maryland > > > > On Wed, Jul 3, 2024 at 10:56 AM peter teuben <teu...@umd.edu> wrote: > >> Recently "the hotel" stopped honoring parking fees, and they are steep, >> so the hotel is now off my list. >> On 7/3/24 10:49, Thomas G. Sweeting wrote: >> >> I am a fan of Potomac Pizza also in "The Hotel". They recently started >> offering non-dairy cheese, so I can have pizza again. >> >> There is a (new?) place in College Park called Dog House Biergarten that >> I would like to try, but probably when the weather is cooler in the fall. >> >> The pavilion at Carderock can be reserved, it is a little spendy but a >> very nice space. Over on that side of town there is also Angler's Inn >> which was better than I expected it to be the last time I was there. >> >> Tom >> ======================================= >> Thomas Sweeting >> Maryland Fire and Rescue Institute >> University of Maryland >> >> >> >> On Tue, Jul 2, 2024 at 9:06 PM peter teuben <teu...@umd.edu> wrote: >> >>> of course a park is generally more quiet than a bar, but its also >>> conceivably a lot more hot (except yesterday). We can also easily get >>> rained out if there's a summer storm, so I'm more inclined for an indoor >>> place. >>> >>> here's a few places , admitted local to UMD >>> >>> 1) Behind the The Hotel there's a new place called the Hall, even has >>> pickleball courts ooutside (no, i'm not a fan). Kinda weird you need to >>> wear a band, like on cruises, in order to get alcohol. >>> >>> 2) Franklins or Bus Boys & Poets, both in hyattsville >>> >>> 3) that "new" beer place at Riverdale station, also has a new "2fifty >>> BBQ", Tapas place on the other corner if you want food >>> >>> (they allow food to be taken in to the beer place) >>> >>> 4) Le Fantome Food Hall, also new, in Riverdale . Has a few food places >>> and a bar. I love their Poke Bowl. >>> >>> >>> I think 3) is my favorite these days, but they're all good. >>> >>> >>> Other places I don't know anything about, but just heard mention: >>> >>> - union market (off NY Av) >>> >>> - there's a Denizen's right by Fantome,in Riverdale. I was there >>> recently, but had noisy live music. >>> >>> >>> >>> For those not having been around UMD for a few years, are in for the >>> shock treatment. They recently paved Rt.1 now that it's "finished" and >>> ready for the purple line. Parking is, as ever, a pain. >>> >>> >>> - peter >>> >>> >>> On 7/2/24 18:30, J. Milgram wrote: >>> >>> > BTW, it really is time for an UMGLUG. I propose we nail down 1-3 good >>> > venues, then I'll try sending out a doodle poll for each of them. >>> > >>> > To get things started: here's a crazy idea: how about out of doors at >>> > a park? The glugging will have to be non-alcoholic but there's good NA >>> > beer out there. In this spirit (or non-spirits) I propose: Carderock >>> > Recreation Area. They have picnic tables under a pavilion so we're >>> > good rain or shine. NB this is a purely selfish suggestion since it's >>> > near work. >>> > >>> > Or one of the many fine minibreweries anywhere in the greater metro >>> > area ... I am unfamiliar, so propose away. >>> > >>> > >>> > On 6/30/24 14:55, J. Milgram wrote: >>> >> >>> >> And you know what distro I would say :) >>> >> >>> >> >>> >> On 6/30/24 13:09, Ben Stern wrote: >>> >>> So you know what I'm going to say for the distro you should be >>> >>> using, but >>> >>> there aren't STIGs for it. I've been able to run it on my desktop >>> >>> as long >>> >>> as I keep it IAVA compliant, but that may not apply to your site. >>> >>> >>> >>> Ubuntu's upgrade process has been pretty good every time I've tried >>> >>> going >>> >>> from LTS to LTS, and there are STIGs for Ubuntu. So that's a vote >>> for >>> >>> Ubuntu. >>> >>> >>> >>> [I'm trying to push work to move to Ubuntu from RHEL and even with >>> the >>> >>> massive price tag we're facing, there's a belief that "Ubuntu isn't >>> >>> made in >>> >>> the USA and RHEL is, so we have to use RHEL." (I don't even know >>> >>> where to >>> >>> start with this.)] >>> >>> >>> >>> Glad you found the problem! >>> >>> >>> >>> Ben >>> >>> >>> >>> >>> >>> >>> >>> >>> >>> >>> >>> >>> >>> On Sun, Jun 30, 2024 at 07:05:11AM -0400, J. Milgram wrote: >>> >>>> Thanks all around! >>> >>>> >>> >>>> Rob: indeed, the system was compromised, sort of. The malware: some >>> >>>> kind of >>> >>>> "endpoint security" thing that the Company IT folks installed, on >>> >>>> top of >>> >>>> selinux, apparently because of a STIG. It's so seamless, it doesn't >>> >>>> even >>> >>>> tell you what's going on, just tells you operation not permitted. I >>> >>>> wonder >>> >>>> how it works ... must require some kind of kernel patch or module. >>> >>>> Killed >>> >>>> the daemon and problem solved. Of course now I have to wonder what >>> in >>> >>>> particular it doesn't like about all the files it selects for this >>> >>>> special >>> >>>> treatment. But at least now I can backup all my files, even the >>> >>>> ones I'm not >>> >>>> allowed to view. >>> >>>> >>> >>>> Which I need to do because they "must" upgrade me to a newer RHEL >>> and >>> >>>> apparently it requires everything to be wiped, even /home. There >>> >>>> has got to >>> >>>> be a better Linux distro out there. If only I could remember its >>> >>>> name ... >>> >>>> >>> >>>> Thanks again. I'm buying the first round at the next UMGLUG. That >>> >>>> day will >>> >>>> come! >>> >>>> >>> >>>> regards >>> >>>> Judah >>> >>>> >>> >>>> On 6/28/24 15:05, Rob Sherwood wrote: >>> >>>>> I wouldn't ignore the possibility of a compromise... might be worth >>> >>>>> booting off a known safe USB disk in rescue mode and seeing if the >>> >>>>> problem >>> >>>>> persists even in that environment. >>> >>>>> >>> >>>>> Best of luck, >>> >>>>> >>> >>>>> - Rob >>> >>>>> . >>> >>>>> >>> >>>>> On Fri, Jun 28, 2024 at 11:21???AM J. Milgram <milg...@cgpp.com> >>> >>>>> wrote: >>> >>>>> >>> >>>>> >>> >>>>>> On Jun 28, 2024 at 14:19, J. Milgram <milg...@cgpp.com> >>> wrote: >>> >>>>>> >>> >>>>>> Peter, Moshe, >>> >>>>>> >>> >>>>>> Thanks. These are good ideas. I might mention I'm running a >>> >>>>>> RAID1 >>> >>>>>> array so I presume an asymmetrical hd problem would trigger >>> >>>>>> major >>> >>>>>> warnings. It never happened to me before so I don't actually >>> >>>>>> know what happens, or how to recover. >>> >>>>>> >>> >>>>>> But I guess the raid array could be fine, and >>> >>>>>> reliably/redundantly supporting a broken filesystem... >>> >>>>>> >>> >>>>>> Am running a search now to find all affected files, to see if >>> >>>>>> there's a pattern. Will check the logs too... Should have been >>> >>>>>> the first thing I thought of :) Like the dd idea too. Thanks >>> >>>>>> again. >>> >>>>>> >>> >>>>>> More to follow. >>> >>>>>> >>> >>>>>> Judah >>> >>>>>> >>> >>>>>> >>> >>>>>> >>> >>>>>> >>> >>>>>> >>> >>>>>>> On Jun 28, 2024 at 10:41, peter teuben <teu...@umd.edu> >>> wrote: >>> >>>>>>> >>> >>>>>>> inclined to think the disk has I/O issues, though you >>> mentioned >>> >>>>>>> repair claims there's nothing needed. >>> >>>>>>> >>> >>>>>>> Any suspicious logs in /var/log >>> >>>>>>> >>> >>>>>>> or try dd if=/dev/yourdisk of=/devnull >>> >>>>>>> >>> >>>>>>> to see if that triggers I/O errors in the logs >>> >>>>>>> >>> >>>>>>> >>> >>>>>>> On 6/28/24 10:38, J. Milgram wrote: >>> >>>>>>>> Greetings, >>> >>>>>>>> >>> >>>>>>>> Hope everyone's summer is going well. >>> >>>>>>>> >>> >>>>>>>> Weird problem here on an RHEL 7 box. Have a number of files >>> >>>>>>>> under /home that the os will not let me read. So tools like >>> >>>>>>>> cp, >>> >>>>>>>> md5sum, lsattr and such, and applications, all tell me >>> >>>>>>>> "operation not permitted" whether run as user or as root. >>> That >>> >>>>>>>> said I can stat them. Have checked ownership, permissions, >>> >>>>>>>> file >>> >>>>>>>> acls, etc. >>> >>>>>>>> >>> >>>>>>>> Haven't found a pattern to the affected files. One >>> interesting >>> >>>>>>>> example is a directory of ~300 conference papers, all pdfs, >>> >>>>>>>> all >>> >>>>>>>> from same conference, all with identical perms and >>> ownership, >>> >>>>>>>> and exactly one of them has this problem. The rest I can >>> read >>> >>>>>>>> as normal. >>> >>>>>>>> >>> >>>>>>>> Running selinux but disabling that didn't change anything. >>> >>>>>>>> >>> >>>>>>>> It's an XFS filesystem. Ran xfs_repair but no change. >>> >>>>>>>> >>> >>>>>>>> I'm stumped! Any ideas? >>> >>>>>>>> Thanks as always... >>> >>>>>>>> >>> >>>>>>>> Judah >>> >>>>>>>> >>> >>>>>>>> >>> >>>>>>>> >>> >>>>>>>> >>> >>>>>>>> You received this email because you are subscribed to the UM >>> >>>>>>>> Linux User's Group (UM-LINUX) mailing list. If you would >>> like >>> >>>>>>>> to unsubscribe from this list, simply send an email to >>> >>>>>>>> lists...@listserv.umd.edu with the message signoff >>> UM-LINUX in >>> >>>>>>>> the body. >>> >>>>>>> You received this email because you are subscribed to the UM >>> >>>>>>> Linux User's Group (UM-LINUX) mailing list. If you would >>> >>>>>>> like to >>> >>>>>>> unsubscribe from this list, simply send an email to >>> >>>>>>> lists...@listserv.umd.edu with the message signoff UM-LINUX >>> in >>> >>>>>>> the body. >>> >>>>> You received this email because you are subscribed to the UM >>> >>>>> Linux >>> >>>>> User's Group (UM-LINUX) mailing list. 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