Perpetual Data (SL6 ssh fail)

2023-01-10 Thread Keith Lofstrom
erator produce reliable and secure data, not animated web pages. TRIUMF's data must be accessible and verifiable a century from now, so future researchers can answer the perpetual question about the past: "What the HELL were they THINKING?" Blovation off: Now I must go outside with my great- grandfather's tools, to repair a 1960s greenhouse damaged by last week's windstorm. Then back to a warm keyboard. Keith -- Keith Lofstrom kei...@keithl.com

Re: Code bias video, watch it ASAP

2021-04-27 Thread Keith Lofstrom
ot on what we are paid to do it. If you are just doing it for the money, please go into investing, not into engineering. Keith -- Keith Lofstrom kei...@keithl.com

Code bias video, watch it ASAP

2021-04-18 Thread Keith Lofstrom
ons", but we might avoid that by demanding competence, transparancy, and COMPLETE testing, from our colleagues ... and NEVER EVER using biased pattern recognition training sets. The video is only free until Monday April 19, so watch it (and share it) ASAP. Keith -- Keith Lofstrom kei...@keithl.com

Re: Pondering a switch to Debian (2)

2021-02-09 Thread Keith Lofstrom
Ready Rocky, at least I've found some uneeded-transition-inspired improvements. Keith -- Keith Lofstrom kei...@keithl.com

Pondering a switch to Debian

2021-02-03 Thread Keith Lofstrom
nths. What changes will 5 more years of IBM (and their formidable lega department, called the Nazgul by other technology lawyers) result in? -- Keith Lofstrom kei...@keithl.com

Re: Way Off Topic - HEP Network Symphony Orchestra

2020-12-23 Thread Keith Lofstrom
ptable substitute, as close as I can get to the experience normal music listeners enjoy. Imagine how professional scientists can adapt these tools to their own endeavors - they may invent new ways to look at the world, and convey those perspectives to others. 95% of the world is deaf to "scientific performance". Keith -- Keith Lofstrom kei...@keithl.com

Way Off Topic - HEP Network Symphony Orchestra

2020-12-22 Thread Keith Lofstrom
I'd guess that readers of this list know the people who know the people who know how to do this. What could we slap together in a hurry? Keith -- Keith Lofstrom kei...@keithl.com

SL7 with security and bug fixes forever - how much work?

2020-12-13 Thread Keith Lofstrom
entific "extras" (like the source code for the data reduction for my published papers) to share with our small community? Keith -- Keith Lofstrom kei...@keithl.com

CentOS EOL - politics?

2020-12-11 Thread Keith Lofstrom
ur big labs? With many things shaking loose in Washington DC over the next few months, it is probably a good time to make our moves before new structures freeze into place. Keith -- Keith Lofstrom kei...@keithl.com

Re: Mate for CentOS 8 (thanks)

2020-05-19 Thread Keith Lofstrom
On Tue, May 19, 2020 at 4:45 PM Keith Lofstrom wrote: > I've done my feeble best to compile Mate for CentOS 8; my > result is not completely broken, but not ready for use. > Some of the graphics fails. "Mate8" seems to leak memory. On Tue, May 19, 2020 at 05:08:34PM

Mate for CentOS 8

2020-05-19 Thread Keith Lofstrom
up ads, and cute cat videos. Keith -- Keith Lofstrom kei...@keithl.com

How is Connie Sieh doing these days?

2020-04-30 Thread Keith Lofstrom
to install CentOS 30! Keith -- Keith Lofstrom kei...@keithl.com

Is Scientfic Linux Still Active as a Distribution?

2020-02-22 Thread Keith Lofstrom
ific, like-minded Linux users, let's begin to prepare a rudimentary plan B, and hope that we never need to implement it. Keith -- Keith Lofstrom kei...@keithl.com

Re: centOS 8 ... Gnome 3, Mate

2019-10-09 Thread Keith Lofstrom
to focus on the audience and the material I want to present. Keith -- Keith Lofstrom kei...@keithl.com

Re: centOS 8 ... Gnome 3, Mate

2019-10-09 Thread Keith Lofstrom
I'm quite capable of introducting more changes in my own life than I can manage. Keith -- Keith Lofstrom kei...@keithl.com

centOS 8 ... Gnome 3, Mate

2019-10-08 Thread Keith Lofstrom
ld/ I am. My apologies to the ghosts of the intellectuals of that era, who put up MY "innovations". Keith -- Keith Lofstrom kei...@keithl.com

Re: Planning for hypothetical RHEL/CentOS cancellation

2019-01-08 Thread Keith Lofstrom
Ralph's, you can get along pretty good without it." Keith -- Keith Lofstrom kei...@keithl.com

Planning for hypothetical RHEL/CentOS cancellation

2019-01-05 Thread Keith Lofstrom
Is this a prudent assumption? Keith -- Keith Lofstrom kei...@keithl.com

Re: Firefox "bugfix" wiped out saved passwords - downgrade

2018-10-01 Thread Keith Lofstrom
> Subject: Security ERRATA Moderate: firefox on SL7.x x86_64 >> This update upgrades Firefox to version 60.2.1 ESR. >>... >> Mozilla: Setting a master password post-Firefox 58 does not delete >>unencrypted previously stored passwords (CVE-2018-12383) On 10/01/2018 11:

Firefox "bugfix" wiped out saved passwords

2018-10-01 Thread Keith Lofstrom
I am frequently tormented by firefox interface changes and thoughtless update management. I don't need glitz, I don't need gestures, I need stability and simple maintenance. If I wanted fashion and mindless entertainment, I'd get Macs. Which web browser should I be using? Chromiu

3D finite element magnetics

2018-08-08 Thread Keith Lofstrom
Kids using these days? Keith -- Keith Lofstrom kei...@keithl.com

replacing/translating legacy flash animation

2018-07-13 Thread Keith Lofstrom
s of not much, that particular graph is obsolete; the new launchloop 2.0 design is 98%+ energy efficient, the rotor temperature will stay below 400 K. New graphs and animations when I choose a new format. -- Keith Lofstrom kei...@keithl.com

Security ERRATA ... on SL6.x and Older

2017-09-23 Thread Keith Lofstrom
prefer to leave a numerical code legacy that is useful (or at least testable) three decades from now, which does not die when Stephen Wolfram does. Sigh. Many 20th and early 21st century "accomplishments" are best forgotten. Perhaps Linux, and our work based on it, will be forgotten as well. Keith -- Keith Lofstrom kei...@keithl.com

Re: Linux Widows Guide

2017-08-28 Thread Keith Lofstrom
lp websites about LaTeX. The purpose is not to convert a surviving spouse into a Linux adept, but to help them survive as simply as possible with what's there, and to encourage a premortem sysadmin to understand the postmortem implications of system design. Keith -- Keith Lofstrom kei...@keithl.com

Linux Widows Guide

2017-08-28 Thread Keith Lofstrom
uot;Linux Widow(er)s Guide" seems clunky and harder for a librarian to catalog, but might actually sell better. I imagine there are many "Linux Spouses" on this list with similar dependents; would anyone else like to contribute writing to this project? Keith -- Keith Lofstrom kei...@keithl.com

Re: firefox 52esr, SL6.9 segmentation fault (not memory size ...

2017-05-11 Thread Keith Lofstrom
On Tue, 9 May 2017, Keith Lofstrom wrote: >Since the mid-April update, firefox 52.1.0 (32-bit) "esr" >has been crashing often, on three similar SL6.9 machines. > >segmentation fault, no debugging information, also in >firefox -safe-mode On Wed, May 10, 2017 at 11:43:46AM

firefox 52esr, SL6.9 segmentation fault

2017-05-09 Thread Keith Lofstrom
iled for LTS distros with older libraries, like RHEL/SL/CentOS. Why the sudden jump from 39 to 52? -- Keith Lofstrom kei...@keithl.com

Re: Brainfart: Academic paper rewrite tool

2017-04-09 Thread Keith Lofstrom
d it and a few less would spend money in theaters and bookstores. That's the real threat. Keith -- Keith Lofstrom kei...@keithl.com

Brainfart: Academic paper rewrite tool

2017-04-09 Thread Keith Lofstrom
ta be a lot easier than designing rockets and self-driving cars. Am I nuts? Keith -- Keith Lofstrom kei...@keithl.com

Re: Examples of customized grub2 configuration files?

2017-04-09 Thread Keith Lofstrom
On Mon, Apr 3, 2017 at 5:26 PM, Keith Lofstrom wrote: > I'm looking for examples (with explanatory comments) of > customized configuration files to use in the /etc/grub.d > directory, somewhere out there on the intertubes. On Thu, Apr 06, 2017 at 01:52:30AM -0400, Tom H wrote

Thanks! Re: Book/Paper technical illustrations - inkscape?

2017-04-07 Thread Keith Lofstrom
On Wed, Apr 5, 2017 at 8:05 PM, Keith Lofstrom wrote: > I am considering Inkscape as a technical illustration Thanks to Serguei, Andrew, and Ron (and responses arriving after those) confirming that Inkscape is worth investing effort in. I will also become more adept at "make"

Book/Paper technical illustrations - inkscape?

2017-04-05 Thread Keith Lofstrom
background. -- Keith Lofstrom kei...@keithl.com

Examples of customized grub2 configuration files?

2017-04-03 Thread Keith Lofstrom
ity/Grub2/CustomMenus but my brain is too small to translate that into the solution that I am hoping for. Keith -- Keith Lofstrom kei...@keithl.com

Amusing/Sad Gnome3/Wayland story

2016-10-11 Thread Keith Lofstrom
ome project has lost touch with reality. Keith - Keith Lofstrom kei...@keithl.com - Don't waste your vote in 2016! Give it to the Republicans and Democrats, and they will gladly waste it for you!

Re: systemd (again)

2015-02-13 Thread Keith Lofstrom
On Fri, Feb 13, 2015 at 9:59 PM, Keith Lofstrom wrote: > If systemd is a major resource hog, ... ... On 02/13/2015 09:06 PM, Nico Kadel-Garcia wrote: > The difficulty is that it's creeping into levels and components that > didn't ask for it and don't need it, and thus be

Molecular simulation on an iPad

2015-02-13 Thread Keith Lofstrom
w the results over the network on a slower laptop. Keith -- Keith Lofstrom kei...@keithl.com

Re: Processor upgrades (was Re: Longest LTS)

2015-02-13 Thread Keith Lofstrom
> On Fri, Feb 13, 2015 at 5:44 PM, Keith Lofstrom wrote: > > ... T2xxx to T7xxx ... > > > > Does anyone know about future kernel processor requirements, > > or what RHEL 8, 9, ... might demand from hardware? > > > > I am slowly converting my running machin

Re: Processor upgrades (was Re: Longest LTS)

2015-02-13 Thread Keith Lofstrom
On Sun, Dec 14, 2014 at 11:33:18PM -0800, Keith Lofstrom wrote: > I was sad to learn that there will not be a 32 bit version of > SL7 / RHEL7 . I run older T60 laptops with 3x4 aspect ratio update: I replaced the older T2xxx Socket M processors in those old laptops with new T7200 proc

Re: double precision versus single/float ?

2013-03-15 Thread Keith Lofstrom
e? Oh, the horror...) -- Keith Lofstrom kei...@keithl.com Voice (503)-520-1993