Looking for opinions on email providers
Apparently I am late to hearing this, but in the near future Cox will have Yahoo take over handling all "cox.net" email accounts. I've occasionally in the past looked at email providers but never felt much need to move. But as long as this is going to be happening anyway I figure it's time to look again. Does anyone have a preferred email provider? I made use of Cox formerly offering up to six email accounts on a single residential plan to set up an account for my sister, this account, and a couple others. Are there reasonably trustworthy providers that don't scan all your emails in order to push ads on you and that don't don't cost an arm and a leg? --- PLUG-discuss mailing list: PLUG-discuss@lists.phxlinux.org To subscribe, unsubscribe, or to change your mail settings: https://lists.phxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug-discuss
Re: cheap co-lo in Phx area?
I found myself wondering much the same recently. I can recall that at one time it seemed like you couldn't even go very far in technical circles without tripping over colo ads for places that would take desktop/tower boxes as well as rackmount servers. Back then I wasn't interested in that but after making some light use of VPSs (including some truly light VPS VMs, I had one of the old $5 a *year* Frantech/BuyVM 128MB RAM, shared single cpu core, and single digit gigabytes of disk VPSs, which I put both Gitolite and (iirc) OpenVPN on and since that VPN server was only for my personal laptop when away from home and gitolite is quite lightweight I could connect to the VPN, push some files into a repo, and barely see the usage gauges on the admin page move. Of course this was close to a decade ago now and they don't offer a $5 VPS anymore. Now it's a 512 MB, 1 core, 10 GB storage KVM based VPS for $20 a year and 1GB RAM starts at $3.50. I've been happy with them, I've not pushed the VPSs I've had too hard, still just light usage like remote git repos and single user VPN. (I certainly don't pitch them for commissions, yet I have an affiliate link https://my.frantech.ca/aff.php?aff=2776 but I've never spammed and looking it up I see only one person has ever sign up with it, but hey it finally hit the minimum payout so I can do my next couple of account renewals using it) That said it's not uncommon to go to their website and find that you can't actually buy a VPS because they're not one of the VPS companies that cheerfully oversells their servers. That said, when I've looked into the possibility of doing something like running a fediverse server I see even personal servers or small servers with only a dozen or so users running into issues with small VPS accounts (largely it seems from running out of disk space, caching all the images people put in posts adds up over time even at a megabyte a pop -- and boy does the 80s kid still deep inside me boggle at the idea of a one megabyte image file being considered small), which was the main reason I poked around seeing if I could find a local colo that actually posted a price list rather than just having a link to message a member of their sales staff. The feeling I got back a few years ago was that the places I was finding web pages for were looking for business customers who would be hosting multiple servers and have an accounting department to process invoices and purchase orders. How many of them are still friendly to the idea of someone just dropping off a single Nuc or small desktop/tower case to plug into power and ethernet, rather than renting out a half rack or more in a cage? > On 11/20/2023 5:13 AM MST David Schwartz via PLUG-discuss > wrote: > > > I’ve got a Windows VPS server somewhere but prices are rather high for a > decently fast box, so I’m thinking of getting a little NUC box. It would be > fine for dev purposes, but I’d like to be able to access it outside of my > home LAN. > > However, I’m using T-Mobile Home Internet, and it blocks all incoming ports, > so I’d need to set up another box (I think?) that runs ngenx or something > else to support reverse proxies. > > It would be a whole lot easier to just plug it into a co-lo rack, but the > only things I’ve found are well over $100/mo. > > Is there anything cheap around the Phx area that startups can use for basic > dev work? (This has to be Windows for now.) > > -David Schwartz > > > > > --- > PLUG-discuss mailing list: PLUG-discuss@lists.phxlinux.org > To subscribe, unsubscribe, or to change your mail settings: > https://lists.phxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug-discuss --- PLUG-discuss mailing list: PLUG-discuss@lists.phxlinux.org To subscribe, unsubscribe, or to change your mail settings: https://lists.phxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug-discuss
Re: dBase
On 12/25/22 16:58, David Schwartz via PLUG-discuss wrote: On Dec 25, 2022, at 1:59 PM, Keith Smith via PLUG-discuss wrote: I think someone like David Schwartz has the ability to create a clone of dBase III. Perhaps, but I think it’s far wiser to let sleeping dogs lie. :-/ I remember playing with some version of dBase at some point, and I as I recall, most of what it could do can be done using *nix shell scripts. -David Schwartz Yeah, a few years back in a fit of nostalgia (in combination with a NaNoWriMo project) I looked around to see if dBase or one of the classic xBase clones was easily available. I got my first introduction to dBase as a kid when they started using it for some departmental records at the hospital where my father worked, so we ended up with a three inch thick book and a copy on our computer. Later working at the college computer lab dBase III/IV was one of the bits of software we had classes for (among Word, Excel, Lotus 123, PowerPoint, Access, dBase, and typing dBase stood out because it was arguably a programming class). In the end I decided to leave it as just nostalgia. And anything that could have been done with dBase can likely be done with a combination of sqlite and any programming language you wish including shell scripting. Sqlite might not fit on a 360k floppy, but a quick search says that even if you turn on all the options you can still comfortably compile it under a megabyte in size. There's a reason it's been getting embedded into all sorts of things from programming languages to applications and operating systems. Even Microsoft has given in and works with it, which probably has Gates preemptively spinning in his grave despite not being dead or buried yet. You can pretty much treat it as the standard lightweight data store these days. Heck, the Library of Congress has it as a recommendation due to the open nature of the software (released to the public domain) and available official documentation of the file format. Interesting trivia time: a few years back I ran across an article about how Microsoft was in discussions to include a lightweight version of dBase as one of the built in applications in Windows, much Hyperterminal which MS licensed from Hilgraeve. Only it was actually the Ashton-Tate legal actions against the xBase clone makers that apparently scuttled the deal as when the lost their courtroom battle to stop people from selling compatible database software managers at Microsoft reportedly started asking why they were considering paying any sort of royalty to Ashton-Tate on every copy of Windows sold no matter how small it might be. --- PLUG-discuss mailing list: PLUG-discuss@lists.phxlinux.org To subscribe, unsubscribe, or to change your mail settings: https://lists.phxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug-discuss
Re: Domain Registering and Hosting/Website Funny Business
Also not a lawyer, but having done a bit of copyright law review when I was more active with a camera and when I started taking guitar lessons and wondered what the legal risks would be to putting myself on youtube playing songs still under copyright: The first very big question is did the friend register a copyright. They automatically have a copyright the moment they put a creative work into tangible form but the way the courts will go (in the US) is drastically different between unregistered and registered copyrights. Unregistered you can basically get a court order to stop violating the copyright and require any ill gotten gains to be handed over (so, from the photography perspective if someone took a photo I took and started selling T-shirts with the photo the court would say, "Stop making those shirts, destroy or hand over any stock of the shirts you have, and hand over whatever money you gained from selling them."). On the other hand with a registered copyright you can demand everything you could get with an unregistered copyright plus up to $250K per violation (in the shirt example, if they took a photo of my old family cat an did a run of one hundred shirts with the photo on it, that's not one violation but a hundred, each shirt would be a separate violation or up to $25,000,000 over and above whatever they'd made off the shirts). The video I saw with an intellectual property lawyer discussion copyright for photographers said that in his career he never had to take to court anyone who had the services of an intellectual property lawyer. They'd send a letter saying, "Hey, you violated my clients *registered* copyright. If you refuse to settle out of court we will sue. We are making a one-time settlement offer of only $_.__ if you cease the violation as well as handing over or verifiably destroying all infringing works." It which point the other guy's lawyer would explain that if it went to court the potential fine could be well beyond their bank account balance or even what would be raised if everything had to be auctioned off in a bankruptcy. Given the hassle of registering a copyright my suspicion is that any copyrights here would be unregistered. Given that the second question would be how much hassle your friend is willing to go through and depending on that either walk away or figure out what they can realistically hope to recover. The only advice I'll give for the second option is that if they aren't going to walk away then the don't want to talk to *a* lawyer, they want to talk to an intellectual property lawyer. Trying to have cousin Frank who helps people with wills/fight red-light-camera tickets/or anything else that isn't IP law give advice on an IP case is effectively the same as walking out on the street and asking random strangers for advice. Someone who knows current IP law could advise whether they're likely to only end up burning money for nothing, actually have a case that would be worth taking or threatening to take to court, of there's enough there that they might send a letter saying, "Hey, this was naughty but you don't want to waste time and money in court any more than we do, so how about we agree to a settlement on these terms..." Actually it occurs to me that there is a third question. Is the business name shown on the web page the same business name that your friend was using? And if so did they register a trademark on that name? Because trademarks operate on separate rules from copyright (for example, fair use only comes into play in regard to copyright not trademark) and if they swept in while your friend was in the hospital to grab the domain name and then operated under the same name... Well avoiding confusion about who you are doing business with is basically the whole entire point of trademarks. If you spend money on a System 76 laptop you want to know you're getting a laptop from the actual System 76 and not an overstock netbook that someone slapped a sticker with the System 76 logo on. If they registered a trademark then that would be something else to take to an IP lawyer. On 7/23/22 19:03, Steve Litt via PLUG-discuss wrote: On Sat, 2022-07-23 at 07:12 -0700, Keith Smith via PLUG-discuss wrote: The thing I am really wondering about is how this dude was able to transfer my friends website and content from my friend's hosting to his hosting. This has to be a copyright violation. What say you? I'm not a lawyer but I'm pretty sure it's a copyright violation. If your friend has a registered copyright on the site's contents, I'm pretty sure he can sue for $10K, no questions asked. If it's not registered, it might not be worth it to sue. Like I say, I'm not a lawyer, so consult one before making a move. By the way, every once in a while some birdbrain wget's whole subsites of Troubleshooters.Com and hosts it. When I find those, I email them telling them they'd better take it down immediate
Re: Still hoping for advice from Plug ...
A little late of a response, but if you haven't picked anything up yet consider this another pointer to the folks listed below. I happened to have an appointment a while back that put me right in Feature Marketing's neighborhood and swung by to pick up a small Dell desktop. It was a reasonable price, included the power cable (so no charging extra fees for necessities), and they opened it up in front of me to confirm it was set up as advertised. On 4/12/22 17:11, Phil Waclawski via PLUG-discuss wrote: I have picked up used laptops from "feature marketing" in the past. https://featuremarketing.com/product-category/laptops-notebooks-tablets/ Their website is never up to date, call them and see what they have. Phil W On Tue, Apr 12, 2022 at 5:09 PM joe--- via PLUG-discuss wrote: A few days ago, I asked Plug for advice on used laptops and Linux distro options ... but I got no comments, so I'm asking a slightly different way: (1) Where is the best place in Mesa and/or in the Phoenix area to buy used laptops (i.e. Thinkpads)? (2) Or are ebay, amazon, or backmarket the best options? (3) Which is the best version of Linux Mint to install on a Thinkpad to run 24/7 with an external monitor, keyboard, and mouse? I want long term stable and not the latest experimental version. PS: I found this article to be very interesting and informative: 50 Best Linux Distros for 2022: https://linuxhint.com/best-linux-distros-2022/ === --- PLUG-discuss mailing list - PLUG-discuss@lists.phxlinux.org To subscribe, unsubscribe, or to change your mail settings: https://lists.phxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug-discuss --- PLUG-discuss mailing list -PLUG-discuss@lists.phxlinux.org To subscribe, unsubscribe, or to change your mail settings: https://lists.phxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug-discuss --- PLUG-discuss mailing list - PLUG-discuss@lists.phxlinux.org To subscribe, unsubscribe, or to change your mail settings: https://lists.phxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug-discuss
Converting old dual-boot laptop drive to virtual machine drive image
Last year when I was feeling financially comfortable (literally less than a month before a series of car issues started that resulted in trading in a not-yet-paid-off car) and finally bought a new laptop and at roughly the same time bought an ssd and more RAM for the former main daily driver laptop to make it a better carry around beater laptop. I still have the hard drive that had been in the laptop sitting nearby (which shipped with Window 8 and by the time it was retired was a Linux/Window 10 dual boot setup) for potential reuse, but I've wondered if anyone around here has experience converting a yanked drive into a drive image for a virtual machine. This was an idea that just popped into my head last night and the results of the quick web searches I did were mostly assuming two things: That you were primarily a Windows user wanting to virtualize a live desktop or server, so "Just go grab this Microsoft tool that will produce a hyper-v drive image and if you're using some other virtualization environment use its tools to convert that,"; and pretty much all the ones I saw were assuming you had one main partition and that you were just grabbing that. If I wanted something that more or less thought it was the old laptop is it actually as simple as just using dd to slurp up the whole drive into a laptop.img file and then pointing QEMU's QEMU-IMG tool at that file to convert it into one of the standard virtual drive formats? Also, if anyone knows a good M to go RTF, pointers to good documentation is always appreciated. --- PLUG-discuss mailing list - PLUG-discuss@lists.phxlinux.org To subscribe, unsubscribe, or to change your mail settings: https://lists.phxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug-discuss
Re: Name Cheap Registrar
I've used namecheap for domains and haven't had any issues with them to date. However, for a VPS I've been happy with BuyVM.net (which is run by the small Canadian company FranTech. One thing I like about BuyVM, they don't over provision. If they don't have the servers to support an option, then they don't display an active purchase link (that bad news in that is they currently have almost nothing but add on storage available). They offer a number of linux distributions as well as the major BSDs. You can find the list of KVM based VPS sizes at https://buyvm.net/kvm-dedicated-server-slices/ (they do have an affiliate program, if you want to kick a little what you pay towards my modest expenses you can use https://my.frantech.ca/aff.php?aff=2776 but the first link that goes to the buyvm address is the plain no-affiliate link, no hard sell here). I've got one of their the modern version of their old famous 128MB minimal VPSs that in the current form is 512MB of RAM, 1 cpu core, 10GB storage, and 1 IPv4 address for only $20 a year (back in the day the old 128MB minimal VPS was $10 a year and I ran two Gitolite servers, which even the old specs was overkill for). They've currently got their VPS servers located in Las Vegas, New York, and Roost in Luxembourg if you want your data to speak in an Old World accent. If you look around the site they also offer VPS configs with more storage as well as the option to add on additional storage to any of the plans in one quarter terabyte increments. They've also got webhosting and reseller webhosting plans but I've never used either of those so I can't say much more about those than they exist. And because they only offer VPSs for sale when they have proper provisioning available someone set up a site that checks to see what VPS plans are currently available in what locations https://buyvmstock.com/ Steven M On 8/4/21 7:15 AM, Keith Smith via PLUG-discuss wrote: Hi, Anyone using Name Cheap to Register domains? If so would you recommend then. Look at their VPS pricing : https://www.namecheap.com/hosting/vps/ Anyone using their VPS hosting? Any thoughts? Thanks in advance!! --- PLUG-discuss mailing list - PLUG-discuss@lists.phxlinux.org To subscribe, unsubscribe, or to change your mail settings: https://lists.phxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug-discuss --- PLUG-discuss mailing list - PLUG-discuss@lists.phxlinux.org To subscribe, unsubscribe, or to change your mail settings: https://lists.phxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug-discuss
Re: Housing
Perharps he was talking about turning an old laptop into a NAS? I've occasionally thought about pulling out one of my old laptops and turning it into a somewhat low power server with a built in battery backup good enough for the OS to go, "Oh bleep! The power's out, if I start now I just might have time to gracefully shut down." (I think my first laptop was down to about seven minutes of battery life when I gave up on it) Advantages: - You're not relying on the manufacturers choices of software and settings - As mentioned, a built in battery backup - You could run additional software beyond samba/nextcloud/syncthing, such as a git server, web server, or your own local database server Disadvantages: - Finding a good spot to put a laptop that's going to run 24/7 - As mentioned, that built in battery backup is likely at low capacity on an old laptop - Most old laptops only have a single 2.5 inch drive bay -- Sure you could attach external usb drives but those are additional items taking up shelf/desk space On 7/18/21 5:54 PM, Michael via PLUG-discuss wrote: My dad was just telling me I could get old laptop flash and make a drive with it. My little brain can't wrap itself around that. Anyone know what he is talking about? --- PLUG-discuss mailing list - PLUG-discuss@lists.phxlinux.org To subscribe, unsubscribe, or to change your mail settings: https://lists.phxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug-discuss
Re: Odd sort of high pitched distortion with sound playback in new ubuntu install
Actually no, the video I'd had up just didn't have enough on the high end to notice the distortion. But clicking on the icon for the script I made to reload pulse audio does seem to have fixed it again. So yeah, turns out making a .desktop file is pretty straight forward. I just made a text file with the following: [Desktop Entry] Encoding=UTF-8 Version=1.0 Type=Application Terminal=false Exec=bash /home/steven/.scripts/RestartPulseAudio.sh Icon=/home/steven/.scripts/High-contrast-audio-volume-high.svg Name=Restart Pulse Audio Downloaded a speaker icon to use for it and put it in the same directory as the RestartPulseAudio.sh file and that was that. I suppose I should just set that script to automatically run at startup. On 7/17/21 6:58 PM, Steven via PLUG-discuss wrote: Just in case anyone runs into something similar in the future I'm not entirely certain what fixed this as I broke a troubleshooting rule and did more than one thing before testing, but I 1) edited /etc/pulse/default.pa to add the lines load-module module-echo-cancel use_master_format=1 aec_method=webrtc aec_args="analog_gain_control=0 digital_gain_control=1" source_name=echoCancel_source sink_name=echoCancel_sink set-default-source echoCancel_source set-default-sink echoCancel_sink 2) issued the command, "systemctl --user restart pulseaudio.service" Actually, it might be the second. I just tried commenting out those echo filter lines and reloaded pulse audio again and I'm still not getting that weird echo or whatever it was on the high end. That said, this only seems to persist until I restart. Actually, I just did a restart and now I'm getting clean audio without needing to restart the pulse audio service... Yeah. Well. Apparently the answer if you have this issue is to poke various files without success, then add the echo filter to the pulse audio default.pa file, reload the pulse audio service, comment out your changes, and then restart. :) Slightly more complicated than, "Have you tried turning it off and then on again?" But I'll take it. I was going to comment that I'd worked out how to create a launcher that would run a shell script that issued the pulse audio service restart command, but since it looks like I don't need that now I guess I won't. :) On 7/11/21 5:14 PM, Steven via PLUG-discuss wrote: So I recently bit the bullet and replaced my 2013 laptop with a new one (a Dell Inspiron 15 3505 with a Ryzen 3700U). In nearly every way it has been a massive improvement over the old laptop (four cpu cores, 16 GB of ram, and solid state drives meant installing the OS and booting are faster than I have been used to). That said, initially I'd installed the latest Ubuntu LTS (20.04) only to discover that neither the AMD nor Cirrus Logic sound were recognized. Going into the sound settings the output device was set to "Dummy Output." I did some searching, found this was apparently a not uncommon occurrence even if I'd not heard of it before, but none of the solutions that were suggested worked. So, I updated the install to 21.04 at which point Ubuntu was willing to recognize that there was an HD Audio Controller present and I now get sound. Only there's a slight distortion in it that I'm not quite sure how to describe. A sort of ringing/crackle/echo on the high pitched sounds. Lowering the volume seems to help slightly but it's still present, and this is whether I'm using the built in speakers or headphones. I'm charging up a pair of bluetooth headphones I have to see if it's present there or if that dodges around the issue. Anyway, does anyone have suggestions on what might be wrong? I've done more searches but it seems the pages I'm finding are nearly all people talking about not getting any sound. I'm inclined to think it might be a driver issue seeing as how I'm not noticing the same distortion if I boot into Windows. --- PLUG-discuss mailing list - PLUG-discuss@lists.phxlinux.org To subscribe, unsubscribe, or to change your mail settings: https://lists.phxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug-discuss --- PLUG-discuss mailing list - PLUG-discuss@lists.phxlinux.org To subscribe, unsubscribe, or to change your mail settings: https://lists.phxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug-discuss --- PLUG-discuss mailing list - PLUG-discuss@lists.phxlinux.org To subscribe, unsubscribe, or to change your mail settings: https://lists.phxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug-discuss
Re: Odd sort of high pitched distortion with sound playback in new ubuntu install
Just in case anyone runs into something similar in the future I'm not entirely certain what fixed this as I broke a troubleshooting rule and did more than one thing before testing, but I 1) edited /etc/pulse/default.pa to add the lines load-module module-echo-cancel use_master_format=1 aec_method=webrtc aec_args="analog_gain_control=0 digital_gain_control=1" source_name=echoCancel_source sink_name=echoCancel_sink set-default-source echoCancel_source set-default-sink echoCancel_sink 2) issued the command, "systemctl --user restart pulseaudio.service" Actually, it might be the second. I just tried commenting out those echo filter lines and reloaded pulse audio again and I'm still not getting that weird echo or whatever it was on the high end. That said, this only seems to persist until I restart. Actually, I just did a restart and now I'm getting clean audio without needing to restart the pulse audio service... Yeah. Well. Apparently the answer if you have this issue is to poke various files without success, then add the echo filter to the pulse audio default.pa file, reload the pulse audio service, comment out your changes, and then restart. :) Slightly more complicated than, "Have you tried turning it off and then on again?" But I'll take it. I was going to comment that I'd worked out how to create a launcher that would run a shell script that issued the pulse audio service restart command, but since it looks like I don't need that now I guess I won't. :) On 7/11/21 5:14 PM, Steven via PLUG-discuss wrote: So I recently bit the bullet and replaced my 2013 laptop with a new one (a Dell Inspiron 15 3505 with a Ryzen 3700U). In nearly every way it has been a massive improvement over the old laptop (four cpu cores, 16 GB of ram, and solid state drives meant installing the OS and booting are faster than I have been used to). That said, initially I'd installed the latest Ubuntu LTS (20.04) only to discover that neither the AMD nor Cirrus Logic sound were recognized. Going into the sound settings the output device was set to "Dummy Output." I did some searching, found this was apparently a not uncommon occurrence even if I'd not heard of it before, but none of the solutions that were suggested worked. So, I updated the install to 21.04 at which point Ubuntu was willing to recognize that there was an HD Audio Controller present and I now get sound. Only there's a slight distortion in it that I'm not quite sure how to describe. A sort of ringing/crackle/echo on the high pitched sounds. Lowering the volume seems to help slightly but it's still present, and this is whether I'm using the built in speakers or headphones. I'm charging up a pair of bluetooth headphones I have to see if it's present there or if that dodges around the issue. Anyway, does anyone have suggestions on what might be wrong? I've done more searches but it seems the pages I'm finding are nearly all people talking about not getting any sound. I'm inclined to think it might be a driver issue seeing as how I'm not noticing the same distortion if I boot into Windows. --- PLUG-discuss mailing list - PLUG-discuss@lists.phxlinux.org To subscribe, unsubscribe, or to change your mail settings: https://lists.phxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug-discuss --- PLUG-discuss mailing list - PLUG-discuss@lists.phxlinux.org To subscribe, unsubscribe, or to change your mail settings: https://lists.phxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug-discuss
Odd sort of high pitched distortion with sound playback in new ubuntu install
So I recently bit the bullet and replaced my 2013 laptop with a new one (a Dell Inspiron 15 3505 with a Ryzen 3700U). In nearly every way it has been a massive improvement over the old laptop (four cpu cores, 16 GB of ram, and solid state drives meant installing the OS and booting are faster than I have been used to). That said, initially I'd installed the latest Ubuntu LTS (20.04) only to discover that neither the AMD nor Cirrus Logic sound were recognized. Going into the sound settings the output device was set to "Dummy Output." I did some searching, found this was apparently a not uncommon occurrence even if I'd not heard of it before, but none of the solutions that were suggested worked. So, I updated the install to 21.04 at which point Ubuntu was willing to recognize that there was an HD Audio Controller present and I now get sound. Only there's a slight distortion in it that I'm not quite sure how to describe. A sort of ringing/crackle/echo on the high pitched sounds. Lowering the volume seems to help slightly but it's still present, and this is whether I'm using the built in speakers or headphones. I'm charging up a pair of bluetooth headphones I have to see if it's present there or if that dodges around the issue. Anyway, does anyone have suggestions on what might be wrong? I've done more searches but it seems the pages I'm finding are nearly all people talking about not getting any sound. I'm inclined to think it might be a driver issue seeing as how I'm not noticing the same distortion if I boot into Windows. --- PLUG-discuss mailing list - PLUG-discuss@lists.phxlinux.org To subscribe, unsubscribe, or to change your mail settings: https://lists.phxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug-discuss
Re: music speed change w/ pitch correction
It isn't free/open source, but Transcribe! (yeah, the exclamation point is part of the name) supports linux, and can be used for both pitch and speed shifting, looping between marked segments, and will attempt to identify notes & chords. The ability to adjust playback speed with pitch correction (or adjust the pitch a set number of steps) is nice, but I think the looping is actually its killer feature. https://www.seventhstring.com/xscribe/overview.html On 4/24/20 12:19 PM, der.hans via PLUG-discuss wrote: moin moin, I need to setup and easy to use app for music playback that can change speed and do pitch correction. This is for music lessons where the speed needs to change as the students improve. Ideally I find Free Software packages for both Android and for desktop ( Ubuntu ). One or the other is sufficient, but I like to have backup plans. I can't find anything in FDroid right now. I had something before, but those phones have been wiped and I don't remember what it was. There are some apps in the google repo, but I'm trying to avoid those. For the desktop, vlc will speed up and slow down, but only in imprecise ways. gst123 will change speed by 10% at time, which is also not fine-grained enough. It also doesn't do pitch correction. It's fun to play with, but doesn't help with the lessons. I'm certain I can be done with audacity, but that's rather overwhelming to get one feature. Any suggested apps? I did find a bunch of other apps for learning music in FDroid. Looking forward to experimenting with those. ciao, der.hans --- PLUG-discuss mailing list - PLUG-discuss@lists.phxlinux.org To subscribe, unsubscribe, or to change your mail settings: https://lists.phxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug-discuss
Ansible laptop management
Anyone here using some form of configuration management (Ansible, Chef, Saltstack, etc) for their personal computers? I recently did a clean OS install on my carry-around laptop and I decided to use that as an excuse to start using ansible (so far only to tell apt to install vim and tmux if they aren't already installed). While the playbooks are currently very bare bones I'm planning to build on them as time goes by using this as a way to build up actual working knowledge and not just read-tutorials-knowledge of it. --- PLUG-discuss mailing list - PLUG-discuss@lists.phxlinux.org To subscribe, unsubscribe, or to change your mail settings: https://lists.phxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug-discuss
Minor monitor gripe(rant)
Back when I was in high school in the late 80s/early 90s we had a few computers with a grey-scale monitor that could be rotated between landscape and portrait orientation. Do you know what happened when we'd do that? You'd hear the clack of a mechanical orientation sensor, the screen would momentarily blank, and then the orientation of the display would automatically update. Which isn't a shock to anyone who has used late model PDAs and just about every tablet and smart phone. How is it that today, when all but the cheapest desktop monitor stands allow you to rotate the monitor, we have to manually tell the computer we've rotated the monitor? Okay, yes, this is because back then that was a premium and pricey monitor which is why only the vo-tech computer class had even two of them in the entire school (we also had an analog camera that recorded to disk, not a Kodak disc film camera but an SLR camera which used a camcorder sensor and recorded single frames of analog NTSC to magnetic 2 or maybe they were 2.5 inch disks. The drive for these disks was as large as the Mac it was plugged into). So throwing a sensor onto the monitor wasn't that expensive when we were already getting charged a premium for it. But would it kill them to include it on the less than bargain basement monitors today? Although now I'm wondering if DisplayPort/DVI/etc even have a way in their standards to pass along orientation information or if you'd need a separate connection, a quick googling isn't finding anything promising about that. Anyway, just a quick rant to get that out. I do in fact feel better having done so. --- PLUG-discuss mailing list - PLUG-discuss@lists.phxlinux.org To subscribe, unsubscribe, or to change your mail settings: https://lists.phxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug-discuss
Connecting to a home server from outside the local lan
Inspired in part by recent dropbox changes I'm thinking of taking a small box I have laying around and turning it into a nextcloud server (it doesn't hurt that even without making a single upgrade I'd get a significant jump in drive space). Being on residential internet I don't have an IP address that's guaranteed to stay the same so what are the current options to be able to access it from by tablet or laptop when I'm away from home? --- PLUG-discuss mailing list - PLUG-discuss@lists.phxlinux.org To subscribe, unsubscribe, or to change your mail settings: https://lists.phxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug-discuss
Re: Anyone here run their own email server for personal use?
On the subject of self-hosting your own email server, do any of the self-hosting webmail options offer gmail style tagging? On 12/16/2017 09:24 AM, Andrew McRobb wrote: Hello, everyone! I was thinking of running my own email server for personal use and maybe a PBX system using FreeSwitch (also to avoid spam phone calls) in my min-farm. Google surprisingly bad at detecting spam, and I know I could maybe throw together a simple SMTP setup perhaps using something already made or throw something together in Erlang. -- Just like the ability to control every aspect of the server, IMHO. Anyone have experience in this department, that could give me any tips? Thanks, Andrew Andrew McRobb Full-time Software Developer Part-time Freelancer --- PLUG-discuss mailing list - PLUG-discuss@lists.phxlinux.org To subscribe, unsubscribe, or to change your mail settings: http://lists.phxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug-discuss
Suggested software for a light media box
Hello all, I ran the numbers the other day and realized I could put together a small form factor box for less than $300 and hang it off the back of my TV. Nothing too fancy, a Gigabyte Brix 1900 bare bones with a celeron j1900, 8 gigs ram, and 120 gb ssd, keyboardless at the moment, and hooked up to the TV through hdmi. Right now I have the 14.04 LTS version of Ubuntu running on it and connecting through VNC to control it. Does anyone here have anything similar set up? I know I can view youtube on the TV simply using a browser but I'm open to thoughts on alternate software/os-distributions/etc. If I'm reading things right then Netflix ought to be workable with an up to date browser and Amazon video with just a little effort. --- PLUG-discuss mailing list - PLUG-discuss@lists.phxlinux.org To subscribe, unsubscribe, or to change your mail settings: http://lists.phxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug-discuss
Re: How to tell what file system type I have?
I find it much simpler just to type "mount" with no options. Also the filesystem types would be listed in the /etc/fstab file as well. -- Steven DuChene -Original Message- From: Lisa Kachold Sent: Jan 4, 2013 8:38 PM To: Main PLUG discussion list Subject: Re: How to tell what file system type I have? # cat /dev/mtab # fdisk -l pipe to more # cat /dev/mtab | more On Fri, Jan 4, 2013 at 6:35 PM, wrote: > Hi Joe, > > # df -h > > # fdisk -l > > That information should tell you what your file system is? Here are the results: [joe@localhost ~]$ df -h FilesystemSize Used Avail Use% Mounted on /dev/sda1 12G 5.7G 5.6G 51% / tmpfs 473M 0 473M 0% /dev/shm /dev/sda6 168G 23G 146G 14% /home [joe@localhost ~]$ fdisk -l [joe@localhost ~]$ I'm trying to find out if the file system is ext3 or ext4. --- PLUG-discuss mailing list - PLUG-discuss@lists.phxlinux.org To subscribe, unsubscribe, or to change your mail settings: http://lists.phxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug-discuss -- (503) 754-4452 Android (623) 239-3392 Skype (623) 688-3392 Google Voice ** it-clowns.com Chief Clown --- PLUG-discuss mailing list - PLUG-discuss@lists.phxlinux.org To subscribe, unsubscribe, or to change your mail settings: http://lists.phxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug-discuss
