org mail is handled by 0 server.fedoraforum.org.
$ host fedoraforum.org
fedoraforum.org has address 207.210.201.125
fedoraforum.org mail is handled by 0 fedoraforum.org.
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> On November 9, 2019, Rich Pieri wrote:
> >ZFS, snapshots, send/receive to make backups to external media.
>
> ZFS looks *extremely* cool (haven't used it). Rich, any comments on
> its speed in real life for a deskto
the dataset to the specified snapshot. Reasonably
fast disaster recovery: zfs send/receive from the backup to the
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username = richard.pi...@gmail.com
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or logical volumes then it will be exactly the same as cryptsetup
+dmcrypt because it's the same dmcrypt.
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> He wrote it. RMS definitely called Epstein a serial rapist.
Here's the reference:
https://stallman.org/archives/2019-jan-apr.html#25_April_2019_(Plea_deal_for_Epstein)
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osition never actually said they had sex which is corroborated by a
witness who said Minsky declined. RMS didn't read the deposition for
himself before jumping into the fray. He made his assumption based on
spurious claims in a clipping from a news article.
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wasn't sexual asasult or rape?
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t; Only that they had sex.
This is RMS presuming that Minsky did have sex with Giuffre. Then he
explains why, if this really happened, it was not rape or sexual
assault.
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. I doubt that there's anything clinically neuroatypical about his
brain. That's not a clinical diagnosis. It's me recognizing behavioral
traits we share (or shared; I've been told that I've gotten better).
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> I was once introduced to Stallman, but I had met him before, so I
> reminded him of the party, and of the conversation we had had.
>
> He remembered me: "Oh, your *that* asshole."
You win the Internet this we
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rectly like StarTech. I've encountered a few (budget brands from
Micro Center) which claim UASP but acutally don't. Run "lsusb -t" and
look for either "Driver=uas" or "Driver=usb-storage". If you don't see
"Driver=uas" then it doesn't do UASP at all regardle
the Linux kernel
and loading a kernel module does not in and of itself constitute
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I favor diff as a general purpose solution.
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BASH utilities will do it. All suggestion welcome, and thanks
> in advance.
If you know what should be in the file then create a new file with the
correct data and use diff to find the differnces.
There's probably a way to do it with awk.
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Read up on the Code Spaces breach because I'm not talking about
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only thing that needs a low-level copy is the boot block of the
boot device and that only once. It would be more useful on a dual-boot
Windows/Linux machine using Clonezilla command line to clone the
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Be verbose: -v
Show progress: -P
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because all the device drivers were written for old o/s,
> that's why.) Moving forward: I'll even take a source in france.
> Cheers. McB
Try oldversion.com
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> Effectively, printing = storing.
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is printed readibly:
But we're not discussing the printing of the configuration data.
We're discussing the storing of the configuration data in configuration
files in ways that are both humanly editable *and* computer readable.
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difficult so having one init system shared by all distributions in both
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Nancy Allison wrote:
> Rich, what do I do now? Thanks very much.
Follow the instructions on torproject.org:
> > 4. Run the start-tor-browser script.
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ion the only organization that can be
trusted is Tor Project.
2. Go to torproject.org and download the tar.xz file.
2a. Verify the GPG signature.
3. Unpack the tar.gz file.
4. Run the start-tor-browser script.
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https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2019/05/windows-10-will-soon-ship-with-a-full-open-source-gpled-linux-kernel/
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> Rather than blame MailChimp, I'd rather blame me. Did I overlook
> something in the DNS (or other) setup for kidreviewz.com? I am no DNS
> expert.
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release.
Hyper-V, requires a higher tier edition.
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> XP and Linux under it, but that was a while back.
VMware Player is free to use with some restrictions. There hasn't been
a free/trial version of VMware Workstation in some time.
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ndows inside virtualbox on linux (rather than
> just dual-booting).
Windows runs poorly on usermode hypervisors. And the stock OS probably
won't work at all if you try to boot it in a usermode hypervisor.
Because it's doing all of the EFI stuff.
sider. Not only
do most Linux distros run just fine in Hyper-V, installing Ubuntu
18.04.1 LTS in Hyper-V is formally supported.
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> Here's a thing: if you're running Windows 10 then you can install most
> of Ubuntu natively under WSL. Install wsltty (WSL Terminal) and you
> get Cygwin's terminal for your WSL environment. Add a proper X server
> like VcXsrv and
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unt has been closed and unusable for at least 2 years now.
Oh, yeah. Livejournal's password database was compromised at least once
if you haven't heard.
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ns more opportunity
for mistakes or bugs to cause other problems.
SELinux makes sense in a mainframe environment where many different
services and users need access to many different resources. But then,
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SELinux.
Five is some documentation at Red Hat about SELinux.
Six is a blog article about SELinux being able to contain a Samba
exploit that had never been exploited. Which was more than 10 years ago.
I stopped reading at this point because I'm just not finding anything
to suggest that SELinux is
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ast 2048-bit keys) for maximum compatibility, ED25519 for performance
(because RSA keys have gotten unwiedly), and ECDSA for the most likely
to be compromised by the NSA.
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ill be handed directly from my MUA to one of Google's SMTP
servers.
Loss of my little server would be an iconvenience in this regard as I
would have to reconfigure my MUAs to use gmail and my other
providers directly until I revive it.
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> hide all details inside the container and just expose a port.
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different paper records and
procedures and EMRs and timekeeping. And it's impossible to unify
because the information needed to unify those records does not exist,
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a bonafide nightmare.
Is there a solution? I don't think so short of doing away with daylight
savings. Epic have been at this for almost 40 years. If it were
possible and viable I think they'd have figured it out by now.
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I don't think it's worth the effort. ext2 for /boot (if
you have it) and XFS for / is fine for the OS since these in principle
don't need routine backups. Run etckeeper to put /etc under automatic
revision control, and rsync to durable storage as need
e ‘secondshot’ to add a few
> capabilities on top of rsnapshot; see my repos on GitHub /
> dockerhub / pypi. (github.com/instantlinux).
Having recently-ish rebuilt my home server with full ZFS I have to say
that ZFS makes backups ridiculously easy.
maged. Since it cannot identify what's affected
it cannot effect repairs, either. You have to wipe and restore from
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place to xfs.
Avoid ext4 for anything important if at all possible.
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On 10/25/2016 2:13 PM, Jerry Feldman wrote:
> Also note that I can ssh into the BLU servers as my ldap user, but the BLU
> servers use a local user name, So, there is some system setting on the
> target machine (not SELINUX) that I am missing.
You may have run into a catch-22 with access control
On 9/30/2016 4:52 PM, Dan Ritter wrote:
> startx and xfce4.
Bah. Xfce is no longer the "small, fast" desktop environment it used to
be, not since it inherited some firm dependencies on systemd.
You want a lightweight "desktop"? Run IceWM. Looks like a desktop.
Mostly acts like one, too. But it's
Sounds like you used rm to delete the files. That's bad on anything
using Debian packages. Fix the first is to restore those files from
backup or possibly another system (although you may have problems with
initrds if you do this) and run apt-get -f (I think it's -f) to fix any
outstanding
Amazon EC2. It's a good baseline for comparisons with other providers.
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On 9/1/2016 11:07 AM, Bill Ricker wrote:
> That's why I use Tbird for some hosted biz.com gmail accounts with
> little tagging needed but handling proprietary information, and native
> clients for main personal gmail as seen here that needs intersectional
> tagging
I just run my own IMAP
On 8/31/2016 4:05 PM, Jerry Feldman wrote:
> I'm weaning away from Thunderbird for a few reasons, but I don't like the
> way Thunderbird handles folders with respect to gmail's labels.
That's because Gmail's labels aren't folders and don't quite act like
folders. You'll have similar quirky
On 8/26/2016 7:10 PM, Eric Chadbourne wrote:
> Now I'm searching for an adapter that can hold a half dozen sd cards
> at once.
There are SD to SATA boards around that can hold 4 SD cards or 10
microSD cards. Put one of those in a USB to SATA enclosure and you're
good to go.
But then again, if
On 8/24/2016 6:59 PM, F. O. Ozbek wrote:
> I purchased exclusively Samsung micro SD cards, thinking they will be more
> reliable. They also fail, believe me.
They are more reliable. This does not mean they don't fail; it means
that a smaller percentage of them fail compared to less reliable
On 8/24/2016 8:12 AM, Robert Krawitz wrote:
> I've also found SD cards to be unreliable (sometimes but not always
> DOA) compared to SSD. I bought a new micro SD for my phone; I tested
> it prior to entering it into service, and it locked up hard after
> about 4 GB of testing, after which it went
On 8/23/2016 8:27 PM, Eric Chadbourne wrote:
> So my music collection is larger than the drive on my laptop.
> There's a USB 3 1TB drive connected but it feels cumbersome.
>
> Poking around online I noticed sd cards are large and inexpensive.
> This plus it's omnipresence seems compelling. Slide
On 8/7/2016 2:42 PM, Bill Ricker wrote:
> Hmm. So a totally different use case, even more insular than Cygwin.
> Can't use it for single cross-platform scripting-platform for Ops / DevOps.
Yeah, that's not the target audience. It's intended for developers
working on porting applications between
On 8/7/2016 11:15 AM, Bill Ricker wrote:
> Having used both Cygwin and MKS TK shells & Gnu utils on Win in prior
> decades, my question would be how well does this shell integrate with
> windoes EXEs ?
It doesn't. The subsystem runs ELF binaries. It won't start Windows PE
or COFF binaries (exec
On 8/7/2016 11:01 AM, A. Richard Miller wrote:
> Security company CrowdStrike has already noted that this increased the
> attack surface for windows users and reduced their safety.
Not so much, really. The article fails to mention some important points,
chief among which are that activating the
One of the new features in Windows 10 1607 (aka Anniversary Update) is
the Windows Subsystem for Linux. It lets you run Linux binaries on Windows.
No, it's not a virtual machine.
No, it's not a container.
No, it's not a Linux kernel compiled as an executable (coLinux).
No, it's not an
On 7/20/2016 3:26 PM, Steve Litt wrote:
> Also, the computers of 2000-2008 were much more robust than today's
> thin, light, cut glass ornaments that pass for laptops. I bought two
Certainly, most of what's out there is pretty flimsy but it has nothing
to do with being thin and sleek. It's the
On 7/20/2016 11:41 AM, IngeGNUe wrote:
> The EOMA people handling the manufacturing though.
Like I wrote yesterday: they found a loophole that lets them use a SoC
from a company which is notorious for... but I repeat myself. They may
technically comply with the letter of the RYF certification but
On 7/19/2016 5:15 PM, IngeGNUe wrote:
> Keep reading, they're seeking a RYF certification. They found a way to
> overcome this.
They found a loophole that lets them use a cheap SoC manufactured by a
company which is notorious for repeatedly and flagrantly ignoring both
the letter and spirit of
On 7/18/2016 8:02 PM, IngeGNUe wrote:
> Eco-friendly, upgradeable, portable, secure, affordable, no NDAs, no
> proprietary anything (except for MALI, if you insist on it), fully
> documented hardware.
"Allwinner A20 Dual-core ARM Cortex A7 processor."
Allwinner are notorious for their repeated
On 7/8/2016 1:56 PM, IngeGNUe wrote:
> plain text data, but it's not nearly as good as it was supposed to be.
SSL was never supposed to be "good". It was supposed to comply with
export regulations of the period which essentially required encryption
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On 7/7/2016 8:07 PM, IngeGNUe wrote:
> But that means you're considering whether one of Google's sites are
> compromised, which is something I thought we had written off as
> improbable. It's not like I'm using a Google account to log in to a
> Bookface.net website or whatever.
Comodo issuing
On 7/6/2016 11:04 PM, IngeGNUe wrote:
> Yes I know I was very strong about it but that is Very rare, especially
> if you're not downloading software from untrusted sources.
Guess again. There are 4885 known vulnerabilities (CVE numbers) in all
versions of WordPress core, plugins and themes as of
On 7/2/2016 10:30 PM, IngeGNUe wrote:
> Given that this is the BLU ml, things like "spyware" don't apply to GNU
> Linux. I don't know anyone more careful than me with regard to password
You think not? I think you're wrong:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Linux_malware
> management. My coworkers
Hot plug SATA isn't intended for frequent swapping. It's there for
servers that need to occasionally swap out failed devices without full
shutdowns. If you intend to swap drives frequently then use USB or
eSATA. These were designed with frequent swapping in mind. udev will
have something to say
On 6/14/2016 3:15 PM, Bill Ricker wrote:
> There's a difference between their computational model embedded in there
> somewhere.
There is. Tyson's odds are his personal opinion while Musk's "odds" are
him pulling numbers out of his ass to make catchy sound bites for the media.
The simulation
On 6/14/2016 10:38 AM, Bill Ricker wrote:
> Indeed. Science is based on hypothesis-testing. Only a "falsifiable"
> hypothesis is testable.
Yup.
Thing is, simulation hypothesis (simulated reality) isn't a scientific
hypothesis. It's a philosophical one.
As for Musk, he's very good at
On 6/12/2016 11:09 AM, Jerry Feldman wrote:
> It appears that Dropbox stores hard linked files as separate files. This
> kills snapshot-type of backups like rsnapshot.
Yup. Dropbox can't replicate hard links. The backing storage is AWS
buckets which don't do POSIX.
> I suspect that many online
On 5/20/2016 2:23 PM, Jerry Feldman wrote:
> Richard, why are you moving to ZFS when you already have BTRFS. Certainly
> ZFS is more mature.
Because ZFS is more mature and has better tools.
It should also make a switch to *BSD much easier.
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So. ZFS On Linux is now officially in the Debian contrib repositories
for stable, testing and sid. Neat.
I'm working on a recipe for a live migration from Btrfs to ZFS. It's
something I've wanted to do for a while but haven't because ZOL packages
are only for jessie and wheezy while I'm running
Found it. Depending on which version of Raspbian is running it's either:
- add a static lease to /etc/dhcp/dhclient.conf
- add a static configuration to /etc/dhcpcd.conf
- add a static configuration to /etc/network/interfaces
The last is what I tried but it doesn't (seem) to work properly with
On 5/2/2016 8:12 PM, Kent Borg wrote:
> Hard-limit of only 4GB of RAM:
Yeah. The big compromise in XPS 13 is the soldered RAM. You probably got
the price down to around $650 that way, maybe less, but... ulch. I
wouldn't want less than 8GB in anything expected to be current, and I'd
prefer 12-16GB
On 5/2/2016 11:31 AM, Kent Borg wrote:
> As reliable? Maybe, but the flash product the industry has most
> commonly put in consumer hands, SD cards, die left and right. (A
> quite new Samsung SD card instantly died on me just a few months
> ago.)
SD cards are to SSDs as floppies are to hard
On 5/1/2016 9:13 PM, Kent Borg wrote:
> Maybe so. Replaceable flash is more important than a specific
> interface.
All the more reason to stick to current industry standards.
> Except I am afraid of SSDs and so would like replaceability and
> expandability.
Don't be. Flash-based consumer SSDs
On 5/1/2016 5:46 PM, Kent Borg wrote:
> I was attacked by a Murphy bed this last weekend. (Some strong
> springs involved…) It did not manage to kill me, the left side of my
> head, my left hand, and my left thigh shared the blow, so I will be
> fine. However, my old Lenovo notebook that I was
On 4/29/2016 2:33 PM, Bill Bogstad wrote:
> make it not work. I suspect that if they hadn't insisted on making
> the differences in latency completely invisible to applications, it is
> possible that it would have worked better. A way for a program to
Certainly, but but they already had low
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