[PLUG] Gandi Curious?

2015-02-11 Thread Michael Rasmussen
As a long term customer of gandi.net I've just been handed a batch of promo codes good for 40% off a new .com or .net domain registation. If you have a new domain to register and want one of these let me know. They expire March 15. -- Michael Rasmussen, Portland Oregon

Re: [PLUG] GIMP alternatives (grump)

2015-01-22 Thread Michael Rasmussen
classic for Ubuntu is available.[59] As of March 2011, a new patch can be downloaded from the SourceForge site that patches against the experimental GIMP v2.7.j -- Michael Rasmussen, Portland Oregon Be Appropriate Follow Your Curiosity Caution! Hill Slug Ahead

Re: [PLUG] GIMP alternatives (grump)

2015-01-21 Thread Michael Rasmussen
best. It has some easy to ignore features that are outside of your current scope. This link should provide enough information for you to see if it is indeed a match. http://www.kornelix.com/fotoxx.html -- Michael Rasmussen, Portland Oregon Be Appropriate Follow Your Curiosity Your

Re: [PLUG] Amazon Review Reviews

2015-01-18 Thread Michael Rasmussen
to. Thanks Michael. -- Michael Rasmussen, Portland Oregon Be Appropriate Follow Your Curiosity Italy, Ireland, Bulgaria and Uruguay have banned smoking in public. ___ PLUG mailing list PLUG@lists.pdxlinux.org http://lists.pdxlinux.org/mailman

Re: [PLUG] Clinic Sunday - bring new Zotac Zbox and play with two user mode?

2014-12-21 Thread Michael Rasmussen
. $90 for the machine, $60 for 8GB of RAM, and $60 for a 1TB hard disk. Quiet little guy. I'd like to see that ZBOX, so please bring it. -- Michael Rasmussen, Portland Oregon Be Appropriate Follow Your Curiosity Art, to be art, must point at something. ~ Anne Lammot

Re: [PLUG] Clinic Sunday - bring new Zotac Zbox and play with two user mode?

2014-12-21 Thread Michael Rasmussen
(?). We won't have space at Freegeek for that, so two possible venues are: Or we can wait until next month. Parts cache is a very good thing. -- Michael Rasmussen, Portland Oregon Be Appropriate Follow Your Curiosity One of the most transformative practices you can engage

[PLUG] Planar PL1910M-BK available

2014-12-18 Thread Michael Rasmussen
) to pair up with my wide screen monitors. -- Michael Rasmussen, Portland Oregon Be Appropriate Follow Your Curiosity If a little knowledge is dangerous, where is the man who has so much as to be out of danger? ~ T.H. Huxley

Re: [PLUG] Planar PL1910M-BK available / gone

2014-12-18 Thread Michael Rasmussen
On Thu, Dec 18, 2014 at 09:22:29AM -0800, wes wrote: I would take it, and will be at the clinic. Wes wins the Monitor goes to caller number one sweepstakes. -- Michael Rasmussen, Portland Oregon Be Appropriate Follow Your Curiosity The triumph of prejudices over the evidence

Re: [PLUG] PLUG Call for Participation

2014-12-17 Thread Michael Rasmussen
On Mon, Dec 15, 2014 at 10:15:18PM -0800, wes wrote: the Perl, Macintosh or Windows group, There's a Windows group??? Misery loves company? There's a group for nearly anything. -- Michael Rasmussen, Portland Oregon Be Appropriate Follow Your Curiosity Is it still Stockholm

Re: [PLUG] 64 bit distros, older laptops, processor upgrades

2014-12-17 Thread Michael Rasmussen
from Hong Kong. T60 Laptops have socketed, not soldered, CPUs? Time to check the basement stash. -- Michael Rasmussen, Portland Oregon Be Appropriate Follow Your Curiosity Each day is a gift and not a given right. ~ http://someoneoncetoldme.com/gallery/05072010

Re: [PLUG] Centos on Comcast ipv6to4 Help

2014-12-15 Thread Michael Rasmussen
in this thread: Comcast recently replaced his router with one that appears to be implementing their IPV6to4 protocol. -- Michael Rasmussen, Portland Oregon Be Appropriate Follow Your Curiosity If you wish to travel far and fast, travel light. Take off all your envies, jealousies

Re: [PLUG] Centos on Comcast ipv6to4 Help

2014-12-15 Thread Michael Rasmussen
is http://test-ipv6.com/ -- Michael Rasmussen, Portland Oregon Be Appropriate Follow Your Curiosity Even if you aren't in doubt, consider the mental welfare of the person who has to maintain the code after you, and who will probably put parens in the wrong place. ~ Larry Wall in the perl

[PLUG] Reference of useful commands

2014-12-14 Thread Michael Rasmussen
On Quora someone asked: What are some time-saving tips that every Linux user should know? The answers, especially the rather long first one, contain a great collection of shell advice. https://www.quora.com/What-are-some-time-saving-tips-that-every-Linux-user-should-know -- Michael

Re: [PLUG] Centos on Comcast ipv6to4 Help

2014-12-14 Thread Michael Rasmussen
address the host comes up with? I was pleasantly surprised to find Comcast will route IPv6 back through my wifi router. I'm also in the use the PTP OpenWRT system Russell Senior and the rest of the PTP volunteers maintain camp. -- Michael Rasmussen, Portland Oregon Be Appropriate

Re: [PLUG] Centos on Comcast ipv6to4 Help

2014-12-14 Thread Michael Rasmussen
... is the IPv6 equivelent of IP4 RFC 1918 private address space, the 10.x.y.z, 192.168.x.y etc. The third address 2601:... is the one of interest. You mentioned Comcast - your friend may (probably?) has one of those. -- Michael Rasmussen, Portland Oregon Be Appropriate Follow Your

Re: [PLUG] Run graphics apps from the command line, but suppress graphics.

2014-12-12 Thread Michael Rasmussen
a circuit, answering my mail, or whatever it is that engineers do)? Does your desktop environment support multiple virtual desktops? Can you direct it to use of them while you work in another? -- Michael Rasmussen, Portland Oregon Be Appropriate Follow Your Curiosity But now, my love

Re: [PLUG] Specifying a minimalist/instuctional/??? Linux install

2014-12-08 Thread Michael Rasmussen
to the very last detail. That, if I may say so, sounds like a paraphrasing of your described goal. -- Michael Rasmussen, Portland Oregon Be Appropriate Follow Your Curiosity London's a great city to cycle in if you relish the smugness that comes from being by far the fasted mode of transport

Re: [PLUG] Specifying a minimalist/instuctional/??? Linux install

2014-12-08 Thread Michael Rasmussen
with the master server. This server/client model also allows the user to download/install packages with a simple command, complete with all required dependencies. -- Michael Rasmussen, Portland Oregon Be Appropriate Follow Your Curiosity I refuse the iPod because it is an audio

Re: [PLUG] Screen Rescue - Chromebook in the rain - Resolved - Now have bigger, more urgent problem

2014-12-08 Thread Michael Rasmussen
On Sat, Dec 06, 2014 at 08:55:51AM -0800, Michael Rasmussen wrote: As it turns out there is enough of a market that you can get a replacement screen online for under $40. And the hardest part of the replacement was figuring out where the jewelers screwdrivers were. A new one is on its way

Re: [PLUG] Screen Rescue - Chromebook in the rain - Resolved

2014-12-06 Thread Michael Rasmussen
have seen a ARM ones for $110 on Craigslist. As it turns out there is enough of a market that you can get a replacement screen online for under $40. A new one is on its way for my wife. A screen is on its way for what will be my chromebook. -- Michael Rasmussen, Portland Oregon

[PLUG] Hiring Open Source Contributors

2014-12-06 Thread Michael Rasmussen
Question from Quora: My boss thinks it is a bad idea to hire people who contribute to open source software. How do I convince him otherwise? Answer from: Gil Yehuda 313 upvotes by Michael Rasmussen, Pranesh Pandurangan, Ryan Wong, (more) Don't convince him. Instead, send his rejected candidates

Re: [PLUG] systemd, an improvement? - argument for

2014-12-05 Thread Michael Rasmussen
dependencies provides sandboxing features systemd service files can be written without distribution implementation knowledge. systemd is a cross-distro project, creation team had deep background ... -- Michael Rasmussen, Portland Oregon Be Appropriate Follow Your Curiosity

[PLUG] Screen Rescue - Chromebook in the rain

2014-12-05 Thread Michael Rasmussen
on viewing the screen is (barely to me) usable. But it is usable. Please share suggestions for, as much as possible, fixing the screen. -- Michael Rasmussen, Portland Oregon Be Appropriate Follow Your Curiosity Art is television for smart people. ~ Dale O'Dell

Re: [PLUG] Web Hosting

2014-12-02 Thread Michael Rasmussen
hosting for your size of thing runs $5 a month. You can try it out for 10 days for free. -- Michael Rasmussen, Portland Oregon Be Appropriate Follow Your Curiosity Ride what you like, but don't be too hasty in deciding what you don't like. ~ Ray Sachs

Re: [PLUG] keypress timing logger

2014-12-01 Thread Michael Rasmussen
) {last INPUT;} } ReadMode 0;' -- Michael Rasmussen, Portland Oregon Be Appropriate Follow Your Curiosity Who was it who said that the secret of happiness is never to spend more than $500 on a car, nor less than $500 on a bike. ~ Roy Bird

[PLUG] Debian forked over systemd

2014-11-29 Thread Michael Rasmussen
https://lists.dyne.org/lurker/message/20141127.212941.f55acc3a.en.html The Veteran Unix Admin collective forked it to Devuan, see https://devuan.org for more. -- Michael Rasmussen, Portland Oregon Be Appropriate Follow Your Curiosity It's better to be hated for what you are than

Re: [PLUG] Troubleshooting SSL Configuration for SNI - Workaround

2014-11-27 Thread Michael Rasmussen
?) issues will be forgone. On Wed, Nov 26, 2014 at 07:04:02AM -0800, Michael Rasmussen wrote: I have three SSL enabled hosts on an Apache web server with SSL services provided by GnuTLS. mod_ssl does not support (at least at the time I first set these up) SNI. SSL is working properly

Re: [PLUG] Troubleshooting SSL Configuration for SNI

2014-11-26 Thread Michael Rasmussen
://ssllabs.com Excellent tool. Thank you. If nothing else comes out of this the report from ssllabs provided lots of food for thought. -- Michael Rasmussen, Portland Oregon Be Appropriate Follow Your Curiosity Is it still Stockholm syndrome if you feel like 'eh, they're okay' about your

[PLUG] TuneIn Radio off the phone and onto the desktop

2014-11-25 Thread Michael Rasmussen
to create your personalized feed. I recommend it because it's global. You can get a radio stream in any language. Yeah, sure they have a web interface. What fun is that? -- Michael Rasmussen, Portland Oregon Be Appropriate Follow Your Curiosity We've found that over long time

Re: [PLUG] TuneIn Radio off the phone and onto the desktop

2014-11-25 Thread Michael Rasmussen
On Tue, Nov 25, 2014 at 08:57:18AM -0800, John Jason Jordan wrote: On Tue, 25 Nov 2014 07:11:57 -0800 Michael Rasmussen mich...@jamhome.us dijo: If you use TuneIn radio and would like to also use it on your lap/desktop it is possible. VLC has a plugin to interface with TuneIn radio. http

Re: [PLUG] AirRouter DHCP lease range

2014-11-24 Thread Michael Rasmussen
. -- Michael Rasmussen, Portland Oregon Be Appropriate Follow Your Curiosity Inspiration exists, but it has to find you working. ~ Pablo Picasso ___ PLUG mailing list PLUG@lists.pdxlinux.org http://lists.pdxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug

Re: [PLUG] Networking an HP printer (was AirRouter DHCP lease range) - customer/product

2014-11-24 Thread Michael Rasmussen
On Mon, Nov 24, 2014 at 05:02:00PM -0800, Denis Heidtmann wrote: If you are not the customer you are the product is a phrase I should paste to the top of my monitor. I've found: If you're not paying, you're the product. to be easier to remember. -- Michael Rasmussen, Portland

Re: [PLUG] AirRouter DHCP lease range

2014-11-23 Thread Michael Rasmussen
that it would work just fine. Do you think it would be safe to try, assuming I have saved the original file to use in case of a screw-up? oh heck yes. Do your edits, upload, test, enjoy. -- Michael Rasmussen, Portland Oregon Be Appropriate Follow Your Curiosity Every gun

Re: [PLUG] Creating a filename for an open, but deleted, file

2014-11-13 Thread Michael Rasmussen
. As you do make daily backups, wouldn't copying it from there be easier? Where's the fun in that? And there are lots of interesting files that do not persist through the backup window. -- Michael Rasmussen, Portland Oregon Be Appropriate Follow Your Curiosity Melancholy is incompatible

Re: [PLUG] ArchLinux boot never gets as far as grub

2014-11-10 Thread Michael Rasmussen
mailing list PLUG@lists.pdxlinux.org http://lists.pdxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug -- Michael Rasmussen, Portland Oregon Be Appropriate Follow Your Curiosity The most violent element in society is ignorance. ~ Emma Goldman

Re: [PLUG] Scanning for and connecting to wifi networks

2014-11-08 Thread Michael Rasmussen
is failing me. Can someone remind me? iwlist interface_name scan you can get interface_name from iwconfig -- Michael Rasmussen, Portland Oregon Be Appropriate Follow Your Curiosity Rando Wisdom: I taste my own sweat and if it tastes good, I know I need Cheetos or Pringles

Re: [PLUG] Bugzilla Zero-Day Exposes Zero-Day Bugs

2014-10-06 Thread Michael Rasmussen
/ so when someone sees this tomorrow or the day after or sometime in the archive retrieved future they get the story you intended. -- Michael Rasmussen, Portland Oregon Be Appropriate Follow Your Curiosity Love more, laugh more, and stop worrying ~ life is too short for regrets

Re: [PLUG] Such a thing as a single user Linux?

2014-09-29 Thread Michael Rasmussen
-newbie activity, but I'm sure you can get any help you might need here on the list. That's the point of modules. -- Michael Rasmussen, Portland Oregon Be Appropriate Follow Your Curiosity Don't hesitate to spit out bad espresso even if it has to be on the floor. Cleaning the floor

Re: [PLUG] Such a thing as a single user Linux?

2014-09-25 Thread Michael Rasmussen
/Arch_Linux And FWIW I've found maintaining a bunch of Arch systems easier than an Ubuntu system. -- Michael Rasmussen, Portland Oregon Be Appropriate Follow Your Curiosity After your lover has gone you will still have PEANUT BUTTER

Re: [PLUG] Such a thing as a single user Linux?

2014-09-24 Thread Michael Rasmussen
have a 14 monochrome monitor to support this quest? vedit isn't available. joe, the wordstar clone, is. What do you plan to do in this CPM-like environment? (and ediiting inittab to boot to single user mode isn't doing it for you.) -- Michael Rasmussen, Portland Oregon Be Appropriate

Re: [PLUG] Rpcdebug commands

2014-09-22 Thread Michael Rasmussen
On Mon, Sep 22, 2014 at 01:24:56PM -0700, Rich Shepard wrote: Have you read these pages: https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/NFS/Troubleshooting? They look useful. One of the attractions of Arch Linux is the useful documentation. shill_off/ snark_off/ -- Michael Rasmussen

Re: [PLUG] Identifying Why One Web Site Will Not Load

2014-09-17 Thread Michael Rasmussen
On Wed, Sep 17, 2014 at 05:40:33AM -0700, Rich Shepard wrote: On Tue, 16 Sep 2014, Michael Rasmussen wrote: Which raises the question, can you connect to http://osgeo.org or http://www.orgeo.org ? Yes, to both. But, still no to grass.osgeo.org. (Insert theme from The Twilight Zone

Re: [PLUG] Identifying Why One Web Site Will Not Load

2014-09-17 Thread Michael Rasmussen
On Wed, Sep 17, 2014 at 09:00:31AM -0700, Rich Shepard wrote: On Wed, 17 Sep 2014, Michael Rasmussen wrote: Many of the responses have been based on the contents of the page not getting to you. That test implies that is not the case. Looking through the thread you have not yet tried

Re: [PLUG] Identifying Why One Web Site Will Not Load [RESOLVED]

2014-09-17 Thread Michael Rasmussen
On Wed, Sep 17, 2014 at 09:21:38AM -0700, Rich Shepard wrote: On Wed, 17 Sep 2014, Michael Rasmussen wrote: Many of the responses have been based on the contents of the page not getting to you. That test implies that is not the case. The most recent response, to Robert's use of curl

Re: [PLUG] Identifying Why One Web Site Will Not Load

2014-09-16 Thread Michael Rasmussen
packets quickly. You're right, it does work for (this limited test group of 1) others. Perhaps you've gotten to the age where your shouts have become self reflexive. Get off my grass! -- Michael Rasmussen, Portland Oregon Be Appropriate Follow Your Curiosity If we do not feel grateful

Re: [PLUG] Can't find a file - now Permission on ./.cache/dconf

2014-09-12 Thread Michael Rasmussen
On Fri, Sep 12, 2014 at 08:46:10AM -0400, Fred James wrote: John Jason Jordan wrote: Michael Rasmussen mich...@jamhome.us dijo: ls -l ./.cache/dconf will reveal. ls -l ./.cache/dconf ls: cannot open directory ./.cache/dconf: Permission denied Just to be clear ls -l directoryname

Re: [PLUG] Can't find a file

2014-09-11 Thread Michael Rasmussen
: Numeric arguments can be specified as +n for greater than n, -n for less than n, n for exactly n. Your examples just specified files accessed 10 days ago - nothing newer or older. This help? -- Michael Rasmussen, Portland Oregon Be Appropriate

Re: [PLUG] Can't find a file - now Permission on ./.cache/dconf

2014-09-11 Thread Michael Rasmussen
On Thu, Sep 11, 2014 at 08:43:30PM -0700, John Jason Jordan wrote: However, although I found the file, I still get: find: `./.cache/dconf': Permission denied As well as the file I was looking for. Why does it do that? ls -l ./.cache/dconf will reveal. -- Michael Rasmussen

Re: [PLUG] Staten 76 Recommendations or Dislikes

2014-08-31 Thread Michael Rasmussen
. -- Michael Rasmussen, Portland Oregon Be Appropriate Follow Your Curiosity It's the HoHo in HoHoHo! ___ PLUG mailing list PLUG@lists.pdxlinux.org http://lists.pdxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug

Re: [PLUG] Command to encrypt files

2014-08-17 Thread Michael Rasmussen
) is a zip archive. If they are already in a compressed format you can skip attempts to compress with the -0 option. zip -0 -e FILESPEC -- Michael Rasmussen, Portland Oregon Be Appropriate Follow Your Curiosity We are all atheists about most of the gods that humanity has ever believed

Re: [PLUG] Allow URL w/o 'www' to reach web site

2014-08-11 Thread Michael Rasmussen
On Mon, Aug 11, 2014 at 05:11:19PM -0700, Rich Shepard wrote: Is there something I can do to make the two URLs synomimous? I always type the www in a Web URL, but guess that I'm part of a small minority. It is a configuration element of the web server. Ask your ISP. -- Michael

Re: [PLUG] Sound quality driving me to the dark side

2014-08-09 Thread Michael Rasmussen
recording that you can share? -- Michael Rasmussen, Portland Oregon Be Appropriate Follow Your Curiosity Caution! Hill Slug Ahead! ___ PLUG mailing list PLUG@lists.pdxlinux.org http://lists.pdxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug

Re: [PLUG] Help! Update won't boot (SOLVED)

2014-08-07 Thread Michael Rasmussen
out that the upgrade to 14.04 uninstalled it. WTH? So I tried to launch Synaptic package manager in order to reinstall it, but Synaptic had been uninstalled also. Double WTH. You're really strengthening my appreciation for the Arch way. -- Michael Rasmussen, Portland Oregon

Re: [PLUG] Determining Why Perl Script Fails

2014-08-06 Thread Michael Rasmussen
appreciate guidance on determing where the script fails and advice on how to fix it ... finally. TIA, Rich ___ PLUG mailing list PLUG@lists.pdxlinux.org http://lists.pdxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug -- Michael Rasmussen, Portland Oregon

Re: [PLUG] Determining Why Perl Script Fails

2014-08-06 Thread Michael Rasmussen
you normally call logwatch.pl with? -- Michael Rasmussen, Portland Oregon Be Appropriate Follow Your Curiosity Once a year, go someplace you've never been before. ~ Dalai Lama ___ PLUG mailing list PLUG@lists.pdxlinux.org http

Re: [PLUG] gcc-4.9.0 considered harmful

2014-07-28 Thread Michael Rasmussen
On Mon, Jul 28, 2014 at 04:09:01PM -0700, Rich Shepard wrote: On Mon, 28 Jul 2014, Keith Lofstrom wrote: http://lkml.iu.edu//hypermail/linux/kernel/1407.3/00650.html Boy, howdy! That was subtle. :-) For Torvalds, extremely. -- Michael Rasmussen, Portland Oregon

Re: [PLUG] Report on OSCON 2014

2014-07-27 Thread Michael Rasmussen
On Sun, Jul 27, 2014 at 04:55:31PM -0700, Bill Kielhorn wrote: Report on OSCON 2014 [snip] Thanks again to O'Reilly and to Michael, and I will be happy to discuss OSCON further at the next PLUG meeting. Nice report Bill, thank you. -- Michael Rasmussen, Portland Oregon

Re: [PLUG] A Firefox Observation

2014-07-25 Thread Michael Rasmussen
not work. -- Michael Rasmussen, Portland Oregon Be Appropriate Follow Your Curiosity Shareholder value is the root of evil. ~ schwern ___ PLUG mailing list PLUG@lists.pdxlinux.org http://lists.pdxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug

Re: [PLUG] Ubuntu 14.04.1 released

2014-07-25 Thread Michael Rasmussen
in the ass. -- Michael Rasmussen, Portland Oregon Be Appropriate Follow Your Curiosity Violence is the way stupid people try to level the playing field. ~ John Gregory Dunne ___ PLUG mailing list PLUG@lists.pdxlinux.org http

Re: [PLUG] cron.daily script stopped running

2014-07-19 Thread Michael Rasmussen
mailed to me if it does run. Start by manually launching it to see what happens. -- Michael Rasmussen, Portland Oregon Be Appropriate Follow Your Curiosity You can always piss on them. Though some may consider that a waste of perfectly good urine. ~ Peter Jon White (No, I

Re: [PLUG] cron.daily script stopped running

2014-07-19 Thread Michael Rasmussen
On Sat, Jul 19, 2014 at 06:30:24AM -0700, Rich Shepard wrote: On Sat, 19 Jul 2014, Michael Rasmussen wrote: Start by manually launching it to see what happens. Michael, I should have mentioned that I've done that and it runs with output to the virtual console. Just did so now; ran

[PLUG] EFF Tor Challenge

2014-07-19 Thread Michael Rasmussen
You are encouraged to help keep the internet a private place. https://www.eff.org/torchallenge/ -- Michael Rasmussen, Portland Oregon Be Appropriate Follow Your Curiosity Welcome to another helping of Kenny Zuke's delicious spam. We make it ourselves. You ordered it, so take

Re: [PLUG] From Windows to Linux

2014-07-18 Thread Michael Rasmussen
or xterm or kterm or ... Considered just another program to run. Or CTRLALTFnumber to get the full screen deal. In the past I've suggested Ubuntu and/or Debian He is partial to largish systems with many apps, I like light weight. Everybody gets what they want. -- Michael Rasmussen

Re: [PLUG] Controlling log rotation

2014-07-12 Thread Michael Rasmussen
of logrotate.conf here. And did you look into the contents of /etc/logrotate.d to see what you just enabled? -- Michael Rasmussen, Portland Oregon Be Appropriate Follow Your Curiosity Smile and the world will smile with you. ~ http://someoneoncetoldme.com/gallery/08062008

Re: [PLUG] ssh public/private key login authentication?

2014-07-04 Thread Michael Rasmussen
on file in ~/.ssh or it will refuse to work. -- Michael Rasmussen, Portland Oregon Be Appropriate Follow Your Curiosity Education isn't filling a pail but lighting a fire. ~ WB Yates ___ PLUG mailing list PLUG@lists.pdxlinux.org http

Re: [PLUG] Clinic! (And new *buntus)

2014-04-19 Thread Michael Rasmussen
matter. -- Michael Rasmussen, Portland Oregon Be Appropriate Follow Your Curiosity All that we need to make us happy is something to be enthusiastic about. ~ Albert Einstein ___ PLUG mailing list PLUG@lists.pdxlinux.org http

[PLUG] Explaining heartbleed to non-techs

2014-04-11 Thread Michael Rasmussen
XKCD does us the favor of nailing it http://xkcd.com/1354/ -- Michael Rasmussen, Portland Oregon Be Appropriate Follow Your Curiosity Our scientific power has outrun our spiritual power. We have guided missiles and misguided men. ~ Martin Luther King

Re: [PLUG] DynDNS no longer free

2014-04-08 Thread Michael Rasmussen
On Tue, Apr 08, 2014 at 02:36:37PM -0700, Rich Shepard wrote: On Tue, 8 Apr 2014, Michael Rasmussen wrote: Perhaps it is time for a PLUG sponsored dynamic DNS service for members? We used to to DNS and SMTP secondary services for one another. Michael, Don't domain registrars

Re: [PLUG] OpenSSL 'Heartbleed' Bug Exploited

2014-04-08 Thread Michael Rasmussen
On Tue, Apr 08, 2014 at 02:14:45PM -0700, Paul Heinlein wrote: RHEL 5 using 0.9.8, but RHEL (and CentOS) 6 use a vulnerable version, though a patch has been released. It's pretty serious. s/pretty/extremely/ This is huge. No, humongous. -- Michael Rasmussen, Portland Oregon

Re: [PLUG] OpenSSL 'Heartbleed' Bug Exploited

2014-04-08 Thread Michael Rasmussen
On Tue, Apr 08, 2014 at 02:14:45PM -0700, Paul Heinlein wrote: On Tue, 8 Apr 2014, Michael Rasmussen wrote: RHEL 5 using 0.9.8, but RHEL (and CentOS) 6 use a vulnerable version, though a patch has been released. For the few of us using Arch Linux, it's pacman -S openssl or pacman -Syu time

Re: [PLUG] Alternatives to Firefox Thunderbird

2014-04-04 Thread Michael Rasmussen
not trigger an alert. -- Michael Rasmussen, Portland Oregon Be Appropriate Follow Your Curiosity I'd save the goat urine to wash the taste of Accelerade out of my mouth. ~ Kent Peterson ___ PLUG mailing list PLUG@lists.pdxlinux.org

Re: [PLUG] Linux Distribution Timeline

2014-03-24 Thread Michael Rasmussen
juggling I can get it done if people want it for the meeting. -- Michael Rasmussen, Portland Oregon Be Appropriate Follow Your Curiosity You are already naked. There is no reason not to follow your heart. ~ Steve Jobs ___ PLUG mailing

Re: [PLUG] Linux Distribution Timeline

2014-03-24 Thread Michael Rasmussen
and idea are great. -- Michael Rasmussen, Portland Oregon Be Appropriate Follow Your Curiosity When we get to the end He wants to start all over again. ~ Mark Thomas, Rando Motto ___ PLUG mailing list PLUG@lists.pdxlinux.org http

[PLUG] Nostalgia - Clustering presentation from the early 2000s

2014-03-21 Thread Michael Rasmussen
In its original static HTML glory: http://www.michaelsnet.us/talks/clustering/ -- Michael Rasmussen, Portland Oregon Be Appropriate Follow Your Curiosity I'm predicting spirited competition for Lanterne Rouge. Don't take it for granted. ~ Mark Thomas

[PLUG] Have security background? I've some questions.

2014-03-21 Thread Michael Rasmussen
this is a **cough**job**cough** related query. -- Michael Rasmussen Be Appropriate Follow Your Curiosity ___ PLUG mailing list PLUG@lists.pdxlinux.org http://lists.pdxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug

Re: [PLUG] Are you sitting down?

2014-03-20 Thread Michael Rasmussen
@lists.pdxlinux.org http://lists.pdxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug ___ PLUG mailing list PLUG@lists.pdxlinux.org http://lists.pdxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug -- Michael Rasmussen Be Appropriate Follow Your Curiosity

Re: [PLUG] Announcement: 20th Anniversary Meeting: QA with Linus Torvalds

2014-03-20 Thread Michael Rasmussen
mailing list PLUG@lists.pdxlinux.org http://lists.pdxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug -- Michael Rasmussen, Portland Oregon Be Appropriate Follow Your Curiosity When man invented the bicycle he reached the peak of his attainments. Here was a machine of precision and balance

Re: [PLUG] Need some advice on how to mirror synchronize folders across multiple Linux, Windows machines

2014-03-19 Thread Michael Rasmussen
. You can also set them to not delete files deleted on another box so a rm -rf won't cause a cascading disaster. -- Michael Rasmussen, Portland Oregon Be Appropriate Follow Your Curiosity Don't be afraid to suck. You'll be amazed at what you might learn. ~ Joe Edelman

Re: [PLUG] Router Setup

2014-03-13 Thread Michael Rasmussen
192.168.42.1 or 10.42.42.1 or choose your own favorite numbers that fit address space requirements. Then when you get a new device it won't disrupt your network (say by handing out DHCP leases) by accident. -- Michael Rasmussen, Portland Oregon Be Appropriate Follow Your Curiosity Each

Re: [PLUG] SD cards that enable wifi

2014-03-10 Thread Michael Rasmussen
my card. http://www.amazon.com/s/ref=nb_sb_ss_sc_0_11?url=search-alias%3Dapsfield-keywords=sd%20card%20wifisprefix=sdcard+wifi%2Caps%2C112rh=i%3Aaps%2Ck%3Asd%20card%20wifi -- Michael Rasmussen Be Appropriate Follow Your Curiosity ___ PLUG mailing

[PLUG] Elements of Information Theory

2014-02-28 Thread Michael Rasmussen
Second edition by Cover and Thomas Does anyone have a copy of this that I could borrow for an afternoon? -- Michael Rasmussen, Portland Oregon Be Appropriate Follow Your Curiosity In the endless cosmic game of rock-paper-scissors desire is greater than need. ~ Joel Metz

Re: [PLUG] Elements of Information Theory - Have copy

2014-02-28 Thread Michael Rasmussen
On Fri, Feb 28, 2014 at 06:02:23PM -0800, Michael Rasmussen wrote: Second edition by Cover and Thomas Does anyone have a copy of this that I could borrow for an afternoon? Now to understand it. -- Michael Rasmussen, Portland Oregon Be Appropriate Follow Your Curiosity Don't try

Re: [PLUG] localhost samba share

2014-02-27 Thread Michael Rasmussen
/hosts because? -- Michael Rasmussen, Portland Oregon Be Appropriate Follow Your Curiosity It's not your beauty that makes you beautiful ~ it's your dreams, your soul and the way you love. ~ http://someoneoncetoldme.com/gallery/20012008

Re: [PLUG] Can't connect to router admin page - Buffalo N600 setup with Comcast

2014-02-23 Thread Michael Rasmussen
On Fri, Feb 21, 2014 at 09:24:02AM -0800, Dick Steffens wrote: And in the response chain Michael Rasmussen wrote: If you can wait a few days I ordered the one Russel mentioned and can provide a review and getting it to work with Comcast report. Good point. I haven't had the time to dig

Re: [PLUG] network traffic shaping for servers

2014-02-23 Thread Michael Rasmussen
shows with the Comcast burst mode. -- Michael Rasmussen, Portland Oregon Be Appropriate Follow Your Curiosity Never try to out drink a salesman. ~ Adam Shand ___ PLUG mailing list PLUG@lists.pdxlinux.org http://lists.pdxlinux.org

Re: [PLUG] Can't connect to router admin page

2014-02-21 Thread Michael Rasmussen
not have (to my quick inspection) DD-WRT If you can wait a few days I ordered the one Russel mentioned and can provide a review and getting it to work with Comcast report. -- Michael Rasmussen, Portland Oregon Be Appropriate Follow Your Curiosity My progress wasn't marked in speed

Re: [PLUG] Can't connect to router admin page

2014-02-21 Thread Michael Rasmussen
after one day. We have a dynamic IP, and use DDNS to update our nameserver records. Do you recall if you had to register it with Comcast when you first brought it up? -- Michael Rasmussen, Portland Oregon Be Appropriate Follow Your Curiosity Rain is included in the BMB entry

Re: [PLUG] [PLUG-ANNOUNCE] Announcement: March PLUG Meeting: pfSense

2014-02-20 Thread Michael Rasmussen
computer or an ION-TOP? http://www.pfsense.org/about-pfsense/getting-started.html#hardware http://www.pfsense.org/hardware/index.html Alix board computers are explicitly listed. -- Michael Rasmussen, Portland Oregon Be Appropriate Follow Your Curiosity Pain is temporary. Pride is forever

[PLUG] just what will happen if you su; cd; rm -rf * ?

2014-02-19 Thread Michael Rasmussen
Stories to read: http://www.quora.com/What-will-happen-if-I-go-the-root-directory-in-Linux-Mac-and-type-the-command-rm-rf-forcibly-remove-all-directories-and-subdirectories -- Michael Rasmussen, Portland Oregon Be Appropriate Follow Your Curiosity Teachers: They're

[PLUG] Is this scripting?

2014-01-21 Thread Michael Rasmussen
A call for opinion, or a pseudo poll. Consider someone at the command line, needs some information, decides to: me@server $ for S in `cat list_of_servers`;do echo $S; ssh $S 'command'; done In your mind is that scripting? -- Michael Rasmussen Be Appropriate Follow Your Curiosity

Re: [PLUG] Is this scripting?

2014-01-21 Thread Michael Rasmussen
Michael Rasmussen wrote: A call for opinion, or a pseudo poll. Consider someone at the command line, needs some information, decides to: me@server $ for S in `cat list_of_servers`;do echo $S; ssh $S 'command'; done In your mind is that scripting? There were a couple of calls

Re: [PLUG] Mount point of optical drive

2013-12-26 Thread Michael Rasmussen
figure out what the mount point is. df -h provides a clean and easy to read listing. -- Michael Rasmussen, Portland Oregon Be Appropriate Follow Your Curiosity Other Adventures: http://www.jamhome.us/ or http://gplus.to/MichaelRpdx A special random fortune cookie fortune

Re: [PLUG] (OT) DD-WRT Router Failed on Reboot

2013-12-21 Thread Michael Rasmussen
to host). The changes were: 1. Enabled USB support for an external hard drive 2. Enabled SSHd with a public key Perhaps it is trying to boot from the external drive. Attach a bootable drive with a known, fixed IP configuration. -- Michael Rasmussen, Portland Oregon

[PLUG] 30 Window Managers in 30 Days

2013-10-20 Thread Michael Rasmussen
-- Michael Rasmussen, Portland Oregon Be Appropriate Follow Your Curiosity Other Adventures: http://www.jamhome.us/ or http://gplus.to/MichaelRpdx A special random fortune cookie fortune: Cycle tracks will abound in Utopia. ~ H.G. Wells

Re: [PLUG] Recommended Tablet Computers?

2013-10-01 Thread Michael Rasmussen
done has some old links, or talks more about software. I'll want to be able to visit web sites and probably use it for a MythTV remote. Any recommendations? -- Michael Rasmussen, Portland Oregon Be Appropriate Follow Your Curiosity Other Adventures: http

Re: [PLUG] Procmail Recipe Question

2013-09-08 Thread Michael Rasmussen
, Loren. I'll look again at the man page to figure out why I'm having problems with two recipes and not all of them. Is LOGFILE defined in your .procmailrc? Something like: LOGFILE=$MAILDIR/pmlog-`/bin/date +%Y-%m` It should contain some clues. -- Michael Rasmussen, Portland Oregon

Re: [PLUG] Procmail Recipe Question

2013-09-08 Thread Michael Rasmussen
On Sun, Sep 08, 2013 at 10:05:02AM -0700, Rich Shepard wrote: On Sun, 8 Sep 2013, Michael Rasmussen wrote: Is LOGFILE defined in your .procmailrc? Michael, I turned on logging at the highest verbosity level. What I now see in the log is: procmail: Locking PERSONAL.lock procmail

Re: [PLUG] Procmail Recipe Question

2013-09-08 Thread Michael Rasmussen
On Sun, Sep 08, 2013 at 12:32:14PM -0700, Rich Shepard wrote: On Sun, 8 Sep 2013, Michael Rasmussen wrote: What kind of mailbox are you using? Meaning are the other files, files or directories? mbox files. In that case, please humor us with an `ls -l ` of the directory

Re: [PLUG] Procmail Recipe Question

2013-09-08 Thread Michael Rasmussen
On Sun, Sep 08, 2013 at 01:31:18PM -0700, Rich Shepard wrote: On Sun, 8 Sep 2013, Michael Rasmussen wrote: an `ls -l ` of the directory with the mbox files enough context lines of .procmailrc to see the rule for this mbox and one that works -rw-r--r-- 1 rshepard users174118

Re: [PLUG] Everything disappears SOLUTION

2013-08-22 Thread Michael Rasmussen
don't need it and you get along fine then don't do it. Real Linux people do what works for them. -- Michael Rasmussen, Portland Oregon Be Appropriate Follow Your Curiosity Other Adventures: http://www.jamhome.us/ or http://gplus.to/MichaelRpdx A special random fortune cookie

<    1   2   3   4   5   >