Re: [PLUG] Feedback wanted: Virtual PLUG Events

2020-03-27 Thread Daniel Johnson
I'm in the process of developing video conferencing software so this discussion is helpful. On Fri, Mar 27, 2020, 1:30 PM Michael Dexter wrote: > On 3/27/20 5:17 AM, Ben Koenig wrote: > > "FreeConferenceCall" ??? Really? > > I just got off of Michael B's demo of this. It is quite similar to > Zo

Re: [PLUG] asking advice on secure texting application

2019-12-25 Thread Daniel Johnson
My friend who works in tech security industry uses "Wire" to message me. On Wed, Dec 25, 2019, 10:36 AM Mike C. wrote: > On Sat, 16 Nov 2019 13:13, logical american wrote: > > I just recently found out that my Signal Messaging Application on my > > Apple Iphone has been compromised. > > > > Yike

Re: [PLUG] nVidia config issue

2019-01-09 Thread Daniel Johnson
The username@host path$ stuff is controlled by the environment variable PS1 Probably means a bash config file for your home directory got deleted or at least PS1 is blank. See this partial guide to bash config files. http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/blfs/view/svn/postlfs/profile.html On Tue, Jan

Re: [PLUG] Slackware login pain

2019-01-05 Thread Daniel Johnson
On Slackware does run level 3 start sshd? Just making sure so he doesn't kill a secondary login. Also are you sure none of the libGL and glx stuff is part of mesa or X? I'm used to package managers doing the right thing, and if I have to touch a system .so that usually means a third party installe

Re: [PLUG] Slackware login pain

2019-01-05 Thread Daniel Johnson
rdware graphics acceleration. Maybe the login screen doesn't need acceleration, but the full desktop does. Which graphics driver are you using? Do you have options like open source vs nvidia official, or perhaps booting into an old kernel? On Sat, Jan 5, 2019, 6:15 PM Dick Steffens On 1/5/19 5:12 PM,

Re: [PLUG] Slackware login pain

2019-01-05 Thread Daniel Johnson
If your goal is learning then it's worth it. If your goal was just having it work I'm not sure you would have picked Slackware as your distro so I'm going with learning. Being able to login via ssh means the password isn't corrupted. Being able to type a username probably means the keyboard input

Re: [PLUG] Can't kill process

2019-01-04 Thread Daniel Johnson
Could be a weird keyboard mapping rather than the password getting scrambled. If you have a graphical login check for something like a localization setting. For example if you see a UK flag instead of a US flag. Or also Dvorak. If it's the password the usual trick from alternative boot like a USB

Re: [PLUG] looking for secure space for a mail server

2018-06-18 Thread Daniel Johnson
ed about run on physical hardware. At > the end of the day SOMEONE has to run bare metal. Or we can have a moment > of silence for all the docker containers that will vanish when the world's > last server fails to POST. > > > > On Mon, Jun 18, 2018 at 2:50 PM, Daniel

Re: [PLUG] looking for secure space for a mail server

2018-06-18 Thread Daniel Johnson
On Mon, Jun 18, 2018, 1:50 PM Tomas Kuchta wrote: > I have heard that security versus physical HW in colo argument so many > times. > > In my opinion, a padlock is way less secure than well implemented crypto. > > The only security benefit I see from physical HW would be hosting it on > premises