[PLUG] Where can one buy a DB25 connector locally?

With both RadioShack and Incredible Universe Fry's Electronics closed, where do we buy cool things? I'm after a pair of DB25 connectors... Heck, breakout boards would be super cool, and Amazon has such beasts. I would probably be satisfied cutting a DB25 Male to Female "Parallel" extension cable

Re: [PLUG] Connecting to Multnomah County Library's ezproxy portal

ied a REAL linux? You could live-boot Ubuntu or something, > which could eliminate windows as the problem. If you still have the > problem, then it sort of narrows it down to your gateway device. > > On Sun, Mar 14, 2021 at 6:40 PM Tyrell Jentink wrote: > > > > OK, I have

Re: [PLUG] Connecting to Multnomah County Library's ezproxy portal

ot... - Android seemed to initially have some very similar problems as well, but as soon as the page loads over Mobile, it caches whatever is failing, so the failure becomes unproducable after just one success... I remain at a total loss... This just doesn't make sense to me... On Sun,

[PLUG] Connecting to Multnomah County Library's ezproxy portal

cess The Entire Internet, but not this Multnomah County Library resource... It fails TLS handshake... But it works just fine in curl on WSL. What gives? I'm more than willing to redo any tests anyone might suggest... This is striking me as magnificantly weird. -- Tyrell Jentink tyrell.jentink.net ___ PLUG: https://pdxlinux.org PLUG mailing list PLUG@pdxlinux.org http://lists.pdxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug

Re: [PLUG] Whether to host one's own email these days?

I have been a GMail user since the beginning... I sometimes brag that I have a "Second-Tier-Invite GMail account," cuz I got my invite from someone who got their invite directly from a Google employee... One could call me a fanboy. Of course, in those days, we knew damn well that webmail was

Re: [PLUG] Ad free Plex?

I have a Lifetime Plex Pass. I would not go so far as to say Plex is perfect; It makes some odd user interface decisions, it pushes it's internal features in an ad-like way, it's players are buggy and crash in indescript ways, the developers aggressively develop new features but never revisit old

Re: [PLUG] Is a Linux Distro compromised?

> > So there's no "chain of custody", for lack of a better term, digital > signature where one could look at the kernel running on a Linux system and > trace it back to the original Linux kernel that was released? > No there's not; Not only that, in many cases, it's NOT the "real" kernel as

Re: [PLUG] Any Ubiquiti Experts Out There?

, and run off 12v. On Sun, Jun 30, 2019, 08:30 Tyrell Jentink wrote: > "Double the amperage" is nonsense... These power supplies are > constant-voltage, the amperage is merely reporting how much current is > available. Go into any Radio Shack and they will tell you >

Re: [PLUG] Any Ubiquiti Experts Out There?

"Double the amperage" is nonsense... These power supplies are constant-voltage, the amperage is merely reporting how much current is available. Go into any Radio Shack and they will tell you that you need to match the voltage of the power supply, and EXCEED the Amperage <>Oh, wait The problem

Re: [PLUG] SSD Advice Needed

For your purposes, it probably doesn't ultimately matter much... You aren't running a Data center, you aren't archiving emails, you aren't filing taxes. Get a cheap one, do sensible backups. Samsung Evo 960 series drives are consistently getting excellent reviews in the blogs for best general

Re: [PLUG] Controlling resolv.conf...

On Mon, Mar 11, 2019, 13:44 wrote: I have Spectrum cable where the ethernet connection to the modem receives a dynamic ip address from Spectrum along with wrong name servers. This is correct for resolv.conf: search roch.robinson-west.com nameserver 127.0.0.1 resolv.conf get's overwritten

Re: [PLUG] large format (>=13 x >=20-inches) flatbed scanners?

I don't have an answer, but I am interested in the community's response. I would be very tempted to join a makerspace that had a large format flatbed scanner, a large format vinyl plotter/cutter, and a large format pen plotter (I do Geographic Information Systems as a hobby, so i'd be interested

Re: [PLUG] Android chrome and safety warning...

I think he's talking about this: https://support.google.com/chrome/answer/3220216?co=GENIE.Platform%3DDesktop=en I also think the risk is overstated... But I'm also a sipper of the Google cool-aid. On Tue, Jan 15, 2019, 07:39 Bill Weiss Michael Christopher

Re: [PLUG] TLDR++, a tool to search, study, and practice Linux commands on the fly...

priorities... > As a LINUX user, should I trust documenation made possible by competing > > platforms? > I suppose that's the nature of the debate that led to Git, isn't it... I suppose I ultimately agree with Linus Torvolds on that one: If a tool is good for you, use it. -- Ty

Re: [PLUG] Copying all partitions of a drive to single partition/directory?

Your original question seemed to imply you wanted to maintain the partition layout for some reason. If you do, disk images are the correct way to do it... But, as others have said, you might not actually have meant to ask for that... If what you want is the files, not the partitions, you can use

Re: [PLUG] A survey of backup philosophies/methods?

https://xkcd.com/927/ Many (Most (All?)?) of the options that come up on your suggested search are excellent... Read about each, try the ones that sound like they work the way you want, settle on one that actually works the way you want... ESPECIALLY because you have particular engineering

Re: [PLUG] question on system

It's been several years since I looked into this... Like others have said, the administrative overhead is substantial, and I ultimately decided that it was just easier and more reliable (for my needs) to use Google. That said... The top product I was looking at at the time was Kolab,

Re: [PLUG] WHAT is the question? Re: To wiki ...

n gold platters, it carries a higher archival quality!" As a reader, your only choice is "To read the documentation, or not." On Sat, Sep 15, 2018, 07:45 Richard Owlett wrote: > On 09/15/2018 09:07 AM, Tyrell Jentink wrote: > > A wiki is used for community driven documenta

Re: [PLUG] To wiki or not to wiki. THAT is the question.

at serves the task of managing and hosting articles and content... It's no more or less trustworthy than any other content on the internet. Wikis are great... They solve a lot of problems that the old "Scribble notes on a legal pad" solution created. No need to be scared. On Sat, Sep 15, 201

Re: [PLUG] To wiki or not to wiki. THAT is the question.

As we have beat around the "You clearly have no idea what a wiki is" bush, I think we failed to answer your question... If your chosen scripting language has a wiki, and that wiki has your answers, then Yes, you should use it. It's not 1998 anymore; The fears over unmoderated edits to wikis have

Re: [PLUG] WHAT is the question? Re: To wiki ...

A wiki is used for community driven documentation; You could easily use a Google Docs document to achieve a similar task; Or maybe you write the documentation into your code, and use a parser to spit out an HTML5 based website with just the comments, publish the whole lot to GitHub; Or maybe you

Re: [PLUG] What Comes After Unix?

Fair enough; I read a quote a few days ago, but can't find it again to properly cite... It was in reference to If Plan 9 Is Truly Better, Why Linux? And it was to the effect of "The biggest risk to Great software is Good Enough software," and that may be true... But getting "Stuck" on 1960s

[PLUG] What Comes After Unix?

I'm a young'n; I don't remember 4.4BSD or Research UNIX... I also come to Linux from an IT background, not a Computer Science background, and maybe I lack a certain historical perspective as a consequence. I was recently reading an article that claimed Linux is insecure, because of it's

Re: [PLUG] WHAT is the question? Re: To wiki ...

> > When/Why use a wiki for for what? What question are you asking? Why do > you > > want to use a wiki? What do you want do with it? > > > > Thought I answered that [...] > No, you did not... > It could have read: > > "My underlying problem is OS independent. However, I seek a Linux >

Re: [PLUG] WHAT is the question? Re: To wiki ...

Here's where I perceive a communication gap: I think Richard Owlett is looking for a community to support him in his (Sometimes eccentric) projects... He has many, but none are quite eccentric enough, so he is begging for us to point him to more... But he isn't ASKING that... He's asking weather

Re: [PLUG] To wiki or not to wiki. THAT is the question.

Without knowing your Underlying Problem, your Preferred Language, or your goals? Or, basically, anything at all? And you blindly distrust all wikis? Stack Overflow. Good luck! On Tue, Sep 11, 2018, 14:05 Richard Owlett wrote: > To those who revere the BARD, I sort of apologize. > Did he not

Re: [PLUG] Password keeper

In the past, I have used KeePass; I liked that it was open source, and I liked that it was offline and had no cloud components. However, I also disliked that it was offline and had no cloud components... If you only use one device, it's not so bad; But if you have a laptop, a desktop, and a

Re: [PLUG] [OT ? ?? ???] Linux and computer literacy

https://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=2350138 That forum question addresses the issues at hand very well... You are using a USB cable that emulates an Ethernet adapter, so switch out device names accordingly, but there is literally no distinction from the software side. IF IT WERE ME, I would

Re: [PLUG] [OT ? ?? ???] Linux and computer literacy

What are you even on about? It's a network device... "Gates and Company" uses a really complicated, error prone piece of crap sync software to do a one-time sync from a system running an old version of Windows to a system running a newer version of Windows... Linux can very very certainly

Re: [PLUG] [OT ? ?? ???] Linux and computer literacy

On Sat, Jun 23, 2018, 09:23 Richard Owlett wrote: > On 06/20/2018 06:40 AM, Richard Owlett wrote: > > On 06/19/2018 11:10 AM, Galen Seitz wrote: > > [*SNIP*] > >> Well, your Prolific PL25A1-based cable isn't just two Ethernet chips > >> back to back, but it's close. It uses the same networking

Re: [PLUG] Linux centralized authentication

), you MAY need to get very clever about your "Split Horizon DNS," Google for more details. On Tue, Jun 19, 2018, 13:35 Galen Seitz wrote: > On 06/19/2018 12:33 PM, Tyrell Jentink wrote:> > > The second is FreeIPA, lives at 10.42.1.10 and it serves the > lin.example.com >

Re: [PLUG] Linux centralized authentication

to speak (Or, "Home Production," if you will, since my wife would slaughter me in my sleep if the Plex server ever went down...). I'm not convinced that I would recommend it to anyone... LOL. On Tue, Jun 19, 2018, 13:35 Galen Seitz wrote: > On 06/19/2018 12:33 PM, Tyrell Jentink wrote:&

Re: [PLUG] Linux centralized authentication

domains, so you have to ensure that each subdomain has a unique name -AND- a unique IP Address Space. Does that set you on the right path, or do you need me to retry? On Tue, Jun 19, 2018, 12:11 Galen Seitz wrote: > Dredging up an old thread here... > > On 05/02/2018 08:25 PM, Tyrell Jent

Re: [PLUG] [OT ? ?? ???] Linux and computer literacy

On the second side, the interface name is enp0s29u1u1u4. On the first side, the output doesn't make sense, I would try again. BUT, of interest, it looks like the hardware in the middle of the cable turns out to be two Prolific USB-to-serial adapters back to back in Ethernet Emulator mode... So,

Re: [PLUG] [OT ? ?? ???] Linux and computer literacy

Wow... He doesn't know what dmesg is, and you're throwing him straight into pipes, tail, and less? What's wrong with just running a command naked? This is how people get overwhelmed... And overwhelmed people start asking questions like "How do I make my Linux system single-user?" On Tue, Jun 19,

Re: [PLUG] Quick question on linux man page coverage

, but just haven't found a home in the ham community since moving to Oregon :/ On Jun 17, 2018 19:01, "Chuck Hast" wrote: On Sun, Jun 17, 2018 at 5:58 PM, Tyrell Jentink wrote: > I'm occasionally surprised by man pages that say "This was written for > Debian, as no man page e

Re: [PLUG] [OT ? ?? ???] Linux and computer literacy

imagination and your favorite search engine should be arsenal enough for you to blow yourself up with... On Sun, Jun 17, 2018, 18:30 Richard Owlett wrote: > ROFL^^GRIN^^SNICKER > > Can you give me links? > I intend to fight with a bureaucracy. Need ammo ;/ > > > On 06/17/2018 0

Re: [PLUG] Quick question on linux man page coverage

I'm occasionally surprised by man pages that say "This was written for Debian, as no man page existed..." Granted, I normally stumble on them in amateur radio contexts, and I blamed ham radio for being bad at documentation rather than Linux... But as a contradiction to my point... The 'sl'

Re: [PLUG] [OT ? ?? ???] Linux and computer literacy

Oh... I guess I only answered one question... To the second question: When you want to do something that no one else has ever done, why would you expect anyone to know how to do it? If you want to be the first, then go do that... But people who need their hands held don't usually succeed in the

Re: [PLUG] [OT ? ?? ???] Linux and computer literacy

I don't consider this to be off topic... But aren't you the one that lives (Several states) east of Estacada? How is any advice I'm about to give going to help anyone? In light of that... The county libraries in Reno, NV offer classes in open source software. Last I looked (Erm... Several years

Re: [PLUG] Redhat Software jobs...

I'm just guessing here... But I doubt that they would REQUIRE an RHCE; At the same time, though, I do imagine they would require more knowledge than that required for LPI-1... Weather or not you can prove that knowledge without a higher cert is a question only you can answer, but I do suspect that

Re: [PLUG] Linux centralized authentication

on the feature list, so maybe not... On Thu, May 3, 2018, 06:49 Ken Stephens <kennethgsteph...@gmail.com> wrote: > What ever happened to the Lake Oswego Linux School System. Wasn't that a > Server/Workstation distribution? > > https://www.linuxschools.com/forum/index-main.php >

Re: [PLUG] Linux centralized authentication

I'm using FreeIPA here at home; As a product, it's really just a bunch of scripts and a web interface for LDAP+Kerberos+Certificate management+Samba; It aims to be a complete identity management system, a product designed to compete with (Or at the very least, perform an analogous set of tasks to)

Re: [PLUG] Having trouble with MS-DFS still...

On Wed, Apr 4, 2018, 11:08 michael wrote: > I have one instance of Windows Server 2012 R2 180 day trial running in > Virtualbox > on top of CentOS 7. > That should work... Do I need two to three instances of Windows 2012 R2 to implement DFS > properly? Probably not

Re: [PLUG] Having trouble with MS-DFS still...

I'm not convinced there IS anything different on the client side... The whole point of DFS seems to be to abstract away all of the client side complications that come with multiple SMB servers in an Enterprise. In other words... It appears to be an entirely server-side solution. OK, I am going to

Re: [PLUG] What is Microsoft DFS???

If your friend has been aggressively googling, they have probably already seen both the Wikipedia page and the Samba wiki page on the subject, but for anyone else stumbling on this in the future: Wikipedia says that in Samba contexts, the technology in question is called "MSDFS." Googling that

[PLUG] Gaming graphics cards?

t hurt to ask anyway. Alright... With that excess of background and potentially faulty logic out of the way: Suggestions, go! -- Tyrell Jentink ___ PLUG mailing list PLUG@pdxlinux.org http://lists.pdxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug