[PLUG] Add gmail like security enhancements to rainloop?

2019-02-11 Thread Michael Christopher Robinson
es. I tend to be in a single geographic area, so if I'm not out of country I should be able to block anyone who is... I have a server hosted by Eskimo North in Washington state. I don't know if that server can SMS my smartphone or not, but if it can I am inte

Re: [PLUG] Add gmail like security enhancements to rainloop?

2019-02-12 Thread Michael Christopher Robinson
ent to server securely, I can always add on GPS coordinates later. With Apache the common thing is to allow all clients or require all granted I believe. I want something like require all listed or redirect all not listed instead. -- Michael C. Robinson

[PLUG] CCC

2019-02-23 Thread Michael Christopher Robinson
ating it. If I can't make a bootable backup, I can at least see what the next best thing is... I tried BRU, didn't work. I have BackupPC on FreeNAS as an option, don't know how to set it up though. One backup program for Mac, Linux, and Windows would be prefera

[PLUG] Apple Music and Linux...

2019-02-23 Thread Michael Christopher Robinson
cal copy of everything in your iCloud? I have a few iTunes songs, less than 50. Can I convert them to another format... such as ogg vorbis? I've paid for the songs, why couldn't I convert them so that they'll work with Linux and Andro

[PLUG] e2guardian on Raspberry Pi 3...

2019-02-24 Thread Michael Christopher Robinson
root@raspberrypi:/etc# systemctl start e2guardian Job for e2guardian.service failed because the control process exited with error code. See "systemctl status e2guardian.service" and "journalctl -xe" for details. root@raspberrypi:/etc# systemctl status e2guardian ● e2guardian.service - E2guardian W

[PLUG] evolution and e2guardian

2019-03-02 Thread Michael Christopher Robinson
bit AMD computer to deploy a Linux based filter, too expensive ar ~$172. I should be able to use a Raspberry Pi, but I couldn't get e2guardian to even start on my Pi 3. Just doesn't have enough ram I guess. -- Michael Robinson ___ PLUG mailin

[PLUG] e2guardian pretty good...

2019-03-03 Thread Michael Christopher Robinson
One thing missing is an administrative override feature. E2guardian makes a best estimate about a URL's content and either fails to block something it should block or it blocks a URL it shouldn't block. One solution to the block when you shouldn't problem is to add the site to the exceptionsiteli

[PLUG] sslbump

2019-03-13 Thread Michael Christopher Robinson
I read about it online on a squid wiki, it is evidently illegal to deploy sslbump in some countries, at least if you are a business. How would it be unethical to filter a home network that children use? I call that being a parent. Anyways, sslbump looks technically quite complicated. Maybe us

[PLUG] List of problems Debian 9.8.0 server...

2019-03-19 Thread Michael Christopher Robinson
7 port USB2 hub not detecting at all. iptables rules are not loading at all. isc-dhcp-server has to be restarted after wireless card brought up. Stuck plugging into case USB ports wireless which blocks signal because case is metal. Yubikey not set up. No https proxy using sslbump. Wireless no

Re: [PLUG] List of problems Debian 9.8.0 server...

2019-03-19 Thread Michael Christopher Robinson
wireless built in to the Pi 3 doesn't have a good antenna, a major design flaw IMHO. Concerning the two hour timeout, that is the lease time for dhcp leases. There should be a brief disruption as your lease is renewed and your ip address changes, but not a long one. Should I increase the leas

[PLUG] How to use a Yubikey security key...

2019-03-24 Thread Michael Christopher Robinson
? -- Michael C Robinson ___ PLUG mailing list PLUG@pdxlinux.org http://lists.pdxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug

[PLUG] iptables and dynamic global ip...

2019-03-24 Thread Michael Christopher Robinson
There used to be a way to track a dynamic ip with iptables so you can firewall the Internet connected ethernet port on your Linux box. I want to firewall off Internet visible services such as ssh and everything else the server needs to run internally only. I may want to allow specific sources to

Re: [PLUG] How to use a Yubikey security key...

2019-03-24 Thread Michael Christopher Robinson
On Sun, 2019-03-24 at 00:59 -0700, Russell Senior wrote: > https://developers.yubico.com/yubico-pam/YubiKey_and_SSH_via_PAM.html > > On Sun, Mar 24, 2019 at 12:21 AM Michael Christopher Robinson < > mich...@robinson-west.com> wrote: > > > I want to require insertion o

[PLUG] Shut down console in graphical mode...

2019-03-31 Thread Michael Christopher Robinson
in so long as I keep the system hostname the same. My security goal is no easy access without the Yubikey. To that end, I may put a bios and grub password on the system. -- Michael C. Robinson ___ PLUG mailing list PLUG@pdxlinu

[PLUG] National Instruments Labview for Linux...

2019-04-07 Thread Michael Christopher Robinson
of the analyzers at work is an E5071B with Windows 2000 Pro on it. To give you an idea, these network analyzers aren't cheap. Spending $4k+ on one is not uncommon, so you don't replace them often. -- Michael C Robinson Aside: Not all PCs have touchscreens where Windows 8, 8.1

Re: [PLUG] Hot swapping physical /home partitions - Possible? Practical alternative?

2019-04-27 Thread Michael Christopher Robinson
system. You want to take a dying hard out of service before it takes itself out of service for you. If your motherboard can handle 500G and bigger hard drives, consider getting a SATA III 500G drive. If the mobo has PATA connectors, there are adapters to go f

Re: [PLUG] SSD Advice Needed

2019-05-18 Thread Michael Christopher Robinson
On Sat, 2019-05-18 at 09:06 -0700, Michael Barnes wrote: > I haven't messed with much in the hardware department for years. I > recently > picked up a small 12V computer I want to use for some field > applications in > ham radio. It presently has a conventional 160 GB SATA WD

Re: [PLUG] Minimal Distribution for Atom 550 Processor

2019-05-20 Thread Michael Christopher Robinson
On Mon, 2019-05-20 at 16:29 -0700, Michael Barnes wrote: > I got an SSD for this beast, now waiting on a power cord. In the > meantime, > trying to decide on what distribution I want to load. I was > originally > going to go with CentOS, but not sure if that is doable on this Atom

[PLUG] HP G62 Laptop...

2019-05-24 Thread Michael Christopher Robinson
laptop has an AMD AM3+ socket, so I should be able to replace the Athlon II dual core with an Athlon II quad core. Although, this laptop runs pretty hot as it is... Any help figuring out how to get the artifacting addressed will be very much appreciated ;-) -- Michael C

[PLUG] HP G62 AMD Dual Core laptop...

2019-05-25 Thread Michael Christopher Robinson
I may not even need to run Windows 7. I ran Redhat Linux on this laptop in the past, but that was so long ago. -- Michael C. Robinson ___ PLUG mailing list PLUG@pdxlinux.org http://lists.pdxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug

Re: [PLUG] HP G62 AMD Dual Core laptop...

2019-05-25 Thread Michael Christopher Robinson
On Sat, 2019-05-25 at 16:13 +, Bill Barry wrote: > On Sat, May 25, 2019 at 4:03 PM Michael Christopher Robinson < > mich...@robinson-west.com> wrote: > > > It has been suggested that I go to opensuse. I don't want to, > > Labview > > works with CentOS 7

Re: [PLUG] HP G62 AMD Dual Core laptop...

2019-05-26 Thread Michael Christopher Robinson
nomodeset kernel command line argument works like a charm, but I'm not accelerated because the graphics chip isn't supported... Does this matter to me? Maybe, maybe not. I should be able to run Microsoft Office or the latest Libreoffice no problem. I could say stick with 7 on this old beast, bu

Re: [PLUG] HP G62 AMD Dual Core laptop...

2019-05-27 Thread Michael Christopher Robinson
a virtual machine for the Windows version we have unless we decide to go to the Linux version. If I pitch to my boss, hey, we need a Linux laptop to run Labview 2017 for Linux. I need to make the case and make it well. If we buy a Linux laptop, is there any source that will inclu

Re: [PLUG] HP G62 AMD Dual Core laptop...

2019-05-27 Thread Michael Christopher Robinson
digressing, apologies for that. Sorry for the long post, it's an awful lot to take in, but there is a lot to think about if I'm going to actually make things better at this company. Let me rephrase that, if I'm going to come up with a plan that the owner can execut

[PLUG] Is Ubuntu as popular as it deserves to be?

2019-05-27 Thread Michael Christopher Robinson
esn't seem stable to me. Ubuntu seems like an okay choice if you don't upgrade, but everyone should upgrade and install, ahem, security fixes. Am I being reasonable in my opinion of Ubuntu or not? Have things changed for the better and I just don't realize it? --

Re: [PLUG] Is Ubuntu as popular as it deserves to be?

2019-05-27 Thread Michael Christopher Robinson
lion dollars to put down on a chip fabrication factory where I don't see that getting any cheaper anytime soon. -- Michael C. Robinson ___ PLUG mailing list PLUG@pdxlinux.org http://lists.pdxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug

Re: [PLUG] Fwd: Re: Is Ubuntu as popular as it deserves to be?

2019-05-27 Thread Michael Christopher Robinson
On Mon, 2019-05-27 at 18:56 -0700, John Meissen wrote: > This got sent to Michael instead of the list. So I'm forwarding it. > > I recently switched from MH to a more "normal" IMAP configuration. > Apparently Thunderbird ignores the Reply-To: header, at least by &

Re: [PLUG] Fwd: Re: Is Ubuntu as popular as it deserves to be?

2019-05-27 Thread Michael Christopher Robinson
On Mon, 2019-05-27 at 21:16 -0500, Michael Christopher Robinson wrote: > On Mon, 2019-05-27 at 18:56 -0700, John Meissen wrote: > > This got sent to Michael instead of the list. So I'm forwarding it. > > > > I recently switched from MH to a more "normal"

[PLUG] Librem One...

2019-06-02 Thread Michael Christopher Robinson
arget seems to be non business users. Until today, I had never heard of Librem One. -- Michael C. Robinson ___ PLUG mailing list PLUG@pdxlinux.org http://lists.pdxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug

[PLUG] Help with email scripts...

2019-06-23 Thread Michael Christopher Robinson
spam folder, but some of them are utf8 encoded and unintelligible as plain text. I retrieve email for robinson-west.com from eskimo north, so I came up with an idea of fetching just a subject list of messages in a spam folder and automating the dumping of that spam folder. -- Michael C

Re: [PLUG] Help with email scripts...

2019-06-23 Thread Michael Christopher Robinson
On Sun, 2019-06-23 at 17:54 -0500, Michael Christopher Robinson wrote: > I am having trouble using grep to grab subject lines from my spam > folder on eskimo. Some of the subject lines are unintelligible > because > they are utf8xxx and are probably part of a larger html message.

[PLUG] Brother 9840CDW Fedora 30...

2019-07-08 Thread Michael Christopher Robinson
Anyone get this printer working in Fedora 30? My brother gave it to me and he said he had a hard time finding drivers for it for Debian. -- Michael C. Robinson ___ PLUG mailing list PLUG@pdxlinux.org http://lists.pdxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo

[PLUG] Python and utf-8 email headers...

2019-07-21 Thread Michael Christopher Robinson
? -- Michael C. Robinson ___ PLUG mailing list PLUG@pdxlinux.org http://lists.pdxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug

[PLUG] Python and IMAP4 server...

2019-07-30 Thread Michael Christopher Robinson
I have my email hosted by Eskimo North. I want to write a python script to go through the spam folder and email me every subject of every email in it. Properly encoded of course as ASCII text. Looks like I want to use imaplib. I would like to eventually process the spam folder and move dangerou

[PLUG] Nautilus can't see freenas...

2019-08-19 Thread Michael C Robinson
I am on a CentOS 7 system running gnome 3, fully updated. I want clicking on Windows Network in Nautilus to show my freenas 11.2 U6 server. My smb.conf on the CentOS 7 box follows: # See smb.conf.example for a more detailed config file or # read the smb.conf manpage. # Run 'testparm' to ver

Re: [PLUG] Nautilus can't see freenas...

2019-08-20 Thread Michael C Robinson
Quoting David : On 8/19/19 1:31 PM, Michael C Robinson wrote: I am on a CentOS 7 system running gnome 3, fully updated.  I want clicking on Windows Network in Nautilus to show my freenas 11.2 U6 server.  My smb.conf on the CentOS 7 box follows: <-- removed smb.conf --> This con

Re: [PLUG] Nautilus can't see freenas...

2019-08-20 Thread Michael C Robinson
Quoting Ben Koenig : On Tue, Aug 20, 2019 at 4:32 AM Michael C Robinson < mich...@robinson-west.com> wrote: Quoting David : > <-- removed smb.conf --> This config is relevant I believe and shouldn't have been removed! No, it is not relevant. smb.conf is the configu

[PLUG] Replace Windows 98SE with Linux....

2019-09-16 Thread Michael C Robinson
nment on Freedos, but how do you implement the WIN32 API or does wine work with FLTK and Freedos? -- Michael C. Robinson ___ PLUG mailing list PLUG@pdxlinux.org http://lists.pdxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug

[PLUG] Replace Windows 98se with Linux or Freedos...

2019-09-16 Thread Michael C Robinson
nment on Freedos, but how do you implement the WIN32 API or does wine work with FLTK and Freedos? -- Michael C. Robinson ___ PLUG mailing list PLUG@pdxlinux.org http://lists.pdxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug

Re: [PLUG] Replace Windows 98SE with Linux....

2019-09-17 Thread Michael C Robinson
Quoting "Rodney W. Grimes" : Windows 98SE is poorly supported on a lot of SBC's, nonetheless, we are trying to work around that. We are using a passive PICMG 1.3 backplane in the gui which has PCI slots. The RTC is an ISA only passive backplane, because the RTC requires a lot of ISA cards.

Re: [PLUG] Replace Windows 98SE with Linux....

2019-09-17 Thread Michael C Robinson
Quoting "Rodney W. Grimes" : Let me try to start with a "Problem statement", note this was written after reading and commenting to the email in line. You are trying to "keep running" an old Quad QSP-2 peck and place machine that uses 2 computers, one shall be called the GUI and the other the

Re: [PLUG] Replace Windows 98SE with Linux....

2019-09-17 Thread Michael C Robinson
RTC stands for real time computer and it typically runs MS-DOS 6.22. GUI stands for Graphical User Interface and it typically runs 98SE. SBC stands for single board computer. Windows Me may not work because a driver for the shared memory card has to be loaded at boot where Windows Me seems t

[PLUG] AmScope MU1000 Linux

2019-09-19 Thread Michael C Robinson
ope MU1000. -- Michael C. Robinson ___ PLUG mailing list PLUG@pdxlinux.org http://lists.pdxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug

[PLUG] Source code to Windows 9x and ME...

2019-09-26 Thread Michael C Robinson
Is it possible to get the source code to Windows 9x and ME since Microsoft isn't supporting it anymore? One would want to get the source code and then open source it of course. Even Windows 3.1 and Windows 3.11 is closed source. Surely, Microsoft could release pre 9x Windows? It wouldn't h

[PLUG] CentOS 7 locking up...

2019-09-30 Thread Michael C Robinson
x compatible. This laptop is work. So far, I need to do dd and web searches as well as check email. -- Michael Robinson ___ PLUG mailing list PLUG@pdxlinux.org http://lists.pdxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug

Re: [PLUG] rsync root-owned files

2019-10-20 Thread Michael C Robinson
iate owner. Isn't postfix the proper owner??? -- Michael C. Robinson ___ PLUG mailing list PLUG@pdxlinux.org http://lists.pdxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug

Re: [PLUG] rsync root-owned files

2019-10-20 Thread Michael C Robinson
ne because the drive it is on is flaky. Try tar gzip the spool and change the ownership of the tarball. You should be able to transfer the tarball with scp. -- Michael C Robinson ___ PLUG mailing list PLUG@pdxlinux.org http://lists.pdxlinux.o

[PLUG] Xeon SBC and Linux...

2019-12-27 Thread Michael C Robinson
Does Linux support a Prestonia 603 pin Xeon running at 2.4 Ghz with 512k L2 cache? I believe the processor is 32 bit. The board is a discontinued Trenton XPI 6200 SBC. I will need to use KVM to map the ISA shared memory card to the virtual machine. The virtual machine is going to be Windo

[PLUG] CentOS 6 x86 and KVM

2019-12-27 Thread Michael C Robinson
I believe the last 32 bit release of CentOS is CentOS 6.10. I also believe that KVM is available in CentOS 6, but is it available for 32 bit platforms? I'm targeting a 32 bit Xeon processor. ___ PLUG mailing list PLUG@pdxlinux.org http://lists.pdx

[PLUG] CentOS 7 screen saves too fast...

2020-01-20 Thread Michael C Robinson
Seems to turn the monitor off in under a minute. It should not turn it off for at least two hours. ___ PLUG mailing list PLUG@pdxlinux.org http://lists.pdxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug

[PLUG] Proxyless firewalling of https...

2020-02-23 Thread Michael C Robinson
I know you can do sslbump and splice and filter https, when it works and where it's legal. Can you accomplish the same thing without going through a proxy at all? I'm thinking of the following use case: 1) An https request for foo.bar.com comes into a Linux based iptables gateway firew

[PLUG] Phantom IP on server...

2020-04-24 Thread Michael C Robinson
DIladele Web Safety says there is a local 192.168.254.16/24 address on the server. but I've removed network manager and it doesn't show up in interfaces nor does it show up when I do ifconfig. I am wondering if it's something that Diladele is adding to the local network or if unifi server ad

Re: [PLUG] HSTS

2020-04-25 Thread Michael C Robinson
but I don't know any other way to effectively filter. -- Michael C. Robinson ___ PLUG mailing list PLUG@pdxlinux.org http://lists.pdxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug ___ PLUG mailing list PLUG@pdxlinux.org ht

[PLUG] Reinstall of Buster working great!

2020-04-25 Thread Michael C Robinson
of equipment. I'm having second thoughts about Ubiquiti Networks equipment being the best choice. Oh yeah, I can ping stably to yahoo.com now upwards of 1000 times without packet loss! The only thing that would be better is transparent proxying, but without the big picture I doubt I can get t

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