Re: [vox-tech] UC Davis VPN using openconnect

2017-01-21 Thread T. Mark
security department, which Linux (with my very limited > knowledge of it) is supposed to be stellar at. > On Tue, Jan 17, 2017 at 8:17 PM T. Mark <> techm...@tutanota.de> > wrote: > >> >> >> Just wondering if you're still looking for a solut

Re: [vox-tech] UC Davis VPN using openconnect

2017-01-17 Thread T. Mark
Just wondering if you're still looking for a solution..  you might consider a 3rd party VPN.  (And just use their "ucd-guest" unencrypted connection to get to it.)  Quite awhile back when I didnt want creepy strangers even seeing the fact that I was connecting to my stockbroker (over public ho

Re: [vox-tech] UC Davis VPN using openconnect

2017-01-01 Thread T. Mark
Sad, and typical!  I've moaned on pretty much at length here on the list about UCD's pro-monopoly computing-- indeed ridiculous that there has never been conscientious folk in the CS Dept to enough of a degree to get some FOSS support/adoption going on.  I mean, not even support for wireless pr

Re: [vox-tech] any OTR preferences?

2016-12-05 Thread T. Mark
3. Dec 2016 15:06 by b...@broadley.org: > On 12/02/2016 03:46 PM, T. Mark wrote: >> Thanks for your erudite observations, Bill.. I agree with almost all of >> them. >> That is indeed a bit troubling that Keybase unnecessarily grabs your >> private >&

Re: [vox-tech] any OTR preferences?

2016-12-02 Thread T. Mark
  Thanks for your erudite observations, Bill.. I agree with almost all of them.    That is indeed a bit troubling that Keybase unnecessarily grabs your private key.. I should've paid better attention & noticed that myself.  Looks like I'll continue to not really use it (never connected any mobi

[vox-tech] any OTR preferences?

2016-11-30 Thread T. Mark
  I've got a couple of Keybase.io "invites" laying around, & never got around to offering them at a social gathering or such, so I'll offer them here.  This raises the technical question I have though, which I'm sure some of the many sharp people on this list might have thoughts about:   Does an

Re: [vox-tech] ExoPC Tablet accelerometer rotation

2016-07-11 Thread T. Mark
n reboots >> again in a loop.  >> Elementary OS --  2nd Fastest after Puppy. Touchscreen works nearly >> perfectly, albeit occasionally slow to recognize presses when waking back >> from sleep.  Videos play fine.  Automatic rotation enabled by default!    >>

Re: [vox-tech] ExoPC Tablet accelerometer rotation

2016-07-05 Thread T. Mark
ses when waking back > from sleep.  Videos play fine.  Automatic rotation enabled by default!    > The "plank" dock is clunky and (to me) a little ugly.  I don't like how I > can't place anything on the desktop.  > > > On Sun, Jun 26, 2016 at 7:58 PM, T. Mar

Re: [vox-tech] ExoPC Tablet accelerometer rotation

2016-06-26 Thread T. Mark
Not commenting from a place of certain knowledge, but just as ideas--  Fedora is of course Red Hat's bleeding-edge offering, though it's a bit confusing to go from Debian-based to that world..  I'd say try Arch, which features a really great level of support in the forums.  When I do searches fo