Re: Are Debian packages updated within a release?

2025-01-17 Thread John Hasler
In the case of rsync Debian backported a fix. Therefor it gets the old version number with a suffix to indicate that Debian patched it. In the case of chromium upstream patched it and released the patched version with a new version number. -- John Hasler j...@sugarbit.com Elmwood, WI USA

Re: What is going on with firefox

2025-01-16 Thread John Hasler
Roy J. Tellason, Sr. writes: > I run [both uBlock-origin and NoScript], here. Noscript being the > most recently added. It does make a nontrivial difference... Likewise. -- John Hasler j...@sugarbit.com Elmwood, WI USA

Re: Virtual network fails to start: SOLVED

2025-01-15 Thread john doe
need Bind9 on this host in the first place! -- John Doe

Re: What is going on with firefox

2025-01-14 Thread John Hasler
r extension such as New Tab Suspender. It will unload inactive tabs, freeing memory and preventing JS from running. -- John Hasler j...@sugarbit.com Elmwood, WI USA

Re: Mass storage sizes

2025-01-10 Thread John Hasler
Tomas writes: > Past experience shows that we'll live with this for a while (watch > the US still on their Imperial measures, Pedanticism: The US is not and never has been on the Imperial system. We use both SI ("metric") and US Customary (the latter predates Imperial

Re: /dev/serial/by-id

2025-01-07 Thread John Hasler
Max Nikulin writes: > Gene, my congratulations. You have managed to derail the discussion > another time. And you have managed to clutter the list with yet another pointless rant against Gene. Please put him in your killfile and move on. -- John Hasler j...@sugarbit.com Elmwood, WI USA

Re: laptop for debian 12

2025-01-01 Thread john doe
Trixie is around the corner -- John Doe

Re: booting by UEFI?

2024-12-29 Thread john doe
On 12/29/24 17:26, Eben King wrote: How can I ensure that I'm actually booted using EFI? "/sys/firmware/efi" if present indicates that you are booted in UEFI mode. -- John Doe

Re: Correct way to stop fetchmail

2024-12-28 Thread John Hasler
=forking Restart=no TimeoutSec=5min IgnoreSIGPIPE=no KillMode=process GuessMainPID=no RemainAfterExit=yes SuccessExitStatus=5 6 ExecStart=/etc/init.d/fetchmail start ExecStop=/etc/init.d/fetchmail stop -- John Hasler j...@sugarbit.com Elmwood, WI USA

Re: that's disturbing

2024-12-28 Thread John Boxall
smaller things. > I'll just look one more time > and... it's working. > I didn't do anything, haven't rebooted it. > What could that be? > Browser cache, DNS sorting itself out, some automatic update? > It is disturbing it just started working on its own. > mick > > -- Regards, John Boxall

Re: Firefox lockups with kernel 6.12.6

2024-12-28 Thread John Hasler
k them. There are several other tab unloaders such as Auto Tab Discard. You can also go to about:config, search for "memory", and adjust things like "browser.cache.memory.capacity" and "browser.tabs.unloadOnLowMemory". -- John Hasler j...@sugarbit.com Elmwood, WI USA

Re: Firefox lockups with kernel 6.12.6

2024-12-27 Thread John Hasler
As an interim solution consider installing the "New Tab Suspender v2" extension: A very lightweight tab suspender to suspend inactive tabs that reduces an overall memory usage of firefox, uses a firefox native discard api -- John Hasler j...@sugarbit.com Elmwood, WI USA

Re: upgrade debian + postfix/dovecot

2024-12-26 Thread John Hasler
Thomas Anderson writes: > Almost all the applications I use are non-debian (postfix, dovecot, > apache, mysql, etc..) Why? All of those are in Debian. If you were using the Debian packages upgrading would be easy. -- John Hasler j...@sugarbit.com Elmwood, WI USA

Re: Fwd: Ubuntu 24.10 failing download [Re: fail message dirmanager]

2024-12-24 Thread john doe
Ubuntu. Still on Windows, you could also look at Cygwin. You might want to rethink your strategy as you are not able to get the help that you would like to have. -- John Doe

Re: Systemctl masked/disabled/etc

2024-12-22 Thread john doe
don't really know what > a "normal" system looks like If a service is disabled or masked, this means that the service will not be processed by Systemd when the computer boots up. -- John Doe

Re: Writing passwords down

2024-12-18 Thread John Hasler
ot;password recovery secret" give them a random string for that as well. -- John Hasler j...@sugarbit.com Elmwood, WI USA

Re: Writing passwords down

2024-12-18 Thread John Hasler
e dog's name was Rover. -- John Hasler j...@sugarbit.com Elmwood, WI USA

Re: Writing passwords down

2024-12-18 Thread John Hasler
JHHL writes: > I *could* share my strategies for coming up with passwords. Mine is pwgen -s 12 -- John Hasler j...@sugarbit.com Elmwood, WI USA

Re: Writing passwords down

2024-12-18 Thread John Hasler
at the name of the dog they had when they were 12 is an unguessable secret. -- John Hasler j...@sugarbit.com Elmwood, WI USA

Re: Writing passwords down

2024-12-17 Thread John Hasler
h request. Surely they can't be hashing the passwords properly if that practice is of any use. -- John Hasler j...@sugarbit.com Elmwood, WI USA

Re: Writing passwords down

2024-12-17 Thread John Hasler
One reason for writing down all your passwords (even if only on a list stored in your safe deposit box) is related to the item that started this thread: not making things difficult for whoever has to deal with your estate. -- John Hasler j...@sugarbit.com Elmwood, WI USA

Re: a passwordless operating system

2024-12-16 Thread John Hasler
songbird writes: > perhaps because the accounts are jointly owned and it is much easier > to just continue using the credentials as they exist instead of having > to set everything up all over again for no real gain. Then follow Bruce Schneier's advice and*write them down*. --

Re: Firefox alternatives?

2024-12-12 Thread John Hasler
re sites no one has ever heard of, most of it just because it makes it easier for the web designers to animate their dancing doggies. -- John Hasler j...@sugarbit.com Elmwood, WI USA

Re: Subject: Re: Adding a new boot disk while keeping old disk

2024-12-10 Thread John Hasler
Seems like you are going about this in the most difficult and roundabout way possible. -- John Hasler j...@sugarbit.com Elmwood, WI USA

Re: Adding a new boot disk while keeping old disk

2024-12-09 Thread John Hasler
less you ask for it. -- John Hasler j...@sugarbit.com Elmwood, WI USA

Re: Adding a new boot disk while keeping old disk

2024-12-09 Thread John Hasler
em in /usr/bin? -- John Hasler j...@sugarbit.com Elmwood, WI USA

Re: Preseed install, Selection of Language/Country/Keyboard and Desktop Environment

2024-12-04 Thread john doe
look at [1] for "tasksel". [1] https://www.debian.org/releases/stable/example-preseed.txt -- John Doe

Re: WHOIS rejection from strange IP address

2024-12-02 Thread John Hasler
It isn't Debian. It's that netblock. Try 191.97.36.54. Also try whois -r 191.96.36.54 -- John Hasler j...@sugarbit.com Elmwood, WI USA

Re: WHOIS rejection from strange IP address

2024-12-02 Thread John Hasler
. I don't think it's a Debian problem. Have you tested using a different OS? -- John Hasler j...@sugarbit.com Elmwood, WI USA

Re: How can I install yum?

2024-12-01 Thread John Hasler
It appears that you are not subscribed to the list and therefor not seeing the replies. Go to lists.debian.org to subscribe and to see the rplies that have already been made. There is no yum package in Debian. What is it that you are actually trying to do? -- John Hasler j...@sugarbit.com

Re: How can I install yum

2024-12-01 Thread John Hasler
Why do you want to? Yum is the package manager for Redhat-based distributions: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yum_(software) -- John Hasler j...@sugarbit.com Elmwood, WI USA

Re: How can I install yum

2024-12-01 Thread john doe
PKG: - `yum4` - `dnf` - `nextgen-yum4` HTH. -- John Doe

Re: Unexpected prompt during package update

2024-11-30 Thread John Boxall
f and see if I can make it work for me. -- Regards, John Boxall

Re: Unexpected prompt during package update

2024-11-30 Thread John Boxall
ome hardwarewith backup drives safely set aside. My experience, __so_far__, is that "-y" has not damaged any systems I've migrated. -- Regards, John Boxall

Unexpected prompt during package update

2024-11-30 Thread John Boxall
Z : start a shell to examine the situation The default action is to keep your current version. *** fwupd.conf (Y/I/N/O/D/Z) [default=N] ? Y Is the option "-y" in the command not enough to prevent the prompt? -- Regards, John Boxall

Re: How to create a persistent loopback address

2024-11-30 Thread john doe
On 11/30/24 20:11, john doe wrote: On 11/30/24 20:04, Andy Smith wrote: Hi, On Sat, Nov 30, 2024 at 01:47:42PM -0500, Timothy M Butterworth wrote: On Sat, Nov 30, 2024 at 2:22 AM Timothy M Butterworth < timothy.m.butterwo...@gmail.com> wrote: sudo ip link add name ospf-lo type dummy s

Re: How to create a persistent loopback address

2024-11-30 Thread john doe
t I imagine that creating a new interface is pretty simple. Not sure what the OP is trying to do here [1]. -- John Doe

Re: How to create a persistent loopback address

2024-11-30 Thread john doe
NetworkManager. By using NM ([1]) and googling to manage the dummy interface. [1] https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/513578/modern-way-to-configure-dummy0-in-etc-network-interfaces-or-similar -- John Doe

Re: Seeking Resources for Advanced Linux Server Administration

2024-11-30 Thread john doe
d try to make it work. When you are stuck on something, just google your way out. -- John Doe

Re: SSL error:FFFFFFFF80000002:system library::No such file or directory: ../crypto/bio/bss_file.c:67 when I'm trying to sign the nvidia driver on Debian 12.

2024-11-26 Thread john doe
On 11/26/24 12:59, Mario Marietto wrote: 2) # apt install nvidia-detect nvidia-driver You first did an `update`. Also the wiki at [1] suggest to install other PKGs. [1] https://www.reddit.com/r/debian/comments/1h08w9v/ssl_error8002system_libraryno_such/?rdt=41730 -- John Doe

OT: Re: Trolling

2024-11-24 Thread john doe
of trolling on the dnsmasq mailing list. -- John Doe

Re: mail sig separator (was Re: BD backup?)

2024-11-21 Thread John Crawley
ence between setting filters on Local Folders vs for individual mail accounts though. -- John

Re: mail sig separator (was Re: BD backup?)

2024-11-20 Thread John Crawley
correctly added and (I've just checked) sent to another account's inbox with the trailing space after -- intact. So nothing here to blame on TB, at least for mail being sent between Thunderbirds. -- John

Re: Smart UPS-communication setup failure against linux cluster

2024-11-18 Thread john doe
HW! -- John Doe

Re: debian-to-windows message transfer

2024-11-17 Thread John Hasler
and JS that pull in chunks of JS from a dozen or more random sources out on the Net. The designers neither know nor care what that JS does as long as it puts the dancing doggie in right place on your screen. -- John Hasler j...@sugarbit.com Elmwood, WI USA

OT: Re: I am about to give up

2024-11-11 Thread john doe
possible. Assuming that you realy want help, please try to be mindful of the time and efforts PPLs are putting into answering on this list. Just to be clear, I'm as frustrated as you are. -- John Doe

Re: IP Masquerade failing

2024-10-31 Thread john doe
ed? You are using a virtual bridge, which might implies that the masquerading by Libvirt I am able to ping www.google.com from my virtual machine which is also setup with ip masquerading. How so? Are you doing double masquerading? Can ip masquerading work on two different interfaces at th

Re: How to can upgrade my BIOS?

2024-10-30 Thread John Hasler
Don't, if the one you have does everything you need it to do. -- John Hasler j...@sugarbit.com Elmwood, WI USA

Re: state of /etc/profile

2024-10-16 Thread John Crawley
his happens with dpkg --install and dpkg --configure), we first update any conffiles and then call: postinst configure most-recently-configured-version " So if $2 is non-empty it means an upgrade. A flow chart is here: https://www.debian.org/doc/debian-policy/ap-flowcharts.html -- John

Redis installation error(s) on Debian SID

2024-10-12 Thread John Cassidy
15-2) ... Processing triggers for man-db (2.13.0-1) ... Processing triggers for libc-bin (2.40-3) ... Has anyone experienced this situation before. If I remember correctly, another installlation of REDIS installed correctly on Bookworm. Any pointers/tips much appreciated Regards John Cassidy

OT: Re: Information mise à jour de vos données professionnelles

2024-10-06 Thread john doe
e sender. [1] https://wiki.debian.org/Teams/ListMaster/ListArchiveSpam -- John Doe

Re: Cleanup in a bash script

2024-09-28 Thread john doe
nline for some insperation. -- John Doe

Re: How to generate a certificate for an HP printer?

2024-09-22 Thread john doe
On 9/22/24 21:02, Charles Curley wrote: On Sun, 22 Sep 2024 18:02:30 +0200 john doe wrote: Even if you upgrade the FW? I tried upgrading the firmware. I have the latest available, 20201215. I also have a HP. After entering credentials it allows me to access the advance capabilities of my

Re: How to generate a certificate for an HP printer?

2024-09-22 Thread john doe
On 9/22/24 17:05, Charles Curley wrote: On Sun, 22 Sep 2024 15:54:09 +0200 john doe wrote: On 9/21/24 23:25, Charles Curley wrote: I have an HP LaserJet MFP M234sdw printer. I am getting error messages from CUPS that say something like "cups-pki expired". The certificate on t

Re: How to generate a certificate for an HP printer?

2024-09-22 Thread john doe
use in the printer? There is no mechanism to do so in the printer's firmware. Even if you upgrade the FW? -- John Doe

Brightness Control Hotkeys not working on Debian 12, Lenovo IdeaPad3

2024-09-19 Thread John Kerr Anderson
el Xe Graphics (TGL GT2) Thank you in advance and I wish you all a great day. Regards, John Anderson

MAC filter

2024-09-01 Thread John Conover
The MAC filter needs a local filter for the two 16 X dual hex, (23 total,) digits. The MAC is router usually aligned internally by the router, and contains unique hex digits. Does any anyone recall how to query the digits to the display? Thanks, John -- John Conover, cono

Re: Usage: "debian ... amd64-netinst.iso"

2024-08-31 Thread john doe
On 8/31/24 05:48, John Conover wrote: What does a "debian ... amd64-netinst.iso" do with an .iso? You have enough data in the iso file to start a Debian installation, most of the PKGs will be fetched from the internet. Can it be coverted to a USB. How? cp . -- John Doe

Re: Direct Messaging

2024-08-31 Thread john doe
m the author of the django-sms Twilio backend) I guess, this is not what you asked! To the OP, Twilio with the lang of your choosing! ;^) -- John Doe

Usage: "debian ... amd64-netinst.iso"

2024-08-30 Thread John Conover
What does a "debian ... amd64-netinst.iso" do with an .iso? Can it be coverted to a USB. How? Thanks, John -- John Conover, cono...@panix.com, http://www.johncon.com/

hunspell-gl does not match the description

2024-08-30 Thread John E Petersen
I hand install my debian packages, and have an offline repository, because garbage like this tends to slip onto my machine. This package slipped in through firefox somehow, and framerate on recordings stalled out. It more than likely interferes with opengl. RIP Firefox...

Debian 11 isolinux AMD64 USB 32GB source

2024-08-28 Thread John Conover
Is Debian 11 isolinux AMD64 USB 32GB source available? Help would appreciated, John -- John Conover, cono...@panix.com, http://www.johncon.com/

Re: Chain Loading Preseed Files

2024-08-21 Thread john doe
ve specific configs for node01 and node02 respectively. This makes it impossible to specify options twice with different values. To me the documentation is somewhat misleading and does not match what you already found out. -- John Doe

Can a standard USB have sub directives?

2024-08-08 Thread John Conover
Can a standard USB have sub directives? I was doing some stress testing, and some sub directives had very long write latency's. (All less than 4GB.) Thanks, John -- John Conover, cono...@panix.com, http://www.johncon.com/

Re: Internet facing Firewalls mDNS UPnP SMB

2024-08-05 Thread john doe
On 8/6/24 01:47, George at Clug wrote: On Monday, 05-08-2024 at 22:25 john doe wrote: On 8/5/24 12:50, George at Clug wrote: On Monday, 05-08-2024 at 17:25 Michel Verdier wrote: On 2024-08-04, George at Clug wrote: YOu realy need to be intimate with nftables, you might want to consider

Re: Internet facing Firewalls mDNS UPnP SMB

2024-08-05 Thread john doe
does not look self explanatory. But hopefully, like everything computer related, it is usually not that complex, just you need to understand the new syntax and how to use it. YOu realy need to be intimate with nftables, you might want to consider a frontend to nftables. -- John Doe

Re: Internet facing Firewalls mDNS UPnP SMB

2024-08-03 Thread john doe
rules for public networks are very simple. - Allow all outgoing traffic On a laptop, inbound connections should be restricted unless you want services to be accessible on your laptop by way of FWing and and securing the services. Outbound connections is up to you. -- John Doe

Re: nsswitch what should come first

2024-08-03 Thread john doe
et you? More controle over what's going on on the network! ;^) This allows to have a restrict FW for example. That is also why UPNP is also disabled on my network. -- John Doe

Re: why reliable linux hasn't gained more market share?

2024-07-30 Thread John Hasler
Children are taught in elementary school that computer == Windows. -- John Hasler j...@sugarbit.com Elmwood, WI USA

Debian LTS

2024-07-29 Thread John Conover
urity bullseye-security main deb-src http://security.debian.org/debian-security bullseye-security main Any compatibility advice would greatly appreciated, John -- John Conover, cono...@panix.com, http://www.johncon.com/

Re: Testing CD preseed oops

2024-07-28 Thread john doe
an-boot mailing list, as apparently this is a regression. In my case, I use the Qemu's built-in tftp server. -- John Doe

Peoria High School

2024-07-23 Thread John Rice
school had the perfect classic high school look. Cheers! John Rice

Reviving Usenet Was: How to find suitable mailing list or USENET group

2024-07-09 Thread John Hasler
Max writes: > Gnus (Emacs) should be a bit more than just text UI. Yes, of course Gnus: it's what I use. But there is no point in mentioning anything connected with Emacs when talking about enticing people away from Facebook et al even though it is actually quite easy to use these days.

Re: How to find suitable mailing list or USENET group

2024-07-09 Thread John Hasler
now anyone with a laptop, a fixed IP (or IPV6) and Starlink or fiber could outperform IHNP4. I don't think a graphical Usenet client exists but it easily could. Even easier might be a browser plugin. -- John Hasler j...@sugarbit.com Elmwood, WI USA

Re: Cannot execute any container using podman run

2024-07-02 Thread john doe
ed to know. Best regards, Joerg I would first try to purge the podman package with the autoremove option and reinstall the package. When installed, use sudo to gain root access. -- John Doe

Re: how2 format a flash drive

2024-07-02 Thread John Hasler
, and Twitter (and never use Windows, of course). -- John Hasler j...@sugarbit.com Elmwood, WI USA

Re: How to get an email notification every time a package is updated upstream?

2024-06-29 Thread John Crawley
t I got the last time I ran the script" or "a version number that I'll provide as a second argument to the script". We'd need to know what the OP has in mind here. rmadison will fetch data about package versions available in the Debian repositories. Its output might be usefully parsed by a script. -- John

Re: System time/timezone, was Re: Maximum size .bash_aliases file

2024-06-29 Thread John Crawley
On 28/06/2024 18:42, Keith Bainbridge wrote: On 28/6/24 16:13, John Crawley wrote: Except that midnight is also 0:00, so you still have the am/pm confusion. They should have kept 0:00 just for midnight really. That's the first time I've seen anything to justify calling m

Re: How to use /etc/adjtime

2024-06-28 Thread John Hasler
ke sure only your code ever reads it, though. -- John Hasler j...@sugarbit.com Elmwood, WI USA

Re: How to use /etc/adjtime

2024-06-28 Thread John Hasler
lew the system time. > but at shutdown: writing to the RTC, and the correct preservation of > its state. You write to the rtc and to /etc/adjtime periodically at a rate determined by the computed hot drift rate and also during a controlled shutdown. -- John Hasler j...@sugarbit.com Elmwood, WI USA

Re: How to use /etc/adjtime

2024-06-28 Thread John Hasler
Stefan writes: > The question remains: how to make use of that info upon wakeup to > adjust the "initial" time before NTP takes over. hwclock -a can do this. If you use it be sure ntpsec isn't trying to do the same thing. -- John Hasler j...@sugarbit.com Elmwood, WI USA

Re: System time/timezone, was Re: Maximum size .bash_aliases file

2024-06-27 Thread John Crawley
On 28/06/2024 14:00, Erwan DAVID wrote: Le 28 juin 2024 13:12:03 David Wright a écrit : On Wed 26 Jun 2024 at 12:50:32 (-0400), Greg Wooledge wrote: On Wed, Jun 26, 2024 at 11:25:38 -0500, John Hasler wrote: I wrote: 12 Noon and 12 Midnight works. David Wright wrote: Except that The

Re: System time/timezone, was Re: Maximum size .bash_aliases file

2024-06-26 Thread John Hasler
I wrote: > 12 Noon and 12 Midnight works. David Wright wrote: > Except that The Wanderer's "strictly correct" version, M for noon, > is out there in some pre-2008 documents. If you use M for noon you should use either AM or PM for midnight. -- John Hasler j...@sugarbit.com Elmwood, WI USA

Re: System time/timezone, was Re: Maximum size .bash_aliases file

2024-06-24 Thread John Hasler
. using "00:00 M", the notations for noon and > midnight would be identical.) 12 Noon and 12 Midnight works. -- John Hasler j...@sugarbit.com Elmwood, WI USA

Re: OT - list mail claimed to be "known" spam!

2024-06-23 Thread John Hasler
Felix Miata wrote: > Trying to get EL to stop putting subscribed email into "known spam" is > futile. The mechanism EL provides to avoid such diversions doesn't work > with debian mailing list posts. Quit using EL email. Use Pobox. Yes, it costs money. It's

Re: System time/timezone, was Re: Maximum size .bash_aliases file

2024-06-23 Thread John Hasler
Brad Rogers writes: > Due, mainly, to the literacy of the people that moved, rather than any > deliberate choice. That is, spelling was often a 'best guess'. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Webster's_Dictionary#Noah_Webster's_American_Dictionary_of_the_English_L

Re: CD/DVD is obsolete or deprecate at 2025?

2024-06-18 Thread John Hasler
JHHL writes: > Some of us still prefer physical media Do you mean read-only media? All media are physical. -- John Hasler j...@sugarbit.com Elmwood, WI USA

Re: overthewire.org: safe to use?

2024-06-16 Thread john doe
to [2], nothing needs to be installed. [1] https://packages.debian.org/buster/bandit. [2] https://overthewire.org/wargames/bandit/bandit0.html -- John Doe

Re: "Repeaters", etc.

2024-05-28 Thread John Hasler
y the square root of 3 Here in rural Wisconsin the 7200V distribution line leaves the substation as three phases and a grounded neutral. This eventually branches out into three single phase lines consisting of a phase and a grounded neutral. The pole pigs are connected phase to neutral. -- Jo

Re: Cindex

2024-05-12 Thread John Hasler
https://www.opencindex.com/about-cindex/ -- John Hasler j...@sugarbit.com Elmwood, WI USA

Re: [SOLVED] Trouble/bug with initramfs-tools adding encrypted swap partition

2024-04-26 Thread John Crawley
On 26/04/2024 12:56, David Wright wrote: On Fri 26 Apr 2024 at 11:27:24 (+0900), John Crawley wrote: Innocent question: what difference does the comment make vs just ending the file with an empty line? Nothing for the computer, but visibility for me. Say you print the file on paper. All you

Re: [SOLVED] Trouble/bug with initramfs-tools adding encrypted swap partition

2024-04-25 Thread John Crawley
yptswap /dev/urandom swap,offset=2048,cipher=aes-xts-plain64,size=512 # $ Innocent question: what difference does the comment make vs just ending the file with an empty line? -- John

Re: youtube-dl blocked?

2024-04-23 Thread John Hasler
to date with the original project. . yt-dlp is a small command-line program to download videos from YouTube.com and other sites that don't provide direct links to the videos served. -- John Hasler j...@sugarbit.com Elmwood, WI USA

Re: Current best practices for system configuration management?

2024-04-20 Thread John Crawley
n using config-package-dev for some years now - to add some customized configs to existing installed packages - and it still seems to be working perfectly. It's just a wrapper on top of dpkg diverts so there's not all that much to go wrong. -- John

Re: Debian 12.5 up-to-date Xfce, Firefox clings to USB stick

2024-04-15 Thread John Crawley
t;If you do not trust Gmail as a web application, use any mail application that supports IMAP" and it makes sense. -- John

Re: What use can i give to linux?

2024-04-05 Thread John Hasler
. Linux has a large and growing share of the automotive market. Your router almost certainly runs Linux. -- John Hasler j...@sugarbit.com Elmwood, WI USA

Re: making Debian secure by default

2024-04-01 Thread John Hasler
orted by one overworked guy who is taking patches from random strangers. NOTE: this is just a suggestion. I don't claim to be any sort of security expert nor am I trying to tell anyone what to do. -- John Hasler j...@sugarbit.com Elmwood, WI USA

Re: making Debian secure by default

2024-04-01 Thread John Hasler
Joe writes: > I think this was amply demonstrated by Heartbleed, where the offending > code was examined by *one* other pair of eyes, before approval was > granted for inclusion in OpenSSL. The "many eyes" phase comes after release. -- John Hasler j...@sugarbit.com Elmwood, WI USA

Re: Root password strength

2024-03-20 Thread John Hasler
nes I use most often through use. -- John Hasler j...@sugarbit.com Elmwood, WI USA

Re: Root password strength

2024-03-20 Thread John Hasler
aracter password which you used to log on to the VAX via the VT100 in your cubicle. People would stick a slip of paper with their password on it under the keyboard where the janitor could get at it. -- John Hasler j...@sugarbit.com Elmwood, WI USA

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