discuss-requ...@driftwood.blu.org writes:
> Subject: [Discuss] Boston Linux VIRTUAL Meeting , reminder, tomorrow,
> Wednesday, November 20, 2024 - Leveraging AI Assistance in Python
> Projects
> Our meeting recordings are on the Video tab: http://blu.org/video/
What's going on with th
discuss-requ...@driftwood.blu.org writes:
> From: Brandon Vogel
> Could it be selinux related possibly?
Yeah, definitely check Selinux. In general, daemons have lesser
privileges than user-login processes precisely so they can't write into
random files that happen to have broad write permissions
> From: dan moylan
> [...]
> from my original message:
>
> MariaDB [(none)]> grant all on *.* to moylanus_moy@localhost identified by
> 'x';
> Query OK, 0 rows affected (0.009 sec)
>
> the Querey OK was the response -- indicating OK.
"response OK" means the computer thinks it went OK
> From: dan moylan
>
> setting up mysql has always worked for me using this process
> but now, i seem to be denied for some reason.
> [...]
I don't know anything about this aspect of mysql, but in the O.P. I see
that you do a "show grants", then a "grant all ...". What does "show
grants" return
Kinda hilarious to see:
discuss-requ...@driftwood.blu.org writes:
> Today's Topics:
>
>1. Re: Grub, EFI, Partitioning? (David Rosenstrauch)
>2. Deduplication (Kent Borg)
>3. Re: Deduplication (Rich Pieri)
>4. Re: Deduplication (Rich Pieri)
>5. Re: Deduplication (Dan Ritter)
It
> From: jbk
>
> I haven't found a compelling reason to use another fs other than
> ext4.
I'm conservative, so I've been using extN filesystems since, I think, I
was running Slackware. Since then, I've taken to putting extN on top of
LVM. And of course ext3 and ext4 have journaling, which has el
> From: Rich Pieri
>
> I'm looking for an image viewer which can open ZIP (ie .cbz) files but
> is *not* a comic reader or library manager. Just an image viewer which
> can open archives.
>
> Any suggestions?
I don't know what level of features you're looking for, but Emacs can
open most archive
discuss-requ...@driftwood.blu.org writes:
> But it does not look like a phishing attempt.
>
> > Received: by mta.eml.networksolutions.com id hfhs3q2fmd4o
> > for; Fri, 15 Dec 2023 16:01:00 +
> > (envelope-from)
>
> And the link:
>
> > https://click.eml.networksolutions.com/?qs=a79ea908ba75
discuss-requ...@driftwood.blu.org writes:
> From: dan moylan
> # .fetchmailrc
>
> set logfile fetchmail.log
> poll moylan.us protocol POP3
> user "moylanus" pass "xxx" is moylan preconnect "date >>
> fetchmail.log"
> user "jdm+moylan.us" pass "xxx" is moylan preconnec
> From: Kent Borg
>
> Well, guess what: Once I quit Chromium, my 8GB machine has *plenty* of
> RAM for kernel compiles. On a "-j8" make 46% of my RAM gets to be cache
> and buffers. If I want still more, I could quit Thunderbird.
> (Thunderbird doesn't seem to be designed for efficiently handli
Bill Bogstad writes:
> A few questions though:
>
> 1. How does the archive size compare to the 'source' directory?
Let's see, I've never really tallied things up. The source breaks down:
on the main partition: 11G
of which a handful of large files/directories are excluded: 7G
About a decade ago, I set up a custom-made backup system. It was
based on an idea a friend told me about: A friend of his had set up
his home directory as a working directory under the Subversion version
control system, and he would periodically add commits to the
Subversion repository that were s
discuss-requ...@driftwood.blu.org writes:
> From: Kurt L Keville
> To: "discuss@lists.blu.org"
>
> *
>
> FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE:
>
> AI crosses the AGI threshold
>
> Stanford, CA, United States - April 1, 2023 - 12AM, AoE
Also, be cautious about trustin
> From: Ben Kallus
> To: dlslug-disc...@lists.dlslug.org, BLU Discuss
>
> Subject: [Discuss] Help with mailing list
>
> Can anyone help out Prof. Wagon with his mathematical mailing list?
>
> Thanks!
> Ben
>
> -- Forwarded message --
> From: *Stan Wagon*
> Date: Friday, Jan
> From: MC
> [...] Maybe I should start with the basics: [...]
> it had drivers written for it
> for all kinds of equipment (which I own a lot of and must keep using) [...]
It seems to me that this is your tightest requirement: if the computer
*must* operate certain equipment, there are few work
> From:
> To:
> Subject: [Suggestions for a new server machine]
>
> Hi, folks. My home linux server has been acting up, and
> after 14 years, it may not be long for this world. So I
> thought I'd ask y'all what you might suggest as a
> replacement.
I've bought several refurbish
> From: Rich Pieri
> Subject: Re: [Discuss] External USB bridge to SSD
> USB Mass Storage does not provide for TRIM/UNMAP. You need a USB
> adapter that specifically implements USB Attached SCSI Protocol (UASP)
> *and* the host needs to recognize the device as a UASP device.
> [various useful adv
I've been trying to get "trim" to work on an SSD attached to my computer
with an external USB bridge. The manufacturer's spec sheet says the SSD
supports trim. (It also claims a lifetime of 360 times the disk
capacity as the write volume.) I've used various tricks to get the
kernel and LVM to co
> From: Rich Pieri
>> I tried out btrfs, and it has some management problems. "df" doesn't
>> report free space correctly. And apparently there is a need to run a
>> "rebalancing" program occasionally to keep free space accessible.
>
> Every file system requires periodic maintenance. Scrubbing a
(My apologies, I've lost track of what responses people have sent about
this.)
I asked if there was any support in ext4 for file cloning a/k/a
copy-on-write a/k/a shared extents. The answer is no. My memory is
that people suggested btrfs as an alternative.
I checked the Wikipedia page "Comparis
> From: "Dale R. Worley"
>
> What RPM for Fedora contains mimencode? I've tried the usual searches
> and come up empty. It doesn't help that the name isn't consistent, I've
> seen "mencode" and "mmencode". I've seen some
What RPM for Fedora contains mimencode? I've tried the usual searches
and come up empty. It doesn't help that the name isn't consistent, I've
seen "mencode" and "mmencode". I've seen some indication that mimencode
is packaged with Metamail, but I couldn't find Metamail either.
Dale
> From: ma...@mohawksoft.com
>
> You are probably right, but like I said in another response, maybe my
> brain is too "fixed" to using words like make, cc, g++, etc. rather than
> the motor motion of point and click.
>
> That being said, I like word processors, spread sheets, cad programs,
> email,
> From: Rich Pieri
> On Fri, 23 Sep 2022 11:23:11 -0400 ma...@mohawksoft.com wrote:
>> I'd like an IDE that can run make, parse the compiler output, find the
>> errors, and open the source file at the location of the error?
>
> GNU Emacs has been able to do this for literally decades. Bonus:
> gdb
I'm looking into buying a laptop that's solely a remote access device,
that is, a portable way to use ssh/X windows server to connect to a
workstation that's at home. Does anyone have advice? It seems to me
the requirements are:
- compute and disk capacity aren't very important
- physical size a
I've discovered how useful it is to take a copy-on-write clone of a disk
tree when I want to repair application data consisting of lots of large
files. (Virtual Box VMs and Apple Music libraries are the cases I've
used.) Apple's APFS handles this easily. I hesitate to ask, but has
CoW support be
> From: Bill Horne
>
> Please tell me how you recommend I partition the drive.
Definitely, I'd put all of the space I want Linux information in into an
LVM pool. That makes it much easier to reorganize the drive later.
Dale
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discuss-requ...@driftwood.blu.org writes:
> From: dan moylan
> Subject: [Discuss] html issue
>
> when i enter this string into the url bar, i arrive at the
> desired amazon web page.
>file:///home/moylan/msg/htm/amz.htm
>
> when i embed this into an html document, clicking on AMZ
> gets me now
> From: Shirley M?rquez D?lcey
> Aside from that, your best bets are likely to be a used opener ...
Which is the ultimate in untraceability, it was sold to somebody else!
Dale
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I've just upgraded to Fedora 34 (from Fedora 19!) and I'm noticing that
the networking, or at least, the WiFi networking, seems to be flakey in
that a long-running ssh connection will just stall, for anywhere from a
few seconds to a minute or more. Sometimes taking the WiFi interface
down and up w
> From: Eric Chadbourne
> Subject: Re: [Discuss] work search question
>
> I did not purposely place the additional question marks.? I can't find the
> message in question.? However I know what you mean.? Could be Apple Mail +
> listserv.
>
> Solid standard English?? Who's standard?? Usually I do
Jerry Feldman writes:
> I've been out of the contract game for a while.
> I always used a head hunter
> Networking is goid to. That can back door you into a job.
I found networking to be astonishingly effective, once I understood it
was a way to scan for employers who are looking for [whatever].
> From: Bill Horne
> Here's the table-of-contents from a typical day:
>
> * 1 - [telecom] Can robocalls be tracked? - "bob prohaska"
>
> * 2 - Re: [telecom] Can robocalls be tracked? - Bill Horne
> ?
> * 3 - [telecom] Verizon Media debuts ad-targeting solution without
>
> From: Eric Chadbourne
>
> Any tips on favorite places to look for work or contracts?? I tend to
> wear hats with three letters but ^C.? Dev, Sec, Ops, and the like.?
> 100% remote.? Usually burn out or get bored in three years.? A
> contract shorter than seems to be the best.
The best algorithm
> From: David Kramer
> Subject: [Discuss] Flashback humor: Shouting in the Datacenter
>
> https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tDacjrSCeq4
They said on Usenet:
"In the machine room, no one can hear you scream."
Dale
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Thanks to everyone for ideas! Out of cussedness, I dug enough to figure
out how to get at the disk partitions from the initramfs environment.
The details of the procedure depend on your initramfs environment and
disk configuration, but the pattern is simple enough that having seen an
example, you
Here's a messy problem. I suspect the answer is simple, but obscure:
I have an Oracle Linux (a Red Hat derivative) computer and I'd like to
run "xfs_repair /dev/mapper/ol-root". The problem of course
is that partition is the root partition and xfs_repair can't operate
on a partition that's mount
> From: MC
>
> any hope to lock html code? to prevent wholesale download and content
> theft? let's bypass the "don't post it" strategy. Don't want a
> username/passcode option either. these websites must surface on standard
> google searches and be readily accessible.
Of course, you can't do
I would like to implement what I believe is a simple web proxy, but it
requires a certain amount of customization regarding how the proxy
contacts the servers, which I think would be very simple if I used the
right proxy. Unfortunately, my knowledge of the features of open-source
proxies is very s
> From: Matthew Gillen
> To: disc...@blu.org
I use the rule that only "user" accounts, not accounts installed by the
distribution or software packages can be logged in via ssh. That means
that an effective attacker must know *something* about my particular
setup to have any hope of logging in.
> From: Dan Ritter
>
> Dale R. Worley wrote:
>> As in the above example, when you set masquerading on interface X,
>> *which* packets coming from *which* interfaces are masqueraded *how*
>> going out *which* interface?
>
> This is consistent on all NAT systems
> From: Matthew Gillen
> Subject: [Discuss] firewalld rant
...
> Side note in ambiguous documentation: check out the "masquerade" option
> https://firewalld.org/documentation/man-pages/firewalld.zone.html :
> ..."If it's present masquerading is enabled."
> no indication of which interface it sho
People have said that Mac addresses cannot be spoofed, but I've
discovered that they can be on some NICs. Indeed, the first time I
tried it, I was surprised that it worked and even more surprised that
when I power-cycled the card, it kept the new Mac address -- so I should
have written down the or
> From: dan moylan
> my memory sticks always mount on /run/media/moylan for
> both computers.
> [...]
Only when reading this the second time did I realize why it seems odd to
me -- you say "the memory stick mounts ..". But the memory stick does
not "mount", it "is mounted" -- by whatever execut
From: Jerry Feldman
> I go back to the key punch days when we used 80 column punch cards. I also
There's a bunch of stuff about the physiology of how people read.
Books, over history, have evolved to have lines of a particular length,
when they could have been printed in any proportion, because l
> From: dan moylan
>
> i thought i had tested this before, but just now when i went
> back and turned off the mouse, the touchpad worked fine.
> oddly enough, when i turned the mouse back on, things were
> still ok. i hate it when this happens -- my apologies.
So rebooting your mouse fixed the
I did some poking around, and for egalitarian ensembles, it seems like
the upper limit of latency that can be tolerated is 20 to 25
milliseconds. If I do a traceroute to www.google.com, the first hop
that has a DNS name is hop 5, and it has about 26 msec RTT.
It turns out that a millisecond of de
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