On Wed, 2025-01-29 at 12:03 -0700, Keith Smith via PLUG-discuss wrote:
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> ..
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> Could it be that openSUSE cannot garner enough passion to keep
> going? I wonder who it's community is.
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> Could it be time for openSUSE to die off?
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> We experienced CentOS pass away.
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> I've been follo
Ok, possible nit pick time. From the point of the filesystem (assuming
ext2/3/4/etc) ALL directories have a 'parent', if you define 'parent'
to mean where you end up when you say 'cd ..'. Even '/' has a 'parent'
- itself!
For example, on my laptop:
rusty@rusty-Alienware-17-R4:~$ ls -al / |head
Well, it isn't a single-page scanner only, but I've got 2 Epson EcoTank
printer/scanner combos that work pretty well under Linux. One is an
ST-2000 series, the other is an ET-4800 series. The feeder on the ST-
2000 doesn't always work with Linux (ok, truthfully I don't remember it
ever working we
gparted, Under the 'Device/Attempt data rescue' dropdown can attempt to
find things. Don't think it can recover, but it can mount them so you
can copy off.
Backing up a bit, first let me explain a bit about the icon (or at
least, what I think you're talking about)
So, some systems, when the
On 11/4/24 14:59, Keith Smith via PLUG-discuss wrote:
On 2024-11-04 11:30, David Schwartz via PLUG-discuss wrote:
Not what anybody wants to hear but …
AI is going to transform this thing we call “programming”.
It has already. I use it regularly. It helped me configure my LAMP
server to u
"SFTP" and look for the extension by |liximomo|. Install it.
On 11/2/24 15:44, Rusty Carruth via PLUG-discuss wrote:
ChatGPT claims there's an "*SFTP* extension for Visual Studio Code".
Yeah, I'm getting lazy - it works pretty well for the first-level
search an
ChatGPT claims there's an "*SFTP* extension for Visual Studio Code".
Yeah, I'm getting lazy - it works pretty well for the first-level
search and filter, at least so far. For the really 'difficult' searches
it (ChatGPT) doesn't hack it...
On 11/2/24 15:41, Snyder, Alexander J via PLUG-disc
10:42, Rusty Carruth via PLUG-discuss wrote:
One thing I don't understand, below.
On 10/22/24 10:25, Keith Smith via PLUG-discuss wrote:
Hi,
I appreciate all the feedback. There is more to the story.
The 3 things I think I need to accomplish:
1) Add a user and configure it to
One thing I don't understand, below.
On 10/22/24 10:25, Keith Smith via PLUG-discuss wrote:
Hi,
I appreciate all the feedback. There is more to the story.
The 3 things I think I need to accomplish:
1) Add a user and configure it to use SSH.
2) Configure each vhost to use PHP-FPM.
3) Li
.
I'm skipping firewall suggestion.
*Log Files*: Since |/var/log/faillog| is empty, also check
|/var/log/auth.log| for any messages related to SSH login attempts
- very good idea.
Three's more, but I'm guessing the log files are the most likely place
to start, after the suggestions e
The other questions are all great, but can you ssh from the server to
itself as the desired user? That is, ssh theSSHdude@localhost , which
should hopefully rule out network issues ;-)
I'll also mention that I had a weird issue with SSH where I could ssh
from machine A to machine B, but not f
linux so I'm sure I'm wrong
all the files in list.of.files are invisible files. (prefaced with a
period))
and isn't there a way to sort things depending on their column (column1
md5sum, column2 file name)
On Mon, Sep 30, 2024 at 2:56 AM Rusty Carruth via PLUG-discuss <
plug-discuss@
On 9/28/24 21:06, Michael via PLUG-discuss wrote:
About a year ago I messed up by accidently copying a folder with other
folders into another folder. I'm running out of room and need to find that
directory tree and get rid of it. All I know for certain is that it is
somewhere in my home directo
On 9/6/24 12:55, techli...@phpcoderusa.com wrote:
...
...I seem to recall that at some point the bigger drivers would not
work well with old hardware. I hope that is not an issue.
The problem with 'large' drives is, as far as I remember,JUST with
booting - its a BIOS issue, and if you kee
On 9/5/24 08:22, Keith Smith via PLUG-discuss wrote:
Hi,
...
I'm not sure there is a benefit of using Linux with SMB and/or NFS
other than having more exposure to Ubuntu.
I'd say performance will be better with Linux (or other unix-like OS)
than almost any other OS you can come up with. Usu
Just for the record, what I do when I want to start LibreOffice from the
command line is I type:
libr
to which the bash prompt replies:
libreoffice
then I hit enter. From there you can get to calc or write or ...
However, if you really don't want that extra step of choosing, you can
do wha
Attention PLUG Steering guys: Here's a volunteer to give a presentation
once we have a physical location! Or, if He's not local, some sort of
video thing, with or without a physical location.
(Right, Alexander? ;-)
On 7/24/24 08:19, Snyder, Alexander J via PLUG-discuss wrote:
This isn't i
Well, color me bizarre, then, as I have two computers laying around here
with less than 1GB of RAM ... no, wait, 3 - and that third one is a
pretty new, but small form factor, computer.
And lets not forget my 2 very old laptops that I've used for reading
floppy disks
Ok, well, yeah, ma
re regular English.
I got a ton of information... And I can continue to refine my
question. In this case it looks like this is all I might need.
I created a YouTube video on using AI to create PHP programs :
https://youtu.be/k7CNqcKxKTg
Keith
On 2024-07-09 15:07, Rusty Carruth via PL
got a ton of information... And I can continue to refine my
question. In this case it looks like this is all I might need.
I created a YouTube video on using AI to create PHP programs :
https://youtu.be/k7CNqcKxKTg
Keith
On 2024-07-09 15:07, Rusty Carruth via PLUG-discuss wrote:
Ho
Hopefully the answer isn't that *I'm* the insane one! ;-)
So, my laptop, which is running Linux Mint 20.2 Uma, and my file server
have suddenly had a falling-out. They used to talk to each other just
fine, but now the file server, running Linux Mint 19.3 Tricia, slams my
laptop into the deny
I think he means 7/11, but wait for the upcoming announcement to be sure :-)
On 7/8/24 15:12, Steve Litt via PLUG-discuss wrote:
I'll announce it again later, but at the 7/11/2024 PLUG meeting I'll be
both "running the room" and re-giving the Void Linux presentation I
gave at GoLUG meeting last
un. IIRC there
was a recent image vulnerability in Gnome's tracker-miner application which
indexes files in your home directory. And before you say that wouldn't happen
in KDE, it too has a similar program, I believe called Baloo.
There also exists the recent doas program and the sy
ry. And before you say that wouldn't happen
in KDE, it too has a similar program, I believe called Baloo.
There also exists the recent doas program and the systemd replacement run0 to
do the same.
On Wed, Jun 26, 2024, at 12:23 PM, Rusty Carruth via PLUG-discuss wrote:
Actually, I'd l
On 6/28/24 11:23, Arun Khan wrote:
On Wed, Jun 26, 2024 at 12:31 PM Rusty Carruth via PLUG-discuss <
plug-discuss@lists.phxlinux.org> wrote:
Actually, I'd like to start a bit of a discussion on this.
The first step in any cyber security activity is to define your risk
appetite;
Actually, I'd like to start a bit of a discussion on this.
First, I know that for some reason RedHat seems to think that sudo is
bad/insecure.
I'd like to know the logic there, as I think the argument FOR using sudo
is MUCH stronger than any argument I've heard (which, admittedly, is
pretty
Matthew Crews had an interesting reference, which I skimmed. Apparently
there is a 6% change in a non-trivial distance downwind from the
wind farm. If my skimming was accurate, that was measured difference,
but the simulation apparently was similar. (But now we've gotten beyond
my skimming p
I have no experience with it, but I actually read your query and have
some suggestions.
First, let me try to straighten out my confusion. You say someone
installed Linux Mint on your laptop, but then you say it boots windows.
So I'm a bit confused.
In any case, I've used T470 laptops, and
Ok, we are SO FAR off-topic that I shouldn't say anything, and I
apologize for adding to the noise!
However, I have one comment. For many years I was a BIG fan of wind power.
Now, however, I've realized that nobody has calculated the effect of
removing MEGAWATTS of power from the wind. Think
Hmm. I could have sworn that the NTFS utilities in Linux had a chkdsk
function. Yeah:
ntfsfix (8) - fix common errors and force Windows to check NTFS
(found using 'man -k ntfs')
Man page for ntfsfix says, in part:
DESCRIPTION
ntfsfix is a utility that fixes some common N
If nobody steps up, I'm a ham in the east valley, but might be able to
find some west-valley folks (think local VHF/UHF repeaters ;-), also the
ham clubs (oh - and the 'candy store' - Ham Radio Outlet - might know of
someone).
That really makes me wish I had the web site at elmers.org up and
8GB RAM? No, IMHO 16GB is absolute minimum, especially for Windows.
Assuming you want to actually DO something on the thing! ;-)
On 5/28/24 13:13, Keith Smith via PLUG-discuss wrote:
I asked Google "how much disk space is needed for windows 11",
and it told me:
---
64 GB
Storage: 64 GB or la
Outlook. Eek. For all the other Microsoft stuff, LibreOffice blows
Microsoft out of the water.
Outlook. yuck. I use Thunderbird for email, played with geary some
(which worked pretty well), and haven't tried Evolution yet. You might
consider looking at Evolution. I did some DuckDuckGo-ing
However, if you make it obvious that you are looking at the thing, the
perpetrator might decide to take it back. Put up your own video
doorbell, and maybe even watch the street as well so you can tie the
perp to their vehicle.
Triangulation is 'fun' - find some local neighborhood hams (amateu
Which Linux distro?
Personally, 16G RAM is minimal for any 'normal' distribution.
And Dual or Quad core is actually helpful, though not nearly as much as RAM.
Don't put your swap on the SSD. Put it on a rotator (rotating drive).
You don't want to risk wearing out the flash on the SSD. And us
I believe 'Reply-To:' is the header you should be looking at.
On 1/31/24 05:10, Ryan Petris via PLUG-discuss wrote:
The point of all these emails is so that you, as a non-owner of gmail.com, can't send an
email with a "From" address of gmail.com without authorization. That also means
that you,
On 1/28/24 22:14, Steven via PLUG-discuss wrote:
Apparently I am late to hearing this, but in the near future Cox will
have Yahoo take over handling all "cox.net" email accounts. I've
occasionally in the past looked at email providers but never felt much
need to move. But as long as this is go
Ok, flame me if you will, but what I call 'the kitchen sink editor'
(emacs) has a hex edit mode that works pretty well also.
I've used it and it worked great, and I've used emacs on some pretty
huge files (over 1G, as I recall - you just need enough ram ;-)
Its been a while, so I don't rememb
Steve beat me to it, I've done multiple domain names going to the same
web server on a single IP, as he says nginx is pretty trivial (as I
remember), Apache did it too (as I remember - not 20 years ago, but long
enough ;-)
On 7/10/23 01:50, Steve Litt via PLUG-discuss wrote:
Keith Smith via P
So, it appears they are under HEAVY load. Finally got the home page to
load. However, I didn't see anything about windows licenses. oh, well.
On 6/18/23 18:22, Rusty Carruth via PLUG-discuss wrote:
Argh. gkeys24 seems to be down. Do you have an alternate source? I'd
like to
Argh. gkeys24 seems to be down. Do you have an alternate source? I'd
like to make a VM 'legal' by M$ standards (bah, humbug!) ;-)
On 6/15/23 18:22, Michael Butash via PLUG-discuss wrote:
So interestingly enough, if/when I need windoze, I often buy from a place
like THIS, as a method of gett
are you running that command while booted on the stick you are trying to
erase?
While that SHOULD work, you are writing over the device you are booted
on, not usually considered best practice ;-) And this
'read-only-filesystem' message is interesting to me, I'd love to have
that stick to pla
at?"
What do you mean? I'm trying to run thOS from the pen drive? THe device is
/dev/sdb?
On Mon, Jan 16, 2023 at 2:00 PM Rusty Carruth via PLUG-discuss <
plug-discuss@lists.phxlinux.org> wrote:
I think it is probably too early to say if you need a new drive, and I
don't know w
I think it is probably too early to say if you need a new drive, and I
don't know what you mean by 'create persistence', but I'll stick my foot
in my mouth and ask a few questions.
You don't say what you booted on - the USB drive? And what device is that?
When you run fsck, I suggest you use
Hmm. I was momentarily confused.
10.* is class A, which means all 24 bits after the first octet 'matter'
and are controlled by whoever controls your network IP addresses.
Which means that your network is 10.x.x.x, or 10.0.0.0/8, since all
computers on your (non-subnetted) network will have t
Report on printer compatibility with Linux as experienced today.
I won't bore everyone with all the details (but I will mention this
whole exercise took many hours of research, plus 2 trips to 3 different
stores, and the purchase and return of a printer that didn't do fax as I
wanted), but, I
so clearly it hasn’t been updated in 30 years.
It would be nice to be able to run a command from a tee that implements a
separate pipeline, no?
-David Schwartz
On Dec 25, 2022, at 1:45 PM, Rusty Carruth via PLUG-discuss
wrote:
Hi, David!
I'd like to respond to a single thought in you
Hi, David!
I'd like to respond to a single thought in your entire message. The
message was interesting, but I'm only going to tackle this one thing:
On 12/25/22 00:20, David Schwartz via PLUG-discuss wrote:
We saw it first employed in Unix systems with the command shell that lets you
create
Answer:
man sudo
...
-i, --login
Run the shell specified by the target user's password
database entry as a login shell. This means that
login-specific resource files such as .profile,
.bash_profile or .login will be read by the shell. If a
Well, what exactly are you trying to do? Even if you could do 'sudo cd
directory', simply executing that command will result in NOTHING
HAPPENING with respect to your next command. Lets dig in to it at the
end of the message, but for now trust me.
Oh, and the shortest answer, the conclusion/
I didn't see a direct answer to this question yet, so here goes
On 11/23/22 10:43, Keith Smith via PLUG-discuss wrote:
Thanks Bob,
Ok, Lets say I register MyDomain.TLD.
I have 4 or 5 nodes on my local net on 192.168.99.x
(Statement group A)
1) My Linux desktop is on 192.168.99.5 and it
If you don't mind a heavy application, I use GIMP for this (on WIndblows
and Linux, but on W you can't do capture region).
On 11/17/22 09:15, Keith Smith via PLUG-discuss wrote:
Thanks Michael!!
On 2022-11-10 20:11, Michael Butash wrote:
In Spectacle, set the Capture Mode Area to rectangular
Huh. Well, sorry for coming late to the party, but I teach CIS126DL at
GatewayCC, and speaking as a user (NOT as a representative of
Gateway!!!), I say:
The students must install CentOS, Ubuntu, and OpenSuSE on 'a machine'.
they can use a real machine, or they can use VirtualBox or VMWare.
On the rsync backup question - how are you doing it? You should be able
to have the backup machine entirely headless, as long as ssh can get to
it you should be fine - assuming you run the backup from the machine
being backed up.
if you are running the backup from the backup machine, cron sho
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