Re: Configuring a web server on one's daily driver

2025-07-21 Thread Scott L. via PLUG-discuss
ughts? Thanks!! Keith On 2025-07-16 13:20, Stephen Partington via PLUG-discuss wrote: I would not do this in my situation, but if i had needs and the desktop is the only thing i had to work with I would use docker or a VM in order to segment it afro my workstation/desktop On Wed, Jul 16, 2025 at

Re: Configuring a web server on one's daily driver

2025-07-16 Thread Scott L. via PLUG-discuss
If it's bound to localhost (127.0.0.1[https://127.0.0.1]), is not opening listening ports externally (or said ports are blocked), and is effectively walled off from the Internet, the risk is very low. You could always block the program at the software level (and I would), but ideally you'd wan

Re: Thu Topic, "Hacker Public Radio - why you should listen, and contribute"

2025-04-10 Thread Scott L. via PLUG-discuss
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA256 The meeting is supposed to be Thursday, 4/10 at 7:00pm MST, correct? I'm in the meeting, but I seem to be the only one. Not sure if I got the time wrong or what. If someone could enlighten me as to what I did incorrectly, I'd appreciate it! - ---

Re: Yahoo, Thunderbird and the quest for email freedom

2025-03-25 Thread Scott L. via PLUG-discuss
Yahoo is rather notorious for security and privacy issues. I'd highly recommend deleting your account once you find a replacement. Even Gmail is preferable imo. As far as clients, I use FairEmail as my primary email app. It has an insane amount of options. The trick is to ignore all of that un

Re: Using AsciiDoc to Create Presentations tonight

2025-03-14 Thread Scott L. via PLUG-discuss
Apologies for dropping in the middle of the meeting last night. I had to take a call that lasted most of the duration. --- Scott Lopez Email: p...@sl.neteng.cc Mar 13, 2025 6:32:57 PM der.hans : moin moin, tonight's presentation is in BigBlueButton a

RE: PLESK / shared hosting question

2025-02-27 Thread Scott L. via PLUG-discuss
If you’re looking for a good, inclusive VPS deal, I would highly recommend Hostinger (hostinger.com). I’ve had their “KVM 2” plan (2 vCPU / 8 GB RAM / 100 GB NVMe space / 8 TB bandwidth) for about a year and half now. They’re offering this plan for $6.99/mo for a 24-month term ($167.76 for 2

Re: TrueNAS vs Samba

2025-01-13 Thread Scott L. via PLUG-discuss
I'm more of a day-to-day Windows user, but I maintain two Ubuntu servers (my Raspi and a VPS). From my experience, Samba can be rather difficult to set up. In fact, I wasn't able to get it working between my Pi and Win10 desktop. The problem is there are many different versions of SMB/CIFS. I

Re: Was GoDaddy using SquirrelMail Circa 2006

2025-01-12 Thread Scott L. via PLUG-discuss
Jan 12, 2025 11:32:53 AM Arun Khan : For a small/medium SME setup postfix (SMTP) and dovecot (IMAP, POP) work together very well, for Web UI/UX you can integrate RoundCube. PS - Must do - enable the server's NTP client to get time from a reliable NTP server.  Dovecot used to stop w/o warning

Re: find jpg files (Michael)

2025-01-01 Thread Scott L. via PLUG-discuss
I've also found that the "locate" package makes my life a lot easier. It periodically creates a database of your file structure–the frequency of which you define with a cron job–such that it is then able to quickly search the DB and return a result. On Ubuntu, there's a basic "locate" package,