Re: OT: Linux kernel version in fiber modem

2021-12-26 Thread Tim via users
On Sun, 2021-12-26 at 12:23 -0600, Chris Adams wrote: > Often, when the vendors do any security updates, they'll do just the > minimum needed (which does make sense, since it's also the least > likely to break devices that can be difficult or impossible to > recover from an update failure). If the

Re: OT: Linux kernel version in fiber modem

2021-12-26 Thread Tim via users
On Sat, 2021-12-25 at 12:19 -0500, Mauricio Tavares wrote: > The joy of IoT: devices that are treated as appliances: never > get patched and are updated by being tossed and replaced with one > with newer vulnerabilities. And house lighting that's out of your control when the remote server co

Re: mp4 to dvd

2021-12-26 Thread Samuel Sieb
On 12/26/21 10:06, Joe Zeff wrote: On 12/26/21 12:53 PM, Michael Hennebry wrote: dvdstyler might be a good thing to have even if it does not do conversions, but right now, I'm looking for a conversion tool. Have you tried Audacity? That's only for audio, not video. _

Re: mp4 to dvd

2021-12-26 Thread Samuel Sieb
On 12/24/21 12:17, Michael Hennebry wrote: Any suggestions for converting mp4 files to VOB? Even an example with mencoder might be useful. Long long ago, I used mencoder for making DVD video files. Lost track of the script I used. I tried it again recently, but getting all the options right was m

Re: Pan updates

2021-12-26 Thread Ed Greshko
On 27/12/2021 01:45, Beartooth wrote: [...] On Thu, 23 Dec 2021 16:00:08 -0500, Ted Roche wrote: You can look up packages at https://packages.fedoraproject.org/ and https://packages.fedoraproject.org/pkgs/pan/pan/ shows you the current state of things. Perhaps you can get in touch with

Re: mp4 to dvd

2021-12-26 Thread Michael Hennebry
On Sun, 26 Dec 2021, Joe Zeff wrote: On 12/26/21 12:53 PM, Michael Hennebry wrote: dvdstyler might be a good thing to have even if it does not do conversions, but right now, I'm looking for a conversion tool. On sourceforge, I was told that dvdstyler does convert mp4. Have you tried Audacit

Re: OT: Linux kernel version in fiber modem

2021-12-26 Thread Slade Watkins
On Sun, Dec 26, 2021 at 1:24 PM Chris Adams wrote: > > Often, when the vendors do any security updates, they'll do just the > minimum needed (which does make sense, since it's also the least likely > to break devices that can be difficult or impossible to recover from an > update failure). If th

Re: OT: Linux kernel version in fiber modem

2021-12-26 Thread Chris Adams
Once upon a time, Slade Watkins said: > goes without saying but… old versions of the kernel are certainly way more > prone to these attacks and 100% shouldn’t be included on hardware meant to > be connected to the internet. (let alone send that connection to other > devices and otherwise manage th

Re: mp4 to dvd

2021-12-26 Thread Joe Zeff
On 12/26/21 12:53 PM, Michael Hennebry wrote: dvdstyler might be a good thing to have even if it does not do conversions, but right now, I'm looking for a conversion tool. Have you tried Audacity? ___ users mailing list -- users@lists.fedoraproject.or

Re: mp4 to dvd

2021-12-26 Thread Michael Hennebry
On Sat, 25 Dec 2021, Ed Greshko wrote: On 25/12/2021 05:44, Michael Hennebry wrote: On Fri, 24 Dec 2021, Michael Schwendt wrote: On Fri, 24 Dec 2021 14:17:57 -0600 (CST), Michael Hennebry wrote: Any suggestions for converting mp4 files to VOB? At least one of the files I want to convert

Re: Pan updates

2021-12-26 Thread Beartooth
[...] On Thu, 23 Dec 2021 16:00:08 -0500, Ted Roche wrote: > > You can look up packages at https://packages.fedoraproject.org/ > > and https://packages.fedoraproject.org/pkgs/pan/pan/ shows you the > current state of things. > > Perhaps you can get in touch with the maintainers of the Fe

Re: OT: Linux kernel version in fiber modem

2021-12-26 Thread Robert Moskowitz
On 12/26/21 10:52, Qiyu Yan wrote: 在 2021-12-25星期六的 03:15 -0800,Jonathan Ryshpan写道: On a whim I opened up the:    Legal Disclaimer Open Source Licenses in the management page for my fiber modem (ATT installed 2021/03/30) and discovered that the kernel is rather old:    linux kernel - Version

Re: OT: Linux kernel version in fiber modem

2021-12-26 Thread Robert Moskowitz
On 12/26/21 09:23, James Szinger wrote: On Sat, 25 Dec 2021 03:15:50 -0800 Jonathan Ryshpan wrote: On a whim I opened up the: Legal Disclaimer Open Source Licenses in the management page for my fiber modem (ATT installed 2021/03/30) and discovered that the kernel is rather old: linux

Re: OT: Linux kernel version in fiber modem

2021-12-26 Thread Jonathan Billings
On Dec 26, 2021, at 11:22, Slade Watkins wrote: > > I’m surprised they didn’t at least update the kernel included on OP’s modem > to a version that is still being maintained in the longterm…(4.4.y or later I > believe?) I am not surprised. I remember at a previous location, I had an analog T

Re: OT: Linux kernel version in fiber modem

2021-12-26 Thread Slade Watkins
On Sun, Dec 26, 2021 at 10:52 AM Qiyu Yan wrote: > Usually, a botnet is made up of those unmaintained but still running > device. > > I happened to have read a article about a botnet build on hacked modems > in China, https://blog.netlab.360.com/pink-en/ in this case, when > devices gets hacked,

Re: OT: Linux kernel version in fiber modem

2021-12-26 Thread Qiyu Yan
在 2021-12-25星期六的 03:15 -0800,Jonathan Ryshpan写道: > On a whim I opened up the: >    Legal Disclaimer Open Source Licenses > in the management page for my fiber modem (ATT installed 2021/03/30) > and discovered that the kernel is rather old: >    linux kernel - Version 3.4.11 > There are about 163 ot

Re: Problems with disk? apps failed, then reboot failed. Needed fsck

2021-12-26 Thread Robert Moskowitz
Quick note: I am using SSD: fdisk -l /dev/sda Disk /dev/sda: 465.76 GiB, 500107862016 bytes, 976773168 sectors Disk model: WDC WDBNCE5000PN Units: sectors of 1 * 512 = 512 bytes Sector size (logical/physical): 512 bytes / 512 bytes I/O size (minimum/optimal): 512 bytes / 512 bytes Disklabel type

Re: Problems with disk? apps failed, then reboot failed. Needed fsck

2021-12-26 Thread John Mellor
On 2021-12-26 9:16 a.m., Robert Moskowitz wrote: I was working away this morning and got a failure with LIbreOffice. Was not actually using it, but then the dialog popped up without the content being filled out,  Just whatever was on the screen when it opened... I could not get OpenOffice to

Re: OT: Linux kernel version in fiber modem

2021-12-26 Thread James Szinger
On Sat, 25 Dec 2021 03:15:50 -0800 Jonathan Ryshpan wrote: > On a whim I opened up the: >Legal Disclaimer Open Source Licenses > in the management page for my fiber modem (ATT installed 2021/03/30) > and discovered that the kernel is rather old: >linux kernel - Version 3.4.11 > There are

Problems with disk? apps failed, then reboot failed. Needed fsck

2021-12-26 Thread Robert Moskowitz
I was working away this morning and got a failure with LIbreOffice. Was not actually using it, but then the dialog popped up without the content being filled out,  Just whatever was on the screen when it opened... I could not get OpenOffice to restart.  It did create a abrt and tried to upload