Re: calendar program loops

2016-08-25 Thread Joe Zeff
On 08/24/2016 10:21 PM, Jon LaBadie wrote: Root runs a nightly cronjob of "/usr/bin/calendar -a" to look at each users calendar file and send notices of upcoming events. The new version loops endlessly through all the users. If I run calendar as myself without the -a option it doesn't loop. Ru

Re: evercookies.

2016-08-25 Thread George N. White III
On Wed, Aug 24, 2016 at 10:08 PM, Tim wrote: > > You really do have to be one of the tinfoil hat brigade, never logging > in, using things like TOR, stealing other people's WiFi, changing IPs, > etc., all of the time to be able to avoid that kind of big brother > watching (in the Orwellian sense

Re: evercookies.

2016-08-25 Thread Tim
Tim: >> a. Not that it's the DNS protocol, but a DNS server, that was >> implicated. DNS servers can keep access logs, too. Joe Zeff: > And, to be equally blunt, you were asserting that DNS servers could be > used to set evercookies on your machine and I was refuting that claim. Not I... The

Re: evercookies.

2016-08-25 Thread Tim
Allegedly, on or about 25 August 2016, William Mattison sent: > I'm now wondering if evercookies can really be fully blocked. I do > want to block what I reasonably can. But as was pointed out, a lot of > wanted web functionality needs cookies. So now I'm mainly focused on > getting them deleted

Re: Browser Privacy

2016-08-25 Thread Ahmad Samir
On 25 August 2016 at 03:14, Tim wrote: [...] > > At which point, you may as well have not bothered with using NoScript, > in the first place. Sure, this half measure has stopped some of the > nonsense (the other things that would also have loaded), but you're > still exposed to the risk that many

Re: calendar program loops

2016-08-25 Thread Jon LaBadie
On Thu, Aug 25, 2016 at 01:39:00AM -0700, Joe Zeff wrote: > On 08/24/2016 10:21 PM, Jon LaBadie wrote: > > Root runs a nightly cronjob of "/usr/bin/calendar -a" > > to look at each users calendar file and send notices > > of upcoming events. The new version loops endlessly > > through all the user

setting up a clearcase client on fedora 23?

2016-08-25 Thread Robert P. J. Day
i would like to do just that, and what i'm seeing out there with google are a lot of really old pages. anyone currently doing this successfully on (fully-updated) fedora 23? pointer to web page? thanks. rday -- Robert P

Re: F24, changing Thunar (Xfce) default archive manager

2016-08-25 Thread Robert Moskowitz
On 08/24/2016 03:20 PM, Heinz Diehl wrote: On 24.08.2016, Robert Moskowitz wrote: This shows both xarchiver and engrampa with xarchiver first, and the status is 'user set'. I cannot see a way to reverse their order or make engrampa the default archive manager. Hmm, maybe you just have to un

Re: calendar program loops

2016-08-25 Thread Tim Evans
On 08/25/2016 09:43 AM, Jon LaBadie wrote: On Thu, Aug 25, 2016 at 01:39:00AM -0700, Joe Zeff wrote: On 08/24/2016 10:21 PM, Jon LaBadie wrote: Root runs a nightly cronjob of "/usr/bin/calendar -a" to look at each users calendar file and send notices of upcoming events. The new version loops e

Evercookies & other malware: A different approach

2016-08-25 Thread Drew Samson
As I've been contemplating this over the last few days it occurred to me tools to deal with this effectively are readily at our disposal. The bullet-proof way to deal with this is related to what I wrote a few days ago. As I mentioned, I do my web browsing inside virtualbox and virtualbox has w

Re: evercookies.

2016-08-25 Thread stan
On Thu, 25 Aug 2016 02:51:56 - "William Mattison" wrote: > (I'm replying to the entire discussion as of Wednesday evening US > Mountain time.) [snip] > * Stan - In your last message on this topic, you implied you are > abandoning Adblock Plus and said you are using "tracking blockers". > Wh

Re: calendar program loops

2016-08-25 Thread Jon LaBadie
On Thu, Aug 25, 2016 at 10:55:39AM -0400, Tim Evans wrote: > On 08/25/2016 09:43 AM, Jon LaBadie wrote: > > On Thu, Aug 25, 2016 at 01:39:00AM -0700, Joe Zeff wrote: > > > On 08/24/2016 10:21 PM, Jon LaBadie wrote: > > > > Root runs a nightly cronjob of "/usr/bin/calendar -a" > > > > to look at eac

Re: the "ls" command line

2016-08-25 Thread Roberto Ragusa
On 08/24/2016 08:36 AM, Samuel Sieb wrote: > Remember that the globs ("*") are interpreted by the shell, not ls. In fact, interesting things can happen if you have a file called "-l". (and this is why we have option "--") -- Roberto Ragusamail at robertoragusa.it -- users mailing list u

lirc on fedora?

2016-08-25 Thread Tom Horsley
I see lirc rpms on fedora, but I wonder about the systemd integration. The /usr/share/doc/lirc-core/README.fedora file doesn't quite seem to document the actual installation. The /usr/lib/systemd/system/lircd.service file says it depends on the lircd-setup.service, which doesn't seem to have a se

Re: lirc on fedora?

2016-08-25 Thread Tom Horsley
On Thu, 25 Aug 2016 16:20:12 -0400 Tom Horsley wrote: > The /usr/lib/systemd/system/lircd.service file says > it depends on the lircd-setup.service, which doesn't > seem to have a service file anywhere. DOH! Nevermind. lircd-setup is a program, not a service, and it does exist. I seem to have lir

yumex-dnf font size

2016-08-25 Thread Beartooth
I need a much bigger font for yumex-dnf than the F24 default; where can I change it? -- users mailing list users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe or change subscription options: https://lists.fedoraproject.org/admin/lists/users@lists.fedoraproject.org Fedora Code of Conduct: http://

Re: lirc on fedora?

2016-08-25 Thread Greg Woods
On Thu, Aug 25, 2016 at 2:47 PM, Tom Horsley wrote: > On Thu, 25 Aug 2016 16:20:12 -0400 > Tom Horsley wrote: > I seem to have lirc running OK > and recognizing commands from my remote now. In case anyone else finds this thread later: I had to go back to the F23 version of lirc on my F24 syste

Re: lirc on fedora?

2016-08-25 Thread Tom Horsley
On Thu, 25 Aug 2016 15:07:47 -0600 Greg Woods wrote: > In case anyone else finds this thread later: I had to go back to the F23 > version of lirc on my F24 systems, because I was getting key bounces > (pressing one key and having it act like multiple key presses). Nah, that's a feature! The probl

Re: evercookies.

2016-08-25 Thread Robin Laing
On 24/08/16 20:51, William Mattison wrote: (I'm replying to the entire discussion as of Wednesday evening US Mountain time.) I'm now wondering if evercookies can really be fully blocked. I do want to block what I reasonably can. But as was pointed out, a lot of wanted web functionality needs c

Re: Browser Privacy

2016-08-25 Thread Robin Laing
On 25/08/16 06:41, Ahmad Samir wrote: On 25 August 2016 at 03:14, Tim wrote: [...] I used to use NoScript up until a couple of years ago when loading pages took extra time *because of* NoScript which is just irritating. So I ditched NoScript (which over the years became *too much*) and switc

Re: Seeking advice on router.

2016-08-25 Thread Robin Laing
On 20/08/16 09:44, Erik P. Olsen wrote: I have a linksys router model WRT160NL but the range is too short. I experience many situations where the connection is dropped when the distance from the router is more than 25 feet. What is the recommended router when it comes to signal strength? I would

Re: encrypted partitions

2016-08-25 Thread Robin Laing
On 20/08/16 05:03, Patrick Dupre wrote: Hello, On a laptop, I would like to setup 2 encrypted partitions with the same passphrase (this is easy). Now, when I boot the laptop, I would like to have to provide the passphrase only one time. Is it possible? Thank. Look at Pam_mount. I use pam_mo