Re: A hypervisor for a headless server?

2023-06-02 Thread Miles Fidelman
. Can you please advise a similar headless and minimal hypervisor for Debian or Ubuntu? The classic would be Xen (which I've been running for years). There's also Virtual Box, and VMware ESXi.  You might check out the list at https://www.hitechnectar.com/blogs/open-source-hype

Re: Who pays Debian developement

2023-01-31 Thread Miles Fidelman
s out there, who are working on company time, to make contributions to Debian (and other) open source software.  And folks at places that host the work - like the OSU OSL - are certainly drawing salaries from their parent institutions.  I expect a lot of that work is grant funded. Miles Fid

Re: MacOS VM on Debian: is it reasonably possible?

2022-11-22 Thread Miles Fidelman
Well... that would basically be MacOS, or a GUI that looks like MacOS running on another BSD. Mario Marietto wrote: How difficult will it be to create a BSD system with the look and feel of the MacOSX ? I mean,not only based on aesthetics,but more structural,but not so much structural to inc

Re: MacOS VM on Debian: is it reasonably possible?

2022-11-22 Thread Miles Fidelman
ther way leads into both licensing issues, and boot issues. Miles Fidelman (typing on a Mac, which is BSD Unix underneath, sending via a server running Debian in a VM over Xen, with Dom0 also being Debian - meanwhile, there are several Windows & Linux VMs on this Mac - not running at the mome

Re: Three unsolvable Problems

2022-07-24 Thread Miles Fidelman
issue. 3 With the digicam we made MP4 files - videos. Because the battery became empty the files are not finalized. So vlc or avidemux cannot open them. Can somebody help to repair them e.g. with FFmpeg? Miles Fidelman -- In theory, there is no difference between theory and practice. In practice, th

Re: general broad question for help in setting up linux server and suggestions

2021-10-15 Thread Miles Fidelman
stem will easily set you back $2-3000.  You can get some comparable, Supermicro mini-itx boxes for a bit less. Miles Fidelman -- In theory, there is no difference between theory and practice. In practice, there is. Yogi Berra Theory is when you know everything but nothing wor

Re: Disk errors ...

2021-01-14 Thread Miles Fidelman
Michael Stone wrote: On Thu, Jan 14, 2021 at 11:45:25AM -0500, Miles Fidelman wrote: Dennis Wicks wrote: Greetings; I am getting very frequent disk errors and I can't figure out which drive they are occurring on. I get two messages: [174384.704895] sata_sil :05:00.0: Event l

Re: Disk errors ...

2021-01-14 Thread Miles Fidelman
tries actually mean.  Traditionally, a "page fault" indicates that a page is not found in memory, so the o/s is swapping the required page in from disk.  This might simply mean that you need more memory.  You might look at diagnostics that indicate memory usage and swapping. Miles F

Re: GNU Guix

2020-09-29 Thread Miles Fidelman
ty interesting). Miles Fidelman -- In theory, there is no difference between theory and practice. In practice, there is. Yogi Berra Theory is when you know everything but nothing works. Practice is when everything works but no one knows why. In our lab, theory and practice are combined: nothing wo

Re: linux isn't robust enough to handle bad sector??

2020-09-21 Thread Miles Fidelman
On 9/20/20 11:53 PM, David Christensen wrote: On 2020-09-20 01:40, Reco wrote: Hi. Hello.  :-) On Sun, Sep 20, 2020 at 01:32:47AM -0700, David Christensen wrote: On 2020-09-20 00:49, Long Wind wrote:   On Sunday, September 20, 2020, 2:15:21 PM GMT+8, David Christensen First, bac

Re: linux isn't robust enough to handle bad sector??

2020-09-20 Thread Miles Fidelman
er-grade drives just give up after the first try - letting RAID do its thing. You might want to check the specs on your drive, and run a deep set of diagnostics, starting with the more intrusive smart diagnostics. Miles Fidelman -- In theory, there is no difference between theory and practi

Re: [Interim Solution] Re: FOSS equivalents of *OLD* database and spreadsheet tools?

2020-07-30 Thread Miles Fidelman
seem to make a lot of sense. Anything else, and some kind of converter will be needed. Miles Fidelman -- In theory, there is no difference between theory and practice. In practice, there is. Yogi Berra Theory is when you know everything but nothing works. Practice is when everything works

Re: FOSS equivalents of *OLD* database and spreadsheet tools?

2020-07-28 Thread Miles Fidelman
st of databases!  Thanks for posting this.  Who knew? Miles Fidelman -- In theory, there is no difference between theory and practice. In practice, there is. Yogi Berra Theory is when you know everything but nothing works. Practice is when everything works but no one knows why. In our lab, theo

Re: FOSS equivalents of *OLD* database and spreadsheet tools?

2020-07-27 Thread Miles Fidelman
On 7/27/20 11:16 AM, Michael Stone wrote: On Mon, Jul 27, 2020 at 08:09:36AM -0400, Greg Wooledge wrote: For a project of this size and scope, a Tcl application with an sqlite3 database in a local file seems well suited. Only on the internet can someone ask a simple question and get tcl as t

Re: FOSS equivalents of *OLD* database and spreadsheet tools?

2020-07-25 Thread Miles Fidelman
ou going to get your nutritional database. (Seems to me that most of what Weight Watchers and Noom do is collect data on millions of products.) Good Eating, Miles Fidelman

RAID stuff [was Re: Advice on hardware server to use for small a dedicated data center]

2020-07-01 Thread Miles Fidelman
On 7/1/20 8:15 AM, Miles Fidelman wrote: On 7/1/20 7:04 AM, Reco wrote: On Wed, Jul 01, 2020 at 08:49:09PM +1000, elvis wrote: On 1/7/20 4:51 am, Dan Ritter wrote: Miles Fidelman wrote: On 6/29/20 7:20 PM, Dan Ritter wrote: Miles Fidelman wrote: On 6/29/20 9:10 AM, Dan Ritter wrote

Re: Advice on hardware server to use for small a dedicated data center

2020-07-01 Thread Miles Fidelman
On 7/1/20 7:04 AM, Reco wrote: On Wed, Jul 01, 2020 at 08:49:09PM +1000, elvis wrote: On 1/7/20 4:51 am, Dan Ritter wrote: Miles Fidelman wrote: On 6/29/20 7:20 PM, Dan Ritter wrote: Miles Fidelman wrote: On 6/29/20 9:10 AM, Dan Ritter wrote: Miles Fidelman wrote: Now who's

Re: Advice on hardware server to use for small a dedicated data center

2020-06-30 Thread Miles Fidelman
On 6/29/20 7:20 PM, Dan Ritter wrote: Miles Fidelman wrote: On 6/29/20 9:10 AM, Dan Ritter wrote: Miles Fidelman wrote: Now who's being pedantic? Precisely. And isn't this exactly what I said??? mdadm is an admin program, it doesn't perform the raid function. And it'

Re: Advice on hardware server to use for small a dedicated data center

2020-06-29 Thread Miles Fidelman
the data volume formatted as XFS.  I use separate partitioned SSDs for booting and swap. On 6/28/2020 3:48 PM, Miles Fidelman wrote: On 6/28/20 3:58 PM, D. R. Evans wrote: Dan Ritter wrote on 6/26/20 1:41 PM: echo test wrote: Note: I will need some RAID solution hard or soft. We are firmly

Re: Advice on hardware server to use for small a dedicated data center

2020-06-29 Thread Miles Fidelman
On 6/29/20 9:10 AM, Dan Ritter wrote: Miles Fidelman wrote: Just to be clear... mdadm is NOT raid - it's an admin program for managing linux raid (md) devices.?? And then you need to worry about LVM (logical volume manager), and a network file system on top of them. Just to be clear, yo

Re: Advice on hardware server to use for small a dedicated data center

2020-06-28 Thread Miles Fidelman
On 6/28/20 3:58 PM, D. R. Evans wrote: Dan Ritter wrote on 6/26/20 1:41 PM: echo test wrote: Note: I will need some RAID solution hard or soft. We are firmly of the opinion that mdadm or ZFS are the best solutions here. Absolutely. Actually I'd go further and differentiate the two by sugg

Re: Advice on hardware server to use for small a dedicated data center

2020-06-28 Thread Miles Fidelman
folks who actually know how to do this stuff.  Here, I'm speaking as someone who HAS homebrewed a small service bureau, with serious experience in computing & IT - back before any of this stuff was available off the shelf.  It's a royal PITA.  These days, I'm far more likely to

Re: Advice on hardware server to use for small a dedicated data center

2020-06-28 Thread Miles Fidelman
ultiple sites.  Red Hat has some good solutions, out-of-the-box, and last time I looked, they were all based on open source components - you could integrate those with CentOS, and probably Debian - but it takes a lot of work. Miles Fidelman -- In theory, there is no difference between theory

Re: Advice on hardware server to use for small a dedicated data center

2020-06-27 Thread Miles Fidelman
On 6/27/20 11:56 PM, Kenneth Parker wrote: On Sat, Jun 27, 2020, 8:08 PM Fred <mailto:f...@blakemfg.com>> wrote: On 6/27/20 1:04 PM, Miles Fidelman wrote: > I've had good luck with Supermicro 1U servers - run two or more of them > and it's easy

Re: Advice on hardware server to use for small a dedicated data center

2020-06-27 Thread Miles Fidelman
er the hood, and I've run all kinds of Linux distros on Macs, under virtualization.  You should be able to run Debian directly, though I've never tried it. Miles Fidelman On 6/26/2020 1:34 PM, echo test wrote: Hello, First of all, please don't ask me why I simply don't wan

Re: technical terms overhaul

2020-06-22 Thread Miles Fidelman
On 6/22/20 5:59 AM, Will Mengarini wrote: * Miles Fidelman [20-06/20=Sa 11:58 -0400]: Solve the problem of establishing a good set of gender-neutral pronouns, for English, (and maybe declarations in other languages) - then let's come back and debate colors. Here you go: cocos

Re: technical terms overhaul

2020-06-21 Thread Miles Fidelman
out a substantive discussion.  I'm almost at the point where I'm willing to relax my strong "free speech" stance, to make calls for "moderation" or banning people the one and only grounds for immediate ejection from a list. Cheers, Miles Fidelman -- In theo

Re: technical terms overhaul

2020-06-20 Thread Miles Fidelman
m of establishing a good set of gender-neutral pronouns, for English, (and maybe declarations in other languages) - then let's come back and debate colors.  Meanwhile, life's too short for this. Miles Fidelman On 6/20/20 3:25 AM, Weaver wrote: On 20-06-2020 12:57, Dan Ritter wrote:

Re: Return a Debian system to a pristine state

2020-05-29 Thread Miles Fidelman
or apt - ranging from stuff installed directly from tarballs, to local configurations & scripts. As far as I can tell, the only way to get to a "pristine" system, is to rebuild from scratch. Miles Fidelman -- In theory, there is no difference between theory and practice. In p

Re: Return a Debian system to a pristine state

2020-05-28 Thread Miles Fidelman
don't want any of the desktop applications - but then we know enough not to install it in the first place.  We tend to be more worried about all the interdependcies installed/required by systemd - but that's another battle entirely. Miles Fidelman -- In theory, there is no difference between th

Re: Return a Debian system to a pristine state

2020-05-28 Thread Miles Fidelman
Of course, the real way to return ANY system to a pristine state is to do a re-install from scratch. Which, one might add, is why we have things like Ansible. Miles Fidelman On 5/28/20 1:15 AM, Victor Sudakov wrote: Dan Ritter wrote: Victor Sudakov wrote: A production system, especially a

Re: Serial port software

2019-11-27 Thread Miles Fidelman
On 11/27/19 7:38 PM, John Hasler wrote: Paul Sutton wrote: We have need, at the South Devon Tech Jam to gain access to a switch that has a serial port, but using the serial port, (having issues using the switch ip address). I have a netbook running debian along with a usb -> 9 pin serial conne

Re: cannot bring up phpmyadmin in browser, cannot link to mysql

2019-10-05 Thread Miles Fidelman
.  It's saved me no end of trouble. Miles Fidelman -- In theory, there is no difference between theory and practice. In practice, there is. Yogi Berra Theory is when you know everything but nothing works. Practice is when everything works but no one knows why. In our lab, theory an

Re: disk going bad? or fuser related issues? . . .

2019-10-04 Thread Miles Fidelman
, and slower, for no apparent reason. Miles Fidelman -- In theory, there is no difference between theory and practice. In practice, there is. Yogi Berra Theory is when you know everything but nothing works. Practice is when everything works but no one knows why. In our lab, theory and p

Re: I support the founder of FreeSoftware

2019-09-19 Thread Miles Fidelman
ury Caesar, not to praise him. The evil that men do lives after them; The good is oft interred with their bones;" These days, it seems, we don't wait for them to die. We just kill them, professionally. Miles Fidelman -- In theory, there is no difference between theory and practice.

Re: What is agetty, and why can't it be stopped?

2019-06-06 Thread Miles Fidelman
tty5 00:00:00 agetty Why all this would tie up the serial port I don't know. Depends on how the serial port is configured.  It's pretty standard for it to be set up as a console, by default, in which case an instance of getty would be running waiting for a user to login. Miles Fidelman

Re: What is agetty, and why can't it be stopped?

2019-06-06 Thread Miles Fidelman
n X-window or other GUI for sys admin work.  Lots of getty instances running, sitting on network ports, just waiting for logins. Miles Fidelman -- In theory, there is no difference between theory and practice. In practice, there is. Yogi Berra Theory is when you know everything but not

Re: What is agetty, and why can't it be stopped?

2019-06-05 Thread Miles Fidelman
quot;man getty" or "man agetty" and you should find what you need Miles Fidelman On 6/5/19 10:04 PM, Gene Heskett wrote: Greetings all; This machine has only one serial port, which I normally use a session of minicom to connect as a terminal quit a bit dumber than a vt102, to a TR

Re: Why choose Debian on server

2019-01-03 Thread Miles Fidelman
On 1/3/19 5:55 AM, Reco wrote: Hi. On Wed, Jan 02, 2019 at 02:56:41PM -0500, Miles Fidelman wrote: some of the recent politics, has made me far less comfortable that Debian will remain a stable platform - and I'm seriously considering migrating to either Gentoo or a BSD pla

Re: Why choose Debian on server

2019-01-02 Thread Miles Fidelman
On 1/2/19 5:16 PM, deloptes wrote: Miles Fidelman wrote: I'm not sure how well GIMP would run on across a network, particularly if one wants to use a pen.  It's really designed to run on a machine with a head. so you are saying you can not ssh -X to the server and run your gimp

Re: Why choose Debian on server

2019-01-02 Thread Miles Fidelman
on the laptop and radius configuration. I'm not sure how well GIMP would run on across a network, particularly if one wants to use a pen.  It's really designed to run on a machine with a head. Miles Fidelman -- In theory, there is no difference between theory and practice. In practice, there is. Yogi Berra

Re: Why choose Debian on server

2019-01-02 Thread Miles Fidelman
m really not so sure.  All of the debacle around systemd, and some of the recent politics, has made me far less comfortable that Debian will remain a stable platform - and I'm seriously considering migrating to either Gentoo or a BSD platform. Miles Fidelman -- In theory, there is no difference between theory and practice. In practice, there is. Yogi Berra

Re: Fwd: You removed Weboob package over pollitical reasons?Whole Internet laughs at you

2018-12-24 Thread Miles Fidelman
On 12/24/18 6:43 PM, Mark Fletcher wrote: On Tue, Dec 25, 2018 at 7:56 Miles Fidelman mailto:mfidel...@meetinghouse.net>> wrote: Not for nothing... Please don’t top post. Yeah, whatever.  Grammar nazi. but I'd never heard of weboob before.  Looks like a rath

Re: You removed Weboob package over pollitical reasons?Whole Internet laughs at you

2018-12-24 Thread Miles Fidelman
s up.  For anything except the most common stuff, I'll always stick with >make;make install Miles Fidelman On 12/24/18 5:25 AM, Ivan Ivanov wrote: 500 comments at Slashdot, >200 at Phoronix and >1000 at linux org ru! See now? When a technical project starts making their decisions

Re: Advice on mailing list software -- special requirements

2018-10-24 Thread Miles Fidelman
On 10/24/18 2:05 PM, Joe wrote: On Wed, 24 Oct 2018 12:47:10 -0400 Miles Fidelman wrote: On 10/24/18 6:45 AM, rhkra...@gmail.com wrote: On Wednesday, October 24, 2018 12:32:15 AM Miles Fidelman wrote: Yes, but you really need a PUBLIC static IP address, or things tend to get hairy

Re: Advice on mailing list software -- special requirements

2018-10-24 Thread Miles Fidelman
On 10/24/18 2:30 PM, rhkra...@gmail.com wrote: Ahh, a useful clue -- so the mail lists that list procmail as a dependency (and no MTA) might meet my desires of being able to run a mail list without setting up an MTA on my own machine. No. Procmail is primarily a LOCAL delivery agent - genera

Re: Advice on mailing list software -- special requirements

2018-10-24 Thread Miles Fidelman
On 10/24/18 12:56 PM, mick crane wrote: On 2018-10-24 17:47, Miles Fidelman wrote: We've had somebody make such an offer, and we'll probably take them up on it -- I sort of wanted to try to set up a small mail list on one of my computers, as long as I didn't have to run a w

Re: Advice on mailing list software -- special requirements

2018-10-24 Thread Miles Fidelman
On 10/24/18 6:45 AM, rhkra...@gmail.com wrote: On Wednesday, October 24, 2018 12:32:15 AM Miles Fidelman wrote: > Yes, but you really need a PUBLIC static IP address, or things tend to > get hairy.  Dynamic DNS will help, but only to a point.  And, a lot of > ISPs really don't

Re: Advice on mailing list software -- special requirements

2018-10-23 Thread Miles Fidelman
On 10/23/18 8:16 PM, rhkra...@gmail.com wrote: On Tuesday, October 23, 2018 11:04:52 AM Miles Fidelman wrote: Speaking from experience: Running your own server is a bit of a pain - to setup, and to administer, Must be my day to reply to email messages ;-) Yes, I've tried that before.

Re: Advice on mailing list software -- special requirements

2018-10-23 Thread Miles Fidelman
gs, I hate to recommend it, but google groups is about as free & easy as it gets. Otherwise, I expect somebody in your membership might have a corporate machine they'd host you on. Miles Fidelman On 10/23/18 9:53 AM, rhkra...@gmail.com wrote: (Aside to Jeff: Just sending you a co

Re: mailing list vs "the futur"

2018-08-29 Thread Miles Fidelman
rtainly not all business mail. Chances are, that most mail - at least business mail - will originate in Outlook, go through an Exchange server, and from there, travel over SMTP. Miles Fidelman -- In theory, there is no difference between theory and practice. In practice, there is. Yogi Berra

Re: mailing list vs "the futur"

2018-08-28 Thread Miles Fidelman
g the changes to user requirements for UI/UX is at least part of why NNTP is no longer a major factor in internet usage. Last time I looked, Thunderbird & Exchange both support news - a newsgroup looks just like another email account. Miles Fidelman -- In theory, there is no differenc

Re: mailing list vs "the futur"

2018-08-28 Thread Miles Fidelman
to be?" and ignore the rest of the argument. But one might want it to be - as compared to something centralized, like a list server or forum. Miles Fidelman -- In theory, there is no difference between theory and practice. In practice, there is. Yogi Berra

Re: mailing list vs "the futur"

2018-08-28 Thread Miles Fidelman
NNTP for distributing header information, and a distributed hash table for the files themselves. Saved a lot of bandwidth. Miles Fidelman -- In theory, there is no difference between theory and practice. In practice, there is. Yogi Berra

Re: [OT] Best (o better than yahoo) mail provider for malinglists

2018-08-28 Thread Miles Fidelman
group in New Zealand.  It has a bit of traction in the "electronic democracy" community. Miles Fidelman On 8/28/18 12:25 PM, Mark Rousell wrote: On 28/08/2018 17:12, Francesco Porro wrote: Ciao, As a member of this mailing list, I have a little (OT) question for you: which is the bes

Re: mailing list vs "the futur"

2018-08-12 Thread Miles Fidelman
ith anything other than another LinkedIn user (except by using one's browser to mail the item or a link). Nope.  Forwarding by email is about the only universal way to share stuff, or to move it from some service or another to one's personal storage (I can't tell you how often I e

Re: Get the external IP address from a Linux box

2018-05-24 Thread Miles Fidelman
cause there is a transparent proxy for outgoing HTTP connections) On the assumption that you're connected to a NAT router - the easiest way is to log into the admin port on the router - usually there's a management interface that will tell you your external IP address. Miles Fi

Re: domain names, was: hostname

2018-03-24 Thread Miles Fidelman
On 3/23/18 8:46 PM, David Wright wrote: On Fri 23 Mar 2018 at 13:05:17 (-0400), Miles Fidelman wrote: On 3/23/18 1:01 PM, David Wright wrote: On Fri 23 Mar 2018 at 11:59:06 (-0400), Miles Fidelman wrote: At some point, the network name that one's PC inserts into outgoing mail might b

Re: domain names, was: hostname

2018-03-23 Thread Miles Fidelman
On 3/23/18 1:01 PM, David Wright wrote: On Fri 23 Mar 2018 at 11:59:06 (-0400), Miles Fidelman wrote: On 3/22/18 10:03 PM, David Wright wrote: On Thu 22 Mar 2018 at 20:26:26 (+), Brian wrote: On Thu 22 Mar 2018 at 12:44:53 -0500, David Wright wrote: [...] Here are my points, as it&#

Re: Federated, decentralised communication on the internet

2018-03-23 Thread Miles Fidelman
) if you do not have one. That's all. All this academic crap about nodes and empty lists is irrelevant. But since we've gotten so off track already (and we all live for that, right?) On 3/22/18 11:04 PM, Richard Hector wrote: On 23/03/18 14:44, Miles Fidelman wrote: When

Re: domain names, was: hostname

2018-03-23 Thread Miles Fidelman
Given how much spam originates from botnet-infected home machines, and/or use forged sender information, I would not be surprised if some spam filters aren't checking the originating header for consistency. At some point, the network name that one's PC inserts into outgoing mail m

Re: Federated, decentralised communication on the internet

2018-03-22 Thread Miles Fidelman
entifies a node in the DNS tree.  By that view "." is the FQDN for the top of the tree, and "com" (or "com." is the top of the .com domain - but who really cares, except for pedantic purposes.   There aren't any nameservers that resolve "." or "com" or "mil" - implying that there are no records in the system for them (maybe there should be, but that's another question for another day). Miles Fidelman -- In theory, there is no difference between theory and practice. In practice, there is. Yogi Berra

Re: Federated, decentralised communication on the internet

2018-03-22 Thread Miles Fidelman
On 3/22/18 7:06 PM, dekks herton wrote: On 03/21, Miles Fidelman wrote: On 3/21/18 11:48 AM, Charlie Gibbs wrote: On 21/03/18 01:00 AM, to...@tuxteam.de wrote: My problem with "social networks" is that they're monopolies. Imagine popping down to the local pub for a pi

Re: Federated, decentralised communication on the internet

2018-03-22 Thread Miles Fidelman
On 3/22/18 3:56 AM, deloptes wrote: Miles Fidelman wrote: the problem with DMARC is simple - it breaks any kind of retransmission - in particular mailing lists that's why I don't get the mails delivered to the mailbox or get numerous non deliverable mails from the mail server. ne

Re: Federated, decentralised communication on the internet

2018-03-21 Thread Miles Fidelman
On 3/21/18 7:57 PM, Dan Purgert wrote: Miles Fidelman wrote: On 3/21/18 5:25 PM, Richard Owlett wrote: [...] I'm a consumer not a provider, but I understood that "control membership" was part of structure for a "moderated group". Education cheerfully accepted ;}

Re: Federated, decentralised communication on the internet

2018-03-21 Thread Miles Fidelman
problem with DMARC is simple - it breaks any kind of retransmission - in particular mailing lists Miles Fidelman -- In theory, there is no difference between theory and practice. In practice, there is. Yogi Berra

Re: Federated, decentralised communication on the internet

2018-03-21 Thread Miles Fidelman
On 3/21/18 5:25 PM, Richard Owlett wrote: On 03/21/2018 03:38 PM, Miles Fidelman wrote: On 3/21/18 12:32 PM, Richard Owlett wrote: On 03/21/2018 11:05 AM, Miles Fidelman wrote: On 3/21/18 11:48 AM, Charlie Gibbs wrote: On 21/03/18 01:00 AM, to...@tuxteam.de wrote: My problem with

Re: Federated, decentralised communication on the internet

2018-03-21 Thread Miles Fidelman
On 3/21/18 12:32 PM, Richard Owlett wrote: On 03/21/2018 11:05 AM, Miles Fidelman wrote: On 3/21/18 11:48 AM, Charlie Gibbs wrote: On 21/03/18 01:00 AM, to...@tuxteam.de wrote: My problem with "social networks" is that they're monopolies. Imagine popping down to the local

Re: Federated, decentralised communication on the internet

2018-03-21 Thread Miles Fidelman
l, such sites will have to do without my pearls of wisdom.  :-) Maybe we should move back to USENET.  It worked pretty well, and it's still going strong in some quarters.  Add some global identity & reputation management, and the ability to set up lots of small newsgroups - and we'd

Re: More then 2800 spams from the list...

2018-03-19 Thread Miles Fidelman
n be trusted - except that spambots don't generally report bounces. One needs more copies of the spam, and more bounce messages, to figure out what's going on. The general assumption here is that some spambot has manufactured headers that make it look like a message from Michelle to D

Re: Cumulative internet data transfer {up AND down}

2017-11-17 Thread Miles Fidelman
earch turned up only discussion of measuring throughput RATE. Suggestion of keyword(s) for search? I use vnstat for daily/weekly/monthly stats. Can also give you typical use by hour of day. Ditto to vnstat Miles Fidelman -- In theory, there is no difference between theory and practice. In pra

Re: attach a big picture

2017-10-21 Thread Miles Fidelman
ng like filemail.com - uploads a file, then emails a link to it, and free for most uses. Miles Fidelman -- In theory, there is no difference between theory and practice. In practice, there is. Yogi Berra

Re: HNI Email List

2017-09-07 Thread Miles Fidelman
but a moronic one.  (And certainly one I wouldn't trust for any kind of educational services.) Miles Fidelman -- In theory, there is no difference between theory and practice. In practice, there is. Yogi Berra

Re: OCR

2017-08-22 Thread Miles Fidelman
Probably CamScanner on a smartphone. On 8/22/17 3:22 PM, Stephen Grant Brown wrote: Hi All, What is the best OCR package to use to scan the receipts given immediately after making a purchase? Yours Sincerely Stephen Grant Brown -- In theory, there is no difference between theory and practic

Re: perl system integrity?

2017-07-18 Thread Miles Fidelman
t; - everything gets checked. Same again when you install/update modules via cpan. It takes a while, but you know everything is working. Personally, when I'm using perl, I always install from scratch, and maintain using cpan - packagers & packaging just muck it up. Miles Fidelman -

Re: If Linux Is About Choice, Why Then ...

2017-04-10 Thread Miles Fidelman
They want far more granular control of their systems than some huge monolithic blob of code that doesn't always behave as desired. Miles Fidelman -- In theory, there is no difference between theory and practice. In practice, there is. Yogi Berra

Re: If Linux Is About Choice, Why Then ...

2017-04-10 Thread Miles Fidelman
On 4/10/17 2:07 AM, Patrick Bartek wrote: On Sun, 9 Apr 2017 17:39:50 -0400 Miles Fidelman wrote: On 4/9/17 4:15 PM, Patrick Bartek wrote: After much reading, I consider systemd more suited to large, busy servers than a desktop box or notebook with just one user. It's like being forc

Re: If Linux Is About Choice, Why Then ...

2017-04-09 Thread Miles Fidelman
will do. ;-) Funny thing. As far as I can tell, those of us who run production servers are the ones who are most disturbed by the ways that systemd wends its way into all aspects of a system. Miles Fidelman -- In theory, there is no difference between theory and practice. In practice, the

Re: Using Samsung tablets for Debian

2017-03-21 Thread Miles Fidelman
'm not quite sure what that means. You probably end up with some kind of hybrid environment.) There are some forums for Android developers that might be worth exploring for more info. Miles Fidelman -- In theory, there is no difference between theory and practice. In practice, there is. Yogi Berra

Re: Guide(s?) to backup philosophies

2017-03-14 Thread Miles Fidelman
work for everyone. Only if they do versioning. Otherwise, live snapshots mirror deletes - not very useful if you want to restore an accidental delete! Miles Fidelman -- In theory, there is no difference between theory and practice. In practice, there is. Yogi Berra

Re: Guide(s?) to backup philosophies

2017-03-14 Thread Miles Fidelman
roach on our production servers, the second for all the machines at home (mix of Mac, Windows, Linux). My wife and I also run Time Machine on our Macbooks - there's a lot to be said for having backup that doesn't require having an external disk plugged in. Miles Fidelman -- In theory, there is no difference between theory and practice. In practice, there is. Yogi Berra

Re: If Linux Is About Choice, Why Then ...

2017-03-14 Thread Miles Fidelman
but please leave out the emotional codswallop. There USED TO BE a lot of demand for a choice of installer at init time - from pretty much all of us who object to systemd. Nobody listened, eventually people gave up, and a lot moved to other distros. Miles Fidelman -- In theory, there is

Re: If Linux Is About Choice, Why Then ...

2017-03-13 Thread Miles Fidelman
e ability to specify sysvinit instead of systemd. I don't recall seeing close messages about all of them. Miles Fidelman -- In theory, there is no difference between theory and practice. In practice, there is. Yogi Berra

Re: If Linux Is About Choice, Why Then ...

2017-03-13 Thread Miles Fidelman
On 3/13/17 12:44 PM, Erwan David wrote: Le 03/13/17 à 20:40, Greg Wooledge a écrit : On Mon, Mar 13, 2017 at 12:30:11PM -0700, Patrick Bartek wrote: The Linux mantra has always been "choice," plethoras of choices. So why at install time, is there no choice for the init system? You get what th

Re: If Linux Is About Choice, Why Then ...

2017-03-13 Thread Miles Fidelman
t might be because all of those who run servers - the traditional realm of Debian - have given up and migrated elsewhere. We can't afford to run a poorly designed load of crap, that takes over one's machine, as an init system. Miles Fidelman -- In theory, there is no difference betwe

[OT] Antikythera mechanism [was Re: Do have programs have poor documentation?]

2016-12-30 Thread Miles Fidelman
Talk about a thread going South! (Perhaps we can get back to bashing systemd?) On 12/30/16 7:07 PM, deloptes wrote: In what way is the Antikythera mechanism not a computer? And where did your 400 years come from? I understand what you mean, but it was in the last 400y that this machine to

Re: Pendrive computer

2016-12-28 Thread Miles Fidelman
On 12/28/16 3:13 PM, Richard Owlett wrote: On 12/28/2016 12:20 PM, Miles Fidelman wrote: On 12/28/16 1:06 PM, Richard Owlett wrote: On 12/28/2016 8:31 AM, rhkra...@gmail.com wrote: Just wondering if anybody on here has acquired something like the following Even if preloaded with Windoze

Re: Pendrive computer

2016-12-28 Thread Miles Fidelman
On 12/28/16 1:06 PM, Richard Owlett wrote: On 12/28/2016 8:31 AM, rhkra...@gmail.com wrote: Just wondering if anybody on here has acquired something like the following Even if preloaded with Windoze I would be interested in a product specific reference. If it can run Windows(TM) it can run

Re: looking for a piece of software that will take an url (say to a blog post) and email me the contents

2016-11-06 Thread Miles Fidelman
27;mail this to me'. Are there any plugins that are so savvy? TIA for any info, and thanks again Dan P and Celejar. dan On Sat, Nov 5, 2016 at 6:47 PM, Miles Fidelman wrote: On 11/5/16 6:01 PM, Dan Hitt wrote: Does anybody know of a piece of software that you can give an URL to, and it

Re: looking for a piece of software that will take an url (say to a blog post) and email me the contents

2016-11-05 Thread Miles Fidelman
On 11/5/16 6:01 PM, Dan Hitt wrote: Does anybody know of a piece of software that you can give an URL to, and it will then fetch the url and email the contents to you? This could be a stand-alone app on the desktop, or a plug-in to a browser, or a web site, or some combo. (I guess it could be

Re: WARNING! New Perl/Perl-base upgrade removes 141 Sid/Unstable packages

2016-09-28 Thread Miles Fidelman
As a general rule, I find that using Debian packaging for perl makes absolutely no sense - and often problematic. Perl has its own ecosystem (cpan) that does an incredibly good job of packaging, updating, and dependency management. Mixing and matching that with Debian packaging, and expecting

Re: WordPress on Debian

2016-09-19 Thread Miles Fidelman
On 9/19/16 3:36 PM, David Wright wrote: On Mon 19 Sep 2016 at 13:43:04 (-0500), Kent West wrote: On Mon, Sep 19, 2016 at 1:29 PM, Kent West wrote: On Mon, Sep 19, 2016 at 11:53 AM, Tony Baldwin wrote: On 09/19/2016 12:26 PM, Miles Fidelman wrote: On 9/19/16 12:20 PM, Tony Baldwin wrote

Re: WordPress on Debian

2016-09-19 Thread Miles Fidelman
test; make install. It all just works so much better than relying on out-of-date packages. If I want to get ambitious, and keep track of things via the package manager, I use checkinstall. Miles Fidelman -- In theory, there is no difference between theory and practice. In practice, there is.

Re: odd load patterns - SOLVED

2016-09-14 Thread Miles Fidelman
pam and viruses for analysis, and I keep email going back about 30 years that kind of causes a lot of synchronization traffic - to the point of really bogging down our imap daemon. Consider this a friendly warning for those of you who use Thunderbird & IMAP! Cheers, Miles Fidelman

Re: odd load patterns

2016-09-14 Thread Miles Fidelman
On 9/14/16 2:53 AM, Frédéric Marchal wrote: On Tuesday 13 September 2016 20:09:26 Miles Fidelman wrote: Hi, Lately, our server has been showing high loading, but top shows that the CPU is mostly in wait mode, and iotop shows low disk i/o traffic. How do you know the load is high? Where is

odd load patterns

2016-09-13 Thread Miles Fidelman
s? Thanks much, Miles Fidelman -- In theory, there is no difference between theory and practice. In practice, there is. Yogi Berra

Re: Using serial console as a poor mans IP kvm?

2016-09-08 Thread Miles Fidelman
security holes. I've ended up resorting to the old "call the data center and have a human push the button" - but that doesn't sound like it applies to your situation. Good luck finding a solution. Miles Fidelman -- In theory, there is no difference between theory and practice. In practice, there is. Yogi Berra

Re: Advice on downloading software please

2016-08-27 Thread Miles Fidelman
to contact the developers and ask where to find a current source tarball. Miles Fidelman -- In theory, there is no difference between theory and practice. In practice, there is. Yogi Berra

Re: A minimalist network

2016-08-19 Thread Miles Fidelman
Richard, On 8/19/16 10:08 AM, Richard Owlett wrote: NO I physically have two other machines on my desk which I could serve nicely to connect to the internet. Connecting either of the T43 or R61 ha NEVER been considered ;) Perhaps a stupid question, but you describe "The Debian machine

Re: A minimalist network

2016-08-17 Thread Miles Fidelman
On 08/17/2016 03:27 PM, Richard Owlett wrote: I am groping for the questions I *SHOULD BE* asking ;/ Q: How does Ethernet work? Q: How do TCP/IP local area networks work? Q: How does the Internet work? https://www.amazon.com/Networking-Dummies-Doug-Lowe/dp/B01FBEEOBU/ref=sr_1_2?s=books&i

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