On 08/27/2018 04:55 PM, local10 wrote:
Hi,
Am experiencing a wierd issue with KDE after installing kde-standard package.
KDE starts fine but shows an almost completely empty desktop: no taskbar, no
launcher, no clock... just in the upper right conner there's a small rectangle
that opens a
On 08/21/2018 02:26 PM, J.W. Foster wrote:
I have a stock Stretch system actually with a multiple boot to
different hard drives via grub2. It has been running well for over a
year even longer since I rebuilt with new Motherboard and upgraded from
Debian 8.I am currently able to boot a Windows
On 08/17/2018 04:58 PM, Dave Sherohman wrote:
[Snipped some useful info]
I *never ever* use port 22 for ssh. I pick some random port that I know
isn't going to be used for anything else on the server and set ssh to use
that port instead. How do I set ufw to use the ssh port of my choosing?
In
On 08/17/2018 01:59 PM, Brian wrote:
On Fri 17 Aug 2018 at 13:56:03 -0400, cyaiplexys wrote:
So do I have to sudo apt-get iptables or is that already installed?
dpkg -l iptables
Looks like it's in there:
$ dpkg -l iptables
Desired=Unknown/Install/Remove/Purge/Hold
|
Status=Not/Inst
On 08/17/2018 01:16 PM, john doe wrote:
On 8/17/2018 6:50 PM, cyaiplexys wrote:
On 08/17/2018 10:55 AM, Dave Sherohman wrote:
On Thu, Aug 16, 2018 at 02:07:02PM -0400, cyaiplexys wrote:
See, that all is way over my head. I don't understand this stuff as I'm
pretty much a total b
On 08/17/2018 10:55 AM, Dave Sherohman wrote:
On Thu, Aug 16, 2018 at 02:07:02PM -0400, cyaiplexys wrote:
See, that all is way over my head. I don't understand this stuff as I'm
pretty much a total beginner in this.
OK, fair enough. Let's see what help I can offer.
Grea
On 08/16/2018 01:00 PM, Dave Sherohman wrote:
On Wed, Aug 15, 2018 at 09:29:58PM -0400, cyaiplexys wrote:
Is there a better way to do this? I have a cron job that gathers IP
addresses that get more than 1,000 hits from the apache log file and that
gets put in the ip.blacklist.perm file.
If
On 08/16/2018 11:21 AM, Greg Wooledge wrote:
On Thu, Aug 16, 2018 at 11:19:29AM -0400, cyaiplexys wrote:
I actually have several accounts which I want to back up but not include all
the dot files. It would be too much to go into each account and run a
script. I would like to do it from one
On 08/16/2018 11:21 AM, Greg Wooledge wrote:
On Thu, Aug 16, 2018 at 11:19:29AM -0400, cyaiplexys wrote:
I actually have several accounts which I want to back up but not include all
the dot files. It would be too much to go into each account and run a
script. I would like to do it from one
On 08/16/2018 10:45 AM, Greg Wooledge wrote:
On Thu, Aug 16, 2018 at 10:40:14AM -0400, cyaiplexys wrote:
tar -czf archive.tgz /home/me/dirToARchive/.
--exclude=/home/me/dirToARchive/.mysetuptemp
--exclude=/home/me/dirToARchive/.myotherdotfile
--exclude=/home/me/dirToARchive/.anotherdotfile
I
I'm trying to make a gzipped tarball. I want to exclude only a certain
list of dot files but NOT ALL dot files (in other words tar the other
dot files not on the list).
I have (this is just an example):
tar -czf archive.tgz /home/me/dirToARchive/.
--exclude=/home/me/dirToARchive/.mysetuptemp
On 08/16/2018 09:52 AM, john doe wrote:
On 8/16/2018 1:45 PM, cyaiplexys wrote:
On 08/16/2018 02:36 AM, john doe wrote:
On 8/16/2018 3:29 AM, cyaiplexys wrote:
I have a list of IP addresses I want to ban and I put them in
/etc/fail2ban/action.d/iptables-multiport.conf as so:
cat /etc
On 08/16/2018 02:36 AM, john doe wrote:
On 8/16/2018 3:29 AM, cyaiplexys wrote:
I have a list of IP addresses I want to ban and I put them in
/etc/fail2ban/action.d/iptables-multiport.conf as so:
cat /etc/fail2ban/ip.blacklist.perm | while read IP; do iptables -I
fail2ban- 1 -s $IP -j DROP
I have a list of IP addresses I want to ban and I put them in
/etc/fail2ban/action.d/iptables-multiport.conf as so:
cat /etc/fail2ban/ip.blacklist.perm | while read IP; do iptables -I
fail2ban- 1 -s $IP -j DROP; done
(that was supposed to be all on one line, of course)
So, I have read that w
On 08/10/2018 08:58 AM, The Wanderer wrote:
On 2018-08-10 at 08:29, Rich Kulawiec wrote:
On Fri, Aug 10, 2018 at 11:46:12AM -, Dan Purgert wrote:
Not familiar with procmail. A quick perusal of the manpage seems
to indicate this is a local mail "processor" for sorting things, as
opposed t
On 07/27/2018 12:31 AM, Erik Christiansen wrote:
On 26.07.18 08:29, cyaiplexys wrote:
I'd like to try a native compiler but also I would like to have something I
could compile for Arduino (here we go again) and ARM and other CPUs as well.
$ apt-cache search avr | more
arduino
Thanks to a very nostalgic thread, now I'm curious about something else.
Back in the day I used to do assembly language programming on a Tandy
Color Computer 3 with Disk-based EDASM+.
I'm wondering what is the best assembler/compiler for the x86 (64-bit)
system?
I'd like to try a native comp
This is taking me down a memory lane I don't necessarily have but have
heard about! Ah, the early days of computers!
On 07/23/2018 05:14 AM, Erik Christiansen wrote:
On 23.07.18 10:28, Eric S Fraga wrote:
On Sunday, 22 Jul 2018 at 05:39, Tom Browder wrote:
Sounds like there are a lot of fello
On 07/22/2018 03:06 PM, Richard Owlett wrote:
On 07/22/2018 10:04 AM, cyaiplexys wrote:
On 07/21/2018 09:43 PM, Gene Heskett wrote:
Best wishes to you as well. I hope that I'm still playing around with
this stuff at that age. I remember taking an online C++ course years
ago and ther
On 07/22/2018 02:20 PM, Joe wrote:
...snip...
At the level of the Arduino, and what it is used for, the C required
isn't going to differ too much from Python. You're mostly going to
be bit-banging. If you know one modern procedural language, you can at
least potter around in others quite easily
On 07/22/2018 11:13 AM, Erik Christiansen wrote:
On 22.07.18 10:29, cyaiplexys wrote:
I think my mindset also came from my days of trying to program the WowWee
RoboSapien RS Media (ARM/Linux with Java). That was like a fully
programmable computer and robot all in one.
Then the full arduino
On 07/22/2018 09:06 AM, songbird wrote:
cyaiplexys wrote:
...
That's the one cool thing about this group and groups like it is the
conversations where you learn a little bit about those folks in the
group in between learning other useful things. Reminds me of the old
FidoNet days (and
On 07/22/2018 09:00 AM, Richard Owlett wrote:
On 07/22/2018 07:14 AM, Richard Owlett wrote:
On 07/21/2018 04:46 PM, cyaiplexys wrote:
Try CherryTree. I use that program for everything. It's
cross-platform. I download it from the web site instead of using the
version in the Debian Re
On 07/22/2018 08:14 AM, Richard Owlett wrote:
On 07/21/2018 04:46 PM, cyaiplexys wrote:
Try CherryTree. I use that program for everything. It's
cross-platform. I download it from the web site instead of using the
version in the Debian Repo as the latest version fixes some annoying
bug
On 07/22/2018 04:07 AM, Richard Owlett wrote:
On 07/21/2018 04:46 PM, cyaiplexys wrote:
On 07/21/2018 11:42 AM, Richard Owlett wrote:
When I'm "ignorant" and know it, I refer to myself as a "newbie".
My first contact with Linux was when Squeeze was just introduced.
I
On 07/21/2018 09:43 PM, Gene Heskett wrote:
On Saturday 21 July 2018 18:01:07 cyaiplexys wrote:
On 07/21/2018 12:20 PM, Gene Heskett wrote:
On Saturday 21 July 2018 11:42:31 Richard Owlett wrote:
When I'm "ignorant" and know it, I refer to myself as a "newbie".
My
On 07/22/2018 06:20 AM, deloptes wrote:
cyaiplexys wrote:
Well, since I use Debian I assumed this would be a place to ask what to
get from the Debian repo that would help in achieving my goal. But you
do make a good point. I'll have to find some Arduino forums to ask some
questions in be
On 07/22/2018 03:26 AM, Joe wrote:
Joe, please forgive me that I forgot to click "Reply to list". I have NO
valid excuse why I keep doing stupid things like that. :(
On Sat, 21 Jul 2018 18:15:12 -0400
cyaiplexys wrote:
I am getting the Elegoo Super Starter Kit (Arduino Uno R3)
On 07/21/2018 09:01 PM, David Christensen wrote:
On 07/21/18 15:15, cyaiplexys wrote:
I am getting the Elegoo Super Starter Kit (Arduino Uno R3) to tinker
with (it's on order as of when I'm writing this post).
I looked in the Debian repos for stuff on Arduino and didn't find
ew answers inline
cyaiplexys wrote:
I am getting the Elegoo Super Starter Kit (Arduino Uno R3) to tinker
with (it's on order as of when I'm writing this post).
I looked in the Debian repos for stuff on Arduino and didn't find much
(at least not of interest to me).
What did y
I am getting the Elegoo Super Starter Kit (Arduino Uno R3) to tinker
with (it's on order as of when I'm writing this post).
I looked in the Debian repos for stuff on Arduino and didn't find much
(at least not of interest to me).
I did download the IDE from Elegoo and their tutorials and libra
On 07/21/2018 12:20 PM, Gene Heskett wrote:
On Saturday 21 July 2018 11:42:31 Richard Owlett wrote:
When I'm "ignorant" and know it, I refer to myself as a "newbie".
My first contact with Linux was when Squeeze was just introduced.
I've been around computers for a while [remember 12AX7 based CP
On 07/21/2018 11:42 AM, Richard Owlett wrote:
When I'm "ignorant" and know it, I refer to myself as a "newbie".
My first contact with Linux was when Squeeze was just introduced.
I've been around computers for a while [remember 12AX7 based CPU's?]. As
a BSEE student 50+ years ago I took an introd
On 07/11/2018 01:10 AM, debian-user-digest-requ...@lists.debian.org wrote:
On 7/10/18 3:28 AM, Jonathan Dowland wrote:
On Fri, Jul 06, 2018 at 04:54:53PM -0400, Matthew Crews wrote:
Separate partitions
Pros: if your / partition drive fails, it does not take /home with it
You are conflating dri
On 07/06/2018 07:40 PM, ntrfug wrote:
On Fri, 6 Jul 2018 15:47:37 -0500
Richard Owlett wrote:
In response to a unrelated post to a LUG, I was asked if I had a
separate /home directory. Short answer -- no.
I abandoned WinXP when Jessie had become stable.
The installer defaults {I assume for ca
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