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by Mike Leo

Am I wrong, or is the gentoo install insanely comlicated? Although I did not sit in front of it from start to finish, it seems like an install takes hours and hours of work... I followed the Handbook (some 80 pages of documentation), which i'm sure is very accurate and each step worked as advertised, but in the end it was too much. After an install of debian, which takes me less than 20 minutes, this was too much for my poor little brain to take, and I eventually gave up. In addition to that, I can't for the life of me, get slackware to consistantly install lilo correctly during the install. Any comments on either of these would be apreciated, however, I am just writing this to toss my vote in for a linux install fest as a meeting topic. I have no problem bringing in a laptop to show the simple, eligant, streamlined, 20 minute debian install, but I would like to also see someone go through a gentoo install, and assist on a slackware lilo config...all of which can be done via my laptop if needed. Thanks ! Mike

19 years, 10 months

Re: [Wlug] Wlug Digest, Vol 148, Issue 9

by James Barclay

A few days ago I watched a Matthew Moore You tube "Mythbusting Linux" (Https//www.youtube.com/watch?v=y_lhqg_p21k) and he shows how he got malware and his Arch Linux was hacked. I am using Linux Mint 17.3 and now have an antivirus program. I used Comodo for my XP and have it here. So now I guess we should have to buy an antivirus. I'm also looking for better ways to email and since I now have Yandex and Zoho as well as Gmail perhaps there is one even safer. I would also like to give kudos to Apple for refusing to give up the master key codes to NSA, DHS and the FBI though they have reasonably cooperated with these agencies in the past. All this from a newbie. Thank you. On Wed, Feb 24, 2016 at 12:00 PM, <wlug-request(a)mail.wlug.org> wrote: > Send Wlug mailing list submissions to > wlug(a)mail.wlug.org > > To subscribe or unsubscribe via the World Wide Web, visit > http://mail.wlug.org/mailman/listinfo/wlug > or, via email, send a message with subject or body 'help' to > wlug-request(a)mail.wlug.org > > You can reach the person managing the list at > wlug-owner(a)mail.wlug.org > > When replying, please edit your Subject line so it is more specific > than "Re: Contents of Wlug digest..." > > > Today's Topics: > > 1. Linux Mint servers hacked (Richard Klein) > 2. Re: Linux Mint servers hacked (John Platt) > 3. Topic ideas for next meeting? (Tim Keller) > 4. Re: Topic ideas for next meeting? (Frank Sweetser) > > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > > Message: 1 > Date: Tue, 23 Feb 2016 15:37:12 -0500 > From: Richard Klein <rich(a)richardklein.org> > Subject: [Wlug] Linux Mint servers hacked > To: Worcester Linux Users Group <wlug(a)mail.wlug.org> > Message-ID: > < > CA+_AdvkWx4V9ui1R5iNEN+df2dBwgaMf+EXXYD2Lp2QaqfFh2A(a)mail.gmail.com> > Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 > > I haven't read the whole story, but apparently intruders managed to > put an ISO on their servers that included a backdoor. If you > downloaded an ISO from them on Saturday, you're at risk. > > http://blog.linuxmint.com/?p=2994 > > > ------------------------------ > > Message: 2 > Date: Tue, 23 Feb 2016 15:54:46 -0500 > From: John Platt <jplatt39(a)gmail.com> > Subject: Re: [Wlug] Linux Mint servers hacked > To: Worcester Linux Users Group <wlug(a)mail.wlug.org> > Message-ID: > < > CAKNsmOgOxN19wzaR9Gw_BX2X68+CVBz29BiDu5YuoGWGYD9J4A(a)mail.gmail.com> > Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" > > Steven J. Vaughan-Nichols who is a big Linux Mint fan says that if you used > bittorent or did not use a mirror you are safe. > > http://www.zdnet.com/article/has-your-linux-mint-desktop-been-hacked/ > > On Tue, Feb 23, 2016 at 3:37 PM, Richard Klein <rich(a)richardklein.org> > wrote: > > > I haven't read the whole story, but apparently intruders managed to > > put an ISO on their servers that included a backdoor. If you > > downloaded an ISO from them on Saturday, you're at risk. > > > > http://blog.linuxmint.com/?p=2994 > > _______________________________________________ > > Wlug mailing list > > Wlug(a)mail.wlug.org > > http://mail.wlug.org/mailman/listinfo/wlug > > > -------------- next part -------------- > An HTML attachment was scrubbed... > URL: > http://mail.wlug.org/pipermail/wlug/attachments/20160223/21b884c9/attachmen… > > ------------------------------ > > Message: 3 > Date: Tue, 23 Feb 2016 16:16:29 -0500 > From: Tim Keller <turbofx(a)gmail.com> > Subject: [Wlug] Topic ideas for next meeting? > To: Worcester Linux Users Group <wlug(a)mail.wlug.org> > Message-ID: > < > CA+r3vQh5sTuh9sBtR6dNHVtLH+TEfyBSeWb-x-CuJW3trBGA4w(a)mail.gmail.com> > Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" > > Hey Gang, > > Anybody got any ideas for next meeting? > > My buddy Nick is going to be out of the country for the next meeting, so > he's yet again a no show... > > Thanks, > Tim. > > -- > I am leery of the allegiances of any politician who refers to their > constituents as "consumers". > -------------- next part -------------- > An HTML attachment was scrubbed... > URL: > http://mail.wlug.org/pipermail/wlug/attachments/20160223/2fccfe01/attachmen… > > ------------------------------ > > Message: 4 > Date: Tue, 23 Feb 2016 18:55:58 -0500 > From: Frank Sweetser <fs(a)WPI.EDU> > Subject: Re: [Wlug] Topic ideas for next meeting? > To: Worcester Linux Users Group <wlug(a)mail.wlug.org>, Tim Keller > <turbofx(a)gmail.com> > Message-ID: <28F9BAC6-0A5A-4E33-BA96-3CA92F7C1B15(a)wpi.edu> > Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" > > It wouldn't be a huge topic, but I could talk about the RPZ security > feature in BIND: > > https://dnsrpz.info/ > > On February 23, 2016 4:16:29 PM EST, Tim Keller <turbofx(a)gmail.com> wrote: > >Hey Gang, > > > >Anybody got any ideas for next meeting? > > > >My buddy Nick is going to be out of the country for the next meeting, > >so > >he's yet again a no show... > > > >Thanks, > >Tim. > > > >-- > >I am leery of the allegiances of any politician who refers to their > >constituents as "consumers". > > > > > >------------------------------------------------------------------------ > > > >_______________________________________________ > >Wlug mailing list > >Wlug(a)mail.wlug.org > >http://mail.wlug.org/mailman/listinfo/wlug > > -- > Sent from my Android device with K-9 Mail. 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9 years, 9 months

Re: [Wlug] Reminder: Meeting Wednesday Dec 10th @7pm (rm 331) mid-century room.

by Tim Keller

Yup, I screwed up. I reposted a correct reminder. Sorry you can't make it Chuck. On Mon, Dec 8, 2014 at 4:56 PM, Chuck Anderson <cra(a)wpi.edu> wrote: > Ummm...check again. > > http://www.wlug.org/ > > Thu Dec 11 2014 7:00 PM - 9:00 PM > > They are all Thursdays for the forseeable future at least. > > Unfortunately, I won't be able to make it this month either way. > > On Mon, Dec 08, 2014 at 04:53:55PM -0500, Tim Keller wrote: > > Yup, I totally screwed up... The meeting is on the 10th NOT the 11th!!! > > Sorry about that! > > > > Thanks, > > Tim. > > > > On Mon, Dec 8, 2014 at 4:29 PM, Matt Cheung <mgcheung(a)gmail.com> wrote: > > > > > I thought I saw earlier that this would be on Thursday the 11th. Just > > > want to make sure I know when it's supposed to be. Thanks. > > > > > > > > > > > > On 12/08/2014 04:18 PM, Tim Keller wrote: > > > > > > Hey Everybody, > > > > > > There's a meeting scheduled for Wednesday at 7pm rm 331. Be there or > > > get your geek cards revoked! > > > > > > I know there's inclement weather predicted for Tuesday, so it should > be > > > all clear by Wednesday night. However if things change and it looks > like > > > the roads will be a mess, we'll reassess. > > > > > > Unless the plans change, Jon "maddog" Hall will be giving a talk! > > > > > > Thanks, > > > Tim. > _______________________________________________ > Wlug mailing list > Wlug(a)mail.wlug.org > http://mail.wlug.org/mailman/listinfo/wlug > -- I am leery of the allegiances of any politician who refers to their constituents as "consumers".

11 years

Re: [EXT] Re: Physical WLUG Meeting is cancelled tomorrow...

by Richard Klein

I can do that, but I don't think my employer would appreciate it! On Wed, Mar 18, 2020 at 2:31 PM Chuck Anderson via WLUG <wlug(a)lists.wlug.org> wrote: > format c: > > (make sure to run from a CMD window with Administrator privileges) > > On Wed, Mar 18, 2020 at 02:22:25PM -0400, Richard Klein via WLUG wrote: > > Do you guys have a favorite IRC client for Windows? > > > > On Wed, Mar 18, 2020 at 1:28 PM Chris Thompson via WLUG < > wlug(a)lists.wlug.org> > > wrote: > > > > > I would certainly recommend organizing in IRC, but for more > interaction, > > > Jitsi is worth a shot. > > > > > > Zoom does work very well on Gnu/Linux, but yes - proprietary, so, > > > personally not interested in using them more than I already am coerced > to > > > :P > > > > > > Jitsi usually handles rooms with up to about a dozen people pretty > well, > > > but often struggles beyond that. Most issues are resolved with a simple > > > reload of the page. > > > > > > Try it out @ either of these instances, no registration require: > > > > > > https://meet.jit.si/ (typically pretty bleeding-edge, so sometimes > less > > > stable) > > > > > > or: > > > > > > https://meet.mayfirst.org/ (pretty up to date, but generally more > stable > > > of late) > > > > > > Tim, you may be able to recover your ident info with the following, > once > > > you've connected with #Freenode. If the name is registered with > > > NickServ, it'll email you at the registered address: > > > > > > /msg NickServ SENDPASS turbox > > > > > > --Chris > > > IRC: wolcen > > > > > > On 3/18/20 11:28 AM, Keith Wright via WLUG wrote: > > > >> Subject: [WLUG] Re: Physical WLUG Meeting is cancelled tomorrow... > > > >> From: madserge--- via WLUG <wlug(a)lists.wlug.org> > > > >> > > > >> Never used IRC before but I do have an app on Manjaro called > > > >> Konversation that I think is a IRC client, would like to join if > anyone > > > >> can tell me any info about the chat room that would be great! > > > > How did this work? > > > > > > > > I used IRC once before. A friend said "let's try this", > > > > and told me what program to run and how to start. > > > > > > > > The conversation went something like: > > > > Hi, are you there? Yes. It works! Yes. Well goodbye. > > > > > > > > That was many years ago, and I have forgotten the name > > > > of the program. Then I got busy and forgot the WLUG > > > > meeting entirely. > > > > > > > > Diane has been using something called Zoom on Windows. > > > > Google turns up some hints that Zoom can work on Linux, > > > > but it seems to be a binary mystery code that connects > > > > to the mother ship and does secret stuff...anybody know? > _______________________________________________ > WLUG mailing list -- wlug(a)lists.wlug.org > To unsubscribe send an email to wlug-leave(a)lists.wlug.org > Create Account: https://wlug.mailman3.com/accounts/signup/ > Change Settings: > https://wlug.mailman3.com/postorius/lists/wlug.lists.wlug.org/ > Web Forum/Archive: > https://wlug.mailman3.com/hyperkitty/list/wlug@lists.wlug.org/message/YCS6I… >

5 years, 9 months

Re: [Wlug] I presume we're meeting the 10th of Oct?

by Tim Keller

I'm standing outside of Higgins 230 and its's full of people... None of which look like they're here for wlug... On 10/9/12, Chuck Anderson <cra(a)wpi.edu> wrote: > I reserved Higgins Labs 230 again, same place as last month. > > On Mon, Oct 08, 2012 at 04:41:23PM -0400, Tim Keller wrote: >> Chuck, >> >> Where will this meeting be held? My current demo setup is two pcs... >> I'm probably going to need help depending on where we have it. >> >> Thanks, >> Tim. >> >> On 10/5/12, Chuck Anderson <cra(a)wpi.edu> wrote: >> > Sounds great! >> > >> > On Fri, Oct 05, 2012 at 11:01:24AM -0400, Tim Keller wrote: >> >> That's a great idea. I do lots and lots of virtualization stuff.. I'd >> >> be >> >> willing to do some research, setup a demo and do a talk about >> >> OpenStack. >> >> >> >> Chuck, what do you think? >> >> >> >> On Thu, Oct 4, 2012 at 9:19 PM, David Glaser >> >> <dglaser(a)glaserresearch.net>wrote: >> >> >> >> > How about the cloud -say OpenStack. I see references to it. >> >> > >> >> > -David >> >> > On 10/04/2012 03:38 PM, Tim Keller wrote: >> >> > >> >> > Hey Gang! >> >> > >> >> > I presume we're having a meeting on the 10th? Does anybody have a >> >> > topic/idea? >> >> > >> >> > Thanks, >> >> > Tim. > _______________________________________________ > Wlug mailing list > Wlug(a)mail.wlug.org > http://mail.wlug.org/mailman/listinfo/wlug > -- Sent from my mobile device I am leery of the allegiances of any politician who refers to their constituents as "consumers".

13 years, 2 months

Re: [Wlug] Next meeting - topics?

by Stephen C. Daukas

I like the LTSP topic... Perhaps we could also put on a tutorial for putting together an email server, discussing spam, et al.? Amother thought might be to cover the basics for security (not another implementation discussion, but the major categories of exploits and how they work, hence how to think about protecting your linux box against them)... // end random thoughts Steve Andy Stewart wrote: >HI everybody, > >I am wondering what we should discuss at our next meeting - any ideas? > >I have been playing with diskless clients lately. There are a couple of ways >to do this: > a) load and run a Knoppix CD with no hard drive > b) LTSP - Linux Terminal Server Project > >If people are interested, I could give a talk / demo of some basic LTSP stuff. >I've got it working between a lame P90 and my laptop server. > >Let me know if you have other ideas, or if this idea sounds like something >interesting to you. > >Later, > >Andy > > -- Stephen C. Daukas - stephen(a)daukas.com - http://daukas.com/

22 years, 4 months

Re: [Wlug] Possible topic for the next meeting?

by Brian J. Conway

> There is currently no scheduled speaker or topic for the August WLUG > meeting. If you would like to do this talk, I think it would be great. > I'm curious as to what you would like to cover, or what others might like > to see covered. That sounds good, I'll plan on it then. Any suggestions should get to me by this Sunday and I'll try my best to include them. > 1) Supported DVD players Check. > 2) What software, kernel, apps, etc needed to use DVD Check. > 3) DVD-ROM - just like a CDROM, but bigger - anything special or funny > here? Check. > 4) DVD-RAM - now there's an idea Never touched them, but I'll do some research on the basics. > 5) Video DVD - can I watch The Matrix while coding? :-) Check. (Definitely, this is intended to be the bulk of the presentation, comparing a few players and their features, etc.) > These are just thoughts and suggestions....are there others? I'd love to hear them. Thanks all. -b

24 years, 4 months

Next WLUG Meeting March 21st 2019, Topic: TBD

by Tim Keller

Hey Gang, We've got a WLUG meeting on the 14th of March Location: WPI Student Center Mid Century Room (rm 331) Time: 7pm I've got a couple ideas for topics. 1. Snaps / flatpacks / appimage. These are entirely encapsulated applications that'll run on a variety of linux distributions. My new laptop runs snaps using snapd. This is just one of a bunch of new technologies for distributing software without having it tied to the machines glibc and underlying libraries. 2. Microsoft and its complicated relationship with the OSS community. Are we moving towards a dystopian future of locked and signed bootloaders? Where your only option is to run Windows 10 with the linux subsystem. Has google essentially done the same thing with Chromebook's and ChromeOS and Android? If someone has a topic that they're dying to do, let me know. As usual refreshments and snacks will be provided and afterwards we'll head off for dinner to continue the conversation. Thanks, Tim. -- I am leery of the allegiances of any politician who refers to their constituents as "consumers".

6 years, 9 months

Reminder: Guest Speaker 'maddog'

by Andy Stewart

-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 HI everybody, The next WLUG meeting will be held on Wednesday, December 15th at 7:00 PM. Our guest speaker will be Jon 'maddog' Hall, the Executive Director of Linux International, and his topic will be: "The Many Ways of Making Money with Free and Open Source" Details about the talk, and some biographical information about our speaker, can be found on the WLUG home page. maddog is a great speaker who has spoken at several WLUG meetings in the past. His talks are always quite informative and entertaining, and the response from the WLUG membership has been overwhelmingly positive. There is a reasonable probability that the meeting location will move. If so, I'll let you know, and I'll also have a sign posted at the Access Grid room if we do move elsewhere on campus. For now, assume that we'll be in the usual place. Bring your friends! Andy - -- Andy Stewart, Founder Worcester Linux Users' Group Worcester, MA USA http://www.wlug.org -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.4 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQFBuP1hHl0iXDssISsRAkHHAJ9n3VutYSp/NYpLuE3aktHJ7nQWwQCeOfRX GZS/95jLP0UPNadePoV63Xo= =NEY4 -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----

21 years

Re: [Wlug] (for meeting projectors) laptops,VGA-out,linux....

by Tim Keller

Playing with Cinnamon last night I'm going to take the dive and throw it on a RHEL7 VM and see if I like it better than Mate. If so, I'll swap over my desktop and see... Thanks for doing some great digging on the projector stuff.. It's only 2017... Projectors should just *work*. On Fri, Mar 10, 2017 at 9:12 AM, Doug Mildram <dmildram(a)gmail.com> wrote: > doug> Thanks Tim for bringing a functional laptop w/linux for last night's > meeting. Our VGA-out projector worked fine as he installed a linux Mint VM > (Mate Cinnamon) onto it. > > When that finished, I wanted to show/compare Mint Mate, which I had > already on my laptop. > > When I unplugged Tim's laptop from VGA-out and tried my own thinkpad > running Mint Mate (dualbooted, my alternate OS).....well,.....chirp. > > The projector stopped projecting. My Fn-F7 key seemed to be trying to > cycle thru the blind toggles/choices (Duplicate display? screen-only? > VGA-only might expect), but no video came out, I had to give up, not having > tried VGA-out ever while running linux on my laptop. We put Tim's back > onto VGA-out, and it also seemed dead, but we chose not to fight it, > meeting being close enough to stop caring about projector, and it "wasnt a > proud moment" for me. > > SO I WENT HOME and plugged my (same) laptop into my TV's VGA-in port. > Started by booting win7. I'd never noticed a detail : at WHICH POINT does > this start working....should I expect to see the dualboot/GRUB menu on TV? > Apparently not. Soon enough though, Win7 (the OS preinstalled by > Lenovo/thinkpad) came up and VGA-out/TV started working as usual. > (somewhere AFTER "Resuming Windows", it starts working). > To control VGA-out, Fn-F7 works ...I've got (4) choices: Duplicate, > Extend(laptop-screen=#1, TV-VGAout=screen2), Projector Only (turns off > laptop display), and Disconnect Projector (only laptop display ON). No > doubt (i surmise), thanks to windows drivers. > > Feels like I learned: OS controls VGA-out (somehow naively I was inclined > to believe this was more of an OS-independent hardware function). > > OK, now rebooted laptop/win7 to try Linux Mint from a win7 state with > "Duplicate" working. "Shutting down Windows" displayed....laptop goes thru > boot/BIOS?...TV is blank now, I've learned to expect this....Linux kernel > boots, and I see some of the minimal console text messages as usual ALSO ON > TV, laptop-screen AND TV quickly go to graphical mode, also displaying the > Mate background... > > and this is where I was the most surprised. > > TV/VGA-out appeared "frozen' with the Mate background, appearing much like > my laptop screen BUT MINUS anything else (no bottom launch/status/"panel" > bar. Whatever I launch on my laptop screen, does not appear on VGA-out. > Fascinating! > > Wed eve late, at my house, I could swear Fn-F7 still wasnt doing anything. > But this Thurs AM, it DOES start working a bit (same 4 choices, but blind, > and it's strange. TV/VGA-out doesnt show EVERYTHING). > I wonder if I'd rebooted at the meeting, would that have helped, probably. > Today I play with it some more (ALT-F2 helps when I'm in that semi-blind > VGA-out situation, getting SOME things to show on TV) even though I'm not > likely to use this feature much?ever? at home, unless I break a leg. > > Caveat, practice what you bring for meetings to project-OUT! > HDMI is also an option in our WPI meeting/conf rms if you have it. > > > ---trivia for Mate interest... > (Mate = lightweight alternate to Cinnamon. > Their start/launch menus are different, and I can find good stuff in > Mate's Control Center. Cinnamon's Control center looks like this: > https://docs.google.com/file/d/0B2V313X0LzmQclJCVkI5aFhIeDA/edit > > Couldnt find a good Mate comparison Control Center screenshot > (not sharing some high-ad google'd choices) > but I did like this decent page mostly cuz i love keyb shortcuts: > > http://securitronlinux.com/bejiitaswrath/some-useful- > tips-for-the-linux-mate-desktop/ > where I learned > CTL-ALT-d (lowercase "d" not DEL, which offers to reboot) > .....lowers-or-raises what you're doing, a great "quick hide from > over-shoulder" ninja move. (sorry to degrade tricks/skill(s) of a Real > Ninja) > > Stay warm! --doug > > > _______________________________________________ > Wlug mailing list > Wlug(a)mail.wlug.org > http://mail.wlug.org/mailman/listinfo/wlug > > -- I am leery of the allegiances of any politician who refers to their constituents as "consumers".

8 years, 9 months

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