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Re: [Wlug] Topic for future meeting.

by Brian Waite

On Tuesday 16 January 2007 14:29, John Stoffel wrote: > Brian> 2) Hacking NAS storage with the Kurobox (www.kurobox.com) An > Brian> very interesting device with a sordid history > > This is an interesting box, but the big limit is the lack of dual (or > more) disks, since if I build a home NAS box, it's going to have RAID > for sure. > Well the nice thing with the Kurobox is the lack of shipped disk and open access to the command line. We have done some really intereseting hacks with this for making things like a web cam enabled motion sensing device that snaps pics on movement. Or silent a media player. > I'm thinking one of those VIA Epia motherboards (1ghz, fan less) with > a pair of big disks mirrored would be a good home NAS box, esp with a > SCSI controller, my DLT tape drive and bacula. The only issue is > Mysql performance on disks like this, since Bacula is heavy on the > DB. Putting in four disks, two RAID1 sets, could work wonders. > I've got one of those also, although the project is far from complete. I'll save that for a later date :) > But gets a bit crazy. :] > > John > > _______________________________________________ > Wlug mailing list > Wlug(a)mail.wlug.org > http://mail.wlug.org/mailman/listinfo/wlug

17 years, 11 months

Re: Next WLUG meeting proposal

by Keith Wright

Tim Keller via WLUG <wlug(a)lists.wlug.org> writes: > The 8th is definitely safe. Are you kidding!? It's the most dangerous holiday ever! > May the 4th be with everybody! Hurray, Hurray, for the Eighth of May, national outdoor intercourse day! https://www.holidayinsights.com/moreholidays/may/national-outdoor-intercour… That's OK, I can rearrange my schedule and make time for a jit.si session. Last time people had trouble hearing me. I tested my microphone by asking Diane to let me into her Zoom account. We sat in the living room 3m apart and tried to talk through headphones and our respective computers and OSes. It put up a big button that said "Download Zoom Ap" with misgivings I clicked it. It put a *.deb (Debian) file on my computer, but did not install it (thank GNU). Then I noticed a much smaller button that said "Use Browser". When I clicked that it all worked just fine. Diane and I could Video chat through wifi, Spectrum's router, and (I assume) some Zoom server somewhere. So the hardware works. I think somebody in a previous message hinted that there were audio hardware configuration options in the Jit.Si web page. Does anybody have any thoughts? Using Debian kwright@fcs26:~$ cat /etc/os-release PRETTY_NAME="Debian GNU/Linux 12 (bookworm)" and Firefox 102.15.1esr (64-bit) on a Intel core i7 vPro Thinkpad with Logitech H390 USB headset. -- Keith

8 months

Re: ISPS limiting..was Re: Meeting next week! March 14th 2024!

by Michael Voorhis

Outgoing SMTP is not blocked and will function, but is frequently blacklisted by recipients who refuse to accept email originating from a residential IP block. I have a relay in Amazon-EC2 that sends the email. Some recipients continue to not like that, but doing SPF/DKIM/DMARC goes a long way, and I've had no trouble sending to recipients at gmail and at various MS outlook/o365ish recipients. The biggest issue I have is that if the cablemodem goes offline for a long enough time, my IP address changes. But I've got by now a well-established checklist of stuff that I need to do when the house IP changes, so I just walk through the list and all is well in a few minutes. Decent email senders will queue the bounced email for a few days before bouncing back to sender and I'm not aware of having lost anything. --MCV. > I think the answer is "it depends". As Mike Voorhis says, his home > stuff just works. And I certainly allow incoming SSH and other > traffic to my home network. I honestly haven't tested if they > block outgoing SMTP (port 25 traffic) recently, but checking now, > they don't seem to be blocking it since I could get to my VPS on port > 25 from home no problem.

9 months, 3 weeks

Re: [Wlug] Let's make WLUG meetings better!

by Bill Smith

On Thu, 5 Dec 2002 09:46:45 -0500 "Haines, Charles Allen" <chaines(a)WPI.EDU> wrote: HCA> I would be very interested in some security based presentations. I HCA> think setting up some boxes for "security" testing would be really HCA> cool. I'd be willing to donate my box to the cause. I'd also like HCA> to see a tutorial on iptables, cause they are a very usual thing. HCA> Other than that, I think a demo on wine, and getting some of that HCA> other OS's programs like dreamweaver mx, to work under wine. AYE AYE! :) i've been toying with getting WINE to work with Warcraft II, but although it's supposed to work, i can't seem to get it to do anything constructive. 8( as for the iptables, i know that it was done a little over a year ago, but maybe there could be a bit of an update session, to cover anything that has changed since then... for example, i was looking at a guide to using the iproute2 suite, and i think there are a lot of things that i need to learn. again. <g> -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- William Smith wsmith-at-chezsmith-dot-com Fall River, MA http://www.chezsmith.com "Never to be credited when telling the truth." -- Aristotle, when he was asked what a man gains by telling a lie. * TAG! v3.1 *

22 years, 1 month

Give away...

by Keller, Tim

Hey Everybody, I've got a color 13" television I'd like to give to a good home. It's an oldie, but a goodie. Every once and a while it'll get a bit of a red ting, but overall it works great. Note, this TV only has coax input. I've also got a 21" viewsonic monitor that the red electron gun has gone on the fritz. I'm sure a monitor tech could fix it in no time, however since it cost me nothing, I feel no qualms in just giving it away. Other stuff... 1. Pentium 166 with 128mb of ram. This entire machine is questionable and possibly a fire hazard (due to some dodgy soldering work done by your truly on the power supply after the fans bearings went south and I installed a new fan) though I ran the machine for many years after my repairs and never had a problem. With a new case and power supply this machine would probably be a great firewall. It's also got a 512mb and 3gig hard drive in it. 2. Huge Server case minus power supply. 6 bays in the front, lots of room for fans and drives and all that good stuff. If you want any of this stuff, just write me back and I'll bring it with me to the next wlug meeting. If you can't make it to the meeting, we'll arrange something. Thanks, Tim.

21 years, 1 month

Re: [Wlug] Topics for next meeting...

by E Johnson

I would be interested in SIP & internet telephony. Would LOVE an open source, low cost (server) alternative to Skype. Not attached to when a presentation like this might happen, but would like to hear how someone made this work. Tried Ekiga and I think one other several years ago... it worked but the sound was horrible. Hopefully the technology has progressed considerably since then. Liz J On 14 October 2014 18:59, Keith Wright <kwright(a)keithdiane.us> wrote: > Tim Keller <turbofx(a)gmail.com> writes: > > > I figure we're half way through October at > > this point, we should start thinking about > > what we'd like talk about for a topic next > > month. > > Start thinking? Was it Curly Howard who said: > "I'm trying, but nothing happens"? > > Actually, I thought the young dude sitting > next to me, whose name I forget, semi-voluteered > to talk about SIP and internet telephony. > > I hope he remembers and tells this list > who he is and whether he is ready. > > > One area that's of interest to me with > > young kids is educational programs that > > work on linux. > > Is that a proposal, or a RFP? > > -- Keith > _______________________________________________ > Wlug mailing list > Wlug(a)mail.wlug.org > http://mail.wlug.org/mailman/listinfo/wlug >

10 years, 2 months

September talk

by Karl Lind

Yep, still up for it. Is there a way to connect two HDMI sources up to projector/tv/video in the room? Reason I have two Pi's and I thought after the talk can have two running for demo purposes. Karl Date: Mon, 13 Aug 2012 12:51:25 -0400 From: Frank Sweetser <fs(a)WPI.EDU> Subject: Re: [Wlug] September meeting topic? To: Worcester Linux Users Group <wlug(a)mail.wlug.org> Message-ID: <5029308D.3090301(a)wpi.edu> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Hi Karl, are you still up for giving a talk on the Pi for the September meeting? So far as I know it's open for topics, and that sounds like a great one. Frank Sweetser fs at wpi.edu | For every problem, there is a solution that Manager of Network Operations | is simple, elegant, and wrong. Worcester Polytechnic Institute | - HL Mencken On 07/13/2012 08:43 PM, Karl Lind wrote: > Howdy all, > > I would like to give a talk on the Raspberry Pi project and I have two > of them to demonstrate various OS's (I have worked with the Debian and > Fedora implementations and look forward to the others as they come > out.). I have four SD cards, so that's the number of OS's I can bring > with me. > > Have a great summer! > > Karl > ______________________________ _________________ > Wlug mailing list > Wlug(a)mail.wlug.org > http://mail.wlug.org/mailman/listinfo/wlug >

12 years, 4 months

Re: [Wlug] Meeting Ideas...

by Wes Allen

On Tuesday 10 December 2002 5:52 pm, brad wrote: > On Tue, Dec 10, 2002 at 01:17:53PM -0500, Brett Russ wrote: > > brad wrote: > > >Are there any other ipaq owners which would like to have this done? > > These are all good questions. > > > Yeah, I would if you tell me I can reliably sync between Linux and > > Windows > > I believe this is possible. I will look into specifics. > > > and there are capable contact/task/calendar/etc apps that work > > well on the ipaq platform. > > Calendars are pretty simple to display on different platforms with the > ical file format. Good... > > Task, contacts ... i'll have to look this up. I believe contacts can > sync okay with outlook. Again i'll look into this. How about evolution? And I'm surprised that aethera isn't slated to sync with it's own apps.... > > > How about sound recording/playback > > functionality? > > This sort of works, there's development beening done in this area. ogg playback? Using theKompany's player? Maybe? > > > What LAN/WLAN cards are supported? > > Yes, there are a few that are supported. I don't know this ones, i'll > look for a hardware compat list. I'd like to see the list, if you find a decent url.... > > > These are the worries I have. I will go to handhelds.org and read up a > > bit but sometimes experienced users find that the info read on a site is > > not as rosy IRL. > > Yeah, these are all logical concerns. For some people converting to > linux doesn't make sence. There are a few downfalls from linux on the > ipaq, off the top of head. > - no pocket word, excel, outlook etc. Opie's stuff is good, and theKompany's programs should work on an iPAQ, or so they say... > - no natural handwritting recognition (only character recognition, like > the palm) I though qtopia had trainable letter recognition? And I don't like handwriting recognition, mostly because I've got terrible handwriting.... > - Hardware is less supported. > > > thanks & I would like to start attending meetings also, > > Perhaps after i give a little demonstration, you'll have a better idea > whether converting your ipaq is for you. > > --brad I'd sugguest two computers doing the setup.... one with a serial connection to do the bootloader and initial install (if there's a couple of iPAQs) and another with usb networking setup do polish it off. How hard is it to set up usb networking? Wes > > > _______________________________________________ > Wlug mailing list > Wlug(a)mail.wlug.org > http://mail.wlug.org/mailman/listinfo/wlug -- ------ This message may be signed using GPG, for my public key please send me a message with "Key Request" in the subject line.

22 years

Re: ISPS limiting..was Re: Meeting next week! March 14th 2024!

by John Stoffel

I think the answer is "it depends". As Mike Voorhis says, his home stuff just works. And I certainly allow incoming SSH and other traffic to my home network. I honestly haven't tested if they block outgoing SMTP (port 25 traffic) recently, but checking now, they don't seem to be blocking it since I could get to my VPS on port 25 from home no problem. I *have* been slowly working to get Wireguard setup at home so I can tunnel over a VPN to my VPS to make some things simpler, so I just have one end-point on my OPNsense Firewall at home which allows connections from remote devices into my network. This way I don't need quite as many firewall rules on OPNSense. At least that's the idea, but lack of time and bugs have slowed my progress here. > I could swear I read before, at least for residential services that > Charter (now Spectrum) internet did NOT allow you to host a site > which is why I have never tried to do it. I would guess that its > all about the bandwidth dollars. Below is a link to their current > TOS (terms of service) in case it is of interest: I think if you start hosting something that gets their attention, they'll shut you down. *shrug* not really sure.

9 months, 3 weeks

Re: [Wlug] Socializing

by kstratton＠fastmail.us

Although I am mostly a lurker, I am from the Hartford area. I have been meaning to go to a meeting ot two, but the drive home would be a little late for the the next day's work. On Mon, 09 Nov 2009 12:18 -0500, "Steven Greenberg" <steve(a)ssgreenberg.name> wrote: > I'm in Sturbridge. So Worcester might be the central place > between Framingham and Sturbridge. > > /Steve > > wlug-request(a)mail.wlug.org wrote: > > > > Subject: > > Re: [Wlug] HSI Vent Maybe Help? > > From: > > Jordan Wade <jordan.wade(a)gmail.com> > > Date: > > Mon, 9 Nov 2009 09:41:17 -0500 > > To: > > Worcester Linux Users Group <wlug(a)mail.wlug.org> > > > > To: > > Worcester Linux Users Group <wlug(a)mail.wlug.org> > > > > > > I'd be up for some socializing if anyone wants to meet up. Also, I'm > > curious, is everyone actually in/around Worcester or do we have lots > > of people from farther out too? (I'm in Framingham, for example.) > > > > Jordan > > > > > -- > Steven Greenberg Email: steve(a)ssgreenberg.name > 251 Holland Rd. Phone: (774)241-0095 > Fiskdale, Massachusetts 01518-1231 Web: http://www.ssgreenberg.name > Other Email: s.greenberg(a)ieee.org ssg(a)alum.mit.edu > _______________________________________________ > Wlug mailing list > Wlug(a)mail.wlug.org > http://mail.wlug.org/mailman/listinfo/wlug -- kstratton(a)fastmail.us

15 years, 2 months

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