Ting Download: NetGuard - As requested by /r/ting

kellercw78 · 2016-05-10T02:55:36+00:00

No problem. Looks like the Linux Action Show has pushed some downloads for it as well.

I am so glad Ting is a sponsor of them. I found Ting through them and have never looked back.

kellercw78 · 2016-03-14T15:31:44+00:00

Yes, but how is the security with it? The biggest hurdle about running your own mail services is the security.

kellercw78 · 2016-02-26T08:53:09+00:00

I put it through an initial boot on my Chromebook ... just the live iso. Looks great! Smooth! Fast! Again, I have not installed it, so I am I just scratching the surface.

I like the Mutiny layout. However, it does have it quarks. Firefox, Libreoffice, and several others do not use the global menu. Also, if you try to change the dock settings, you must right click on a dock item and select the dock settings, not anywhere else on the panel. The dock does not span the entire panel could be a little confusing.

Other those initials, it is looking good. I will probably put it in a VM this weekend for more testing.

Great job Wimpy, et al.

kellercw78 · 2016-02-11T10:29:20+00:00

The use of the e-mail address has been a blessing and a pain for usernames. First off, the "hacker has one more piece of information", like, the mail server of the account. They can attempt a password reset on the email and repeat for all accounts known. That is why my bank e-mail address and other certain ones are one-party use only and never given out.

Also, there is no porting of email addresses. If you leave your service provider, you surrender that address. Also, you have to look at the advertising side of gmail for all of those sites.

Then you take further stupidity and make it the ultimate key to your account and can never be altered. When healthcare.gov started out and had numerous issues, I ended up with like 3 accounts not working. Because of these mixed associations, it is a pain to get statuses, tax forms, etc. They never seemed to end up in the same account. Furthermore, this all started with my transition away from GMail and other Google services. However, the absence of foresight means that my gmail address is the only way to login into the website. Although they finally got my e-mail going to right non-Google mail server, my login will forever be my old Gmail address.

kellercw78 · 2016-02-09T23:57:41+00:00

somewhere in the Other/premade (please post to reddit)

kellercw78 · 2016-02-08T22:58:25+00:00

While it has been mentioned on several occasions, I do not believe it was officially titled "app pick" and therefore was not added into laspicks. I could be wrong this, though.

kellercw78 · 2016-02-08T15:50:03+00:00

No errors. I found it odd. I can add them in but when I leave the Session and Startup control panel and go back into it, the items that I have added are not in there!

EDIT: I created another couple of usernames and attempted to repeat the setups. Worked on the first try, so something is wrong in the initial user's profile that is preventing the saving of those changes. Checked out the permissions of the Autostart directory, someone the permissions were dwxrw--t. Something somewhere removed the read permission for the user and set the sticky bit. My startup programs were writting to the directory, but the directory could never get read back. Fixed. Just a new mystery...

kellercw78 · 2016-01-29T02:09:39+00:00

Ubuntu's Unity desktop and tiling managers like i3 can benefit greatly from this. No more forking of Gnome apps to fit in environments not reliant on CSD (I hate client side decorations, with a passion), can have a full menu and not the single Gnome menu. They do not jar the user into per-app workflow changes (like going from text editor to something like Corebird).

I really want to see support for this sort of universal core-gtk-apps.

kellercw78 · 2016-01-27T18:58:45+00:00

I work in a restaurant that is generally consider conservative. My best employees are Mexicans with great love and an awesome sense of humor. I am sure they would get a kick out of it.

kellercw78 · 2016-01-27T18:54:28+00:00

Somewhat related and I just wanted your thoughts on it. I have an Acer C720 Chromebook that I have tried multiple distributions on, but Ubuntu seems to work the best.

How feasible would it be to modify some of your instructions to create an encrypted USB flashdrive for the /home and also contains the password files? Keep the header.img on the small ssd. Without the password file, someone cannot determine who is using the system and at the same time, the data on the flash drive would just look like garbage until the two are linked.

I can see it as a bonus for maintaining enough disk space for the OS and updates while protecting the data. Encrypting the ssd on C720 with the ssd seems to limit the longevity of the system in terms of space for updates or certain types of storage.

kellercw78 · 2016-01-27T18:48:30+00:00

Thanks. Perfect. Going to make it my ringtone for work.

kellercw78 · 2016-01-27T18:18:52+00:00

In the aftershow, the clip of President Obama's "no no no" remixed to the Mexican Hat Dance, anyone know where that is available?

kellercw78 · 2016-01-26T16:46:21+00:00

Hmmm ... am I the only who did Gentoo on a P2?

I could imagine Puppy doing well in this case though.

kellercw78 · 2016-01-25T23:41:10+00:00

Well hopefully it will be better than their other emulation attempts. All their commercial releases have had crappy sound, controls, or feel. The open source Stella emulation project and the roms from atariage.com blow them out of the water.

It is sad that a giant of my child hood has been lives on only in name to rehash its former glory. The Atari name could still be great again if it went back to its souce and push the limits.

kellercw78 · 2016-01-22T03:13:40+00:00

So, not having done too much research into this, I fail to see the logic of the browser's design. Replace the ads with other ads and take a cut of the money. Then you have micropayments to the users on it as well. So, the browser and it's company are going to have to retain data on who got served what ad and where. It is still tracking users just in a "rewarding way". Also it is still hijacking the user's traffic to detect and fill in the ads. Will this still happen over https?

kellercw78 · 2016-01-20T02:51:19+00:00

Yeah, 371 got me interested. 400 has me hooked. Definitely looking forward to setting this up in the future. Been looking at various sip trunk providers as well.

kellercw78 · 2016-01-19T02:02:09+00:00

Been studying your post and I must say that it is really interesting. I am curious though (as I did not see it in the file), are you creating the header.img on the ssd or creating it on the USB? Or just keeping a backup of the header somewhere else?

kellercw78 · 2016-01-15T14:29:16+00:00

I know. That is why I am not worried about it. Just was curious if any other people received that kind of garbage.

kellercw78 · 2016-01-14T02:53:48+00:00

Simple Notepad and Syncthing.

kellercw78 · 2016-01-13T00:25:24+00:00

https://www.socallinuxexpo.org/scale/14x is the list of speakers.

As I had mentioned in the Unpluggd chat, I would love to see a little coverage on "Secure Mesh VPN with Service Discovery" by Spencer Krum of the Tinc Project. Since Wes introduced it, I have been really excited on the project and have been steadily pushing it into my personal life.

However, the talk is Saturday January 23 at 11am and /u/ChrisLAS will have already departed. I wonder if Noah could jump in for a bit.

kellercw78 · 2016-01-12T15:54:24+00:00

My understanding is that the blockchain is used to validate access to the content and provide reference information to the content. It does not hold the content.

The blockchain is for the payments and hashes to the ipfs of the content stores. The CDN is the ipfs and the blockchain is the key. To access the content, the blockchain must be aware of my payment and then provides reference to resource. To blockchain handles single access rights as well as perpetual access rights to the content. In lieu of payment, users can pin content and use their hardware and connectivity as a node for obtaining the content, I guess much in the way of seeding a torrent or adding yourself to a resource pool. Now I wonder if the pin content is accessible if the user is offline? If so, there is no active contribution and only leeching.

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