From tclug1 at whitleymott.net Fri Apr 3 13:05:43 2020 From: tclug1 at whitleymott.net (gregrwm) Date: Fri, 3 Apr 2020 13:05:43 -0500 Subject: [tclug-list] can't copy/paste from .pdf attachment Message-ID: is anyone able to copy and paste any content from viewing a .pdf attachment in gmail? when i've received a .pdf attachment, and view it in gmail (in firefox nightly in ubuntu), when i select any of the content in the .pdf and hit ^C, then both ^V and middle mouse button still paste the content they had previously, like gmail attachments seemingly don't play into either the selection or copy buffers. but this did work in the past. is it my configuration, or is it gmail? any ideas for a solution? anyone know what code is responsible for putting stuff into the selection and copy buffers, in various circumstances? tia, greg -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From kc0iog at gmail.com Fri Apr 17 08:51:25 2020 From: kc0iog at gmail.com (Brian Wall) Date: Fri, 17 Apr 2020 08:51:25 -0500 Subject: [tclug-list] Firewall distros.. What do the cool kids use now? Message-ID: Hi all, I have an older piece of gear with an Intel Core2 proc, 2 gigs of RAM, and a multitude of interfaces. I've been wanting to turn this into a firewall appliance. I'm wanting to use 5 or 6 different interfaces (LAN, WAN, DMZ, Guest WIFI, IoT, Lab). I'm finding that the old standbys, IPcop and its sort of replacement IPfire don't handle that number of interfaces and all the filtering I want. I've played with pfSense, and it's OK, but limited in its feature set. I really like Untangle, but it insistently demands 6GB of RAM and not 1MB less. This box is finicky enough that I don't really have the desire to find enough RAM and make the box happy about it. So.. What else is out there that people like? Do people still roll their own with iptables, pf, or whatever the latest thing is? Yes, I suppose I could replace the box, but it's a 1U appliance and designed for this kind of thing. I'm open to suggestions. Thanks, Brian -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From rhayman at pureice.com Fri Apr 17 09:38:56 2020 From: rhayman at pureice.com (r hayman) Date: Fri, 17 Apr 2020 09:38:56 -0500 Subject: [tclug-list] Firewall distros.. What do the cool kids use now? In-Reply-To: References: Message-ID: <12334286309d222d839aa0851c8a3450a27389da.camel@pureice.com> Not that this is all that pertinent to today's hardware/distros, but...Many years ago I used a really early version of Fedora (manually configured iptables) on a 486 class PC with, at most, 512MB of RAM.If I recall I was on a synchronous 128Kbit connection before broadband was available in this community.The distro I used actually fit on a floppy, so after bootstrapping from the floppy to RAMfs, I popped it out.Uptime for that before retiring it was well over 1000 days. I also tried Untangle, and Nitix, and some other ones which have been lost to the dustbin of my memory. Today I use the relatively inexpensive Ubiquity EdgeRouter Pro with 8 independently configurable interfaces - rack mountable, small footprint, robust, easy to configure, and high throughput. It has some nice observability tools built-in (I can watch my Comcast connection go out and come back), and after putting the Comcast modem in bridge mode, my EdgeRouter is "on the Internet" so it can be a secure endpoint for me to VPN back into my LAN. All with very little configuration. I certainly hear you about reusing old hardware. I was there but aging like I have, I tend to donate the old hardware and purchase fit-for- purpose equipment for my use cases. Let us know what you end up setting up. On Fri, 2020-04-17 at 08:51 -0500, Brian Wall wrote: > Hi all, > I have an older piece of gear with an Intel Core2 proc, 2 gigs of > RAM, and a multitude of interfaces. I've been wanting to turn this > into a firewall appliance. > > I'm wanting to use 5 or 6 different interfaces (LAN, WAN, DMZ, Guest > WIFI, IoT, Lab). I'm finding that the old standbys, IPcop and its > sort of replacement IPfire don't handle that number of interfaces and > all the filtering I want. > > I've played with pfSense, and it's OK, but limited in its feature > set. I really like Untangle, but it insistently demands 6GB of RAM > and not 1MB less. This box is finicky enough that I don't really > have the desire to find enough RAM and make the box happy about it. > > So.. What else is out there that people like? Do people still roll > their own with iptables, pf, or whatever the latest thing is? > > Yes, I suppose I could replace the box, but it's a 1U appliance and > designed for this kind of thing. > > I'm open to suggestions. > > Thanks, > Brian > > > > > > > > _______________________________________________TCLUG Mailing List - > Minneapolis/St. Paul, Minnesotatclug-list at mn-linux.org > http://mailman.mn-linux.org/mailman/listinfo/tclug-list -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... 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URL: From jkey at tomobiki.dyndns.org Sat Apr 18 18:10:29 2020 From: jkey at tomobiki.dyndns.org (Joseph Key) Date: Sat, 18 Apr 2020 18:10:29 -0500 Subject: [tclug-list] Firewall distros.. What do the cool kids use now? In-Reply-To: <127338D9-6DEB-4A04-A06E-99A57D18008A@cwis.biz> References: <127338D9-6DEB-4A04-A06E-99A57D18008A@cwis.biz> Message-ID: <4c65d8c2-09ef-fea1-b2e5-b0e501094aab@tomobiki.dyndns.org> I have used both ipfire and pfsense. I agree the pfsense has a more limited feature set. Ipfire seemed to want to be the center of the network with all the add-on it had for stuff that shouldn't be on a router. I went to pfsense to get ipv6 working (not that I have used it yet). Joseph On 4/17/2020 2:20 PM, Ryan Coleman wrote: >> I've played with pfSense, and it's OK, but limited in its feature set. > Limited in what manner? I run many businesses in the Twin Cities on > pfSense and have multiple MAN configurations going. > > — > Ryan > >> On Apr 17, 2020, at 8:51 AM, Brian Wall > > wrote: >> >> >> I've played with pfSense, and it's OK, but limited in its feature >> set.  I really like Untangle, but it insistently demands 6GB of RAM >> and not 1MB less.  This box is finicky enough that I don't really >> have the desire to find enough RAM and make the box happy about it. > > > _______________________________________________ > TCLUG Mailing List - Minneapolis/St. Paul, Minnesota > tclug-list at mn-linux.org > http://mailman.mn-linux.org/mailman/listinfo/tclug-list -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... 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URL: From gsker at skerbitz.org Sun Apr 19 12:03:46 2020 From: gsker at skerbitz.org (gerry) Date: Sun, 19 Apr 2020 12:03:46 -0500 (CDT) Subject: [tclug-list] choose pulse device Re: Stream error: No such entity In-Reply-To: References: Message-ID: i found this to work: pacmd list-sinks then just use the index: value for the device in paplay index: 0 is my builtin index: 13 is my hdmi and these command seem to put the output to the expected device: paplay -d 0 /usr/share/sounds/alsa/Front_Center.wav paplay -d 13 /usr/share/sounds/alsa/Front_Center.wav -- gsker at skerbitz.org On Sun, 19 Apr 2020, gregrwm wrote: > how do i use either aplay or paplay and specify a device?  aplay fails because pulseaudio hogs the devices?  and paplay and it's > manpage and help are no help trying to learn how to specify the desired device: > > $  aplay -DS7 /usr/share/sounds/alsa/Front_Center.wav > ALSA lib pcm.c:2642:(snd_pcm_open_noupdate) Unknown PCM S7 > aplay: main:830: audio open error: No such file or directory > $  aplay -Dhw:S7 /usr/share/sounds/alsa/Front_Center.wav > aplay: main:830: audio open error: Device or resource busy > $  paplay -dhw:S7 /usr/share/sounds/alsa/Front_Center.wav > Stream error: Invalid argument > $  paplay -dS7 /usr/share/sounds/alsa/Front_Center.wav > Stream error: No such entity > $  paplay -l > paplay: invalid option -- 'l' > $  paplay -L > paplay: invalid option -- 'L' > $  cat /etc/lsb-release > DISTRIB_ID=Ubuntu > DISTRIB_RELEASE=20.04 > DISTRIB_CODENAME=focal > DISTRIB_DESCRIPTION="Ubuntu Focal Fossa (development branch)" > $  dpkg-query -W alsa-utils > alsa-utils      1.2.2-1ubuntu1 > $  dpkg-query -W pulseaudio-utils > pulseaudio-utils        1:13.99.1-1ubuntu2 > > From tclug1 at whitleymott.net Mon Apr 20 16:43:57 2020 From: tclug1 at whitleymott.net (gregrwm) Date: Mon, 20 Apr 2020 16:43:57 -0500 Subject: [tclug-list] choose pulse device Re: Stream error: No such entity In-Reply-To: References: Message-ID: > pacmd list-sinks thanks gerry, this shows me the names that presumably will keep working even when the devices come alive in a different order -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From woodbrian77 at gmail.com Thu Apr 23 23:42:44 2020 From: woodbrian77 at gmail.com (Brian Wood) Date: Thu, 23 Apr 2020 23:42:44 -0500 Subject: [tclug-list] Routers with SCTP support Message-ID: Shalom Previously I've posted about using SCTP in my code generator. Now with more people needing quality, free services, I'm looking for a router that has support for SCTP in terms of port forwarding. I read on Stackoverflow that the percentage of routers with SCTP support was very low in 2013. Thanks in advance for advice on this. Brian Ebenezer Enterprises - Enjoying programming again. https://github.com/Ebenezer-group/onwards -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From woodbrian77 at gmail.com Sun Apr 26 11:58:58 2020 From: woodbrian77 at gmail.com (Brian Wood) Date: Sun, 26 Apr 2020 11:58:58 -0500 Subject: [tclug-list] Firewall distros.. What do the cool kids use now? Message-ID: r hayman writes: > and after putting the Comcast modem in bridge mode, I put my cable gateway into bridge mode recently. I had trouble though disabling bridge mode. I had an ethernet cable connected between my laptop and the modem, but couldn't figure out what address would work to get to the modem's interface. I tried 192.168.0.1, 10.0.0.1 and my laptop's IP4 address but with .1 replacing what my IP address ended in. None of that worked. So I did a hard reset of the modem. Anyone know what to try next time? Tia Brian Ebenezer Enterprises - In G-d we trust. https://github.com/Ebenezer-group/onwards -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From jkey at tomobiki.dyndns.org Sun Apr 26 21:09:27 2020 From: jkey at tomobiki.dyndns.org (Joseph Key) Date: Sun, 26 Apr 2020 21:09:27 -0500 Subject: [tclug-list] Firewall distros.. What do the cool kids use now? In-Reply-To: References: Message-ID: <7cc8dd5c-88ac-bc83-2203-c3b3b2eda830@tomobiki.dyndns.org> My cable gateway uses 192.168.100.1 as the gateway address On 4/26/2020 11:58 AM, Brian Wood wrote: > r hayman writes: > > and after putting the Comcast modem in bridge mode, > > I put my cable gateway into bridge mode recently. > I had trouble though disabling bridge mode.    I had > an ethernet cable connected between my laptop and > the modem, but couldn't figure out what address > would work to get to the modem's interface.  I tried > 192.168.0.1, 10.0.0.1 and my laptop's IP4 address > but with .1 replacing what my IP address ended in. > None of that worked.  So I did a hard reset of the > modem.   Anyone know what to try next time?  Tia > > > Brian > Ebenezer Enterprises - In G-d we trust. > https://github.com/Ebenezer-group/onwards > > _______________________________________________ > TCLUG Mailing List - Minneapolis/St. Paul, Minnesota > tclug-list at mn-linux.org > http://mailman.mn-linux.org/mailman/listinfo/tclug-list -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From ryan.coleman at cwis.biz Sun Apr 26 21:34:45 2020 From: ryan.coleman at cwis.biz (Ryan Coleman) Date: Sun, 26 Apr 2020 21:34:45 -0500 Subject: [tclug-list] Firewall distros.. What do the cool kids use now? In-Reply-To: <7cc8dd5c-88ac-bc83-2203-c3b3b2eda830@tomobiki.dyndns.org> References: <7cc8dd5c-88ac-bc83-2203-c3b3b2eda830@tomobiki.dyndns.org> Message-ID: <51320F0D-9BE6-41F0-A7F5-ADA42AC3C2F4@cwis.biz> Business class routers will ignore this but still let you use the origination IP (like the 100.1) as part of the routing table. My old Netgear, which I defaulted and left with my ex when we split, had that IP and I still got the outside IP on my firewall for routing. I could call up the firewall webpage at any time using the internal IP but it was never part of my network design. > On Apr 26, 2020, at 9:09 PM, Joseph Key wrote: > > My cable gateway uses 192.168.100.1 as the gateway address > > On 4/26/2020 11:58 AM, Brian Wood wrote: >> r hayman writes: >> > and after putting the Comcast modem in bridge mode, >> >> I put my cable gateway into bridge mode recently. >> I had trouble though disabling bridge mode. I had >> an ethernet cable connected between my laptop and >> the modem, but couldn't figure out what address >> would work to get to the modem's interface. I tried >> 192.168.0.1, 10.0.0.1 and my laptop's IP4 address >> but with .1 replacing what my IP address ended in. >> None of that worked. So I did a hard reset of the >> modem. Anyone know what to try next time? Tia >> >> >> Brian >> Ebenezer Enterprises - In G-d we trust. >> https://github.com/Ebenezer-group/onwards >> >> >> _______________________________________________ >> TCLUG Mailing List - Minneapolis/St. Paul, Minnesota >> tclug-list at mn-linux.org >> http://mailman.mn-linux.org/mailman/listinfo/tclug-list > _______________________________________________ > TCLUG Mailing List - Minneapolis/St. Paul, Minnesota > tclug-list at mn-linux.org > http://mailman.mn-linux.org/mailman/listinfo/tclug-list -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From iznogoud at nobelware.com Mon Apr 27 09:30:31 2020 From: iznogoud at nobelware.com (Iznogoud) Date: Mon, 27 Apr 2020 14:30:31 +0000 Subject: [tclug-list] Firewall distros.. What do the cool kids use now? In-Reply-To: <51320F0D-9BE6-41F0-A7F5-ADA42AC3C2F4@cwis.biz> References: <7cc8dd5c-88ac-bc83-2203-c3b3b2eda830@tomobiki.dyndns.org> <51320F0D-9BE6-41F0-A7F5-ADA42AC3C2F4@cwis.biz> Message-ID: <20200427143031.GA20768@nobelware.com> > > Business class routers will ignore this but still let you use the origination IP (like the 100.1) as part of the routing table. My old Netgear, which I defaulted and left with my ex when we split, had that IP and I still got the outside IP on my firewall for routing. I could call up the firewall webpage at any time using the internal IP but it was never part of my network design. > This feature right here cost me several hours last week. I had a Tomato bridging to a D-Link standard firmware wireless. Replaced the D-Link wieh another LInksys Tomato (to avoid massive crashes of the D-Link firmware). When I did, I was hitting the bridge Tomato's IP while trying to get to the Tomato that was its DHCP server. It drove me nuts until I realized what was going on. Apparently my knowledge of TCP/IP network routing was not as top-notch as I thought. Here is your PSA: IF you have a router with its de facto firmware that can take Tomato, swap to Tomato. Wow. Solid work they have done. I have been using it since its beginnings. From rhayman at pureice.com Thu Apr 30 17:03:01 2020 From: rhayman at pureice.com (r hayman) Date: Thu, 30 Apr 2020 17:03:01 -0500 Subject: [tclug-list] FYI: Free for a limited time - ebooks from Springer Message-ID: <9997280ce4d33408e66a933e3723607696a0b2e9.camel@pureice.com> Just passing this along to those that might be interested. Springer books released for free during the 2020 COVID-19 quarantine. No idea when this will end. The list of books can be found here https://resource-cms.springernature.com/springer-cms/rest/v1/content/17858272/data/v4 This GitHub repo has more info (links) and a python script to download all 409 books, or subsets of them. https://github.com/alexgand/springer_free_books Plan on a 4+ hour download window if you want copies of them all, there's about 14GB. I think the Springer site has throttled the download speed, I'm only getting ~2.4Mbps. -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: