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USB drive encryption
by Dan Martin 26 Jan '16

26 Jan '16

I need a device to transport data securely between machines - from PC to Mac or Mac to PC, or between 2 PCs. Problem is, I don't have admin rights on any of the PCs. I also don't want to leave unencrypted copies of the files on the PCs. Preferably, I would want various forms of software on PC or Mac to read and write to the drive transparently after the passphrase is entered. Will a hardware encrypted flash drive do this? or will it want to set up something on the PC requiring admin rights? Can anyone suggest a good, relatively cheap device? -Dan

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ssh can blab private keys early _nixCraft
by jd 22 Jan '16

22 Jan '16

ssh (certain version) appears to volunteer rather much, before getting down & crypty. via nixCraft (on facecrack) ** https://www.facebook.com/nixcraft/posts/1217637954916247 Fix: http://www.cyberciti.biz/faq/howto-openssh-client-security-update-cve-0216-… ** Image attached - termscrot of ssh attempt on a fake nastynode, via nixCraft: ssh_Caution_nixCraft.png

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Request for HELP! Solaris 11 printing (CUPS)
by Kevin McGregor 13 Jan '16

13 Jan '16

I just don't understand Unix printing, I guess. We had it working on Solaris 10 using the old standby lp printing system. Solaris 11 now uses CUPS, and I can't find a reference anywhere that is helpful. On the old/current Solaris 10 system, we have: $ lpstat -t scheduler is running no system default destination system for cowsvpprmom: 192.168.59.113 (as lpd:// 192.168.59.113/printers/GENERAL_ENTRY#Solaris) system for cowsvdprmom: 172.17.176.58 (as lpd:// 172.17.176.58/printers/GENERAL_ENTRY#Solaris) cowsvpprmom accepting requests since Fri Jan 08 12:09:10 2016 cowsvdprmom accepting requests since Fri Jan 08 12:09:10 2016 printer cowsvpprmom disabled since Fri Jan 08 12:09:11 2016. available. printer cowsvdprmom disabled since Fri Jan 08 12:09:11 2016. available. On the new Solaris 11 system (zone) I tried: # lpadmin -p cowsvdprmom -E -v lpd://cowsvdprmom/printers/GENERAL_ENTRY # lpadmin -p cowsvpprmom -E -v lpd://cowsvpprmom/printers/GENERAL_ENTRY ...which doesn't seem to work, because I couldn't print anything (the lpr command works, but then the print queue gets disabled) and this shows up in the CUPS error log: D [13/Jan/2016:11:18:20 +0600] [Job 3] Connecting to printer... D [13/Jan/2016:11:18:20 +0600] [Job 3] STATE: -connecting-to-device D [13/Jan/2016:11:18:20 +0600] [Job 3] Connected to printer... D [13/Jan/2016:11:18:20 +0600] [Job 3] Connected to 192.168.59.113:515 (IPv4) (local port 1015)... D [13/Jan/2016:11:18:20 +0600] [Job 3] lpd_command 02 printers/GENERAL_ENTRY D [13/Jan/2016:11:18:20 +0600] [Job 3] Sending command string (24 bytes)... D [13/Jan/2016:11:18:20 +0600] [Job 3] Reading command status... D [13/Jan/2016:11:18:20 +0600] [Job 3] lpd_command returning 1 D [13/Jan/2016:11:18:20 +0600] [Job 3] Backend returned status 1 (failed) D [13/Jan/2016:11:18:20 +0600] [Job 3] Printer stopped due to backend errors; please consult the error_log file for details. D [13/Jan/2016:11:18:20 +0600] [Job 3] End of messages D [13/Jan/2016:11:18:20 +0600] [Job 3] printer-state=5(stopped) D [13/Jan/2016:11:18:20 +0600] [Job 3] printer-state-message="/usr/lib/cups/backend/lpd failed" D [13/Jan/2016:11:18:20 +0600] [Job 3] printer-state-reasons=paused Have I just got the queue name wrong or something? Or should I be doing something completely different in defining the queue/printer? Thanks for any help you can provide! Kevin

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This is recursive!
by Michael Doob 13 Jan '16

13 Jan '16

Relating to last night's meeting on qrencode: Look at this page from my Math1200 course: http://math-01.cs.umanitoba.ca/math1220/frontmatter-1.html You might wonder what possible use this might have. Despite a bulk mailing to the whole class, I still get asked for the link to this site during class. I'll just say, "Scan this!" It's nice to still have fun giving lectures. Cheers, Michael -- ------------------------------------------------------------------ Michael Doob Telephone: (204) 474-9796 Department of Mathematics Fax: (204) 474-7606 University of Manitoba email: Michael_Doob(a)umanitoba.ca Winnipeg, MB, Canada R3T 2N2 ------------------------------------------------------------------

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As Requested. Javascript WAT Talk
by Paul Sierks 13 Jan '16

13 Jan '16

As per the request made during the general meeting to post this on here. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FqhZZNUyVFM Enjoy! - Paul

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just me? fido
by Trevor Cordes 05 Jan '16

05 Jan '16

In the latest rev of their web site, Fido broke the login functionality for me in Firefox on linux. Works on FF on Windows and Chrome on Windows. Is anyone else having a problem? fido.ca -> login ... no popup ever appears for me to type in the user/pass. Strangely, FF on linux says that some content is not https, but FF on Windows says *all* the content is https. I wonder if I change my UA string if that would go away... but even when I "allow all content" it still won't let me login. I think FF used to have a web page you could go and submit broken popular websites to so they could examine / fix? Do they still do this? Can't find it anywhere. I suppose there's the mozilla bugzilla...

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MUUG Meeting, Jan 12, 7:30pm -- Logstash Revisited
by Gilbert E. Detillieux 05 Jan '16

05 Jan '16

The Manitoba UNIX User Group (MUUG) will be holding its next monthly meeting on Tuesday, January 12. The meeting topic for this month is as follows: Logstash Revisited This month, Paul Sierks will be giving us an in-depth look at Logstash, which was briefly mentioned and demoed at the November meeting, when Rob Keizer presented it in the context of Elasticsearch and Kibana. RTFM In the RTFM segment this month, Wyatt Zacharias will be showing us qrencode(1). The group holds its general meetings at 7:30pm on the second Tuesday of every month from September to June. (There are no meetings in July and August.) Meetings are open to the general public; you don't have to be a MUUG member to attend. ****************************************************************** Please note our *NEW* meeting location for this month: *Room 3M60* (3rd floor) Manitoba Hall, University of Winnipeg, entrance on Ellice Ave. between Spence St. and Balmoral St. Parking is available on the surrounding streets and in the lots on nearby streets. Look for signage once you're at the building, or ask a security guard. ****************************************************************** For more information about MUUG, and its monthly meetings, check out their web server: http://www.muug.mb.ca/ Help us promote this month's meeting, by putting this poster up on your workplace bulletin board or other suitable public message board: http://www.muug.mb.ca/meetings/MUUGmeeting.pdf -- Manitoba UNIX User Group E-mail: <gedetil(a)muug.mb.ca> c/o Gilbert E. Detillieux Web: http://www.muug.mb.ca/ University of Manitoba Phone: (204)474-8161 Winnipeg MB CANADA R3T 2N2 Fax: (204)474-7609

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mysql bug, hah!!
by Trevor Cordes 05 Jan '16

05 Jan '16

Isn't that just the way it always is?? ... https://bugs.mysql.com/bug.php?id=20786 ========= Bug #20786 mysqldump always includes AUTO_INCREMENT Submitted: 29 Jun 2006 22:31 [21 Jul 2011 1:27] John Swapceinski I'm planning to throw a 5 year birthday party for this bug at the end of the month. Who wants to come? Anyone from MySQL/Sun/Oracle? There will be cake. [28 Jun 2013 17:25] Ada Pascal And now there has been cake: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oAiVsbXVP6k Happy 7th birthday MySQL bug #20786! seriously ROFL video PS: this bug is in mariadb too PPS: this bug is biting me now... (piping through sed... sigh)

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mysql crash and non-restart due to RAM?
by Trevor Cordes 04 Jan '16

04 Jan '16

I had a box with 32GB RAM have its mysql just die (no logs, just die). init tried to restart it (RHEL6) and I got this: 160104 8:55:55 InnoDB: Initializing buffer pool, size = 3.9G 160104 8:55:55 InnoDB: Error: cannot allocate 4194320384 bytes of InnoDB: memory with malloc! Total allocated memory InnoDB: by InnoDB 48401248 bytes. Operating system errno: 12 InnoDB: Check if you should increase the swap file or InnoDB: ulimits of your operating system. InnoDB: On FreeBSD check you have compiled the OS with InnoDB: a big enough maximum process size. InnoDB: Note that in most 32-bit computers the process InnoDB: memory space is limited to 2 GB or 4 GB. InnoDB: We keep retrying the allocation for 60 seconds... The setting of a 4G buffer pool was working for months until just now. I reduced it to 3G and mysql restarted ok. Top shows: Mem: 32827576k total, 2274940k used, 30552636k free, 165052k buffers Swap: 2097148k total, 276068k used, 1821080k free, 413640k cached Cacti (up until mysql crashed, wink) shows ps load going up, but that is normal for this box, and RAM usage stayed constant, right before the crash. However, we did launch a long ps that spawns a lot of little ps's (like maybe 100 at a time). This is all normal for this box, and it never has done this before. I'm guessing RAM fragmentation: #cat /proc/buddyinfo Node 0, zone DMA 2 1 1 1 1 0 1 0 1 1 3 Node 0, zone DMA32 1815 1789 1553 1294 1007 688 415 212 103 67 477 Node 0, zone Normal 32859 67280 77301 62304 45390 29754 19144 11069 4786 530 177 (anything else to check?) Looks like tons of pages avail of every size, assuming mysql uses "normal". Any ideas? My only thought now is to reboot server more often to clear fragmentation. Maybe newer kernels solve this "bug" a bit better, but I'm stuck on RHEL6 right now.

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UI convention to show collapsible content (+ and - icons vs left/right and down arrows)
by Fortress Software Inc. 04 Jan '16

04 Jan '16

(Adam, Trevor, and MUUG round table, I have added you to this discussion for you valuable input.) My kids and I have been discussing proper icons to distinguish collapsible content on the web (specifically on one of my new mobile friendly/responsive web pages: http://matchomatics.com/index.php?country=canada&page=why-matchomatics). Our discussions were for which icons identify the collapsible content behavior the best (arrows/chevrons vs +/-). After much more web based research I think I will stick to '<' for collapsed and 'v' for expanded as using +/- icons can confuse users that this is as an 'add/remove' action. And sorry Alex, I see only a small sampling of reference to an '^' arrow to show collapsed content. Interesting to note that when using arrows the icon shows the 'current' state but when using +/- the icons show the 'action' state. Don't you just love UI transitions, as in the 'hamburger' menu icon... Bradford C. Vokey - Director ============================== Fortress Software Incorporated ============================== 390 Provencher Blvd Unit F Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada R2H 0H1 ----------------------------------------------- Phone: (204) 231-3969 or 1-800-665-0396 FAX: 1-800-513-9356 -----------------------------------------------

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