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Fwd: .ORG has been saved!
by Hartmut W Sager 01 May '20

01 May '20

I presume that this matter is of interest to at least some MUUG members. Hartmut W Sager - Tel +1-204-339-8331 ---------- Forwarded message --------- From: Amy Sample Ward, NTEN <info(a)nten.org> Date: Fri, 1 May 2020 at 08:40 Subject: You did it! .ORG has been saved! To: <hwsager(a)marityme.net> <http://NTEN2.informz.net/z/cjUucD9taT0yOTUxNzQzJnA9MSZ1PTQwMjY1NDIzMyZsaT0y…> You asked to stay informed about updates on the #SaveDotOrg campaign, so I'm writing to you today with an important one: .ORG has been saved! Thanks to you and tens of thousands of concerned people like you, the sale of the .ORG registry to private equity has been stopped. Thank you for speaking out, signing the petition, and sharing it on social media. This couldn't have happened without all of us uniting to save the digital home of nonprofits. Here's the joint statement from NTEN and EFF: We are thrilled to see *ICANN’s leadership reject the sale* <http://NTEN2.informz.net/z/cjUucD9taT0yOTUxNzQzJnA9MSZ1PTQwMjY1NDIzMyZsaT0y…> of Public Interest Registry (PIR) and the .Org top-level domain. For 20 years, .Org has been the online home for nonprofits, NGOs, and community-based groups around the world. It serves both those organizations and the public, helping navigate and support trust, information and resource sharing, and advocacy. The current global pandemic has further illustrated the importance of nonprofit websites, as most of the world’s leading scientific and research institutions, health and safety resources, and educational services are on .Org websites. The need for reliability and security of the .Org domain is as high as it ever has been, and the proposal to convert PIR from a nonprofit to a for-profit entity and then sell it to private equity firm Ethos Capital would have jeopardized both. We want to thank the nearly 900 organizations and the 64,000* individuals from all over the world who joined us in calling for the sale to be stopped. The collective voices made a difference. This is not the final step needed for protecting the .Org domain. ICANN must now open a public process for bids to find a new home for the .Org domain. ICANN has established processes and criteria that outline how to hold a reassignment process. We look forward to seeing a competitive process and are eager to support the participation in that process by the global nonprofit community. The .Org domain, the third-largest top-level domain, needs a secure and reliable steward that can prove it has the public and nonprofit sector’s interests at its core. Additional SaveDotOrg coalition signers: Access Now *The combined signatures from petitions hosted by EFF, Fight for the Future, and Open Media. [image: Amy's bio photo] [image: Amy's signature] *Amy Sample Ward* (*pronouns*: she/her) NTEN CEO [image: NTEN logo] <http://NTEN2.informz.net/z/cjUucD9taT0yOTUxNzQzJnA9MSZ1PTQwMjY1NDIzMyZsaT0y…> [image: Facebook] <http://NTEN2.informz.net/z/cjUucD9taT0yOTUxNzQzJnA9MSZ1PTQwMjY1NDIzMyZsaT0y…> [image: Twitter] <http://NTEN2.informz.net/z/cjUucD9taT0yOTUxNzQzJnA9MSZ1PTQwMjY1NDIzMyZsaT0y…> [image: Instagram] <http://NTEN2.informz.net/z/cjUucD9taT0yOTUxNzQzJnA9MSZ1PTQwMjY1NDIzMyZsaT0y…> [image: LinkedIn] <http://NTEN2.informz.net/z/cjUucD9taT0yOTUxNzQzJnA9MSZ1PTQwMjY1NDIzMyZsaT0y…> 621 SW Alder St., Suite 310, Portland, OR 97205 503-272-8800 | *info(a)nten.org <info(a)nten.org>* *Unsubscribe* | *Privacy Policy* | *View this email in your browser*

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Re: [RndTbl] [Board] Newsletter Fodder: Linux home directory management is about to undergo major change
by Trevor Cordes 30 Apr '20

30 Apr '20

On 2020-04-30 Bradford C Vokey wrote: > https://www.techrepublic.com/article/linux-home-directory-management-is-abo… (Adding rndtbl.) Poettering's gone too far. This will be the straw that breaks the camel's back. He's going to get blowback on this one. And that article author is obviously not a real linux user... only servers need to allow access to the .ssh directory for login? Uh... tell that to all the users that remotely access their own home computers via ssh. I don't want my home dir encrypted. I don't want the easily editable passwd and groups turned into some abomination encrypted/signed JSON crap that I can't edit with a text editor. I don't want to worry about each user having a virtual FS in a file taking up gobs of space it doesn't need. And then average users hitting their predefined limit and not knowing how to make it bigger? It's not just ssh that needs access to files in the home dir... what about: - backups: it's going to be real efficient backing up 5G encrypted containers... NOT! - procmailrc: how's procmail going to find each user's settings and rules? - scp: what if you want to scp a file from your home dir without logging in first? - maildirs: on my systems the MTA/MDA will put the files in each user's home dir under Maildir. - crontab: if a user has some stuff happening in cron, how on earth is that going to access home? They better provide an option to stick with the old way of doing things!! This is one change I will never get behind. It once again shows that Poettering never was a real *NIX user and doesn't have the slightest clue why we love the OS. And what does this all buy us? If you wanted a LUKS setup of some sort, you can already do that without this garbage. It's change for the sake of change (and control) and I use Linux precisely to try to avoid that.

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SODIMMs
by Adam Thompson 30 Apr '20

30 Apr '20

I have a handful of older SODIMMs here that I have no use for. Free to a good home. 2 x GDDR2-800 1GB 128Mx8 1.8V EP, p/n GU331G0ALEPR612C6CE

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talk/ntalk
by Trevor Cordes 29 Apr '20

29 Apr '20

Has anyone gotten talk or ntalk working on a modern distro in the last few years? I can't get talk to work in Fedora 30 no matter what I do. It installs with a systemd setup but it won't start that way. I tried doing it the old xinetd way, but that doesn't seem to work either. Seems impossible? Any other ideas for extremely simple command line 2-person chat that uses no external servers (no I don't want to setup my own irc server! hopefully!)? Don't tell me I'll have to write my own... Thanks!

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the mirror is crazy fast!
by Theodore Baschak 28 Apr '20

28 Apr '20

I just wanted to say thanks to all involved in maintaining the MUUG mirror. It is crazy fast and I <3 having it as my first source for Debian. Theodore Baschak - AS395089 - Hextet Systems https://bgp.guru/ - https://hextet.net/ http://mbix.ca/ - http://mbnog.ca/

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Gmail problem sending from your own SMTP server
by Hartmut W Sager 20 Apr '20

20 Apr '20

Gmail is sure piling up its problems like never before in my 8-10 years of using it. In addition to the other issues of the last two months, we now have: The recent intermittent Gmail problem in sending from your own SMTP server (if you don't want your "send from" address at your own domain name to be an "alias" of your Gmail address) has now become an "always happens" problem. Here's the failure message you get from Gmail: Message not delivered You're sending this from a different address or alias using the 'Send mail as' feature. The settings for your 'Send mail as' account are misconfigured or out of date. Check those settings and try resending. TLS Negotiation failed, the certificate doesn't match the host. After much experimenting and Internet research, I found the answer buried in Gmail support forums - an answer from a smart user, not from Google. In my case, since I use Tucows/OpenSRS for my SMTP server, the chain is smtp-1.marityme.com [cname] --> smtp.marityme.com.cust.a.hostedemail.com --> 216.40.42.5 --> [RDNS] mail.hostedemail.com Tucows/OpenSRS specifies the server *smtp.marityme.com.cust.a.hostedemail.com <http://smtp.marityme.com.cust.a.hostedemail.com>*, which I cname to for concenience and elegance, and that resolves to * 216.40.42.5*, whose RDNS lookup gives *mail.hostedemail.com <http://mail.hostedemail.com>*. Now, unlike before, Gmail expects me to give *mail.hostedemail.com <http://mail.hostedemail.com>* as the SMTP server in the "send from" configuration, and then the sending mechanism works again (at least yesterday and today, who knows about tomorrow). The purpose of this post is to save other members days of headache trying to figure this one out. Hartmut W Sager - Tel +1-204-339-8331

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DIMMs and SODIMMs free to a good home v3.0
by Adam Thompson 19 Apr '20

19 Apr '20

v1 - SODIMMs only v2 - updated SODIMM list, added DIMMs v3 - removed Samsung 8GB DIMMs, expanded distribution of email Sorted by type, then speed, then size. I'd like to not move these from my old basement to my new basement this summer... and no, I have no idea why I still have PC100 and PC133 RAM hanging around - the DIMM in the top row is clearly from Computer Boulevard! Strong preference to people who actually have a use for it, not just moving it from my shelf to yours. I'll probably drop these off at a recycler sometime next week if no-one speaks up for them. Feel free to forward this to other people/places. -Adam QTY FORM FACTOR VCC BRAND PART# SIZE SPEED CL ECC? Additional Markings 1 168-pin DIMM 3V ? (Micron) ? 32MB PC100 CL2 No - 1 168-pin DIMM 3V ? NCP NC2731 128MB PC133 ? No - 4 184-pin RDIMM 2.5V Micron MT36VDDF25672G-335D2 2G PC-2700 (333MT/s) CL2.5 Yes (Registered) - 4 240-pin FBDIMM 1.8V Hynix HYMP112F72CP8D-Y5 1G PC2-5300F CL5 Yes (fully buffered) - 8 240-pin FBDIMM 1.8V Samsung M395T2953EZ4-CE66 1G PC2-5300F CL5 Yes (fully buffered) - 1 DDR1 ? ? (Hynix) ? 256MB PC133 CL2.5-3-3 No - 4 DDR1 2.5V Kingston KVR266X72C2/512 512MB PC266 ? Yes (Unbuffered) - 2 SODIMM 1.8V Acer/Unifosa GU331G0ALEPR612C6CE 1G GDDR2-800 ? No 128Mx8 1 SODIMM ? Samsung MT470T2864QZ3-CF7 1G PC2-6400 ? No 2Rx16 PC2-6400S-666-12-A3 1 SODIMM ? NANYA NT2GT64U8HD0BN-AD 2G PC2-6400 ? No 2Rx8 PC2-6400S-666-13-F1 800 1 SODIMM ? Hynix HMP112S6NFR8C-S6 1G PC2-6400S ? No 1Rx8 PC2-6400S-666-12 1 SODIMM ? Hynix HMT312S6BFR6C-H9 1G PC3-10600 ? No 1Rx16 PC3-10600S-9-10-C1 1 SODIMM ? Patriot PSD34G13332S 4G PC3-10600 CL9 No - 1 SODIMM ? RAMAXEL RMT3020EC58E9F-1333 4G PC3-10600 ? No 2Rx8 PC3-10600S-999 1 SODIMM ? NANYA NT4GC64B8HG0NS-DI 4G PC3-12800 ? No 2Rx8 PC3-12800S-11-10-F2 1600 1 SODIMM PC3L Hynix HMT351S6CFR8C-PB 4G PC3L-12800 ? No 2Rx8 PC3-12800S-11-11-F3 2 SODIMM PC3L Hynix HMT451S6BFR8A-P8 4G PC3L-12800 ? No 1Rx8 PC3L-12800S-11-13-B4

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DIMMs and SODIMMs free to a good home
by Adam Thompson 19 Apr '20

19 Apr '20

Updated list, now also includes DIMMs. Sorted by type, then speed, then size, for your convenience. I'd like to not move these from my old basement to my new basement this summer... and no, I have no idea why I still have PC100 and PC133 RAM hanging around - the DIMM in the top row is clearly from Computer Boulevard! -Adam QUANTITY FORM FACTOR VOLTAGE BRAND PART# SIZE SPEED CL ECC? Additional Markings 1 168-pin DIMM 3V (Micron) ? 32MB PC100 CL2 No - 1 168-pin DIMM 3V ? NCP NC2731 128MB PC133 ? No - 4 184-pin RDIMM 2.5V Micron MT36VDDF25672G-335D2 2G PC-2700 (333MT/s) CL2.5 Yes - 4 240-pin FBDIMM 1.8V Hynix HYMP112F72CP8D-Y5 1G PC2-5300 CL5 Yes - 8 240-pin FBDIMM 1.8V Samsung M395T2953EZ4-CE66 1G PC2-5300 CL5 Yes - 2 240-pin RDIMM 1.5V / 1.35V Samsung M393B1K70CH0-CH9 8GB PC3-10600 (1333MHz) CL9-9-9 Yes - 1 DDR1 ? ? (Hynix) ? 256MB PC133 CL2.5-3-3 No - 4 DDR1 2.5V Kingston KVR266X72C2/512 512MB PC266 ? Yes - 2 SODIMM 1.8V Acer/Unifosa GU331G0ALEPR612C6CE 1G GDDR2-800 ? No 128Mx8 1 SODIMM ? Samsung MT470T2864QZ3-CF7 1G PC2-6400 ? No 2Rx16 PC2-6400S-666-12-A3 1 SODIMM ? NANYA NT2GT64U8HD0BN-AD 2G PC2-6400 ? No 2Rx8 PC2-6400S-666-13-F1 800 1 SODIMM ? Hynix HMP112S6NFR8C-S6 1G PC2-6400S ? No 1Rx8 PC2-6400S-666-12 1 SODIMM ? Hynix HMT312S6BFR6C-H9 1G PC3-10600 ? No 1Rx16 PC3-10600S-9-10-C1 1 SODIMM ? Patriot PSD34G13332S 4G PC3-10600 CL9 No - 1 SODIMM ? RAMAXEL RMT3020EC58E9F-1333 4G PC3-10600 ? No 2Rx8 PC3-10600S-999 1 SODIMM ? NANYA NT4GC64B8HG0NS-DI 4G PC3-12800 ? No 2Rx8 PC3-12800S-11-10-F2 1600 1 SODIMM PC3L Hynix HMT351S6CFR8C-PB 4G PC3L-12800 ? No 2Rx8 PC3-12800S-11-11-F3 2 SODIMM PC3L Hynix HMT451S6BFR8A-P8 4G PC3L-12800 ? No 1Rx8 PC3L-12800S-11-13-B4

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Looking for an AMD Phenom II CPU
by Wyatt Zacharias 13 Apr '20

13 Apr '20

I have an old socket AM2/AM3 system which currently has an Athlon CPU in it that I'm looking to give a little extra life. Does anyone happen to have a spare Phenom II chip lying around that I could have/buy cheap? -- Wyatt Zacharias

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Reminder: MUUG Meeting, April 14, 2020: CANCELLED
by Gilbert E. Detilllieux 13 Apr '20

13 Apr '20

A reminder about the April MUUG meeting (originally posted March 18th): The Manitoba UNIX User Group (MUUG) will not be holding its next monthly meeting on Tuesday, April 14th: April 14, 2020: CANCELLED In light of the current concerns over COVID-19 and the risk of infection, and in keeping with a directive from the University of Winnipeg (which states "All discretionary events on campus currently scheduled until May 1, 2020 will be postponed."*), the MUUG board has decided to cancel the April 14th meeting. The board will be looking into ways we can provide a remote, virtual meeting for subsequent months, if the current public health circumstances continue. (Stay tuned for updates on future meetings.) * https://news-centre.uwinnipeg.ca/all-posts/uwinnipeg-update-on-covid-19-sit… For more information about MUUG, and its monthly meetings, check out their web server: https://muug.ca/ -- Manitoba UNIX User Group E-mail: <gedetil(a)muug.ca> c/o Gilbert E. Detillieux Web: http://muug.ca/ University of Manitoba Phone: (204)474-8161 Winnipeg MB CANADA R3T 2N2 Fax: (204)474-7609

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