After an all night session of drunken research I've come to the conclusion
there are no 32 bit linux distros left that will fit on a CD-R and actually
install a desktop, hell DVD-R either. Was going to give my faithful old
Dell i486 laptop to a neighbor kid to play with but I think it's dead Jim.
Suggestions?
Those that are left seem to only boot from media and will not install
anything to a hard disk.
Must be a screen door blowing shut somewhere that could use it, pretty
heavy.
I updated a laptop to it this morning! It uses Linux 6.
I wonder about this old hardware, speaking of 32 bit support.
Brian
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Brian Lavender
http://www.brie.com/brian/
"There are two ways of constructing a software design. One way is to
make it so simple that there are obviously no deficiencies. And the other
way is to make it so complicated that there are no obvious deficiencies."
Professor C. A. R. Hoare
The 1980 Turing award lecture
Any thoughts on the Pale Moon web browser?
I was looking around on Honda's web site and they complained about my web browser being out of date. On that VM, its Firefox 84. I clicked on "learn more" hoping that Honda would tell me exactly why they wanted me to upgrade. It's not a bank, after all, and they offered me browser options.
Admittedly, I live under a rock. But, I had never heard of Pale Moon. I went to their home page and am going to give it a try.
I resist browser upgardes because they often change the layout, for no apparent reason. And, the new "features" are often things I don't like. Such as storing a bunch on info on my browser so they don't have to (which I suspect may be Honda's motive). So, if I was going to have to deal with I new layout anyhow, I decided to go for broke and try something actually new.
Security? Its a Honda site. Unless they want me to protect against malware from them, I don't get it.
-Gary
Well, I never heard of it and I don't care for Chromium. Are you using it? I forwarded my reply to the list because I thought it was your intention to reply there.
-Gary
On Mon, Oct 31, 2022 at 06:52:25AM -0700, bob r wrote:
> Gary,
> Is there any reason why you have not tried the Brave browser yet?
> Bob
>
> On Sun, Oct 30, 2022 at 6:38 PM Gary <saclug(a)garymcglinn.com> wrote:
>
> > I went to the Volkswagen site and my Firefox 84 had some problems. So, I
> > installed Firefox 106. The widgets/trim are ugly, but it didn't have any
> > issues on the Volkswagen site. Interestingly to me, the page layout was
> > completely different. Not sure what has come online recently as far as
> > what browsers have to support, but there is definitely something
> > substantial that is new.
> >
> > -Gary
> >
> > On Sat, Oct 29, 2022 at 06:36:07AM -0700, Gary wrote:
> > > OK, I've seen enough. In palemoon the "learn more" button on
> > Wolkswagens web site doesn't work. It doesn't seem to be recognized.
> > Works fine in old Firefox.
> > >
> > > -Gary
> > >
> > > On Sat, Oct 29, 2022 at 05:47:55AM -0700, Gary wrote:
> > > > Any thoughts on the Pale Moon web browser?
> > > >
> > > > I was looking around on Honda's web site and they complained about my
> > web browser being out of date. On that VM, its Firefox 84. I clicked on
> > "learn more" hoping that Honda would tell me exactly why they wanted me to
> > upgrade. It's not a bank, after all, and they offered me browser options.
> > > >
> > > > Admittedly, I live under a rock. But, I had never heard of Pale
> > Moon. I went to their home page and am going to give it a try.
> > > >
> > > > I resist browser upgardes because they often change the layout, for no
> > apparent reason. And, the new "features" are often things I don't like.
> > Such as storing a bunch on info on my browser so they don't have to (which
> > I suspect may be Honda's motive). So, if I was going to have to deal with
> > I new layout anyhow, I decided to go for broke and try something actually
> > new.
> > > >
> > > > Security? Its a Honda site. Unless they want me to protect against
> > malware from them, I don't get it.
> > > >
> > > > -Gary
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Hello list,
Finally have working firewall rules analysis code up
& running. This turns out to be a hard problem!
A lot of people have worked out the math, but there
are a ton of picky obstacles to applying them to real
sets of iptables rules. I hope to flesh out the code
over the next few months and am hoping for a release
(public open source) soon.
--
Charles Polisher
Hey Everyone,
I passed my check ride this last Friday for private pilot! woo hoo. This
has been what I call "Curiosity killed the cat adventure.", in the
figurative sense of course. ;-)
It was all partly inspired by work with Spark/Ada while I was at Sac State
and few guest lectures I gave to the CSC 201 class at Sac State on
Spark/Ada revolving around the implementation of Spark/Ada in the C130J
upgrades. While I found the use of Spark/Ada interesting in the C130J, I
couldn't help wondering what more is involved with the aircraft. So, I
took pilot training lessons! Well, it has been a lot of work. I can fly
a Cessna 172 now! It's not quite a C130J, but it sure gives that hands
on feel!
Here is an interesting paper!
https://www.sigada.org/ada_letters/dec2000/chapman-paper.pdf
Brian
--
Brian Lavender
http://www.brie.com/brian/
"There are two ways of constructing a software design. One way is to
make it so simple that there are obviously no deficiencies. And the other
way is to make it so complicated that there are no obvious deficiencies."
Professor C. A. R. Hoare
The 1980 Turing award lecture
I applied security updates to the server and I just want to make sure it
still works.
--
Brian Lavender
http://www.brie.com/brian/
"There are two ways of constructing a software design. One way is to
make it so simple that there are obviously no deficiencies. And the other
way is to make it so complicated that there are no obvious deficiencies."
Professor C. A. R. Hoare
The 1980 Turing award lecture
It looks like I've managed to recover almost everything. Gparted's disk/partition recovery option worked really well. I don't know if or how it found any superblocks, but it built a loopback /tmp that was just golden.
It took 4 days to run but hey, it was the weekend.
The KVM/qemu files had to be edited quite a but due to the passage of versions/time. And aqemu won't run, but I think this is a Fedora 36 bug.
I'm glad almost everything was in VM's.
I used xxd and gawk to do some carving, but its nice that I won't have to grok all that stuff. Although since I split my RAID1, I'm going to keep the old info around and may play with it some just for fun.
Thanks for all the support, moral and otherwise.
I'm going to spend some time now and come up with a more sane and secure set up. Something I should probably due more than once every decade.
-Gary
I'm looking into locking down ssh some more. It seems that google
provides a PAM module to enable a one time password as part of two
factor authentication.
But changing sshd.comfig to have:
AuthenticationMethods publickey,password
Would require both a password and a key. Since I'm in no hurry to get
Google involved, I thought I might give it a try.
Anyone have any thoughts or played around with this?
-Gary