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toikpi ,

The original interview is no longer available, but here are references.

Microsoft CEO and incontinent over-stater of facts Steve Ballmer said that “Linux is a cancer that attaches itself in an intellectual property sense to everything it touches,” during a commercial spot masquerading as a interview with the Chicago Sun-Times on June 1, 2001.

Ballmer was trying to articulate his concern, whether real or imagined, that limited recourse to the GNU GPL requires that all software be made open source.

“The way the license is written, if you use any open-source software, you have to make the rest of your software open source,” Ballmer explained to an excessively credulous, un-named Sun-Times reporter who, predictably, neglected to question this bold assertion.

theregister.com/…/top_10_steve_ballmer_quotes_fro…

“Ballmer: I may have called Linux a cancer but now I love it” zdnet.com/…/ballmer-i-may-have-called-linux-a-can…

“Former Microsoft CEO Ballmer does about-face on Linux technology” reuters.com/…/us-microsoft-ballmer-linux-idUSKCN0…

What to be aware of before opening port 25 on a postfix Raspberry Pi?

I have a raspberry pi running postfix. I Realised unless I open port 25 I absolutely cannot receive emails (I have 587 open and can send but not receive them). However I heard there are scaries online which someone could potentially send emails from your server without consent. I believe as well my ISP doesn’t block port 25....

toikpi ,

Have you ensured that your setup will pass email authentication processes?

It has been a long time since email from random hosts is accepted for forwarding or delivery. This Wikipedia may help en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Email_authentication

Multifunction Laser Printer and Linux

My faithful Brother laser printer just poo’d itself. And since I’ve not purchased a new printer with additional features since I switched to full-time Linux, I thought I’d better ask around to make sure the document scanning, copy, fax (maybe once a year if that), and other features will work correctly....

toikpi ,

I would look for a printer that supports Web Services for Devices (WSD) or Airscan (eSCL). These protocol allows you setup a scanner without installing a driver.

Here are a couple of starting points for sane-airscan. I discovered it long after I had installed the drivers for my all-in-one.

wiki.archlinux.org/title/SANE#Sharing_your_scanne…

manpages.ubuntu.com/…/sane-airscan.5.html

github.com/alexpevzner/sane-airscan

toikpi ,

Have a look at the size of the Finnish waste repository.

“They’ll hold a total of 5,500 tonnes of waste,” says Joutsen. “So Onkalo will take all the high-level nuclear waste produced by Finland’s five nuclear power plants in their entire life cycles.”

bbc.com/…/20230613-onkalo-has-finland-found-the-a…

The Finnish repository is designed with a life of 100,000 years. Homo sapiens (i.e us) have existed for about 300,000 years.

Article about the problems warnings that will comprehensible in 10,000 years bbc.com/…/20200731-how-to-build-a-nuclear-warning…

toikpi ,

Chrome reports the memory a tab uses if you hover over the tab. Look at the task manager within your browser. Try clicking on the burger bar, then “More tools” and “Task Manager” within the browser.

toikpi ,

The Tweaks application has a switch to enable maximize buttons on windows itsfoss.com/gnome-minimize-button/

Gnome has workspaces. I currently 3 workspaces open. I regularly have four or more open. help.gnome.org/users/…/shell-workspaces.html.en

toikpi ,

YMMV, but here are some reasons

  • Some people prefer to use Linux.
  • Some software runs better on Linux than Windows or Mac (e.g. Docker runs natively on Linux but on Windows and Mac the Docker desktop creates a Linux VM to run Docker on).
  • You have a portable, local development environment without Virtual Machines.

I have a laptop that belongs to my employer and a personal Linux laptop. It is quicker to use the Linux machine than to work out if I can now install WSL 2 or find a Linux instance to do some Linux work.

toikpi ,

I have pre-ordered one for delivery in October. If you look at rpilocator.com you will find various models in stock at the official price. The Raspberry Pi clearly isn’t the tool for you

toikpi ,

Go to rpilocator.com and filter by your “region” and check for yourself. Most models seems to be available. The Rapsberry Pi 5 is available for pre-order from a number of suppliers.

Linux can be used at your workplaces (lemmy.ml)

I’m just tired. On the last post about having Linux at our work, many people that seems to be an IT worker said there have been several issues with Linux that was not easy to manipulate or control like they do with Windows, but I think they just are lazy to find out ways to provide this support. Because Google forces all their...

toikpi ,

From the Windows Community

Does Windows 11 allow Windows 95 compatible computer games? … It really depends on the game, you might get some working, some might not. It is really case by case basis unfortunately.

…microsoft.com/…/31ddfde0-7474-4d67-949d-ee5eab69…

It appears that people may have to use virtual machines to run some Windows 95 software www.groovypost.com/…/run-old-apps-on-windows-11/ The article doesn’t mention using HyperV only 3rd party software.

I prefer Linux simply but it isn’t my tribe.

Took a couple of minutes to find the information above

toikpi ,

The official docs for Toon Boom Harmony 22 seem to have a page on how to install under Linux (RHEL or CentOS 6 or 7).

docs.toonboom.com/…/about-basic-installation-linu…docs.toonboom.com/help/…/install-on-linux.html

You may get it working under Mint but it won’t be supported.

You may have to look at a virtual machine or just put up with Windows because you need this software.

toikpi ,

These may help you to understand what Secure Boot is.

learn.microsoft.com/en-us/…/oem-secure-boot

wiki.debian.org/SecureBoot

toikpi ,

How much do you want to spend?

If you go for a Raspberry Pi have a look at Terrapi cases as well the obvious Argon ones.

Another option would be a Zimbaboard. It is more expensive but it has dual SATA connector (you need to buy a Y cable with the Zimbaboard) and there are 3D print designs to create a single unit, e.g. printables.com/…/224057-zimaboard-dual-hdd-stand.

I’m not sure about PoE and a NAS. Will a PoE HAT or similar provide enough power for the board and the drives?

toikpi ,

Perhaps this page in Mint documentation may help …readthedocs.io/…/burn.html#how-to-make-a-bootabl…

The following video is more advanced but covers Ventoy which lets you have a bootable disk that you can copy ISO files onto. You will then have an USB with multiple distributions that you can pick and choose between at boot time. www.youtube.com/watch?v=10L8aCY3VBs

toikpi ,

Firewall - While this tutorial is Ubuntu 16.04 it should work current versions of Ubuntu linuxbabe.com/…/getting-started-gufw-ubuntu-16-04It should work for other distributions once you change the package manager.

toikpi ,

This is what the Microsoft system requirements page for Windows 11 says

Windows 11 Pro for personal use and Windows 11 Home require internet connectivity and a Microsoft account during initial device set-up.

www.microsoft.com/…/windows-11-specifications

I guess you were building machines with a Windows Enterprise license. This would explain why you had the option to setup an offline account.

Steps to setup a local account on Windows 11 Home tomshardware.com/…/install-windows-11-without-mic…

toikpi ,

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Samba_(software)I just searched for the “samba computer” and this was the first link.

See if you can find some introductory videos that are suitable for you on YouVideo or elsewhere that are suitable for you to work out if you are ready to set up your first home server.

If you just need some storage you could just get a “cheap” USB storage spinning rust external hard drive and move the data that you don’t need day to day onto the drive. At a later date you get a Raspberry Pi or second hand small PC and use the PC as a server with the same drive attached.

toikpi ,

These are updates that will come through the repo. See the release note that is referenced by phoronix.

Please note that the point release does not constitute a new version of Debian 12 but only updates some of the packages included. There is no need to throw away old “bookworm” media. After installation, packages can be upgraded to the current versions using an up-to-date Debian mirror.

www.debian.org/News/2023/20230722

toikpi ,

I use GIMP rarely but a quick search shows that you can use Shift-click to force straight lines or Shift-Ctrl-click to limit both the angle as well. thegimptutorials.com/how-to-draw-rectangle-square…

I half-remembered the Shift-click.

Most uncomplicated Printer that just works™?

Hey, sorry if this isn’t the right place to ask this (feel free to show me the way). I want to get myself a printer that can also scan. Main purpose is to not have endless sheets of paper laying around, but to scan Documents I recieve and then throwing them away so that I only have them digitally and can print stuff out only...

toikpi ,

I’ve used a Brother business AIO Inkjet for some years without any problems.

What's the best open hardware cheap DIY NAS to toss on a router like OpenWRT?

I was thinking it would be nice to have for backups, but maybe even going as far as mounting ~/home to be able to run from multiple machines. I’m really asking where to get started looking without crashing into marketing department nonsense and search engine steering bias.

toikpi ,

OpenWRT support on GL.inet devices seems to be complex. The following is my understanding of the situation.

GL.inet have an OpenWRT fork on GitHub github.com/gl-inet/openwrt This is what is installed on GL.inet devices.

The OpenWRT developers in due course try to work out how to port mainline OpenWRT onto OpenWRT onto GL.inet devices.

toikpi ,

This seems to have worked for the older devices, but I don’t know about the newer devices, for example far as I can tell the “Flint” doesn’t have mainline support despite being over a year old.

toikpi ,

I suggest that you read “In defence of swap” that various people have linked to. It includes information about swap size.

Here are swap size recommendations for from Red Hat and Canonical. You may not run oof these distributions but the information will probably still apply.

access.redhat.com/documentation/…/ch-swapspace

help.ubuntu.com/community/SwapFaq

Assuming you have 16GB of RAM 32GB is the maximum swap size you need if want to use hibernation. You can you less if don’t plan to use hibernation.

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