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SpamAssassin rule problem
by Russell Coker 15 Apr '20

15 Apr '20

header SWS_AUTH Received =~ /Authenticated sender/ describe SWS_AUTH Mail from local SASL is good score SWS_AUTH -10 I have the above in my SA local.conf file. Received: from liv (unknown [x.x.x.x]) (using TLSv1.3 with cipher TLS_AES_256_GCM_SHA384 (256/256 bits) key-exchange X25519 server-signature RSA-PSS (2048 bits) server-digest SHA256) (No client certificate requested) (Authenticated sender: russell(a)coker.com.au) by smtp.sws.net.au (Postfix) with ESMTPSA id 4BB77F173 for <russell(a)coker.com.au>; Tue, 14 Apr 2020 13:53:41 +1000 (AEST) [...] X-Spam-Status: No, score=-0.2 required=5.0 tests=DKIM_SIGNED=0.1, DKIM_VALID=-0.1,DKIM_VALID_AU=-0.1,DKIM_VALID_EF=-0.1, UNPARSEABLE_RELAY=0.001 autolearn=disabled version=3.4.2 Above are the relevant headers of a message coming through. Why am I not getting a -10 added to the score? Thanks. -- My Main Blog http://etbe.coker.com.au/ My Documents Blog http://doc.coker.com.au/

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Re: COVID-19 cure research
by Russell Coker 15 Apr '20

15 Apr '20

On Tuesday, 14 April 2020 10:35:25 PM AEST Peter Drake via luv-main wrote: > COVID-19 > > Lend your spare compute to finding a cure > https://foldingathome.org/ > > The only question is why not I'm running Einstein at home to search for pulsars and Asteroids at home to determine the shapes of asteroids. While searching for pulsars is unlikely to have any health effects, we could suffer the same fate as the dinosaurs so research into asteroids is a really good thing. Folding at home is a worthy project, but they probably have plenty of people subscribing to it now. If you haven't setup Boinc before then Folding at home is a reasonable choice for a first project. Make sure you monitor CPU temperature if you want to have good performance for other things too. -- My Main Blog http://etbe.coker.com.au/ My Documents Blog http://doc.coker.com.au/

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Advice on broadband options
by stripes theotoky 14 Apr '20

14 Apr '20

Hi to all, Now my university is closed for the duration of the health crisis, I have to give at least 16 hours of tutorials / lectures a week via zoom. The audience varies between 20 and 80 students. As my only internet connections are: 1. is a dongle (with Vodafone) that has 3GB , and 2. my mobile phone with 60GB (also with Vodafone) I am urgently in need of a much better connection. Any advice on what and with whom? I am in rented accommodation in Macleod, pretty much a mobile blackspot, and the landlord doesn't like the idea of cable being brought to the premises. Thanks Joanna -- Stripes Theotoky

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Video Conferencing
by Russell Coker 10 Apr '20

10 Apr '20

https://www.schneier.com/blog/archives/2020/04/security_and_pr_1.html Bruce Schneier wrote an informative blog post about the problems with Zoom. https://jitsi.org/ He recommends Jitsi which has Debian packages among other things. -- My Main Blog http://etbe.coker.com.au/ My Documents Blog http://doc.coker.com.au/

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ACM: Open Access to ACM Digital Library During Coronavirus Pandemic
by Rodney Brown 03 Apr '20

03 Apr '20

https://www.acm.org/articles/bulletins/2020/march/dl-access-during-covid-19 ... We believe that ACM can help support research, discovery and learning during this time of crisis by opening the ACM Digital Library <https://dl.acm.org> to all. For the next three months, there will be no fees assessed for accessing or downloading work published by ACM. ... the ACM DL is now open, and will continue that way through June 30, 2020. https://dl.acm.org/

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Re: Advice on broadband options
by Andrew Mather 30 Mar '20

30 Mar '20

> > Hi to all, > > Now my university is closed for the duration of the health crisis, I have > to give at least 16 hours of tutorials / lectures a week via zoom. The > audience varies between 20 and 80 students. As my only internet > connections are: > 1. is a dongle (with Vodafone) that has 3GB , and > 2. my mobile phone with 60GB (also with Vodafone) > I am urgently in need of a much better connection. > > Any advice on what and with whom? I am in rented accommodation in > Macleod, pretty much a mobile blackspot, and the landlord doesn't like > the idea of cable being brought to the premises. > As others have said, the landlord may not be able to restrict you from connecting cable and I'm not sure why they would care anyway, provided the installation was done neatly and by professional licensed contractors, which it has to be. Even if the landlord is able to prevent you connecting cable, are you certain that the only option for fixed-line internet in your area is via HFC/cable ? Is there an existing, even if unused copper landline connection into your premises ? Most houses older than a couple of years would have had landline services. If so, NBN or even ADSL connection may be possible if you reactivate that. These days you don't have to have an active landline telephone service over the copper in order to have a data connection. If you're in a unit or block of flats, there may be an MDF (central connection point for multiple telecom/data services into a single building) in a central area that you can connect into. Fixed line will give you much better performance using video conferencing on a regular basis if it's possible. > -- - https://picasaweb.google.com/107747436224613508618 -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- "Do not go where the path may lead, go instead where there is no path and leave a trail." *-Ralph Waldo Emerson, * "Unless you're a train....that's not good advice for trains" *-Andrew Mather*

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Telstra 4GX Hotspot vs 4GX Wi-Fi Pro
by stripes theotoky 30 Mar '20

30 Mar '20

Hi guys, hope you are all doing well and keeping safe. I have the following question: I need to get a mobile broadband hotspot. Currently the telstra website shows the 4GX hotspot at $149 and the 4GX Wi-Fi Pro at $119. However, when clicking on buy online for the 4GX hotspot, the telstra website cannot find the page! Are there any significant differences between the two, other than the number of devices that can connect? Thank you, Joanna -- Stripes Theotoky -37 .713869 145.050562

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Re: Telstra 4GX Hotspot vs 4GX Wi-Fi Pro
by stripes theotoky 29 Mar '20

29 Mar '20

On Sun, 29 Mar 2020 at 05:18, stripes theotoky < stripes.theotoky(a)googlemail.com> wrote: > On Sat, 28 Mar 2020 at 04:09, Russell Coker <russell(a)coker.com.au> wrote: > >> On Friday, 27 March 2020 11:14:41 AM AEDT stripes theotoky via luv-main >> wrote: >> > I have the following question: I need to get a mobile broadband hotspot. >> > Currently the telstra website shows the 4GX hotspot at $149 and the 4GX >> > Wi-Fi Pro at $119. However, when clicking on buy online for the 4GX >> >> The cheapest new Android phone that Kogan offers is $159. Second hand >> phones >> are cheaper. Why do you want a dedicated Wifi device when you could get >> a >> phone that does it as well as other things? >> > > I have a phone (Blackberry KeyOne) and use it as a hotspot, with > Vodafone. It works OK but there are often congestion issues, dropouts > etc. I have no home broadband. The reason I need an additional wifi > device is that I am now working from home and have to deliver lectures and > tutorials of various sizes via Zoom over the coming weeks. The problem is > exacerbated by having to deal with computer illiterate and obstinate > people. For example: I am asked to run a Zoom session with 100 students > and at the same time stream a recording to all of them, and also take > questions, etc. > > > >> -- >> My Main Blog http://etbe.coker.com.au/ >> My Documents Blog http://doc.coker.com.au/ >> >> > > -- > Stripes Theotoky > > -37 .713869 > 145.050562 > > > -- Stripes Theotoky -37 .713869 145.050562

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Re: luv-main Digest, Vol 103, Issue 11
by Andrew Mather 29 Mar '20

29 Mar '20

> Date: Sat, 28 Mar 2020 15:09:26 +1100 > From: Russell Coker <russell(a)coker.com.au> > To: luv-main(a)luv.asn.au, stripes theotoky > <stripes.theotoky(a)googlemail.com> > Subject: Re: Telstra 4GX Hotspot vs 4GX Wi-Fi Pro > Message-ID: <29805413.i3JmRAMY3h@xev> > Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" > > On Friday, 27 March 2020 11:14:41 AM AEDT stripes theotoky via luv-main > wrote: > > I have the following question: I need to get a mobile broadband hotspot. > > Currently the telstra website shows the 4GX hotspot at $149 and the 4GX > > Wi-Fi Pro at $119. However, when clicking on buy online for the 4GX > > The cheapest new Android phone that Kogan offers is $159. Second hand > phones > are cheaper. Why do you want a dedicated Wifi device when you could get a > phone that does it as well as other things? > I have an ancient Telstra 3G/4G Hotspot device and have found it performs way better than my iPhone as a data hotspot. By performance, I mean the hotspot has better reception in marginal areas and data transfer speeds are higher. It also has much better battery life and is quicker to recharge. Obviously this may be affected somewhat by the number of other applications running on the phone, but that doesn't account for the whole difference. I suspect that being a dedicated device, it's optimised for data transfer in ways that the phone isn't. It also sounds like the people in question already have phones, so the extra features aren't required. I'm not familiar with the models being looked at and it may not be relevant, but my device also has the capability to connect an external antenna, which I've used occasionally an makes things even better. The main downside is it's locked to the Telstra network, but given a lot of the time, I'm using it in remote 4WD touring situtaions, is not an issue because there's often no other network out there. -- - https://picasaweb.google.com/107747436224613508618 -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- "Do not go where the path may lead, go instead where there is no path and leave a trail." *-Ralph Waldo Emerson, * "Unless you're a train....that's not good advice for trains" *-Andrew Mather*

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Any TVHeadend users?
by Robert Brown 28 Mar '20

28 Mar '20

Hi all Do we have any user of TVHeadend on the list? I need some expertise re permissions when trying to record to a USB drive. TIA Rob B

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