Docker – mintCast https://mintcast.org The podcast by the Linux Mint community for all users of Linux Sat, 06 Sep 2025 20:43:30 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=7.1 https://mintcast.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/03/cropped-small-logo-32x32.png Docker – mintCast https://mintcast.org 32 32 164426984 Round Table 09-06-25 https://mintcast.org/round-table-09-06-25/ Sat, 06 Sep 2025 20:43:29 +0000 https://mintcast.org/?p=7625 A Saturday Livestream about everything and nothing.

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]]> 7625 453.5 – Getting Docked! https://mintcast.org/453-5-getting-docked/ Wed, 29 Jan 2025 05:00:00 +0000 https://mintcast.org/?p=7365 In our Innards section: A look at Docker

And finally, the feedback and a couple of suggestions

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And finally, the feedback and a couple of suggestions

Full Show Notes Here

Contact Info:

Special Thanks To:

  • Bill for our audio editing
  • Archive.org for hosting our audio files
  • Hobstar for our logo, initrd for the animated Discord logo
  • Londoner for our time syncs and various other contributions
  • Bill Houser for hosting the server which runs our website, website maintenance, and the NextCloud server on which we host our show notes and raw audio
  • The Linux Mint development team for the fine distro we love to talk about <Thanks, Clem … and co!>
]]> 7365 451.5 – Serves You Right https://mintcast.org/451-5-serves-you-right/ Tue, 17 Dec 2024 05:00:00 +0000 https://mintcast.org/?p=7303 In our Innards section: We talk “servers” and mintCast infrastructure

And finally, the feedback and a couple of suggestions

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And finally, the feedback and a couple of suggestions

Full Show Notes Here

Contact Info:

Special Thanks To:

  • Bill for our audio editing
  • Archive.org for hosting our audio files
  • Hobstar for our logo, initrd for the animated Discord logo
  • Londoner for our time syncs and various other contributions
  • Bill Houser for hosting the server which runs our website, website maintenance, and the NextCloud server on which we host our show notes and raw audio
  • The Linux Mint development team for the fine distro we love to talk about <Thanks, Clem … and co!>
]]> 7303 430.5 – Infrastructure Bill https://mintcast.org/430-5-infrastructure-bill/ Wed, 14 Feb 2024 05:00:00 +0000 https://mintcast.org/?p=6643 In our Innards section: Bill explains the current mintCast infrastructure

In "Check This Out" we share a call for new shows by Hacker Public Radio

And finally, the feedback and a couple of suggestions.

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In our Innards section: Bill explains the current mintCast infrastructure

In “Check This Out” we share a call for new shows by Hacker Public Radio

And finally, the feedback and a couple of suggestions

  1. [skipto time=”00:00:00″] – Intro
  2. [skipto time=”00:01:06″] – Innards
  3. [skipto time=”00:40:07″] – Check This Out
  4. [skipto time=”00:45:07″] – Housekeeping and Announcemnts
  5. [skipto time=”00:45:48″] – Wrap Up
  6. [skipto time=”00:48:49″] – Outro
Full Show Notes Here

Contact Info:

Special Thanks To:

  • Bill Houser for our audio editing
  • Archive.org for hosting our audio files
  • Hobstar for our logo, initrd for the animated Discord logo
  • Londoner for our time syncs and various other contributions
  • Bill Houser for hosting the server which runs our website, website maintenance, and the NextCloud server on which we host our show notes and raw audio
  • The Linux Mint development team for the fine distro we love to talk about <Thanks, Clem … and co!>
]]> 6643 413 – Flying Wigs https://mintcast.org/413-flying-wigs/ Wed, 31 May 2023 05:00:00 +0000 https://mintcast.org/?p=6198 First up in the news, Arch migrates Git, Ubuntu changes PPAs, Fedora Onyx is approved, Google to remove old accounts, Debian re-imposes a moratorium, Proton goes Family, Red Hat unveils a new Desktop, Fedora plans to drop X11, Thunderbird gets a new logo

In security and privacy, Google’s 2FA isn’t private enough

Then in our Wanderings, Majid is off to University, Joe is manacled to his office, Moss kicks the tires on the new Bodhi, and Bill migrates

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In security and privacy, Google’s 2FA isn’t private enough;

Then in our Wanderings, I’m off to University, Joe is manacled to his office, Moss kicks the tires on the new Bodhi, and Bill migrates

The News

Arch Migrates Git

Ubuntu Makes “Significant Changes” to PPAs for 23.10

Fedora Onyx, Immutable and with Budgie, approved for Fedora 39

Google To Start Removing Inactive Accounts After 2 Years

Google Chrome’s 2023 UI Refresh on Ubuntu

Debian Votes to Reinstate Merged-usr File Movement Moratorium

Proton Unveils Family Plan

Red Hat Reveals Podman Desktop 1.0

Fedora Intends To Completely Drop X11 in Plasma 6

Thunderbird Gets a Brand New Logo

Security And Privacy

Google’s New 2FA Isn’t End-to-End Encrypted

Full Show Notes Can Be Found Here

Wrap Up

We would like to acknowledge some of the people who make mintCast possible:

  • Bill Houser for our audio editing
  • Archive.org for hosting our audio files
  • Hobstar for our logo, initrd for the animated Discord logo
  • Londoner for our time syncs and various other contribution
  • Bill Houser for hosting the server which runs our website, website maintenance, and the NextCloud server on which we host our show notes and raw audio
  • The Linux Mint development team for the fine distro we love to talk about <Thanks, Clem … and co!>
]]> 6198 387 – The Curious Case of Debian Downloads https://mintcast.org/387-the-curious-case-of-debian-downloads/ Wed, 15 Jun 2022 12:13:29 +0000 https://mintcast.org/?p=5496 ]]> 2:32 The News
13:25 Security and Privacy
22:10 Bi-Weekly Wanderings
1:05:28 Announcements

First up in the news: NVIDIA is transitioning, Debian talks non-free, Ubuntu has new ISOs and Docker news.

In security and privacy: Intel has more microcode

Then in our Wanderings: Joe lost the election, Norbert watches sci-fi and Bill sets up NextCloud.

Twitter. Discord. Telegram. Matrix. Reddit. Youtube.

The News

Security and Privacy Update

Wrap-up

Before we leave, we want to make sure to acknowledge some of the people who make mintCast possible:

  • Norbert and Tony H for our audio production
  • Leo for timestamps and publishing
  • Josh Lowe for all his work on the website
  • Hobstar for our logo
  • initrd for the animated Discord logo
  • Londoner for our time sync
  • Bytemark Hosting for hosting mintcast.org and our Mumble server
  • Archive.org for hosting our audio files
  • HPR for our backup Mumble room
  • The Linux Mint development team for the fine distro we love to talk about.Thanks, Clem!
]]> 5496 376.5 – Getting Ac-CLI-mated https://mintcast.org/376-5-getting-ac-cli-mated/ Sat, 25 Dec 2021 23:46:06 +0000 https://mintcast.org/?p=5309 And finally, the feedback and a couple of suggestions
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26:21 Vibrations from the Ether
33:13 Check This Out
35:44 Announcements & Outro

In our Innards section, we talk about our favorite command line tools

And finally, the feedback and a couple of suggestions

Twitter. Discord. Telegram. Matrix. Reddit. Youtube.

Linux Innards

Vibrations from the Ether

  • William H
  • Hilander

Check This Out

Announcements

Wrap-up

Before we leave, we want to make sure to acknowledge some of the people who make mintCast possible …

  • Norbert for our audio production
  • Leo for timestamps and publishing
  • Josh Lowe for all his work on the website
  • Hobstar for our logo
  • initrd for the animated Discord logo
  • Londoner for our time sync
  • Bytemark Hosting for hosting mintcast.org and our Mumble server
  • Archive.org for hosting our audio files
  • HPR for our backup Mumble room
  • The Linux Mint development team for the fine distro we love to talk about <Thanks, Clem!>
]]> 5309 mintCast 359 – COSMIC Proportions (mp3) https://mintcast.org/mintcast-359-cosmic-proportions-mp3/ Wed, 21 Apr 2021 06:36:29 +0000 https://mintcast.org/?p=5029 Then, in the News, we get hypnotized, we look at Apple M1 support again, celebrate a birthday, and look to the stars.
In Security, Skynet.
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1:59 Bi-Weekly Wanderings
39:55 The News
1:18:36 Security Update
1:26:05 Announcements & Outro

First up, in our Wanderings, I get a fresh stream, Joe sends his keystrokes over the air, Josh has a server dilemma, and Mike heads to space.

Then, in the News, we get hypnotized, we look at Apple M1 support again, celebrate a birthday, and look to the stars.

In Security, Skynet.

BI-WEEKLY WANDERINGS: 

THE NEWS:

SECURITY UPDATE: 

ANNOUNCEMENTS: 

Wrap-up:

Before we leave, we want to make sure to acknowledge some of the people who make mintCast possible …

  • Owen Peery for our audio editing, Josh Lowe for all his work on the website, Hobstar for our logo, initrd for the animated logo, and Londoner for our time sync
  • Bytemark Hosting for hosting mintcast.org and our Mumble server
  • Archive.org for hosting our audio files
  • HPR for our backup Mumble room
  • The Linux Mint development team for the fine distro we love to talk about <Thanks, Clem!>
]]> 5029 mintCast 359 – COSMIC Proportions https://mintcast.org/mintcast-359-cosmic-proportions/ Wed, 21 Apr 2021 06:25:28 +0000 https://mintcast.org/?p=5024 Then, in the News, we get hypnotized, we look at Apple M1 support again, celebrate a birthday, and look to the stars.
In Security, Skynet.
Download
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1:59 Bi-Weekly Wanderings
39:55 The News
1:18:36 Security Update
1:26:05 Announcements & Outro

First up, in our Wanderings, I get a fresh stream, Joe sends his keystrokes over the air, Josh has a server dilemma, and Mike heads to space.

Then, in the News, we get hypnotized, we look at Apple M1 support again, celebrate a birthday, and look to the stars.

In Security, Skynet.

BI-WEEKLY WANDERINGS: 

THE NEWS:

SECURITY UPDATE: 

ANNOUNCEMENTS: 

Wrap-up:

Before we leave, we want to make sure to acknowledge some of the people who make mintCast possible …

  • Owen Peery for our audio editing, Josh Lowe for all his work on the website, Hobstar for our logo, initrd for the animated logo, and Londoner for our time sync
  • Bytemark Hosting for hosting mintcast.org and our Mumble server
  • Archive.org for hosting our audio files
  • HPR for our backup Mumble room
  • The Linux Mint development team for the fine distro we love to talk about <Thanks, Clem!>
]]> 5024 mintCast 352 – Repredictability (mp3) https://mintcast.org/mintcast-352-repredictability-mp3/ Wed, 13 Jan 2021 05:03:17 +0000 http://mintcast.org/?p=4866 Then in the news, Linux Mint 20.1 is here, the M1 gets closer, Firefox gets a facelift and Project Lenix makes more progress 
In security, what’s going on with Qt6?
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1:41 Bi-Weekly Wanderings
33:10 News
1:02:08 Security Update
1:08:04 Outro

First up, in our Wanderings, I’ve been playing with Docker, Joe got a 1up, Tony bundles up again, and Josh re-predicts

Then in the news, Linux Mint 20.1 is here, the M1 gets closer, Firefox gets a facelift and Project Lenix makes more progress 

In security, what’s going on with Qt6?

BI-WEEKLY WANDERINGS:

  • Leo
    • My focus has been at work and editing Linux User Space these past couple of weeks.
    • I am finally going to put Aaron’s Docker compose file to good use to get a long term Gitea instance now that my NAS is settled and running well.
  • Joe
    • Got the screen adapter for the Arcade1Up machine.  Still need to finish putting it together
    • 3d printed a part for listener Dustin for a pair of headphones that I had sent him.
      • Had to switch to pla for the print
      • Happy to say that it printed perfectly and seemed very sturdy using the gcode that I had used before for the same print
      • Sad to say that this means that I need to go back to tweaking the settings for PETG.  Slow it down even more and see if that gets the prints to turn out right
    • Was able to fix the Samsung Galaxy Gear S3 Frontier watch with a 15 dollar part from ebay
      • I had purchased a broken motherboard for the watch that was only supposed to have issues with the heart rate sensor and the pedometer so that I could verify that the screen was working correctly
      • The screen does work and most of the functions on the watch itself works as well
      • Thought that I got lucky and the pedometer and the heart rate monitor were correct.  I verified that the heart rate monitor was working by comparing it to my other watch and everything seemed to be fine.  I did see that the number of steps were being counted but when I compared it to my phone over the course of the day the number on the watch was lower than the phone.  This should not be the case it should be the other way around.  
      • Then i found out that the watch was showing that i was going up and down stairs all day so i ordered another one and will be getting it soon in order to do another fix
      • I am giving my other watch to my wife to see if she likes it or not.  If not, I will probably sell it.
    • Got a family portrait coming in a few months. The pictures were taken for it
      • We won a raffle for it but there was still a lot of cost involved because we wanted the larger size because it comes with a couple of extra 10 inch paintings that we can send to the rest of the family
      • Way more money than i wanted to pay but with my eldest child turning 18 I really want to get it done whilst the kids have no choice in the matter
      • But it is a rather large expense for me and I don’t want to go through that same company in order to get the frame
      • I could really use some suggestions and knowledge on framing.  If you have any knowledge on the subject please advise me on the best way to frame a museum quality painting, please email me jb@mintcast.org
  • Tony Hughes
    • Not a lot going on here as we went into another stay at home order right after New Year, so I have been baking, modeling and watching other people modeling on YouTube.
    • On a good note regarding the Virus, my wife has now had the FULL vaccination as she works in the critical care department of our local hospital in an admin role. She was lucky to get her second dose just before they changed it to be 12 weeks after the first, the day after she had her second injection. This will reduce my risk considerably given where she works.
    • On the Diecast modeling as it is winter and my paintshop is in the garage which is not heated. So I have mainly been preparing models for the paint stage so dismantling them, drilling and taping the posts ready for reassembly and paint stripping then storing for later paint and reassembly. I will also print the decals needed for those models that require them at the reassembly stage.   
    • Very quiet Linux wise although last night I installed the Mint 20.1 upgrade onto my main Laptop which we will be talking about later. 
  • Josh Hawk
    •  First to clarify my predictions.
      • 1. Linux phones will double in number and power in 2021.
        • What I mean by number is the amount of phones on the market.
        • What I mean by power is a benchmark score would be doubled.
        • Only to include phones that use an official Linux kernel.
      • 2. All mainstream cable tv channels will switch to apps.
        • I know they all have apps now but what I meant was they will all have an app that requires a monthly subscription to access. Such as Discovery+ and the likes.
        • I do not mean that cable tv will die and only have apps with subscriptions but will have cable tv broadcasts and the option to use their streaming service with a small monthly fee.
      • 3. Firefox will be given to the community.
        • I don’t think that would be a totally bad thing depending on who picked up the code base.
    •      I put a poll on the mintcast group asking what distro I should use for a year long run on my main laptop. The consensus was Arch Linux and I have been working since then to get it installed and functional on that laptop.  I have the base system installed at this point and it boots but no desktop yet because I cannot get wifi connection even though I had it on the live usb. I am working with cryptodan and londoner on the issue. Finally I got WIFi working and I got to install my desktop (Cinnamon of course). I actually had to use nmcli to finally connect to wifi instead of iwd that I was using but was not working. Once I got WiFi working it was a few simple installs and I had a desktop but I did run into one more issue. After installing the desktop and lightdm I was greeted with “Failed to load light display manager” and found out I needed what was called the  lightdm-gtk-greeter and then it would load the login screen.
    • I have been working on my HP server at my parents house. I had to replace 3 drives that must have been damaged in shipping and learn how to set up hardware RAID. I finally got openSUSE Leap 15.2 installed but the wifi card I was using to install would not work once openSUSE Leap 15.2 was installed. I have since ordered some ethernet over powerline adapters to see if that solves my internet woes. The powerline ethernet was the plan all along but I was just wanting to get the system set up at least and I had the wifi usb dongle already so I figured i’d use that till it didn’t work. 

THE NEWS: 

SECURITY UPDATE:

Announcements:

Wrap-up:

Before we leave, we want to make sure to acknowledge some of the people who make mintCast possible …

  • Owen Peery for our audio editing, Josh Lowe for all his work on the website, Hobstar for our logo, and Londoner for our time sync
  • Bytemark Hosting for hosting mintcast.org and our Mumble server
  • Archive.org for hosting our audio files
  • HPR for our backup Mumble room
  • The Linux Mint development team for the fine distro we love to talk about <Thanks, Clem!>
]]> 4866 mintCast 352 – Repredictability https://mintcast.org/mintcast-352-repredictability/ Wed, 13 Jan 2021 05:03:12 +0000 http://mintcast.org/?p=4862 Then in the news, Linux Mint 20.1 is here, the M1 gets closer, Firefox gets a facelift and Project Lenix makes more progress 
In security, what’s going on with Qt6?
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1:41 Bi-Weekly Wanderings
33:10 News
1:02:08 Security Update
1:08:04 Outro

First up, in our Wanderings, I’ve been playing with Docker, Joe got a 1up, Tony bundles up again, and Josh re-predicts

Then in the news, Linux Mint 20.1 is here, the M1 gets closer, Firefox gets a facelift and Project Lenix makes more progress 

In security, what’s going on with Qt6?

BI-WEEKLY WANDERINGS:

  • Leo
    • My focus has been at work and editing Linux User Space these past couple of weeks.
    • I am finally going to put Aaron’s Docker compose file to good use to get a long term Gitea instance now that my NAS is settled and running well.
  • Joe
    • Got the screen adapter for the Arcade1Up machine.  Still need to finish putting it together
    • 3d printed a part for listener Dustin for a pair of headphones that I had sent him.
      • Had to switch to pla for the print
      • Happy to say that it printed perfectly and seemed very sturdy using the gcode that I had used before for the same print
      • Sad to say that this means that I need to go back to tweaking the settings for PETG.  Slow it down even more and see if that gets the prints to turn out right
    • Was able to fix the Samsung Galaxy Gear S3 Frontier watch with a 15 dollar part from ebay
      • I had purchased a broken motherboard for the watch that was only supposed to have issues with the heart rate sensor and the pedometer so that I could verify that the screen was working correctly
      • The screen does work and most of the functions on the watch itself works as well
      • Thought that I got lucky and the pedometer and the heart rate monitor were correct.  I verified that the heart rate monitor was working by comparing it to my other watch and everything seemed to be fine.  I did see that the number of steps were being counted but when I compared it to my phone over the course of the day the number on the watch was lower than the phone.  This should not be the case it should be the other way around.  
      • Then i found out that the watch was showing that i was going up and down stairs all day so i ordered another one and will be getting it soon in order to do another fix
      • I am giving my other watch to my wife to see if she likes it or not.  If not, I will probably sell it.
    • Got a family portrait coming in a few months. The pictures were taken for it
      • We won a raffle for it but there was still a lot of cost involved because we wanted the larger size because it comes with a couple of extra 10 inch paintings that we can send to the rest of the family
      • Way more money than i wanted to pay but with my eldest child turning 18 I really want to get it done whilst the kids have no choice in the matter
      • But it is a rather large expense for me and I don’t want to go through that same company in order to get the frame
      • I could really use some suggestions and knowledge on framing.  If you have any knowledge on the subject please advise me on the best way to frame a museum quality painting, please email me jb@mintcast.org
  • Tony Hughes
    • Not a lot going on here as we went into another stay at home order right after New Year, so I have been baking, modeling and watching other people modeling on YouTube.
    • On a good note regarding the Virus, my wife has now had the FULL vaccination as she works in the critical care department of our local hospital in an admin role. She was lucky to get her second dose just before they changed it to be 12 weeks after the first, the day after she had her second injection. This will reduce my risk considerably given where she works.
    • On the Diecast modeling as it is winter and my paintshop is in the garage which is not heated. So I have mainly been preparing models for the paint stage so dismantling them, drilling and taping the posts ready for reassembly and paint stripping then storing for later paint and reassembly. I will also print the decals needed for those models that require them at the reassembly stage.   
    • Very quiet Linux wise although last night I installed the Mint 20.1 upgrade onto my main Laptop which we will be talking about later. 
  • Josh Hawk
    •  First to clarify my predictions.
      • 1. Linux phones will double in number and power in 2021.
        • What I mean by number is the amount of phones on the market.
        • What I mean by power is a benchmark score would be doubled.
        • Only to include phones that use an official Linux kernel.
      • 2. All mainstream cable tv channels will switch to apps.
        • I know they all have apps now but what I meant was they will all have an app that requires a monthly subscription to access. Such as Discovery+ and the likes.
        • I do not mean that cable tv will die and only have apps with subscriptions but will have cable tv broadcasts and the option to use their streaming service with a small monthly fee.
      • 3. Firefox will be given to the community.
        • I don’t think that would be a totally bad thing depending on who picked up the code base.
    •      I put a poll on the mintcast group asking what distro I should use for a year long run on my main laptop. The consensus was Arch Linux and I have been working since then to get it installed and functional on that laptop.  I have the base system installed at this point and it boots but no desktop yet because I cannot get wifi connection even though I had it on the live usb. I am working with cryptodan and londoner on the issue. Finally I got WIFi working and I got to install my desktop (Cinnamon of course). I actually had to use nmcli to finally connect to wifi instead of iwd that I was using but was not working. Once I got WiFi working it was a few simple installs and I had a desktop but I did run into one more issue. After installing the desktop and lightdm I was greeted with “Failed to load light display manager” and found out I needed what was called the  lightdm-gtk-greeter and then it would load the login screen.
    • I have been working on my HP server at my parents house. I had to replace 3 drives that must have been damaged in shipping and learn how to set up hardware RAID. I finally got openSUSE Leap 15.2 installed but the wifi card I was using to install would not work once openSUSE Leap 15.2 was installed. I have since ordered some ethernet over powerline adapters to see if that solves my internet woes. The powerline ethernet was the plan all along but I was just wanting to get the system set up at least and I had the wifi usb dongle already so I figured i’d use that till it didn’t work. 

THE NEWS: 

SECURITY UPDATE:

Announcements:

Wrap-up:

Before we leave, we want to make sure to acknowledge some of the people who make mintCast possible …

  • Owen Peery for our audio editing, Josh Lowe for all his work on the website, Hobstar for our logo, and Londoner for our time sync
  • Bytemark Hosting for hosting mintcast.org and our Mumble server
  • Archive.org for hosting our audio files
  • HPR for our backup Mumble room
  • The Linux Mint development team for the fine distro we love to talk about <Thanks, Clem!>
]]> 4862 mintCast 349.5 – Just Some Linux ISOs (mp3) https://mintcast.org/mintcast-349-5-just-some-linux-isos-mp3/ Wed, 09 Dec 2020 05:02:59 +0000 http://mintcast.org/?p=4809 And finally, the feedback and a couple of suggestions
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1:27 Innards
40:50 Feedback
48:51 Security
55:15 Outro

In our Innards section, we talk Docker, OpenVPN and Transmission

And finally, the feedback and a couple of suggestions

LINUX INNARDS:

  • My Docker transmission/chrome setup stopped working but I think this time it was because of the changes in openvpn.  I tested the ovpn file outside docker and it worked just fine.  But when I logged in to the docker session and ran the same file it threw an error and did not work.  
  • I had to go through several different iterations of installing virtualBox in order to get it to work.  I started with the base install from the mint repos.  But it did not work, I did a purge and added the repo for virtualBox and tried both 6.0 and 6.1 but neither seemed to work and would throw an error in regards to drivers.
  • Even after I remembered that this was a new motherboard and went in and turned on virtualization.  Then I did another purge and installed the main version of virtualBox and everything worked
  • Then I installed the MATE version of Mint with 2gb of RAM and 32gb of starting HDD space to be allocated dynamically.
  • Then I setup a shared folder between the host and the VM which has some issues that I will get to shortly
  • After that I made sure that the applications I needed were installed.  These applications are transmission-daemon, transmission-rss, openvpn and iptables
  • Transmission-daemon I had to make run as my user which was as easy as modifying the systemd setup and telling it to run as me
  • Transmission-rss is an application for which you run a simple command that checks a config file and then checks the rss feeds that I have given it.  Grabs the torrent files and then feeds them into transmission which then downloads the files
    • But because I installed the newest version of Ruby it is having trouble reading everything from the config files.  This should be easily fixed by reverting to an older version of Ruby but what it amounts to is the fact that ruby sees the config file differently.
    • I set up transmission rss to run as a cron job that goes off every ten minutes.  This can also be setup as a service that runs continually although I think that eats some resources for no reason
  • The next thing that I set up was openvpn as a system service. 
  • Then I needed to limit the traffic so that it would only go through the openvpn connection.  That was why I changed the user earlier on transmission to the main user instead of root.  So that the traffic is always limited.
  • This requires the use of iptables.  I generated a script based off some commands that I found on the interwebs, I would include the link here but I cannot find it again
#!/bin/bash

# Set our rules so the debian-transmission user group can only route through the vpn

NET=10.0.0.0/8

GROUP=USER

IFACE_INTERNAL=eth0

IFACE_VPN=tun0

ALLOW_PORT_FROM_LOCAL=9091

iptables -A OUTPUT -d $NET -p tcp --sport $ALLOW_PORT_FROM_LOCAL -m owner --gid-owner $GROUP -o $IFACE_INTERNAL -j ACCEPT

iptables -A OUTPUT -d $NET -p udp --sport $ALLOW_PORT_FROM_LOCAL -m owner --gid-owner $GROUP -o $IFACE_INTERNAL -j ACCEPT

iptables -A OUTPUT -m owner --gid-owner $GROUP -o $IFACE_VPN -j ACCEPT

iptables -A OUTPUT -m owner --gid-owner $GROUP -o lo -j ACCEPT

iptables -A OUTPUT -m owner --gid-owner $GROUP -j REJECT

# not needed - but added these to properly track data to these interfaces....when using iptables -L -v

iptables -A INPUT -i $IFACE_VPN -j ACCEPT

iptables -A INPUT -i $IFACE_INTERNAL -j ACCEPT

iptables -A INPUT -i lo -j ACCEPT

# track any forward (NAT) data for completeness - don't care about interfaces

iptables -A FORWARD
  • I have included the script here but what it does is limit all traffic from the USER group to go through tun0 which is the VPN.  It also limits local traffic to eth0 but since there is no eth0 it blocks local traffic for that user
  • The next thing to do is restart the VM to test that everything is working as it should.
  • After the restart the first thing to do is check your ip address either from the command line with something like curl ipinfo.io or with your web browser.
  • If the ip address is different from the one outside of the vm then you know that most everything is working.  Next thing is to kill the openvpn service and check again sudo systemctl stop openvpn and then try to load a webpage.  Nothing should come up
  • Restart the vpn sudo systemctl start openvpn.  Check your transmission page.  Check that you can download a torrent and that it will start.
  • Things that need to be fixed:
    • Transmission starts before the location is mounted which throws some errors that are easily fixed by restarting transmission
      • This may be fixable by forcing transmission to start later or by converting to an sshfs mount that goes through my dns service and having that setup as a systemd service that runs before transmission
    • The RSS feature for some reason (Ruby, I need to install an older version) doesn’t automatically move finished files to the proper location so that it can be moved to another location and picked up by plex. It also no longer uses the regex I have set up so that it will only download the versions that I want of whatever I am downloading.  It gets everything from the feed
    • Also need to set the vmbox to start up automatically at reboot
    • Even though I limited the amount of RAM to 2Gb I am now maxing out 16Gb of RAM so I am going to order more but I think this is more a recent issue with chrome eating memory again as I have seen the issue on another machine without this set up 
  • There are other ways that I could set this up instead of inside a virtual machine that would probably be easier 
    • Instead of a VM I could use a dedicated machine.  This would get rid of the mount timing issues that I have but would make the later transfer of files possibly problematic.  Pretty sure I could even do this with a Pi and that may be my next project although space may be an issue and I will still need to work out the kinks with Ruby
    • I could set up a router with a dedicated VPN and then have a machine that is only connected through that but that requires 2 dedicated devices and while is probably a much easier set up I would worry about ip leaks.  Also that would meant that when I wanted to use a vpn version of chrome I would either need an extension or a different set up on all my boxes
    • Last but not least and one that I will be visiting in the near future.  I could knuckle down and learn docker compose and fix these docker images myself

VIBRATIONS FROM THE ETHER:

  • Jim Daldry
  • Nick
  • LinuxLuva114

CHECK THIS OUT! 

Announcements:

Our next episode will be Sunday, November 29, 2020, at 2 pm Central Time, check for your local time!

https://everytimezone.com/s/1506acff

Wrap-up:

Before we leave, we want to make sure to acknowledge some of the people who make mintCast possible …

  • Owen Peery for our audio editing, Josh Lowe for all his work on the website, Hobstar for our logo, and Londoner for our time sync
  • Bytemark Hosting for hosting mintcast.org and our Mumble server
  • Archive.org for hosting our audio files
  • HPR for our backup Mumble room
  • The Linux Mint development team for the fine distro we love to talk about <Thanks, Clem!>
]]> 4809 mintCast 349.5 – Just Some Linux ISOs https://mintcast.org/mintcast-349-5-just-some-linux-isos/ Wed, 09 Dec 2020 04:48:47 +0000 http://mintcast.org/?p=4803 And finally, the feedback and a couple of suggestions
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1:27 Innards
40:50 Feedback
48:51 Security
55:15 Outro

In our Innards section, we talk Docker, OpenVPN and Transmission

And finally, the feedback and a couple of suggestions

LINUX INNARDS:

  • My Docker transmission/chrome setup stopped working but I think this time it was because of the changes in openvpn.  I tested the ovpn file outside docker and it worked just fine.  But when I logged in to the docker session and ran the same file it threw an error and did not work.  
  • I had to go through several different iterations of installing virtualBox in order to get it to work.  I started with the base install from the mint repos.  But it did not work, I did a purge and added the repo for virtualBox and tried both 6.0 and 6.1 but neither seemed to work and would throw an error in regards to drivers.
  • Even after I remembered that this was a new motherboard and went in and turned on virtualization.  Then I did another purge and installed the main version of virtualBox and everything worked
  • Then I installed the MATE version of Mint with 2gb of RAM and 32gb of starting HDD space to be allocated dynamically.
  • Then I setup a shared folder between the host and the VM which has some issues that I will get to shortly
  • After that I made sure that the applications I needed were installed.  These applications are transmission-daemon, transmission-rss, openvpn and iptables
  • Transmission-daemon I had to make run as my user which was as easy as modifying the systemd setup and telling it to run as me
  • Transmission-rss is an application for which you run a simple command that checks a config file and then checks the rss feeds that I have given it.  Grabs the torrent files and then feeds them into transmission which then downloads the files
    • But because I installed the newest version of Ruby it is having trouble reading everything from the config files.  This should be easily fixed by reverting to an older version of Ruby but what it amounts to is the fact that ruby sees the config file differently.
    • I set up transmission rss to run as a cron job that goes off every ten minutes.  This can also be setup as a service that runs continually although I think that eats some resources for no reason
  • The next thing that I set up was openvpn as a system service. 
  • Then I needed to limit the traffic so that it would only go through the openvpn connection.  That was why I changed the user earlier on transmission to the main user instead of root.  So that the traffic is always limited.
  • This requires the use of iptables.  I generated a script based off some commands that I found on the interwebs, I would include the link here but I cannot find it again
#!/bin/bash

# Set our rules so the debian-transmission user group can only route through the vpn

NET=10.0.0.0/8

GROUP=USER

IFACE_INTERNAL=eth0

IFACE_VPN=tun0

ALLOW_PORT_FROM_LOCAL=9091

iptables -A OUTPUT -d $NET -p tcp --sport $ALLOW_PORT_FROM_LOCAL -m owner --gid-owner $GROUP -o $IFACE_INTERNAL -j ACCEPT

iptables -A OUTPUT -d $NET -p udp --sport $ALLOW_PORT_FROM_LOCAL -m owner --gid-owner $GROUP -o $IFACE_INTERNAL -j ACCEPT

iptables -A OUTPUT -m owner --gid-owner $GROUP -o $IFACE_VPN -j ACCEPT

iptables -A OUTPUT -m owner --gid-owner $GROUP -o lo -j ACCEPT

iptables -A OUTPUT -m owner --gid-owner $GROUP -j REJECT

# not needed - but added these to properly track data to these interfaces....when using iptables -L -v

iptables -A INPUT -i $IFACE_VPN -j ACCEPT

iptables -A INPUT -i $IFACE_INTERNAL -j ACCEPT

iptables -A INPUT -i lo -j ACCEPT

# track any forward (NAT) data for completeness - don't care about interfaces

iptables -A FORWARD
  • I have included the script here but what it does is limit all traffic from the USER group to go through tun0 which is the VPN.  It also limits local traffic to eth0 but since there is no eth0 it blocks local traffic for that user
  • The next thing to do is restart the VM to test that everything is working as it should.
  • After the restart the first thing to do is check your ip address either from the command line with something like curl ipinfo.io or with your web browser.
  • If the ip address is different from the one outside of the vm then you know that most everything is working.  Next thing is to kill the openvpn service and check again sudo systemctl stop openvpn and then try to load a webpage.  Nothing should come up
  • Restart the vpn sudo systemctl start openvpn.  Check your transmission page.  Check that you can download a torrent and that it will start.
  • Things that need to be fixed:
    • Transmission starts before the location is mounted which throws some errors that are easily fixed by restarting transmission
      • This may be fixable by forcing transmission to start later or by converting to an sshfs mount that goes through my dns service and having that setup as a systemd service that runs before transmission
    • The RSS feature for some reason (Ruby, I need to install an older version) doesn’t automatically move finished files to the proper location so that it can be moved to another location and picked up by plex. It also no longer uses the regex I have set up so that it will only download the versions that I want of whatever I am downloading.  It gets everything from the feed
    • Also need to set the vmbox to start up automatically at reboot
    • Even though I limited the amount of RAM to 2Gb I am now maxing out 16Gb of RAM so I am going to order more but I think this is more a recent issue with chrome eating memory again as I have seen the issue on another machine without this set up 
  • There are other ways that I could set this up instead of inside a virtual machine that would probably be easier 
    • Instead of a VM I could use a dedicated machine.  This would get rid of the mount timing issues that I have but would make the later transfer of files possibly problematic.  Pretty sure I could even do this with a Pi and that may be my next project although space may be an issue and I will still need to work out the kinks with Ruby
    • I could set up a router with a dedicated VPN and then have a machine that is only connected through that but that requires 2 dedicated devices and while is probably a much easier set up I would worry about ip leaks.  Also that would meant that when I wanted to use a vpn version of chrome I would either need an extension or a different set up on all my boxes
    • Last but not least and one that I will be visiting in the near future.  I could knuckle down and learn docker compose and fix these docker images myself

VIBRATIONS FROM THE ETHER:

  • Jim Daldry
  • Nick
  • LinuxLuva114

CHECK THIS OUT! 

Announcements:

Our next episode will be Sunday, November 29, 2020, at 2 pm Central Time, check for your local time!

https://everytimezone.com/s/1506acff

Wrap-up:

Before we leave, we want to make sure to acknowledge some of the people who make mintCast possible …

  • Owen Peery for our audio editing, Josh Lowe for all his work on the website, Hobstar for our logo, and Londoner for our time sync
  • Bytemark Hosting for hosting mintcast.org and our Mumble server
  • Archive.org for hosting our audio files
  • HPR for our backup Mumble room
  • The Linux Mint development team for the fine distro we love to talk about <Thanks, Clem!>
]]> 4803 mintCast 322 – The Linux Defender https://mintcast.org/mintcast-322-the-linux-defender/ Wed, 20 Nov 2019 06:25:01 +0000 http://mintcast.org/?p=4019 Then, in the news, Microsoft is working overtime, Docker gets a second wind, new Debian updates, big .org changes, and more.
In security, Microsoft brings Defender ATP to Linux, and another speculative execution vulnerability.
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First up, in our Wanderings, Leo picks up a hard drive docking station, Tony tests the new Gnome, Moss fights overscanning, and Joe volunteers for Full Circle — And last minute guest Oliver Kelly

Then, in the news, Microsoft is working overtime, Docker gets a second wind, new Debian updates, big .org changes, and more.

In security, Microsoft brings Defender ATP to Linux, and another speculative execution vulnerability.

BI-WEEKLY WANDERINGS:

  • Leo
    • Got a new hard drive docking station.
    • Working on news hunting and gathering up some reliable sources to pull from. Some staff changes at Full Circle means that I’ll be gathering up a lot, if not all, of my news myself.
    • So far, so good. Plenty of things to cover, which means that the show here will pull from the same pot!
  • Tony H 
    • Continuing to work with the Ubuntu 19.10 Gnome install on the test laptop for Distrohoppers Digest, I’m actually starting to get used to some of the differences in DE layout. After the install of the Arc menu things are a little easier to navigate, and I am finding myself resorting to the keyboard for some of the things I would normally use the mouse/trackpad for.
    • Buying more Matchbox diecast models from the 50’s, 60’s and 70’s and getting some real bargains off Ebay. I have bought a drill for drilling out the rivets and have started to dismantle a few of the poorer condition models apart with a view to starting a restoration. I’ll let you know how it goes.
    • It’s a good job we postponed the next DH recording as I’ve got another funeral to attend which would have made me unavailable to record. Otherwise life is starting to stabilize a little with my health back on the up and feeling a little more like normal (whatever that is)     
  • Moss
    • I’ve been working slowly on my next review for Distrohoppers’ Digest. Some interesting things going on in Zorin OS.
    • I can’t seem to keep my power supply plug plugged into my Galago Pro 2. If it just moves a tiny fraction of a millimeter it stops charging. I’m not sure what to do about that, other than to keep an eye on the battery icon on my desktop.
    • I received a Raspberry Pi 3B with a Pimoroni clear case from Tony Hughes via George Doscher of Tech + Coffee (Thanks, Tony and George!). Handing this little item off to George at OggCamp saved Tony quite a few quid in postage, and George, I am told, refused to accept money from Tony for US postage. 
    • So I plugged in and started up the Pi 3B while my Galago Pro was running. The Pi was on HDMI-1 and the Galago Pro was on HDMI-3 on my TV/monitor. The Pi worked great, but when I switched the monitor over to HDMI-3, my Linux Mint was badly overscanned (about 20%) so I could barely use it. I changed resolution to 1480×720 and it worked, but of course everything was so much larger. I later discovered that it had the same effect on my Bodhi 5.1 installation, which was doubly weird and not as easy to fix (ARndR is much harder to work with on an overscanned screen than Displays is), but there was no effect at all on my installs of Pearl Desktop 8 (based on Ubuntu 19.04), Ubuntu Budgie 19.10, or Q4OS (Debian 10 Buster). Apparently it triggered something in 18.04 code *only*. The fix ultimately was to change the Galago Pro to HDMI-2, and it’s a good thing the TV has 3 HDMI inputs. The guys in the mintCast Telegram group tried to talk me into plugging in the Pi again to prove the concept, but I decided I had my system working and wanted to keep it that way.
    • Dale Miracle sent a nice donation, including a new Logitech M570 trackball. Thank you, Dale.  I now have all the tech stuff I can use at the present time, and still have two laptops for sale as well as a few other miscellaneous bits of gear.
    • Just before the show, I got the proverbial wild hair up my patootie to set up a new partition on my 1 Tb drive in the Galago Pro 2. So I did. GPartEd performed like a champ. I shrunk sda1 to 250 Gb, and then shrunk sda3 the other way — forcing GPartEd to copy files to a new location on the partition. While that is scary, and while they say it CAN destroy files, once again GPartEd performed like a champ and did everything without a hitch. And I learned something — I thought you could only have 3 Primary partitions on a drive, but I now have 4. Sda4 is now formatted and waiting for a new distro to be put on it. I’m going to go out on a limb and try Sabayon first.
    • Reading-wise we are on Empire of Jade, the second Temeraire book by Naomi Novik, moving slowly as we’ve had quite a few crises keeping me busy until it was too sleepy out to read.
  • Joe
    • Demon Accords by John Conroe
      • Once again an OK series.
      • Some of the downside of the series is the main character is just way too OP
      • But my main issue with it has to do with the reader.  I will have to pick up a copy of the book because through the first half of the series the reader makes all the speakers sound like they are asking a question.  It is a bit distracting.  
      • I will say that the reader greatly improved later on and I did end up liking the story especially with the introduction of some of the other main characters.
    • Jack Campbell – The Lost Fleet Beyond the Frontier [1-5]
      • Good read.  Didn’t realize it was a sequel series until I had started it
      • Will read the first series later on
      • Well read.  The reader does an excellent job of using different voices for different people
    • Talked to the guys from Full Circle about the article I wrote and they got back to me saying it might be a few issues before we do anything and that I would need to add some graphics or screen shots.  Also found a mistake I had made in the article I sent for review where I mention ssl forwarding instead of ssh -l for local port forwarding. Got that cleaned up and now I am adding images.
      • Also discussed a portion of the article on TLLTS
    • Local Lug
      • Spent a lot of time talking about security and VPNs.
      • The guy I was talking to sells electronic insurance and wants to protect clients and client data.
      • Discussed when using a vpn was a good choice and how it was secure
      • Someone brought in the pinebook pro
        • Really cool device
    • Had to work on my toilet last weekend
      • One of those things where the more you fix the more that breaks
      • The original problem is that the float arm started breaking so if you did not shut it off from the wall it would slowly continue running and draining down the overflow.  
      • We were holding off on fixing it because I am not a plumber
      • But then the shut off valve quit shutting all the way off so I figured to just fix the toilet since I already had the parts and then I work on the shut off valve later
      • Had to shut off the mains from the meter which was a pain.  That replacement was not too difficult other then making a bit of a watery mess but after I got it in place there was still a constant running.  Turns out someone had previously done a glue repair on the overflow and it was not holding up any longer. So had to go to walmart and get more tools and a new overflow valve.
      • In order to replace that part you need to take the tank off.  Problem is that one of the copper bolts was completely rusted stuck.  Well this means that I have to dremel it. I have a dremel but I am all out of cutting bits so I ended up needing to go back to walmart for more bits.  Got it cut out
      • Walmart doesn’t sell the replacement bolts.  So I got everything put back together except for that one bolt and wedged the valve so that the family could use water,  had to wait for home depot to open up so that I could get the bolts.  
      • Did get it all put back together but on the bolt I didn’t replace there is a small leak only when the tank first starts filling. So I will need to replace that and still need to replace the wall valve.
  • Oliver Kelly
    • https://medium.com/@pentacent/nginx-and-lets-encrypt-with-docker-in-less-than-5-minutes-b4b8a60d3a71
    • https://www.humankode.com/ssl/how-to-set-up-free-ssl-certificates-from-lets-encrypt-using-docker-and-nginx
    • http://0lzi.tk/episode-009
    • https://junocomputers.com/

THE NEWS: 

SECURITY UPDATE: 

ANNOUNCEMENTS:

  • Next Show: Nov 17, 2019 – 2PM central time

WRAP-UP:

Before we leave, we want to make sure to acknowledge some of the people who make mintCast possible …

  • Josh Lowe for all his work on the website and the livestream (We’ve had over 60 listeners today on the backup mixer platform and brought on some new listeners who’ve never heard of the podcast)
  • Bytemark Hosting for hosting mintcast.org and our Mumble server
  • Archive.org for hosting our audio files
  • The Linux Mint development team for the fine distro we love to talk about <Thanks, Clem!>
]]> 4019 mintCast 322 – The Linux Defender (mp3) https://mintcast.org/mintcast-322-the-linux-defender-mp3/ Wed, 20 Nov 2019 06:23:02 +0000 http://mintcast.org/?p=4017 Then, in the news, Microsoft is working overtime, Docker gets a second wind, new Debian updates, big .org changes, and more.
In security, Microsoft brings Defender ATP to Linux, and another speculative execution vulnerability.
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First up, in our Wanderings, Leo picks up a hard drive docking station, Tony tests the new Gnome, Moss fights overscanning, and Joe volunteers for Full Circle — And last minute guest Oliver Kelly

Then, in the news, Microsoft is working overtime, Docker gets a second wind, new Debian updates, big .org changes, and more.

In security, Microsoft brings Defender ATP to Linux, and another speculative execution vulnerability.

BI-WEEKLY WANDERINGS:

  • Leo
    • Got a new hard drive docking station.
    • Working on news hunting and gathering up some reliable sources to pull from. Some staff changes at Full Circle means that I’ll be gathering up a lot, if not all, of my news myself.
    • So far, so good. Plenty of things to cover, which means that the show here will pull from the same pot!
  • Tony H 
    • Continuing to work with the Ubuntu 19.10 Gnome install on the test laptop for Distrohoppers Digest, I’m actually starting to get used to some of the differences in DE layout. After the install of the Arc menu things are a little easier to navigate, and I am finding myself resorting to the keyboard for some of the things I would normally use the mouse/trackpad for.
    • Buying more Matchbox diecast models from the 50’s, 60’s and 70’s and getting some real bargains off Ebay. I have bought a drill for drilling out the rivets and have started to dismantle a few of the poorer condition models apart with a view to starting a restoration. I’ll let you know how it goes.
    • It’s a good job we postponed the next DH recording as I’ve got another funeral to attend which would have made me unavailable to record. Otherwise life is starting to stabilize a little with my health back on the up and feeling a little more like normal (whatever that is)     
  • Moss
    • I’ve been working slowly on my next review for Distrohoppers’ Digest. Some interesting things going on in Zorin OS.
    • I can’t seem to keep my power supply plug plugged into my Galago Pro 2. If it just moves a tiny fraction of a millimeter it stops charging. I’m not sure what to do about that, other than to keep an eye on the battery icon on my desktop.
    • I received a Raspberry Pi 3B with a Pimoroni clear case from Tony Hughes via George Doscher of Tech + Coffee (Thanks, Tony and George!). Handing this little item off to George at OggCamp saved Tony quite a few quid in postage, and George, I am told, refused to accept money from Tony for US postage. 
    • So I plugged in and started up the Pi 3B while my Galago Pro was running. The Pi was on HDMI-1 and the Galago Pro was on HDMI-3 on my TV/monitor. The Pi worked great, but when I switched the monitor over to HDMI-3, my Linux Mint was badly overscanned (about 20%) so I could barely use it. I changed resolution to 1480×720 and it worked, but of course everything was so much larger. I later discovered that it had the same effect on my Bodhi 5.1 installation, which was doubly weird and not as easy to fix (ARndR is much harder to work with on an overscanned screen than Displays is), but there was no effect at all on my installs of Pearl Desktop 8 (based on Ubuntu 19.04), Ubuntu Budgie 19.10, or Q4OS (Debian 10 Buster). Apparently it triggered something in 18.04 code *only*. The fix ultimately was to change the Galago Pro to HDMI-2, and it’s a good thing the TV has 3 HDMI inputs. The guys in the mintCast Telegram group tried to talk me into plugging in the Pi again to prove the concept, but I decided I had my system working and wanted to keep it that way.
    • Dale Miracle sent a nice donation, including a new Logitech M570 trackball. Thank you, Dale.  I now have all the tech stuff I can use at the present time, and still have two laptops for sale as well as a few other miscellaneous bits of gear.
    • Just before the show, I got the proverbial wild hair up my patootie to set up a new partition on my 1 Tb drive in the Galago Pro 2. So I did. GPartEd performed like a champ. I shrunk sda1 to 250 Gb, and then shrunk sda3 the other way — forcing GPartEd to copy files to a new location on the partition. While that is scary, and while they say it CAN destroy files, once again GPartEd performed like a champ and did everything without a hitch. And I learned something — I thought you could only have 3 Primary partitions on a drive, but I now have 4. Sda4 is now formatted and waiting for a new distro to be put on it. I’m going to go out on a limb and try Sabayon first.
    • Reading-wise we are on Empire of Jade, the second Temeraire book by Naomi Novik, moving slowly as we’ve had quite a few crises keeping me busy until it was too sleepy out to read.
  • Joe
    • Demon Accords by John Conroe
      • Once again an OK series.
      • Some of the downside of the series is the main character is just way too OP
      • But my main issue with it has to do with the reader.  I will have to pick up a copy of the book because through the first half of the series the reader makes all the speakers sound like they are asking a question.  It is a bit distracting.  
      • I will say that the reader greatly improved later on and I did end up liking the story especially with the introduction of some of the other main characters.
    • Jack Campbell – The Lost Fleet Beyond the Frontier [1-5]
      • Good read.  Didn’t realize it was a sequel series until I had started it
      • Will read the first series later on
      • Well read.  The reader does an excellent job of using different voices for different people
    • Talked to the guys from Full Circle about the article I wrote and they got back to me saying it might be a few issues before we do anything and that I would need to add some graphics or screen shots.  Also found a mistake I had made in the article I sent for review where I mention ssl forwarding instead of ssh -l for local port forwarding. Got that cleaned up and now I am adding images.
      • Also discussed a portion of the article on TLLTS
    • Local Lug
      • Spent a lot of time talking about security and VPNs.
      • The guy I was talking to sells electronic insurance and wants to protect clients and client data.
      • Discussed when using a vpn was a good choice and how it was secure
      • Someone brought in the pinebook pro
        • Really cool device
    • Had to work on my toilet last weekend
      • One of those things where the more you fix the more that breaks
      • The original problem is that the float arm started breaking so if you did not shut it off from the wall it would slowly continue running and draining down the overflow.  
      • We were holding off on fixing it because I am not a plumber
      • But then the shut off valve quit shutting all the way off so I figured to just fix the toilet since I already had the parts and then I work on the shut off valve later
      • Had to shut off the mains from the meter which was a pain.  That replacement was not too difficult other then making a bit of a watery mess but after I got it in place there was still a constant running.  Turns out someone had previously done a glue repair on the overflow and it was not holding up any longer. So had to go to walmart and get more tools and a new overflow valve.
      • In order to replace that part you need to take the tank off.  Problem is that one of the copper bolts was completely rusted stuck.  Well this means that I have to dremel it. I have a dremel but I am all out of cutting bits so I ended up needing to go back to walmart for more bits.  Got it cut out
      • Walmart doesn’t sell the replacement bolts.  So I got everything put back together except for that one bolt and wedged the valve so that the family could use water,  had to wait for home depot to open up so that I could get the bolts.  
      • Did get it all put back together but on the bolt I didn’t replace there is a small leak only when the tank first starts filling. So I will need to replace that and still need to replace the wall valve.
  • Oliver Kelly
    • https://medium.com/@pentacent/nginx-and-lets-encrypt-with-docker-in-less-than-5-minutes-b4b8a60d3a71
    • https://www.humankode.com/ssl/how-to-set-up-free-ssl-certificates-from-lets-encrypt-using-docker-and-nginx
    • http://0lzi.tk/episode-009
    • https://junocomputers.com/

THE NEWS: 

SECURITY UPDATE: 

ANNOUNCEMENTS:

  • Next Show: Nov 17, 2019 – 2PM central time

WRAP-UP:

Before we leave, we want to make sure to acknowledge some of the people who make mintCast possible …

  • Josh Lowe for all his work on the website and the livestream (We’ve had over 60 listeners today on the backup mixer platform and brought on some new listeners who’ve never heard of the podcast)
  • Bytemark Hosting for hosting mintcast.org and our Mumble server
  • Archive.org for hosting our audio files
  • The Linux Mint development team for the fine distro we love to talk about <Thanks, Clem!>
]]> 4017 mintCast 319 – New Mumble https://mintcast.org/mintcast-319-new-mumble/ Wed, 09 Oct 2019 05:33:51 +0000 http://mintcast.org/?p=3961 Then, our news: CentOS 8 and Mumble 1.3 are released, Ubuntu 19.10 is almost here, the GNOME Foundation and Docker navigate rough seas, and more.
In security, we talk Exim.
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First up, in our Wanderings, I talk Dynamic DNS, Tony is writing articles, Moss test drives EndeavourOS, Josh visited Media City, and Joe relaxes with fiction.

Then, our news: CentOS 8 and Mumble 1.3 are released, Ubuntu 19.10 is almost here, the GNOME Foundation and Docker navigate rough seas, and more.

In security, we talk Exim.

WANDERINGS:

  • Leo
    • Dynamic DNS – Finally got this setup with a lot of personal resistance.
      • Took inspiration from Telegram. Quite a few people were setting up Dynamic DNS a couple of months ago, and I was resistant because my IP address hardly changed. Seems like my address is changing all the time now.
      • Not quite sure if my router is handling it correctly (ER-POE-5) even though I have it configured as the Ubiquity forums suggest.
      • So as a backup, I’m running a cron job once every 6 hours on my Pi-Hole to update the IP address.
      • Used afraid.org. Very simple setup once you dig into it. To update, you basically have to visit a URL.
    • Installed two new packages that are supposed to give better battery statistics and life.
      • sudo apt install tp-smapi-dkms acpi-call-dkms
      • I’m not testing this scientifically, but these packages should help calibrate my Thinkpad batteries properly. I’ve only gone through one charge cycle, so it’s hard to tell if things have changed.
  • Tony H 
    • Starting to write a series of articles on Getting started in podcasting, for Full Circle Magazine, I have written the first 2 articles so check out the October magazine as you may see me in print.
    • Continuing to use MX 19 beta 2.1 – beta 3 was released yesterday I have downloaded the iso and will install as just updating may miss some bug fixes.
    • Got a reply to my bug notification about dropping into the login screen when rebooting, as it’s not a critical bug it is on the to do list as they want to fix it but at the moment they are not sure how to do it.
  • Moss
    • Distrohoppers’ Digest Episode 006 was a rollicking good time, I hope our listeners enjoy it as much as we did.
    • I installed Endeavour OS on my T430. A few issues, easily solved, and everything else installed. I had everything except Mumble & Audacity. Then I noticed it kept creating copies of boot records — my boot was a mass of multiple selections of the same distros. I used Grub Customizer to clean them up, and at next boot it created more. I reported the issue. It has now come off my T430.
    • I still wanted to have something to review for October, and so decided to try a SINGLE INSTALL (what a concept!) on the IdeaPad. I attempted to install OpenMandriva, but got nowhere, it failed to create a partition. I got my GPartEd disk out and redid the disk, with a small Swap partition and a large Primary. I installed OpenMandriva Lx 4 just fine, and rebooted. No boot. It didn’t write Grub properly or whatever, I’ve had this issue before. So I tried Manjaro, and it wouldn’t even find my wifi. I’m using SuperGrub2 on a CD to boot, then going into OM4. There is supposed to be a way to use SuperGrub2 to write Grub but it isn’t obvious, got more reading to do.
    • I have some items for sale from my earlier inheritance. See my eBay listings (moss23) and talk to me if you’re interested in any of them. I did sell the Hackintosh, did not really get fair value for it. I now have $95 saved up towards the new laptop; eBay sales go towards that as well. I have also started a Sponsus for Distrohoppers, but you’re all welcome to join in. http://sponsus.org/zaivala 
    • My job has gone sideways. I still have it, and finally am working part time, but my wonderful manager got demoted and moved for no reason, and the new manager just isn’t the same. I had wanted 4 days per week, I’m getting 3. I’m looking for work again. Some employees have not stopped crying about the change, and it was 3 weeks ago. Another result of the change is I’m making even less income.
    • As this show is turning into Readers’ Corner, I should note that I finished reading the Nightside series by Simon R. Green to my wife, and have started in on Temeraire by Naomi Novik. Unlike Joe, I don’t get audiobooks, I *am* the audiobook reader.
  • Joe
    • I need to solder something.  Don’t know what yet
      • Ordered a small set of HBS 820’s
      • Haven’t worked on those before but i am willing to give them a try
    • My CPAP machine is dying.  Makes getting sleep difficult.  Which makes motivation to do projects even more difficult
      • I pulled out one of the spare CPAPs that i have and reprogrammed it to match my other one.  I think i got everything right and i am sleeping a little better
      • Have to wait for my referral to go through with the VA and it is taking longer than it should so that i can get the right one refurbished or replaced.
    • Finished up the Wheel of time series again.  I love the book series.
      • Very well done audiobook series.
      • Still think they should have split the last book in two.  Very long
    • I will be listening to the new Alex Verus novel as well as the second book in the last reaper series.
      • Alex Verus is still very good as a series.  It may have slowed a bit but it is still enjoyable
      • The last reaper series is fun.  Not necessarily great writing but a bit of mindless action and adventure.
    • I am also waiting to pick up the new M.D. Massey novels books 7 and 8 of the junkyard druid series
    • I am acting manager at work for most of the month,  That should be fun
    • Picked up some usb cables with switches in the middle.
      • Needed one for the wireless phone charger in my car since my accessory port does not turn off with the vehicle and i don‘t want to run down the battery or wear out the connectors on the cable or the charger.
      • Works very well.  Thinking of replacing the power supply with something a bit more powerful.  Then maybe work on some cable management.
  • Josh
    • Visited the BBC (British Broadcasting Corporation) for micro:bit Live, the first ever micro:bit conference!
    • Some big announcements regarding micropython and other micro:bit classroom tools
    • Did a talk, Panel Discussion and did a stand for the magazine.
    • No updates on the phone situation. Still waiting for them to send a replacement.

NEWS:

SECURITY UPDATE:

WRAP-UP:

Before we leave, we want to make sure to acknowledge some of the people who make mintCast possible …

  • Josh Lowe for all his work on the website and the livestream (We’ve had over 60 listeners today on the backup mixer platform and brought on some new listeners who’ve never heard of the podcast)
  • Bytemark Hosting for hosting mintcast.org and our Mumble server
  • Archive.org for hosting our audio files
  • The Linux Mint development team for the fine distro we love to talk about <Thanks, Clem!>
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First up, in our Wanderings, I talk Dynamic DNS, Tony is writing articles, Moss test drives EndeavourOS, Josh visited Media City, and Joe relaxes with fiction.

Then, our news: CentOS 8 and Mumble 1.3 are released, Ubuntu 19.10 is almost here, the GNOME Foundation and Docker navigate rough seas, and more.

In security, we talk Exim.

WANDERINGS:

  • Leo
    • Dynamic DNS – Finally got this setup with a lot of personal resistance.
      • Took inspiration from Telegram. Quite a few people were setting up Dynamic DNS a couple of months ago, and I was resistant because my IP address hardly changed. Seems like my address is changing all the time now.
      • Not quite sure if my router is handling it correctly (ER-POE-5) even though I have it configured as the Ubiquity forums suggest.
      • So as a backup, I’m running a cron job once every 6 hours on my Pi-Hole to update the IP address.
      • Used afraid.org. Very simple setup once you dig into it. To update, you basically have to visit a URL.
    • Installed two new packages that are supposed to give better battery statistics and life.
      • sudo apt install tp-smapi-dkms acpi-call-dkms
      • I’m not testing this scientifically, but these packages should help calibrate my Thinkpad batteries properly. I’ve only gone through one charge cycle, so it’s hard to tell if things have changed.
  • Tony H 
    • Starting to write a series of articles on Getting started in podcasting, for Full Circle Magazine, I have written the first 2 articles so check out the October magazine as you may see me in print.
    • Continuing to use MX 19 beta 2.1 – beta 3 was released yesterday I have downloaded the iso and will install as just updating may miss some bug fixes.
    • Got a reply to my bug notification about dropping into the login screen when rebooting, as it’s not a critical bug it is on the to do list as they want to fix it but at the moment they are not sure how to do it.
  • Moss
    • Distrohoppers’ Digest Episode 006 was a rollicking good time, I hope our listeners enjoy it as much as we did.
    • I installed Endeavour OS on my T430. A few issues, easily solved, and everything else installed. I had everything except Mumble & Audacity. Then I noticed it kept creating copies of boot records — my boot was a mass of multiple selections of the same distros. I used Grub Customizer to clean them up, and at next boot it created more. I reported the issue. It has now come off my T430.
    • I still wanted to have something to review for October, and so decided to try a SINGLE INSTALL (what a concept!) on the IdeaPad. I attempted to install OpenMandriva, but got nowhere, it failed to create a partition. I got my GPartEd disk out and redid the disk, with a small Swap partition and a large Primary. I installed OpenMandriva Lx 4 just fine, and rebooted. No boot. It didn’t write Grub properly or whatever, I’ve had this issue before. So I tried Manjaro, and it wouldn’t even find my wifi. I’m using SuperGrub2 on a CD to boot, then going into OM4. There is supposed to be a way to use SuperGrub2 to write Grub but it isn’t obvious, got more reading to do.
    • I have some items for sale from my earlier inheritance. See my eBay listings (moss23) and talk to me if you’re interested in any of them. I did sell the Hackintosh, did not really get fair value for it. I now have $95 saved up towards the new laptop; eBay sales go towards that as well. I have also started a Sponsus for Distrohoppers, but you’re all welcome to join in. http://sponsus.org/zaivala 
    • My job has gone sideways. I still have it, and finally am working part time, but my wonderful manager got demoted and moved for no reason, and the new manager just isn’t the same. I had wanted 4 days per week, I’m getting 3. I’m looking for work again. Some employees have not stopped crying about the change, and it was 3 weeks ago. Another result of the change is I’m making even less income.
    • As this show is turning into Readers’ Corner, I should note that I finished reading the Nightside series by Simon R. Green to my wife, and have started in on Temeraire by Naomi Novik. Unlike Joe, I don’t get audiobooks, I *am* the audiobook reader.
  • Joe
    • I need to solder something.  Don’t know what yet
      • Ordered a small set of HBS 820’s
      • Haven’t worked on those before but i am willing to give them a try
    • My CPAP machine is dying.  Makes getting sleep difficult.  Which makes motivation to do projects even more difficult
      • I pulled out one of the spare CPAPs that i have and reprogrammed it to match my other one.  I think i got everything right and i am sleeping a little better
      • Have to wait for my referral to go through with the VA and it is taking longer than it should so that i can get the right one refurbished or replaced.
    • Finished up the Wheel of time series again.  I love the book series.
      • Very well done audiobook series.
      • Still think they should have split the last book in two.  Very long
    • I will be listening to the new Alex Verus novel as well as the second book in the last reaper series.
      • Alex Verus is still very good as a series.  It may have slowed a bit but it is still enjoyable
      • The last reaper series is fun.  Not necessarily great writing but a bit of mindless action and adventure.
    • I am also waiting to pick up the new M.D. Massey novels books 7 and 8 of the junkyard druid series
    • I am acting manager at work for most of the month,  That should be fun
    • Picked up some usb cables with switches in the middle.
      • Needed one for the wireless phone charger in my car since my accessory port does not turn off with the vehicle and i don‘t want to run down the battery or wear out the connectors on the cable or the charger.
      • Works very well.  Thinking of replacing the power supply with something a bit more powerful.  Then maybe work on some cable management.
  • Josh
    • Visited the BBC (British Broadcasting Corporation) for micro:bit Live, the first ever micro:bit conference!
    • Some big announcements regarding micropython and other micro:bit classroom tools
    • Did a talk, Panel Discussion and did a stand for the magazine.
    • No updates on the phone situation. Still waiting for them to send a replacement.

NEWS:

SECURITY UPDATE:

WRAP-UP:

Before we leave, we want to make sure to acknowledge some of the people who make mintCast possible …

  • Josh Lowe for all his work on the website and the livestream (We’ve had over 60 listeners today on the backup mixer platform and brought on some new listeners who’ve never heard of the podcast)
  • Bytemark Hosting for hosting mintcast.org and our Mumble server
  • Archive.org for hosting our audio files
  • The Linux Mint development team for the fine distro we love to talk about <Thanks, Clem!>
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