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OK, I deleted those ufw rules, and I'll check into how to make them specific to my little network.

Upon further review, I figured out that my other PCs connected quickly because they weren't running firewalls. I don't know why; all 3 are running regular Ubuntu installs to which I didn't do anything UFW related. I googled a bit, and I found to open ports 1900 and 5000, and then VLC would see...

Confession: I'm using Rhythmbox instead of VLC, because in my search for the nasty problem that VLC skips the first 2 seconds of every song, I haven't found a solution. So for now, I'm just leaving Rhythmbox up. I'll check into turning off the firewall sometime. I'm a sporadic multimediot...

It's running Ubuntu Linux, and the music is hosted on Windows.

Pardon my ignorance again, but I'm having a vexing issue on my main PC, a relatively fast (for me) Ryzen 3700x with a decent M.2 SSD on a gbps ether-network. When I open VLC to try to play music from my UPNP record collection, it takes quite a while to find it. I just checked again, and it...

Yes, looks like Arthur is heading straight NE on the Texas Gulf Coast, then right through Louisiana and into Mississippi: Lord help those poor people. We've had major weather disasters in significant areas of the country; perhaps El Niño will cut back on the Eastern U. S. hurricane season...

Sub-Subject: Trump's Birthday White House Fight-Club (Self-)Celebration This just reminded me of the ancient Roman Emperors' vicious gladiator "games". Caveat Emperor. Hilarious commentary from some Late Night hosts: jimmy-kimmel-jon-stewart-roast-trumps-ufc-white-house-event Luckily...

RIP, Sonny Rollins. . . . . . . . . . 🎶 Blue 7 from

Maybe tariffs / protectionism are playing a role? Keep out / price out foreign RAM/SSDs, as if that will magically create American manufacturing capability.

A week later, it's still running OK. It even survived a Patch-Tuesday "quality update" and forced reboot. It's been running World Community Grid cancer research tasks 24×7×4 cores×100%, as usual. Those tasks take about 1½ hours each, so there have been hundreds of work-unit downloads and...

Thanks very much, Merc and Sed, for your responses. I'm writing this on that WinPC, still going strong (?) after another half-day. And the Magician and CrystalDiskInfo both say the disk is OK. (I did a full scan with Magician.) Because I don't really use it much, I think I'll just let it...

Yo, I'm donimating:

So Saturday, about 11 months later, I woke up to find that PC had locked up. I tried a few restarts, and it would boot and run OK for a few minutes, then freeze up again. I pulled off the cover to see if it was something obvious, like the CPU cooler fan not running, but I found nothing...

More pickin' (and bowin' and slidin') (and fun): [1947 - seminal to rock & roll]

🎸🎶 (good vibes and pickin'):

Waddya, all off on Spring Break? 🥳 😜

The Empire has been declining for a long time (Big Brother 🔍👂 is at least 20 years old 😜): "The Whistleblower Who Uncovered the NSA’s ‘Big Brother Machine’" On January 20, 2006, the front doorbell rang at the Electronic Frontier Foundation’s offices . . . in the Mission District of San...

From this free NY Times article: Trump Seeks to Abolish Iran’s Atomic Stockpile, a Problem He Helped Create President Trump withdrew from the Obama-era nuclear accord in 2018, saying it was the worst deal ever. But Iran responded with an enrichment spree that haunts the negotiations to this day...

No, she's not. She's much too big to fit on my screen. It took much scrolling to see that she's in a bathroom. ;)

Yes, Merc, it looks like your world had gotten more perfecter. How big is your place, that you have room for all those people and computers (and cats old and new)?

Golden Delicious Apple oldie: fun article

From yesterday's Saturday Night Live, "quoting" tRump: “You might remember me from such campaign promises as lower gas prices and no more wars.” “Psych‼️ We love to make promises because a promise is just a lie that hasn’t happened yet.” 😜

Yeah, I don't read a lot of articles about Trump; I can guess the gist of them by the headlines. And a friend just sent me a link that I don't know if I'll ever open: LEST WE FORGET THE HORRORS: AN UNENDING CATALOG OF TRUMP’S CRUELTIES, COLLUSIONS, CORRUPTIONS, AND CRIMES

I just came across this damning testimony about Trump's failed 2020 election theft:

Interesting; I had just read https://arstechnica.com/health/2026/03/rfk-jr-can-promote-getting-measles-with-impunity-doj-lawyer-tells-judge. Trump lawyer asserts in federal court that RFKbaby is above the law. (Just like Trump thinks he is. Or maybe, Trump thinks he is the law,)

Oh, and as I just Emailed some friends about that warmongerer, What's One More War? I'm betting Trump will invade Cuba within a year. He's already "saber rattling" about it ("friendly takeover" - what's a little occupation between friends [they were asking for it]?). That should be a much...

An Ugly Building in a Beautiful City Gets a Much-Debated Makeover. The Tour Montparnasse is one of Paris’s least-loved landmarks. After half a century, it’s finally being remodeled. It's Paris' only skyscraper, and I loved the joke that the best view in Paris is from the observation deck on...

Donald Trump has been a tariffic president. 😜 From Trump throws a temper tantrum after tariff loss in the Supreme Court: At a hastily called press conference, an agitated Trump railed against the conservative Roberts and two of the courts other conservatives, Justices Neil Gorsuch and Amy...

(I just hope Trump doesn't rename it to Billionaire History Month.) About midway in the month, I'm "woke" enough to lament the countless horrific instances of discrimination against black people in the history of the U. S. (including recently) – no matter how much Trump and his MAGAots try to...

Happy SBS 🎉 Celebrating America's Highest Holy Holiday, Super Bowl Sunday 🏈 ‼️ But perhaps you have heard about the controversial halftime show, featuring recent multi-Grammy-Award winner Bad Bunny. The selection of this Latino star by the NFL created such a raging reactionary reaction...

Isn't it incredible that tRump is still trying to steal the 2020 election, 5 years later? After his January 6 instigated attack on the U. S. Capitol failed. "Luckily", he has pardoned all the thug rioters he sent to blitzkrieg congress, and offered them honorary memberships in ICE .

Another cowardly, criminal gang-related murder today in Minneapolis. 🔫 :cry: 🪦 The victim: an ICU nurse at a Veterans' hospital, armed with a dangerous cell phone, possibly to record the evil gang's crimes.

The Emperor's New Clothes:

Excerpts from this article – Trump Made Over $1.4 Billion Through Graft and Corruption: One year ago, Donald Trump took an oath to serve the American people. Instead, he has focused on using the presidency to enrich himself. President Trump has never been a man to ask what he can do for his...

Greenland of the Free

Buy Greenland? Take It? Why? An Old Pact Already Gives Trump a Free Hand. Analysts say the Cold War agreement allows the president to increase the American military presence almost at will. — This NY Times Article

Breaking News: a dangerous criminal terrorist was arrested yesterday in Minneapolis, armed with a viciously threatening giraffe costume, subdued by numerous masked, heavily armed gang-member thugs Homeland Security officers: The suspect will be charged under Donald Trump's newly-declared...

A little levity from The (Left-Wing Commie) New York Times late-night-TV column: “ . . . ‘Acting President of Venezuela.’ Wow. Not many people can say they were the worst president in the history of two countries.” — SETH MEYERS “Doesn’t your oath of office to America have a noncompete?” - Jon...

Copying and pasting from an Email thread I sent to some of my fellow travelers: (Jan 3): The NY Times had a little tale about how the Romans' original calendar only had 10 months, beginning in March. The first two dark months were nameless, useless to agriculture and their military. But: For...

Yeah, I admit that my "51ˢᵗ state" comment was a bad joke. But not as bad a joke as the President of the Divided States of America.

Venezuela, Canada, and Greenland will be competing for the title of the 51ˢᵗ state. 😜 I'm guessing that His Royal Highness will find it easier to invade Greenland than Canada. I hope he can get those annexations accomplished before his next State of the Disunion speech.

I was very sorry to hear this, Merc. I, as I'm sure all of our members do, ❤️ , hope and pray, in our way, for you to find the strength to persevere through your troubled times.

Happy New Year (EST) (UTC-5) 🥂🕛‼️

Nice rig, Mubs; we might be the only two non-gamers on StoFo. ;) But I assume you joined the Republic Of Gamers because that mobo is significantly higher quality. (y)

Reporting here from the "cheap seats" (but expensive in loquacity ;) ): First, for laptops, I upgraded my old Toshiba Satelite L305 from Windows Vista to Ubuntu, as my wife's sole PC on her desk. It's fine for her needs. (I upgraded it from on-board WiFi to a USB dongle, to achieve more than...

I hope this is sufficiently random 😜; I have a bash script on my main PC to check that my pihole VM is pinging OK. So every 15 minutes, it checks, and xmessages if the ping fails. Then it waits for the ping to succeed again, then xmessages that. So here are those messages: (Juvenile senile...

Happy Festivus, all! Speaking of random, here's a new cocktail recipe: mix 4 random liquids together, and name it with 3 random words.

Or support your local brewery. They seem to have started falling on hard times, because the weird cocktail craze is taking over. 🍹

That sounds like something from a wacky TV show like The Big Bang Theory. 😜