Re: [GTALUG] War Story: adding RAM to a laptop can increase the speed

2024-02-19 Thread joeDoe via talk 
On Mon, Feb 19, 2024 at 05:18:13PM -0500, Howard Gibson via talk wrote:
> On Mon, 19 Feb 2024 12:31:08 -0500 (EST)
> "D. Hugh Redelmeier via talk"  wrote:
> 
> > | From: Howard Gibson via talk 
> > | 
> > |I have long ago given up trying to run computers on 8GB RAM.  For 
> > |GNU/Linux, 16GB minimum.
> > 
> > What tasks to you do that challenge computers with only 8 GiB?
> 
> Hughk
> 
> I probably spend too much time on YouTube.  I use GIMP to mess with 
> photographs.  I use LaTeX a lot to prepare documents, but if I am sharing 
> info, I use LibreOffice, and the Microsoft office document formats. 

I'm using a lenovo x240 with 8GB of RAM for pretty much the same type of
usage. This is actually my second x240. When the first one crapped out I
resorted to using a Pentium (MS Vista era, not a modern core called pentium)
with 3GB of RAM while hunting for a replacement. 

The default install on the Pentium created a ridiculously small SWAP space
which caused problems, but once I increased it, it ran quite nicely if a
bit slow compared to the x240.

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Re: [GTALUG] meeting Tuesday?

2024-01-06 Thread joeDoe via talk 
On Sat, Jan 06, 2024 at 01:58:57AM -0500, D. Hugh Redelmeier via talk wrote:
> We are supposed to have a meeting Tuesday but I have not seen an 
> announcement.

[snip]
> 
> PS: this is partly a probe of the mailing list.  It went offline without 
> notice last month.  I was able to restart it when I found out about the 
> problem.

Probe received.
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Re: [GTALUG] CVE-2023-43641: libcue bug allows Remote Code Execution in (at least) GNOME

2023-10-20 Thread joeDoe via talk 
On Fri, Oct 20, 2023 at 11:19:01AM -0400, D. Hugh Redelmeier via talk wrote:
> TL;DR: update libcue to a version released after October 10.
> 
> I read this last night:
> 
> 
> 

[snip]
> 
> You can update your system to get a fixed libcue. The fix is in version 
> 2.3.0.
> 
> Fedora 37 and 38 have fixes in version 2.2.1-13.  I checked this by using 
> "rpm -q --changelog libcue | less".

Fixed in Debian 11 and 12 (bullseye and bookworm, respectively) by debian
package versions 2.2.1-3+deb11u1 (for bullseye) and 2.2.1-4+deb12u1
(for bookworm) on 11 October. 

$ sudo apt update && sudo apt upgrade

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Re: [GTALUG] Introduction (really just a new nick)

2023-09-21 Thread joeDoe via talk 
On Thu, Sep 21, 2023 at 11:55:34AM -0700, BCLUG via talk wrote:
> joeDoe via talk wrote on 2023-09-20 12:27:
> 
> > I'm looking for a new provider as mine
> > changed their offer and it doesn't suit me so much any more.
> 
> Gandi.net?

No, mailbox.org

[snip]
> 
> I'm gonna try a VPS at https://websavers.ca - CAD $5/m is reasonable for a
> VPS. 2GB RAM, only 10GB storage; that's okay.
> 

I'm using one at lunanode. Roughly $3.50/mo CAD. Can't remember the exact
specs, but it's a pretty minimal machine. 1 vcpu

> 
> 
> > But, I've been experimenting with running my own email server as part of
> > a Freedombox (a Debian Pure Blend).
> 
> Interesting, I just was looking at a .ca site featuring FreedomBox.
> 
> I'd noticed a rejected email in my mail server logs due to no PTR record for
> the sending domain.  I think it's *your* server, in fact.

If the rejected mail dates from ages ago, maybe, because I didn't initially
set a PTR for ipv6 (ipv4 was set up for me by default). But, yooyle mail
complained, so it didn't take long for me to set up a PTR for ipv6, too.

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[GTALUG] Introduction (really just a new nick)

2023-09-20 Thread joeDoe via talk 
Hello,

As I've sent a couple of emails to a thread here, I thought I should let you
know that I am one and the same person as znoteer. That's an old nick that I
have been maintaining pretty much only on email. I max'd out the number of
email users I could have on my email account, so I couldn't create a joeDoe
address to switch to.

But, I've been experimenting with running my own email server as part of a
Freedombox (a Debian Pure Blend). I can now have as many frickin email
users as my system can handle :) So, I am now subscribed with a nick that
I've been using in chats etc for some time. 

This will permit me to evaluate this mail server thang. If keeping an email
server proves to be not too onerous (so far Freedombox has made it quite
effortless), I may just keep on going. Otherwise, I'm looking for a new
provider as mine changed their offer and it doesn't suit me so much any
more.

Cheers,

joeDoe
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Re: [GTALUG] looking for a general purpose boot media to keep in case of distasters

2023-09-20 Thread joeDoe via talk 
On Wed, Sep 20, 2023 at 01:02:28PM -0400, bitmap via talk wrote:
> Is there a distinction between a "live image" and the USB installer?  I
> think we are talking about the same thing; maybe I used inaccurate
> language.

In general, an installer will do nothing more than install a new system.
Most will probably have some shell access available to be able to do some
stuff outside of the installation, but usually only related to the
installation. It is limited as you say.

A live system gives you a complete working system that runs off the USB
key/CD/etc that you burned it to and memory, rather than the permanent
storage of the computer. Many live systems will also permit you to
subsequently install them to the permanent storage of the computer, but you
are not required to.

> 
> Does this OpenSUSE image come with a broad range of tools?  The debian,
> ubuntu, manjaro and others I have lying around are just the very basics. 
> Am often missing something needed.

Anything that you need that isn't on the live system can be easily installed
if it's packaged for Debian. It's a full system, so you can also download
and compile something that isn't packaged in Debian if you need to do so.

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Re: [GTALUG] looking for a general purpose boot media to keep in case of distasters

2023-09-20 Thread joeDoe via talk 
On Wed, Sep 20, 2023 at 08:22:28AM -0400, James Knott via talk wrote:
> On 2023-09-19 23:22, bitmap via talk wrote:
> > Is there some kind of general purpose image that has a variety of
> > programs, maybe even foundational documentation on board, etc, that is
> > designed for this? There are images like clonezilla to solve specific
> > problems but that's another story. I would like a multi tool on hand.
> 
> Some distros have live images.  I know openSUSE does.
> 
> https://download.opensuse.org/distribution/leap/15.4/live/

Debian also publishes live images:

https://www.debian.org/CD/live/
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