On Mon, 10 Apr 2023, Dianne Skoll wrote:
There's also Canadian Web Hosting - not just located in Canada but
Canadian-owned, from $7 CDN / month:
https://www.canadianwebhosting.com/vps
Interesting. I am still paying $5/month, maybe because I am grandfathered.
their low-end offering has more
On Mon, 19 Dec 2022, Secretary wrote:
please reply to this email (sent from secret...@linux-ottawa.org)
stating your legal name, so we can fulfil this corporate obligation.
What is OCLUG's privacy policy?
I do not see it online anywhere.
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On Sun, 13 Nov 2022, John Brooks wrote:
I wish. Unfortunately, it's the users that make it the toxic cesspit that it
is. They'll just move somewhere else and create a new toxic cesspit.
Disagree. There are many excellently informed and constructive posters on
twitter, both locally and
Richard Guy Briggs wrote:
Gold cannot be eaten.
Not true.
How Do They Make Gold And Silver Safe To Eat?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oHiPoxLe3yw
More stupid examples:
https://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=edible+gold+leaf
Tug Williams wrote:
Regarding gold, though it can be
On Fri, 4 Nov 2022, Richard Guy Briggs wrote:
I'm not saying [twitter] isn't but why was it valued so high? (That's
rhetorical.) Even if it loses money, it is still likely be quite
valuable to Musk as a tool to facilitate other goals.
Any social media property/corporation is only valuable
On Fri, 4 Nov 2022, Richard Guy Briggs wrote:
On 2022-11-04 13:50, James wrote:
Nov. 4, 2022 10:25:49 Richard Guy Briggs :
How does paying for the account prove any trustworthiness?
It is only to make money.
That was my assumption, because I don't see the connection between the
two. But
On Wed, 2 Nov 2022, Richard Guy Briggs wrote:
The dynamics are different in person, and I am seeking that
type of interaction because we haven't had that for 2.5 years.
They certainly are when a meeting is held in a location like a bar where
concerned and vulnerable participants will be
On Tue, 23 Nov 2021, J C Nash wrote:
Any suggestions from the LO community? I prefer to have equipment
used rather than sitting on the shelf, but it could be the cost of
a new router (< $100 for wifi and 4 ports) is a whole lot less
trouble.
Hi John,
Could you use an inexpensive 5 or 8 port
's message here on how to register _your_
entry. No script is too small; no scripting language is too weird :-) Your
participation will be most welcomed.
best,
Brett Delmage
for the OCLUG board of directors
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On Thu, 2 Sep 2021, Jean-Francois Messier wrote:
I connected on the link, and it says that the next meeting is on 2021-06-03.
This will be tomorrow, Friday. What about tonight ? Or am I too early ?
Just too early. Standby!
Brett
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On Thu, 2 Sep 2021, Ian! D. Allen wrote:
At 17m53s: "On one five-day [Space Shuttle Mission] there were 161 separate bit
flips."
Okay, maybe we *do* need ECC RAM.
Does anyone on this list run ZFS without ECC?
I always understood it was a risky filesystem choice without ECC. I really
do
As part of an upgrade of the OCLUG list software underway, I am trying to
recover and restore the complete list archives to restore our recorded
history. This list has been operating for 23 years, based on the old
messages I have.
At first glance I have ~60K OCLUG list messages saved,
On Thu, 15 Jul 2021, Dianne Skoll wrote:
On Thu, 15 Jul 2021 11:54:22 -0400
Richard Guy Briggs wrote:
The two things I must have are "focus follows mouse"
Preach! Click-to-focus is an abomination!
I do use a window manager.
But 99% of the time I want my window full-screen (with or
One list member very recently slagged on a Big Name in Linux on this list.
Then another list member piled on.
Could we avoid personally attacking others on this list please?
None of the list members will be able to confirm the validity of your
very personal claims.
Personal attacks add
On Wed, 14 Jul 2021, Dianne Skoll wrote:
It has been brought to my attention that all my mail to the OCLUG
list is being spam-binned by Google.
The reason is that I use DKIM on all my outgoing mail, and the OCLUG
mailing list software breaks DKIM. I believe I've brought this up
before.
on Thursday July 8 at 7 p.m:
My mail, my way: Successfully setting up and operating your own Linux
email server
Brett Delmage has operated an email server in his basement for 30 years.
Discover the benefits of running your own
On Mon, 14 Jun 2021, J C Nash wrote:
With possible opening up of travel and having laptops that are vintage 2014 and
2015,
we're thinking of a new one for road trips.
Does anyone have opinions on these? Have not had a hands-on look, which will be
important to making
sure keyboard not
On Sat, 5 Jun 2021, Rob Echlin wrote:
Google found what looks like their GitHub.
https://github.com/reHackable/awesome-reMarkable
A lot of light added here. Thanks for sharing!
Rob
Brett
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On Fri, 2 Apr 2021, Richard Guy Briggs wrote:
When the first lockdown descended upon us, I had the other three
members of the house start using wired ethernet ... so that potentially
4 people doing videoconferences at the same time would not result in
endless complaints to the local IT
Brenda J. Butler wrote:
I usually have to mess around with the settings, and plugin and unplug
a headset, to get it to work. Before tonight that dance usually
worked - camera, mic and speakers. Tonight - nope.
Interesting coincidence.
My friend who was also on the call, phoned me and put
On Fri, 2 Apr 2021, James Lockie wrote:
There are supposed to be sounds when people join/leave?
Apparently. (whoops and whoshes)
I had some crackling but I figured Firefox was fighting with NoMachine.
I heard crackling too. For a long time I thought someone's mic was
accidently on
I think there was some chat comments that others were having problems
hearing speakers in tonight's Jitsi AGM meeting?
The only sounds I heard during the AGM part was the sound effects for
people checking in and departing. There was no speaker audio. For a while
I thought that everyone
https://six.linux-ottawa.org/LinuxOttawa20210401
At least 5 or 6 more members are required to form a meeting quorum so the
AGM can happen. You can make a difference.
Brett
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It's going to be difficult to host an AGM in less than 25 minutes when the
server URL does not even resolve...
host six.linux-ottawa.org
Host six.linux-ottawa.org not found: 3(NXDOMAIN)
dig six.linux-ottawa.org
; <<>> DiG 9.16.13-Ubuntu <<>> six.linux-ottawa.org
;; global options: +cmd
;; Got
On Sat, 13 Feb 2021, Ian! D. Allen wrote:
"Known issues with Internet routing: Some of the issues we are aware of
with ISPs failing to keep local traffic local:
Ottawa, Canada; Rogers, TekSavvy, CanNet, Acanac, Start, and Virgin
route all traffic via Toronto (or worse). If you or any people in
On Wed, 27 Jan 2021, FZ wrote:
Also, Ha ha, what a surprise... I might also be persuaded to set this up for
you as a service.
Franz.
Agreed with much of what you said, and that is a good book.
Perhaps this could be one or more interesting meeting presentations
(alternate phone ROMS, and
On Fri, 22 Jan 2021, Ian! D. Allen wrote:
Anyone out there in Linux-land with experience they are willing to share
using a cell phone with good privacy that doesn't track you?
Cell phone? Privacy? Doesn't track you? Ha, thanks for the laugh on a
Friday!
Actually, that's not entirely true.
On Sun, 15 Nov 2020, Richard Guy Briggs wrote:
On 2020-11-13 08:23, Alan McKay wrote:
I'd look at one of the places like total battery.
Get an Anker if you can ... Something like this
https://www.amazon.ca/dp/B075FR89CX
Looking ahead a number of years to retirement, I'm looking at doing a
On Fri, 13 Nov 2020, Richard Guy Briggs wrote:
You might try Alexander/Dixon at 145 Spruce
Are they open again at that location? They vacated there about 2? years
ago :-(
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On Thu, 1 Oct 2020, CL Junk wrote:
It now appears that the backups are no longer sharing hard links, making them
use much more space. I have now filled 4TBs with backups in weeks, when it
would typically take a year to fill 1TB prior to my upgrades.
I don't have an answer to your primary
On Wed, 10 Jun 2020, Ian! D. Allen wrote:
Something I didn't see:
Things in the script suggest the programmer hasn't had a lot of experience
writing scripts, e.g. using:
Also the script doesn't check the error codes of commands, has unnecessary
use of "command" in "command grep"
At last week's online meeting I mentioned that I have been using a tool to
block large numbers of undesired network accesses to my servers.
ipset-blacklist is "A Bash shell script which uses ipset and iptables to
ban a large number of IP addresses published in IP blacklists. ipset uses
a
On Tue, 12 May 2020, Scott Murphy wrote:
I can. I was going to go over the whole thing as a talk for the next meeting.
Wonderful! I'm looking forward to that. Good luck with your prep.
Brett
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On Wed, 6 May 2020, Scott Murphy wrote:
After the AGM, we will have a “normal” meeting. Given the uncertain
state of future meetings, I am thinking that we will end up on an open
source platform for meetings for quite some time yet. We are going to
use jitsi this month for the talk portion.
On Thu, 30 Apr 2020, Dianne Skoll wrote:
Try to get a camera that supports UVC 1.1, because AFAIK UVC 1.5 support
is not quite there yet in the Linux kernel.
I thought the 5.5 kernel had *everything* including the kitchen sink, from
all the enthusiastic babble I saw this past month :-)
To
On Thu, 30 Apr 2020, Brett Delmage wrote:
On Thu, 30 Apr 2020, Brett Delmage wrote:
On Thu, 30 Apr 2020, Rick Cuthill wrote:
Seem my search is moot anyway because webcams are sold out everywhere
Buyapi.ca just sent out an email today about the new rPi cameras. I purchased
the old camera
On Thu, 30 Apr 2020, J C Nash wrote:
Big Blue Button -- seems to be Blindside Networks on Albert St.
Thanks. Interesting! Open source, Linux, local. Big Blue Button hits all
the right buttons.
Am I the only one who is very disturbed at our (local) Canadian government
bodies using Zoom and
On Thu, 30 Apr 2020, Brett Delmage wrote:
On Thu, 30 Apr 2020, Rick Cuthill wrote:
Seem my search is moot anyway because webcams are sold out everywhere
Buyapi.ca just sent out an email today about the new rPi cameras. I
purchased the old camera with a pi from them a few years ago.
https
On Thu, 30 Apr 2020, Rick Cuthill wrote:
Seem my search is moot anyway because webcams are sold out everywhere
I just saw some pages yesterday about various Canon and other
DSLRs being able to be used as webcams, including on Linux. Sorry, I don't
have the links on this computer but the
On Thu, 30 Apr 2020, Richard Guy Briggs wrote:
and there are
lots of other better options out there starting with Jitsi.
and are any of them Canadian and therefore supporting Canadian
employment? Is Kitsi?
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On Mon, 13 Apr 2020, Peter Sjöberg wrote:
I have a security issue, we have some QR scanners that can scan lots of
different 2D/3D codes. They connect on usb and show up as any ordinary
HID device. This means it's basically a keyboard connected
I don't know your the system configuration but
On Thu, 9 Apr 2020, Richard Guy Briggs wrote:
12 showed up. I held my nose and created an account just for this.
There are 18 regularly on irc://oftc.net/#oclug which is an open
technology. I'd suggest a number didn't show up due to the choice of
proprietary venue. Can we please live our
On Mon, 24 Feb 2020, Dianne Skoll wrote:
Filtering is the way to go, IMO. This worked for me on Debian Buster:
tree -F | sed -e 's/|/ /g' -e 's/`/ /g' -e 's/ -- //g'
Interestingly, does not work on Ubuntu 18.04. The tree bar elements appear
to be real graphic characters.
so instead:
On Fri, 1 Nov 2019, Rick Leir wrote:
The organizer of another Ottawa group is planning an alternative to Meetup. It
is more than an alternative, it looks like a big improvement. See
https://flawk.to/roadmap
More useful background on Eric and his intentions here.
I had a ticket today with my domain registrar, Namespro.ca, to transfer
out a domain I am getting rid of (to my city councillor whom I keep
getting misdirected emails for)
Namespro.ca was prompt, friendly, and businesslike about unlocking the
domain and providing the EPP transfer code.
Does anyone has a copy of MS Office that they are not using and would like to
get rid of (if it will even fire up on my Win 7 computer, given possible
licensing lockdown?). If locked down to hardware, maybe it's on an old computer
of no value you'd like to recycle?
Ideally it's a reasonably
On Tue, 2 Jul 2019, Scott Murphy wrote:
- Scott is going to do a talk on digitizing old(er) media. Media to be discussed
will include 8mm/Super8 file, photo negatives, photos, VHS tape, slides,
cassettes, and vinyl records.
What, no 8 tracks?
Sounds interesting.
cheers
Brett
To
On Sun, 28 Apr 2019, Dianne Skoll wrote:
Yes, absolutely. I ran Roaring Penguin Software from 1999 through 2018 and
we never used any MS software for anything. This includes our sales and
marketing staff.
Interesting. Thanks for sharing.
We also had quite a lot of integration software
On Sat, 27 Apr 2019, Rob Echlin wrote:
Is it reasonable for a company that has sales people in it, and marketing
types, all the usual staff?
Good question!
...which I don't have the answer for. In music news publication, the
editor and I use the text-based alpine MUA invoked from bash. It
On Fri, 19 Apr 2019, J C Nash wrote:
gives some timings I ran yesterday to see if the $8 Blackweb 32G USB3 flash
drive at Walmart this week is genuine or flakey.
These days one might want to verify that the device actually stores N
(unique) GB and doesn't just fake it... especially for
On Fri, 19 Apr 2019, J C Nash wrote:
I believe I used sync correctly to avoid timing just memory transfers. I won't
claim that my effort was perfect. Script below is what I used.
Will hdparm -t work on your USB drive?
Brett
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On Tue, 2 Apr 2019, Scott Murphy wrote:
Location: We will be in the Centennial Library, starting at 18:30.
The Centennial Library is at 3870 Old Richmond Rd. in Bells Corners. Bus
routes 88, 9, and 256 are listed as servicing that area.
Use this link to easily plan your OC Transpo trip
First, thanks to the OCLUG board who served this past year, and
for multiple terms..
J C Nash wrote:
We've always made quorum, but it has been close sometimes.
The consequences of quorum failure are costly.
Hi John,
I don't know the directors. Perhaps others don't either,
therefore they
On Wed, 20 Mar 2019, J C Nash wrote:
- apache2.conf adjustment for directory, available and enabled (symlink),
adding FollowSymLinks etc.
Are you using the configuration syntax 'Require' vs 'Allow' for the
version of apache that you are using. It changed. Lots of docs out there
On Tue, 26 Feb 2019, J C Nash wrote:
But the msg from our IT crowd above suggests no go anyway.
Sucks.
the Hiri client can connect OK (This is $$ and the configuration appears
to be encrypted in the 7 day trial.)
from
On Sun, 24 Feb 2019, Robert P. J. Day wrote:
she's willing
to at least entertain the notion of linux,
Excellent!
as she needs little more than surfing/email/MS office functionality.
"The best distro for newbies is the one that comes with an expert to help
them out."
I totally agree.
On Thu, 3 Jan 2019, Rob Echlin wrote:
Here is the link.
https://www.zdnet.com/article/eset-discovers-21-new-linux-malware-families/
This is about malware - software that attacks your Linux system, not a flaw in
the OpenSSL software.
Thanks.
Summary:
"Unless Linux owners go out of their
On Wed, 2 Jan 2019, Paul Hays wrote:
Voip.ms has been reasonably good for my home phones. The web app
provides thorough access to features like voicemail, but the user
experience is definitely not family-friendly.
If you have a better solution in hand, please let me know.
Having vmails
I've used Slackware, Mandriva, something or two or three handed out at
OCLUG meetings around the Corel Linux era (does anyone remember their
names?), Redhat, SUSE, Debian, and Ubuntu.
I haven't switched from Ubuntu for about 6 years now on server and
Kubuntu on desktop.
For me, it's been
On Mon, 3 Dec 2018, Alan McKay wrote:
On Mon, Dec 3, 2018 at 3:39 PM Richard Guy Briggs wrote:
for doing photo and video processing
What software are you using?
I've tried a bunch of things on Linux and have found none of them are very good.
Agreed. The Linux ecosystem has great
In case anyone is interested I asked last week on the TekSavvy
dslreports.com forum if anyone knew of monitoring software for DSL modems
and line stats.
I was referred to this program: http://dslstats.me.uk
It supports many modems (including SmartRG) and provides graphing and
logging.
It's
Hey everyone, thanks for responding with your helpful experience. My ipv6
setup has been head-banging, but I sure (_think) I know a lot more about
ipv6, NDP, RA, RR, icmpv6, etc. than I did before :-)
Bart Trojanowski wrote:
For the most part, IPv6 is pretty seamless there days. Except for
On Thu, 2 Aug 2018, Richard Guy Briggs wrote:
On 2018-08-02 13:29, J C Nash wrote:
Perhaps someone can give instructions to answer Diane's "how to" query?
This is from my 2-decade-old notes...
Thanks. I didn't know about these.
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