Re: [linux] canadian news funding, maybe a free open source news aggregator app as part of a funding model solution?

2023-09-05 Thread tug
uot;one email server per home", and whittle away from there... That's related to me not being able to access my long term gmail account from my preferred email client, but I've already rambled enough in this email.. Tug Well, have a nice day, everyone. :) Regards, Dianne. To

[linux] September 7th Meeting announcement

2023-09-04 Thread tug
Meeting Announcement Linux-Ottawa September 2023 Meeting. Date/Time: Thursday September 7th at 7pm Format: 1. Online over Jitsi https://meet.jit.si/oclug_2023-09-07 2. Check mailing list for in-person clusters being hosted by other

[linux] October 5th Meeting announcement

2023-10-01 Thread tug
Meeting Announcement Linux-Ottawa October 2023 Meeting. Date/Time: Thursday October 5th at 7pm Format: 1. Online over Jitsi https://meet.jit.si/oclug_2023-10-05 2. Check mailing list for in-person clusters being hosted by other members. Program: /Topics/ 1. Katie

Re: [linux] Meeting for August.

2023-07-31 Thread tug
of weeks to check in. So Katie - do you want to kick off a meeting, and see where it pans out from there? Tug On 2023-07-31 18:09, Katherine Mcmillan wrote: Hello Jean-Francois, I would really like to see a presentation by Timothy Forbes. However, it may not be a good time for that. I

[linux] Linux-Ottawa August 2023 Meeting announcement

2023-08-01 Thread tug
tning / open mic spot. We want to encourage everyone to bring up a tip or discussion topic, so we will have a regular spot Website also updated https://wiki.linux-ottawa.org/doku.php?id=start On 2023-07-31 22:36, Richard Guy Briggs wrote: On 2023-08-01 02:12, Katherine Mcmillan wrote: Hi

[linux] January 4th Meeting announcement

2024-01-01 Thread tug
Meeting Announcement Linux-Ottawa January 2024 Meeting. Date/Time: Thursday January 4th at 7pm Format: 1. Online over Jitsi https://meet.jit.si/oclug_2024-01-04 2. Check mailing list for in-person clusters being hosted by other

[linux] December 7th Meeting announcement

2023-12-05 Thread tug
other members. Program: /Topics/ 1. Script Night: If you have a useful script you want to share, or a problem script you want to rescue, bring it along. Current offerings include John Nash - scripts to move data to and from cloud storage. Tug Williams - using bash to download and compress

Re: [linux] December Meeting: 2023-12-07 @ 19:00

2023-12-07 Thread tug
it along. Current offerings include John Nash - scripts to move data to and from cloud storage. Tug Williams - using bash to download and compress feeds for use over low bandwidth connections. Anyone else! - anything anyone wants to bring up. To unsubscribe send a blank message to linux

[linux] February 1st Meeting announcement

2024-01-28 Thread tug
other members. Program: /Topics/ 1. Tug will talk about building non-native packages (arm on amd64), and setting up Gentoo binary packages for raspberry pi. 2. Scott might bring some light relief if time permits.

Re: [linux] displaying action of subversion that has been called from a script

2018-05-31 Thread tug williams
1) would 'svn info' give you sufficient information? Path: . Working Copy Root Path: /home/BLAH/BLAH URL: svn://SERVER/BLAH Relative URL: ^/ Repository Root: svn://SERVER/BLAH Repository UUID: BLAHBLAHBLAHBLAHBLAH Revision: 1489 Node Kind: directory Schedule: normal Last Changed Author: BLAH Last

Re: [linux] Camerata: better than meetups, and FLOSS

2018-07-03 Thread Tug Williams
suspicions as to what things are typically broken in most teams. Tug On 06/29/18 06:57, Rob Echlin wrote: > Hi > Camerata is a name for a group of people with shared goals, working > together to help each other with a common goal, such as to improve > something. > They generally

Re: [linux] Update: One speaker unavailable tonight

2019-02-08 Thread tug williams
So, my short talk turned into a long talk. An enjoyable evening with a great group of people. Thank you to all for the constructive and helpful feedback. Tug On 07/02/2019 10:21, Scott Murphy wrote: > Our main talk speaker is in Toronto and will not be able to speak tonight.

Re: [linux] Thinking of giving away some Git courses/seminars to promote my classes

2019-10-29 Thread Tug Williams
I had understood that next week's discussion would be more aimed at top down pragmatic use of git in the real world - hopefully based on the "tools should make life easier, not inflict pain" principal. We had a bottom up talk a while back. I think Ian gave it? Tug On 2019-10-29

Re: [linux] AGM -- NOW!

2020-04-09 Thread Tug Williams
Alas we were unable to get a quorum tonight. Please keep an eye out for future announcements, for we will need to have an AGM at some point. Thank you to those who turned out. Regards Tug (and the rest of the board) On 2020-04-09 19:13, J C Nash wrote: Right now the Linux-Ottawa AGM

Re: [linux] anywhere in town to get solar chargers with USB ports

2020-11-14 Thread Tug Williams
s with all the bits) a 12V to AC/USB converter a 12V battery Tug On 13/11/2020 05:12, Robert P. J. Day wrote: will be off the grid later this month for a few days and want to be able to charge some small USB devices ... everything at best buy is "available online" only, is th

Re: [linux] possible race condition in makefile with multiple dependencies?

2021-06-03 Thread Tug Williams
ss multiple machines - and cross compile for different architectures if required. Some gentoo packages need to be forced to build with -j1 if a) it needs hideous amounts of RAM b) some just need it (I assume some of these race conditions) Tug Mike To unsubscribe send a blank message to linux+unsubscr

Re: [linux] CentOS alternatives: Devuan

2021-07-14 Thread Tug Williams
As does Gentoo. It provides profiles with and without systemd. Your choice. On 14/07/2021 11:21, J C Nash wrote: FWIW, I MX/Antix also avoid systemd. MX Linux ships with systemd present but disabled by default. The MX Linux team strongly urges users to remain with this configuration which

Re: [linux] Systemd vs Devuan

2021-07-19 Thread Tug Williams
e everyone else do it my way too, 'cos I'm me" philosophy. https://wiki.gentoo.org/wiki/Gentoo_Without_systemd Tug To unsubscribe send a blank message to linux+unsubscr...@linux-ottawa.org To get help send a blank message to linux+h...@linux-ottawa.org To visit the archives: https://lists.linux-ottawa.org

Re: [linux] Meeting tonight

2022-11-01 Thread Tug Williams
or Twitter, which could lead to an interesting discussion. Maybe others have more experience. Alas I didn't get as far as successfully installing a server. So if there is interest, I think we have enough material for a few jitsi based discussions on Thursday. Tug On 01/11/2022 11:50,

Re: [linux] Meeting Thursday night (edited to be factually correct)

2022-11-02 Thread Tug Williams
On 01/11/2022 22:06, Richard Guy Briggs wrote: On 2022-11-01 16:29, Tug Williams wrote: No-one has arranged a physical meeting, so the meeting will be on jitsi only. Ok, I'll propose to meet at the Royal Oak. I'll suggest the Wellington/Hinton location because there seem to be more people

[linux] Meeting Thursday 5th January 2023, 7pm

2023-01-01 Thread Tug Williams
*Date/Time: *Thursday January 5th 2023 at 7pm *Format:* 1. Online over Jitsi https://meet.jit.si/oclug-2023-01-05-opensource 2. Check mailing list for in-person clusters being hosted by members. *Program:*John Nash, discusses experience of using Open Source, followed by a general discussion

[linux] Linux-Ottawa - December 1st Meeting

2022-11-27 Thread Tug Williams
*Date/Time: *Thursday December 1st 2022 at 7pm *Format:* 1. Online over Jitsi https://meet.jit.si/oclug-2022-12-01-gentoo 2. Check mailing list for in-person clusters being hosted by members. *Program:*Tug Williams - The Joy of Gentoo. Introduction into why to like Gentoo Linux, followed

Re: [linux] SPF hard pass for Ian

2023-01-24 Thread Tug Williams
, and you have been added to the list. Tug On 23/01/2023 19:50, Ian wrote: Hi All, Does anyone at OCLUG get my emails?  Or is it just Tug that has a gmail account and is the only one not to get them (which would be bad because he's the secretary and he's the one I sent my legal name to.) What

Re: [linux] Housekeeping (privacy policy)

2023-01-24 Thread Tug Williams
of interest relating to the privacy policy, from an ex board member who knows the policy as well as I do. I assumed everyone else was comfortable.  If someone wants to propose a formal privacy policy, then please do. Tug On 2022-12-19 11:21, Brett Delmage wrote: On Mon, 19 Dec 2022

[linux] OCLUG meeting this week - Thursday Feb 2nd 2023

2023-01-30 Thread Tug Williams
t;Hey ChatGPT, write me closed source code to replace libsomething".     - Family doctors, where symptoms lead to tests, which lead to diagnosis, which lead to treatment options. Until Thursday Tug

Re: [linux] Follow up on last night's Twitter / Mastodon talk

2022-11-04 Thread Tug Williams
On 04/11/2022 15:24, Richard Guy Briggs wrote: Bitcoin or dollars are only valuable because enough people think they are. Gold does have other uses. Bitcoin are valuable only because enough people think they are. Dollars have value because millions of legal contracts require people to pay

Re: Fwd: Fwd: [linux] I don't have a mobile device. / querying email working

2022-11-06 Thread Tug Williams
I assumed "don't show your own message" is a deliberate feature, are there objections to this? Like you, I created a second account to see if my messages arrive, and they do. Which seems to defeat the point of the feature. Both your messages came through. Tug On 06/11/2022 08:

Re: [linux] Follow up on last night's Twitter / Mastodon talk

2022-11-04 Thread Tug Williams
https://wiki.linux-ottawa.org/doku.php?id=meetingpresentations2022 or you can go straight to the mastodon's mouth... https://docs.joinmastodon.org/ I'd recommend the mastodon's mouth. Tug On 04/11/2022 11:26, Katherine Mcmillan wrote: Hi Tug, Thank you very much for your presentation

[linux] Big thanks to Scott for fixing the mailing list!

2022-11-04 Thread Tug Williams
. If anyone is still receiving error messages about messages not being deliverable though the mailing list, please email directly, otherwise we will assume all is working correctly again. Thanks again Scott maybe a talkette about it sometime? Tug To unsubscribe send a blank message to linux

[linux] Follow up on last night's Twitter / Mastodon talk

2022-11-04 Thread Tug Williams
of proving trustworthiness. Tug To unsubscribe send a blank message to linux+unsubscr...@linux-ottawa.org To get help send a blank message to linux+h...@linux-ottawa.org To visit the archives: https://lists.linux-ottawa.org

[linux] Meeting 7pm Thursday 3rd November

2022-11-03 Thread Tug Williams
I've updated the wiki with tonight's meeting agenda     https://wiki.linux-ottawa.org/doku.php And if clicking on the link it too much for you, the link to the jitsi meeting is https://meet.jit.si/oclug-2022-11-03-random-assortment See you tonight Tug To unsubscribe send a blank message

Re: [linux] Meeting Thursday night (edited to be factually correct)

2022-11-02 Thread Tug Williams
, then let me know, and I'll give you priority :) I will clarify tomorrow, but there will be an online meeting, and hopefully RGB will be able to connect and join his remote friends. Tug On 02/11/2022 15:10, Ian wrote: Hi all, Ian MacWilliam here.  Here being Perth.  I really appreciate th

[linux] OCLUG meeting Thursday March 2nd 2023

2023-02-25 Thread Tug Williams
so belongs to this discussion on security. See you on Thursday Tug To unsubscribe send a blank message to linux+unsubscr...@linux-ottawa.org To get help send a blank message to linux+h...@linux-ottawa.org To visit the archives: https://lists.linux-ottawa.org

Re: [linux] Presentation file for tonight

2023-03-02 Thread Tug Williams
It has already been uploaded to the wiki. https://wiki.linux-ottawa.org/doku.php?id=meetingpresentations2023 On 02/03/2023 14:42, James wrote: Can you upload it somewhere else? I use mediafire. I can put it on mine if you want to email it to me. Mar. 2, 2023 10:57:21 Jean-Francois Messier :

[linux] OCLUG meeting Thursday May 4th 2023

2023-04-30 Thread Tug Williams
When: 7pm Thursday May 4th 2023 Where: https://meet.jit.si/oclug_2023-05-04 Check the mailing list for individuals hosting in-person clusters. Request for volunteers to give talks, short or long, for future meetings - If you have a Linux related presentation or demo you'd be comfortable

[linux] OCLUG meeting Thursday April 6th 2023

2023-03-31 Thread Tug Williams
When: 7pm Thursday April 6th 2023 Where: https://meet.jit.si/oclug_2023-04-06 Check the mailing list for individuals hosting in-person clusters. Request for volunteers to give talks, short or long, for future meetings - If you have a Linux related presentation or demo you'd be comfortable

Re: [linux] OCLUG meeting Thursday April 6th 2023

2023-04-03 Thread Tug Williams
ng to have to work on a strategy for this. Between Tug, John, Diane, Jean-Francois, Richard, (sorry, I'm not sure who all is currently on the Board for the OLUG), Scott, and me, we should have enough people for a full non-profit Board where administrative tasks could be doled out in a reas

Re: Dissolving OCLUG was Re: [linux] OCLUG meeting Thursday April 6th 2023

2023-04-03 Thread Tug Williams
d to notify members - in that notice of meeting - that this resolution will be voted on at that meeting. On Fri, 31 Mar 2023, Tug Williams wrote: The motion is as follows: We, the members of the "Ottawa Carleton Linux Users Group" Ontario Corporation number 1476767 are in favour of d

[linux] Result of the OCLUG motion to dissolve

2023-04-09 Thread Tug Williams
The numbers were 15 for, 1 against. To unsubscribe send a blank message to linux+unsubscr...@linux-ottawa.org To get help send a blank message to linux+h...@linux-ottawa.org To visit the archives: https://lists.linux-ottawa.org

[linux] OCLUG meeting Thursday June 1st 2023

2023-05-29 Thread Tug Williams
sharing with the group, or a discussion topic you wish to introduce, then please let us know. Topics 1. Short presentation, and feedback request from Tug Williams "What can go wrong? Linux and the bs wifi driver" - Installing Linux on a 2013 HP Pavilion x2 and discovering unreliable

Re: [linux] OCLUG meeting Thursday June 1st 2023

2023-06-02 Thread Tug Williams
presentation and chat tips uploaded https://wiki.linux-ottawa.org/doku.php?id=meetingpresentations2023 On 29/05/2023 11:28, Tug Williams wrote: When: 7pm Thursday June 1st 2023 Where: https://meet.jit.si/oclug_2023-06-01 Check the mailing list for individuals hosting in-person clusters

Fwd: [linux] OCLUG meeting Thursday June 1st 2023

2023-05-31 Thread Tug Williams
I did send a meeting notice out. I didn't update the website... I will do so this afternoon. I didn't realise anyone looked.. Did you not get this email? Tug Forwarded Message Subject:[linux] OCLUG meeting Thursday June 1st 2023 Date: Mon, 29 May 2023 11:28:11

[linux] March 7th meeting announcement

2024-03-01 Thread Tug via linux
Meeting Announcement Linux-Ottawa March 2024 Meeting. Date/Time: Thursday March 7th at 7pm Format: 1. Online over Jitsi https://meet.jit.si/oclug_2024-03-07_mailmunge 2. Check mailing list for in-person clusters being hosted

Re: [linux] Will Not be Able to Present on Commons Clause

2024-03-07 Thread Tug via linux
Hey Katie, there's an already planned meeting, with a different address Date/Time: Thursday March 7th at 7pm Format: 1. Online over Jitsi https://meet.jit.si/oclug_2024-03-07_mailmunge 2. Check mailing list for in-person clusters