[OCLUG-Tech] Anyone have experience with MODX?

Hi, Our company web site runs on an ancient version of Drupal and is in serious need of a refresh. Unfortunately, Drupal's upgrade process is horrible and I never did manage to make it work. Drupal's also insanely complex and the most recent version will require pretty much a rewrite of all our

[OCLUG-Tech] looking for a new host for my web site for april 1

Hey, I'm really late to this party :) but I thought I'd mention https://www.ovh.com/ca/en/ I have a KVM instance in their Montreal data centre that runs my https://dianne.skoll.ca/ web site. I think I pay around $8/month. You have root access, so can do system updates to your heart's content,

[OCLUG-Tech] looking for a new host for my web site for april 1

Hey, I'm really late to this party :) but I thought I'd mention https://www.ovh.com/ca/en/ I have a KVM instance in their Montreal data centre that runs my https://dianne.skoll.ca/ web site. I think I pay around $8/month. You have root access, so can do system updates to your heart's content,

Re: [OCLUG-Tech] Viewing jpg images with comments

On Thu, 20 Apr 2017 16:43:23 -0400 J C Nash wrote: > Does anyone know of a suitable viewer. Sure; geeqie. Packaged in Debian and source is at http://geeqie.sourceforge.net/ (I sent an earlier email with a screenshot, but it was held up for being too large.) Regards,

[OCLUG-Tech] Parking at Algonquin College

Hey, According to http://oclug.on.ca/location/36/: "Free parking is available in lots 8, 9 and 12 after 5pm" However, the official Algonquin College FAQ at http://www.algonquincollege.com/parking/faqs/ says: "Parking is available at no additional charge for registered continuing education

Re: [OCLUG-Tech] Settings to inhibit wannacry

On Sat, 13 May 2017 09:55:04 -0400 J C Nash wrote: > 1) To help slow down the spread of the ransomware, is it worth linux > users putting > min protocol = SMB2 I doubt it could spread on Linux anyway. The bug is most likely Windows-specific and the payload is extremely

[OCLUG-Tech] Slides from last night's talk

Hi, Thanks to everyone who came to my talk on spam filtering at last night's OCLUG meeting. The slides are up at https://dianne.skoll.ca/2017-05-04-scaling-a-spam-filter.pdf OCLUG admins, feel free to put them on your wiki or wherever appropriate. I did mention Quantum Spam Filtering:

Re: [OCLUG-Tech] domain registration and web hosting

On Thu, 01 Jun 2017 13:28:06 + j...@messier.ca wrote: > Where it may become harder for a cheap hosting is the SSH and the > SVN. For hosting, I'm pretty happy with OVH. https://www.ovh.com/ca/en/ You get a KVM virtual machine, with which you can do whatever you like. Hosted in Canada.

Re: [OCLUG-Tech] asterix + pots + raspberry pi = good ?

On Mon, 25 Sep 2017 14:19:43 -0400 Bill Strosberg wrote: > I'm no telephony expert by any chance but I would think a Pi might > not have enough horsepower to handle things - I run things on a quad > core A7 box with a couple different VMs under VirtualBox. Everything > here

Re: [OCLUG-Tech] does anyone still use "dump" for backups these days?

On Thu, 22 Feb 2018 10:33:24 -0500 (EST) "Robert P. J. Day" wrote: > but what are folks out there using for their backups these days? > tar? rsync? amanda? I use rsync. Regards, Dianne. ___ Linux mailing list

Re: [OCLUG-Tech] does anyone still use "dump" for backups these days?

On Sun, 25 Feb 2018 14:03:09 -0500 Rick Leir wrote: > How are dvd's for archiving photos? I would not trust consumer-recordable DVDs to last beyond a few years. My backups are all to hard drives in three separate locations. Everything is RAIDed. I'm placing my bet that

Re: [OCLUG-Tech] does anyone still use "dump" for backups these days?

On Sun, 25 Feb 2018 10:37:05 -0500 Tim Forbes wrote: > On the subject of remote media storage, I have always been concerned > about privacy and have not arrived at a good answer for my personal > situation. Perhaps a safety deposit box is the right answer, or maybe >

Re: [OCLUG-Tech] what the heck is the rationale for 'X' in chmod command?

On Fri, 23 Feb 2018 02:51:52 -0500 (EST) "Robert P. J. Day" wrote: > i can't believe i've never noticed the 'X' (upper case) permission > setting for the chmod command, explained thusly in the man page: > > "The letters rwxXst select file mode bits for the affected

Re: [OCLUG-Tech] path completion query

On Thu, 5 Apr 2018 09:17:21 -0400 J C Nash wrote: > When I am in a terminal and want to cd to the appropriate folder > I typically type just the first couple of characters then hit tab. > I've noticed that regular directories add the /, but command > completion for the

Re: [OCLUG-Tech] path completion query

On Thu, 5 Apr 2018 10:16:29 -0400 J C Nash wrote: > And. ... tab on first couple of letters of symlinked directory gives > no /, but hitting tab again gives the /. Went back to my local bash > and same behaviour. That's a smart way to work. Sometimes you want the slash

Re: [OCLUG-Tech] is "xargs" really still useful just for limiting command line size?

On Fri, 16 Mar 2018 11:04:30 -0400 (EDT) "Robert P. J. Day" wrote: > i'm fairly sure i can conclude that a command can be at least 3882671 > characters long, can i not? It depends on the shell, I'd think. Regards, Dianne. ___

[OCLUG-Tech] Consistency (was Re: is "xargs" really still useful just for limiting command line size?)

On Fri, 16 Mar 2018 10:26:36 -0400 Shawn H Corey wrote: > git ls-files -z | xargs -0 grep 'function_name' > The -z separates the names with a ASCII NUL and the -0 (minus zero) > allows xarg to read them correctly. This is useful if the files have > spaces in their names.

Re: [OCLUG-Tech] is "xargs" really still useful just for limiting command line size?

On Fri, 16 Mar 2018 09:27:21 -0400 (EDT) "Robert P. J. Day" wrote: > course i taught recently had a section on "xargs", emphasizing its > value(?) in being able to run a command in bite-size pieces but, these > days, is that really that much of an issue? Yes. > $

Re: [OCLUG-Tech] does anyone still use "dump" for backups these days?

On Mon, 26 Feb 2018 13:51:02 +1000 (AEST) Robert Brockway wrote: > It sounds to me like your backups are online and replicating from the > primary somehow. The next question assumes that is so. Yep. > If data was deleted on the primary would that replicate to the