Hi all,
The Wednesday, 5/1/2024 GoLUG meeting commences at 7pm Eastern Daylight
Time online at meet.jit.si/golug .
I'll be late because of my kids' birthday (this happens every May), but
when I get there I'll show a simple no Javascript, CSS-only web-menu and
a 100% CSS, no graphics knockoff of
Ryan Petris via PLUG-discuss said on Thu, 25 Apr 2024 14:58:18 -0700
>I'm pretty certain that anyone directly involved with that was
>prosecuted in some way, including developers that knowingly helped.
LOL, I boycotted VW for 50 years because of the Holocaust. Then, just
as I was getting ready
David Schwartz via PLUG-discuss said on Thu, 25 Apr 2024 11:26:13 -0700
>I assure you, people are not moving to AZ chasing after our amazing
>pay scale!
Wouldn't this also depend on AZ cost of living? If in place A I make
$50K and have $40K in expenses, while in place B I make $100K and have
David Schwartz via PLUG-discuss said on Sat, 20 Apr 2024 13:43:39 -0700
>So I turned back to Delphi and didn’t look back.
Hi David,
Would you like to give a Lazarus demo/presentation at a future online
GoLUG meeting?
Thanks,
SteveT
Steve Litt
Autumn 2023 featured book: Rapid Learning for
Keith Smith via PLUG-discuss said on Sat, 20 Apr 2024 07:32:10 -0700
>Hi,
>
>This article says WordPress is moving away from PHP to JavaScript. I
>think WordPress is shooting itself in the foot. My main question has
>to do with resources given the shift from server side processing to
>browser
Hi all,
GoLUG meeting where anyone who wants to can share their Linux or BSD
story.
==
What: Online: Linux Campfire Tales
Who: Anyone wanting to tell a Linux story
When: Wednesday 4/3/2024 at 7PM Eastern Daylight Time
Where:
der.hans via PLUG-discuss said on Sun, 31 Mar 2024 07:19:43 + (UTC)
>Am 30. Mar, 2024 schwätzte Matthew Crews via PLUG-discuss so:
>
>> This, ladies and gentlemen, is what a Supply Chain Attack looks like.
>>
>> While I'm not sure that this specific vulnerability led to much harm
>> (who
Matthew Crews via PLUG-discuss said on Sat, 30 Mar 2024 09:35:28 -0700
>Among the many questions that need to be asked:
>
>1. How can we trust source tarballs / archive files to be 100% correct
>versus source code?
>2. Without looking at the source code line-by-line, how do we detect
>supply
der.hans via PLUG-discuss said on Fri, 29 Mar 2024 20:18:58 + (UTC)
>moin moin,
>
>someone patched a potential remote exploit into xz-utils. It seems it
>can compromise sshd.
Void Linux downgraded xz to 5.4.6 to avoid the problem until the dust
settled.
SteveT
Steve Litt
Autumn 2023
Matthew Crews via PLUG-discuss said on Sun, 24 Mar 2024 10:38:47 -0700
>It's also going to matter what graphic card you have. If you are using
>an Nvidia card, then Wayland support is poor all around even with new
>cards and updated drivers, no matter what. If you are using Intel or
>AMD
Hi all,
GoLUG meeting discussing the costs and benefits of transparent systems
on 3/6:
==
What: Online presentation: System Transparency, Costs and Benefits
Who: Steve Litt
When: Wednesday 3/6/2024 at 7PM Eastern Standard Time
Hi all,
GoLUG meeting showcasing several HTML/CSS hard core examples coming 2/7:
==
What: Online presentation: HTML/CSS: Hard Core Examples
Who: Steve Litt
When: Wednesday 2/7/2024 at 7PM Eastern Standard Time
Where: Jitsi
David Schwartz via PLUG-discuss said on Wed, 31 Jan 2024 01:31:52 -0700
>Now, every *nix web host already has an STMP host built-in because as
>I understand things, Linux won’t work without an MTA since it uses it
>to send stuff between different parts of itself.
>
>Sendmail, mailman, and exit
Keith Smith via PLUG-discuss said on Mon, 29 Jan 2024 05:48:53 -0700
>You have a website which makes me think you have email with that
>account? Any reason not to use your hosting provider's email?
Ex-actly!
SteveT
Steve Litt
Autumn 2023 featured book: Rapid Learning for the 21st Century
Phil Waclawski via PLUG-discuss said on Thu, 18 Jan 2024 23:25:22 -0700
>the logitech webcams work very well with Linux
>Phil W
Yes they do. I've been using one for about a decade, and it's better
than my daughter's laptop's builtin webcam. Those of you who have seen
me at GoLUG meetings have
Keith Smith via PLUG-discuss said on Sun, 31 Dec 2023 06:54:08 -0700
>I get the labor pool is probably a draw.
>
>I've always wondered why companies want to build data centers in
>Phoenix given the extreme heat.
>
>Last year we had a month with daily highs of 116 degrees. That means
>lots of
Jim via PLUG-discuss said on Sat, 30 Dec 2023 20:50:59 -0700
>I don't like electric cars.
>IMHO they're not ready to replace the internal combustion engine.
>They don't have the range of a car with a gas tank and it takes hours
>to charge one.
I like the idea of hybrids that charge the battery
Hi all,
GoLUG meeting with compiler construction presentation this coming
Wednesday:
==
What: Online presentation, Making compilers with recursive-descent parse
Who: Hendrik Boom
When: Wednesday 1/3/2024 at 7PM Eastern Standard
Keith Smith via PLUG-discuss said on Tue, 19 Dec 2023 12:21:35 -0700
>Hi,
>
>I have been using the AWS S3 PHP SDK to backup my web content for
>maybe 12 years. I'm revisiting it.
>
>I'm thinking that it might be more secure to create a backup user for
>just this process. The credentials would
der.hans via PLUG-discuss said on Fri, 15 Dec 2023 00:22:46 + (UTC)
>moin moin,
>
>PLUG is in BigBlueButton at 19:00 tonight. Traditionally we do an end
>of year pot luck in December, so we'll just be hanging out tonight. No
>presentations.
>
>https://lufthans.bigbluemeeting.com/plu-yuk-7xx
Hi all,
This email is both a reminder of the meeting's who, what, where
and when, and a progress report on my presentation and David's.
First the meeting details:
==
What: Online presentation, Computer language and compiler
der.hans via PLUG-discuss said on Tue, 5 Dec 2023 18:48:33 + (UTC)
>Am 29. Nov, 2023 schwätzte Steve B via PLUG-discuss so:
>
>moin moin Steve,
>
>I use debian lxc containers on a debian desktop for my containerized
>Firefox profiles.
>
>Mostly I just use many Firefox profiles ( usually have
Hi all,
GoLUG meeting with compiler construction presentation this coming
Wednesday:
==
What: Online presentation, Computer language and compiler construction
Who: GoLUG's Steve Litt and David Billsbrough
When: Wednesday
der.hans via PLUG-discuss said on Wed, 22 Nov 2023 00:24:11 + (UTC)
>Am 21. Nov, 2023 schwätzte Vikriti D'Vita via PLUG-discuss so:
>
>moin moin Vikriti,
>
>Boulders has been a great host for us for years.
>
>I have been in several times each year since the pandemic started. I
>have worn a
Keith Smith via PLUG-discuss said on Tue, 21 Nov 2023 10:56:23 -0700
>Ok,
>
>I get it. However I have also read that some medical professionals
>say the mask is only 2% effective while adding other issues.
Cmon Keith. I've read that Hillary was dating an alien from outer space
and Bill
Jim via PLUG-discuss said on Sun, 12 Nov 2023 21:21:50 -0700
>Thanks Steve. I tried dd if=/dev/sda of=/dev/sde status=progress. It
>finished. I used Gparted to expand the 240GB from the original sd to
>fill the 1TB ssd it was copied to. I replaced the original ssd with
>the 1TB ssd, booted
Hi all,
The GoLUG mailing list is currently featuring a discussion of parsing,
compiler building, interpreter building, etc, with explorations into
Backus-Naur form, flex, bison, and a Python approach. Our next meeting
will be about these topics.
The GoLUG mailing list is available at
Jim via PLUG-discuss said on Sun, 12 Nov 2023 16:52:04 -0700
>I have a Dell Optiplex 7010 with 32GB RAM and kubuntu 22.04 installed
>on it. I used clonezilla to make a copy of a 240 GB SSD onto a 1TB
>SSD. When I tried to boot from the copy, I got to the gui login
>screen. I gave it my password
Hi all,
On Wednesday, 9/6/2023, at 7:00 PM Eastern Daylight time, GoLUG's
monthly online meeting features ten lesser known HTML elements you
might find handy.
As you know, many HTML elements were added with HTML Version 5 (HTML5),
and many are handy either because they make the HTML more
I'm writing this to Eric Oyen and anybody else interested in this...
How much does having in the proper place help a blind
person?
Same question for and .
Does using instead of with a special class help
those using screen readers and/or Braille machines?
Same question with .
Eric, the
Hi all,
Tonight (8/2/2023) at 7:00 Eastern Daylight time, GoLUG's monthly
online meeting features a short presentation by Steve Litt about his
home-grown Python based reminder/calendar system. Sy Ali will facilitate
an audience-wide discussion of the future of Linux and Linux User
Groups. Last
Keith Smith via PLUG-discuss said on Sun, 09 Jul 2023 12:33:36 -0700
>Hi,
>
>Was looking at the raspberrypi this morning and it brought me to the
>same place I have come to several times in the post.
>
>I have a business account with Cox Cable which allows me to run 1 or
>more servers. Last
Michael Butash via PLUG-discuss said on Tue, 4 Jul 2023 08:07:17 -0700
>Agreed, use Virtualbox,
Why not Qemu?
SteveT
Steve Litt
Autumn 2022 featured book: Thriving in Tough Times
http://www.troubleshooters.com/bookstore/thrive.htm
---
Hi all,
For many years Troubleshooters.Com has been hosted by the spectacular
Futurequest in Orlando Florida. Sadly, because of hurricanes, the
pandemic, inflation, and insanely skyrocketing rents in Orlando,
they're going out of business within a few days, so I need a new web
host.
What I
Keith Smith via PLUG-discuss said on Thu, 22 Jun 2023 13:52:06 -0700
>Yes water is an issue.
This was my first thought upon reading the subject of your post. This
is a huge challenge.
> And when I think of data centers in Phoenix
>during the summer... machines pumping out heat and A/C units
Michael Butash via PLUG-discuss said on Thu, 15 Jun 2023 18:22:08 -0700
>So interestingly enough, if/when I need windoze, I often buy from a
>place like THIS, as a method of getting Windoze officially licensed,
>flat cheap.
der.hans via PLUG-discuss said on Fri, 16 Jun 2023 05:37:44 + (UTC)
>moin moin,
>
>the FLOSS Stammtisch will be returning to Boulders on Southern this
>coming Tuesday at 19:00.
>
>Boulders on Southern, 1010 W Southern Ave, Mesa, Arizona
Mn, I sure am going to miss your Jitsi
to update the language and set it up to generate js
>as it’s assembly language output. Then what TMS built on top of this
>is even more amazing.
>
>-David Schwartz
>
>
>
>
>> On Jun 7, 2023, at 12:09 AM, Steve Litt via PLUG-discuss
>> wrote:
>>
trent shipley via PLUG-discuss said on Tue, 6 Jun 2023 02:03:12 -0700
>*Pointy haired manager to programmer:* We are thinking of replacing
>programming with AI.
>
>*Programmer:* Don't you mean you plan to replace programmers with AI.
>
>*PHM:* No, replace programming itself.
>
>*P:* How? Why?
AZ Pete via PLUG-discuss said on Wed, 10 May 2023 18:14:30 -0700
>Hi All,
[snip]
>So, I'm asking the PLUG brain-trust, do I need to run a firewall on
>Linux when connecting to public networks (such as a hotel WiFi)?
>
>Any thoughts are appreciated.
A L W A Y S F I R E W A L L ! ! !
SteveT
Hi all,
On Wednesday, 5/3/2023 at 7:00 Eastern Daylight time,
GoLUG is having an online meeting which will be a Free and Open Source
Software (FOSS) bull session.. The meeting location is
https://meet.jit.si/golug . This meeting is online only.
Because Sylvia's and my triplets' birthday is May 4
trent shipley via PLUG-discuss said on Sun, 23 Apr 2023 07:48:08 -0700
>Why is Lua better than Julia or Scala (or other best language
>contenders like Haskell or Smalltalk?)
Word is out that Julia doesn't really work. I tried it, it was glitchy
as hell. I have no know knowledge of Scala.
trent shipley via PLUG-discuss said on Sat, 22 Apr 2023 16:31:13 -0700
>I know I'd rather not work in the dying VB.Net language. C# would
>therefore be the obvious choice. I'd rather work in Scala, Python, or
>Java (in that order). I know just enough Prolog to know it is almost
>directly
OK, I just got in and will try to stay in.
SteveT
Steve Litt via PLUG-discuss said on Tue, 18 Apr 2023 21:24:21 -0400
>der.hans via PLUG-discuss said on Tue, 18 Apr 2023 18:30:17 + (UTC)
>
>>moin moin,
>>
>>Stammtisch is in BigBlueButton at 19:00 tonight.
>>
der.hans via PLUG-discuss said on Tue, 18 Apr 2023 18:30:17 + (UTC)
>moin moin,
>
>Stammtisch is in BigBlueButton at 19:00 tonight.
>
>Can someone be there to open it up? I likely can't be there until 19:30
>due to a kidling event.
>
>BBB room: https://lufthans.bigbluemeeting.com/plu-yuk-7xx
Hi all,
Sorry for the late notice. Tonight at 7:00 Eastern Daylight time,
4/5/2023, GoLUG is having an online meeting where we'll discuss
lightweight computing. The meeting location is
https://meet.jit.si/golug . This meeting is online only.
Anyone with any lightweight computing practices is
I got to Stammtisch exceedingly late, after most of you were gone, so
you didn't hear this...
I'm creating documentation on Plain TeX, the typesetting and
programming system created by Donald Knuth in 1978 and updated through
the years. Plain TeX is the simpler and less popular ancestor of LaTeX,
der.hans via PLUG-discuss said on Tue, 21 Mar 2023 19:59:31 + (UTC)
>moin moin,
>
>Stammtisch is tonight at 19:00.
>
>https://lufthans.bigbluemeeting.com/plu-yuk-7xx
>
>I have a kidling activity that will run until at least 18:30, so I will
>probably be late.
>
>Can someone show up on time
Hi all,
At the Wednesday, 3/1/2023 online GoLUG meeting, Steve Litt will
discuss the ins and outs of the runit init system. He'll cover the
benefits and drawbacks of runit, and how its features compare to
each of the several other Free Software init systems. And of
course, the definition of an
der.hans via PLUG-discuss said on Tue, 28 Feb 2023 05:08:01 + (UTC)
>Who else is driving and might have a seat?
I'll be riding shotgun right next to you in spirit der.hans. I lived in
LA 1980-1998, and went to most of the computer shows, computer clubs,
and programming language
joe--- via PLUG-discuss said on Mon, 06 Feb 2023 17:05:57 -0700
>When I try to ssh or rsync from one of my
>linux units to another, most of the time it
>works, but sometimes I get this error message:
>
>ssh: connect to host 192.168.0.56 port 22: No route to host
What does ping say immediately
Hi all,
Wednesday, 2/1/2023, there will be an online website construction
roundtable. Who's at the roundtable? Everyone at the online meeting:
We're looking for all viewpoints, including but not limited to direct
editing of HTML, zen-coding editors, WYSIWYG editors, web construction
via
trent shipley via PLUG-discuss said on Wed, 25 Jan 2023 09:29:18 -0700
>(I'm autistic, bipolar, and attention deficit disordered).
When they gave my son a 12 question test for ADD, I (mentally) answered
8 of the 12 such that I'd have been diagnosed ADD if the test had been
given to me. A lot of
trent shipley via PLUG-discuss said on Wed, 25 Jan 2023 09:21:46 -0700
>> I recently configured Proxmox on a old piece hardware and am glad I
>> did.
>>
>> Keith
Hi Keith,
How would you like to give a proxmox presentation at GoLUG?
Thanks,
SteveT
Steve Litt
Autumn 2022 featured book:
Harold Hartley via PLUG-discuss said on Fri, 20 Jan 2023 20:55:17 -0700
>I don’t see how any type of format can make any usb stick last any
>longer than another type of format.
Just speaking for myself, subjectively after quite a bit of experience,
formatting Ext4 makes the *data* last longer
Eric Oyen via PLUG-discuss said on Mon, 16 Jan 2023 16:38:57 -0700
>For most things, I use USB sticks in
>a write once, read many configuration scenario.
Another thing I've found anecdotally that helps lengthen the USB stick
life, whether write once or write a bunch, is to format it as Ext4. I
Hi all,
Wednesday night, 1/4/2023, GoLUG is having a Free Software Bull
Session (FSBS) starting 7PM Eastern STANDARD time. A good time will be
had by all. Join us at https://meet.jit.si/golug Wednesday night.
Thanks,
SteveT
GoLUG Publicity Coordinator
techli...@phpcoderusa.com said on Sat, 31 Dec 2022 18:40:37 -0700
>Steve,
>
>Why is our education system what it is today?
3 decades of cheaping out public education. Constant drumbeat of
anti-teacher assertions. Drugs and crime you'd expect from a lot
of (but not all) children of uneducated
techli...@phpcoderusa.com said on Sat, 31 Dec 2022 10:54:21 -0700
>Here are my thoughts. Nothing is free.. had an econ prof that used to
>say there are no free lunches... it might be free to you but someone
>paid for it.
True. But schooling for the citizenry is an investment. Educated people
Jim via PLUG-discuss said on Fri, 30 Dec 2022 18:14:49 -0700
>This doesn't surprise me a bit. 30 years ago I worked in some fast
>food places and I saw the unreliability of many people who work there.
> The trend is toward more of the 'I don't have to work. Everybody
>owes me.' attitude.
As
trent shipley via PLUG-discuss said on Fri, 30 Dec 2022 13:37:28 -0700
>/home/user/Projects/flask-tutorial
>├── flaskr/
>│ ├── __init__.py
>│ ├── db.py
>│ ├── schema.sql
>│ ├── auth.py
>│ ├── blog.py
>│ ├── templates/
>│ │ ├── base.html
>│ │ ├── auth/
>│ │ │ ├──
Keith Smith via PLUG-discuss said on Fri, 30 Dec 2022 07:31:06 -0700
>About 20 years ago I posted to a tech list that I thought H1B was a
>bad thing and I got roasted.
Self-hating programmers.
SteveT
Steve Litt
Autumn 2022 featured book: Thriving in Tough Times
George Toft via PLUG-discuss said on Thu, 29 Dec 2022 20:03:14 -0700
>I made a mistake in an application by using SQLite3. I read about
>SQLite's advantages over MySQL in that it has no network stack, so
>it's faster. My testing showed that was kinda true - it was faster
>mostly, until
George Toft via PLUG-discuss said on Thu, 29 Dec 2022 19:40:34 -0700
>You won't be replaced by a machine. You will be replaced by someone
>willing to do your job for $20-25 per hour.
>
>I've seen postings in a large company that stated they were paying
>Tata Consultancy $66K for H1B DBA's.
Harold Hartley via PLUG-discuss said on Wed, 28 Dec 2022 20:56:25 -0700
>The technology has been available for almost a decade and with the use
>of AI we will start seeing businesses starting to spend the money on
>it as a lot of businesses have openings for jobs but no one seems
>interested.
Keith Smith via PLUG-discuss said on Wed, 28 Dec 2022 18:43:04 -0700
>Not sure anyone is suggesting they work for free. I assume they will
>be highly paid as they are today.
A full time job that doesn't put a roof over your head, pay for basic
food, and if the job requires a car, pay for
Keith Smith via PLUG-discuss said on Wed, 28 Dec 2022 07:22:37 -0700
>Thought you might find this interesting.
>
>https://www.foxbusiness.com/technology/mcdonalds-unveils-first-automated-location-social-media-worried-will-cut-millions-jobs
Sounds like a good idea, but I pay with cash, and I
On Mon, 2022-12-26 at 00:13 +, David Schwartz via PLUG-discuss wrote:
>
> There are two popular Delphi clones: Lazarus and FreePascal.
Lazarus is the equivalent of Delphi. FreePascal is the equivalent of Turbo
Pascal.
SteveT
---
Offlist, Keith Smith and I discussed creating a Rapid Application
Development (RAD) system. The most needed thing, and the lowest hanging
fruit in a RAD system is a screen painter.
I personally don't have the skills to create a drag, drop and move
screen painter, but I *do* have the skills to
David Schwartz via PLUG-discuss said on Sun, 25 Dec 2022 07:20:47 +
(UTC)
> Steve does a nice job of defending the status quo,
Thank you!
> but I’m eager to
> move beyond that.
[snip]
> First, let me say that I’ve made the majority of my income since 1997
> as a Delphi developer. It did
David Schwartz via PLUG-discuss said on Sat, 24 Dec 2022 17:51:44 +
(UTC)
>But what have we done for ourselves? We
>still use imperative languages to write code line-by-line, they are
>subject to the same types of errors, debugging works the same way
>(well, we didn’t have debuggers until
Keith Smith via PLUG-discuss said on Fri, 23 Dec 2022 08:33:55 -0700
>In 1978 the UofA was charging $275 a semester.
Was that per credit hour, per class, or for all classes taken in a
semester? If the latter, it was a darned good deal, because in Chicago
at least, rent was about $190/month, so
trent shipley via PLUG-discuss said on Thu, 22 Dec 2022 07:26:18 -0700
>Python is a great first language, and there is no shortage of beginning
>Python books aimed at young beginners. I've never read a juvenalia
>programming book, except maybe pre-Visual Basic BASIC with the line
>numbers and
techli...@phpcoderusa.com said on Mon, 12 Dec 2022 18:44:10 -0700
>It's funny how some people talk about the no payroll tax states and
>then you find out they make it up with property tax.
Illinois has obscenely high property taxes, a fairly high state income
tax, and very high sales taxes. IMHO
Keith Smith via PLUG-discuss said on Mon, 12 Dec 2022 17:55:05 -0700
>I agree, with one addition. In the 70's and 80's my pay lagged 20% to
>30% behind inflation. What might have been decent pay was mediocre...
I think that's because you were a kid in the 1970's, probably with less
Hi all,
The correct topic for the GoLUG meeting is "Introduction to Go
Language". Sorry for the error in the subject of the initial
announcement.
SteveT
Steve Litt
GoLUG Publicity Coordinator
---
PLUG-discuss mailing list:
Hi all,
The Wednesday, December 7, 2022 GoLUG start at 7pm Eastern Standard
time. It will be at https://meet.jit.si/golug. Full information is at
http://golug.info.
Come Join us on December 7th, for an introductory course to Go. No
experience required, we'll cover some of the basics of Go
David Schwartz via PLUG-discuss said on Thu, 01 Dec 2022 19:48:59 +
(UTC)
>I’ve met a few folks who like plaing with open-source projects, but
>none of them ever said they thought it made a difference in terms of
>getting a job.
This is an anecdote, so take it for what it's worth: A friend
trent shipley via PLUG-discuss said on Tue, 29 Nov 2022 20:50:30 -0700
>(Lead buried in last two or three paragraphs.)
>
>1. I'm autistic, so I can't interview worth a damn.
[snip]
>2.b. There is a tremendous shortage of software writers, but no one is
>going to be studpid enough to hire one
Keith Smith via PLUG-discuss said on Fri, 25 Nov 2022 14:36:34 -0700
>Hi,
>
>I have read that to be qualified as a full-stack developer, one must
>know how to troubleshoot the entire stack.
>
>Where are the boundaries.
One man's opinion: "Full-stack developer" is a buzzword with a thousand
Keith Smith via PLUG-discuss said on Fri, 18 Nov 2022 18:22:12 -0700
>Hi,
>
>Was able to install Proxmox.
>
>- Can log into Proxmox directly.
>- Can ssh from my desktop into the Proxmox machine.
>- Can Not access via Chrome and FireFox
>
>Firefox says :
>
>Unable to connect
>
>An error occurred
Aaron Jones via PLUG-discuss said on Thu, 17 Nov 2022 12:57:27 -0700
>scrot -s
Very, very nice! I wish you'd told me about scrot -s 20 years ago :-)
Anyway, if you're running this command from a terminal but want to
capture something behind the terminal, do the following before
switching to the
Keith Smith via PLUG-discuss said on Wed, 16 Nov 2022 07:55:46 -0700
>
>I am thinking of loading Proxmox on this computer and just moving
>forward.
>
>I watched a video on Proxmox and it looks simple enough.
Hi Keith,
When you've installed Proxmox, please tell us all about the process,
the
techli...@phpcoderusa.com said on Wed, 16 Nov 2022 07:23:45 -0700
>any suggestions
>on a distro to try for my desktop for testing VirtualBox only?
Try Void Linux. It's very different from all the Debian-derived distros
you've used so far, so it might produce different results or deliver
Bob Elzer via PLUG-discuss said on Tue, 15 Nov 2022 21:30:14 -0700
>If you're local IP address was 192, where did the 10 address come from?
If VirtualBox is anything like Qemu, the 10 is because the default
behavior is to NAT the VM guest to 10.whatever. In Qemu this behavior
can be changed, as
Keith Smith via PLUG-discuss said on Tue, 15 Nov 2022 07:42:22 -0700
[snip]
>VirtualBox is a mess.
[snip]
>My expectation was that I could download and install VB then create a
>guest instance and configure my VM as I like, and in my case I want to
>have it have an IP on my local private
Keith Smith via PLUG-discuss said on Tue, 15 Nov 2022 07:42:22 -0700
>Hi,
[snip]
>VirtualBox in my opinion is what is wrong with technology. I've said
>it before and I'll say it again, technology has become too difficult.
Not only true, but in many cases needlessly entangled. By the way, I'll
Hi all,
The Wednesday, November 2, 2022 GoLUG start at 7pm Eastern Daylight
time. It will be at https://meet.jit.si/golug. Full information is at
http://golug.info.
In order to seed our threading discussion, Steve will show an
ultra-simple threading example in Python during the first 30 minutes
On Sun, 2022-10-09 at 06:50 -0700, keith Miller via PLUG-discuss wrote:
> Couple of items, I've used Promox for about 4-5 years now, very nice
> hypervisor have had no problems what soever
> I current run it on a Dell R-610 with 96Gig of ram and 6TB of HD, hosting 5
> linux servers and
Hi all,
GoLUG stands for Greater Orlando Linux User Group: Many of us are in Orlando
Florida
and were too wiped out by Hurricane Ian to plan a presentation. So instead we're
going to have a Free Software Bull Session (FSBS) starting in 1/2 hour, meaning
7PM
Eastern DAYLIGHT time on 10/5/2022.
On Tue, 2022-10-04 at 00:26 -0700, James Dugger via PLUG-discuss wrote:
> Microservices are nothing more than a way to break apart each piece of a
> bigger framework that is tightly coupled (dependent on each other), create
> an agreed to interface between the services freeing you up to write
On Fri, 2022-09-23 at 12:04 -0700, T Zack Crawford via PLUG-discuss wrote:
> I am very interested in the answer because my desktop does the same thing if I
> tell it to hibernate, boot into my windows dual boot, and reboot back into
> linux.
> I can regain network access again by hibernating
On Thu, 2022-09-22 at 15:29 +, T Zack Crawford via PLUG-discuss wrote:
> Uh I'm not sure what the ask is, bit GIMP is a fantastic application just as
> good
> as photoshop in my opinion. Most photo editing can be done with it. The UI is
> quite different from photoshop and some particular
Hi all,
The Wednesday, September 7, 2022 GoLUG online meeting will start at the SPECIAL
TIME
of 6pm Eastern Daylight Time rather than the usual time. It will be at
https://meet.jit.si/golug. Full information is at http://golug.info .
PHP expert Keith Smith will outline the way he does the MVC
On Sun, 2022-09-04 at 01:17 -0700, Phil Waclawski via PLUG-discuss wrote:
> The one advantage of an SSD vs a spinning USB Hard drive is that you can
> bump an SSD drive without worrying about the drive crashing, regardless of
> speed.
> Drawback is you usually want to keep it at most about 70%
On Sat, 2022-09-03 at 19:11 -0700, Keith Smith via PLUG-discuss wrote:
> If I recall correctly what was said is USB will create a bottleneck so
> an SSD drive is of no benefit. That is why the spinner was recommended.
I think I was the one who said that, but it was in regard to USB2. I think
On Sat, 2022-09-03 at 17:03 -0700, Phil Waclawski via PLUG-discuss wrote:
> I had one of the Western Digital ones go bad as soon as I tried a large
> rsync with it. which is odd, as I prefer WD for the HD version. The sandisk
> ones seem to work well.
Was the filesystem Ext4? I've had a lot of
On Wed, 2022-08-31 at 07:34 -0700, Keith Smith via PLUG-discuss wrote:
>
> Ok, throw mud on my head or tomatoes at my face
>
> I use the subscription Canva : https://www.canva.com/ . Normally I
> would not subscribe to a design software. In this case it made sense
> since I will
On Tue, 2022-08-30 at 23:08 -0700, Brian Cluff via PLUG-discuss wrote:
> What your talking about is a multisession CD.
>
> The amount of data a CD (700MB) or even a DVD (4.7GB) holds is
> practically nothing by today's standards, plus a blank CD or DVD is only
> about 20 cents. So it's not
> *Thank goodness* Linux can run those old proprietary programs.
>
> I would rather have a bag of mosquitoes tied around my head than subscribe
> to online proprietary software. No way I'm going to be chained to a
> treadmill.
>
>
> On Tue, Aug 30, 2022 at 12:09 PM Steve Li
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