Re: [GTALUG] Tutorials on Linux command-line -- any interest?

2017-07-24 Thread Bob Jonkman via talk
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 I'm co-organizer of the KW Non-Profit SysAdmin group, which has a presence on meetup.com. We boast 249 members, but are lucky to get even 10 out to a meeting. If it weren't for the sponsorship of NetSquared, we wouldn't be using meetup.com at all.

Re: [GTALUG] Tutorials on Linux command-line -- any interest?

2017-07-24 Thread William Park via talk
On Mon, Jul 24, 2017 at 12:27:55PM -0400, D. Hugh Redelmeier via talk wrote: > - some of the additional features are really really useful. I find it > very hard to live without bash's emacs-keystrokes line editing and how it > complements the historm mechanism. I'm pretty sure that this was

Re: [GTALUG] Tutorials on Linux command-line -- any interest?

2017-07-24 Thread D. Hugh Redelmeier via talk
| From: "Steve Petrie, P.Eng. via talk" | Actually William, your offer of a Linux command line tutorial caught my | interest. If only I lived closer to the meeting venue ... | | Except that I'm probably going to be using mksh rather than bash. But | having some basic vi(m)

Re: [GTALUG] Tutorials on Linux command-line -- any interest?

2017-07-24 Thread Stewart C. Russell via talk
On 2017-07-24 09:32 AM, David Ing isss--- via talk wrote: > > One cure (actually, an affordance) is to register the GTALUG on > meetup.com , for visibility. Running a meetup.com group isn't cheap (I co-run one, and one the size of this mailing list would eat through our total

Re: [GTALUG] Tutorials on Linux command-line -- any interest?

2017-07-24 Thread Gary via talk
Another idea is to petition Ryerson to offer more courses in Linux development. Ryerson already has a course on operating systems, which is, ipso facto, linux but we could encourage them to offer continuing education courses to expand this offering. On 17-07-24 09:32 AM, David Ing isss--- via

Re: [GTALUG] Tutorials on Linux command-line -- any interest?

2017-07-24 Thread David Ing isss--- via talk
William, One cure (actually, an affordance) is to register the GTALUG on meetup.com, for visibility. If I look at https://www.meetup.com/topics/linux/ca/on/toronto/ , I see "Toronto Linux Meetup" saying "over 50 interested". There's a target audience! I had done this in 2009, for the systems

Re: [GTALUG] Tutorials on Linux command-line -- any interest?

2017-07-24 Thread Steve Petrie, P.Eng. via talk
Warm Greetings To GTALUG, >From a Windows XP "orphan" and Linux newbie :) Lately I haven't had much to say on this GTALUG email forum. No pressing issues needing help right now. Not pushy enough to waste GTALUG bandwidth with general musings. However, in response to William Park's

Re: [GTALUG] for any hardware gurus

2017-07-24 Thread Russell via talk
On July 18, 2017 10:59:57 PM EDT, o1bigtenor via talk wrote: >*working with xrandr 1.5 not finding how to connect second or third >gpu* >-- >Greetings > >Running debian buster (testing) using lxqt. Have 3 nvidia 570 gpus and >4 >1920x1080 monitors.

[GTALUG] War Story: interestingly named firmware (BIOS) options

2017-07-24 Thread D. Hugh Redelmeier via talk
I just bought an MSI Cubi (a cute little PC). I'm having some problems so I want to flash new firmware. Without a windows license. So that means FreeDOS for flashing. I could not get FreeDOS to boot. Only UEFI options were offered. So I asked on MSI's forum, and got a useful answer! Even