Re: [GTALUG] Linux Journal, RIP

On February 7, 2018 5:18:15 PM EST, Evan Leibovitch via talk wrote: >On 1 February 2018 at 14:55, Kevin Cozens via talk >wrote: > > >> I doubt it. I prefer the magazine on paper. I spend enough time in >front >> of a computer as it is. The last thing I want

Re: [GTALUG] 'file' maintainer? (or fun with PIE and magic)

On Wednesday, February 07 2018, D. Hugh Redelmeier via talk wrote: > | From: Sergio Durigan Junior via talk > > | It seems to me that perhaps the graphical UI could rely not only on the > | MIME type of a file, but also if it is marked as executable or not. > > Some filesystems

Re: [GTALUG] Linux Journal, RIP

On 2018-02-01 05:06 PM, Russell wrote: For my personal pleasure in reading tho, I prefer paper. For one it's easier on the eyes. [snip] Accidental learning, this is something almost completely eliminated by key word searches of digital documents. I know what you mean. I have found useful

Re: [GTALUG] 'file' maintainer? (or fun with PIE and magic)

Hey, Stewart, On Wednesday, February 07 2018, Stewart C. Russell via talk wrote: > Anyone know how to get in touch with the maintainers of 'file'? Seems > the links in the man pages and Ian Darwin's site - > http://www.darwinsys.com/file/ - don't work. The file magic database > needs an update

Re: [GTALUG] 'file' maintainer? (or fun with PIE and magic)

I just sent Ian a note; hopefully his email isn't also down, as his web site seems to be... If he contacts you asking more, that's great! --- Talk Mailing List talk@gtalug.org https://gtalug.org/mailman/listinfo/talk

[GTALUG] 'file' maintainer? (or fun with PIE and magic)

Anyone know how to get in touch with the maintainers of 'file'? Seems the links in the man pages and Ian Darwin's site - http://www.darwinsys.com/file/ - don't work. The file magic database needs an update to correctly recognize PIE (Position Independent Executable) x86 ELF binaries as

[GTALUG] Fw: Meltdown and Spectre on HTTP workload

Warm Greetings To GTALUG, FYI. Below is a forward of an email from one of the developers of the DragonFlyBSD (dfly) operating system. The PDF at the link target gives a nice one-page graph showing the performance hits due to fixes for Meltdown and Spectre. Dfly is not LInux but a highly