Re: [GTALUG] A dos port of the Linux program neofetch.

D. Hugh Redelmeier via talk wrote on 2024-04-28 06:38: MySysInf is a port of a BASH script called Neofetch The program lists a bunch of interesting things about your System. I run it on at least one system, and it's a nice *initial* screen when

Re: [GTALUG] When a web page goes to next level

Karen Lewellen via talk wrote on 2024-04-05 06:31: I, in my lower graphics browser, Lynx in this case, get text of the article, and wonderful alt-tag descriptions of the images..no zoom messiness. That's great! On Thu, 4 Apr 2024, Gron Arthur via talk wrote: I find that it is too

Re: [GTALUG] When a web page goes to next level

Gron Arthur via talk wrote on 2024-04-04 11:31: Am I a curmudgeon? Probably - you're here with us, in good company... I find that it is too distracting, and takes away from the content.  It becomes hard to focus on the facts of the story. I can see your point, but I'm not sure I agree in

Re: [GTALUG] When a web page goes to next level

William Witteman wrote on 2024-04-03 12:07: I am going to poke around the source and see if I can make any sense of it There's some pretty fancy things going on, it will not be easy to figure out (for me, anyway). It's quite interesting how, when looking at the Inspect web dev tool, one

[GTALUG] When a web page goes to next level

CBC has a story up today (about "Buried rivers flow under Canadian cities..."). > Discover where ancient rivers flow under Canadian cities | CBC News > > Ancient rivers once nourished and protected the lands where we built > our biggest cities. Now, they’re buried underground. Is it finally >

Re: [GTALUG] [DISCUSS] Backdoor found in widely used Linux utility

L. V. Lammert wrote on 2024-03-29 13:08: Seems to make the case to only use standard tools like gzip? Nah, reading further on it (comments on ArsTechnica.com are great - lots of links to follow), this compromises ssh, you don't need xz. There's some talk that issues with Postgres and

Re: [GTALUG] [DISCUSS] Backdoor found in widely used Linux utility

L. V. Lammert wrote on 2024-03-29 13:08: Seems to make the case to only use standard tools like gzip? I'm not sure. I stick with gzip & bzip myself, but this was an extremely clever approach and I'm not sure if xz got targeted because it's a smaller developer group or if xz is more

[GTALUG] Backdoor found in widely used Linux utility

Backdoor found in widely used Linux utility breaks encrypted SSH connections Malicious code planted in xz Utils has been circulating for more than a month. https://arstechnica.com/security/2024/03/backdoor-found-in-widely-used-linux-utility-breaks-encrypted-ssh-connections/ --- Post to

Re: [GTALUG] Securely wiping SSDs

Giles Orr via talk wrote on 2024-03-23 07:50: I have, for many years, used "Darik's Boot and Nuke" on a USB stick to securely wipe spinning hard disks. It takes a long time, but I mostly understand and trust the process. I'm going to take a contrarian stance and suggest that the best way is

Re: [GTALUG] DOS > bash

D. Hugh Redelmeier wrote on 2024-03-22 06:56: What you want is rename .sh '' *.sh which means for each filename matched by *.sh change every occurrence of ".sh" in its name to '' (empty) Ah, that's a clever idea - the glob at the end so that rename can grab

Re: [GTALUG] DOS > bash

William Park via talk wrote on 2024-03-21 18:27: for I in *.sh ; do mv ${I} ${I%%.sh} done That will change 'x.sh' to 'x' without trailing dot. Exactly what's desired. Ubuntu/Debian distros will include 'rename' where you can use regex. How does `rename` (a Perl program, I believe?)

Re: [GTALUG] Debian Live Linux -- Change Overlay Filesystem -- From Tempfs Ramdisk To Hard Drive ?? [was] Re: Debian Live Linux -- Overlay Filesystem -- Where Allocated ??

Steve Petrie via talk wrote on 2024-03-21 08:19: some Debian packages I install, *disappear every time I boot my linux PC, which is often daily*. So, I sometimes find myself occasionally re-installing a disappeared Debian package. It might be worth looking into Ventoy for creating a bootable

[GTALUG] DOS > bash

Okay, clickbait subject line, but hear me out. I had a bunch of files called *.sh for backing up stuff. I decided to use `run-parts` to run the entire folder of shell scripts at once. `run-parts` won't run *.sh files (?!?), they need to be *.s-h or something dumb. I wanted to REName

Re: [GTALUG] .local question

D. Hugh Redelmeier via talk wrote on 2024-02-26 22:43: I'm creating an experimental NextCloud server. How'd that go? Related, did you try switching "mdns4_minimal" in nsswitch.conf to solve the .local problem? rb --- Post to this mailing list talk@gtalug.org Unsubscribe from this

Re: [GTALUG] .local question

D. Hugh Redelmeier via talk wrote on 2024-02-27 15:39: /etc/nsswitch.conf has a line: hosts: files myhostname mdns4_minimal [NOTFOUND=return] resolve [!UNAVAIL=return] dns So I'm guessing that the nc.local is being resolved by "myhostname", not mdns4_minimal. I don't understand why

Re: [GTALUG] .local question (Off Topic: how did you acquire a /24?)

James Knott via talk wrote on 2024-02-27 14:50: That may be because more & more traffic is moving to IPv6. I suspect this is the case, although I'm still a bit surprised pricing would go down at all. Also - how does one use them behind a residential ISP? Probably the way I use my /56

Re: [GTALUG] .local question (Off Topic: how did you acquire a /24?)

D. Hugh Redelmeier via talk wrote on 2024-02-26 22:43: (I have /24 globally routable IP addresses.) I'm curious about the story behind how you acquired what's become such a rare item? Also - how does one use them behind a residential ISP? Do you have your own AS number? This all

Re: [GTALUG] .local question

D. Hugh Redelmeier via talk wrote on 2024-02-26 22:43: I'm starting to use .local. So machines declare their hostname and mDNS / bonjour gets to resolve name.local. Neat. I ought to look into using .local myself, instead of when I had DDNS running. Sounds interesting. Tonight I'm

Re: [GTALUG] Air Canada claims its chatbot is liable, not AC!

Ron / BCLUG via talk wrote on 2024-02-16 10:35: I particularly like this part: Coincidentally, it was just yesterday that I caught one of Canada's most talented comedians do a 4 minute skit on dealing with the frustration of *human* customer service at "Air Canaday"

Re: [GTALUG] Air Canada claims its chatbot is liable, not AC!

Don Tai wrote on 2024-02-16 12:02: With AI hallucinations being quite common Yes, but let's not keep stating that as though AIs are the only source of bad or wrong information on the internet. And limiting it to the internet is reductive itself - humans produce mountains of wrong

Re: [GTALUG] Air Canada claims its chatbot is liable, not AC!

D. Hugh Redelmeier via talk wrote on 2024-02-16 08:25: There's surely more to this story. Standard operating procedures - "it wasn't us, guv, it was a contractor". I particularly like this part: > Air

Re: [GTALUG] meeting idea: AI Explorers' Reports

D. Hugh Redelmeier via talk wrote on 2024-02-13 18:49: AI is an exploding field. Lots of stuff is new to us. Many of us are trying things. I think that it would be interesting if those of us that have experimented would chat in a meeting about their experiences. I've probably mentioned

Re: [GTALUG] Odd Ethernet Behaviour

Alvin Starr via talk wrote on 2024-02-12 20:38: Honestly, I won’t do that.  About three weeks ago I had gotten approval for a new static ip address, at which point I asked for them to allow me to ssh to that address.  I was *refused* and told I had to use a VPN because they “have to protect

Re: [GTALUG] Odd Ethernet Behaviour

Peter King via talk wrote on 2024-02-12 13:56: Ethtool says the new card is running at 1000Mb/s. That's the link speed, not necessarily reflective of the bandwidth provided by upstream. A different computer behind the same switch (which claims to have gigabit ethernet: TP-Link AC1750)

Re: [GTALUG] An anomaly with the `date` command

Colin McGregor via talk wrote on 2024-01-30 14:14: For calendar oddities try typing the following into a BASH terminal : cal 9 1752 The seemingly odd result will be correct for what is now Halifax, Nova Scotia, but incorrect for what is now Quebec City, Quebec. Anyone know why?

Re: [GTALUG] "AI" on getting correct technical answers

Steve Petrie via talk wrote on 2024-01-16 05:41: A. SSO (single sign on) -- Is it an SSO offer, when my Firefox browser "helpfully" asks me if I would like it [my browser] to "remember" my login credentials ?? No, SSO where one signs in to a site they've never visited via their Google

[GTALUG] "AI" on getting correct technical answers

Alvin Starr via talk wrote on 2024-01-12 20:11: It is defiantly not useful for getting correct technical answers to problems. That's not my experience. I guess that depends on the definition of "correct technical answers", because it (i.e. ChatGPT) can be excellent at giving correct answers

Re: [GTALUG] lazy jail server admin forced to act

ac via talk wrote on 2024-01-08 02:22: the ~ means if it is not from your servers it is also okay. the - means ONLY from your severs. The link I posted earlier (linuxbabe.com) had an interesting take on "~" vs "-" and why the former is preferable: If a multi-host (postfix) site receives

Re: [GTALUG] lazy jail server admin forced to act

D. Hugh Redelmeier via talk wrote on 2024-01-07 19:29: You probably need to add a google authentication record to your domain name to | reduce the chance of your email messages being rejected by gmail. I don't know what that is. Googling responses suggest you might be talking about a Google

Re: [GTALUG] lazy jail server admin forced to act

D. Hugh Redelmeier via talk wrote on 2024-01-07 09:27: Mails from my domain have started to be rejected by gmail. To placate gmail, I've added an SPF record to my doman: Another trick to help with email delivery to Google is to implement IPv6 in Postfix if it's available. rb --- Post to

Re: [GTALUG] lazy jail server admin forced to act

D. Hugh Redelmeier via talk wrote on 2024-01-07 10:10: | You may find that you need DKIM and DMARC as well. If you’re using | postfix it’s fairly easy to hook opendkim in. | My biggest hurdle was trying to find clear concise guides. Links?

Re: [GTALUG] meeting Tuesday?

D. Hugh Redelmeier via talk wrote on 2024-01-05 22:58: The venue might be changed from our Big Blue Button room. Our host, LPI, was set to switch from BBB to some NextCloud facility. If we don't get further directions, try https://blue.lpi.org/b/eva-zjc-gjy-kgl If the BBB site isn't

Re: [GTALUG] Debian 12 takes too long to boot and login

Giles Orr wrote on 2023-12-17 15:19: One of my favourite recent discoveries are the abilities of `systemd-analyze`. `systemd-analyze blame` shows how long every step in the boot process took. It's worth looking at, but doesn't account for the fact that many of these things run in parallel.

Re: [GTALUG] Debian 12 takes too long to boot and login

Kevin Cozens via talk wrote on 2023-12-17 14:43: Any clues as to why Debian takes 4 to 5 times as long? I'm hoping there is some bad configuration out of the box causing Debian 12 to be acting so slow. Anyone have any ideas where I should start looking? If I can't get to the bottom of the

Re: [GTALUG] tiny GNAME change that I don't like

D. Hugh Redelmeier via talk wrote on 2023-12-17 09:23: Am I the only one who cares about the loss of this feature? Probably not, and I hope you find a suitable solution, but Gnome + loss of features = why people move away from Gnome. It's become a meme. I've heard Gnome is better for

Re: [GTALUG] AI Alliance

Evan Leibovitch via talk wrote on 2023-12-06 09:49: I've been saying for some time that GTALUG badly needs a serious conversation on scope and focus. This evening's meeting feels, in retrospect, quite fruitful in this regard. We now need to be advocates for openness in the cloud and AI.

Re: [GTALUG] Browsers (and Thorium to be specific)

Evan Leibovitch via talk wrote on 2023-11-24 08:07: Thorium is basic Chrome that is compile-time optimized for new CPUs. Still does Chrome sync and plugin store. Won't run on any system that doesn't have an AVX2-capable CPU. As a result, it claims a conventional Chrome

Re: [GTALUG] Browsers (and Thorium to be specific)

Don Tai via talk wrote on 2023-11-23 15:46: I by default don't run JS, and then with the Noscript plugin, grant js access. Many sites will block you without JS running. Though I depend on FF, which usually works, I don't mind if web sites crack and don't render well. I ran with default no

Re: [GTALUG] mbox vs Maildir [was Re: Linux friendly email providers?]

D. Hugh Redelmeier via talk wrote on 2023-11-23 22:20: I don't remember seeing that corruption in the last few decades of using mbox. I didn't notice it 'til transferring providers and looking back at old message folders. No idea how long it's been lurking around. Probably nothing of value

Re: [GTALUG] roundcube test, is Linux friendly email providers?

Karen Lewellen wrote on 2023-11-23 15:03: I engaged the keystroke on the submit button, getting a 510 server error. I had a quick look for a 510 error and didn't see anything. Will have another look later. When I raised the JavaScript friendly lever, moving next to the links as an a chain

Re: [GTALUG] Browsers (and Thorium to be specific)

Lennart Sorensen via talk wrote on 2023-11-23 11:38: It is pretty annoying that chrome has become the new IE. Lots of web developers only use chrome and don't care that their javascript or html doesn't work on other browsers anymore. I too find it annoying. Especially since the standards

Re: [GTALUG] Linux friendly email providers?

Karen Lewellen wrote on 2023-11-22 22:10:  2, either allows for user name / password log in directly with a web  interface, RoundCube web interface okay? > actually, you would be doing a number of people a huge favor if I can test this. While roundcube has been suggested, there is some

Re: [GTALUG] Linux friendly email providers?

Karen Lewellen wrote on 2023-11-22 22:10: Will I have say a folder for the sent mail, one for my current inbox..allowing me to clear some of that down, my contact list? Contact list - that's not really part of email as I understand it. However, I could set up contacts & calendaring on one of

Re: [GTALUG] Linux friendly email providers?

Howard Gibson via talk wrote on 2023-11-22 21:06: Handy tip folks -- Start your emails with a line feed at the top of the page. This will separate your content from the blurb corporate email servers will attach warning your recipients how evil and dangerous you are. This is an interesting

Re: [GTALUG] Linux friendly email providers?

Karen Lewellen wrote on 2023-11-22 22:10: 1, allow me to export all of my gmail content to them. I could provide that ability, see below. I may need to get a better picture, have never used Thunderbird. I've been thinking a lot about this. Thunderbird being a GUI, it may be difficult for

Re: [GTALUG] Linux friendly email providers?

Karen Lewellen via talk wrote on 2023-11-22 18:25: let me be more specific..some of you tech wizards run your own mail servers laughs. I'm guilty of putting myself through that. Have run email on a small domain for a few years and am in the process of moving several more to an entirely new

Re: [GTALUG] (very off topic) torque spec of impact wrench

William Park via talk wrote on 2023-11-03 00:07: Question is, is there difference between static torque vs impact torque? I think the impacting has an effect, else the tools wouldn't have it (it requires clutches and other extras that must be there for a reason).  In other words, will

Re: [GTALUG] journalctl / systemctl [was: Re: Debian has suddenly become unstable]

D. Hugh Redelmeier via talk wrote on 2023-10-12 08:02: I'd also prefer "journalctl" to be shorter to type. Also, ctl seems to be redundant: what other command can you give the journal? On my system, "jou" TAB completes to "journalctl". Yeah, the length of the names, especially `systemctl`

Re: [GTALUG] Debian has suddenly become unstable

Bob Jonkman via talk wrote on 2023-10-11 22:02: One thought might be to disable cups (`journalctl disable --now cups`) Did you mean 'systemctl disable --now cups'  ??? Yes, I meant that. "Oops!" Thanks for catching that Bob... rb --- Post to this mailing list talk@gtalug.org

[GTALUG] RISC-V presentation -- join now

https://www.reuters.com/technology/us-china-tech-war-risc-v-chip-technology-emerges-new-battleground-2023-10-06/ Further to RISC-V, there's an interesting presentation going on *right now* at the St Louis LUG/UUG: > MAIN: Risc-V Architecture Differences

Re: [GTALUG] Debian has suddenly become unstable

Giles Orr via talk wrote on 2023-10-11 15:30: debugging Linux crashes. The `dmesg` command is useless, as it only shows the log since the last boot. The tool for inspecting previous boot logs would be: ## Logs from *previous* boot for `lp` and `cups`: `journalctl --boot -1 --unit lp --unit

Re: [GTALUG] How do I get wlan0 interface for WiFi with any MAC

Kevin Cozens via talk wrote on 2023-10-11 12:05: What udev(?) rule do I need to add to have the WiFi device come up as wlan or wlan0 regardless of the MAC address that may be associated with the WiFi device? My first thought: netplan, and found a link explaining it here:

Re: [GTALUG] No keyboard at boot?

Peter King via talk wrote on 2023-10-11 08:50: Checked the logs, which wasn't helpful; there was no persistent log Unsure of your setup, but this may be useful for someone: ## See the selection of previous boot logs: journalctl --list-boots ## Check the logs from the *previous* boot:

Re: [GTALUG] help moving a hard drive into a different computer?

Karen Lewellen via talk wrote on 2023-09-25 16:09: I'm afraid I'm a bit far away to be able to assist with installing a hard drive in person, but this caught my eye: my cell phone having someone accessing its sim code to dial it remotely I'm going to guess your phone number is showing up

Re: [GTALUG] Ad Hoc network Question On Ubuntu

Jim Ruxton via talk wrote on 2023-09-21 12:26: Is there a way to set the IP address for the ad hoc network via the command line? Try `nmcli` - network manager CLI - it handles a lot of that kind of stuff and has handy tab-completion. rb --- Post to this mailing list talk@gtalug.org

Re: [GTALUG] Introduction (really just a new nick)

joeDoe via talk wrote on 2023-09-20 12:27: > I'm looking for a new provider as mine > changed their offer and it doesn't suit me so much any more. Gandi.net? They've recently switched their policy from 3 free 3GB mailboxes per domain registered to zero, instead charging $5 / month for one

Re: [GTALUG] looking for a general purpose boot media to keep in case of distasters

[Re-sending this message, didn't get copy. Apologies if duplicate.] bitmap via talk wrote on 2023-09-20 10:02: Does this OpenSUSE image come with a broad range of tools? The debian, ubuntu, manjaro and others I have lying around are just the very basics. Am often missing something needed.

Re: [GTALUG] looking for a general purpose boot media to keep in case of distasters

bitmap via talk wrote on 2023-09-20 10:02: Does this OpenSUSE image come with a broad range of tools? The debian, ubuntu, manjaro and others I have lying around are just the very basics. Am often missing something needed. I seem to recall that Knoppix was a popular distro for repairing

Re: [GTALUG] Websites down after upgrade

William Witteman wrote on 2023-09-15 07:03: FIXED! I looked at /etc/apache2/ports.conf, and the "Listen 443" directives are wrapped in a conditional that requires the ssl module. So I ran sudo a2enmod ssl ...and then sudo systemctl restart apache2 Now all my sites are back. Thank you!

Re: [GTALUG] Websites down after upgrade

William Witteman via talk wrote on 2023-09-15 05:47: The websites are a mix of static pages and Wordpress blogs - all Virtual Hosts. None of them resolve, and I am getting "unable to connect" messages - but nothing is showing up in the /var/log/apache2/error.log or the access.log. Do the

Re: [GTALUG] mail oddity [was Re: Debian Linux as-a-router Guide]

D. Hugh Redelmeier via talk wrote on 2023-09-08 07:04: I sent this yesterday. To talk@gtalug.org and jamonat...@gmail.com I got a bounce message from ubuntu-users-ow...@lists.ubuntu.com ("Post by non-member to a members-only list") How would this get to the ubuntu users list with my address

Re: [GTALUG] Boot fails into Linux

sciguy via talk wrote on 2023-09-04 10:49: 1) I noticed two swap partitions. Was that me being absent-minded when I did the installation/upgrade a year ago? Then I noticed: Any ideas? I'm not sure about the EFI partitions, but using the `swapon` and associated tools (swapoff, swaplabel),

Re: [GTALUG] GNOME automatically sleeps your computer

D. Hugh Redelmeier via talk wrote on 2023-09-01 05:54: Is there really no way to tweak this in the GUI? There is a way. A user can change what GNOME does when they are logged in settings: Power: (Power Saving Options) Automatic Suspend: off Thanks for the feedback Hugh - that seems

Re: [GTALUG] GNOME automatically sleeps your computer

D. Hugh Redelmeier via talk wrote on 2023-08-24 06:31: GNOME, at least on Fedora 38 and on debian 12, will put your computer to sleep if the mouse and keyboard haven't been used for 15 minutes. This makes the rather rash assumption that a computer running GNOME is only doing GNOME things, and

Re: [GTALUG] internet service speed test tip

Kevin Cozens via talk wrote on 2023-08-24 21:26: TL;DR: run the test from a fast computer. Some thing is either very wrong with the web page, you need a better browser or something else was running in the background that affected performance. My "slow" AMD FX8320 computer is able to use the

Re: [GTALUG] [offtopic] Opinions on Freedom Mobile, please

James Knott via talk wrote on 2023-08-03 05:40: I wish I could remember the procedure I followed to enable WiFi calling, but am drawing a blank. What phone do you have?  Bear in mind, not all plans support it. Pixel 4a. --- Post to this mailing list talk@gtalug.org Unsubscribe from this

Re: [GTALUG] [offtopic] Opinions on Freedom Mobile, please

Evan Leibovitch via talk wrote on 2023-08-03 00:52: Made the switch. Fairly seamless. The two people on staff (Steeles/Dufferin location) were knowledgeable and set things up seamlessly. Nice. I confirmed that I had (and was able to use) cell coverage in the subway stations and tunnels

Re: [GTALUG] [offtopic] Opinions on Freedom Mobile, please

James Knott via talk wrote on 2023-08-02 05:53: On the lower bands, 5G provides a small improvement over 4G. However, there are new, 5G only bands.  For example, Rogers has service on 3.5 GHz, which provides a significant performance improvement.  I've seen over 400 Mb with it. Is that due

Re: [GTALUG] [offtopic] Opinions on Freedom Mobile, please

Evan Leibovitch wrote on 2023-08-02 07:58: I associate the Wind brand with the former Egyptian ownership, which I'd always thought was a little sketchy and a reason I stayed away in the early days Ah, right. And there was Russian involvement at some level too, I seem to recall? Still, as

Re: [GTALUG] [offtopic] Opinions on Freedom Mobile, please

Evan Leibovitch via talk wrote on 2023-08-01 20:09: They have a 5G plan for the same money that I'm paying Koodo for 4G with 10GB more per month. Already sounds enticing. I too have been a customer for ~10 years and recently got a free upgrade on data: I used to get 250 MB (yes,

Re: [GTALUG] Favorite desktop manager?

o1bigtenor wrote on 2023-07-27 15:33: Nope IT removed almost all options from users because they think that they're the only ones that understand how to use a computer. Anyone who's worked IT knows the average user does not understand how to use a computer: * typing "google" into the search

Re: [GTALUG] Favorite desktop manager?

o1bigtenor wrote on 2023-07-27 14:23: In my view computers should change to suit humans, not the other way around. So thankful that I'm not the only one who thinks this way. Is there any way to make this louder Sounds like you guys hate CLI environments and probably use Siri / Google

Re: [GTALUG] Favorite desktop manager?

o1bigtenor via talk wrote on 2023-07-27 03:50: In my view computers should change to suit humans, not the other way around. So thankful that I'm not the only one who thinks this way. Is there any way to make this louder Sounds like you guys hate CLI environments and probably use Siri /

Re: [GTALUG] Favorite desktop manager?

mwilson--- via talk wrote on 2023-07-25 11:18: what do other people use and like? KDE Plasma. I like having the best tools at my finger tips and KDE has that. A few example follow; by no means a complete list: Best file manager since OS/2's FM/2. File selection addition and removal with

Re: [GTALUG] Red Hat Paywall...

Evan Leibovitch via talk wrote on 2023-07-04 03:39: My take: 2. IBM doesn't really give a damn about Alma and Rocky, they're just incidental casualties. The #1 and maybe only target of the subscription-wall action is IBM's longtime arch-enemy Oracle, which may now be forced to

Re: [GTALUG] Red Hat Paywall...

Giles Orr via talk wrote on 2023-07-04 18:09: But for the last several years systemd has been rock-steady, and once you wrap your head around the basics, it's a LOT easier to use than maintaining those damn /etc/rc.N/ folders. At least that's been my experience. My experience too - systemd

Re: [GTALUG] Toshiba Satellite L500 rejects Linux

Giles Orr via talk wrote on 2023-06-16 05:53: The problem is solved. I think it's worth reporting here in the manner of Hugh's "War Stories" because it was so weird. These "War Stories" posts are always worth a read. Nice job on trouble-shooting. Having all this in the back of my mind may

Re: [GTALUG] Fedora 38 is out

Stewart C. Russell via talk wrote on 2023-04-24 19:44: For security, of course deprecation can be a good idea. But this isn't for security. This is merely FSF being petty. Yeah, it's weird. -- root@b0x1 [~] └─» # for F in $(which egrep fgrep rgrep) ; do file ${F};

Re: [GTALUG] Fedora 38 is out

Stewart Russell via talk wrote on 2023-04-21 14:55: I never, ever use fgrep or egrep and I think it's a bad idea. Well, that's me told. When I read your quote of my message, it occurred to me that I done messed up. What I meant to say was, "I don't use them, and I think it's a bad

Re: [GTALUG] Fedora 38 is out

Stewart C. Russell via talk wrote on 2023-04-21 10:45: I hear that it ships with the latest GNU grep, which removes fgrep and egrep. This could be considered a bad idea: https://mastodon.social/@cks/110232377928840323 I never, ever use fgrep or egrep and I think it's a bad idea. However,

Re: [GTALUG] Canadian hosting?

Znoteer via talk wrote on 2023-04-11 16:58: baremetal.ca They're in BC. Cool - I hadn't heard of them. Oh, looks like they do "web hosting" but I don't see VPSs listed. Also, I just cannot do business with companies that think including emoji / smiley faces in official company documents

Re: [GTALUG] Canadian hosting?

Stewart C. Russell via talk wrote on 2023-04-10 12:14: I know that Akamai Cloud (formerly Linode) has dedicated root Linux servers in Toronto, but is there anyone else non-terrible*? There's a potential client who absolutely must have all data and processing hosted in Canada. I realize

Re: [GTALUG] war story: gtalug.org's filled up

(Someone already replied to and addressed this, but since I'd already typed it up, gonna send it anyway.) o1bigtenor via talk wrote on 2023-04-05 12:34: a great way to reduce the problem caused by a runaway var file was to use separate /var and /usr partitions (from / and /home). That

Re: [GTALUG] penguin.gtalug.org disk got full

D. Hugh Redelmeier wrote on 2023-04-04 15:07: | I suspect it has to do with manual installation: those types of packages are | flagged as to not be auto-removed, so something. | | | See if gitlab shows up in: | | apt-mark showmanual Quite right: gitlab-runner is there. And a bunch of other

Re: [GTALUG] Update borked my system

Bob Jonkman via talk wrote on 2023-03-27 21:06: To drag a window without toolbars press ALT and drag the window from its middle. Relatedly, Alt+Right-button-drag resizes. Can be handy... rb --- Post to this mailing list talk@gtalug.org Unsubscribe from this mailing list

Re: [GTALUG] Update borked my system

A couple thoughts, as it's getting late... I've pasted the latest versions available to a KDEneon distro below, ready to run. Maybe try these (might require a --reinstall switch passed), see if there are fewer broken packages afterwards?: apt install grub-efi-amd64-bin=2.06-2ubuntu14.1

Re: [GTALUG] Update borked my system

Evan Leibovitch via talk wrote on 2023-03-27 01:20: Is there a command that can let me just force everything to the current stable release without me having to go through the whole install-from-usb-stick thing? I recently did a silly thing: upgraded my system Python installation via a PPA.

Re: [GTALUG] Update borked my system

Evan Leibovitch via talk wrote on 2023-03-27 01:20: I like KDE Neon, it's a like "Kubuntu without snaps but with the newest KDE". Yeah, KDEneon is *great*. It does have snaps however. Never been a problem, for me at least. Try `snap list` to see them. I have chromium, "bare", core18,

Re: [GTALUG] Reminder: General Meeting - Tuesday, March 14th at 7:30 PM

Alan Heighway via talk wrote on 2023-03-13 05:44: NFTs: seizing the memes of production That discussion title is definitely worth a thumbs-up, well done. --- Post to this mailing list talk@gtalug.org Unsubscribe from this mailing list https://gtalug.org/mailman/listinfo/talk

Re: [GTALUG] New WiFi router?

Alex Kink via talk wrote on 2023-03-08 04:19: I would suggest one of those ridiculous looking TP-Link units with several antennas. I haven't had to upgrade a router in a while, but Jim Salter (ArsTechnica writer, 2.5Admins.com podcaster, Syncoid/Sanoid author, SysAdmin guru, ZFS evangelist)

Re: [GTALUG] Ubuntu Pro - a new, non-optional walled garden from Canonical

Stewart Russell via talk wrote on 31/01/2023 06.22: The following packages seem to be under 'esmapps', only available through Ubuntu Pro:     ansible imagemagick imagemagick-6-common imagemagick-6.q16     libimage-magick-perl libimage-magick-q16-perl libjs-jquery-ui    

Re: [GTALUG] Ubuntu Pro - a new, non-optional walled garden from Canonical

Stewart Russell via talk wrote on 31/01/2023 06.22: Ubuntu Pro is free-of-charge for "personal" users for up to five machines. Linux Downtime podcast mentioned Ubuntu Pro in Episode 64 (https://linuxdowntime.com/linux-downtime-episode-64/). In the modern world where we run more and more

[GTALUG] [OT] Re: war story: firefox performance rathole (matrix.io)

William Park via talk wrote on 30/01/2023 17.14: OFF-TOPIC: This "vacant home tax" is just commie stupid. That's one opinion. This means that, you can't own 2 houses inside Toronto. No, it does not mean that. At all. It means that one can't sit empty. Huge difference. --- Post to this

Re: [GTALUG] Is there a digest format for the GTALUG talk mailing list?

sciguy via talk wrote on 2022-12-18 09:04: BCLUG via talk wrote on 2022-12-18 05:08: I just tested it, and it doesn't switch me to digest, would need to unsubscribe and resubscribe: I just tried unsubscribing and resubscribing -- I was never given the option to have a digest format

Re: [GTALUG] Is there a digest format for the GTALUG talk mailing list?

BCLUG via talk wrote on 2022-12-18 05:08: Send a message to talk-requ...@gtalug.org: subscribe [password] [digest|nodigest] [address=] The next argument may be either: `nodigest' or `digest' (no quotes!). If you wish to subscribe an address other than the address you sent this request from

Re: [GTALUG] Is there a digest format for the GTALUG talk mailing list?

sciguy via talk wrote on 2022-12-18 02:22: I went through the mailing list configuration page and while I found a ton of things that can be tweaked, there appeared to be nothing on getting a daily digest format of this mailing list. Is there such a thing for GTALUG? I had to check for

Re: [GTALUG] Cannot get a network in Linux (Ubuntu) after using Windows 10

sciguy via talk wrote on 2022-12-17 12:14: When I say I can't get a network, I mean that my Linux OS can't see any external hardware, including the router. And of course, I can't get the Internet. When in W10 (as I am now), I checked the router "config pages" and I noticed that it has two

Re: [GTALUG] Weird pivot from the Linux Foundation: Overture Maps Foundation

Stewart Russell via talk wrote on 2022-12-15 07:01: Membership in the Overture foundation is also very costly: $3000 US/year to contribute, $3M US/year to be on the steering committee. From the Ars story, that's cheap to these companies: If Overture Maps succeeds, it could lower costs for

Re: [GTALUG] Weird pivot from the Linux Foundation: Overture Maps Foundation

Stewart Russell via talk wrote on 2022-12-15 07:01: The Linux Foundation, a global nonprofit organization enabling innovation through open source, today announced the formation of the Overture Maps Foundation , a new collaborative effort to develop interoperable

Re: [GTALUG] Forced off DSL by Bell

Alvin Starr via talk wrote on 2022-11-21 20:02: I have a cottage with a 3Mbit DSL service and the DSL service is rock solid. The back haul from the fiber connect point on the other hand is little better than 2 tin cans and a string. How does one test the DSL service between customer and CO

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