Re: [GTALUG] war story: fixing an LCD TV

For the benefit of others, I would highly recommend Rosebud Technologies in Markham if you do not have the time, ability, or inclination to repair your broken electronics yourself. http://www.rosebudtech.ca/ Regards, Clifford Ilkay +1 647-778-8696 On Thu, May 30, 2019 at 1:43 PM Don Tai via

Re: [GTALUG] a simple security solution?

This sounds like a job for the Raspberry Pi! See these articles: < https://www.bouvet.no/bouvet-deler/utbrudd/building-a-motion-activated-security-camera-with-the-raspberry-pi-zero>, < https://www.instructables.com/id/Raspberry-Pi-Motion-Detection-Security-Camera/ >. Regards, Clifford Ilkay +1

Re: [GTALUG] VM Virtualbox Linux

On Sat, Mar 30, 2019 at 12:20 PM R360 Design INC via talk wrote: > Hello everyone, > > I have a VM virtualbox set up running CentOS Linux. The host OS is Windows > 10. I then attempted to set up two-way network communication between the > CentOS Guest and my Windows host. Has anyone attempted

Re: [GTALUG] looking for a tool to transform table relationships

On Fri, Jul 20, 2018 at 3:40 PM Alex Volkov via talk wrote: > Yes, now as I've done a bit more research just doing SQL with dblink > might be the way to go. The thing I don't like is SQL for text > transformation can be pretty awkward. > PostgreSQL has great text manipulation functions

Re: [GTALUG] server questions - - help needed

On Sun, Jun 3, 2018 at 3:47 PM, o1bigtenor via talk wrote: > [snip] > So I am trying to determine what may have caused the system to do a > reboot, whilst I have my suspicions I want to figure out exactly what > is happening to cause this kind of behavior. > Do you have a UPS on that machine?

Re: [GTALUG] Crontab versioning

On Fri, May 4, 2018 at 9:10 AM, Alex Beamish via talk wrote: > On Fri, May 4, 2018 at 8:11 AM, Jamon Camisso via talk > wrote: > >> On 2018-05-03 10:44 AM, Alex Beamish via talk wrote: >> > I'm developing scripts that get run by crontab, so I'm in there making

Re: [GTALUG] Crontab versioning

On Thu, May 3, 2018 at 11:44 PM, William Park via talk wrote: > Couldn't you do something like > cp file file--$(date +%F_%T) > You could but that doesn't do anything other than scatter a bunch of files on your disk that are timestamped. It doesn't meet the requirement of

Re: [GTALUG] Crontab versioning

On Thu, May 3, 2018 at 10:44 AM, Alex Beamish via talk wrote: > I'm developing scripts that get run by crontab, so I'm in there making > updates fairly regularly. I would love to be able to document the changes, > so I'm wondering if there a usual and customary technique to

Re: [GTALUG] VM decisions for school laptop..

On Thu, Apr 12, 2018 at 1:42 AM, William Park via talk wrote: > On Thu, Apr 12, 2018 at 01:25:54AM -0400, Clifford Ilkay wrote: > > On Thu, Apr 12, 2018 at 12:57 AM, William Park via talk > > > wrote: > > > I'm not too keen on recommending VM route. > > > >

Re: [GTALUG] VM decisions for school laptop..

On Thu, Apr 12, 2018 at 11:07 PM, D. Hugh Redelmeier via talk < talk@gtalug.org> wrote: > | From: Clifford Ilkay via talk <talk@gtalug.org> > > | The BIOS > | must support VT-x, too. The "workstation" type of notebooks should > support > | it. Cheaper noteb

Re: [GTALUG] VM decisions for school laptop..

On Thu, Apr 12, 2018 at 1:46 PM, Michael Galea via talk wrote: > On 04/11/18 22:27, D. Hugh Redelmeier via talk wrote: >> >> Do you have a good example of why he would bother firing up Linux? >> > > I imagine he will want to run the Linux instance in the background so he > can

Re: [GTALUG] VM decisions for school laptop..

On Thu, Apr 12, 2018 at 10:36 AM, Lennart Sorensen via talk wrote: > On Thu, Apr 12, 2018 at 12:57:07AM -0400, William Park via talk wrote: > > By now, you know 3rd contenders, VirtualBox. :-) But, since Hyper-V is > > part of Windows10, just use that. > > Have you ever

Re: [GTALUG] VM decisions for school laptop..

On Thu, Apr 12, 2018 at 12:57 AM, William Park via talk wrote: > On Wed, Apr 11, 2018 at 08:05:19PM -0400, Michael Galea via talk wrote: > > Hi All, > > > > My son is off to university for CS this fall, and will need a laptop. I'm > > looking at purchasing one for him, so he can

Re: [GTALUG] Linux container options on Windows

On Tue, Apr 3, 2018 at 1:52 PM, Alex Beamish via talk wrote: > Hi All, > > The technical challenge I'm trying to solve is to provide an off-line > version of an API that runs on a laptop. This API would be primed with the > appropriate data set from the cloud, then would be used

Re: [GTALUG] Which JavaScript should I learn?

On Tue, Mar 13, 2018 at 2:16 AM, William Park via talk wrote: > Hi all, (If you're on KWLUG list, sorry for duplicate.) > > I have a general question about JavaScript. I want to develop/propose > "web app" hosted from embedded Linux board. So, > - you go to its webpage, >

Re: [GTALUG] debian Linux -- Installation DVDs Full Set - Shipped To Canadian Destination ??

On Mon, Mar 5, 2018 at 7:23 AM, o1bigtenor wrote: > > So if the op is limited to dial-up - - - for pete's sake cut him some > slack. He's already talking about using a friend's access for the initial > download but the headache factor, especially with a desktop system, of >

Re: [GTALUG] debian Linux -- Installation DVDs Full Set - Shipped To Canadian Destination ??

On Sun, Mar 4, 2018 at 8:53 AM, Steve Petrie, P.Eng. via talk < talk@gtalug.org> wrote: > I likely will be building the new PC at my friend's place. Before I teke > the new PC home with me, to do all the work of installing debian Linux for > regular use, I want to check the new PC to make sure

Re: [GTALUG] Intel Meltdown Bug -- Conundrum For New Desktop PC Build Spec (to run debian Linux) -- Switch From Intel CPU To AMD CPU ??

The Spectre vulnerability affects AMD and ARM processors, too, apparently. See: . That isn't the only place I've read that. Modern CPUs are very complex and their inner workings are proprietary so how likely is it that AMD CPUs don't

Re: [GTALUG] pnc empower browser;

On Sat, Dec 16, 2017 at 7:01 PM, Steve Petrie, P.Eng. via talk < talk@gtalug.org> wrote: > Proposed New Subject Line For This Topic: > > pnc empower browser; > > pnc == pick-and-choose; > empower == empower the user to control what part(s) of the web page will > be rendered / actioned; > > * * *

Re: [GTALUG] Programming languages (in comparison?) - -was Learn Swift for Apple/iOS. Learn ??? for Google/Android.

On Wed, Dec 13, 2017 at 8:09 AM, o1bigtenor wrote: [snipped long rant] > > In my work - - - ANY errors - - - either 1. I fix, 2. I can't fix - - - - > I'm fired (terminated, gone, history) and I'm looking for another job. > "Employees will be punished until morale

Re: [GTALUG] Programming languages (in comparison?) - -was Learn Swift for Apple/iOS. Learn ??? for Google/Android.

On Wed, Dec 13, 2017 at 3:14 PM, Andrej Marjan via talk wrote: > > On Mon, Dec 11, 2017 at 8:32 AM, Alvin Starr via talk > wrote: > >> >> It would be nice to have the ability to run multiple browsers that are >> independent of each other on the same desktop as

Re: [GTALUG] Learn Swift for Apple/iOS. Learn ??? for Google/Android.

On Sat, Dec 9, 2017 at 9:43 PM, William Park via talk wrote: > I like C. I don't know why people are bitching about it. Most of > C programming is about dealing with libraries, anyways. > > Curiously, Google don't seem to be pushing Go for Android or anything > for that

Re: [GTALUG] Programming languages (in comparison?) - -was Learn Swift for Apple/iOS. Learn ??? for Google/Android.

On Tue, Dec 12, 2017 at 10:51 PM, o1bigtenor wrote: > OK - - - you think 16 GB of ram is lots. > I didn't say it was "lots". I said that is what I have and the majority of people have that or less. My motherboard doesn't support any more RAM or I'd put more in. > Sorry

Re: [GTALUG] Programming languages (in comparison?) - -was Learn Swift for Apple/iOS. Learn ??? for Google/Android.

On Tue, Dec 12, 2017 at 8:22 AM, o1bigtenor via talk wrote: > > > On Mon, Dec 11, 2017 at 7:32 AM, Alvin Starr via talk > wrote: > >> On 12/11/2017 12:29 AM, Stewart C. Russell via talk wrote: >> >>> On 2017-12-10 09:50 PM, o1bigtenor via talk wrote: >>>

Re: [GTALUG] Learn Swift for Apple/iOS. Learn ??? for Google/Android.

On Mon, Dec 11, 2017 at 11:52 AM, Kevin Cozens via talk wrote: > On 2017-12-09 05:56 PM, William Park via talk wrote: > >> What do I learn, if I want to develop Android apps? Can I use C, and >> more importantly, is there C SDK for Android? >> > > As has probably been pointed

Re: [GTALUG] Learn Swift for Apple/iOS. Learn ??? for Google/Android.

On Mon, Dec 11, 2017 at 1:24 AM, William Park via talk <talk@gtalug.org> wrote: > On Sun, Dec 10, 2017 at 06:27:43PM -0500, Clifford Ilkay via talk wrote: > > William, I highly recommend you read up on Dart and Flutter before > > committing to Swift and Kotlin. Dart is

Re: [GTALUG] Programming languages (in comparison?) - -was Learn Swift for Apple/iOS. Learn ??? for Google/Android.

On Sun, Dec 10, 2017 at 6:13 PM, o1bigtenor via talk wrote: > > > On Sun, Dec 10, 2017 at 10:02 AM, Jamon Camisso via talk > wrote: > >> On 2017-12-10 06:28 AM, o1bigtenor via talk wrote: >> > So I know precious little about programming languages. I looked up

Re: [GTALUG] Learn Swift for Apple/iOS. Learn ??? for Google/Android.

On Sun, Dec 10, 2017 at 1:06 AM, D. Hugh Redelmeier via talk < talk@gtalug.org> wrote: > > The "grain" of iOS seems to favour Swift (at least in the future). > The grain of Android favours Java. Clifford's quick survey of systems > for writing for both both platforms at once seems the most useful

Re: [GTALUG] Learn Swift for Apple/iOS. Learn ??? for Google/Android.

Great question. I think it's crazy to have to maintain two completely different code bases. React Native is the most popular way right now to target both iOS and Android. I use one RN app that I know of, the Mattermost client on Android. I can't tell that it's not written

Re: [GTALUG] MBR and GTP Drives

On Mon, Oct 9, 2017 at 12:43 PM, Howard Gibson via talk wrote: > My motherboard is five years old. One of the things Linux is supposed to > do is work on old computers. Mine still is reasonably new. It sounds like > people running old computers need to by hard drives from

Re: [GTALUG] [GTALUG-Announce] GTALUG Meeting on Tuesday 10 October at 7:30pm

I use The Great Suspender extension extension in Chrome to suspend background tabs. That frees up resources being consumed by those tabs. There are similar add-ons for Firefox. Regards, Clifford Ilkay On Sat, Sep 30, 2017 at 4:12 PM, Stewart C. Russell via talk < talk@gtalug.org> wrote: > On

Re: [GTALUG] Raspberry PI wifi problem

On 2017-08-23 06:11 PM, Evan Leibovitch via talk wrote: Hi all. Making networking run on Linux desktops has always been IMO one of the reasons why it's not caught on. Stuff just shouldn't be this hard. This is a red herring. The reason why Linux desktops have not caught on has nothing to do

Re: [GTALUG] Any experience with these FOSS platforms?

On 05/05/17 03:21 PM, Evan Leibovitch via talk wrote: Hey all, A group I'm working with is looking to see if the following self-hosted FOSS tools are a worthwhile migration from their closed alternatives: * Mattermost - for group collaboration, instead of Slack I use it as an

Re: [GTALUG] Question

On 12/01/17 08:16 AM, o1bigtenor via talk wrote: Greetings Am trying to find (for need in the not to distant future) some of what is normally called 'accounting' software (its really record keeping software but that's a different argument!). What are you using that is, or could be, multi-user

Re: [GTALUG] Deal on open source compatible router

On 21/11/16 01:55 PM, Lennart Sorensen via talk wrote: I see NCIX has the Linksys WRT1900ACS on sale today for $200 (down from the usual $300). I have the WRT1900ACv2 which is the same hardware as the ACS and am running LEDE (https://www.lede-project.org/) on it and it works great. Not bad for

Re: [GTALUG] Advice -- Building Debian 8 PC To Replace Win XP PC;

On 01/08/16 11:05 AM, Steve Petrie, P.Eng. via talk wrote: I'd better check my research, re: Intel on-chip video support, versus the monitor I have chosen: LG 22MB35DM-I 21.5" Monitor Full HD 1080p 1920x1080 IPS LED Back-lit, DVI-D, D-Sub, contrast ratios: (static 1,000:1), (dynamic 5M:1),

Re: [GTALUG] Advice -- Building Debian 8 PC To Replace Win XP PC;

On 28/07/16 01:50 PM, Steve Petrie, P.Eng. via talk wrote: Interesting. And encouraging. Maybe I can hold out a while longer, and keep using dial-up with the new Linux PC, postponing the extra expense of DSL versus dial-up. I pay today $15 / mo. (+taxes) for dial-up access. My ISP (Start.ca)

Re: [GTALUG] The New Skype Alpha.

On 13/07/16 09:39 PM, James Knott via talk wrote: On 07/13/2016 12:09 PM, Scott Sullivan via talk wrote: Packages are 64-bit only... we've been asking and asking, and we get it finally, but 32-bit gets nothing. Irony. Well, computers are 64 bits these days. I've been running Linux on 64 bits

Re: [GTALUG] Notebook Computer Recommendations

On 05/07/16 09:23 PM, William Park via talk wrote: Sorry about formatting and spelling. I'm writing this on a Nexus 5X. I'm also thinking about replacing my desktops with laptops. Try Microsoft Store. Asus seem to be reasonably priced. I do not know of any Asus models that have at least

[GTALUG] Fedora 24 Upgrade - Flawless 4k Support

Hello All, I did a fresh install of Fedora 24 on a new SSD and did not have to do anything special for it to recognize the nVidia GeForce 960 video card or my 40" Philips 4k monitor. The Nouveau driver worked without a hitch, thus eliminating my dependency on the proprietary binary driver,

[GTALUG] Cheap 4k TV That Can be Used as a Monitor

Hello All, The Canadian Tire flyer has a 43" Seiki 4k UltraHD Smart TV (while quantities last - sorry no rainchecks, which usually means, forget about finding this anywhere) on sale at $399.99. I could not find this on the Seiki web site. They have a 42" model though