[GTALUG] slides from Marcel Gagne's talk "Advancements in Generative AI"

| From: Alan Heighway | Subject: [GTALUG-Announce] Reminder: GTALUG General Meeting - Tuesday, | April 11, 7:30pm | | Advancements in Generative AI with | Marcel Gagne The slides from this talk are at:

Re: [GTALUG] Cheap small computers [was Re: DECTalk TTS in source for Linux]

| From: Karen Lewellen via talk | Hi Stewart, | Your comment is no doubt true. however, if one is building a setup for a | simple accommodation, given for Linux and some other systems the older | distros, or the 32 bit ones might actually be better. | Depends on the goal does it not? |

Re: [GTALUG] Cheap small computers [was Re: DECTalk TTS in source for Linux]

| From: Ansar Mohammed via talk | Do'h | wrong link | https://www.ebay.ca/itm/125888386765?mkcid=16=1=711-127632-2357-0=tpIqUIMdSAS=2047675=_ver=artemis=COPY That's different. Better: - five for US$69 + US$39.90 shipping. Close to $150. - Atom N2807 processor (launched Q1 2014, much later

Re: [GTALUG] Cheap small computers [was Re: DECTalk TTS in source for Linux]

| From: Stewart Russell via talk | On Wed, Apr 26, 2023 at 10:53 AM Ansar Mohammed via talk | wrote: | | > https://www.ebay.ca/itm/292442306475 | > | > $20/unit with shipping Interesting. The listing says US$84.94 + US43.97 shipping. A little more that $200. Much worse that two M93p units!

Re: [GTALUG] Cheap small computers [was Re: DECTalk TTS in source for Linux]

| From: Ansar Mohammed via talk | | Most Thin Clients are SFF x64/x86 PCs. Used Dells/HPs are the most | prevalent and quite inexpensive. | The "modern" ones i.e. the ones that have been manufactured over the last | 10 years come with 1080p and premium sound. | Parkytowers is a pretty good

Re: [GTALUG] Cheap small computers [was Re: DECTalk TTS in source for Linux]

| From: Ansar Mohammed via talk | Get a used Dell Thin client. Amazing tiny boxes. Do you have a link to an offer that you think is worthy? I'd be interested to see what they are. Are they "Wyse" branded? (I see several apparently bad choices when I search for "dell thin client" with

Re: [GTALUG] Cheap small computers [was Re: DECTalk TTS in source for Linux]

| From: Stewart C. Russell via talk | On 24/04/2023 02.35, D. Hugh Redelmeier via talk wrote: | > There are a lot of used Lenovo ThinkCentre M93p Tiny computers | > available, starting at $100. | These are neat, but I was thinking of a portable device like the later DECTalk | boxes.

[GTALUG] Cheap small computers [was Re: DECTalk TTS in source for Linux]

| From: Stewart C. Russell via talk | * availability of hardware: small Linux computers are in very short supply | right now; and | | * sound quality: the built-in audio hardware on most single-board Linux | computers sounds atrocious. Without an add-on amplifier/equalizer, I think | you'd be

Re: [GTALUG] Fedora 38 is out

| From: Dave Collier-Brown via talk | F and fgrep are historical accidents. I take it you mean the -F flag. | IMHO, the only reason they still | exist is bad practice from the v6 era, when we only had a 16-bit address | space. Actually, fgrep is useful because you don't need to ensure that

Re: [GTALUG] Fedora 38 is out

| From: Stewart C. Russell via talk | 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 Ouch. Thanks for the heads-up. I hope that it gets fixed. Unlikely to be fixed by GNU,

Re: [GTALUG] wireless to ethernet adapter suggestions?

I'll top-post. I'm 99% sure that are on your Landlord's LAN, so you can see each other's devices. How can you test for this from MSDOS? I have no idea. I don't even know how MSDOS does networking in the present day. The old-school command-line tool is nmap. Maybe it exists in your DOS. Are

Re: [GTALUG] wireless to ethernet adapter suggestions?

| From: Karen Lewellen via talk | Date: Thu, 13 Apr 2023 18:13:36 -0400 (EDT) | I hope I ask this question clearly, as it may be hard to picture. | My new landlord is including Internet in my rent, all the more motivation to | find a solution. | he has bell, fibe for home, which includes things

[GTALUG] Fedora 38 is out

I just downloaded a 2G .iso. It seemed to take less than 30 seconds to download! I was using a 1g Rogers Cable connection. I guess that 20 seconds is about the fastest theoretically possible so this is startling. --- Post to this mailing list talk@gtalug.org Unsubscribe from this mailing list

Re: [GTALUG] wireless to ethernet adapter suggestions?

| From: Karen Lewellen via talk | I believe the source calls, or called them wall outlet Ethernet kits. That's not a reasonable name. I have wall outlets for ethernet that are just plates with ethernet cables connected behind them. The ethernet runs to a patch panel in my basement.

Re: [GTALUG] wireless to ethernet adapter suggestions?

| From: Karen Lewellen via talk | There is no physical modem in my apartment. Instead, I have a set of two | adapter I got from the source a few years back. | they plug into the wall, have a single Ethernet jack, and when the other item | is connected to the modem via the same method, I can

Re: [GTALUG] how I sign PDFs

| From: James Knott via talk | | So, if I have a signing party with my group of friends and you have one with | yours, how do I verify your signature, if I don't know your friends? --- Post to this mailing list talk@gtalug.org Unsubscribe from this

Re: [GTALUG] how I sign PDFs

| From: James Knott via talk | I thought the issue was no central authority. That's a feature, not a bug. Central authorities have power which stimulates various kinds of corruption. |  With X.509, the top authorities | sign each other and everyone else gets signed directly or indirectly by

Re: [GTALUG] how I sign PDFs

| From: James Knott via talk | The proper way to do digital signatures is with X.509 certificates. When I was | at IBM, in the late 90s, we used them in Lotus notes. There are some public | key sources available, but it's not very common outside of large | organizations. Maybe. The troubles

Re: [GTALUG] how I sign PDFs

| From: Alex Kink via talk | For my Estonian dealings, I've been signing documents (any file for that | matter) electronically since 2003. | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Estonian_identity_card Certainly Estonia has been the leader. | I saw some nut job at an intersection in Mississauga the

Re: [GTALUG] UNIX of ESP32 [was Re: Canadian hosting?]

| From: Stewart C. Russell via talk | It's a little hard to find the exact EP32 module used for that simulation. | That's part of the problem: there are many different chips called ESP32 | /something/, but many of them are incompatible. Some have one core, most have | two. Some have the ability

[GTALUG] how I sign PDFs

We don't seem to have a Public Key Infrastructure that makes digital (cryptographic) signatures useful for non-computer work. I think signing a document is a solemn act. So I don't want to just paste a .PNG of my signature, I want to actually sign it. I don't have a modern Linux device with a

[GTALUG] UNIX of ESP32 [was Re: Canadian hosting?]

| From: Stewart Russell via talk | It's been fun times | engineering out US-disapproved products. We were just about to roll out an | ESP32-based controller, but that got noped out by a client. A shame, | because what you can do with a $2 ESP32 used to take a small server. (None | of them are

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

| From: Anthony de Boer via talk | | Is this something older or more Ubuntu-like? It's an old debian: 9 aka stretch. I just noticed that LTS ended 2022 June. Technical debt. https://www.debian.org/releases/stretch/ | And really it makes little sense to keep a .deb you're only going to

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

(This post is also a test of whether the mailing list is working.) GTALUG's server's filesystem filled up: little disk space left. I discovered this when I tried to do "apt update; apt full-upgrade". The second step failed, saying that /var/cache/apt/archives had no room. This means that / has

Re: [GTALUG] Update borked my system

Have you tried apt autoremove ? I ask because on Fedora, when dnf whines about an update, sometimes dnf autoremove removes packages that are barriers to upgrading. This is not very likely to solve your problem but it is easy to try and should not break things. --- Post to this

Re: [GTALUG] analog land line phone service in Toronto?

| From: Karen Lewellen via talk | Any carrier still provide this as an option? Probably not. Everyone depends on Bell to provide the last mile of copper. If they don't, they don't. I am about to lose my copper landline. Apparently I can keep my old 3rd party DSL but it will be now over a

[GTALUG] distro: Amazon Linux 2023

Does anyone use this? It seems to be based on Fedora but with a longer support cycle. [interesting] Does it only work on AWS? Mostly. [too bad] https://docs.aws.amazon.com/linux/al2023/ug/what-is-amazon-linux.html https://twitter.com/stewartsmith/status/1636378983909687309

[GTALUG] reminder: "Hack, Learn, and Share on Raspberry Pi" tonight

The local meetup group about Raspberry Pi is meeting virtually tonight at 19:00. Several GTALUGers also attend these meetups. --- Post to this mailing list talk@gtalug.org Unsubscribe from this mailing list

Re: [GTALUG] New WiFi router?

| From: Alex Kink via talk | I'm sure there are more, but Linksys recently released a spiritual successor to the WRT54GL, the router that gave a boost to the development of the 3rd party router OSes (ddwrt, openwrt, tomato). Ability to install open source OSes is even in the marketing

Re: [GTALUG] New WiFi router?

| From: David Collier-Brown via talk | | On 3/9/23 09:16, Lennart Sorensen via talk wrote: | > On Wed, Mar 08, 2023 at 05:04:52PM -0500, William Park via talk wrote: | >> Mine is | >> | > Well I get an F.

Re: [GTALUG] ThinkPad T14s Gen 2 Intel (14”) -- good deal?

| From: D. Hugh Redelmeier via talk | My 5-year-old wiring is CAT 6e -- we'll see how far it can | actually be pushed. Oops: it is CAT 6. | I am not sure that 2.5G is enough of a step to cause me to turn | everything over. I am buying 2.5Gbit things when there is little | price premium. So

Re: [GTALUG] ThinkPad T14s Gen 2 Intel (14”) -- good deal?

| From: Lennart Sorensen via talk | Well you don't have to have more than 1Gbit on a single machine just | because you have 1.5Gbit to the house. Although I guess if you don't | share with anyone, you want to use it all yourself. I am currently | pondering whether 10Gbit switches are easy to

Re: [GTALUG] ThinkPad T14s Gen 2 Intel (14”) -- good deal?

| From: William Park via talk | I decided against buying it. It doesn't have builtin ethernet port, Current laptops rarely have Ethernet ports. Wireless is good enough for most purposes and ethernet sockets add thickness. You can always add a dongle (USB 3.x and Thunderbolt are plenty fast

Re: [GTALUG] ThinkPad T14s Gen 2 Intel (14”) -- good deal?

| From: D. Hugh Redelmeier via talk | If you don't mind a barely used ThinkPad, this guy bought one at a very | good price from Lenovo, decided he didn't need it, instead of returning it | offered it to the community at cost, got stiffed, and is probably stuck | with it. Wrong. He's going

Re: [GTALUG] ppp inside private network, but no DNS returned?

How do they want you to find things on their net? Do they have a DNS server? Surely yes. They should put it into the PPP negotiation. Why would they not? If they won't put it into PPP, maybe you have to monkey with /etc/resolv.conf (systemd will argue with you). If they don't have a DNS,

Re: [GTALUG] ThinkPad T14s Gen 2 Intel (14”) -- good deal?

| From: William Park via talk | | I just received email promo from Lenovo: | | ThinkPad T14s Gen 2 Intel (14”) - Black | https://s.bluecore.com/Utrkeyg72dZq_0DQf820_NrJxD | | Is this a good deal? The more precise question would "is this a good deal for me?" Unfortunately we don't

[GTALUG] war story in progress: NVMe drive

I bought a used ThinkCentre M75q tiny desktop computer through kijiji. I upgraded the RAM and disk. For a disk, I bought a WD Black SN770 2TB NVMe drive. I've installed it and installed Fedora Linux on it. All fine. I don't know that much about management of NVME drives. They mostly just

[GTALUG] mystery: JVC TVs with "Linux" in their name

We all know lots of TVs have Linux in them. I'm typing this on an ancient dumb TV with Linux hidden underneath. I just noticed that JVC seems to have TVs with "Linux" in their name. For example: "JVC 43" 4K UHD LCD Linux Smart TV (LT43EC2512)"

[GTALUG] wake up really early: FOSDEM is Saturday and Sunday in Belgium

Their times are UTC+1, Toronto is UTC-5. So: they start at 9:30 CET == 3:30 EST. Live streams: --- Post to this mailing list talk@gtalug.org Unsubscribe from this mailing list

[GTALUG] RHEL Free Tier vs CentOS Stream vs Alma Linux vs Rocky Linux

They are all kind of the same. Competition is great. They are all, to some extent, parasites living off RHEL. Is that too many parasites? Too many in what sense?: - hurts Red Hat, but that isn't immoral - a free version allows the system to go more places. This should actually help Red Hat.

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

| From: Kevin Cozens via talk | I saw that reference to "infra-only". What does that mean? Look at "WHAT'S THE DIFFERENCE" down a little bit on the pricing page. --- Post to this mailing list talk@gtalug.org Unsubscribe from this mailing list https://gtalug.org/mailman/listinfo/talk

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

| From: Evan Leibovitch via talk | | It's become interesting to follow what appears to be a re-invention of the | model taking place as CIQ seeks to be for Rocky Linux | what Canonical was for Ubuntu (hopefully, better!). There are, to be sure, | significant differences between

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

| From: William Park via talk | When I click "Get Ubuntu Pro now" button, I see $500/year at the bottom, which | is a bit too much for Linux. At least, Apple owns the hardware and software. | But, with Linux, you have to get the hardware yourself, and install the | software yourself. If you

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

| From: Dhaval Giani via talk | https://ubuntu.com/pricing/pro Thanks. That helps clarify things. It is kind of tough trying to make a business as a Linux distro. And we all benefit from those who try. Some businesses are more open than others, possibly because they can afford to be. We

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

Note: no solution is reached, but it has been an adventure so far. I need to submit a declaration about the City of Toronto Vacant Home Tax. See I notice that this apparently simple page is taking a lot of

[GTALUG] War Story: RCS "blame" command

RCS is a source code control system (a precursor to GIT). History: SCCS, one of the first "source code control systems" was part of UNIX but it was owned by AT Bell Labs. There was a need for a similar system for BSD Unix. Walter Tichy created RCS. RCS was the basis for CVS. Whereas RCS

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

Does anyone else want digests? At what frequency? | From: sciguy via talk | 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

[GTALUG] @gtalug@mastodon.social

I don't know much about mastodon but it certainly has come to the fore recently. GTALUG has an identity on Mastodon (See the Subject). You can look at it here: Our latest posting was from October 2021: a video of the previous talk by Mike Hoye. Evan says

[GTALUG] January Meeting: The State of Mozilla with Mike Hoye

10 January, 2023 at 07:30 PM Mike Hoye will be joining us to talk where Firefox, Mozilla and the Web are today, and where they're going. We're going to use Big Blue Button for this meeting: Join Big Blue Button: --- Post to this mailing list

Re: [GTALUG] rejuvinating an old machine: inexpensive SSD

| From: Alvin Starr via talk | On 2023-01-02 14:17, D. Hugh Redelmeier via talk wrote: | > <https://www.amazon.ca/dp/B07LG1PJMH> | Well they have drives up to 2TB. | | https://www.amazon.ca/stores/SPSiliconPower/page/CECA89EF-0FF0-46E2-AC1A-60C06C469C14?ref_=ast_bln Yes. I kind

[GTALUG] rejuvinating an old machine: inexpensive SSD

Old advice: If you are still using an old machine, one that uses an HDD to hold the OS, consider replacing the HDD with an SSD. Why do I bring it up now? Because SSDs are getting even cheaper. Some think that they will get cheaper still in the next little while. But this drive is cheap

Re: [GTALUG] At the GTALUG AGM: How we handle Internet services

| From: Znoteer via talk | Looks like I was too late for the meeting. I was the only one in the room. Sorry. Don't worry, we elected you President :-) --- Post to this mailing list talk@gtalug.org Unsubscribe from this mailing list https://gtalug.org/mailman/listinfo/talk

Re: [GTALUG] [GTALUG-Announce] Membership Dues

Don't forget to join ahead of today's AGM! | From: Warren McPherson via talk | To: annou...@gtalug.org | Cc: Warren McPherson | Date: Thu, 24 Nov 2022 23:43:11 -0500 | Subject: [GTALUG] [GTALUG-Announce] Membership Dues | | With the agm coming up, now is a great time to renew membership and

Re: [GTALUG] At the GTALUG AGM: How we handle Internet services

Evan makes many useful points. I am the only official maintainer of the system and I only signed on to be backup. I just haven't taken the time to figure everything out. What's wrong with the current system? - there are (rarely) messages that require moderation on the mailing list and that

Re: [GTALUG] Forced off DSL by Bell

| From: James Knott via talk | It can even do | routing protocols, such as OSPF and BGP, which can be used between large | networks. I have a globally assigned /24. Historically I've had ISPs that were willing to advertise my /24. I've always connected via DSL on copper. Daydreaming: I

Re: [GTALUG] Forced off DSL by Bell

| From: Lennart Sorensen via talk | I figure I ought to start figuring out what's involved with Rogers setup | these days given that's what I will end up with next September when I | move to a new house. I am pretty sure a new development won't have any | copper phone or cable connections, just

Re: [GTALUG] Forced off DSL by Bell

| From: BCLUG via talk | How does one test the DSL service between customer and CO only? | | Is that a ping test? Am I misunderstanding everything (again)? | | I'm just trying to understand how to go about it should I find myself in | similar circumstances. Speaking as an amateur, with no

Re: [GTALUG] Forced off DSL by Bell

| From: Alvin Starr via talk | The issue is not just the last mile speed to your house but what is the | backing service provided. I simplify it to three parts (terms are different for cable): 1. last mile (user to CO) 2. backhaul (CO to a big centre / Point of Presence for 3rd party ISP) 3.

[GTALUG] [LONG!] Re: Forced off DSL by Bell

| From: Michael Galea via talk I am puzzling over the same problems... | Hi, Bell notified me that they will soon be shutting down my copper telephone | service, no options. My DSL to TekSavvy will go with it. Joy. My neighbourhood got Bell Fiber to the Home (FTTH). I signed up but said I

Re: [GTALUG] flakey laptop power supply [was Re: Laptop made by Intel ?]

| From: Don Tai via talk | | That's horrible. I'd certainly exchange the laptop. Does USB-C charge as | quickly as AC mains power? Is it a power supply or a laptop issue? I've seen a video that disassembled a Lenovo charger that supplies more current than USB C allows. Apparently Lenovo has

[GTALUG] flakey laptop power supply [was Re: Laptop made by Intel ?]

| From: William Park via talk | At work, we recently got Lenovo P1 Gen3, and it's flaky. My laptop doesn't | recognize AC power plug, so I have to charge via USB-C. Everything is off USB, | even the docking station, and it disconnects often. You can hear Windows | notifications. So, network

Re: [GTALUG] Laptop made by Intel ?

don't think that you have to be a member to order it online. Canada Computer would charge for shipping. I like supporting local stores. CC has a bad reputation for returns but I don't have any personal bad experiences. | From: D. Hugh Redelmeier via talk | | | From: William Park via talk | |

[GTALUG] Volunteer for GTALUG!

[This is not an official announcement, just a personal request.] GTALUG could use more people on the Board of Directors. The Board is what organizes GTALUG. How to get on the board: The normal way of getting on the board is to stand for election at the Annual General Meeting. That meeting

Re: [GTALUG] Mail server Problems?: Re: Tonight's meeting announcement?

| From: Znoteer via talk | Never having set foot in a local meeting (the commute from Montreal is too | long :) ) I'm not known to any of you except through my rare contributions | to this list. But, it's a job that can be done remotely and I am often near | a computer, so I'd be willing to help

Re: [GTALUG] Mail server Problems?: Re: Tonight's meeting announcement?

| From: Giles Orr via talk | I received multiple messages yesterday from the list, many of which | appear to be up to a couple months old. The mail software (MailMan) kicked those messages to the moderator. The current moderator is sort of / somewhat retired and just got to them. We could use

[GTALUG] CZUR scanners under Linux

We bought a CZUR ET24 Pro. Quite a bit more expensive than other models. It claimed that it would support Linux. I installed the supplied-to-me RPM using "rpm --force". It seems to work. (I only scanned the junk on the desktop where the scanning mat

Re: [GTALUG] Borked Python setup, please help

| From: Lennart Sorensen via talk | Well as far as I can tell every major linux distribution has got it right, | and the issue mainly seems to happen on windows where apparently people | can't get anything right. If I had to guess, Evan's problem (the one that started this thread) stems from a

Re: [GTALUG] Borked Python setup, please help

| From: Stewart C. Russell via talk | Did you accidentally install "python-is-python2"? It will break modern things | in a hilarious manner. | | There's python-is-python3 to undo the damage. Wow. The Python2 -> Python3 transition is still claiming victims! I am not sold on containers, but it

[GTALUG] bargain: a 10" tablet that I hope will run Linux

Here are some pluses

Re: [GTALUG] Laptop made by Intel ?

| From: William Park via talk | | I just noticed "INTEL NUC M15 EVO Platform Consumer Notebook" on sale at | Canada Computers. I know about NUC box, but didn't know Intel made a laptop | also. Here's a link to the Canada Computers offering:

[GTALUG] Firefox "kinetic" scrolling

In Firefox, when you scroll with a touchpad, Firefox acts as if the document has momentum and continues scrolling when you take your fingers off the touchpad. This works particularly poorly on my Logo Yoga 2 Prow notebook because when I remove my fingers from scrolling on the touchpad there is

Re: [GTALUG] exploring the keyboard [was: OK notebook at a good price: $300, refurb / open box]

| From: Lennart Sorensen via talk | On Wed, Oct 26, 2022 at 12:51:35PM -0400, D. Hugh Redelmeier via talk wrote: | > Looking at one of these notebooks, I see: | Looking at one in real life or on the webpage? Looking at one of the three I bought in real life. | The webpage almost alw

[GTALUG] exploring the keyboard [was: OK notebook at a good price: $300, refurb / open box]

| From: Lennart Sorensen via talk | Any keyboard with french canadian layout has a short left shift key | (and an extra key to the left of z) and a skinny vertical enter key (with | another key between ' and enter). Looking at one of these notebooks, I see: - a US-style left shift, adjacent to

Re: [GTALUG] OK notebook at a good price: $300, refurb / open box

| From: D. Hugh Redelmeier via talk | Fedora 36 runs fine on them. In the interest of full disclosure: Fedora doesn't see the fingerprint reader. I forgot to mention this because I almost never want a fingerprint reader. They are convenient but I have security reservations. Worst case: I

Re: [GTALUG] OK notebook at a good price: $300, refurb / open box

| From: Scott Allen via talk | It actually says "French Bilingual" keyboard, which is likely the | Canadian English/French bilingual layout. If it is, I consider this a | bonus. I have these on my desktop and most used laptop. I think that that must be correct. All the keys are where I expect

[GTALUG] OK notebook at a good price: $300, refurb / open box

These go in and out of stock. Intel® i3-1005G1: not fast but better than Atom.

[GTALUG] war story: CMOS battery AKA Real Time Clock (RTC) battery in a notebook

Almost all PCs have settings that they want to keep while the computer is off or even unplugged. Ones that they don't want to keep on disk. Things you set up from the firmware setup screen. Furthermore, they have a realtime clock that runs when the machine is turned off or unplugged. These

[GTALUG] confusing standards: first USB, now HDMI

The USB standardization committee has created layers of naming confusion. Horrible. Now I find out that that is the case for HDMI too. See HDMI 2.0 no longer exists, and devices should not claim compliance to v2.0 as it

Re: [GTALUG] wired headset suggestions?

| From: Karen Lewellen via talk | For the record, I will be using this headset with a 2012 macbook pro running | Catalina. | I have, due to harm risk learned what numbers need to line up, headphones or | headsets, with my needs differing depending on what I am using and where. | to manage the

Re: [GTALUG] Messed up migrating 20.04 to 22.04

| From: Jim Ruxton via talk I have only generic advice: make sure you do a backup of your data before you go any further. | For some reason the system doesn't see my /boot/efi | partition even though it is mounted. My fstab file looks correct. Shots in the dark: If you already have it

[GTALUG] war story: Thunderbird needs to be told to compress its folders

TL;DR: If you use Thunderbird, once in a while, do this: File: Compact Folders This may be the only way to get space back for deleted messages (I'm not sure). Now for the war story. One of us uses Thunderbird to read mail. It stopped working yesterday,

Re: [GTALUG] odd error when running the screen program?

| From: Kevin Cozens via talk | The program "screen" is not used to create screen shots. If you are after a | screen shot you might be wanting to use the program "screendump". If you read screen(1), you will see that screen can dump its history in the way she described. It is not the same as

Re: [GTALUG] odd error when running the screen program?

| From: Karen Lewellen via talk | Both shellworld, and dreamhost, use Ubuntu as the basis for their shell | workspaces. | Sharing that up front, as this may be tied to Ubuntu. Thanks -- good to explain the context. | There is a program called screen, apparently common across some Linux |

Re: [GTALUG] war story: power failure makes CentOS system unbootable

| From: Lennart Sorensen via talk | Is /boot/esp in /etc/fstab? It is called /boot/efi. Yes, on my systems, it is in /etc/fstab. On my desktop: UUID=3C5D-B772 /boot/efi vfat umask=0077,shortname=winnt 0 2 On the CentOS system that acts up: UUID=A9B4-1C74

Re: [GTALUG] war story: power failure makes CentOS system unbootable

| From: Lennart Sorensen via talk | Hmm, it's more complicated than that. vfat supports atime updates, | meaning just reading files from it causes writes. Lovely. So much for | a simple fix. Interesting. I never knew that. But the dirty bit could/should be cleared whenever the FS is in a

Re: [GTALUG] war story: power failure makes CentOS system unbootable

I'm continuing a very old thread of mine. Because of the age, I'm top-posting. Summary up until now: - system fails to reboot after power failure - problem seems to be firmware distaste for dirty bit on ESP (/boot/efi) - dirty bit always happens because /boot/efi is always mounted, even

Re: [GTALUG] Data archaeology: archive KDE distortion from 2004ish

| From: Stewart Russell via talk | Date: Tue, 13 Sep 2022 13:04:26 -0400 | A friend has a data problem. Her father used to use Linux, and left | copious art notes in pictures stored in DigiKam, KDE’s photo management | tool. This was in 2004 or so. Prompted by Giles' reply, I thought about

[GTALUG] speaking of iOS device recovery

I have an annoying problem with my first generation iPad. (The device is worth so little these days that I've not put a lot of effort into this. Without updates, an iDevice is mostly useless.) When I plug it in to the charger and power the device on, it goes into a boot loop. Apparently the

[GTALUG] DNS oddities

[This probably has nothing to do with gtalg.og problems.] I run a recursive DNS server on my Rogers cable internet connection. I has stopped working today. (It did this once on the weekend but healed after a few hours.) Symptom: nothing resolves. But I'm still able to use the internet via

Re: [GTALUG] Linux on Chromebook

| From: D. Hugh Redelmeier via talk | | From: o1bigtenor via talk | | Can't find anything searching using Lenovo E100 Gen 2 - - - - Try searching using Lenovo 100e Gen 2 -- slightly different. You might find leaving our the "Gen 2" helps. | There is surely a key sequence duri

Re: [GTALUG] Linux on Chromebook

[I sure hope that the mailing list is working for all.] | From: o1bigtenor via talk | On Sun, Sep 4, 2022 at 11:00 AM D. Hugh Redelmeier via talk | wrote: | > | > A dirt cheap Windows netbook. Not very good (screen is TN 1366 x 768). | > Should easily run Linux. | > | > https:/

Re: [GTALUG] Data archaeology: archive KDE distortion from 2004ish

| From: Stewart Russell via talk | Any suggestions for which ancient distro and where it might still live gratefully received. Knoppix? Perhaps 3.5, which had a DVD version? There must be copies around. See this for a list of versions: Not sure

[GTALUG] A motivate tutorial on the Domain Name System

Context: Evan and Colin could not see our website in the last few days. They also may have had trouble with email from or to our lists. I don't know if this has started working again. I think that the problem is rooted in the Domain Name System. How the Domain Name System works: DNS is a

Re: [GTALUG] Linux on Chromebook

A dirt cheap Windows netbook. Not very good (screen is TN 1366 x 768). Should easily run Linux. https://www.lenovo.com/ca/en/p/laptops/lenovo/windows-edu-laptops/lenovo-100e-2nd-gen-(amd)/len101l0021 $126.72 today and tomorrow, I think. If supplies last. = If you want

Re: [GTALUG] tpl Linux training?

| From: Evan Leibovitch via talk | These courses are almost all command line. Wow. That certainly would make Linux unattractive to most ordinary people. Both computer beginners and ordinary users of Windows or MacOS. | That's how, for the most part, what's taught is generally |

Re: [GTALUG] Linux on Chromebook

A $99.99 chromebook available from Best Buy (deal ends Sept 1). Screen is TN, which I avoid, but it is probably OK, especially at this price. --- Post to this mailing list

Re: [GTALUG] Linux on Chromebook

Other bargains to consider: If you go to this link, you will find it unavailable BUT you will be offered three alternatives at sub $200 prices. Or at least I am. --- Post to this mailing list talk@gtalug.org

Re: [GTALUG] Linux on Chromebook

| From: Michael Galea via talk | If I buy a cheap refurb Chromebook from Best Buy or Canada Computers: I actually recommend low-spec Windows notebooks. Lenovo has sold a few recently but their delivery horizon is perhaps too long or unpredicatable. I recently bought this (no longer available;

[GTALUG] "Accessibility in Fedora Workstation"

An article in Fedora Magazine talks about increased efforts to make the Fedora distribution more accessible. This seems like a Good Thing. Karen Lewellen has been navigating these problems and posted some software problems

[GTALUG] List was down

Thanks, Stewart, for asking. I don't know what was wrong. I did updates and rebooted and it seems to work. --- Post to this mailing list talk@gtalug.org Unsubscribe from this mailing list https://gtalug.org/mailman/listinfo/talk

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