Re: [GTALUG] information storage ideas

A quarter century ago, I heard of "Lifestreams" as the future of this. It seems to be pretty dead, but not a terrible idea. Gelernter (co-inventor?) is pretty interesting. - victim of Unibomber - weirdly kind of right-wing - inventor of

[GTALUG] Meeting tomorrow?

Are we meeting Tusday, 2020 December 8? In past days, I would have asked Chris Browne :-( In the more distant past, we would have travelled to dinner and the meeting together. --- Post to this mailing list talk@gtalug.org Unsubscribe from this mailing list

Re: [GTALUG] desktop thoughts on Black Friday

| From: D. Hugh Redelmeier via talk | Until 3AM tomorrow, for $179 + tax, a ThinkCentre M90n IoT; Another link gets you this for $169. https://www.lenovo.com/ca/en/workperksca/desktops-and-all-in-ones/thinkcentre/m-nano-series/ThinkCentre-M90n-IoT/p/thinkcentre-m90n-iot?clickid

Re: [GTALUG] desktop thoughts on Black Friday

| From: Stewart C. Russell via talk | Both of the clickthroughs on those RFD links gave me "oh hell no" adblock | redirects to possible scam sites. Yeah. Their affiliate stuff gums some things up. I don't know about scam sites though. | The M75n-IoT is pretty bold to have dual RS-232 serial

Re: [GTALUG] desktop thoughts on Black Friday

| From: Evan Leibovitch via talk | Yeah, my buys this season were upgrades at the human interface level, a | second 4K monitor and a new keyboard (and a few weeks ago, an ergonomic | vertical mouse). | | Through the year, upgrading RAM and replacing all boot drives from spinning | disks to SSDs

Re: [GTALUG] Network issues with github

[top posting for context.] 140.82.113.3 is an IP address of github. It sounds like a GitHub (SSH) server is demanding a kind of authentication (SSH public key) that your client isn't offering. Why isn't your client offering an SSH public key? There are several possible reasons. Right down to

Re: [GTALUG] desktop thoughts on Black Friday

| From: Stewart C. Russell via talk | On 2020-11-28 12:31 p.m., D. Hugh Redelmeier via talk wrote: | > … NVMe SSD support | | Sometimes need weird proprietary drivers to debug/get best performance out of. | When my Intel NVMe thingy failed I needed a blob to see the diagnostics

[GTALUG] desktop thoughts on Black Friday

I love shopping for computers: studying what features are interesting or useful or inexpensive. I like looking for deals (recreational). I've been looking for non-notebooks (usually called desktops, even though few are on desks, and they vary in size). My current fleet is either Haswell or

Re: [GTALUG] Reverse DNS different that DNS server (reverse is a local address)

I have no time for a careful answer. But it is important that you understand these points: - DNS is a distributed tree, with nodes that are authoritative for particular domains. - there is caching (recursive servers) if you trust them (almost always one does). Unless you are using

Re: [GTALUG] security threats of Open Source

| From: David Thornton via talk | Date: Fri, 20 Nov 2020 15:25:42 -0500 Thanks for reviving this thread 10 months later. What prompted you to do that? Note: this is not a complaint. I continue to think that this is an important and unresolved topic. | As administrators we have a

Re: [GTALUG] Christopher Browne

Thanks, Stewart, for informing us. I miss him already. He and I usually took the subway to GTALUG meetings and back. And often talked on the subway platform long into the night. His last posting to this list was on the Saturday before his death. --- Post to this mailing list talk@gtalug.org

[GTALUG] amusing spam

I just got an invoice for $249 + shipping. "Thank you for your order for Microsoft Windows Malicious Tool ." That seems just about right as a price and description of Windows 10. (OK, I admit that I no longer see Windows as (very) malicious.) --- Post to this mailing list talk@gtalug.org

Re: [GTALUG] Scientific Libraries in Python for Drawing Physics Equations

| From: Nicholas Krause via talk | I'm wondering if anyone has used this before: http://qutip.org/tutorials.html. | If someone has a recommendation or has used something | similar for drawing out the graphs for Schrodinger wave functions or | Quantum Field Theory that would be helpful. I'm

Re: [GTALUG] Right to Repair Article in NYT

| From: ac via talk | what is the diff between male and female bovine excrement? :) Male cattle are bulls (or steers, if castrated). Female cattle are cows (or heifers, if young). OT: "mankind" includes females. "Cows" is often used in a way that includes males. The distinction in the case

[GTALUG] Meeting tonight, I think

I think that we have one scheduled (it is the second Tuesday of the month). It should start with the Annual General Meeting. Dues are due and elections are held. Then there should be a slightly shorter normal meeting. I'm forwarding/repeating some relevant email from Chris Browne.

[GTALUG] inexpensive X86 Single Board Computer

Seeed sent me an ad/newsletter describing a potentially interesting SBC. (Seeed is a Chinese company that's a bit like Adafruit. If you like SBCs and playing with circuit's, Seeed's newsletter is worth subscribing to. It's not

Re: [GTALUG] USB power reporting Type-c super speed skirmish and libpartd error

| From: Russell Reiter via talk | I power off, unplug | the power cable and press and hold the start button for a few seconds to | see if I can dissipate any lingering bus voltage. I don't have a "manual" | troubleshooting direction to do that, but things did start acting better | when I

Re: [GTALUG] USB power reporting Type-c super speed skirmish and libpartd error

| From: Russell Reiter via talk | On Wed, Sep 23, 2020 at 9:40 AM D. Hugh Redelmeier via talk | wrote: | I've made some progress and then lost it again. I had to take a high def | photo of the writing on the cable to read that the cable is rated 3.0 and | my mb is only rated 3.0

Re: [GTALUG] USB power reporting Type-c super speed skirmish and libpartd error

[top posting because the information in the original message is somewhat holographic.] Thanks for your detailed report. It's hard to help when not enough detail is included. Unfortunately, you seem to have perhaps five problems and it is hard to disentangle them. - one power failure.

Re: [GTALUG] good deal on tiny Dell desktop

Dell no longer allows the Ubuntu option or the 500GB 5400 HDD. So it is no longer a good eal. --- Post to this mailing list talk@gtalug.org Unsubscribe from this mailing list https://gtalug.org/mailman/listinfo/talk

[GTALUG] good deal on tiny Dell desktop

I bought one of these. - save $200 by opting for Ubuntu rather that Windows 10 Pro! Okay, I admit it: I only saved $100 by not selecting Windows 10 Home.

[GTALUG] odd connector for parallel printer port

I just noticed that the latest printer that we bought (Brother HO-L5000D) came with an odd cable (matching an odd connector on the printer). On one end, there was the conventional-since-the-IBM-PC DB25M connector. On the other end, there was a 3-row, 26-pin mail D connector. I don't remember

Re: [GTALUG] Generic SSH question.

| From: Alvin Starr via talk | | Does anybody know of a software package or service that does for SSH the kind | of thing that teamviewer does? | | I run into linux systems that are behind firewalls  and trying to bounce | through some windows box using teamviewer or other screen sharing app is

[GTALUG] for multi-hop ssh/scp: option "ProxyJump"

I'm away from home, regularly accessing my computers at home. Easy: ssh into a gateway machine and ssh from there into the internal machine of my choice. Nested ssh sessions. It gets a little more annoying when I want to transfer a file. The new-to-me ssh/scp option "ProxyJump" handles this

[GTALUG] top posting [was: Re: Blockchain, the solution to nothing]

| From: ac via talk | I practiced with my first top post in 2006, before it became | fashionable :) It has been gauche for a lot longer than that :-) It can make sense in business correspondence where a precise record of what you are responding to is important. This was not such a case. It

Re: [GTALUG] MathML Support on the Internet

| From: Don Tai via talk | LaTex to svg? a bit better rendering, and at least renders well on all | browsers. The phrase "all browsers" is a bit political. Especially if read as "all browsers that matter". If you think that I'm being silly, do consider "universal design" or "accessibility".

[GTALUG] 64-bit Raspberry Pi OS [was: Re: Raspberry Pi 4 Desktop Kit]

| From: D. Hugh Redelmeier via talk | Switching to a 64-bit OS would let Gimp use most of your 8G. I should have mentioned that there is a beta of the 64-bit Raspberry Pi OS (the new name for Raspbian). It dates back to the end of may. <https://www.raspberrypi.org/forums/viewtopic.ph

Re: [GTALUG] C.H.I.P. rides again - maybe

| From: Stewart C. Russell via talk | Something I'm discovering about mine: NextThingCo did a terrible job of | managing the flash memory allocation, so running the device for any amount of | time will get you warnings and errors such as: | |ubi0: fixable bit-flip detected at PEB 142 |

Re: [GTALUG] Raspberry Pi 4 Desktop Kit

| From: mwilson--- via talk | I started with a 4GByte kit from ABRA in Montreal. It did adequately | replacing my old 1-core I386 desktop, mostly running Firefox and Gnu Image | Manipulation Program. GIMP seemed to encounter strange crashes with many | images open, so I lately upgraded to an

Re: [GTALUG] Raspberry Pi 4 Desktop Kit

Just adding my two cents after reading this thread. Cooling (just an opinion, not based on diverse experience): - Pi 4 does not need cooling but it apparently makes a difference in performance under load. - passive cooling is "good enough". I use a FLIRC case

Re: [GTALUG] Fwd: Looks like IBM is planning to eliminate RHEL

I hate top-posting. But I'm doing it to make things clearer. This is exactly what I got, and I find it very confusing. At least in my MUA (alpine) it looks as if the last block of text (which I know was written by Evan) is presented as original to Russell. I'm sure that this isn't Russell's

Re: [GTALUG] DSL to wifi

| From: Astrid R via talk To actually solve your problem, we need to know more about: - whether you know what your modem/router's WiFi password OR if you can set it to a new password - more details about how your computer's OS lets you set the WiFi password. My best guess is that you can

Re: [GTALUG] DSL to wifi

| From: James Knott via talk | On 8/1/20 7:28 PM, Astrid R via talk wrote: | > I'm just looking for someone in downtown Toronto to change the settings on | > my laptop from DSL to wifi.  I can only pay up to $40. | | It's not hard to connect to WiFi.  All you need is the password. Assuming |

Re: [GTALUG] urgent: Red Hat distros have an update that renders some systems unbootable

| From: D. Hugh Redelmeier via talk | https://access.redhat.com/solutions/5272311 The procedure outlined did not work for me on my CentOS 7 box. Here are some additions: 1) networking in rescue environment The link describing how to enable networking is only available to those paying

[GTALUG] urgent: Red Hat distros have an update that renders some systems unbootable

https://access.redhat.com/solutions/5272311 https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2020/07/red-hat-and-centos-systems-arent-booting-due-to-boothole-patches/ Don't do upgrades to Fedora, RHEL, CentOS until you read those. This seems to have bitten me, making one of my routers (running CentOS 7). I'm

Re: [GTALUG] web hosting question

| From: o1bigtenor via talk | Reading past emails it seems that using a separate provider for domain | registration and web hosting is the suggested norm. Just to make things more difficult, there are three separate things. 1. domain registration 2. domain hosting (by which I mean hosting

[GTALUG] UEFI shell [was: Re: New Build Computer?]

| From: Lennart Sorensen via talk | You could go to the UEFI shell and try to manually boot grub and then | reinstall the boot loader after booting to linux. I seem to remember that Microsoft forbids system from shipping with the UEFI shell. This only applies to ones clainming Windows

Re: [GTALUG] New Build Computer?

| From: Peter King via talk | On Mon, Jul 27, 2020 at 01:57:02PM -0400, D. Hugh Redelmeier via talk wrote: | > Odd: googling seems to suggest that the only way to turn off SB on Asus | > boards is to delete the PK key. If you are going to do this, please save | > the key first in

Re: [GTALUG] New Build Computer?

Secure Boot: Microsoft requires PC hardware to be shipped with Secure Boot enabled. I think that they also require that it be possible to disable it (but only manually, not by program). Secure boot requires that there be a cryptographically authenticated unbroken chain of things that lead to

Re: [GTALUG] New Build Computer?

| From: D. Hugh Redelmeier via talk | - CSM should only be needed if you boot MBR-style (i.e. not UEFI) This turns out not to be the case. CSM is a fake BIOS. It is used to implement things link BIOS service calls. These are used by: - MBR boot loaders (lilo, grub-for-MBR) - old OSes (like

Re: [GTALUG] New Build Computer?

| From: Peter King via talk | So in the end I went with a Ryzen 3700X CPU and the Asus Prime X570-Pro | motherboard, adding in an NVMe drive as well for my boot/root device. The | results have been mixed. | | The Good News: When I boot the Arch Linux installation image from a flash |

Re: [GTALUG] New Build Computer?

| From: Lennart Sorensen via talk | i7-3960X has 6 cores and 12 threads. I am running one. Oops, I missed that. Thanks for catching it. So I'm back to wondering what the actual chip and motherboard are. | > Even the oldest 6-core i7s seem to use DDR4. Newer CPUs still use | > DDR4. So you

Re: [GTALUG] (question) GPU + Data center = ?

| From: David Mason via talk | The short answer is: Machine Learning (and other data-mining-like applications) A much LONGER answer: There has been a field of Computing on GPUs for perhaps a dozen years. GPUs have evolved into having a LOT of Floating Point units that can act simultaneously,

Re: [GTALUG] recent Fedora releases refused to see an old NAS

| From: Val Kulkov via talk | Setting "client min protocol = NT1" is indeed a bad, bad idea from the | security standpoint. | | Check out this article: |

[GTALUG] recent Fedora releases refused to see an old NAS

We have an old IOmega Home Media Server, Cloud Edition NAS. It's just a single external 3.5" HDD with a little ARM board to turn it into a NAS. This is so old that the company has changed a few times: EMC bought IOmega Dell bought EMC Lenovo bought (parts of?) EMC from

Re: [GTALUG] sale today on ThnkPad T490 and tiny ThinkCentre PCs

| From: James Knott via talk | According to what I've read elsewhere, Lenovo is working to make the entire | ThinkPad line Linux friendly.  I don't know what the situation is with Dell, | though, IIRC, they have had some Linux models in the past. That's good. Generally, the ThinkPad line has

Re: [GTALUG] sale today on ThnkPad T490 and tiny ThinkCentre PCs

| From: James Knott via talk | How much memory can be added?  8 GB is likely not enough these days.  My E520 | has 8 GB and I find it's getting tight when running a W10 virtual machine.  A | few years ago, it ran fine, but both Linux and Windows have grown.  I'm | running openSUSE Leap 15.2. A

Re: [GTALUG] sale today on ThnkPad T490 and tiny ThinkCentre PCs

If you join up with rakuten.ca, and get to Lenovo through the Rakuten site, you will get 8% cash back on any purchase today. Ditto for Dell.ca purchases. There are raging debates about Dell and Lenovo AMD-based notebooks on redflagdeals.com these days. If you are hunting for a notebook,

[GTALUG] finding out the shared object (dynamically linked libraries) use by a program

Sometime you want to know what .so libraries are used by a program. Let's say that the program's binary is in /bin/prog. $ ldd /bin/prog will do the trick. Except it doesn't capture everything. Sometimes you need to examine the running program. Let's say you wish to find out what

[GTALUG] sale today on ThnkPad T490 and tiny ThinkCentre PCs

Lenovo list prices always seem high to me. But unpredictably they have significant discounts. Sometimes the resulting prices seem reasonable. ThinkPads are generally the standard best bet for UNIX. Starting at noon today, Lenovo has a modestly spec'ed T490 for $1000. I think that that's a

Re: [GTALUG] OpenWRT Upgrade

| From: David Collier-Brown via talk | I'm still looking for a scheme that doesn't fail an evil-twin attack (;-)) | | I have an apparent neighbor who uses my connection. The use I don't mind much, | the degree to which my work is public I do  mind. Evil Twin is just a variant of

Re: [GTALUG] btrfs weirdity.

Red Hat stopped supporting BTRFS. It's not in RHEL 8. Why? The best "guesses" that I've seen are in To paraphrase the upstream opinion, btrfs has been "almost production ready" for many years now, but never quite got to

Re: [GTALUG] btrfs weirdity.

Warning: it is the middle of the night and I'm going to ramble. | From: Dhaval Giani via talk | People love talking smack about btrfs. Here's some real insight from Josef | Bacik though at | https://lwn.net/ml/fedora-devel/03fbbb9a-7e74-fc49-c663-32722d6f7...@toxicpanda.com/ | and |

Re: [GTALUG] Windows Terminal: Everything you need to know now - TechRepublic

| From: James Knott via talk | While not strictly Linux, this provides a choice of command prompts, including | Linux shells.  It's also more configurable than the usual Windows terminals. | | Now, all  it needs is a VAX/VMS shell. ;-) | |

Re: [GTALUG] Tripp Lite OMNI1000LCD UPS

| From: Val Kulkov via talk | After two years of problem-free service, my UPS unit started acting up. Check the warranty. Once upon a time a UPS I bought had a multi-year warranty. --- Post to this mailing list talk@gtalug.org Unsubscribe from this mailing list

Re: [GTALUG] Continuing Printer Woes

| From: Stewart C. Russell via talk | But … they're inside your router's firewall? Sure, they dial out for updates | sometimes, but what doesn't? Depending on a single firewall isn't considered good form. Each machine should be hardened too. Otherwise your network is crunchy on the outside and

Re: [GTALUG] Continuing Printer Woes

| From: Stewart C. Russell via talk | On 2020-06-03 2:21 p.m., Peter King via talk wrote: | > Why this | > is *easier* with wireless than it is with a direct connection I couldn't | > say | | There's much less software between you and the printer when you use IPP. Much | less to go wrong.

[GTALUG] Raspberry Pi 4 with 8G of RAM

I just got an ad from Seeed Studio. It offers an 8G Raspberry Pi 4 for pre-order. I didn't know of this new RAM size before seeing the ad. Estimated availability date is June 5. US$75 for a computer with 8G seems

Re: [GTALUG] I’m obviously way behind in my reading: IBM owns Redhat

| From: Russell Reiter via talk | the Prince Albert viaduct | which added the subway tracks under that bridge long before | there were subways in the area to connect those tracks to. That was world | class hometown capacity planning, in its day. The Prince Edward Viaduct. I imagine that actual

Re: [GTALUG] CIRA officially launches free DNS firewall for consumers | IT World Canada News

| From: Sadiq Saif via talk | Date: Tue, 28 Apr 2020 10:07:39 -0400 | DNS Wars by Geoff Huston | https://blog.apnic.net/2019/11/04/dns-wars/ Thanks! I just finished reading this (it was neglected in one of my browser tabs on one of my OSes on one of my computers). Very interesting. I

Re: [GTALUG] Compressing an image of a microSD card

| From: Lennart Sorensen via talk | If the filesystem is ext based, zerofree is a nice tool to zero unused | space that seems to run faster than using dd and rm with a zero filled | file. If your filesystem lives on some form of flash (SSD, SD card, USB stick, ...) this can reduce the lifetime

Re: [GTALUG] Compressing an image of a microSD card

| From: Lennart Sorensen via talk | Certainly something like clonezilla knows how to deal with filesystems | and partitions and ignore the parts of the filesystem that are not in use | (even if not zeroed). If you use fstrim on a filesystem, what happens when a dd accesses an unallocated block?

[GTALUG] QNX [was Re: Linux servers attacked!]

| From: Lennart Sorensen via talk | | Well BB10 of course had a GUI framework for apps, which I don't think | had anything to do with QNX, although I am not sure if QNX ever had | any particular GUI interface in particular. I have seen a number of | different ones running on top of QNX over the

[GTALUG] BlackBerry [was Re: Linux servers attacked!]

| From: Christopher Browne via talk | The Playbook was interesting in this regard; the kernel was QNX, but it had | an Android | layer, The Playbook ran proto BB10 OS. BB promised an update to BB10 but reneged. That was the first and last BB product I purchased. Grrr. Like Palm/HP WebOS,

[GTALUG] Linux servers attacked!

This describes a lot of attacks, starting with a Linux server victim. Sounds like juicy stuff. I didn't find it so. It didn't clearly say what vulnarabilities were being

Re: [GTALUG] AMD releases 3100 and 3300x

| From: William Park via talk | | On Sat, May 09, 2020 at 08:00:33AM -0400, Dave Collier-Brown via talk wrote: | > I suspect the new low-cost chip is a simplified version of one of the | > four processor cores, and might cost about 1/5 of what the server | > chips cost to make. | | Or rather,

Re: [GTALUG] Ubuntu update 19.10 -> 20.04?

| From: Tom Low-Shang via talk | I don't use Ubuntu but a quick search indicates that | | sudo apt-get update | sudo apt-get upgrade | | and a reboot are necessary before running do-release-upgrade. | | Have you done those steps? Yes, I had done this. Thanks for the suggestion. | From:

Re: [GTALUG] Problem new virtual host

| From: ac via talk | On Fri, 1 May 2020 11:33:53 -0400 (EDT) | "D. Hugh Redelmeier via talk" wrote: | > I'm a bit confused. But I'm probably not the only one. | > Note: I've never set up a virtual host so I could be way off-base. | > | this entire thread is confusing. it

Re: [GTALUG] Laptop recommendations?

| From: James Knott via talk | On 2020-04-30 08:46 PM, Stewart C. Russell via talk wrote: | > Even my PDP8 Neat! | Geez...  It's close to 40 years since I last touched a PDP-8.  We had a PDP-8i | at work.  Anyone else here remember the RIM loader? Yeah. I only used PDP-8 computers before

Re: [GTALUG] Problem new virtual host

I'm a bit confused. But I'm probably not the only one. Note: I've never set up a virtual host so I could be way off-base. As I understand it, the way virtual hosting works is that each client request includes a URL, and Apache extracts from the domain portion which host is being addressed. If

Re: [GTALUG] Laptop recommendations?

| From: James Knott via talk | Here is a photo of a core memory plane that I have.  It's 4K bits and came | from a Collins B8500 computer.  There were 32 of these stacked in a module and | 4 modules in the memory chassis, for a total of 64 KB. |

Re: [GTALUG] ftrace-time support in Clang

| From: Nicholas Krause via talk | | This seems to be a rather not know option on the LLVM side and it seems GCC | does not support it. | https://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item=LLVM-Clang-9.0-Time-Trace | | Its now in mainline as the articles like this one were mostly written before |

Re: [GTALUG] Laptop recommendations?

| From: Gron Arthur via talk | Need to buy a new laptop, any recommendations? Any good outlets that deliver? It would be useful if you told us what you need, want, value, and are willing to pay. --- Post to this mailing list talk@gtalug.org Unsubscribe from this mailing list

[GTALUG] New York Times on Zoom security

This talks about the (bad) history of security at Zoom. --- Post to this mailing list talk@gtalug.org Unsubscribe from this mailing list https://gtalug.org/mailman/listinfo/talk

[GTALUG] warning: some WD NAS drives are shingled!

Shingled drives are NOT suitable for RAID. NAS drives are marketed as designed for NAS, and thus for RAID. WD has started to ship some shingled drives with NAS labels. They didn't admit it for almost a year.

Re: [GTALUG] Printing Problem(s)

| From: Peter King via talk I started writing this yesterday, before Stewart's concise and insightful message. He's right about networking. Of course it brings its own problems (security on the printer, firewall piercing on your computer, ...). I'm guessing that this is on a home LAN, behind

[GTALUG] LonTV on Jitsi (and Zoom)

LonTV is a YouTube channel. I often find he talks about things I'm interested in. He doesn't focus on Linux but he does install it to test systems once in a while. In the 2020 April 6 episode he talks about Jitsi and then about Zoom security issues.

Re: [GTALUG] jitsi test [was: Re: Planning April Meeting]

| From: Evan Leibovitch via talk | When starting a zoom meeting I make clear to participants that what goes on | is not private. In meetings like GTALUG this generally isn't an issue. In | other realms I evaluate my options. At least some threats are beyond that. As I mentioned, signing up for

[GTALUG] jitsi test [was: Re: Planning April Meeting]

| From: Lennart Sorensen via talk | If anyone wants to play with it and put some load on it, feel free to | poke at my jitsi install: | | https://jitsi.cmacleod.ca/GTALUG | | Works with browser only (no plugin) and I tried with "jitsi meet" client | from play store on my phone. I tried this.

Re: [GTALUG] Planning April Meeting

| From: Christopher Browne via talk | On Thu, 2 Apr 2020 at 19:00, Scott Allen via talk wrote: | > On Thu, 2 Apr 2020 at 18:39, D. Hugh Redelmeier via talk | > wrote: | > > And this, reported today: | > > <https://www.nytimes.com/2020/04/02/technology/zoom-linkedin

Re: [GTALUG] Planning April Meeting

| From: James Knott via talk | On 2020-04-02 11:43 AM, Alex Volkov via talk wrote: | > We're going to use zoom for the upcoming meeting, generously provided by | > Evan Leibovitch. | | Apparently there are security concerns with Zoom. | | https://www.wired.com/story/zoom-backlash-zero-days/

Re: [GTALUG] VM Support in Linux

| From: William Witteman via talk | I am poking around in Android development, and I have run into a snag | as my machine is pretty old, and doesn't have, or doesn't have | enabled, some virtual machine features. Specifically: | | > To use VM acceleration on Linux, your computer must also meet

Re: [GTALUG] VM Support in Linux

| From: William Witteman via talk | Yeah, that's the crux of it - my CPU is definitely 10+ years old. You still haven't told us the model of your CPU. A good problem report includes enough data to work on the problem. | The magic of Linux has meant that my quad core machine with 2 Gb of | RAM

Re: [GTALUG] Acer Aspire 3 A315-21 laptop has mono sound only?

| From: Ken Heard via talk | Date: Thu, 19 Mar 2020 22:42:29 +0700 | ... Earlier this evening (Thursday) ... +0700 -- where the heck are you? Siberia? Indonesia? Vietnam? Thailand? Tuva? Teksavvy services there? Keep safe! --- Post to this mailing list talk@gtalug.org Unsubscribe from

Re: [GTALUG] Acer Aspire 3 A315-21 laptop has mono sound only?

| From: Ken Heard via talk | I think that this particular laptop has mono sound. Don has pointed out that the specs say "stereo". | I have been using it | temporarily to stream content by HDMI to a LG HD monitor and then by fibre | optical cable to a NED D3020 V2 hybrid amplifier and finally

Re: [GTALUG] Microsoft Brings Defender Antivirus for Linux, Coming Soon for Android and iOS

| From: James Knott via talk | https://thehackernews.com/2020/02/windows-defender-atp-linux-android.html Hmm. That website has hijacked the name of It has been called "Hacker News" for a long long time. A useful site too. --- Post to this mailing list

Re: [GTALUG] Adding all users to the "disk" group: bad idea, or terrible idea?

| From: Lennart Sorensen via talk | | On Thu, Feb 20, 2020 at 04:11:47PM -0500, Chris Tyler via talk wrote: | > Stewart, I'm having troubles understanding the author's reply to the SGID | > suggestion. What I was proposing was to set things up with a command like | > this (executed just once): |

Re: [GTALUG] Intel GPU support for HDMI 2.0 (UltraHD)

| From: o1bigtenor via talk | To Mr Hugh (hope I have that correct!) You don't have to be so formal. "Hugh" is fine. | Looked in my email fine and search doesn't return anything appropriate for | GTALug + lightening talk. | | Would you be able to provide a link so that I might 'see' such? |

Re: [GTALUG] Intel GPU support for HDMI 2.0 (UltraHD)

| From: Nicholas Krause via talk | Readability of text is what I was talking about not just color contrast. OK. Most but not all TV sets are fine for this. I would not trust the RGBW displays but I haven't tried them. Also: go for IPS or VBA technology. I think that I mentioned this in my

Re: [GTALUG] Intel GPU support for HDMI 2.0 (UltraHD)

| From: Nicholas Krause via talk | That makes sense. Through I would rather have a professional level | monitor at 1080p then 4K.  Color depth, accuracy and text contrast | matter a lot  more than resolution when it comes down to it through. | And frankly 4K pro is a lot more expensive due to

[GTALUG] interesting way ransomware broke into Windows systems

A security failure by Gigabyte and another by Verisign. Maybe the Linux world is better without manufacturer support. --- Post to this mailing list talk@gtalug.org Unsubscribe from this mailing list

Re: [GTALUG] Finding current cursor position in the terminal

| From: Giles Orr via talk | I'd like to be able to get the current x,y (or row, column) position | of the cursor in a terminal. This is for a Bash or ZSH prompt, and my | intention is to calculate how far across the terminal we've printed | and then decide if we should wrap the prompt from one

Re: [GTALUG] Intel GPU support for HDMI 2.0 (UltraHD)

| From: Nicholas Krause via talk | If I recall HDMI 2.0 like USB 3.2 and PCI 4.0 does not require a hardware | upgrade. The protocol changed but older hardware should use it depending | on if it can handle the new requirements. Not exactly. HDMI 2.0 does not require new cables over HDMI 1.x.

[GTALUG] Intel GPU support for HDMI 2.0 (UltraHD)

It seems that 7th gen and later Intel processors can support HDMI 2.0, but only with an external "LSPCON" (Level Shifter and Protocol CONverter) component on the motherboard. See As I've

Re: [GTALUG] Can a smart TV be made dumb?

tl;dr: yes. | From: Evan Leibovitch via talk | I've been reading up about the ridiculously (to me) low prices for | high-quality TVs these days Yes, much cheaper than computer monitors. But there are small things to beware of (as I've harped on in this list over the last five years). But

Re: [GTALUG] security threats of Open Source

| From: Dhaval Giani via talk | On Thu, Jan 23, 2020 at 11:08 AM D. Hugh Redelmeier via talk < | talk@gtalug.org> wrote: | | > < | > https://www.zdnet.com/article/microsoft-spots-malicious-npm-package-stealing-data-from-unix-systems/ | > > | > | > This articl

Re: [GTALUG] security threats of Open Source

| From: o1bigtenor via talk | In this vein - - - - a contact who in computer terms calls himself a dinosaur | refuses to allow javascript on his computers doing all his browsing on text | based browsers. In his opinion javascript is a serious accident already in free | fall. What you're sharing

[GTALUG] security threats of Open Source

This article list six cases of malware contributed to npm (the repo for sharing node.js and JavaScript source). How many undetected cases exist? I've alway pretended that Linux distros vet

Re: [GTALUG] Wine for running Windows 10 apps on Linux gets big upgrade | ZDNet

| From: James Knott via talk | On 2020-01-23 11:42 AM, D. Hugh Redelmeier via talk wrote: | > This means that it will ill-become them to legally stomp on WINE. | > That's a Good Thing. But it isn't working to improve WINE. | | 'The Wine 5.0 update | <https://source.winehq.org/git

Re: [GTALUG] Wine for running Windows 10 apps on Linux gets big upgrade | ZDNet

| From: James Knott via talk | Microsoft is working to improve Wine on Linux: | | https://www.zdnet.com/article/wine-for-running-windows-10-apps-on-linux-gets-big-upgrade/ | | And Android too: | |

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