Re: [GTALUG] ThinkPads on special

| From: Nicholas Krause via talk | Probably not after reading the article its just a better binned chip as the | others can hit 35 watts but are binned for 45. The part that Asus has exclusively is 35w vs 45w for the best part Lenovo can get, with otherwise identical specs. (There may be a

Re: [GTALUG] ThinkPads on special

| From: Nicholas Krause via talk | Maybe that explains it better as Asus as started switching over their end high | laptops to Ryzen with the 4000 series at CES this year, In return (apparently) AMD has given them six months of exclusive use of Ryzen 7 4800HS. This looks to be a quite

Re: [GTALUG] ThinkPads on special

| From: Lennart Sorensen via talk | On Wed, Jan 22, 2020 at 07:38:35AM -0500, Giles Orr via talk wrote: | > This seems to be a yearly event: RedFlagDeals points out that | > ThinkPads are on special (many 45% off). Given their popularity on | > this list and their known compatibility with

Re: [GTALUG] server question

| From: John Sellens via talk | You want a server name (FQDN) that works internally, but not externally. | Just stick it in DNS. Right. Here's a way you could do it. Certainly not the only way. I run BIND on a public IP address. But it is also on my LAN. For the public, it could be

[GTALUG] Fedora user? Try "sudo dnf autoremove"

I've got a bunch of machines that I've updated to Fedora 31 from a previous version using dnf: On several machines I get a scary notification error message every time I boot. Software Updates Failed Error

[GTALUG] dinner before meeting tomorrow night

Traditionally we meet for dinner ahead of GTALUG meetings. All are welcome. Location: we never manage to negotiate this ahead of time so we default to Kabul Express, a fine choice Time: 18:00 (nominal start time). Some dishes

[GTALUG] OOPS: Re: dinner before meeting tonight

NEXT WEEK. I got ahead of myself. Thanks Nick. --- Post to this mailing list talk@gtalug.org Unsubscribe from this mailing list https://gtalug.org/mailman/listinfo/talk

[GTALUG] dinner before meeting tonight

As you will remember, there is a meeting tonight. I've enclosed the announcement. Traditionally, we meet for dinner ahead of time. All are welcome. Location: we never manage to negotiate this ahead of time so we default to Kabul Express, a fine choice

Re: [GTALUG] Rust intro

| From: Tom Low-Shang via talk | I'm interested in your thoughts on Rust if you attended the talk. The talk was mostly a guided creation of a program. So I don't think that it answered any of your questions. | I'm currently learning Rust the old fashioned hacker way (from books and | other

Re: [GTALUG] 10TB drive seen as a 2TB drive (twice?)

| From: Evan Leibovitch via talk | It's not an Xmas present as it was bought a few weeks ago, but I'm trying | to install a 10TB WD (Red Pro) disk and it's not exactly going to plan. Red Pro seem to be "top of the line". I think that it doesn't use SMR (good), but I don't know. You don't say

Re: [GTALUG] DNS-over-HTTPS - what's the use?

2:45 AM, D. Hugh Redelmeier via talk wrote: | > | From: Nicholas Krause via talk | > We've been able to afford both of these for quite some time. | Not 256bit or higher it seems which matters. Its not the | algorithm but the number of bits and this goes for SHA | as well. (Hashes and s

Re: [GTALUG] DNS-over-HTTPS - what's the use?

| From: Nicholas Krause via talk | On 12/23/19 5:43 PM, D. Hugh Redelmeier via talk wrote: | > It is horrible that we haven't transitioned to DNSsec. DNS is the | > single worst technical weakness with no excuse. It's been 20 years of | > almost no adoption. | That's true

Re: [GTALUG] DNS-over-HTTPS - what's the use?

| From: Giles Orr via talk | Firefox now makes available DNS-over-HTTPS. I'm a big fan of security | and privacy, but I'm struggling to see the gains here: we stop some | hypothetical observer from finding out what domain name we're querying | ... and then immediately turn around and ask that

Re: [GTALUG] [OT] Phishing is no mirage...

| From: Russell Reiter via talk | I agree that many newcomers face significant barriers through a lack of | understanding of Canada's system of administrative law and the policies | which underpin it. However, as much we would like to believe law concerns | itself with vulnerable folks, that is

Re: [GTALUG] [OT] Phishing is no mirage...

| From: Russell Reiter via talk "fiduciary duty" "injunctive relief" "trust" I don't think that these legal words mean what you think they mean. They are fairly technical. Using them lends an air of expertise. Unless you use them carelessly. That has the opposite effect. | You could

Re: [GTALUG] [OT] Phishing is no mirage...

| From: Karen Lewellen via talk | That is a fine resource. it stateshowever that while the practice of asking | for a SIN in private company sectors is strongly discouraged, it is not | illegal. | Which is a dreadful shame, because I have encountered more than my share of | real estate

Re: [GTALUG] another unique store gone: Above All Electronic Surplus

| From: Stewart C. Russell via talk | Losing Active Surplus a few years back was bad, but this one seems worse: | long-established electronic surplus/weird stuff/junk store Above All | Electronic Surplus (635 Bloor W, at Euclid) is closed. I blame me, and people like me. We stopped giving them

[GTALUG] Rust intro tonight (free)

I don't know anything about General Assembly but they are hosting a "Practical Introduction to Rust" at 18:30 Thursday (today). You need to register. It is given by a Blad Filippov of Mozilla Preparation:

Re: [GTALUG] How much do you know about how linux executes binaries?

| From: Lennart Sorensen via talk | root@ECA:~# cd /var | root@ECA:/var# mv core.* /* [clearly that trailing * was not meant to be there] | [bunch of errors about target already existing] "/*" matched every name in / (not dotfiles) The last name matched was /var. We know this because of

Re: [GTALUG] Graphics cards - - - too much 'joy'

| From: Lennart Sorensen via talk | On Fri, Dec 06, 2019 at 08:50:46AM -0500, D. Hugh Redelmeier via talk wrote: | > <https://www.moddiy.com/pages/Power-Supply-Connectors-and-Pinouts.html> | On the 6pin PCIe power, 2 are 12V, 2 are GND, one is sense, and one is | either not connect

Re: [GTALUG] Graphics cards - - - too much 'joy'

| From: o1bigtenor via talk | On Fri, Dec 6, 2019 at 7:50 AM D. Hugh Redelmeier via talk | wrote: | > <https://allpinouts.org/pinouts/connectors/power_supply/pci-express-pcie-6pin-power/> | > <https://allpinouts.org/pinouts/connectors/power_supply/pci-express-

Re: [GTALUG] Graphics cards - - - too much 'joy'

| From: o1bigtenor via talk | Can find pin outs - - - - none of the cable pics are clear enough to count | the number of individual runs.

Re: [GTALUG] Graphics cards - - - too much 'joy'

| From: o1bigtenor via talk | On Thu, Dec 5, 2019 at 5:29 PM D. Hugh Redelmeier via talk | wrote: | > Did your power supply have a lead with a 6-pin connector for the power | > input on the RX570? Was it capable of supplying 120W? Sorry, I should have said 8-pin or 6+2 pin (if my

Re: [GTALUG] Graphics cards - - - too much 'joy'

| From: Nicholas Krause via talk | On 12/4/19 8:52 PM, o1bigtenor via talk wrote: | > Nvidia card and the system is working just fine. Tried the Radeon | > RX570 again this time only plugging in 1 monitor - - - - the gpu light | > do come on but I can't tell if much further is happening. | Do

[GTALUG] bug in Intel processors (Skylake and later)

Intel has found a bug in these processors. The bug must be commonly triggered because I've noticed no reports. Their fix is to patch the microcode in such a way as to turn off one of their accelerations for any conditional

Re: [GTALUG] [GTALUG-Announce] Meeting on Tuesday, November 12 at 07:30 PM

| * 6:00 pm - Please discuss on the general mailing list (i.e. ) where you want to go for dinner. About dinner: we seem to fail to discuss this. So some of us just show up at Kabul Express. More would be welcome! Perhaps we should

[GTALUG] Semiaccurate: misleading Intel messaging

Semiaccurate is a site that mostly discusses technical details of new chips. Very insightful and opinionated. And sometimes wrong (hence the name). Yesterday they published scathing article on Intel's messaging. I thought it was well-worth reading. Note: they want you to subscribe (not

Re: [GTALUG] TekSavvy or Rogers blocking apt user agent

| From: Jamon Camisso via talk | Well this is a new low: | | https://askubuntu.com/questions/1185612/apt-get-stuck-on-waiting-for-headers/1185713 | | Mind-boggling that it is/was even an issue at an ISP & HTTP level. | | Either they have a giant whitelist of browser agents to maintain, or a

[GTALUG] nice post on fixing performance bugs in Gnome Shell

From a Ubuntu developer. I'm glad they are contributing. Longish. --- Post to this mailing list talk@gtalug.org Unsubscribe from this mailing list

[GTALUG] rr: debugging using replays

[I previously sent this to the libreswan developers list.] I don't use gdb much. Consequently I'm clumsy using it. Consequently I don't use gdb much. This tool looks like it might make gdb a lot more useful: It is a Mozilla research project. But at this

Re: [GTALUG] X270 for $559

| From: William Park via talk | https://www.lenovo.com/ca/en/laptops/thinkpad/thinkpad-x/ThinkPad-X270/p/20K6S0X900 | | I bought similar spec'ed refurbished T450 for $315, but this one is new. - old-ish processor: i5-6300U. Not terrible. - 1368 x 768 screen resolution + up to 13 hours

[GTALUG] "Discovering Hard Disk Physical Geometry through Microbenchmarking"

This goes quite deeply into HDD geometry. Probably a waste of time for most people, but I found it facinating. --- Post to this mailing list talk@gtalug.org Unsubscribe from this mailing list

Re: [GTALUG] getting Firefox to exploit GPU

| From: Alex Volkov via talk | Web render seems to be already enabled in Windows for Nvidia and AMD cards. | | https://wiki.mozilla.org/Platform/GFX/WebRender_Where I think that the title over the tables is wrong. "Where have we shipped WebRender?" should be "Where have we

Re: [GTALUG] getting Firefox to exploit GPU

| From: Alex Volkov via talk | I want to try this out on my GPU. Is there an easy way to benchmark | performance in firefox? An excellent question. I don't know anything about that. I'm sure that there are lots of benchmarks "out there". - many will stress JavaScript performance --

[GTALUG] getting Firefox to exploit GPU

By default, on Linux, Firefox does not use the GPU for rendering web pages. You can enable this by a setting in about:config gfx.webrender.all Change that from false to true I don't actually know that much about the performance impact. Apparently Mozilla leaves this off just to

Re: [GTALUG] Economist article on open source

| From: Stewart C. Russell via talk | On 2019-10-03 1:37 p.m., Evan Leibovitch via talk wrote: | > | > https://www.economist.com/leaders/2019/10/05/the-rise-of-open-source-computing | | It's paywalled, Yeah. You can register for free and read a very small number of articles each month. I

Re: [GTALUG] Economist article on open source

| From: Evan Leibovitch via talk | On Thu, 3 Oct 2019 at 13:45, James Knott via talk wrote: | > One example of that influence is Microsoft recently announcing a phone | > that runs Android! | That's not an embrace of Linux, just a declaration of defeat for crappy | mobile OSs. Just ask

[GTALUG] OT: Windows on 32G disk: how and why [was Re: some USB sticks are slow!]

| From: dbmacg--- via talk | I never did get Win10 running on an HP laptop with a 32Gb drive. I gave up | and went Linux, which now leaves me about 21 gb to work with. Windows runs fine-ish on a 32GB (not 33Gb) drive. Windows Update sometimes gets into trouble. Usually when a big change is

Re: [GTALUG] some USB sticks are slow!

| From: D. Hugh Redelmeier via talk | SanDisk Cruzer Glide 16GB USB stick | 7135559680 bytes (7.1 GB, 6.6 GiB) copied, 1560.63 s, 4.6 MB/s | real26m4.152s Corsair Voyager SliderX1 32G stick: 7135559680 bytes (7.1 GB, 6.6 GiB) copied, 279.491 s, 25.5 MB/s real

[GTALUG] some USB sticks are slow!

I bought some inexpensive SanDisk Cruzer Glide 16GB USB sticks from Walmart last year. Cheap. Today I copied the CentOS 8 installation image onto one. time sudo dd if=CentOS-8-x86_64-1905-dvd1.iso of=/dev/sdg oflag=direct bs=16M (I used a USB 3 port on my dessktop.) It seemed to take a

Re: [GTALUG] anyone here build pro computer workstations?

| From: Karen Lewellen via talk | On Tue, 17 Sep 2019, Lennart Sorensen via talk wrote: | | > | > When was the last time there was a decent Mac Pro available? Maybe the | > new model this fall will help, but they have been terrible for quite a | > few years now. | | To be sure! while I

Re: [GTALUG] "Atom Pi"

| From: Stewart C. Russell via talk | Something like 28,000. There's a bit more on the Mayfield Robotics Kuri, the | machine that had the Atomic Pi as its core, here: | https://hackaday.com/2019/06/06/the-atomic-pi-is-it-worth-it/ That review's opinion is brutal. It also fills in a bunch of

Re: [GTALUG] "Atom Pi"

| From: Stewart Russell via talk | On Mon., Sep. 16, 2019, 12:30 D. Hugh Redelmeier via talk, | wrote: | | > ... I just assumed that it was some surplus board that was | > being blown out. Maybe it is. | > | | It is. It's from a home server thing that bankrupted the develop

Re: [GTALUG] "Atom Pi"

| From: Ansar Mohammed via talk | It seems that power is supplied through GPIO. Yes. | So some soldering is required. I think that the "baby breakout" and the "large breakout" (404 so maybe no longer available) do this task. They plug into the expansion sockets and then are screwed down.

[GTALUG] "Atom Pi"

This is an inexpensive Atom-based Single-Board Computer (SBC). It created a flurry on Amazon a few months ago and then seemed to go out of stock. I just assumed that it was some surplus board that was being blown out. Maybe it is. Now it is being sold by AmeriDroid, a distributor/vendor of

[GTALUG] detecting whether a recipient has read email you sent

In Evan's talk, he showed how the mailing list software he used could report how many recipients had read each message. I asked how that worked. This devolved into a discussion with more heat than light. So I looked into this a bit. I was puzzled because, generally speaking, mail servers talk

[GTALUG] York University WiFi and Certificate Authority root certificates

We needed to set up WiFi on a notebook with Fedora at York University. The IT staff were steadfastly unhelpful. I'm posting this in case someone else needs to set up WiFi at York. This page is for Students:

Re: [GTALUG] Script to show HTTP(S) and TLS details for a website

| From: William Park via talk | Hmm, minor personal irritant about variable assigment: | var=$(...) | is enough. You don't need to do | var="$(...)" I think that getting quotes right in sh is hard. I support the simplest rule that works: Always double-quote a $ thing UNLESS it must

Re: [GTALUG] Decrypting and Re-encrypting Network Traffic

| From: Mike via talk | A TLS/SSL Man In The Middle (MITM) requires your browser to negotiate | TLS with the MITM, and the MITM goes out onto the Internet to | (separately) negotiate TLS with the site you are trying to connect to. Right. Your browser must be fooled into thinking that the MITM

Re: [GTALUG] Unix at 50: How the OS that powered smartphones started from failure | Ars Technica

| From: Dave Collier-Brown via talk | The Multicians group has commented on this article at length: "puffery | after the fact" is probably a kind characterization. Is this the closed Yahoo Group? Is there a place to look at this on the web? I lived through the non-Multics part. I thought

Re: [GTALUG] legal history of university AUPs, was Re: For Chris: Commodore BASIC as a scripting language

| From: D. Joe via talk An excellent and informative post. | Amongst those of us of a certain age in the US, who don't have legal | training, I suspect the lore persists that copyright restrictions apply | only if the copyright for the work has been registered--this used to be | true in

[GTALUG] your desktop too boring? Rice it!

Personally, I like a boring desktop. I found this from a blog post: This guy has a nice collection of old computers (in Cambridge, Ontario):

[GTALUG] AMD firmware update removes PCI 4.0 support on some motherboards

One of the features of the latest round of Ryzen chips is support for PCI 4.0. In practice, PCI 4.0 isn't very important yet: current video cards don't saturate PCI 3.x and neither do NVMe SSDs. But NVMe SSDs that exploit PCI 4.0 are starting to be announced. There is a chicken and egg

Re: [GTALUG] For Chris: Commodore BASIC as a scripting language

| From: Stewart C. Russell via talk | On 2019-08-14 6:34 p.m., Chris F.A. Johnson via talk wrote: | >    It was Northcastle Structured BASIC, and here is the article I wrote | >    on it for the TPUG Magazine: | >    https://archive.org/details/tpug-newsletter-23/page/n21 Chris J: Thanks for

Re: [GTALUG] Linux Kernel Allows 0.0.0.0/8 as a Valid Address Range

| From: Val Kulkov via talk | While seemingly promoting adoption of IPv6 Google refuses to implement | DHCPv6 in Android OS. See this article: | https://www.techrepublic.com/article/androids-lack-of-dhcpv6-support-frustrates-enterprise-network-admins/ What's wrong with the recommendations of

Re: [GTALUG] Linux Kernel Allows 0.0.0.0/8 as a Valid Address Range

| From: James Knott via talk | On 2019-08-14 12:20 PM, Russell Reiter wrote: | > all that equipment we | > juat sold you a few years ago is obsolete now, you will have to | > upgrade or lose service. | | Actually, in some ways the developing world is ahead of the game here.  | They didn't

Re: [GTALUG] Linux Kernel Allows 0.0.0.0/8 as a Valid Address Range

| From: James Knott via talk | https://www.technotification.com/2019/08/linux-kernel-allows-0-0-0-0-8-as-a-valid-address-range.html I don't know the reason for this. I'm too lazy to look right now. But I do trust the proponents that were listed. Not that I always agree with them but their

Re: [GTALUG] For Chris: Commodore BASIC as a scripting language

| From: Stewart Russell via talk | This is not a place of honour:. | | https://github.com/mist64/cbmbasic This doesn't have the Waterloo BASIC extensions to Commodore BASIC. Too bad. --- Post to this mailing list talk@gtalug.org Unsubscribe from this mailing list

Re: [GTALUG] [GTALUG-Announce] Meeting Tomorrow, Aug 13 at 7:30pm

| From: Stewart C. Russell via talk | > Tech Depot (for off-lease stuff and other fascinating junk). | | TechSource, maybe? Sure. They used to be one company but they had a schism. There's still one in a strip mall on the north side of Sheppard, west of Allen Rd. | Tech Depot's in

Re: [GTALUG] [GTALUG-Announce] Meeting Tomorrow, Aug 13 at 7:30pm

| From: D. Joe via talk | I plan to make it around the end of the lake and to roll into town in | plenty of time to make the meeting, possibly any dinner that's planned | if I learn of it in time. Great! | > George Vari Engineering and Computing Centre | > 245 Church Street, Room 203 | >

Re: [GTALUG] Running Dell branded Nvidia gtx 1060 in non-dell system

| From: xerofoify via talk | | On Mon, Aug 12, 2019 at 6:11 PM D. Hugh Redelmeier via talk | wrote: | > <https://www.intel.com/content/dam/www/public/us/en/documents/manuals/64-ia-32-architectures-software-developer-vol-1-manual.pdf> | > | > "Intel(TM) 64 and IA-32 A

Re: [GTALUG] Running Dell branded Nvidia gtx 1060 in non-dell system

| From: xerofoify via talk | For reference yes thats correct Hugh. If you look through the Intel | Assembly Manual it probably mentions | it there . By "it", I understand you to mean "PCIe 3.0 support". That's a bit odd for an "Assembly Manual". Do you mean this manual?

Re: [GTALUG] Script to show HTTP(S) and TLS details for a website

| From: William Park via talk | 1. You don't need quotes in variable assignments like | var="$(...)" | var="$var1" True. Even if var1 has whitespace. But the quotes are harmless. The rule I aspire to following: Quote all shell variable references EXCEPT when they must

Re: [GTALUG] Running Dell branded Nvidia gtx 1060 in non-dell system

| From: Alex Volkov via talk | The other system I have is from 4 years ago, based on AM3+ platform, so it's | only has PCI v2 (there's a mention of PCI v3 requirements in ROCm | documentation), probably no exposed CRAT tables, and sketchy IOMMU support. | Just installing the card into it would

Re: [GTALUG] War Story: Asus UX305ca SSD failures

| From: Alvin Starr via talk | The old 78RPM recordings were made of a shellac material that I believe was | more resilient than vinyl but both the masters and produced records were | subject to degradation with use. I gave away my grandmother's 78s to someone who promised to digitize them and

Re: [GTALUG] War Story: Asus UX305ca SSD failures

| From: Alvin Starr via talk | It would be interesting to see the bit densities over time from stone | tablets(how would cave paintings count?)  to the latest production storage | systems. | It would also be interesting to know how many people had access to the storage | media over time. That

Re: [GTALUG] nvme SSD: critical medium error, dev nvme0n1

| From: Stewart C. Russell via talk | I just wish the old drive had the smarts to remap bad sectors. There | were a couple of files that *always* caused kernel errors, but enough | space that files could be moved/made lost+found. I'm pretty sure that the drive can remap those bad "sectors".

Re: [GTALUG] Running Dell branded Nvidia gtx 1060 in non-dell system

| From: xerofoify via talk | On Tue, Aug 6, 2019 at 4:23 PM Alex Volkov via talk wrote: | I don't know how much your intending to do with that GPU or otherwise. He said he wants to do human (himself) learning about machine learning. Less cute way of saying this: he want to experiment and

Re: [GTALUG] nvme SSD: critical medium error, dev nvme0n1

| From: Stewart C. Russell via talk | Drive is a 2+ year old Intel 512 GB SSD. | data_units_read : 10,349,479 | data_units_written : 10,098,299 I wonder what a unit is. A logical sector (512 or 4096 bytes)? The ratio of those numbers surprises me.

Re: [GTALUG] War Story: Asus UX305ca SSD failures

| From: Lennart Sorensen via talk | A low end SSD can usually last 1000 writes. That is 1000 writes to | every block and it does wear leveling. There is the invisible problem of "write amplification". Does write amplification count against the official endurance specifications? If so, the

Re: [GTALUG] Raspberry Pi 4

| From: Kevin Cozens via talk | I found one Canadian authorized seller (afaict as they are listed on the RPi | site when you click on Buy Now) that has decent prices and shipping. It is | buyapi.ca and they appear to be showing that 1GB and 2GB models are in stock. | I'm still waiting on the

Re: [GTALUG] Running Dell branded Nvidia gtx 1060 in non-dell system

| From: Alex Volkov via talk | I have another system with Ryzen 5 2400G and was hoping to run ROCm on it, but | as it turns out -- ROCm doesn't fully support AMD cards with built-in | graphics. I still can install discreet card into that system but the solution | is not as cheap as getting a

[GTALUG] interesting article and comments about UCS-16, UTF-16, UTF-8

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20600195 There are so many hairy details! UTF-8 gets a bit less coverage since it has fewer hairy details. From this I learned that Java and JavaScript now have optimizations to use LATIN-1 when they can. Normally they use UTF-16 (originally UCS-16). I

Re: [GTALUG] War Story: Asus UX305ca SSD failures

| From: Alvin Starr via talk | The lesson should be don't buy the least expensive product if you want | reliability. Not in this case. | Most manufacturers will produce products that are scaled back with the least | expensive components. Not exactly the case for notebooks. For one thing

Re: [GTALUG] War Story: Asus UX305ca SSD failures

| From: Howard Gibson via talk |When I bought a hard drive at Best Buy, I asked about SSDs. Seeking advice from Best Buy isn't a great idea. Q: What's the difference between a used car salesperson and a computer salesperson? A: The used car salesperson knows that

Re: [GTALUG] War Story: Asus UX305ca SSD failures

| From: William Park via talk | Lesson here: Don't buy Asus laptop, if you want reliability. Can you expand on that? --- Post to this mailing list talk@gtalug.org Unsubscribe from this mailing list https://gtalug.org/mailman/listinfo/talk

[GTALUG] War Story: Asus UX305ca SSD failures

We bought two Asus ux305ca notebooks about three years ago. The Microsoft Store had a remarkably good deal on them. I'm not the only GTALUGger to buy this notebook. Two years ago one of the m.2 SATA SSDs suddenly stopped working. If I remember correctly, it didn't even show up as a disk.

Re: [GTALUG] Running Dell branded Nvidia gtx 1060 in non-dell system

| From: Alex Volkov via talk | I'm looking to buy used Nvidia GeForce GXT 1060 to run some ML | tutorials. The advantage of nvidia over AMD is wider support. CUDA is nvidia-only (but AMD's ROCm is intended to be easy to port to from CUDA). The disadvantage is that nvidia's stuff is closed

Re: [GTALUG] Recommendations for useful laptop suitable for Ubuntu

| From: William Park via talk | There is too much talking on this list, and not enough action. I'm not sure what "action" means on a mailing list. | Consider | Lenovo T450 for $330: | | I bought one last year, better spec at

Re: [GTALUG] Recommendations for useful laptop suitable for Ubuntu

| From: Alex Beamish via talk | On Mon, Jul 15, 2019 at 10:09 AM D. Hugh Redelmeier via talk < | talk@gtalug.org> wrote: | It worked fine at the June meeting of the Perlmongers, sharing a Google | Hangouts session. The next day, it wouldn't boot -- couldn't even get it to | POST. U

Re: [GTALUG] Recommendations for useful laptop suitable for Ubuntu

| From: Alex Beamish via talk | My Windows 10 laptop died pretty close to its fifth birthday, so I'm | planning on replacing it with a Linux laptop. I gave a lightning talk to GTALUG on how I ideosyncratically choose a notebook. Note the late

Re: [GTALUG] Ryzen 3000 CPUs vs Linux

| From: Christopher Browne via talk | This sure seems to point at rdrand being a scary feature to consider using. I put the blame squarely on AMD. They've botched rdrand a couple of times. It's not really our job to wonder if instructions aren't implemented correctly. Imagine if FDIV didn't

Re: [GTALUG] Ryzen 3000 CPUs vs Linux

Here's the commit that lets systemd survive the AMD rdrand bug. The comments are interesting too. --- Talk Mailing List talk@gtalug.org https://gtalug.org/mailman/listinfo/talk

[GTALUG] Ryzen 3000 CPUs vs Linux

These barnd new chips look really attractive. Unfortunately, most resent Linux distros fail to boot on them. Debian 10 is apparently OK. The central problem is (another!) bug in AMD's implementation of the rdrand instruction. This shows up because systemd 240 and later tries to actually use

[GTALUG] overflow checking [was Re: A find alternative: fselect]

| From: David Mason via talk | You can turn the checks on, but see this discussion about the default:  https://github.com/rust-lang/rust/issues/47739 Thanks. The issue isn't "resolved" so I guess that the default has not been changed. One comment pointed at this which I found fascinating:

Re: [GTALUG] A find alternative: fselect

| From: D. Hugh Redelmeier via talk | Rust does a few things that are relevant (I think -- I've not actually | used Rust): | - unfortunately, I think that Rust only catches integer overflow in | debug mode. That's a mistake, but it's probably because checking is | considered too expensive

[GTALUG] curation [was Re: A find alternative: fselect]

| From: Lennart Sorensen via talk | On Thu, Jun 13, 2019 at 10:06:37PM -0700, Dhaval Giani via talk wrote: | > I agree with you on this, but also seeing how some libraries get | > developed/updated (I am looking you, npm), I can see why some | > programmers prefer static libraries. | | But npm

Re: [GTALUG] A find alternative: fselect

| From: David Mason via talk | I was unclear. I completely agree that in the C/Assembly world, | bug-fixes are almost always security related. In the Rust world, | security bugs are very hard to create (not impossible, but hard), so | most *Rust* bug-fixes are bugs for sure, but not security

[GTALUG] updates and shared libraries [was Re: A find alternative: fselect]

TL;DR: managing package change: in distro or around distro I've written a long message because I think that this is one of the key tensions in the Linux world. I'd like to understand the solution space better. | From: o1bigtenor via talk | Given what you have described I'm wondering if 'Go'

Re: [GTALUG] A find alternative: fselect

| From: o1bigtenor via talk | > Rust culture and practice doesn't seem to like shared libraries.. I do. | > (Just like I find the update model for persistent containers unfortunate.) | would you please explain the above last statement? As I understand it, Rust programs are statically linked.

Re: [GTALUG] A find alternative: fselect

| From: Christopher Browne via talk | $ fselect path, size from ~/Downloads where size gt 30mb order by size desc limit 25 That looks pretty ugly too. | FYI, fselect is written in Rust, and has a goodly number of ("painfully | large number of") dependencies, quasi-self-managed via the

[GTALUG] reminder, Tuesday night: MyRocks 101

The speaker will be Peter Sylvester. Here's the first of a series of blog posts he wrote about MyRocks: | To: annou...@gtalug.org | Date: Fri, 24 May 2019 14:22:29 -0400 (EDT) | Subject: [GTALUG]

Re: [GTALUG] GNU Cauldron for GCC This Year

| From: nick via talk | I was wondering if anyone else here is attending the GNU Cauldron | this year for GCC. For those interested: - in Montreal - 2019 September 12-15 - submission deadline: 2019 July 31 --- Talk Mailing List talk@gtalug.org

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

| From: Lennart Sorensen via talk Thanks for this informative message. | To: D. Hugh Redelmeier , GTALUG Talk | | On Sat, Jun 01, 2019 at 05:39:15PM -0400, D. Hugh Redelmeier via talk wrote: | > HDR (High Dynamic Range) means a confusing variety of things, | > especially after marketi

Re: [GTALUG] SSH Host tab completion

| From: Scott Sullivan via talk | I suspect you have indeed run into the difference between: | | Interactive Login shell | Interactive Non-Login shell | Non-Interactive Login shell | Non-Interactive Non-Login shell | | .bashrc is called in almost all cases, .bash_profile only in some and bash

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

| From: Evan Leibovitch via talk | Subject: Re: [GTALUG] war story: fixing an LCD TV | I'd like to take the opportunity of this thread to ask about the | suitability of using a TV as a computer monitor. I've been mentioning this on the mailing list for almost 4 years. | Right now I have a dual

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

| From: D. Hugh Redelmeier via talk | - sometime companies just exploit the delay between cheapening | a product and the marketplace recognizing that effect. | | [Porche makes SUVs! RCA, Westinghouse, Marantz, ...] Of course these were pretty off-brand for Porsche too: <ht

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

| From: Don Tai via talk | I don't think you can get a TV or monitor that is not made in China, but | someone please tell me I'm wrong. Sharp had Japanese factories. They had Mexican factories. Those are places that the old TV might have been manufactured. The more you look at it, the more

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

| From: James Knott via talk | FWIW, I recently took a 42" Sharp TV to the recycling centre.  I bought | a new 43" Sharp for $349.  That's getting close to what a repair is | likely to cost.  Much of my career has been in repair, though not TVs.  | I've often realized it's better to toss &

[GTALUG] war story: fixing an LCD TV

My 39" UltraHD TV, the one that I used as my main computer monitor for almost four years, stopped working. The symptom was that it just would not turn on. The status light below the screen stayed red, meaning something like "standby". Normally it turns blue when I'm using it. Googling and

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