[GTALUG] Intel Bay Trail bug fixed in 5.3!

Bay Trail is a family of processors/SoCs introduced in 2013. They were ubiquitous. And they suffered hangs under Linux. The work-around has been to turn off some power-saving capabilities, crippling the

[GTALUG] the meaning of Core i[3579] (was: NUC NUC NUC)

TL;DR: Intel uses brands. We care about technology. Sometimes brands map cleanly onto technology, but sometimes they don't. You cannot trust that mapping. | From: Lennart Sorensen via talk | Yeah the i7 is becoming very inconsistent in gen 9. A few high end | ones have kept SMT, while the

Re: [GTALUG] NUC NUC NUC

| From: Russell Reiter via talk | On Mon, May 20, 2019 at 11:42 AM D. Hugh Redelmeier via talk < | talk@gtalug.org> wrote: | > Why do you think that this was heat-related? It might be, but that | > would not be my first guess. (I am not an expert on this.) | | Apparently, at leas

Re: [GTALUG] Google suspends some business with Huawei

| From: Kevin Cozens via talk | Have any of the allegations against Huawei been proven or is Trump just doing | this based on suspicions or rumours similar to the claims made that Russians | tampered with a US election? There are several kinds of allegations against Huawei. I assume that you

Re: [GTALUG] NUC NUC NUC

| From: Russell Reiter via talk | Optane was intended to be a cache memory to increase the performance of | conventional spinning HD's under Windows OS. However, I've been booting | Fedora from both a 500gb SSD and 32gb Optane Nvme as I tinker with my own | desktop. I think Optane is just a

[GTALUG] Google suspends some business with Huawei

This looks like it will affect Huawei Android phones. It looks like Google is being forced by the US Federal government. Google

Re: [GTALUG] NUC NUC NUC

| From: Giles Orr via talk | Lennart: One problem with claiming "my 6 year old X has higher specs" is | that it doesn't account for the generational differences in the Intel | chips. Our desktops got "upgraded" at work, but I was thoroughly | unimpressed because we went from an i5 to an i5, and

Re: [GTALUG] NUC NUC NUC

| From: Evan Leibovitch via talk | I am currently looking at two NUC-form-factor barebones systems that use | the 8th gen Intel i7, an Intel model available through CC | $679.00 There is supposed to be one in

Re: [GTALUG] NUC NUC NUC

| From: Lennart Sorensen via talk | My 6 year old laptop has higher specs than that NUC, never mind what my | 6 year old desktop has in it. I guess they were a bit overkill at the | time and the reason I haven't had to upgrade anything in years (and | still don't). 1) yes they were overkill.

Re: [GTALUG] NUC NUC NUC

| From: Evan Leibovitch via talk | I'm looking to upgrade my PC that's served me well for about 8 years, but | it's starting to be unreliable and I can't upgrade the RAM beyond 4GB. Unreliable: probably not worth the effort to diagnose. Can't upgrade beyond 4G: Really? My 8-year-old desktop

Re: [GTALUG] surprisingly okay laser printer on special at Canada Computers: Brother DCP-L2550DW

| From: Lennart Sorensen via talk | I still hold a grudge against their laser printers from 20 years ago. | I dealt with one that claimed LJ III compatible, but the margins it had | were wider than the LJ III so pages were cut off if you used the driver | it claimed you could use. That is NOT

Re: [GTALUG] surprisingly okay laser printer on special at Canada Computers: Brother DCP-L2550DW

TL;DR: lots of minutiae about buying and using Brother printers. | From: Stewart C. Russell via talk I agree that Brother laser printers seem to work pretty well. Almost all the laser printers I've bought have been brothers. It's hard to tease out information that matters to linux users.

Re: [GTALUG] Free printer and scanner

| From: William Park via talk | I have | | 1. Epson WorkForce WF-2650 -- all-in-one printer Epson "DURABrite" inks are pigment-based. This means that the pages should last a

Re: [GTALUG] of routers and access points

| From: Don Tai via talk I'm confused about the network topology you are describing. | Why don't you let the router do all the router work, such as Wifi, routing, | DHCP, DNS, etc? Which router is "the" router? Bell's modem/router or your (non-Bell) router? | I have my router RJ45'd to my

Re: [GTALUG] Installing Anaconda with Python 3 on 32 bit linux (Ubuntu ver 16.04 )

| From: o1bigtenor via talk | I'm | finding that | there are some elements in *nix land that are insisting that because users | are so very very lax at updating their systems that the distro must itself | not only offer the updates but that said updates MUST happen. It is perhaps reasonable

Re: [GTALUG] Installing Anaconda with Python 3 on 32 bit linux (Ubuntu ver 16.04 )

| From: o1bigtenor via talk | On Fri, Apr 19, 2019 at 1:02 PM D. Hugh Redelmeier via talk | wrote: | > As a Linux user, it has been very convenient to delegate several | > software maintenance tasks to the distro: | > | > - selecting | > - security auditing | > - configu

Re: [GTALUG] Installing Anaconda with Python 3 on 32 bit linux (Ubuntu ver 16.04 )

| From: Stewart C. Russell via talk | One gotcha I had with Anaconda was that it usurped the system Python | interpreter[s] in the user's path. Your /usr/bin/python won't change, | but the one seen by env as a user might. Causes endless fun when | installing packages. Thanks for the warning.

Re: [GTALUG] string representation is tricky

| From: Stewart C. Russell via talk | On 2019-04-16 10:36 p.m., D. Hugh Redelmeier via talk wrote: | > | > Java, Python before 3, Javascript, Microsoft's C and C++, the Jolliete | > filesystem, the NT File system, and many other things use UTF-8. | | You meant to say UTF-16? Yes

[GTALUG] string representation is tricky

In some recent context, probably GTALUG-related, that UTF-16 is dumb. That it is the worst of two worlds: that not all characters could be represented as a single 16-bit value, that byte-order issues arise in byte streams of UTF-16, that UTF-16 is wasteful for representing ASCII. Java, Python

Re: [GTALUG] a simple security solution?

I think many of the respondents are giving answers without an important piece of the puzzle. Karen: I seem to remember that your vision is quite limited. Would you be able to get anything out of the playback of a video? If you cannot view a video directly, I don't think that any of the

Re: [GTALUG] "93% of Paint Splatters are Valid Perl Programs"

| From: Kevin Cozens via talk | Um... when was that published? It feels like an April fools joke to me. It's in the 2019 volume. And do read the footnotes. --- Talk Mailing List talk@gtalug.org https://gtalug.org/mailman/listinfo/talk

[GTALUG] "93% of Paint Splatters are Valid Perl Programs"

I found this worth reading. --- Talk Mailing List talk@gtalug.org https://gtalug.org/mailman/listinfo/talk

Re: [GTALUG] Dell servers for cheap

| From: Stewart C. Russell via talk | via Seneca: Thanks. I always like to hear about this kind of thing. | == Dell PowerEdge 2950 servers | | - quantity available: 22 units | - some with 2x dual core processors, others with 1x dual core processor | - 4GB RAM (8x512MB; only a few have more

Re: [GTALUG] war story: fixing a doc bug can be hard

| From: Howard Gibson via talk |I am working on a Perl app, and I have written a man page for it. I |do not expect to learn groff ever. I can hack something that seems |to work. You just have to take a sample man page and hack it into your man page. Until you need to do

[GTALUG] war story: fixing a doc bug can be easy

I was reading some of the documentation of dnf. I also built the dnf package on Fedora 29. In the process, I found (1) a spelling error (2) three error messages pointing at problems with the .rst files It wasn't too hard to figure out what the fixes should be. Since the source is on github, I

[GTALUG] war story: fixing a doc bug can be hard

I'm reading dnf(8) on Fedora 29 and get irked by the layout of the options. --disableexcludes=[all|main|], --disableexcludepkgs=[all|main|] Here's what "man dnf" shows on a terminal that is 80 columns wide. Ugly. --disableexcludes=[all|main|], --disableexcludep‐

Re: [GTALUG] Help with choosing a WiFi router

| From: David Mason via talk | We’ve had a DLINK DIR-628 for quite a while. There's a new standard since then: 802.11ac. Confusing, because there already were 802.11a and 802.11c. There's been a race to be able to claim speed in wireless routers. They use multiple antennae to allow multiple

Re: [GTALUG] reverse engineering

| From: James Knott via talk | When designers design custom chips, they rely on logic libraries, which | provide common functions, including CPUs.  So the designer would choose | a CPU, add memory and I/O and "compile" the new chip.  The libraries | contain many historic CPUs, as they provide

Re: [GTALUG] Any PET collectors?

| From: D. Hugh Redelmeier via talk | I suggest contacting Toronto Pet Users Group. They are a remarkably | long-lived group. They are having a meeting tonight! Oops, I forgot to include a link: --- Talk Mailing List talk@gtalug.org https://gtalug.org/mailman/listinfo/talk

Re: [GTALUG] Any PET collectors?

| Subject: [GTALUG] Any PET collectors? | | Not quite Linux, but I found a pair of old informational booklets “The | PET Personal Computer for Beginners”, both book 1 and 2, while I was | tidying up. They were released in Northern Ireland in 1979 by Petfolio, | and they assume that you

Re: [GTALUG] reverse engineering

| From: Kevin Cozens via talk | Very nice. The ghidra decompiler includes support for many different | processors. The list includes the Z-80. Sadly, the 6809 (my personal | favourite) and the 6800 processors are not on the list. What do you wish to reverse for the 6800 or 6809? I cannot

[GTALUG] What good is GIT's "index"?

I use git regularly. I'll admit that I use it in a stylized way. The index only seems to add confusion and complication. Is it actually useful? Background: Git has a hierarchy of copies of the object under management: - the working tree. This is the one that you actually edit and use -

[GTALUG] Western Digital's open source RISC-V core

I assume that you can put this on a FPGA, as Chris Tyler talked about on Tuesday. I haven't checked this. I think that it is in verilog, but I'm not sure. There's also an emulator:

[GTALUG] notebook deal TODAY (Pi Day)

The Microsoft Store seems to have good deals on Dell XPS 13 and XPS 15 notebooks with UltraHD displays. I really like the idea of an UltraHD display, but you might not find it useful.

[GTALUG] Last month's meeting will happen tomorrow (Tuesday)

TL;DR: the meeting and talk scheduled for last month will happen tomorrow. You will remember that last month's meeting was cancelled because of snow. Before you call GTALUG a bunch of wimps, note that Ryerson closed for snow. It looks as if the talks has been rescheduled for tomorrow. I

Re: [GTALUG] Ontario Bill 72: "Right to Repair"

| From: Don Tai via talk | | A different view from the fashion industry. Instead of making more throw | away products, make less but better quality products. It seems very old | school, and much less wasteful. Not quite the right to repair, but along | the same philosophical line. | |

Re: [GTALUG] Rogers "Anyplace TV" does not support Firefox

I was apparently too terse. | From: D. Hugh Redelmeier via talk | | From: o1bigtenor via talk | | | What about Chromium? | | No. No, Chromium didn't work either. I installed it and tried it in response to o1bigtenor's query. --- Talk Mailing List talk@gtalug.org https://gtalug.org/mailman

[GTALUG] reverse engineering

Sometimes I get annoyed at binaries for which I don't have any code. Stepping back a bit, I get annoyed at undocumented hardware for which the only drivers are closed-source, or even worse, Windows-only or Android-only. One way to pry these open is through reverse engineering tools What prompts

[GTALUG] Microsoft open sources Windows Calculator

Surely next will be MS Office! --- Talk Mailing List talk@gtalug.org https://gtalug.org/mailman/listinfo/talk

Re: [GTALUG] Rogers "Anyplace TV" does not support Firefox

| From: o1bigtenor via talk | What about Chromium? No. And I tried Crave TV too. It silently won't allow login from Firefox or Chromium on Linux. Since it is silent, I don't know what it is objecting too. --- Talk Mailing List talk@gtalug.org https://gtalug.org/mailman/listinfo/talk

Re: [GTALUG] Rogers "Anyplace TV" does not support Firefox

| From: o1bigtenor via talk | What about Chromium? Not listed. I expect that means "no". --- Talk Mailing List talk@gtalug.org https://gtalug.org/mailman/listinfo/talk

[GTALUG] Rogers "Anyplace TV" does not support Firefox

Why would that be? It claims to support MS Edge, IE 11, Chrome, and Safari. I don't have Chrome on my desktop because it is closed source. --- Talk Mailing List talk@gtalug.org https://gtalug.org/mailman/listinfo/talk

Re: [GTALUG] Ontario Bill 72: "Right to Repair"

| From: James Knott via talk | My notebook is a Lenovo ThinkPad E520, which I bought 7.5 years ago.  | It's still going strong, though I put in a larger hard drive.  I've had | a thing for ThinkPads ever since I worked at IBM in the late 90s and | most of my work was on them. I like ThinkPads.

Re: [GTALUG] Ontario Bill 72: "Right to Repair"

| From: James Knott via talk | That's a big problem these days, people put price ahead of value.  | There's an old saying, "You only get what you pay for".  With many | things, the "savings" are  less than the added cost or lost value. It depends. I often buy cheap-ish phones and computers.

[GTALUG] Ontario Bill 72: "Right to Repair"

This is a private member's bill so it is unlikely to pass. --- Talk Mailing List talk@gtalug.org

Re: [GTALUG] Spamhaus block

| From: Val Kulkov via talk | Do you have a permanent static IP address? If not, you may occasionally be | picking up a "dirty" IP address. It's clear (now) that Marc has a static IP address. It really isn't worth trying to use a dynamic IP address for mail. But I did it. I used to use a

Re: [GTALUG] FW: Problems with Ubuntu 18.10

| From: Eric Brown via talk | | Were you affected by this bug affecting Ubuntu 4.18 kernel: | https://news.softpedia.com/news/canonical-apologizes-for-another-ubuntu-linux-kernel-regression-fix-available-524892.shtml Thanks for passing that on. There's a good chance that that is Clive's

Re: [GTALUG] FW: Problems with Ubuntu 18.10

| From: Clive DaSilva via talk Note: I barely touch Ubuntu so I may be wrong in important details. | I had a problem with my recent Ubuntu 18.10 install which I thought that I | should share. I was running Ubuntu 18.04 on an older Pentium (R)Dual Core | CPU E5200 with 4 gigs of ram and things

Re: [GTALUG] Security cams question

| From: James Knott via talk | The cameras work fine with Linux, you can use any browser to access | them. I would assume that you are talking about cameras that talk IP. Often WiFi or wired with Power over Ethernet. The wires are usually the hard part of installation. There are non-IP

Re: [GTALUG] video: Benno Rice on "The Tragedy of systed"

| From: Russell Reiter via talk | These days people can laugh at the UNIX concept of connecting typewriters | but in the lexicon of the 60's the typewriter was the person and the | typwriting machine was the compositing device. Not in the 1960's. Perhaps in the 1860's. In the 1960's I had a

Re: [GTALUG] video: Benno Rice on "The Tragedy of systed"

| From: David Thornton via talk | That link did not work. I wonder why. URLs copied from a browser can have mysterious problems. Or give up personal information. Long ones with & or ? in them sometimes can be edited to remove everything after that character (eg. newegg.ca links). I've just

[GTALUG] video: Benno Rice on "The Tragedy of systed"

I think that this is pretty interesting: --- Talk Mailing List talk@gtalug.org https://gtalug.org/mailman/listinfo/talk

Re: [GTALUG] Pine Book Pro

| From: Alex Volkov via talk | It looks like Pine64 are releasing Pinebook Pro, a laptop that I'm actually | willing to pay money for and then use. Interesting. Thanks for posting. | Specs: | | * Rockchip RK3399 ; big.LITTLE Hexacore A72/A53 SOC I don't think that there are good open

Re: [GTALUG] Looking for Someone to Answer some Questions

| From: nick via talk | On 2019-01-13 11:25 a.m., D. Hugh Redelmeier via talk wrote: | > | From: nick via talk | > | > | I was wondering as I'm still in school | > | > What school? | I'm at Seneca Seneca @ York seems to be deeply involved in Linux. Is that where you are? P

Re: [GTALUG] Looking for Someone to Answer some Questions

| From: nick via talk | I was wondering as I'm still in school What school? | if anyone knows | of people who actually work in compiler design Compiler design: not a big field. Most compilers that take a team are already designed. There is a group at the IBM Toronto lab that works on their

Re: [GTALUG] laptop repair in GTA/Markham?

| From: Tim Tisdall via talk | I was hoping to at least get my data | off, but the SSD uses a M.2 interface which requires buying some sort of | adapter. m.2 sockets really common now. Older ones are m.2 SATA. Your notebook is old enough that I'm 90% sure it would be m.2 SATA. Newer

Re: [GTALUG] another bargain netbook

| From: James Knott via talk | On 01/01/2019 12:48 AM, D. Hugh Redelmeier via talk wrote: | > + I like the keyboard. US, not the Bilingual Canadian layout. | | It's bilingual because English and French speakers hate it equally!  ;-) It's complicated. I will now demonstrate this. S

[GTALUG] war story: reviving an old computer

I had an old computer in storage for a couple of years. Separate from its disk drive (SSD). After I reinstalled the drive, it would not show many signs of life. Not even a POST screen. I plugged and unplugged everything from the motherboard (except the processor). Then it would limpingly

Re: [GTALUG] good deal on netbook; war story: putting Fedora on it

| From: Lennart Sorensen via talk | Well I think the current price on a T580 at $830 is pretty good. | That's for 8GB ram, 500GB HD (not SSD), 1920x1080 15.6" IPS panel and | i5-7200U (2.5GHz) CPU. Looks good. Where is that? Is it ending today? (Not important to me -- I don't actually need a

[GTALUG] Work in Progress: UltraHD / HDMI 2.0 from older computers; interesting KVM

I have a number of Haswell-based computers that I'd like to use to drive UltraHD (mistakenly called 4k) monitors. (Haswell is the generation of Intel Core processors with numbers like 4nnn, but also a number with others with branding like "Celeron" and some oddball number.) I think all/most

Re: [GTALUG] good deal on netbook; war story: putting Fedora on it

| From: Chris Tyler via talk | I have a Samsung | Chromebook Plus (gen 1, with the high-dpi screen -- watch out for gen 2 | where they dropped to 1080 (and also regressed from ARM to Intel)) I take it that your model is the XE513C24-K01US. I was very impressed with how it worked for you

Re: [GTALUG] good deal on netbook; war story: putting Fedora on it

| From: Christopher Browne via talk | It's 2018, and the reason I'm looking for something newer mostly has to do | with the fact that such a cheap laptop has a fairly fragile case I find I treat my netbooks more roughly than I treat my ultrabook that cost 5 or 7 times as much (I have two

Re: [GTALUG] good deal on netbook; war story: putting Fedora on it

| From: William Park via talk | Just curious... Where/how do you use these little computers? I mean, | $300 here, $200 there, $100 upgrade, $50 ram, $25 microSD, etc. they all | add up. (I'm typing this on the netbook, on a couch, in front of the TV. That's a good use of a netbook.) Normally

[GTALUG] good deal on netbook; war story: putting Fedora on it

I recently bought an Acer Spin 1 SP111-31-P95J refurbished netbook. So far, I quite like it. Those are gone but a slightly inferior model is available for a better price ($200):

Re: [GTALUG] Dinner tonight?

| From: Evan Leibovitch via talk | Date: Tue, 11 Sep 2018 16:01:53 -0400 | I'd love to try something new. I agree. | But the wiki only mentions seating capacity at a few of the entrioes. The | burrito places mentioned have next to no seating. | Perhaps the next time we could talk about this

Re: [GTALUG] IBM Acquires Red Hat for $34B | News & Opinion | PCMag.com

| From: James Knott via talk | Date: Mon, 29 Oct 2018 11:36:12 -0400 Thanks. Apparently the news broke before they had prepared the "messaging" so RH and IBM employees were startled and didn't immediately know what to make of it. I spent the first three days of last week at an IBM-sponsored

[GTALUG] (Informal Announcement) GTALUG Meeting on Tuesday (2018 Oct 8)

The meeting will start with the Annual General Meeting. After that, Mike Hoye of Mozila will speak on "Firefox: What's Next Time: 2018 at 07:30 PM Location: George Vari Engineering and Computing Centre at Ryerson University 245 Church Street, Room 203 (second floor). More

Re: [GTALUG] dh key exchange question.

| From: Karen Lewellen via talk | Thanks for these suggestions, but I do not have a Linux box. I use ssh telnet | to reach a Linux shell. I'm not sure what "ssh telnet" is. What software are you actually using on your Windows machine? Putty? | I have been debugging since Late June, with

Re: [GTALUG] glittery cheap but useless toy computers

.com/2018/09/16/lake-i-home-cloud-tv-box-hdmi-input-discount/> Anyway, all these seem inferior to some little boxes based on the Atom. Sad. | From: D. Hugh Redelmeier via talk | To: Toronto Linux Users Group | Date: Fri, 4 May 2018 13:49:48 -0400 (EDT) | BUT. The raw hardware for these

Re: [GTALUG] tr: Illegal byte sequence

| From: Stewart C. Russell via talk | tr on Mac OS seems to assume input is valid UTF-8 text (if locale is | suitably UTF-8). To amplify this, not all byte sequences are valid UTF-8. Random byte sequences will sometimes be invalid. Off the top of my head, I think that the following are

Re: [GTALUG] ancient computer history

| From: James Knott via talk | On 09/18/2018 07:11 PM, D. Hugh Redelmeier via talk wrote: | > The PDP-8i was meant to be part of a hybrid computer (analogue + | > digital). I never used the analogue part (what's an op amp?). | | As far as I know, the PDP-8i I worked on didn't have any

Re: [GTALUG] ancient computer history

| From: Stewart Russell via talk | On Tue, Sep 18, 2018, 10:48 James Knott via talk, wrote: | | > I also used to maintain a PDP-8i | > computer. I used PDP-8s and PDP-8i computers that I found access to at the U of T in 1968 and 1969 (when I was sneaking in). Let me be clear: as far as I

[GTALUG] ancient computer history

I read this with fascination in 1967 or perhaps early 1968. It was almost current then! Looking at it now, I still remember some of the phrases. (I was in high school then and it was extremely

[GTALUG] FSOSS 2018 registration

The registration page just went up. - Oct 25 & 26 (Thursday and Friday) - early bird (cheap) registration ends Oct 15. $75 for non-students, non-staff (note: any (educational?) institution is good for a discount. - seems to be at the Seneca @ York campus (I had heard that they were

Re: [GTALUG] Suggestions for stopping occasional spurious use of commercial wi-fi

| From: David Collier-Brown via talk | To: UU , GTALUG Talk I don't think that it is great to post a message once to two public mailing lists. It can lead to odd entanglements. It's fine to separately post the same message to two lists. I'm violating this suggestion with this message. | I

Re: [GTALUG] Linux 4.19-rc4 released, an apology, and a maintainership note

| From: Dhaval Giani via talk | https://lwn.net/Articles/764901/ | https://www.jonobacon.com/2018/09/16/linus-his-apology-and-why-we-should-support-him/ Thanks. I hadn't noticed this. A possibly big story. | On a more personal note, I have seen "hostile" behavior on many mailing | lists,

Re: [GTALUG] Online Course for Lex/Yacc?

Ater advising against YACC, I thought I should promote it a bit. YACC uses a formal declarative system for specifying a language grammar (Backus-Naur Form). This has a number of nice features: - BNF is very well described and extensively used in the literature - it was invented to describe the

Re: [GTALUG] Online Course for Lex/Yacc?

| From: William Park via talk | Every now and then, I come across situation where an ideal solution | would have been a custom parser/interpreter, either to parse data format | or to write my own sets of commands. In each case, I don't know enough | to write it (I'm not Comp Sci) or don't have

Re: [GTALUG] Boot setup issues

| From: o1bigtenor via talk Note: I am only an amateur sysadmin. | One of my linux mentors, who calls himself a linux dinosaur (started on | a System V on a pc) Picky picky: System V isn't Linux. It's UNIX. I first used UNIX seriously with 4th or 5th Edition in 1975. But I first became

Re: [GTALUG] [GTALUG-Announce] In The Community

| From: Scott Sullivan via talk | Privacy and security on the 21st Century Internet: a big picture view Thanks! Interesting. I did not know of this. Unfortunately tickets are no longer available. --- Talk Mailing List talk@gtalug.org https://gtalug.org/mailman/listinfo/talk

Re: [GTALUG] Boot setup issues

TL;DR: lots of history, some explanation of why things are done certain ways. | From: o1bigtenor via talk | OK - - - good to know. For many years it was | /boot, Covered well by Lennart. This first came up for me with UNIX System V release 2 on a PC. The boot loader only understood a a

Re: [GTALUG] Last Ubuntu OS Update Breaks ffmpeg

I have no particular knowledge of this, but I'll take a whack at it. What is libGL? Read this: It looks as if ffmpeg is trying to use your graphics card to help with the conversion. libGL is unable to load a driver. Since one of the later choices

Re: [GTALUG] Swappiness

| From: Russell Reiter via talk | Desktop freezing can be an issue if you don't get the ratios in line with | the hw. Really? swappiness values (except for 0) should only affect performance. Not something binary like freezing. Of course really really really bad performance can appear to be

[GTALUG] inexpensive external portable 4T drive

I like the 4T Seagate "portable" (i.e. 2.5") external 4T disk drives. They are good for backups. - 2.5" drives are physically small - 2.5" external drives only have one (USB3) cable. No separate power cable and wall-wart (3.5" externals require these). - If you don't have USB 3 on your

Re: [GTALUG] Which Distro is Best for Running a ZFS-on-Linux Fileserver.

| From: David Mason via talk | On Aug 25, 2018, 6:21 AM -0400, D. Hugh Redelmeier via talk , wrote: | > | From: David Mason via talk | > This is exactly the kind of problem that a debian local users group might | > address. Recently I suggested that GTALUG could function as a d

Re: [GTALUG] Which Distro is Best for Running a ZFS-on-Linux Fileserver.

| From: David Mason via talk | I am interested in this question too. I currently am running on Debian | 7.7 but I’m not sure I can upgrade to a more current version, which is | frustrating because I want to install Java (to run a Minecraft server) | and (when I tried, so while back) I

Re: [GTALUG] Which Distro is Best for Running a ZFS-on-Linux Fileserver.

| From: right.maple.nut via talk | Hello All, Like the Subject Line says, I'm setting up a ZFS File Server | for my Home Network. Given that I will have to go to the trouble of | setting up the Distro and Migrating the Linux Install to ZFS Root, I | don't want to have to do this too many

Re: [GTALUG] System Monitor / sysmon

| From: Kevin Cozens via talk | A quick internet search suggests you should look at the sar command that is | part of sysstat. Thanks for the research! I want a stupid GUI program. sar is a command-line tool, I think. sar's manual makes it look very complex to use. Not really inviting. If

[GTALUG] System Monitor / sysmon

I have sysmon on my Linux systems. It is a nice graphical tool to show CPU, memory, and network loads. It produces strip charts. (It also does other things, but that's not my current concern.) When I want to figure out what's taking so long, sysmon is a handy tool. But I think that my

Re: [GTALUG] Any Debian User Groups in the GTA?

| From: Sergio Durigan Junior via talk | Do we have any Debian User Groups in the GTA? Is there a reason to separate Linux users into distros? I'm pretty sure we share most thing and can learn from each other. In other words, consider GTALUG a debian users group. And a Fedora, Ubuntu,

Re: [GTALUG] Peter Hiscocks

| From: Stewart C. Russell via talk Thanks for forwarding the obit. | On 2018-08-15 11:12 PM, David Mason via talk wrote: | > I regret to say that Peter died a week or so ago. Thanks for telling us. I first met Peter when he started a group for programmers of the Atari ST. That would have

Re: [GTALUG] Dan Kaminsky Bugs aren't random ...

| From: Russell Reiter via talk Thanks. I started watching but I found it quite irritating. But it did send me on a web journey. He showed an "Up" computer on a slide, so I searched that out. The Up Squared looks interesting: - single-board computer

Re: [GTALUG] GTALUG Meeting on Tuesday 14 August at 7:30pm

Just a reminder: tonight is the night! I like the recent trend to announcing the meetings well ahead. But I also like a last-minute announcement for those of us who are forgetful. Dinner? I guess that silence means Kabul Express:

[GTALUG] "Golden Age for Computer Architecture"

This Turing Award Winners talk is quite insigtful. Full title: "A New Golden Age for Computer Architecture: Domain-Specific Hardware/Software Co-Design, Enhanced Security, Open Instruction Sets, and Agile Chip Development" The speakers are key figures in the RISC revolution. John L. Hennessy and

Re: [GTALUG] blackmail

| From: Stephen via talk | Is it not terrible practise to store unencrypted passwords on a web site? Yes. But even if you hash them (best practice) with a slow hash function (best practice but not as common as one would hope) with salt (also best practice), they may well be crackable off-line

Re: [GTALUG] blackmail

| From: ac via talk | no, not really. by the time you receive the type of email you have, it is way too late. Probably. But the information that a site was hacked should still be useful to the site. | How sure are you that it was Canada Computers? Are you saying that that | was the only

Re: [GTALUG] blackmail

| From: Giles Orr via talk | Someone at work got a similar email claiming that the emailer had | compromising video footage (it was a work account - no cams and very | improbable anyway). It demanded bitcoin and gave a hash to deliver it to. Same. | But it didn't show a password, so yours is

Re: [GTALUG] blackmail

| From: Mauro Souza via talk | Don't worry about this kind of email. It's a know scam. The email proves that my password is in the wild. In no way does that prove it won't be used in other ways. As I said, I wasn't worried for my own security (except as regards my Canada Computer account).

Re: [GTALUG] blackmail

| From: ac via talk | essentially : Spam is dead. (So, you do not have to receive these | 'blackmail' emails) Thanks for the hints on spam. This particular email contained valuable information: that Canada Computers had been hacked. So I'm glad that it got through to me. I don't want it

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

| From: Alex Volkov via talk | On 2018-07-20 03:35 PM, D. Hugh Redelmeier via talk wrote: | > Super naive question: I should disclose just how naive. I've essentially never used SQL. OK, perhaps a query or two when puzzled by MythTV. | > Could you not do this transformation in SQL? |

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