Re: [GTALUG] AI - Llama 2 an open source AI that can run on a Raspberry PI

The things that make it not OSI compliant are: 1) an application with more than 700 million monthly active users (i.e. Google, Bing, Amazon, and Apple) require getting a licence 2) some moral restrictions (like criminal acts) I can live with that... ../Dave On Sat, 13 Jan 2024 at 05:39, Evan

Re: [GTALUG] ot: sort of, is it really impossible to get real cable anymore?

It looks like this: https://www.walmart.ca/en/ip/hdmi-to-rca-cable-hdmi-to-rca-converter-adapter-cable-1080p-hdmi-to-av-3rca-cvbs-composite-video-audio-supports-for-amazon-fire-stick/PRD700H6NJLEWBM will convert a digital HDMI to an analogue signal that could be used for a VCR or old TV. ../Dave

Re: [GTALUG] Linux Unicorns

Hugh wrote: There is room for innovation in infrastructure but it is hard to become a unicorn there since the area is mostly occupied by giants: - Amazon - Microsoft - Google - Oracle... Being cloud platform agnostic is smart. How you do it isn't something I know much about. I wonder if Apple

Re: [GTALUG] brands matter; Lenovo's brands

As one of those academics (in Computer Science, no less), I use a Macbook Pro that I connect to a Dell widescreen at work, and a Phillips 328E1 4K widescreen at home, which I mostly using in Landscape mode. It's blisteringly fast, works everywhere, runs forever (like 1/2 a day) on battery, and has

Re: [GTALUG] internet service speed test tip

I understand the vendors may optimize parameters, but I figured that UofToronto wouldn't be affected by that, and the numbers were comparable... but perhaps they tune at a different point in the pipeline. ../Dave On Fri, 25 Aug 2023 at 17:14, o1bigtenor wrote: > On Fri, Aug 25, 2023 at 10:06 

Re: [GTALUG] internet service speed test tip

Speedtest (the app) gives consistent results for a variety of test sites, including UofToronto, Bell Canada, Primus. All are significantly higher numbers than testmy.net (320Down, 450Up versus 190Down, 215Up on testmy.net Toronto site). ../Dave On Fri, 25 Aug 2023 at 08:53, o1bigtenor via talk

Re: [GTALUG] The good old days of oreilly.com

I had purchased several books over the years. I can successfully login in to members.oreilly.com, but it shows 0 purchases. ...sucks... On Sun, 30 Apr 2023 at 12:41, sciguy via talk wrote: > On 2023-04-30 12:10, James Knott via talk wrote: > > On 2023-04-30 12:04, sciguy via talk wrote: > >>

Re: [GTALUG] New WiFi router?

At the suggestion of someone here, I installed a UniFi router (where it comes into the house and supports several wired Ethernet connections) and remote Access Point at a central point in the house. Couldn't be happier! ../Dave On Wed, 8 Mar 2023 at 07:20, Alex Kink via talk wrote: > I would

Re: [GTALUG] Weird pivot from the Linux Foundation: Overture Maps Foundation

I think this is actually much more positive than you think: https://wiki.osmfoundation.org/wiki/CDLA_permissive_compatibility CDLA Permissive 2 seems very open, and OSM seems to agree. ../Dave On Dec 15, 2022 at 2:59 PM -0500, Stewart Russell via talk , wrote: > On Thu, Dec 15, 2022 at 12:28

Re: [GTALUG] tpl Linux training?

Does this include old Macs, too? I have several that are sitting in a closet because they don’t run a currently supported MacOSX. ../Dave On Sep 1, 2022, 6:34 PM -0400, Joseph Rocklin via talk , wrote: > Hi, > > I'm running a charity called Rocklin Reboots. We're CRA recognized. The gist > of

Re: [GTALUG] LLVM JIT Talks

I am building a Smalltalk interpreter/compiler (in a great new systems language called Zig), and I would like to generate executable code on the fly. ../Dave On May 25, 2022, 11:57 PM -0400, Nicholas Krause via talk , wrote: > Greetings > > I've misdeleted the other thread, so sorry for

Re: [GTALUG] Possible Future Talks

I’d be interested in how one uses the LLVM JIT ../Dave On May 23, 2022, 5:05 PM -0400, Nicholas Krause via talk , wrote: > Greetings, > I've managed to get in contact with the maintainer for the LLVM RiscV > backend. Not sure if it's of interest to the group. > But, he can talk about compiler

Re: [GTALUG] ot: perhaps, headphones?

On Jan 14, 2022, 11:25 AM -0500, GTALUG Talk , wrote: > I have to add though, that I won't be buying Bose going forward for other > reasons however. Of course, when you say that everyone (or at least me) wonders what those reasons might be. :-) ../Dave --- Post to this mailing list

Re: [GTALUG] keyboards

On Oct 23, 2021, 2:11 PM -0400, William Park via talk , wrote: > Thanks for info. Do you have "clicky" or "tactile" keys? The Matias keyboard I have is marketed as an Apple replacement, and it has the same feel as the newest Apple keyboard, which means that there is some resistance to the

Re: [GTALUG] keyboards

I am not the keyboard geek that some of you obviously are, however I would be remiss to not point out a Canadian company: https://matias.ca/ergopro/programmable/ I don’t have their ergo (split) keyboard, but I do have 2 of their keyboards and quite like them. I just got a new iMac with the

Re: [GTALUG] Looking for assistance with Firefox

I have a colleague who has a great workflow. Iff he wants to do research on something, he opens a fresh window… opens as many tabs as necessary for the project, then closes the window with all its tabs. I haven’t been able to integrate the discipline yet (my tab/window collection sounds a lot

Re: [GTALUG] [GTALUG-Announce] Meeting Tomorrow

I just thought I’d point out that the meeting page gets screwy if you look at it with a window wider than about 80% of a 2560 screen (the left navigation bar slides over the content block). Same on Firefox, Chrome, and  Safari. ../Dave On Aug 9, 2021, 10:03 PM -0400, hi--- via talk , wrote: >

Re: [GTALUG] e-reader recommendations

Sorry, just noticed I wrote “it will also read” but I didn’t say what! It does epub well… doesn’t do mobi. ../Dave On May 12, 2021, 6:53 AM -0400, o1bigtenor via talk , wrote: > On Tue, May 11, 2021 at 9:00 PM David Mason via talk wrote: > > > > I have a reMarkable https://remark

Re: [GTALUG] e-reader recommendations

I have a reMarkable https://remarkable.com/ which is great for PDFs, writing notes, etc. and it will also read. It’s quite nice. I generally use it instead of paper for notes. You can even transfer web pages to it (from a Chrome plug-in) to read them in more comfort. ../Dave On May 11, 2021,

Re: [GTALUG] Idiomatic programming versus micro-optimizations

On Apr 9, 2021, 2:55 PM -0400, Aruna Hewapathirane , wrote: > This is simply an attempt to inform and educate ( i am not trying to start > any flame wars ). This article I feel describes aptly why C will not go away. > https://drewdevault.com/2019/03/25/Rust-is-not-a-good-C-replacement.html >

Re: [GTALUG] Google wins over Oracle in Java API copyright suit

On Apr 9, 2021, 1:45 PM -0400, Stewart C. Russell via talk , wrote: > After all with a loop you are controlling the > execution order of the processing.  If done right you usually shouldn't > need to care. > > > But in document processing, you really really /really/ want the output > to come out

[GTALUG] Idiomatic programming versus micro-optimizations

On Apr 9, 2021, 11:51 AM -0400, Len Sorensen via , wrote: > But using a loop means you are telling the system how to do things, > rather than telling it what you want done and letting it (usually) do > a better job at the how. After all with a loop you are controlling the > excution order of the

Re: [GTALUG] Google wins over Oracle in Java API copyright suit

Haskell, Scheme, Lisp, Elixir (mostly), Elm, Clojure Static OO is kinda an oxymoron. Smalltalk, Ruby, Python are good OO (in my highly opinionated opinion). ../Dave On Apr 8, 2021, 12:29 PM -0400, William Park via talk , wrote: > On 4/8/21 11:37 AM, Lennart Sorensen via talk wrote: > > If I had

Re: [GTALUG] RISC-V based GPUs?

Thanks, Ivan. There’s a really interesting link in there about Larabee and Intel politics:  https://tomforsyth1000.github.io/blog.wiki.html#%5B%5BWhy%20didn%27t%20Larrabee%20fail%3F%5D%5D ../Dave On Jan 31, 2021, 8:22 AM -0500, Ivan Avery Frey via talk , wrote: >

Re: [GTALUG] [GTALUG-Announce] On the recent GTALUG Outage

Hi, I’m Chair of the Department of Computer Science at Ryerson, and we already provide GTALUG with a meeting room (when there’s no pandemic and it’s safe to meet in person). I see no reason we couldn’t provide a virtual machine to run GTALUG’s visibility. I can’t imagine there is any

Re: [GTALUG] Right to Repair Article in NYT

On Oct 29, 2020, 4:19 PM -0400, D. Hugh Redelmeier , wrote: > > The distinction in the case of excrement is just a matter of idiomatic > English. "Cowshit" is just not a common expression. I've > never heard "steershit" or "heifershit". The closest I’ve ever heard is “off in a cloud of heifer

Re: [GTALUG] Dice Keys

A riff off: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Diceware ../Dave On Aug 28, 2020, 11:15 AM -0400, Christopher Browne via talk , wrote: > Here's a cool thing I saw recently... > > https://www.schneier.com/blog/archives/2020/08/dicekeys.html > > The intention of this parallels the various Bitcoin "Solid

Re: [GTALUG] web hosting question

I use https://www.ovh.com for hosting, although  https://www.canadianwebhosting.com/ looks good, too. I use https://easydns.com/ for DNS registry and DNS hosting. I’m very happy with both easydns and ovh! ../Dave On Jul 29, 2020, 1:10 PM -0400, o1bigtenor via talk , wrote: > > > > On Wed, Jul

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

Thanks, Hugh! Nicely explained. ../Dave On Jul 14, 2020, 10:15 AM -0400, D. Hugh Redelmeier via talk , wrote: > | From: David Mason via talk > > | The short answer is: Machine Learning (and other data-mining-like > applications) > > A much LONGER answer: > > There has b

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

The short answer is: Machine Learning (and other data-mining-like applications) ../Dave On Jul 13, 2020, 11:19 PM -0400, William Park via talk , wrote: > Hi all, > > Perhaps off topics... I keep coming across "GPU in Data Centers", ie. > Nvidia. Exactly what does GPU have ANYTHING do with data

Re: [GTALUG] Bash does-directory-exist question

(base) : ~/foo ; [ -w .. ] && echo true true (base) : ~/foo ; /bin/pwd pwd: .: No such file or directory (base) : ~/foo ; pwd /Users/dmason/foo (base) : ~/foo ; [ -w $PWD ] && echo true (base) : ~/foo ; So, /bin/pwd fails and [ -w $PWD ] also fails, as John hypothesized ../Dave On Jul 10, 2020,

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

This is not news… except to me, but I thought the article might be interesting to someone. https://www.popularmechanics.com/technology/a24397193/ibm-red-hat/ ../Dave --- Post to this mailing list talk@gtalug.org Unsubscribe from this mailing list https://gtalug.org/mailman/listinfo/talk

Re: [GTALUG] [GTALUG-Announce] Meeting Tomorrow

You might want to consider Jitsi in the future… it’s open source and seems to work very well (I was an attendee to a Jitsi meeting last night) and looks like easy to install https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IQRwtUamHQU ../Dave On May 11, 2020, 1:38 PM -0400, hi--- via talk , wrote: >

Re: [GTALUG] On the subject of backups.

ZFS is another option. And it handles delta-backups very easily. ../Dave On May 5, 2020, 11:27 PM -0400, Lennart Sorensen via talk , wrote: > On Mon, May 04, 2020 at 10:42:25PM -0400, Alvin Starr via talk wrote: > > The files are generally a few hundred KB each. They may run into a few MB > >

Re: [GTALUG] Laptop recommendations?

Way off-topic, but this reminds me of writing “Cold Start” cards for the IBM 1130. A card had 80 columns and 12 rows, so you had 80 words of program but the instructions needed to be carefully chosen because you only had 12 bits and the other 4 bits were filled in by hardware. The standard

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

On Feb 21, 2020, 10:14 AM -0500, mwilson--- via talk , wrote: > Would it be as simple to change the permissions on the particular drive, > and then just let the users have at it? > > eg. sudo chmod a+rw /dev/mmcblk0 To be safe, you would have to disallow mounting of filesystems on that drive (or

Re: [GTALUG] Rust intro

If you don’t care about safety around the allocations of your particular data type, you can certainly have “unsafe” sections of your code that are responsible for the allocation/deallocation of your data type. In the unsafe code (which can be as little as an expression or as much as a function)

Re: [GTALUG] Rust intro

On Jan 2, 2020, 11:22 AM -0500, Nicholas Krause , wrote: > Thanks for letting me know. Don't know if it will be solved as that's a > problem in my view. I was going to say that you could implement a garbage collector in/for Rust, but first I checked if there was a crate for one, and sure

Re: [GTALUG] Rust intro

Rust uses a reference-counting collector for allocations that go beyond what the borrow-checker can handle. You have to explicitly use the RC allocation. Reference counting, as you may know is a more predictable memory allocation technique and works well for many data structures, such as trees

Re: [GTALUG] Rust intro

Borrowing is entirely a compile-time analysis. There is no runtime impact (other than the fact that you can get away without a garbage collector - in a safe way). The Learn Rust the Dangerous way article is very good, by the way! I heartily endorse it for the C-philes among GTALUG. If you

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

Moral rights are most frequently applied to things like reports that people are contracted to write (so that the contracting agency can’t change the sense of the report in a press release, for example. Moral rights cannot be sold/assigned, but can be waived. People hired to write reports are

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

Line 130 s/-eq/=/ Otherwise, cool! Thanks! ../Dave On Aug 10, 2019, 5:32 PM -0400, Jason Shaw via talk , wrote: > Looks like a handy script to have.  My only real suggestion is to change the > shebang to > #!/usr/bin/env bash > as it's more portable than the current one.  Still not perfect, but

Re: [GTALUG] A find alternative: fselect

Good point. You can turn the checks on, but see this discussion about the default: https://github.com/rust-lang/rust/issues/47739 ../Dave On Jun 20, 2019, 12:26 AM -0400, D. Hugh Redelmeier via talk , wrote: > | From: D. Hugh Redelmeier via talk > > | Rust does a few things that are relevant

Re: [GTALUG] A find alternative: fselect

On Jun 14, 2019, 1:03 AM -0400, Dhaval Giani , wrote: > > HOWEVER, since Rust code is intrinsically much, much safer than C code, > > stability of API is much more legitimate a characterizer of the version > > that you want than bug-fixes (and bug-fixes are almost never > > security/safety

Re: [GTALUG] A find alternative: fselect

My preface: 40 years of C programming is enough! I don’t plan to write any more C; where I need that low-level efficiency, I’ll use Rust. Ditto no C++; if I want objects, I’ll do it right with Smalltalk. With that said, Hugh makes a legitimate point (if we were talking apples and apples). > On

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

I have used a projector for “TV” (Netflix/Youtube) watching for the last 5 years. It has 2 HDMI ports, and is quite nice. It’s “only” 1080p, but when it’s a 90” screen, that’s pretty good. I had a BenQ, but the bulb was always a problem, so I recently replaced it with a XGIMI, and it’s awesome!

Re: [GTALUG] of routers and access points

are highly variable and generally suck! I’ll post revised scan after I’ve installed the new router. Thanks for all of your advice. ../Dave On Apr 26, 2019, 12:52 PM -0400, Jamon Camisso via talk , wrote: > On 4/25/19 4:00 PM, David Mason via talk wrote: > > Is there an openwrt non-wifi, P

Re: [GTALUG] of routers and access points

Is there an openwrt non-wifi, PoE router? Also the WRT1900ACv2 seems to have limited availability. ../Dave > --- Talk Mailing List talk@gtalug.org https://gtalug.org/mailman/listinfo/talk

Re: [GTALUG] of routers and access points

> together, no? Is this too simple a setup? > > > On Wed, 24 Apr 2019 at 11:58, David Mason via talk wrote: > > > I had a setup where my modem was connected to my gateway Linux box which > > > did routing, DHCP, DNS, etc. and was also connected to a switch which was &

[GTALUG] of routers and access points

I had a setup where my modem was connected to my gateway Linux box which did routing, DHCP, DNS, etc. and was also connected to a switch which was connected to a WiFi router being used as an access point. This is too brittle for my tastes, as other members of my family can’t resolve problems

Re: [GTALUG] Help with choosing a WiFi router

, D. Hugh Redelmeier via talk wrote: > > | 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. > > That's why

[GTALUG] Help with choosing a WiFi router

We’ve had a DLINK DIR-628 for quite a while. When it works it has been great, but it drops out several times a day. Sometimes it come back fairly seamlessly, but sometimes you have to turn off the wifi on connected devices and turn it back on again. Power-cycling it always resolves the problem,

Re: [GTALUG] “Safe” Jobs (was Boeing India software engineers)

This whole thread is redundant. AIs (or more accurately Machine-Learning systems) are already eating into many aspects of Law, Tech support, etc. They will only expand… and will take over many of the low-value jobs domestic, or outsourced. And, of course, come the Singularity, nothing is safe.

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

No, he dropped out of Reed college - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Steve_Jobs But he was certainly not an engineer (to his credit). ../Dave On Mar 7, 2019, 5:15 PM -0500, James Knott via talk , wrote: > On 03/07/2019 01:20 PM, Gary via talk wrote: > > Incidentally, some MBA's such as Steve Jobs,

[GTALUG] WiFi (un)happiness

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Re: [GTALUG] Practical Use of GRUB's DSL: With the examples inexplicably left out of the GRUB documentation

I use LaTeX for everything - most particularly for papers and lecture slides. I haven’t used it in a while, but HeVeA (http://hevea.inria.fr/) is the best way to convert LaTeX to HTML.  When I last used it, it was quite effective. And it is quite focussed on including code in documents.

Re: [GTALUG] programming system questions

to have a significantly smaller footprint than Electron. The fact that Slack is such a high-quality app is in my mind a huge vote in favour of Electron (as is Discord) ../Dave On Oct 11, 2018, 10:53 AM -0400, Jamon Camisso via talk , wrote: > On 11/10/18 10:37, David Mason via talk wr

Re: [GTALUG] programming system questions

Electron is probably the easiest way to move a web app to an application. See:     https://electronjs.org/ It uses html, javascript, css and should be able to connect to your postgresql database. ../Dave On Oct 11, 2018, 8:53 AM -0400, o1bigtenor via talk , wrote: > Greetings > > I have been

Re: [GTALUG] Swappiness

See https://www.howtoforge.com/tutorial/linux-swappiness/ Setting it to a much lower number (like 20) sounds like it would work better if your ram usage is fairly stable. Sound like, “try it and see” is called for (an painless). ../Dave On Sep 5, 2018, 6:52 AM -0400, o1bigtenor via talk ,

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

talk wrote: > On 2018-08-27 09:24 AM, Giles Orr via talk wrote: > > On Sat, 25 Aug 2018 at 14:21, David Mason via talk > <mailto:talk@gtalug.org>> wrote: > > This system is <5 years old, and at the time was kind-of leading > > edge. so I’m not worr

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

If you’re building 4TB, I’t recommend raidz2 which doesn’t give you much storage (4 x 1TB disks would give you <2TB of user storage). I have 5 x 1TB raidz2 which gives me 2.82TB of user storage. This may have changed, but when I went to ZFS you couldn’t add more disks and change the structure,

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

I haven’t done a comparison lately, but used LVM for years, and liked it, but ZFS is so much more flexible: resize filesystems, snapshots, raidz2, sending to another ZFS system (for seamless backups and redundancy), auto-silvering, plug-and-play. ../Dave On Aug 28, 2018, 9:18 PM -0400, Alvin

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

On Aug 25, 2018, 6:21 AM -0400, D. Hugh Redelmeier via talk , wrote: > | 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

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

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 couldn’t get it to install because I had such

Re: [GTALUG] GTATLUG talk about Atmel AVR

I regret to say that Peter died a week or so ago. He was always curious and willing to experiment with all sorts of things. I miss him already, although I hadn’t seen him for several years. ../Dave On Aug 15, 2018, 4:26 PM -0400, Kevin Cozens via talk , wrote: > Greetings, Peter Hiscocks. > > I

Re: [GTALUG] Increasing interest in the Go language

, Jamon Camisso via talk <talk@gtalug.org> wrote: > On 2018-02-03 10:28 AM, David Mason via talk wrote: > > I'd also comment on Rust being an interesting competitor to Go. > > > > Rust has better performance, complete statically determined safety > > (enforced by the ty

Re: [GTALUG] Increasing interest in the Go language

I'd also comment on Rust being an interesting competitor to Go. Rust has better performance, complete statically determined safety (enforced by the type system), no garbage collection, minimal runtime, and an active group targeting WebAssembly (i.e. very high performance browser programs). It's

Re: [GTALUG] the layers of things underneath Linux

Really interesting! Thanks Hugh for the pointer. On 14 January 2018 at 13:37, D. Hugh Redelmeier via talk wrote: > "Replace Your Exploit-Ridden Firmware with Linux - Ronald Minnich, Google" > > I just watched > Recommended if you

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

On 12 December 2017 at 08:48, o1bigtenor via talk wrote: > A little tidbit for you as you continue your praise of the 'new' ff! (Yes > I understand > that chromium isn't ff but they both suffer under the same kind of > programming > - - - at least IMO!). > Which is exactly what

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

On 11 December 2017 at 07:20, o1bigtenor via talk wrote: > I've tried vivaldi, min, chromium (that's chrome on linux), opera and ff. > They all crap out. FF fails perhaps the best - - - it just gets slow. > Opera just dies with no warnings at all! I don't like getting tracked

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

I'll echo Hugh's recommendation for Rust. No GC (unlike golang), and preformance equal to C/C++ but safe!​ I don't intent to write any more C. ../Dave --- Talk Mailing List talk@gtalug.org https://gtalug.org/mailman/listinfo/talk

[GTALUG] Raspberry PI hdmi problem

Evan's post reminded me of a problem I have left on the back-burner for a year. I also have a RPI Model B that I bought as a media centre, but for that to work, it needs to go through my Pioneer receiver to my projector (because I have other sources and I need to switch among them).

[GTALUG] Updating Wheezy to Jessie

I have a server at home that tends to be install and forget. It's running Wheezy and zfsonlinux. Unfortunately zfsonlinux no longer supports Wheezy, so upgrading isn't as straight-forward as I would hope. I am following instructions at https://www.howtoforge.com/

Re: [GTALUG] Anyone want an Apple TV?

I hit reply not reply-all... and my email went to the world!!! Is there a reason for this? I checked... if I do reply-all, it goes to the same 3 places, *plus* the UU list. *sigh* Ohh... maybe it's because I top-posted! :-) :-) ../Dave On 9 January 2017 at 07:36, David Collier-Brown via

Re: [GTALUG] Anyone want an Apple TV?

Hi Dave, I love Apple TVs, and would gladly accept one (they are a bit hard to find). However I have a terrible cold and am racing to get ready for the semester that starts on Friday, so will not be able to get to the meeting tomorrow (I live seriously in the boonies!). If no-one takes you up

Re: [GTALUG] Kelly Gotlieb

Wikipedia on proximity fuze: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Proximity_fuze Article from Baltimore Sun - citing it as entirely American work, of course: http://articles.baltimoresun.com/1993-01-11/news/1993011049_1_fuse-proximity-smart-weapons ../Dave --- Talk Mailing List talk@gtalug.org