Re: [GTALUG] Securely wiping SSDs

There might have been too much alcohol involved in the conversation to consider it production Ready 藍 On Mon., Mar. 25, 2024, 09:47 D. Hugh Redelmeier via talk, wrote: > | From: David Thornton via talk > > | I grilled my local hardware security friend who said you should neve

Re: [GTALUG] Securely wiping SSDs

I grilled my local hardware security friend who said you should never trust the secure delete feature in ssd . In general it has been found insecure. As mentioned the "Large grinder" seems like the only way to be sure. On Sat., Mar. 23, 2024, 10:50 Giles Orr via talk, wrote: > I have, for many

Re: [GTALUG] Odd Ethernet Behaviour

I love problems like this. Puzzles. 1. You might try turning off auto negotiation and "forcing" the link to various speeds and see how it responds, and not just the fastest speed. ( https://phoenixnap.com/kb/ethtool-command-change-speed-duplex-ethernet-card-linux ) 2. Try a different switch

Re: [GTALUG] (very off topic) where to buy old AM/FM receiver?

facebook marketplace. So much weirdo stuff in there. On Sun, Oct 29, 2023 at 10:16 PM William Park via talk wrote: > Hi, a very off topic... > > While cleaning my house, I found box speakers and LP record player. > Brand name "Sanyo". What's missing is AM/FM receiver that came as a > set. Do

Re: [GTALUG] Sane Email System?

Google tells me that getmail and mutt can talk oauth2. Have you tried that? Looks a bit clunky. David On Thu., Mar. 3, 2022, 20:18 Peter King via talk, wrote: > Hello! > > I've just been informed that "legacy authentication" is going to be > disabled at the University of Toronto for my

Re: [GTALUG] Man and Info Pages

"It's complicated" 1. For linux, I'd refer to LPI wording about this. 2. for other l*Nixes, I'd consult their docs on their docs ( said in "Austin Powers introducing Austin Powers" voice ) I do like info, but my muscle memory makes me man all the time. --- Post to this mailing list

Re: [GTALUG] security threats of Open Source

my primary mate catch me." ) ( Which of course led to the second oldest professions : Lawyers ) P.S. I decided to give email another go, for old-time sake, that's why I revived thethread I guess: I read my mail :) David On Sat, Nov 21, 2020 at 12:06 PM D. Hugh Redelmeier wrote: > | From:

Re: [GTALUG] Fedora 33 uses RAM for swap?

TIL: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Changes/SwapOnZRAM ( last edit oct 2020 ) When I first read this I thought: if you are swapping it's _becasue_ you ran out of ram, so why "swap" to ram? TL:DR; it compresses the data. also: NOT preallocated. David On Wed, Nov 25, 2020 at 8:18 AM Giles Orr

Re: [GTALUG] security threats of Open Source

As administrators we have a responsibility to vet. Even if it's to "deligate" the vetting, we have to vet the deligate. Npm is a hot mess, and most people get that now. Galaxy / puppetforge / helm stuff ? Take a number. It sprouts faster than you can get on it sometimes. Pays the mortgage :)

Re: [GTALUG] security threats of Open Source

I can second the "noscript" thing. "Default deny" is good practice. No- one has to explain it for firewalls ( any more I hope), so why do we have to explain it in other places? On Thu, Jan 23, 2020 at 7:00 PM Don Tai via talk wrote: > I regularly browse with javascript turned off. I use

Re: [GTALUG] Group knowledge base

20-10-30 3:34 p.m., David Thornton via talk wrote: > > 3. Mediawiki - my personal fav only because 1. OSS 2. plugable such > > that I can get neat semantic stuff to work. I use categories a lot, I > > use REDIRECT alot. I'm a firm believer in loose pluralism to start and > > ri

Re: [GTALUG] Group knowledge base

Hi, I feel old because I can say that I have worked with most of the systems mentioned so far: I have a personal professional policy of spending the energy to get good at a given tool before I critique it. If I have not "gone deep" with tool X I'll say so. 1. Confluence - I agree that the search

Re: [GTALUG] Remote Desktop [ RDP files and Remmina ]

I have some experience with remmina, in as much as I help my wife with it, when it breaks. She's ubuntu at home, and uses the snap package. The apt one doesn't work. she has auto update on , so when it breaks it most frequently a breaking update. As far as I'm aware The folk at her workplaces

Re: [GTALUG] I believe Amazon is leaking delivery information.

It it possible that an advertisement can "know" the page it was deployed in? Or even just some properties of the page it was displayed in? Via this means an advertiser could know you had just , or were about to buy X. >From there, the world is your oyster. David On Wed, Jan 15, 2020 at 3:50

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

I've seen this before on a fortigate firewall. The FW will detect "apt" as app:XMLRPC rather than app:HTTP for the purposes of "Application Detection" and if the "allow port 80 rules" is infact an "Allow only app:HTTP on port 80" rule , then XMLRPC over port 80 is disallowed. David On Mon, Nov

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

Knott via talk wrote: > On 02/08/2019 08:21 AM, David Thornton via talk wrote: > > That link did not work. > > > I did for me. > > --- > Talk Mailing List > talk@gtalug.org > https://gtalug.org/mailman/listinfo/talk > -- David Thornton https://wiki.qu

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

That link did not work. A quick google resulted in https://youtu.be/6AeWu1fZ7bY Is it the same talk? David Thornton @northdot9 https://wiki.quadratic.net On Thu, Feb 7, 2019, 6:12 PM D. Hugh Redelmeier via talk, wrote: > I think that this is pretty interesting: > >

Re: [GTALUG] programming system questions

This is a chance for me to test my understanding by trying to explain it myself. Monte Carlo is where you randomly choose solutions from a solution space and then try to make the results better for each choice. Imagine you are trying to find the highest point on earth. Rather than scan the

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

Conjecture: Developers are the worker bees, they don't decide what gets done. The business decides what get's done. They are the expressers of morals and values. They can choose to cow-tow to the market or standup for something at odds with the crowd. Classically businesses have operated with a

Re: [GTALUG] Anyone using React Native?

That's probably _not_ a react problem. I highly recommend using certbot for real "auto maintained" good , valid certs for servers and make your TLS problems go away. David On Wed, May 2, 2018 at 5:03 PM, William Witteman via talk wrote: > I was hoping to poke at React Native

Re: [GTALUG] The usual pre-meeting question... and answer, I suspect

I did kinton ramen with scott a couple of weeks ago. Wus gud David Thornton @northdot9 https://www.quadratic.net On Tue, Apr 10, 2018, 10:21 AM D. Hugh Redelmeier via talk, wrote: > | From: Evan Leibovitch via talk > > | I think everyone has settled into

[GTALUG] Comparison of source code hosting

The wiki treatment... lots of data https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comparison_of_source_code_hosting_facilities?wprov=sfla1 David Thornton @northdot9 https://www.quadratic.net --- Talk Mailing List talk@gtalug.org https://gtalug.org/mailman/listinfo/talk

Re: [GTALUG] IBM Mainframe and z/OS

hey I thought I should let you know that "r360design.ca" doesn't work for me. Is that supposed to be a valid domain? David On Sun, Dec 3, 2017 at 10:33 PM, R360 Design INC via talk wrote: > Hello everyone, > > Does anyone know how I could gain hands-on experience on an IBM

Re: [GTALUG] Fan Control on Linux

I find that sometimes different distros have different default supported configs and grok to different degrees various features and hardware. You might try booting various live cds and see what they grok. I loved knoppix to quickly tell how linux friendly a given machine is. Maybe ubuntu or

Re: [GTALUG] Vi-keybinding for MS-Word

why not vim for windows? http://www.vim.org/download.php David On Fri, Jun 23, 2017 at 12:03 AM, William Park via talk wrote: > I have no choice but to use MS-Office (mostly, Word and Outlook). And, > my productivity is very low. > > Is there Vi-keybinding for Word or

Re: [GTALUG] Question [about network security and privacy]

I stumbled across a project called pihole that makes a pi a hygiene proxy. I ripped from it the logic that does the "bad guy" list maintenance which includes some windows and apple spyware address ranges. A dynamic blacklist would be the way to go in my opinion. The system blackholes the dns

Re: [GTALUG] Fw: surprise!

Mauro, how do I "like" your email? I can't find the "like" button on my mail client. :) David Thornton @northdot9 https://www.quadratic.net On Apr 7, 2017 9:03 PM, "Mauro Souza via talk" wrote: > One of my hobbies is to download those sites with wget and a fake user > agent

Re: [GTALUG] Raspberry Pi Zero w/ Wifi + Bluetooth Released today...

drool On Tue, Feb 28, 2017 at 8:55 AM, Scott Sullivan via talk wrote: > ... I managed to get through and order one. Anyone else? > > https://www.raspberrypi.org/blog/raspberry-pi-zero-w-joins-family/ > > -- > Scott Sullivan > --- > Talk Mailing List > talk@gtalug.org >

[GTALUG] On learning something new

Hey guys, I saw this and though about how we give talks to further our own understanding on a topic rather not doing a talk until we feel like experts.

Re: [GTALUG] Setting up a VM host

So I didn't know that about qemu. I've been thinking about doing a Linux from scratch for my pi Zero. I feel like qemu would be the tool to do that . At the risk of forking the thread... anyone done that? On Tue, Sep 6, 2016, 9:18 AM Lennart Sorensen via talk wrote: > On Sat,

Re: [GTALUG] Setting up a VM host

I've used proxmox . It got me up and running with a gui quick. But I've also use virtual box ( oracle : yuck ) and that also got me up and running quick. "professionally" I sit in front of a lot of vmware, but that's closed / for pay / proprietary / expensive. ( but feature rich ) (I've not