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

On 2017-06-14 06:49 AM, o1bigtenor via talk wrote: don't want the stupid thing to be transmitting. According to the 'idiots' selling the thing it will only transmit AFTER its been logged onto the companies 'cloud' (like I'm going to pay for insecurity!!). There seems to be no understanding that

Re: [GTALUG] BOOST, the big package with the bad install instructions

On 2017-03-20 09:42 AM, Dan K via talk wrote: If you never heard of the "Boost library" that's odd as its pretty self promotional, and is also very high in quality. About it: I didn't know anything about Boost until I had to deal with it as a set of dependencies on something I wanted to

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

On 2017-02-28 08:55 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/ When you can get the CanaKit website to show you the Pi Zero W listing it will report "the page requested was not

Re: [GTALUG] Help with Kernel: Linux version 3.4.42-gf151976 (hudsoncm@ilclbld86)

On 2017-02-15 04:51 PM, Russell Reiter via talk wrote: Top posting this as it may be of some general interest. As I related in my earlier post, gaining access to apps on this phone was If you want to top post it would be helpful to include enough details to give someone context without them

Re: [GTALUG] Linux basics presentation

On 2017-01-31 05:49 PM, Christopher Browne via talk wrote: It's going to be truly more valuable to get peoples' impressions. Even if their impressions are wrong, that will be somewhat informative. Guiding their *wrong* impressions is still useful. If someone is starting out with Linux they

[GTALUG] Looking for SSD HD

Greetings, everyone. I have a laptop that I don't use that often which runs Windows 10. It has killed 3 regular hard drives since I've had it. I don't know if it is getting bumped and causing a head crash, or if it is a power related thing. Windows will seem to lock up on me so I force a

Re: [GTALUG] Hiring Someone to do a Custom Ubuntu Spins

On 16-10-13 01:18 PM, Marcus Brubaker via talk wrote: I'm involved in a start-up which has developed software to run on Ubuntu Linux [1]. We're currently looking to sell "appliance" servers with the software pre-installed. We want to streamline the installation process by building a custom

Re: [GTALUG] Netgear 5-port Gigabit switch -- $10 ?

On 03/25/2016 11:36 AM, William Park wrote: Canada Computer is selling - Netgear GS105E ProSafe Plus Switch, 5-Port Gigabit Ethernet - 5 Ports - 5 x RJ-45 - 10/100/1000Base-T - Wall Mountable -

Re: [GTALUG] Info request

On 16-08-15 10:17 PM, o1bigtenor via talk wrote: Just looking into how to use a database like Postgresql. [snip] What is a 'normal' or common approach in the linux world? You could use the web based tool phpPgAdmin. -- Cheers! Kevin. http://www.ve3syb.ca/ |"Nerds make the shiny

Re: [GTALUG] Advice -- Building Debian 8 PC To Replace Win XP PC;

On 16-08-09 03:54 PM, Stewart C. Russell via talk wrote: On 2016-08-09 09:35 AM, Steve Petrie, P.Eng. via talk wrote: On the Windows XP PC that is going to be replaced by the new Linux PC, the DDS-3 DAT SCSI tape drive has died, that does backup duty for the HDD. Died too soon by only a couple

Re: [GTALUG] Ubuntu 16.04 / gcc 5.4.0 - errors generated inside system include files

On 16-08-06 10:02 AM, Stewart C. Russell via talk wrote: gcc seems to be choking on its own header file, mathcalls.h: The first step is a search to see if you have the mathcalls.h file on the machine. Under Linux Mint (based on Ubuntu) it is in the libc6-dev package. If that isn't the

Re: [GTALUG] cheap Raspberry Pi, today only

On 2016-08-04 01:26 PM, Evan Leibovitch via talk wrote: I'm very happy with the RPi 3 that I bought recently from https://thepihut.com/ (taking advantage of the post-Brexit drop in the pound ;-) ) I picked up a Pi2 not long before I found out about the 3. I'm not going to get a 3 any time

Re: [GTALUG] FCC "forces" TP-Link to enable open source on their router(s)

On 16-08-03 07:57 AM, David Collier-Brown via talk wrote: On 01/08/16 10:19 PM, D. Hugh Redelmeier via talk wrote: | From: James Knott via talk | On 08/01/2016 05:27 PM, D. Hugh Redelmeier via talk wrote: | > So the original problem remains: how can TP-Link prevent existing |

Re: [GTALUG] GUI for Ubuntu 16.04

On 16-08-03 01:12 PM, Stephen via talk wrote: I have been running 14.04 and have no reason to upgrade. [snip] I prefer the tradition Gnome interface with a menu bar at the top. [snip] So I am turning here and hope someone can me find out if/how I can use the traditional menu bar. I left

Re: [GTALUG] Suggestions: A Book for a Beginner, new to the Linux Shell

On 16-07-17 11:59 PM, ac via talk wrote: I guess most of us have not used man pages for so many years, hm... that could be an interesting little survey to put up on a website. The question could be "How do you get information about a new program?". The options could be: built-in help, man,

Re: [GTALUG] Suggestions: A Book for a Beginner, new to the Linux Shell

On 16-07-18 12:18 PM, Stewart C. Russell via talk wrote: While info might have a few useful features, my main gripe with it is that to process an info page, you need to pull in texinfo. This in turn pulls in TeX Live as a dependency. TeX Live is a multi-gigabyte package. man (mostly*) only needs

Re: [GTALUG] Heads Up

On 16-07-13 01:43 AM, ac via talk wrote: Just started seeing many email attachments with .html active javascript ransomware in base64 fully loaded anyway this is going to be the new normal, disabling javascript on email clients as filtering these will be challenging) so, if you are not using

Re: [GTALUG] The New Skype Alpha.

On 16-07-13 12:09 PM, Scott Sullivan via talk wrote: https://community.skype.com/t5/Linux/Skype-for-Linux-Alpha-and-calling-on-Chrome-amp-Chromebooks/td-p/4434299 I just gave it a quick try. First thing I noticed is that several of the group chats I have set up in my Linux version of Skype

Re: [GTALUG] mysterious restarts

On 16-06-18 07:58 PM, Michael Galea via talk wrote: You know of course that the grid frequency is only approximately 60.00 hz. The short term accuracy of the grid frequency is poor. At any given moment in time will be close to 60Hz but may not be exactly 60Hz. On the other hand it has very

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