[GTALUG] Apr 14th - Hacklab Junk Independence Day

Hacklab Junk Independence Day Drop off / swap old electronic and e-waste, remainders will be recycled.  * Sunday April 15th  * 2PM – 7PM https://twitter.com/hacklabto/status/1777909304260968539 https://hacklab.to/archives/junk-independence-day-4/ -- Scott Sullivan --- Post to this mailing

[GTALUG] Sun. Oct. 15th - Hacklab Junk Independence Day

Hacklab Junk Independence Day https://hacklab.to/archives/junk-independence-day-3/ Come drop off / swap old electronic and e-waste.  * Sunday October 15th  * 2PM – 7PM -- Scott Sullivan --- Post to this mailing list talk@gtalug.org Unsubscribe from this mailing list

[GTALUG] Feature Highlight - Wayland Compositor Hand-Off

http://blog.davidedmundson.co.uk/blog/qt6_wayland_robustness/ This is a robustness improvements that let Wayland clients (applications/programs) gracefully survive and reconnect with the Wayland Compositor after a crash / restart or even complete replacement with a different Wayland

Re: [GTALUG] Favorite desktop manager?

On 2023-07-25 14:45, BCLUG via talk wrote: mwilson--- via talk wrote on 2023-07-25 11:18: what do other people use and like? KDE Plasma. +1 on KDE Plasma Wayland I have to echo my support of all the KDE Connect features. But for me, the real wins are all the massive quality of life

Re: [GTALUG] Anybody using rclone?

On 2023-06-05 09:14, Alvin Starr via talk wrote: Does anybody know of an volume based backup solution that can work in an incremental manner? This questions has big unstated conditional. Are you looking for A) 'volume based backup that agnostic of the volumes it is backing up' For which I

[GTALUG] Apr 30th - Hacklab Junk Independence Day

Dropping this here as it's a favorite of much of this crowd. Hacklab Junk Independence Day Come drop off / swap old electronic and e-waste. * Sunday April 30th * 2PM – 7PM https://hacklab.to/archives/junk-independence-day-2/ -- Scott Sullivan --- Post to this mailing list talk@gtalug.org

Re: [GTALUG] Is there a digest format for the GTALUG talk mailing list?

Thanks for looking into this folks. I'll be highlighting this oversight as we review and renew the GTALUG infra. On 2022-12-18 13:59, BCLUG via talk wrote: sciguy via talk wrote on 2022-12-18 09:04: BCLUG via talk wrote on 2022-12-18 05:08: I just tested it, and it doesn't switch me to

[GTALUG] Hacklab - Junk Independence Day - Nov. 27th.

Knowing the popularity of these events with this crowd.     November 27th     2PM – 7PM https://hacklab.to/archives/junk-independence-day/ -- Scott Sullivan --- Post to this mailing list talk@gtalug.org Unsubscribe from this mailing list https://gtalug.org/mailman/listinfo/talk

Re: [GTALUG] Upgrading SSD -> NVMe

It's well in to the area of diminishing returns for daily application use. You really need an I/O intensive workload (Data Crunching, Video Production) to see a benefit. Does a Faster SSD Matter for Gamers?? - $h!t Manufacturers Say - Linus Tech Tips

Re: [GTALUG] UPS brand recommendations?

meaningful ways. On November 8, 2021 10:29:06 a.m. EST, Ansar Mohammed via talk wrote: >APC generally. >Are you considering just changing the battery? > >On Mon, Nov 8, 2021 at 10:28 AM Scott Sullivan via talk >wrote: > >> For the first time in half a decade, I find myse

[GTALUG] UPS brand recommendations?

For the first time in half a decade, I find myself needing a new UPS. My 1500VA APC UPS gave up the ghost this weekend. What brands are folks favoring theses days? -- Scott Sullivan--- Post to this mailing list talk@gtalug.org Unsubscribe from this mailing list

[GTALUG] [GTALUG-Announce] Call for Candidates for the GTALUG Board

October 12th is GTALUG's Annual General Meeting. There are 4 seats opening, for 2 year terms (2021-2023). There are two formal qualifications that candidates need to satisfy: - Must be a GTALUG member in good standing - Must not have any undischarged bankruptcy Please submit your intention

Re: [GTALUG] intel graphics announcement

On August 25, 2021 11:23:16 a.m. EDT, Lennart Sorensen wrote: >On Tue, Aug 24, 2021 at 06:20:45PM -0400, Scott Sullivan via talk wrote: >> The High Preformance cards are still to hit the market. And while it's going >> to be a while for Game developers to smooth over

Re: [GTALUG] intel graphics announcement

On 2021-08-17 09:37, Lennart Sorensen via talk wrote: On Mon, Aug 16, 2021 at 03:49:08PM -0500, o1bigtenor via talk wrote: Found an announcement from INtel that they are getting back, I think, into graphics cards - - - in a big way. Did some searching - - - - all I can find is 'purdy

[GTALUG] Youtube-dl self updates (Was: Kurzweil Reading Edge)

On 2021-06-01 10:00 a.m., Lennart Sorensen via talk wrote: On Mon, May 31, 2021 at 06:32:48PM -0400, Znoteer via talk wrote: And, if your instance of yt-dl is out-of-date and poutube serves you some errors, "youtube-dl -U" will update your instance for you. Here's a brief description from

Re: [GTALUG] ThinkPad P15 -- crap?

On 2021-06-26 2:42 a.m., ac via talk wrote: On Sat, 26 Jun 2021 01:06:23 -0400 William Park via talk wrote: Hi guys, I'm using ThinkPad P15 Gen 1 at work.  The keyboard, touchpad, and trackpoint are not what I expected.  They feel cheap.  My old T450 is better. Is it just me?  Or, has anyone

[GTALUG] Rocky Linux (CentOS's replacement) goes GA

Yesterday, Rocky Linux made their rebuild of RHEL 8.4 Generally Available. https://rockylinux.org/news/rocky-linux-8-4-ga-release/ This was following a round of RCs for 8.3 and 8.4. My colleagues and I have been testing it out on both our personal and company work loads. And it's working as

[GTALUG] OpenWRT 21.02 is on it's way!

Release Candidate 1 for OpenWRT 21.02 dropped last week. https://downloads.openwrt.org/releases/21.02.0-rc1/ Notable Features that mattered to me: * Kernel Upgrade, 4.14.221 => 5.4.111 * Availability of more 10G NIC drivers (bnx2x) * UEFI boot images for x86 targets * Raspberry Pi 4 support I

[GTALUG] Raspberry Pi High-Availability / Remote Serviceable Solution

This is a follow on from my talk back November. Which at the GTALUG this evening I gave a small follow up. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cwESAjUBuj0 At the end of the original talk I discussed having issue with electrical isolation on the USB serial adapter. I've since solved that with an

Re: [GTALUG] micro controllers

On 2021-02-16 1:55 p.m., Giles Orr via talk wrote: I think when you said "Raspberry Pi" above you were referring to the SBC, but they have very recently issued their own microcontroller board, "the Raspberry Pi Pico:" https://www.raspberrypi.org/documentation/pico/getting-started/ In fact they

[GTALUG] USB-C Dock Experience Sharing

This came up in another conversation. Just want to share some of my thoughts on dealing with USB-C docks / dongles. I think since COVID a lot of folks are doing these docked laptop setups for work at home. I've had three different devices I've worked with that have type-C. I've seen some very

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

Folks, As many of you have noticed, GTALUG's mailings and website were down since Dec 17th. This was the result of the operations/executive failing to act in a timely manner after Chris's passing. A payment was missed, and our server was shutdown by the hosting provider. Over the holidays

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

On 12/7/20 1:21 PM, hi--- via talk wrote: # The state of Mozilla with Mike Hoye We will be meeting on Zoom: * Join Zoom Meeting -- https://us02web.zoom.us/j/89306740154?pwd=V0xGekxFWGFpMExXUDdFQnVPbGNPZz09 * Meeting ID: 893 0674 0154P 893 0674 0154 No

[GTALUG] colocation downtown. Shared rack, non-profit price. Toronto Free-Net.

Passing this along for my friends at the Toronto Freenet. Original Message Subject: colocation downtown. Shared rack, non-profit price. Toronto Free-Net. Toronto Free-Net is moving its servers to bigger digs and can offer colocation in a *shared* rack, at the premier carrier

Re: [GTALUG] for multi-hop ssh/scp: option "ProxyJump"

On 8/29/20 6:31 PM, Scott Sullivan via talk wrote: FYI, the ProxyJump directive was only introduces in OpenSSH version 7.3. As we had a lot of legacy RHEL/CentOS 6 systems, which were not yet on that version, we had to use the older pattern of ProxyCommand and NetCat (nc). While I

Re: [GTALUG] for multi-hop ssh/scp: option "ProxyJump"

I've had to do the kinda of multiple proxy jumps Hugh is alluding too. It was common in a Managed Service Provider I worked for. FYI, the ProxyJump directive was only introduces in OpenSSH version 7.3. As we had a lot of legacy RHEL/CentOS 6 systems, which were not yet on that version, we had

Re: [GTALUG] Raspberry Pi 4 Desktop Kit

On 8/8/20 11:21 AM, Kevin Cozens via talk wrote: On 2020-08-08 10:49 a.m., Scott Sullivan via talk wrote: When you also factor in Keyboard, Mouse, and USB boot drive, your left with only one spare USB port, which could likely be taken up by a webcam. You can use a USB type web cam with a Pi

Re: [GTALUG] Raspberry Pi 4 Desktop Kit

On 8/8/20 9:27 AM, Aruna Hewapathirane wrote: On Fri, Aug 7, 2020 at 9:11 PM Scott Sullivan via talk <mailto:talk@gtalug.org>> wrote: On 8/7/20 6:49 PM, Aruna Hewapathirane via talk wrote: [.SNIP.] > How easy or difficult would it be to boot off an external h

Re: [GTALUG] Raspberry Pi 4 Desktop Kit

On 8/7/20 6:49 PM, Aruna Hewapathirane via talk wrote: Hello, I stumbled across this recently: https://www.raspberrypi.org/products/raspberry-pi-4-model-b/ I can use some guidance and advice from folks who have experience with Raspberry Pi's. What I read so far looks good but I have questions.

[GTALUG] Editing Browser Text boxes in external editors.

Just sharing my experience post. So, my father used to do this with an extension call It's All Text. It didn't make the jump to web extensions and security model now requires an external helper application. Drew and I have come to very different conclusions about the solutions. Style #1 -

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

With an attacker mindset, I wouldn't give users persistent access to the disks group. udev creates disks in /dev with the disk group, and r+w group permissions. So, if I want to screw around with the root filesystem, I can now go indirectly via which ever /dev/ has the root fs and monkey with

Re: [GTALUG] Remove drive, system won't boot

On 1/4/20 11:24 AM, William Park via talk wrote: Looks like your HDD1 (Seagate 4TB) is failing, so can't mount /var, /home, etc. But, the actual mounting order goes like sda -- Adata 60GB sdb -- WD 10TB (the new disk) sdc -- Seagate 4TB 1. Try swapping the SATA connectors of

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

Although I don't have recent testing experince, after the whole 2TB 'thing', the marketing became about the largest drives tested at time of release. Someone else can look into this further but I think it was not handling Advanced Format Drives (4k sectors) that was the crux of limitation. On

Re: [GTALUG] IPv6 only WiFi hotspot

On 9/25/19 1:00 PM, James Knott via talk wrote: On 2019-09-25 12:37 PM, Val Kulkov via talk wrote: I found myself connected to an IPv6-only WiFi hotspot a couple of weeks ago. In a small town in Greece. At first, I could not understand why I was getting DNS errors for so many sites. Then it

[GTALUG] CentOS 8 - Sept 24th

With the release work for 7.7 completed, we now have a release date for CentOS 8. Tuesday Sept. 24th. https://wiki.centos.org/About/Building_8 As I already run a split CentOS/Fedora environment, I'm looking forward to the usual reduction in differences for my Ansible playbooks. -- Scott

Re: [GTALUG] SSH Host tab completion

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 completions likely only in some. TMUX is

Re: [GTALUG] Boeing India software engineers

Forgive the lack of signature. This is a jointly drafted statement of GTALUG's board of directors. We apologize for the confusion that omission may of caused. This comes from all of us, not just Alex. On March 13, 2019 3:36:23 PM EDT, Alex Volkov via talk wrote: >Folks, > > >In accordance

[GTALUG] Hacklab Toronto - Moving Crowd Fund

Howdy Folks, Hacklab Toronto has been a great friend to the GTALUG community. We had over lap of member of our community. The last few GTALUG Linux in Parks have been hosted by them. GTALUG's board and volunteers have used it as meeting space. Hacklab has co-hosted some of our out-of-cycle

Re: [GTALUG] Security cams question

On 2/9/19 8:25 AM, o1bigtenor via talk wrote: Greetings I am looking into using a security cam to observe animal behavior in an area. So I would like to use a camera that is IR capable to 30 m but what I'm not finding is anything that I can run on Linux - - - just M$ is listed. Has anyone out

[GTALUG] nmcli is rather pleasant with tab completion

This morning I was in a scenario where just done an install (Fedora 29 Server), and the device had no wired network, only wifi. I was feeling lazy and didn't want to pull out my USB ethernet dongle and a cable. So out of curiosity, I was wondered how far I could get with the new nmcli (Network

Re: [GTALUG] Various Tech looking for Good Homes

On 10/25/18 9:39 PM, Gmail wrote: I’ll take the GnuBee PC2 NAS Deluxe Kit off you still got it. If you’re at FSOSS tomorrow, I can even get it right then! -- dave.s.do...@gmail.com Sent from my iPhone On Oct 25, 2018, at 9:23 PM, Scott Sullivan via talk wrote: GnuBee PC2 NAS Deluxe Kit

[GTALUG] Various Tech looking for Good Homes

I have the following items for sale. I just don't have a use for them anymore, and would like to give this community first crack. Contact me off-list if your interested or have questions. ACER Aspire easyStore H340 * Intel Atom 230, 2GB RAM, No Drives * Includes added Compatible Graphics card,

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

I don't know who we got on the same wavelength, but we both posted within a minute of each other. Cute. Somehow, having sent the AGM call for canadites, my mind had check off 'announce for this month'. Silly me. On 10/8/18 10:42 PM, D. Hugh Redelmeier via talk wrote: The meeting will start

Re: [GTALUG] Replacement keys (was Lenovo ThinkPad Compact Bluetooth Keyboard with TrackPoint)

I had that happen to one of mine as well. Had the ~ and 1 keys break off. It's currently a parts spare, contact me off list. On 9/26/18 9:56 PM, Michael Hill via talk wrote: On Tue, Aug 28, 2018 at 6:35 PM, Scott Sullivan via talk wrote: I've had a number of folks express interest after

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

I've been told to ignore the 'tickets' statement as this is a free event. On September 15, 2018 6:23:38 PM EDT, "D. Hugh Redelmeier via talk" wrote: >| From: Scott Sullivan via talk > >| Privacy and security on the 21st Century Internet: a big picture view > >Thank

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

On 2018-09-13 8:52 a.m., Stewart C. Russell via talk wrote: On 2018-09-12 04:41 PM, hi--- via talk wrote: # In the Community # September ## Toronto Public Library Privacy and security on the 21st Century Internet: a big picture view * Sat Sep 22, 10:00 a.m. - 11:15 a.m. * North York Central

Re: [GTALUG] November preso open?

Hi Aren, speak...@gtalug.org is the contact point for that. On September 6, 2018 9:50:42 AM EDT, "Aren.deJ via talk" wrote: >Hey all, > >Curious if the November meet day already has a presenter or if I might >be >able to jump in there? >Is there a different email to send this to? > >Thanks

Re: [GTALUG] Swappiness

On 2018-09-05 06:52 AM, o1bigtenor via talk wrote: On Tue, Sep 4, 2018 at 11:16 PM, Evan Leibovitch via talk I was referring to this: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Swappiness Greetings Article looks interesting except the systemd provisions are attributes and and are not mentioned. Bottom

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

On 2018-08-31 05:15 PM, David Mason wrote: OK, so I have an 8TB Seagate USB disk and have created a zpool on it called backup1. My main pool is called tank. I tried: : ~ ; sudo zfs snapshot -r tank@2018-08-31 : ~ ; sudo zfs list NAME            USED  AVAIL  REFER  MOUNTPOINT backup1        

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

On 2018-08-29 11:43 PM, Amos H. Weatherill wrote: Scott, My reasoning for / on ZFS is pretty Simple ... the machine that is becoming my first NAS only has 4 SATA Ports, so I can't afford to Waste one on a boot drive. Recommended best Practice is to use ZFS with whole disks. That said, most

[GTALUG] Lenovo ThinkPad Compact Bluetooth Keyboard with TrackPoint

I've had a number of folks express interest after seeing me use mine. So I'm just going to drop the links here for general reference. Lenovo ThinkPad Compact Bluetooth Keyboard with TrackPoint https://www.newegg.ca/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16823218058CVF

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

Having read through the thread to date, I'm actually a little disappointed at the number of linux users pushing towards a Solaris or BSD for ZFS. My primary File servers (4 of them) are all using ZFS for their data partitions. Amos, ## Couple of Answers to your questions A) Disto? I

[GTALUG] OpenWRT 18.06 Released

https://openwrt.org/ To Quote: The OpenWrt Community is proud to present the OpenWrt 18.06 stable version series. It is the first stable version after the OpenWrt/LEDE project merger and the successor to the previous stable LEDE 17.01 and OpenWrt 15.05 major releases. The OpenWrt 18.06

[GTALUG] Hacklab Junk Independence Day, Sunday July 22nd

This is a popular event in our community, and it comes around one again. Hacklab Toronto's Junk Independence Day! July 22nd from 2pm-7pm. https://hacklab.to/archives/junk-independence-day-july-22nd/ Bring your e-waste and dig through other people’s for treasures. Anything left at the end will

Re: [GTALUG] Gnome on Fedora 28 silent change blindsided me

On 2018-05-06 01:56 AM, D. Hugh Redelmeier via talk wrote: I'm used to notebook touchpads emulating left and right buttons with the lower portion of the touchpad. Clicks elsewhere on the touchpad count as left clicks. Silently, the new gnome that comes with Fedora 28 defaults to treating all

Re: [GTALUG] Turris MOX: Commercially supported OpenWRT, Modular Router

On 2018-04-18 03:25 PM, Scott Sullivan via talk wrote: I've been CZ.NICs previous router, the OMNIA for over a year and a half now. It's been reliable, self-updating, and very solid with it's WIFI performance. Their launching a next generation, that more flexible in configuration so you can

Re: [GTALUG] USB-C/3.1 Video and Linux

On 2018-03-23 12:50 PM, Giles Orr via talk wrote: A couple days ago I got a Best Buy flyer, and they have this item: https://www.bestbuy.ca/en-ca/product/asus-zenscreen-15-6-fhd-60hz-5ms-gtg-ips-lcd-monitor-mb16ac-dark-grey/10737845.aspx

Re: [GTALUG] Someone has a Unihertz Jelly Pro smartphone?

On 25/10/17 10:35 PM, znoteer--- via talk wrote: Hi, Was it on this list that someone said they had a Jelly Pro phone from Unihertz? If so, would you mind answering a few questions? That was I, and yes, I will. 1) How is the general build quality of the phone (as rugged as any other

[GTALUG] FSOSS Speakers, we welcome you!

If you, or someone you know, was planning to speak at FSOSS. We'd love to hear from you, GTALUG is always looking for speakers. Please contact me off list at 'speaker-coordinator[AT]gtalug.org'. -- Scott Sullivan --- Talk Mailing List talk@gtalug.org https://gtalug.org/mailman/listinfo/talk

Re: [GTALUG] Kernel and/or X upgrade broke my video setup

On 11/10/17 12:02 PM, Evan Leibovitch wrote: This is the output of my xrandr: Screen 0: minimum 320 x 200, current 1920 x 1080, maximum 16384 x 16384 HDMI-0 disconnected (normal left inverted right x axis y axis) DVI-0 connected primary 1920x1080+0+0 (normal left inverted right x axis

Re: [GTALUG] Kernel and/or X upgrade broke my video setup

On October 11, 2017 10:19:28 AM EDT, ac via talk <talk@gtalug.org> wrote: >On Wed, 11 Oct 2017 10:01:07 -0400 >Scott Sullivan via talk <talk@gtalug.org> wrote:. >> Desktop implement UIs that talk to this functionality, and handle the > >> 'memory' of layouts

Re: [GTALUG] Kernel and/or X upgrade broke my video setup

On 11/10/17 09:10 AM, ac via talk wrote: Hi Evan :) i did not bite as I am not that knowledgable on kde... but as nobody is saying anything maybe try: mv /home/scott/.config /home/scott/oldconfig let us know? That's a very broad approach with the disadvantage of moving settings for a whole

Re: [GTALUG] touch screens

On 11/10/17 09:34 AM, Jason Shaw via talk wrote: On Wed, Oct 11, 2017 at 8:08 AM, o1bigtenor via talk > wrote: Greetings Reading of the announcement of 2 new 'smart' phones at the meeting prompts me to ask the question. What are the

Re: [GTALUG] touch screens

On 11/10/17 08:31 AM, ac via talk wrote: On Wed, 11 Oct 2017 07:08:40 -0500 o1bigtenor via talk wrote: Am I the only person who finds that touch screens don't work worth a !@#$%^ using my fingers? you are not alone. for some basic stuff they are fine, but, in addition to

Re: [GTALUG] MBR and GTP Drives

On 10/10/17 11:33 AM, Lennart Sorensen wrote: On Mon, Oct 09, 2017 at 10:53:13AM -0400, Scott Sullivan via talk wrote: I've developed a habit of zeroing the area where the two partition tables may live. Then letting my system boot normally, the install will offer to partition the disk

[GTALUG] [GTALUG-Announce] Reminder: Board Elections Today

Today's meeting is special, it is the AGM. It's where members reaffirm their commitment to this community. Where volunteers step up to the board in order to guide month to month operations. Three of our five board seats will be open this year, for two year terms. Two of the incumbents, Myles

[GTALUG] OnePlus OxygenOS built-in analytics

Looks like OnePlus is phoning home identifiable information. I know these devices are popular among our community. https://www.chrisdcmoore.co.uk/post/oneplus-analytics/ It can be disabled with a little work. But another option is to switch to LineageOS. This the continuation of the Community

Re: [GTALUG] MBR and GTP Drives

On 07/10/17 08:53 PM, Howard Gibson via talk wrote: From fdisk, I could see that the Western Digital drive was GTP. The new Seagate drive identified itself as "dos", which means it is MBR. Best Buy offered me a newer Seagate at a slightly lower price but one is claimed explicity to

Re: [GTALUG] Cheap vs Inexpensive (Was: router upgrade)

On 13/07/17 05:32 PM, James Knott via talk wrote: On 07/13/2017 05:17 PM, Scott Sullivan via talk wrote: I also for the most part replace the software on my routers. These days that's LEDE, the fork of OpenWRT that's actually getting things done, and making regular releases. Well, there's

Re: [GTALUG] Cheap vs Inexpensive (Was: router upgrade)

On 13/07/17 05:17 PM, Scott Sullivan via talk wrote: On 13/07/17 05:09 PM, James Knott via talk wrote: On 07/13/2017 05:03 PM, Scott Sullivan via talk wrote: From my own experience, this is not the case. I'v been using TP-Link gear for over a decade, in personal and professional settings

Re: [GTALUG] Cheap vs Inexpensive (Was: router upgrade)

On 13/07/17 05:09 PM, James Knott via talk wrote: On 07/13/2017 05:03 PM, Scott Sullivan via talk wrote: From my own experience, this is not the case. I'v been using TP-Link gear for over a decade, in personal and professional settings (having worked at an ISP). I find TP-Link to be of good

[GTALUG] Cheap vs Inexpensive (Was: router upgrade)

On 12/07/17 12:07 AM, William Park via talk wrote: TP-Link is cheap and disposable. When I see this phrasing, I think poor quality, and I'm curious if that is your intention? From my own experience, this is not the case. I'v been using TP-Link gear for over a decade, in personal and

Re: [GTALUG] router upgrade

On 11/07/17 07:25 PM, o1bigtenor via talk wrote: So - - - I should just buy another one? (asus rt-n16) I'm thinking the one I have might get another 2 years and the next one would need to last until at least 2024 to give good value. Was thinking that an upgrade would be nice by 2019. Dee

[GTALUG] Backing up Windows Machines to Linux NAS,

I'm sure many of us have friends and family with Windows Machines. And the savvy among us run our own Linux Backup server / NAS boxes. How do you get regular, automated copies of data off said Windows machines? I would like to only hear from folks that actively using a solution. Not a list of

Re: [GTALUG] Dinner options?

Google Maps lists that location as permanently closed. There is the Steak & Cheese Factory next-door. Not sure what the seatings like. And "Love at First Bite"'s successor other side of church. I'll look for folks at the former then the latter. On June 13, 2017 3:08:14 PM EDT, Ivan Avery

[GTALUG] Device Firmware updates getting easier (Logitech users, heads up!)

http://fwupd.org Firmware Update Deamon. This wonderful utility/service creates a consistent means for hardware vendors to provided and apply firmware updates to devices. Dell is on board and now so is Logitech. The tools and infrastructure a written by the developer that created and

[GTALUG] For the curious, a ZFS checksum error!

The Nice thing about ZFS, is it'll tell you exactly which file is borked. You won't get that out of traditional raid/file-system pair, because the two don't know about each other. At best you'll get a notice that block @ meaningless number is bad. [root@muse ~]# zpool status -v pool: muse

Re: [GTALUG] Did I buy the wrong network card? (RTL8812AE)

I wish we'd covered wifi when building out your machine. It somehow just got missed/assumed by me you would be wired. I've got a Intel 7260 mPCIe card sitting spare. It came off a mini-itx board that wasn't going to need it (I substituted in a mPCIe 4-port USB3 card instead). This one

Re: [GTALUG] new computer (+ thanks to Scott S.)

On 13/05/17 10:10 AM, Stewart C. Russell via talk wrote: * Distro: Ubuntu Gnome (sorry, Scott …) I'd enjoyed sharing the worthwhile features of KDE, but will never begrudge someone for making an informed choice in their own interests. -- Scott Sullivan --- Talk Mailing List talk@gtalug.org

[GTALUG] April 9th Junk Day at Hacklab.to

https://hacklab.to/archives/junk-independence-day-april-9th/ Bring you used or broken electronics. Swap meet from the pile, leftovers go to proper recycling after. -- Scott Sullivan--- Talk Mailing List talk@gtalug.org https://gtalug.org/mailman/listinfo/talk

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

... 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 https://gtalug.org/mailman/listinfo/talk

Re: [GTALUG] Intel Baytrail systems may become stable under Linux!

On 12/02/17 03:34 PM, Scott Sullivan via talk wrote: The Vensmile battery powered miniPC. I went out of my way to get the model with 64GB of storage, which has a different (harder to open) case. http://www.banggood.com/Vensmile-W10-Quad-Core-2GB-RAM-64GB-ROM-Windows-8_1-Wintel-TV-Box-p-975963

Re: [GTALUG] Intel Baytrail systems may become stable under Linux!

On 12/02/17 10:47 PM, William Park wrote: On Sun, Feb 12, 2017 at 03:34:06PM -0500, Scott Sullivan via talk wrote: Popped the latest multi-arch Debian ISO (8.7.0) into my trusty ZALMAN external drive with virtual CD/DVD function. https://www.newegg.ca/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16811235059

Re: [GTALUG] Intel Baytrail systems may become stable under Linux!

On 12/02/17 11:49 AM, Michael Hill via talk wrote: On Sun, Feb 12, 2017 at 10:56 AM, D. Hugh Redelmeier via talk wrote: A few days ago, entry 724 (!) in that bug report noted the submission of a kernel patch that strongly reduces the problem. Good to hear. Thanks for the

[GTALUG] Dinner for the 14th?

Let's get this ball rolling. My personal criteria is adequate seating and low noise. These two stand out as reasonable, from my memory. Thai on Yonge Address: second floor, 370 Yonge Street (South of Gerrard St.) Basil Box Address: 351 Yonge St. (part of Ryerson SLC building) Any

Re: [GTALUG] Boot problem

On 21/01/17 12:58 PM, Anthony de Boer via talk wrote: Michael Galea via talk wrote: I am seeing a problem at boot time that has appeared in kernels after 4.3.0-1-amd64. My system will boot, show the available debian kernels, select the latest and then jump into initramrs. It claims it can not

[GTALUG] War Story: UEFI Boot Failure and Fix

I was recently issue an new laptop from work. Of course, being in a sysadmin position, and giving the latitude to use the tools I deem necessary, I replaced the disk and installed Fedora 25. I felt it was also time to take the plunge with UEFI booting. The Problem === After

[GTALUG] Where are the Slides?

A common question for any presenter is where can the audience get the slides? GTALUG works with the presenter to make those slides available, when possible. These end up on the Wiki, under the meetings section. https://wiki.gtalug.org/meeting:start With deep audience interest in Peter's

[GTALUG] Dinner Choice for December Meeting?

Although it was a bit on the crowded side, I like the food Banh Mi Boys. Banh Mi Boys (Vietnamese and Asian Fusion) Address: 399 Yonge St. Better suggestions? Slush list of food places: https://wiki.gtalug.org/pre-meeting_dinner -- Scott Sullivan --- Talk Mailing List talk@gtalug.org

Re: [GTALUG] Experience Upgrading From Fedora 24 to Fedora 25

eek without issues. This is with third-party repos like RPM Fusion, Dropbox, Chrome, Adobe, and some Fedora COPR repos as well. Your millage may very, but it interesting to see the result in my case. On 27/11/16 03:12 PM, Scott Sullivan via talk wrote: On 24/11/16 07:12 PM, CLIFFORD ILKAY via t

Re: [GTALUG] Experience Upgrading From Fedora 24 to Fedora 25

On 24/11/16 07:12 PM, CLIFFORD ILKAY via talk wrote: I just followed the directions here to upgrade from 24 to 25. Within 20 minutes, I had a flawlessly working system. I'm very impressed. I have a little do nothing arm system stashed away

Re: [GTALUG] OK, where are we having dinner, folks?

On November 8, 2016 11:44:29 AM EST, "D. Hugh Redelmeier via talk" wrote: >How about > >Raijin (Ramen) > >Address: 3 Gerrard St E >visited 2016 February 9 +1 for Ramen -- Scott Sullivan --- Talk Mailing List

Re: [GTALUG] Hardware Password Wallet - Mooltipass Mini

On 26/10/16 03:12 PM, Lennart Sorensen wrote: On Wed, Oct 26, 2016 at 12:35:43PM -0400, Scott Sullivan via talk wrote: If folks have any questions about the device, I'd be happy to answer from my experiences. I see some of the comments complaining that the 31 character limit on password

[GTALUG] Hardware Password Wallet - Mooltipass Mini

So this a size reduced version of the Mooltipass device I helped fund nearly 2 years ago. https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/limpkin/mooltipass-mini-your-passwords-on-the-go/ I'll let the campaign video sell you on it's virtues. The advantage I find for me is that it's usable universally

[GTALUG] Hacklab Junk Independence Day, Sun. Oct 23rd

Hacklab is hosting it's next Junk Independence Day on October 23rd. https://hacklab.to/archives/junk-independence-day-sunday-october-23-2016/ This a recurring event where electronic junk or e-waste can be brought down, swifted through swap-meet style, and the reminder is sent to recycling

[GTALUG] Voting with our Dollars on Computing Future that Respects our Freedom.

There is a common refrain on this list, "Vote with your Dollars". We'll I'm going to put my money where my mouth is. The EOMA-68 effort is something I've spoken on before. It's a real earnest attempt to put together a hardware project that meets the ideals of the free software community. It's

[GTALUG] TP-LINK TL-WR810N (Was: (question) TP-Link TL-WR802N)

Peter, Nice find. Looks like support has landed in Trunk (which will become the next stable release in the future) https://wiki.openwrt.org/toh/tp-link/tl-wr810n The USB port does support data. http://www.tp-link.com/en/products/details/TL-WR810N.html#overview And NewEgg has it on special

Re: [GTALUG] (answer) TP-Link TL-WR802N 300Mbps Wireless-N Nano Router

On 08/11/2016 11:52 PM, William Park via talk wrote: Anyone have this one? http://www.canadacomputers.com/product_info.php?cPath=27_1046_365_id=087761 http://www.tplink.ca/en/products/details/TL-WR802N.html If so, have you ever used its "Client Mode" and can you confirm that it works?

[GTALUG] TL-MR3020

Just out of the recent thread "TP-Link TL-WR802N 300Mbps Wireless-N Nano Router", wanted to pull together useful links on one of my favorite pieces of travel kit. It's aged very well, still doing what every random job I throw at it 4 years on. The most recent triumph, involved using as it as

Re: [GTALUG] (question) TP-Link TL-WR802N 300Mbps Wireless-N Nano Router

On 08/12/2016 09:09 AM, James Knott via talk wrote: On 08/12/2016 08:17 AM, William Park via talk wrote: I downloaded user's manual for this one also. It talks about DHCP in "Client Mode", which means it's client NAT, not bridge. It has multiple modes, including "Wireless Client Mode". This

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