Re: [GTALUG] information storage ideas

On Mon, Dec 14, 2020 at 10:14 PM Stewart C. Russell via talk wrote: > > On 2020-12-14 1:24 p.m., o1bigtenor via talk wrote: > > > > Almost wet myself when he started moaning about Fraktur - - - - > > And by that, I meant Sütterlinschrift — I couldn't remember the name, &g

Re: [GTALUG] information storage ideas

On Mon, Dec 14, 2020 at 9:42 AM D. Hugh Redelmeier via talk wrote: > > You might find Stewart's GTALUG talk from three years ago useful. > "A Bit More Than Mostly Searchable: Scanned Paper You Can Find" > --- > Post to this mailing list talk@gtalug.org > Unsubscribe from this mailing list

Re: [GTALUG] information storage ideas

On Sun, Dec 13, 2020 at 5:11 PM D. Hugh Redelmeier via talk wrote: > > A quarter century ago, I heard of "Lifestreams" as the future of this. > It seems to be pretty dead, but not a terrible idea. > > > Gelernter (co-inventor?) is pretty

Re: [GTALUG] information storage ideas

On Sun, Dec 13, 2020 at 3:23 PM D. Joe via talk wrote: > > On Tue, Dec 08, 2020 at 05:23:55PM -0500, Giles Orr via talk wrote: > > > If you're not a Vim user, I imagine there's an equivalent for Emacs. > > The 800# gorilla of emacs organizational tools seems to be org-mode. > > How that compares

Re: [GTALUG] information storage ideas

On Thu, Dec 10, 2020 at 5:11 PM William Park via talk wrote: > > I have same problem as you. VimWiki, DocuWiki... My eyes hurt. > > Sometimes, I'm the one creating the content. So, I'll accept the hassle > of typing associated markups. > > Sometimes, others created the files, doc, exls, txt,

Re: [GTALUG] information storage ideas

On Wed, Dec 9, 2020 at 6:14 PM Michael Galea via talk wrote: > > On 09/12/2020 13.42, Stewart C. Russell via talk wrote: > > On 2020-12-08 12:40 p.m., o1bigtenor via talk wrote: > >> > >> Has anyone found a 'reasonable' system that would effect this le

Re: [GTALUG] information storage ideas

On Wed, Dec 9, 2020 at 12:42 PM Stewart C. Russell via talk wrote: > > On 2020-12-08 12:40 p.m., o1bigtenor via talk wrote: > > > > Has anyone found a 'reasonable' system that would effect this less than > > simple > > 'idea'? > > "Reasonable" is qu

Re: [GTALUG] information storage ideas

On Tue, Dec 8, 2020 at 8:54 PM Kevin Cozens via talk wrote: > > On 2020-12-08 5:23 p.m., Giles Orr via talk wrote: > > If you're a Vim user, I highly recommend vimwiki: > > https://github.com/vimwiki/vimwiki . I live and die by NeoVim, and > > spend every day with multiple sessions open across

[GTALUG] information storage ideas

Greetings I tend to work on quite a number of different things if not at the same time then in quite short order. So far most projects will get some notes or phone call references or other information jotted down on paper. Over time this means that I all too often tend to redo things - - -

[GTALUG] how to save multiple copies of a file

Greetings I'm wanting to save a file (from a text editor) in multiple locations simply and easily. I've looked at 'parallel' and ran into the idea of symlink chains but so far parallel seems more for multiple in and out and symlink chains besides a reference I can't find more information. I

[GTALUG] saving files in multiple locations

Greetings I'm wanting to save a file (from a text editor) in multiple locations simply and easily. I've looked at 'parallel' and ran into the idea of symlink chains but so far parallel seems more for multiple in and out and symlink chains besides a reference I can't find more information. I

Re: [GTALUG] First new home computer for decades - Raspberry Pi 400

On Wed, Nov 11, 2020 at 9:55 AM Giles Orr via talk wrote: > > On Wed, 11 Nov 2020 at 09:10, James Knott via talk wrote: > > > > On 2020-11-10 9:56 p.m., Lennart Sorensen via talk wrote: > > > My second thought was: They removed the composite port. I probably > > > would never personally use it,

Re: [GTALUG] question on Debian

On Fri, Nov 6, 2020 at 9:38 AM Lennart Sorensen wrote: > > On Sun, Nov 01, 2020 at 10:12:59AM -0600, o1bigtenor via talk wrote: > > Debian has been holding back updates on language updates like GCC for > > some 3 or more months at this point. I had been waiting to update my

Re: [GTALUG] Scientific Libraries in Python for Drawing Physics Equations

On Mon, Nov 2, 2020 at 5:07 PM Nicholas Krause via talk wrote: > > Greetings, > I'm wondering if anyone has used this before: > http://qutip.org/tutorials.html. If someone has a recommendation or has > used something > similar for drawing out the graphs for Schrodinger wave functions or > Quantum

[GTALUG] question on Debian

Greetings Debian has been holding back updates on language updates like GCC for some 3 or more months at this point. I had been waiting to update my system hoping that I could get things all together as it were. Today I bit the bullet and upgraded a whole bunch of stuff. Anyone know why this,

Re: [GTALUG] OT: Right to Repair Article in NYT

On Wed, Oct 28, 2020 at 7:05 AM ac via talk wrote: > > On Wed, 28 Oct 2020 07:52:04 -0400 > Seneca Cunningham via talk wrote: > > > On Oct 28, 2020, at 07:42, ac via talk wrote: > > > so, okay, this is hectically off topic, but as a non bovine expert > > > with a vague interest in all things

Re: [GTALUG] Right to Repair Article in NYT

On Tue, Oct 27, 2020 at 12:19 PM Don Tai via talk wrote: > > I repair and I hope that you do, too. Repair, resurrect and Reuse. Tech > throws out so much after software can't keep up. Linux is one of the tools I > use to keep PCs in service but still secure. > > I've not heard anything about

Re: [GTALUG] urgent: Red Hat distros have an update that renders some systems unbootable

On Sat, Aug 1, 2020 at 11:03 AM D. Hugh Redelmeier via talk wrote: > > https://access.redhat.com/solutions/5272311 > https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2020/07/red-hat-and-centos-systems-arent-booting-due-to-boothole-patches/ > > Don't do upgrades to Fedora, RHEL, CentOS until you read those. > >

Re: [GTALUG] web hosting question

On Thu, Jul 30, 2020 at 6:53 AM ac via talk wrote: > On Thu, 30 Jul 2020 06:17:08 -0500 > o1bigtenor wrote: > > > As part of my 'I don't really know enough' understanding was the > > asking here of what hopefully wasn't a trivial question. > > > > Thanking all the respondents muchly! > > your

Re: [GTALUG] web hosting question

On Thu, Jul 30, 2020 at 2:49 AM ac via talk wrote: > On Wed, 29 Jul 2020 12:09:34 -0500 > o1bigtenor via talk wrote: > > On Wed, Jul 29, 2020 at 11:43 AM Alvin Starr via talk > > wrote: > > > On 7/29/20 12:19 PM, Don Tai via talk wrote: > > > > A fri

Re: [GTALUG] web hosting question

On Wed, Jul 29, 2020 at 11:43 AM Alvin Starr via talk wrote: > On 7/29/20 12:19 PM, Don Tai via talk wrote: > > A friend on here uses Planethoster, a Canuck company based in Montreal > > but also have servers in France. He has had good experiences so far, > > but you might need to request

Re: [GTALUG] web hosting question

On Wed, Jul 29, 2020 at 11:19 AM Don Tai via talk wrote: > A friend on here uses Planethoster, a Canuck company based in Montreal but > also have servers in France. He has had good experiences so far, but you > might need to request English once in a while. Why do you want to have a > Canuck

Re: [GTALUG] web hosting question

On Wed, Jul 29, 2020 at 10:38 AM Kevin Cozens via talk wrote: > On 2020-07-29 11:05 a.m., o1bigtenor via talk wrote: > > Finding a reasonable Canadian web hosting company is proving to be more > than > > somewhat challenging.?? > > What is proving challenging abo

Re: [GTALUG] web hosting question

On Wed, Jul 29, 2020 at 10:32 AM Tim Carroll via talk wrote: > I've used namespro.ca for years for dns and lunanode.com for hosting and > been happy with both. > > Hmm - - - - I'm quite a bit gunshy on the 'cloud' hosting stuff. Regards --- Post to this mailing list talk@gtalug.org

Re: [GTALUG] web hosting question

On Wed, Jul 29, 2020 at 10:25 AM Alvin Starr via talk wrote: > For DNS I use easydns. > They are local to Toronto and have been good to work with for DNS. > > They do have web hosting but having never used it I cannot comment on > their support. > > You could use somebody like DigitalOcean if

[GTALUG] web hosting question

Greetings Reading past emails it seems that using a separate provider for domain registration and web hosting is the suggested norm. Finding a reasonable Canadian web hosting company is proving to be more than somewhat challenging. How negative is having both services at one particular company?

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

On Sun, Jul 12, 2020 at 8:48 PM Giles Orr via talk wrote: > On Fri, 10 Jul 2020 at 17:51, John Sellens wrote: > > > > On Fri, 2020/07/10 05:39:59PM -0400, Giles Orr > wrote: > > | I love this list! I thought that '[ -w . ]' and '[ -w $PWD ]' were > > | practically equivalent. "Practically"

Re: [GTALUG] btrfs weirdity.

On Tue, Jun 30, 2020 at 3:53 AM D. Hugh Redelmeier via talk wrote: snip > > I was going to consider BTRFS when RHEL dropped it. I took that as a > Bad Sign. Do you know why they did this? I started my use of BTRFS not that long ago on the recommendation of my linux guru who indicated that

Re: [GTALUG] Windows Terminal: Everything you need to know now - TechRepublic

On Tue, Jun 9, 2020 at 10:30 AM Christopher Browne via talk wrote: > > On Tue, 9 Jun 2020 at 10:25, James Knott via talk wrote: >> >> While not strictly Linux, this provides a choice of command prompts, >> including Linux shells. It's also more configurable than the usual >> Windows terminals.

Re: [GTALUG] BlackBerry [was Re: Linux servers attacked!]

On Mon, May 11, 2020 at 12:32 PM William Park via talk wrote: > > On Mon, May 11, 2020 at 12:45:57AM -0400, D. Hugh Redelmeier via talk wrote: > > Like Palm/HP WebOS, their phone/tablet OS was fine but their ecosystem > > attracted few 3rd party developers. So only a minority of consumers > >

Re: [GTALUG] Free Linux VMs

On Mon, May 11, 2020 at 7:11 AM Alvin Starr via talk wrote: > > On 5/10/20 10:50 PM, Howard Gibson wrote: > > [snip] > >> The NCIX one is not surprising because the bankruptcy lawyers have no > >> idea of what they have and don't have any responsibility to guard public > >> privacy. > > Alvin, >

Re: [GTALUG] jitsi test [was: Re: Planning April Meeting]

On Sat, Apr 4, 2020 at 4:57 PM Evan Leibovitch wrote: > > On Sat., Apr. 4, 2020, 4:54 p.m. o1bigtenor via talk, wrote: > > >> If you were to include user privacy and security would you please >> revisit your list. > > > Not honestly possible. > > Zoom has b

Re: [GTALUG] jitsi test [was: Re: Planning April Meeting]

On Sat, Apr 4, 2020 at 3:07 PM Evan Leibovitch via talk wrote: > > FWIW, I've gone through the lot, as host or participant. > > Of the solutions out there, here is how I would rank them (in decreasing > levels of quality and ease of use) > > 1. Zoom > 2. Gotomeeting > 3. Jitsi > 4. Webex > 5.

Re: [GTALUG] [GTALUG-Announce] GTALUG: COVID-19 Impact

On Sun, Mar 29, 2020 at 10:50 PM Glen Strom via talk wrote: > > If you're considering using Zoom, you need to be aware of a growing > problem with it--Zoombombing. > > Troublemakers break into a session and disrupt it with porn, obscene > talk, and whatever else comes to their tiny, diseased

Re: [GTALUG] Planning April Meeting

On Wed, Mar 25, 2020 at 7:26 PM Alex Volkov via talk wrote: > > Hello Everyone, > > > We're thinking of doing April meeting online, we're thinking of having a > Q > > Which of the teleconference software do you find the most comfortable to > work with? > > > * Zoom > > * Hangouts > > * Jitsi > >

Re: [GTALUG] Microsoft Brings Defender Antivirus for Linux, Coming Soon for Android and iOS

On Tue, Feb 25, 2020 at 5:58 AM James Knott via talk wrote: > > I came across this today in another list. > > https://thehackernews.com/2020/02/windows-defender-atp-linux-android.html > > This certainly isn't your father's Microsoft! Most definitely it isn't - - - - they didn't used to require a

Re: [GTALUG] Intel GPU support for HDMI 2.0 (UltraHD)

On Wed, Feb 12, 2020 at 11:01 AM D. Hugh Redelmeier via talk wrote: > > | From: o1bigtenor via talk > > | To Mr Hugh (hope I have that correct!) > > You don't have to be so formal. "Hugh" is fine. > > | Looked in my email fine and search doesn't return a

Re: [GTALUG] Intel GPU support for HDMI 2.0 (UltraHD)

On Tue, Feb 11, 2020 at 8:39 AM D. Hugh Redelmeier via talk wrote: > > | From: Nicholas Krause via talk > > | Readability of text is what I was talking about not just color contrast. > > OK. Most but not all TV sets are fine for this. I would not trust > the RGBW displays but I haven't tried

Re: [GTALUG] Intel GPU support for HDMI 2.0 (UltraHD)

On Mon, Feb 10, 2020 at 5:27 PM Nicholas Krause via talk wrote: > > > > On 2/10/20 4:37 PM, Lennart Sorensen wrote: > > On Mon, Feb 10, 2020 at 12:42:37PM -0500, Nicholas Krause wrote: snip > > Same as PCIe. You only get 4.0 speed if both the machine and the card > > support it, otherwise it

Re: [GTALUG] security threats of Open Source

On Thu, Jan 23, 2020 at 3:37 PM D. Hugh Redelmeier via talk wrote: > > | From: o1bigtenor via talk > > | In this vein - - - - a contact who in computer terms calls himself a > dinosaur > | refuses to allow javascript on his computers doing all his browsing on text > | b

Re: [GTALUG] security threats of Open Source

On Thu, Jan 23, 2020 at 1:08 PM D. Hugh Redelmeier via talk wrote: > > > > This article list six cases of malware contributed to npm (the repo for > sharing node.js and JavaScript source). > >

Re: [GTALUG] server question

On Wed, Jan 22, 2020 at 9:26 AM James Medeiros via talk wrote: > > I like to use DHCP settings on my router to “reserve” IP addresses - > automatically assigning the reserved internal address of my choice to the MAC > address of the machine I want to access in this way... > Wish there were an

Re: [GTALUG] server question

> Cheers, > > -- > Znoteer > znot...@mailbox.org > --- > Post to this mailing list talk@gtalug.org > Unsubscribe from this mailing list https://gtalug.org/mailman/listinfo/talk On Tue, Jan 21, 2020 at 5:14 PM Kevin Cozens via talk wrote: > > On 2020-01-21 5:47 p

Re: [GTALUG] server question

On Tue, Jan 21, 2020 at 5:09 PM Znoteer via talk wrote:n > > On Tue, Jan 21, 2020 at 04:47:35PM -0600, o1bigtenor via talk wrote: > > Greetings > > > > Can't find any somewhat current information (less than 2 years old) on > > what kind of an address to use on a

[GTALUG] server question

Greetings Can't find any somewhat current information (less than 2 years old) on what kind of an address to use on a server where its only for use by lan members - - - NOT for outside use. What I'm finding is at best 5 or 6 years old and then there is the stuff that's more like 10 or more years

Re: [GTALUG] End of independent web browsers

On Tue, Jan 14, 2020 at 8:59 PM Christopher Browne via talk wrote: > > The material takes somewhat extreme position, but it's curious that there are > only 3 "content decryption modules" out there, Widevine (Google), Fairplay > (Apple) and PlayReady (Microsoft), all of the vendors having

Re: [GTALUG] Open CAPI Standard

On Thu, Jan 2, 2020 at 10:36 PM Nicholas Krause via talk wrote: > > Greetings, > I mentioned this to some of you at the meeting in December but IBM and > others are working > on creating a new standard to replace PCI express and some of its > limitations called Open > CAPI. The current versions

Re: [GTALUG] [OT] Phishing is no mirage...

On Mon, Dec 16, 2019 at 10:52 PM Karen Lewellen via talk wrote: > > > > well, a comment. > > On Mon, 16 Dec 2019, James Knott via talk wrote: > > > Here's what the government says: > > https://www.canada.ca/en/employment-social-development/programs/sin/protect.html#a2 > > > > That is a fine

Re: [GTALUG] Graphics cards - - - too much 'joy'

On Fri, Dec 6, 2019 at 12:47 AM D. Hugh Redelmeier via talk wrote: > > | From: o1bigtenor via talk > > | I think that's where the issue is - - - - the PSU has a 6 + 2 Molex > connector > | setup. The cable looks good - - - cable with external mesh to 'neaten' up &

Re: [GTALUG] Graphics cards - - - too much 'joy'

On Thu, Dec 5, 2019 at 6:18 PM D. Hugh Redelmeier via talk wrote: > > | From: o1bigtenor via talk > > | On Thu, Dec 5, 2019 at 5:29 PM D. Hugh Redelmeier via talk > | wrote: > > | > Did your power supply have a lead with a 6-pin connector for the power > | > input

Re: [GTALUG] Graphics cards - - - too much 'joy'

On Thu, Dec 5, 2019 at 5:29 PM D. Hugh Redelmeier via talk wrote: > > | From: Nicholas Krause via talk > > | On 12/4/19 8:52 PM, o1bigtenor via talk wrote: > > | > Nvidia card and the system is working just fine. Tried the Radeon > | > RX570 again this time

[GTALUG] Graphics cards - - - too much 'joy'

Greetings I had a system built in Jan 2012 which included an Asus P9X79 mobo and 3 Geforce 570 video cards where I've been running a variant of Debian, usually testing, ever since. I ran using 2 of those cards utilizing first fully proprietary drivers and then a couple years ago I shifted to the

Re: [GTALUG] Cloud Based versus Openness

On Mon, Dec 2, 2019 at 4:24 PM Christopher Browne via talk wrote: > > "Local-first software: you own your data, in spite of the cloud" > > Here's an interesting rabbit-hole for those that are interested in data > archival. > https://blog.acolyer.org/2019/11/20/local-first-software/ > Thank you

Re: [GTALUG] Pycon Canada 2019

On Mon, Oct 28, 2019 at 2:04 PM Alex Volkov via talk wrote: > > Hey Everyone, > > I'm helping to organize Pycon Canada this year and tickets are now > available. > > The conference is happening on November 16-17 at Carlu, with sprints on > November 18-19 at Mozilla office. This year we're having

Re: [GTALUG] Custom build: Which case?

On Wed, Sep 18, 2019 at 10:51 PM William Park via talk wrote: > > I built all of my computers, last one being a basic i3-4170. There is > one part that I was never satisfied with, and that is "computer case". > Selections at Canada Computers and Newegg are disappointing. If you > were building

Re: [GTALUG] New Rogers offerings and guest access

On Thu, Sep 12, 2019 at 8:15 PM James Knott via talk wrote: > > On 2019-09-12 08:09 PM, David Collier-Brown via talk wrote: > > I have an old Rogers cable setup, and the new one is cheaper and in > > principle less restricted. Does anyone have one and know if they allow > > "guest" accounts on

Re: [GTALUG] Samsung router?

On Wed, Aug 28, 2019 at 3:36 PM James Knott via talk wrote: > > On 2019-08-28 04:31 PM, o1bigtenor via talk wrote: > > H - - - - there is a real dearth of technical information > > on that website! > > I noticed that too. It used to be the "Specifications&

Re: [GTALUG] Samsung router?

On Wed, Aug 28, 2019 at 2:54 PM Jamon Camisso via talk wrote: > > On 2019-08-28 15:30, o1bigtenor via talk wrote: > > Hopefully this isn't considered a thread hijacking - - - but - - - - > > is there any linux software for running a managed switch? Wednesday, August 28, 2

Re: [GTALUG] Samsung router?

On Wed, Aug 28, 2019 at 3:19 PM James Knott via talk wrote: > > On 2019-08-28 04:03 PM, o1bigtenor via talk wrote: > > I presently have a 16 port unmanaged switch and there's not a lot of open > > ports > > - - - - so I would like 20 or 24 if possible - - - that

Re: [GTALUG] Samsung router?

On Wed, Aug 28, 2019 at 2:43 PM James Knott via talk wrote: > > On 2019-08-28 03:30 PM, o1bigtenor via talk wrote: > > You are indicating that Cisco is perhaps not a great choice - - - - do > > you have any recommendations? (Hopefully not ones that are seriously > > 'ouch'

Re: [GTALUG] Samsung router?

On Wed, Aug 28, 2019 at 2:41 PM James Knott via talk wrote: > > On 2019-08-28 03:30 PM, o1bigtenor via talk wrote: > > Hopefully this isn't considered a thread hijacking - - - but - - - - > > is there any linux software for running a managed switch? > > Are you talking abo

Re: [GTALUG] Register for Our Networks 2019 > RE: Infrastructures, September 20-22 in Toronto!

ead article on BotX welder - - - know a company that would be very interested in such but would need to be able to work in a maybe 5' by 9' footprint - - -- possible? On Wed, Aug 28, 2019 at 1:47 PM dc via talk wrote: > Hi all, > > I'm one of the co-organizers of Our Networks, a conference

Re: [GTALUG] Samsung router?

On Wed, Aug 28, 2019 at 9:48 AM Alvin Starr via talk wrote: > > On 8/28/19 10:26 AM, James Knott via talk wrote: > > On 2019-08-28 09:50 AM, Alvin Starr via talk wrote: > >> There is always Ubiquiti. Their stuff is a little more expensive than > >> what you will pay at CanadaComputers. > >> They

Re: [GTALUG] Recommendations for useful laptop suitable for Ubuntu

On Wed, Jul 17, 2019 at 8:12 PM Stewart C. Russell via talk wrote: > > I know that Alex has picked out his machine, but it does amaze me how > slowly computers age now. A friend gave me an HP EliteBook Folio 9480m > that had been declared >

Re: [GTALUG] Ryzen 3000 CPUs vs Linux

On Tue, Jul 9, 2019 at 3:09 PM D. Hugh Redelmeier via talk wrote: > > | From: Christopher Browne via talk > > | This sure seems to point at rdrand being a scary feature to consider using. > > I put the blame squarely on AMD. They've botched rdrand a couple of > times. It's not really our job

Re: [GTALUG] A find alternative: fselect

On Thu, Jun 13, 2019 at 1:12 AM D. Hugh Redelmeier via talk wrote: > > | From: o1bigtenor via talk > > | > Rust culture and practice doesn't seem to like shared libraries.. I do. > | > (Just like I find the update model for persistent containers unfortunate.) > >

Re: [GTALUG] A find alternative: fselect

On Wed, Jun 12, 2019 at 4:40 PM D. Hugh Redelmeier via talk wrote: > > | From: Christopher Browne via talk > > | $ fselect path, size from ~/Downloads where size gt 30mb order by size desc > limit 25 > > That looks pretty ugly too. > > | FYI, fselect is written in Rust, and has a goodly number

[GTALUG] POP3 vs IMAP

Greetings Working on setting up Claws - - an email handling tool and I need to choose whether I use POP3 or IMAP. What I've been able to find so far doesn't really give any kind of clear direction. I have lots of storage here and am planning on starting with my least used addresses just to make

Re: [GTALUG] Google suspends some business with Huawei

On Sun, May 19, 2019 at 5:22 PM D. Hugh Redelmeier via talk wrote: > > > > This looks like it will affect Huawei Android phones. > >

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

On Thu, Apr 25, 2019 at 9:59 AM Don Tai via talk wrote: > > A seemingly brand new small convection oven, Delonghi EO1270, made in China, > came my way. Pristine clean and obviously unused, but did not work. > https://www.amazon.ca/DeLonghi-EO1270-6-Slice-Convection-Toaster/dp/B003ZDNKV0 > > I

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

On Sat, Apr 20, 2019 at 11:45 AM Jamon Camisso via talk wrote: > > On 4/20/19 7:20 AM, o1bigtenor via talk wrote: > > the issue of having directories that I am unable to remove even using rm -r > > but there is a very long and definitely not simple technique whereby maybe

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

On Sat, Apr 20, 2019 at 11:37 AM D. Hugh Redelmeier via talk wrote: > > | 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 t

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

On Fri, Apr 19, 2019 at 3:27 PM D. Hugh Redelmeier via talk wrote: > > | 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 m

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

Greetings A very interesting thread!! On Fri, Apr 19, 2019 at 1:02 PM D. Hugh Redelmeier via talk wrote: > > | 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,

Re: [GTALUG] a simple security solution?

On Mon, Apr 15, 2019 at 3:33 PM Karen Lewellen via talk wrote: > > Hi Alvin,, > sort of in context. > > > > There are a number of IP based cameras that will do the kind of thing you > want. > > Need to be sure I follow the dictionary. what does the IP mean in IP > based camera? > And the

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

On Wed, Apr 10, 2019 at 9:28 AM Lennart Sorensen via talk wrote: > > On Tue, Apr 09, 2019 at 04:27:14PM -0400, Stewart C. Russell via talk wrote: > > Or get two 16x9s, and flip one vertically. It means your desktop looks a > > bit O_o, but it works. > > I have seen dual 16x10 both turned

Re: [GTALUG] Dell servers for cheap

On Tue, Apr 9, 2019 at 1:32 AM D. Hugh Redelmeier via talk wrote: > > | 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

Re: [GTALUG] Sidebar to: Help with choosing a WiFi router

On Sun, Mar 31, 2019 at 2:30 PM Tom Low-Shang via talk wrote: > > On Sun, Mar 31, 2019 at 12:39:07PM -0500, o1bigtenor via talk wrote: > > On Sun, Mar 31, 2019 at 7:20 AM David Collier-Brown via talk > > > > > > http://huchra.bufferbloat.net/~d/fc

Re: [GTALUG] Sidebar to: Help with choosing a WiFi router

On Sun, Mar 31, 2019 at 7:20 AM David Collier-Brown via talk wrote: > > On 2019-03-30 11:10 p.m., D. Hugh Redelmeier via talk wrote: > > > The TP-link C7 was a good candidate a few years ago. OpenWRT support, > > cheap, AC1750. They did decide to lock out firmware replacement due > > to their

Re: [GTALUG] Boeing India software engineers

On Wed, Mar 13, 2019 at 2:13 PM Alex Volkov via talk wrote: > > Okay Ted, > > This violates several rules of our code of conduct including discrimination > based on gender and gender identity and you are banned from this list. > > I also removed Gary from the list because of repeatedly ignoring

Re: [GTALUG] Boeing India software engineers

On Tue, Mar 12, 2019 at 3:37 PM Gary via talk wrote: > > I must complement Boeing management for the huge sums that they save on > salaries by shifting software engineering to India. Gleaned from the URL > below I take it that the average Boeing software engineer in India makes > 26,930

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

On Mon, Mar 11, 2019 at 10:34 AM David Collier-Brown via talk wrote: > > The help-desk is tasked with making you happy with what you have. In > many companies they are forbidden to take bug reports. You often have > to ask for their "escalations manger", and sometimes explain to them > what that

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

pt On Mon, Mar 11, 2019 at 10:02 AM Karen Lewellen via talk wrote: > > May I make a suggestion? > If any of you are members of the Rogers community boards, or follow them > on twitter, please educate them about Linux. bell has the same problem, > or claims to have as much. > With programs like

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

On Fri, Mar 8, 2019 at 8:48 PM D. Hugh Redelmeier via talk wrote: > > | From: o1bigtenor via talk > > | What about Chromium? > > Not listed. I expect that means "no". Might be worth a try - - - ?? --- Talk Mailing List talk@gtalug.org https://gtalug.org/mailman/listinfo/talk

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

On Fri, Mar 8, 2019 at 8:30 PM D. Hugh Redelmeier via talk wrote: > > 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. What about Chromium? Dee --- Talk Mailing List talk@gtalug.org

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

On Mon, Mar 4, 2019 at 2:27 PM D. Hugh Redelmeier via talk wrote: > > This is a private member's bill so it is unlikely to pass. > > > >

[GTALUG] Security cams question

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 there played with security cams that might be

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

On Fri, Feb 8, 2019 at 4:35 PM Christopher Browne via talk wrote: > > On Fri, 8 Feb 2019 at 16:18, o1bigtenor via talk wrote: > > I appreciated this talk a lot. Made my wife sit through it to grin! > > He showed what was good AND what was bad about it and also > > lightl

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

On Fri, Feb 8, 2019 at 3:07 PM Russell Reiter via talk wrote: > > > On Fri, Feb 8, 2019, 12:15 PM D. Hugh Redelmeier via talk wrote: >> >> | 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

Re: [GTALUG] Richard Stallman is coming to Toronto

On Tue, Feb 5, 2019 at 10:35 AM Alex Volkov via talk wrote: > > Hello everyone, > > > Richard Stallman is giving a talk at YorkU on Thursday, if anyone wants to go. > > Senate Chambers, North Ross Building, Room N940, York University, Toronto, > Ontario, Canada > > Feb 07, 2019 from 11:00 AM to

Re: [GTALUG] programming system questions

On Sat, Oct 13, 2018 at 2:59 AM ac via talk wrote: > > On Fri, 12 Oct 2018 10:44:45 -0500 > o1bigtenor wrote: > > On Fri, Oct 12, 2018 at 8:54 AM ac via talk wrote: > > > > sheepbytes.ca is cool, the local code looks neat and tidy. I am not > > > sure about the security thereof. And just imho

Re: [GTALUG] programming system questions

On Fri, Oct 12, 2018 at 8:54 AM ac via talk wrote: > > On Fri, 12 Oct 2018 07:38:00 -0500 > o1bigtenor via talk wrote: > > On Fri, Oct 12, 2018 at 6:32 AM Stewart C. Russell via talk > > wrote: > > > If you're storing a large amount of information and doing >

Re: [GTALUG] programming system questions

On Fri, Oct 12, 2018 at 6:32 AM Stewart C. Russell via talk wrote: > > If you're storing a large amount of information and doing statistical > work on it, you should at least consider learning R. It's very strong > for Monte Carlo simulation. Thanks - - - already on the order paper. > > Also, if

Re: [GTALUG] programming system questions

On Fri, Oct 12, 2018 at 3:06 AM Russell Reiter wrote: snip >> > >> > If I understand he/she wants to recreate an app. Does that mean reverse >> > engineer? Are you trying to recreate someone else's app without direct >> > access to that app? >> > >> > Are you trying to examine interactions

Re: [GTALUG] programming system questions

On Fri, Oct 12, 2018 at 12:17 AM ac via talk wrote: > > On Thu, 11 Oct 2018 19:59:29 -0500 > o1bigtenor via talk wrote: > > On Thu, Oct 11, 2018 at 12:10 PM Jamon Camisso via talk > > wrote: > > > On 11/10/18 12:59, o1bigtenor wrote: > > > >

Re: [GTALUG] programming system questions

On Thu, Oct 11, 2018 at 12:10 PM Jamon Camisso via talk wrote: > > On 11/10/18 12:59, o1bigtenor wrote: > > And what does one do when the web is down? > > A framework like react is built with this in mind - serviceworkers > handle offline actions until there's connectivity. > > I'm sure others

Re: [GTALUG] programming system questions

On Thu, Oct 11, 2018 at 9:53 AM Jamon Camisso via talk wrote: > > On 11/10/18 10:37, David Mason via talk wrote: > > 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

Re: [GTALUG] programming system questions

On Thu, Oct 11, 2018 at 9:32 AM David Thornton via talk wrote: > > 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. > >

Re: [GTALUG] programming system questions

Wow - - - - a pile of ideas - - - - wonderful! Thank you very much for your ideas! On Thu, Oct 11, 2018 at 8:19 AM ac via talk wrote: > > On Thu, 11 Oct 2018 07:53:18 -0500 > o1bigtenor via talk wrote: > > Greetings > > > Hello :) > > > I have been usin

[GTALUG] programming system questions

Greetings I have been using a web application for one of my business functions. Besides the limitation of it being a web application (the web is NOT as consistent nor as quick as is considered 'normal' for those that like in rural areas) there are to many areas where I need to tweak the results.

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