Re: [GTALUG] mysterious restarts

With magical crashes I usually try to see if I can get any diagnostics out a serial console because once in graphical mode a crashing system usually has just a black screen. Booting and running memtest would be a good idea. I am assuming that the system does not have ECC memory so bad memory

Re: [GTALUG] mysterious restarts

On 06/14/2016 11:23 AM, Russell Reiter via talk wrote: On 6/14/16, D. Hugh Redelmeier via talk wrote: We have a computer that started doing random and frequent restarts on the weekend. We don't know why. Any suggestions? You don't mention whether or not the system is

Re: [GTALUG] mysterious restarts

On 06/14/2016 02:58 PM, Russell Reiter via talk wrote: > Streetcars use 600V as does the subway. The new Eglinton line will be > 750V though and won't have loops for turning around. You don't think that the TTC might be forward planning for 750V all around? Remember it was TTC staff I

Re: [GTALUG] mysterious restarts

On 06/15/2016 10:04 AM, D. Hugh Redelmeier via talk wrote: | From: Lennart Sorensen via talk | Well I am quite sure they are running AC motors, so they would be taking | the DC and inverting it to AC and making it whatever voltage they need | at the time for the motors. Most

Re: [GTALUG] Transient Harmonics at home; was mysterious restarts

On 06/19/2016 12:52 PM, Russell Reiter via talk wrote: > > Here's a nice overview of common issues in balancing linear vs. > non-linear loads at home. You wouldn't think your little cluster is > part of the problem but it can be. > > https://www.mikeholt.com/technical-power-quality-harmonics.php >

Re: [GTALUG] mysterious restarts

On 06/22/2016 03:24 PM, Russell Reiter via talk wrote: > > > I also have heard of the power grid, being a microgrid designer and all. > > > > Although it's not Linux specific, given the number of posts on this > thread regarding power quality and continuity, perhaps microgrids and > power walls

Re: [GTALUG] mysterious restarts

On 06/15/2016 06:09 PM, Stewart C. Russell via talk wrote: On 2016-06-15 04:29 PM, Russell Reiter wrote: I always thought it a shame that the windmill was only used to generate hydrogen for the hybrid fleet. It would have been nice to have it feed the grid It *always* has fed the grid. That

Re: [GTALUG] mysterious restarts

On 06/15/2016 10:02 PM, D. Hugh Redelmeier via talk wrote: | From: Alvin Starr via talk <talk@gtalug.org> | Actually the static power loss goes down as the voltage goes up. | | So for example if the streetcar draws 600W at 600V then the current draw is 1A | but at 750V the current draw

[GTALUG] Email problem and some observations.

A bitof history to start off. Years ago we started putting spf records in our domains and email clients domains and that is mostly where things stuck. For the most part is was of little help but generally putting a correctlyconfigured SPF statement did not hurt. I recentlydiscovered DMARC

Re: [GTALUG] Email problem and some observations.

On 07/14/2016 09:55 AM, ac via talk wrote: On Thu, 14 Jul 2016 09:28:48 -0400 Alvin Starr via talk <talk@gtalug.org> wrote: A bitof history to start off. Years ago we started putting spf records in our domains and email clients domains and that is mostly where things stuck. For the mos

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

On 07/28/2016 08:15 AM, Russell Reiter via talk wrote: On Jul 27, 2016 11:20 PM, "William Park via talk" > wrote: > > I'll give opposite advice from the rest. Stay with Windows. > - Windows comes free with all retail computers, fully configured.

Re: [GTALUG] LinuxCon

The $1400.00 or so to register is a bit of an impediment. On 07/27/2016 06:11 PM, Marc Lijour via talk wrote: Who is coming to LinuxCon Toronto next month? Distance is not an excuse this time ;-) -- *Marc Lijour* Email:m...@lijour.net

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

more comments in line. On 08/10/2016 03:31 PM, Steve Petrie, P.Eng. via talk wrote: Hello Alvin, Please see my comments inline below. [snip] On 4mm backups. There was a customer who used a 4mm backup and backed up every night. The one thing someone forgot to tell them was to replace the

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

On 08/10/2016 04:23 PM, James Knott wrote: On 08/10/2016 04:11 PM, Alvin Starr via talk wrote: I did not write the code if I did then there would likely have been a verify phase. Some people kind of expect when you tell the drive to write the data its just written and if it were not there would

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

I would +1 on Scott's suggestion of an MR3020. Openwrt installs quite nicely and Openwrt can do just about anything. On 08/12/2016 08:17 AM, William Park via talk wrote: On Fri, Aug 12, 2016 at 07:16:18AM -0400, James Knott via talk wrote: On 08/11/2016 11:52 PM, William Park via talk wrote:

Re: [GTALUG] better than average article on why the federal payroll system is a mess

On 08/12/2016 11:13 AM, D. Hugh Redelmeier via talk wrote: There have been a bunch of headlines about the new federal payroll system "Phoenix" is screwing up a lot. This article does a reasonable job of describing how the problems happened.

Re: [GTALUG] better than average article on why the federal payroll system is a mess

On 08/12/2016 12:34 PM, Christopher Browne via talk wrote: On 12 August 2016 at 11:49, o1bigtenor via talk <talk@gtalug.org> wrote: On Fri, Aug 12, 2016 at 10:41 AM, Alvin Starr via talk <talk@gtalug.org> wrote: On 08/12/2016 11:13 AM, D. Hugh Redelmeier via talk wrote: The

Re: [GTALUG] The New Skype Alpha.

On 07/13/2016 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 Just some initial impressions. This is on a Fedora 19 systems (don't ask, long story..). I don't have a Mic on this system, so I

Re: [GTALUG] Are you on the watch list?

On 07/16/2016 08:44 PM, Russell Reiter wrote: > > > > > > Rule #1 is corporation executives are responsible to increase > shareholder value. > > The golden rule is that they with the gold make the rules. > > > If you do that by killing millions of people your obligation is to > kill them and

Re: [GTALUG] Are you on the watch list?

On 07/16/2016 07:22 PM, Russell Reiter via talk wrote: > > On Jul 16, 2016 4:54 PM, "James Knott via talk" > wrote: > > > > On 07/16/2016 04:42 PM, Russell Reiter via talk wrote: > > > > > > > The wallstreet guys came up with a method to manage risk and

Re: [GTALUG] Are you on the watch list?

On 07/16/2016 09:09 PM, Russell Reiter via talk wrote: > > On Jul 16, 2016 8:48 PM, "James Knott" > wrote: > > > > On 07/16/2016 08:44 PM, Russell Reiter via talk wrote: > > > I'm not sure I understand what you are saying here. He's in jail

Re: [GTALUG] Are you on the watch list?

On 07/16/2016 10:43 AM, Russell Reiter via talk wrote: > > Story for the top post but I found this to be quite Interesting. Seems > like being Birds Of a Feather is getting more validity for predicated > predictive analytics. At least according to the guy who penned this. > > “Crowd-Anticrowd

Re: [GTALUG] Notebook Computer Recommendations

On 07/05/2016 10:06 PM, CLIFFORD ILKAY via talk wrote: On 05/07/16 09:23 PM, William Park via talk wrote: Sorry about formatting and spelling. I'm writing this on a Nexus 5X. I'm also thinking about replacing my desktops with laptops. Try Microsoft Store. Asus seem to be reasonably

Re: [GTALUG] Notebook Computer Recommendations

On 07/06/2016 02:36 PM, Lennart Sorensen wrote: On Wed, Jul 06, 2016 at 01:21:32PM -0400, Alvin Starr wrote: I have to admit I have been less than impressed with thinkpads. I have a 1 year old thinkpad here that is less well designed than my zenbook and not nearly as powerful. It is running

Re: [GTALUG] Notebook Computer Recommendations

On 07/06/2016 12:22 PM, Lennart Sorensen wrote: On Wed, Jul 06, 2016 at 12:02:01PM -0400, Alvin Starr wrote: [snip] Asus is generally good, although they have a tendancy to NOT put US keyboards on their laptops in canada anymore. That is awful. They are also not nearly as durrable as a

Re: [GTALUG] Notebook Computer Recommendations

On 07/06/2016 11:39 AM, Lennart Sorensen wrote: On Tue, Jul 05, 2016 at 11:06:18PM -0400, Alvin Starr via talk wrote: Take a look at the ASUS G752VT-DH78K · Intel® Core™ i7-6820HK Processor · NVIDIA® GTX 980M 8GB GDDR5 · 64GB DDR4 RAM · 1TB HDD + 512GB PCIe SSD · 3D Vapor Cooling Possibly its

Re: [GTALUG] Are you on the watch list?

On 07/10/2016 03:26 PM, James Knott via talk wrote: > On 07/10/2016 02:44 PM, Evan Leibovitch via talk wrote: >> Sheesh, Five eyes or not, this is unwelcome. >> >>

Re: [GTALUG] Are you on the watch list?

On 07/11/2016 12:52 AM, ac via talk wrote: On Sun, 10 Jul 2016 23:05:30 -0400 Bob Jonkman via talk <talk@gtalug.org> wrote: On 2016-07-10 05:28 PM, James Knott via talk wrote: On 07/10/2016 05:18 PM, Alvin Starr via talk wrote: Some people on this list are likely to be considered subv

Re: [GTALUG] Intel i7-6700 vs Xeon E3-1230 v5 --> 65W vs 80W ??

On 07/04/2016 11:51 AM, Lennart Sorensen via talk wrote: > On Fri, Jul 01, 2016 at 12:30:56PM -0400, William Park via talk wrote: >> They are both 14nm. Xeon turbos to 3.8GHz and no GPU at 80W, but i7 >> turbos to 4GHz with GPU at 65W. Me thinks it's Intel marketing. Take >> dies that fail QA,

[GTALUG] something new to worry about.

http://arstechnica.com/security/2016/08/new-attack-steals-ssns-e-mail-addresses-and-more-from-https-pages/ -- Alvin Starr || voice: (905)513-7688 Netvel Inc. || Cell: (416)806-0133 al...@netvel.net || --- Talk Mailing List talk@gtalug.org

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

Tape drives are hard to come by these days. Have you thought about a USB drive for backup? Or a NAS box. There are several inexpensive 1 and 2 drive NAS enclosures that you can get to put on your local network. Having network storage is always handy for things like running as a media server.

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

On 08/09/2016 04:15 PM, James Knott via talk wrote: On 08/09/2016 04:12 PM, Kevin Cozens via talk wrote: I've given up on the use of tape. I use external hard drives for backup. You should always back up with tar to 9 track tape stands, the way the computer gods intended. ;-) --- Talk Mailing

Re: [GTALUG] Portable Backup Drive Compatible with Linux (and Recommended Backup Software)

On 02/01/2017 11:37 AM, Brad Fonseca via talk wrote: > Hello! > > I am in the market for a new portable hard drive in order back up my > files on my Linux system (running Mageia 5.1). My requirements are: > > - Reliable > - Portable > - Price Under $100 > - at least 500 GB in size > - USB-powered

Re: [GTALUG] Crashes

On 01/31/2017 09:07 AM, Giles Orr via talk wrote: > My primary machine is crashing with increasing frequency. The > commonest error I'm seeing in the log looks like this: > > Jan 29 18:29:39 toshi7 kernel: nouveau :01:00.0: DRM: suspending > kernel object tree... > Jan 29 18:30:00 toshi7

Re: [GTALUG] Portable Backup Drive Compatible with Linux (and Recommended Backup Software)

On 02/01/2017 03:55 PM, Lennart Sorensen via talk wrote: > On Wed, Feb 01, 2017 at 02:51:02PM -0200, Mauro Souza via talk wrote: >> Good software is not the problem. Good procedures are the point. GitLab had >> 5 different backup procedures, and were offline this morning when they >> could not

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

When I looked they were REALLY SLOW. It looks like the scalpers have found a new industry to invade. On 02/28/2017 10:10 AM, Alex Volkov via talk wrote: There's a new Canadian distributor mentioned on the page (Canakit). https://www.canakit.com/raspberry-pi-zero-wireless.html Their

Re: [GTALUG] General Hacker Stuff -Point of Sale and other exploits

Heading out on a trip a little while back we asked our credit card company if we needed to notify them. The response was we only needed to notify them if we were heading to the U.S. because it is just about the last place on earth that still uses magstripe credit cards. A guy I worked for

Re: [GTALUG] General Hacker Stuff -Point of Sale and other exploits

On 03/02/2017 07:31 AM, Russell Reiter via talk wrote: On Mar 2, 2017 3:51 AM, "ac via talk" <talk@gtalug.org <mailto:talk@gtalug.org>> wrote: On Wed, 1 Mar 2017 17:30:33 -0500 Alvin Starr via talk <talk@gtalug.org <mailto:talk@gtalug.org>> wrote:

Re: [GTALUG] professional insurance

You may want to check this with a lawyer but one solution would be to run all your work through an incorporated business that has no real assets. That way your personally protected and the company has nothing worth suing for. Nobody is going to sue a company that does not have enough assets

Re: [GTALUG] Setting up a VM host

On 08/29/2016 04:13 PM, Lennart Sorensen via talk wrote: On Mon, Aug 29, 2016 at 04:10:51PM -0400, Alex Volkov via talk wrote: I don't think this was mentioned before, but KVM/libvirt with shell interface, besides gui inteface (virt-manager) there's a shell interface virsh, which let you

Re: [GTALUG] email client with autocorrect?

You could possibly try voice to text it can't be any worse than the auto-completion on my android where on some messages I can spend %60 to 70% my message time trying to get it to let me put in what I want. I think your looking for auto-completion. take a look

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

On 08/27/2016 11:34 AM, Anthony de Boer via talk wrote: > Alvin Starr via talk wrote: >> The reason for laptop upgrades is often needing more memory or disk >> space but by the time you get there 2-3 years down the road the keyboard >> has food bits under it and the touch

Re: [GTALUG] Setting up a VM host

having the hots for technology is a list requirement. On 08/26/2016 10:58 PM, John Moniz wrote: > > On Aug 26, 2016 2:42 PM, Alvin Starr via talk <talk@gtalug.org> wrote: > > > > If you have the hots to setup a complete server you could download > xenserver. >

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

On 08/27/2016 02:36 PM, James Knott via talk wrote: > On 08/27/2016 11:34 AM, Anthony de Boer via talk wrote: >> Alvin Starr via talk wrote: >>> The reason for laptop upgrades is often needing more memory or disk >>> space but by the time you get there 2-3 years

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

On 08/25/2016 12:47 AM, Scott Sullivan via talk wrote: 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

Re: [GTALUG] Setting up a VM host

Virtual-manager that's part of the libvirt package is functional enough for most use. I use Virtual-manager backed by xen to run between 5 and 10 VMs on a couple of machines. If you have the hots to setup a complete server you could download xenserver. You could put RDO on a system and

Re: [GTALUG] Fwd: Bell Fibe -- thoughts?

Fibe is just VDSL2 but slightly broken. Teksavvy can also provide Fibe like services depending on the area. The thing that I believe is still being held back from the DSL resellers is FibeTV. On 08/23/2016 09:14 PM, Alex Beamish via talk wrote: Hi All, I've had a persistent salesman at

Re: [GTALUG] Setting up a VM host

On 08/29/2016 10:07 AM, Lennart Sorensen via talk wrote: On Fri, Aug 26, 2016 at 09:33:50PM -0400, William Park via talk wrote: - QEMU and VirtualBox. They both use KVM. Virtualbox does not use kvm. It will use vt-x if you have it. kvm requires it. Its kind of the other way around.

Re: [GTALUG] Fwd: Bell Fibe -- thoughts?

On 08/24/2016 09:21 AM, William Porquet via talk wrote: Another Bell support caveat involving Fibe that I never thought I'd have to deal with... My parents decided to come visit Toronto to help in the sale of a condo we own together. I didn't have Internet or cable at the location. So my mum

Re: [GTALUG] overengineering: hostnamectl

On 08/29/2016 09:19 AM, ac via talk wrote: On Sun, 28 Aug 2016 21:33:29 -0500 o1bigtenor via talk wrote: On Sun, Aug 28, 2016 at 8:41 PM, D. Hugh Redelmeier via talk wrote: How do you set the hostname of a Linux machine? It used to be you just put it in the

Re: [GTALUG] curious... Linux vs BSD ?

On 09/30/2016 10:47 AM, o1bigtenor wrote: On Fri, Sep 30, 2016 at 9:28 AM, Alvin Starr via talk <talk@gtalug.org> wrote: On 09/29/2016 11:52 PM, Peter King via talk wrote: On Thu, Sep 29, 2016 at 10:45:09AM -0400, Lennart Sorensen via talk wrote: snip Not sure why people have

Re: [GTALUG] little PCs for internet gateways

On 10/25/2016 05:47 PM, D. Hugh Redelmeier via talk wrote: By gateway, I mean router/firewall/whatever box that sits between your LAN and the internet. Reasonable choices: - ISP-provided / sanctioned device (combo wireless router and modem) - ISP modem + user provided wireless router +

Re: [GTALUG] restore GPT partition table?

The partition table is still in memoryso you will have some luck till you reboot or force the system to do a partprobe. The following link points to how to recover your partition from the in system data:

Re: [GTALUG] restore GPT partition table?

On 10/25/2016 11:35 AM, Kevin Cozens wrote: On 16-10-25 08:07 AM, Alvin Starr via talk wrote: The following link points to how to recover your partition from the in system data: http://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/43922/how-to-read-the-in-memory-kernel-partition-table-of-dev-sda

Re: [GTALUG] looking for a secondary mx service

Why secondary at all. If your mail server is down then queuing up mail for later deliver happens on the client mail servers. So long as your mail server is not down for days or weeks and at that point the mail will bounce back. It will likely bounce back from a secondary mx if it is on

Re: [GTALUG] Question

On 01/12/2017 03:28 PM, Evan Leibovitch via talk wrote: On 12 January 2017 at 14:50, Lennart Sorensen via talk >wrote: On Thu, Jan 12, 2017 at 02:30:06PM -0500, Dhaval Giani via talk wrote: > I feel obligated to point out here that it is more

Re: [GTALUG] Question

On 01/12/2017 08:15 PM, o1bigtenor via talk wrote: On Thu, Jan 12, 2017 at 3:00 PM, CLIFFORD ILKAY via talk wrote: On 12/01/17 08:16 AM, o1bigtenor via talk wrote: Greetings Am trying to find (for need in the not to distant future) some of what is normally called

Re: [GTALUG] Question

On 01/12/2017 08:16 AM, o1bigtenor via talk wrote: Greetings Am trying to find (for need in the not to distant future) some of what is normally called 'accounting' software (its really record keeping software but that's a different argument!). What are you using that is, or could be,

Re: [GTALUG] Question

On 01/12/2017 01:13 PM, Alvin Starr via talk wrote: On 01/12/2017 08:16 AM, o1bigtenor via talk wrote: Greetings Am trying to find (for need in the not to distant future) some of what is normally called 'accounting' software (its really record keeping software but that's a different argument

Re: [GTALUG] A question about boot

. --dave On 05/01/17 08:47 AM, Alvin Starr via talk wrote: You need a write only device. You could boot from a CD/DVD which is write only. Or possibly an SD card that has the write-lock enabled. If the computer does not support an SD card you could use usb card reader to boot from

Re: [GTALUG] A question about boot

You need a write only device. You could boot from a CD/DVD which is write only. Or possibly an SD card that has the write-lock enabled. If the computer does not support an SD card you could use usb card reader to boot from. Of course in the worst case situation someone smart enough could

Re: [GTALUG] What Not To Backup

On 12/23/2016 12:11 PM, John Moniz via talk wrote: Hi everyone, I'm backing up my system on a more regular basis and am trying to fine tune the files that I backup. I am looking for advice on what NOT to bother to backup on the /home directory. I am using rsync (took a long time and lots of

Re: [GTALUG] What Not To Backup

On 12/23/2016 02:21 PM, William Park via talk wrote: My recommendations... 1. Backup entire disk to another disk, verbatim. That is, dd if=/dev/sdX of=/dev/sdY bs=10M First, you don't have to waste time figuring out what to back up. Second, if disk fails, you can just swap

Re: [GTALUG] What Not To Backup

On 12/23/2016 03:56 PM, William Park via talk wrote: On Fri, Dec 23, 2016 at 02:32:17PM -0500, Alvin Starr via talk wrote: On 12/23/2016 02:21 PM, William Park via talk wrote: My recommendations... 1. Backup entire disk to another disk, verbatim. That is, dd if=/dev/sdX of=/dev/sdY

Re: [GTALUG] Testing Restore of mySQL Database

. On Dec 23, 2016 6:20 PM, "Alvin Starr via talk" <talk@gtalug.org <mailto:talk@gtalug.org>> wrote: On 12/23/2016 02:59 PM, Stephen via talk wrote: With the discussion about backups, I would like to raise a question I have had for some time. Having backu

Re: [GTALUG] Testing Restore of mySQL Database

On 12/23/2016 02:59 PM, Stephen via talk wrote: With the discussion about backups, I would like to raise a question I have had for some time. Having backups does no good if you cannot restore them. Files are rather easy to test. But how do you test restoring a database? I back it up with

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

On 03/21/2017 04:28 PM, Stewart C. Russell via talk wrote: On 2017-03-20 03:32 PM, Kevin Cozens via talk wrote: I didn't know anything about Boost until I had to deal with it as a set of dependencies on something I wanted to compile. Some of the imaging libraries I use as part of my document

[GTALUG] computer to a good home.

I was using this system as a file server for a number of years. The motherboard is a Asus SLI/KFN5-D with 2 AMD quad core Optron CPU's with something like 12G of ram. It also has a 3wear 8port raid controller with 8 SATA cables. The motherboard and case are ok but the power supply had a

Re: [GTALUG] Newegg.ca sales -- Linksys WRT1900AC, Samsung 128GB USB sticks

Not sure if it helps but the guys at geekbuying are selling a settopbox/router/whatever. It runs Android and Ubuntuand currently is selling for $96.75CAD. It does ship fromchina so delivery is measuredin weeks.

Re: [GTALUG] Spam is basically dead

On 08/16/2017 08:40 AM, Myles Braithwaite  via talk wrote: ac via talk wrote: 1. Bounce when no rDNS (exim/postfix/sendmail/qmail - 2 second conf) Sometimes people don't have access to configure Reverse DNS (or PTR) as they are sending with a dynamic IP address. This isn't common but at least

Re: [GTALUG] "'Opens source' is not 'free software'"

H. True cloud services are an interesting quirk. On 07/13/2017 10:26 AM, Evan Leibovitch via talk wrote: After decades with no apparent change in arguments or hope for resolution, I find the whole debate elitist and entertainingly stagnant. Reminds me of candy

Re: [GTALUG] "'Opens source' is not 'free software'"

On 07/13/2017 06:11 PM, Loui Chang wrote: On Thu 13 Jul 2017 13:54 -0400, Alvin Starr via talk wrote: If I try to make money off selling Apache with my module or PHP then I run afoul of the intent of the GPL. The GPL does not forbid anyone from making money by selling software. It only

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

On 07/13/2017 05:32 PM, Scott Sullivan via talk wrote: 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

Re: [GTALUG] router upgrade; cheap WRT1200ac

On 07/21/2017 11:29 AM, Lennart Sorensen via talk wrote: On Fri, Jul 21, 2017 at 07:26:38AM -0700, Dave Cramer wrote: There was one review on this router that mentioned that the radio was not very good. Is this typical or just someone's bad experience ? Well I keep my 1900 in the basement and

Re: [GTALUG] Linux on Windows (was Windows 10 will let everyone run Linux inside Windows following Fall Creators Update)

On 08/02/2017 11:42 AM, Myles Braithwaite  via talk wrote: James Knott via talk wrote: I've had Ubuntu on W10 for a while now. I didn't have to buy it, just install from Windows Store. I haven't had the best of luck with running Ubuntu on Windows but that was back during the beta testing.

Re: [GTALUG] Question

You can never be paranoid enough. What your looking for is a tempest enclosure. Its basically a Faraday cage but tested to NATO et al standards.(https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tempest_(codename)). A bunch of years ago I was dealing with CSE and got to learn that you can read a CRT screen from

Re: [GTALUG] Question

On 06/13/2017 06:57 AM, o1bigtenor wrote: On Mon, Jun 12, 2017 at 9:44 PM, Alvin Starr via talk <talk@gtalug.org <mailto:talk@gtalug.org>> wrote: You can never be paranoid enough. What your looking for is a tempest enclosure. Its basically a Faraday cage but teste

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

You could short out the antenna but that could burn out the transmitter and things around it. You could change the software on the phone and remove the code to start up the cell transceiver. If you remove the sim card then the phone will not login to any carriers network and will not

Re: [GTALUG] Backing up Windows Machines to Linux NAS,

On 06/27/2017 09:23 PM, Scott Sullivan via talk wrote: > 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

Re: [GTALUG] VMware ESXi Licensing and Quality

On 10/17/2017 10:13 AM, Lennart Sorensen via talk wrote: On Mon, Oct 16, 2017 at 08:56:28PM -0400, Jamon Camisso via talk wrote: ESXi and Xen are 'type 1' hypervisors, in that they are their own operating system. Guests sit directly on top. VMs need to be patched to make use of the hypervisor's

Re: [GTALUG] touch screens

I feel your pain My big fat sausage like fingers make it nearly impossible for me to use the keyboard interface with less than a 50% error rate unless I have a phone with a 7" screen(I actually had one once). There are multiple kinds of touch screens so possibly you need a phone with

Re: [GTALUG] VMware ESXi Licensing and Quality

On 10/16/2017 02:37 PM, Lennart Sorensen via talk wrote: On Fri, Oct 13, 2017 at 03:23:50PM -0400, Clifford Ilkay via talk wrote: ESXi 6.5 runs on a Linux kernel. I have no idea if they've modified the kernel and if they have, if they contribute their changes to upstream as they are required to

Re: [GTALUG] VMware ESXi Licensing and Quality

On 10/13/2017 12:33 PM, Giles Orr via talk wrote: I'm having some trouble figuring out the licensing on VMware's ESXi.  It's proprietary - I've got that and I don't love it.  But Packt's "DevOps Automation Cookbook" (2015) is essentially saying it's free to use, and implying - I don't think

[GTALUG] I am stupid. Sorry.

DOH. -- Alvin Starr || land: (905)513-7688 Netvel Inc. || Cell: (416)806-0133 al...@netvel.net || --- Talk Mailing List talk@gtalug.org https://gtalug.org/mailman/listinfo/talk

[GTALUG] NOT: Re: From BTRFS to what?

Wow. got into a bit of a snitfest with dhaval.giani over this one. Now to the completely unrelated part. I have been thinking about a project and I would like to bounce it off you. A client came to me asking about helping him setup an Etherium mining server pool. This got me thinking. In

[GTALUG] convert sun rays to cryptocurrencies.

Lets start by changing the subject. On 09/06/2017 08:12 PM, Stewart C. Russell via talk wrote: On 2017-09-06 09:06 AM, Alvin Starr via talk wrote: A client came to me asking about helping him setup an Etherium mining server pool. Hey, I know that there are some honest cryptocurrency types out

Re: [GTALUG] From BTRFS to what?

On 09/05/2017 09:42 AM, Christopher Browne via talk wrote: On 4 September 2017 at 20:03, Scott Sullivan via talk wrote: On 03/09/17 02:12 PM, William Park via talk wrote: On Sun, Sep 03, 2017 at 05:52:12PM +, Dhaval Giani wrote: On Sun, Sep 3, 2017 at 1:41 PM William

Re: [GTALUG] Wireshark question -- script to extract data in TCP stream?

On 09/26/2017 08:36 AM, James Knott via talk wrote: On 09/26/2017 07:39 AM, Alvin Starr via talk wrote: you could capture only one way traffic by filtering the input with something like "dst host 1.2.3.4". I am not sure how that would impact the tcp stream following though. I wo

Re: [GTALUG] Wireshark question -- script to extract data in TCP stream?

On 09/26/2017 07:11 AM, James Knott via talk wrote: On 09/26/2017 12:47 AM, William Park via talk wrote: To network experts... From Wireshark, I can click "TCP Follow" tab and extract one-way data flow from a tcp stream. I can do this manually, one by one. But, I have many many streams.

Re: [GTALUG] From BTRFS to what?

On 09/03/2017 02:53 PM, Dhaval Giani via talk wrote: On Sun, Sep 3, 2017 at 2:13 PM William Park via talk > wrote: On Sun, Sep 03, 2017 at 05:52:12PM +, Dhaval Giani wrote: > On Sun, Sep 3, 2017 at 1:41 PM William Park via talk

Re: [GTALUG] From BTRFS to what?

On 09/03/2017 09:20 PM, Dhaval Giani wrote: On Sun, Sep 3, 2017 at 9:02 PM Alvin Starr via talk <talk@gtalug.org <mailto:talk@gtalug.org>> wrote: On 09/03/2017 02:53 PM, Dhaval Giani via talk wrote: On Sun, Sep 3, 2017 at 2:13 PM William Park via talk <

Re: [GTALUG] From BTRFS to what?

On 09/03/2017 09:40 PM, Stewart C. Russell via talk wrote: On 2017-09-03 09:02 PM, Alvin Starr via talk wrote: Remember Reiserfs? … Much more reliable then the equivalent ext systems but non-technology related issues killed it. Very much technology related, it seems to me. It's hard to manage

Re: [GTALUG] From BTRFS to what?

On 09/03/2017 10:18 PM, Stewart C. Russell via talk wrote: On 2017-09-03 09:56 PM, Alvin Starr via talk wrote: True enough but the project could have been picked up by others. Something as complex as a FS needs corporate support, and no company wishes to be associated with a convicted murderer

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

On 12/13/2017 12:41 AM, Clifford Ilkay via talk wrote: On Tue, Dec 12, 2017 at 10:51 PM, o1bigtenor > wrote: OK - - - you think 16 GB of ram is lots. I didn't say it was "lots". I said that is what I have and the majority of people

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

On 12/11/2017 12:29 AM, Stewart C. Russell via talk wrote: On 2017-12-10 09:50 PM, o1bigtenor via talk wrote: 1. You need to set up at least 10 windows in FF. 2. You need to find some kind of topics so that you have ranging from say 5 to 35 tabs open on EACH of those windows. I'm feeling some

Re: [GTALUG] Web hosting questions

On 10/30/2017 08:18 AM, Don Tai via talk wrote: I would also council to separate your domains from your hosting provider. If you have a dispute with your hosting provider you should be able to easily switch hosts. You cannot do this if your domains and hosting are from the same source. It is

Re: [GTALUG] (OT) home renovation courses for home owner?

Not sure about a course but here is something that worked for me in the past. We had a shower to tile and I know enough about tiling that I am not going to do a good job if I do it myself. We offered to tear out the old stall down to the studs and get rid of the trash. That shaved just

Re: [GTALUG] Meltdown performance hit.

On 01/11/2018 05:29 PM, o1bigtenor wrote: On Thu, Jan 11, 2018 at 3:59 PM, Alvin Starr via talk <talk@gtalug.org <mailto:talk@gtalug.org>> wrote: I cannot prove this yet but I believe there has been a big performance hit in the cloud providers. I use amazon

[GTALUG] Meltdown performance hit.

I cannot prove this yet but I believe there has been a big performance hit in the cloud providers. I use amazon for a couple of lightly loaded servers Attached is the traffic graph from the last 2 weeks. Nothing has changed but for the reboot required by AWS as part of their patch roll out.

Re: [GTALUG] Meltdown performance hit.

On 01/11/2018 06:21 PM, Jamon Camisso via talk wrote: On 11/01/18 16:59, Alvin Starr via talk wrote: I cannot prove this yet but I believe there has been a big performance hit in the cloud providers. I use amazon for a couple of lightly loaded servers Attached is the traffic graph from

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