[GTALUG] Windows mutates Linux bootable installation disks

To make a bootable Fedora installation disk, I just do a dd from the .iso file to the USB flash stick (not a filesystem on the USB device) These work well for system repairs as well as installation. When you boot from these sticks, they offer an integrity check: the whole image is checked

[GTALUG] timestamps on files saved by evince

I'm filling out a few copies of a CRA form (due tomorrow!). They are fillable PDF files. I'm using GNOME's "Document Viewer" (formerly called Evince). (The new name is confusingly generic.) All the saved copies have a "modified" timestamp identical to that of the original empty form that I

Re: [GTALUG] A dos port of the Linux program neofetch.

Interesting. The blurb about MySysInf is a little confusing. I haven't seen a clearer blurb. Maybe there is one in the ZIP file. The first confusing thing is that the blurb seems to call it MySysInf one place and Fetch4FD another. And the URL calls it Fetch4FD (apparently the old name).

Re: [GTALUG] ot: backlab?

Do you mean "Hacklab" as in ? I would have assumed you did, but you used "backlab" twice. --- Post to this mailing list talk@gtalug.org Unsubscribe from this mailing list https://gtalug.org/mailman/listinfo/talk

[GTALUG] monitor characteristics: EDID

I'm trying to figure out the characteristics of the display on my Asus Vivobook S notebook. One way to figure this out is to look at the monitor's EDID (Extended Display Identification Data). I installed a program called edid-decode since otherwise the EDID is just binary bytes. Then I used

Re: [GTALUG] GPU advice needed

GPU-for-AI advice from the cheap seats (I've never done this). AI stacks seem very fragile. Any time you make a substitution the whole thing might misbehave. You can either copy EXACTLY a working configuration from someone else or you can sign up for adventure. Most likely you will try some

Re: [GTALUG] Securely wiping SSDs

| From: David Thornton via talk | I grilled my local hardware security friend who said you should never trust | the secure delete feature in ssd . In general it has been found insecure. It seems hard to accidentally screw up Secure Delete: - everything written to the flash layer is encode -

Re: [GTALUG] Securely wiping SSDs

| From: D. Hugh Redelmeier via talk | Some disks have a feature where they have a key that encrypts every block. | The key persists in the drive. But if you want to wipe the disk, you | change this key. Then every block is nonsense until it is rewritten. | I haven't got time to look up

Re: [GTALUG] Securely wiping SSDs

It depends on your paranoia level. In the good old days, there were no levels hiding the disk sectors from the computer. Then came automatic sector mapping for bad blocks. Really convenient. But how are you going to wipe those mapped-out blocks? As far as I know, there is no way to do so.

Re: [GTALUG] DOS > bash

| From: Ron / BCLUG via talk | How does `rename` (a Perl program, I believe?) handle globbing and pathname | expansion? | | | i.e. in a folder with 3 files: one.sh, two.sh, file.tar, typing: | | rename *.sh * | | means rename gets passed these parameters: | | one.sh two.sh one.sh two.sh

Re: [GTALUG] DOS > bash

| From: William Park via talk | Ubuntu/Debian distros | will include 'rename' where you can use regex. So does Fedora. It is much more powerful that DOS's ren command. Even so, I so rarely use rename that I have to read the man page each time. --- Post to this mailing list talk@gtalug.org

Re: [GTALUG] Debian Live Linux -- Change Overlay Filesystem -- From Tempfs Ramdisk To Hard Drive ?? [was] Re: Debian Live Linux -- Overlay Filesystem -- Where Allocated ??

| From: D. Hugh Redelmeier via talk | 2. (Less useful to you) Various distros are experimenting with an | immutable core. So you could have the same problem on your disk as you | now have on your stick. <https://fedoramagazine.org/what-is-silverblue/> There is a group of immutable d

Re: [GTALUG] Debian Live Linux -- Change Overlay Filesystem -- From Tempfs Ramdisk To Hard Drive ?? [was] Re: Debian Live Linux -- Overlay Filesystem -- Where Allocated ??

1. It is easy to install a Linux system onto a USB stick: just tell the Linux installer to use the (second) USB stick instead of the HDD. The result has ordinary filesystems that can be updated, just like the one on your hard drive. 2. (Less useful to you) Various distros are experimenting

[GTALUG] Pi Day; Raspberry Pi virtual Meet-Up tonight

Pi Day (3.14) is no longer just a silly math undergrad joke. Even piza companies observe it. The Toronto Raspberry Pi meetup group is restarting tonight.

[GTALUG] amazing but expensive Windows notebook (will run Linux)

Two left at the moment The notebook: ThinkPad P16 with most nice features. The price ~$1400 + tax Too rich for me. But I can drool. Although this is sold through ebay, the vendor is Lenovo itself. --- Post

[GTALUG] uses and dangers of AI in science

I found this article quite interesting. --- Post to this mailing list talk@gtalug.org Unsubscribe from this mailing list https://gtalug.org/mailman/listinfo/talk

[GTALUG] Monthly meeting on Tuesday March 12

Scraped from : The Future of LUGs and the Open Source Community. It’s AI, Baby! with Marcel Gagné 12 March, 2024 at 07:30 PM Join GTALUG and our guest this month, Marcel Gagné, to discuss the current state of Linux User Groups and AI. Time: March 12th, 2024 19:30 AM

[GTALUG] Grrr: CRA vs evince

Background / Public Service Announcement: This year, the CRA has started requiring taxpayers to file returns for joint accounts (I think joint accounts for spouses are not included). These are called "bare trusts" and one needs to - register with the CRA to get a trust number (kind of like a

Re: [GTALUG] .local question

| From: D. Hugh Redelmeier via talk | Tonight I'm creating an experimental NextCloud server. Let's say it's | hostname is nc. | | - ping nc.local works | - ssh nc.local works | - host nc.local works | - Firefox and even links cannot see nc.local. This report turns out to be very incomplete

Re: [GTALUG] .local question (Off Topic: how did you acquire a /24?)

| From: Ron / BCLUG via talk | D. Hugh Redelmeier via talk wrote on 2024-02-26 22:43: | | > (I have /24 globally routable IP addresses.) | | I'm curious about the story behind how you acquired what's become such a rare | item? If you asked 30+ years ago you got a "Class C&quo

[GTALUG] .local question

I used to give all my machines permanent IP addresses and added entries in my domain for them. (I have /24 globally routable IP addresses.) I then got lazy and let most be assigned dynamically. But not servers. Now I'm even more lazy. I'm starting to use .local. So machines declare their

Re: [GTALUG] War Story: adding RAM to a laptop can increase the speed

| From: mwilson--- via talk | My main desktop is a Raspberry Pi 4B+ with 8GiB. Neat! | `top` says that swap is full (100MiB), but there's 1.2 GiB of memory | available. I'd be tempted to add swap. But then again, if that is on an SD card, maybe not. I don't know the kernel policies. Or

Re: [GTALUG] War Story: adding RAM to a laptop can increase the speed

| From: Howard Gibson via talk | On Mon, 19 Feb 2024 12:31:08 -0500 (EST) | "D. Hugh Redelmeier via talk" wrote: | > What tasks to you do that challenge computers with only 8 GiB? | I probably spend too much time on YouTube. I use GIMP to mess with | photographs. I us

Re: [GTALUG] War Story: adding RAM to a laptop can increase the speed

| From: Howard Gibson via talk | |I have long ago given up trying to run computers on 8GB RAM. For |GNU/Linux, 16GB minimum. What tasks to you do that challenge computers with only 8 GiB? For me, it is Firefox with a lot of tabs. I'm sure that some web pages are way more

[GTALUG] War Story: adding RAM to a laptop can increase the speed

I bought a very inexpensive laptop from costco.ca. Dead deal: Unlike most laptops these days, it has two sockets for RAM. Only one was occupied. It had an 8 GiB stick

[GTALUG] Air Canada claims its chatbot is liable, not AC!

There's surely more to this story. A customer sued AC for the consequences of bad advice AC's chatbot gave. In an argument that appeared to flabbergast a small claims adjudicator in British

Re: [GTALUG] meeting idea: AI Explorers' Reports

| From: Evan Leibovitch via talk | | I have confirmed that Marcel Gagné will lead our March meeting on "Open | Source AI", as was discussed at both the recent Friday and Tuesday | discussions. Great! | It is an open question whether he should give a presentation, or simply | lead a

Re: [GTALUG] I asked Google's Gemini to compare iGPUs

Sorry for the previous partial response. Trying again. | From: Evan Leibovitch via talk | My original Gemini search said nothing about DirectX or OpenGL. You mean your prompt, right? Which was the same as my prompt, right? Things that my run got wrong and your run didn't: - did not mention

Re: [GTALUG] I asked Google's Gemini to compare iGPUs

| From: Evan Leibovitch via talk | My original Gemini search said nothing about DirectX or OpenGL. You mean your prompt, right? Which was the same as my prompt, right? >From you previous message, the answer was --- Post to this mailing list talk@gtalug.org Unsubscribe from this mailing list

Re: [GTALUG] I asked ChatGPT to compare iGPUs.

| From: Evan Leibovitch via talk | | For what it's worth, I fed Hugh's question into Google Gemini and got this | (including the formatting, this is just cut/pasted): Interesting. As described in my second posting, I too tried Gemini. - I got a different table from Evan (boxes and columns) -

[GTALUG] I asked Google's Gemini to compare iGPUs

In the last message, I described how ChatGPT 3.5 confidently gave a wrong answer to my prompt "compare igpu in i3-1005G1 and i3-1215U". Now I'm trying free Google Gemini. New this month! It's answer is much better. But that makes its serious mistakes more difficult to catch. First of all, I

[GTALUG] I asked ChatGPT to compare iGPUs.

I have two models of dirt-cheap notebook. One was $300 for an "open box" not quite two years ago and the other was $300 ten days ago. It's easy to google on the web to compare the CPUs but not so easy to find out the difference between the integrated GPUs. So I asked ChatGPT 3.5 (the free

[GTALUG] meeting idea: AI Explorers' Reports

AI is an exploding field. Lots of stuff is new to us. Many of us are trying things. I think that it would be interesting if those of us that have experimented would chat in a meeting about their experiences. For example: - what were you trying to do? - how is it working out? - what

[GTALUG] This month's meeting: Friday (Tomorrow) AND Tuesday

Our web site has the announcement and the list doesn't. So I'm copying the page to this message. NOTE THE UNIQUE TIMING. The Future of Linux User Groups and Open Source Advocacy with Stefano Maffulli, Executive Directorof the Open Source Initiative 09 February, 2024 at 11:00 AM Join GTALUG

Re: [GTALUG] RISC-V News

| From: Evan Leibovitch via talk | On Fri, Feb 2, 2024 at 11:38 AM D. Hugh Redelmeier via talk wrote: |   | For serious applications, the openness RISC-V helps but doesn't make everything you | need open and free.  Or even available.  You actually need chip designs -- what SiFive

Re: [GTALUG] free old tower computers

| From: D. Hugh Redelmeier via talk | - Dell Inspiron 530 Includes an ATI video card with DVI out. | - Dell OptiPlex 780 Includes an ATI video card with DVI and HDMI out. --- Post to this mailing list talk@gtalug.org Unsubscribe from this mailing list https://gtalug.org/mailman/listinfo/talk

[GTALUG] free old tower computers

(This is an experiment. I don't know if list members area interested in this kind of thing or find it a waste of list attention. Let me know.) - Dell Inspiron 530 No HDD or SSD DVD burner Core 2 Duo CPU E6550 @ 2.33GHz 3 GiB of DDR2 RAM (2 x 1G, 2 x 512M) tested: boots CentOS on an

Re: [GTALUG] war story: preliminary adventures with RDP / Remmina / Flatpak

| From: Michael Hill via talk Thanks for this information. | On Tue, Jan 30, 2024 at 6:47 PM D. Hugh Redelmeier via talk | wrote: | | > Running Window in a VM would be great but I haven't figured out how to do | > that. Licensing is part of the issue. | About seven years ago I

Re: [GTALUG] RISC-V News

(Top posting because unmangling Evan's message is hard.) For serious applications, the openness RISC-V helps but doesn't make everything you need open and free. Or even available. You actually need chip designs -- what SiFive sells. You also need a lot of other modules for things like USB,

Re: [GTALUG] An anomaly with the `date` command

| From: Michael Galea via talk | Looks like its m=$((`date +%m` + 1)) for you! Try that in December. --- Post to this mailing list talk@gtalug.org Unsubscribe from this mailing list https://gtalug.org/mailman/listinfo/talk

Re: [GTALUG] An anomaly with the `date` command

| From: mwilson--- via talk | Discovered when I ran my script to run pcal and refresh my next-month | calendar, and got March. | | | mwilson@ningabel:~$ date | Tue 30 Jan 2024 04:23:27 PM EST | mwilson@ningabel:~$ date -d'this month' +%m | 01 | mwilson@ningabel:~$ date -d'next month' +%m | 03

[GTALUG] war story: preliminary adventures with RDP / Remmina / Flatpak

We use Windows for tax programs. Linux doesn't have these programs. So we need to run Windows once in a while. Dual-booting works fine but it isn't the most convenient setup. Running Window in a VM would be great but I haven't figured out how to do that. Licencing is part of the issue. So:

Re: [GTALUG] Ongoing war story (currently issues of user trust)

[I seem to have forgotten to send this.] | From: Peter King via talk | Can't say that I disagree with any of this.  I protested when the UofT decided | to amalgamate all its services on Microsoft Server (to no avail), and even | more so when they made it all but impossible not to use Outlook

Re: [GTALUG] Ongoing war story (currently losing the battle)

| From: Peter King via talk | | The motherboard on the failing system is a non-UEFI Asus P6T.  The CPU is an | Intel i7 950.  I have 32GB of Crucial DDR3 RAM in it.  The whole thing dates | from 2009/2010 or so.  I'm pretty sure I replaced the motherboard at least | once already.  There are

Re: [GTALUG] anyone have this bell item?

I thought digital telephone signals were a big problem for you so I wondered if digital TV would be a similar problem. | From: Karen Lewellen via talk | | Not sure I follow while digital would be a problem for me question though? --- Post to this mailing list talk@gtalug.org Unsubscribe from

Re: [GTALUG] anyone have this bell item?

I'm not convinced that it will work. (I don't know that it won't.) One clue is that Bell won't offer it to you. Another is that the web site is for Bell's Manitoba Telephone System subsidiary. There's a good chance they use different technology since MTS started as an independant company.

Re: [GTALUG] Ongoing war story (currently issues of user trust)

| From: Peter King via talk | Well, more exactly, Microsoft Exchange Server insists on authentication being | through XOAUTH2. I don't know what XOAuth2 is. Googling gets me things that would take too long to read. If XOauth2 is the same as OAuth2 (I'm sure it isn't), this might be a good

Re: [GTALUG] war story: Brother printer won't turn on

| From: Evan Leibovitch via talk | I've had a CDP-L2520DW for at least a decade. | Touch wood, no problems like this. I've found Brother laser printers to be fairly reliable, especially considering how complex and mechanical they are. I don't buy other brands so I cannot compare them. I've

Re: [GTALUG] Ongoing war story (currently losing the battle)

| From: Peter King via talk I don't remember you telling us what the older (now also failing) machine model is. AMIbios from 2009 suggests to me that it predates UEFI. If so, it probably isn't worth investing any time to fix it. Publish or perish (unless you have tenure)! (This system's

[GTALUG] war story: Brother printer won't turn on

My LASER printer / scanner, a Brother MFC-L2729DW, would not power on. Normally something like this is due to a power supply failure, but I googled and found this: (The video is incomplete; there is another one that is linked from the first, but all

[GTALUG] Doctorow: "Sympathy for the spammer"

| From: mwilson--- via talk | Subject: Re: [GTALUG] landline power [was Re: "AI" on getting correct | technical answers] | Cory Doctorow posted a relevant article today: | https://pluralistic.net/2024/01/15/passive-income-brainworms/#four-hour-work-week | | Money quote: | "while we're

[GTALUG] landline power [was Re: "AI" on getting correct technical answers]

| From: Alvin Starr via talk | Bell and Rogers are now both offering VOIP based home phone services. | I assume that they have batteries to keep things running in the event of a | power outage but It would be interesting to have someone on list confirm that. | I remember many years ago working

[GTALUG] mailing list convention

There is a long standing convention for this list. 1. when replying to a post, only quote the parts you are responding to. Why? Because this makes it easier for the reader and there are more readers than writers. 2. your response should immediately follow the part of the quote you are

Re: [GTALUG] "AI" on getting correct technical answers

| From: o1bigtenor via talk | > I have never used a cellphone to access https://chat.openai.com -- this is where I signed up for free and later where I upgraded to Plus. The process to register is quite easy, I don't quite understand the issues you and Kevin are having. | One doesn't use a

Re: [GTALUG] AI - Llama 2 an open source AI that can run on a Raspberry PI

| From: Colin McGregor via talk Interesting report! Some nit picking of the answers. Just from my memory -- there are surely other bugs. Summary: don't trust these models! They don't do very basic fact-checking. | > Who was Canada's best Prime Minister? Why are all the answer Liberal

Re: [GTALUG] lazy jail server admin forced to act

| From: Alvin Starr via talk | SPF should insure that only your email servers can be used to send mail from | your domain. Related: My Postfix server validates HELO / EHLO records. These records declare the name of the server contacting my server. Postfix makes sure that the declared name

Re: [GTALUG] lazy jail server admin forced to act

| From: Kevin Cozens via talk | You probably need to add a google authentication record to your domain name to | reduce the chance of your email messages being rejected by gmail. I don't know what that is. Googling responses suggest you might be talking about a Google Worspace thing. I don't

[GTALUG] video: The Dark Side of Open Source

This video was recommended to me: Chris Titus Tech: The Dark Side of Open Source Apparently Titus recommended Thorium, a mod of the Chromium browser. Now he feel burned because of a couple of non-mainstream Easter eggs. It seems mostly overwrought

Re: [GTALUG] lazy jail server admin forced to act

| From: D. Hugh Redelmeier via talk | How to read this: | mx: | email sent by mimosa.com should only come from its servers | declared in MX DNS records More accurately, this means that mail that says it is from mimosa.com is OK if it comes from one

Re: [GTALUG] lazy jail server admin forced to act

| From: John Sellens via talk | You may find that you need DKIM and DMARC as well. If you’re using | postfix it’s fairly easy to hook opendkim in. Yeah. | My biggest hurdle was trying to find clear concise guides. Links?--- Post to this mailing list talk@gtalug.org Unsubscribe from this

[GTALUG] lazy jail server admin forced to act

Mails from my domain have started to be rejected by gmail. To placate gmail, I've added an SPF record to my doman: mimosa.com. IN TXT "v=spf1 mx ~all" How to read this: v=spf1: this TXT record is an SPF version 1 record mx:

[GTALUG] meeting Tuesday?

We are supposed to have a meeting Tuesday but I have not seen an announcement. The venue might be changed from our Big Blue Button room. Our host, LPI, was set to switch from BBB to some NextCloud facility. If we don't get further directions, try at

[GTALUG] short window on a great deal for a mini PC

For me, it worked out to be $293.39 + tax for a Ryzen 7 5800h system with 16G RAM and 500G SSD. This is a "Lightning deal" so it will be over soon (but I can no longer see

[GTALUG] Exim vs Postfix [was: Local-only mail server]

| From: Giles Orr via talk | "exim4" is usually (not always) installed on Debian systems. | From: Anthony de Boer via talk | Exim4 would be the right solution on whichever host you designate your | mailserver. | From: Michael Galea via talk | | On my mail server (which runs an exim4

Re: [GTALUG] queue unjamming [was Re: Meeting tonight?]

| From: Lennart Sorensen via talk | | On Sun, Dec 17, 2023 at 02:36:05PM -0500, D. Hugh Redelmeier via talk wrote: | > There was a gathering at the site of what would have been a meeting. | > No meeting was organized. This lack was not intentional. | | An in person gathering. Haven'

[GTALUG] queue unjamming [was Re: Meeting tonight?]

| From: Anthony de Boer via talk | | > On Dec 17, 2023, at 12:44, Lennart Sorensen via talk wrote: | > | > Is there a meeting tonight given I think it is the second tuesday of | > the month? There was a gathering at the site of what would have been a meeting. No meeting was organized. This

[GTALUG] tiny GNAME change that I don't like

The latest version of GNOME is included in the latest Fedora and Ubuntu. (It's hard to talk about this GUI stuff because I (and probably you) don't know the names of visual components.) On the top bar of the screen, "Activities" is on the far left. Next to it used to be the name of the

Re: [GTALUG] ot: sort of, is it really impossible to get real cable anymore?

| From: Evan Leibovitch via talk | Synopsis: I think you've just re-complicated something that took a while in | this thread to simplify. | And buying a new TV is not considered an option, the roughly $100 solution | being proposed is expensive enough. Yeah, if the problem is JUST to get OTA

Re: [GTALUG] ot: sort of, is it really impossible to get real cable anymore?

I have some concerns, but am somewhat uninformed. I've run out of time to edit this. I apologize that it so is long and disorganized. General concern: the complex chain of devices has many points of failure. Getting it to work might be difficult. Keeping it working might be difficult.

[GTALUG] article about Window Snyder [was Re: Protonmail WAS: Re: Linux Unicorns]

| From: Giles Orr via talk | ( https://www.forbes.com/sites/thomasbrewster/2023/08/08/protonmail-fbi-search-led-to-a-suspect-threatening-a-2020-election-official/ | ) Interesting post. Interesting article. The article linked to another that I found very interesting. I'd never heard of

Re: [GTALUG] Linux Unicorns

| From: Evan Leibovitch via talk | On Fri, Nov 24, 2023 at 12:19 PM D. Hugh Redelmeier via talk < | talk@gtalug.org> wrote: | | It seems to me that Linux has won and been commoditized on the server side. | > No high-level discussion needs to address this. Several distros are good |

[GTALUG] cheap cheap Virtual Private Servers

This is the time of year (black Friday / Cyber Monday) when you can get very cheap VPSes. Not necessarily good, but cheap. I have a couple that cost about US$10 or so a year. Sometimes useful for pinging. You can do actual useful things with them, but the resources are fairly constrained.

[GTALUG] GNOME's "Attach Modal Dialogs"?

By default, when a GNOME application pops up a dialog, it gets glued to (one of?) the application's window: the dialog sits in front of the Window, glued in place. If you move the dialog, the window moves with it. I'm not sure why this is considered useful behaviour. Perhaps because if you

Re: [GTALUG] mbox vs Maildir [was Re: Linux friendly email providers?]

| From: Howard Gibson via talk |I figured that separate email files would be using up a lot of | sectors, but my bandwidth is limited by my Blu-ray discs. My actual | backup is a gzipped tar file. Sectors should not be a problem, should | they? Uncompressed TAR format:

Re: [GTALUG] Linux Unicorns

| From: ac via talk | I have been wondering about tech unicorns and Linux. It seems to me that Linux has won and been commoditized on the server side. No high-level discussion needs to address this. Several distros are good enough and almost interchangeable in abilities. On the PC side, if

[GTALUG] mbox vs Maildir [was Re: Linux friendly email providers?]

| From: Ron / BCLUG via talk | I've seen mbox files get corrupted (all mailbox | messages in one file, and a line like "From: " is the message delimiter. | Terrible!) I don't remember seeing that corruption in the last few decades of using mbox. The horrors of in-band signalling are well known

[GTALUG] issues with "fractional scaling" for displays

In GNOME (and surely other systems) you can specify that you want the contents of the display scaled. For example, 200% scaling doubles the size of everything on the display in both dimensions. The control for selecting scaling is in GNOME's "Display Settings", under "scale". Easiest way to get

Re: [GTALUG] [GTALUG-Announce] Membership Dues

This message from a year ago is still/again relevant. Summary: 1. Please join GTALUG. I quoted Warren's message explaining how to join and pay for membership. 2. Consider volunteering to help run GTALUG. From: D. Hugh Redelmeier via talk To: Toronto Linux Users Group Date: Sun, 8 Oct 2023

Re: [GTALUG] growing an EFI System Partition (ESP)

Fedora 30 was released today. In the release notes, it talks about EFI sizes: Make the EFI System Partition at least 500MiB in size The minimum size of the EFI System Partition (ESP) created by Anaconda has changed from 200 MiB to 500 MiB. The maximum size, which is used in most cases,

[GTALUG] growing an EFI System Partition (ESP)

(This is a recipe. If you find errors or think of improvements, please let me know.) == context == The ESP is the partition to hold anything the UEFI firmware can run. Mostly bootloaders but also diagnostics and firmware updates. It is a FAT filesystem in a partition with a special type. In

Re: [GTALUG] "RISC-V technology emerges as battleground in US-China tech war"

| From: Evan Leibovitch via talk | I think there's something very different at play here. While I'm sure | existing chipmakers are whispering in Congress' ear, they don't have any | selling to do. Since the US has already put export controls on advanced | chipmaking technology and equipment in

[GTALUG] "RISC-V technology emerges as battleground in US-China tech war"

Grrr. Some US lawmakers want to restrict US companies from working on RISC-V. They are worried it will benefit China (of course it will, and the rest of us too). It is true that

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

| From: Michael Galea via talk | | I priced out various pre-amps online, got over the shock of their price | and built one from some online plans. Good on you! I don't know if this phono pre-amp is any good, but its from an OK brand. It currently costs $29.99. There is a newer model with

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

| From: Evan Leibovitch via talk Good advice about estate auctions and downsizing. | The best estate-auction site of which I'm aware is Maxsold, Thanks. I did not know about that site. | TMI time: In another message Hugh wrote: | | New receivers often don't support RIAA equalization needed

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

| From: William Park via talk | While cleaning my house, I found box speakers and LP record player. Brand name | "Sanyo". What's missing is AM/FM receiver that came as a set. Do you know | where I can buy an old stereo AM/FM receiver? Adding to what others have said: - new receivers often

Re: [GTALUG] why I like shared libraries -- no longer a popular position

| From: D. Hugh Redelmeier via talk | It turns out that the bug is in libwebp. "WebP codec is a library to | encode and decode images in WebP format." | | libwebp is used in a lot of programs. On my Fedora 38 system, it is a | shared library so it can be fixed in one update. Ex

Re: [GTALUG] No keyboard at boot?

| From: Peter King via talk | Apparently the problems/errors/failures I reported are a known problem that | Lenovo has refused to address: | http://reddit.com/r/techsupport/comments/ztvro4/lenovo_legion_5_t5_are_seemingly_bricked_with_no/ Wow! That's truly terrible. And very hard to

Re: [GTALUG] No keyboard at boot?

| From: Peter King via talk | Booted from a USB with Arch Linux on it; chroot into the now-working computer; | ran a system update (massive: 500+ packages).  Something in there -- likely | the new kernel and firmware -- fixed the keyboard problem.  So I didn't have | to reinstall, just get far

Re: [GTALUG] sigh, hardware resources?

Don: thanks for offering a computer to Karen. It has an AGP slot (empty) and 3 PCI slots (empty). Not quite old enough for ISA. Someone may know how to break the WinXP password from a Linux system. If Win XP mattered, I assume that it could be re-installed. But I don't think Karen cares about

[GTALUG] CVE-2023-43641: libcue bug allows Remote Code Execution in (at least) GNOME

TL;DR: update libcue to a version released after October 10. I read this last night: Summary: -

[GTALUG] WikiConference North America is in Toronto next month

Where: Toronto Reference Library (Yonge, North of Bloor) When: November 9-12 Cost: US$25 for most of us. Free if you find that a burden. You must register by Oct 29. I really value Wikipedia. I do a bit of editing. Sounds like it would be

Re: [GTALUG] sigh, hardware resources?

| From: Karen Lewellen via talk | In fact, the P3 or greater aspect is far more important than the ISO slot, if | that makes sense. Why do you need the power of a P III? Generally speaking, DOS software was built for much weaker processors (eg. 486 or older). | Although not installing

Re: [GTALUG] sigh, hardware resources?

| From: Karen Lewellen via talk | A dvdr or combination cd and dvdr would be appreciated, or at least room for | both. Do you need a drive with the ability to "burn" or is reading enough? As far as I know, all drives that can handle DVDs also handle CDs. There are a whole lot of different

Re: [GTALUG] sigh, hardware resources?

Distilling your toughest requirements: - You need DOS - perhaps you would get no value from any additional OS - you would like an ISA slot. That means the the computer has to be more than at least a decade old. Perhaps two decades (I don't remember all transitions). I'm pretty sure we can come

Re: [GTALUG] Debian has suddenly become unstable

| From: Giles Orr via talk | Hugh seems to be correct: I think everything in `dmesg` ends up in the | journal. But what I find interesting is that not everything in | /var/log/systemlog is in the journal. That doesn't match my (possibly unreliable) model of The Way Things are Supposed to Be.

[GTALUG] editing and publishing our meeting recordings?

This message is unauthorized by the board, but I thought I'd float these ideas anyway. Alex used to do a wonderful job of filming, editing, and publishing our meetings. Lots of work. Alex has stepped back. Since we've had virtual meetings, we have made recordings. But none has been edited

Re: [GTALUG] Debian has suddenly become unstable

| From: Giles Orr via talk | I have a Debian 12 system that's my daily driver. In the last two | days, it crashed twice when I was away from the keyboard and nothing | was happening (around the same time of day now that I think about it). | I'm not great at debugging Linux crashes. The

[GTALUG] journalctl / systemctl [was: Re: Debian has suddenly become unstable]

| From: Bob Jonkman via talk | > One thought might be to disable cups (`journalctl disable --now cups`) | | Did you mean 'systemctl disable --now cups' ??? I often make that mistake. Although the names are logical, there is some kind of cognitive trap here. From a human factors standpoint,

[GTALUG] US urged to ban RISC-V

Land of the Free? "I fear that our export-control laws are not equipped to deal with the challenge of open-source software - whether in advanced semiconductor designs like RISC-V

Re: [GTALUG] No keyboard at boot?

| From: Peter King via talk | I haven't tried to ssh in, because at the moment it tries to boot | into a static ethernet address which isn't available, and so network | connectivity fails. When I have my ethernet ports configured in an inconvenient way, I have plugged in a USB ethernet dongle

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