[GTALUG] scanner under Windows under Linux?

This message is also a test of the list. CZUR makes interesting page scanners: We actually have a couple. Until recently, all of their scanners' software only runs under Windows. The latest one has support for Linux but is very expensive. Can I easily run Window under

[GTALUG] Fedora 36's gnome display of notebook battery status

I like the battery status displayed as a percentage. This is not the default. Not a mainstream option It used to be something you could get through the GNOME "Tweaks" program. (That's a great tool for a few nice options.) In Fedora 36, Tweaks no longer has that option. Instead you can use the

[GTALUG] option pricing quirks on Dell's XPS 13 plus laptop

I just got an ad for this. The XPS line from Dell is quite nice but also quite expensive. To use marketing terms, "XPS" is the top "prosumer" line from Dell. The top non-flashy line is "Precision". My main laptop is an older XPS 15 that I bought used. You can configure an XPS 13 plus here:

Re: [GTALUG] inexpensive mini-PC with four 2.5G ethernet interfaces

| From: James Knott via talk | Do you currently use pfSense?  I've been running it for over 6 years. No. I've used OpenWRT on wireless routers (when possible). For my gateways I've always (25 years) used PCs with a Red Hat linux distro: RHL, CentOS, Fedora.--- Post to this mailing list

Re: [GTALUG] inexpensive mini-PC with four 2.5G ethernet interfaces

| From: James Knott via talk | I wasn't referring to that.  I was referring to what I read in the ad, where | it described the bundles of pfSense, OPNsense or nothing. While I favour | pfSense, any bundled version may be older than current.  So, I'd just download | it and copy to a USB  stick to

Re: [GTALUG] inexpensive mini-PC with four 2.5G ethernet interfaces

| From: James Knott via talk | To: talk@gtalug.org | Cc: James Knott | Date: Fri, 1 Jul 2022 13:49:45 -0400 | Subject: Re: [GTALUG] inexpensive mini-PC with four 2.5G ethernet interfaces | Sorry, I thought my first post went only to Hugh. Our mailman rewites the "From: " to point to the list

[GTALUG] inexpensive mini-PC with four 2.5G ethernet interfaces

These should make good routers. This deal will last until 2:00AM Saturday. After that, the price will probably be a bit higher. Beware: AliExpress. I've ordered one but I cannot vouch for it.

[GTALUG] another inexpensive refurb computer $300

https://forums.redflagdeals.com/the-source-asus-x509ja-ts31-cb-15-6-c-laptop-intel-i3-1005g1-256gb-ssd-8gb-ram-windows-10-slate-grey-refurbished-299-2549551/ Good: not a netbook Bad: 1366 x 768 15.6" display --- Post to this mailing list talk@gtalug.org Unsubscribe from this mailing list

Re: [GTALUG] File chooser [was desktops]

| From: Stewart C. Russell via talk | On 2022-06-13 14:35, D. Hugh Redelmeier via talk wrote: | > | > | It's up there in annoyance with Gnome's modal dialogues, which limit all | > | interaction with that one file chooser. You can turn them off. | > | > How do you turn that o

Re: [GTALUG] May Meeting

| From: Lennart Sorensen via talk | Oh how helpful. The April and May meeting announcements just arrived | on the list. :) Yeah. Several messages were flagged for moderation but the moderator only noticed last night. --- Post to this mailing list talk@gtalug.org Unsubscribe from this mailing

[GTALUG] every time I log in to google or ebay from Fedora they think that it is the first time

When I log into google or ebay from my desktop, they think that I'm logging in for the first time from that device. For ebay.ca, it is painless: I get a warning message in email "if this wasn't you...". For google it is more annoying. It wants a second factor authenticator. This amount to a

Re: [GTALUG] cheap netbook: Lenovo IdeaPad 1

| From: Slackrat via talk | Leave That baby alone. | | It seems to be a scam to get your email address. | | I ordered one when someone posted he deal a few months back | | I Got lots of emails about it "shipping soon" but it never came. | | At least they never tried to charge my account for

Re: [GTALUG] cheap netbook: Lenovo IdeaPad 1

| From: William Park via talk | I see $179.99, and it's cheaper than Chromebook! OS is "Windows 11 Home S | Mode". Windows 11s is just Windows with training wheels. You should be able to trivially turn it into Windows 11. Certainly that was true of Win 10s. Perhaps machines delivered with

[GTALUG] cheap netbook: Lenovo IdeaPad 1

We were talking about cheap netbooks for Linux last night. This one is on sale from Lenovo for $180. New; free shipping. I'm in some kind of club with Lenovo that gets me this for $175. Lenovo

[GTALUG] tomorrow's meeting

What would a Linux open house look like today? with Evan Leibovitch, Gordon Chilcott See --- Post to this mailing list talk@gtalug.org Unsubscribe from this mailing list https://gtalug.org/mailman/listinfo/talk

Re: [GTALUG] File chooser [was desktops]

| From: Stewart C. Russell via talk | On 2022-06-12 12:18, Michael Hill via talk wrote: | > | > Have you come across the file chooser behaviour where the search field | > takes the focus instead of the filename field? | | I have, and it's supremely annoying. I haven't found a solution that

[GTALUG] desktops [was Default VNC in GNOME?]

This is an interesting thread. It is great to hear what works for other people. | From: Lennart Sorensen via talk | And given all I want a linux desktop to do is display windows, let me | minimize, maximize and resize the windows in a normal way, and be able | to launch programs by hitting

Re: [GTALUG] free computer: Foxconn R20-D2, a small form-factor desktop

| From: D. Hugh Redelmeier via talk | - 1.5G HDD That would be a 1.5T HDD. --- Post to this mailing list talk@gtalug.org Unsubscribe from this mailing list https://gtalug.org/mailman/listinfo/talk

[GTALUG] free computer: Foxconn R20-D2, a small form-factor desktop

Foxconn is a big OEM -- they make a lot of Apple products, for example. This is one of the few things with their own brand. Here's where I bought it (almost 12 years ago): You can see specifications and a picture there. - almost 12

Re: [GTALUG] trip report: upgrading to Fedora 36

| From: Michael Galea via talk | | On 2022-06-01 10:31, D. Hugh Redelmeier via talk wrote: | > I just upgraded several systems to from Fedora 34 or 35 to Fedora 36 over | > the last week. This process is mostly uneventful. Here are some notes. | .. | | > | > - one system's grub c

[GTALUG] trip report: upgrading to Fedora 36

I just upgraded several systems to from Fedora 34 or 35 to Fedora 36 over the last week. This process is mostly uneventful. Here are some notes. There are two ways to upgrade: - use the GNOME "software" GUI and tell it to just do it. - use the "dnf" technique

Re: [GTALUG] Sharing EFI partition for multiple distro?

| From: William Park via talk | Or, does distro need its own EFI partitions, like As others have said, you "should" have only one ESP (EFI System Partition). Here are some odd-ball other considerations. - I've heard that Windows cannot handle multiple ESPs on a disk. - I once accidentally

[GTALUG] Ventoy: use single USB stick for multiple installation images

"Ventoy" is an open-source tool that allows you to put multiple .iso files on a USB stick. Has anyone tried it? Why do I care? When I want to install Fedora, for example, I fetch a .iso file and dd it straight to a

Re: [GTALUG] Removing snapd from Ubuntu

| From: Dave Collier-Brown via talk | In a life long ago, we'd have made /usr/bin/python a shell script, containing | | echo "please run /usr/bin/python3" Bikeshedding for fun: #!/bin/sh echo "$0: please use /usr/bin/python3 (or /usr/bin/python2 if you have to)" >2

Re: [GTALUG] Removing snapd from Ubuntu

| From: Stewart Russell via talk | I just did the 22.04 upgrade thing, and it seems that Firefox will be held | at v 99 if you don't have snapd. So beware of old/held packages as you | update. Wow. But it makes some kind of sense. The point of snap is to allow the packager to ignore changes

Re: [GTALUG] RISC-V

| From: Kevin Cozens via talk | On 2022-05-10 10:36, D. Hugh Redelmeier via talk wrote: | > For example, on this page, if you pick the $53.35 "bundle", I think you | > get a complete system with WiFi and 1G of RAM. 11.76 shipping. But I'm | > not sure because the descript

Re: [GTALUG] RISC-V

| From: Stewart C. Russell via talk | The only RISC-V I have is a WEMOS D1 Mini C3 — | https://universal-solder.ca/product/wemos-d1-mini-c3-v1-0-0-esp32-c3fh4-genuine-lolin/ | . An impressive little thing, but still not up to running much more than | MicroPython. This is based on an ESP32-C3

Re: [GTALUG] Installing Linux: Still a PITA, continued

| From: Evan Leibovitch via talk | Or maybe I'm not keeping track of chapters. ??? | Online help about how to partition a Linux system is as confused as ever, | some saying a single partition will do for everything, and others saying | that even a UEFI system needs a separate ext4 partition

Re: [GTALUG] From Slackware to which distro?

| From: William Park via talk | I have bad experience with UEFI. You can't just move the disk to a new | motherboard, and boot. Is that the only bad experience? UEFI firmware setup screens are not standardized. Generally, all you have to tell UEFI is the path of the .efi program to boot.

Re: [GTALUG] From Slackware to which distro?

| From: William Park via talk | OK, I'll probably go with Fedora-36/KDE when it comes out. I use Fedora almost always. I don't use KDE. I don't know if Fedora users use KDE often enough to be sure that it is well-tested. | I usually don't partition my disks. I use the whole disk. Boot

Re: [GTALUG] Ubuntu review on Distrowatch

I'm too lazy to do the research, but I have a few tentative observations. If you require Steam, my guess is that that should drive your choice. It is likely a differentiator. Consider installation, official support, community support. That usually means choose a distro many other Steam

Re: [GTALUG] Back to basics: upgrading from Windows to Linux

| From: Kevin Cozens via talk | I have just used dd run under Linux when I have cloned drives in the past. | YMMV. Two problems I can imagine: - the two disks will have partitions with identical UUIDs. This isn't a good idea. The symptoms might be subtle. - if the geometry is different

Re: [GTALUG] Back to basics: upgrading from Windows to Linux

| From: Evan Leibovitch via talk | Now for the personal angle. | Some ago I installed Windows on a desktop I use a lot. It replaced Linux | because that was incapable of running the one game I like playing. I even | gave a talk to GTALUG about that move, about Windows Subsystem for Linux | and

[GTALUG] Car chips [was OT: NYT article "How To Construct a Chip Factory"]

4| From: Stewart C. Russell via talk | On 2022-04-08 19:46, William Park via talk wrote: | > Why do cars need 2nm chips? | | There's a surprising amount of processing power required in a modern car. | Android Auto uses a tablet-class CPU, and Android Automotive (the lower level | OS that does

Re: [GTALUG] OT: NYT article "How To Construct a Chip Factory

| From: Ivan Avery Frey via talk | | The Huge Endeavor to Produce a Tiny Microchip |

[GTALUG] Open Source Archetypes

Evan pointed out this paper. It is from Mozilla and it describes several different ways of organizing opens source projects. Worth reading. --- Post to this mailing list talk@gtalug.org Unsubscribe

[GTALUG] supply chain risks: a real example

Supply chain risks are important in open source: with so many contributors, how can one be sure that there aren't malicious components? (Buggy components are also a threat.) (Closed source has this problem too, with some variations.) This is a scary real current example:

Re: [GTALUG] keeping my systems updated: Windows vs Linux

| From: Nicholas Krause via talk [I've cut out the quotation of my message since Nicholas' message doesn't seem to respond to it.] | I did this What's "this"? | a while ago, but I noticed that exes were about twice as slow | as yum at the time. What are exes? Do you mean Windows .exe files?

[GTALUG] keeping my systems updated: Windows vs Linux

I want to keep my systems up to date. Not everyone does. As I understand it, Windows Update does not update the Linux portion. Yet another step to keep a Windows system safe as possible. My drill: - Run Windows update. If it actually applied an update, you should run it again in case the

Re: [GTALUG] two or three tricks for installing Linux as a second OS on a Windows box

| From: Lennart Sorensen via talk | But you want a bash shell on windows anyhow, so WSL makes the perfect | CLI on windows. | | I even have samba setup, and never use it, I just scp. | | winscp is a nice tool, but it's no match for a linux shell. Without checking, I would guess that WinSCP is

[GTALUG] two or three tricks for installing Linux as a second OS on a Windows box

Most computers come with Microsoft Windows. If you insist on buying a computer without Windows, you have less choice and may have to pay more. Besides, once in a blue moon Windows is useful. To install Linux, you can either blow away Windows (easy!) or your can install Linux beside Windows.

[GTALUG] Firmware Test Suite

UEFI firmware is quite complex and abstruse. It is easy for a vendor to get it wrong. As long as Windows seems to run, ship it. I just discovered the Firmware Test Suite It acts as a lint for firmware. It detects some violations of standards

Re: [GTALUG] More pointless battles [was: I'm discarding an old notebook!]

| From: Stewart C. Russell via talk | AMD Turion 64 X2 - so, roughly half of a Raspberry Pi 4. | | but it has a screen, keyboard, and you actually have it - unlike a Raspberry | Pi 4 Good points. I just saw this site: Note: prices are in local currency. Pi supply

[GTALUG] More pointless battles [was: I'm discarding an old notebook!]

I've been shamed / intrigued into doing a bit more hacking on this Acer Aspire 9300 notebook. Spoiler: this was a waste of time. A little over 5 years ago I had replaced the HDD with an SSD and put a then-current Fedora (24?) on it (no Windows). It was unreliable (for reasons I have

Re: [GTALUG] I'm discarding an old notebook!

| From: Don Tai via talk | Correction, no I don't have an Asus Eee PC running.It is broken, but a Dell | inspiron 1011, Intel Atom 1.6Ghz The Inspiron 1011 seems to also have been called the Inspiron Mini 10v. It was probably introduced in 2008 (since that's when its CPU was introduced), not

Re: [GTALUG] I'm discarding an old notebook!

| From: Anthony de Boer via talk | I have an even older notebook with a 32-bit Atom processor. Are you sure that it is older? The Atom was introduced in 2008, the year after I bought my notebook. The first Asus Eee PC preceded the Atom and used Intel Celeron M procesors. | It used to be |

Re: [GTALUG] I'm discarding an old notebook!

| From: Don Tai via talk | That's sad. You could try running an external monitor. An external monitor doesn't (normally) bypass the video card so it doesn't bypass my driver problem. | I'd give up on Linux | and run Win. That doesn't work either. I mentioned earlier that installing Win 10

Re: [GTALUG] I'm discarding an old notebook!

| From: Don Tai via talk | 15 year old notebook. Will no version of Linux work? That's sad. I have | desktops much older than that that can run puppy Linux. I can run it with the kernel option "modprobe.blacklist=nouveau". Then the screen resolution is 1024x768 instead of 1440x900. And that

[GTALUG] I'm discarding an old notebook!

I have an Acer Aspire 9300 that I bought in 2007. I cannot get it to be useful. The problem is (mostly) with drivers for the NVidia Go 6100 video. - nVidia stopped supporting this in the proprietary Linux driver. - nouveau is unreliable https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=46557 -

[GTALUG] Tomorrow: Join 18 Readers at "[ONLINE] #34 Jenny Ren on Linux Performance Revolution" (fwd)

Papers We Love is a great idea for a meetup group. It hasn't been very active during the pandemic. This might be of interest to GTALUGers. -- Forwarded message -- From: Papers We Love - Toronto Date: Tue, 08

Re: [GTALUG] [GTALUG-Announce] February Meeting Reminder

| *Speaker:* D. Hugh Redelmeier | *Topic:* Gitlab fundamentals followed by Q and Discussion The GTALUG executive uses several tools. I hope to introduce those tools centred around git: git, gitlab (a public host for git trees), and markup (a simple text markup language for text). --- Post to

Re: [GTALUG] decent cheap ChromeOS tablet -- can run debian in a container

| From: Ansar Mohammed via talk | Depending on what you want to achieve, Yes! | IMHO you can get a used HP 10 inch | tablet on eBay for $50 running Windows and flatten it with Debian. | https://www.ebay.com/itm/324124770651 | Windows on 7-10 inch tablets are all over ebay. Not a terrible

Re: [GTALUG] decent cheap ChromeOS tablet -- can run debian in a container

Nice review: Includes discussion of Linux on the tablet. --- Post to this mailing list talk@gtalug.org Unsubscribe from this mailing list https://gtalug.org/mailman/listinfo/talk

[GTALUG] Humble subscription service is ditching Linux after this month

I've never used it, so I don't know what I'm talking about. If you need to fetch anything from their server, do it now. --- Post to this mailing list talk@gtalug.org Unsubscribe from this

Re: [GTALUG] ot: perhaps, headphones?

| From: Karen Lewellen via talk | To be sure, the idea of noise cancellation, or any variation's is a no, I never suggested noise cancellation. That's a whole other kettle of fish. I talked about "closed" vs "open". Your existing headphones are "closed", according to the specs I read. That

Re: [GTALUG] ot: perhaps, headphones?

| From: Karen Lewellen via talk | However, this is a fine example of my personal issue...I cannot use them. | The impedance on this model is 24, and they make me dizzy. | I do have production assistants use them, and in all these years the ear pads | remain flawless. I don't see how impedance

Re: [GTALUG] decent cheap ChromeOS tablet -- can run debian in a container

| From: o1bigtenor via talk | Is dual boot better than blowing away the android system and installing | an OS? I think that you mean blowing away the ChromeOS system. I don't know if that is possible. I know that this was possible on at least some x86-based CromeOS clamshells. The Arm world

Re: [GTALUG] ot: perhaps, headphones?

| From: Karen Lewellen via talk | If you desire a visual idea then perhaps google jvc ha-s44x. Thanks. From past discussions, I know your shopping technique isn't like mine. But I'll mention my considerations on the off chance you might find them useful. Most wired headphones are

Re: [GTALUG] [GTALUG-Announce] January Meeting Reminder

| From: murph nj via talk | On Sun, Jan 9, 2022 at 10:43 AM o1bigtenor wrote: | >> *We're going to use Big Blue Button for this meeting: * | >> https://blue.lpi.org/b/eva-zjc-gjy-kgl | > Hmmm - - - - so I need to sign up for an account at this location to | > participate? | > | > Will

Re: [GTALUG] [GTALUG-Announce] January Meeting Reminder

| From: o1bigtenor I got two copies of this message from o1bigtenor. Once last Tuesday, and once today. Odd. The message I got today included these two chunks in the header. | Received: from penguin.gtalug.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) | by penguin.gtalug.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id

Re: [GTALUG] Debian install fails due to network failure

| From: sciguy via talk This second message had a lot more useful information. That eliminates several hypotheses / blind alleys. | On 2022-01-08 11:20, D. Hugh Redelmeier via talk wrote: | > [I hate top-posting but it seems best in this case.] | | [No prob. I hope you will tolerate

Re: [GTALUG] Debian install fails due to network failure

[I hate top-posting but it seems best in this case.] It sounds like you have two problems: (1) debian doesn't understand your network card (NIC) (2) your UEFI setup isn't doing what you need it to What is your computer? What is your NIC? (1) Some NICs are have non-open drivers. By default,

Re: [GTALUG] [GTALUG-Announce] January Meeting Reminder

| From: Kevin Cozens via talk | On 2022-01-03 1:50 p.m., Alan Heighway via talk wrote: | > *Speaker:* Chris Sullivan | > *Topic:* Radio Direction Finding with the Raspberry Pi | | Why does this message have a capital A with an upside down v on top of it | after every word?? Great

Re: [GTALUG] decent cheap ChromeOS tablet -- can run debian in a container

| From: James Knott via talk | | I borrowed one from the Mississauga Library and wasn't impressed. You pretty | much had to do everything in the "cloud", though having Linux built in would | improve on that. The idea of ChromeOS is "cloud first". But there is some provision for doing offline

[GTALUG] decent cheap ChromeOS tablet -- can run debian in a container

https://forums.redflagdeals.com/lenovo-canada-chromebook-10e-tablet-129-less-rakuten-2501804/ This is $129 tablet seems to be aimed at kids in schools. It's not particularly powerful, but it has a nice screen (1920x1200, 400nit), battery, and a solid build. This version of ChromeOS invites

[GTALUG] "a web page is slowing down Firefox. To speed up your browser, stop that page."

I get this message when I read the Globe and Mail with Firefox on my Fedora 35 desktop. How can I figure out the cause? --- Post to this mailing list talk@gtalug.org Unsubscribe from this mailing list https://gtalug.org/mailman/listinfo/talk

[GTALUG] LAN speed and USB ethernet dongles that go faster than 1 gigabit

2.5 and 5 gigabit USB ethernet dongles are available. They are not even too expensive. Does anyone have experience with these? Are they engineered in a way that doesn't put too much load on the host? Are they reliable? Background: I don't actually need anything faster than 1 gigabit yet,

[GTALUG] no meeting tonight

The meeting tonight is cancelled. We hope that we'll be better organized for the next meeting. --- Post to this mailing list talk@gtalug.org Unsubscribe from this mailing list https://gtalug.org/mailman/listinfo/talk

Re: [GTALUG] a solved problem unsolved itself: WordPress, MySQL, UTF-8

| From: Stewart C. Russell via talk | On 2021-11-27 18:04, D. Hugh Redelmeier wrote: | > | > Do you have shell access? I think you imply "yes". | | Yes, I do, but not to the database server. All I have for that is socket | access and PHPMyAdmin (blecch). Ahh. Kind of "no". | > Does "fix

[GTALUG] war story: Fedora 35 and Nvidia GTX 650

I've been using a GTX 650 on my desktop for over seven years. This may surprise you since I am an open-source fan. The reason I chose it is that it was all I had that would drive my UltraHD TV at full resolution. Things are better now (not as much as one would like) but I'm still using the same

Re: [GTALUG] a solved problem unsolved itself: WordPress, MySQL, UTF-8

| From: Stewart C. Russell via talk | I have been running a WordPress blog hosted on a Linux-based shared host since | WordPress became a thing. It has worked quite well from about 2004 up until a | few weeks ago. Do you have shell access? I think you imply "yes". | Sadly, *something*

Re: [GTALUG] Swapping ThinkPad drive

| From: William Park via talk | Personally, I don't like UEFI. I mostly like UEFI. + UEFI is less hacky than BIOS + UEFI knows it is running on a 32 or 64-bit system; BIOS thinks it is running on an 8088 + UEFI can be called from a modern OS; BIOS can only be called by 8088 code that

Re: [GTALUG] Swapping ThinkPad drive

| From: James Knott via talk | I've bought a 1 TB SSD drive to replace the 750 GB drive in my ThinkPad.  I | was considering using the opportunity to change to UEFI.  I'll be mounting the | old drive in an external case so that I can copy over the partitions, one of | them NTFS. Superstitious

Re: [GTALUG] Booting linux from nvme disk?

| From: Peter King via talk | Anyone had success with getting linux to boot from an nvme disk? Installation just worked for me (Fedora). But I've only installed them in recent computers. Mind you, I might be using knowledge that I don't remember I'm using. Back in the Haswell days, firmware

[GTALUG] How to join GTALUG / pay membership

At least one person missed this in a longer earlier message. Here's an extract of that message. If the extact isn't perfectly clear, do ask us. | From: h...@gtalug.org | To: annou...@gtalug.org | Date: Sat, 30 Oct 2021 17:12:21 -0400 (EDT) | Subject: [GTALUG-Announce] GTALUG AGM - Tues. Nov.

[GTALUG] GTALUG board election results (informal)

We have five board positions. Four were available -- Alex Volkov's term expires next year. Three people volunteered and were acclaimed: Evan Leibovitch Alan Heighway Warren McPherson Thanks and congratulations to our new board. If you are interested in serving, there is

[GTALUG] help run GTALUG!

GTALUG requires members, board members, and voluteers to run it. The better they do their job, the less we see how important it is. We have the Annual General Meeting tomorrow. That's when board members get elected. Details were sent out on Oct 30. Please consider joining or renewing your

Re: [GTALUG] UPS brand recommendations?

Folks have recommended replacing the gel-cell batteries. Where is a good source for these batteries? I prefer online. (I have UPSes that need new batteries.) --- Post to this mailing list talk@gtalug.org Unsubscribe from this mailing list https://gtalug.org/mailman/listinfo/talk

Re: [GTALUG] Command doesn't work in script but works on command line?

| From: Jim Ruxton via talk What Desktop Environment are you using? Gnome? KDE? Something else? When you say "run from the command line", is that command line inside an xterm window? (That's what I assumed.) Or is it before you start a Desktop Environment. | > Could it be a permissions

Re: [GTALUG] [GTALUG-Ops] Command doesn't work in script but works on command line? (fwd)

Jim accidently sent this to me privately instead of to the list. He confirmed this in further private email. (I normally don't like copying private email to a public list.) -- Forwarded message -- From: Jim Ruxton Date: Sat, 6 Nov 2021 10:24:43 -0400 Subject: Re: [GTALUG]

Re: [GTALUG] Command doesn't work in script but works on command line?

| From: Jim Ruxton via talk | I'm having trouble with a simple script. It adds a second sounccard. This | command works on the command line but not in a script. Any ideas why? How are you running that script? Is it from a cron script or something like it? Does your script work when invoked

Re: [GTALUG] Was Re: Heads up: Ubuntu 21.10 kills your desktop icons now - keyboards

| From: Evan Leibovitch via talk | The emergence of high-end gaming on PCs has led to a quest for | keyboards that are super-responsive and comfortable for long periods. Yeah. That seems like the best place to look. Beware: I've found their goals are not completely aligned with mine. Here

Re: [GTALUG] Heads up: Ubuntu 21.10 kills your desktop icons

| From: Lennart Sorensen via talk | On Wed, Oct 20, 2021 at 10:47:30AM -0400, Michael Hill via talk wrote: | > I prefer the elegant design and centralized vision of the GNOME | > desktop, but the whininess of the GNOME hatred here never gets old. Agreed. Gnome screen (not really a desktop

Re: [GTALUG] Do people have opinions about the Framework modular laptop

| From: Evan Leibovitch via talk | They've not taken sides on Linux vs Microsoft ... you pay the Windows tax | as everything ships with it. That sure sounds like "taking sides" to me. I'm no insider, but the rumours about Microsoft contracts seem to make this wise. If all units ship with

[GTALUG] War Story: Thunderbird vs my mail server

TL;DR: using self-signed x.509 certs with Thunderbird is hard I run a mail server for my family. One of us uses Thunderbird's POP3 to pick up mail. This is through our LAN, not on the public internet. My server uses self-signed certificates. I don't care to become a customer of any

Re: [GTALUG] Looking for assistance with Firefox

| From: Lennart Sorensen via talk | Hmm, just noticed my tab count (in the main window) of my firefox says | 503 tabs (not counting tabs in other windows although those have a | lot less). I think I better do some purging. I have an urge, that I'm resisting, to see what happens with 500 tabs

Re: [GTALUG] Looking for assistance with Firefox

| From: o1bigtenor via talk | On Sat, Oct 9, 2021 at 8:12 PM D. Hugh Redelmeier via talk | wrote: | > This shows bad discipline on | > my part. | > | | 'bad disciple' regarding what - - - - not following through with the quit | or Not keeping my quantity of tabs down. | I

Re: [GTALUG] Looking for assistance with Firefox

All my knowledge of FF is superstition, not science. The specifications, the manual, and the code base are too large to understand. If I type ^Q in FF, I am currently told that I have 53 windows with 386 tabs. Then I tell it not to quit. This shows bad discipline on my part. Go to URL

Re: [GTALUG] Enlarging /boot

| From: William Witteman via talk | When I installed Debian on my current computer, I (foolishly) let the | install script partition my disk. Now I have a /boot partition that is too | small. Useless advice: I've never felt the need for a /boot partition. I just have it as part of /. Start up

[GTALUG] apropos of DCB's lightening talk on bad diagnostics, a Windows war story

A poet friend's Windows notebook ceased working and Windows could not get up again. A couple of days work did not result in a working system. He was going to solve the problem by buying a new machine. I volunteered to attempt to fix his machine. I investigated the system (using a live Fedora

Re: [GTALUG] Vaccination Receipts on Linux

| From: Karen Lewellen via talk | which is why my question, about a human, still stands. | Those are not screen readers, and there are countless individuals in the | province who read and interact with the Internet differently. The only accessibility concession I saw was a phone line: - call

Re: [GTALUG] Vaccination Receipts on Linux

I've been told that the thing in email does not count as a receipt. Neither does the thing that they handed you when you got the vaccine. You are supposed to go to answer lots of questions, and get a real receipt. | From: James Knott via talk | I

[GTALUG] Vaccination Receipts on Linux

The Ontario Governement emailed us Vaccination Receipts shortly after we were vaccinated. As of Sept 22, we will need to show them some places if we want access. When I go back to that email, I find that it is defective. You cannot read the PDF from my MUA (Alpine on Linux), and I suspect

[GTALUG] old computer / new computer

When I started playing with computers (1967) mainframes were the thing (we called them computers). The University of Waterloo got an IBM SYSTEM/360-75, the biggest computer in Canada, in 1967 or 1968. It filled a lot of the "Big Red Room", a jewel case the size of gymnasium. Eventually, it

Re: [GTALUG] Win 11 requirements may be windfall for cheapskate Linux users

| From: Dave Collier-Brown via talk | However, recent AMD architecture changes have caused a large step | upwards in number of hardware threads: my production Intels have either | 10 or 18, and my two test AMDs have 512 and 1024. And they draw less | current. AMD's Thread-Ripper and Epyc have a

Re: [GTALUG] Win 11 requirements may be windfall for cheapskate Linux users

| From: o1bigtenor via talk | Somehow I'm supposed to believe that Windows is serious about security - - | - - tough for me to believe. | Yes they will eliminate a couple deep security flaws but what about the 10s | of thousands of other flaws? Security is very hard in the face of a bounty of

[GTALUG] Win 11 requirements may be windfall for cheapskate Linux users

Win 11 has requirements that seem to obsolete a bunch of quite recent processors and devices. Windows can be manually updated on these machines but they will feel obsolete. - TPM 2.0 required. Documented a lot of places. It can be added to many systems that don't have it. - obsolete:

Re: [GTALUG] intel graphics announcement

| From: Lennart Sorensen via talk | On Tue, Aug 24, 2021 at 06:20:45PM -0400, Scott Sullivan via talk wrote: | > The High Preformance cards are still to hit the market. And while it's going | > to be a while for Game developers to smooth over the rough edges in software | > support, we're

Re: [GTALUG] intel graphics announcement

| From: o1bigtenor via talk | Found an announcement from INtel that they are getting back, I think, into | graphics cards - - - in a big way. | | Did some searching - - - - all I can find is 'purdy pitchers' and swag for | sale. | | Is this some more fud or is intel serious? | | Anyone out

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

| From: Lennart Sorensen via talk | Please tell me there is a recording. I forgot about it and this sounded | really interesting. Alan made a Zoom recording. I would guess that it will be made public. The QA session was not recorded. I found it very interesting, but then I would since I

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