On Mon, 25 Jul 2016 11:49:41 -0400
Giles Orr via talk wrote:
>
> My suggestions:
> - build it yourself. If you're comfortable mucking around inside a
> PC, you already have the skills. From my first build I think the only
> thing that got somewhat alarming was having to get
On Fri, 23 Dec 2016 12:11:15 -0500
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.
John,
Evan,
I picked up an Acer Extensa from Canada Computes for around $350. It sits
on the shelf behind my TV. It works fine as an email, web browsing and YouTube
and Netflix platform. It appears to be a laptop board enclosed in a box, with
a laptop style power supply, but no battery. It
On Fri, 14 Jul 2017 22:23:05 -0300
Ann Pohl via talk wrote:
> Hi. Anyone want to do their bit for the environment by helping me get
> set up? I am not wanting to be an OS computer whiz. I have a full plate
> already doing environmental protection'defense work-activism, and being
I am now completing my most difficult Linux install ever. My old hard drive
with / and /home and /usr/local on it has died. My new 2TB drive was formatted
for GTP. The Fedora installer warned me that GTP drives requre a /boot/efi
partition. Regardless of how I partitioned, the system
On Sun, 8 Oct 2017 12:47:41 -0400 (EDT)
"D. Hugh Redelmeier via talk" <talk@gtalug.org> wrote:
> | From: Howard Gibson via talk <talk@gtalug.org>
>
> It is "GUID Partition Table" -- GPT, not GTP. Nit picky, I know, but it
> might affect your suc
Alvin,
The bright sun is not the best place to put a heat sink.
How many Watts are we talking about here, and what sort of budget do you
have? Can the system be too cold?
On Wed, 6 Sep 2017 09:06:41 -0400
Alvin Starr via talk wrote:
> Wow. got into a bit of a
On Fri, 29 Sep 2017 17:02:38 -0400 (EDT)
"Chris F.A. Johnson via talk" wrote:
>
> The DVD drive on my Dell Inspiron laptop has died.
>
> I see three options:
>
> 1. Get it fixed
> 2. Replace it
> 3. Ignore it and get an external DVD
Chris,
Replace it with a Blu-Ray. You
I have just installed Fedora 26 on my desktop. I logged into Gnome_3. I
opened a couple of terminals and logged in as root to set my system up. I
launched Firefox. All of my screen colours went completely wonky. I was doing
a system update (dnf update) when all this happened.
I am
William,
I did not know that HP had a quality problem. I regularly tell people I
hate Hewlett Packard printers. The printer paper must pass over a roller at
the back, which seems to be quite a bend in the paper. This works fine with
paper, but it is not reliable at printing heavier
I am cleaning out my basement so that I can get a new furnace installed. I
have all sorts of books on Commodore_64s that I have no use for. I have the
C64, but I am keeping that.
Does anybody out there have a use for old C64 books, or is this stuff
landfill?
--
Howard Gibson
On Wed, 16 May 2018 19:48:31 -0400
Russell via talk wrote:
> After installing some recent F27 updates using the gnome software centre, the
> package kit watchdog has stopped exiting gracefully on an install routine.
> This happened after I chose to enable the recommended
On Sat, 10 Feb 2018 15:44:24 -0500
Bob Jonkman via talk wrote:
>
> Are there any down sides to using a 32-bit machine as a web- or mail
> server? I'm thinking low power consumption, make that an
> attractive alternate use.
Bob,
This machine works fine for the stuff I do
On Sat, 10 Feb 2018 21:15:57 +
Giles Orr via talk wrote:
>
>
> I'm reading all of this with some interest: I tried a Fedora Net Install
> about four months back. And I appear to be the only person on this list
> who had a problem with it. Specifically, I got to the page
On Sat, 10 Feb 2018 10:49:08 -0500 (EST)
"D. Hugh Redelmeier via talk" <talk@gtalug.org> wrote:
> | From: Howard Gibson via talk <talk@gtalug.org>
>
> |I have just upgraded my 32-bit laptop to Fedora 27. The install DVD
> |is no longer available for
I have just upgraded my 32-bit laptop to Fedora 27. The install DVD is no
longer available for 32-bit. I had to do a Netinstall. Netinstall is poorly
documented, but the default settings all work, I was able to select the
software I wanted, and it has all worked very well. I think I
On Wed, 14 Feb 2018 13:17:59 -0500
Bob Jonkman via talk wrote:
> -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE-
> Hash: SHA1
>
> Howard wrote:
> > I have now updated my website install notes. I state in them that
> the documentation sucks, and that all the default values work fine. I
>
Stephen,
I have used the sticky bit for this in the past.
You can set up a cron job that searches for new files, and that changes the
owner and permissions.
On Sun, 5 Aug 2018 17:22:04 -0400
Stephen via talk wrote:
> I have a share on Ubuntu Linux.
>
> From Windows copy files to the
I have some time on my hands. :(
I am doing some website updates, including some Linux install instructions I
have posted. I have an old 32_bit laptop here which is now a playtoy upon
which I can install anything I want. I have just installed Ubuntu, minus all
the customization I
On Wed, 25 Jul 2018 00:30:58 -0400
Evan Leibovitch via talk wrote:
> Hi all.
>
> This question is asked of anyone who administers a mailing list about
> policies. I'm setting up a campaign-based mailing system using phplist (as
> opposed to a forum-type MLM such as Mailman) and I'm interested
On Wed, 25 Jul 2018 10:08:47 -0400
Evan Leibovitch via talk wrote:
> The dangers of doing this wrong now go beyond RBLs in the era of CASL and
> GDPR. Organizations are being fined.
>
> One thing that is now part of best practices (ours at least) is to have as
> the very first paragraph of all
On Thu, 30 Aug 2018 12:10:08 -0400
James Knott via talk wrote:
> How much security do you think you'll get in that coffee shop? I also
> have a notebook computer that has a firewall running, even when on my
> home network, behind a firewall.
James,
I expect no security at a coffee shop.
On Thu, 30 Aug 2018 12:24:31 -0300
Mauro Souza via talk wrote:
> You don't need to disable ping on your internal network, only at the
> router. Because of NAT, nobody can really ping your internal system.
>
> Try this. Keep ping enabled on your Linux, and in your router, run this on
> Linux:
>
On Thu, 30 Aug 2018 12:04:34 -0400
Alvin Starr via talk wrote:
> There are other ICMP messages that can be used for probing like
> timestamp(msg-13).
> All around all disabling ping does for you is to make it harder for your
> ISP or IT support people to see if you are having network problems
On Thu, 30 Aug 2018 11:46:42 -0400
James Knott via talk wrote:
> Also, IPv6 is now being used by many and NAT is discouraged on it. This
> means that, for example, Rogers customers will have public IPv6
> addresses. However, given that they have a minimum of 18.4 billion,
> billion addresses
I am playing with my hack Ubuntu machine, and I am sorting out
security. I want to disable ping. This is a laptop, and I want to
document the application of aluminium foil.
The standard ping disabler is the following line...
# echo 1 > /proc/sys/net/ipv4/icmp_echo_ignore_all
This
On Wed, 29 Aug 2018 22:03:52 -0400
Alvin Starr via talk wrote:
> you could also do the following:
>
> sudo sysctl net.ipv4.icmp_echo_ignore_all=1
Alvin,
That's it. I saw instructions on the internet to update /etc/sysctl.conf,
but they did it wrong. Your command line works!
Thank
On Sun, 8 Jul 2018 15:03:34 -0400
Alex Beamish via talk wrote:
>
> It's possible that the CPU might be cooked (I was away during the Final
> Crash), but on the off chance that it just over-heated and shut down (does
> that even happen?), I know I need to clean off the old thermal paste
> (Q-tips
On Mon, 29 Oct 2018 15:35:20 -0400
Giles Orr via talk wrote:
> I used to use a rotating set of 2TB 2.5" external USB hard drives. None of
> them ever failed on me over about three years use, although three out of
> four they were generally only accessed every week or two. I've now
> switched
the capabilities of some script
kiddies.
On Thu, 30 Aug 2018 08:20:21 -0400
Jamon Camisso via talk wrote:
> On 29/08/18 21:44, Howard Gibson via talk wrote:
> >I am playing with my hack Ubuntu machine, and I am sorting out
> > security. I want to disable ping. This is a lap
On Fri, 21 Sep 2018 23:55:58 -0400
William Park via talk wrote:
> I bought one for $60 from lenovo.ca, and just got it this morning.
> After using it for 1 full day, I found that its $60 price is reasonable.
> Think of it as $30 keyboard and $20 mouse, plus $10 premium for
> integrating into one
On Tue, 22 Jan 2019 19:46:24 + (UTC)
William Park via talk wrote:
> Hi all,
> I need to run a custom script at the later stage of bootup in Debian 9.5
> (board is BeagleBone Black). I seem to remember "rc.local" long ago, but
> it's gone in the latest Ubuntu and Debian. Online search
Hugh,
I am documenting my Linux installs on my website. I have had some time on
my hands recently, so I have tried installing stuff on my old 32-bit Lenovo
Thinkpad.
http://home.eol.ca/~hgibson/Linux.html#NewUsers
Ubuntu and Fedora worked nicely in a beginner installation. We need
On Wed, 9 Jan 2019 10:19:55 -0500
Tim Tisdall via talk wrote:
>
> Does anyone know of a good and reputable repair place that would be able to
> fix a corroded trace on the board if that's all it is? It's an Asus
> Zenbook UX305C.
Tim,
I do not like the idea of my computer and hard driving
On Sun, 16 Sep 2018 13:50:14 -0400
James Knott via talk wrote:
> On 09/16/2018 01:45 PM, David Collier-Brown via talk wrote:
> >
> > What's a good approach? I have considered
> >
>
> Many people use separate routers, as they're not happy with the Rogers
> hardware. I run pfSense on a refurb
On Tue, 5 Mar 2019 14:13:58 -0500
Lennart Sorensen via talk wrote:
> Way too many phones are glued together instead of using screws these days.
> Incredibly annoying given often you can buy a new screen or battery for
> a decent price, but the work to actually replace it is insane.
Lennart,
On Tue, 12 Mar 2019 21:25:22 -0400
James Knott via talk wrote:
> Several years ago, many companies decided to cut costs by moving help
> desks etc. to India. Many have come to regret that decision, due to the
> poor quality "help". In another thread, I mentioned how many put cost
> ahead of
On Thu, 7 Mar 2019 08:50:35 -0500
"Stewart C. Russell via talk" wrote:
> Right to Repair is important. I'm slightly disappointed by the general
> reaction on this list. We'll spent lifetimes fiddling with software
> configs to keep it running against all odds, but hardware gets short
> shrift. I
On Sat, 9 Feb 2019 07:25:31 -0600
o1bigtenor via talk wrote:
> Greetings
>
> I am looking into using a security cam to observe animal behavior in an area.
This is not a direct response to your question, just a handy heads-up.
I came walking hone one Thursday evening through a park
On Wed, 13 Feb 2019 03:25:07 -0500
Russell Reiter via talk wrote:
> If you can't find someone with a donation, you can probably find the one
> you are looking for at Above All Electronics on Bloor St for 5$ or so. I
> got a micro-pin p/s there last year. I wasn't sure if it was the right one
>
On Sun, 10 Feb 2019 00:51:09 -0500
William Park via talk wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> What software do people use to draw illustrations that you'd see in
> textbooks or presentations? Eg. data structure, high school math, block
> diagrams, etc. I mean, I see them, but I don't know how to create them.
I promised to mention the Raspberry Pi Meetup.
Power-over-Ethernet: One cable to rule them all, without catching fire!
https://www.meetup.com/Raspberry-Pi/events/nwgbwqyzgbpb
A second thing has come up that may interest somebody. The York Regional
Science and Technology Fair is
On Mon, 8 Apr 2019 10:48:59 -0400 (EDT)
"D. Hugh Redelmeier via talk" wrote:
> I'm reading dnf(8) on Fedora 29 and get irked by the layout of the
> options.
> --disableexcludes=[all|main|],
> --disableexcludepkgs=[all|main|]
>
> Here's what "man dnf" shows on a terminal that is 80
> columns
On Sat, 8 Jun 2019 11:05:21 -0500
o1bigtenor via talk wrote:
> Greetings
>
> Working on setting up Claws - - an email handling tool and I need to
> choose whether I use
> POP3 or IMAP.
> What I've been able to find so far doesn't really give any kind of
> clear direction.
> I have lots of
On Mon, 10 Jun 2019 15:38:06 -0400
Lennart Sorensen via talk wrote:
> OK, having just looked up how MH does it, I am horrified anyone would
> design something so awful. Changing mail sorting by renaming the
> message files? That's insane. :)
>
> I can say for certain I will never ever
On Thu, 1 Aug 2019 23:09:32 -0400 (EDT)
"D. Hugh Redelmeier via talk" wrote:
>
> - petroglyphs: long long time
>
> - clay tablets: millennia
>
> - paper (pre-wood-pulp): five hundred years
>
> - paper made from wood pulp: 75 years
>
> - punch cards and paper tape: 100 years
>
> - 9-track
On Wed, 14 Aug 2019 10:07:00 -0400 (EDT)
"D. Hugh Redelmeier via talk" wrote:
> | From: Stewart Russell via talk
>
> | This is not a place of honour:.
> |
> | https://github.com/mist64/cbmbasic
>
> This doesn't have the Waterloo BASIC extensions to Commodore BASIC.
> Too bad.
> ---
I
On Sun, 25 Aug 2019 09:52:39 -0400
Scott Allen via talk wrote:
> On Sun, 25 Aug 2019 at 09:30, Dave Collier-Brown via talk
> wrote:
> > Many of the very small devices are programmed in cross-compiled C.
>
> Or C++
Scott,
Arduino boards are programmed in C++.
C++ is an object oriented
On Thu, 1 Aug 2019 11:15:43 -0400 (EDT)
"D. Hugh Redelmeier via talk" wrote:
>
> Two years ago one of the m.2 SATA SSDs suddenly stopped working. If I
> remember correctly, it didn't even show up as a disk.
>
> Last week the same thing happened on the second notebook.
>
> The only warning
On Thu, 14 Nov 2019 22:00:43 -0500 (EST)
Karen Lewellen via talk wrote:
> Hi folks,
> I was going to just ask for alternatives to consider, but want to keep the
> Linux element here as I mainly use a Ubuntu shell.
> Now that google is making it profoundly difficult reaching basic html in
>
On Sun, 15 Dec 2019 19:47:36 +0200
ac via talk wrote:
> > There is a place on North Queen, near Sherway Gardens that has a lot
> > of the Active Surplus stock. I can't think of the name, as I've only
> > been there once.
A1 Electronic Parts http://www.a1parts.com
Let's hope they are
On Tue, 14 Jan 2020 21:59:42 -0500
Christopher Browne via talk wrote:
> The material takes somewhat extreme position, but it's curious that there
> are only 3 "content decryption modules" out there, Widevine (Google),
> Fairplay (Apple) and PlayReady (Microsoft), all of the vendors having
>
On Sun, 29 Dec 2019 00:05:17 -0500
Evan Leibovitch via talk wrote:
>
> The system already has an SSD as /dec/sda, and two disks one of 3TB and the
> other of 4TB, all working fine.
>
> When I attach the external drive, lsblock and fdisk -l both report TWO new
> drives, /dev/sdd and /dev/sde,
On Mon, 27 Apr 2020 09:45:01 -0400
Lennart Sorensen via talk wrote:
> On Wed, Apr 22, 2020 at 05:18:29PM -0400, James Knott via talk wrote:
> > And use USB Ethernet adapters.
>
> The Thinkpad T and P series still have RJ45 ports. But I can believe
> it will disappear since most other laptops
On Wed, 22 Apr 2020 22:18:33 -0400
Gron Arthur via talk wrote:
> I have a backup drive, but I'm thinking it would be better to store
> personal files at a second location. About 200-300GB in total.
Gron Arthur,
If my house and all around it is utterly destroyed, I lose all my data.
On Wed, 22 Apr 2020 21:02:45 -0400
Gron Arthur via talk wrote:
> I'm looking for an easy way to backup data? What's good software to
> use, preferably open-source, better if it had a GUI?
Why not buy a second hard drive? My nightly backup is a 4TB drive.
"Personal" means the data does not
via talk wrote:
> On 2020-04-27 10:22 AM, Howard Gibson via talk wrote:
> > I think my current laptop has an RJ45 port. I bought a docking station
> > for it, so I use that. Historically, I use the RJ45s because I transfer
> > data to and from the laptop, and I want
On Mon, 27 Apr 2020 22:50:57 -0400
lsore...@csclub.uwaterloo.ca (Lennart Sorensen) wrote:
> On Wed, Apr 22, 2020 at 10:05:31PM -0400, Howard Gibson via talk wrote:
> >Why not buy a second hard drive? My nightly backup is a 4TB drive.
> > "Personal" means the data do
On Sun, 10 May 2020 12:06:20 +0200
ac via talk wrote:
> in my opinion, avoid any ongoing "free" services, more so if it is a
> huge multinational doing the offering as the huge companies all have
> some sort of "dominate the planet" and kill off all competition type
> long term goal...
ac,
On Sun, 10 May 2020 17:30:17 -0400 (EDT)
Karen Lewellen via talk wrote:
> Mr. Russell,
> May I ask a side question here?
> On a couple of other lists to which I belong, one of which involves the
> development of the freedos project, there were questions about how a USB
> to serial adapter
On Sun, 10 May 2020 13:09:47 -0400
Alvin Starr via talk wrote:
> On 5/10/20 11:04 AM, Howard Gibson via talk wrote:
> > On Sun, 10 May 2020 12:06:20 +0200
> > ac via talk wrote:
> >> in my opinion, avoid any ongoing "free" services, more so if it is a
> >
On Sun, 10 May 2020 19:48:14 -0400
Alvin Starr wrote:
> > Alvin,
> >
> > I am fascinated by this incident...
> >
> > http://www.theregister.co.uk/2018/09/21/ncix_servers_sold/
> >
> This is not a new story.
>
> A lot of years ago I worked for a company that wanted to develop a Unix
>
On Thu, 19 Mar 2020 11:19:22 -0400
William Witteman via talk wrote:
> I found several examples of stereo tests on youtube using the "stereo
> test" search. They certainly work on my headphones.
>
> Good luck!
The Gnome control center has a sound configuration window that tests your
stereo
On Wed, 6 May 2020 07:25:29 -0400
David Mason via talk wrote:
> ZFS is another option. And it handles delta-backups very easily.
David,
How do you recover stuff from delta backups? You have to figure which
backup the file or directory is in, right?
My backup recoveries, admittedly
On Mon, 31 Aug 2020 22:13:18 -0400
William Witteman via talk wrote:
> I have run a mailserver for my domains for a long time. I have not
> thought about its ability to send outbound mail for a while though,
> and my logs tell me what my experience already suggested - it cannot
> send email to
Karen,
I am on Primus for DSL and land line. This service comes in through Bell's
phone lines.
When I installed Primus' DSL modem, admittedly quite a few years ago, I was
sent a filter for each of my connections. I have a 56K Hayes style modem,
which does not work unless I turn off
I brought this up at our last meeting and we discussed it.
Officially, you can insert equations into your website using MathML.
Unfortunately, Google Chrome does not support this, so it does not work. I
uploaded my MathML page to my website, and you can try it out.
On Mon, 17 Aug 2020 18:26:37 -0400
Stewart Russell via talk wrote:
>
> If you're auto-converting from TeX, try to do it as high up the conversion
> chain as you can. By the time your doco has hit DVI, it's basically marks
> on paper and any semantic information is lost. I don't think I've used
On Mon, 03 Aug 2020 20:43:40 +
Astrid R via talk wrote:
> Thanks for your replies. Before I go on I should say I discovered that I no
> longer have the password to change the date and time, so it might not be
> possible to change anything else either.
>
> But in case there might be a way,
On Fri, 7 Aug 2020 18:49:37 -0400
Aruna Hewapathirane via talk wrote:
> Hello,
>
> I stumbled across this recently:
> https://www.raspberrypi.org/products/raspberry-pi-4-model-b/
>
> I can use some guidance and advice from folks who have experience
> with Raspberry Pi's. What I read so far
On Fri, 10 Jul 2020 09:38:48 -0400
Giles Orr via talk wrote:
> I have a strange Bash question for you. It's an edge case, but I've
> run into it just often enough that I'd like to know how to deal with
> it.
>
> How do you determine if the directory you're in has been deleted?
Giles,
Is
William,
I did a fifteen month contract at Christie Digital in Kitchener. They
maintain a software system called Christie University to provide on-board and
upgrade training. They also have a cloud directory where people store notes on
stuff. They found the article on my website on
On Thu, 5 Nov 2020 14:14:23 -0500 (EST)
"D. Hugh Redelmeier via talk" wrote:
> I just got an invoice for $249 + shipping.
> "Thank you for your order for Microsoft Windows Malicious Tool ."
>
> That seems just about right as a price and description of Windows 10.
> (OK, I admit that I no
On Mon, 7 Jun 2021 14:52:14 -0400
Chris Aitken via talk wrote:
> I think the problem is that gnome is hogging CPU. I can get gnome CPU
> usage to 98% just by moving the mouse.
> Chris
Chris,
There is room on my machine only for one CPU hog, and that is not Gnome_3.
My desktop is FVWM,
On Mon, 7 Jun 2021 10:28:10 -0400
Chris Aitken via talk wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I am hoping to get some help with my Ubuntu 20.04.2 LTS system. Takes me
> 5+ seconds just to enter commands, switch between apps, etc.
Chris,
My primary machines were having problems, slowing and stopping while
On Mon, 7 Jun 2021 14:00:55 -0400
Chris Aitken via talk wrote:
> Does this show whether more RAM would help..?
>
> owner@owner-HP-Compaq-8000-Elite-CMT-PC:~$ free -h
> total used free shared buff/cache
> available
> Mem: 7.6Gi 2.5Gi 166Mi
https://www.salon.com/2021/06/09/amid-a-pandemic-a-health-care-algorithm-shows-promise-and-peril_partner
Here is an interesting article on Salon.com, originally from Undark. This is
one hell of a case for Free Software.
--
Howard Gibson
hgib...@eol.ca
jhowardgib...@gmail.com
Stewart,
It is too bad I am unemployed at the moment. When you pull down SolidWorks'
Help menu and select About SolidWorks, you get a list of all the copyrights
from their subcontractors. Somebody starts a company. They write some
graphics processing code. They license it to SolidWorks.
On Fri, 4 Jun 2021 17:42:05 -0400
"Stewart C. Russell via talk" wrote:
> Also, my go-to screenshot thingy /*scrot*/ no longer works on Ubuntu
> 21.04: it gives me this:
>
> X Error of failed request: BadDrawable (invalid Pixmap or Window
> parameter) Major opcode of failed request: 14
Karen,
Well damn.
I am using Audacity to record my vinyl LPs into MP3 files to play in my
car. Can they detect that?
On Mon, 5 Jul 2021 21:54:04 -0400 (EDT)
Karen Lewellen via talk wrote:
> Speaking personally as someone who has used the program for field
> production, I am
On Tue, 23 Mar 2021 21:46:00 -0400
Evan Leibovitch via talk wrote:
> ... hopefully, not for long.
Evan,
Some useful and interesting references...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richard_Stallman
https://rationalwiki.org/wiki/Richard_Stallman
Rational Wiki is interesting, since it
On Sun, 21 Mar 2021 11:57:09 -0400 (EDT)
"D. Hugh Redelmeier via talk" wrote:
>
> Most of us in this household use Alpine. Thats a venerable text-based-GUI
> mail user agent. I've been using Pine/Alpine since the early 1990s (when
> I switched from Berkeley mail (like mailx on Linux)). As
On Sat, 6 Mar 2021 07:57:05 -0500
Chris Aitken via talk wrote:
> Am I on the wrong list for posing basic questions about Linux? I posted
> a question a few weeks ago about about not being able to copy files
> because of permissions and because filename had a '?' in it. I received
> no
On Wed, 7 Apr 2021 10:41:22 -0400 (EDT)
"D. Hugh Redelmeier via talk" wrote:
> The copyright law is quite draconian. People violate it on a regular
> basis (well documented in many articles). That's the only way it
> becomes bearable.
Hugh,
Here is a nice article from Web Pages that
On Thu, 8 Apr 2021 01:57:39 -0400
Evan Leibovitch via talk wrote:
> On Tue, 30 Mar 2021 at 16:25, James Knott via talk wrote:
>
> Life may be good, but LG products aren't. I've had a monitor and cell
> > phone made by them. I wasn't happy with either.
Evan,
I bought an LG refrigerator
On Tue, 13 Apr 2021 19:42:47 -0400
Stewart Russell via talk wrote:
> If the file /sys/firmware/acpi/tables/MSDM exists (it's read-only to root),
> there's probably a key embedded in there you can pull out with strings
>
> Stewart
Stewart,
That file exists on my system, and I bought it as
Karen,
I am a mechanical designer and drafter. I am an engineering technologist,
certified by OACETT (http://oacett.org).
Ask about threadlockers in the hardware store. The really popular one is
Loctite 242, which is a lubricating, medium strength threadlocker which is blue
in colour.
On Sun, 5 Sep 2021 22:00:49 -0400
William Park via talk wrote:
> Not really Linux related except for the fact that GIMP in Linux.
>
> I have an image that is too large. I don't want to reduce the whole
> image. I just want to cut out left and right borders, like you would do
> with
On Fri, 10 Sep 2021 07:34:14 -0400
Stewart Russell via talk wrote:
> At last night's Raspberry Pi meetup, Chris Tyler demonstrated Fedora 34
> (aarch64) on Raspberry Pi 4. It's supposed to be a fully supported
> distribution, although the documentation hasn't quite caught up.
Stewart,
Let
David,
There was a good article and program on CBC on Social Engineering.
https://www.cbc.ca/news/science/marketplace-social-engineering-sim-swap-hack-1.5009279
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ck_r2GYLdCI
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lc7scxvKQOo
My take-away from this is that
Lennart,
If you have five hundred tabs open, how do you find anything?
On Wed, 13 Oct 2021 09:43:23 -0400
Lennart Sorensen via talk wrote:
> On Tue, Oct 12, 2021 at 01:54:31PM -0400, D. Hugh Redelmeier via talk wrote:
> > Not keeping my quantity of tabs down.
>
> Hmm, just noticed my tab
On Tue, 19 Oct 2021 23:49:45 -0400
"Stewart C. Russell via talk" wrote:
> GNOME have finally made good on their threat to remove all support for
> icons on the Desktop. Any files in ~/Desktop no longer produce icons on
> the screen. The GNOME Shell plugin that was the last thing that allowed
I am updating my UNIX Command Line HOWTO. I have a remark in my text to the
effect that man pages contain text stating that man is obsolete, and that you
should use the info pages instead.
I actually have not seen this lately. What is the status of man and info at
the moment?
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On Sat, 8 Jan 2022 20:39:42 -0500
"Stewart C. Russell via talk" wrote:
> I recently spent time debugging why a major embedded
> project never came with a PDF manual, despite their docs being managed
> in Sphinx. It turns out that there's one instance of a Unicode omega /
> Ohm symbol in their
On Tue, 8 Mar 2022 15:59:16 -0500
Giles Orr via talk wrote:
>
> So my questions (yes, there are questions here): does anyone know of
> other package management systems? I suppose I'm thinking of
> OS-specific ones rather than flatpak or snap. How fast are those
> other systems relative to
On Thu, 3 Mar 2022 20:18:14 -0500
Peter King via talk wrote:
> Hello!
>
> I've just been informed that "legacy authentication" is going to be
> disabled at the University of Toronto for my email account. Well, I
> suspected something like this was in the works when they adopted MS Outlook
>
On Wed, 13 Sep 2023 15:08:02 -0400
Peter King via talk wrote:
> But more importantly: I am way too busy right now to do the replacement
> myself. So, does anyone have any recommendations for good reliable
> computer repair work, someone or some company I can just take this to
> and tell them
William,
Mechanical designer here. I specify screw torques.
Torque is a convenient but not very accurate way to control screw tension.
Most of your torque is friction, rather than screw tension.
You can try whacking the end of your wrench with a hammer. Maybe this is a
good
William,
New ones are not all that expensive. Check out Bay Bloor Radio. I still
have the Harmon Kardon 230E I bought 40 years ago. I have connected the
auxilliary port to a computer (Fedora_33). and it does a great job of playing
YouTube.
On Sun, 29 Oct 2023 22:16:25 -0400
William
On Wed, 27 Apr 2022 00:37:21 -0400
William Park via talk wrote:
> Hi All,
>
> I've been running Slackware since forever. It's time to grow up and see
> the world. Which distro would you recommend that I move to? Yes, I
> know it's personal, and reasons will be varied and educational.
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