Re: [GTALUG] GPU advice needed

On Sat, Mar 30, 2024 at 12:13:35PM -0400, D. Hugh Redelmeier via talk wrote: > Fun fact: Mac folks never cease to brag about how great Unified Memory > is on the M1 etc. That seems silly when you realize that integrated > GPUs have always had this. But there is apparently a case where the >

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

On Thu, Mar 21, 2024 at 11:19:34AM -0400, Steve Petrie via talk wrote: > Hello Lennart, > > Thank you for your speedy explanation that, probably the Debian live linux > overlayfs mechanism is using a non-persistent tempfs ramdisk to store data > written to the root filesystem. > > Your

Re: [GTALUG] Debian Live Linux -- Overlay Filesystem -- Where Allocated ??

On Wed, Mar 20, 2024 at 07:55:31PM -0400, Steve Petrie via talk wrote: > Greetings To The GTALUG Community: > > I'm trying to discover where an overlay filesystem is mapped, for a Debian > live boot from a USB stick. > > After perusing a dog's breakfast of output from various linux commands, I

Re: [GTALUG] .local question

On Tue, Feb 27, 2024 at 01:43:36AM -0500, D. Hugh Redelmeier via talk wrote: > 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

Re: [GTALUG] Odd Ethernet Behaviour

On Tue, Feb 06, 2024 at 07:58:40PM -0500, Peter King via talk wrote: > Hello all, > > I have a computer located in the University of Toronto network which shows > some odd network behaviour.  For one, I have run speedtest-cli on it > numerous times at various times of the day, and it consistently

Re: [GTALUG] RISC-V News

On Mon, Feb 05, 2024 at 12:30:55PM -0500, D. Hugh Redelmeier via talk wrote: > High-end processor fabrication is now a specialized business. Only > Samsung, TSMC, and Intel have the capability as far as I know. There are > stories out of China suggesting that they are trying really hard to get

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

On Tue, Jan 30, 2024 at 04:30:31PM -0500, mwilson--- via talk wrote: > 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 >

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

On Tue, Jan 23, 2024 at 10:43:24AM -0500, Peter King via talk wrote: > 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

Re: [GTALUG] anyone have this bell item?

On Mon, Jan 22, 2024 at 05:17:04PM -0500, Karen Lewellen via talk wrote: > hi all, > Layered times, leaving me reading more than commenting. > My landlord wishes to provide, but cannot seem to successfully secure from > bell, the box below. > > it's a basic bell cable box vip2502 >

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

On Wed, Jan 17, 2024 at 09:23:18AM -0500, Kevin Cozens via talk wrote: > The main phones in the house are cordless. The handset will still operate > during a power failure but the base would not. For that reason my family > also has one old style phone powered from the CO just in case we need to

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

On Mon, Jan 15, 2024 at 01:12:42PM -0500, Alvin Starr via talk wrote: > 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 >

Re: [GTALUG] Keeping old machines running.

On Fri, Jan 12, 2024 at 09:32:32AM -0500, Colin McGregor via talk wrote: > Back when dinosaurs still ran the world (ie: +/- 72 million years ago) > the standard for high performance mass storage was SCSI hard drives. > Of course SCSI has been superseded by other storage solutions, but for >

Re: [GTALUG] Debian 12 takes too long to boot and login

On Sun, Dec 17, 2023 at 05:43:58PM -0500, Kevin Cozens via talk wrote: > I have been a contributor to an Open Source project over a number of years. > A lot of the devs seems to use Debian testing which means I often find I > have to deal with (often minor, fortunately) dependency hell to be able

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

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't been to one of those in a while. Maybe once I finish

[GTALUG] Meeting tonight?

Is there a meeting tonight given I think it is the second tuesday of the month? Wasn't sure if an annoucement was stuck in a queue somewhere waiting to be permitted through. Just wondering. -- Len Sorensen --- Post to this mailing list talk@gtalug.org Unsubscribe from this mailing list

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

On Wed, Nov 29, 2023 at 09:29:25PM -0500, Karen Lewellen wrote: > well, shaped the same is not an issue really for me, speaking personally. > for me it is having the button actually do something other than put me in a > menu with choices the button does not impact. > One can mark creatively, if

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

On Wed, Nov 29, 2023 at 06:33:42PM -0500, Karen Lewellen via talk wrote: > make that atss..spelling is everything. Assuming there is signal where you are, you would need an ATSC tuner box (many exist at $50 or so price, and they tend to have HDMI, composite and RF outputs) as well as an antenna

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

On Wed, Nov 29, 2023 at 03:56:15PM -0500, Don Tai wrote: > https://usermanual.com/support/toshiba/document/32af43-36af43-manual > > page 19, "CH PROGRAM": how to automatically scan for new channels. Your TV > can receive over the air OTA channels. > > page 7, "ANT"L The antenna jack is very

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

On Wed, Nov 29, 2023 at 08:23:10AM -0500, Don Tai via talk wrote: > I've been using Over the Air OTA TV for 10 years now, and have been happy > with the free service. The digital signals are uncompressed, providing > visibly higher quality images than Rogers (My Mum's service). I receive 17 >

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

On Wed, Nov 29, 2023 at 12:22:22AM -0500, Karen Lewellen wrote: > Hi, > If I could get the digital box, without having to use a modem, I would > likely be fine, because the digital box would tap into the existing blanket > internet wireless wise would it not? > In fact that was my landlord's

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

On Tue, Nov 28, 2023 at 08:09:47PM -0500, Karen Lewellen via talk wrote: > Hi folks, > before simply saying you avoid television, Part of what I do professionally > means accessing a great deal, news channels and other things for example. > And for me, the, I will just watch it on my computer is

Re: [GTALUG] Browsers (and Thorium to be specific)

On Thu, Nov 23, 2023 at 02:07:36PM -0500, Evan Leibovitch via talk wrote: > I've been a happy (sorta) user of Firefox for a long long time but I found > I have needed a Chromium-based backup because there are some sites that > Just Won't Work under FF. Blank white screens, hanging, missing frames,

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

On Thu, Nov 02, 2023 at 01:29:43PM -0400, Evan Leibovitch wrote: > On Thu, Nov 2, 2023 at 8:12 AM Lennart Sorensen < > lsore...@csclub.uwaterloo.ca> wrote: > > Of course China has 1.5 billion people. > > > Actually, not of course. It's 1.28 and shrinking, being officially bypassed > this year

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

On Thu, Nov 02, 2023 at 07:00:34AM -0400, Evan Leibovitch via talk wrote: > On Tue, Oct 31, 2023 at 2:32 PM Alvin Starr via talk > wrote: > > > > > > It is true that ARM's ownership has allowed the US government to make > > > things very difficult for Huawei. No wonder China likes RISC-V. > >

Re: [GTALUG] intel etherexpress pro 100+ safe driver download?

On Tue, Oct 24, 2023 at 10:38:02PM -0400, Karen Lewellen via talk wrote: > Hi everyone, > My dream machine is being constructed. Thanks to the members here connecting > with James. > There is indeed a DOS packet driver included with the set Intel provides for > the etherexpress pro 100+ > Trick

Re: [GTALUG] How do I get wlan0 interface for WiFi with any MAC

On Mon, Oct 16, 2023 at 07:59:35AM -0400, Kevin Cozens via talk wrote: > On 2023-10-11 16:26, BCLUG via talk wrote: > > Kevin Cozens via talk wrote on 2023-10-11 12:05: > > > > > What udev(?) rule do I need to add to have the WiFi device come up > > > as wlan or wlan0 regardless of the MAC

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

On Sat, Sep 23, 2023 at 02:27:27PM -0400, mwilson--- via talk wrote: > Transcoded must be the answer. I composed the message in LibreOffice Writer > then copied the text and pasted it into the SquirrelMail reply screen from > vex.net. > The characters shown as ? started out as single and double

Re: [GTALUG] brands matter; Lenovo's brands

On Mon, Sep 18, 2023 at 10:16:05PM -0400, Evan Leibovitch wrote: > The "Thinkpad love" I see here IMO appears to reflect the age and > experiences of the discussion participants. Early in the days of PCs there > was way more diversity in hardware that could be explicitly Linux friendly > or

Re: [GTALUG] brands matter; Lenovo's brands

On Sat, Sep 16, 2023 at 03:13:58AM -0400, Evan Leibovitch via talk wrote: > I forgot to mention. > > One area where branding can come in handy is in identifying a niche in > which the brand establishes a reputation for expertise. > > If running Linux and having it explicitly supported by your

Re: [GTALUG] USB to Ethernet Dongles WAS: Debian Linux as-a-router Guide

On Sat, Sep 09, 2023 at 12:06:41PM -0500, o1bigtenor via talk wrote: > Gret for you but did they use cat 5 or 5e wiring. Today you might need > cat 8 (6 and 7 seems to have been obsoleted - - - dunno). > I would have dragged in conduit then you would be very future proof - Anything installed now

Re: [GTALUG] Debian Linux as-a-router Guide

On Thu, Sep 07, 2023 at 12:45:47PM -0400, Alvin Starr via talk wrote: > Being closer to Cisco is not an advantage in my books. No kidding. :) > OpenWRT is a Debian based distribution that has been tuned to run in a small > footprint that usually comes with consumer appliances but it is by no

Re: [GTALUG] Debian Linux as-a-router Guide

On Thu, Sep 07, 2023 at 01:25:15PM -0400, Val Kulkov via talk wrote: > To the best of my knowledge, OpenWRT retains all manually installed > packages during system upgrade if you use their "sysupgrade" utility, with > the exception of the x86_64 platform. On x86_64, upgrading is indeed a > pain.

Re: [GTALUG] Favorite desktop manager?

On Sun, Jul 30, 2023 at 03:51:26PM -0400, Michael Hill via talk wrote: > Maybe they just decided to stop living in the past. It's not for everyone, > but it works for some people. Just because something has been around a long time doesn't mean it isn't the better way to do something. I remember

Re: [GTALUG] Favorite desktop manager?

On Thu, Jul 27, 2023 at 11:09:37AM -0700, BCLUG via talk wrote: > Sounds like you guys hate CLI environments and probably use Siri / Google > Assistant / Alexa / *voice* as a near ideal human-like user interface then? > > Desktop environments take their name and derive the concept from offices in

Re: [GTALUG] computer hardware testing tools.

On Fri, Jul 14, 2023 at 08:28:12PM -0400, James Knott via talk wrote: > My condo was new 30 years ago and it has the 2x15A circuits. My current house from the mid 1970's uses 2x15A. My new place from right now (well supposed to be complete next January) is using 1x20A. Code allows (and seems to

Re: [GTALUG] computer hardware testing tools.

On Thu, Jul 13, 2023 at 05:22:07PM -0400, Karen Lewellen via talk wrote: > Thanks for getting back to my question smiles. > I believe i have been focused on Motherboards more than the ports for your > exact reason, the ports are connection dependent. what about boards > themselves?

Re: [GTALUG] computer hardware testing tools.

On Thu, Jul 13, 2023 at 03:11:03PM -0500, o1bigtenor via talk wrote: > You bet - - - - totally accurate as to about 2023 - - - any idea what > the code was > in ??? when that particular house was built? AIUI the fridge on a separate > circuit is from some time in the 80s so if the house was built

Re: [GTALUG] computer hardware testing tools.

On Tue, Jul 11, 2023 at 06:05:29PM -0400, Karen Lewellen via talk wrote: > Hi folks, > What I am seeking is an open source program that tests aspects of say your > motherboard. that the serial ports or parallel ports work, that the USB > ports are sound etc. > I am asking because due to an as of

Re: [GTALUG] computer hardware testing tools.

On Wed, Jul 12, 2023 at 06:18:41PM -0400, Karen Lewellen via talk wrote: > no one spoke of printer cables. > Serial connectors are 9 pin, parallel cables are 25 pin. while old style > printer cables use 25 pin as well, there is no, or not to my personal > experience a 9 pin connector at all for

Re: [GTALUG] Red Hat Paywall...

On Mon, Jun 26, 2023 at 07:29:23PM -0400, Colin McGregor via talk wrote: > Let's see if I understand this correctly, Red Hat has now put a whole > lot of open source / GPL software behind a paywall, where you have to > pay $$ for a subscription in order to access the source code. Then if > anyone

Re: [GTALUG] Debian 12

On Tue, Jun 20, 2023 at 11:03:59PM -0400, D. Hugh Redelmeier via talk wrote: > | From: Giles Orr via talk > > | Long release cycles are a real mixed blessing ... > > Thanks for your note on debian 12 / bookworm. > > I'm personally interested in debian as a replacement for CentOS. > (GTALUG

Re: [GTALUG] Debian 12

On Tue, Jun 20, 2023 at 08:35:38PM -0400, Giles Orr via talk wrote: > I've upgraded something like six of about 10 personal (Debian 11) > machines. The upgrade process is the easiest and smoothest that > Debian's managed yet. I haven't tried a new install yet, but if you > have a Debian 11

Re: [GTALUG] CVT-RB: another video mystery

On Tue, Jun 20, 2023 at 03:04:38PM -0400, D. Hugh Redelmeier via talk wrote: > That's an odd resolution. Of course that makes your point clearer: > it's just arithmetic. > > But of course it is not. There is a certain amount of extra > jiggery-pokery added. > > My first post on this topic

Re: [GTALUG] CVT-RB: another video mystery

On Tue, Jun 20, 2023 at 11:16:05AM -0400, James Knott via talk wrote: > Other than a small bit about lip sync, there is nothing about syncing the > signal in that. Well https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5acgSK0kWTE has a lot of details on how HDMI works. I don't think it says how audio and video

Re: [GTALUG] CVT-RB: another video mystery

On Tue, Jun 20, 2023 at 10:40:31AM -0400, James Knott wrote: > Is this documented anywhere?  Sure the audio is sent over the cable, but why > should there be such a thing as a blanking interval on a digital system?  > The blanking interval was used to sync the camera and TV.  There is > absolutely

Re: [GTALUG] CVT-RB: another video mystery

On Mon, Jun 19, 2023 at 03:11:44PM -0400, James Knott via talk wrote: > That doesn't make sense, especially when you consider how the digital system > works, with things like I, P and B frames. > https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Video_compression_picture_types Compressed video is not related to how

Re: [GTALUG] Anybody using rclone?

On Sat, Jun 03, 2023 at 12:18:25PM -0400, Giles Orr via talk wrote: > I saw a tech news article about a cloud storage provider reducing > their rates ( > https://techcrunch.com/2023/06/02/dropbox-like-cloud-storage-service-shadow-drive-lowers-its-price/ > ) and this reminded me that I've been

Re: [GTALUG] an odd question about well on going service factors.

On Tue, May 30, 2023 at 08:41:07PM -0400, Don Tai via talk wrote: > Ask your landlord to get you a set top box and add the cost to your rent, > or adopt you as a family member. Yes to get another box for the fibe service it would have to be done by the account holder. -- Len Sorensen --- Post

Re: [GTALUG] an odd question about well on going service factors.

On Tue, May 30, 2023 at 05:49:20PM -0400, Karen Lewellen wrote: > Hi, > While this answers my specific question, your comment about sharing > services creates a different one. > If you have a large house with more than one television, it is often the > case that this second television has its

Re: [GTALUG] an odd question about well on going service factors.

On Tue, May 30, 2023 at 05:27:06PM -0400, Karen Lewellen via talk wrote: > bell is not being nasty about my Landlord's choices. > bell is being nasty about my body not matching their definition of > disability. > Your point about sharing service is an interesting one, If it is illegal, > how can

Re: [GTALUG] ISC DHCP server is reaching End of Life.

On Sun, May 28, 2023 at 06:58:20PM -0400, D. Hugh Redelmeier via talk wrote: > I've been using ISC DHCP server for a long long time. > I just noticed this article. > It focuses on Kea DHCP server as a replacement. >

Re: [GTALUG] war story #2: buying RAM

On Tue, May 16, 2023 at 11:02:12AM -0400, D. Hugh Redelmeier via talk wrote: > A couple of RAM manufacturers have product selectors that help you a lot. > Lennart pointed this out. But then you don't get the advantage of buying > a commodity. I think the problem is that while ram is mostly a

Re: [GTALUG] war story #2: buying RAM

On Mon, May 15, 2023 at 03:16:39PM -0400, Nicholas Krause wrote: > Yes, Hugh will run into problems then of getting that speed. The JEDEC > default profile is 2400mhz > from memory. Not sure how locked the Bios on his Thinkpad is. It seems that > lots of people are > reporting XMP enabling not

Re: [GTALUG] war story #2: buying RAM

On Sun, May 14, 2023 at 03:41:47PM -0400, Nicholas Krause via talk wrote: > XMP or a version is on AMD. The problem your running into is CPUs these days > default to a certain Ram Speed. I'm not sure of what gen your on for the > Thinkpad but googling default memory speed of gen X, where X is

Re: [GTALUG] war story #2: buying RAM

On Fri, May 12, 2023 at 06:31:47PM -0400, D. Hugh Redelmeier via talk wrote: > | From: D. Hugh Redelmeier via talk > > | So this is what I bought for $159.99: > | > > > Surprise: The ThinkCentre M75s gen 2 SFF

Re: [GTALUG] war story: buying RAM

On Wed, May 10, 2023 at 11:12:44AM -0400, D. Hugh Redelmeier via talk wrote: > This is an M75s gen 2 SFF unit. > I installed the DIMMs and then could not replace the tray with 2.5" > and 3.5" bays. It bottomed out on the DIMMs. > > I suspect that the DIMMs themselves would fit but their

Re: [GTALUG] war story: buying RAM

On Tue, May 09, 2023 at 03:33:17PM -0400, D. Hugh Redelmeier via talk wrote: > I bought a ThinkCentre M75s through ebay.ca > It came with a single 8GiB stick of RAM. > I wanted more! > > DDR4 RAM is pretty cheap these days. > > I bought 8GiB (to pair with the original stick) and 2 x 32GiB.

Re: [GTALUG] Meeting Reminder

On Mon, May 08, 2023 at 07:03:52AM -0400, Alan Heighway via talk wrote: > Digital Citizenship Workshop with You > > > 11 May, 2023 at 07:30 PM > > “Being involved in open source indicates an interest in the ethical aspects > of

Re: [GTALUG] how many addresses possible

On Sun, Apr 30, 2023 at 05:53:04PM -0500, o1bigtenor via talk wrote: > On Sun, Apr 30, 2023 at 5:21 PM James Knott via talk wrote: > > > > On 2023-04-30 17:55, o1bigtenor via talk wrote: > > > I just spent over 1/2 hour looking at a number of SoCs (3) and > > > microcontrollers > > > (also 3)

Re: [GTALUG] how many addresses possible

On Sun, Apr 30, 2023 at 03:44:03PM -0400, James Knott via talk wrote: > If you're on Rogers, you get 2 IPv4 addresses. Well I am not currently, but in a few months I will be. Currently using Teksavvy. -- Len Sorensen --- Post to this mailing list talk@gtalug.org Unsubscribe from this mailing

Re: [GTALUG] The good old days of oreilly.com

On Sun, Apr 30, 2023 at 12:04:56PM -0400, sciguy via talk wrote: > I am having very little luck poking around. And to correct what I said > earlier, searching specific titles leads me to a "403" error (Forbidden), > not a 404 as I had said. I searched on Programming Perl, which I have the > second

Re: [GTALUG] how many addresses possible

On Sun, Apr 30, 2023 at 09:35:04AM -0500, o1bigtenor via talk wrote: > This sounds like a reasonable solution until you actually set up the router. > On 192.168.0.0 - - - - well I haven't found a way to talk directly to more > than > 254 devices - - - - or have you? > > Now if you want to blow a

Re: [GTALUG] how many addresses possible

On Sun, Apr 30, 2023 at 09:30:27AM -0500, o1bigtenor via talk wrote: > Perhaps you might persuade my ISP to get their collective posteriors > in gear - - - yes? Yeah I certainly get a /56 IPv6 block from my ISP along with a single IPv4 address. Works nicely. -- Len Sorensen --- Post to this

Re: [GTALUG] how many addresses possible

On Sun, Apr 30, 2023 at 09:40:00AM -0500, o1bigtenor via talk wrote: > You seem to have this mastered - - - - then: > > How do I write more than 254 addresses in ipv4 using only the quad? > > (You get no / anything - - - - just the 4 quads! > The idea is that these are all permanently set - - -

Re: [GTALUG] how many addresses possible

On Sun, Apr 30, 2023 at 12:18:26AM -0400, Val Kulkov via talk wrote: > Next time you connect to some public WiFi network, execute "ifconfig" to > see your IP address and your subnet. In my observations, airports WiFi > networks typically use the /22 subnets (up to 1022 addresses). Most >

Re: [GTALUG] there is a solution! but.. continues wireless to ethernet adapter suggestions?

On Fri, Apr 28, 2023 at 09:13:11PM -0400, Karen Lewellen via talk wrote: > And some of you can, with my joining in, laugh at its simplicity. > I located another outlet in the room serving as my office, where the > adapter is connected. > Suddenly I have the best Internet personally enjoyed in

Re: [GTALUG] Fedora 38 is out

On Sat, Apr 22, 2023 at 11:51:17AM -0400, D. Hugh Redelmeier via talk wrote: > | From: Stewart C. Russell via talk > > | I hear that it ships with the latest GNU grep, which removes fgrep and > egrep. > | This could be considered a bad idea: > | https://mastodon.social/@cks/110232377928840323 >

Re: [GTALUG] Fedora 38 is out

On Sat, Apr 22, 2023 at 08:16:01PM +0200, Dhaval Giani via talk wrote: > I don’t know why you think so. There is a real cost to maintaining > software. Who is going to keep track of security issues? What about changes > to libraries you are linking to? Unless you are stepping up to maintain the >

Re: [GTALUG] war story: gtalug.org's filled up

On Thu, Apr 06, 2023 at 10:51:34AM -0400, Peter King via talk wrote: > I desperately miss mutt.  But the University of Toronto, in its > administrative wisdom, moved us all to Microsoft365 which insists on token > security of a kind mutt doesn't implement.  If I ever leave or find a way to >

Re: [GTALUG] war story: gtalug.org's filled up

On Wed, Apr 05, 2023 at 06:24:22PM -0700, BCLUG via talk wrote: > > (Someone already replied to and addressed this, but since I'd already typed > it up, gonna send it anyway.) > > > o1bigtenor via talk wrote on 2023-04-05 12:34: > > > a great way > > to reduce the problem caused by a runaway

Re: [GTALUG] war story: gtalug.org's filled up

On Tue, Apr 04, 2023 at 06:29:27PM -0400, Michael Galea via talk wrote: > I like to keep the debs around until after I have verified > that the next version of a package hasn't borked me. No need. snapshot.debian.org exists. Every version ever is there as far as I know. -- Len Sorensen ---

Re: [GTALUG] war story: gtalug.org's filled up

On Tue, Apr 04, 2023 at 05:50:13PM -0400, D. Hugh Redelmeier via talk wrote: > (This post is also a test of whether the mailing list is working.) > > GTALUG's server's filesystem filled up: little disk space left. > > I discovered this when I tried to do "apt update; apt full-upgrade". > The

Re: [GTALUG] Update borked my system

On Thu, Mar 30, 2023 at 01:39:54PM -0400, Evan Leibovitch via talk wrote: > EPILOGUE > > apt -f install and apt autoremove both reported that everything was fine > and that I was up-to-date (except for more than 20 packages "held back"). > > Sometimes I find Linux troubleshooting a useful mental

Re: [GTALUG] Update borked my system

On Mon, Mar 27, 2023 at 04:20:12AM -0400, Evan Leibovitch via talk wrote: > Hi all. > > Wondering if anyone can help with this. > > A power glitch happened while I was updating a KDE Neon system and on > reboot all sorts of things are wonky. KDE starts up fine on bootup but > there are no window

Re: [GTALUG] analog land line phone service in Toronto?

On Sun, Mar 19, 2023 at 05:30:53PM -0400, Karen Lewellen via talk wrote: > First, I am deeply sorry you are losing your landline soon. > I do appreciate your sharing the last mile rule though. > What bell is using fiberactic wise is a modem, in which several services > reincorporated, not a strict

Re: [GTALUG] New WiFi router?

On Thu, Mar 09, 2023 at 11:45:18AM -0500, Alvin Starr via talk wrote: > For a while Linksys was selling a version of the WRT54 that was specifically > for OpenWRT. Well the WRT54G v5 cut the ram in half and put vxworks on it, which ruined performance and upset people so they made a WRT54GL with

Re: [GTALUG] New WiFi router?

On Thu, Mar 09, 2023 at 10:02:52AM -0500, Alex Kink via talk wrote: > I'm sure there are more, but Linksys recently released a spiritual successor > to the WRT54GL, the router that gave a boost to the development of the 3rd > party router OSes (ddwrt, openwrt, tomato). Ability to install open

Re: [GTALUG] New WiFi router?

On Thu, Mar 09, 2023 at 10:16:02AM -0500, David Collier-Brown via talk wrote: > Yes: the penalty for fq_codel or CAKE should be an indicated percent or so, > and often is a benefit instead (:-)). Older software is often bad enough > that it eats bandwidth. > > Look for a openwrt release that

Re: [GTALUG] New WiFi router?

On Wed, Mar 08, 2023 at 05:04:52PM -0500, William Park via talk wrote: > Mine is > Well I get an F. I then followed their instructions to add sqm to my openwrt setup, which made it a D, but at a cost of 75%

Re: [GTALUG] New WiFi router?

On Wed, Mar 08, 2023 at 01:46:24PM -0500, James Knott via talk wrote: > That will depend entirely on how your work is connected.  Many small > businesses have the same sort of connection as home users.  Others have a > dedicated fibre to their Internet connection.  It could be to an ISP or to > an

Re: [GTALUG] New WiFi router?

On Wed, Mar 08, 2023 at 02:51:41PM -0500, James Knott via talk wrote: > Yep, you can have multiple devices, each getting it's own public address. Do they offer IPv6 service yet or is that still something they don't know about? My DSL service has had IPv6 working for years after all. > I don't

Re: [GTALUG] New WiFi router?

On Wed, Mar 08, 2023 at 11:53:34AM -0500, James Knott via talk wrote: > Rogers uses Cisco gear, at least at the cell sites.  I don't recall what > they use in the cable head ends, as it's been a few years since I was in > one.  However, I have some work coming up there shortly, so I'll have to >

Re: [GTALUG] New WiFi router?

On Wed, Mar 08, 2023 at 10:28:09AM -0500, Don Tai via talk wrote: > Can you even detect the increased speed difference? I cannot. More is not > necessarily more effective in my use case. I can tell the difference between my 25Mbit down at home, and the 1Gbit at the office. File transfers are a

Re: [GTALUG] ThinkPad T14s Gen 2 Intel (14”) -- good deal?

On Sun, Mar 05, 2023 at 05:31:27PM -0500, Lennart Sorensen via talk wrote: > My understanding is that the shared part is at least 10Gbit for each > segment. Not sure how many houses would share one segment. > > I still expect a fiber connection to be faster than my 25Mbit DSL

Re: [GTALUG] ThinkPad T14s Gen 2 Intel (14”) -- good deal?

On Fri, Mar 03, 2023 at 09:37:10AM -0500, Alvin Starr via talk wrote: > Feel free to correct me but I believe that all the "optical" and co-axial > cable based services are shared(GPON). What internet isn't these days? My current 25Mbit DSL link goes to a box a few hundred meters down the street

Re: [GTALUG] ThinkPad T14s Gen 2 Intel (14”) -- good deal?

On Fri, Mar 03, 2023 at 09:56:06AM -0500, James Knott via talk wrote: > Actually, they're up to 8 Gb. Hmm, they do in fact offer 8Gbit at that location, starting at $400/month versus $125/month for 2.5Gbit. $400 seems a bit steep. -- Len Sorensen --- Post to this mailing list talk@gtalug.org

Re: [GTALUG] ThinkPad T14s Gen 2 Intel (14”) -- good deal?

On Fri, Mar 03, 2023 at 02:54:37AM -0500, D. Hugh Redelmeier via talk wrote: > We don't need more that 1Gbit now. That might change in the lifetime > of your house. But the wires are the hard part to upgrade -- switches > are easy. My 5-year-old wiring is CAT 6e -- we'll see how far it can >

Re: [GTALUG] ThinkPad T14s Gen 2 Intel (14”) -- good deal?

On Wed, Mar 01, 2023 at 12:57:33PM -0500, David Collier-Brown via talk wrote: > Agreed, but one of our main uses of laptops at work is teleconferencing. > Using wi-fi lead to stalls, drops and disconnections, so much that we issue > each person two docking stations with wired ethernet ports. One

Re: [GTALUG] ThinkPad T14s Gen 2 Intel (14”) -- good deal?

On Wed, Mar 01, 2023 at 12:43:42PM -0500, D. Hugh Redelmeier via talk wrote: > Current laptops rarely have Ethernet ports. Wireless is good enough for > most purposes and ethernet sockets add thickness. You can always add a > dongle (USB 3.x and Thunderbolt are plenty fast enough). I have a

Re: [GTALUG] war story in progress: NVMe drive

On Mon, Feb 27, 2023 at 01:24:41PM -0500, Jason Shaw via talk wrote: > You may be able to use virtualbox and a Windows image to run the upgrade. > > Here's a nice list of where you can find images: > https://github.com/SheepKid12/msft-modern.ie-images#available-images Well certainly PCIe

Re: [GTALUG] ThinkPad T14s Gen 2 Intel (14”) -- good deal?

On Mon, Feb 27, 2023 at 06:40:16PM -0500, Michael Hill via talk wrote: > It seems like a good deal but I couldn't find any evidence that it was > possible to increase the RAM. You can not upgrade the ram. That model (like most of the slim s versions) is not upgradable. You have what you bought

Re: [GTALUG] Cannot get a network in Linux (Ubuntu) after using Windows 10

On Sat, Dec 17, 2022 at 03:14:00PM -0500, sciguy via talk wrote: > When I say I can't get a network, I mean that my Linux OS can't see any > external hardware, including the router. And of course, I can't get the > Internet. > > When in W10 (as I am now), I checked the router "config pages" and I

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

On Tue, Dec 13, 2022 at 11:50:27AM -0500, D. Hugh Redelmeier via talk wrote: > Don't forget to join ahead of today's AGM! How about during? Does that work? -- Len Sorensen --- Post to this mailing list talk@gtalug.org Unsubscribe from this mailing list https://gtalug.org/mailman/listinfo/talk

Re: [GTALUG] RAID SATA controller card recommendation?

On Sun, Dec 11, 2022 at 09:45:57PM -0500, Alvin Starr via talk wrote: > A raid card can offload some of the overhead that the OS would have to deal > with in terms of co-ordination of  multiple writes. > In the case of raid-1 the extra overhead of multiple writes should be > minimal but for raid-4

Re: [GTALUG] How to keep using an old CIFS device

On Thu, Dec 08, 2022 at 07:44:46PM -0500, Stewart Russell via talk wrote: > Ever since NTLM support was removed from the kernel > > last year, I've been unable to access my

Re: [GTALUG] RAID SATA controller card recommendation?

On Thu, Dec 01, 2022 at 02:00:24PM -0500, Aurelian Melinte via talk wrote: > I am looking to get a RAID card to put my SATA HDDs in a mirror. Has to > be hardware RAID for that particular machine which is quite old. Can > anyone please recommend a reliable one, $250 or less? How many disks?

Re: [GTALUG] Forced off DSL by Bell

On Sat, Nov 26, 2022 at 05:53:34AM -0600, o1bigtenor wrote: > I'm in a similar situation - - - they're dragging in fiber out in the country. > Its being worked on at this point so I'm not connected yet but soon I hope. > > Lennart - - - you're talking about connecting direct to your firewall >

Re: [GTALUG] Forced off DSL by Bell

On Fri, Nov 25, 2022 at 02:37:26PM -0500, James Knott via talk wrote: > Rogers is now offering 8 Gb. Well in some places. 2.5 was the max I could see when doing the availability check. I used 43 Longworth Ave in Richmond Hill since that's one of the first houses in the development that appears

Re: [GTALUG] Forced off DSL by Bell

On Fri, Nov 25, 2022 at 05:20:46PM -0500, James Knott via talk wrote: > The bare fibre is more reliable than copper, as it doesn't need all the > extra equipment to carry today's digital signals.  Fibre can carry data much > further than copper ever dreamed of.  Years ago, a company might get a

Re: [GTALUG] Forced off DSL by Bell

On Fri, Nov 25, 2022 at 05:10:12PM -0500, Michael Galea via talk wrote: > I am not anti-progress. But if it was real progress, reliability would > exceed that of POTS, the cost would be cheaper and I could rely on the > service working even in an emergency. That would be nice. I am hoping that

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