Re: [GTALUG] Brand-name desktop recommendation?

On Sat, Nov 11, 2017 at 12:25:06PM -0500, James Knott via talk wrote: > On 11/11/2017 11:17 AM, Don Tai wrote: > > For me, all desktop brands are interchangeable, as are their components. > > I guess you don't remember the Compaqs of a few years ago, that often > used proprietary parts. Dell

Re: [GTALUG] Brand-name desktop recommendation?

On Fri, Nov 10, 2017 at 11:58:11PM -0500, William Park via talk wrote: > I've been asked by few people about which desktop to buy. They are > technical enough to swap components, but definitely don't have time to > troubleshoot. They have more important things to do. So, I said any > brand, new

Re: [GTALUG] Flatpak: Anyone with Experience or Opinions on It?

On Fri, Nov 03, 2017 at 03:01:04PM -0400, D. Hugh Redelmeier via talk wrote: > My new Razer keyboard says it needs 200MB of space for MS Windows > drivers (mostly to fash lights, I think). It seems to work fine on > Linux without a driver but I would like turn off the green lights on > each key.

Re: [GTALUG] Flatpak: Anyone with Experience or Opinions on It?

On Fri, Nov 03, 2017 at 01:09:47PM -0400, Dhaval Giani via talk wrote: > How do you ensure security updates happen everywhere, or that you are > not linking to an insecure version? What about old software which is > no longer maintained? Also work is not duplicated? Exactly. That is why we don't

Re: [GTALUG] VMware ESXi Licensing and Quality

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

Re: [GTALUG] VMware ESXi Licensing and Quality

On Mon, Oct 16, 2017 at 02:49:05PM -0400, Alvin Starr via talk wrote: > That's kind of interesting. > Usually device drivers are intimately tied to the OS's design. > What OS are they using? Their own. They have a linux compatible driver interface so that they can use linux drivers. After all,

Re: [GTALUG] VMware ESXi Licensing and Quality

On Fri, Oct 13, 2017 at 12:33:06PM -0400, Giles Orr via talk wrote: > I'm having some trouble figuring out the licensing on VMware's ESXi. It's > proprietary - I've got that and I don't love it. But Packt's "DevOps > Automation Cookbook" (2015) is essentially saying it's free to use, and >

Re: [GTALUG] touch screens

On Wed, Oct 11, 2017 at 07:08:40AM -0500, o1bigtenor via talk wrote: > Greetings > > Reading of the announcement of 2 new 'smart' phones at the meeting prompts > me to ask the question. > > Am I the only person who finds that touch screens don't work worth a !@#$%^ > using my fingers? > >

Re: [GTALUG] MBR and GTP Drives

On Tue, Oct 10, 2017 at 11:41:01PM -0400, Scott Sullivan via talk wrote: > Wat?! ((*runs to wikipedia*))... Okay then. > > I wonder under what conditions that secondary table is used. I've never had > a front wiped disk continue to report a table afterwards. I see it mentions > CRC checks, so

Re: [GTALUG] MBR and GTP Drives

On Mon, Oct 09, 2017 at 10:53:13AM -0400, Scott Sullivan via talk wrote: > On 07/10/17 08:53 PM, Howard Gibson via talk wrote: > > From fdisk, I could see that the Western Digital drive was GTP. The > > new Seagate drive identified itself as "dos", which means it is MBR. Best > > Buy

Re: [GTALUG] MBR and GTP Drives

On Sat, Oct 07, 2017 at 08:53:37PM -0400, Howard Gibson via talk wrote: >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

Re: [GTALUG] Dead DVD drive in laptop

On Tue, Oct 03, 2017 at 05:01:41PM -0400, Chris F.A. Johnson via talk wrote: > On Tue, 3 Oct 2017, Lennart Sorensen wrote: > > > On Tue, Oct 03, 2017 at 12:44:17PM -0400, Chris F.A. Johnson wrote: > > > I can play movies from a USB stick. I cannot play DVDs with one. A DVD > > > is not a file; it

Re: [GTALUG] Dead DVD drive in laptop

On Tue, Oct 03, 2017 at 12:44:17PM -0400, Chris F.A. Johnson wrote: > I can play movies from a USB stick. I cannot play DVDs with one. A DVD > is not a file; it holds files. A DVD contains multiple files. Placing all those files in a directory works the same as being on a DVD to many player

Re: [GTALUG] Dead DVD drive in laptop

On Mon, Oct 02, 2017 at 11:25:24AM -0400, Kevin Cozens via talk wrote: > You can once you have the image of a DVD on a USB memory stick. How is a > person supposed to get an image of a DVD they just bought on to a USB when > they don't have a DVD drive to read the disc? Using the external DVD

Re: [GTALUG] Dead DVD drive in laptop

On Fri, Sep 29, 2017 at 07:29:38PM -0400, Chris F.A. Johnson via talk wrote: > On Fri, 29 Sep 2017, Alex Short via talk wrote: > > > 4. Don't use DVD. Just use a USB stick and iso files instead.  > > I can't play DVDs with a USB stick. Sure you can. vlc is perfectly happy with DVD files in a

Re: [GTALUG] Dead DVD drive in laptop

On Fri, Sep 29, 2017 at 05:02:38PM -0400, 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 > > Which would you recommend? > > (I'm running Linux Mint.)

Re: [GTALUG] "Massage Passing" library?

On Wed, Sep 13, 2017 at 03:24:25AM -0400, William Park via talk wrote: > I'm looking for keywords to search for... > > I have various local peripherals that I need to read and write. From > top of my head, I'm thinking 3 ways: > > 1. Use select(2) (and friends) to round-robin the

Re: [GTALUG] convert sun rays to cryptocurrencies.

On Wed, Sep 06, 2017 at 11:49:57PM -0400, Alvin Starr via talk wrote: > There will need to be a real quality DC-DC converter because there is not > much point converting the DC output from the panel to AC only to convert it > back to DC. > > Possibly DC to 12V to some batteries or

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

On Wed, Sep 06, 2017 at 09:06:41AM -0400, Alvin Starr via talk wrote: > Wow. got into a bit of a snitfest with dhaval.giani over this one. > > Now to the completely unrelated part. > > I have been thinking about a project and I would like to bounce it off you. > > A client came to me asking

Re: [GTALUG] From BTRFS to what?

On Sun, Sep 03, 2017 at 09:02:24PM -0400, Alvin Starr via talk wrote: > True enough. > But with Redhat voting with their feet it will make the uptake of BTRFS much > slower if at all. I am not sure btrfs is quite ready for production use yet, so not sure why redhat ever supported doing so in the

Re: [GTALUG] From BTRFS to what?

On Sun, Sep 03, 2017 at 10:18:19PM -0400, Stewart C. Russell via talk wrote: > Something as complex as a FS needs corporate support, and no company > wishes to be associated with a convicted murderer. Reiser was also > famously difficult to get along with (a sample of one of his rants is > here:

Re: [GTALUG] Spam is basically dead

On Wed, Aug 16, 2017 at 11:16:27AM -0400, Evan Leibovitch via talk wrote: > Agreed. But ​I'd take it from a slightly different perspective that splits > the issue. > > IMO the volume of spam has not abated, but its effectiveness has. > > I use gMail for a significant amount of my incoming mail,

Re: [GTALUG] Bitcoin Blockchain Crypto Surface

On Wed, Aug 02, 2017 at 03:46:57PM -0400, Russell wrote: > On August 2, 2017 2:54:32 PM EDT, Lennart Sorensen via talk <talk@gtalug.org> > wrote: > >On Wed, Aug 02, 2017 at 12:54:05PM -0400, Scott Frederick via talk > >wrote: > >> On 02/08/2017 09:17 AM, Tim Ti

Re: [GTALUG] Windows 10 will let everyone run Linux inside Windows following Fall Creators Update - TechRepublic

On Wed, Aug 02, 2017 at 11:23:05AM -0400, Stewart C. Russell via talk wrote: > And almost exactly two decades after Sun/Caldera killed Wabi - the > Windows-16 Application Binary Interface for Solaris/Linux. Funny how > things come around … Remember when Linux had a layer to run x86 BSD binaries?

Re: [GTALUG] Tutorials on Linux command-line -- any interest?

On Mon, Jul 31, 2017 at 12:32:25PM -0400, Kevin Cozens via talk wrote: > No, it wasn't always like that. AFAICR the ability to flash the BIOS from a > memory stick is a more recent thing. Until this latest hardware upgrade I > had not seen a motherboard that had the ability to reprogram itself

Re: [GTALUG] Tutorials on Linux command-line -- any interest?

On Sat, Jul 29, 2017 at 10:52:43AM -0400, William Park via talk wrote: > I thought it was always like that. I don't remember booting to Windows > to upgrade BIOS of motherboard. It was often done that way. Many these days seem to have a program you run in windows that loads something into UEFI

Re: [GTALUG] Tutorials on Linux command-line -- any interest?

On Fri, Jul 28, 2017 at 04:22:49PM -0400, D. Hugh Redelmeier via talk wrote: > When the PC clones first appeared, the universal OS was DOS. That's > what they used as a platform for firmware updates. Only later did > Windows come along and eventually motherboard manufacturers had to run > the

Re: [GTALUG] router upgrade; cheap WRT1200ac

On Fri, Jul 21, 2017 at 07:26:38AM -0700, Dave Cramer wrote: > There was one review on this router that mentioned that the radio was not > very good. Is this typical or just someone's bad experience ? Well I keep my 1900 in the basement and two floors above (in a 40 year old townhouse) I have no

Re: [GTALUG] router upgrade; cheap WRT1200ac

On Thu, Jul 20, 2017 at 06:15:10PM -0500, o1bigtenor wrote: > Greetings > > Where 'would' you notice the difference? Well a client that supported 3 streams would be able to get a faster connection than the typical 2 or 1 stream clients. Of course it is possible that in some cases the 4 antenna

Re: [GTALUG] router upgrade; cheap WRT1200ac

On Thu, Jul 20, 2017 at 11:49:31AM -0400, D. Hugh Redelmeier via talk wrote: > | From: o1bigtenor via talk > > | I've been running an Asus rt-n16 router, using dd-wrt, for about 6.5 years > | now. On the second one for about 1.5 years and no longer have a spare for > | the next

Re: [GTALUG] "open source" [was Re: Cheap vs Inexpensive (Was: router upgrade)]

On Fri, Jul 14, 2017 at 01:53:06PM -0400, D. Hugh Redelmeier via talk wrote: > + the US FCC has all-but required this to ensure the implementation of > their regulations regarding radio frequencies and powers. There > are other ways of implementing the FCC limitations but that would >

Re: [GTALUG] Interest in an IM for TLUG?

On Thu, Jul 13, 2017 at 06:00:57PM -0300, Mauro Souza via talk wrote: > What about IRC? It's a "no setup needed" solution, everyone can install a > client, and there's lots of servers to choose from... I banned myself from IRC about 6 or 7 years ago due to spending too much time there helping

Re: [GTALUG] router upgrade

On Thu, Jul 13, 2017 at 04:09:21PM -0400, Scott Sullivan via talk wrote: > We are on 802.11ac Wave 2 new, two generation beyond N, and with AD coming > in a year or so. Do you have devices that would take advantage of that? AD? I have heard of AX, but not AD. Oh actually I guess I had heard of

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

On Thu, Jul 13, 2017 at 04:02:27PM +0200, ac via talk wrote: > I know what you are trying to say, but... > > end users of gpl or bsd code have exactly the same freedom. A developer can be an end user too. > developers using bsd code and dev using gpl code have different freedoms. > > and as

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

On Thu, Jul 13, 2017 at 05:44:51AM +0200, ac via talk wrote: > On Tue, 11 Jul 2017 17:09:55 -0400 (EDT) > "D. Hugh Redelmeier via talk" wrote: > > I found this article interesting and useful > > > > This guy

Re: [GTALUG] router upgrade

On Tue, Jul 11, 2017 at 08:41:15AM -0500, o1bigtenor via talk wrote: > Greetings > > I've been running an Asus rt-n16 router, using dd-wrt, for about 6.5 years > now. On the second one for about 1.5 years and no longer have a spare for > the next time the router craters. > > Am finding it very

Re: [GTALUG] NAT [was Re: Linux hardening question]

On Mon, Jul 03, 2017 at 01:44:52AM -0400, D. Hugh Redelmeier via talk wrote: > I just assume that dhclient knows how to do this. But I'll have to > look into it. Not likely. I think you want dhcp6c or something like that. -- Len Sorensen --- Talk Mailing List talk@gtalug.org

Re: [GTALUG] Linux hardening question

On Thu, Jun 29, 2017 at 07:31:10PM +, Ansar Mohammed wrote: > IMHO if you are looking for a hardened system you should not start with > Ubuntu. > Ubuntu is what l like to call 'kitchen sink Linux' Yeah I wouldn't start with that either. > Start with a minimal Debian install, then add the

Re: [GTALUG] Linux hardening question

On Thu, Jun 29, 2017 at 10:18:26AM -0400, Anthony de Boer via talk wrote: > Lennart Sorensen wrote: > > On Wed, Jun 28, 2017 at 07:21:55PM -0400, Anthony de Boer via talk wrote: > > > Many years ago a coworker tried "chmod 700" on /etc etc, and chmod 600 on > > > many key files, the upshot of

Re: [GTALUG] Linux hardening question

On Thu, Jun 29, 2017 at 09:24:09AM -0400, Lennart Sorensen via talk wrote: > On Wed, Jun 28, 2017 at 07:21:55PM -0400, Anthony de Boer via talk wrote: > > Christopher Browne via talk wrote: > > > On 27 June 2017 at 19:53, Kevin Cozens via talk <talk@gtalug.org> wrote: &

Re: [GTALUG] Linux hardening question

On Wed, Jun 28, 2017 at 07:21:55PM -0400, Anthony de Boer via talk wrote: > Christopher Browne via talk wrote: > > On 27 June 2017 at 19:53, Kevin Cozens via talk wrote: > > > You may also want to "chmod 711 /etc", FWIW. > > > > That means that non-root-space applications will

Re: [GTALUG] Trusted Android repair in Toronto?

On Sat, Jun 24, 2017 at 09:43:57AM -0400, Evan Leibovitch via talk wrote: > I took the repair jobs to the place Stephen recommended and can second his > endorsement. > > Power switch on my Galaxy Note 2 fixed while I waited. > Replacement screen/bexel for the G4 fixed overnight. > > But...

Re: [GTALUG] cheap today: 43 inch UltraHD TV

On Sun, Jun 25, 2017 at 06:31:50AM -0500, o1bigtenor via talk wrote: > On Sun, Jun 25, 2017 at 12:16 AM, D. Hugh Redelmeier via talk < > talk@gtalug.org> wrote: > > > | Sounds like a decent idea if you only want 1 (!) monitor. > > | Me - - I went for 4 - - 1900 x 1080 IIRC > > > > I prefer a

Re: [GTALUG] cheap today: 43 inch UltraHD TV

On Sat, Jun 24, 2017 at 10:30:12AM -0400, D. Hugh Redelmeier via talk wrote: > tl;dr: if you yearn for monitor resolution, have I got a deal for you! > > > > I use a cheap and

Re: [GTALUG] Vi-keybinding for MS-Word

On Fri, Jun 23, 2017 at 12:03:30AM -0400, William Park via talk wrote: > I have no choice but to use MS-Office (mostly, Word and Outlook). And, > my productivity is very low. > > Is there Vi-keybinding for Word or Outlook, just for cursor movement and > editing text? How would vi keybindings

Re: [GTALUG] Question

On Tue, Jun 13, 2017 at 09:13:19AM -0400, David Collier-Brown via talk wrote: > And to add injury to insult, the machine only passed the "C" level exam, > which is about equivalent to getting a C on a math exam. I prefer at least > a "B", and once ran an "A"-rated device (a blacker box Sun used

Re: [GTALUG] Any Debian Developers here can help me sign my GPG key?

On Mon, Jun 05, 2017 at 03:02:57PM -0400, Antonio Sun via talk wrote: > On Mon, Jun 5, 2017 at 2:50 PM, Lennart Sorensen - > lsore...@csclub.uwaterloo.ca < > tlugys.ats.74f53dca95.lsorense#csclub.uwaterloo...@ob.0sg.net> wrote: > > > Checking the debian developer info, according to the map of

Re: [GTALUG] Any Debian Developers here can help me sign my GPG key?

On Mon, Jun 05, 2017 at 02:44:56PM -0400, Dhaval Giani via talk wrote: > Might I suggest https://db.debian.org/ ? Well it lists 32 people as in Canada. Doesn't tell you where in Canada though. Although clicking some at random, seems a "Norbert Veber" has something to do with a company in

Re: [GTALUG] Any Debian Developers here can help me sign my GPG key?

On Mon, Jun 05, 2017 at 02:35:33PM -0400, Lennart Sorensen via talk wrote: > On Mon, Jun 05, 2017 at 01:50:10PM -0400, Antonio Sun via talk wrote: > > Good to know and thanks for replying, Lennart. > > > > Would you ask around if there are any Debian Developer > > arou

Re: [GTALUG] Any Debian Developers here can help me sign my GPG key?

On Mon, Jun 05, 2017 at 01:50:10PM -0400, Antonio Sun via talk wrote: > Good to know and thanks for replying, Lennart. > > Would you ask around if there are any Debian Developer > around uwaterloo please? (since I saw your are replying from > csclub.uwaterloo.ca address), because the THUG group,

Re: [GTALUG] Any Debian Developers here can help me sign my GPG key?

On Thu, Jun 01, 2017 at 09:44:06PM -0400, tlugys.ats--- via talk wrote: > Hi GTALUG members, > > Do we have any Debian Developers here? > > I am in the second step of becoming New Debian Maintainer process -- > https://nm.debian.org/process/194 > > and now need to have my GPG key signed by a

Re: [GTALUG] Did I buy the wrong network card? (RTL8812AE)

On Sat, May 13, 2017 at 11:06:53AM -0400, Scott Sullivan via talk wrote: > I wish we'd covered wifi when building out your machine. It somehow just got > missed/assumed by me you would be wired. > > I've got a Intel 7260 mPCIe card sitting spare. It came off a mini-itx board > that wasn't going

Re: [GTALUG] Did I buy the wrong network card? (RTL8812AE)

On Sat, May 13, 2017 at 07:40:21AM -0400, Stewart C. Russell via talk wrote: > Hi - > For the new computer I just built, I bought a D-Link DWA-582 802.11ac > PCIe adapter. It's based on the Realtek RTL8812AE chipset. Does anyone > know the particular magic to get these going, please? > > From the

Re: [GTALUG] tablet-with-keyboard deal?

On Tue, Apr 18, 2017 at 02:22:49PM -0400, D. Hugh Redelmeier via talk wrote: > I've never seen or touched one of these so I cannot attest to the > qualities of the actual device. > >

Re: [GTALUG] Hardware Hack - help needed

On Tue, Apr 11, 2017 at 01:02:39PM -0400, Christopher Browne wrote: > There is a chip, and a project, for that sort of thing. > > The Atmel processors (recently discussed by Peter Hiscock) include > some quite suitable to the task, notably the Atmega32U4 > >

Re: [GTALUG] Hardware Hack - help needed

On Tue, Apr 11, 2017 at 01:45:30PM -0400, William Park via talk wrote: > It so happens that I may have to build something similar at work here. > Right now, I have to press keys manually, and it's difficult to do any > kind of automated testing. I need an external USB device, acting as > keyboard

Re: [GTALUG] Hardware Hack - help needed

On Mon, Apr 10, 2017 at 09:41:24PM -0400, Giles Orr via talk wrote: > I'd like to do that, but I think there are a few more steps involved. > Want to help out? Can you point me to a detailed HOWTO for doing > this? I'm not an electrical engineer, but I can solder, I have basic > programming

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

On Sat, Apr 08, 2017 at 06:47:00PM -0400, William Park via talk wrote: > Something I noticed while shopping on Newegg.ca: > > 1. Linksys WRT1900AC -- $155.99 reburbished. I don't know what that > means. Why was it returned in the first place? > >

Re: [GTALUG] testing CURL without real server

On Wed, Mar 29, 2017 at 01:43:47AM -0400, ted leslie via talk wrote: > nc -l 8080 nc -l -p 8080 works better here. But certainly a goot idea. > then curl to 127.0.0.1:8080 -- Len Sorensen --- Talk Mailing List talk@gtalug.org https://gtalug.org/mailman/listinfo/talk

Re: [GTALUG] DMA kernel attacks

On Fri, Mar 17, 2017 at 02:53:03PM -0400, Russell Reiter wrote: > Ok to recap. You assumed you needed to turn off the computer to install > PCIe. You learned PCIe is hot pluggable. You assumed the card had to be > plugged into the target machine, you learned it did not. Well no. I already knew

Re: [GTALUG] DMA kernel attacks

On Thu, Mar 16, 2017 at 04:41:36PM -0400, Russell Reiter via talk wrote: > > Date: Mar 16, 2017 12:49 PM > Subject: Re: [GTALUG] DMA kernel attacks > To: "Lennart Sorensen" > On Mar 13, 2017 10:50 AM, "Russell Reiter"

Re: [GTALUG] DMA kernel attacks

On Sat, Mar 11, 2017 at 01:02:45PM -0500, Russell Reiter via talk wrote: > Another DEFCON talk. This is a hardware attack on M$, OSX & Linux, PCIleech > = 150mbs over usb3. > > https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fXthwl6ShOg=PL9fPq3eQfaaAvXV3hJc4yHuNxoviVckoE=15#t=2508.995164 Well first you have to

Re: [GTALUG] Updating Wheezy to Jessie

On Sun, Mar 12, 2017 at 02:08:38PM -0400, David Mason via talk wrote: > I have a server at home that tends to be install and forget. > > It's running Wheezy and zfsonlinux. Unfortunately zfsonlinux no longer > supports Wheezy, so upgrading isn't as straight-forward as I would hope. > > I am

Re: [GTALUG] How to find out if you're behind proxy?

On Thu, Mar 02, 2017 at 01:54:10PM -0500, William Park via talk wrote: > Hi all, > > Do you know any simple way to find out if you're behind a proxy? > > Usually , I get "Connection reset by peer" when I ssh to a machine which > only accepts my key. But, that message could be caused by other >

Re: [GTALUG] Lenovo Thinkcenter M72z All-in-One -- at Newegg.ca

On Sat, Feb 04, 2017 at 04:05:48PM -0500, D. Hugh Redelmeier via talk wrote: > Offer ends today. > > It is interesting if it is something you want. > > - refurbished. This is probably off-lease (the product is quite old). > Some folks have had bad experiences with refurbished products sold >

Re: [GTALUG] Lenovo Thinkcenter M72z All-in-One -- at Newegg.ca

On Sat, Feb 04, 2017 at 02:01:41PM -0500, William Park via talk wrote: > I came across > https://www.newegg.ca/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16883795779 > $1000 -> $340 > Not sure how upgradable it is, but as "all-in-one" goes, it's cheap. They don't even tell you what model it is. I

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

On Fri, Feb 03, 2017 at 12:42:47PM -0500, D. Hugh Redelmeier via talk wrote: > > | From: Jason Shaw via talk > > | I personally like the form factor of Western Digital Passport drives as > | they are USB powered, USB 3, and small form factor. I get decent > | performance out

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

On Wed, Feb 01, 2017 at 04:05:31PM -0500, Alvin Starr wrote: > Trying to explain to people why they need a whole bunch of spare > computers and take days of solid work to test disaster recovery is > always a hard sell. > > You usually get a look like "what are you incompetent? You should just >

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

On Wed, Feb 01, 2017 at 11:49:32AM -0500, Jason Shaw via talk wrote: > Getting 500 GB SSD for <$100 is probably not going to happen. > > I personally like the form factor of Western Digital Passport drives as > they are USB powered, USB 3, and small form factor. I get decent > performance out

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

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

Re: [GTALUG] Router advice sought

On Tue, Jan 31, 2017 at 07:05:38PM +, James Knott via talk wrote: > I'm not sure what Teksavvy does, but an ISP is supposed to provide at least a > /64 prefix,which provides 18.4 billion, billion addresses.  I get a /56 from > Rogers, which is 256 times the size of a /64. > Since it's

Re: [GTALUG] Router advice sought

On Mon, Jan 30, 2017 at 08:35:57AM -0500, Stewart Russell via talk wrote: > So my WRT-350N decided to stop being a router last night and to start being > a brick instead. All ports and WiFi appear to be dead. People have > discussed the latest and greatest here - so what's the best basic router >

Re: [GTALUG] NVIDIA SHIELD Tablet K1

On Mon, Jan 23, 2017 at 11:02:52AM -0500, Charles Philip Chan via talk wrote: > Lennart Sorensen via talk <talk@gtalug.org> writes: > > > Android 6.0 available, so it isn't totally obsolete software wise. > > I was looking at the same tablet to replace my Nexus 7 2013. Ap

Re: [GTALUG] NVIDIA SHIELD Tablet K1

On Fri, Jan 20, 2017 at 04:37:20PM -0500, Michael Galea via talk wrote: > Does anyone own an NVIDIA SHIELD Tablet K1 and can they recommend it? I am > looking for a recommendation of this tablet for the purpose of web and > email. > > I have heard that it being a gaming tablet with four cores at

Re: [GTALUG] Boot problem

On Sun, Jan 22, 2017 at 09:20:03AM -0500, Michael Galea via talk wrote: > cat /proc/cmdline indicated GRUB2 was trying to boot from /dev/sda1 despite > the provisioning for UUIDs in /etc/fstab. > > In debian, the /etc/default/grub file has a line > "GRUB_DISABLE_LINUX_UUID=true". Commenting that

Re: [GTALUG] Question

On Thu, Jan 12, 2017 at 02:30:06PM -0500, Dhaval Giani via talk wrote: > I feel obligated to point out here that it is more often the case that > a cloud provider is more secure than a standalone solution. If only > because they can afford to spend more on hiring people to work on > security full

Re: [GTALUG] processor progress sure has slowed down

On Fri, Jan 06, 2017 at 08:31:57PM -0500, D. Hugh Redelmeier via talk wrote: > I got an ad from NCIX for systems with Intel's new Kaby Lake processors. > Here's the headline: > > UP TO > [LARGER FONT] 28% BETTER PERFORMANCE* [/LARGER FONT] > versus a 3-year-old-desktop > >

Re: [GTALUG] Cyber Monday cheap netbook

On Fri, Jan 06, 2017 at 09:51:49AM -0500, Irwin Barrer via talk wrote: > Can you tell me more about this?: > > - I think that there is room to install a 3.5" drive in the computer. > (The computer came with the required mounting screws). This is a > BIG bonus: it provides a bunch of

Re: [GTALUG] Bash on Ubuntu on Windows

On Fri, Dec 23, 2016 at 09:00:54PM -0500, William Park via talk wrote: > On Fri, Dec 23, 2016 at 07:35:53PM -0500, Kevin Cozens via talk wrote: > > On 16-12-23 07:05 PM, William Park via talk wrote: > > > I just tried "Bash on Ubuntu on Windows" (yes, it's real title). With > > > this, there are

Re: [GTALUG] Resizing FAT32 filesystem?

On Sun, Dec 18, 2016 at 12:18:22PM -0500, William Park via talk wrote: > Parted has 'resizepart' which resizes a partition (at least the end > point). That's just for the partition, not for the filesystem inside. > > OK, just discovered 'fatresize' on Clonezilla, and probably available on >

Re: [GTALUG] Cyber Monday cheap netbook

On Fri, Dec 09, 2016 at 11:56:16AM -0500, D. Hugh Redelmeier via talk wrote: > Everyone got two copies of this because you didn't notice that the > list software rewrote my address to be the list address. Notice that it > has happened to your "From:" address too. > > Of course rewriting my

Re: [GTALUG] unexpected firefox "server not found" messages

On Thu, Nov 24, 2016 at 05:32:25AM +0200, ac via talk wrote: > On Wed, 23 Nov 2016 09:52:43 -0500 (EST) > "D. Hugh Redelmeier via talk" wrote: > > Once in a while I've been getting "Server not found" errors from > > Firefox that surprise me. The links are to real sites. Other >

Re: [GTALUG] Deal on open source compatible router

On Mon, Nov 21, 2016 at 09:02:09PM -0500, CLIFFORD ILKAY via talk wrote: > On 21/11/16 01:55 PM, Lennart Sorensen via talk wrote: > >I see NCIX has the Linksys WRT1900ACS on sale today for $200 (down from > >the usual $300). > > > >I have the WRT1900ACv2 which is t

[GTALUG] Deal on open source compatible router

I see NCIX has the Linksys WRT1900ACS on sale today for $200 (down from the usual $300). I have the WRT1900ACv2 which is the same hardware as the ACS and am running LEDE (https://www.lede-project.org/) on it and it works great. Not bad for a router with dual Cortex-A9 1.6GHz CPU, 512MB ram,

Re: [GTALUG] Internet testing

On Mon, Nov 14, 2016 at 12:09:07PM -0600, o1bigtenor via talk wrote: > Greetings > > I have been using www.testmy.net as a non-flash based (its html 5 > IIUC) connection tester. > > My ISP on the other hand believes that only flash based tests like > Ookla's are any good. > > Looking for

Re: [GTALUG] Hardware Password Wallet - Mooltipass Mini

On Wed, Oct 26, 2016 at 12:35:43PM -0400, Scott Sullivan via talk wrote: > So this a size reduced version of the Mooltipass device I helped fund nearly > 2 years ago. > > https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/limpkin/mooltipass-mini-your-passwords-on-the-go/ > > I'll let the campaign video sell

Re: [GTALUG] little PCs for internet gateways

On Tue, Oct 25, 2016 at 05:47:02PM -0400, D. Hugh Redelmeier via talk wrote: > By gateway, I mean router/firewall/whatever box that sits between your > LAN and the internet. > > Reasonable choices: > > - ISP-provided / sanctioned device (combo wireless router and modem) > > - ISP modem + user

Re: [GTALUG] restore GPT partition table?

On Tue, Oct 25, 2016 at 11:06:02PM +0100, Jamon Camisso via talk wrote: > You've outdone yourself and all of us. I had no idea about that backup > GPT location. Maybe I should learn to appreciate GPT a little more? > > TIL! It's one of the nice features they added. All partitions are the same

Re: [GTALUG] restore GPT partition table?

On Tue, Oct 25, 2016 at 07:33:30AM -0400, Matt Price via talk wrote: > OK, so I did this > > dd if=some.iso of=/dev/sdb > > oops -- that's not the USB key! that's my internal m.2 drive! > > The partition table is gone, but it used to contain 2 partitions, both of > them in an LVM, one of them

Re: [GTALUG] Neat presentation by Greg KH on the linux development model

On Wed, Oct 12, 2016 at 10:24:46AM -0400, Lennart Sorensen via talk wrote: > https://kernel-recipes.org/en/2016/talks/patches-carved-into-stone-tablets/ > > Covers lots fo about email clients, patch application, patch reviewing, > and such. And I misspelled Greg's name in the subje

[GTALUG] Neat presentation by Grek GH on the linux development model

https://kernel-recipes.org/en/2016/talks/patches-carved-into-stone-tablets/ Covers lots fo about email clients, patch application, patch reviewing, and such. -- Len Sorensen --- Talk Mailing List talk@gtalug.org https://gtalug.org/mailman/listinfo/talk

Re: [GTALUG] email client with autocorrect?

On Fri, Oct 07, 2016 at 08:54:53AM -0400, Matt Price via talk wrote: > Does anyone use an email client that has decent autocorrect? I am a > terrible typist who makes many similar mistakes over and over. In > thunderbird, correcting my errors takes about 30-50% of my total message > composition

Re: [GTALUG] Going to FSOSS 2016... route question

On Sun, Oct 02, 2016 at 09:23:48PM -0400, William Park via talk wrote: > I'm thinking about taking public transit to FSOSS2016. I can get to > Go Union Station easy. From there, Trip planner says > - Union -> University Subway line -> Downsview -> York U > - Union -> Yonge Subway line ->

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

On Thu, Sep 29, 2016 at 11:52:59PM -0400, Peter King via talk wrote: > On Thu, Sep 29, 2016 at 10:45:09AM -0400, Lennart Sorensen via talk wrote: > > > So for me, bsd is only a necessary evil to be used if linux won't run > > on the hardware, and the last time I had to resor

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

On Wed, Sep 28, 2016 at 11:24:13PM -0400, William Park via talk wrote: > Just curious about state of Linux vs BSD... I use Linux, but examining > my use case carefully, I don't really "use" Linux. I use applications > and tools found in Linux distro. These applications and tools can also > be

Re: [GTALUG] Lenovo IdeaPad Miix 700, $770 at CanadaComputers -- opinion?

On Mon, Sep 19, 2016 at 10:42:51PM -0400, William Park via talk wrote: > I just came across > > http://www.canadacomputers.com/product_info.php?cPath=710_577_664_668_id=092863 4GB ramn isn't very much, and I suspect not upgradable. From a quick search, the ram is soldered on and not

Re: [GTALUG] Newbie

On Tue, Sep 13, 2016 at 03:14:16PM -0400, Devlin via talk wrote: > Is this the right place to ask questions about things Linux? > Like software recommendations and help? That seems like one of the things this list handles yes. -- Len Sorensen --- Talk Mailing List talk@gtalug.org

Re: [GTALUG] Setting up a VM host

On Tue, Sep 06, 2016 at 04:03:16PM +, David Thornton wrote: > So I didn't know that about qemu. I've been thinking about doing a Linux > from scratch for my pi Zero. I feel like qemu would be the tool to do that . > > At the risk of forking the thread... anyone done that? Well in Debian

Re: [GTALUG] Setting up a VM host

On Sat, Sep 03, 2016 at 07:39:30PM -0400, William Park via talk wrote: > This is where my confusion starts... > > - I can run VirtualBox or QEMU, but not both at the same time. You can run qemu without -enable-kvm at the same time as virtualbox, but it is quite slow when run that way. It is

Re: [GTALUG] Setting up a VM host

On Thu, Sep 01, 2016 at 10:07:41PM -0400, William Park via talk wrote: > Now you got me confused. I thought VirtualBox and QEMU are just > "emulator" which use KVM kernel modules (ie. kvm, kvm-intel, kvm-amd) if > they are available, or do full software emulation if not available. > And, VT-x is

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