Re: [GTALUG] mysterious restarts

James Knott wrote: > > … There were a few different frequencies, other than 25 & 60 Hz. There were > even rotary converters … I've seen rotary converters on very old off-grid systems for remote power. Although somewhat inefficient, they output a true sine wave and survive misuse far better than

Re: [GTALUG] mysterious restarts

On 2016-06-15 04:29 PM, Russell Reiter wrote: > > I always thought it a shame that the windmill was only used to generate > hydrogen for the hybrid fleet. It would have been nice to have it feed > the grid It *always* has fed the grid. That hydrogen station coincidentally connected to the grid,

Re: [GTALUG] Advice -- Building Debian 8 PC To Replace Win XP PC;

On 2016-07-25 03:34 PM, Russell Reiter via talk wrote: > > active surplus … > > I have yet to find another place with such a comprehensive stock of the > little odds and ends someone night need. True enough, but Graham (the former manager of Active Surplus) plus the skilled facilitators of

Re: [GTALUG] Fedora Flock 2017

On 2016-08-09 02:45 PM, Charles Profitt via talk wrote: > > When I was discussing Flock 2017 with some Fedora friends I thought of > GTALUG as a potential host group to help organize Flock. If this suitably interests people, I can connect folks to the local OpenStreetMap folks, who made a great

[GTALUG] FSOSS 2016 registration is now open

As Scott mentioned at Tuesday's meeting: What The 16th Free Software and Open Source Symposium http://cdot.fsoss.ca/ Where = Seneca@York Campus 70 The Pond Rd, North York, ON M3J 3M6 http://www.openstreetmap.org/?mlat=43.77151=-79.50007#map=18/43.77151/-79.50007 geo:43.772,-79.5 When

Re: [GTALUG] Advice -- ... old tape stuff

On 2016-08-09 04:37 PM, James Knott wrote: > > That looks like a disk pack cover, not sure what model though. It's a 9 track box - the kind you got if you didn't have a big rack setup. They don't quite look the same without the 3M logo. cheers, Stewart --- Talk Mailing List talk@gtalug.org

Re: [GTALUG] 2 weeks on cell phone and chromebook... never again!

On 2016-07-18 03:52 PM, Peter King via talk wrote: > > Ditto. Acceptable on a phone, okay on a tablet, wonderful on a computer. > Best solution to mail management ever As a voice for YMMV: no CUA or even remotely standard keys, weird display (aka "not 3-pane"), questionable to no mouse

Re: [GTALUG] dinner tomorrow night

On 2016-07-11 03:00 PM, D. Hugh Redelmeier via talk wrote: > > I suggest: Roti Roll Caribean Cuisine > Address: 361 Yonge St. (A little hard to recognize from the street > but it is there) > Yelp Review: > visited

Re: [GTALUG] cheap Raspberry Pi, today only

On 2016-08-04 01:26 PM, Evan Leibovitch via talk wrote: > I'm very happy with the RPi 3 that I bought recently from > https://thepihut.com/ (taking advantage of the post-Brexit drop in the > pound ;-) ) Their £30 is still ~ $51*, then you add shipping and the odds-on chance of getting hit with

Re: [GTALUG] Ubuntu 16.04 / gcc 5.4.0 - errors generated inside system include files

On 2016-08-07 03:34 PM, D. Hugh Redelmeier via talk wrote: > > I'm still playing with this, but here are my preliminary observations. Wow, thanks, Hugh - this is definitely the definition of going above and beyond! > So here's the fundamental problem. > > "exp" is kind of like a reserved word

Re: [GTALUG] Ubuntu 16.04 / gcc 5.4.0 - errors generated inside system include files

On 2016-08-06 10:53 AM, Kevin Cozens via talk wrote: > > The first step is a search to see if you have the mathcalls.h file on > the machine. Yes, it's in /usr/include/x86_64-linux-gnu/bits/mathcalls.h Those error lines are from mathcalls.h > If that isn't the problem there may be something

[GTALUG] Ubuntu 16.04 / gcc 5.4.0 - errors generated inside system include files

I'm hitting unexpected problems building some old-ish code (UCB Logo 6, after hearing Seymour Papert went PENUP last week). gcc seems to be choking on its own header file, mathcalls.h: gcc -g -O -O0 -DUSE_OLD_TTY -c -o coms.o coms.c In file included from coms.c:30:0:

Re: [GTALUG] Advice -- ... old tape stuff

On 2016-08-09 04:15 PM, James Knott via talk wrote: > > You should always back up with tar to 9 track tape stands, the way the > computer gods intended. ;-) For it is written ... eventually. Those who remember 9-track tape might be amused to see the "Richeson Lock Box" painter's palette, and

Re: [GTALUG] Advice -- Building Debian 8 PC To Replace Win XP PC;

On 2016-08-09 09:35 AM, Steve Petrie, P.Eng. via talk wrote: > > On the Windows XP PC that is going to be replaced by the new Linux PC, > the DDS-3 DAT SCSI tape drive has died, that does backup duty for the > HDD. Died too soon by only a couple of months -- !@#$%^&*(!! Better to spend $90 on

Re: [GTALUG] bash seq question

Hi Russell - > It's not often I have to assemble larger numbered documents. I usually > use this little script. > > enscript -L1 -F --header-font=Times-Roman12 -b '||$%' -o- < <(for i in > $(seq "$(pdftk "$1" dump_data | grep "Num" | cut -d":" -f2)"); do echo; > done) | ps2pdf - | pdftk "$1"

Re: [GTALUG] Router advice sought

On 2017-01-31 06:08 AM, James Knott via talk wrote: > > Since you're with Teksavvy over ADSL, you'll want to get one that > supports IPv6. Yes, it does, and I think that I do have an IPv6 address somewhere. But I've got a static IPv4 address from Teksavvy, and that's about the limit of what I

Re: [GTALUG] bash seq question

On 2017-02-06 01:36 PM, Russell Reiter wrote: > I had to resort to analogue to get the docs out. You remember, print the > numbers on the pages, then run them through for the data. Ah, that's annoying. Your script does seem to be a variant of this, which seems to work: #!/bin/bash # from

Re: [GTALUG] Router advice sought

Thanks! The Asus looks neat, especially with the even more special deal at Canada Computers this week taking it to $84. It's not supported by LEDE, though. The Linksys WRT1900ACS that Lennart mentioned looks solid, but it's still a bit pricey refurb at $170. Still, it's supported by OpenWrt and

[GTALUG] Watching a network folder: is there a smart way of doing this?

I need to watch a folder on a network share (a scanner) and see when new files are created. There are a couple of special things about this location: * It's over CIFS. There's nothing I can do about that. I think that means I can't use Inotify. * It doesn't have an accurate clock for

Re: [GTALUG] Watching a network folder: is there a smart way of doing this?

On 2017-02-19 05:10 PM, Russell Reiter wrote: > > If all you need is a count, maybe you could tee the scanner output > and drop one copy in the bit bucket. Maybe I should have explained better: the scanner only scans to this CIFS share. I can't do ps or tee as my computer has no control

Re: [GTALUG] FPD-Link adapter kits

On 2016-08-22 12:17 PM, Russell Reiter via talk wrote: > Has anyone tried out the LCD adapter kits like this one on ebay. > http://m.ebay.com/itm/121124750917?_mwBanner=1 Not directly, but I have seen a whole bunch of consoles for ad promotions that use Raspberry Pi + Generic cheap laptop LCD +

Re: [GTALUG] anyone running linux on a new dell xps 9550

On Mon 05 Sep 2016 18:09 +0100, Jamon Camisso via talk wrote: >> >>> try http://onlinetonegenerator.com/ … If you open multiple tabs to that site set to different frequencies, such as: * http://onlinetonegenerator.com/?freq=439 * http://onlinetonegenerator.com/?freq=440 *

Re: [GTALUG] Write-protect on a MicroSD card?

On 2016-09-13 05:30 PM, Evan Leibovitch via talk wrote: > > Any suggestions? Both Windows (sdcard.org formatting > tool) and Linux (dd) refuse to write to it, and the "dirty bit" can't be > cleared from the boot partition. Try in a digital camera, and use its low-level format

Re: [GTALUG] Voting with our Dollars on Computing Future that Respects our Freedom.

On 2016-08-27 07:30 PM, Alvin Starr via talk wrote: > > If we are into playing mine is bigger ^h^h^h^h^h older then yours... > I have a multibus NS16032 in my basement with an ST-506 multibus interface. Uh, this isn't a game you want to play with Hugh around ... I'm pleasantly surprised that the

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

On 2016-09-30 10:47 AM, o1bigtenor via talk wrote: > > … Systemd wants to be everything to everybody. Well, it is called *system*d. init just starts things, systemd runs everything … --- Talk Mailing List talk@gtalug.org https://gtalug.org/mailman/listinfo/talk

Re: [GTALUG] ssh/terminal on Android phone

On 2016-10-29 02:32 PM, William Park via talk wrote: > > Which SSH client do you use on your phone? ConnectBot - https://connectbot.org/ It's very old, but maintained and works. Stewart --- Talk Mailing List talk@gtalug.org https://gtalug.org/mailman/listinfo/talk

Re: [GTALUG] desktop search in GNOME

On 2016-10-22 10:58 AM, David Collier-Brown via talk wrote: > > Setting the default to off is exactly what a UX designer might do. Given that Linux is a developer/sysadmin do-ocracy*, I'd be surprised if there are any UX folks involved. Filesystem indexing chews disk space and CPU, so I can

Re: [GTALUG] FPD-Link adapter kits -Success

On 2016-10-22 04:57 PM, Russell Reiter via talk wrote: > Top posting again. > It all works. The recycled laptop screen is connected to the Pi through > the M.NT68676.2A display adapter. Nice work! I see that someone has got first-gen Nexus 7 displays working with the Raspberry Pi, too:

Re: [GTALUG] desktop search in GNOME

Hi Matt - > I've been using GNOME for a long time and am used to it, but the desktop > search functionality is pretty limited. In my current installation it > doesn't seem like tracker is integrated into the "windows" key search -- > but from what I read it's supposed to be. I'm in the same boat

Re: [GTALUG] email client with autocorrect?

On 2016-10-27 11:06 AM, Myles Braithwaite  wrote: > > You should checkout [Markdown Here](http://markdown-here.com/) Thanks; I've been using it for a couple of years. It's great if you only compose in text only mode. Using it in styled mode is hit-or-miss, and if you ever have to pasted text

[GTALUG] The GTALUG Logo: we're looking to update it

Hi - would've loved to join you all tonight, but I got stuck in the east end and can't make it out. At the last GTALUG Operations/Board meeting, the Board decided we really should take a look at redoing the logo. In case you'd forgotten what it looks like, or you didn't know that we had one,

[GTALUG] Notes from the whiteboard - Jan 2017 round table

Christopher Browne sent through notes from the whiteboard from last night, but they got caught up in the list's attachment filter. I took the liberty of unpacking the images and putting them on the wiki: https://wiki.gtalug.org/meeting:2017-01 Thanks to all who contributed! cheers, Stewart

Re: [GTALUG] Watching a network folder: is there a smart way of doing this?

In my search for the perfect (or at least, “working”) changed file protocol, Chris Tyler pointed me towards something that other list users might find useful: incron The cron part of the name is a bit misleading, as it's not triggered periodically, but by inotify events. Chris noted that watching

Re: [GTALUG] dinner before meeting?

On 2017-03-14 12:17 PM, D. Hugh Redelmeier via talk wrote: > > If it is still there, I suggest Roti Roll: It looked like it was when I went by a couple of weeks ago. That whole strip's kind of endangered, though. (The shawarma place is still there. I'm not suggesting we go, as Roti Roll was

Re: [GTALUG] BOOST, the big package with the bad install instructions

On 2017-03-20 03:32 PM, Kevin Cozens via talk wrote: > > I didn't know anything about Boost until I had to deal with it as a set > of dependencies on something I wanted to compile. Some of the imaging libraries I use as part of my document filing system use Boost. Thankfully, all of them can be

Re: [GTALUG] Hardware Hack - help needed

On 2017-04-11 01:45 PM, William Park via talk wrote: > > … I need an external USB device, acting as > keyboard to the test machine that it's plugged into, but in reality > accepting input from me remotely. There are boards that combine Chris's keyboard-pretending ATMega32u4 with networking, like

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

On 2017-04-08 06:47 PM, William Park via talk wrote: > > 1. Linksys WRT1900AC -- $155.99 reburbished. I don't know what that > means. Why was it returned in the first place? I dunno why either, but I got mine refurb from Canada Computers. It was just in very minimal packaging. Good router,

Re: [GTALUG] Upcoming Meeting (was Meeting on 11 April at 7:30pm)

On 2017-04-02 02:08 PM, Myles Braithwaite via talk wrote: > 11 April - A Bit More Than Mostly Searchable: Scanned Paper You Can Find >with Stewart Russell I've put the notes/script and observations arising from my talk on the wiki:

Re: [GTALUG] Keeping it alive: Nexus 7 (2012) running lineageOS 14.1

On 2017-04-14 10:45 PM, Scott Sullivan via talk wrote: > At Hacklab.to's recent Junk Day, I managed to acquire the older model of > the Nexus 7 (2012 WIFI, aka grouper). > … Dang! I'm impressed! That's definitely worth knowing about, as the tablet was utterly unusable. Thank you for documenting

Re: [GTALUG] Updating Wheezy to Jessie

On 2017-03-12 02:08 PM, David Mason via talk wrote: > It's running Wheezy and zfsonlinux. Unfortunately zfsonlinux no longer > supports Wheezy, so upgrading isn't as straight-forward as I would hope. It's supposed to be on backports - https://github.com/zfsonlinux/zfs/wiki/Debian - but I don't

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

On 2017-07-29 10:52 AM, William Park via talk wrote: > > Anyways... if Shell/Editor is not the subject of interest, is there any > other topics you guys are interested? I've never “got” IRC: either the client setup is so hideous, or the channel's signal-to-noise ratio so far from what I need

Re: [GTALUG] Desktop swap

On 2017-08-01 09:05 AM, David Ing isss--- via talk wrote: > Hugh, the question from Evan was about experiences. Well, you're certainly going to have a lot of different experiences with separate root partitions: each one needing to be kept up to date, having to remember that you need this

Re: [GTALUG] Spam is basically dead

On 2017-08-16 08:10 AM, ac via talk wrote: > > Six Golden Rules: ** Spam is basically dead... ** … if you run your own mailserver. This list's members are not representative of the general population. As a list mod, I can very much assure you that spam is in robust health indeed. Stewart

[GTALUG] time_t hits 1,500,000,000 in 5 minutes!

Go on, you know you want to see it ... $ date +%c\ -\ %s Thu 13 Jul 2017 10:34:20 PM EDT - 149660 Stewart --- Talk Mailing List talk@gtalug.org https://gtalug.org/mailman/listinfo/talk

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

On 2017-07-24 09:32 AM, David Ing isss--- via talk wrote: > > One cure (actually, an affordance) is to register the GTALUG on > meetup.com , for visibility. Running a meetup.com group isn't cheap (I co-run one, and one the size of this mailing list would eat through our total

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

On 2017-07-03 08:56 AM, Russell via talk wrote: > > Its open to everyone to generate or use a keysigning authority. Unfortunately, that's a technical solution for a social problem: keys and authorities need to be something a user (almost) never needs to worry about. Mail clients need to come

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

On 2017-08-02 10:38 AM, James Knott via talk wrote: > Microsoft has certainly changed, since Bill & Steve left! And almost exactly two decades after Sun/Caldera killed Wabi - the Windows-16 Application Binary Interface for Solaris/Linux. Funny how things come around … Stewart --- Talk Mailing

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

On 2017-05-13 11:06 AM, 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. No worries. At least these cards aren't super expensive. > I've got a Intel 7260 mPCIe card sitting spare. Thank you!

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

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 start on Ubuntu Gnome, the card would work for about 15 minutes, then disassociate

[GTALUG] new computer (+ thanks to Scott S.)

I'd like to send a note of appreciation to Scott Sullivan for taking a couple of hours to spec out a new computer for me, and thinking of issues I wouldn't have even known were things to avoid. Without Scott's help, I'd likely have made some costly mistakes. I needed a fairly CPU-strong desktop

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

On 2017-05-13 11:06 AM, Scott Sullivan via talk wrote: > > I've got a Intel 7260 mPCIe card sitting spare. That reminds me - I think I have an Intel 6235 from my foray into (and sudden horrified retreat from) Intel Galileo world. Yes, it was a very slow, very hot Arduino running on a Pentium

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

On 2017-05-13 11:24 AM, ted leslie via talk wrote: > > I guess you tried the power saving "off" option in this post? > https://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=2348161 > as well as other possible solutions? Yes, I have, thanks. It's kind of annoying that the maintainer said that firmware more

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

On 2017-05-13 12:24 PM, Russell wrote: > > This might be an ILP (Instruction Level Parallel​isim) feature of systemd > init. > > Take a look at how systemd deals with IVP routing tables using network.target > here. > > https://www.freedesktop.org/wiki/Software/systemd/NetworkTarget/ Thanks,

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

On 2017-06-23 04:52 PM, William Park via talk wrote: > >> http://dready.org/projects/viWord/ > > I came across that site. It's binary download and 2005 vintage. Too > risky for my work computer. It likely wouldn't work even if you tried. I have friends in a writer's group dedicated to

Re: [GTALUG] Favourite GUI tool for SQLite?

I use - even when it's not a spatial database - SpatialiteGUI. It's not very powerful, but has just enough features for me. Stewart --- Talk Mailing List talk@gtalug.org https://gtalug.org/mailman/listinfo/talk

Re: [GTALUG] [GTALUG-Announce] Meeting Tomorrow at 7:30pm

Just in case anyone's subscribed to the GTALUG Calendar - http://gtalug.org/gtalug.ics - it seems to be showing Dhaval's talk on Wednesday. Same goes for the website. cheers, Stewart --- Talk Mailing List talk@gtalug.org https://gtalug.org/mailman/listinfo/talk

Re: [GTALUG] "Massage Passing" library?

On 2017-09-13 03:24 AM, William Park via talk wrote: > > So, do you know any "message-passing" scheme, framework, or library that > I can look up? MQTT seems to be what all the cool kids in IoT are using today. “Mosquitto” seems to be the message broker of choice.

Re: [GTALUG] From BTRFS to what?

On 2017-09-04 08:30 AM, ac via talk wrote: > > hehehe, yeah... the quoted example was so not a rant.. Hmm, maybe it's a sign that communications around Linux kernel development are utterly broken if the long screed I linked to doesn't even merit “rant” status. Had Reiser really wished to have his

Re: [GTALUG] [OFF TOPIC] Brave new Browser

On 2017-09-05 09:57 AM, Myles Braithwaite  via talk wrote: > > My favourite thing is Brave Payments[0] as a way of paying for good > content. Personally I see myself paying a percentage of $10 a week to > the websites I visit instead of for each individual website. This is exactly the model

Re: [GTALUG] From BTRFS to what?

On 2017-09-06 10:22 AM, Steve Petrie, P.Eng. via talk wrote: > > Rignt on about ext2/3/4. After much research, my design for the linux > disk drive partitioning for the desktop PC uses a blend of all three: > ext2, ext3, ext4. There's really no advantage in using anything *but* ext4 out of

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

On 2017-09-06 09:06 AM, Alvin Starr via talk wrote: > > A client came to me asking about helping him setup an Etherium mining > server pool. Hey, I know that there are some honest cryptocurrency types out there, but there are some definite shady ones around Toronto. One Etherium joker stole

Re: [GTALUG] Programming Atmel Microprocessor from Linux

On 2017-09-22 04:22 PM, Peter Hiscocks via talk wrote: > I'm currently developing a program in assembly language, using a Linux > platform to host the development. The development environment is very > simple. My notes on this are now on my academic web page at > >

Re: [GTALUG] [GTALUG-Announce] Upcoming Board Elections

On 2017-10-02 03:05 PM, Christopher Browne via talk wrote: > > If you are interested, we'd appreciate it very much if you can submit > indication of your interest to bo...@gtalug.org I'd like to suggest that if you're even *vaguely* interested, go for it. It's rewarding and not much work, *and*

Re: [GTALUG] colour management

(subject changed from "Re: [GTALUG] Raspberry PI wifi problem") On 2017-08-25 03:49 PM, Russell via talk wrote: > > My biggest nice to have feature would be a comprehensive source of ICC lookup > tables for linux. If you're meaning for scanners, generic manufacturer ones are kind of useless.

Re: [GTALUG] Raspberry PI wifi problem

On 2017-08-23 06:11 PM, Evan Leibovitch via talk wrote: > > I have a RPi Model B running current Raspian, and a wifi dongle that > claims to run on it. Is that latest-latest Raspbian, as in Raspbian Stretch released last week? It has some known networking issues that the Raspbian devs have been

Re: [GTALUG] [OFF TOPIC] Brave new Browser

On 2017-09-02 05:22 AM, Slack Rat via talk wrote: > Does anyone have any comments on Brendan Eich's new "Brave" > browser? Aside from my personal issues with Brendan Eich, I find Brave to be rather slow. The problem's not my machine, as I'm running a 4 GHz quad core with 32 GB RAM. It also

Re: [GTALUG] Request for a talk (or a doc)

On 2017-09-02 12:33 PM, Evan Leibovitch via talk wrote: > > But no matter. Most of what I want can now be done easily using my > newly-mapped Compose key. Guess it can't be a standard location because > there is still a diversity of hardware keyboard layouts out there. Sun keyboards had it

Re: [GTALUG] From BTRFS to what?

On 2017-09-03 09:02 PM, Alvin Starr via talk wrote: > > Remember Reiserfs? … Much more reliable then the equivalent ext > systems but non-technology related issues killed it. Very much technology related, it seems to me. It's hard to manage patch requests when your lead architect is serving 15

Re: [GTALUG] From BTRFS to what?

On 2017-09-03 09:56 PM, Alvin Starr via talk wrote: > > True enough but the project could have been picked up by others. 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

Re: [GTALUG] Obligatory pre-meeting where-to-eat discussion

On 2017-10-09 05:51 PM, Christopher Browne via talk wrote: > > Someone should take a look at Tacos 101 to see if it works, but I think > I'd rather plan for Kabul... Even tho I'm *not* coming tomorrow night (alas, but العَرَبِيَّة‎‎ ain't gonna learn itself into my head …) I know that Tacos 101

Re: [GTALUG] Adobe Reader Alternatives for Linux

Hi Dhaval > > However the government of Canada (in its infinite wisdom) has mandated > that to open and fill their forms, one use Adobe Reader. (As an > example see http://www.cic.gc.ca/english/pdf/kits/citizen/CIT0002E-2.pdf > ). Ah, you've just met XFA¹, Adobe's incompatible-with-itself forms

Re: [GTALUG] Raspberry Pi 3 Model B for $50 at Newegg.ca

On 2017-11-22 05:58 PM, Mel Wilson via talk wrote: > > I also like creatroninc.com , with a store in the College/Spadina > area. … not forgetting their shiny new store out at Sheppard E & Birchmount. Stewart --- Talk Mailing List talk@gtalug.org https://gtalug.org/mailman/listinfo/talk

Re: [GTALUG] pnc empower browser;

On 2017-12-16 07:01 PM, Steve Petrie, P.Eng. via talk wrote: > > So long as > all the JS programming used is built in to the pnc browser's binary > installation package, this would eliminate the foolishness of repeatedly > fetching the JS (used directly by pnc) dynamically via the Internet. This

Re: [GTALUG] cheap 3d printer?

On 2017-11-15 01:57 AM, D. Hugh Redelmeier via talk wrote: > Here's a thread about the printer I bought. We haven't used it yet so I > cannot say how good it is. > Colin McGregor has one of these.

Re: [GTALUG] GameShell: The Hackable Handheld Retro Gaming System

On 2017-11-14 05:22 PM, Scott Elcomb via talk wrote: > > "GameShell is the world's first modular, portable game console with a > GNU/LINUX embedded operating system. …" I suspect that Adafruit's PiGrrl might've beaten them to it by a couple of years, but details, details. Selling a machine that

Re: [GTALUG] C64 Stuff

Hi Howard> >Does anybody out there have a use for old C64 books, or is this stuff > landfill? Depends on the books. I know a bunch of folks from TPUG (the Toronto Pet Users Group, http://www.tpug.ca/) who would never let a C=-related title go by. But if you really need rid of them and are

[GTALUG] Linux Journal, RIP

Looks like last month was their last month of even digital publication: https://www.linuxjournal.com/content/linux-journal-ceases-publication Jason Scott has saved everything he can on archive.org: https://archive.org/details/linuxjournalmagazine Looks like he could use some help creating

Re: [GTALUG] IBM Mainframe and z/OS

On 2017-12-09 08:10 AM, Russell via talk wrote: > > Professor: "So the American government went to IBM to come up with an  > encryption standard, and they came up with—" > Student: "EBCDIC!" In jest, I know, but — unfair! If you start from the punched card for tallying numbers, then EBCDIC

Re: [GTALUG] desktop comfort [was Re: Upgraded to Beaver and Command Line Says 'command not found']

On 2018-05-04 12:54 PM, D. Hugh Redelmeier via talk wrote: > > Glad to hear that you are happy. The future of Unity appears a bit > challenging. Understatement. My understanding is that all active development has been stopped. It was a bit of a pain for me to switch from Unity to Gnome when

Re: [GTALUG] Can't boot using Xorg, only Wayland works on Ubuntu 18.04

Hi Jim - > > Have you tried a second monitor by any chance to see if that is working > for you? Yes, it does. It's using the Nouveau open source driver, which — while a little slower than the Nvidia proprietary driver — also runs a lot cooler. This is on a ~2013 vintage Samsung i7 quad core

Re: [GTALUG] Can't boot using Xorg, only Wayland works on Ubuntu 18.04

On 2018-05-16 04:04 PM, D. Hugh Redelmeier via talk wrote: > > If you can ssh into the machine you might be able to discover what's > going on. I did the full 18.04 upgrade on an older laptop with dual Intel/Nvidia graphics. It's hard-locking on trying to start gdm, and won't even talk over

Re: [GTALUG] Help need in bash

On 2018-05-31 03:00 PM, Stewart Russell wrote: > >   convert file.{png,jpg} > > and bash will do the magic. What I don't know is if that will accept a > glob.  narrator voice: it didn't accept a glob. (that is, convert *.{png,jpg} does *something*, but neither what you'd expect nor

Re: [GTALUG] Help need in bash

On 2018-06-01 10:34 AM, D. Hugh Redelmeier via talk wrote: > > | Using convert is okay, but you won't end up with the smallest JPEGs that > | way. > > What do you recommend? (Lightning talk?) oh I wish - the next couple of weeks I'm running more events than is sensible. anyway, of course I've

Re: [GTALUG] Shopping for bluetooth headphone... which brand?

… and for those of us in the cheap / indoor / techno fuddy-duddy corner, there is the amazingly cheap GE-branded wired headset that has given me 4+ years of stellar service and great results. Used it on conference calls, podcasts and narrations. Connects to everything that still has a socket to

Re: [GTALUG] Fan Control on Linux

On 2018-01-15 04:13 PM, Giles Orr via talk wrote: > > The solution to this was hard to find but simpler than expected: add the > 'noapic' option on the command line to the kernel at boot time, and > magically everything is working fine. Man, I'd forgotten about that option. Had a machine around

[GTALUG] 'file' maintainer? (or fun with PIE and magic)

Anyone know how to get in touch with the maintainers of 'file'? Seems the links in the man pages and Ian Darwin's site - http://www.darwinsys.com/file/ - don't work. The file magic database needs an update to correctly recognize PIE (Position Independent Executable) x86 ELF binaries as

Re: [GTALUG] 'file' maintainer? (or fun with PIE and magic)

On 2018-02-08 02:47 PM, Sergio Durigan Junior wrote: > > Yeah, I tend to agree with the maintainer here, although I find the term > "shared object" a bit overloaded. Good news is that he *has* decided to make the change, since so many packages depend on what file/magic does. > So I guess there

Re: [GTALUG] Fedora Netinstall

On 2018-02-11 12:08 AM, Bob Jonkman via talk wrote: > > I'm already using IceCat, so the browser isn't my problem. IceCat uses the old Firefox (< 57) codebase, while Firefox 58 is available on 32-bit linux. The new code is much more memory and CPU-efficient. Stewart --- Talk Mailing List

Re: [GTALUG] life expectancy of 32-bit x86 [was Re: Fedora Netinstall] [long]

On 2018-02-11 01:06 PM, D. Hugh Redelmeier via talk wrote: > > - irrelevant aside: many 64-bit ARM SOCs don't support more than 2G or > 3G of RAM. This seems crazy to me since the first use-case of > 64-bit is to support wider pointers. Most ARMs are just application processors. If you're

Re: [GTALUG] 'file' maintainer? (or fun with PIE and magic)

On 2018-02-07 02:54 PM, Sergio Durigan Junior wrote: > > Unfortunately it seems that "file" is not "properly maintained" in > the sense that the project doesn't have a trivial way to receive > contributions. But it does help when list members like Chris know the original developer and can get

Re: [GTALUG] personal webpage for GTALUG members?

On 2017-12-22 08:36 AM, Myles Braithwaite  via talk wrote: > > I setup the GTALUG wiki to have a user section full access (view, edit, > upload, delete) by an individual user. It follow this format > & > .

Re: [GTALUG] An LibreOffice question.

On 2018-07-30 03:46 PM, Alvin Starr via talk wrote: > Does anybody know how to display and work with SI numbers like 10k or > 20M or 40G within LIbreOffice? I had a think about this, and came up with this function for text in cell D2: =IF(LEN(T(D2))=0, D2,CONVERT(VALUE(LEFT(D2,

Re: [GTALUG] GTALUG Meeting on Tuesday 14 August at 7:30pm

On 2018-08-14 12:44 PM, D. Hugh Redelmeier via talk wrote: > Just a reminder: tonight is the night! Wish I could make it, but I just had surgery yesterday and am in no fit state to travel. Was looking forward to Eric's talk. If you're all really lucky, I *won't* 3d print a model of my

Re: [GTALUG] Peter Hiscocks

On 2018-08-15 11:12 PM, David Mason via talk wrote: > I regret to say that Peter died a week or so ago. He was always curious > and willing to experiment with all sorts of things. I'm very sorry to hear that. Peter will be greatly missed. --- Obituary: HISCOCKS, Peter - Passed away on

Re: [GTALUG] Dan Kaminsky Bugs aren't random ...

On 2018-08-16 02:49 PM, D. Hugh Redelmeier via talk wrote: > > > > Which is a 32-bit SPARCv8 processor! SPARC lives and is being > produced by Intel! LEON's used in lots of ESA space projects. Pretty sure this board doesn't use the

[GTALUG] Web hosting companies providing Linux shell accounts?

On Thu, Jul 19, 2018, 11:01 David Ing isss--- via talk, mailto:talk@gtalug.org>> wrote: Karen, In November 2016, I had changed shared hosting companies.  My search is described at https://www.quora.com/Whats-a-good-Canadian-web-hosting-provider . Can you summarize here, please?

Re: [GTALUG] Fetchmail and Office365 and backslashes, oh my!

On 2018-07-04 02:53 PM, Peter King via talk wrote: > Recently we were forcibly "migrated" to Office365 for our email services, > and with the change numerous things were broken. You might not be able to. I have a newish O365 account that staunchly refuses to use any protocol but MS Exchange. POP3

Re: [GTALUG] Hello and GnuPG/PGP key signing parties

On 2018-03-11 03:45 PM, Bob Jonkman via talk wrote: > I do recommend that the keymaster for a keysigning event generates a > key specifically for that event. We tried a formal keysigning party at GTALUG once. It was a lot of work and I think we extended the Web of Trust by four people. The WoT

Re: [GTALUG] Aging Dell monitor (U3011) - valve/tube amp digression

On 2018-03-10 12:02 PM, D. Hugh Redelmeier via talk wrote: > > BONUS > > If you want to be neo-retro, you can buy an audio amplifier with tubes AND > bluetooth … In the everything-old-is-new-again department, Korg recently announced a triode thermionic valve amplifier in a DIP package: the

Re: [GTALUG] Raspberry Pi as a USB Network gadget talk from March 2017 is on youtube

On 2018-03-14 01:15 PM, Kevin Cozens via talk wrote: > On 2018-03-14 10:09 AM, Alex Volkov via talk wrote: >> You can now watch Stewart C. Russell presenting Raspberry Pi as a USB >> Network Gadget. You know, I completely forgot that I gave that talk … > Speaking of Pi, happy Pi day to everyone.

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