Re: [GTALUG] Help need in bash

> On 2018-05-31 03:00 PM, Stewart Russell wrote: > convert *.{png,jpg} > > does *something*, but neither what you'd expect nor want) Multics had an "equal name" feature that conspired with the star-name parser to do what you would expect. A program like convert could have used it like

Re: [GTALUG] Looking for Someone to Answer some Questions

> It was nice to meet you guys this week as I use to go to GTALUG > when I was in high school but been busy for the last several > years. I was wondering as I'm still in school if anyone knows > of people who actually work in compiler design or embedded > systems in the Toronto/GTA area. ST

Re: [GTALUG] Boeing India software engineers

> Not to be left behind in an uncompetitive position, our Canadian > companies, too, are making great strides in reigning in costs by > shifting work offshore. A friend of mine had a job from hell for a while as Canada-side overseer of an India-based programming effort. The job entailed being

Re: [GTALUG] Software to draw illustrations?

> If you can write Forth, you can write PS. > > I also generate PS with other programs. Exactly. I'd used it as a poor-mans CAD package ( http://melwilsonsoftware.ca/psfiles/whitenoise-panel.ps ). It's an excellent way to get pixel-level control of printed matter, and that's around 1/300" on

Re: [GTALUG] A find alternative: fselect

> Go has the same design flaw. Giant static binaries. > > Amazing how many new programing languages don't want to pay attention > to history and the security lessons already learned. That was a major revelation when I saw Multics. Virtual memory supported shared memory, which supported shared

Re: [GTALUG] Ontario Bill 72: "Right to Repair"

> On Thu, Apr 25, 2019 at 9:59 AM Don Tai via talk wrote: >> >> A seemingly brand new small convection oven, Delonghi EO1270, made in >> China, came my way. Pristine clean and obviously unused, but did not [ ... ] > I would suggest that pop rivets are quite cheap and I'd doubt you > actually

[GTALUG] Micro development Was: Re: For Chris: Commodore BASIC as a scripting language

On Sun, August 25, 2019 11:19 pm, William Park via talk wrote > At work, I once tried to use TI micro board (launchpad or something), > and to program that, I have to download their IDE and edit through that, > because only it knows which headers and libraries to pull in. Anything > I do or

Re: [GTALUG] alternatives to gmail working well in Ubintu?

> Although there are many other equally great hosting services out there, I > am happy I chose to use > > www.siteground.com I've been going through Toronto based vybenetworks.com, aka vex.net for many years now. I don't know how they compare on price. --- Post to this mailing list

Re: [GTALUG] another unique store gone: Above All Electronic Surplus

> There is a place on North Queen, near Sherway Gardens that has a lot of > the Active Surplus stock.  I can't think of the name, as I've only been > there once. A1 Electronics, perhaps? http://a1parts.com/ --- Post to this mailing list talk@gtalug.org Unsubscribe from this mailing list

Re: [GTALUG] another unique store gone: Above All Electronic Surplus

> Though Active Electronics are gone from Ontario, they're still going in > Calgary. Dave Hrynkiw of Solarbotics bought them out. Ottawa, too, under their own name, in a little mall on Merivale. > If you don't mind mail order: dipmicro is still working, shipping from Niagara Falls, ON.

Re: [GTALUG] another unique store gone: Above All Electronic Surplus

> On Mon, 16 Dec 2019 at 00:01, D. Hugh Redelmeier via talk > > wrote: > >> >> I blame me, and people like me. We stopped giving them enough >> business. > > > > Don't beat yourself up over this. The Internet also sped the decline. I do suspect, also, that the electronics industry has faded

Re: [GTALUG] Custom build: Which case?

> On 2019-09-19 8:22 a.m., Jamon Camisso via talk wrote: >> c'mon, only 15kg: https://www.newegg.ca/p/N82E16811853056 - you know you >> want it.. > > That is one of the strangest CPU cases I've ever seen. Do the 4 outer pods > accommodate a CPU board each? ;) Resembles a GE-425 mainframe from the

Re: [GTALUG] Adding all users to the "disk" group: bad idea, or terrible idea?

Would it be as simple to change the permissions on the particular drive, and then just let the users have at it? eg. sudo chmod a+rw /dev/mmcblk0 ? --- Post to this mailing list talk@gtalug.org Unsubscribe from this mailing list https://gtalug.org/mailman/listinfo/talk

Re: [GTALUG] Raspberry Pi 4 Desktop Kit

From: D. Hugh Redelmeier" > | From: mwilson--- via talk > > | [ GIMP crashes under Raspberry Pi OS ] > > Last I checked, ordinary Raspbian was 32-bit only. If Gimp's memory > use is within a single processs, it is limited to about 2 or 3G (I > don't remember which)

Re: [GTALUG] Raspberry Pi 4 Desktop Kit

> Hello, > > I stumbled across this recently: > https://www.raspberrypi.org/products/raspberry-pi-4-model-b/ > > I can use some guidance and advice from folks who have experience > with Raspberry Pi's. What I read so far looks good but I have questions. > > If 'you' were to use a Raspberry Pi as a

Re: [GTALUG] Raspberry Pi 4 Desktop Kit

> Hello, > I stumbled across this recently: > https://www.raspberrypi.org/products/raspberry-pi-4-model-b/ > I can use some guidance and advice from folks who have experience > with Raspberry Pi's. What I read so far looks good but I have questions. [ ... ] > How hot does the unit become ? Does it

Re: [GTALUG] Raspberry Pi 4 Desktop Kit

>> Hello, >> I stumbled across this recently: >> https://www.raspberrypi.org/products/raspberry-pi-4-model-b/ >> I can use some guidance and advice from folks who have experience >> with Raspberry Pi's. What I read so far looks good but I have questions. > [ ... ] >> How hot does the unit become ?

Re: [GTALUG] First new home computer for decades - Raspberry Pi 400

> On 2020-11-10 9:56 p.m., Lennart Sorensen via talk wrote: >> My second thought was: They removed the composite port. I probably >> would never personally use it, but I could imagine there are some people >> that like attaching things to old CRTs for gaming that would miss it. >> But perhaps

Re: [GTALUG] Group knowledge base

> How do you or your company maintain group "knowledge base"? I guess, > wiki for internal stuffs. We did this in a small (3-person) team with a largish project. Moved to Mediawiki after a trial with a small, obscure, slightly weird wiki package. It was a big advantage to have a consistent

Re: [GTALUG] Has the graphics-card world gone mad?

"Anthony de Boer via talk" wrote: > (At one point my son was looking at the price of some decent hardware > for running flight sim, and found he could have quite a few hours wet > rental of a Cessna 152 for that money; the latter won out. I'm of the > same opinion; get up from the keyboard and

Re: [GTALUG] Raspberry Pi

"Aruna Hewapathirane via talk" wrote: > Some of the fruit named Pi boards have hardware specs way better as well > but price is very affordable. > I am wondering why the price is so low compared to the Raspberry Pi ? Or > are we simply paying for the Raspberry brand name ? I think it's the usual

Re: [GTALUG] Raspberry Pi

"Giles Orr" said: > Hi Aruna. > > On Wed, 3 Mar 2021 at 21:56, Aruna Hewapathirane via talk > wrote: [ ... ] >> I am also very interested in seeing if a Pi can replace my ancient >> desktop. I simply can't >> afford the Pi-4 desktop version with the dual monitor setup so thought I >> will ask

Re: [GTALUG] You may already have a Windows licence and not know it …

Znoteer wrote: > On Tue, Apr 13, 2021 at 07:42:47PM -0400, Stewart Russell via talk wrote: >> If the file /sys/firmware/acpi/tables/MSDM exists (it's read-only to >> root), >> there's probably a key embedded in there you can pull out with strings >> > > I don't seem to have that file, and I'm not

Re: [GTALUG] You may already have a Windows licence and not know it …

Sorry for the misinformation: the non-free firmware was needed to get Wifi to work. (It was a Debian netinstall, so I guess my mind conflated that with booting.) > Znoteer wrote: >> On Tue, Apr 13, 2021 at 07:42:47PM -0400, Stewart Russell via talk >> wrote: >>> If the file

Re: [GTALUG] micro controllers

I wouldn't be so negative about capes and shields -- they're where you put your own peripherals and interface circuitry. Start by mapping out the sensors and drivers you're going to connect to the big hardware, and work inward from there to the microcontroller. The hard work is out there with

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

From this, and what Hugh said about separate context: I have a script file called path-here. The text is #!/bin/bash export PATH=$PATH:$(realpath .) When I run it as a command, it apparently modifies the environment of a sub-shell, and that environment gets thrown away when the sub-shell exits.

Re: [GTALUG] RaspberryPi won't automount USB memory stick

> > > On 1/14/22 23:24, Kevin Cozens via talk wrote: >> Greetings, all. >> >> I have an embedded system that uses a Raspberry Pi 3. I have it set up >> and running with the latest Raspbian and all is well, almost. For some >> reason the Raspbian system is not set up to automount memory sticks when

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

> It would be interesting to see how anyone here who has only started buying > computers in the last 15 years or so regards this reverence for Lenovo. > > - Evan Off-topic due to my buying history, but ... My old principal computer, an HP/Compaq laptop, is mostly out of action due to a failing

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

> [What are the question marks that appear where other punctuation is > expected? Did your mail get badly transcoded at some step?] 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

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

> > > A bug was found (painfully -- a zero day) in Apple's Safari and > (separately) in Google's Chrome. This is a pretty serious bug -- it was > used to spy on an

Re: [GTALUG] tpl Linux training?

> | From: Evan Leibovitch via talk > > | These courses are almost all command line. > > Wow. That certainly would make Linux unattractive to most ordinary > people. Both computer beginners and ordinary users of Windows or MacOS. What I found is that GUIs are (or anyway were when the old Palo

[GTALUG] Favorite desktop manager?

I just installed Debian 12 on a new laptop and took Gnome as desktop/window manager. I really insist on something more Xerox PARC style. I had been using Xfce, and liked it until (following Debian 10 software updates) it began to act strangely. A few months ago it started to kick up a huge fuss

Re: [GTALUG] War Story: adding RAM to a laptop can increase the speed

Howard Gibson wrote: > I probably spend too much time on YouTube. I use GIMP to mess with > photographs. I use LaTeX a lot to prepare documents, but if I am > sharing info, I use LibreOffice, and the Microsoft office document > formats. > -- > Howard Gibson My main desktop is a Raspberry Pi

Re: [GTALUG] War Story: adding RAM to a laptop can increase the speed

William Park wrote: > On 2024-02-19 20:32, mwilson--- via talk wrote: >> My main desktop is a Raspberry Pi 4B+ with 8GiB. > > ... > > I don't believe you. What do you use for main disk? I tried doing this > with Odroid (top of the line in this embedded space), b

Re: [GTALUG] AI Alliance

> On 2023-12-18 09:41, ac via talk wrote: >> On Wed, 13 Dec 2023 00:33:24 -0800 >> Ron / BCLUG via talk wrote: >> >>> So, interesting times where only 54 weeks ago, OpenAI devs shocked >>> the world with the release of ChatGPT 3.x, and now devs in the field >>> are being shocked by open sourced

Re: [GTALUG] GNOME's "Attach Modal Dialogs"?

> By default, when a GNOME application pops up a dialog, it gets glued to > (one of?) the application's window: the dialog sits in front of the > Window, glued in place. If you move the dialog, the window moves with it. Yes, this is annoying. GIMP has a way of putting a pop-up right over the

[GTALUG] An anomaly with the `date` command

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 mwilson@ningabel:~$ date -d'next month' +%m 03 mwilson@ningabel:~$ which date /usr/bin/date

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

Hugh Redelmeier wrote: > | From: mwilson--- via talk [ ... ] > I think that "next month" adds the length of the current month to the > time. This is a 31-day month, we're quite late in it, so this hops > over all of February. > That makes sense. They told me to ask f

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

From: "Steve Petrie via talk" > [...] > This same brain-dead abusive Rogers sales loser, actually ended our call > by shouting "F**k You !!" at me, before he ended the call. Charming :) > Seemed to me his vituperative manner could have been a reflection of a > possibly desperate Rogers. I've

Re: [GTALUG] KiCad or ...

Colin McGregor wrote: [ ... ] > So, CAD software for electronics work that runs under Linux, is > available under the GPL, what is available? I have looked at KiCad, > but are there better options out there? Also, looking for learning the > software in question, are there any good YouTube tutorial