Re: [GTALUG] Securely wiping SSDs

On 2024-03-23 10:50, Giles Orr via talk wrote: I have, for many years, used "Darik's Boot and Nuke" on a USB stick to securely wipe spinning hard disks. It takes a long time, but I mostly understand and trust the process. I'm now at the point that I have to wipe and dispose of SSDs, and I'm

Re: [GTALUG] uses and dangers of AI in science

On 2024-03-11 15:44, D. Hugh Redelmeier via talk wrote: I found this article quite interesting. I will only be truly surprised when an AI comes up with a stupid mistake

Re: [GTALUG] Odd Ethernet Behaviour

On 2024-02-12 23:55, Ron / BCLUG via talk wrote: [snip] This is a risk unaware Microsoft centric answer. It's a "Why are there incoming connections to our network?!? And what is their purpose? And where do they end up? Who is controlling them?" issue. Imagine being in charge of a large

Re: [GTALUG] Odd Ethernet Behaviour

On 2024-02-12 20:22, Peter King via talk wrote: Honestly, I won’t do that. About three weeks ago I had gotten approval for a new static ip address, at which point I asked for them to allow me to ssh to that address. I was *refused* and told I had to use a VPN because they “have to protect

Re: [GTALUG] Ongoing war story (currently issues of user trust)

On 2024-01-22 17:19, D. Hugh Redelmeier via talk wrote: | From: Peter King via talk | Well, more exactly, Microsoft Exchange Server insists on authentication being | through XOAUTH2. I don't know what XOAuth2 is. Googling gets me things that would take too long to read.

Re: [GTALUG] Ongoing war story (currently issues of user trust)

On 2024-01-20 10:14, Peter King via talk wrote: Can't say that I disagree with any of this.  I protested when the UofT decided to amalgamate all its services on Microsoft Server (to no avail), and even more so when they made it all but impossible not to use Outlook (after using mutt happily

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

I have a client who buys systems from https://www.servergiant.net/ I have also bought systems from them. The prices will not be as cheap as a minipc from amazon but you can get a decent HP or Dell tower system. On 2024-01-19 20:17, Peter King via talk wrote: Thanks for the advice.  The MB

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

On 2024-01-16 23:20, Evan Leibovitch via talk wrote: On Tue, Jan 16, 2024 at 2:00 PM James Knott via talk wrote: On 1/16/24 07:16, Evan Leibovitch via talk wrote: > CO-powered phones are still available Are they still CO powered? My home internet is still metered and charged as

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

Taking this off list. On 2024-01-15 18:15, o1bigtenor via talk wrote: On Mon, Jan 15, 2024 at 2:46 PM Alvin Starr via talk wrote: On 2024-01-15 13:53, o1bigtenor via talk wrote: [snip] FWIW, much of my most important supplemental authentication -- including a number of government accounts

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

On 2024-01-15 19:03, Steve Petrie via talk wrote: My 2 cents *...* Subject:Re: [GTALUG] "AI" on getting correct technical answers Date: 2024-01-15 11:47 From: o1bigtenor via talk To: GTALUG Talk On Mon, Jan 15, 2024 at 8:56 AM Alvin Starr via talk wrote: [snip]

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

On 2024-01-15 13:53, o1bigtenor via talk wrote: [snip] FWIW, much of my most important supplemental authentication -- including a number of government accounts -- is done through an authenticator app which does not rely on SMS. Well some authenticator apps may only run on phones but not all

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

On 2024-01-15 14:05, o1bigtenor via talk wrote: On Mon, Jan 15, 2024 at 12:21 PM Alvin Starr via talk wrote: [snip] Any chance for a link to that? I would love to know the inherent insecurity. I copied what I found into a doc that I have here. Would have to dig for it - - - do you want

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

On 2024-01-15 11:47, o1bigtenor via talk wrote: On Mon, Jan 15, 2024 at 8:56 AM Alvin Starr via talk wrote: On 2024-01-15 07:35, o1bigtenor via talk wrote: [snip] [snip] Was not aware of this. As I'm now on a reasonable IP connection (previously on fixed point wireless which is garbage imo

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

On 2024-01-15 11:01, Don Tai via talk wrote: The ostracization of the non-tech in society was quite evident at the start of the pandemic, and then it got even worse. The elderly at my gym could not book immunization appointments for pharmacies because they refused to book over the phone and

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

On 2024-01-15 09:32, D. Hugh Redelmeier via talk wrote: | From: o1bigtenor via talk | > I have never used a cellphone to accesshttps://chat.openai.com -- this is where I signed up for free and later where I upgraded to Plus. The process to register is quite easy, I don't quite understand the

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

On 2024-01-15 08:55, o1bigtenor via talk wrote: [snip] Agreed - - - but how does one get the attention of this technical elite to notify them that some of their basic assumptions are just - - - wrong? Their basic assumption is correct. You are just a corner case. We all like to think we

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

On 2024-01-15 07:35, o1bigtenor via talk wrote: [snip] One doesn't use a cell phone (well I wouldn't) but a cellphone number is demanded to verify one's identity. Without a working cellphone connection one is today - - - a NON-person. I understand that you don't get the problem but then you are

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

On 2024-01-13 10:30, Ron / BCLUG via talk wrote: Alvin Starr via talk wrote on 2024-01-12 20:11: It is defiantly not useful for getting correct technical answers to problems. That's not my experience. I guess that depends on the definition of "correct technical answers", becau

Re: [GTALUG] AI - Llama 2 an open source AI that can run on a Raspberry PI

On 2024-01-12 19:26, Dave Collier-Brown via talk wrote: A Smarter Colleague pointed out to me /the answer you get isn't to the question asked, but to "what would an answer to this question sound like"./ It's a/language model, /not a model of logic, science or law./ / --dave/ / Have not

Re: [GTALUG] AI Alliance

On 2023-12-19 17:56, Michael Galea via talk wrote: [snip] The one that goes through my mind is: A space alien comes to earth and lands.  And we run up to the S.A. and say "Thank God you're here! You've got to help us.  We got this message from space? And we decoded it?  And it was the plans for

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 (Apache licensed)

Re: [GTALUG] Linux Unicorns

On 2023-11-24 09:50, ac via talk wrote: I have been wondering about tech unicorns and Linux. WARNING : do not read beyond this point if you are not at least somewhat bored. - reading drivel is a choice, and this does at least have a warning label :) [snip to keep those with short attention

Re: [GTALUG] Toronto Public Library website

On 2023-11-08 18:20, Kevin Cozens via talk wrote: On 2023-11-08 10:12, Alvin Starr via talk wrote: It does depend on how much you have to recover. I have clients whose data sets take weeks to months to copy over multi gigabit links. Not too long ago I had to move a database to a new server

Re: [GTALUG] Toronto Public Library website

On 2023-11-08 11:35, Karen Lewellen via talk wrote: speaking personally? It probably was. My reasoning comes from a rather disturbing exchange I had with an employee about the sites  lack of inclusive design. The sense I got is that those in charge took a lets  build things with lots of third

Re: [GTALUG] Toronto Public Library website

It does depend on how much you have to recover. I have clients whose data sets take weeks to months to copy over multi gigabit links. If you have to recover every computer in the building from a clean backup that can take a long time. Or worse imagine you have to re-install then upgrade each

Re: [GTALUG] (very off topic) torque spec of impact wrench

On 2023-11-03 07:03, David Collier-Brown via talk wrote: Yes: the acceleration rate of a torque wrench is almost zero, while that of an air wrench is substantial, and it's applied the same way a hammer-drill is, in bursts until the nut starts to turn. In a previous life as a motorcycle- and

Re: [GTALUG] (very off topic) torque spec of impact wrench

I would second Evans suggestion before running out and buying an impact wrench. If you can afford to give it a day or so to penetrate that would help. A trick my father use to use was to slide a metal pipe over the breaker bar to extend the length and hence the force. I have a small ryobi

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

On 2023-10-31 13:28, D. Hugh Redelmeier via talk wrote: Grrr. Some US lawmakers want to restrict US companies from working on RISC-V. They are worried it will benefit China (of

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

On 2023-09-19 10:09, Lennart Sorensen via talk wrote: On Mon, Sep 18, 2023 at 10:16:05PM -0400, Evan Leibovitch wrote: [snip] No, DEC went to Compaq went to HP where the itanium love finally killed the Alpha. Not Dell. DEC actually provided lots of support to Linux. Very early on there were

Re: [GTALUG] Repair & Replace

On 2023-09-18 13:14, Alvin Starr via talk wrote: I am still getting a message saying that the CPU fan has failed.  But I can see it spinning in the case.  Also, the report from sensors shows everything running at perfectly normal temperatures. Kind of a shot in the dark here. Is the fan

Re: [GTALUG] Repair & Replace

I am still getting a message saying that the CPU fan has failed.  But I can see it spinning in the case.  Also, the report from sensors shows everything running at perfectly normal temperatures. Kind of a shot in the dark here. Is the fan one that has a sensor lead? That is usually a 3 or

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

On 2023-09-09 15:10, Lennart Sorensen wrote: On Thu, Sep 07, 2023 at 12:45:47PM -0400, Alvin Starr via talk wrote: 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 means limited to just that form

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

On 2023-09-09 16:47, James Knott via talk wrote: On 2023-09-09 15:10, Lennart Sorensen via talk wrote: Being closer to Cisco is not an advantage in my books. No kidding.  I was thinking in terms of features.  As a (lapsed) CCNA, I agree they can be "fun" to configure. I was thinking

Re: [GTALUG] Landline and Bell revisited.

On 2023-09-07 12:35, Evan Leibovitch via talk wrote: On Thu, Sep 7, 2023 at 11:40 AM James Knott via talk wrote: > Bell faces human rights complaint over allegations of inaccessibility for blind customers > https://globalnews.ca/news/9373449/bell-human-rights-complaint/ This

Re: [GTALUG] Landline and Bell revisited.

On 2023-09-07 13:18, James Knott via talk wrote: On 2023-09-07 13:00, Alvin Starr via talk wrote: I have a rural cottage with a pulse dial phone on a party line. I can pulse dial over my Rogers connection.  Yep, I actually tried it, with the box that provides my Internet connection and home

Re: [GTALUG] Landline and Bell revisited.

On 2023-09-07 12:48, James Knott via talk wrote: On 2023-09-07 12:13, Evan Leibovitch wrote: The CRTC is a cruel joke for consumers. It's far too industry-friendly and has allowed Robellus to get away with awful shenanigans and anti-competitive behavior for decades. While it offers a path to

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

On 2023-09-07 12:21, James Knott via talk wrote: On 2023-09-07 11:33, Val Kulkov via talk wrote: On Thu, 7 Sept 2023 at 11:06, James Knott via talk wrote: A friend of mine is moving to pfSense or OPNsense, from OpenWRT. I am curious what OpenWRT didn't provide that pfSense or OPNsense

Re: [GTALUG] internet service speed test tip

On 8/25/23 18:03, David Mason via talk wrote: I understand the vendors may optimize parameters, but I figured that UofToronto wouldn't be affected by that, and the numbers were comparable... but perhaps they tune at a different point in the pipeline. ISP's have more to gain by managing the

Re: [GTALUG] internet service speed test tip

On 2023-08-24 10:50, D. Hugh Redelmeier via talk wrote: Rogers and Bell have web sites for testing your internet speed. The advantage of using one should be that it is a pretty pure test of the ISP's infrastructure. I know that Bell has tuned their traffic management rules to prioritize speed

Re: [GTALUG] use Window to access SSH server with obsolete ciphers

On 2023-08-04 09:58, D. Hugh Redelmeier via talk wrote: Recent Fedora systems' SSH client won't access CentOS 6 servers. Unable to negotiate with x.y.z.w port 22: no matching host key type found. Their offer: ssh-rsa,ssh-dss (One should not still be running CentOS 6!) All my

Re: [GTALUG] [offtopic] Opinions on Freedom Mobile, please

On 2023-08-02 12:11, James Knott via talk wrote: On 2023-08-02 11:57, Alvin Starr via talk wrote: If you're worried about security, you might not want to do that. The cell phone calls are encrypted with IPSec, but those VoIP provides use plain SIP & RTP.  At least that's what Fongo

Re: [GTALUG] [offtopic] Opinions on Freedom Mobile, please

On 2023-08-02 09:53, James Knott via talk wrote: On 2023-08-02 09:35, Alvin Starr via talk wrote: I have been working on a plan to move my mobile number to a voip carrier and then just use the handset in a way that does not expose the number that the carrier uses. That way I can move between

Re: [GTALUG] [offtopic] Opinions on Freedom Mobile, please

On 2023-08-02 08:53, James Knott via talk wrote: On 2023-08-02 05:57, BCLUG via talk wrote: And one thing I really appreciate is that Wind Mobile would throttle users when they hit their data caps instead of charging a fortune for overages. I'll always appreciate that. Did they throttle the

Re: [GTALUG] computer hardware testing tools.

On 2023-07-13 12:26, Scott Allen via talk wrote: On Thu, 13 Jul 2023 at 10:56, Karen Lewellen via talk wrote: for example the fridge is on an outlet with other items The Canadian and Ontario electrical codes require a fridge to have its own dedicated circuit. (Actually, you're allowed to

Re: [GTALUG] Red Hat Paywall...

On 2023-06-27 08:19, Lennart Sorensen via talk wrote: 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

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

On 6/20/23 11:16, James Knott via talk wrote: On 2023-06-20 10:50, Lennart Sorensen wrote: https://www.fpga4fun.com/files/HDMI_Demystified_rev_1_02.pdf gives a nice explanation of how it worked in HDMI 1.3.  2.1 just got rid of the dedicated clock to free up a 4th signal pair. Other than a

Re: [GTALUG] Anybody using rclone?

On 2023-06-05 14:41, Aurelian Melinte via talk wrote: On 05/06/2023 12:03, Alvin Starr via talk wrote: On 2023-06-05 11:16, Scott Sullivan via talk wrote: On 2023-06-05 09:14, Alvin Starr via talk wrote: Does anybody know of an volume based backup solution that can work in an incremental

Re: [GTALUG] Anybody using rclone?

On 2023-06-05 11:16, Scott Sullivan via talk wrote: On 2023-06-05 09:14, Alvin Starr via talk wrote: Does anybody know of an volume based backup solution that can work in an incremental manner? This questions has big unstated conditional. Are you looking for A) 'volume based backup

Re: [GTALUG] Anybody using rclone?

rclone looks interesting and given that object storage is becoming a ubiquitous storage technology it is something I will be looking into. Since we are onto the subject of backups. I have a client with a multi Tbyte file system that has close to 100 million files. Any kind of file based

Re: [GTALUG] how I sign PDFs

On 2023-04-12 14:54, D. Hugh Redelmeier via talk wrote: We don't seem to have a Public Key Infrastructure that makes digital (cryptographic) signatures useful for non-computer work. I think signing a document is a solemn act. So I don't want to just paste a .PNG of my signature, I want to

Re: [GTALUG] Canadian hosting?

On 4/10/23 15:14, Stewart C. Russell via talk wrote: I know that Akamai Cloud (formerly Linode) has dedicated root Linux servers in Toronto, but is there anyone else non-terrible*? There's a potential client who absolutely must have all data and processing hosted in Canada. I realize there's

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

Have you tried asking bell to make your equipment work with their new phone equipment. There are something like 75 to 100 codecs that can be used with VIOP. It may be that Bell can configure or tune their voip ATA in your home to work with your specialized equipment. On 2023-03-19 17:30,

Re: [GTALUG] New WiFi router?

On 2023-03-09 11:07, D. Hugh Redelmeier via talk wrote: | From: Alex Kink via talk | 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

Re: [GTALUG] New WiFi router?

On 2023-03-08 11:56, James Knott via talk wrote: On 2023-03-08 11:34, William Park via talk wrote: I'm paying for 100M/30M and I want 100M/30M.  Nowadays, everything is AC or AX something.  I don't need all that on wireless side, but I want 100M+ on the wired switch side, in case I move to

Re: [GTALUG] New WiFi router?

is through wired connection to my router.  I get the same limit via wireless. That's why, I was thinking to upgrade the router. On 2023-03-08 10:59, Alvin Starr via talk wrote: As has been suggested by others break your wifi from your router. I use Sophos on a VM to run my home firewall. Its

Re: [GTALUG] New WiFi router?

As has been suggested by others break your wifi from your router. I use Sophos on a VM to run my home firewall. Its a nice product but you have to dance around a bit to get a free license. I also have some VMs running OpenWRT. OpenWRT is not the best firewall in the world but can run on a large

Re: [GTALUG] New WiFi router?

As speeds get faster you also heed to look at the Bandwidth Delay Product. I started to see customers with problems caused by this once gigabit WANs became popular. On 2023-03-08 10:38, Dave Collier-Brown via talk wrote: They can deliver lots of bandwidth, but pretty horrid service under

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

On 2023-03-03 12:47, James Knott via talk wrote: On 2023-03-03 12:17, James Knott wrote: With cable the all the customers on the segment are sharing the same bandwidth. So if your the first one on the cable you have the full speed to yourself but if your number 100 then you and the 99 other

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

On 2023-03-03 10:11, James Knott via talk wrote: On 2023-03-03 09:37, Alvin Starr via talk wrote: Rogers offers 2.5Gbit fiber in some places. Feel free to correct me but I believe that all the "optical" and co-axial cable based services are shared(GPON). So you could be sharing

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

On 2023-03-03 08:42, Lennart Sorensen via talk wrote: I am not sure that 2.5G is enough of a step to cause me to turn everything over. I am buying 2.5Gbit things when there is little price premium. So far, that amounts to: - 1.5Gbit down FTTH from Bell [some folks get 3G, I think: oops on

Re: [GTALUG] ppp inside private network, but no DNS returned?

OT devices, so maybe they forgot to provision some services On Tue, Feb 28, 2023 at 3:11 PM Alvin Starr via talk wrote: PPP does not require a dns server address to be provided. But most folks do provide one because it would make for LOTS of support calls to not hand out your D

Re: [GTALUG] ppp inside private network, but no DNS returned?

PPP does not require a dns server address to be provided. But most folks do provide one because it would make for LOTS of support calls to not hand out your DNS servers. Is there a DNS on the network that your connecting to at all? If not then you wll likely be forecd to use the /etc/hosts

Re: [GTALUG] Selenium question

If you want I can post a small ruby program that I cobbled together to scrap our travel information from Presto. It has not been used in years and does not work any more but it may be of some use as a simple template. On 2023-02-07 13:03, Michael Galea via talk wrote: Is there anyone on the

Re: [GTALUG] rejuvinating an old machine: inexpensive SSD

On 2023-01-02 14:17, D. Hugh Redelmeier via talk wrote: Old advice: If you are still using an old machine, one that uses an HDD to hold the OS, consider replacing the HDD with an SSD. Why do I bring it up now? Because SSDs are getting even cheaper. Some think that they will get cheaper still

Re: [GTALUG] RAID SATA controller card recommendation?

On 2022-12-11 15:45, William Park via talk wrote: Now that you found a solution, I have question... Why hardware card?  I assume it's Linux.  And, I found software raid (mdadm or btrfs) good enough for mirror setup. A raid card can offload some of the overhead that the OS would have to deal

Re: [GTALUG] RAID SATA controller card recommendation?

I have had good luck with using the linux built in raid. For raid-1 the mdadm tools should be just as fast as any raid card that you can get on a budget. Raid-3 and above do better with the caching on higher end raid cards but then your  likely out of the $250 range. The important thing it

Re: [GTALUG] Forced off DSL by Bell

On 2022-11-25 17:20, James Knott via talk wrote: On 2022-11-25 17:10, 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. The bare

Re: [GTALUG] Forced off DSL by Bell

On 2022-11-25 14:21, James Knott via talk wrote: On 2022-11-25 14:15, Lennart Sorensen wrote: Yeah my parents in Bolton have fiber being run to the house at the moment by Bell.  Given Bell's best service in the area was 6Mbps ADSL so far, that's a bit of a leap in technology.  Rogers has been

Re: [GTALUG] Forced off DSL by Bell

On 2022-11-22 20:45, BCLUG via talk wrote: Alvin Starr via talk wrote on 2022-11-21 20:02: I have a cottage with a 3Mbit DSL service and the DSL service is rock solid. The back haul from the fiber connect point on the other hand is little better than 2 tin cans and a string. How does one

Re: [GTALUG] Forced off DSL by Bell

On 2022-11-22 16:47, Michael Galea via talk wrote: On 2022-11-21 22:30, Alvin Starr via talk wrote: On 2022-11-21 16:13, Michael Galea via talk wrote: Hi, Bell notified me that they will soon be shutting down my copper telephone service, no options.  My DSL to TekSavvy will go with it. Joy

Re: [GTALUG] Forced off DSL by Bell

On 2022-11-21 22:13, Kevin Cozens via talk wrote: On 2022-11-21 20:57, Alex Kink wrote: They can provide landline over fibre using a POTS adapter for those who need that. That should be possible as there are VOIP based phones. They just won't be as reliable as plain old copper based POTS. In

Re: [GTALUG] Forced off DSL by Bell

On 2022-11-21 18:57, o1bigtenor via talk wrote: [snip] (Hopefully you won't be too insulted with a rhetorical question - - ) Do you really think Bell gives one rat's fart about anything than their profit? (Please note - - - service is somewhat similar(!!!) in their structure - - - yes I am

Re: [GTALUG] Forced off DSL by Bell

On 2022-11-21 16:13, Michael Galea via talk wrote: Hi, Bell notified me that they will soon be shutting down my copper telephone service, no options.  My DSL to TekSavvy will go with it. Joy. I run my own NAT/mail/vpn server firewall and I want to keep it. Apparently, others have been able

Re: [GTALUG] CZUR scanners under Linux

On 2022-11-14 08:40, Stewart C. Russell via talk wrote: On 10/11/2022 02.21, D. Hugh Redelmeier via talk wrote: Apparently the scan under MacOS (and probably under Windows) has better OCR than under Linux.  Grr. We're probably stuck with Tesseract, which — while it's much better than it

Re: [GTALUG] every time I log in to google or ebay from Fedora they think that it is the first time

My off hand guess would be cookies. Its really the only way they have to track you. You IP address can change of be used by several browsers so they can't use that for certain identification. Do you have some cookie management software on your system that could be screwing with your browser?

Re: [GTALUG] Making RPM from directory tree?

Here is an SRPM for netpipes. In all it took about 15 minutes to find the source and a simple spec file. you can unpack the rpm using "rpm -ivh netpipes-4.2.3.src.rpm" you can go into ~/rpmbuild/SPEC and then build the rpm using "rpmbuild -ba netpipes.spec" On 2022-06-12 12:35, William

Re: [GTALUG] Default VNC in GNOME?

On 2022-06-10 14:56, Lennart Sorensen via talk wrote: I don't feel like ever putting up with an rpm based distribution ever again. Having made both rpm and deb packages over the years, I am not surprised that the package quality is much higher on deb based systems. The rpm format is simply a

Re: [GTALUG] Ubuntu review on Distrowatch

On 2022-05-02 04:36, Evan Leibovitch via talk wrote: Thanks. Ugh. Your timing is perfect, because I'm just about to do a fresh install and this would be the time to decide on something else. I'm looking for an alternative that will offer support for a KDE version as well as Steam and my

Re: [GTALUG] supply chain risks: a real example

This is not just an open source issue since anybody can inject bad code into a project. Open source being more open has fewer people working to hide issues. This is defiantly an example of someone taking an action without thinking about the potential for collateral damage. But multiple state

Re: [GTALUG] Sane Email System?

On 2022-03-03 20:18, Peter King via talk wrote: Hello! I've just been informed that "legacy authentication" is going to be disabled at the University of Toronto for my email account. Well, I suspected something like this was in the works when they adopted MS Outlook 365+ as the mail server,

Re: [GTALUG] X10 - Gear you don't want? Or replacement suggestions?

On 2022-01-16 12:50, Giles Orr via talk wrote: X10 ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/X10_(industry_standard) ) isn't directly related to Linux, but this seems like the right group to ask about it ... I've been happily using X10 transmitters and receivers to automate switching lights on and off

Re: [GTALUG] UPS brand recommendations?

That's a good way to keep product out of the used market. Raise your prices just enough to cover the buyback cost and keep it just a bit higher than what the used market will pay. On 2021-11-09 06:04, Dave Cramer via talk wrote: Apparently APC will buy them back On Mon, Nov 8, 2021, 10:28 AM

Re: [GTALUG] UPS brand recommendations?

On 2021-11-08 10:38, D. Hugh Redelmeier via talk wrote: Folks have recommended replacing the gel-cell batteries. Where is a good source for these batteries? I prefer online. (I have UPSes that need new batteries.) --- Post to this mailing list talk@gtalug.org Unsubscribe from this mailing

Re: [GTALUG] Seeking recommendation: KVM vs Virtualbox

As a general rule a hard disk image can be made to boot under both KVM and VB or VMware. The first problem you may have migrating is the fact that the disk controllers may not be compatible between the physical system and the VM engine you pick. Usually this can be solved by pre-installing a

Re: [GTALUG] MySQL v. MariaDB

On 2021-10-13 09:41, Lennart Sorensen via talk wrote: On Tue, Oct 12, 2021 at 12:17:59PM -0400, Glen Strom via talk wrote: Slackware switched to MariaDB in 2013 with version 14.1. Well then they were keeping up it seems. I wonder how long before Oracle starts suing people using MariaDB now

Re: [GTALUG] Has anybody used the windowsfx linux distrio?

On 2021-09-24 10:47, Lennart Sorensen wrote: On Thu, Sep 23, 2021 at 07:18:34PM -0400, Alvin Starr via talk wrote: It looks kind of interesting for those who are comfortable with Windows and are afraid of Linux. Comments, hints and/or warnings would be appreciated. I am not sure what

[GTALUG] Has anybody used the windowsfx linux distrio?

It looks kind of interesting for those who are comfortable with Windows and are afraid of Linux. Comments, hints and/or warnings would be appreciated. -- Alvin Starr || land: (647)478-6285 Netvel Inc. || Cell: (416)806-0133 al...@netvel.net

Re: [GTALUG] Vaccination Receipts on Linux

On 2021-09-20 16:36, Lennart Sorensen wrote: On Mon, Sep 20, 2021 at 12:06:29PM -0400, Alvin Starr via talk wrote: Backing  up the discussion a bit. The Ontario government has the Accessibility for Ontarians with Disabilities Act (AODA) https://www.ontario.ca/laws/statute/05a11 snip Just

Re: [GTALUG] Vaccination Receipts on Linux

On 2021-09-17 16:18, Karen Lewellen via talk wrote: and that link, like a great deal of Ontario.ca these days is not inclusively  designed. I get a JavaScript error, even when using a JavaScript friendly browser with  adaptive tools on the Ubuntu shell services I use. Both dreamhost's shell

Re: [GTALUG] long war story: growing the ESP (/boot/efi)

On 2021-07-13 8:11 p.m., Lennart Sorensen via talk wrote: On Sat, Jul 10, 2021 at 10:21:07AM -0400, D. Hugh Redelmeier via talk wrote: Really? That's terrible. I often update UEFI settings. Do you have a source for this? I can't find any. There was a bug that made NVRAM read only on some

Re: [GTALUG] Foone's Silverado Linux discovery - "Go away, go away now, go away fast"

On 6/19/21 3:25 PM, Stewart C. Russell via talk wrote: Popular hardware hacker Foone Turing has found that the Chevy Silverado they're renting runs a dubious version of Linux in the entertainment console, yet it seems to have some control over some in-car systems and talks via the car's wifi (of

Re: [GTALUG] tips on packing computers?

Generally speaking computers are fairly resilient when not powered up. The disk drive heads park and are not on the platters. So it takes a real hit to cause them harm. With real abuse the cooling fans can sometimes fall off the CPU heat sinks. But other than that I have found that if the box is

Re: [GTALUG] IX is hiring

That 'splains why the site looked so bad with brave. On 2021-06-02 8:41 p.m., Dave Collier-Brown via talk wrote: Yes: we're a payments processor, and part of the business that delivers annoying ads to websites and gets them paid for them.  It's legit to block us as part of the ad business. 

Re: [GTALUG] Linus Torvalds Responds to Linux Banning University of Minnesota

On 2021-04-25 4:41 p.m., D. Hugh Redelmeier via talk wrote: | From: Alvin Starr via talk | If the zdnet report is to be believed then There was at least one attempt to | insert code after being found out and asked to stop. | | https://www.zdnet.com/article/greg-kroah-hartman-bans-university

Re: [GTALUG] Linus Torvalds Responds to Linux Banning University of Minnesota

On 2021-04-25 3:07 p.m., Dhaval Giani wrote: On Sun, Apr 25, 2021, 11:27 AM Alvin Starr via talk <mailto:talk@gtalug.org>> wrote: On 4/25/21 1:46 PM, Aruna Hewapathirane via talk wrote: On Sun, Apr 25, 2021 at 12:46 PM Ansar Mohammed via talk mailto:talk@gtalug.or

Re: [GTALUG] Linus Torvalds Responds to Linux Banning University of Minnesota

On 4/25/21 1:46 PM, Aruna Hewapathirane via talk wrote: On Sun, Apr 25, 2021 at 12:46 PM Ansar Mohammed via talk mailto:talk@gtalug.org>> wrote: I know some people may think this is an over-reaction. But FWIW, I agree with the Zero Tolerance approach. Zero Tolerance allows one to

Re: [GTALUG] Linus Torvalds Responds to Linux Banning University of Minnesota

On 4/25/21 11:32 AM, D. Hugh Redelmeier via talk wrote: | From: Aruna Hewapathirane via talk Thanks for pointing this out. (I used to subscribe to the LKML but it just got too voluminous.) | I am still trying to understand the reason 'why' would anyone even want to | do this ? The first

Re: [GTALUG] ot: headphone jac replacement?

Like Howard I am a CET and in the day when I was learning, the programs actively discouraged people with problems like colour blindness. Almost all the courses were technical or math related and no thought was given to human factors or access for people with impairments. I would hope that

Re: [GTALUG] Surveillance Capitalism [was another thread]

On 4/2/21 10:45 PM, Russell Reiter wrote: On Fri, Apr 2, 2021, 10:13 PM Alvin Starr via talk, <mailto:talk@gtalug.org>> wrote: On 4/2/21 2:29 PM, Russell Reiter via talk wrote: Red Hat has just dropped its Free Software Foundation funding and support. Now tha

Re: [GTALUG] Surveillance Capitalism [was another thread]

On 4/2/21 2:29 PM, Russell Reiter via talk wrote: Red Hat has just dropped its Free Software Foundation funding and support. Now that Red Hat is pretty well owned by IBM, wouldn't you like to ask all those people, how far back in IBM's own history of misdeeds; notwithstanding rumors,

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