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

> > The linux kernel requires that code contributors be registered. I > think that contibutions must be cryptographically signed, but I'm not > sure. This helps but isn't air-tight. > This is news to me. No, there is no registration to work on the kernel. There us no single authority who you

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

On Mon, Sep 18, 2023 at 7:16 PM Evan Leibovitch via talk wrote: > The more this thread continues the more I am reminded about the role of > inertia in branding and marketing. > > Gaining a new customer (ie, getting them to switch brands) is a lot harder > than keeping existing ones, especially

Re: [GTALUG] Landline and Bell revisited.

On Thu, Sep 7, 2023 at 10:27 AM Evan Leibovitch wrote: > On Thu, Sep 7, 2023 at 12:50 PM Dhaval Giani > wrote: > >> >> On Thu, Sep 7, 2023 at 9:36 AM Evan Leibovitch via talk >> wrote: >> >>> On Thu, Sep 7, 2023 at 11:40 AM James Knott via talk >>> wrote: >>> >>> > Bell faces human

Re: [GTALUG] Landline and Bell revisited.

On Thu, Sep 7, 2023 at 9:36 AM 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 >> >

Re: [GTALUG] how many addresses possible

On Sat, Apr 29, 2023 at 13:04 o1bigtenor via talk wrote: > Greetings > > (My head is swimming with all the explanations on IP routing - - - > have spent about 3 hours now looking at various documents - - - - I > just can't find a clear answer. The first statement is my present > network - - -

Re: [GTALUG] Fedora 38 is out

On Fri, Apr 21, 2023 at 23:55 Stewart Russell via talk wrote: > On Fri., Apr. 21, 2023, 14:13 BCLUG via talk, wrote: > >> >> >> I never, ever use fgrep or egrep and I think it's a bad idea. >> > > Well, that's me told. I've used fgrep since the days when regular grep on > a large file would

Re: [GTALUG] Ubuntu Pro - a new, non-optional walled garden from Canonical

On Tue, Jan 31, 2023 at 8:22 AM Stewart Russell via talk wrote: > > I should really stop running Ubuntu for the good of my health. This morning, > my various Ubuntu systems announced that a whole bunch of packages would be > unavailable unless I registered for Ubuntu Pro —

Re: [GTALUG] Ubuntu review on Distrowatch

On Mon, May 2, 2022 at 9:35 AM William Park via talk wrote: > > Yeah, I'm looking at Fedora too. I just want something that is stable, > that works after install, and will continue to work after upgrades for > foreseeable future. You can say that for Slackware. But, I'm getting > old for

Re: [GTALUG] Ubuntu 20.04.2 is groaning

On Mon, Jun 7, 2021 at 11:01 AM Chris Aitken via talk wrote: > > On 2021-06-07 1:42 p.m., Howard Gibson via talk wrote: > > On Mon, 7 Jun 2021 10:28:10 -0400 > > Chris Aitken via talk wrote: > > > >> Hi, > >> > >> I am hoping to get some help with my Ubuntu 20.04.2 LTS system. Takes me > >> 5+

Re: [GTALUG] Ubuntu 20.04.2 is groaning

On Mon, Jun 7, 2021 at 8:56 AM Val Kulkov via talk wrote: > > > On Mon, 7 Jun 2021 at 11:33, Chris Aitken via talk wrote: >> >> Hi, >> >> I am hoping to get some help with my Ubuntu 20.04.2 LTS system. Takes me >> 5+ seconds just to enter commands, switch between apps, etc. > > > Try checking

Re: [GTALUG] Ubuntu 20.04.2 is groaning

Chris, On Mon, Jun 7, 2021 at 8:33 AM Chris Aitken via talk wrote: > > Hi, > > I am hoping to get some help with my Ubuntu 20.04.2 LTS system. Takes me > 5+ seconds just to enter commands, switch between apps, etc. > > df reveals I have lots of space except what is dedicated to snap. I > don't

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

; > On Sun, 25 Apr 2021, Ansar Mohammed via talk wrote: > > > I know some people may think this is an over-reaction. But FWIW, I agree > > with the Zero Tolerance approach. > > > > > > On Sun, Apr 25, 2021 at 12:08 PM Dhaval Giani via talk > > wrote: > >

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

On Sun, Apr 25, 2021, 11:27 AM Alvin Starr via talk 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 > wrote: > >> I know some people may think this is an over-reaction. But FWIW, I agree >> with the Zero Tolerance

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

On Sun, Apr 25, 2021 at 8:32 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 > |

Re: [GTALUG] Google wins over Oracle in Java API copyright suit

> > Call me old-fashioned, but I want my computers to do what I tell them. I > don't want exceptions, I want results or error messages to explain why. > I know there are many processes running that do things I'll never > understand, but they must prove themselves useful to me or get out of my >

Re: [GTALUG] Google wins over Oracle in Java API copyright suit

On Fri, Apr 9, 2021 at 10:58 AM David Mason via talk wrote: > > On Apr 9, 2021, 1:45 PM -0400, Stewart C. Russell via talk , > wrote: > > After all with a loop you are controlling the > execution order of the processing. If done right you usually shouldn't > need to care. > > > But in document

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

>> >> Again, I say this again. RMS as a contributor, yes. RMS as a leader, no. >> >> I am not going to step into your Godwin's law discussion >> (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Godwin%27s_law ). It is irrelevant to >> the issue at hand. > > > That wasn't my discussion. I'm talking about

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

> That's why I think Stallman should be allowed the benefit of the doubt, as a > person. His personal history seems to be > one of family dysfunction and then finding comfort and direction in studies > in computer science at university. > Give him the benefit of the doubt. Just do not make him

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

Russell, My assumption here is you are here in good faith as opposed to one of those "white men are being persecuted" crowd. If you are the latter, please let me know, I will send all future emails from you to /dev/null. On Fri, Apr 2, 2021 at 2:27 PM Russell Reiter wrote: > > On Fri, Apr 2,

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

> >> are all aware of. Many women were uncomfortable around RMS and avoided >> him. Many refused to participate in our community because of >> interactions with him. Do you think RMS is more important than a >> community of developers he is pushing away? > > > See all the stuff you say we are all

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

Russell, I think we are capable of judging the two cases independently. Instead of the conspiracy theories. Let's look at the one fact that we are all aware of. Many women were uncomfortable around RMS and avoided him. Many refused to participate in our community because of interactions with

Re: [GTALUG] The FOSS world's most famous incel is back...

Hi, Without taking names, I would suggest participants on this thread take a look at https://gtalug.org/about/code-of-conduct/ . Dhaval --- Post to this mailing list talk@gtalug.org Unsubscribe from this mailing list https://gtalug.org/mailman/listinfo/talk

Re: [GTALUG] War Story: debugging remote port access

On Mon, Mar 22, 2021 at 10:26 AM Michael Galea via talk wrote: > > On 2021-03-22 8:09 a.m., Stewart C. Russell via talk wrote: > > On 2021-03-22 12:53 a.m., Michael Galea via talk wrote: > >> > >> The only problem I have encountered is that if mpd starts before nfs > >> mounts, it doesn't see the

Re: [GTALUG] question re: bug filing

On Wed, Feb 17, 2021 at 6:52 PM o1bigtenor via talk wrote: > > On Wed, Feb 17, 2021 at 7:28 PM Lennart Sorensen via talk > wrote: > > > > On Wed, Feb 17, 2021 at 03:12:49PM -0800, Dhaval Giani via talk wrote: > > > I also imagine you are paying the debian volunteer

Re: [GTALUG] question re: bug filing

On Wed, Feb 17, 2021 at 6:35 PM o1bigtenor wrote: > > > Dhaval > On Wed, Feb 17, 2021 at 5:14 PM Dhaval Giani wrote: > > > > On Wed, Feb 17, 2021 at 3:09 PM o1bigtenor via talk wrote: > > > > > > On Wed, Feb 17, 2021 at 2:17 PM D. Hugh Redelmeier via talk > > > wrote: > > > > > > > > | From:

Re: [GTALUG] question re: bug filing

On Wed, Feb 17, 2021 at 6:34 PM o1bigtenor wrote: > > On Wed, Feb 17, 2021 at 5:13 PM Dhaval Giani wrote: > > > > On Wed, Feb 17, 2021 at 3:04 PM o1bigtenor via talk wrote: > > > > > > On Wed, Feb 17, 2021 at 12:53 PM D. Hugh Redelmeier via talk > > > wrote: > > > > > > > > | From: o1bigtenor

Re: [GTALUG] question re: bug filing

On Wed, Feb 17, 2021 at 3:09 PM o1bigtenor via talk wrote: > > On Wed, Feb 17, 2021 at 2:17 PM D. Hugh Redelmeier via talk > wrote: > > > > | From: D. Hugh Redelmeier via talk > > > > | Each distro has its own way of reporting bugs > > > > I forgot to mention: google a lot first. There may be

Re: [GTALUG] question re: bug filing

On Wed, Feb 17, 2021 at 3:04 PM o1bigtenor via talk wrote: > > On Wed, Feb 17, 2021 at 12:53 PM D. Hugh Redelmeier via talk > wrote: > > > > | From: o1bigtenor via talk > > > > | Kernel 5.4.0-4 was the last kernel where I didn't find my second > > | graphics card not able to move out of sleep.

Re: [GTALUG] odd evince command behaviour

On Thu, Jan 7, 2021 at 12:04 PM D. Hugh Redelmeier via talk wrote: > > | From: Dhaval Giani via talk > > | On Thu, Jan 7, 2021 at 11:32 AM D. Hugh Redelmeier via talk > wrote: > > | > Also: > | > evince 'RE\: something.pdf' > | > fails because evinc

Re: [GTALUG] odd evince command behaviour

On Thu, Jan 7, 2021 at 11:32 AM D. Hugh Redelmeier via talk wrote: > > | From: Dhaval Giani via talk > > | On Thu, Jan 7, 2021 at 10:58 AM D. Hugh Redelmeier via talk > wrote: > > | > This fails: > | > evince "RE: someting.pdf" > | > |

Re: [GTALUG] odd evince command behaviour

On Thu, Jan 7, 2021 at 10:58 AM D. Hugh Redelmeier via talk wrote: > > I have a PDF filename named "RE: something.pdf" > > This fails: > evince "RE: someting.pdf" Stupid question, does replacing " with ' help? IIRC ' does no substitution at all. And it just feels like an escape issue.

Re: [GTALUG] Looks like IBM is planning to eliminate RHEL

On Wed, Aug 5, 2020, 11:04 AM Russell Reiter wrote: > Hey Phoronix got me through some kind of puzzling stuff relatively > unscathed. I just liked some of the more pointed comments from this > article, like its either RPM and reboot or Flatpak from the cloud. > Ha, no offense meant at phoronix.

Re: [GTALUG] Looks like IBM is planning to eliminate RHEL

On Wed, Aug 5, 2020, 6:43 AM Russell Reiter via talk wrote: > This is sad. But the article is an interesting backgrounder on the > internal chaos thats leading up to this. > > "They said that OS development was knocked down to lowest priority,” Ryan > noted. It says it right there. That may

Re: [GTALUG] btrfs weirdity.

On Tue, Jun 23, 2020 at 4:28 PM Dev Guy via talk wrote: > I don't like btrfs, this seems to be the default fs for the boot > partition with openSUSE Tumbleweed and I think on 2 occasions it got > messed up so bad that I stop using it. > > Anything is better than btrfs, even fat32 which I ended

Re: [GTALUG] Raspberry Pi 4 with 8G of RAM

> > > > > On Thu, 28 May 2020 at 12:57, Andrew Heagle via talk > > wrote: > > > > 64bit version of Raspbian (Now apparently renamed to Raspberry Pi > > OS) in beta also released. > > Note that it's very beta: much desktop acceleration isn't available yet. > > Maybe

Re: [GTALUG] Laptop recommendations?

While not a recommendation, this just popped up on LWN https://fedoramagazine.org/coming-soon-fedora-on-lenovo-laptops/ Dhaval --- Post to this mailing list talk@gtalug.org Unsubscribe from this mailing list https://gtalug.org/mailman/listinfo/talk

Re: [GTALUG] security threats of Open Source

Hugh, On Thu, Jan 23, 2020 at 11:08 AM D. Hugh Redelmeier via talk < talk@gtalug.org> wrote: > < > https://www.zdnet.com/article/microsoft-spots-malicious-npm-package-stealing-data-from-unix-systems/ > > > > This article list six cases of malware contributed to npm (the repo for > sharing

Re: [GTALUG] [OT] Phishing is no mirage...

On Wed, Dec 18, 2019 at 4:48 AM Russell Reiter via talk wrote: > On Tue, Dec 17, 2019, 2:57 PM Alvin Starr via talk > wrote: > >> On 12/17/19 2:27 PM, Russell Reiter via talk wrote: >> [snip] >> >> >> >>> | I wonder why, especially in this data stealing age, the practice is >>> not firmly >>> |

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

On Fri, Nov 15, 2019 at 8:24 AM Karen Lewellen via talk wrote: > > sorry James, i did not realize you were using adaptive technology. > May I ask how you will manage once Google, as they plan, block all third > party screen readers? > Sorry if I seem frustrated, but I asked a very specific

Re: [GTALUG] Linux kernel 5.3.0

On Fri, Sep 20, 2019 at 5:00 AM David Collier-Brown via talk wrote: > > > On 2019-09-19 11:11 p.m., William Park via talk wrote: > > I just tried kernel 5.3.0, and it's noticeably faster in opening > windows. Not sure about overall throughput, though. > > > I'd be interested in how quick it is

Re: [GTALUG] Suspend/resume not working with latest kernel in Debian unstable/sid

On Mon, Sep 16, 2019 at 4:45 PM Daniel Wayne Armstrong via talk wrote: > > On my old C720 Chromebook, in the past I have needed to add > `GRUB_CMDLINE_LINUX_DEFAULT="tpm_tis.force=1"` to GRUB to enable > suspend/resume to work properly in Debian. > > After a fresh re-install and upgrade to

Re: [GTALUG] Linux Kernel Allows 0.0.0.0/8 as a Valid Address Range

On Thu, Aug 15, 2019 at 4:13 PM Val Kulkov via talk wrote: > > On Wed, 14 Aug 2019 at 13:33, Russell Reiter via talk wrote: > > > > > > I imagine the energy map of the day might bear striking similarity to this > > map of adoption of ipv6 by country. > > > >

Re: [GTALUG] Script to show HTTP(S) and TLS details for a website

On Sat, Aug 10, 2019 at 8:46 AM Giles Orr via talk wrote: > > This may be seen as self-promotion - that's not totally wrong. But I think > this may also be useful to others and (as I acknowledge in the blog post) I'm > quite pleased with the resultant script. > > Over the past year and a half

Re: [GTALUG] A find alternative: fselect

On Mon, Jun 17, 2019 at 7:46 AM Lennart Sorensen wrote: > > On Thu, Jun 13, 2019 at 10:06:37PM -0700, Dhaval Giani via talk wrote: > > I agree with you on this, but also seeing how some libraries get > > developed/updated (I am looking you, npm), I can see why some > > p

Re: [GTALUG] A find alternative: fselect

> > > > Shared libraries significantly reduce the size of programs. Rust > > binaries are probably quite a bit larger than C binaries. > > 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

Re: [GTALUG] A find alternative: fselect

> HOWEVER, since Rust code is intrinsically much, much safer than C code, > stability of API is much more legitimate a characterizer of the version that > you want than bug-fixes (and bug-fixes are almost never security/safety > related). Please please please. Bug fixes, specifically the ones

Re: [GTALUG] NUC NUC NUC

On Tue, May 21, 2019 at 11:20 PM Lennart Sorensen wrote: > > On Tue, May 21, 2019 at 10:13:22PM +0200, Dhaval Giani wrote: > > This led me on chase, because Intel friends suggested what I said. I > > haven't looked too closely yet to see the difference between i3/i5/i7, > > but both i3/i5 do NOT

Re: [GTALUG] NUC NUC NUC

On Tue, May 21, 2019 at 5:46 PM Lennart Sorensen wrote: > > On Tue, May 21, 2019 at 01:05:34AM +0200, Dhaval Giani via talk wrote: > > Honestly, the latest round of flaws are nothing special. For most > > desktop use case, I wouldn't worry. It is very difficult to expl

Re: [GTALUG] NUC NUC NUC

> Perhap AMD flaws haven't been discovered yet. But the current score > shows AMD ahead. > This. The cynic in me though goes, that's a bad thing. Because no one thinks at this point in time that AMD is worth exploiting, and who knows what is lurking there. Dhaval --- Talk Mailing List

Re: [GTALUG] NUC NUC NUC

> Evan: From a security point of view (Rowhammer, Fallout, RIDL, ZombieLoad > ...) I would encourage you to consider an AMD processor. (Or better yet, ARM > - but that's not really viable on the desktop yet.) AMD isn't totally immune > to the plethora of recent attacks, but it's a lot better

[GTALUG] snapd (was Re: Installing Anaconda with Python 3 on 32 bit linux (Ubuntu ver 16.04 ))

> > | To whit - - > > | Canonical has moved to this system in their implementations of both > > | snapd and also lxd. It is possible to reduce the frequency of the upgrades > > | from a daily inspection and possible update/upgrade to a maximum of > > | a month long period without update/upgrade. >

Re: [GTALUG] Boeing India software engineers

On Wed, Mar 13, 2019 at 5:05 PM Gary wrote: > > Dhaval, your dim view of the Indian value chain is unfounded because > India is now ranked 3rd in A.I. research. Indeed, if you're higher up in > the value chain in North America then you certainly do run the risk of > losing your job because, for

Re: [GTALUG] Boeing India software engineers

On Wed, Mar 13, 2019 at 5:01 PM James Knott via talk wrote: > > On 03/13/2019 11:59 AM, Dhaval Giani via talk wrote: > > And whose responsibility is that? The market will support what it > > will. I pay my share of taxes to ensure that those who can't support > > themse

Re: [GTALUG] Boeing India software engineers

On Wed, Mar 13, 2019 at 4:53 PM James Knott via talk wrote: > > On 03/13/2019 11:49 AM, Dhaval Giani via talk wrote: > > So, if you are higher up the value chain, you are not going to lose > > your job anytime soon. > > Out of the population, how many will be higher up the

Re: [GTALUG] Boeing India software engineers

On Wed, Mar 13, 2019 at 4:49 PM James Knott via talk wrote: > > On 03/13/2019 11:22 AM, Dhaval Giani wrote: > > What is this "good stuff" that is moving offshore? From what I can > > see, stuff that is higher up the value chain is still in North > > America, and is still going to remain here. And

Re: [GTALUG] Boeing India software engineers

On Wed, Mar 13, 2019 at 4:46 PM Gary wrote: > > No, I think YOU have misunderstood. When I download lectures I do so for > the sole purpose of entertainment and nothing more; I'm a senior > citizen. My thinking was that those individuals who enjoy science and > engineering can still indulge that

Re: [GTALUG] Boeing India software engineers

On Wed, Mar 13, 2019 at 4:21 PM Gary via talk wrote: > > Well, as I had indicated in an earlier email, it is a fact that from a > U.S. census 74% of those with STEM degrees do not work in STEM. This is > my authority. > > However, even IEEE says that the "tech shortage" is just a myth: >

Re: [GTALUG] Boeing India software engineers

On Wed, Mar 13, 2019 at 4:12 PM James Knott via talk wrote: > > On 03/13/2019 10:59 AM, Dhaval Giani via talk wrote: > > James Knott wrote > > > > " > >> Several years ago, many companies decided to cut costs by moving help > >> desks etc. to Indi

Re: [GTALUG] Boeing India software engineers

On Wed, Mar 13, 2019 at 3:51 PM Gary wrote: > > I think you've misconstrued the intent of our discussion. o1bigtenor wrote " > A number of years ago I read that India is generating more engineers per year > that the rest of the world combined. How good they are - - - - that's > another

Re: [GTALUG] Boeing India software engineers

On Wed, Mar 13, 2019 at 3:10 PM Gary via talk wrote: > > I believe the short answer is that if you live in North America, you > should avoid wasting money on a costly academic education, even if > you're very gifted, and, instead, focus on vocational training that can > never be outsourced, such

Re: [GTALUG] video: Benno Rice on "The Tragedy of systed"

> > The notion in "Dockerworld" of having minimal containers where you > > don't have a lot of extra crap that you're packing into the containers > > is appealing, but I'm not sure how under control this is. > > > > What does it mean to "keep system up to date?" There's just enough > >

Re: [GTALUG] Questions on wireguard and networking

On Wed, Oct 3, 2018 at 7:54 AM James Knott via talk wrote: > > On 10/03/2018 10:36 AM, o1bigtenor via talk wrote: > > Found what looks to be a quite interesting vpn 'system' called wireguard. > > "WireGuard^® is an extremely simple yet fast and modern VPN that > utilizes *state-of-the-art

Re: [GTALUG] Linux 4.19-rc4 released, an apology, and a maintainership note

On Mon, Sep 17, 2018 at 12:52 PM D. Hugh Redelmeier via talk < talk@gtalug.org> wrote: > | From: Dhaval Giani via talk > > | https://lwn.net/Articles/764901/ > > | > https://www.jonobacon.com/2018/09/16/linus-his-apology-and-why-we-should-support-him/ >

Re: [GTALUG] Linux 4.19-rc4 released, an apology, and a maintainership note

> > >>> Also on a personal note, you contacted me offlist to chastize me about >>> some trivial comment I made about pulseaudio and at least one other person >>> has named you pubically on this list for the same type of conduct. >>> >>> >> I apologize for that. >> > > Apology accepted and my own

Re: [GTALUG] Linux 4.19-rc4 released, an apology, and a maintainership note

On Mon, Sep 17, 2018 at 3:11 AM Russell Reiter wrote: > On Sun, Sep 16, 2018, 11:52 PM Dhaval Giani via talk > wrote: > >> https://lwn.net/Articles/764901/ >> >> ... >> >> To tie this all back to the actual 4.19-rc4 release (no, really, this >&g

[GTALUG] Linux 4.19-rc4 released, an apology, and a maintainership note

https://lwn.net/Articles/764901/ ... To tie this all back to the actual 4.19-rc4 release (no, really, this > _is_ related!) I actually think that 4.19 is looking fairly good, > things have gotten to the "calm" period of the release cycle, and I've > talked to Greg to ask him if he'd mind

Re: [GTALUG] Alternative to Rogers

On Tue, Apr 3, 2018 at 8:09 AM Dave Cramer via talk wrote: > So one more time they put the prices up. > > This time the Roam Like at Home. now max of $90. Started at 50, that was > acceptable. then 60, now 90. > > So what options are there for > > 1) internet. 150M plans > 2) US

Re: [GTALUG] python sweetness — The mysterious case of the Linux Page Table

On Wed, Jan 3, 2018 at 11:53 PM John Sellens via talk wrote: > One could assert that the days of time sharing systems are largely over, > at least on production systems that people care about. > > And I think it's fair to say that it has been good practice for quite > some time

Re: [GTALUG] python sweetness — The mysterious case of the Linux Page Table

Russell On Wed, Jan 3, 2018 at 11:59 PM Russell Reiter wrote: > > > On January 3, 2018 10:56:30 PM EST, Dhaval Giani > wrote: > > > https://googleprojectzero.blogspot.ca/2018/01/reading-privileged-memory-with-side.html > >gives the gory details > >

Re: [GTALUG] python sweetness — The mysterious case of the Linux Page Table

https://googleprojectzero.blogspot.ca/2018/01/reading-privileged-memory-with-side.html gives the gory details At this point, I cannot stress on how important it is to update your systems as soon as your distribution ships them. I am hoping this remains to be a once in a lifetime event. Dhaval

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

On Fri, Nov 3, 2017 at 1:04 PM, John Sellens via talk wrote: > I've long found it disappointing the way shared libraries are dealt with > in linux and other OSs. > > To me, the obvious solutions is to install every library into a directory > named for the version, or name the

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

> As an example of the role of distros, consider the Linux Kernel. It > used to be common for folks to take the Linus kernel and build it on > their own machine and use it in place of their distro's kernel. It > wasn't too hard. Linus went to some trouble to make sure a release > was clean. I

Re: [GTALUG] Adobe Reader Alternatives for Linux

On Wed, Oct 11, 2017 at 6:26 PM, Brian Carlile via talk wrote: > Anybody else tried "Master PDF Editor" (http://code-industry.net)? I ran in > to the same government document issue with another pdfnand wondered if an > editor rather than a reader might be the solution. This one

Re: [GTALUG] Adobe Reader Alternatives for Linux

On Wed, Oct 11, 2017 at 10:16 AM, Myles Braithwaite  <m...@mylesb.ca> wrote: > Dhaval Giani via talk wrote: >> 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:

[GTALUG] Adobe Reader Alternatives for Linux

Hi folks, Yes, I am aware that there are many applications out there that can read pdfs. 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

Re: [GTALUG] From BTRFS to what?

Hi Alvin > > That is not even close to a real characterization of the conversation. > The point has been that losing a major distribution, and RH is a major > distribution, just takes away from the momentum that a project may have. > Take a look at Xen and its uptake outside Citrix once RH moved

Re: [GTALUG] From BTRFS to what?

On Mon, Sep 4, 2017 at 11:49 AM, D. Hugh Redelmeier via talk <talk@gtalug.org> wrote: > | From: Dhaval Giani via talk <talk@gtalug.org> > > | Redhat was never a major contributor to btrfs. The folks who are on btrfs > | like it and will continue fund its development.

Re: [GTALUG] From BTRFS to what?

> > > I was not trying to equate RH with BTRFS development but pointing out that > when a major distribution provider decides to drop a project that they once > included its a big hit for the project. > And as I mentioned, Red Hat was never a major contributor to btrfs. AFAIK, the maintainer of

Re: [GTALUG] From BTRFS to what?

On Sun, Sep 3, 2017 at 9:02 PM Alvin Starr via talk <talk@gtalug.org> wrote: > On 09/03/2017 02:53 PM, Dhaval Giani via talk wrote: > > > On Sun, Sep 3, 2017 at 2:13 PM William Park via talk <talk@gtalug.org> > wrote: > >> On Sun, Sep 03, 2017 at 05:52:12PM +0

Re: [GTALUG] From BTRFS to what?

On Sun, Sep 3, 2017 at 2:13 PM William Park via talk wrote: > On Sun, Sep 03, 2017 at 05:52:12PM +, Dhaval Giani wrote: > > On Sun, Sep 3, 2017 at 1:41 PM William Park via talk > > wrote: > > > Now, I read (it's an old news, though) that BTRFS is being

Re: [GTALUG] Dinner Tonight

Hi David, I think we are trying out Bangkok Garden. Thanks Dhaval On Tue, Jul 11, 2017 at 3:57 PM, David Collier-Brown via talk <talk@gtalug.org> wrote: > OK, I'll try those in order... > > --dave > > > On 11/07/17 11:35 AM, Dhaval Giani via talk wrote: >> >>

Re: [GTALUG] Dinner Tonight

> Bangkok Garden, 18 Elm street Sounds interesting to me. Dhaval --- Talk Mailing List talk@gtalug.org https://gtalug.org/mailman/listinfo/talk

[GTALUG] Dinner Tonight

Hi Folks, Thoughts for dinner? I am thinking thai. I see Thai on Yonge Basil Box Suggestions? Thanks! Dhaval --- Talk Mailing List talk@gtalug.org https://gtalug.org/mailman/listinfo/talk

Re: [GTALUG] git - push and pull attached to different remotes?

On Mon, Jun 5, 2017 at 6:47 PM, Giles Orr via talk wrote: > This isn't strictly a Linux question, but this list is a great > knowledge base and I know a lot of you use git. Usually on Linux. > :-) > > I've written a Python program that checks all of your repositories to > see

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

Hi Antonio, On Mon, Jun 5, 2017 at 1:50 PM, 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),

Re: [GTALUG] Can the speakers from last night post their names?

On Wed, Mar 15, 2017 at 8:44 AM David Collier-Brown via talk < talk@gtalug.org> wrote: > I wanted to update the page (and have added my talk), but I also wanted to > know who spoke about being a maintainer: I was his opposite number at Sun, > looking after libraries, APIs and educating folks

Re: [GTALUG] Dinner for the 14th?

On Mon, Feb 13, 2017 at 4:02 PM, Christopher Browne via talk wrote: > On 11 February 2017 at 16:55, Scott Sullivan via talk wrote: >> Let's get this ball rolling. >> >> My personal criteria is adequate seating and low noise. >> >> These two stand out as

Re: [GTALUG] Crashes

On Tue, Jan 31, 2017 at 10:28 AM Giles Orr via talk wrote: > On 31 January 2017 at 10:03, Alvin Starr via talk wrote: > > On 01/31/2017 09:07 AM, Giles Orr via talk wrote: > >> My primary machine is crashing with increasing frequency. The > >> commonest error

Re: [GTALUG] Question

Hi, On Thu, Jan 12, 2017 at 2:24 PM, o1bigtenor via talk wrote: > On Thu, Jan 12, 2017 at 12:28 PM, Jason Shaw via talk wrote: >> I feel obligated to point out freshbooks.com as Accounting as a Service >> based here in Toronto. I do work there, so I'm a touch

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

On Fri, Sep 30, 2016 at 10:47 AM, o1bigtenor via talk wrote: > On Fri, Sep 30, 2016 at 9:28 AM, Alvin Starr via talk > wrote: > > On 09/29/2016 11:52 PM, Peter King via talk wrote: > > > > On Thu, Sep 29, 2016 at 10:45:09AM -0400, Lennart Sorensen via talk >