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

On Mon, 19 Feb 2024 12:31:08 -0500 (EST) "D. Hugh Redelmeier via talk" wrote: > | From: Howard Gibson via talk > | > |I have long ago given up trying to run computers on 8GB RAM. For > |GNU/Linux, 16GB minimum. > > What tasks to you do that challen

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

On Mon, 19 Feb 2024 02:52:38 -0500 (EST) "D. Hugh Redelmeier via talk" wrote: > I bought a very inexpensive laptop from costco.ca. > Dead deal: > > > Unlike most

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

On Sun, 26 Nov 2023 01:33:41 -0500 (EST) "D. Hugh Redelmeier via talk" wrote: > 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

Re: [GTALUG] mbox vs Maildir [was Re: Linux friendly email providers?]

On Fri, 24 Nov 2023 01:20:20 -0500 (EST) "D. Hugh Redelmeier via talk" wrote: > You mentioned that you were running out of space on your system. If a lot > of that space is mail messages, I would bet that Maildir is costing you a > lot of it. Each message is taking a multiple of the

Re: [GTALUG] Linux friendly email providers?

is a nice email tool, mostly plain text. The thing I desperately needed at the time was the capability to download email, read it offline, and use send-later for my replies. On Thu, 23 Nov 2023 12:33:14 -0800 Ron / BCLUG via talk wrote: > Howard Gibson via talk wrote on 2023-11-22 21

Re: [GTALUG] Linux friendly email providers?

On Wed, 22 Nov 2023 21:25:13 -0500 (EST) Karen Lewellen via talk wrote: > Hi folks, > let me be more specific..some of you tech wizards run your own mail > servers laughs. > for context, although google is removing access to basic html in January, > they pulled my access to it early..and

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

William, Mechanical designer here. I specify screw torques. Torque is a convenient but not very accurate way to control screw tension. Most of your torque is friction, rather than screw tension. You can try whacking the end of your wrench with a hammer. Maybe this is a good

Re: [GTALUG] (very off topic) where to buy old AM/FM receiver?

William, New ones are not all that expensive. Check out Bay Bloor Radio. I still have the Harmon Kardon 230E I bought 40 years ago. I have connected the auxilliary port to a computer (Fedora_33). and it does a great job of playing YouTube. On Sun, 29 Oct 2023 22:16:25 -0400 William

Re: [GTALUG] Repair & Replace

On Wed, 13 Sep 2023 15:08:02 -0400 Peter King via talk wrote: > But more importantly: I am way too busy right now to do the replacement > myself.  So, does anyone have any recommendations for good reliable > computer repair work, someone or some company I can just take this to > and tell them

Re: [GTALUG] Dual boot

Gron, How critical is that software? GIMP works fine with my Nikon camera. Darktable allows me to remotely control it. On Thu, 27 Jul 2023 19:55:01 -0400 Gron Arthur via talk wrote: > Thinking of buying a Dell 3571 and making it dual boot with Windows and > Debian. Main reason for

Re: [GTALUG] Favorite desktop manager?

On Tue, 25 Jul 2023 16:58:47 -0400 Michael Galea via talk wrote: > Xfce on Debian 11 for MythTv (boots directly to the Myth screen in ~ 10S) > KDE on debian 12 on my personal system and laptop I like xfce and lxde, but I am still running FVWM2. -- Howard Gibson hgib...@eol.ca

Re: [GTALUG] Chromebook death dates

On Thu, 1 Jun 2023 15:24:56 -0400 Scott Allen via talk wrote: > On Thu, 1 Jun 2023 at 15:05, D. Hugh Redelmeier via talk > wrote: > > Pickett was a good brand. I really didn't like plastic slide rules > > because they were jerky to operate: stiction.\

Re: [GTALUG] wired headset suggestions?

On Mon, 10 Oct 2022 02:27:01 -0400 (EDT) Karen Lewellen via talk wrote: > Hi folks and happy thanksgiving if you are celebrating. > Given others might spend far more time in on line meetings than myself, > plus the ideas here tend to be workable, I thought I would toss this > question out

Re: [GTALUG] scanner under Windows under Linux?

On Tue, 2 Aug 2022 10:28:02 -0400 (EDT) "D. Hugh Redelmeier via talk" wrote: > This message is also a test of the list. > > CZUR makes interesting page scanners: > We actually have a couple. > > Until recently, all of their scanners' software only runs under Windows. >

Re: [GTALUG] From Slackware to which distro?

On Wed, 27 Apr 2022 00:37:21 -0400 William Park via talk wrote: > Hi All, > > I've been running Slackware since forever. It's time to grow up and see > the world. Which distro would you recommend that I move to? Yes, I > know it's personal, and reasons will be varied and educational.

Re: [GTALUG] Package Manager upgrades on Linux

On Tue, 8 Mar 2022 15:59:16 -0500 Giles Orr via talk wrote: > > So my questions (yes, there are questions here): does anyone know of > other package management systems? I suppose I'm thinking of > OS-specific ones rather than flatpak or snap. How fast are those > other systems relative to

Re: [GTALUG] Sane Email System?

On Thu, 3 Mar 2022 20:18:14 -0500 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 >

Re: [GTALUG] Man and Info Pages

On Sat, 8 Jan 2022 20:39:42 -0500 "Stewart C. Russell via talk" wrote: > I recently spent time debugging why a major embedded > project never came with a PDF manual, despite their docs being managed > in Sphinx. It turns out that there's one instance of a Unicode omega / > Ohm symbol in their

[GTALUG] Man and Info Pages

I am updating my UNIX Command Line HOWTO. I have a remark in my text to the effect that man pages contain text stating that man is obsolete, and that you should use the info pages instead. I actually have not seen this lately. What is the status of man and info at the moment? --

Re: [GTALUG] Heads up: Ubuntu 21.10 kills your desktop icons

On Tue, 19 Oct 2021 23:49:45 -0400 "Stewart C. Russell via talk" wrote: > GNOME have finally made good on their threat to remove all support for > icons on the Desktop. Any files in ~/Desktop no longer produce icons on > the screen. The GNOME Shell plugin that was the last thing that allowed

Re: [GTALUG] Looking for assistance with Firefox

Lennart, If you have five hundred tabs open, how do you find anything? On Wed, 13 Oct 2021 09:43:23 -0400 Lennart Sorensen via talk wrote: > On Tue, Oct 12, 2021 at 01:54:31PM -0400, D. Hugh Redelmeier via talk wrote: > > Not keeping my quantity of tabs down. > > Hmm, just noticed my tab

Re: [GTALUG] Fedora 34 with EFI boot on Raspberry Pi 4

On Fri, 10 Sep 2021 07:34:14 -0400 Stewart Russell via talk wrote: > At last night's Raspberry Pi meetup, Chris Tyler demonstrated Fedora 34 > (aarch64) on Raspberry Pi 4. It's supposed to be a fully supported > distribution, although the documentation hasn't quite caught up. Stewart, Let

Re: [GTALUG] Anyone know of a service to see if someone's pretending to be me?

David, There was a good article and program on CBC on Social Engineering. https://www.cbc.ca/news/science/marketplace-social-engineering-sim-swap-hack-1.5009279 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ck_r2GYLdCI https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lc7scxvKQOo My take-away from this is that

Re: [GTALUG] How to cut out borders of image?

On Sun, 5 Sep 2021 22:00:49 -0400 William Park via talk wrote: > Not really Linux related except for the fact that GIMP in Linux. > > I have an image that is too large. I don't want to reduce the whole > image. I just want to cut out left and right borders, like you would do > with

Re: [GTALUG] [ Audacity Becomes Spyware (fwd)

Karen, Well damn. I am using Audacity to record my vinyl LPs into MP3 files to play in my car. Can they detect that? On Mon, 5 Jul 2021 21:54:04 -0400 (EDT) Karen Lewellen via talk wrote: > Speaking personally as someone who has used the program for field > production, I am

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

Stewart, It is too bad I am unemployed at the moment. When you pull down SolidWorks' Help menu and select About SolidWorks, you get a list of all the copyrights from their subcontractors. Somebody starts a company. They write some graphics processing code. They license it to SolidWorks.

[GTALUG] Amid a pandemic, a health care algorithm shows promise and peril

https://www.salon.com/2021/06/09/amid-a-pandemic-a-health-care-algorithm-shows-promise-and-peril_partner Here is an interesting article on Salon.com, originally from Undark. This is one hell of a case for Free Software. -- Howard Gibson hgib...@eol.ca jhowardgib...@gmail.com

Re: [GTALUG] Ubuntu 20.04.2 is groaning

On Mon, 7 Jun 2021 14:52:14 -0400 Chris Aitken via talk wrote: > I think the problem is that gnome is hogging CPU. I can get gnome CPU > usage to 98% just by moving the mouse. > Chris Chris, There is room on my machine only for one CPU hog, and that is not Gnome_3. My desktop is FVWM,

Re: [GTALUG] Ubuntu 20.04.2 is groaning

On Mon, 7 Jun 2021 14:00:55 -0400 Chris Aitken via talk wrote: > Does this show whether more RAM would help..? > > owner@owner-HP-Compaq-8000-Elite-CMT-PC:~$ free -h >   total    used    free  shared buff/cache   > available > Mem:  7.6Gi   2.5Gi   166Mi 

Re: [GTALUG] Ubuntu 20.04.2 is groaning

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+ seconds just to enter commands, switch between apps, etc. Chris, My primary machines were having problems, slowing and stopping while

Re: [GTALUG] ftp helper app, and how to screenshot on Ubuntu 21.04?

On Fri, 4 Jun 2021 17:42:05 -0400 "Stewart C. Russell via talk" wrote: > Also, my go-to screenshot thingy /*scrot*/ no longer works on Ubuntu > 21.04: it gives me this: > > X Error of failed request:  BadDrawable (invalid Pixmap or Window > parameter)   Major opcode of failed request:  14

Re: [GTALUG] ot: headphone jac replacement?

Karen, I am a mechanical designer and drafter. I am an engineering technologist, certified by OACETT (http://oacett.org). Ask about threadlockers in the hardware store. The really popular one is Loctite 242, which is a lubricating, medium strength threadlocker which is blue in colour.

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

On Tue, 13 Apr 2021 19:42:47 -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 > > Stewart Stewart, That file exists on my system, and I bought it as

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

On Thu, 8 Apr 2021 01:57:39 -0400 Evan Leibovitch via talk wrote: > On Tue, 30 Mar 2021 at 16:25, James Knott via talk wrote: > > Life may be good, but LG products aren't. I've had a monitor and cell > > phone made by them. I wasn't happy with either. Evan, I bought an LG refrigerator

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

On Wed, 7 Apr 2021 10:41:22 -0400 (EDT) "D. Hugh Redelmeier via talk" wrote: > The copyright law is quite draconian. People violate it on a regular > basis (well documented in many articles). That's the only way it > becomes bearable. Hugh, Here is a nice article from Web Pages that

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

On Tue, 23 Mar 2021 21:46:00 -0400 Evan Leibovitch via talk wrote: > ... hopefully, not for long. Evan, Some useful and interesting references... https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richard_Stallman https://rationalwiki.org/wiki/Richard_Stallman Rational Wiki is interesting, since it

Re: [GTALUG] what MUA do people like? Use?

On Sun, 21 Mar 2021 11:57:09 -0400 (EDT) "D. Hugh Redelmeier via talk" wrote: > > Most of us in this household use Alpine. Thats a venerable text-based-GUI > mail user agent. I've been using Pine/Alpine since the early 1990s (when > I switched from Berkeley mail (like mailx on Linux)). As

Re: [GTALUG] Raspberry Pi

On Sat, 6 Mar 2021 07:57:05 -0500 Chris Aitken via talk wrote: > Am I on the wrong list for posing basic questions about Linux? I posted > a question a few weeks ago about about not being able to copy files > because of permissions and because filename had a '?' in it. I received > no

Re: [GTALUG] amusing spam

On Thu, 5 Nov 2020 14:14:23 -0500 (EST) "D. Hugh Redelmeier via talk" wrote: > I just got an invoice for $249 + shipping. > "Thank you for your order for Microsoft Windows Malicious Tool ." > > That seems just about right as a price and description of Windows 10. > (OK, I admit that I no

Re: [GTALUG] Group knowledge base

William, I did a fifteen month contract at Christie Digital in Kitchener. They maintain a software system called Christie University to provide on-board and upgrade training. They also have a cloud directory where people store notes on stuff. They found the article on my website on

Re: [GTALUG] dsl modem ideas for bell?

Karen, I am on Primus for DSL and land line. This service comes in through Bell's phone lines. When I installed Primus' DSL modem, admittedly quite a few years ago, I was sent a filter for each of my connections. I have a 56K Hayes style modem, which does not work unless I turn off

Re: [GTALUG] Updating my mailserver

On Mon, 31 Aug 2020 22:13:18 -0400 William Witteman via talk wrote: > I have run a mailserver for my domains for a long time. I have not > thought about its ability to send outbound mail for a while though, > and my logs tell me what my experience already suggested - it cannot > send email to

Re: [GTALUG] MathML Support on the Internet

On Mon, 17 Aug 2020 18:26:37 -0400 Stewart Russell via talk wrote: > > If you're auto-converting from TeX, try to do it as high up the conversion > chain as you can. By the time your doco has hit DVI, it's basically marks > on paper and any semantic information is lost. I don't think I've used

[GTALUG] MathML Support on the Internet

I brought this up at our last meeting and we discussed it. Officially, you can insert equations into your website using MathML. Unfortunately, Google Chrome does not support this, so it does not work. I uploaded my MathML page to my website, and you can try it out.

Re: [GTALUG] Raspberry Pi 4 Desktop Kit

On Fri, 7 Aug 2020 18:49:37 -0400 Aruna Hewapathirane via talk wrote: > 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

Re: [GTALUG] DSL to wifi

On Mon, 03 Aug 2020 20:43:40 + Astrid R via talk wrote: > Thanks for your replies. Before I go on I should say I discovered that I no > longer have the password to change the date and time, so it might not be > possible to change anything else either. > > But in case there might be a way,

Re: [GTALUG] Bash does-directory-exist question

On Fri, 10 Jul 2020 09:38:48 -0400 Giles Orr via talk wrote: > I have a strange Bash question for you. It's an edge case, but I've > run into it just often enough that I'd like to know how to deal with > it. > > How do you determine if the directory you're in has been deleted? Giles, Is

Re: [GTALUG] Free Linux VMs

On Sun, 10 May 2020 19:48:14 -0400 Alvin Starr wrote: > > Alvin, > > > > I am fascinated by this incident... > > > > http://www.theregister.co.uk/2018/09/21/ncix_servers_sold/ > > > This is not a new story. > > A lot of years ago I worked for a company that wanted to develop a Unix >

Re: [GTALUG] Actual ttyS0 MIA

On Sun, 10 May 2020 17:30:17 -0400 (EDT) Karen Lewellen via talk wrote: > Mr. Russell, > May I ask a side question here? > On a couple of other lists to which I belong, one of which involves the > development of the freedos project, there were questions about how a USB > to serial adapter

Re: [GTALUG] Free Linux VMs

On Sun, 10 May 2020 13:09:47 -0400 Alvin Starr via talk wrote: > On 5/10/20 11:04 AM, Howard Gibson via talk wrote: > > On Sun, 10 May 2020 12:06:20 +0200 > > ac via talk wrote: > >> in my opinion, avoid any ongoing "free" services, more so if it is a > >

Re: [GTALUG] Free Linux VMs

On Sun, 10 May 2020 12:06:20 +0200 ac via talk wrote: > in my opinion, avoid any ongoing "free" services, more so if it is a > huge multinational doing the offering as the huge companies all have > some sort of "dominate the planet" and kill off all competition type > long term goal... ac,

Re: [GTALUG] On the subject of backups.

On Wed, 6 May 2020 07:25:29 -0400 David Mason via talk wrote: > ZFS is another option. And it handles delta-backups very easily. David, How do you recover stuff from delta backups? You have to figure which backup the file or directory is in, right? My backup recoveries, admittedly

Re: [GTALUG] Laptop recommendations?

via talk wrote: > On 2020-04-27 10:22 AM, Howard Gibson via talk wrote: > > I think my current laptop has an RJ45 port. I bought a docking station > > for it, so I use that. Historically, I use the RJ45s because I transfer > > data to and from the laptop, and I want

Re: [GTALUG] Data backup recommendations?

On Mon, 27 Apr 2020 22:50:57 -0400 lsore...@csclub.uwaterloo.ca (Lennart Sorensen) wrote: > On Wed, Apr 22, 2020 at 10:05:31PM -0400, Howard Gibson via talk wrote: > >Why not buy a second hard drive? My nightly backup is a 4TB drive. > > "Personal" means the data do

Re: [GTALUG] Laptop recommendations?

On Mon, 27 Apr 2020 09:45:01 -0400 Lennart Sorensen via talk wrote: > On Wed, Apr 22, 2020 at 05:18:29PM -0400, James Knott via talk wrote: > > And use USB Ethernet adapters. > > The Thinkpad T and P series still have RJ45 ports. But I can believe > it will disappear since most other laptops

Re: [GTALUG] Data backup recommendations?

On Wed, 22 Apr 2020 22:18:33 -0400 Gron Arthur via talk wrote: > I have a backup drive, but I'm thinking it would be better to store > personal files at a second location. About 200-300GB in total. Gron Arthur, If my house and all around it is utterly destroyed, I lose all my data.

Re: [GTALUG] Data backup recommendations?

On Wed, 22 Apr 2020 21:02:45 -0400 Gron Arthur via talk wrote: > I'm looking for an easy way to backup data? What's good software to > use, preferably open-source, better if it had a GUI? Why not buy a second hard drive? My nightly backup is a 4TB drive. "Personal" means the data does not

Re: [GTALUG] Acer Aspire 3 A315-21 laptop has mono sound only?

On Thu, 19 Mar 2020 11:19:22 -0400 William Witteman via talk wrote: > I found several examples of stereo tests on youtube using the "stereo > test" search. They certainly work on my headphones. > > Good luck! The Gnome control center has a sound configuration window that tests your stereo

Re: [GTALUG] End of independent web browsers

On Tue, 14 Jan 2020 21:59:42 -0500 Christopher Browne via talk wrote: > The material takes somewhat extreme position, but it's curious that there > are only 3 "content decryption modules" out there, Widevine (Google), > Fairplay (Apple) and PlayReady (Microsoft), all of the vendors having >

Re: [GTALUG] 10TB drive seen as a 2TB drive (twice?)

On Sun, 29 Dec 2019 00:05:17 -0500 Evan Leibovitch via talk wrote: > > The system already has an SSD as /dec/sda, and two disks one of 3TB and the > other of 4TB, all working fine. > > When I attach the external drive, lsblock and fdisk -l both report TWO new > drives, /dev/sdd and /dev/sde,

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

On Sun, 15 Dec 2019 19:47:36 +0200 ac via talk wrote: > > 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 Electronic Parts http://www.a1parts.com Let's hope they are

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

On Thu, 14 Nov 2019 22:00:43 -0500 (EST) Karen Lewellen via talk wrote: > Hi folks, > I was going to just ask for alternatives to consider, but want to keep the > Linux element here as I mainly use a Ubuntu shell. > Now that google is making it profoundly difficult reaching basic html in >

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

On Sun, 25 Aug 2019 09:52:39 -0400 Scott Allen via talk wrote: > On Sun, 25 Aug 2019 at 09:30, Dave Collier-Brown via talk > wrote: > > Many of the very small devices are programmed in cross-compiled C. > > Or C++ Scott, Arduino boards are programmed in C++. C++ is an object oriented

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

On Wed, 14 Aug 2019 10:07:00 -0400 (EDT) "D. Hugh Redelmeier via talk" wrote: > | From: Stewart Russell via talk > > | This is not a place of honour:. > | > | https://github.com/mist64/cbmbasic > > This doesn't have the Waterloo BASIC extensions to Commodore BASIC. > Too bad. > --- I

Re: [GTALUG] War Story: Asus UX305ca SSD failures

On Thu, 1 Aug 2019 23:09:32 -0400 (EDT) "D. Hugh Redelmeier via talk" wrote: > > - petroglyphs: long long time > > - clay tablets: millennia > > - paper (pre-wood-pulp): five hundred years > > - paper made from wood pulp: 75 years > > - punch cards and paper tape: 100 years > > - 9-track

Re: [GTALUG] War Story: Asus UX305ca SSD failures

On Thu, 1 Aug 2019 11:15:43 -0400 (EDT) "D. Hugh Redelmeier via talk" wrote: > > Two years ago one of the m.2 SATA SSDs suddenly stopped working. If I > remember correctly, it didn't even show up as a disk. > > Last week the same thing happened on the second notebook. > > The only warning

Re: [GTALUG] POP3 vs IMAP

On Mon, 10 Jun 2019 15:38:06 -0400 Lennart Sorensen via talk wrote: > OK, having just looked up how MH does it, I am horrified anyone would > design something so awful. Changing mail sorting by renaming the > message files? That's insane. :) > > I can say for certain I will never ever

Re: [GTALUG] POP3 vs IMAP

On Sat, 8 Jun 2019 11:05:21 -0500 o1bigtenor via talk wrote: > Greetings > > Working on setting up Claws - - an email handling tool and I need to > choose whether I use > POP3 or IMAP. > What I've been able to find so far doesn't really give any kind of > clear direction. > I have lots of

[GTALUG] Two Things

I promised to mention the Raspberry Pi Meetup. Power-over-Ethernet: One cable to rule them all, without catching fire! https://www.meetup.com/Raspberry-Pi/events/nwgbwqyzgbpb A second thing has come up that may interest somebody. The York Regional Science and Technology Fair is

Re: [GTALUG] war story: fixing a doc bug can be hard

On Mon, 8 Apr 2019 10:48:59 -0400 (EDT) "D. Hugh Redelmeier via talk" wrote: > I'm reading dnf(8) on Fedora 29 and get irked by the layout of the > options. > --disableexcludes=[all|main|], > --disableexcludepkgs=[all|main|] > > Here's what "man dnf" shows on a terminal that is 80 > columns

Re: [GTALUG] Boeing India software engineers

On Tue, 12 Mar 2019 21:25:22 -0400 James Knott via talk wrote: > Several years ago, many companies decided to cut costs by moving help > desks etc. to India.  Many have come to regret that decision, due to the > poor quality "help".  In another thread, I mentioned how many put cost > ahead of

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

On Thu, 7 Mar 2019 08:50:35 -0500 "Stewart C. Russell via talk" wrote: > Right to Repair is important. I'm slightly disappointed by the general > reaction on this list. We'll spent lifetimes fiddling with software > configs to keep it running against all odds, but hardware gets short > shrift. I

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

On Tue, 5 Mar 2019 14:13:58 -0500 Lennart Sorensen via talk wrote: > Way too many phones are glued together instead of using screws these days. > Incredibly annoying given often you can buy a new screen or battery for > a decent price, but the work to actually replace it is insane. Lennart,

Re: [GTALUG] Samsung monitor power supply

On Wed, 13 Feb 2019 03:25:07 -0500 Russell Reiter via talk wrote: > If you can't find someone with a donation, you can probably find the one > you are looking for at Above All Electronics on Bloor St for 5$ or so. I > got a micro-pin p/s there last year. I wasn't sure if it was the right one >

Re: [GTALUG] Software to draw illustrations?

On Sun, 10 Feb 2019 00:51:09 -0500 William Park via talk wrote: > Hi all, > > What software do people use to draw illustrations that you'd see in > textbooks or presentations? Eg. data structure, high school math, block > diagrams, etc. I mean, I see them, but I don't know how to create them.

Re: [GTALUG] Security cams question

On Sat, 9 Feb 2019 07:25:31 -0600 o1bigtenor via talk wrote: > Greetings > > I am looking into using a security cam to observe animal behavior in an area. This is not a direct response to your question, just a handy heads-up. I came walking hone one Thursday evening through a park

Re: [GTALUG] How to run script at bootup in Debian

On Tue, 22 Jan 2019 19:46:24 + (UTC) William Park via talk wrote: > Hi all, > I need to run a custom script at the later stage of bootup in Debian 9.5 > (board is BeagleBone Black).  I seem to remember "rc.local" long ago, but > it's gone in the latest Ubuntu and Debian.  Online search

Re: [GTALUG] laptop repair in GTA/Markham?

On Wed, 9 Jan 2019 10:19:55 -0500 Tim Tisdall via talk wrote: > > Does anyone know of a good and reputable repair place that would be able to > fix a corroded trace on the board if that's all it is? It's an Asus > Zenbook UX305C. Tim, I do not like the idea of my computer and hard driving

Re: [GTALUG] good deal on netbook; war story: putting Fedora on it

Hugh, I am documenting my Linux installs on my website. I have had some time on my hands recently, so I have tried installing stuff on my old 32-bit Lenovo Thinkpad. http://home.eol.ca/~hgibson/Linux.html#NewUsers Ubuntu and Fedora worked nicely in a beginner installation. We need

Re: [GTALUG] Backups with Bacula

On Mon, 29 Oct 2018 15:35:20 -0400 Giles Orr via talk wrote: > I used to use a rotating set of 2TB 2.5" external USB hard drives. None of > them ever failed on me over about three years use, although three out of > four they were generally only accessed every week or two. I've now > switched

Re: [GTALUG] Lenovo ThinkPad Compact Bluetooth Keyboard with TrackPoint

On Fri, 21 Sep 2018 23:55:58 -0400 William Park via talk wrote: > I bought one for $60 from lenovo.ca, and just got it this morning. > After using it for 1 full day, I found that its $60 price is reasonable. > Think of it as $30 keyboard and $20 mouse, plus $10 premium for > integrating into one

Re: [GTALUG] Suggestions for stopping occasional spurious use of commercial wi-fi

On Sun, 16 Sep 2018 13:50:14 -0400 James Knott via talk wrote: > On 09/16/2018 01:45 PM, David Collier-Brown via talk wrote: > > > > What's a good approach? I have considered > > > > Many people use separate routers, as they're not happy with the Rogers > hardware.  I run pfSense on a refurb

Re: [GTALUG] Ubuntu -- Disabling Ping

On Thu, 30 Aug 2018 12:10:08 -0400 James Knott via talk wrote: > How much security do you think you'll get in that coffee shop?  I also > have a notebook computer that has a firewall running, even when on my > home network, behind a firewall. James, I expect no security at a coffee shop.

Re: [GTALUG] Ubuntu -- Disabling Ping

On Thu, 30 Aug 2018 12:04:34 -0400 Alvin Starr via talk wrote: > There are other ICMP messages that can be used for probing like > timestamp(msg-13). > All around all disabling ping does for you is to make it harder for your > ISP or IT support people to see if you are having network problems

Re: [GTALUG] Ubuntu -- Disabling Ping

On Thu, 30 Aug 2018 11:46:42 -0400 James Knott via talk wrote: > Also, IPv6 is now being used by many and NAT is discouraged on it.  This > means that, for example, Rogers customers will have public IPv6 > addresses.  However, given that they have a minimum of 18.4 billion, > billion addresses

Re: [GTALUG] Ubuntu -- Disabling Ping

On Thu, 30 Aug 2018 12:24:31 -0300 Mauro Souza via talk wrote: > You don't need to disable ping on your internal network, only at the > router. Because of NAT, nobody can really ping your internal system. > > Try this. Keep ping enabled on your Linux, and in your router, run this on > Linux: >

Re: [GTALUG] Ubuntu -- Disabling Ping

the capabilities of some script kiddies. On Thu, 30 Aug 2018 08:20:21 -0400 Jamon Camisso via talk wrote: > On 29/08/18 21:44, Howard Gibson via talk wrote: > >I am playing with my hack Ubuntu machine, and I am sorting out > > security. I want to disable ping. This is a lap

Re: [GTALUG] Ubuntu -- Disabling Ping

On Wed, 29 Aug 2018 22:03:52 -0400 Alvin Starr via talk wrote: > you could also do the following: > > sudo sysctl net.ipv4.icmp_echo_ignore_all=1 Alvin, That's it. I saw instructions on the internet to update /etc/sysctl.conf, but they did it wrong. Your command line works! Thank

[GTALUG] Ubuntu -- Disabling Ping

I am playing with my hack Ubuntu machine, and I am sorting out security. I want to disable ping. This is a laptop, and I want to document the application of aluminium foil. The standard ping disabler is the following line... # echo 1 > /proc/sys/net/ipv4/icmp_echo_ignore_all This

[GTALUG] Home Partitions

I have some time on my hands. :( I am doing some website updates, including some Linux install instructions I have posted. I have an old 32_bit laptop here which is now a playtoy upon which I can install anything I want. I have just installed Ubuntu, minus all the customization I

Re: [GTALUG] "Nobody" Problem

Stephen, I have used the sticky bit for this in the past. You can set up a cron job that searches for new files, and that changes the owner and permissions. On Sun, 5 Aug 2018 17:22:04 -0400 Stephen via talk wrote: > I have a share on Ubuntu Linux. > > From Windows copy files to the

Re: [GTALUG] Specific question about mailing list management

On Wed, 25 Jul 2018 10:08:47 -0400 Evan Leibovitch via talk wrote: > The dangers of doing this wrong now go beyond RBLs in the era of CASL and > GDPR. Organizations are being fined. > > One thing that is now part of best practices (ours at least) is to have as > the very first paragraph of all

Re: [GTALUG] Specific question about mailing list management

On Wed, 25 Jul 2018 00:30:58 -0400 Evan Leibovitch via talk wrote: > Hi all. > > This question is asked of anyone who administers a mailing list about > policies. I'm setting up a campaign-based mailing system using phplist (as > opposed to a forum-type MLM such as Mailman) and I'm interested

Re: [GTALUG] Thermal paste availability / Raising the dead

On Sun, 8 Jul 2018 15:03:34 -0400 Alex Beamish via talk wrote: > > It's possible that the CPU might be cooked (I was away during the Final > Crash), but on the off chance that it just over-heated and shut down (does > that even happen?), I know I need to clean off the old thermal paste > (Q-tips

Re: [GTALUG] Fedora 27 packagekit reboot and install glitch

On Wed, 16 May 2018 19:48:31 -0400 Russell via talk wrote: > After installing some recent F27 updates using the gnome software centre, the > package kit watchdog has stopped exiting gracefully on an install routine. > This happened after I chose to enable the recommended

Re: [GTALUG] Fedora Netinstall

On Wed, 14 Feb 2018 13:17:59 -0500 Bob Jonkman via talk wrote: > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > Hash: SHA1 > > Howard wrote: > > I have now updated my website install notes. I state in them that > the documentation sucks, and that all the default values work fine. I >

Re: [GTALUG] Fedora Netinstall

On Sat, 10 Feb 2018 15:44:24 -0500 Bob Jonkman via talk wrote: > > Are there any down sides to using a 32-bit machine as a web- or mail > server? I'm thinking low power consumption, make that an > attractive alternate use. Bob, This machine works fine for the stuff I do

Re: [GTALUG] Fedora Netinstall

On Sat, 10 Feb 2018 10:49:08 -0500 (EST) "D. Hugh Redelmeier via talk" <talk@gtalug.org> wrote: > | From: Howard Gibson via talk <talk@gtalug.org> > > |I have just upgraded my 32-bit laptop to Fedora 27. The install DVD > |is no longer available for

Re: [GTALUG] Fedora Netinstall

On Sat, 10 Feb 2018 21:15:57 + Giles Orr via talk wrote: > > > I'm reading all of this with some interest: I tried a Fedora Net Install > about four months back. And I appear to be the only person on this list > who had a problem with it. Specifically, I got to the page

[GTALUG] Fedora Netinstall

I have just upgraded my 32-bit laptop to Fedora 27. The install DVD is no longer available for 32-bit. I had to do a Netinstall. Netinstall is poorly documented, but the default settings all work, I was able to select the software I wanted, and it has all worked very well. I think I

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