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] Unplanned use...

On 2024-03-03 14:09, Colin McGregor via talk wrote: The product is the STOLTHET wood cutting board from IKEA, which you would normally use for chopping up fruit, veggies, etc.. The reason I mention this is not as a cutting board but because the top is big enough to support many types of LCD

Re: [GTALUG] war story: Brother printer won't turn on

On 2024-01-20 11:34, D. Hugh Redelmeier via talk wrote: I've found Brother laser printers to be fairly reliable, especially considering how complex and mechanical they are. I don't buy other brands so I cannot compare them. Some years back (don't remember how long ago) I bought a Samsung

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

On 2024-01-17 19:14, James Knott via talk wrote: On 1/17/24 18:54, Kevin Cozens via talk wrote: I'm lucky(?) so far in that every time I ask about things like FibeTV I find out that my area of Markham doesn't have fibre available. Maybe not to the home, but likely to the neighbourhood

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

On 2024-01-16 17:53, David Collier-Brown via talk wrote: Bell Canada no longer has to provide power to home phones. They tried to sell us "fib", and said it was powered by them. I'm lucky(?) so far in that every time I ask about things like FibeTV I find out that my area of Markham doesn't

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

On 2024-01-16 07:16, Evan Leibovitch via talk wrote: On Tue, Jan 16, 2024 at 2:46 AM D. Hugh Redelmeier via talk > wrote: (The old Bell system had large lead-acid batteries in the COs. Oldhandsets were actually powered by the CO.  Modern ones have their

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

On 2024-01-15 18:15, o1bigtenor via talk wrote: In rural Canada (more accurately in rural Manitoba) - - - that this is surprising is actually quite astounding to me. Service is this bad in significant amounts of rural Canada. So bad in fact that emergency responders (flooding/forest fires) have

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

On 2024-01-14 07:19, o1bigtenor via talk wrote: Re: search engines - - - - to me they are totally frustrating. If I'm asking for a search where I want terms 'a + b + c + d + e' well - I'm looking for where ALL 5 terms show up. Not where any one term is or any two (etc etc). So if one is

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", because it (i.e.

Re: [GTALUG] lazy jail server admin forced to act

On 2024-01-07 22:29, D. Hugh Redelmeier via talk wrote: | From: Kevin Cozens via talk | You probably need to add a google authentication record to your domain name to | reduce the chance of your email messages being rejected by gmail. I don't know what that is. I had to check the TXT

Re: [GTALUG] lazy jail server admin forced to act

On 2024-01-07 12:27, D. Hugh Redelmeier via talk wrote: Mails from my domain have started to be rejected by gmail. To placate gmail, I've added an SPF record to my doman: Some of my email messages were winding up in other peoples spam folders. I added SPF, DKIM, and google authentication

[GTALUG] Debian 12 takes too long to boot and login

Greetings, all. I have been a contributor to an Open Source project over a number of years. A lot of the devs seems to use Debian testing which means I often find I have to deal with (often minor, fortunately) dependency hell to be able to recompile the program when I haven't done so in a

Re: [GTALUG] Toronto Public Library website

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. A couple of TBs needed to be moved. Both machines

Re: [GTALUG] Old (mostly) O'Reilly books available free

On 2023-10-29 11:12, Giles Orr via talk wrote: I have a number of O'Reilly books that I haven't used in years (and a couple other tech titles as well). It's time I got rid of them, and it seems a waste to toss them in the recycling. The books might be a tad old but can still be useful. I see

Re: [GTALUG] sigh, hardware resources?

On 2023-10-21 02:19, D. Hugh Redelmeier via talk wrote: Someone may know how to break the WinXP password from a Linux system. If Win XP mattered, I assume that it could be re-installed. But I don't think Karen cares about Windows. There is an article in Wikipedia about breaking the password

Re: [GTALUG] How do I get wlan0 interface for WiFi with any MAC

On 2023-10-11 16:26, BCLUG via talk wrote: Kevin Cozens via talk wrote on 2023-10-11 12:05: What udev(?) rule do I need to add to have the WiFi device come up as wlan or wlan0 regardless of the MAC address that may be associated with the WiFi device? My first thought: netplan, and found

[GTALUG] How do I get wlan0 interface for WiFi with any MAC

Greetings, all. I have an embedded system and WiFi works but the device name that is shown in ifconfig for it is wlx followed by the MAC address. What udev(?) rule do I need to add to have the WiFi device come up as wlan or wlan0 regardless of the MAC address that may be associated with the

Re: [GTALUG] October Meeting Announcement!

On 2023-10-09 13:46, Alan Heighway via talk wrote: *Time:* October 10th, 2023 7:30 PM Eastern Time *Join us on Big Blue Button:* https://blue.lpi.org/b/eva-zjc-gjy-kgl . Someone needs to check that date. The announcement is for a meeting held

Re: [GTALUG] Raspberry Pi 5 announced (shipping starting near the end of October)

On 2023-09-28 15:54, William Park via talk wrote: At work, we're using Odroid.  Have you considered them? I do work for someone who is using NanoPi boards. I also have an OrangePi board that I'm evaluating as a replacement for an RPi board in another product. There are so many boards from

Re: [GTALUG] Raspberry Pi 5 announced (shipping starting near the end of October)

On 2023-09-28 11:39, D. Hugh Redelmeier via talk wrote: It does seem interesting. I watched a video where someone gave a detailed breakdown of what is on the board. I won't be rushing out to buy one. I already have too many RPi

Re: [GTALUG] looking for a general purpose boot media to keep in case of distasters

On 2023-09-19 23:22, bitmap via talk wrote: I'd really like to have a good USB key to boot from when some kind of problem happens. As was mentioned you can use a live CD/DVD. I use Linux Mint (although I'm thinking of moving to Debian testing) but it has the same issue that Fedora and other

Re: [GTALUG] installing Windows is uselessly worse than installing Linux

On 2023-09-16 16:13, Giles Orr via talk wrote: Regular readers of this list may recall that I recently bought a mini-mini-computer: the slim instruction manual basically said that if you wanted to avoid trouble (which I take to mean "having to connect to a global M$ account"), I should boot

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. TL;DR: run the test from a fast computer. When I used Bell's speed test on my

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 I ran in to a similar situation. I used to be

Re: [GTALUG] Favorite desktop manager?

On 2023-07-31 11:43, Evan Leibovitch via talk wrote: Consider how most people (and even dictionaries ) pronounce Linux as "Linnicks" even though Linus himself clearly wanted "Leenuks" in a vary short and famous audio clip

Re: [GTALUG] Favorite desktop manager?

On 2023-07-28 06:33, Robert Brockway wrote: If I have to give a Linux desktop to a new user I generally start them with MATE[1].  It's fairly comfortable to anyone who's used to the desktop metaphor. [1] And let's make sure we pronounce it correctly There is more than one way to pronounce

Re: [GTALUG] Dual boot

On 2023-07-27 21:14, Robert Brockway via talk wrote: OP, if a pure Linux solution isn't viable could a VM with a USB port connected work? That should be possible. I run a Windows only 3D modelling program in a VM that boots Windows. The modelling program has access to the USB based Space

Re: [GTALUG] Dual boot

On 2023-07-27 21:14, Robert Brockway via talk wrote: On Thu, 27 Jul 2023, Michael Galea via talk wrote: It just seems to be a lot of work if part of your workflow is in Windows and part in Linux. Exactly.  I've never been a fan of dual booting for precisely this reason. I used to dual boot

Re: [GTALUG] Dual boot

On 2023-07-27 19:55, Gron Arthur via talk wrote: Thinking of buying a Dell 3571 and making it dual boot with Windows and Debian. Main reason for Windows is, I want Nikon's ViewNX software for my DSLR camera and can't for the life of me figure out how to run it off an emulator. Have you

Re: [GTALUG] Favorite desktop manager?

On 2023-07-25 14:18, mwilson--- via talk wrote: I just installed Debian 12 on a new laptop and took Gnome as desktop/window manager. [snip] I might go back to Xfce, and assume my troubles just resulted from being 2 major releases back, but before that, what do other people use and like? I

Re: [GTALUG] computer hardware testing tools.

On 2023-07-13 11:31, Karen Lewellen via talk wrote: Oh yes, we have gotten some fuse blows..which my landlord expects me to manage by sticking my hand into the fuse box. No labels, and that I might have an issue seeing them seems not to matter here. It should go without saying but I'll say it

Re: [GTALUG] I keep getting unsubscribed from the list

On 2023-05-16 11:56, Znoteer via talk wrote: Apparently, according to the messages I receive, my provider keeps bouncing list mail back to the server. This is a reliable, paid for service (mailbox.org) as far as I know. I have no trouble with mail from any other source than gtalug. Have you

Re: [GTALUG] how many addresses possible

On 2023-04-29 16:04, o1bigtenor via talk wrote: (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 - - - I'm trying to figure out how to

Re: [GTALUG] Canadian hosting?

On 2023-04-11 09:13, Stewart Russell via talk wrote: US ownership is fine: There was a big fuss some years ago about the US government being able to force ISPs to provide access to users accounts, or something like that. I don't remember the specifics but it was enough that I went with a

Re: [GTALUG] Canadian hosting?

On 2023-04-10 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

Re: [GTALUG] war story: gtalug.org's filled up

On 2023-04-04 17:50, D. Hugh Redelmeier via talk wrote: GTALUG's server's filesystem filled up: little disk space left. I've had that happen to me in the past where the disk space on a server suddenly runs out. One of the reasons it happened was due to the log file of some program growing

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

On 2023-01-31 15:45, D. Hugh Redelmeier via talk wrote: Unless you have requirements beyond my idea of normal, you qualify for the free tier of Ubuntu Pro (infra-only) Desktop. I saw that reference to "infra-only". What does that mean? -- Cheers! Kevin. https://www.patreon.com/KevinCozens |

Re: [GTALUG] GTALUG General Meeting Reminder

On 2023-01-08 15:36, Alan Heighway via talk wrote: We're going to use Big Blue Button for this meeting: Can the meeting be seen without joining Big Blue Button? -- Cheers! Kevin. http://www.ve3syb.ca/ | "Nerds make the shiny things that https://www.patreon.com/KevinCozens |

Re: [GTALUG] Is there a digest format for the GTALUG talk mailing list?

On 2022-12-18 13:59, BCLUG via talk wrote: Probably the option wasn't set at the first item this page: https://gtalug.org/mailman/admin/talk/digest AFAICT, the list uses Mailman. The digest feature needs to be turned on and also needs a cron job to be run. -- Cheers! Kevin.

Re: [GTALUG] Weird pivot from the Linux Foundation: Overture Maps Foundation

On 2022-12-15 10:01, Stewart Russell via talk wrote: announced the formation of the Overture Maps Foundation , a new collaborative effort to develop interoperable open map data [snip]> The thing is, we already have a mature global map database with interoperable

Re: [GTALUG] At the GTALUG AGM: How we handle Internet services

On 2022-12-12 17:43, D. Hugh Redelmeier via talk wrote: The task are not all that hard but when a small number of folks take on all the load, we get problems because successors are not being trained. Dare I say the "D" word - Documentation. If training successors is a problem then (part of)

Re: [GTALUG] How to keep using an old CIFS device

On 2022-12-08 19:44, Stewart Russell via talk wrote: Ever since NTLM support was removed from the kernel I'm surprised to hear that a driver was removed from the kernel. If you get the source for the removed module you could compile it and have it available as a loadable module for your

Re: [GTALUG] [LONG!] Re: Forced off DSL by Bell

On 2022-11-21 23:41, D. Hugh Redelmeier via talk wrote: Rogers isn't going to give you a static IP address. My Rogers line changes IP address randomly but on average about once a year. But you cannot control the entry in the reverse domain for a Rogers address so it isn't very useful for an

Re: [GTALUG] Forced off DSL by Bell

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 the past few years our phone has never gone out

Re: [GTALUG] Forced off DSL by Bell

On 2022-11-21 18:35, Michael Galea via talk wrote: the copper is being yanked. If someone was still using copper for their telephone service (ie. they don't have a cell phone), what are they going to do for phone service? Is this being done by bell out in the country? Rogers is also forcing

Re: [GTALUG] CZUR scanners under Linux

On 2022-11-10 02:21, D. Hugh Redelmeier via talk wrote: | Is there any support for it in VueScan? I don't know VueScan. It is similar in idea to XSane. It supports a lot of (old/obsolete) scanners. I can't use XSane to scan slides on my HP G4010 because it doesn't turn on the light in the

Re: [GTALUG] CZUR scanners (was Borked Python setup, please help)

On 2022-11-09 16:00, Lennart Sorensen via talk wrote: On Wed, Nov 09, 2022 at 12:04:44PM -0500, D. Hugh Redelmeier via talk wrote: I recently bought a scanner from CZUR because it was to support Linux. Well, they only supplied a binary .deb package. [snip] This solution is going to suffer

Re: [GTALUG] odd error when running the screen program?

On 2022-10-02 11:33, Karen Lewellen via talk wrote: There is a program called screen, apparently common across some Linux distributions. one can create the equal of a screen shot, The program "screen" is not used to create screen shots. If you are after a screen shot you might be wanting to

Re: [GTALUG] Linux word processing like it's 1997!

On 2022-09-25 16:53, Stewart C. Russell via talk wrote: In an act of bravery/recklessness/genius (pick any combination), Tavis Ormandy has managed to package Corel WordPerfect for Unix for modern (x86ish) Linux distributions I used to use WordPerfect. Before WordPerfect there was WordStar. I

Re: [GTALUG] couple of unrelated electronics questions?

On 2022-09-07 23:28, Karen Lewellen via talk wrote: First, what was the name of the still existing Toronto electronics surplus type store, now that above all electronics is gone? Are you looking for electronic components or surplus electronics gear? There are a couple of places for vintage

Re: [GTALUG] tpl Linux training?

On 2022-09-01 09:38, D. Hugh Redelmeier via talk wrote: | From: Evan Leibovitch via talk | These courses are almost all command line. Wow. That certainly would make Linux unattractive to most ordinary people. Both computer beginners and ordinary users of Windows or MacOS. The course I took

Re: [GTALUG] tpl Linux training?

On 2022-08-30 14:40, Karen Lewellen via talk wrote: Do these classes teach about the command line aspect of Linux? IIRC, when I went through a Linux course from Cisco it did cover command line. I don't recall it covering much, if anything, on the GUI side. It has been several years since I

Re: [GTALUG] Fedora 36's gnome display of notebook battery status

On 2022-07-07 12:19, D. Hugh Redelmeier via talk wrote: I like the battery status displayed as a percentage. This is not the default. Not a mainstream option It used to be something you could get through the GNOME "Tweaks" program. It is things like that which make me glad I'm using MATE

Re: [GTALUG] Old DOS NFS client won't talk to Linux NFS server

On 2022-06-28 21:50, Lennart Sorensen wrote: The DOS based NFS client was actually never compatible with NFS at all. That would explain why I'm having problems getting it to work. People used to run pcnfsd on the server if they wanted a DOS client to connect. The call that is complaining is

Re: [GTALUG] Old DOS NFS client won't talk to Linux NFS server

On 2022-06-28 17:33, John Sellens wrote: On my ubuntu desktop, nfs(5) tells me that mount.nfs(8) will take an nfsvers=2 option. I wonder if your desktop did the mount with the default version 4? Did you try forcing a mount from your desktop with nfsvers=2? I haven't tried that but I can see

[GTALUG] Old DOS NFS client won't talk to Linux NFS server

Greetings, all. I'm wondering if someone may have some insight in to an NFS related problem. I have an embedded system running Linux. I set it as an NFS server. I have been able to have the server mount its own share and I have also been able to mount the share on my desktop. That tells me

Re: [GTALUG] Making RPM from directory tree?

On 2022-06-12 12:35, William Park via talk wrote: I gave up.  I installed it to /usr/local.  I'll need to keep the tarball around, so that I'll know what files to remove. I had another thought. If you can find the package you need from another distro you might be able to use the program

Re: [GTALUG] Making RPM from directory tree?

On 2022-06-11 18:09, William Park via talk wrote: I have a directory tree, created from "make install DESTDIR=...".  Now, I want to make RPM package from the tree.  Online docs are too verbose and confusing. [snip] I use "netpipes-4.2" a lot.  Debian and Slackware have it, but Redhat variants

Re: [GTALUG] RISC-V

On 2022-05-10 10:36, D. Hugh Redelmeier via talk wrote: For example, on this page, if you pick the $53.35 "bundle", I think you get a complete system with WiFi and 1G of RAM. 11.76 shipping. But I'm not sure because the description is poor. Still, it is useful just to see the brochure (just

Re: [GTALUG] Back to basics: upgrading from Windows to Linux

On 2022-04-28 17:29, D. Hugh Redelmeier via talk wrote: | From: Kevin Cozens via talk | I have just used dd run under Linux when I have cloned drives in the past. | YMMV. Two problems I can imagine: - the two disks will have partitions with identical UUIDs. I was thinking the purpose

Re: [GTALUG] Ethernet alias triggering network security warnings

On 2022-04-28 11:47, Giles Orr via talk wrote: Most DHCP servers I've used on the 192.168.N.* tend to be set up to assign numbers in the 100-254 range. Choosing "110" as your number puts it in that range, and unless you explicitly told the DHCP server that 110 is off bounds, Thanks for the

Re: [GTALUG] Back to basics: upgrading from Windows to Linux

On 2022-04-28 01:35, Evan Leibovitch via talk wrote: 1. My motherboard takes a single M.2 SSD for my one and only drive. I have a larger M.2 card that I'd like to replace it with, cloning my existing setup to the new drive [snip] Can anyone recommend a good tool for doing the disk

[GTALUG] Ethernet alias triggering network security warnings

Greetings, all. I am using an embedded system that is running a version of an Ubuntu distro. The embedded system is being set up so that the physical Ethernet port will have two aliases. One is eth0:0 and the other is eth0:1. eth0:0 is set to get an IP address via DHCP when a network cable

Re: [GTALUG] Google Gsuite Legacy domain replacement

On 2022-04-13 13:40, Andrew Heagle via talk wrote: But the pricing they are asking for is a bit high for use. $7.80 (Plus tax I assume) per user per month, or $420/yr. I think that must be a typo. Assuming with tax it isn't more than $10/month that is only $120 per year, not $420. -- Cheers!

Re: [GTALUG] two or three tricks for installing Linux as a second OS on a Windows box

On 2022-03-07 07:39, William Park via talk wrote: I used to dual-boot, but now I use separate Linux computer.  If I need to copy files, I use ssh/scp in WSL Ubuntu. For those times when you need to copy files and you are on the Windows machine you could use WinSCP. -- Cheers! Kevin.

Re: [GTALUG] Sane Email System?

On 2022-03-03 20:18, Peter King via talk wrote: 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, but it

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

On 2022-01-15 2:04 a.m., Nicholas Krause wrote: On 1/14/22 23:24, Kevin Cozens via talk wrote: Why is Raspbian not set up to automount a memory stick like is done on a normal Linux based desktop? Normally it's something with systemd or udev rule flags. [snip] Make sure it works  by changing

[GTALUG] RaspberryPi won't automount USB memory stick

Greetings, all. I have an embedded system that uses a Raspberry Pi 3. I have it set up and running with the latest Raspbian and all is well, almost. For some reason the Raspbian system is not set up to automount memory sticks when they are inserted in to a USB port on the machine. On

Re: [GTALUG] Man and Info Pages

On 2022-01-06 11:44 a.m., Scott Allen via talk wrote: On Thu, 6 Jan 2022 at 11:28, Giles Orr via talk wrote: I open a man page, I scroll - done. I opened the man page because I wanted to learn about the command whose man page I opened - I don't want to have to learn about 'info' before I can

Re: [GTALUG] [GTALUG-Announce] January Meeting Reminder

On 2022-01-03 1:50 p.m., Alan Heighway via talk wrote: *Speaker:* Chris Sullivan *Topic:* Radio Direction Finding with the Raspberry Pi Why does this message have a capital A with an upside down v on top of it after every word?? -- Cheers! Kevin. http://www.ve3syb.ca/

Re: [GTALUG] help with Rogerrs SMTP

On 2021-12-01 8:24 p.m., Ariel Burton via talk wrote: I'm trying to get outgoing SMTP email to work with Rogers, and would appreciate any help. [snip] BEGINS set smtp=smtp.nl.rogers.com:587 set smtp-auth-user=MY-ROGERS-EMAIL-ADDRESS set smtp-auth-password=ROGERS-DEVICE-SPECIFIC-PASSWORD

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

On 2021-11-06 8:13 p.m., Jim Ruxton via talk wrote: In one case I am running a command in a script and activating it via a mouse click and the other case I am running the command directly on the command line. Could it be a permissions issue? What perms do you have when running it from the

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

On 2021-11-06 12:37 p.m., Jim Ruxton via talk wrote: I am running the script by double clicking on it after making it executable and setting scripts to run this way via nautilus.  All the other scripts I wrote run fine this way. Modify the script to capture all output from the command as it

Re: [GTALUG] MySQL v. MariaDB

On 2021-10-09 10:12 a.m., Slackrat via talk wrote: It looks like Slackware is swtching. CentOS and Linux Mint switched to MariaDB several years ago. I suspect this has already happened in other distros. I have not noticed any problems with the switch. -- Cheers! Kevin.

Re: [GTALUG] Firefox 93 now supports PDF XFA forms

On 2021-10-09 7:24 a.m., o1bigtenor via talk wrote: If I have questions regarding some problems with firefox - - - - would you, or anyone else out there in gtalug land, know of a way to achieve a 'conversation' rather than a bug report. Or is a bug report the only way of having such

Re: [GTALUG] Enlarging /boot

On 2021-10-07 10:45 p.m., William Witteman via talk wrote: When I installed Debian on my current computer, I (foolishly) let the install script partition my disk.  Now I have a /boot partition that is too small. How small is your /boot partition? Are you using it for more than just the

Re: [GTALUG] Free Weller soldering tips

On 2021-10-05 11:24 a.m., William Park via talk wrote: While cleaning up, I found soldering tips for Weller soldering iron.  If you want them, they're yours via Canada Post. :-) Wow. Several of those tips have certainly seen a lot of use. What is the temperature setting for those tips? I

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

On 2021-07-06 8:10 a.m., Stewart C. Russell via talk wrote: Their new terms and conditions includes: * collection of usage data (including OS version, user country (based on IP address; it's not clear if they retain IP address), CPU, non-fatal error codes, crash reports and data necessary for

Re: [GTALUG] e-reader recommendations

On 2021-05-20 8:28 a.m., Lennart Sorensen via talk wrote: Hmm, I just saw an add for the new kobo elipsa and was surprised that it actually covers more of what you seemed to want that I would have expected. 10.3" e-ink screen stylus to write your own notes and scribbles web browser support for

Re: [GTALUG] SCO Linux FUD returns from the dead | ZDNet

On 2021-04-04 11:45 a.m., James Knott via talk wrote: On 2021-04-04 11:41 a.m., ac via talk wrote: seems real, Docket No. 21 cv 31, US District Court of the Virgin Islands but could also just be some free marketing, a stunt etc Courts tend to frown on that sort of thing, especially since

Re: [GTALUG] SCO Linux FUD returns from the dead | ZDNet

On 2021-04-04 10:10 a.m., James Knott via talk wrote: The zombie has arisen again! The date on the article (April 1) makes me discount it. -- Cheers! Kevin. http://www.ve3syb.ca/ | "Nerds make the shiny things that https://www.patreon.com/KevinCozens | distract the

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

On 2021-03-30 10:08 a.m., Evan Leibovitch via talk wrote: On Tue, 30 Mar 2021 at 09:51, o1bigtenor via talk > wrote: My LG 4k monitor is actually made by Goldstar. Um, LG is an abbreviation for (and 1995 rebranding of "Lucky Goldstar" Really? I remember when I

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

On 2021-03-21 11:57 a.m., D. Hugh Redelmeier via talk wrote: | From: William Park via talk | Date: Sat, 13 Feb 2021 13:52:21 -0500 | I'm beginning to like Thunderbird.  It replaces fetchmail, procmail, sendmail, | mutt, and vim for mailing.  I miss vim, though. I'm interested in improving my

Re: [GTALUG] Raspberry Pi

On 2021-03-07 9:26 a.m., Aruna Hewapathirane via talk wrote: In case anyone may have a need my resume is here: http://sahanaya.net/fsf/ Please scroll down and click the red 'download resume' button. Thanks. I saw your postings to the GTALUB mailing list. I had a quick look at your web page.

Re: [GTALUG] Raspberry Pi

On 2021-03-06 8:44 p.m., Aruna Hewapathirane via talk wrote: I found a few other interesting SBC's and one that caught my eye is the Orange-Pi has anyone used one of these ? There are several fruit named Pi boards. You have discovered OrangePi. There is also BananaPi. Another non-fruit named

Re: [GTALUG] Unanswered Question, WAS: Raspberry Pi

On 2021-03-06 7:57 a.m., 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 response. You are not on

Re: [GTALUG] Raspberry Pi

On 2021-03-05 5:57 p.m., Aruna Hewapathirane via talk wrote: Understood. I just want to try and build the smallest lightest kernel. Like puppy linux or knoppix. I use Debian at home so this is good news. Other options for a small distro are DSL (Damn Small Linux) or Morphix. -- Cheers!

Re: [GTALUG] micro controllers

On 2021-02-16 8:16 p.m., Stewart Russell via talk wrote: A particularly handy board they sell is the CANADUINO PLC 300-24 — https://www.universal-solder.ca/product/canaduino-plc-300-24-arduino-mega2560-based-diy-kit/ — that's basically an Arduino Mega but with proper relay outputs and 0-10

Re: [GTALUG] micro controllers

On 2021-02-16 1:34 p.m., Mauro Souza via talk wrote: If you need IO pins, Arduino is the way to go. They too have lots of variants, with more pins, less pins, large, small, and they are very easy to program. You can also make your own board using an ATtiny or ATmega chip. The Arduino boards

Re: [GTALUG] YAD-Zenity-GTK on Pi - assistance needed

On 2021-01-29 7:48 p.m., Stewart Russell via talk wrote: Seems to be built with GTK support here (Raspberry Pi 4): The original question was about a Pi 1 model b. -- Cheers! Kevin. http://www.ve3syb.ca/ | "Nerds make the shiny things that https://www.patreon.com/KevinCozens |

Re: [GTALUG] YAD-Zenity-GTK on Pi - assistance needed

On 2021-01-29 3:21 p.m., Giles Orr via talk wrote: However - this behaviour isn't replicated on the Pi. It's an old(ish) Debian stretch install on an old Pi B (not Pi 2 B, just "Pi B"). I'm pretty sure that ~/.configs/gtk-3.0/settings.ini is the right file, because when I mis-configured it,

Re: [GTALUG] "dd" in Windows?

On 2020-12-16 3:06 p.m., D. Hugh Redelmeier via talk wrote: | From: William Park via talk | How do you write "image" file to USB stick in Windows 10? | | In Linux, I would do 'dd', but it has to be Windows. IIRC, the program I usually see mentioned for this is Win32DiskImager. -- Cheers!

Re: [GTALUG] information storage ideas

On 2020-12-08 5:23 p.m., Giles Orr via talk wrote: If you're a Vim user, I highly recommend vimwiki: https://github.com/vimwiki/vimwiki . I live and die by NeoVim, and spend every day with multiple sessions open across multiple machines. I'll look up the information vimwiki out of curiousity.

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

On 2020-11-10 10:36 p.m., William Park via talk wrote: On Tue, Nov 10, 2020 at 08:15:21PM -0500, Stewart Russell via talk wrote: .. and it runs Linux. https://www.raspberrypi.org/products/raspberry-pi-400/?resellerType=home The Pi 400 keyboard is $70. The full kit is $100. I believe the

Re: [GTALUG] Group knowledge base

On 2020-10-29 10:17 p.m., William Park via talk wrote: How do you or your company maintain group "knowledge base"? I guess, wiki for internal stuffs. [snip] > But, I'm curious what others are using. I've been using Dokuwiki for years. I like the simple install and that it doesn't require use

Re: [GTALUG] inexpensive X86 Single Board Computer

On 2020-10-05 10:54 a.m., D. Hugh Redelmeier via talk wrote: Seeed sent me an ad/newsletter describing a potentially interesting SBC. I also get their weekly emailings. I saw the mentions of the Rock Pi. They have also been promoting the Wio Terminal. Seeed has all sorts of interesting items

Re: [GTALUG] Updating my mailserver

On 2020-08-31 10:13 p.m., 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 Gmail (and

Re: [GTALUG] Remote Desktop [ RDP files and Remmina ]

On 2020-08-24 1:34 p.m., David Thornton via talk wrote: I have some experience with remmina, in as much as I help my wife with it, when it breaks. She's ubuntu at home, and uses the snap package. The apt one doesn't work. That is a good point. I don't remember why but some time ago I

Re: [GTALUG] Remote Desktop [ RDP files and Remmina ]

On 2020-08-22 10:57 a.m., Aruna Hewapathirane via talk wrote: 1 - Office System is in London, Ontario and runs Windows. 2 - I have a dual boot running Windows and Debian How do I log-in to the office server using my linux system ? I have used remmina to access remote servers running Windows.

Re: [GTALUG] Raspberry Pi 4 Desktop Kit

On 2020-08-09 12:02 p.m., D. Hugh Redelmeier via talk wrote: Switching to a 64-bit OS would let Gimp use most of your 8G. As for crashing: do you know what kind of crash is happening? Is it worth reporting? I suspect it is running out of memory. You can check the system log messages after

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