Re: [GTALUG] war story: fixing an LCD TV

On Fri, 7 Jun 2019 at 10:19, Lennart Sorensen via talk wrote: > On Fri, May 31, 2019 at 11:29:08AM -0400, D. Hugh Redelmeier via talk > wrote: > > Something manufactured in China with a "Motorola" brand (owned by > > Lenovo, an RoC company) may seem like a safer bet than one with a > > "Umidigi"

[GTALUG] A find alternative: fselect

Having recently been at a database conference, somewhere along the line, someone pointed out this tool, "fselect", which is basically what you get if you take /usr/bin/find, and change it to have a command line that looks like SQL rather than the odd-ish find arguments: https://github.com/jhspeter

Re: [GTALUG] Screen vs Tmux

On Fri, Jun 21, 2019, 3:42 PM Giles Orr via talk wrote: > tmux - more modern, less crufty. > Screen still supports RS-232 input, so there are some extra use cases it covers, that matter not to 99% of us. Screen is GNU licensed, tmux is BSD licensed, again, mattering to probably 1% of us. The p

[GTALUG] Table Drapes

Some old-timers may recall the "golden old days" when there used to be quasi-Linux-related conferences in large quantities, including in Toronto. We once had tables at IT360 and Linux World Canada and such. (This is going back YEARS!!!) Well, we still have a set or two of black drapes that we wou

Re: [GTALUG] Ryzen 3000 CPUs vs Linux

On Tue, 9 Jul 2019 at 12:14, D. Hugh Redelmeier via talk wrote: > Here's the commit that lets systemd survive the AMD rdrand bug. The > comments are interesting too. > > < > https://github.com/systemd/systemd/pull/12536/commits/1c53d4a070edbec8ad2d384ba0014d0eb6bae077 > > > This sure seems to p

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

On Tue, 13 Aug 2019 at 22:18, Stewart Russell via talk wrote: > This is not a place of honour:. > > https://github.com/mist64/cbmbasic > > Go do some damage! > My first assumption had been that this wouldn't have any access out into the filesystem. Oh, my, given that it does allow opening files

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

On Wed, 14 Aug 2019 at 13:33, James Knott via talk wrote: > On 2019-08-14 01:24 PM, Christopher Browne via talk wrote: > > Oh, the good times of doing matrix calculations in Grade 12 "Computer > > Science"... > > Back in my Gr 12 computer programming class, we le

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

-ish On Wed, Aug 28, 2019, 2:07 PM Clifford Ilkay via talk wrote: > . I find the Elixir/Erlang stack the most interesting of the lot. > That does seem interesting. Is there a pretty tiny runtime for Erlang? I do recall someone doing a Kickstarter for a Pi-like board specifically attuned to Er

[GTALUG] Docker-based Mail Server

A colleague at work (in the US) found that his ISP was going to outsource his email to Microsoft and charge $25/month for that. He poked around, and found his own personal "outsourcing" in the form of the following... https://github.com/tomav/docker-mailserver Explained further here: https://tvi.

Re: [GTALUG] 480GB SSD for $60?

On Sun, Sep 22, 2019, 10:51 AM William Park via talk wrote: > What's going on in SSD market? > > https://www.canadacomputers.com/product_info.php?cPath=179_1088&item_id=139711 > Surprising in the moment, but not super surprising... https://www.electronicsweekly.com/uncategorised/ssds-getting-ch

[GTALUG] Cloud Based versus Openness

"Local-first software: you own your data, in spite of the cloud" Here's an interesting rabbit-hole for those that are interested in data archival. https://blog.acolyer.org/2019/11/20/local-first-software/ It heads out to a flurry of pretty interesting third party links. What immediately gripped

Re: [GTALUG] Cloud Based versus Openness

On Tue, 3 Dec 2019 at 14:39, o1bigtenor via talk wrote: > On Mon, Dec 2, 2019 at 4:24 PM Christopher Browne via talk > wrote: > > > > "Local-first software: you own your data, in spite of the cloud" > > > > Here's an interesting rabbit-hole for

[GTALUG] Phishing is no mirage...

This morning, I received a realistic looking message appearing to be from our hosting provider (linode) which was trying to convince me to send out my credit card information. Titled... "Linode Support Ticket 13142320 - Other - Account Limit reached. Please open a support ticket." This may even be

[GTALUG] LLVM talk slides

I have put the slides that we weren't able to see at the December meeting up on GitLab at the following link... https://gitlab.com/gtalug/board-meetings/blob/master/uploads/Introduction%20to%20LLVM.pptx It's possible Alex may shift that to a better place, but that should at least make them access

Re: [GTALUG] Rust intro

On Mon, Dec 30, 2019, 12:07 PM Tom Low-Shang via talk wrote: > On Thu, Dec 12, 2019 at 02:05:13AM -0500, D. Hugh Redelmeier via talk > wrote: > > I don't know anything about General Assembly but they are hosting a > > "Practical Introduction to Rust" > ... > > > > It is given by a Blad Filippov o

[GTALUG] Text of my slides

Chris’ Intro to Kubernetes Christopher Browne GTALUG, January 2020 The Agenda A wee intro to k8s (because kubernetes is really long to type!) Some major components A progression of service evolution Chris’ crazy batch jobs, and my challenges Some useful tools k8s Originally a Google project calle

[GTALUG] End of independent web browsers

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 expressed some reluctance to license to small fry. (Apple being uninterested in subl

Re: [GTALUG] server question

On Wed, 22 Jan 2020 at 12:16, James Knott via talk wrote: > On 2020-01-22 12:05 PM, Lennart Sorensen via talk wrote: > > I tend to use .lan for my local dns names. > > I have my own registered domain, so that's what I use. > Big "+1" on that... I use a local subset of a TLD I own. There is NO

Re: [GTALUG] Miracast

On Wed, 12 Feb 2020 at 12:46, Ivan Avery Frey via talk wrote: > Last evening we ran into problems projecting the presenter's slides onto > the room's monitor. > > The Wikipedia entry on Miracast claims Google dropped support for Miracast > with Android 6 (Marshmallow) > That's very strange. I d

Re: [GTALUG] [GTALUG-Announce] GTALUG: COVID-19 Impact

On Thu, 26 Mar 2020 at 14:42, Rouben via talk wrote: > Hi, > > Long-time lurker here. > > I’d be happy to provide virtual hosting for GTA LUG proceedings and > meetings via Zoom or MS Teams. I work at UofT and I believe I can get GTA > LUG meetings hosted on our infrastructure. > > Alternatively,

[GTALUG] [GTALUG-Announce] GTALUG: COVID-19 Impact

The ongoing COVID-19 problem has made it impossible to hold our monthly meetings at Ryerson. Our meetings are held at Ryerson University; the University has declared [1] that, to help diminish the spread of the virus, they are eliminating all discretionary activities on (and off) campus until May

Re: [GTALUG] Planning April Meeting

On Thu, 2 Apr 2020 at 19:00, Scott Allen via talk wrote: > On Thu, 2 Apr 2020 at 18:39, D. Hugh Redelmeier via talk > wrote: > > And this, reported today: > > > > And this: > < > https://www.reuters.com/article/us-spacex-zoo

[GTALUG] Where to look for user logs, config and such

https://specifications.freedesktop.org/basedir-spec/basedir-spec-latest.html $HOME/.config $HOME/.local Those are promising places to look for X logs (|N/A:default)cbbrowne@cbbrowne2 ~> find -name "*X*.log" -type f ./.local/share/xorg/Xorg.1.log ./.local/share/xorg/Xorg.0.log -- When confronte

[GTALUG] European ACM Lisp Conference today

This isn't necessarily everyone's cup of tea (I'm too busy today to follow it!) but there's a broader thing... Today and tomorrow is the European Lisp Symposium, which was to be held in Zurich. Obviously, in person conferences aren't especially happening just now ;-) https://www.european-lisp-sy

[GTALUG] BSDCan session on "homelabs" tomorrow (May 5)

The "homelabs" concept is about having your own lab infrastructure, well, at home :-) https://www.reddit.com/r/homelab/ The Reddit "wiki" https://www.reddit.com/r/homelab/wiki/index has a lot of interesting material on this... (From twitter) Reminder: The live recording of my @BSDCan

Re: [GTALUG] Linux servers attacked!

On Sun, 10 May 2020 at 11:01, James Knott via talk wrote: > On 2020-05-10 10:05 AM, Stewart C. Russell via talk wrote: > > Blackberry == QNX these days > > Didn't they move to Android a few years back, at least for some models? > Yep. In 2016, they contracted out building of phones to TCL. http

Re: [GTALUG] Actual ttyS0 MIA

On Sun, 10 May 2020 at 17:46, Scott Allen via talk wrote: > On Sun, 10 May 2020 at 17:30, Karen Lewellen via talk > wrote: > > for example if the program would talk to a serial device on com 4, how > > would you achieve the same goal via a USB to serial adapter? > > Under Linux, serial ports

[GTALUG] Somewhat edited copy of EtherPad

https://linuxdatabases.info/blog/?p=233 I turned the EtherPad of notes from last night's meeting into OrgMode, and then that into HTML, and just published it on my blog. That may be a more readable form, perhaps... -- When confronted by a difficult problem, solve it by reducing it to the questi

Re: [GTALUG] Continuing Printer Woes

On Mon, 1 Jun 2020 at 09:26, Peter King via talk wrote: > Sad days when people who voluntarily use Linux and are tech-savvy just > give up on printing -- printing! -- because it isn't worth the effort. > There shouldn't *be* any effort by now; it's 2020, for goodness sakes. > I guess I'm surpris

[GTALUG] BSDCan 2020 this week

https://www.bsdcan.org/2020/ The BSD folk are holding their annual conference that is normally in Ottawa this week via video conferencing. Talks are on Friday and Saturday, tutorials on Wednesday and Thursday. Some of the sessions are mighty specific to particular flavours of BSD, but there is d

Re: [GTALUG] JSON Standard for SQL Thoughts

On Fri, 5 Jun 2020 at 17:23, Nicholas Krause via talk wrote: > Greetings, > > I'm aware a few people here keep up more with certain database trends > then me including Chris Browne. I'm aware of the newest standard of > SQL supporting JSON. Does anyone have any thoughts on this or how > it may a

Re: [GTALUG] Windows Terminal: Everything you need to know now - TechRepublic

On Tue, 9 Jun 2020 at 10:25, James Knott via talk wrote: > While not strictly Linux, this provides a choice of command prompts, > including Linux shells. It's also more configurable than the usual > Windows terminals. > > Now, all it needs is a VAX/VMS shell. ;-) > DCL, here we come -- W

[GTALUG] EtherPad for June Meeting "Cooked"

I did a bit of editing to turn the shared Etherpad into notes much like last month... https://linuxdatabases.info/blog/?p=240 Thanks again for all that came to the meeting; I personally found that Jitsi sounded better than any of the other videoconferencing systems I have been using lately. It wo

[GTALUG] More conferences online

Rust has been of interest to some; there are a number of upcoming conferences, pretty well all being operated online. Some free, some definitely not. https://blog.rust-lang.org/2020/06/10/event-lineup-update.html There are fewer conferences evident for the Go language community; what's upcoming s

[GTALUG] OpenWRT Upgrade

There is a new version of OpenWRT, version 19.07; apparently this was released almost 2 months ago. If you're running OpenWRT on your router, the new version has security fixes and such, so it's worth considering an upgrade. https://openwrt.org/releases/19.07/notes-19.07.3 I did so; it led to ab

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

On Fri, 10 Jul 2020 at 09:39, Giles Orr via talk wrote: > The worst case I've seen is 'git', and this is what's brought me back > to this puzzle. If you're in a directory and you 'git rm' the last > file in the directory, 'git' will helpfully delete the directory as > well. Never mind that you'r

[GTALUG] Interesting CI tool: Laminar

I have been doing some amount of Continuous Integration work lately; that's certainly one of the popular things these days. It has been changing; once upon a time, our folks at work adopted QuickBuild, which still periodically helps us to run out of disk space ;-) More recently, Jenkins and and

[GTALUG] SPI holding 2020 board election

SPI are the parent organization that supports Debian, amongst other projects. http://spi-inc.org/corporate/votes/2020-board-election/ --- Post to this mailing list talk@gtalug.org Unsubscribe from this mailing list https://gtalug.org/mailman/listinfo/talk

[GTALUG] Drafty Etherpad for August meeting

I have seeded it with a bunch of things I saw over the last month that seemed interesting. https://etherpad.wikimedia.org/p/gtalug-august - There have been some "asks" about what to consider using as Keybase got bought out - Keybase did a bunch of things, so there's no one straightforward answe

Re: [GTALUG] MathML Support on the Internet

On Mon, 17 Aug 2020 at 17:15, Howard Gibson via talk wrote: >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 MathM

[GTALUG] Mozilla XUL is dead

https://yoric.github.io/post/why-did-mozilla-remove-xul-addons/ Pretty interesting article on how Firefox has been evolving over the last 15-ish years. I remember when Wrox Press asked me if I knew of anyone that knew about XUL, because their "hype wagon" thought that XUL was the next big thing,

Re: [GTALUG] Mozilla XUL is dead

On Mon, 24 Aug 2020 at 12:10, Russell Reiter wrote: > Not specifically XUL related but I find this quick read interesting. It > seems that API's used for managing IoT endpoints are coming under ever > increasing threat of attack from botnets during the pandemic and probably > from now on. > > > h

[GTALUG] Blockchain, the solution to nothing

https://thecorrespondent.com/655/blockchain-the-amazing-solution-for-almost-nothing/86714927310-8f431cae I found it particularly hilarious when the writer of the article asked the maker of the childrens' aid app if he had noticed that the app didn't actually need blockchain at all. "That's right.

[GTALUG] [GTALUG-Announce] AGM and Call for Candidates

Hear ye! Hear ye! This is a Call for Candidates for the GTALUG Board. October 13th is GTALUG's Annual General Meeting, our tiny piece of "political pageantry." There are two seats opening, for 2 year terms (2020-2022). Please consider running for the board, and keep in mind the following. The

[GTALUG] [GTALUG-Announce] GTALUG Membership In These COVID-19 Times

In most years, membership has been handled via comparatively informal in-person processes, and those that wish to support GTALUG via membership would (broadly) follow the following steps: - Grab a membership form (that Chris passed out) - Try to pass Chris a $20 bill, whereupon Chris would say "ta

[GTALUG] Dice Keys

Here's a cool thing I saw recently... https://www.schneier.com/blog/archives/2020/08/dicekeys.html The intention of this parallels the various Bitcoin "Solid Steel Passphrase Wallet" items that were popular a year or so ago (See https://www.toughgadget.com/bitcoin-crypto-metal-recovery-seed-walle

[GTALUG] Seeding of some September discussion ideas

The September "etherpad" has been seeded with things that I saw this month that struck me as interesting... https://etherpad.wikimedia.org/p/gtalug-september Please, by all means, add more -- When confronted by a difficult problem, solve it by reducing it to the question, "How would the Lone Rang

[GTALUG] Meeting should be on, but not yet :-(

Due to confusion, our Jitsi server isn't up right now, and our Usual Suspects for Zoom addresses haven't responded yet... However, hopefully the following zoom address https://zoom.us/j/6476576575 may function enough to get us going... -- When confronted by a difficult problem, solve it by reduci

[GTALUG] Notes for September meeting are up

Busyness kept me from posting this sooner :-( https://linuxdatabases.info/blog/?p=260 -- When confronted by a difficult problem, solve it by reducing it to the question, "How would the Lone Ranger handle this?" --- Post to this mailing list talk@gtalug.org Unsubscribe from this mailing list https

Re: [GTALUG] Notes for September meeting are up

On Tue, 15 Sep 2020 at 14:15, Gordon Chillcott via talk wrote: > I see you didn't talk about the election procedure | process | schedule | > Rules of Procedure | whatever that we discussed.Also missing in here is > the mention of the Third Seat. > > I'm wondering how much of this you want to

[GTALUG] [GTALUG-Announce] AGM Board Vote Notes

** AGM Board Vote Notes In view of our "remote operation," the usual voting processes that take place in person cannot function, hence the following procedures. *** Voting via email The voting process will be done via email, starting on October 13th at 9:30pm EDT, and completing Oct

Re: [GTALUG] Freedom and Graphene

On Sat, 31 Oct 2020 at 18:41, Evan Leibovitch via talk wrote: > Hi all, > > It's 2020 and a long time since Shaw bought Wind Mobile and renamed it to > Freedom. So I wonder if it's worth another look. Prices are as always > aggressive but questions remain about speed and coverage. > > The reason

Re: [GTALUG] mysterious restarts

On 20 June 2016 at 10:21, Lennart Sorensen via talk wrote: > On Sat, Jun 18, 2016 at 07:58:10PM -0400, Michael Galea wrote: > > You know of course that the grid frequency is only approximately 60.00 > hz. > > For example, it was 59.97 hz on Friday at around 5 PM. I have heard > rumors > > that t

[GTALUG] IPv4 Fraudsters

https://www.schneier.com/blog/archives/2016/06/fraudsters_are_.html I don't manage any IPv4 allocations, but I'll bet there are some out there on the list that do; it's probably worth taking a peek to ensure that your favorite blocks don't look too disused. The interesting observation on Schneier

Re: [GTALUG] IPv4 Fraudsters

On 22 June 2016 at 15:54, James Knott via talk wrote: > On 06/22/2016 03:47 PM, Christopher Browne via talk wrote: > > I don't manage any IPv4 allocations, but I'll bet there are some out > > there on the list that do; it's probably worth taking a peek to ensure

Re: [GTALUG] Suggestions: A Book for a Beginner, new to the Linux Shell

On 17 July 2016 at 08:21, Stewart C. Russell via talk wrote: > A discussion came up in the Toronto Raspberry Pi Meetup* about suggestions > for learning to work in bash. We didn't come up with anything much, but if > you have any suggestions, I'd be grateful to hear them. > I have been particula

Re: [GTALUG] LinuxCon

On 27 July 2016 at 20:46, Alvin Starr via talk wrote: > > The $1400.00 or so to register is a bit of an impediment. Indeed! I know there are people that volunteered for talks on the basis that speakers have fees waived. I went to OSCON in Portland a couple times with that as a pretty express p

Re: [GTALUG] Advice -- Building Debian 8 PC To Replace Win XP PC;

Vis a vis the email part, I would think it possible that it should be pretty easy to replicate IMAP locally. I haven't used this in several years, but have installed and used a system called offlineimap (see http://www.offlineimap.org/) which made it relatively easy to duplicate IMAP repositories

Re: [GTALUG] dinner tomorrow night

Looks like a recommendation for Bocconcini (once called love at first bite) with fall back to z-teca on failure. I'm planning to head in that direction... On Tue, Aug 9, 2016, 4:39 PM Amos H. Weatherill via talk wrote: > So, where is dinner? > > I see three options but no consensus. > > Sent fr

Re: [GTALUG] better than average article on why the federal payroll system is a mess

On 12 August 2016 at 11:13, D. Hugh Redelmeier via talk wrote: > There have been a bunch of headlines about the new federal payroll > system "Phoenix" is screwing up a lot. This article does a reasonable > job of describing how the problems happened. > >

Re: [GTALUG] better than average article on why the federal payroll system is a mess

On 12 August 2016 at 11:49, o1bigtenor via talk wrote: > On Fri, Aug 12, 2016 at 10:41 AM, Alvin Starr via talk > wrote: >> On 08/12/2016 11:13 AM, D. Hugh Redelmeier via talk wrote: >> >> There have been a bunch of headlines about the new federal payroll >> system "Phoenix" is screwing up a lot

Re: [GTALUG] Info request

I use the cli tool, psql, which gets pretty regularly enhanced to do things like tab completion on keywords and object names. There are many that would swear by pgAdmin, which also gets pretty steadily enhanced. The iOS folk also seem to have some preferred tools that take advantage of their GUI

Re: [GTALUG] (question) TP-Link TL-WR802N 300Mbps Wireless-N Nano Router

On 16 August 2016 at 15:35, James Knott via talk wrote: > On 08/16/2016 01:57 PM, Lennart Sorensen wrote: >> It could. DHCP servers are allowed to use more than one parameter, >> such as mac, hostname, etc. It could cause trouble with many dhcp >> servers though. > > I'm using the DHCP server in

Re: [GTALUG] Write-protect on a MicroSD card?

Supposing it's corrosion in or around the wee write protect switch, there would be little to be done about it. My eyesight is nowhere near good enough to consider a hardware fix to something so tiny. I'd count myself lucky to be able to recover data from the card, replacements are cheap and hardl

[GTALUG] Interesting article on a new grep written in Rust

http://blog.burntsushi.net/ripgrep/ This takes me well back in time; we had a talk back in 2006 ( https://github.com/gtalug/legacy-wiki-extract/blob/master/legacy-pages-processed/meetings-2006-03.html ) talking about the state of the art at that time. The issues that were discussed at that point

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

On 29 September 2016 at 11:00, Myles Braithwaite via talk wrote: > William Park via talk wrote: >> To those who knows/uses both BSD and Linux... Should I learn BSD, and >> which one? > > If you read to HackNews we are currently in the systemd apocalypse and > Linux's user base is shrinking every

Re: [GTALUG] Where I'll be having dinner

On 11 October 2016 at 11:47, David Collier-Brown via talk wrote: > On 11/10/16 08:42 AM, Seneca Cunningham via talk wrote: > > southwest corner of Dundas & Sherbourne, > > > See you there (maybe southeast?) +1 from me on that... -- When confronted by a difficult problem, solve it by reducing it

Re: [GTALUG] Neat presentation by Grek GH on the linux development model

On 12 October 2016 at 10:24, Lennart Sorensen via talk wrote: > https://kernel-recipes.org/en/2016/talks/patches-carved-into-stone-tablets/ > > Covers lots fo about email clients, patch application, patch reviewing, > and such. Interesting... I'll observe that Postgres development is being handl

Re: [GTALUG] An Open Source Auto Time Tracker

I'd suggest it being worth looking into Project Hamster https://github.com/projecthamster/hamster This is sorta-Gnome-oriented, with several mechanisms to collect data: - data gets collected into a sqlite database, which, for personal time tracking, seems reasonably apropos - Desktop infrastructu

Re: [GTALUG] OK, where are we having dinner, folks?

Well, if you, as speaker, have a preference, I'd think we should do our best to accommodate that preference. I'll put out there as possibilities some things from The List - Blaze Pizza, on Dundas Square (north side of Dundas, a few doors east of Yonge)

Re: [GTALUG] dinner suggestion

+1 on that --- Talk Mailing List talk@gtalug.org https://gtalug.org/mailman/listinfo/talk

Re: [GTALUG] Question

On 12 January 2017 at 16:26, William Park via talk wrote: > On Thu, Jan 12, 2017 at 04:00:50PM -0500, CLIFFORD ILKAY via talk wrote: >> On 12/01/17 08:16 AM, o1bigtenor via talk wrote: >> > Greetings >> > >> > Am trying to find (for need in the not to distant future) some of what >> > is normally

Re: [GTALUG] Linux basics presentation

On 30 January 2017 at 20:48, Max Yermakhanov via talk wrote: > Hello, > > I run Toronto Enterprise DevOps user group and I'm looking for someone to > present on Linux basics on April 13th in Toronto. Would you know anyone who > might be interested? No doubt there are people who could do this. Wh

Re: [GTALUG] Linux basics presentation

On 31 January 2017 at 13:15, Max Yermakhanov wrote: > what do you think should be covered under Linux Basics? What does basics > means to you? What do people need to know about Linux when they start > working with it as part of DevOps day to day... I am pretty sure I am not a good person to evalu

Re: [GTALUG] Dinner for the 14th?

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 reasonable, from my memory. > > Thai on Yonge > > Address: second floor, 370 Yonge Street (South of Gerrard St.) >

Re: [GTALUG] Dinner for the 14th?

On 11 February 2017 at 16:55, Scott Sullivan via talk wrote: > Basil Box > > Address: 351 Yonge St. (part of Ryerson SLC building) > > Any leanings towards on in particular folks? There was a "leaning" towards this, so I think Basil Box, 351 Yonge St it is... -- When confronted by a difficu

Re: [GTALUG] dinner before meeting?

On 14 March 2017 at 12:17, D. Hugh Redelmeier via talk wrote: > Has anybody figured out a good place for tonight? > > > > If it is still there, I suggest Roti Roll: > > > Roti Roll Caribbean Cuisine > > Address: 361 Yonge St. (A

Re: [GTALUG] Atmel Microprocessor Programming, Talk and Paper attached

Atmel chips are quite commonly used these days as keyboard controllers; QMK is a firmware management system being used for a bunch of keyboards. See: , and, for a list of keyboards supported, see My we

Re: [GTALUG] Hardware Hack - help needed

On 11 April 2017 at 11:53, Lennart Sorensen via talk wrote: > On Mon, Apr 10, 2017 at 09:41:24PM -0400, Giles Orr via talk wrote: >> I'd like to do that, but I think there are a few more steps involved. >> Want to help out? Can you point me to a detailed HOWTO for doing >> this? I'm not an elect

Re: [GTALUG] Hardware Hack - help needed

On 11 April 2017 at 14:57, William Park via talk wrote: > On Tue, Apr 11, 2017 at 02:24:10PM -0400, Mike wrote: >> On Tue, Apr 11, 2017 at 1:45 PM, William Park via talk >> wrote: >> >> > On Tue, Apr 11, 2017 at 11:53:00AM -0400, Lennart Sorensen via talk wrote: >> > > From looking at what you li

Re: [GTALUG] dinner before meeting!

I have updated the wiki a bit with some recent visits, and added in a Taiwanese fried chicken place I noticed across the street from Doner Kebab. I suggest that we consider, for next month, Ramen Raijin or Hot Star Large Fried Chicken. On 10 April 2017 at 22:31, D. Hugh Redelmeier via talk wrote

[GTALUG] File tagger

I'd alluded to a "file tagger" last night... Here's the one I was aware of... https://github.com/oniony/TMSU It sets up a SQLite database in a .tmsu directory, and allows attaching metadata via labelling files. The metadata lives in the database, separate from the files, so it has certain aspec

Re: [GTALUG] Shopping for barebone PC

On 17 April 2017 at 12:54, Evan Leibovitch via talk wrote: > Hi there. > > I will probably be shopping for a new barebone PC system in the neatr > future. I'm looking for recommendations for both a barebones model and the > best CPU for it. > > Intended OS is Linux Mint, Main uses are for browsing

Re: [GTALUG] [GTALUG-Announce] Meeting Tomorrow at 7:30pm

The upstairs place was Indian; that's doubtless a possibility. Is there a Korean BBQ place nearby? I'm not aware of one, but that would be interesting to try, if there is... --- Talk Mailing List talk@gtalug.org https://gtalug.org/mailman/listinfo/talk

Re: [GTALUG] [GTALUG-Announce] Meeting Tomorrow at 7:30pm

Paramount seems like a decent idea. It's about a block south of where we normally go, but that is hardly any barrier! The one "warning" I'd watch for is the question of whether or not it's loud. There was lots to like about Salad King, but we needed to give up on that one because people would co

Re: [GTALUG] Good introduction to Kibernetes

On 9 June 2017 at 16:37, Myles Braithwaite via talk wrote: > > > I remember someone at a GTALUG meeting asking about Kubernetes (a new > container thing). > > This is a really awesome introduction to what Kunernetes is and links to > som

[GTALUG] Dinner options?

I just did a bit of updating of the wiki ; we need to see about what sort of option to take... I'm thinking z-teca, 66 Gerrard E, but certainly would be happy to entertain strong opinions otherwise. -- When confronted by a difficult problem, solve it

Re: [GTALUG] Linux hardening question

On 27 June 2017 at 19:53, Kevin Cozens via talk wrote: > On 2017-06-27 07:37 PM, Truth Hacker via talk wrote: >> >> I am starting to go down the road to harden a Linux server, I am using >> the Ubuntu server image as my starting point. > > [snip] >> >> Q: What service should I consider disabling f

Re: [GTALUG] Interest in an IM for TLUG?

On 13 July 2017 at 17:00, Mauro Souza via talk wrote: > What about IRC? It's a "no setup needed" solution, everyone can install a > client, and there's lots of servers to choose from... > > Indeed. These days, there's a web interface into freenode.net, which is a widely-used existing IRC server

[GTALUG] Linux In The Park logistics

When we looked at the BBQ, it seemed like we might need to see about having a fresh tank. I could pick one up at Costco tomorrow morning if need be, but if someone else already has one, that would be best. Scott? Bill? Hopefully one of you knows more of what needs to be up... -- When confront

Re: [GTALUG] Dinner Tonight (was Meeting on 8 August at 7:30pm)

I'm at Kabul Express, at Dundas & Dalhousie... It's suitable for our purposes; I'd thought to go to Hokkaido Ramen, which seems not. (Bizzy & requires the full party to check in at once) On Aug 8, 2017 5:30 PM, "Peter Hiscocks via talk" wrote: Any further thoughts on this? > h...@gtalug.org w

Re: [GTALUG] From BTRFS to what?

On 4 September 2017 at 20:03, Scott Sullivan via talk wrote: > On 03/09/17 02:12 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, th

Re: [GTALUG] From BTRFS to what?

On 5 September 2017 at 18:33, Anthony de Boer via talk wrote: > (Mind you, a few Reiserfs systems a late co-worker set up _did_ get > repaved proactively after one or two shat themselves. But that's the > only FS that I've seen being actively bad.) > > I should add that the most solid thing I've

Re: [GTALUG] Where are we eating?

On 12 September 2017 at 16:26, David Collier-Brown via talk wrote: > I've not seen the traditional discussion yet... I'd been lazy, and was really hoping a suggestion would have arrived by now. I have two thoughts: a) We haven't ever officially gone to Blaze, wee pizza place on Dundas at Yonge.

[GTALUG] [GTALUG-Announce] Upcoming Board Elections

It's coming the time of GTALUG's annual election, and we are seeking candidates to serve on the board of directors. GTALUG terms are two years, with elections so that in "even" years, two candidates are elected, and in "odd" years, there are three. This being 2017, an odd year, three seats need t

Re: [GTALUG] Obligatory pre-meeting where-to-eat discussion

On 9 October 2017 at 17:36, Evan Leibovitch via talk wrote: > Another month, another "so where do we go for dinner THIS time?" discussion. > > Since I know I'm coming tomorrow I thought that actually asking 24 hours in > advance might be a good idea. > > Last month was Kabul Express IIRC. If it wo

Re: [GTALUG] BASH on Android OS

On 31 October 2017 at 14:38, R360 Design INC via talk wrote: > Thanks everyone for the feedback. Presumably the list of linux commands in > Termux on Android is a subset of the full list of Linux Bash shell (i.e. > Ubuntu or Redhat) The set of Bash commands should be the full set of commands sup

[GTALUG] Dinner pre-meeting?

Two thoughts present themselves to me... 1. Food Court @ Aura? I hear one of the kiosks has closed, so this option may be on borrowed time; perhaps good to give it a shot before it disappears? 2. Kabul Express we have done several times recently; it's a pretty good idea regardless... -- When

Re: [GTALUG] IBM Mainframe and z/OS

When I was at American Airlines/Sabre, a goodly set of their crucial systems were running on TSO, on zSeries hardware (which tended to have other names at that time; 3090s and S/390s, I think; it was never clear to me what specific hardware I was ever connected to). There'd be a goodly mixture of

Re: [GTALUG] Programming languages (in comparison?) - -was Learn Swift for Apple/iOS. Learn ??? for Google/Android.

I would judge that an unjust characterization of Rust... Web browsers these days pretty much all suffer from memory "leak" issues, much of which falls from the proliferation of web sites that make prolific use of (often horribly coded) JavaScript that draw in all sorts of cruddy code, intentionall

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