[GTALUG] Fwd: [kwlug-disc] Kitchener Waterloo Linuxfest Website Up!

A community run Linux conference is happening in Kitchener/Waterloo on 28 January 2017. Registration and Call for Puropsals is open now. On September 11, 2016 at 9:36:28 PM, Colin Mills wrote: > Hi Everyone, > > Just wanted to let you know that the Kitchener Waterloo Linuxfest > website is up. >

[GTALUG] An Open Source Auto Time Tracker

tl;dr Looking for an open source alternative to RescueTime and WakaTime. I'm currently using RescueTime and WakaTime to track what I do and how long I do it on my computer. As an example RescueTime will tell me how many hours I have watched YouTube last month (8h 56m) and WakaTime tracks how long

Re: [GTALUG] email client with autocorrect?

Stewart Russell wrote: > If only Thunderbird would fix their editor and its random text style > switching ... You should checkout [Markdown Here](http://markdown-here.com/), it let's you write Markdown in the Thunderbird editor that get's converted cleanly to HTML, that will actually look good on

Re: [GTALUG] unexpected firefox "server not found" messages

On November 24, 2016 at 8:53:44 AM, Evan Leibovitch via talk (talk@gtalug.org) wrote: > > I despise Chrome for its reporting to the alphabet company all my > > browsing!! > > You can have ​all the Chromey goodness of the browser with none of the > creepy phone-home stuff. According to this article

[GTALUG] Resources I Mentioned Last Night

AdBlocker though DNS /cc @Hecktor * Good for blocking Ads though `/etc/hosts` file * Better Raspberry Pi VPN Gateway Provider /cc @Evan * VPN Provider: * Tutorial for ma

[GTALUG] Looking for an extrovert (or a noisy introvert) to M.C. tonight's meeting

We are looking for a someone who would M.C. tonight’s meeting. Basically you say who is speaking next and what they are going to be talking about. You can find a current list of people presenting here: . It’s a fun job. --- Talk Mailing Li

[GTALUG] Feedback on GTALUG Meeting Format

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA256 I'm are looking for feedback on how the format of the GTALUG meetings are going. We have tried some new formats in the past two years and I'm wondering if they are going over while with people who are attending (regular or otherwise). What meeting f

[GTALUG] Recording of Stewart Russell's April GTALUG Talk is now up on YouTube

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA256 Thanks to Alex Volkov we now have the recording of April's GTALUG presentation with Stewart Russell on "A Bit More Than Mostly Searchable: Scanned Paper You Can Find" up on YouTube. It's a really awesom

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

Scott and I are on the second floor. On May 9, 2017 at 9:32:11 AM, David Collier-Brown via talk (talk@gtalug.org) wrote: > On 08/05/17 04:22 PM, Christopher Browne via talk wrote: > > Paramount seems like a decent idea. It's about a block south of where > we normally go, but that is hardly any ba

[GTALUG] Sovereign - An Ansible playbook to build/maintain your own "Cloud"

I was talking with someone on Tuesday about a good Ansible playbook called Sovereign that sets up Email, XMPP, Cal/CardDav, VPN, etc. Here's the link: . It's really good if you want to see how to setup an Ansible playbook and don't know where to start (Ans

Re: [GTALUG] [GTALUG-Announce] Annual Linux in the Park on 22 July 2017 at 2 pm.

Giles Orr wrote: > Myles, you should perhaps clarify: Dufferin Grove Park is (I believe) > where previous events have been held. And it's a good long way from > HackLab. The URLs you mention don't seem to reference Dufferin Grove > at all, but it being the previous site and mentioned in your emai

Re: [GTALUG] router upgrade

Jason Shaw wrote: > Myles, how's the range on this one? I have an older ASUS that does a > good job hitting all four floors (100+ years old Victorian) for the most > part, but it's starting to show it's age. Farms a 150+ year old double brick house and it reaches first and second floors and ~20 f

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

+1 for having an IM based communication area for GTALUG. There are so many times I get IMs/Texts from people asking where we are meeting for dinner that alone would be a great help. 0 for Telegram. I'm not a fan of the "security" aspect of it and would rather if GTALUG used a more open system like

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

Loui Chang wrote: > Matrix/Riot can also bridge to IRC and other chat systems. > https://github.com/matrix-hacks/matrix-puppet-bridge#examples I'm going to try and complete the registration of the IRC channel so I can setup the Matrix/Riot bridge. --- Talk Mailing List talk@gtalug.org https://gtal

[GTALUG] [GTALUG-Announce] Linux in the Park 2017 - Saturday (22 July) at 2pm

GTALUG is having the annual Linux in the Park Potluck this year at HackLab.TO's Backyard on 22 July at 2pm. Things we will provide: Bathroom, BBQ, Plates, Cutlery, Serviettes, Cups, and Garbage bags. Things you might want to bring: chairs, tasty beverages, food

Re: [GTALUG] SAP ISO SR26000:20010 - listserv etiquitte was: for any hardware gurus

On 2017-07-28 09:50, Russell via talk wrote: This subject is mostly for the list maintainers as it is in fact related to the list policy. I'm the list maintainer, :wave:. It can get tiresome to have people send me private emails at the address they have harvested from this list. Social respon

[GTALUG] Linux on Windows (was Windows 10 will let everyone run Linux inside Windows following Fall Creators Update)

James Knott via talk wrote: > I've had Ubuntu on W10 for a while now. I didn't have to buy it, just > install from Windows Store. I haven't had the best of luck with running Ubuntu on Windows but that was back during the beta testing. Has it gotten more stable now? --- Talk Mailing List talk@gta

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

h...@gtalug.org wrote: > * 6:00 pm - Please discuss on the general mailing list (i.e. > ) where you want to go for dinner. Anyone have any ideas where we should have dinner tonight? Here is a list of options: . --- Talk Mailing List talk@gtalug.org htt

Re: [GTALUG] Spam is basically dead

ac via talk wrote: > 1. Bounce when no rDNS (exim/postfix/sendmail/qmail - 2 second conf) Sometimes people don't have access to configure Reverse DNS (or PTR) as they are sending with a dynamic IP address. This isn't common but at least for GTALUG there are five or six people who host their email

Re: [GTALUG] Spam is basically dead

> Okay, well you still get the occasional manual sent spam from a public > email account by some opportunist, but I mean that the senseless junk > is all gone... Senseless junk has been replaced by Sales people who use auto-follow-up software to email you every third day if you don't reply. It w

Re: [GTALUG] [OFF TOPIC] Brave new Browser

Slack Rat via talk wrote: > Does anyone have any comments on Brendan Eich's new "Brave" > browser? > > Now in a sort of wide beta, I'm personally impressed and am using > it as my main browser. > > At least it's blindingly fast and sound works out of the box and > many of the early version quirk

Re: [GTALUG] Where are we eating?

+1 for Pizza. On September 12, 2017 at 5:14:52 PM, Christopher Browne via talk (talk@gtalug.org(mailto:talk@gtalug.org)) wrote: > > 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 hopi

[GTALUG] Links from my talk on Web Scraping last night

Jupyter Notebook: Articles: * Remedies for Web Scraping by John Gregory, * Web Scraping and Crawling Are Perfectly Legal, Right? by Benoit Bernard,

Re: [GTALUG] Imagemagick and exif data labels question?

Russell via talk wrote: > I would like to preserve my comments as exif data and pull them out to then > label the images in batches using the first example as a template. > > Is it possible to define your own exif data and mung it into the image file? You can use exiftool,

[GTALUG] Firefox memory usage (was GTALUG Meeting on Tuesday 10 October at 7:30pm)

o1bigtenor via talk wrote: > Am a serious browser user - - - in the past have had up to 18 windows > open and from 3 to 50+ tabs on any one window. There isn't a browser out > there that can handle that kind of usage especially NOT FF! ( I have > north of 20 GB of RAM plus a system to match so its

Re: [GTALUG] Adobe Reader Alternatives for Linux

Dhaval Giani via talk wrote: > However the government of Canada (in its infinite wisdom) has mandated > that to open and fill their forms, one use Adobe Reader. (As an > example see http://www.cic.gc.ca/english/pdf/kits/citizen/CIT0002E-2.pdf > ). > > Alternatives? Not sure if you tried this yet

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

John Sellens via talk wrote: > I've long found it disappointing the way shared libraries are dealt with > in linux and other OSs. > > To me, the obvious solutions is to install every library into a directory > named for the version, or name the library itself with a version number. > Then, if you

[GTALUG] Migrating from MySQL to Postgres

Anyone have some recent first hand experience migrating a MySQL database to Postgres and would like a coffee and cookies in exchange for your case study? I'm working on a project that we are trying to get up and running on Postgres (as we plan on hosting it on Heroku's awesome Postgres instances)

Re: [GTALUG] Dinner pre-meeting?

Christopher Browne via talk wrote: > 2. Kabul Express we have done several times recently; it's a pretty > good idea regardless... The chat group seems to like Kabul Express, . BTW, you can join the Slack group here: . It's connected to th

[GTALUG] GTALUG Slack

I setup a GTALUG Slack instance! You can join the Slack here: . It's also connected to the Riot, IRC, and Telegram chat systems though a matterbridge. It's current used is to discuss, in real time, where we are going to for dinner before the meetings. --- Tal

[GTALUG] Links from my presentations last night

Terraform: * Presentation: * Example: * Homepage: * Terraform Ansible Provision:

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

Steve Petrie, P.Eng. via talk wrote: > Headless Chrome and the Puppeteer Library for Scraping and Testing the > Web Wednesday 29 November > http://www.i-programmer.info/news/87/11344.html > > With the advent of Single Page Applications, scraping pages for > information as well as running automat

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

Jamon Camisso via talk wrote: > I haven't read the article yet, but I always see people resorting to > selenium, when other tools seem like they might have less overhead. Is > there any mention of phantomjs? http://phantomjs.org/ I've used it a couple of times, generating PDFs from a web page in P

Re: [GTALUG] personal webpage for GTALUG members?

William Park via talk wrote: > I have ASCII tables (PDF) that I created and used over the years, and I > would like to make it available to public. Is there "user" section in > the wiki, where I can create entries with file attachments? I wouldn't > mind paying "premium" membership for that. I d

Re: [GTALUG] personal webpage for GTALUG members?

Stewart C. Russell via talk wrote: > “ > Permission Denied > > Sorry, you don't have enough rights to continue. > ” > on https://wiki.gtalug.org/user:scruss?do=edit while logged in as me. > > Security on wikis is tough (looks over charred remains of a mediawiki > site I used to run and sighs) So

Re: [GTALUG] pip for Python3 installation issues on macOS (was python sweetness — The mysterious case of the Linux Page Table)

R360 Design INC via talk wrote: > Hi, Was wondering if we could squeeze in a question about Python > installation on OS X on this thread: > > To set up Python on Mac, we were advised to install the latest version > of Python 3.6.4 and PIP3 (According to the Hitchhiker's Guide to > Python http://do

Re: [GTALUG] Dinner in the usual place?

D. Hugh Redelmeier via talk wrote: > | The last few times it was Kabul Express, are we headed there tonight? > > I assume that this holds today, as well. > > I've seen no discussion on the mailing list. It looks like it's going to be the Kabul Express on Telegram. --- Talk Mailing List talk@gtal

Re: [GTALUG] Increasing interest in the Go language

On 2018-02-02 09:14, David Collier-Brown via talk wrote: Later this month I'm joining a company that is fairly Go-intensive. They originally prototyped in Perl, but over time needed more performance but not to the level that would require assembler or even C. What else have folks observed? I'v

[GTALUG] HackLab.TO's Junk Independence Day is this Sunday from 2pm to 7pm

It’s everyone’s favorite time again: the first Junk Independence Day of 2018! Coming up on February 18th from 2pm-7pm (or later). Bring your e-waste and dig through other people’s for treasures. On previous Junk Independence D

Re: [GTALUG] [GTALUG-Announce] GTALUG Meeting on Tuesday 13 March at 7:30pm

Sergio Durigan Junior via talk wrote: > Hi there, > > As mentioned in the other thread: > > https://gtalug.org/pipermail/talk/2018-February/005947.html > > I'd like to propose that we make a "mini" keysigning party. Maybe at > the pub, after the meeting and presentation? It's been a while si

Re: [GTALUG] Which JavaScript should I learn?

On 2018-03-13 02:16, William Park via talk wrote: Hi all, (If you're on KWLUG list, sorry for duplicate.) I have a general question about JavaScript. I want to develop/propose "web app" hosted from embedded Linux board. So, - you go to its webpage, - click "web app", - it will serv

Re: [GTALUG] Sending array variable over CGI ?

William Park via talk wrote: How do I send array data, like A[1]=111, A[2]=222, A[3]=333 to a CGI script? I don't think I can do something like http://.../xxx.cgi?A[1]=111&A[2]=222&A[3]=333 Or, can I? I have seen a same variable repeated, http://.../xxx.cgi?A=111&A=222&A=333 but that

Re: [GTALUG] OK, food where?

Christopher Browne via talk wrote on 2018-06-12 4:35 PM: - Where was it that the other set of people went last month? Perhaps that place is plausible? Scott and I went to Banh Mi Boys last month and the month before Hayden and I went to Taco 101 and walked over to a hidden outdoor patio at

Re: [GTALUG] I not have a smaller phone, and therefor want it's big brother in a pad

On 2018-06-24 15:32, David Collier-Brown via talk wrote: Now I need something about the size of my Kobo, https://ca.kobobooks.com/products/kobo-aura (6.5 x 4.5") for programs like Open Street Map and Waites' Guide to North American Birds. Any recommendations for good, relatively inexpensive pads

Re: [GTALUG] Fetchmail and Office365 and backslashes, oh my!

Peter King via talk wrote on 2018-07-04 2:53 PM: Recently we were forcibly "migrated" to Office365 for our email services, and with the change numerous things were broken. One of the last things I cannot figure out how to solve is how to pass an alias email address to the MS server. So in .fetc

Re: [GTALUG] Web hosting companies providing Linux shell accounts?

Karen Lewellen via talk wrote on 2018-07-18 8:56 PM: Hi All, The organization for whom I work presently has a shared hosting account with dreamhost.  Recently though they made a change that prevents me from accessing my work shell account with the combination of adaptive technology tools I mus

Re: [GTALUG] Specific question about mailing list management

Evan Leibovitch via talk wrote on 2018-07-25 12:30 AM: 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 to know what policies

Re: [GTALUG] An LibreOffice question.

Alvin Starr via talk wrote on 2018-07-30 3:46 PM: Does anybody know how to display and work with SI numbers like 10k or 20M or 40G within LIbreOffice? I have had little luck searching with google et al. While I am at it how about engineering notation? I think you looking for superscript and/

[GTALUG] Looking for Lighting Talks for January's meeting on Linux Distros!

GTALUG is having another Lighting Talks night for the 8th January meeting. If you are interested in giving a talk about your favorite Linux Distribution (or what ever you want to talk about), send an email to speak...@gtalug.org! --- Talk Mailing List talk@gtalug.org https://gtalug.org/mailman/