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

[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

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] 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

[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

[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

[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

[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

[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.

[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

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. > > >

[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] 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

[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

[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] 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

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

[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

[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

[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

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

[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

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

[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

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

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.

[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

[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 ;-)

[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

[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] [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. > >

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

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

[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

[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

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

[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

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 thos

[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

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_id=139711 > Surprising in the moment, but not super surprising...

[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:

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

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

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

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

[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

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

[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:

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] Question Fodder: Bcache Filesystem

I just saw a report of corruption problems with bcache in conjunction with GCC 9, and realized I had never actually heard of bcache before. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bcache - a layer in the kernel for using fast storage (e.g. - NAND, SSD) as a cache for spinning rust That's pretty cool; I

Re: [GTALUG] Debian BSP presentation video

Thanks very much for setting that up. I was wishing I could go, but had inevitable roadblocks :-( --- Talk Mailing List talk@gtalug.org https://gtalug.org/mailman/listinfo/talk

Re: [GTALUG] Right to Repair Info Session Mon. Apr. 15

Thanks for following up further, Karen. I wonder if you can look into more precisely where they're meeting on April 15th? It's less evident than it perhaps ought to be. It appears they are holding it at the CSI Annex, at 720 Bathurst, but a browse of events on the CSI website doesn't list it.

Re: [GTALUG] Western Digital's open source RISC-V core

On Thu, 14 Mar 2019 at 15:30, D. Hugh Redelmeier via talk wrote: > I assume that you can put this on a FPGA, as Chris Tyler talked about on > Tuesday. I haven't checked this. I think that it is in verilog, but I'm > not sure. > > >

Re: [GTALUG] Boeing India software engineers

On Wed, 13 Mar 2019 at 11:53, Alex Volkov via talk wrote: > Okay everyone, > > I believe this discussion is moved way off-topic and I don't think > anyone would change anyone else mind at this point. > > So we should leave it at that. Yes, please. Quoting from the rules about this list...

Re: [GTALUG] Where are we eating this evening? EOM

On Tue, Mar 12, 2019, 6:18 PM Christopher Browne wrote: > Not Kabul Express; they're busy renovating. > > I'm at Laziz Curry Kitchen a block further > It's cheap, and pretty generic Indian food, would not be quick to return. I notice TacoRito and Hurry Curry on the opposite side of the

Re: [GTALUG] Where are we eating this evening? EOM

Not Kabul Express; they're busy renovating. I'm at Laziz Curry Kitchen a block further --- Talk Mailing List talk@gtalug.org https://gtalug.org/mailman/listinfo/talk

Re: [GTALUG] Pain points in debian release process.

On Mon, 11 Mar 2019 at 14:40, Alex Volkov (A Valued Subscriber) via talk wrote: > > Hey Sergio, > > I just found the email from Samuel in my inbox -- it looked like a debian > mailing list announcement, so I moved it to 'read later' pile. I'm sorry > about that. > > This sounds like a great

Re: [GTALUG] Microsoft open sources Windows Calculator

On Sun, Mar 10, 2019, 8:10 AM James Knott via talk wrote: > On 03/09/2019 05:18 PM, D. Hugh Redelmeier via talk wrote: > > Surely next will be MS Office! > > I'm still waiting on EDLIN. ;-) > Oh indeed!!! It would be interesting to compare code and functionality to ed... Has anyone else

Re: [GTALUG] IP mystery

On Thu, 21 Feb 2019 at 15:06, Darryl Moore via talk wrote: > > Thanks for that. I see it there. WTF? Any idea why I don't see it with > ifconfig? Heh. Because ifconfig is really old, and apparently no longer maintained. http://inai.de/2008/02/19 Mind you, I see that after the 15-ish years of

Re: [GTALUG] Hacklab Toronto - Moving Crowd Fund

On Mon, 11 Feb 2019 at 11:16, Scott Sullivan via talk wrote: > Howdy Folks, > > Hacklab Toronto has been a great friend to the GTALUG community. We had > over lap of member of our community. The last few GTALUG Linux in Parks > have been hosted by them. GTALUG's board and volunteers have used it

Re: [GTALUG] Software to draw illustrations?

On Sun, Feb 10, 2019, 12:52 AM William Park via talk 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. > I almost

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

On Fri, 8 Feb 2019 at 16:18, o1bigtenor via talk wrote: > I appreciated this talk a lot. Made my wife sit through it to grin! > He showed what was good AND what was bad about it and also > lightly poked at the less than positive way it was introduced. What > was impressive was that he could use

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

On Thu, Feb 7, 2019, 6:13 PM D. Hugh Redelmeier via talk I think that this is pretty interesting: > > > Interesting indeed. It's sad, the "culture of contempt" that has grown up in this particular place, and the speaker captures quite well the

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

On Thu, Feb 7, 2019, 6:13 PM D. Hugh Redelmeier via talk I think that this is pretty interesting: > > > Interesting indeed. It's sad, the "culture of contempt" that has grown up in this particular place, and the speaker captures quite well the

Re: [GTALUG] Looking for Someone to Answer some Question

On Thu, Jan 17, 2019, 12:39 PM Kevin Cozens via talk wrote: > On 2019-01-17 11:54 a.m., Christopher Browne via talk wrote: > > I'd be a bit reluctant to look at something belonging to Oracle; as > well, I'd > > regard Berkeley DB as being fairly heavyweight in this are

Re: [GTALUG] Looking for Someone to Answer some Question

On Thu, 17 Jan 2019 at 07:46, Steve Petrie, P.Eng. via talk wrote: > BerkelyDB might be another option for storing an enbedded application's > non-volatile data. > > BerkelyDB is now owned by Oracle, but I believe there is an open-source > version available) BerkelyDB could be more performant

Re: [GTALUG] Invitation to a Debian Bug Squashing Party in Montreal

On Sat, 29 Dec 2018 at 20:53, Znoteer via talk wrote: > I've been lurking on this list since slightly before DebConf17 last year > (well, soon two years ago :) to which I wanted to invite you all. Thanks; I had considered it; other things got in the way at the time, so I was sadly unable to make

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

I'd like to hear a bit about the "new kid on the block," Alpine Linux. This is in heavy use by Docker folk; the general idea of it was to establish a small distribution without a lot of "cruft" that's suitable as a container OS. They made some interesting choices: - Used to use uClibc as its

[GTALUG] Unix approaching 50

As Unix approaches its 50th anniversary, some folks have assembled a site where you can access amazing simulations of the early days... This has simulations of various editions of Unix, including, it would appear, "version 0," aka UNICS https://unix50.org/ SDF Public Access UNIX System presents

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

On Wed, 21 Nov 2018 at 22:53, William Park via talk wrote: > Just curious... Where/how do you use these little computers? I mean, > $300 here, $200 there, $100 upgrade, $50 ram, $25 microSD, etc. they all > add up. I have been carrying around a Chromebook running Linux-y bits via Crouton for

Re: [GTALUG] Backups with Bacula

On Thu, 11 Oct 2018 at 13:01, Tony Fernandez via talk wrote: > > Hi All, > > I just recently joined your group and was hoping for some insight or advise > on building a backup solution. > > My question is related to Bacula on FreeNAS. I hope it's ok that I ask if not > I understand. > >

Re: [GTALUG] Practical Use of GRUB's DSL: With the examples inexplicably left out of the GRUB documentation

On Tue, Oct 16, 2018, 9:16 AM Giles Orr via talk wrote: > I've finally released a document I've been working on for a while: > > "Practical Use of GRUB's DSL: With the examples inexplicably left out of > the GRUB documentation" ( https://www.gilesorr.com/grubdsl/ ) > Thanks indeed! Pretty

[GTALUG] Software Heritage - collecting source code

Interesting thing seen recently... "The long term goal of the Software Heritage initiative is to collect all publicly available software in source code form together with its development history, replicate it massively to ensure its preservation, and share it with everyone who needs it. The

[GTALUG] Google Alternatives

https://degooglisons-internet.org/en/alternatives/ I don't know that it's all wonderful stuff, but it's always a good thing to have alternatives to choose from. Many of these offer some choices that would involve similar preference metrics to what we might like .. --- Talk Mailing List

Re: [GTALUG] dh key exchange question.

On Tue, 2 Oct 2018 at 16:30, Karen Lewellen via talk wrote: > Hi Mike, > Thanks for that information. > I would feel better though if the same problem was not happening > practically everywhere else. > i can check my list, I believe, but imagine it will take someone skilled > in compiling to

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

On Mon, 17 Sep 2018 at 11:37, Dhaval Giani via talk wrote: > On Mon, Sep 17, 2018 at 3:11 AM Russell Reiter wrote: >> The Poettering hit man story is four years old. It didn't stop him from his >> own rant, they are after all just words. >> > They are just words for you. But you ignore a phone

Re: [GTALUG] Checking for DNSSEC

Thanks, Gord! The one thing of interest that I noted in the "DNS Check" (https://zonemaster.iis.se) for GTALUG.org was that our DNS hosting via Gandi has perhaps insufficient diversity. To wit, there are several warnings similar to "All nameservers in the delegation have IPv4 addresses in the

Re: [GTALUG] Which Distro is Best for Running a ZFS-on-Linux Fileserver.

On Fri, Aug 24, 2018, 2:27 PM right.maple.nut via talk wrote: > > Hello All, > > Like the Subject Line says, I'm setting up a ZFS File Server for my Home > Network. > > Given that I will have to go to the trouble of setting up the Distro and > Migrating the Linux Install to ZFS Root, I don't

Re: [GTALUG] System Monitor / sysmon

On Mon, Aug 20, 2018, 6:10 PM D. Hugh Redelmeier via talk wrote: > > Thanks for the research! > > I want a stupid GUI program. sar is a command-line tool, I think. I do recall sar... Definitely one of the classic tools for analyzing disk activity. It's probably worth some learning curve to

Re: [GTALUG] OpenWRT 18.06 Released

Nice, thanks for pointing that out! I just did the upgrade on my Archer C7 v2 (there are apparently now up to v7, perhaps not all actually available), went quite painlessly. It shifts from a version 3 Linux kernel to 4.9.111, which is presumably wildly newer. I see differences in the web UI

Re: [GTALUG] GRUB's DSL and looping

On Wed, 25 Jul 2018 at 14:14, Lennart Sorensen via talk wrote: > > On Wed, Jul 25, 2018 at 02:09:00PM -0400, Giles Orr wrote: > > I don't think that's documented anywhere, and it doesn't strike me as being > > in any way obvious. > > Well it's vaguely documented in that the module has a

Re: [GTALUG] looking for a tool to transform table relationships

On Fri, 20 Jul 2018 at 13:42, Alex Volkov via talk wrote: > > Hey Everyone, > > I'm looking for a tool to transform (possibly migrate) data from one > postgres db to another. > > I have two postgres databases -- old (not normalized) has all the data > and new (normalized with some major schema

[GTALUG] Dinner options for July 10th

There hasn't yet been any discussion... - Kabul Express is a pretty good "backstop" option if we don't arrive at anything else - Aura Foodcourt seems to be falling to near-nothing; perhaps closed already? - There was a rather spicy Pakistani place a bit further east on Dundas that we tried last

Re: [GTALUG] OK, food where?

Hugh and I were planning a research outing, alas he's unavailable tonight, so we'll need to arrive at something separately. - Food Court at Aura has fallen to precipitously small size; looks like it's about to disappear - We were trying to find variety over Kabul Express, but that's not a bad

Re: [GTALUG] Last month, Hugh suggested Kaiju and the other food court places at Shops at Aurora

On Tue, 8 May 2018 at 16:37, David Collier-Brown via talk wrote: > What do people think? Fine by me, tiz a plawn! :-) -- When confronted by a difficult problem, solve it by reducing it to the question, "How would the Lone Ranger handle this?" --- Talk Mailing List

Re: [GTALUG] Crontab versioning

On Thu, 3 May 2018 at 10:45, Alex Beamish via talk wrote: > I'm developing scripts that get run by crontab, so I'm in there making updates fairly regularly. I would love to be able to document the changes, so I'm wondering if there a usual and customary technique to version

Re: [GTALUG] The usual pre-meeting question... and answer, I suspect

On Tue, 10 Apr 2018 at 16:06, David Thornton via talk wrote: > I did kinton ramen with scott a couple of weeks ago. > > Wus gud > > There's one in my neighbourhood; agreed, it's pretty good. The frequent problem with Ramen places is that they often seem to expect tables to be

Re: [GTALUG] GnuPG/PGP key signing parties

On Wed, 4 Apr 2018 at 13:39, Antonio Sun via talk wrote: > I checked https://gtalug.org/, and it was definitely on 13 April before, > as I did copy & paste. > > I guess somebody changed it afterwards. > > Yep, we had a typo, fixed when I noticed it. I expect it's also what's

Re: [GTALUG] Onavo VPN: Facebook wants your privacy

On Mon, 2 Apr 2018 at 11:33, D. Hugh Redelmeier via talk wrote: > Onavo is a VPN feature that Facebook offers. > > It turns out that Facebook spies on this VPN traffic. And, once > installed, spies on your traffic even if the VPN is turned off! > > Wow. > > I don't think that

[GTALUG] Dinner plans before tonight's meeting

I'll be heading to Kabul Express which is just around the corner from the George Vari building https://wiki.gtalug.org/pre-meeting_dinner#kabul_express -- When confronted by a difficult problem, solve it by reducing it to the question, "How would the Lone Ranger handle this?" --- Talk Mailing

Re: [GTALUG] Hello and GnuPG/PGP key signing parties

On 9 March 2018 at 20:56, Rouben via talk wrote: > Hello everyone! > > I’m a newbie to this list. The name is Rouben Tchakhmakhtchian; I’ve been a > Linux user since about 1998 (dabbled with it a bit before that). I’m > currently working at UofT in IT, and am still a die-hard

Re: [GTALUG] Feb. 13, 2018 Dinner Location?

On 13 February 2018 at 16:47, Ivan Avery Frey via talk wrote: > Where are we meeting tonight for dinner? I think I'll be heading to Kabul Express... https://wiki.gtalug.org/pre-meeting_dinner#kabul_express -- When confronted by a difficult problem, solve it by reducing it to

Re: [GTALUG] 'file' maintainer? (or fun with PIE and magic)

I just sent Ian a note; hopefully his email isn't also down, as his web site seems to be... If he contacts you asking more, that's great! --- Talk Mailing List talk@gtalug.org https://gtalug.org/mailman/listinfo/talk

Re: [GTALUG] Increasing interest in the Go language

On 2 February 2018 at 16:35, William Park via talk wrote: > You should be comparing Swift (iOS) with Ketlin (Android). I'm leaning > towards Ketlin, just I can't afford Apple. We'll see what Google will > do with Go. Seems to me that these represent somewhat different

Re: [GTALUG] a niggle about parallel

On 30 January 2018 at 17:58, David Collier-Brown via talk wrote: > On 30/01/18 05:06 PM, Lennart Sorensen via talk wrote: >> >> On Tue, Jan 30, 2018 at 03:49:54PM -0500, D. Hugh Redelmeier via talk >> wrote: >>> >>> The Sun T series looked very interesting to me when it came out.

Re: [GTALUG] How to go fast without speculating... maybe

On 30 January 2018 at 18:04, David Collier-Brown via talk wrote: > On 29/01/18 09:32 PM, William Park via talk wrote: >> >> On Mon, Jan 29, 2018 at 09:17:20PM -0500, Alvin Starr via talk wrote: >>> >>> My benchmark for processor success is: Does several of >>>

Re: [GTALUG] Dinner in the usual place?

On 12 December 2017 at 16:59, David Collier-Brown via talk wrote: > The last few times it was Kabul Express, are we headed there tonight? Evan asked similar on Telegram; I think we're turning Kabul Express into a habit ;-) -- When confronted by a difficult problem, solve it by

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,

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

[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... --

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