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

On 2024-02-20 02:12, D. Hugh Redelmeier via talk wrote: Your RAM having 1.2 GiB available does not actually indicate that RAM is tight. Much of the occupied space might be evictable files. If you were truly short of RAM + swap, I think you would see OOM messages in the log. I used to look

Re: [GTALUG] meeting idea: AI Explorers' Reports

At work, we had a 3-day hackathon on nothing except AI, and it was heavily subscribed, so  I expect that might be true of the larger community  --dave On 2024-02-13 21:49, D. Hugh Redelmeier via talk wrote: AI is an exploding field. Lots of stuff is new to us. Many of us are trying things.

Re: [GTALUG] Odd Ethernet Behaviour

Have a look at tailscale, which I looked at a few years back when dealing with a similar IT operation. It looked like a resolution, but fortunately I was offered a new job elsewhere. --dave On 2024-02-13 02:06, William Park via talk wrote: Why not comply and install VPN?  I face the same

Re: [GTALUG] Ongoing war story (now Exchange and IMAP)

On 1/20/24 21:26, Alvin Starr via talk wrote: A few years ago I found a package that would proxy IMAP into an Exchange server. If I remember correctly it was called davmail. It made some of the problems with a clients insistence on Exchange go away. On 2024-01-22 15:36, Peter King via talk

Re: [GTALUG] Ongoing war story (currently issues of user trust)

On 2024-01-20 02:51, ac via talk wrote: On Fri, 19 Jan 2024 22:44:01 -0500 Alvin Starr via talk wrote: I have a client who buys systems fromhttps://www.servergiant.net/ I have also bought systems from them. The prices will not be as cheap as a minipc from amazon but you can get a decent HP or

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

On 2024-01-16 17:23, Lennart Sorensen via talk wrote: My new connection at my new house that I moved to (OK I started moving things) about 10 days ago has rogers fibre service with phone running on that. There is definitely no battery in any of the equipment. So the ONT and the router would

Re: [GTALUG] Toronto Public Library website

An employer is constantly phishing staff, in hopes of sensitizing people so that real attacks won't get through. Alas, all they do is make us paranoid. Humans are particularly bad at /reliably/ detecting attacks, so occasional attacks get through, after which we get even more paranoid, and

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

Yes: the acceleration rate of a torque wrench is almost zero, while that of an air wrench is substantial, and it's applied the same way a hammer-drill is, in bursts until the nut starts to turn. In a previous life as a motorcycle- and occasionally car-mechanic, the order was * start with a

Re: [GTALUG] why I like shared libraries -- no longer a popular position

People discovered that there was an NP-complete problem with competing versions of library functions, but instead of addressing it, they kluged around it with static linking, snaps and flatpacks. And ended up with a different problem, as Hugh noted. When faced with a NP-complete problem, one

Re: [GTALUG] GNOME automatically sleeps your computer

On 9/2/23 04:50, BCLUG via talk wrote: D. Hugh Redelmeier via talk wrote on 2023-09-01 05:54:   Is there really no way to tweak this in the GUI? There is a way.  A user can change what GNOME does when they are logged in    settings: Power: (Power Saving Options) Automatic Suspend: off

[GTALUG] I have a new article up at ACM Queue

I haven't done much with performance for a while, but the ACM is restarting their "Jack" series, so I wrote an article about how we all go down the same blind ally when we're starting out doing performance work. https://dl.acm.org/doi/pdf/10.1145/3595862 --dave --- Post to this mailing list

Re: [GTALUG] DECTalk TTS in source for Linux

On 4/24/23 00:14, Karen Lewellen via talk wrote: Hi Stewart, That the source is out there at all, placed by a former digital equipment corporation employee is setting off some serious legal alarms. Honestly?  everyone wishes they could do the kind of search leading to exactly who owns the 

Re: [GTALUG] Fedora 38 is out

Yes, I too  actually use egrep almost all the time from the command-line, and /always/ in scripts, as I want to know which interpretation of REs I'm about to use. --dave On 4/22/23 23:31, D. Hugh Redelmeier via talk wrote: | From: Dave Collier-Brown via talk | F and fgrep are historical

Re: [GTALUG] New WiFi router?

On 3/9/23 09:16, Lennart Sorensen via talk wrote: On Wed, Mar 08, 2023 at 05:04:52PM -0500, William Park via talk wrote: Mine is Well I get an F. I then followed their instructions to add sqm to my

Re: [GTALUG] ThinkPad T14s Gen 2 Intel (14”) -- good deal?

On 3/1/23 12:43, D. Hugh Redelmeier via talk wrote: | From: William Park via talk | I decided against buying it. It doesn't have builtin ethernet port, Current laptops rarely have Ethernet ports. Wireless is good enough for most purposes and ethernet sockets add thickness. Agreed, but

Re: [GTALUG] RHEL Free Tier vs CentOS Stream vs Alma Linux vs Rocky Linux

On 1/31/23 21:32, Stewart C. Russell via talk wrote: I'm sure my late father would have been far less careful what he said about Big Blue, since he'd worked for ICT/ICL while IBM ruled the world. Wow! I worked for ICL Canada when I was a co-op at Waterloo. Fun folks, and some nice and/or

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

Have you written to the Samba team?  When asked in 2018, Andrew said: No change is required, yes is now the enforced default. Andrew Bartlett That may mean that samba 48 deprecated the bare request "use spnego" and now requires a = yes or no --dave On 12/10/22 00:29, Stewart C. Russell

[GTALUG] Can anyone recommend a "health" smartwatch?

My fitbit with a heart-rate sensor died, so I bought a Spade and Co "Health Smartwatch 2", which was absolutely /beautiful/, just what I wanted... and didn't work. All three apps they use all demand I own a phone with a lage screen, so you can fill in the forms. I have a small screen, and

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

My company just found a fake instance of themselves, so I wonder what folks do to detect them? I know politicians suffer impersonation a lot, but I don't know who's out there helping people and companies find and shut down the scammers. --dave -- David Collier-Brown, | Always do

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

My company just found a fake instance of themselves, so I wonder what folks do to detect them? I know politicians suffer impersonation a lot, but I don't know who's out there helping people and companies find and shut down the scammers. --dave -- David Collier-Brown, | Always do

[GTALUG] Index Exchanging is adding some entry-level positions

We have two new positions in our Network Operation Centre, as folks move up to line engineering. They're posted at https://www.indexexchange.com/careers/# and search for NOC. Right now, we're 100% remote, but some day we'll be back in our offices near King and Spadina. I usually say we're a

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

That was a pre-announcement, which they withdrew. --dave On 2021-07-05 10:10 p.m., Howard Gibson via talk wrote: Karen, Well damn. I am using Audacity to record my vinyl LPs into MP3 files to play in my car. Can they detect that? On Mon, 5 Jul 2021 21:54:04 -0400 (EDT) Karen

Re: [GTALUG] ThinkPad P15 -- crap?

On 2021-07-01 8:59 a.m., Scott Sullivan via talk wrote: On 2021-06-26 2:42 a.m., ac via talk wrote: On Sat, 26 Jun 2021 01:06:23 -0400 William Park via talk wrote: Hi guys, I'm using ThinkPad P15 Gen 1 at work.  The keyboard, touchpad, and trackpoint are not what I expected.  They feel

[GTALUG] IX is hiring

We have 88 open positions, many in Kitchener-Waterloo, Montreal and Toronto. For example, we have24 in the (nominal) downtown Toronto office, but we're all working remote! See https://www.indexexchange.com/careers, and snoop about us on Linkedin --dave -- David Collier-Brown, |

Re: [GTALUG] e-reader recommendations

I did a few years work for (Rackey-Coon) Kobo and was impressed by their devices. My wife and I have one each, both dedicated to books. --dave On 2021-05-20 8:28 a.m., Lennart Sorensen via talk wrote: On Tue, May 11, 2021 at 06:09:46PM -0400, wrote: On Tue, May 11, 2021 at 10:26:43AM -0400,

Re: [GTALUG] Network disabled on PC after last update

On 2021-04-18 12:20 p.m., sciguy via talk wrote: I have a desktop computer that dual boots into Ubuntu Studio and Windows 10. It is connected to the internet using a cat-5 cable to my router. After the last update and rebooting, it turns out that I no longer have ethernet on Linux. This is

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

On 2021-04-06 4:27 p.m., James Knott via talk wrote: I could be wrong, but I seem to recall that Sun made Java available and encouraged it's use.  Then when Oracle bought Sun, they tried to rein it back in.  They did the same with OpenOffice.  So, this boils down to Oracle retroactively and

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

To a logician, a non-trivial chunk of the of Stallman-and-Minsky discussion looks like ill-spirited people trying to see how many logic errors and edited quotes they could pull off without being caught. Mix them with genuinely concerned people trying to address real problems in a very

Re: [GTALUG] Fwd: HISTORIC opportunity for cheaper Internet in Toronto

City's own announcement: https://www.toronto.ca/news/connectto-program-aims-to-increase-digital-equity-and-access-to-affordable-high-speed-internet-in-toronto/ On 2021-01-29 7:21 a.m., David Collier-Brown via talk wrote: The best is probably the Star's article, https://www.thestar.com

Re: [GTALUG] Fwd: HISTORIC opportunity for cheaper Internet in Toronto

8:52 p.m., David Collier-Brown via talk wrote: Hydro was "purchasable" --- Post to this mailing list talk@gtalug.org Unsubscribe from this mailing list https://gtalug.org/mailman/listinfo/talk --- Post to this mailing list talk@gtalug.org Unsubscribe from this mailing

Re: [GTALUG] Fwd: HISTORIC opportunity for cheaper Internet in Toronto

Hydro was "purchasable" --dave On 2021-01-28 7:18 p.m., James Knott via talk wrote: On 2021-01-28 5:45 p.m., David Collier-Brown via talk wrote: A proposal for a community broadband, in Toronto! Several years ago, Toronto Hydro had the same idea.  I  believe they sold their fibre

[GTALUG] Fwd: HISTORIC opportunity for cheaper Internet in Toronto

A proposal for a community broadband, in Toronto! --dave --- Begin Message --- Toronto City Council is tabling cheaper, faster Internet on Feb 2. David, This Tuesday, February 2, Toronto City Council is considering something HUGE: Community-owned. Fibre. Broadband. 勞

Re: [GTALUG] How do I demonstrate a crappy network?

On 2021-01-19 11:15 a.m., David Collier-Brown wrote: On 2021-01-19 9:56 a.m., Stewart C. Russell via talk wrote: On 2021-01-19 7:19 a.m., David Collier-Brown via talk wrote: What is something that I can make fail, either audibly or visually? Showing my grandmother ping statistics isn't going

Re: [GTALUG] How do I demonstrate a crappy network?

On 2021-01-19 9:56 a.m., Stewart C. Russell via talk wrote: On 2021-01-19 7:19 a.m., David Collier-Brown via talk wrote: What is something that I can make fail, either audibly or visually? Showing my grandmother ping statistics isn't going to work (;-)) Video call over 2.4 GHz wifi

[GTALUG] How do I demonstrate a crappy network?

I'm working on an article about advances in Linux networking (eg, Cake), but with a demonstration anyone can do, to convince doubters. I therefor need a way to show how crappy someone's network is. I tried Skype "echo" calls and an couple of similar approaches, then tried playing you-tube

Re: [GTALUG] Linus blaming Intel for lack of ECC in consumer systems

On 2021-01-16 10:33 p.m., D. Hugh Redelmeier via talk wrote: This is something I quite agree with. I gave up complaining about 20 years ago but would welcome a change:

Re: [GTALUG] David Tilbrook

On 2021-01-16 1:27 a.m., D. Hugh Redelmeier via talk wrote: David Tilbrook passed away in the night yesterday. COVID-19, dammit. David had given a couple of talks at GTALUG. Russel Crook and I worked with him at Siemens Electric, just before he made QEF an independent company. I still

Re: [GTALUG] Group knowledge base

Confusance uses the same search library we did at brainhunter, and it's horrid! There is a chrome add-on that does google-like searches, "Confluence Quick Search". --dave On 2020-10-30 9:44 a.m., William Witteman via talk wrote: At the Very Large Company that I am currently on furlough with,

Re: [GTALUG] urgent: Red Hat distros have an update that renders some systems unbootable

On 2020-08-01 1:26 p.m., Russell Reiter via talk wrote: On Sat, Aug 1, 2020 at 12:03 PM D. Hugh Redelmeier via talk mailto:talk@gtalug.org>> wrote: https://access.redhat.com/solutions/5272311

Re: [GTALUG] OpenWRT Upgrade

On 2020-07-08 4:25 p.m., Christopher Browne via talk wrote: There is a new version of OpenWRT, version 19.07; apparently this was released almost 2 months ago. ... Apparently it now supports WPA3, that'll need more configuration to activate, and I'm not sure I care to do so. (That's perhaps

[GTALUG] Concrete suggestions for all our employers! Pass it on

https://leaflessca.wordpress.com/2020/03/15/what-my-companys-doing-for-covid-19/ --dave -- David Collier-Brown, | Always do right. This will gratify System Programmer and Author | some people and astonish the rest dav...@spamcop.net | -- Mark Twain ---

[GTALUG] Harmony Place is looking for volunteer developers/designers

A friend of mine, Emily Yuen, volunteers there helping adults with multiple disabilities, and because she's a retired programmer, was asked about exploring the idea of an IT person to write some apps, to facilitate some of the things they do. It's a bit of an open-ended question, including

Re: [GTALUG] Linux kernel 5.3.0

On 2019-09-19 11:11 p.m., William Park via talk wrote: I just tried kernel 5.3.0, and it's noticeably faster in opening windows. Not sure about overall throughput, though. I'd be interested in how quick it is in unblocking processes who just got I/O. I have servers doing arrays of heavily

[GTALUG] New Rogers offerings and guest access

I have an old Rogers cable setup, and the new one is cheaper and in principle less restricted. Does anyone have one and know if they allow "guest" accounts on their wi-fe hubs, like Open WRT does? I have friends/neighbors I want to give bandwidth to. --dave -- David Collier-Brown, |

Re: [GTALUG] Unix at 50: How the OS that powered smartphones started from failure | Ars Technica

multici...@yahoogroups.com is the mailing-list, multicians.org the master site On 2019-09-09 2:20 p.m., D. Hugh Redelmeier via talk wrote: | From: Dave Collier-Brown via talk | The Multicians group has commented on this article at length: "puffery | after the fact" is probably a kind

Re: [GTALUG] Sidebar to: Help with choosing a WiFi router

AM David Collier-Brown via talk wrote: On 2019-03-30 11:10 p.m., D. Hugh Redelmeier via talk wrote: The TP-link C7 was a good candidate a few years ago. OpenWRT support, cheap, AC1750. They did decide to lock out firmware replacement due to their (quite rational) interpretation of a new

[GTALUG] Sidebar to: Help with choosing a WiFi router

On 2019-03-30 11:10 p.m., D. Hugh Redelmeier via talk wrote: The TP-link C7 was a good candidate a few years ago. OpenWRT support, cheap, AC1750. They did decide to lock out firmware replacement due to their (quite rational) interpretation of a new FCC interpretation of regulations. I hope

Re: [GTALUG] reverse engineering

On 2019-03-14 3:40 p.m., Kevin Cozens via talk wrote: I've tried several decompilers but they didn't work, or wouldn't even compile. I looked at boomerang, Hopper, snowman, retdec, and reko. The ones that work wouldn't handle the architecture. The ghidra decompiler has been the only one that

Re: [GTALUG] Rogers "Anyplace TV" does not support Firefox

-stick (;-)) --dave On 2019-03-11 4:32 p.m., o1bigtenor wrote: On Mon, Mar 11, 2019 at 10:34 AM David Collier-Brown via talk wrote: The help-desk is tasked with making you happy with what you have. In many companies they are forbidden to take bug reports. You often have to ask for their "escala

Re: [GTALUG] Rogers "Anyplace TV" does not support Firefox

The help-desk is tasked with making you happy with what you have. In many companies they are forbidden to take bug reports.  You often have to ask for their "escalations manger", and sometimes explain to them what that is (;-)) --dave (who managed escalations all too often) c-b On 2019-03-11

Re: [GTALUG] optimum swap size

Well. sorta /proc, that underlies most Linux tools --dave On 2019-02-27 4:48 p.m., Gary via talk wrote: I suspect you use vmstat to determine the swap usage (?) /gary On 19-02-27 01:14 PM, Dave Collier-Brown via talk wrote: Linux is somewhat unusual in that it dynamically kills large

Re: [GTALUG] optimum swap size

Linux is somewhat unusual in that it dynamically kills large processes when it's running out of memory. You used to have to set limits to get that behavior.   Because of it, I run a moderately large swap (~8 GB) and can watch large jobs drive swap usage up. Then /*I*/ decide if I want them

Re: [GTALUG] Intel Contact Info

I've always found that asking a salesperson is the first step (;-)) They're coin-operated, and so will often refer you to someone helpful, both to avoid spending their time  on non-profitable work, and to do things that make the company in general richer. --dave On 2019-02-12 8:45 p.m., nick

Re: [GTALUG] Software to draw illustrations?

For simple stuff, open office draw suffices. --dave On 2019-02-10 2:51 a.m., Chris F.A. Johnson via talk wrote: On Sun, 10 Feb 2019, William Park via talk wrote: Hi all, What software do people use to draw illustrations that you'd see in textbooks or presentations?  Eg. data structure, high

Re: [GTALUG] google news alternatives?

Odd, Chrome 71.0.3578.98 (Official Build) (64-bit) on Fedora FC27 went to https://feedly.com/i/welcome from www.feedly.com I don't like it, but it does seem to work. --dave On 2019-01-24 3:56 p.m., Karen Lewellen via talk wrote: Hi Evan, granted I prefer my phones to be as dumb as possible,

Re: [GTALUG] Dinner tonight?

If we settle on a trial site, I'll see you there, otherwise the usual (;-)) --dave On 2018-11-13 8:11 a.m., Stewart C. Russell via talk wrote: On 2018-11-12 3:20 p.m., D. Hugh Redelmeier via talk wrote: Stewart: could you prune the deadwood from the wiki page?

Re: [GTALUG] IBM Acquires Red Hat for $34B | News & Opinion | PCMag.com

I used to work on an "datacenter as a service" offering from Sun (now Snoracle). We made a few cubic yards of dollars from providing datacenters for the US military to do moderately confidential processing. Most of the equipment in the buildings, though, were el-cheapo dells. /They/ took money

Re: [GTALUG] Software Heritage - collecting source code

On 2018-10-15 5:57 p.m., Christopher Browne via talk wrote: 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

[GTALUG] Dinner! (was: GTALUG Meeting on Tuesday 9 October at 7:30pm)

Where are we this week? --dave -- David Collier-Brown, | Always do right. This will gratify System Programmer and Author | some people and astonish the rest dav...@spamcop.net | -- Mark Twain --- Talk Mailing List talk@gtalug.org

Re: [GTALUG] [GTALUG-Announce] In The Community

See also https://www.torontopubliclibrary.ca/programs-and-classes/featured/digital-privacy.jsp On 2018-09-20 7:23 p.m., Scott Sullivan via talk wrote: I've been told to ignore the 'tickets' statement as this is a free event. On September 15, 2018 6:23:38 PM EDT, "D. Hugh Redelmeier via talk"

[GTALUG] Attacks on MAC address lists (was: suggestions for stopping occasional spurious use of commercial wi-fi)

On 2018-09-16 1:45 p.m., David Collier-Brown via talk wrote: I have a Rogers-supplied router and cable modem package, which twice has shown significant usage when I was out, once with the original unit and once with their replacement Cisco.  That makes me suspicious of the current state

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

I have a Rogers-supplied router and cable modem package, which twice has shown significant usage when I was out, once with the original unit and once with their replacement Cisco.  That makes me suspicious of the current state of authentication for wi-fi schemes (and I use the term "schemes"

[GTALUG] Dinner tonight?

What's the current state of thought??? https://wiki.gtalug.org/pre-meeting_dinner -- David Collier-Brown, | Always do right. This will gratify System Programmer and Author | some people and astonish the rest dav...@spamcop.net | -- Mark Twain --- Talk

Re: [GTALUG] Ubuntu -- Disabling Ping

On 2018-08-30 12:12 p.m., James Knott via talk wrote: On 08/30/2018 12:04 PM, Alvin Starr via talk wrote: There are other ICMP messages that can be used for probing like timestamp(msg-13). All around all disabling ping does for you is to make it harder for your ISP or IT support people to see

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

On 2018-08-24 3:43 p.m., Christopher Browne via talk wrote: On Fri, Aug 24, 2018, 2:27 PM right.maple.nut via talk mailto:talk@gtalug.org>> 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

Re: [GTALUG] System Monitor / sysmon

On the sar front, you watch out for avgqu-sz (and/or await and svctm) suddenly increasing as tps increases. The queue length is like the "load factor", where <= 1 is good, 4 is bad, and more is evil. --dave On 2018-08-20 12:18 a.m., Kevin Cozens via talk wrote: On 2018-08-19 11:53 AM, D.

Re: [GTALUG] Any Debian User Groups in the GTA?

We have a state of Postgres talk every year or so, I would absolutely love a state of Debian talk, they're the root of a whole group of interesting distros. And I think a state of RedHat every hundred years or so, with each new release (;-)) --dave [Running  Fedora, Centos and Ubuntu these

Re: [GTALUG] ret2spec: Speculative Execution Using Return Stack Buffers

., Russell Reiter wrote: On Thu, Aug 9, 2018, 2:35 PM David Collier-Brown via talk mailto:talk@gtalug.org>> wrote: For any instruction that can be executed during speculation, if it has an effect, it's arguably usable as a covert channel (;-)) Welcome to a web world of "ji

Re: [GTALUG] ret2spec: Speculative Execution Using Return Stack Buffers

For any instruction that can be executed during speculation, if it has an effect, it's arguably usable as a covert channel (;-)) --dave On 2018-08-09 10:03 a.m., Russell Reiter via talk wrote: More Intel woes.

[GTALUG] Hacklab trash freedom (;-))

I'm wondering about doing a local dead-technology day at Index Exchange,  and delivering the interesting stuff to hacklab. Do satellite days sound logical? Relevant to GTALUG (ie, should we do a satellite)? --dave -- David Collier-Brown, | Always do right. This will gratify System

Re: [GTALUG] I now have a smaller phone, and therefor want its big brother in a pad

On 25/06/18 12:32 PM, D. Hugh Redelmeier via talk wrote: | From: David Collier-Brown via talk | 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.ï¿

[GTALUG] Addressing one of our longest-standing legal problems

Many moons ago, ISPs were concerned that they would be legally required to eavesdrop on their customers, and the GTALUG board spun off a group to follow and comment on legalistic and political matters. The posting below is specifically about misbehavior by Telus, but it's also a potted

Re: [GTALUG] OK, food where?

On 12/06/18 04:35 PM, Christopher Browne wrote: 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

[GTALUG] OK, food where?

Hugh, do you have some leading candidates? --dave -- David Collier-Brown, | Always do right. This will gratify System Programmer and Author | some people and astonish the rest dav...@spamcop.net | -- Mark Twain --- Talk Mailing List talk@gtalug.org

Re: [GTALUG] Sidebar re libraries

On 19/05/18 01:17 PM, D. Hugh Redelmeier via talk wrote: | From: David Collier-Brown via talk <talk@gtalug.org> | It's notable that Linux numbers the interface, not the library. This came from | Multics, and was heavily used by Solaris and the glibc developers to avoid an | NP_complete p

[GTALUG] Sidebar re libraries (was: Fedora 27 packagekit reboot and install glitch)

On 18/05/18 11:32 PM, D. Hugh Redelmeier via talk wrote: | From: Russell via talk | On May 17, 2018 8:46:25 AM EDT, "D. Hugh Redelmeier via talk" wrote: | I remember from the Dynamic Linking talk that some wags would say, all | high sierra like; "your

Re: [GTALUG] Notepad drops carrage return bits.

On 09/05/18 07:51 AM, Russell via talk wrote: The article described the move as a step backwards. Best quote from the comments. "On a mechanical typewriter when you pull the lever you get an LF first then a CR. So Windows is already backwards."

Re: [GTALUG] Crontab versioning

On 04/05/18 09:10 AM, Alex Beamish via talk wrote: On Fri, May 4, 2018 at 8:11 AM, Jamon Camisso via talk > wrote: On 2018-05-03 10:44 AM, Alex Beamish via talk wrote: > I'm developing scripts that get run by crontab, so I'm in there making

[GTALUG] Recommendations for a root filesystem

I'm running Fedora, and want a filesystem with a write cache that I can put on flash, as I occasionally run some evil write-intensive tasks. I'd love to simulate the Sun trick of flash for write cache and ephemeral for read cache. Alas, my brain is roughly at the samfs/qfs level (a

Re: [GTALUG] VM decisions for school laptop..

On 12/04/18 03:58 PM, D. Hugh Redelmeier via talk wrote: | From: Michael Galea via talk | The course he is taken is in game design and it is mixed Windows/Linux, so | what he actually uses the Linux for will be mandated by the school. | On 04/11/18 22:27, D. Hugh Redelmeier

Re: [GTALUG] VM decisions for school laptop..

On 11/04/18 08:31 PM, Kevin Cozens via talk wrote: On 2018-04-11 08:05 PM, Michael Galea via talk wrote: A bit of research indicates that the two most popular free VM contenders are VMware and Microsoft's Hyper-V.  Can anyone recommend one over the other?  Are there better choices? A third

[GTALUG] For developers interested in AI

https://www.integrate.ai/ is looking for senior platform and full-stack engineers. Toronto startup, and /rather/ cool. --dave -- David Collier-Brown, | Always do right. This will gratify System Programmer and Author | some people and astonish the rest dav...@spamcop.net |

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

Where's dinner? --dave -- David Collier-Brown, | Always do right. This will gratify System Programmer and Author | some people and astonish the rest dav...@spamcop.net | -- Mark Twain --- Talk Mailing List talk@gtalug.org

Re: [GTALUG] cheap colour printing with a privacy issue

On 26/03/18 12:45 PM, D. Hugh Redelmeier via talk wrote: | From: Alex Volkov via talk | I've configured several HP inkjet printers in my life, and in my experience, | for the novice user -- compiling and installing linux kernel from scratch is a | much more straightforward

[GTALUG] I'm now officially working for Index Exchange, and we're officially hiring

There's a dev position posted at https://boards.greenhouse.io/indexexchange/jobs/626598?gh_src=pcqt311 and a full list of positions attached to it Currently we're up near the Allen expressway, but we're moving downtown some time later this year, and have jobs in Waterloo and Montreal as well.

Re: [GTALUG] job opty

On 15/03/18 11:52 AM, Marc Lijour wrote: Hi Dave, One connection is looking for a Linux guy that can help locating a lost file. Let me know if you know someone interested. Marc Hmmn: I hate to say this, but fsck -n is almost your only friend.  A very few filesystems have debuggers. I'd

Re: [GTALUG] Linux Journal, RIP

On 03/03/18 08:31 AM, Ken Heard via talk wrote: On 2018-02-02 05:06, Russell via talk wrote: Snip. For my personal pleasure in reading tho, I prefer paper. For one it's easier on the eyes. Also I have several dog eared reference books I would never trade for their digital versions. The

Re: [GTALUG] debian Linux -- Installation DVDs Full Set - Shipped To Canadian Destination ??

On 01/03/18 12:36 PM, Anthony de Boer via talk wrote: Steve Petrie, P.Eng. via talk wrote: I'm looking for a source for full set of physical debian Linux (LXDE) installation DVDs (NOT a live install, as I understand that Linux does not yet support live install with UEFI). Note that they've

Re: [GTALUG] more on Spectre v2

On 05/02/18 11:50 AM, D. Hugh Redelmeier via talk wrote: | From: David Collier-Brown via talk <talk@gtalug.org> | There's also a race condition: the 6130 and DPS8m processors checked the | permissions of the fetch before they fetched to the (then small) cache. [These are Honeywell mai

Re: [GTALUG] more on Spectre v2

On 04/02/18 01:29 PM, D. Hugh Redelmeier via talk wrote: Spectre v2 is really complicated to deal with. Just read this recent thread in the LKML I'm impressed how well written those messages are. Intel Skylake CPUs are particularly problematic. Those are

[GTALUG] Seen in passing: PDF to epub/docx converter for windows

https://www.lightenpdf.com/pdf-converter.html $29.99, with a free trial if you have a windows emulator handy --dave -- David Collier-Brown, | Always do right. This will gratify System Programmer and Author | some people and astonish the rest dav...@spamcop.net |

Re: [GTALUG] Linux Journal, RIP

On 02/02/18 12:45 PM, D. Hugh Redelmeier via talk wrote: | From: David Collier-Brown via talk <talk@gtalug.org> | Hmmn, I often read PDFs by sending to my Kobo, which has a superior screen for | text (but not for images) My Kobos are not good for PDF. At least not for those de

Re: [GTALUG] Linux Journal, RIP

On 02/02/18 12:39 PM, D. Hugh Redelmeier via talk wrote: What we need is more discerning readers. Ones who will pay for good content (and lack of bad content!). Or otherwise reward. I haven't put my money where my mouth is. For example, LWN.net seems deserving but I haven't thrown any money

[GTALUG] Increasing interest in the Go language

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? --dave -- David Collier-Brown, | Always do right.

Re: [GTALUG] Linux Journal, RIP

On 01/02/18 02:55 PM, Kevin Cozens via talk wrote: On 2018-02-01 07:31 AM, o1bigtenor via talk wrote: Perhaps instead of letting us know what you, meaning all the individuals complaining in this thread, can't stand about what it was  - - - well let them know what you do want. You never know

Re: [GTALUG] Linux Journal, RIP

On 31/01/18 05:01 PM, Tim Carroll via talk wrote: They are back. with new funding. linuxjournal2 http://www.linuxjournal.com/ Supported by the folks behind the PIA VPN. --dave see also https://www.privateinternetaccess.com/blog/ -- David Collier-Brown, | Always do right. This will

Re: [GTALUG] ARM and friends in datacenters

On 31/01/18 11:22 AM, Lennart Sorensen wrote: On Wed, Jan 31, 2018 at 09:59:28AM -0500, David Collier-Brown via talk wrote: There are two different cases to consider when doing data centers: * uniprocessors for individual tasks or trivially parallelizable ones * multiprocessors for things

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

I mis-addressed that: it was meant for Russel.  --dave On 31/01/18 11:09 AM, David Collier-Brown wrote: I was writing a note for the GTA Linux user group about how, in principle, a T-like processor could avoid falling into the hole that speculative processors with slow access checks have

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

I was writing a note for the GTA Linux user group about how, in principle, a T-like processor could avoid falling into the hole that speculative processors with slow access checks have fallen into... but I realize I don't know enough about the published designs. In your opinion, can a T5-like

Re: [GTALUG] ARM and friends in datacenters

On Tue, Jan 30, 2018 at 03:49:54PM -0500, D. Hugh Redelmeier via talk wrote: Another example: ARM is just now (more than 30 years on) targeting datacentres. Interestingly, big iron has previously mostly been replaced by co-ordinated hordes of x86 micros. There are two different cases to

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