[GTALUG] DoorDash drivers game algorithm to increase pay - BNN Bloomberg

2021-04-12 Thread Russell Reiter via talk
As cyber awareness continues to permiate all layers of society, game theory has a real world practicality for marginalized workers. "Dashers" game "Tonys Casino". A tip is a UML construct, TIP To Insure Prompt (service). In the hospitality industry only the Maître d'hôtel received the tip in

[GTALUG] Wayland [was] Re: Surveillance Capitalism [was another thread]

2021-04-08 Thread Russell Reiter via talk
On Sun, Apr 4, 2021 at 1:19 AM Evan Leibovitch wrote: > On Sat, 3 Apr 2021 at 22:45, Alvin Starr via talk wrote: > > [much snipped] > > , what reason does anyone have that suggests a breakthrough in the future? > Weyland? > > - Evan > > I'd seriously consider Wayland. I'm assuming you don't

Re: [GTALUG] Cert Advisory FortiOS APT

2021-04-07 Thread Russell Reiter via talk
On Wed, Apr 7, 2021, 10:03 AM D. Hugh Redelmeier via talk, wrote: > | From: Russell Reiter via talk > | > | The advisory says even if your org doesn't use the os you should apply > | mitigations. > | > | > https://siliconangle.com/2021/04/04/hackers-actively-targeting-fo

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

2021-04-07 Thread Russell Reiter via talk
On Wed, Apr 7, 2021, 2:11 PM D. Hugh Redelmeier via talk, wrote: > | From: Evan Leibovitch via talk > > | Since copyright terms exist for many years after the creator's death, > that > | fact is far less relevant than one might think. > > Absolutely correct. I was trying to be funny,

Re: [GTALUG] RMS on britannica.com

2021-04-07 Thread Russell Reiter via talk
On Wed, Apr 7, 2021, 10:21 AM D. Hugh Redelmeier via talk, wrote: > | From: Russell Reiter via talk > | > | I stumbled across this. I think it's concise and well written. Cuts > through > | the fud pretty well. > | > | https://www.britannica.com/biography/Richard-Stal

[GTALUG] RMS on britannica.com

2021-04-06 Thread Russell Reiter via talk
I stumbled across this. I think it's concise and well written. Cuts through the fud pretty well. https://www.britannica.com/biography/Richard-Stallman https://www.britannica.com/technology/C-computer-programming-language -- Russell --- Post to this mailing list talk@gtalug.org Unsubscribe

[GTALUG] Cert Advisory FortiOS APT

2021-04-06 Thread Russell Reiter via talk
The advisory says even if your org doesn't use the os you should apply mitigations. https://siliconangle.com/2021/04/04/hackers-actively-targeting-fortios-vulnerabilities-warn-fbi-cisa/ -- Russell --- Post to this mailing list talk@gtalug.org Unsubscribe from this mailing list

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

2021-04-06 Thread Russell Reiter via talk
On Tue, Apr 6, 2021 at 5:44 PM D. Hugh Redelmeier via talk wrote: > | To: D. Hugh Redelmeier , GTALUG Talk > > | From: Russell Reiter via talk > > | On Tuesday, 6 April 2021, D. Hugh Redelmeier via talk > | wrote: > > | Quite so. In Oracles case I believe the issu

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

2021-04-06 Thread Russell Reiter via talk
On Tue, Apr 6, 2021 at 4:27 PM James Knott via talk wrote: > On 2021-04-06 4:15 p.m., Lennart Sorensen via talk wrote: > > On Tue, Apr 06, 2021 at 02:30:14PM -0400, William Park via talk wrote: > >> I prefer Oracle to win. Then, Google would be forced to dump Java and > find > >> replacement. >

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

2021-04-06 Thread Russell Reiter via talk
On Tue, Apr 6, 2021 at 4:16 PM Lennart Sorensen via talk wrote: > On Tue, Apr 06, 2021 at 02:30:14PM -0400, William Park via talk wrote: > > I prefer Oracle to win. Then, Google would be forced to dump Java and > find > > replacement. > > The result on the entire industry would not be worth it.

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

2021-04-06 Thread Russell Reiter via talk
On Tue, Apr 6, 2021 at 2:47 PM Nicholas Krause via talk wrote: > > > On 4/6/21 2:17 PM, D. Hugh Redelmeier via talk wrote: > > | From: Russell Reiter via talk > > | > > | I read that article with interest after I had used a > pharmacological/health > >

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

2021-04-06 Thread Russell Reiter via talk
On Tuesday, 6 April 2021, D. Hugh Redelmeier via talk wrote: > | From: Russell Reiter via talk > | > | I read that article with interest after I had used a > pharmacological/health > | sciences metaphore about copyright in another thread. > > Most drugs are "protec

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

2021-04-06 Thread Russell Reiter via talk
On Tue, Apr 6, 2021, 12:31 PM D. Hugh Redelmeier via talk, wrote: > Oracle sued Google, claiming Android infringed Oracle's patents on Java. > Somehow. That failed. > > So they sued for copyright infringement based on the copying of the API > declarations. > > The computer community had been

[GTALUG] Fwd: IBM DITTO def.

2021-04-05 Thread Russell Reiter via talk
Sorry again, but practice makes perfect. I wish my memory was that as well. Data Interfile Testing and Transfer Operations Russell -- Forwarded message - From: Russell Reiter Date: Mon, Apr 5, 2021, 2:10 PM Subject: IBM DITTO def. To: GTALUG Talk Sorry about a previous

[GTALUG] IBM DITTO def.

2021-04-05 Thread Russell Reiter via talk
Sorry about a previous attestation error, on another topic IBM DITTO is Data Interfile Testing and Transfer Object https://www-01.ibm.com/common/ssi/cgi-bin/ssialias?infotype=DD=SM=897/ENUS5655-103 Russell “Th’ newspaper does ivrything f’r us. It runs th’ polis foorce an’ th’ banks, commands

Re: [GTALUG] WSL, threat or boon? [was Re:Surveillance Capitalism [was another thread]]

2021-04-05 Thread Russell Reiter via talk
On Mon, Apr 5, 2021 at 11:21 AM Jamon Camisso via talk wrote: tl;dr I believe GCC supports more traditional languages than LLVM. On 05/04/2021 09:31, Russell Reiter via talk wrote: > > In that case, in the debate between GCC and clang LLVM, as someone who is > > unable to write

Re: [GTALUG] WSL, threat or boon? [was Re:Surveillance Capitalism [was another thread]]

2021-04-05 Thread Russell Reiter via talk
On Sun, Apr 4, 2021 at 9:28 AM D. Hugh Redelmeier wrote: > | From: Russell Reiter via talk > > | I do have an interest in current events tho. What I see most recently is > | that RMS called out canonical for surveillance capitalism and bashed WSL > | for being a ploy to undermin

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

2021-04-04 Thread Russell Reiter via talk
On Sun, Apr 4, 2021 at 10:26 AM D. Hugh Redelmeier via talk wrote: > | From: Evan Leibovitch via talk > > Thanks for the more complete information. > > What the exact brand and model of your Radeon RX 550? Are you sure > that the HDMI port conforms to HDMI 2.x? > > Remember that I'm not an

Re: [GTALUG] Surveillance Capitalism [was another thread]

2021-04-04 Thread Russell Reiter via talk
On Sat, Apr 3, 2021 at 10:44 PM Alvin Starr wrote: > On 4/2/21 10:45 PM, Russell Reiter wrote: > > On Fri, Apr 2, 2021, 10:13 PM Alvin Starr via talk, > wrote: > >> On 4/2/21 2:29 PM, Russell Reiter via talk wrote: >> >> Red Hat has just dropped its

Re: [GTALUG] Surveillance Capitalism [was another thread]

2021-04-03 Thread Russell Reiter via talk
nversation.com/how-to-spot-a-conspiracy-theory-when-you-see-one-133574 > > Evan Leibovitch, Toronto Canada > @evanleibovitch / @el56 > > > On Fri, 2 Apr 2021 at 14:30, Russell Reiter via talk > wrote: > >> Red Hat has just dropped its Free Software Foundation funding and

Re: [GTALUG] Surveillance Capitalism [was another thread]

2021-04-03 Thread Russell Reiter via talk
On Fri, Apr 2, 2021 at 11:07 PM Karen Lewellen wrote: > folks, > Keeping with the in context process. > > You are correct, context is important. > > On Fri, 2 Apr 2021, Dhaval Giani via talk wrote: > > >>> > >>> Again, I say this again. RMS as a contributor, yes. RMS as a leader, > no. > >>> >

Re: [GTALUG] Surveillance Capitalism [was another thread]

2021-04-02 Thread Russell Reiter via talk
On Fri, Apr 2, 2021, 10:13 PM Alvin Starr via talk, wrote: > On 4/2/21 2:29 PM, Russell Reiter via talk wrote: > > Red Hat has just dropped its Free Software Foundation funding and support. > > Now that Red Hat is pretty well owned by IBM, wouldn't you like to ask all > tho

Re: [GTALUG] Surveillance Capitalism [was another thread]

2021-04-02 Thread Russell Reiter via talk
On Fri, Apr 2, 2021 at 9:03 PM Dhaval Giani wrote: > >> > >> Again, I say this again. RMS as a contributor, yes. RMS as a leader, no. > >> > >> I am not going to step into your Godwin's law discussion > >> (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Godwin%27s_law ). It is irrelevant to > >> the issue at

Re: [GTALUG] Surveillance Capitalism [was another thread]

2021-04-02 Thread Russell Reiter via talk
On Fri, Apr 2, 2021 at 8:10 PM Dhaval Giani wrote: > Russell, > > My assumption here is you are here in good faith as opposed to one of > those "white men are being persecuted" crowd. If you are the latter, > please let me know, I will send all future emails from you to > Your assumption is

Re: [GTALUG] Surveillance Capitalism [was another thread]

2021-04-02 Thread Russell Reiter via talk
On Fri, Apr 2, 2021 at 7:23 PM Nicholas Krause wrote: > > > On 4/2/21 6:34 PM, Russell Reiter wrote: > > > > > > On Fri, Apr 2, 2021 at 5:46 PM Nicholas Krause <mailto:xerofo...@gmail.com>> wrote: > > > > > > > > On 4/2/21 5:27

Re: [GTALUG] Surveillance Capitalism [was another thread]

2021-04-02 Thread Russell Reiter via talk
On Fri, Apr 2, 2021 at 5:46 PM Nicholas Krause wrote: > > > On 4/2/21 5:27 PM, Russell Reiter via talk wrote: > > On Fri, Apr 2, 2021, 4:38 PM Dhaval Giani, <mailto:dhaval.gi...@gmail.com>> wrote: > > > > > > > >> are all

[GTALUG] April 2nd - International Fact Checking Day

2021-04-02 Thread Russell Reiter via talk
The day after April fools day. Who knew? Apparently Google does. https://canada.googleblog.com/2021/03/spot-misinformation-online-with-these.html https://factcheckingday.com/ Since Russell is most definitely a Scots name. I post the following thematic conclusion with sincere apologies to the

Re: [GTALUG] Surveillance Capitalism [was another thread]

2021-04-02 Thread Russell Reiter via talk
On Fri, Apr 2, 2021, 4:38 PM Dhaval Giani, wrote: > > > >> are all aware of. Many women were uncomfortable around RMS and avoided > >> him. Many refused to participate in our community because of > >> interactions with him. Do you think RMS is more important than a > >> community of developers

Re: [GTALUG] Surveillance Capitalism [was another thread]

2021-04-02 Thread Russell Reiter via talk
On Fri, Apr 2, 2021, 3:02 PM Dhaval Giani, wrote: > Russell, > > I think we are capable of judging the two cases independently. > I dont think that at all, especially because you edit out the links to the book I endorse and the wiki info on IBM's past complicity in International terrorisim.

[GTALUG] Surveillance Capitalism [was another thread]

2021-04-02 Thread Russell Reiter via talk
Red Hat has just dropped its Free Software Foundation funding and support. Now that Red Hat is pretty well owned by IBM, wouldn't you like to ask all those people, how far back in IBM's own history of misdeeds; notwithstanding rumors, innuendo and just plain gossip; the rest of us should look

[GTALUG] Canadian shares Turing award this year

2021-03-31 Thread Russell Reiter via talk
I thought this bit of news on the people involved in early compiler development might be of general interest. "Jeffrey Ullman and Alfred Aho developed many of the fundamental concepts that researchers use when they build new software."

Re: [GTALUG] 60Hz refresh is overrated [was Re: Has the graphics-card world gone mad?]

2021-03-30 Thread Russell Reiter via talk
On Tue, Mar 30, 2021 at 7:21 PM Lennart Sorensen via talk wrote: > On Tue, Mar 30, 2021 at 06:13:28PM -0400, D. Hugh Redelmeier via talk > wrote: > > TL;DR: at least sometimes 30Hz is fine. > > > > Everything depends on your individual eyes, what you use the monitor > for, > > and the setting of

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

2021-03-30 Thread Russell Reiter via talk
On Tuesday, 30 March 2021, o1bigtenor wrote: > Mr Russell > > > > What I am assuming > > > When one works from assumptions - - - - well its very easy to be quite > out to lunch. Now you decide to edit my posts. Remember you were the one who asked how to find a modeline. I told you how to

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

2021-03-30 Thread Russell Reiter via talk
On Tuesday, 30 March 2021, o1bigtenor wrote: > On Tue, Mar 30, 2021 at 9:21 AM Russell Reiter > wrote: > > > > On Tue, Mar 30, 2021, 9:50 AM o1bigtenor via talk, > wrote: > >> > >> On Tue, Mar 30, 2021 at 8:00 AM Russell Reiter via talk < > talk@g

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

2021-03-30 Thread Russell Reiter via talk
On Tue, Mar 30, 2021, 9:50 AM o1bigtenor via talk, wrote: > On Tue, Mar 30, 2021 at 8:00 AM Russell Reiter via talk > wrote: > > > > > > On Tue, Mar 30, 2021, 1:33 AM Evan Leibovitch via talk, > wrote: > > Having spent quite a few hours working on things

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

2021-03-30 Thread Russell Reiter via talk
On Tue, Mar 30, 2021, 1:33 AM Evan Leibovitch via talk, wrote: > Yeah, but it won't be about video cards (thankfully). > > (FWIW, the issues I am having driving two 4K monitors with an RX 550 exist > in both Windows and Linux, suggesting that it's not capable of driving both > monitors at full

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

2021-03-29 Thread Russell Reiter via talk
On Mon, Mar 29, 2021 at 4:35 AM Evan Leibovitch via talk wrote: > Hi all. > > I made the mistake that I might want to upgrade my video card. I have a > Radeon RX 550 that is struggling to drive two 4K screens. It works, but > plenty of flickering under both Linux and Windows. > > I looked at a

Re: [GTALUG] Partitioning Question

2021-03-28 Thread Russell Reiter via talk
On Sun, Mar 28, 2021, 1:25 PM D. Hugh Redelmeier via talk, wrote: > | From: Russell Reiter via talk > > | For any future issues you might want to take a look at gparted. > > If you look at the image he sent, you will see that it is a pair of > screenshots of GParte

Re: [GTALUG] Partitioning Question

2021-03-28 Thread Russell Reiter via talk
On Sun, Mar 28, 2021 at 12:04 PM William Park via talk wrote: > On 3/28/21 7:30 AM, Russell Reiter via talk wrote: > > For any future issues you might want to take a look at gparted. You can > resize and reformat disk volumes with comparative ease. I've used it many > times with

Re: [GTALUG] Partitioning Question

2021-03-28 Thread Russell Reiter via talk
On Sun, Mar 28, 2021, 12:38 AM Jim Ruxton via talk, wrote: > I guess eventually I will have to do that Len. Just doing the bandaid > solution for now so I don't have to take my laptop apart. > Jim > For any future issues you might want to take a look at gparted. You can resize and reformat disk

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

2021-03-24 Thread Russell Reiter via talk
On Wednesday, 24 March 2021, Evan Leibovitch wrote: > On Wed, 24 Mar 2021 at 11:53, Russell Reiter via talk > wrote: > >> An incel is a personal self description as involuntary celebate. >> > > Yeah, that was an incendiary headline, and I apologize to

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

2021-03-24 Thread Russell Reiter via talk
On Wed, Mar 24, 2021, 11:57 AM Howard Gibson via talk, wrote: > On Tue, 23 Mar 2021 21:46:00 -0400 > Evan Leibovitch via talk wrote: > > > ... hopefully, not for long. > > Evan, > >Some useful and interesting references... > >https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richard_Stallman >

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

2021-03-24 Thread Russell Reiter via talk
An incel is a personal self description as involuntary celebate. This is not at all a linux topic. How does Evan purport to know Richard Stallman is involuntarily celebate. That would be the first question to be answered going forward. On Wed, Mar 24, 2021, 11:24 AM Alex Volkov via talk, wrote:

[GTALUG] Systemd dbus issues with cgroups V2 and USB-PS

2021-02-26 Thread Russell Reiter via talk
I recently installed Fedora 33 after in place system upgrades from 31 to 32 presented a host of issues with dbus-launch and now on F33, the danged mouse keeps losing power, not sleeping but turning off. uname -a Linux SOLON.ht.home 5.10.16-200.fc33.x86_64 #1 SMP Sun Feb 14 03:02:32 UTC 2021

[GTALUG] David Tilbrook

2021-01-16 Thread Russell Reiter via talk
On Saturday, 16 January 2021, 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. I attended one of those talks where he introduced his QEF toolset and software hygiene concepts. Quod Erat

Re: [GTALUG] The Best of GTALUG

2021-01-15 Thread Russell Reiter via talk
On Monday, 11 January 2021, Warren McPherson via talk wrote: > I would love to hear people's thoughts about the best things about GTALug. > For me, there is an element of digital citizenship that is uncelebrated but > remarkably compelling. I would love to hear the thoughts of other people in >

Re: [GTALUG] Freedom and Graphene

2020-11-03 Thread Russell Reiter via talk
On Sunday, 1 November 2020, Evan Leibovitch wrote: > Thanks for the answers. Very helpful. > Thanks for the update. I don't need a new device just yet, but I was eyeing Pixel after seeing much better battery performance with the Experience rom on my Nexus 6. > > I think I'm going to just do a

Re: [GTALUG] Freedom and Graphene

2020-10-31 Thread Russell Reiter via talk
On Sat, Oct 31, 2020, 7:14 PM Christopher Browne via talk, wrote: > 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

Re: [GTALUG] scanner on hp LaserJet Pro MFP M26nw

2020-10-07 Thread Russell Reiter via talk
Do you get an actual xsane window saying the device was not found, or some other xsane report on the issue? The reports are sometimes very cryptic. This has been a fairly common mode switching issue where the device is set by default for printing for a multifunctional print/scan device. In my

[GTALUG] [SOLVED] for the most part, was Re: USB power reporting Type-c super speed skirmish and libpartd error

2020-10-06 Thread Russell Reiter via talk
, which would be the intended activity in prolonged overcurrent activity at the point of connection. On Wed, Sep 23, 2020 at 3:52 PM D. Hugh Redelmeier via talk wrote: > | From: Russell Reiter via talk | I power off, unplug > | the power cable and press and hold the start button for a few s

Re: [GTALUG] USB power reporting Type-c super speed skirmish and libpartd error

2020-09-23 Thread Russell Reiter via talk
On Wed, Sep 23, 2020 at 2:27 PM D. Hugh Redelmeier via talk wrote: > | From: Russell Reiter via talk > > | On Wed, Sep 23, 2020 at 9:40 AM D. Hugh Redelmeier via talk < > talk@gtalug.org> > | wrote: > > | I've made some progress and then lost it again. I had t

Re: [GTALUG] USB power reporting Type-c super speed skirmish and libpartd error

2020-09-23 Thread Russell Reiter via talk
On Wed, Sep 23, 2020 at 12:46 PM Lennart Sorensen < lsore...@csclub.uwaterloo.ca> wrote: > On Wed, Sep 23, 2020 at 11:36:39AM -0400, Russell Reiter via talk wrote: > > I've made some progress and then lost it again. I had to take a high def > > photo of the writing

Re: [GTALUG] USB power reporting Type-c super speed skirmish and libpartd error

2020-09-23 Thread Russell Reiter via talk
'm hoping a proper alignment of 3.1 cable and 3.1 port will make it easier, if not actually solve the problem One of the first mantras I learned first coming to TLUG meetings was that it's almost never hardware. That may have changed somewhat. To paraphrase Bob Dylan, linux is now a jet plane, it flie

[GTALUG] USB power reporting Type-c super speed skirmish and libpartd error

2020-09-17 Thread Russell Reiter via talk
I had a power outage a couple of weeks ago which lasted longer than my UPS battery life and have had a number of USB issues since then. While I was separately recharging the UPS, which took about 5 hours, I rebooted the system which then immediately froze on boot with an USB over current

Re: [GTALUG] Blockchain, the solution to nothing

2020-08-27 Thread Russell Reiter via talk
On Wed, Aug 26, 2020, 12:29 PM Christopher Browne via talk, wrote: > > 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

Re: [GTALUG] Mozilla XUL is dead

2020-08-24 Thread Russell Reiter via talk
On Mon, Aug 24, 2020 at 11:23 AM Christopher Browne via talk < talk@gtalug.org> wrote: > 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

Re: [GTALUG] The truth is paywalled (was Re: Looks like IBM is planning to eliminate RHEL)

2020-08-08 Thread Russell Reiter via talk
On Fri, Aug 7, 2020 at 9:37 PM Dave Collier-Brown via talk wrote: > Hmmn, Reuters and Associated Press are middlemen, while NPR, ABC, CBS and > the Conversation are "leaf" sites, as are the highly opinionated sites like > NYT, WaPo, G, NatPo and Toronto Sta. > Reuters and AP (Associated Press),

Re: [GTALUG] Looks like IBM is planning to eliminate RHEL

2020-08-06 Thread Russell Reiter via talk
On Thu, Aug 6, 2020 at 4:56 PM Stewart Russell via talk wrote: > > ... The truth and reconciliation movement in Canada, > > by stating there is systematic racism in this country ... > > But there is systemic and horrific racism in this country. I'm sure many > of us here were affected by "No

Re: [GTALUG] Fwd: Looks like IBM is planning to eliminate RHEL

2020-08-06 Thread Russell Reiter via talk
ose from. > > - Linux distros know that they don't have much of a moat so they tend not > to do things that push users away. Or only do so for a worthwhile > reason. > > | From: Russell Reiter via talk > | To: GTALUG Talk > | Cc: Russell Reiter > | Date: Thu, 6

[GTALUG] Fwd: Looks like IBM is planning to eliminate RHEL

2020-08-06 Thread Russell Reiter via talk
Sorry but it would be helpful if offlist responses were labeled and trimmed post's were noted, just for the sake of lessing confustion, if anything else. For some reson my MTA missed a response post to the list and this one is not labeled offlist, that part is kind of an informal protocol as I

Re: [GTALUG] Looks like IBM is planning to eliminate RHEL

2020-08-06 Thread Russell Reiter via talk
On Thu, Aug 6, 2020 at 11:51 AM Evan Leibovitch via talk wrote: > On Thu, 6 Aug 2020 at 10:31, Alvin Starr wrote: > >> I do not believe that The Rules of Acquisition existed before DS-9. >> But they nicely reflect the business practices over the last 50, 60,70... >> 100 years. >> With the

[GTALUG] Fwd: Looks like IBM is planning to eliminate RHEL

2020-08-06 Thread Russell Reiter via talk
On Thu, Aug 6, 2020 at 9:44 AM Evan Leibovitch wrote: > I've spoken to some actual Red Hat employees who they said the article has > been widely circulated and has served as a good laugh. No booms are being > lowered that they're aware of and morale remains decent. > > I'm wary of the source

Re: [GTALUG] Looks like IBM is planning to eliminate RHEL

2020-08-06 Thread Russell Reiter via talk
On Wed, Aug 5, 2020 at 9:52 PM Sergio Durigan Junior via talk < talk@gtalug.org> wrote: > On Wednesday, August 05 2020, Russell Reiter via talk wrote: > > > This is sad. But the article is an interesting backgrounder on the > internal > > chaos thats leading up to this.

Re: [GTALUG] Looks like IBM is planning to eliminate RHEL

2020-08-05 Thread Russell Reiter via talk
Giani, wrote: > > > On Wed, Aug 5, 2020, 6:43 AM Russell Reiter via talk > wrote: > >> This is sad. But the article is an interesting backgrounder on the >> internal chaos thats leading up to this. >> >> "They said that OS development was knocked down

[GTALUG] Looks like IBM is planning to eliminate RHEL

2020-08-05 Thread Russell Reiter via talk
This is sad. But the article is an interesting backgrounder on the internal chaos thats leading up to this. "They said that OS development was knocked down to lowest priority,” Ryan noted. It says it right there. That may explain quite a lot, not just about RHEL’s direction but also Fedora’s. We

Re: [GTALUG] DSL to wifi

2020-08-04 Thread Russell Reiter via talk
On Mon, Aug 3, 2020 at 11:14 PM Astrid R wrote: > Thanks, I'll keep this information handy. The password I lost is to > 'authenticate' to allow certain changes once logged in. > Since you appear to be setup to bypass authentication and log into your user account directly without a password,

Re: [GTALUG] DSL to wifi

2020-08-03 Thread Russell Reiter via talk
On Mon, Aug 3, 2020 at 5:08 PM Astrid R via talk wrote: > Thanks. Here's a short video that shows what happens when I turn on the > laptop. I hope it's clear enough to be helpful. > > https://www.dropbox.com/s/zsss7a5pnu0emwu/IMG_1210.MOV?dl=0 > Got some info from that. You are running Debian

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

2020-08-01 Thread Russell Reiter via talk
On Sat, Aug 1, 2020 at 3:50 PM Russell Reiter wrote: Correction. On Sat, Aug 1, 2020 at 2:57 PM David Collier-Brown via talk > wrote: > >> >> On 2020-08-01 1:26 p.m., Russell Reiter via talk wrote: >> >> >> >> On Sat, Aug 1, 2020 at 12:03 PM D. Hug

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

2020-08-01 Thread Russell Reiter via talk
On Sat, Aug 1, 2020 at 2:57 PM David Collier-Brown via talk wrote: > > 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 < > talk@gtalug.org> wrote: > >> https://access.redh

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

2020-08-01 Thread Russell Reiter via talk
On Sat, Aug 1, 2020 at 12:03 PM D. Hugh Redelmeier via talk wrote: > https://access.redhat.com/solutions/5272311 > > https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2020/07/red-hat-and-centos-systems-arent-booting-due-to-boothole-patches/ > > Don't do upgrades to Fedora, RHEL, CentOS until you read those. > >

Re: [GTALUG] New Build Computer?

2020-07-28 Thread Russell Reiter via talk
On Tue, Jul 28, 2020 at 9:44 AM Peter King via talk wrote: > A measure of success! > > Instead of trying to boot from the NVMe drive, I updated the SATA SSD drive > and set it up to boot EFI-stub. It booted right up, updated things, and > generally settled into the new hardware with only minor

Re: [GTALUG] New Build Computer?

2020-07-28 Thread Russell Reiter via talk
On Mon, Jul 27, 2020, 9:06 PM Peter King via talk, wrote: > Well, no joy in Mudville. > > I disabled Secure Boot by deleted the PK key, which did indeed result in > the motherboard BIOS recognizing that Secure Boot was disabled. And, it > recognizes the NVMe drive as the boot device, indeed the

Re: [GTALUG] I’m obviously way behind in my reading: IBM owns Redhat

2020-05-31 Thread Russell Reiter via talk
On Fri, May 29, 2020 at 10:26 AM James Knott via talk wrote: > On 2020-05-29 09:57 AM, Russell Reiter wrote: > > Although, if you remember the Red Rocket era cars, you also probably > > remember watching them hook together with train couplings when one > > broke down. The push connection was

Re: [GTALUG] I’m obviously way behind in my reading: IBM owns Redhat

2020-05-29 Thread Russell Reiter via talk
On Thu, May 28, 2020 at 4:50 PM Lennart Sorensen via talk wrote: > On Thu, May 28, 2020 at 07:02:19AM -0400, James Knott via talk wrote: > > LRT used to be called "streetcars". Toronto has had them for well over a > > century. > > Not sure of the historical use of the word streetcar although

Re: [GTALUG] I’m obviously way behind in my reading: IBM owns Redhat

2020-05-28 Thread Russell Reiter via talk
On Thu, May 28, 2020 at 4:53 PM Lennart Sorensen < lsore...@csclub.uwaterloo.ca> wrote: > On Thu, May 28, 2020 at 09:27:09AM -0400, Russell Reiter via talk wrote: > > Streetcars in Toronto use narrow gauge rails and trucks on the city > streets > > in order to provide

Re: [GTALUG] I’m obviously way behind in my reading: IBM owns Redhat

2020-05-28 Thread Russell Reiter via talk
On Thu, May 28, 2020, 7:02 AM James Knott via talk, wrote: > On 2020-05-27 09:20 PM, Russell Reiter wrote: > > > > Funny thing, I have been working with telecom, computers and networks > > for decades, but have never, not once, seen FDDI implemented > anywhere. > > > > > > I don't

Re: [GTALUG] I’m obviously way behind in my reading: IBM owns Redhat

2020-05-28 Thread Russell Reiter via talk
On Thu, May 28, 2020 at 2:16 AM D. Hugh Redelmeier via talk wrote: > | From: Russell Reiter via talk > > | the Prince Albert viaduct > | which added the subway tracks under that bridge long before > | there were subways in the area to connect those tracks to. That was world >

Re: [GTALUG] I’m obviously way behind in my reading: IBM owns Redhat

2020-05-27 Thread Russell Reiter via talk
On Wed, May 27, 2020 at 5:15 PM James Knott via talk wrote: > On 2020-05-27 04:26 PM, Russell Reiter wrote: > > I'm not all that sure it wasn't all that popular for Wide and > > Metropolitan backbone infrastructure fabrics; finance, rail and > > automobile signalling and routing come to mind > >

Re: [GTALUG] I’m obviously way behind in my reading: IBM owns Redhat

2020-05-27 Thread Russell Reiter via talk
On Wed, May 27, 2020 at 6:12 PM James Knott via talk wrote: > On 2020-05-27 05:42 PM, Russell Reiter via talk wrote: > > Reminds me of when I was ten and built a crystal radio. I was > > disappointed that I could only tune in one station, 1050 CHUM AM, the > > closest one t

Re: [GTALUG] I’m obviously way behind in my reading: IBM owns Redhat

2020-05-27 Thread Russell Reiter via talk
On Wed, May 27, 2020 at 12:56 PM El Fontanero via talk wrote: > On 2020-05-27 12:39 p.m., Russell Reiter via talk wrote: > > > I also had a weird experience when I used a line adapter to plug a guitar > into the line in and play out the speakers. After I defined the loopback >

Re: [GTALUG] I’m obviously way behind in my reading: IBM owns Redhat

2020-05-27 Thread Russell Reiter via talk
On Wed, May 27, 2020 at 11:49 AM James Knott via talk wrote: > On 2020-05-27 11:41 AM, Russell Reiter via talk wrote: > > Sorry that was just a reference to the fact that FDDI is deployed in > > the past. You'd have to figure that if the effort was made to use a > > de

Re: [GTALUG] I’m obviously way behind in my reading: IBM owns Redhat

2020-05-27 Thread Russell Reiter via talk
On Wed, May 27, 2020 at 11:51 AM Lennart Sorensen < lsore...@csclub.uwaterloo.ca> wrote: > On Wed, May 27, 2020 at 11:41:15AM -0400, Russell Reiter wrote: > > Sorry that was just a reference to the fact that FDDI is deployed in the > > past. You'd have to figure that if the effort was made to use

Re: [GTALUG] I’m obviously way behind in my reading: IBM owns Redhat

2020-05-27 Thread Russell Reiter via talk
On Wed, May 27, 2020 at 11:18 AM Lennart Sorensen < lsore...@csclub.uwaterloo.ca> wrote: > On Wed, May 27, 2020 at 11:01:31AM -0400, Russell Reiter via talk wrote: > > I believe it's used in bidirectional fiber-optic communications. To what > > extent, I'm not sure and to be

Re: [GTALUG] I’m obviously way behind in my reading: IBM owns Redhat

2020-05-27 Thread Russell Reiter via talk
On Wed, May 27, 2020, 10:54 AM James Knott via talk, wrote: > On 2020-05-27 10:44 AM, Russell Reiter wrote: > > Or perhaps IBM token ring didn't like Linux TCP/IP, but now they do. > > > > Isn't Token Ring pretty much dead now? Back in the 90s it provided > better performance than Ethernet, as

Re: [GTALUG] I’m obviously way behind in my reading: IBM owns Redhat

2020-05-27 Thread Russell Reiter via talk
On Wed, May 20, 2020 at 10:49 PM James Knott via talk wrote: > On 2020-05-20 10:31 PM, David Mason via talk wrote: > > This is not news… except to me, but I thought the article might be > > interesting to someone. > > > > https://www.popularmechanics.com/technology/a24397193/ibm-red-hat/ > > < >

Re: [GTALUG] Free Linux VMs

2020-05-11 Thread Russell Reiter via talk
On Mon, May 11, 2020 at 8:11 AM Alvin Starr via talk wrote: > > On 5/10/20 10:50 PM, Howard Gibson wrote: > > [snip] > >> The NCIX one is not surprising because the bankruptcy lawyers have no > >> idea of what they have and don't have any responsibility to guard public > >> privacy. > > Alvin, >

Re: [GTALUG] [OT] Phishing is no mirage...

2019-12-19 Thread Russell Reiter via talk
ould not have to hide your SIN. > > On 12/18/19 9:24 PM, Russell Reiter via talk wrote: > > On Wed, Dec 18, 2019 at 4:51 PM D. Hugh Redelmeier via talk < > talk@gtalug.org> wrote: > >> | From: Russell Reiter via talk >> >> | I agree that many newcomers

Re: [GTALUG] [OT] Phishing is no mirage...

2019-12-18 Thread Russell Reiter via talk
On Wed, Dec 18, 2019 at 4:51 PM D. Hugh Redelmeier via talk wrote: > | From: Russell Reiter via talk > > | I agree that many newcomers face significant barriers through a lack of > | understanding of Canada's system of administrative law and the policies > | which underpin it. H

Re: [GTALUG] [OT] Phishing is no mirage...

2019-12-18 Thread Russell Reiter via talk
On Wed, Dec 18, 2019 at 2:18 PM Alvin Starr wrote: > On 12/18/19 12:32 PM, Russell Reiter wrote: > > On Wed, Dec 18, 2019, 11:16 AM Alvin Starr wrote: > >> On 12/18/19 7:48 AM, Russell Reiter wrote: >> >> >> snip > > > > I would hope, for billing and service inquiries, they would have all the

Re: [GTALUG] [OT] Phishing is no mirage...

2019-12-18 Thread Russell Reiter via talk
On Wed, Dec 18, 2019, 2:03 PM D. Hugh Redelmeier via talk, wrote: > | From: Russell Reiter via talk > > "fiduciary duty" > >From the case law link example I posted of an agent acting for both parties as a form of trust as an equitable obligation. > Fiduciary

Re: [GTALUG] [OT] Phishing is no mirage...

2019-12-18 Thread Russell Reiter via talk
On Wed, Dec 18, 2019, 12:59 PM Dhaval Giani, wrote: > > > On Wed, Dec 18, 2019 at 4:48 AM Russell Reiter via talk > wrote: > >> On Tue, Dec 17, 2019, 2:57 PM Alvin Starr via talk >> wrote: >> >>> On 12/17/19 2:27 PM, Russell Reiter via talk wrote:

Re: [GTALUG] [OT] Phishing is no mirage...

2019-12-18 Thread Russell Reiter via talk
On Wed, Dec 18, 2019, 11:16 AM Alvin Starr wrote: > On 12/18/19 7:48 AM, Russell Reiter wrote: > > On Tue, Dec 17, 2019, 2:57 PM Alvin Starr via talk > wrote: > >> On 12/17/19 2:27 PM, Russell Reiter via talk wrote: >> [snip] >> >> >> >>>

Re: [GTALUG] [OT] Phishing is no mirage...

2019-12-18 Thread Russell Reiter via talk
On Tue, Dec 17, 2019, 2:57 PM Alvin Starr via talk wrote: > On 12/17/19 2:27 PM, Russell Reiter via talk wrote: > [snip] > > > >> | I wonder why, especially in this data stealing age, the practice is not >> firmly >> | against the law? >> >

Re: [GTALUG] [OT] Phishing is no mirage...

2019-12-17 Thread Russell Reiter via talk
On Tue, Dec 17, 2019, 10:28 AM D. Hugh Redelmeier via talk, wrote: > | From: Karen Lewellen via talk > > | That is a fine resource. it stateshowever that while the practice of > asking > | for a SIN in private company sectors is strongly discouraged, it is not > | illegal. > | Which is a

Re: [GTALUG] Problem with /dev/ttyUSB* serial port

2019-11-04 Thread Russell Reiter via talk
On Thu, Oct 31, 2019, 1:07 PM Jim Ruxton via talk, wrote: > > > Is your user a member of the dialout group? You can't access serial ports > unless you are. > > Yes I am a member of dialout and I have no problem when my device uses > /dev/ttyUSB0 . > > > Also, 'baudrate=57142' looks a bit odd.

[GTALUG] Fairphone 3 - facilitates right to repair by design

2019-08-28 Thread Russell Reiter via talk
The CEO described this phone as kinder to people and to the Earth. Personally I was somewhat disappointed when Google Brazil's Project Ara was cancelled. Modularity in that design seemed to be a natural next step towards sustainable development and best practices.

Re: [GTALUG] legal history of university AUPs, was Re: For Chris: Commodore BASIC as a scripting language

2019-08-28 Thread Russell Reiter via talk
ETOn Mon, Aug 26, 2019, 5:11 PM D. Joe, wrote: > On Mon, Aug 26, 2019 at 08:49:44AM -0400, Russell Reiter via talk wrote: > > On Sun, Aug 25, 2019, 12:01 PM James Knott via talk > wrote: > > > > I nominate Altair BASIC! ;-) > > > > h

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

2019-08-27 Thread Russell Reiter via talk
On Mon, Aug 26, 2019, 12:35 PM William Porquet, wrote: > I've come to the realization that, in this day and age of hypervisors and > virutalization, Windows has become a rather complex and somewhat buggy > service that runs under Linux. Or is has for me, anyway. > > My CDN$0.02. > I purchased a

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

2019-08-26 Thread Russell Reiter via talk
On Mon, Aug 26, 2019, 11:48 AM William Porquet via talk wrote: > "It's trivial to make fun of Microsoft products, but it takes a real > hacker to make them work, and a god to make them do anything useful." - > anonymous hacker > > Still true today? :-) > I'd say so, considering the corporation

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

2019-08-26 Thread Russell Reiter via talk
On Mon, Aug 26, 2019, 10:05 AM James Knott via talk, wrote: > On 2019-08-26 08:49 AM, Russell Reiter wrote: > > Nobody likes to be called a thief and a parasite by somebody. This > > situation, after Gates et. al. purloined acadamec knowledge for > > commercial endeavor, was kind of "the pot

  1   2   3   >