Re: Keeping the lights on (was Re: [linux] Result of the OCLUG motion to dissolve) (fwd)
On Mon, 10 Apr 2023, Dianne Skoll wrote: There's also Canadian Web Hosting - not just located in Canada but Canadian-owned, from $7 CDN / month: https://www.canadianwebhosting.com/vps Interesting. I am still paying $5/month, maybe because I am grandfathered. their low-end offering has more disk space than Luna Node (20GB vs 15GB) but half the RAM (512MB vs 1GB). This is more than enough RAM to run * Mailman * BIND authoritative / caching DNS server * Postfix mail server * Apache web server * opendkim with room to spare. I have run these services on a 256 MB server when VPSs were more expensive. # free -m totalusedfree shared buff/cache available Mem: 481 143 89 1 248 325 Swap: 1023 397 626 The CACloud VPS also comes with 1 GB of swap, which extends the RAM nicely. In my experience many VPS do not come with any swap. Casual comparisons of VPS may not be valid. CACloud's SSD VPSs are located at 151 Front, providing excellent latency for Ottawa and Canada in general. CACloud's service has been consistently and remarkably _excellent_ over 15 years for me. I don't know how they do it when charging so little. Maybe because I treat support persons with respect and appreciation. CACloud has been completely hassle-free to control or have set up full mail server ports, and PTR records, both ipv4 and ipv6. --- Are there official minutes of the general meeting, including the list of atendees, quorum call, and votes on all resolutions? Will thay be posted here? Brett To unsubscribe send a blank message to linux+unsubscr...@linux-ottawa.org To get help send a blank message to linux+h...@linux-ottawa.org To visit the archives: https://lists.linux-ottawa.org
Re: [linux] Housekeeping
On Mon, 19 Dec 2022, Secretary wrote: please reply to this email (sent from secret...@linux-ottawa.org) stating your legal name, so we can fulfil this corporate obligation. What is OCLUG's privacy policy? I do not see it online anywhere. OCLUG board To unsubscribe send a blank message to linux+unsubscr...@linux-ottawa.org To get help send a blank message to linux+h...@linux-ottawa.org To visit the archives: https://lists.linux-ottawa.org To unsubscribe send a blank message to linux+unsubscr...@linux-ottawa.org To get help send a blank message to linux+h...@linux-ottawa.org To visit the archives: https://lists.linux-ottawa.org
Re: [linux] Follow up on last night's Twitter / Mastodon talk
On Sun, 13 Nov 2022, John Brooks wrote: I wish. Unfortunately, it's the users that make it the toxic cesspit that it is. They'll just move somewhere else and create a new toxic cesspit. Disagree. There are many excellently informed and constructive posters on twitter, both locally and worldwide. That said, I am not a fan of surveillance capitalists and generally do not engage with them. To unsubscribe send a blank message to linux+unsubscr...@linux-ottawa.org To get help send a blank message to linux+h...@linux-ottawa.org To visit the archives: https://lists.linux-ottawa.org
Re: [linux] Follow up on last night's Twitter / Mastodon talk
Richard Guy Briggs wrote: Gold cannot be eaten. Not true. How Do They Make Gold And Silver Safe To Eat? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oHiPoxLe3yw More stupid examples: https://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=edible+gold+leaf Tug Williams wrote: Regarding gold, though it can be misplaced Gold belongs on electrical connections, not 'misplaced' in the sanitary sewer. To unsubscribe send a blank message to linux+unsubscr...@linux-ottawa.org To get help send a blank message to linux+h...@linux-ottawa.org To visit the archives: https://lists.linux-ottawa.org
Re: [linux] Follow up on last night's Twitter / Mastodon talk
On Fri, 4 Nov 2022, Richard Guy Briggs wrote: I'm not saying [twitter] isn't but why was it valued so high? (That's rhetorical.) Even if it loses money, it is still likely be quite valuable to Musk as a tool to facilitate other goals. Any social media property/corporation is only valuable as long as bazillion target users are engaged, giving up their privacy, and reading ads or content that the owner wants to influence them with. And users are free to trivially disengage or leave, as they have on other social media in the past. Nothing else matters. Of course U.S. government TLAs may value a social media property which has bazillion users spilling every moment of their lives and being geo-tracked. Who's to say an agency doesn't have a hand in the current twitter situation? To unsubscribe send a blank message to linux+unsubscr...@linux-ottawa.org To get help send a blank message to linux+h...@linux-ottawa.org To visit the archives: https://lists.linux-ottawa.org
Re: [linux] Follow up on last night's Twitter / Mastodon talk
On Fri, 4 Nov 2022, Richard Guy Briggs wrote: On 2022-11-04 13:50, James wrote: Nov. 4, 2022 10:25:49 Richard Guy Briggs : How does paying for the account prove any trustworthiness? It is only to make money. That was my assumption, because I don't see the connection between the two. But it could also be used as a weeder, hedging that it will result in a certain distribution of payers and those who care about the status of that checkmark. or being more trustworthy. Right now a Twitter verified account (blue Verified badge) has very specific requirements to obtain which are specific to the class of account: https://help.twitter.com/en/managing-your-account/about-twitter-verified-accounts A monthly payment requirement may get rid of many trolls and bots, which are certainly a problem on almost every social media. I do not see how Mastodon is better than this at all. Does it have any web of trust like PGP/GPG signed keys? Won't Mastodon be overrun by Big Domain Name owners who already have name recognition of the domain part of the account handle? e.g. microsoft.com? What is stopping *anyone* from setting up a "Linux Ottawa" or "OCLUG" domain on Mastodon and abusing it? (the only effective remedy that I am aware of for domain squatting is trademark law and protection). To unsubscribe send a blank message to linux+unsubscr...@linux-ottawa.org To get help send a blank message to linux+h...@linux-ottawa.org To visit the archives: https://lists.linux-ottawa.org
Re: [linux] Meeting Thursday night (edited to be factually correct)
On Wed, 2 Nov 2022, Richard Guy Briggs wrote: The dynamics are different in person, and I am seeking that type of interaction because we haven't had that for 2.5 years. They certainly are when a meeting is held in a location like a bar where concerned and vulnerable participants will be needlessly exposed to people taking their masks off to drink and eat (if they even care about their fellow participants and wear masks at all). In a bar participants will unnecessarily surrounded by other unknown people unrelated to OCLUG who may have been hostile to public health measures to prevent catching and spreading COVID. Is this a OCLUG meeting or a Beer SIG? "In person" is not the same as maskless. People can have perfectly valuable and enjoyable social interactions while still respectfully wearing masks, as has been established the past two years. But not in a bar this week. Such a choice, especially without concern and action to involve virtual participants who may be the most isolated, is exclusionary at the least, IMO. --- Ottawa has its most COVID-19 hospitalizations in 9 months https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/ottawa/covid19-ottawa-current-cases-status-november-2022-1.6636608 To unsubscribe send a blank message to linux+unsubscr...@linux-ottawa.org To get help send a blank message to linux+h...@linux-ottawa.org To visit the archives: https://lists.linux-ottawa.org
Re: [linux] Using model-router as router (fwd)
On Tue, 23 Nov 2021, J C Nash wrote: Any suggestions from the LO community? I prefer to have equipment used rather than sitting on the shelf, but it could be the cost of a new router (< $100 for wifi and 4 ports) is a whole lot less trouble. Hi John, Could you use an inexpensive 5 or 8 port gigabit ethernet switch with your existing wifi router? But first, does your current wifi router have security-patched software or is it very old? 2.4 GHz wifi, not surprisingly, is becoming increasingly congested depending on your nearby neighbours. You may want to consider actual wifi performance (i.e. read reviews) and also additional wireless support for 5 GHz if you devices can use that. Mind you, 6G penetration through walls and floors sucks. The SmartRGs are generally considered to have substandard wifi performance This may not matter depending on what you do with your mobile devices, but if you stream video to tvs, phones and tablets a better wifi router might lead to a better experience. Of course Real Men & Women® already have their homes wired with 10 Gb ethernet to everything :-) If you are using SmartRG as a DSL modem/router instead of a bridge, you may be susceptible to your internet provider or a cracker getting at more data than you would like them to, using TR-069 and possible bugs: (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/TR-069#Security) I use my DSL SmartRG only as a bridged modem to my Linux pppoe interface / router / firewall which I trust because I can know and determine what traffic it is passing. I cannot use the SmartRG wifi in bridged mode. I use Advanced Tomato firmware on my older Linksys wifi router which has a lot of nice features, which I ironically mostly don't use because I really only use it as a wireless access point. If you buy another wifi router I encourage you to look at what F/LOSS firmware is supported before you buy. Here are some pointers: I think they all have lists of supported devices:: https://www.networkstraining.com/best-open-source-router-os/ cheers, Brett
[linux] Update on this Linux-Ottawa email list and OCLUG activities
I want to update OCLUG members about the upcoming upgrade of this email list. OCLUG is moving our website, email, and list servers to a new Debian 11 VPS in the OVH (Montreal) datacentre starting this week! We're taking advantage of the Black Friday sale to save OCLUG money on hosting costs. We've set a deadline of December 31 for completing this upgrade and move. Of course, OCLUG volunteers doing the work will be happy to finish their work earlier if possible. As part of this move we're upgrading the current email list software -which does not work with modern email standards- to the latest version of Mailman 3 which does. We are also unifying our domain name registration and hosting at OVH. Most of the work on the new Mailman 3 list migration has already been done. There will be some adjustments necessary in the new server and DNS configuration, as we establish our new home. (For the next short while, if you want to send a message to this list but are unsure that it will get delivered properly, you are welcome to email me directly. I would be glad to repost it on your behalf.) As part of the migration we will be restoring the most significant part of OCLUG's history: a record of member participation, just in time for our 25th anniversary on March 2022! Watch for the upcoming announcement of this list's recovered archives documenting Ottawa's Linux enthusiasts' history. Because of the major release upgrade of Debian and its software packages, we're taking the opportunity to clean up the old system and start fresh. We'll carefully and manually migrate each of the software packages we use now. We're happy to be at this stage of progress after some frustrating and unexpected delays for everyone. *Thank you* for your patience and participation as a Linux-Ottawa member. Speaking of participation - our fearless leader, Scott Murphy, is sending you a message about OCLUG's annual "Scripting Night" next Thursday. It sounds like a lot of interesting fun, based on what people have already been cooking up! Watch for Scott's message here on how to register _your_ entry. No script is too small; no scripting language is too weird :-) Your participation will be most welcomed. best, Brett Delmage for the OCLUG board of directors To unsubscribe send a blank message to linux+unsubscr...@linux-ottawa.org To get help send a blank message to linux+h...@linux-ottawa.org To visit the archives: https://lists.linux-ottawa.org
Re: [linux] September 2021 Meeting - 2021-09-02 @ 19:00
On Thu, 2 Sep 2021, Jean-Francois Messier wrote: I connected on the link, and it says that the next meeting is on 2021-06-03. This will be tomorrow, Friday. What about tonight ? Or am I too early ? Just too early. Standby! Brett To unsubscribe send a blank message to linux+unsubscr...@linux-ottawa.org To get help send a blank message to linux+h...@linux-ottawa.org To visit the archives: https://lists.linux-ottawa.org
Re: [linux] Veritasium video on the frequency of bit flips
On Thu, 2 Sep 2021, Ian! D. Allen wrote: At 17m53s: "On one five-day [Space Shuttle Mission] there were 161 separate bit flips." Okay, maybe we *do* need ECC RAM. Does anyone on this list run ZFS without ECC? I always understood it was a risky filesystem choice without ECC. I really do not want to have extensive filesystem corruption because of a bit flip, so have not used it. To unsubscribe send a blank message to linux+unsubscr...@linux-ottawa.org To get help send a blank message to linux+h...@linux-ottawa.org To visit the archives: https://lists.linux-ottawa.org
[linux] Restoring this list's history: Do you have OCLUG list messages saved?
As part of an upgrade of the OCLUG list software underway, I am trying to recover and restore the complete list archives to restore our recorded history. This list has been operating for 23 years, based on the old messages I have. At first glance I have ~60K OCLUG list messages saved, starting March 1998. It looked like the list was already underway then and I am missing some even earlier messages though. Do you have a compilation of list messages, including any older than 1998? I would like to build archives from several sources to minimize a risk of gaps in any one source, including mine. If you have old list messages please email me and let me know in general what you have. I will merge multiply-sourced messages I receive into one unduplicated archive. I'll also strip out mail headers, to the bare minimum needed for the archives (e.g. Date, Subject). So don't worry about your delivery address or internal mail routing in your headers. I'll need to clean up my own mail headers so will clean all messages, once compiled and deduped. Here are a few of the earliest list messages I found in my files so far: 1 1998-03-10 TheBorg (2K) [oclug] MetroX - Video Cards 2 1998-03-10 Dave Neil(8K) [oclug] Ralph Nader Letter 3 1998-03-10 Russell McOrmond (3K) Re: [oclug] offtopic: Pretty interesting patents 4 1998-03-10 Russell McOrmond (3K) Re: [oclug] offtopic: Pretty interesting patents 5 1998-03-10 Dale Tiller (4K) Re: [oclug] offtopic: Not Linux 6 1998-03-10 Paul J.Y. Lahaie (3K) Re: [oclug] offtopic: Pretty interesting patents 7 1998-03-10 Paul J.Y. Lahaie (3K) Re: [oclug] offtopic: Pretty interesting patents 8 1998-03-10 Russell McOrmond (2K) Re: [oclug] Other Linux consultants? 9 1998-03-10 Douglas King (3K) Re: [oclug] MetroX - Video Cards 10 1998-03-11 Patrick Cameau (2K) Re: [oclug] ML/PPP 11 1998-03-11 Chris H (3K) Re: [oclug] Power Macintosh 4400/200 PC Compatible 12 1998-03-11 Gilles J. Seguin (4K) Re: [oclug] -lc not found 13 1998-03-11 Patrick Hertel (2K) [oclug] Linux on SCSI Disk 14 1998-03-11 Chris H (3K) Re: [oclug] Linux on SCSI Disk 15 1998-03-11 Guy Charron (3K) [oclug] problem removing dos partition 16 1998-03-11 Chris Herrnberger(3K) Re: [oclug] problem removing dos partition 17 1998-03-11 Yirk-Man Hui (4K) Re: [oclug] problem removing dos partition 18 1998-03-11 Linux Doctor (3K) Re: [oclug] Linux on SCSI Disk 19 1998-03-11 Paul Gilbert (3K) Re: [oclug] problem removing dos partition 20 1998-03-11 G.J.W. Hagenaars (3K) Re: [oclug] problem removing dos partition 21 1998-03-11 Jason C. Chen(2K) [oclug] playing WAV or MP3 files 22 1998-03-11 Martin Hicks (2K) [oclug] RC5-64 23 1998-03-11 Alain Maisonneuve(7K) RE: [oclug] RC5-64 24 1998-03-11 Jason C. Chen(3K) [oclug] Re: playing WAV or MP3 files 25 1998-03-11 Adrian Quick (2K) RE: [oclug] RC5-64 26 1998-03-11 James McOrmond (2K) Re: [oclug] Linux on SCSI Disk 27 1998-03-11 Martin Hicks (2K) RE: [oclug] RC5-64 28 1998-03-11 Alan Nisbet (2K) [oclug] Looking for a scanner driver and/or setting up wine 29 1998-03-11 Guy Charron (2K) Re: [oclug] problem removing dos partition 30 1998-03-11 Jason C. Chen(2K) Re: [oclug] Looking for a scanner driver and/or setting up wine 31 1998-03-12 Chris Herrnberger(2K) [oclug] Tape Drive Support/Linux 32 1998-03-12 Trevor Boicey(2K) Re: [oclug] playing WAV or MP3 files 33 1998-03-12 Christopher Neufeld (3K) Re: [oclug] Tape Drive Support/Linux 34 1998-03-12 Linux Doctor (3K) Re: [oclug] RC5-64 35 1998-03-12 jamal(2K) Re: [oclug] RC5-64 36 1998-03-12 Jason Chen (3K) Re: [oclug] (before playing WAV/MP3; now PnP in Linux) 37 1998-03-12 Linux Doctor (3K) Re: [oclug] RC5-64 38 1998-03-12 Andrew J.
Re: Desktop settings (was Re: [linux] CentOS alternatives: Devuan)
On Thu, 15 Jul 2021, Dianne Skoll wrote: On Thu, 15 Jul 2021 11:54:22 -0400 Richard Guy Briggs wrote: The two things I must have are "focus follows mouse" Preach! Click-to-focus is an abomination! I do use a window manager. But 99% of the time I want my window full-screen (with or without a title bar) because that's what I am focussing on and I want to see as much as possible of it. Alt-tab to change focus works for me. Or shift-tab to change terminal screens. What's a "mouse"? :-) To unsubscribe send a blank message to linux+unsubscr...@linux-ottawa.org To get help send a blank message to linux+h...@linux-ottawa.org To visit the archives: https://lists.linux-ottawa.org
[linux] Please avoid personal attacks on this list
One list member very recently slagged on a Big Name in Linux on this list. Then another list member piled on. Could we avoid personally attacking others on this list please? None of the list members will be able to confirm the validity of your very personal claims. Personal attacks add nothing to the technical discussions, which as far as I have seen, everyone else here is keen to discuss and learn from. Let's keep dicussions to the technical and policy please, and avoid personal disagreements with others which have next-to-no relevance to choice of distro. Thank you. Brett To unsubscribe send a blank message to linux+unsubscr...@linux-ottawa.org To get help send a blank message to linux+h...@linux-ottawa.org To visit the archives: https://lists.linux-ottawa.org
Re: [linux] This mailing list breaks DKIM
On Wed, 14 Jul 2021, Dianne Skoll wrote: It has been brought to my attention that all my mail to the OCLUG list is being spam-binned by Google. The reason is that I use DKIM on all my outgoing mail, and the OCLUG mailing list software breaks DKIM. I believe I've brought this up before. Scott, can you please fix it? Hi Dianne, I understand, as I have the same problem. You should see all the individual DMARC failure reports I get every time I mail to the ISC BIND list with my DKIM-signed messages! I have talked with Scott about this last month. We were also having issues on the board email list. I looked into it and the current email list SW, ezmlm cannot handle DKIM properly. Did I tell you I am not a fan of anything with "easy" or "EZ" in the name? "Easy to use" is easy to say. We are going to have to change list SW to fix this. Mailman is significantly more complicated to configure but handles DKIM, and also ARC, which Google does use. They were involved with the development of ARC. https://docs.mailman3.org/projects/mailman/en/latest/src/mailman/handlers/docs/arc_sign.html We have been really personally busy the past while, Scott especially so. Fixing this very real problem is on my "do soon" list within the next week though. It needs some time to properly configure and test, NOT on this list obviously. It is a problem, so thanks again for raising this. I hope maybe you can use an alternate email address in the short term until I can get to this? cheers, Brett The issue is well-described at https://doc.coker.com.au/internet/dkim-and-mailing-lists/ Regards, Dianne. To unsubscribe send a blank message to linux+unsubscr...@linux-ottawa.org To get help send a blank message to linux+h...@linux-ottawa.org To visit the archives: https://lists.linux-ottawa.org To unsubscribe send a blank message to linux+unsubscr...@linux-ottawa.org To get help send a blank message to linux+h...@linux-ottawa.org To visit the archives: https://lists.linux-ottawa.org
Re: [linux] email server refuses spam
On Wed, 23 Jun 2021, James wrote: I pay for email hosting and I recently found out it has been refusing mail it thinks is spam. I opened a ticket with the provider. Is it normal that mail can be refused? Yes. To permit them some slack here, larger Mail Service Providers get a TON of spam, and have to defend against it eating up disk space and CPU before delivering it to users who don't even want it. So they may reject or discard what they think is spam as early as possible. Is there a way for you to whitelist specific sender addresses or domains? I'd much rather all mail is accepted but they can mark it as spam if they want. This is an advantage of running your own email server. You can fully determine your policy. You can choose to accept all incoming messages, have Spamassassin tag them with a spam level, and filter or discard based on the level or specifics. If you receive too much spam of a certain type, you may choose to reject it completely, rather than accepting it and wasting CPU and storage before it is deleted. It was extra funny because the email address I use with them is gmail (in case my domain expires) and I set my gmail to forward all mail to my domain and the email confirming I opened a ticket was refused as spam by my domain. :-) Not good. How do you know that it was refused as spam? I have personally received some spam from a gmail account this year, and notified ab...@gmail.com about it. I have no idea if that is a waste of time. I expect that some spammers steal credentials of a legit user, or manage to set up their own account and then burn through it as fast as they can before they are banned. I will be talking about email, Linux email servers, and spam filtering at the next OCLUG / Linux-Ottawa meeting on Thursday July 8 at 7 p.m: My mail, my way: Successfully setting up and operating your own Linux email server Brett Delmage has operated an email server in his basement for 30 years. Discover the benefits of running your own Linux mail server in your home or in a data centre. Set up your own server while learning how email, and spam filtering, works behind the scenes. cheers Brett To unsubscribe send a blank message to linux+unsubscr...@linux-ottawa.org To get help send a blank message to linux+h...@linux-ottawa.org To visit the archives: https://lists.linux-ottawa.org
Re: [linux] Discussion item: choosing an appropriate laptop
On Mon, 14 Jun 2021, J C Nash wrote: With possible opening up of travel and having laptops that are vintage 2014 and 2015, we're thinking of a new one for road trips. Does anyone have opinions on these? Have not had a hands-on look, which will be important to making sure keyboard not "strange". Also to try to gauge whether hinge and rest of physical structure robust enough. However, they seem to offer reasonable bang for the buck. We're not stuck on HP, or Asus, or ... Mainly interested in reliable and long-term workhorse that we are comfortable using. John, You might want to check out the archives and ask on https://www.reddit.com/r/linux There was a recent discussion there which might be partly useful. https://www.reddit.com/r/linuxhardware/comments/nwred6/looking_for_a_laptop/ Some of the characteristics you are interested in are not Linux-specific, so you might also want to seek observations and opinions in more general computing forums. Brett To unsubscribe send a blank message to linux+unsubscr...@linux-ottawa.org To get help send a blank message to linux+h...@linux-ottawa.org To visit the archives: https://lists.linux-ottawa.org
Re: [linux] reMarkable 2 paper tablet
On Sat, 5 Jun 2021, Rob Echlin wrote: Google found what looks like their GitHub. https://github.com/reHackable/awesome-reMarkable A lot of light added here. Thanks for sharing! Rob Brett To unsubscribe send a blank message to linux+unsubscr...@linux-ottawa.org To get help send a blank message to linux+h...@linux-ottawa.org To visit the archives: https://lists.linux-ottawa.org
Re: [linux] Problems hearing speakers during tonight's jitsi meeting
On Fri, 2 Apr 2021, Richard Guy Briggs wrote: When the first lockdown descended upon us, I had the other three members of the house start using wired ethernet ... so that potentially 4 people doing videoconferences at the same time would not result in endless complaints to the local IT department (me). :-) How's your thinnet holding up under your loads? I wired the computers in the house for 10base2 25? years ago, from basement to attic. Of course it's been upgraded to gigbit CAT6 since then. Reliability and, importantly, also security is a big reason I prefer wired networks where possible. Now if I could only get a phone with an ethernet jack. Sometimes my phone's network operation goes strange, making me wonder if someone isn't trying one of the wifi network attacks on me. Maybe I shouldn't name my wifi SSID "RCMP surveillance van" or "CSEC Mobile 22A, etc.? To unsubscribe send a blank message to linux+unsubscr...@linux-ottawa.org To get help send a blank message to linux+h...@linux-ottawa.org To visit the archives: https://lists.linux-ottawa.org
Re: [linux] Problems hearing speakers during tonight's jitsi meeting
Brenda J. Butler wrote: I usually have to mess around with the settings, and plugin and unplug a headset, to get it to work. Before tonight that dance usually worked - camera, mic and speakers. Tonight - nope. Interesting coincidence. My friend who was also on the call, phoned me and put his phone on speakerphone so I could listen that way. Thanks Wil! So ingenious. True dedication by both of you! I suppose I could have spoken into the phone and you could have heard me but I was afraid of the potential for feedback. The text chat worked ok for that. I personally saw your comments easily throughout the meeting. Someone suggested another computer - that was my best computer for video chatting. My other computer doesn't have a camera at all, nor mic. I have separate camera and mic - haven't used them in a while, not entirely sure where they are just now. When I could not get sound on the Mac I tried my iphone and could not log in at all for some reason. So I missed hearing the whole AGM. The annoying thing was that I logged in well before 19h to be ready in time.. Clearly I am absolutely going to have to get a camera and mic working on my Linux computers, which I spend 99% of my time on, except for video conferencing. Thanks to the powers that be (the board) for the AGM and the talks. Yes indeed! Thanks to the board for another year of organizing and fussbudgetry and to John for another presentation that clearly stimulated discussion. Brett To unsubscribe send a blank message to linux+unsubscr...@linux-ottawa.org To get help send a blank message to linux+h...@linux-ottawa.org To visit the archives: https://lists.linux-ottawa.org
Re: [linux] Problems hearing speakers during tonight's jitsi meeting
On Fri, 2 Apr 2021, James Lockie wrote: There are supposed to be sounds when people join/leave? Apparently. (whoops and whoshes) I had some crackling but I figured Firefox was fighting with NoMachine. I heard crackling too. For a long time I thought someone's mic was accidently on [while they ate potato chips? :) ]
[linux] Problems hearing speakers during tonight's jitsi meeting
I think there was some chat comments that others were having problems hearing speakers in tonight's Jitsi AGM meeting? The only sounds I heard during the AGM part was the sound effects for people checking in and departing. There was no speaker audio. For a while I thought that everyone joining was muted and the meeting had simply not started. Anyway, I finally got audio running very shortly after John started his presentation. I abandoned Firefox and switched to Safari (on a Mac - which is the only computer here at the moment with a camera and mic. I'll have to look into this more. I thought I'd mention it in case the same happened to anyone else. Brett To unsubscribe send a blank message to linux+unsubscr...@linux-ottawa.org To get help send a blank message to linux+h...@linux-ottawa.org To visit the archives: https://lists.linux-ottawa.org
[linux] Please join the AGM about to start! Here is the URL and password
https://six.linux-ottawa.org/LinuxOttawa20210401 At least 5 or 6 more members are required to form a meeting quorum so the AGM can happen. You can make a difference. Brett To unsubscribe send a blank message to linux+unsubscr...@linux-ottawa.org To get help send a blank message to linux+h...@linux-ottawa.org To visit the archives: https://lists.linux-ottawa.org
[linux] AGM status? Jitsi meeting server host six.linux-ottawa.org does not resolve
It's going to be difficult to host an AGM in less than 25 minutes when the server URL does not even resolve... host six.linux-ottawa.org Host six.linux-ottawa.org not found: 3(NXDOMAIN) dig six.linux-ottawa.org ; <<>> DiG 9.16.13-Ubuntu <<>> six.linux-ottawa.org ;; global options: +cmd ;; Got answer: ;; ->>HEADER<<- opcode: QUERY, status: NXDOMAIN, id: 53738 ;; flags: qr rd ra; QUERY: 1, ANSWER: 0, AUTHORITY: 0, ADDITIONAL: 1 ;; OPT PSEUDOSECTION: ; EDNS: version: 0, flags:; udp: 4096 ;; QUESTION SECTION: ;six.linux-ottawa.org. IN A ;; Query time: 0 msec ;; SERVER: 127.0.0.1#53(127.0.0.1) ;; WHEN: Thu Apr 01 17:57:47 EDT 2021 ;; MSG SIZE rcvd: 49 L...let alone everyone trying to figure out the blasted password again, which IMHO should have simply been posted to the list. I spent 5 minutes trying to find the pattern in the archives only to subsequently discover that the server has no DNS A record active... Do I blame this on Trump, or the Russians? :-) At this point I am (finally - after being a member since about the beginning if not the beginning) declaring my candidacy for the board. I will work to help fix reliability issues like this, increase membership, and make it easier for people to access the online meeting each month. Brett To unsubscribe send a blank message to linux+unsubscr...@linux-ottawa.org To get help send a blank message to linux+h...@linux-ottawa.org To visit the archives: https://lists.linux-ottawa.org
Re: [linux] Ottawa lack of IXP peering
On Sat, 13 Feb 2021, Ian! D. Allen wrote: "Known issues with Internet routing: Some of the issues we are aware of with ISPs failing to keep local traffic local: Ottawa, Canada; Rogers, TekSavvy, CanNet, Acanac, Start, and Virgin route all traffic via Toronto (or worse). If you or any people in your ensemble are using one of these ISPs it’s probably best to use a Toronto server. Bell will route directly to our Ottawa servers with 2 – 5ms roundtrip network latency. It seems Videotron is also good." According to who? You are missing the attribution of this quote. We cannot determine if the source of this info is trustworthy. Attributing your source is legally required.
Re: [linux] anyone using a privacy-protecting cell phone
On Wed, 27 Jan 2021, FZ wrote: Also, Ha ha, what a surprise... I might also be persuaded to set this up for you as a service. Franz. Agreed with much of what you said, and that is a good book. Perhaps this could be one or more interesting meeting presentations (alternate phone ROMS, and running your own services) ? For 10 years I've published an online news publication: a revenue-generating business and leading in revenue for its class. I specifically used Linux-based, open source tools for most of our editorial creation and development, online publishing, subscriber and donor communication and records. Also, I specifically only used Canadian internet services/hosting. I'd be willing to talk about that. It's not a full meeting worth of presentation but might fit nicely into part of a theme of Linux-based privacy from different perspectives. Brett p.s. I have not commented on it yet, but this mailing list is misconfigured and so unnecessarily breaks DKIM signatures. That would lead to properly signed messages being more likely to be tagged as spam, as was recently noted. If the OLS mail list operator wants to contact me I could possibly provide some advice on this. To unsubscribe send a blank message to linux+unsubscr...@linux-ottawa.org To get help send a blank message to linux+h...@linux-ottawa.org To visit the archives: https://lists.linux-ottawa.org
Re: [linux] anyone using a privacy-protecting cell phone
On Fri, 22 Jan 2021, Ian! D. Allen wrote: Anyone out there in Linux-land with experience they are willing to share using a cell phone with good privacy that doesn't track you? Cell phone? Privacy? Doesn't track you? Ha, thanks for the laugh on a Friday! Actually, that's not entirely true. An Apple cell phone might be a bit private if you don't install most apps, don't enable the GPS receiver, also disable app location access, and don't install a SIM card to access the cell phone network unless you want to be subjected to police and MIB's stingrays and court-approved production orders. Then run wifi (only) over your own private VPN, and block Apple server connections on that. If you want to use the cell phone for voice calls, install something like Groundwire (VOIP softphone) and send your comms to the telephone networks -- however private that is. not. This is what I do. For those using Apple phones, I highly recommend running Firefox with tracking protection at the highest level. Mozilla Focus is a great adjunct, which also seems to block the Ottawa Citizen and other sites' RTSP video. (I am always pleased when I pull up a Youtube video on my phone and YT recommends kids shows and pop culture crap.) I'm not an Apple fan in partcular but it was a significantly better privacy starting point than Android, which is built from the bottom up to spy on users. Some day I'll get a cheap rootable android phone and install something more secure on that too. Of course all this is still not private. Or get a pinephone then log into Facebook all the time and use Google for your search engine and Google maps for route planning. For good measure, register your Presto card with your name and financial info. Or save the hassle and just get a modern motor vehicle with extensive tracking and reporting built in! As a lifelong cyclist I never imagined the day where riding a bike would be one the most untrackable ways to travel besides walking. Be sure to use your rewards card and pay with your debit or credit card too. To keep this really Linux-focussed, for those of you who don't know yet Ubuntu was booted to the full gnome desktop on an iPhone 7 about 10 days ago, although it is not fully functional yet (early days). https://www.reddit.com/r/linux/comments/kvmsfd/success_iphone_7_booting_ubuntu_2004_to_full/ But then: "broadband processor". https://www.extremetech.com/computing/170874-the-secret-second-operating-system-that-could-make-every-mobile-phone-insecure Anyway, why would your friend not want to be "tracked" given all the benefits that a customized and highly networked experience brings. Do they have something to hide? To unsubscribe send a blank message to linux+unsubscr...@linux-ottawa.org To get help send a blank message to linux+h...@linux-ottawa.org To visit the archives: https://lists.linux-ottawa.org
Re: [linux] anywhere in town to get solar chargers with USB ports
On Sun, 15 Nov 2020, Richard Guy Briggs wrote: On 2020-11-13 08:23, Alan McKay wrote: I'd look at one of the places like total battery. Get an Anker if you can ... Something like this https://www.amazon.ca/dp/B075FR89CX Looking ahead a number of years to retirement, I'm looking at doing a 7000km bicycle trip through south Asia (Bangladesh/Tibet/Nepal/India) and I'm going to need to solve this problem. RTGs are the way to go! If it leaks and you're mobile, you can just abandon it. "However, this event is not considered likely with current RTG cask designs" https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Radioisotope_thermoelectric_generator#Safety To unsubscribe send a blank message to linux+unsubscr...@linux-ottawa.org To get help send a blank message to linux+h...@linux-ottawa.org To visit the archives: https://lists.linux-ottawa.org
Re: [linux] anywhere in town to get solar chargers with USB ports
On Fri, 13 Nov 2020, Richard Guy Briggs wrote: You might try Alexander/Dixon at 145 Spruce Are they open again at that location? They vacated there about 2? years ago :-( To unsubscribe send a blank message to linux+unsubscr...@linux-ottawa.org To get help send a blank message to linux+h...@linux-ottawa.org To visit the archives: https://lists.linux-ottawa.org
Re: [linux] rsync snapshot backup
On Thu, 1 Oct 2020, CL Junk wrote: It now appears that the backups are no longer sharing hard links, making them use much more space. I have now filled 4TBs with backups in weeks, when it would typically take a year to fill 1TB prior to my upgrades. I don't have an answer to your primary question right away - without RTFMing, your options look familiarly correct. But before I forget, I wanted to mention the utility "hardlink". You can use it to search for and relink your identical files to reclaim your space. Be aware that it took a lng time to run (like overnight or a day for a large set of files), at least when I used it over a year ago. But it has worked for me to solve the same problem.. You might also want to check out rsnapshot, a script which does hard linked, versioned backups. Brett To unsubscribe send a blank message to linux+unsubscr...@linux-ottawa.org To get help send a blank message to linux+h...@linux-ottawa.org To visit the archives: https://lists.linux-ottawa.org
Re: [linux] ipset-blacklist: A bash script to ban large numbers of IP addresses published in blacklists
On Wed, 10 Jun 2020, Ian! D. Allen wrote: Something I didn't see: Things in the script suggest the programmer hasn't had a lot of experience writing scripts, e.g. using: Also the script doesn't check the error codes of commands, has unnecessary use of "command" in "command grep" everywhere, and doesn't use "sed -n" or other things efficiently, among other things. But it's a good start. You're an expert in scripts! As this is open source github project, might you put some of these thoughts into code and contribute a patch or two? Or fork the project if PRs aren't accepted? Or maybe do a monthly linux-ottawa talk and share some of your ideas and experience on shell scripting! I've seen some of your excellent scripts before. Do you have a repository anywhere where we could learn from them ? I'd be there! Thanks for your insights. cheers Brett To unsubscribe send a blank message to linux+unsubscr...@linux-ottawa.org To get help send a blank message to linux+h...@linux-ottawa.org To visit the archives: https://lists.linux-ottawa.org
[linux] ipset-blacklist: A bash script to ban large numbers of IP addresses published in blacklists
At last week's online meeting I mentioned that I have been using a tool to block large numbers of undesired network accesses to my servers. ipset-blacklist is "A Bash shell script which uses ipset and iptables to ban a large number of IP addresses published in IP blacklists. ipset uses a hashtable to store/fetch IP addresses and thus the IP lookup is a lot (!) faster than thousands of sequentially parsed iptables ban rules." Clear instructions and download at https://github.com/trick77/ipset-blacklist I use this to block access from several countries I have no desired interactions with and from which the vast majority of logged access attempts originated. This is trivial to do by just adding the desired country code e.g. .cn into a shell variable. There are other blacklists maintained by third parties which can be easily loaded too. I currently have 16921 ipset blocking rules loaded, all by just selecting desired rulesets. I have been using ipset-blacklist for at least two years on multiple servers (in datacentres and on my home DSL connection) without issue. 100K or more attempted accesses on my DSL connection are blocked weekly. I just rebooted after a kernel update and 320 acceses were blocked just as I wrote this. Brett To unsubscribe send a blank message to linux+unsubscr...@linux-ottawa.org To get help send a blank message to linux+h...@linux-ottawa.org To visit the archives: https://lists.linux-ottawa.org
Re: [linux] Reminder: May 2020 AGM & meeting - The Open Source Edition. 2020-05-07 @ 19:00
On Tue, 12 May 2020, Scott Murphy wrote: I can. I was going to go over the whole thing as a talk for the next meeting. Wonderful! I'm looking forward to that. Good luck with your prep. Brett To unsubscribe send a blank message to linux+unsubscr...@linux-ottawa.org To get help send a blank message to linux+h...@linux-ottawa.org To visit the archives: https://lists.linux-ottawa.org
Re: [linux] Reminder: May 2020 AGM & meeting - The Open Source Edition. 2020-05-07 @ 19:00
On Wed, 6 May 2020, Scott Murphy wrote: After the AGM, we will have a “normal” meeting. Given the uncertain state of future meetings, I am thinking that we will end up on an open source platform for meetings for quite some time yet. We are going to use jitsi this month for the talk portion. Scott, Thanks for organizing that. You mentioned the technical details of your server operation at the end of the meeting. Could you repeat those technical details again here please? It would be a helpful starting point for those of us who are contemplating using Jitsi for other meetings. Thanks! (For those of you who did not participate, the video presentation and discussion following it went quite well, to me anyway.) Brett
Re: [linux] Linux Webcam Recommendations
On Thu, 30 Apr 2020, Dianne Skoll wrote: Try to get a camera that supports UVC 1.1, because AFAIK UVC 1.5 support is not quite there yet in the Linux kernel. I thought the 5.5 kernel had *everything* including the kitchen sink, from all the enthusiastic babble I saw this past month :-) To unsubscribe send a blank message to linux+unsubscr...@linux-ottawa.org To get help send a blank message to linux+h...@linux-ottawa.org To visit the archives: https://lists.linux-ottawa.org
Re: [linux] Re: Linux Webcam Recommendations
On Thu, 30 Apr 2020, Brett Delmage wrote: On Thu, 30 Apr 2020, Brett Delmage wrote: On Thu, 30 Apr 2020, Rick Cuthill wrote: Seem my search is moot anyway because webcams are sold out everywhere Buyapi.ca just sent out an email today about the new rPi cameras. I purchased the old camera with a pi from them a few years ago. Correct link!: https://petapixel.com/2020/04/30/raspberry-pi-unveils-12-3mp-camera-module-with-interchangeable-lenses/ and https://www.buyapi.ca/product/raspberry-pi-hq-camera/ other (older) cameras: https://www.buyapi.ca/search.php?search_query=camera=product To unsubscribe send a blank message to linux+unsubscr...@linux-ottawa.org To get help send a blank message to linux+h...@linux-ottawa.org To visit the archives: https://lists.linux-ottawa.org
Re: [linux] Linux Webcam Recommendations
On Thu, 30 Apr 2020, J C Nash wrote: Big Blue Button -- seems to be Blindside Networks on Albert St. Thanks. Interesting! Open source, Linux, local. Big Blue Button hits all the right buttons. Am I the only one who is very disturbed at our (local) Canadian government bodies using Zoom and US corporate webcasting, or requiring people to use FB to engage with their content? WTF is the matter with this country? Brett To unsubscribe send a blank message to linux+unsubscr...@linux-ottawa.org To get help send a blank message to linux+h...@linux-ottawa.org To visit the archives: https://lists.linux-ottawa.org
Re: [linux] Re: Linux Webcam Recommendations
On Thu, 30 Apr 2020, Brett Delmage wrote: On Thu, 30 Apr 2020, Rick Cuthill wrote: Seem my search is moot anyway because webcams are sold out everywhere Buyapi.ca just sent out an email today about the new rPi cameras. I purchased the old camera with a pi from them a few years ago. https://nsadvocate.org/2020/04/28/not-helping-canadian-journalism/ Might this be an option? To unsubscribe send a blank message to linux+unsubscr...@linux-ottawa.org To get help send a blank message to linux+h...@linux-ottawa.org To visit the archives: https://lists.linux-ottawa.org
Re: [linux] Re: Linux Webcam Recommendations
On Thu, 30 Apr 2020, Rick Cuthill wrote: Seem my search is moot anyway because webcams are sold out everywhere I just saw some pages yesterday about various Canon and other DSLRs being able to be used as webcams, including on Linux. Sorry, I don't have the links on this computer but the search was easy. To unsubscribe send a blank message to linux+unsubscr...@linux-ottawa.org To get help send a blank message to linux+h...@linux-ottawa.org To visit the archives: https://lists.linux-ottawa.org
Re: [linux] Linux Webcam Recommendations
On Thu, 30 Apr 2020, Richard Guy Briggs wrote: and there are lots of other better options out there starting with Jitsi. and are any of them Canadian and therefore supporting Canadian employment? Is Kitsi? To unsubscribe send a blank message to linux+unsubscr...@linux-ottawa.org To get help send a blank message to linux+h...@linux-ottawa.org To visit the archives: https://lists.linux-ottawa.org
Re: [linux] how to limit HID qr scanners
On Mon, 13 Apr 2020, Peter Sjöberg wrote: I have a security issue, we have some QR scanners that can scan lots of different 2D/3D codes. They connect on usb and show up as any ordinary HID device. This means it's basically a keyboard connected I don't know your the system configuration but you can have one more than HID device; they could be opened by different programs. I have a foot pedal I wanted to use for transcription which sends simple "1 2 3" text. I explored hooking it up to mplayer through a filter/translater so I could start/stop/rewind audio. Brett
Re: [linux] AGM -- NOW!
On Thu, 9 Apr 2020, Richard Guy Briggs wrote: 12 showed up. I held my nose and created an account just for this. There are 18 regularly on irc://oftc.net/#oclug which is an open technology. I'd suggest a number didn't show up due to the choice of proprietary venue. Can we please live our values and do dogfooding? I agree with this. Also, I did not have time to arrange anything. I'd be open to joining irc for an AGM. In any case, how would authentication work, to ensure an honest vote? Brett To unsubscribe send a blank message to linux+unsubscr...@linux-ottawa.org To get help send a blank message to linux+h...@linux-ottawa.org To visit the archives: https://lists.linux-ottawa.org
Re: [linux] looking for particular "tree"-like recursive directory display
On Mon, 24 Feb 2020, Dianne Skoll wrote: Filtering is the way to go, IMO. This worked for me on Debian Buster: tree -F | sed -e 's/|/ /g' -e 's/`/ /g' -e 's/ -- //g' Interestingly, does not work on Ubuntu 18.04. The tree bar elements appear to be real graphic characters. so instead: tree -F | sed -e 's/│/ /g' -e 's/`/ /g' -e 's/ ─ //g' -e 's/├//' -e 's/└//' -e 's/─//g' I do love how you can copy and paste stdout UTF8 chars into command line tools. It makes it SO much easier sometimes. As does being able to start a file name with spaces in it with ' and have tab completion nicely complete it without a ton of '\ ' Unless you have files with "|", "`" or " -- " in their names, you should be safe. Nah. What are the chances of that...? :-) (certainly less so, when tree outputs graphic chars that are even less likely to be part of a file or dir name. ya, right... Hmm, those could make a pretty confusing filename, I'll have to try that sometime :-)) Brett
Re: [linux] How are the oc-linux meetings announced, or is there a master schedule?
On Fri, 1 Nov 2019, Rick Leir wrote: The organizer of another Ottawa group is planning an alternative to Meetup. It is more than an alternative, it looks like a big improvement. See https://flawk.to/roadmap More useful background on Eric and his intentions here. https://dev.to/ericadamski/creating-more-meaningful-interactions-4j2h To unsubscribe send a blank message to linux+unsubscr...@linux-ottawa.org To get help send a blank message to linux+h...@linux-ottawa.org To visit the archives: https://lists.linux-ottawa.org
[linux] My recommendation for a .ca registrar
I had a ticket today with my domain registrar, Namespro.ca, to transfer out a domain I am getting rid of (to my city councillor whom I keep getting misdirected emails for) Namespro.ca was prompt, friendly, and businesslike about unlocking the domain and providing the EPP transfer code. Another terrible (Ottawa-based, sadly) registrar tried to hold my domains hostage years ago. As far as I can tell, Namespro.ca is one of a few registrars who supports ipv6 and DNSSEC DS records, both which I use on several domains. I thought I'd mention them in case anyone is looking for a .ca domain registrar that supports these and that is consistently responsive. (My search at CIRA showed very few, and they were more expensive.) Brett To unsubscribe send a blank message to linux+unsubscr...@linux-ottawa.org To get help send a blank message to linux+h...@linux-ottawa.org To visit the archives: https://lists.linux-ottawa.org
[linux] Looking for an unwanted Microsoft Office (seriously)
Does anyone has a copy of MS Office that they are not using and would like to get rid of (if it will even fire up on my Win 7 computer, given possible licensing lockdown?). If locked down to hardware, maybe it's on an old computer of no value you'd like to recycle? Ideally it's a reasonably recent version, but doesn't have to be the latest. I have no idea how much it's changed over the years except that I understand that it is cloud/subscription based now which I cannot justify paying anything for. I need it for a situation where I cannot use LibreOffice and may have no choice but to use it. So I though I'd ask here where people might be more likely to want to get rid of it if they have a copy :-) Thanks! Brett To unsubscribe send a blank message to linux+unsubscr...@linux-ottawa.org To get help send a blank message to linux+h...@linux-ottawa.org To visit the archives: https://lists.linux-ottawa.org
Re: [linux] July Meeting: 2019-07-04 @ 18:30
On Tue, 2 Jul 2019, Scott Murphy wrote: - Scott is going to do a talk on digitizing old(er) media. Media to be discussed will include 8mm/Super8 file, photo negatives, photos, VHS tape, slides, cassettes, and vinyl records. What, no 8 tracks? Sounds interesting. cheers Brett To unsubscribe send a blank message to linux+unsubscr...@linux-ottawa.org To get help send a blank message to linux+h...@linux-ottawa.org To visit the archives: https://lists.linux-ottawa.org
Re: Non-MS mail server (was Re: [linux] Horde!)
On Sun, 28 Apr 2019, Dianne Skoll wrote: Yes, absolutely. I ran Roaring Penguin Software from 1999 through 2018 and we never used any MS software for anything. This includes our sales and marketing staff. Interesting. Thanks for sharing. We also had quite a lot of integration software that we developed internally, How much of this was in perl? ;-) Brett To unsubscribe send a blank message to linux+unsubscr...@linux-ottawa.org To get help send a blank message to linux+h...@linux-ottawa.org To visit the archives: https://lists.linux-ottawa.org
Re: [linux] Horde!
On Sat, 27 Apr 2019, Rob Echlin wrote: Is it reasonable for a company that has sales people in it, and marketing types, all the usual staff? Good question! ...which I don't have the answer for. In music news publication, the editor and I use the text-based alpine MUA invoked from bash. It works great and it's so nice to be able to use a keyboard to manage mail. Brett To unsubscribe send a blank message to linux+unsubscr...@linux-ottawa.org To get help send a blank message to linux+h...@linux-ottawa.org To visit the archives: https://lists.linux-ottawa.org
Re: [linux] Getting correct timing for transfer to USB -- timings
On Fri, 19 Apr 2019, J C Nash wrote: gives some timings I ran yesterday to see if the $8 Blackweb 32G USB3 flash drive at Walmart this week is genuine or flakey. These days one might want to verify that the device actually stores N (unique) GB and doesn't just fake it... especially for larger drives. Brett To unsubscribe send a blank message to linux+unsubscr...@linux-ottawa.org To get help send a blank message to linux+h...@linux-ottawa.org To visit the archives: https://lists.linux-ottawa.org
Re: [linux] Getting correct timing for transfer to USB -- timings
On Fri, 19 Apr 2019, J C Nash wrote: I believe I used sync correctly to avoid timing just memory transfers. I won't claim that my effort was perfect. Script below is what I used. Will hdparm -t work on your USB drive? Brett To unsubscribe send a blank message to linux+unsubscr...@linux-ottawa.org To get help send a blank message to linux+h...@linux-ottawa.org To visit the archives: https://lists.linux-ottawa.org
Re: [linux] April Meeting: 2019-04-04 @ 18:30
On Tue, 2 Apr 2019, Scott Murphy wrote: Location: We will be in the Centennial Library, starting at 18:30. The Centennial Library is at 3870 Old Richmond Rd. in Bells Corners. Bus routes 88, 9, and 256 are listed as servicing that area. Use this link to easily plan your OC Transpo trip there from any starting point. Just enter your starting point in the "A" box and adjust your arrival time as desired (default is 18:20) http://plan.octranspo.com/plan/TravelPlans?TimeType=SpecifiedArrivalTime=2019-4-4=18%3A20==ExternalLocation=ChIJN3maySH-zUwRJdm_qXem28Y Brett To unsubscribe send a blank message to linux+unsubscr...@linux-ottawa.org To get help send a blank message to linux+h...@linux-ottawa.org To visit the archives: https://lists.linux-ottawa.org
Re: [linux] PROXIES and other AGM matters
First, thanks to the OCLUG board who served this past year, and for multiple terms.. J C Nash wrote: We've always made quorum, but it has been close sometimes. The consequences of quorum failure are costly. Hi John, I don't know the directors. Perhaps others don't either, therefore they might not care about the election and annual meeting. Could candidate statements be posted on the wiki and/or on this list? Like: Who are you? Why do you want to run for the board? Where do you see OCLUG going in the next year? What do you want to accomplish? It's unlikely that I'd fill out a proxy for people I don't know. Does the board present a report at the annual meeting? I think interest might be elevated with a slightly higher profile AGM and election process. cheers, Brett To unsubscribe send a blank message to linux+unsubscr...@linux-ottawa.org To get help send a blank message to linux+h...@linux-ottawa.org To visit the archives: https://lists.linux-ottawa.org
Re: [linux] access to mdadm raid1 "disk" from apache2?
On Wed, 20 Mar 2019, J C Nash wrote: - apache2.conf adjustment for directory, available and enabled (symlink), adding FollowSymLinks etc. Are you using the configuration syntax 'Require' vs 'Allow' for the version of apache that you are using. It changed. Lots of docs out there referencing the older system still.. To unsubscribe send a blank message to linux+unsubscr...@linux-ottawa.org To get help send a blank message to linux+h...@linux-ottawa.org To visit the archives: https://lists.linux-ottawa.org
Re: [linux] Using Thunderbird (or other email clients) with Office 365 servers
On Tue, 26 Feb 2019, J C Nash wrote: But the msg from our IT crowd above suggests no go anyway. Sucks. the Hiri client can connect OK (This is $$ and the configuration appears to be encrypted in the 7 day trial.) from https://support.hiri.com/hc/en-us/articles/115001801625-Does-Hiri-support-POP-or-IMAP-protocols- "Does Hiri support POP or IMAP protocols? Sorry, POP3 and SMTP protocols are not supported. We built Hiri for the Microsoft email ecosystem. Hiri uses Exchange Web Services (EWS) protocol to retrieve your emails." Davmail supports EWS (which I understand a java lib is available for) http://davmail.sourceforge.net/index.html Here's one for Ian!: Quick and Dirty UNIX Shell Scripting with EWS https://blogs.msdn.microsoft.com/exchangedev/2009/02/05/quick-and-dirty-unix-shell-scripting-with-ews/ and of possible interest in this article, John: "–ntlm allows me to specify that Curl should try ntlm auth (--anyauth doesn’t work) But article is from 2009, so YMMV. Run wireshark or tcpdump and see more clearly where things are breaking? Brett
Re: [linux] ok, what is the most "newbie-friendly" version of linux these days?
On Sun, 24 Feb 2019, Robert P. J. Day wrote: she's willing to at least entertain the notion of linux, Excellent! as she needs little more than surfing/email/MS office functionality. "The best distro for newbies is the one that comes with an expert to help them out." I totally agree. If "MS office functionality" is important you might consider which version of LibrOffice your choice of distro comes with. I do not know how versions vary between distro releases. In the past, however, I had to run a newer version of Ubuntu in a VM to get a version of LibreOffice which supported more columns in calc which I needed, for example. (I usually run LTS). Also, as this is for a laptop, so you might want to check that your choice of distro has good 'agile network support' if the laptop is going to be chnaging to different networks frequently. (They may all be good these days, I don't distro-hop much anymore so don't know.) If she has not been operating a browser with good ad-blocking capability you might want to install that in your choice of browser before hand-over so she gets this immediate, positive impression of 'Linux' - even though it's just the app :-) Be sure to use a distro with systemd so the laptop boots fast ;-) Brett To unsubscribe send a blank message to linux+unsubscr...@linux-ottawa.org To get help send a blank message to linux+h...@linux-ottawa.org To visit the archives: https://lists.linux-ottawa.org
Re: [linux] January Meeting: 2019-01-10 @ 18:30
On Thu, 3 Jan 2019, Rob Echlin wrote: Here is the link. https://www.zdnet.com/article/eset-discovers-21-new-linux-malware-families/ This is about malware - software that attacks your Linux system, not a flaw in the OpenSSL software. Thanks. Summary: "Unless Linux owners go out of their way to misconfigure their servers, for convenience's sake, they should be safe from most of these attacks."
Re: [linux] voip.ms SOAP access
On Wed, 2 Jan 2019, Paul Hays wrote: Voip.ms has been reasonably good for my home phones. The web app provides thorough access to features like voicemail, but the user experience is definitely not family-friendly. If you have a better solution in hand, please let me know. Having vmails delivered as emails has worked for me. Brett To unsubscribe send a blank message to linux+unsubscr...@linux-ottawa.org To get help send a blank message to linux+h...@linux-ottawa.org To visit the archives: https://lists.linux-ottawa.org
distro wars (was Re: [linux] Hardware sources redux)
I've used Slackware, Mandriva, something or two or three handed out at OCLUG meetings around the Corel Linux era (does anyone remember their names?), Redhat, SUSE, Debian, and Ubuntu. I haven't switched from Ubuntu for about 6 years now on server and Kubuntu on desktop. For me, it's been reasonably up-to-date, rarely broke badly, and worked well enough. As for choosing Kubuntu - it was better than gnome at the time, and now it's intertia. :-) I recently upgraded my web/dns/list server from from Ubuntu 16.04 to 18.04 LTS Bionic Beaver to get recent versions of apache, wget, php etc. which I was installing from PPEs (alternate repositories). The upgrade went very smoothly. I quickly ripped out netplan, "The network configuration abstraction renderer" (bleah!) after installation though. netplan.io is one of those bad choices that sometimes come with Ubuntu, I'll admit. I reinstalled good old ifconfig, which took about 5 minutes and others have already provided instructions for. Of course the great thing about the Linux ecosystem is choice and customizability. Brett
Re: [linux] Video Processing
On Mon, 3 Dec 2018, Alan McKay wrote: On Mon, Dec 3, 2018 at 3:39 PM Richard Guy Briggs wrote: for doing photo and video processing What software are you using? I've tried a bunch of things on Linux and have found none of them are very good. Agreed. The Linux ecosystem has great strengths. I love it on my servers, and workstations for textual tasks (word processing) and numerical processing and databases. But the Linux world also has weaknesses. For my serious (professional) video editing I use Adobe Premiere Pro on Windows 7. It's not inexpensive but sometimes you get what you pay for. Brett To unsubscribe send a blank message to linux+unsubscr...@linux-ottawa.org To get help send a blank message to linux+h...@linux-ottawa.org To visit the archives: https://lists.linux-ottawa.org
[linux] Monitoring and logging of DSL modem / link performance
In case anyone is interested I asked last week on the TekSavvy dslreports.com forum if anyone knew of monitoring software for DSL modems and line stats. I was referred to this program: http://dslstats.me.uk It supports many modems (including SmartRG) and provides graphing and logging. It's pretty decent for an all-inclusive, GUI-based program and has some nice displays. No package available AFAIK; just unzip and run it. It's GPL, although you have to request the code. It is is written in an F/LOSS cross-platform object Pascal so you probably won't be hacking it right away ;-) Still, I would prefer an approach that was more daemon-like, with a logging core, and external and optional gui interface to that... in case anyone can direct me to such. If it's out there my search failed. cheers, Brett To unsubscribe send a blank message to linux+unsubscr...@linux-ottawa.org To get help send a blank message to linux+h...@linux-ottawa.org To visit the archives: https://lists.linux-ottawa.org
Re: [linux] Is static address ipv6 on Teksavvy working for you?
Hey everyone, thanks for responding with your helpful experience. My ipv6 setup has been head-banging, but I sure (_think) I know a lot more about ipv6, NDP, RA, RR, icmpv6, etc. than I did before :-) Bart Trojanowski wrote: For the most part, IPv6 is pretty seamless there days. Except for some unexpected holdouts like github.com, a lot of the internet is reachable via IPv6. My servers hosted at cacloud and ovh came with ipv6 just working. I had to disable ipv6 initially, but my hosted vps websites are accessible by ipv6 now. Compared to getting ipv6 on TekSavvy working, it was trivial. Despite attending the wonderful ipv6summit.ca local ipv6 conference at uOttawa in 2011 (which I recall you had a big part in organizing Bart?) I'm only finally getting mine unstoppered, despite this beong a todo since then. Although I signed up for the TekSavvy ipv6 beta years ago I didn't want to activate it until I thought that I understood ipv6 properly and was fairly certain I wasn't opening huge security holes. That goes beyond network packet firewalls. As shipped with Ubuntu, ufw does a decent basic job securing ipv6. But I also have tight application restrictions, from always binding specific addresses/interfaces and not using default wild-card binding, to Apache ip-specific extra content access restrictions e.g. I don't normally need to access web app admin areas from any IP address in the world, just my own. Bart Trojanowski wrote: I am enjoying native IPv6 from TekSavvy, including /64 address delegation to my intranet hosts. It is a brittle setup, but it works. Excellent! Thanks for letting me know it IS working Bart. That is a useful starting point. To be certain, it is operating today for you? (see my TekSavvy comments below why I ask) I'd agree with 'brittle' in my very limited experience. :-( Static addresses and ipv6 availability are reasons I am chose DSL, not cable. Very useful to know it CAN work. TekSavvy support has sown seeds of doubt in my mind this week about this with comments like these: TekSavvy via dslreports.com direct support forum in the past few days said: "Honestly, this is a little above my head. I have emailed this to the day's team to see if anyone can help you out with." AND (next CSR reply) "Due to some problems with IPv6 we did remove them from DSL logins. I have added this back to your login. Just please keep in mind if you do run into trouble we cannot assist much. If you unplug your modem for around 10 minutes you should now get the following: 2607:f2c0:...::/64 2607:f2c0:...::/56 These are Static and are included in the current cost for your IPv4 Static monthly charge. As for a website for this, I am sorry I do not know of any. I will see if someone knows more about this. 2018-Jul-30 6:54 am" AND "Hey Brad, [sic, and does not invoke my confidence!] Any chance you could attempt to power down the modem for a few minutes & take out the phone cord as well? Then plug back in and re-test? I know we did have some maintenance performed on the servers this morning." [Yikes. Sounds like a Bell/Rogers/Microsoft "support" reply) So I end up here with people who are truly tech-savvy. I did hard-code the static IPs into my /etc/interfaces for ppp and that worked for one day, until I had to reboot, although at this point I am wondering how my default ipv6 route got set? ...I don't remember setting a default route. But hey, it was 3:30 AM when i finally got it working... I just wasn't getting any joy with SLAAC or dhcpv6 prior to that. Perhaps I misunderstood TekSavvy and should be getting my static /64 prefix via SLAAC, and as it is static it would be consistent - does that seem correct? Just like my static ipv4 (except that it IS hard-coded in interfaces)? As I understand it the /56 via dhcpv6 is optional and I don't need to acquire that with dhcpv6 initially (unless I need other info like name servers, but I run my own bind9, ntp. etc. so I don't need to know those. I just need the default route which should come in the RA, and the kernel will apply, correct?) Anyway, right now on wireshark I'm seeing RA Router Advertisements but no RS or response from my host. Also, and more serious, right now I'm not even able to ping6 the TekSavvy endpoint reported by ppp, ppp.log: remote LL address fe80::0200:00ff:fe00: This endpoint was reachable before. As I understand it, an ipv6 link local address on an interface (ppp0) should always work and a GUA global address (and route) wouldn't override that, just work in parallel, right? Bart, thanks for your config details. I'll work through them, double check, and report back. I have, at least at one time this week, had consistent settings. If I've said anything here that screams I'm way off base, please let me know. I'm getting the same bandwidth (50⇑/10⇓) and latency (10ms) on v4 and v6 with TekSavvy DSL -- but it wasn't always the case. For the one day
Re: [linux] What's up with the #oclug IRC channel?
On Thu, 2 Aug 2018, Richard Guy Briggs wrote: On 2018-08-02 13:29, J C Nash wrote: Perhaps someone can give instructions to answer Diane's "how to" query? This is from my 2-decade-old notes... Thanks. I didn't know about these. To unsubscribe send a blank message to linux+unsubscr...@linux-ottawa.org To get help send a blank message to linux+h...@linux-ottawa.org To visit the archives: https://lists.linux-ottawa.org
