Re: [linux] 5.25" floppy reading

[Ian E. Gorman]

You can get hardware to use with a bare floppy drive.  I don't know how
good the hardware is.

https://github.com/keirf/greaseweazle

The software is free.  The is a link to vendors of the hardware.

Total cost of a setup might be around $300 Canadian.


Ian G.

On Mon, Jan 15, 2024 at 1:29 PM Nash JC - NCF  wrote:

> The subject is the topic. Does anyone have a device/machine that still
> reads 5.25" floppies. There's a library/archive at Bishops U. looking
> to do this for a non-exorbitant cost. Amazon popped up a device for about
> 30 microseconds, and it wasn't expensive, but gone now.
>
> I have a curiosity interest, but only one or two old disks that I don't
> need
> to read.
>
> JN
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Re: [linux] 5.25" floppy reading

[Ian E. Gorman]

I googled "5.25 floppy drive" and got several drives.

But they are bare drives and you would have to make sure you got a 1.2 MB
drive, which can also read 360K.

You would still have to find a 20th Century PC and a flat cable and install
an older linux.

Or you could try to find an NEC u765 floppy controller chip with
documentation and try to run the chip from an Arduino.

You don't need to read an MS-DOS file system on the floppy, you can copy
the raw disk to a linux file and mount the file as an MS-DOS file system.

A hell of a lot of work to read a few floppies.

I did see a ready-to-go USB 5.24. floppy system that mounted as a USB mass
storage device but that was at least 10 years ago.

Ian G.

On Mon, Jan 15, 2024 at 1:29 PM Nash JC - NCF  wrote:

> The subject is the topic. Does anyone have a device/machine that still
> reads 5.25" floppies. There's a library/archive at Bishops U. looking
> to do this for a non-exorbitant cost. Amazon popped up a device for about
> 30 microseconds, and it wasn't expensive, but gone now.
>
> I have a curiosity interest, but only one or two old disks that I don't
> need
> to read.
>
> JN
>
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Re: [linux] December 7th Meeting announcement

[Ian E. Gorman]

I would like to submit three recent scripts, which I wrote to deal with
ebook difficulties on my Victor Reader ( a "talking book"  reader with
text-to-voice capability).

heading-numbers.awk makes a HTML page more readable in my Victor Reader.  A
HTML page works as well as an ePub or DAISY book, but often does not have
heading numbers. The absence of heading numbers makes it difficult to
navigate a very long page via hearing, because you don't know where you are
in the file.  This awk program puts multilevel heading numbers at the start
of every heading.  The victor Reader can be set to jump from one heading to
another at any level from 1 to 6, allowing me to quickly zero in on the
part of the page I want.

I wrote the other two scripts to troubleshoot a problem where my Victor
Reader would not jump to some of the headings in the ePub,

epubcheck.sh runs the W3C ePub Validator.  It is easy to run the validator
correctly but the script allows me to park the package in a subdirectory of
the bin directory and run the validator with a simple command that is on my
PATH.  The validator showed that my problem ebook was a valid ePub 2.0.1
file.

html-headings.awk

extracts
headings from an HTML or ePub file.  I unzipped the ePub file to and
empty directory and rand the command

html-headings.awk

*.html > all-headings.txt
The command produced a list of 272 headings, one to a line.

I looked at the headings and CSS file, could not see a reason for the
behaviour and submitted a report to the manufacturer.

Both AWK programs use a feature of AWK to make the job easy: the record
separators (RS and ORS, normally both are line-ends) are arbitrary,
Changing the record separators to '<' places every tag at the beginning of
a line, making it easy to identify the tags you want to work with.




On Tue, Dec 5, 2023 at 11:45 PM tug  wrote:

> Meeting Announcement
>
> Linux-Ottawa December 2023 Meeting.
> Date/Time:
>
> Thursday December 7th at 7pm
> Format:
>
> 1. Online over Jitsi https://meet.jit.si/oclug_2023-12-07
>
> 2. Check mailing list for in-person clusters being hosted by other
> members.
> Program:
>
> *Topics*
>
> 1. Script Night: If you have a useful script you want to share, or a
> problem script you want to rescue, bring it along.
>
> Current offerings include
>
> John Nash - scripts to move data to and from cloud storage.
>
> Tug Williams - using bash to download and compress feeds for use over low
> bandwidth connections.
>
> Anyone else! - anything anyone wants to bring up.
>
>

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html-heading-numbers.awk
Description: Binary data


html-headings.awk
Description: Binary data
#!/usr/bin/bash
# Run the DAISY Consortium (W3C) ePub validator
# Check that input file is compliant with either ePUB2 or ePUB3
# needs a Java runtime (1.7 or above)

# DAISY Consortium ePub Validator was downloaded from
#   https://github.com/w3c/epubcheck/releases/tag/v5.1.0

set -e  # exit host (#!) shell after any script error
set -u  # reference to unset parameter is an error

SCRIPT=${0##*/} # script filename
SCRIPTDIR="${0%/*}" # script location
EPUBCHECKDIR="${SCRIPTDIR}/epub/epubcheck-5.1.0"# software location
EPUBCHECKJAR="epubcheck.jar"   # main Java archive

if [[ "$#" -lt 1 ]]
then
echo "Usage: ${SCRIPT} filename.epub"
echo "   Check that file is in a valid EPUB2 or EPUB3 format"
echo 'Extension "epub" can be any case: "EPUB", "ePub", ...'
echo ""
echo "Help:  ${SCRIPT} --help"
exit 1
fi

/usr/bin/java -jar "${EPUBCHECKDIR}/${EPUBCHECKJAR}" "$@"

Re: [linux] Linux-Ottawa / NCF collaboration

[Ian E. Gorman]

I think Alayne has a point about requiring NCF membership,  but I think a
bit of discussion with Shelley Robinson would lead to a solution.

I worked as a volunteer at NCF until my vision problems caught up with me.
During that time I found that Ms. Robinsion is quite good at dealing with
problems that combine a number of technical and no-technical issues.

I would like to participate in a joint venture between OCLUG and NCF,
perhaps by writing some of the documentation mentioned in this thread.


ian
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Re: [linux] Meeting for August.

[Ian E. Gorman]

I would like to have a meeting, even though I have nothing to bring.

Iam

On Mon, Jul 31, 2023 at 9:11 PM tug  wrote:

> I don't recall Timothy offering to give a presentation. Did emails go
> missing?
>
>
> I've not prepared anything, and haven't heard of anyone (until Katie's
> offer in this email).
>
>
> Last month I was going to propose a link to meet, despite there being no
> planned talks, but as there were problems with spam filters, I just put a
> notice cancelling the meeting on the website.
>
>
> I might or might not be able to attend a meeting this week, so it seemed a
> bit bad to propose a meeting. I know John was trying to arrange something,
> but I've not heard much, and I haven't had time these past couple of weeks
> to check in.
>
>
> So Katie - do you want to kick off a meeting, and see where it pans out
> from there?
>
>
> Tug
>
>
>
> On 2023-07-31 18:09, Katherine Mcmillan wrote:
>
> Hello Jean-Francois,
>
> I would really like to see a presentation by Timothy Forbes.  However, it
> may not be a good time for that.
>
> I have created a sequel to my first "Linux for the Wacom" presentation
> that I could present if anyone is interested - I go into a specific
> security concern and how Linux (openSUSE in this case) overcomes that.  It
> wouldn't take long to present, and I would appreciate thoughts/feedback.
>
> I would also be interested in inviting an attendee from my new workplace
> who has expressed interest. :)
>
> Sincerely,
> Katie
> --
> *From:* j...@messier.ca  
> *Sent:* 31 July 2023 15:03
> *To:* linux@linux-ottawa.org 
> 
> *Subject:* [linux] Meeting for August.
>
> Attention : courriel externe | external email
>
> Is there a meeting this Thursday ? I know the July meeting ws cancelled,
> but do we have topics for this month ?
>
> Thanks :-)
>
> JF
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Re: [linux] My Vote

[Ian E. Gorman]

If I am not too late, I also vote to sidolve

On Thu, Apr 6, 2023 at 7:16 PM Katherine Mcmillan 
wrote:

> Hello all,
>
> I vote to dissolve the OCLUG. My sincere apologies for missing this  (I
> literally cannot attend - no power, no internet, barely keeping my phone
> on, one bar of cell reception, elder family members to support).
>
> Thank you for your understanding,
> Katie
>


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Re: [linux] Meeting tonight

[Ian E. Gorman]

Will the Thursday meeting be entirely on Jitsi?

On Tue, Nov 1, 2022 at 12:39 PM Katherine Mcmillan 
wrote:

> Hi Richard,
>
> I would love to hear about your thoughts/experiences on this!
>
> Sincerely,
> Katie
>
> --
> *From:* Richard Guy Briggs 
> *Sent:* Tuesday, November 1, 2022 12:35:26 PM
> *To:* Tug Williams 
> *Cc:* Katherine Mcmillan ; linux@linux-ottawa.org <
> linux@linux-ottawa.org>; Jean-Francois Messier 
> *Subject:* Re: [linux] Meeting tonight
>
> Attention : courriel externe | external email
>
> On 2022-11-01 12:12, Tug Williams wrote:
> > Katie,
> >
> > I'd be interested to know what you're referring to, as I'm not a CentOS
> > person... I could google, but I'd also be happy to hear on Thursday :)
>
> As an employee of the organization responsible for that disto, I may
> have some opinions about the subject...  ;-)It was a bit messy...
>
> > I also have a few discussion topics related to Dr Chen's talk. I have
> > written a few notes, but nothing as concrete as "a talk".
> >
> >
> > My 3 sub-topics (follow up questions from his the talk) relate to
> >
> > - open data formats (I have opinions)
> > - data security (I have questions)
> > - who pays the ferryman? (I have opinions and questions)
> >
> >
> > Unrelatedley - I also did some initial investigation into Mastodon as an
> > open source replacement for Twitter, which could lead to an interesting
> > discussion. Maybe others have more experience. Alas I didn't get as far
> as
> > successfully installing a server.
> >
> >
> > So if there is interest, I think we have enough material for a few jitsi
> > based discussions on Thursday.
> >
> >
> > Tug
> >
> >
> >
> > On 01/11/2022 11:50, Katherine Mcmillan wrote:
> > >Hi Jean-Francois,
> > >
> > >I am happy to attend a meeting on Thursday.?? I regret missing last
> > >month's meeting as Home Assistant and home automation are really
> > >interesting to me, however, I was unexpectedly detained.
> > >
> > >I would love to know about everyone's experiences around the changes to
> > >CentOS 7/8.?? Personally, those affected my thesis work - I'd like to
> know
> > >how/if they affected others and what others did.?? I'd be happy to
> explain
> > >the changes I'm talking about, if needed.
> > >
> > >Sincerely,
> > >Katie
> > >
> > >*From:* Jean-Francois Messier 
> > >*Sent:* 01 November 2022 11:45
> > >*To:* linux@linux-ottawa.org 
> > >*Subject:* Re: [linux] Meeting tonight
> > >*Attention : courriel externe | external email*
> > >Yeah, actually, this is not tonight, but Thursday night. I stand
> > >corrected.
> > >
> > >
> > >On 2022-11-01T11:36:26.000-04:00, Jean-Francois Messier 
> > >wrote:
> > >
> > >Do we have any topic, location, hours for tonight meeting ?
> > >
> > >Thanks :-)
> > >
> > >JF Messier (j...@messier.ca )
> > >
> > >
>
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Re: [linux] Resend: July 2021 Meeting - 2021-07-08 @ 19:00

[Ian E. Gorman]

It's so nice to see that I am not the only one ...

Thanks, Scott

On Tue, 6 Jul 2021 at 00:59, Scott Murphy 
wrote:

> Recycling emails is a problem… And don’t do it when you are tired, you
> forget to change something.
>
> When: Thursday, July 8, 2021
> Time: 19:00
> Where: jitsi video conference
>
>
> For those new to Linux, John has a talk titled: “WINE”. For those
> unfamiliar with the name, it is the WINE Is Not an Emulator project.
>
> After John has finished, Brett will present a talk titled: “My mail, my
> way: Successfully setting up and operating your own Linux email server”
>
> This month’s code: LinuxOttawa20210708
> Meeting Details:
>
> The meeting URL will now be a fixed URL, https://six.linux-ottawa.org and
> should be up for connection by 18:30 on meeting nights and will vanish
> shortly after the meeting has concluded. You will be joining as anonymous
> guests, so you will not have a username or password. If it asks for a
> username and password, it has not been started yet. I will be attempting to
> have it running by 18:45. It may be online earlier, but it should be online
> by then.
>
>
> Rules/Procedures/Common-Sense:
>
> Video and audio will be disabled when you join. In order to make sure the
> experience is a reasonable one for all involved, the presenter will share
> their screen-window-whatever they are comfortable with and you will see it
> quite clearly. Rather than unmute, pressing your space bar will unmute your
> microphone while pressed, so you can try that to ask questions. There is
> also the chat window, which no longer appears to obscure the rest of the
> session (maybe on small monitors?) Feel free to post questions and as
> opportunity presents itself and the presenter notices, they will get
> answered. After the presentation is completed, feel free to unmute and have
> a normal voice/video Q
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Re: [linux] anyone using a privacy-protecting cell phone

[Ian E. Gorman]

I am reminded of an author who apologized for writing a along letter
because he didn't have time to write a short one.
It can be quite difficult to condense a complex topic down to a concise summary.

On Mon, 1 Feb 2021 at 05:49, Michael Goguen  wrote:
>
>
> Yeah, I didn't get a copy from the list of the message I sent.
>
> None of them.
>
> But otherwise seeing replies to this message.
>
> i didn't reply to user, I changed the reply to linux at linux-ott org
>
> ok
>
> Sometimes I regret long posts.
> It is nice to be clear at least whether it went through or not.
>
> thx
>
>
> Michael
>
>
>
>
>
>
> On Sun, Jan 31, 2021 at 9:09 PM Brenda J. Butler  wrote:
>>
>>
>> And yes, this is the new (I use that term loosely : -)
>> general discussion list for oclug, the Linux User Group
>> in Ottawa, Ontario, Canada.
>>
>> bjb
>>
>>
>> On Sun, Jan 31, 2021 at 07:41:19PM -0500, John Argus wrote:
>> > Your previous long message did make it to the mailing list.
>> >
>> > jna
>> >
>> > > On Jan 31, 2021, at 14:12, Michael Goguen  
>> > > wrote:
>> > >
>> > > 
>> > >
>> > >
>> > > test
>> > >
>> > > is this a new domain for the old oclug list?  Just making sure I
>> > > am not somehow confusing lists or on a list I didn't subscribe
>> > > to...
>> > >
>> > > I posted a longer post about some potentially contentious or
>> > > contraversial opinions relating to privacy security and
>> > > maintaining a healthy balance for users and regulators who manage
>> > > issues and threats online etc, it didn't seem to make the list, I
>> > > might repost if this one gets through, but maybe I'll just make
>> > > sure I"m ont the right list first...
>> > >
>> > > it is possible I am not ... fully? subscribed to this list if
>> > > there was a changeover...? from the oclug domain?
>> > >
>> > >
>> > > thanks in advance.
>> > >
>> > >
>> > > Michael
>> > >
>> > >
>> > >> On Sun, Jan 31, 2021 at 2:01 PM Michael Goguen 
>> > >>  wrote:
>> > >>
>> > >>
>> > >> -- Forwarded message -
>> > >> From: tOM Trottier 
>> > >> Date: Sun, Jan 31, 2021 at 12:37 AM
>> > >> Subject: Re: [linux] anyone using a privacy-protecting cell phone
>> > >> To: Linux-Ottawa 
>> > >> Cc: Ian! D. Allen 
>> > >>
>> > >>
>> > >> See 
>> > >> https://www.schneier.com/blog/archives/2021/01/cell-phone-location-privacy.html
>> > >> "“Pretty Good Phone Privacy” (PGPP) protects both user identity and 
>> > >> user location using the existing cellular networks. It protects users 
>> > >> from fake cell phone towers (IMSI-catchers) and surveillance by cell 
>> > >> providers.
>> > >> It’s a clever system. The players are the user, a traditional mobile 
>> > >> network operator (MNO) like AT or Verizon, and a new mobile virtual 
>> > >> network operator (MVNO). MVNOs aren’t new. They’re intermediaries like 
>> > >> Cricket and Boost."
>> > >>
>> > >> -- tOM Trottier
>> > >>
>> > >> On 22 Jan 2021 at 13:15 re:"[linux] anyone using a privacy-prot..."
>> > >>  Ian! D. Allen(Ian! D. Allen ) wrote:
>> > >>
>> > >> > Hello Linux hive-mind -
>> > >> >
>> > >> > A non-tech friend is trying to get out from under Apple and set up her
>> > >> > cell phone and computers without Microsoft, Google, or Apple looking
>> > >> > over her shoulder.  She is concerned about tracking and privacy.
>> > >> >
>> > >> > I can give her help with her future Linux desktop, but I don't even
>> > >> > own a cell phone so I can't advise on "Linux" cell phones (or any kind
>> > >> > of cell phones).
>> > >> >
>> > >> > 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?
>> > >> >
>> > >> > --
>> > >> > | Ian! D. Allen, BA, MMath  -  idal...@idallen.ca - Ottawa, Ontario, 
>> > >> > Canada
>> > >> > | Home: www.idallen.com   Contact Improvisation Dance: 
>> > >> > www.contactimprov.ca
>> > >> > | Former college professor (Free/Libre GNU+Linux) at:  
>> > >> > teaching.idallen.com
>> > >> > | Defend digital freedom:  http://eff.org/  and have fun:  
>> > >> > http://fools.ca/
>> > >> >
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>> > >> >
>> > >>
>> > >>
>> > >>
>> > >> --
>> > >> tOM Trottier http://TomTrottier.com BBO:"0 carbon"
>> > >> +1613-860-6633 t...@abacurial.com   Skype:Abacurial
>> > >> MD5 Fingerprint27:B8:BA:91:70:E5:44:20:8F:29:EE:46:1E:52:F6:81
>> > >> SHA123:3A:53:18:AB:83:B1:CA:O7:33:AF:10:11:24:27:95:22:98:4E:7E
>> > >>
>> > >> -BEGIN GEEK CODE BLOCK-
>> > >> Version: 3.12
>> > >> GCS$/B$/IT$/O b++ C++> D d++(--)@ DI+++
>> > >> e+++ E- G L+ M N O P+ P+>+++ L+>++ PE- PGP
>> > >> PS+++ R* r s:+: t-- tv ULH w+ W+++ X- Y+
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Re: [linux] anyone using a privacy-protecting cell phone

[Ian E. Gorman]

Mailing lists, by their very nature, are bulk email, which is hard to
distinguish from spam.
The linux list does not put the name of the recipient in the To field.
This might bias the classification toward "spam"

On Wed, 27 Jan 2021 at 04:57, Rick Leir  wrote:

> Two reasons
> 1 google dislikes privacy
> 2 technically it looks spammy
>
> On January 26, 2021 6:58:36 p.m. EST, Kevin Szabo 
> wrote:
>>
>>
>> I just found one of the replies to this thread was marked as spam.  Dunno
>> why
>>
>> [image: image.png]
>>
>>
>> On Sat, Jan 23, 2021 at 9:54 AM James Lockie  wrote:
>>
>>> $799 USD for the base phoe
>>> No wireless AC. :-(
>>>
>>> On January 23, 2021 00:06:57 "Brenda J. Butler" 
>>> wrote:
>>>
>>> Hello Linux hive-mind -
>
> 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?
>

 This request eventually reminded me about the Purism phone:

 https://puri.sm/

 which purports to be a ground-up phone OS designed for privacy.

 I have not bought it but maybe I should.

 I was under the impression that the person who started the
 company was in Toronto but they are based in the States now.
 But that is a vague memory and may be entirely false.

 They don't have social media icons.  Their web page (front page)
 is served from one server (impressive!).  They have a warrant
 canary page and two people gpg-sign a message for that page on
 a monthly basis.

 Looks legit.

 I'm guessing they are expensive as they are not subsidized
 by Big Tech.  Haven't seen prices yet.

 bjb


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Re: [linux] meeting info, just in case

[Ian E. Gorman]

Not getting IP address yet

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On Thu., Oct. 1, 2020, 18:43 Richard Guy Briggs,  wrote:

> On 2020-10-01 18:33, Scott Murphy wrote:
> > In case you didn’t read the post, here is the link for tonight.
>
> > https://six.linux-ottawa.org/LinuxOttawa20201001
>
> I wasn't expecting a user/password prompt...
>
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Re: [linux] rsync snapshot backup

[Ian E. Gorman]

What format is your backup drive?

If the backup drive is formatted to a file system that does not
support links (like exFAT ) hard links will be copied as duplicate
lfiles  and soft links may not be copied at all.

SSDs and hard drives are usually supplied with a Windows file format,
such as exFAT or NTFS and would need to be reformatted to a linux file
system (such as the default format for your own linux systems, begore
they will work properly with rsync.

Ian

On Thu, 1 Oct 2020 at 11:03, CL Junk  wrote:
>
> Hi all,
>
> I have been using rsync to perform automated backups to a separate
> physical drive for years.  I recently upgraded my hardware, including
> switching to an SSD for my main drive and upgrading my backup drive.
> The other recent change, is Mint Linux 16.04 to 20.04.
>
> My crontab executed script has not been altered.
>
> 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 am unsure where to look to figure out what may have changed.  Any
> suggestions you may have are appreciated.
>
> My sctript ...
>
> NOW=$(date +"%Y%m%d-%H%M")
> BASE="/mnt/backup-int"
> PREVIOUS=$(ls -r $BASE | head -1)
>
> echo .
> echo Starting snapshot to internal media at $NOW
> echo .
>
> if [ "$NOW" != "$PREVIOUS" ];
> then
> TARGET="$BASE/$NOW"
> LINK="$BASE/$PREVIOUS"
> OPTIONS="--dry-run -rptgovDH --delete --link-dest=$LINK"
> rsync $OPTIONS --include-from
> '/home/carolyn/backupScripts/include-list.txt' --exclude-from
> '/home/carolyn/backupScripts/exclude-list.txt' $SOURCE $TARGET
> fi
>
> ...
>
> Thanks for your assistance!
>
> Carolyn
>
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