Re: [GTALUG] (OT) home renovation courses for home owner?

[Loui Chang via talk]

On Tue 26 Jun 2018 21:11 -0400, William Park via talk wrote:
> Very off-topic, but since most Linux guys are handy with their hands, so
> who knows...
> 
> Are there courses for home owner who is thinking about doing home
> renovation?  There are tasks that should be left for professionals.
> But, if the owner can do minor things, then it could be cost saving.
> Assuming he does the jobs right.  Hence, the question.

https://www.homedepot.ca/en/home/ideas-how-to/workshops.html

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[GTALUG] Gerbera DLNA problems

[Stephen via talk]

For years I ran Mediatomb, a DNLA server, on Ubuntu and played on a 
Panasonic Blu-ray player. Three locations throughout my home.


No problems at all.

Now, Ubuntu killed Mediatome, but Gerbera has taken over and I have that 
installed and running.


But I have problems with some mp4 files. Some play very well. But they 
take longer to start playing than under my old setup.


And many do not play at all. After about 30 seconds of trying to load a 
message window appears for 1/10 of a second, and I am back to the menu 
for selecting files. No idea what the message is is.


All files play just fine on the Ubuntu computer. No problem with flac 
music files.


I am asking for ideas on how to diagnose this problem.

I can’t find any kind of support forum for Gerbera.

All help appreciated!
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[GTALUG] Rogers dhcp mystery

[D. Hugh Redelmeier via talk]

My internet connection stopped working.  After some hunting, and some 
pecking, it works again.  But I'm not sure why.

Setup:

- Rogers Cable

- modem is set in bridge mode (i.e. it is not acting as a router and does 
  not do Network Address Translation).

- my router is a little PC with two ethernet ports, running the latest 
  CentOS 7.

- I'm using Network Manager.

What went wrong?

My router got an RFC 1918 IP address, 192.168.100.100.  So it looked
as if the modem forgot it was in bridge mode and started acting like a
router.  I don't know if it was doing NATing, but it certainly acted
as a DHCP server, something it should not have done.  I have no idea
what precipitated this.

I logged into the modem and it said that it was in bridge mode.  (I had 
rebooted it a couple of times but with no obvious benefit).

Connecting to the modem's web page was easy since the PC had been
given an IP address on the same LAN.  Normally I'd have to add the
subnet onto the interface (something that I've not done done in a
long time).

I don't exactly know why my router couldn't work behind NAT.  Double
NAT is dumb but I think that it should work.  Perhaps NATing was not
being done.  If not, packets from 192.168.100.100 were going nowhere.

I rebooted my PC, hoping to lose the 192.168.100.100 IP address, but
it stuck.  This was one of many false starts -- I don't even remember
all the details.

I tried this command and my PC got the proper address:

sudo nmcli c up WAN

- c is short for "connection"

- "up" means "Activate a device with a connection".  I don't know what
  that means.  Maybe it released the lease and acquired a new one.
  Maybe not.

- WAN is the name of my Rogers-facing interface

- I previously found the name of my connections with this command:

sudo nmcli c show

I don't actually know for sure that this command fixed by problem or
something else did.

I wanted to tell dhclient to release its leases and acquire a new one.
The -r flag should do that.  But dhclient is being run by
NetworkManager and I didn't know how to properly do a -r.

Observation: Network Manager mostly works but it makes it hard for me
to apply my bottom-up knowledge of networking.
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Re: [GTALUG] (OT) home renovation courses for home owner?

[o1bigtenor via talk]

On Wed, Jun 27, 2018 at 3:16 PM, Peter Hiscocks via talk
 wrote:
> I did a major reno on my house a few years ago. The deal with my wife was
> that I could buy any power tools that I needed, and I now have a nice
> collection.
>
> This was the front of the house including a large livingroom, hall,
> stairway and front door area. Complete demolition, rewiring, new windows,
> new fireplace, two sets of new stairs.
>
> I did everything except the drywall (hard work and tricky) and the painting.
> We purchased the stair unit. I didn't know how to do trimwork but studied
> the youtube videos and bought some books on it. The result was very
> attractive, but it does require the proper tools and knowledge.

I have found that the public library often has a huge selection of diy books.
Some are useful - - - - some are NOT. It doesn't hurt of have someone
that you know
that has some knowledge function as at least somewhat of an advisor!
>
> I quite enjoyed it. It took 13 months, including time off for a stupidly
> self-inflicted injury. But I'm retired, it would take a lot longer if you
> were working and could only do evenings and weekends. They call the
> drywall dust 'divorce dust' for a reason.
>
Pity - - - I could have given you some tips on how to severely reduce
said stuff.
Learnt helping a few buds doing their renos and partially from a
'plasterer' ticketed
father. There are some tricks to reducing the amount of dust generated!

Oh yes - - - tools are wonderful things!!

Regards

Dee
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Re: [GTALUG] (OT) home renovation courses for home owner?

[Peter Hiscocks via talk]

I did a major reno on my house a few years ago. The deal with my wife was
that I could buy any power tools that I needed, and I now have a nice
collection.

This was the front of the house including a large livingroom, hall,
stairway and front door area. Complete demolition, rewiring, new windows,
new fireplace, two sets of new stairs.

I did everything except the drywall (hard work and tricky) and the painting.
We purchased the stair unit. I didn't know how to do trimwork but studied
the youtube videos and bought some books on it. The result was very
attractive, but it does require the proper tools and knowledge.

I quite enjoyed it. It took 13 months, including time off for a stupidly
self-inflicted injury. But I'm retired, it would take a lot longer if you
were working and could only do evenings and weekends. They call the
drywall dust 'divorce dust' for a reason.

Peter


> Very off-topic, but since most Linux guys are handy with their hands, so
> who knows...
>
> Are there courses for home owner who is thinking about doing home
> renovation?  There are tasks that should be left for professionals.
> But, if the owner can do minor things, then it could be cost saving.
> Assuming he does the jobs right.  Hence, the question.
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> William Park 
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-- 
Peter Hiscocks
Syscomp Electronic Design Limited, Toronto
http://www.syscompdesign.com
USB Oscilloscope and Waveform Generator
647-839-0325

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Re: [GTALUG] (OT) home renovation courses for home owner?

[Russell Reiter via talk]

George Brown College use to offer community courses through the Toronto
Learning Annex
at the Casa Loma campus. Now it seems they have a continuing education
section for their trades certification.

They might have flextime classes so you could attend in the evening.

https://coned.georgebrown.ca/courses-and-certificates/home-maintenance-and-improvements-basics/

HTH

On Tue, Jun 26, 2018 at 9:11 PM, William Park via talk 
wrote:

> Very off-topic, but since most Linux guys are handy with their hands, so
> who knows...
>
> Are there courses for home owner who is thinking about doing home
> renovation?  There are tasks that should be left for professionals.
> But, if the owner can do minor things, then it could be cost saving.
> Assuming he does the jobs right.  Hence, the question.
> --
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Re: [GTALUG] (OT) home renovation courses for home owner?

[Alvin Starr via talk]

Not sure about a course but here is something that worked for me in the 
past.


We had a shower to tile and I know enough about tiling that I am not 
going to do a good job if I do it myself.


We offered to tear out the old stall down to the studs and get rid of 
the trash.


That shaved just about 1/2 of the cost off the project and smashing the 
old stall was very cathartic.



On 06/26/2018 09:11 PM, William Park via talk wrote:

Very off-topic, but since most Linux guys are handy with their hands, so
who knows...

Are there courses for home owner who is thinking about doing home
renovation?  There are tasks that should be left for professionals.
But, if the owner can do minor things, then it could be cost saving.
Assuming he does the jobs right.  Hence, the question.


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Alvin Starr   ||   land:  (905)513-7688
Netvel Inc.   ||   Cell:  (416)806-0133
al...@netvel.net  ||

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[GTALUG] (OT) home renovation courses for home owner?

[William Park via talk]

Very off-topic, but since most Linux guys are handy with their hands, so
who knows...

Are there courses for home owner who is thinking about doing home
renovation?  There are tasks that should be left for professionals.
But, if the owner can do minor things, then it could be cost saving.
Assuming he does the jobs right.  Hence, the question.
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Re: [GTALUG] I not have a smaller phone, and therefor want it's big brother in a pad

[Charles Philip Chan via talk]

Evan Leibovitch via talk  writes:

>- From my own research to date, the best value right now is the Huawei
>MediaPad M5, available in 8.4" and 10.8" versions, and the best place to
>get them in Canada appears to be Newegg.

I second the Mediapad's. I brought a M3 Lite 10 (which has an audio
jack) from Newegg to replace my Nexus 7 2013. The price is right, it is
fast, and the battery life and stand by time is great. The build quality
is also great.  The only downside is Emui, but it is far closer to stock
than Touchwiz (or whatever they call it now).

Charles



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[GTALUG] [GTALUG-Announce] GTALUG Meeting on Tuesday 10 July at 7:30pm

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# Internet Bots w/ Don Tai

Don Tai shares their experience having explored the ever growing space of 
internet bots and web hacking tools.
A discussion of the concepts and tools for:
* Internet traffic: what is bots vs humans?
* Bot traffic signatures: spam bots (feedback, referrer), scrapers, malicious 
bot examples
* Observing Bots and Controlling Bots: raw access log, WHOIS, htaccess
* Reconnaissance: NMap, Armitage, Metasploit
* Working with Vulnerability databases

## Location

George Vari Engineering and Computing Centre
245 Church Street, Room 203
Ryerson University





## Schedule

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where you want to go for dinner.
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(54 Dundas St East) for refreshments and more socialising.

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