Re: [GTALUG] e-reader recommendations

[John Moniz via talk]

That looks nice, will definitely have a closer look.

John.

> -- Original Message --
> From: David Mason via talk 
> Date: May 11, 2021 at 10:00 PM
> 
> I have a reMarkable  https://remarkable.com/ which is great for PDFs,
> writing notes, etc. and it will also read.
> 
> It’s quite nice. I generally use it instead of paper for notes. You can
> even transfer web pages to it (from a Chrome plug-in) to read them in more
> comfort.
> 
> ../Dave
> On May 11, 2021, 6:27 PM -0400, Lennart Sorensen via talk
> , wrote:
> 
> > > On Tue, May 11, 2021 at 01:40:03PM -0400, Trevor Woerner via talk
> > > wrote:
> > 
> > > > > As I expected, there's lots of really good feedback :-)
> > > 
> > > I should have clarified that I have lots and lots of tablets
> > > and phones and
> > > all those sorts of devices, but I've never had an e-reader and
> > > I'm curious
> > > enough to at least want to try one (mostly for battery life,
> > > eye strain,
> > > and general impressions). Ideally I could just buy one and it
> > > would be
> > > great, rather than having to try a bunch of them before
> > > finding one I like
> > > :-)
> > > 
> > > > > Well if you want something with great battery life
> > > > > that is great for
> > reading ebooks in daylight, an ereader is great. For the things you
> > listed though, they are useless.
> > 
> > So if you want to carry 200 books with you, they are fantastic. They
> > remember what page you were on in each book. Very handy for book
> > worms.
> > 
> > They are very much not generic computing devices at all though. They
> > do
> > one thing well and that's it. I know sony tried doing mp3 support
> > for
> > audio books on early models and dropped it later since it drained
> > the
> > battery and was no match for an ipod shuffle for audio books.
> > 
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Re: [GTALUG] SpaceX Sent NASA Astronauts Into Orbit Using Linux

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It did NOT llook ike Windows, therefore made me think it was Linux - but I didn't see any proof that it was. And since Musk seems to be a Linux guy ...JohnOn Jun 6, 2020 7:22 AM, Scott Allen via talk  wrote:On Sat, 6 Jun 2020 at 06:47, James Knott via talk  wrote:
> those 3 monitors in front of the
> crew seemed to have a Linux look.
How so? What exactly was the "Linux look" that you noticed?
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Re: [GTALUG] SpaceX Sent NASA Astronauts Into Orbit Using Linux

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Good to know. I've been wondering what the OS is in Crew Dragon and suspected it was Linux.  Elon Musk's Tesla cars also use Linux. On Jun 5, 2020 2:57 PM, James Knott via talk  wrote:https://futurism.com/the-byte/spacex-nasa-astronauts-linux
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Re: [GTALUG] Continuing Printer Woes

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Thanks for the write-up Stewart, very useful for a non-admin home user like me.

John.

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> From: "Stewart C. Russell via talk" 
> Date: June 1, 2020 at 12:20 PM
> 
> 
> On 2020-06-01 10:14 a.m., Christopher Browne via talk wrote:
> >
> > But I had gotten myself accustomed to the impression that
> > "with CUPS, It Just Works(tm)", so colour me surprised.
> >
> > Has Microsoft pushed back to try to get WinPrinters back to be a
> > thing?
> 
> I don't think so. Since all printers (except cheap USB-only disposable
> ones) need to print over wireless from an iPad/iPhone, it's got much
> simpler. Different, yes, but simpler for the user.
> 
> I've got a 2012-vintage Epson WorkForce WF7520 large-format inkjet AiO.
> It supports wireless and IPP v1.0. I've also got a 2019 Brother
> MFC-L2750DW. It supports wireless and AirPrint (aka IPP v2.0, pretty
> much). Both are auto-discovered by all my (non-embedded) Linux systems,
> and I don't need any drivers. The entire installation process of the
> Brother went like this:
> 
> 1) unpack from box;
> 2) remove packing materials;
> 3) install toner and paper;
> 4) plug in power;
> 5) join wireless network from front panel.
> 
> By the time I got downstairs from where I'd installed the printer, all
> the computers in the house had found the new printer and added it as a
> device. This includes an Ubuntu desktop, Ubuntu laptop, a couple of
> Macs, a Windows 10 machine, two Raspberry Pis and an iPad. The only
> thing that needed a little work was my Android phone, but that wasn't
> any more than "Find printer" then say yes to the Brother printer driver.
> 
> All of this is made possible by three technologies:
> 
> 1) CUPS
> 2) Bonjour (mDNS/DNS-SD, typically Avahi under Linux)
> 3) IPP
> 
> Bonjour announces that the printer's there, IPP negotiates the printer's
> capabilities, and CUPS sends the data in the right format. If even one
> of these three is missing, it's endless fighting and pain.
> 
> The Debian packages I have on my desktop system(s) that enable this are:
> 
> avahi-autoipd avahi-daemon avahi-utils cups
> cups-browsed cups-bsd cups-client cups-common
> cups-core-drivers cups-daemon cups-filters
> cups-filters-core-drivers cups-ipp-utils cups-pk-helper
> cups-ppdc cups-server-common printer-driver-cups-pdf
> printer-driver-gutenprint system-config-printer
> system-config-printer-common system-config-printer-udev
> 
> Most of these are installed automatically. I think I had to add
> cups-ipp-utils, system-config-printer and (oddly) cups to make this work
> seamlessly on the Raspberry Pis.
> 
> * I don't strictly need avahi-autoipd and avahi-utils; the Raspberry Pis
> do fine without them.
> 
> * cups-bsd is only needed if your fingers automatically type 'lpr -P'
> instead of 'lp -d', as mine do.
> 
> * printer-driver-cups-pdf isn't necessary, but gives you print to PDF
> from everywhere. Since CUPS puts every print job into PDF anyway, this
> is just a *really* fancy wrapper around 'cat'.
> 
> * printer-driver-gutenprint gives a bit more control to colour printing
> for those rare times I need things to be really fiddly. I could do
> without for 99% of print jobs.
> 
> All the above did pretty much require me to forget everything I thought
> I knew about printer admin. I'm glad I don't need that any more.
> 
> cheers,
> Stewart
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Re: [GTALUG] QNX [was Re: Linux servers attacked!]

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> From: James Knott via talk 
> Date: May 11, 2020 at 2:02 PM
> 
> 
> On 2020-05-11 01:55 PM, D. Hugh Redelmeier via talk wrote:
> > I remember reading an ad in Byte (I think) a long time ago (obviously)
> > from QNX (before RIM bought them). They offered a floppy-size
> > bootable system with this GUI. This is probably it:
> >
> > 
> 
> I have every paper issue of Byte on the shelf behind me.  I don't recall
> seeing videos in any of them. ;-)
> 

They're byte size videos.

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Re: [GTALUG] Linux servers attacked!

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> -- Original Message --
> From: Lennart Sorensen via talk 
> Date: May 11, 2020 at 11:08 AM
> 
> 
> On Sun, May 10, 2020 at 01:41:41PM -0400, Scott Allen via talk wrote:
> > On Sun, 10 May 2020 at 13:38, John Moniz via talk 
> > wrote:
> > > Don't think QNX was ever a phone OS.
> >
> > https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/BlackBerry_10
> 
> It was an excellent phone OS (far better than android) but no one wanted
> to support it with apps which pretty much killed its chances of staying
> around, so it didn't.
> 

Is BB10 any closer to QNX than Android is to Linux? It sounds like I'm wrong but
thought they both evolved far enough from their roots to have their own name.

John.

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Re: [GTALUG] Linux servers attacked!

[John Moniz via talk]

I have a Blackberry Android phone. Don't think QNX was ever a phone OS.JohnOn May 10, 2020 11:00 AM, James Knott via talk  wrote:On 2020-05-10 10:05 AM, Stewart C. Russell via talk wrote:
> Blackberry == QNX these days
Didn't they move to Android a few years back, at least for some models?
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[GTALUG] Losing Whoozin

[John Moniz via talk]

 
  Hi folks,
  One of the seniors centres in the GTA has been using Whoozin to send messages to it's members. Tbh, I'm not sure if it's two way communication or they just use it to send out bulletins.
  I understand that the company that supplies and supports the software is going out of business and they need to find an alternative as of April 10, which doesn't leave much time. Any suggestions for an alternative platform?
  Thanks,
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Re: [GTALUG] Any good analog phone?

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I second that, nothing beats a Nortel phone. If you can find a used/refurbished one that has the features you want, get it.John.On Aug 28, 2018 10:09 PM, Don Tai via talk  wrote:We have a couple of high quality analog/digital phones in the house. I prefer old Nortel Cntempra or Nortel Aastra M8003 phones. Solid as a rock, great sound quality, no batteries required. They come with a digitalanalog switch.https://usedphones.com/nortel-aastra-m8003-nt2n26aa211.htmli have seen them at refurbish stores in Scarborough, or even at garage sales.DonOn Tue, 28 Aug 2018 at 22:02, William Park via talk  wrote:Hi all,

Do you know where I can buy a good quality analog phone, with
    - corded (no battery)
    - caller id
    - voicemail not required

CanadaComputers has only VTech brand, which is what I have now and what
I want to replace.  I'm not too keen on Panasonic brand, from past
experience.
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Re: [GTALUG] Linux Journal, RIP

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Re: [GTALUG] touch screens

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On Oct 11, 2017 8:40 AM, Alvin Starr via talk  wrote:
I feel your pain
My big fat sausage like fingers make it nearly impossible for me
  to use the keyboard interface with less than a 50% error rate
  unless I have a phone with a 7" screen(I actually had one once).

There are multiple kinds of touch screens so possibly you need a
  phone with the appropriate kind of touch screen.
I believe that most phones currently use a capacitive touch
  technology which has issues with gloved hands or in your case
  calluses.
Another issue that current touch screens have is that they have
  no tactile feedback.
Lots of Blackberry users will attest to the ease of using the
  physical keyboard and I have heard a couple say that someone will
  have to pry it out of their cold dead hands.
Some research has been done on tactile feedback but it may be a
  long time before that kind of technology appears in your next
  phone.

Just bought the BlackBerry KeyOne, am putting it through some tests right now. My main wishes are for an easier time with the keyboard and better reception at the cottage. It's amazing how much better reception some phones have over others, but you only notice it in locations with sparse service.John.


On 10/11/2017 08:08 AM, o1bigtenor via
  talk wrote:


  Greetings


Reading of the announcement of 2 new 'smart' phones at the
  meeting prompts me to ask the question.


Am I the only person who finds that touch screens don't
  work worth a !@#$%^ using my fingers?


Thumb, index and third finger take repeated attempts to get
  a result where the fourth finger seems to work 'ok' its not
  very 'comfortable'. I do work with my hands, albeit not like I
  used to, so I do have calluses (they really aren't as thick as
  they have been at some times in the past though), - - -- is
  that 
possibly why I haven't been able to find a touch screen
  that 'works'. 


I haven't only tried one 'brand' of phone either. The
  iPhone is a little less problematic but not enough so to
  warrant any kind of purchase from me (that's without the
  absolutely stupid pricing levels). Have used LG, Samsung and
  Motorola and the issue is consistent.


At this point my opinion on touch screens is that they are
  over priced gadgets that I would rather not use.


Regards


Dee
  
  
  
  
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Re: [GTALUG] Dead DVD drive in laptop

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Re: [GTALUG] OT: Solar Designer [Was: NOT: Re: From BTRFS to what?]

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On Sep 6, 2017 8:12 PM, "Stewart C. Russell via talk"  wrote:
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Re: [GTALUG] Raspberry PI wifi problem

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On Aug 25, 2017 5:07 AM, Evan Leibovitch via talk  wrote:Sheesh.Six replies, and only on actually relevant to the question asked.LOL Evan, I've been waiting for your follow-up. You had to know that your comment would solicit replies.>> Making networking run on Linux desktops has always been IMO one of the> reasons why it's not caught on. Stuff just shouldn't be this hard.>---
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Re: [GTALUG] computer to a good home.

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Thank you Steve, this is very useful information to have.John.On Apr 6, 2017 3:28 AM, "Steve Petrie, P.Eng. via talk"  wrote:






Warm Greetings To GTALUG,
 
There is a Toronto-based non-profit ISP -- Toronto 
Free-Net http://www.torfree.net/ that 
provides a free limited dial-up ISP service, and inexpensive dial-up and faster 
services.
 
I use torfree as my backup dial-up ISP, in case my 
paid dial-up ISP has a service interruption.
 
Toronto Free-Net welcomes donations of many kinds 
of computer and communications (and other) equipment:
 
http://www.torfree.net/pitch/contribute-equipment.html
 
Steve
 
* * *
 
Steve Petrie, P.Eng.
 
http://aspetrie.net/Oakville, 
Ontario, Canada(905) 847-3253apetrie@aspetrie.net
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  Subject: Re: [GTALUG] computer to a good 
  home.
  
  
  I also have a DELL 2950 with 500GB of SCSI disks and dual gigE. It can't 
  run either VMWare or Hyper-V, but its great for disk IO.
  
  
  On Wed, Apr 5, 2017 at 2:28 PM, Alvin Starr via talk 
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  I was using this system as a file server for a number of 
years.The motherboard is a Asus SLI/KFN5-D with 2 AMD quad core 
Optron CPU's with something like 12G of ram.It also has a 3wear 
8port raid controller with 8 SATA cables.The motherboard and case 
are ok but the power supply had a problem and in trying to fix it managed to 
fry the drives and drive enclosures.There are 2 4 drive SATA holders 
and 5 drive SATA holder but unfortunately the back-plane electronics look to 
be fried.If someone wants it they are welcome to it otherwise it 
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Re: [GTALUG] What Not To Backup

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On 12/23/2016 04:58 PM, William Park via talk wrote:

On Fri, Dec 23, 2016 at 04:13:48PM -0500, Alvin Starr via talk wrote:

Yes.  I do
  telinit 1
  mount -o remount,ro /
before running 'dd'.

Remounting read only will work but that is not what you said to do.
You will need to make sure all file systems are remounted read only.
It will work but could have you taking your system offline for quite a while
to do the full copy if you have something like a 10TB drive.

Our audience is GTALUG members, so they know what we're talking about.
:-)  I have everything in one filesystem.  I do backup of that.  Then,
I take snapshots of the backup.
William, some of us GTALug members are nothing more than home desktop 
users. ;-)

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Re: [GTALUG] What Not To Backup

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On 12/23/2016 04:11 PM, James Knott via talk wrote:

On 12/23/2016 12:11 PM, John Moniz via talk wrote:

I'd love to exclude things that perhaps one would never use from a
backup to rebuild a system after an accidental clean wipe of all data.

Well, you could probably pass on /dev/null.  ;-)


I always back up /dev/null because it never takes up any space. :-)
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[GTALUG] What Not To Backup

[John Moniz via talk]

Hi everyone,

I'm backing up my system on a more regular basis and am trying to fine 
tune the files that I backup. I am looking for advice on what NOT to 
bother to backup on the /home directory.


I am using rsync (took a long time and lots of trials to figure out the 
man page - and still don't know 90% of it) and presently have the 
following on my exclude_list.txt:
(Note: multiple items shown on one line are just for readability, each 
line in the file only has one item)


tmp* TMP*
.cache* cache* Cache* CACHE* *CACHE *Cache *cache
.cookies* cookies*
Trash Trash* TRASH*
Junk* junk*
.gvfs
Backups backups
Crash*
.xsession-errors*
.macromedia
.thumbnails
.mozilla/firefox/*/thumbnails
*.corrupt
minidumps
.local/share/gvfs*

I'd love to exclude things that perhaps one would never use from a 
backup to rebuild a system after an accidental clean wipe of all data.


Similarly, any recommendations of what I should back up outside of 
/home? I am thinking of things like /etc/fstab, files that would make it 
easier to recover from a crash or to upgrade a distro.


Thanks for any advice.

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Re: [GTALUG] Setting up a VM host

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On Aug 26, 2016 2:42 PM, Alvin Starr via talk  wrote:
>
> If you have the hots to setup a complete server you could download xenserver.
>
I've never had the hots for any computer, so I guess xenserver is not for me... 
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Re: [GTALUG] Neighboring LUGs and Other Computing User Groups in Toronto

[John Moniz via talk]

On 08/23/2016 01:22 PM, Myles Braithwaite via talk wrote:

D. Hugh Redelmeier via talk wrote:

I wonder if putting this on the wiki would be better.  My guess: no
because nobody would feel responsible to curate the list.

Would there be a reasonable way for page to invite contributions
WITHOUT generating a lot of SPAM for you?

I'm not really sure. I'm in the process of redesigning the website with
a large push for contributions (though GitHub's PR workflow)


The Raspberry Pi Toronto Meetup kind of fits between the two categories:
it isn't a Linux group, but Linux is pretty central to the Raspberry Pi,
not just background.



The GPU Programming meetup group is interesting to me.  Not very active.
Some of it is Linux-related.


Added both to the page.


Shouldn't K-W LUG be included on the list?
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