On Thu, Jan 25, 2024 at 06:20:55PM -0500, Katherine Mcmillan wrote:
> Btw Ian, do you still have that snazzy license plate?
At the time I bought "DR LINUX" I didn't even own a car.
I gave the plate as a gift to Michael Anderson.
I finally bought half of my wife's car a
: [linux] Linux-Ottawa / NCF collaboration
Date: Sat, 5 Aug 2023 13:16:20 -0400
If a volunteer is going to run the mailing list for free, then the
discussion about paying someone else to do it is moot.
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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:
e 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'
d then we would
cut along that helical track to make our splice. The diagonal splices
were maybe six inches long or more, but they worked!
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> 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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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
https://web.ncf.ca/am125/
https://web.ncf.ca/iegorman/
hanks :-)
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minimum of supporting infrastructure.
I pledge $60, about the cost a tank of gas, which I don't have to spend
getting to meetings :-)
Cheers, Ian M.
On 2023-04-10 12:02, BCLUG wrote:
Dianne Skoll wrote on 2023-04-10 08:55:
Yes, according tohttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Linode
The lino
one bar of cell reception, elder family members to support).
>
> Thank you for your understanding,
> Katie
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it was one
bad actor signed up with teksavvy that spoiled it for the rest of us.
Cheers, Ian M.
=
This is the mail system at host mail.linux-ottawa.org.
I'm sorry to have to inform you that your message could not
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Hello,
My legal name is Ian MacWilliam. Please add me to the official
membership/voting list.
Thanks, Ian M.
P.S. I too could not find the privacy policy or the (reasonable)
requirement to provide legal names for the purpose of being added to the
voting list in the online bylaws. And I
;t use it, it became impossible to imagine
paying orders of magnitude more for a mobile device.)
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Hi all,
Ian MacWilliam here. Here being Perth. I really appreciate the ability
to remotely join in without having to drive in and try to find parking,
the building, the room, etc. It's been a long time since any of my kids
attended Ottawa U and much has changed, not to mention O
;
> > >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 <mailto:j...@messier.ca >)
> > >
> > >
>
> slainte mhath, RGB
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be some words about MQTT in home automation if needed.
>
> I'd be interested in this, and would even be willing to do a
> presentation about my home power monitoring system that I developped
> using current sensors in my house circuit breaker panel, a Teensy3.0
> (arduino), and a p
I don't need this but maybe you or a friend does:
Equipment Rack
https://www.freecycle.org/posts/88994120
"Measure 82 1/4" high and 23 3/4" wide and 14" deep. All the holes you
see are threaded"
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> Scott Murphy will be giving a talk on converting a Chrome Book to run a full
> Linux OS.
Slides? Transcript? I got me one of them things.
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On Fri, Dec 03, 2021 at 07:48:06AM -0500, J C Nash wrote:
> If you don't have a wiki login, either ask
Login please? "idallen"
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Veritasium video on the frequency of bit flips:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AaZ_RSt0KP8
"The Universe is Hostile to Computers"
At 17m53s: "On one five-day [Space Shuttle Mission] there were 161 separate bit
flips."
Okay, maybe we *do* need ECC RAM.
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se: All you need is an Ubuntu One account. Free for 3
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ally and running software from 2010 with no
patches available, they just stay up forever...
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LTS
Release:10.04
Codename: lucid
When one doesn't need to do reboots to install updates, one can be up
essentially forever using Linux.
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> 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&A.
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On Sun, Jul 04, 2021 at 03:00:52PM -0400, Robert P. J. Day wrote:
> just spent the last while trying to call three of its local stores,
> and not an answer from any of them. have they simply closed up? gone
> bankrupt?
They are still running facebook "story" advertising...
Why have I never heard of unixkcd until today?
https://uni.xkcd.com/
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lanks or GLOB characters.
*ALWAYS DOUBLE QUOTE YOUR VARIABLE EXPANSIONS*
https://teaching.idallen.org/cst8207/19w/notes/320_shell_variables.html#double-quote-all-uses-of-variables
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909 11 174.116.8.234
2910 13 174.116.6.218
2911 16 174.116.22.127
2912 16 24.52.219.121
I presume anyone else with a cable modem sees the same thing?
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res the
MTU supplied by DHCP, so in practice this isn't a problem.)
Is anyone else seeing this behaviour on their ISP?
Rumour has it that Windows machines never send unicast DHCPREQUEST
packets; they only use the broadcast version, so they never see this
"ignore unicast" problem. Ca
ing rsync
is older than 3.1.3.
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On Sat, Feb 13, 2021 at 12:31:51PM -0500, Brett Delmage wrote:
> 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,
o our Ottawa servers with 2
– 5ms roundtrip network latency. It seems Videotron is also good."
Distributel also routes via Montreal and then Toronto.
What can we do to get local Ottawa ISPs to peer with each other?
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>> > > it is possible I am not ... fully? subscribed to this list if
>> > > there was a changeover...? from the oclug domain?
>> > >
>> > >
>> > > thanks in advance.
>> > >
>> > >
>> > > Michael
>>
(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 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?
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On Thu, Jan 21, 2021 at 10:31:32AM -0500, Richard Guy Briggs wrote:
> On 2021-01-21 07:43, Ian! D. Allen wrote:
> > What do you (and other people) get for a final score from glmark2 ?
> Ooooh! I got 511!
I found this estimated performance comparison site that shows that
every oth
glmark2 Score: 173
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se:vertex-steps=5: FPS: 218
FrameTime: 4.587 ms
[loop] fragment-steps=5:fragment-uniform=true:vertex-steps=5: FPS: 129
FrameTime: 7.752 ms
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glmark2 Score: 173
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net.com/article/you-can-build-linus-torvalds-pc-heres-all-the-hardware-and-where-to-buy-it/
He used "Some random Sapphire RX580 graphics card."
As replicated by the other Linus:
"Linus builds Linus’ new PC!" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Kua9cY8q_EI
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> And to delete: find . -name \*.txt -empty -print0 | xargs -0 rm -v
In GNU find:
find -name \*.txt -empty -delete
If you want to see it working:
find -name \*.txt -empty -print -delete
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On Thu., Oct. 1, 2020, 18:43 Richard Guy Briggs, wrote:
> On 2020-10
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 t
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.
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money.
NCF may be the only exception:
"Sharing your DSL with neighbours"
https://www.ncf.ca/ncf/registration/dsl/index.jsp#q14
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ng statistics ---
4 packets transmitted, 4 received, 0% packet loss, time 3005ms
rtt min/avg/max/mdev = 74.311/74.631/74.912/0.397 ms
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The "From:"
field on any email I send has to match my Algonquin email address or
else the message is rejected. Whatever name text I use on the From:
line is replaced with the College standard "Ian Allen".
To receive email (using fetchmail) I connect to the POP3 port at
outlook
On Sun, Feb 24, 2019 at 11:03:30AM -0500, Rob Echlin wrote:
> The best distro for newbies is the one that comes with an expert to
> help them out. So, give them one that is compatible with what you use.
Best advice ever. (Because it's exactly what I say to people!) :-)
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1 information. c16si12847421ywk.105 - gsmtp
Not good.
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which means
the problem will only show up with two drives and is not the fault of either
drive.
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two 1600x1200
monitors, with a third monitor for Firefox. I still have parts of my
.vtwmrc and .Xresources that I used for twm back in the 1980s.
> > (oh yeah, and no use at all for CAPS LOCK).
> You can xmodmap CAPS LOCK into oblivion...
Yes.
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