What about my 8" floppy disk, unused since it was in a pdp11, in 1978 approx.
LOL
On January 17, 2024 3:22:06 PM EST, "Ian E. Gorman" wrote:
>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
We never even told you about open source nerds an nachos
http://clicks.meetup.com/ls/click?upn=XbaZ37larFA-2FuV5MohrYpdrra25MtI4CzodbRR1Rd1mhr1xShVkCrqYYJqodQha1Aed-2F1qUSLs6eE-2FnxdFa7Fg-3D-3DOci8_COUti7EiCTywajQe-2FUkV6Q7oHg8Owr4aj15Vgmgy0-2FUPjgcSDE0tIBzjPB-2BXWZdgj0mye-2FgrcNz8MTWCYihALtVMSZ8IC
Very interesting, Google 'GPL license getting revoked'.
The hits from ycombinator , lwn.net, and gnu.org give the best discussion.
But the Asian exec might be worried about something else, perhaps technology
export restrictions? I cannot see how that could apply to FOSS
On February 10, 2023 9
I have been using my android phone for notes. But do I really want my personal
notes going into Google 's data suction input? Not that I have any really
private info to safeguard. Maybe I need to also carry a reMarkable around with
me. Good idea -- Rick
On January 30, 2023 10:37:27 PM EST, Jam
RGB, team:
While on the topic of uncommon equipment choices, ...
I do have a mobile device. But I don't have a working machine with
Microsoft's OS on it.
What do you run your tax preparation app on? Ufile and such only work on
Microsoft's OS. Run it in a VM?
Run Ufile / TurboTax in Wine?
What is your block size parameter?
$ dd bs=10 if=aaa of=bbb
Block size makes a big difference to performance.
Cheers -- Rick
On August 28, 2022 10:55:44 p.m. EDT, James wrote:
>I had an HP EX900 - 250GB nvme that I upgraded to a Samsung SSD 980 - 500GB.
>I figured the new one would be twi
Hi Katie and all,
There is technical interest, clearly.
But also business and career development interest, and that will make your
Professional Development Club happy. TelusHealth is making big bucks in their
business, and OSS competitors could do very well in grabbing a bite of the pie.
Cheers
Maybe you talked of this already: there is gitter.im which is an open source
instant messaging and chat room for users of gitlab. I have not used it.
As someone else said, chat and messaging are poor tools for annual meetings. We
would do better to meet outdoors and take a chance with the weathe
Hi John
My son who is doing CS at Carleton would like to have Knuth please! But someone
else has probably snapped them up already
Thanks
Rick
On February 8, 2022 12:04:14 p.m. EST, J C Nash wrote:
>We have rather a lot of books and it is time to pass them on to those who can
>use them. You can
On July 15, 2021 9:15:45 a.m. EDT, Richard Guy Briggs wrote:
> and fedora on $work laptop and am
>satisfied running it also on the laptops of the other three family
>members.
I find Fedora interesting because I learn about some of the best new ideas via
my Fedora server.
For a laptop there a
James
Do they provide you with a whitelist that you can add to? Then if you see that
a domain is getting refused, you can add it to the whitelist and not have it
refused.
However, the mail server might still refuse mail from the domain, depending on
the reputation of the domain. Mail servers
For example the xps13. Check the prices, they are more expensive with linux
pre-installed. You are better off to buy it with windows then immediately
install Ubuntu, overwriting the windows. Unless you want it officially
supported.
It works very well with Ubuntu.
Cheers -- Rick
On June 14, 202
They have a ssh server on the device, but it is *possible* that they
wrote their own server.
On 6/4/21 4:02 PM, Dianne Skoll wrote:
On Fri, 4 Jun 2021 17:55:34 + (UTC)
Rob Echlin wrote:
IIRC, the Linux OS and libraries have never used a restrictive
licence that stops you from using propr
Jun 2021, Rick Leir wrote:
>
>> https://github.com/danielebruneo/remarkable2-hacks
>>
>> It looks as if you can ssh into it. Now, what can we do in here ...
>> Cheers -- Rick
>
>Does it do OCR? Run Tesseract on it!?
>
>Run an email server on it? :-)
>
>
https://github.com/danielebruneo/remarkable2-hacks
It looks as if you can ssh into it. Now, what can we do in here ...
Cheers -- Rick
--
Sorry for being brief. Alternate email is rickleir at yahoo dot com
Or Fedora. It's more interesting because the new ideas get tried there first.
The only bother is the upgrade that's needed every year or so. It has gone
smoothly for the last few years.
Cheers -- Rick
--
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This is good for people who want to disappear and are a bit fanatical.
It is in the library.
"This 500-page textbook will explain how to become digitally invisible.
You will make all of your communications private, data encrypted,
internet connections anonymous, computers hardened, identity gu
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
Hi all,
Recommendations for a WiFi router please? I am looking for something which is
configurable and secure. Unfortunately I don't have time to build my own linux
based software so I will buy a commercial product.
Thanks -- Rick
--
Sorry for being brief. Alternate email is rickleir at yahoo d
John
Please post the script.
--Rick
On October 13, 2020 12:25:40 p.m. EDT, J C Nash wrote:
>I've a small script I wrote in Python / tkinter to caption jpeg files.
>
>I'd like to have Nautilus/Caja (both seem to give similar issues)
>launch this
>under "open with". Looking at some web postings, th
https://www.howtogeek.com/215235/how-to-install-printer-drivers-on-linux/
https://www.openprinting.org/drivers
No guarantee that will be useful, but that's where Would start -- Rick
On September 15, 2020 7:12:12 p.m. EDT, CL Junk wrote:
>Hi,
>
>I recently upgraded to Mint Linux 20.04 from 16.04 a
Hi all
Someone related to the Black Lives Matter organization mentioned that
the 'blacklist' term was offensive. That is not something that WASPs
should debate; offense is in the eye of the offended persons.
We could easily change to use block-list or better reject-list. And for
white-list w
Hi Robert
They are putting Linux smarts into leaf telecoms devices on the customers
premises. I think that means the routers at the perimeter of the telecom's
software defined network.
When I interviewed with them a few years back they had a young smart crowd
doing ambitious projects.
You ca
On April 8, 2020 8:35:07 AM EDT, Alex Pilon wrote:
>On Wed, Apr 08, 2020 at 06:36:33AM -0400, Rick Leir wrote:
>> What do you have in /etc/nsswitch.conf ?
>
>I *had* exactly this:
>
> hosts: files mymachines myhostname mdns_minimal [NOTFOUND=return] dns
>
>Had, the pr
Alex,
What do you have in /etc/nsswitch.conf ?
Cheers -- Rick
On April 6, 2020 3:07:33 PM EDT, Alex Pilon wrote:
>Good aft,
>
>Does anyone have tips for how to debug nsswitch, short of going into
>the
>source, rebuilding with -O0 -g, and attaching a gdb?
>
>My dad's laptop is supposed to mDNS-res
RGB, Diane,
Please keep us posted on this
Cheers
Rick
On April 2, 2020 10:47:51 AM EDT, Richard Guy Briggs wrote:
>On 2020-04-02 09:36, Dianne Skoll wrote:
>> I use Jitsi. Seems to work well enough.
>>
>> You can use it for free at https://meet.jit.si/
>>
>> However, for my friends and family,
Did you have a hand in the development?
Cheers -- Rick
On April 2, 2020 9:31:42 AM EDT, "Michael P. Soulier"
wrote:
>Also Mitel has allowed miteam meetings use for free during this crisis
>I believe. I use the web version on Linux. Full disclosure. I work
>there.
>
>https://meet.mitel.io.
>
>
Robert
But wait, your vim .. it's out of date. And your compiler .. it's out of date.
How frequently does repo get updated? More than vim no doubt. But your dnf
update happens frequently, or is it apt-get. And it checks for compatibility
with other packages. And you are less likely to stumble a
Hi all,
Recommendations for a XMPP Jabber server please?
Cheers -- Rick
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John
Did you look into wifi mesh access points? You would have wifi pucks separated
by a few tens of feet, wherever there is mains power available. One of these
also needs to be the base WAN connection, whether by cable or adsl.
I say puck because google sells an easily managed system with the u
This does not answer your question, but
someone wanted to learn some languages so
here is the source in 10 different languages:
https://github.com/kddeisz/tree
cf
https://github.com/nodakai/tree-command
On 2/23/20 1:02 PM, Robert P. J. Day wrote:
for the sake of some documentation and w
Robert: You should be thinking more of CI/CD. The main page at
mender.io says"We have created an infrastructure that allows us to do
automated unit, acceptance and integration tests on each code change we
make to the product. We run tests on both virtual and physical devices."
When some sof
Barry
Another possibility, perhaps not something that you would consider. With a
cable internet service it seems that your IP rarely changes. So you update your
DNS manually, and you set up decent monitoring so that you will know quickly
when the IP changes. And it is free! But clearly if you ha
Mike
If your Ubuntu install medium is prepared correctly it will not stop at Grub.
Your best course of action is to go back and create the USB flash key correctly.
I say Ubuntu because it is the most user friendly, reliable distro available
(preparing for a lengthy discussion here).
But Windows
Diane
I agree, though I like the Ottawa JavaScript group's slack channel.
How do you feel about groups.io https://groups.io/ ?
Cheers -- Rick
On November 9, 2019 8:52:15 AM EST, Dianne Skoll wrote:
>On 11/9/19 6:10 AM, Jeff Green wrote:
>
>> Is there a Slack Channel for the group? If not, would
Hi Richard
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
Cheers
Rick
On October 31, 2019 11:15:43 AM EDT, Richard Guy Briggs
wrote:
>On 2019-10-31 09:59, Rick Leir wr
Scott
Would you mind reminding me when the upcoming meeting is? From memory, it is
the first Thursday of each month, so it would be... But the neurons are over
committed.
If we were a meetup group, then there would be a nice ical file attached to the
announcement email. And we would have new pe
Hi John and Robert
There might be time for a Github vs Gitlab chat. Several notable projects went
to Gitlab, possibly due to a long standing antipathy to Microsoft. I am at
Github myself.
Cheers
Rick
On October 29, 2019 10:07:57 AM EDT, J C Nash wrote:
>I suspect Scott will get this via the lis
In my experience with software businesses, when you have a new project you want
it finished by yesterday. The programmer in me says the first cut at the code
will get thrown out or should be. Even if you were talking of python 2.7 and
3.0 I would say get started and plan for a possible upgrade (
Many years ago there was a 3D view of a recreation of the interior of
Dresden Cathedral using then-state-of-the-art Catia software, described
here:
https://pdfs.semanticscholar.org/63b4/9366bdedd49f99a65c7b0a214b4518e77279.pdf
"After the completion of this animation we discovered that
we had
I have experience with Fedora, Centos and a debian based distro ( Ubuntu!).
Fedora is bleeding edge. You will sometimes need to learn something new just to
keep the machine usable. And you will be forced to upgrade regularly (is it a
yearly thing?).
Centos has the same packages, but not bleedin
Yes, CirrusComputing used Evolution, Dovecot, Postfix, Webcot?, Vtiger, mumble,
and DSpam. That was for the customers' systems, and we dogfooded it.
A big problem: what the customer saw did not have a MS look and feel. I still
think the product had potential for a different niche.
Integration
Rob
Horde was developed many years ago, but didn't get used by many people (if any
at all).
Non- MS mail? Some businesses use gmail. But for the most part, MS has a
monopoly on business email systems. Maybe Slack will change that? But sales
people may want to use their CRM for email with custom
Alan
Can you throw in a PCI nic just to save the hassle of sorting out that on-board
NIC?
You might want to quickly try Ubuntu.
Cheers
Rick
On April 23, 2019 9:14:27 PM EDT, Alan McKay wrote:
>Hey folks, a bit of a longshot but is anyone using this and can give
>me the magic incantation to get
James
Maybe you are better off putting this sort of post on ebay or kijjiji. Not on
the OCLUG list.
Thanks
Rick
On February 11, 2019 3:08:51 PM EST, James wrote:
>I'm selling my pci express Hauppage WinTV-HVR-1250 tv tuner card.
>
>Support for Linux.
>
>$30
>
>Got rid of my antenna.
>
>To unsubs
Michael,
The reverse DNS is also mentioned in the Google help page. Your reverse DNS
seems to be wrong.
HTH -- Rick
On January 19, 2019 1:02:39 PM EST, "Michael P. Soulier"
wrote:
>So, I help our my sister's business by handling her domain. For some
>time she has paid for a virtual server with
Michel
Sorry, it is not a simple answer. They suggest DKIM, SPF and DMARC for
authentication, and setting these up will take a bit of effort. It is not clear
how Google scores an email to block spam, maybe one of the authentication
systems above would be adequate. Or maybe they are all required.
Barry
Now we can switch the thread to distro wars! I like Ubuntu for the desktop.
Cheers -- Rick
On December 9, 2018 3:50:11 PM EST, Barry McLarnon
wrote:
>Thanks to everyone who offered suggestions on where to acquire
>hardware. Since I don't need portability and am leery of buying used
>gea
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