Re: [OCLUG-Tech] is "xargs" really still useful just for limiting command line size?

2018-03-16 Thread Alex Pilon
ct a command before running it but, > these days, that limit is clearly much larger. Still not large enough. > i'm fairly sure i can conclude that a command can be at least 3882671 > characters long, can i not? Let's distinguish between commands and external processes. The f

Re: [OCLUG-Tech] is "xargs" really still useful just for limiting command line size?

2018-03-16 Thread Alex Pilon
On Fri, Mar 16, 2018 at 09:27:21AM -0400, Robert P. J. Day wrote: > course i taught recently had a section on "xargs", emphasizing its > value(?) in being able to run a command in bite-size pieces but, these > days, is that really that much of an issue? If it was a year ago when I tried to glob

Re: [OCLUG-Tech] Anyone use thinstation and/or xrandr

2018-03-15 Thread Alex Pilon
On Thu, Mar 15, 2018 at 03:33:53PM +, Trevor James wrote: > It is using xrandr to set up the X-Windows (or I assume since it is > all the graphics setup) You mean to tell X11 how to configure the screens only, right? xrandr doesn't do any more than that. No input device configuration, no drive

Re: [OCLUG-Tech] is there a convenient door this evening i can pull up to and unload?

2018-02-08 Thread Alex Pilon
On Thu, Feb 08, 2018 at 09:10:36AM -0500, Robert P. J. Day wrote: > i have a couple boxes of stuff for this evening; can someone suggest > the appropriate door to pull up to briefly this evening where i can > get a hand unloading? What time exactly? Cheers, A

Re: [OCLUG-Tech] looking for recommendations for portable MP3/FLAC music player

2018-02-06 Thread Alex Pilon
st it was the case a few years ago. You might have some luck with Python 3 and stdlib plistlib, and a bit of digging, but that's it. Don't even bother trying to go the other way. Well, that's all said without looking for existing reverse engineering notes online. IA

Re: [OCLUG-Tech] looking for recommendations for portable MP3/FLAC music player

2018-02-05 Thread Alex Pilon
er that i can buy off the shelf > in ottawa? Sandisk Clip. Got one for ~50$ at Canada Computers. Comes in a variety of colours and a plasticky look. Even sports a radio. Just a standard FAT mount and micro-USB cable. I think this is it. https://www.sandisk.com/home/mp3-players/clip-spo

Re: [OCLUG-Tech] fastest way to do full home dir backup to fresh HD?

2017-12-27 Thread Alex Pilon
er stores the user.xdg.origin.url and user.xdg.referrer.url xattrs. It's an implementation detail whether it uses these or loads it from its sqlite database though. I also thought some MACs used xattrs for security markings. and -H, I thought you used git? Wouldn't that blow the space of his backu

Re: [OCLUG-Tech] fastest way to do full home dir backup to fresh HD?

2017-12-27 Thread Alex Pilon
On Wed, Dec 27, 2017 at 08:19:04AM -0500, Richard Guy Briggs wrote: > I'd be using rsync -vaP so that subsequent updates are faster, but tar zcvf Also add -H, -A, and -X. These aren't just edge cases! > might be faster due to compression... How would compression help when it's on the same host?

Re: [OCLUG-Tech] Certified RHEL7 laptop?

2017-12-22 Thread Alex Pilon
boots and displays at all? Which Ubuntu? Version aside, same kernel, unless the distro added patches not in upstream. Ditto for the little critical userspace (e.g., X11 video drivers, fingerprintd, etc.). Shouldn't make too much of a difference. Regard

Re: [OCLUG-Tech] looking for decent sites for C++11 references/tutorials

2017-11-22 Thread Alex Pilon
On Wed, Nov 22, 2017 at 06:14:08AM -0500, Robert P. J. Day wrote: > i'm teaching 5 days worth of C++11 in january, already been handed > the courseware, and i'd like to put together a page of quality links > to C++11/14/17 tutorials and/or references for the class. While nowhere near the quality

Re: [OCLUG-Tech] WPA2 vulnerability

2017-10-20 Thread Alex Pilon
On Wed, Oct 18, 2017 at 02:28:01PM -0400, J C Nash wrote: > You are right that the audience needs to be identified. > > My view is that a lightning talk could present an overview of the exploit and > the measures that have been taken to address it. Then we'll have to presume only knowledge of Wi-F

Re: [OCLUG-Tech] WPA2 vulnerability

2017-10-18 Thread Alex Pilon
On Wed, Oct 18, 2017 at 04:30:43PM +, John Nash wrote: > Via ACM, I came across That's an odd place to get such notices. Unfortunately, due to embargoes, you're unlikely to get advance notice of all issues to your liking. You can try and parse the flood of CVEs every day, or subscribe to your

Re: [OCLUG-Tech] can i set up a d-link DCS-936L network camera to view via linux?

2017-09-20 Thread Alex Pilon
On Wed, Sep 20, 2017 at 08:19:15AM -0400, Richard Guy Briggs wrote: > These wired network cameras default to DHCP and failing that fall back > to either 192.168.122.1 (or something like that IIRC...) or use an > IPv4 link local address (169.?) which pretends to be random > with OUI or something lik

Re: [OCLUG-Tech] can i set up a d-link DCS-936L network camera to view via linux?

2017-09-19 Thread Alex Pilon
If you want to remonstrate me personally, please take this off-list, and certainly not Cc the OP who doesn't give a hoot. > I replied to Rob's message before I saw your reply. Fine. My *apologies*. I was quite hasty to reply about a pet peeve. > Given that those two were the only two that actual

Re: [OCLUG-Tech] can i set up a d-link DCS-936L network camera to view via linux?

2017-09-19 Thread Alex Pilon
On Tue, Sep 19, 2017 at 03:34:16PM -0400, Richard Guy Briggs wrote: > using standard open source tools (such as VLC? or maybe mplayer?) These are exactly the things I just recommended to *not* recommend. On Tue, Sep 19, 2017 at 01:37:32PM -0400, Alex Pilon wrote: > [1]: To anybody else,

Re: [OCLUG-Tech] can i set up a d-link DCS-936L network camera to view via linux?

2017-09-19 Thread Alex Pilon
On Tue, Sep 19, 2017 at 01:19:09PM -0400, Robert P. J. Day wrote: > friend just handed me a d-link DCS-936L network camera, and it would > seem that the normal use of these is via a tablet or smartphone, but i > would like to be able to use my fedora linux laptop and pop up a browser > window (i'

Re: [OCLUG-Tech] is there a way to identify superfluous .gitignore lines?

2017-09-11 Thread Alex Pilon
On Sun, Sep 10, 2017 at 06:52:28PM +, Robert P. J. Day wrote: > is there some variation of, say, "git check-ignore" that will scan the > hierarchy of .gitignore files once that build is done and display the > .gitignore entries for which there are no matches? Funny, man git-check-ignore. I thi

Re: [OCLUG-Tech] How to convert a character MAC address into individual hex bytes for writing?

2017-07-28 Thread Alex Pilon
t;, > and I need to, one nibble at a time, get the value 0x0A, 0x0, 0x0B, 0x01 > and so on. So would you like the bytes 0x0A, 0x00, etc., or the string "0x0A 0x00…"? Cheers, Alex Pilon ___ Linux mailing list Linux@lists.oclug.on.ca http://oclug.on.ca/mailman/listinfo/linux

Re: [OCLUG-Tech] is there any way to see the staged/unstaged changes in a stash?

2017-05-15 Thread Alex Pilon
part and the unstaged part, can you elaborate? Impossible. It doesn't take a refspec, *just* a *pathspec*. Regards, Alex Pilon ___ Linux mailing list Linux@lists.oclug.on.ca http://oclug.on.ca/mailman/listinfo/linux

Re: [OCLUG-Tech] how can I control network bandwidth usage?

2017-05-03 Thread Alex Pilon
r Sjöberg wrote: > They said the bell modem is a "commercial grade" one > apparently intended for small businesses but I don't bet anything on > that it's done anything to it besides having a higher price. Too bad it's not called “robbers”... > On 03/05/17 04:

Re: [OCLUG-Tech] how can I control network bandwidth usage?

2017-05-03 Thread Alex Pilon
destination (i.e., TCP/UDP source/destination port), etc. And those are just the ones that *most* people know about. If I use a u32 classifier under Linux, I can put things in buckets based on arbitrary bits (and way more, see tc-u32(8), tc-connmark(8), etc.), and have as many buckets as performa

Re: [OCLUG-Tech] how can I control network bandwidth usage?

2017-05-03 Thread Alex Pilon
the same machine also fairly send traffic to congestion-susceptible Wi-Fi. A full analysis of all possible sources of congestion is beyond the scope of a single email. Regards, Alex Pilon ___ Linux mailing list Linux@lists.oclug.on.ca http://oclug.on.ca/mailman/listinfo/linux

Re: [OCLUG-Tech] how can I control network bandwidth usage?

2017-05-03 Thread Alex Pilon
On Wed, May 03, 2017 at 02:56:30PM -0400, Don Hey wrote: > If you want a software based solution, I've played with Wonder Shaper and > it may be worth a look: > > http://lartc.org/wondershaper/ That's deprecated. https://www.bufferbloat.net/projects/bloat/wiki/Wondershaper_Must_Die/ http

Re: [OCLUG-Tech] need some advice on how to prune my current wiki so i can move it

2017-04-02 Thread Alex Pilon
our interactive shell is going to be a bit of a letdown, at least compared to Postgres' \d commands. > Or, use a wiki API if one exists to do the deletes. Probably no bulk operations? Regards, Alex Pilon ___ Linux mailing list Linux@lists.oclug.on.ca http://oclug.on.ca/mailman/listinfo/linux

Re: [OCLUG-Tech] looking for a new host for my web site for april 1

2017-03-10 Thread Alex Pilon
On Fri, Mar 10, 2017 at 06:44:25AM -0500, Rick Leir wrote: > Your other option is that many list members have a server in their basement, > some with impressive uptimes. Which also means that they're likely running under-patched kernels, libraries, daemons, etc… doesn't it? Rega

Re: [OCLUG-Tech] static ip setup for Linux Mint 18 and similar

2016-12-13 Thread Alex Pilon
mess with the systemd-networkd config (simple, but marginally more error-prone). Never use static IP again. Regards, Alex Pilon ___ Linux mailing list Linux@lists.oclug.on.ca http://oclug.on.ca/mailman/listinfo/linux

Re: [OCLUG-Tech] Job posting - Junior backend developer

2016-12-13 Thread Alex Pilon
> On 2016-12-13 11:41 AM, Alex Pilon wrote: > > My company's looking for a junior backend developer. May I post the job > > description to this list? On Tue, Dec 13, 2016 at 11:45:16AM -0500, J C Nash wrote: > Absolutely. And we used to be able to post on the website too.

[OCLUG-Tech] Job posting - Junior backend developer

2016-12-13 Thread Alex Pilon
Hello, I'm usually at the OCLUG meetings, but missed the last few due to work. My company's looking for a junior backend developer. May I post the job description to this list? Regards, Alex Pilon ___ Linux mailing list Linux@lists.oclug.

Re: [OCLUG-Tech] is there a revision symbol for the root commit?

2016-09-28 Thread Alex Pilon
On Wed, Sep 28, 2016 at 04:52:59AM -0400, Robert P. J. Day wrote: > embarrassed to admit i don't know this, but is there a revision > symbol for a repo's root commit? i don't think i've ever seen that > mentioned anywhere. gitrevisions(7) has nothing, but doesn't git support many roots? How woul

Re: [OCLUG-Tech] what does git not do *easily* you shouldn't be doing anyway?

2016-09-28 Thread Alex Pilon
On Wed, Sep 28, 2016 at 04:48:15AM -0400, Robert P. J. Day wrote: > perfect example: "how do i find the Nth last version of a file?" > now, you can certainly do this in git, using "git log", then extract > the commit ID from the appropriate line and so on. but (AFAIK), there > is no single comman

Re: [OCLUG-Tech] what does git not do *easily* you shouldn't be doing anyway?

2016-09-28 Thread Alex Pilon
> > prepping for delivering upcoming git courses, and i'm adding a short > > page for questions i get on a regular basis along the lines of "how do > > you do X in git?" when, for the most part, i typically answer, "why > > would you want to do that in the first place?" > > Like maybe locking a f

Re: [OCLUG-Tech] is there a recipe to display the git object store hierarchically?

2016-09-23 Thread Alex Pilon
> On 9/23/2016 4:38 AM, Robert P. J. Day wrote: > > i'm aware of things like "git cat-file -p" and so on, but is there > > some magic incantation to display the git object store > > graphically/hierarchically? > > > > […] > > On Fri, Sep 23, 2016 at 09:45:56AM -0400, Michael Soulier wrote: > git

Re: [OCLUG-Tech] curious about people using git on mac or windows

2016-09-22 Thread Alex Pilon
On Thu, Sep 22, 2016 at 06:52:11AM -0400, Robert P. J. Day wrote: > as i am ramping up to do more git courses, i want to make sure i > have the most up-to-date info on how to install and configure git on > windows and mac for students who use those platforms. > > one installation page i am awar

Re: [OCLUG-Tech] does a DVCS *necessarily* mirror the entire repo history?

2016-09-22 Thread Alex Pilon
On Thu, Sep 22, 2016 at 07:43:34AM -0400, Robert P. J. Day wrote: > (side note: currently updating all my git wiki pages and tutorials, > so i'll be asking a number of questions about git, including > apparently trivial ones that might not be so trivial.) Sweet. > pro git book makes the claim

Re: [OCLUG-Tech] Help with Linux

2016-09-10 Thread Alex Pilon
> Thanks in advance and if this is not something you can help me with, I > apologize for wasting your time Come to the meeting? Cheers, Alex Pilon ___ Linux mailing list Linux@lists.oclug.on.ca http://oclug.on.ca/mailman/listinfo/linux

Re: [OCLUG-Tech] a couple (simple?) systemd questions

2016-08-05 Thread Alex Pilon
than simply adding a "reboot" command at the bottom of the > script, is there a systemd directive that specifies the same thing? rebot ≡ systemctl reboot reboot is part of systemd-sysvcompat, which just uses /dev/initctl, which systemd has a legacy interface for. Cheers, Alex Pilon

Re: [OCLUG-Tech] Ternary computing?

2016-06-01 Thread Alex Pilon
> > > On 16-05-31 04:31 PM, Alex Pilon wrote: > > > > Both rpm, dpkg, and apt are showing their age. > > > > On Tue, May 31, 2016 at 04:41:57PM -0400, ProfJCNash wrote: > > > When binary is just not enough. > > > On 16/05/31, Alex Pilon wrote: &g

Re: [OCLUG-Tech] Ternary computing?

2016-05-31 Thread Alex Pilon
> On 16-05-31 04:31 PM, Alex Pilon wrote: > > Both rpm, dpkg, and apt are showing their age. On Tue, May 31, 2016 at 04:41:57PM -0400, ProfJCNash wrote: > When binary is just not enough. Binary what? In practice, you can, and will after a non-large amount of time, if using many envir

Re: [OCLUG-Tech] anyone up for an OCLUG discussion on how to set up a linux dev environment?

2016-05-31 Thread Alex Pilon
> Then there's the deb vs. rpm dichotomy, - CPIO is a superior package format, PERIOD. - The package manager is what matters THOUGH. - Both rpm, dpkg, and apt are showing their age. No comment on whether the replacements in those distros are even decent. > and we will not mention vi vs. emacs b

Re: [OCLUG-Tech] recommendations for spell-checking sizable source code base?

2016-05-16 Thread Alex Pilon
ow much you expect of this? Regards, Alex Pilon ___ Linux mailing list Linux@lists.oclug.on.ca http://oclug.on.ca/mailman/listinfo/linux

Re: [OCLUG-Tech] git question: how can i drop the n'th last commit?

2016-05-16 Thread Alex Pilon
On Mon, May 16, 2016 at 06:57:51AM -0400, Robert P. J. Day wrote: > i'm assuming that i can use a combination of cherry picking and > rebasing to "extract" any linear sequence of commits from a branch if > i decide they properly belonged elsewhere. > > is it just me, or do other people think this i

Re: [OCLUG-Tech] git question: how can i drop the n'th last commit?

2016-05-10 Thread Alex Pilon
On Tue, May 10, 2016 at 06:14:21AM -0400, Robert P. J. Day wrote: > i can remove the first line and save to get: > > ... X <--- B' <--- C' <--- D' <--- E' (HEAD) > > is there a way to do that without having to fire up an interactive > rebase session? Provided you never have rebase/merge/cherry

[OCLUG-Tech] Pure NFS 4 mounts

2016-04-10 Thread Alex Pilon
. Regards, Alex Pilon ___ Linux mailing list Linux@lists.oclug.on.ca http://oclug.on.ca/mailman/listinfo/linux

Re: [OCLUG-Tech] Arch Linux space problem?

2016-04-01 Thread Alex Pilon
o you mean by a “typing in a screen image”? > The concept of Arch seems right, but the implementation seems intended > to annoy. I'm sorry, but that's a bit of an extreme statement. The only thing that has ever annoyed me was the hardware and firmware I was installing on,

[OCLUG-Tech] Linux kernel 4.6 merge window

2016-03-20 Thread Alex Pilon
Who follows the kernel merge windows here? Within the last day or two, there's some rather neat, and odd things: - MACsec (802.1AE), commit 010998815230792aa8923a4b72deef0fd0c5f2e5¹ * About time at that! Yes, message security and transport security are more general, but not every protoc

[OCLUG-Tech] Recent OpenSSH vulnerability

2016-03-11 Thread Alex Pilon
st* a bunch of chars in there instead of using execlp/fork or popen and friends? Regards, Alex Pilon P.S. Bruce. I'll get to your other email some time soon. Work. ___ Linux mailing list Linux@lists.oclug.on.ca http://oclug.on.ca/mailman/listinfo/linux

Re: [OCLUG-Tech] Rsnapshot Issues

2016-03-06 Thread Alex Pilon
ou many of the issues you may have. Have you checked the SSH daemon logs? You have a good chance of finding your answer there. `ssh -vvv` is usually more for SSH *protocol* debugging. Regards, Alex Pilon ___ Linux mailing list Linux@lists.oclug.on.ca h

Re: [OCLUG-Tech] Ubuntu install with Windows 8

2016-03-04 Thread Alex Pilon
On Wed, Mar 02, 2016 at 03:02:01PM -0500, Rick Leir wrote: > [some comment about this Ubuntu-faulted EFI non-discussion] Could you be a bit more careful please with your In-Reply-Tos? Are you on a digest version of this list? If you really must reply to digest messages, please manually fix the In-

Re: [OCLUG-Tech] SOLVED: Home built PC w/ Win10 cannot get Ubuntu

2016-03-04 Thread Alex Pilon
usually hidden from everyday file utilities; but you can see it > with Disk/Partition utilities. That's the boot managers and other EFI applications. Regards, Alex Pilon ___ Linux mailing list Linux@lists.oclug.on.ca http://oclug.on.ca/mailman/listinfo/linux

Re: [OCLUG-Tech] tar or rsync for backup greater than 50Gb

2016-02-28 Thread Alex Pilon
tl;dr, use rsync -aHAX. On Sun, Feb 28, 2016 at 04:04:09PM -0500, Bruce wrote: > Is a 50Gb or greater reasonable for a tar.gz backup? Not unless you're backing up **to** a filesystem that doesn't support all the file attributes you need (e.g., dreaded HFS+, NTFS, and FAT). Especially not for… >

[OCLUG-Tech] .desktop file reading wrapper around dmenu_run

2016-02-09 Thread Alex Pilon
your menus , such as "mpv Media Player" rather than the name of the binary (“mpv”), or whatever your distro packages it as For you francophones, it transparently supports your locale… if the desktop entries have a translation. Anyone interested? Regar

Re: [OCLUG-Tech] OpenStack use case in NCR

2016-02-01 Thread Alex Pilon
case, some Amazon and Google solutions may also be what you're looking for. Regards, Alex Pilon ___ Linux mailing list Linux@lists.oclug.on.ca http://oclug.on.ca/mailman/listinfo/linux

[OCLUG-Tech] Proprietary nvidia driver under EFI on Macbook pro

2016-01-19 Thread Alex Pilon
Before I try this, may I ask if anybody *on this list* has gotten the following working? http://askubuntu.com/questions/264247/proprietary-nvidia-drivers-with-efi-on-mac-to-prevent-overheating/613573#613573 I've got a 6,2, not a 7,1. Yes, yes, “Don't use a Mac” or “Don't use the proprietary

Re: [OCLUG-Tech] Algonquin Wi-Fi

2016-01-14 Thread Alex Pilon
On Fri, Jan 15, 2016 at 12:08:50AM +, j...@messier.ca wrote: > Actually, I now remember that although you can get to the AP without > password, it is sometime impossible to get an IP address is everyone is > connected in the local DHCP scope. IOW: if every IP address from the DHCP > is allocat

Re: [OCLUG-Tech] Algonquin Wi-Fi

2016-01-14 Thread Alex Pilon
> > Quoting Scott McClare : > > > Hi all. Will there be any current Algonquin students attending tonight's > > > meeting? I'm a new student and I have a laptop I'd like to dual boot > > > (Windows/Kubuntu), but while Windows 10 connects to the campus Wi-Fi > > > effortlessly, I haven't had any succ

[OCLUG-Tech] 4.5 kernel changes

2016-01-13 Thread Alex Pilon
…] So you know when mutt is in that uninterruptible state because your Wi-Fi chip is a piece of junk and just ed out? Now you can fix it! I'll let you look at the rest of the commit online. More interesting details. UML's still alive too apparently.

Re: [OCLUG-Tech] optimal choice for filesystem type for SSD drive doing big builds?

2016-01-12 Thread Alex Pilon
> As the Fedora default is ext4, use ext4. Also ext4 is possibly the > best debugged FS in the world. Still doesn't prevent it from having seriously scary data loss bugs like lest than two years ago. > IMHO the advantages to btrfs are better suited to large multi-user > filesystems anyway. Stuff

Re: [OCLUG-Tech] why can't linux use a DOS-formatted root filesystem?

2016-01-12 Thread Alex Pilon
On Tue, Jan 12, 2016 at 12:08:55PM -0500, Robert P. J. Day wrote: > i know, it sounds like a moderately inane question, but it came up in the > context of a legacy, DOS-formatted system where the quest was to install > linux, *but* retain the option of backtracking to DOS in case things didn't >

Re: [OCLUG-Tech] December Meeting: 2015-12-03 @ 19:00

2015-12-03 Thread Alex Pilon
On Sun, Nov 29, 2015 at 02:35:29PM -0500, Murphy Scott wrote: > This month we will be having a distro talk on linux distributions. The > talk will be a number of short talks about specific distress, followed > by the opportunity for anyone else to take the floor and talk about a > distribution they

Re: [OCLUG-Tech] Odd behaviour in find

2015-11-25 Thread Alex Pilon
-xdev'] if args.X else [] +find = subprocess.Popen(['find'] + find_args + ['--'] + args.args, +stdout=subprocess.PIPE) bsdcpio_stdin = find.stdout else: bsd

Re: [OCLUG-Tech] Odd behaviour in find

2015-11-25 Thread Alex Pilon
On Wed, Nov 25, 2015 at 01:39:56PM -0500, Alex Pilon wrote: > Is it just me or should this work? > > $ find -xdev -- foo > find: unknown predicate `--' > $ > > But not this? > > $ find -- foo -xdev -name 'sadasdasdasd' > $ Beg y

Re: [OCLUG-Tech] Odd behaviour in find

2015-11-25 Thread Alex Pilon
> This is all documented in the manual. I know; see other subthread. What's odd is that `find -xdev -- foo` doesn't work, yet `find -- foo` does. I expected -- to be properly interpreted as the end of options indicator, as per the manual. ___ Linux mail

Re: [OCLUG-Tech] Odd behaviour in find

2015-11-25 Thread Alex Pilon
> > > On 15-11-25 01:39 PM, Alex Pilon wrote: > > > > Is it just me or should this work? > On Wed, Nov 25, 2015 at 03:45:38PM -0500, Peter Sjöberg wrote: > It's just you who skipped reading the man page No. I did read the man page. It's not doing w

Re: [OCLUG-Tech] Odd behaviour in find

2015-11-25 Thread Alex Pilon
> On 15-11-25 01:39 PM, Alex Pilon wrote: > > Is it just me or should this work? > > > > $ find -xdev -- foo > > find: unknown predicate `--' > > $ > > > > But not this? > > > > $ find -- foo -xdev -name 'sadas

[OCLUG-Tech] Odd behaviour in find

2015-11-25 Thread Alex Pilon
Is it just me or should this work? $ find -xdev -- foo find: unknown predicate `--' $ But not this? $ find -- foo -xdev -name 'sadasdasdasd' $ ___ Linux mailing list Linux@lists.oclug.on.ca http://oclug.on.ca/mailman/listinfo/linux

Re: [OCLUG-Tech] can i "git checkout" an earlier version of a file *only* into working directory?

2015-10-06 Thread Alex Pilon
On Tue, Oct 06, 2015 at 05:36:06AM -0700, Robert P. J. Day wrote: > is there an option to check the file out only in the working > directory? Not as far as I know, but if you're only doing single files; git show v4.0:Makefile > Makefile Regard

Re: [OCLUG-Tech] can "git stash show" distinguish between staged and unstaged stash content?

2015-09-25 Thread Alex Pilon
On Thu, Sep 24, 2015 at 09:30:49AM -0400, Robert P. J. Day wrote: > i'm sure there must be a simple answer to this -- given that "git > stash" will stash both the currently staged and unstaged content, is > there some variation of "git stash show -p" that will distinguish > between the content th

Re: [OCLUG-Tech] simple question about deleting a branch in git

2015-09-21 Thread Alex Pilon
ch, not just any branch, even though > that certainly seems like overkill. It is. > ok, i'll accept that, unless someone has opinions to the contrary. Run any experiments to try and break that statement? Regards, Alex Pilon ___ Linux mailing list Linux@lists.oclug.on.ca http://oclug.on.ca/mailman/listinfo/linux

Re: [OCLUG-Tech] Fwd: Linux help needed again

2015-09-20 Thread Alex Pilon
ce for that at all too, or just want to get a working Linux installation? Regards, Alex Pilon ___ Linux mailing list Linux@lists.oclug.on.ca http://oclug.on.ca/mailman/listinfo/linux

Re: [OCLUG-Tech] what command will display the current unix domain sockets?

2015-09-04 Thread Alex Pilon
> On 15-09-04 10:48 AM, Robert P. J. Day wrote: > > i'm looking for any command that will display all of the currently > > open unix domain sockets on my system -- i thought i found one in > > "ss" (part of iproute suite), but that just seems to dump the regular > > network sockets. Seems to work

Re: [OCLUG-Tech] VirtualBox network connection

2015-07-06 Thread Alex Pilon
earn what the > > > settings mean. > > > On 15-07-06 03:28 PM, Alex Pilon wrote: > > Is it that you just don't understand the settings themselves, or that > > you don't understand the virtualization and networking concepts behind > > them? > On Mon, J

Re: [OCLUG-Tech] VirtualBox network connection

2015-07-06 Thread Alex Pilon
On Mon, Jul 06, 2015 at 03:20:39PM -0400, ProfJCNash wrote: > I have some experience playing with the network settings and have had to > do so once or twice. But so far it has been trial and error until things > work. Bad practise. I should try to learn what the settings mean. Is it that you just

Re: [OCLUG-Tech] VirtualBox network connection

2015-07-06 Thread Alex Pilon
de, and make the interface to bridge to your Ethernet interface. Regards, Alex Pilon ___ Linux mailing list Linux@lists.oclug.on.ca http://oclug.on.ca/mailman/listinfo/linux

Re: [OCLUG-Tech] anyone out there have serious experience with hardening linux systems?

2015-06-16 Thread Alex Pilon
On Tue, Jun 16, 2015 at 02:43:26PM -0400, Wang Hao wrote: > ipchains at the moment You use Linux 2.2!? Regards, Alex Pilon ___ Linux mailing list Linux@lists.oclug.on.ca http://oclug.on.ca/mailman/listinfo/linux

Re: [OCLUG-Tech] can "git stash show" distinguish between staged and unstaged changes?

2015-05-08 Thread Alex Pilon
> > On Thu, May 07, 2015 at 06:13:23AM -0400, Robert P. J. Day wrote: > > > yet another question i should know the answer to but don't -- is > > > there a way to distinguish between the staged and unstaged changes in > > > a stash entry with "git stash

Re: [OCLUG-Tech] can "git stash show" distinguish between staged and unstaged changes?

2015-05-07 Thread Alex Pilon
On Thu, May 07, 2015 at 06:13:23AM -0400, Robert P. J. Day wrote: > yet another question i should know the answer to but don't -- is > there a way to distinguish between the staged and unstaged changes in > a stash entry with "git stash show"? git stash show -p? pgpe6pmeE1JeX.pgp Descripti

Re: [OCLUG-Tech] Nullmailer on Ubuntu 12.04

2015-05-02 Thread Alex Pilon
On Sat, May 02, 2015 at 11:27:19AM -0400, David Patte ₯ wrote: > Actually, nullmailer is a message transfer agent, simply forwarding my > mail to the smtp at my provider. And nullmailer is authenticating with my > provider using a password. But it is not authenticating using STARTTLS. STARTTLS is

Re: [OCLUG-Tech] Nullmailer on Ubuntu 12.04

2015-05-02 Thread Alex Pilon
tp://mxtoolbox.com/spf.aspx http://mxtoolbox.com/dkim.aspx http://mxtoolbox.com/dmarc.aspx Regards, Alex Pilon pgppkg0G1BhTI.pgp Description: PGP signature ___ Linux mailing list Linux@lists.oclug.on.ca http://oclug.on.ca/mailman/listinfo/linux

Re: [OCLUG-Tech] more git pedantry -- clarifications about .gitignore

2015-04-29 Thread Alex Pilon
t would subsume both of those > > > entries? > > > On Wed, 29 Apr 2015, Alex Pilon wrote: > > **/include/generated > On Wed, Apr 29, 2015 at 12:18:05PM -0400, Robert P. J. Day wrote: > which brings up even more pedantry (as you knew it would) ... from > "m

Re: [OCLUG-Tech] more git pedantry -- clarifications about .gitignore

2015-04-29 Thread Alex Pilon
On Wed, Apr 29, 2015 at 08:33:51AM -0400, Robert P. J. Day wrote: > some (hopefully) trivial questions about .gitignore, since the > actual documentation isn't as precise as it could be. Which? gitignore(5)? > and another thing ... why both of these lines? > > include/generated > arch/*/inclu

Re: [OCLUG-Tech] Linux book giveaway

2015-04-28 Thread Alex Pilon
> On Tue, 28 Apr 2015, Alex Pilon wrote: > > I'm sorting through a collection of books in the basement. I'm > > wondering whether anybody would be interested in the following, > > whether for themselves or somebody else, or if I should just toss > > them. >

[OCLUG-Tech] Linux book giveaway

2015-04-28 Thread Alex Pilon
or dummies, 4th edition. John R. Levine and Margaret Levine Young. If anybody wants them, I'll bring them and *give them away*, not sell them, at the next OCLUG. Regards, Alex Pilon pgp5IMfhJap9a.pgp Description: PGP signature ___ Linu

Re: [OCLUG-Tech] a (simple?) question about what git can "reuse" across repos

2015-04-28 Thread Alex Pilon
On Tue, Apr 28, 2015 at 09:17:21AM -0400, Robert P. J. Day wrote: > i'm curious if git will recognize identical underlying content from > two different repositories depending on how that content was added and > committed. If it were done, it would have to be done on the same filesystem, and eith

Re: [OCLUG-Tech] want to clarify a fast-forward merge in git

2015-04-26 Thread Alex Pilon
On Sun, Apr 26, 2015 at 01:14:30PM -0400, Robert P. J. Day wrote: > i attacked a screengrab of just that part of the figure ... it > should be enough to see what the figure is trying to say. if there's a > way to interpret that in any meaningful way, i'm not aware of it. Well since the text is s

Re: [OCLUG-Tech] want to clarify a fast-forward merge in git

2015-04-26 Thread Alex Pilon
On Sun, Apr 26, 2015 at 05:19:00AM -0400, Robert P. J. Day wrote: > i'm well aware of the standard behaviour of a FF merge in git, but > i'm looking at a git book Published… or are you under an NDA? > which shows a figure purporting to show a FF merge and it confuses the > heck out of me. It m

[OCLUG-Tech] VM performance (was: Re: SELinux in RPM and targeted mode)

2015-04-22 Thread Alex Pilon
oon}), bridged networking, using a proper emulated graphics card, etc? Is there anything else to optimize? Not sure of VBox can even change the emulated graphics card type. I just use QEMU with either qxl (because I might be using SPICE), else std or vmware. See if there's something like that. R

Re: [OCLUG-Tech] make menuconfig deprecation

2015-04-20 Thread Alex Pilon
> On 15/04/20, Alex Pilon wrote: > > Side note, menuconfig has been superseded for a little while now. > > > > [shows commit in Linux mainline git tree introducing nconfig] > On Mon, Apr 20, 2015 at 10:05:54PM -0400, Richard Guy Briggs wrote: > Thank you for remiinding m

[OCLUG-Tech] make menuconfig deprecation (was: make environment variables and the kbuild system)

2015-04-20 Thread Alex Pilon
7;s X defined" and you can't just F8, type part of the Kconfig variable name, and get all the info you wished for. Regards, Alex Pilon pgpULdqYsO2wb.pgp Description: PGP signature ___ Linux mailing list Linux@lists.oclug.on.ca http://oclug.on.ca/mailman/listinfo/linux

Re: [OCLUG-Tech] formail / fetchmail issue

2015-04-16 Thread Alex Pilon
On Thu, Apr 16, 2015 at 02:11:10PM -0400, Prof J C Nash (U30A) wrote: > I've tried 777 perms for umail and umail/inbox file. Don't do that. Not only is it likely irrelevant, but it's a terrible idea, securitywise. The magic everybody has access perms is not something you should do blindly. Notice

Re: [OCLUG-Tech] Leaving meetup.com

2015-02-14 Thread Alex Pilon
On Sat, Feb 14, 2015 at 02:25:03PM -0500, Murphy Scott wrote: > […] the meetup group for OCLUG is being dropped in favour of 1980’s > technology as Alex so succinctly put it at the meeting. You make it sound almost like I'm deriding it due to my youth! This 1980s technology *IS* better. Plain tex

Re: [OCLUG-Tech] Opinions requested: LF Good low powered multi-port gateway/wireless router

2015-01-05 Thread Alex Pilon
> > On Sun, Jan 04, 2015 at 01:52:23PM -0500, Peter Meyer wrote: > > > Opinions please. I am looking to build/buy something that replaces my > > > existing router/gateway box. > > > On Mon Jan 05 2015 at 12:01:11 Alex Pilon wrote: > > Why not just stock Lin

Re: [OCLUG-Tech] Opinions requested: LF Good low powered multi-port gateway/wireless router

2015-01-05 Thread Alex Pilon
On Sun, Jan 04, 2015 at 01:52:23PM -0500, Peter Meyer wrote: > Opinions please. I am looking to build/buy something that replaces my > existing router/gateway box. > > My thinking is taking me in two directions. One is to replace my existing > WRT54GL running Tomato with another embedded system r

Re: [OCLUG-Tech] Presentation pitch

2015-01-02 Thread Alex Pilon
trademark law issues regarding > open-source Any particular focus? More for users? Developers? Businesses or non-profits? > […] > > Please let me know if this would interest you. I would be. Regards, Alex Pilon pgp_9GyAW2kah.pgp Description: PGP signature _

Re: [OCLUG-Tech] fetchmail and offlineimap alternatives

2014-12-11 Thread Alex Pilon
On Thu, Dec 11, 2014 at 03:02:48PM -0500, Richard Guy Briggs wrote: > So, you mentioned some issues with offlineimap the other night? Can you > elaborate? I don't know if you had expressed an opinion about fetchmail. I don't know fetchmail. I've heard of it, and that it's only incoming. I've use

[OCLUG-Tech] Suggested tutorial for next OCLUG

2014-12-10 Thread Alex Pilon
rgb strongly at L3GO yesterday that I ought that I do a DKIM, SPF, and DMARC tutorial for the simplest of use cases. Would anyone else be interested? Note that I am not an expert. I've only set up netdev01.org, EngSoc's, and alexpilon.ca's mail servers. Cheers, Alex Pilon pg

Re: [OCLUG-Tech] Teeing email successfully sent through postfix too a Maildir

2014-11-02 Thread Alex Pilon
> On Sat, Nov 1, 2014 at 11:26 PM, Alex Pilon wrote: > > One of the nice features of GMail is that it'll copy email sent through > > it using SMTP to the [Gmail]/Sent folder. Has anybody managed to do > > something similar with Postfix? On Sun, Nov 02, 2014 at 12:46:1

[OCLUG-Tech] Teeing email successfully sent through postfix too a Maildir

2014-11-01 Thread Alex Pilon
it's trivially possible to attempt send an email with mutt such that the email is copied to the IMAP sent folder (whatever your naming convention), but fails the SMTP submission. Regards, Alex Pilon pgpnMGgVWdcMm.pgp Description: PGP signature ___

Re: [OCLUG-Tech] Nov meeting?

2014-11-01 Thread Alex Pilon
On Sat, Nov 01, 2014 at 09:04:55AM -0400, Murphy Scott wrote: > There is no topic yet, I’m looking at talking about monitoring > solutions Would love to hear about that but… > or something in that ballpark if nothing better comes up. > > Volunteer speakers wanted :) we could also dispense with a

Re: [OCLUG-Tech] dd disk

2014-10-31 Thread Alex Pilon
gt; > Did you try dd skip=BLOCKS to jump past block zero and try another track? Yes. That and reading arbitrary sectors with hdparm --read-sector. No change. Already falling back to the data recovery service. I'll let this list know anything useful about their services. Regards,

[OCLUG-Tech] Recovering data from a potentially damaged drive

2014-10-25 Thread Alex Pilon
t fails with an “I/O error”, and hdparm --read-sector just gives me the same data, no matter the sector². S.M.A.R.T. still says that the drive is healthy, not-so-oddly-enough anymore³. Short of going to a data recovery professional, is there no hope? Regards, Alex Pilon ¹: [81885.641969] usb

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