On Fri, 6 Apr 2018, J C Nash wrote:
I really never imagined my "lazy keyboard habits" would lead to all this
discovery.
"The reasonable man adapts himself to the conditions that surround him...
The unreasonable man adapts surrounding conditions to himself... All
progress depends on the unre
On Thu, 5 Apr 2018, Dianne Skoll wrote:
On Thu, 5 Apr 2018 10:16:29 -0400
J C Nash wrote:
And. ... tab on first couple of letters of symlinked directory gives
no /, but hitting tab again gives the /. Went back to my local bash
and same behaviour.
That's a smart way to work. Sometimes you w
On Fri, 16 Mar 2018, J C Nash wrote:
This may introduce a tangent, but I find the limit is often not the
coded one but issues related to
- getting 250 characters into the line and not remembering whether the
parameter should be X or x and what the difference is.
Indeed.
For those who may no
On Wed, 14 Mar 2018, Brett Delmage wrote:
WHat does file ../sbin/* show on other systems?
I meant: file /sbin/*
file /usr/sbin/*
Any static linking?
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On Wed, 14 Mar 2018, Robert P. J. Day wrote:
more nitpicky pedantry, but i was summarizing some handy system H/W
utilities and noticed that, while lsusb and lspci philosophically do
the same thing (that is, display system info), on my fedora system,
they are installed differently:
$ type lsus
On Tue, 6 Mar 2018, Richard Guy Briggs wrote:
info(1) sucks.
Agreed. But pinfo is an improvement.
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On Thu, 22 Feb 2018, Vic Gedris wrote:
I've been using http://rsnapshot.org for many years. Yes, it's an rsync
wrapper. Should be available most distro package libraries.
Likewise.
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On Mon, 4 Sep 2017, Scott Murphy wrote:
This month we will have two talks, one from Ian on PBX log data extraction and
one from Scott on anonymous data collaboration.
Hi Scott,
Could you tell me more about this please? It sounds interesting I may not
be able to make it all the way out there
On Fri, 10 Mar 2017, Robert P. J. Day wrote:
so, recommendations for local hosting to which i can move this?
thanks.
Canadian Web Hosting / cacloud.ca is consistently professional and
helpful, from their tech support to billing. I get _way_ more support
responsiveness from them than I pay f
I am trying to bring up DNSSEC on my domains, served by bind 9.10.3 on
Ubuntu 16.04. I already have two secure zones validated by
http://dnssec-debugger.verisignlabs.com and dnsviz.net
Now I need to get rollover working before expiry :-)
I secured the zones using zonesigner, and I understand r
On Sat, 19 Jul 2014, Prof J C Nash (U30A) wrote:
I've been reasonably happy with my purchases and interaction with Canada
Computers, in particular the Rideau Store, though I've also dealt with
Merivale and Kanata branches.
Likewise. I've shopped at the Kanata, Merivale, Rideau and Tenth Line
On Fri, 9 May 2014, Dmitriy Korovkin wrote:
I would be interested a lot in such a group if it does not require personal
presence somewhere in downtown I try to avoid traffic there as much as I can.
It's easy enough to get downtown by OC Transpo from anywhere.
You could even drive to a Park a
On Mon, 5 May 2014, Robert P. J. Day wrote:
http://teaching.idallen.com/
i actually remember ian! from u waterloo many, many years ago. i
simply didn't know that his current courseware was online.
Neither did I. Thanks for sharing the uRL.
Brett
On Sat, 3 May 2014, Derek Murphy (Simba 64 bit) wrote:
Strange. I use TekSavvy with a static IP, run my own mail server (Sendmail,
because I'm old) and DNS (BIND, also because I'm old) and I've never had a
problem sending mail to anyone.
Likewise. I even run a local (announce type) mailing li
On Thu, 24 Apr 2014, David Patte ₯ wrote:
I'm not sure how often Bell updates
the IPs of their home customers.
If your ISP is teksavvy (and maybe others) you can get static IP DSL for a
small fee per month.
Brett
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On Tue, 7 Jan 2014, Vic Gedris wrote:
It means there's an access control list (getfacl / setfacl...).
You're right, the documentation should be way more obvious. "man ls"
should point to that.
rday wrote:
typically, extended permissions such as ACLs.
...except attibutes such as "immutable
I've completely forgotten the meaning of the "+" in ls output e.g.
-rw-r-+ 1 brett www-data 88565 Jan 3 23:45 131230-233137-1.jpg
-rw-r- 1 brett www-data 25007 Jan 7 14:00 logo.jpg
and nothing I've RTFM'd or googled seems to show its meaning.
Anyone?
And what would I man to get an e
On Wed, 11 Dec 2013, Robert P. J. Day wrote:
and drive down, pick it up, and
pay the duty on the way back at the border.
*Drive* down for a pickup? At $0.40/km is that really cost-effective
compared to shipping? I guess for something very heavy... or that cannot
be shipped.
so ... recomme
On Fri, 29 Nov 2013, Richard Guy Briggs wrote:
On Fri, Nov 29, 2013 at 02:27:19PM -0500, Jean-Luc cooke wrote:
mailchimp
yahoogroups?
google?
I guess all of these could be suitable if you don't care about having your
subscribers' privacy violated via the U.S. Patriot Act. i.e. U.S. hosted
On Fri, 29 Nov 2013, Richard Guy Briggs wrote:
On Fri, Nov 29, 2013 at 02:27:19PM -0500, Jean-Luc cooke wrote:
mailchimp
yahoogroups?
google?
I guess all of these could be suitable if you don't care about having your
subscribers' privacy violated via the U.S. Patriot Act. i.e. U.S. hosted
On Fri, 1 Nov 2013, Rob Echlin wrote:
Evan Amos is a profiessional photographer with a love for gaming systems.
Here is his story
http://petapixel.com/2013/10/31/power-wikipedia-became-gamings-popular-anonymous-photographer/
His kickstarter has raised over the $8500 he asked for, but there i
On Mon, 5 Aug 2013, Jeff Moncrieff wrote:
I run pfSense but not as a VM I do not like the idea of running a router on a
virtual machine. it a security risk better to get a cheap system.
If power use, physical space, and reliability are not of concern, sure why
not.
_
On Mon, 5 Aug 2013, Mike Hopper wrote:
And ya...I felt kind of dirty suggesting a BSD based solution on here!
Heh. I think Linux users are among the smartest to understand that using
the best tool for a job makes sense. Linux is... in many cases, but not
all.
I've been investigating virtua
I recall there are some people on this list who have dealt with something
like I'd like to do.
I'd like to reach people with cellphones and tablets, gathered in large
(semi-public) congregation in Ottawa. Think OLS conference, for example,
except outside; and far less data transfer per user (ma
Does anyone know of any affordable DNS services like Zoneedit at 151 Front
Street or elsewhere, with low latency to Ottawa ISPs/clients? I need a
secondary DNS server to replace the one operating on my Linux host at the
end of my DSL line (no incremental cost, but obviously not the best
technic
On Thu, 22 Mar 2012, Eric Brackenbury wrote:
> Some folks have started to come to meetings only to find the content way
> above their knowledge level and so not returned (I know they should have
> stayed to push the other brains to share and help).
Or maybe they just found the environment unfrien
On Thu, 22 Mar 2012, Richard Guy Briggs wrote:
On Thu, Mar 22, 2012 at 08:46:55AM -0400, Grégoire, André wrote:
It would cool if we could have a poll to see where members preferred
to have the meetings that way the majority would take it.
This assumes that the potential body of interested peo
On Sun, 15 Jan 2012, Shawn H Corey wrote:
> I'm currently using Bell for my ISP but I thinking of changing; they are
> charging too much money for too little performance. I am looking for an
> ISP to provide DSL at home. Any suggestions?
I would also support Teksavvy from personal experience of 5
On Sun, 11 Dec 2011, Robert P. J. Day wrote:
>> mount with the offset option:
>>
>> mount -t ext3 -o loop,offset=your_start_offset sd_card.img /mnt/mountpoint
>
> ah, i'm embarrassed to admit i never knew the loop mount accepted an
> offset. problem solved.
Hey - I learned something new that I
On Wed, 19 Oct 2011, Brett Delmage wrote:
> On Wed, 19 Oct 2011, Paul Bourgeois wrote:
>
>> (get your HDMI cable from a dollar store because you won't find a better
>> price on the things),
>
> Regrettably, only Monstor cables will work with Linux-based HDMI. All the
On Wed, 19 Oct 2011, Paul Bourgeois wrote:
> (get your HDMI cable from a dollar store because you won't find a better
> price on the things),
Regrettably, only Monstor cables will work with Linux-based HDMI. All the
other cables still have too much oxygen in them.
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On Wed, 21 Sep 2011, Robert P. J. Day wrote:
> just picked up a new ASUS laptop and first thing i tried was to just
> boot from a ubuntu 11.04 dvd and do a memory test. but the memory
> test didn't do anything -- the memtest+ screen came up, but no
> testing, it just sat there.
memtest86?
I fo
Having recently acquired a Nexus S phone I'd like to root it so I can
install OpenVPN among other things. I'm running the latest version of
gingerbread, 3.4.3
I'd like to run an OpenVPN client for which I'll install a server for, on
my linux server.
I expect someone on the list has already roo
On March 23 I inquired:
> I'm looking for linux-based shared web hosting and email for possible use
> by a community group I'm helping. I use dedicated or virtual hosting
> myself, but that is beyond their needs and capabilities. Right now they
> are planning to use godaddy, but I'm not sure that
I'd like to extend my fullest congratulations to all the organizers and
speakers of the Ottawa IPv6 Summit today! I thought it was very
successful. I'm really glad to see technical conferences like this
organized in Ottawa.
A lot could go wrong, especially in a first conference like this. But
On Thu, 28 Apr 2011, Richard Guy Briggs wrote:
> I did have a problem a year ago where the phone was working
> intermittently, but DSL was fine. I have my DSL on a dry loop, so it is
> seperate from the phone line. It turned out to be a problem outside
> where Bell connected the feed to my demarc
On Fri, 15 Apr 2011, Steve La Rocque wrote:
> I too use a dry loop through teksavvy locally in Ottawa and have had no
> complaints until recently.
>
> They changed their "Terms of Service"/"Privacy Policy", etc. from 10K of
> legalese text to 100K of legalese text. To me, that's an abuse and I'm
Hi,
I'm looking for linux-based shared webhosting and email for possible use
by a community group I'm helping. I use dedicated or virtual hosting
myself, but that is beyond their needs and capabilities. Right now they
are planning to use godaddy, but I'm not sure that will work for even
their
On Fri, 7 Jan 2011, Michael Walma wrote:
> I am in the hunt to move my servers ... to another service
> provider.
> I know there was some discussion on this list about two years back,
> but that info is now a little dated.
>
> Any recommendations?
Michael,
It's been two months+ since you inqui
On Wed, 9 Feb 2011, Michael Walma wrote:
> I am looking for recommendations for an authoritative-only DNS server
> to replace Bind on my virtual server slice. Bind is over-kill for my
> needs, which is just to serve authoritative records for my domains
> (with traffic at only dozens per day) and
On Fri, 7 Jan 2011, Michael Walma wrote:
> I am in the hunt to move my servers from a VPS hosted by vpsville.ca
> to another service provider. My patience has run out with vpsville,
> which, while relatively cheap, has not worked out for me in terms of
> reliability or responsiveness to problems.
Ok, I think I realized where my message body is going here. (I've broken
the ANTI SPAM 'header' this time, that I had quoted -- let's hope this one
works. Again, sorry for the repeats, but in an ironic way it kind of
supports my call to remove this unnecessary clutter in our list messages -
it
Wierd. Don't know what happened to my message the first TWO timeS...
Resent, crossing fingers. Sorry for the repeats.
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Date: Wed, 8 Dec 2010 14:05:34
From: Brett Delmage
To: li...@oclug.on.ca
Subject: Spam-filtering spam from Roaring Penguin
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Don't know what hapenned to my message the first time... resend.
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Date: Wed, 8 Dec 2010 14:05:34
From: Brett Delmage
To: li...@oclug.on.ca
Subject: Spam-filtering spam from Roaring Penguin
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On Wed, 29 Sep 2010, Spencer Cheng wrote:
> I am looking for a broadband provider who can supply 10 Mbps symmetric
> broadband in the west end of Ottawa for some demos and (Linux) protocol
> testing. Need decent uplink bandwidth so most broadband services are
> out. Hosting companies would be f
I run my own postfix mail servers and bind DNS (currently on Ubuntu) for a
dozen domains and have done so for a dozen years. All my DNS and MTA info
validates in various online checkers. But I'm having real trouble getting
my emails through to some people @sympatico.ca They are not technically
On Tue, 23 Mar 2010, John Elliott wrote:
> Can anyone recommend an inexpensive PCI-Express video card which is well
> supported by X11 and does not require ATI drivers?
>
> Resolution required is 1920x1080 or better.
Hmm. Not clear from your message if you are implying that you want a
ATI radeon
On Wed, 17 Mar 2010, Brett Delmage wrote:
> A 1 TB disk full of my ripped CDs can take a while to fsck...
I'm going to reply to myself :-) to state the unstated obvious... volumes
like this can easily be unmounted and fscked periodically, not during
reboot - which
What do other people do on (home) servers for checking large ext3 or other
journaling filesystems?
It always seems to be the lesser convenient time for a fsck to run when I
reboot for a kernel update, even though the count frequency and maximal
time are at increased values right now.
A 1 TB di
On Thu, 3 Dec 2009, Bruce Miller wrote:
I got annoyed with them last night and
He Bruce, I can understand why. That's outrageous. Is there any way you
can minimize your interaction with their webmail, perhaps by using IMAP?
Or forwarding your email to a Google account and reading their ads i
On Wed, 25 Nov 2009, Damian Gerow wrote:
After all, on a 250GB drive, it's going to be a while before I
hit the 100GB barrier, let alone actually need the whole drive.
You don't have much locally-stored email, do you?
:-)
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I just fixed a bug in my Ubuntu 9.04 initrd links, where the default boot
was pointing to a -server version, which seems to be missing many modules
(like for eth0!) so doesn't work too well. I changed it to the -generic
initrd and all was fine.
Do I need to run some kind of mkinitrd to fix thi
On Wed, 2 Sep 2009, Bart Trojanowski wrote:
The standard is strict to
make sure that it's legible, consistent, and will not produce future
flame wars exclusively over style.
Which editor is best for correctly editing spaces and tabs?
emacs or vi(m)?
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On Sat, 22 Aug 2009, Robert Radziwilowicz wrote:
Hi,
uOttawa does not have any interest in promoting free/open src. software
while they have deal signed with Microsoft and IBM/Dell.
This was my gut feeling too, and of course it applies to many more
businesses than uOttawa that have been bough
On Thu, 13 Aug 2009, Prof. John C Nash wrote:
Lees campus is being used, though for what seems to be poorly advertised. One
of the problems with uOttawa is that non-core functions can be bumped by any
"core" function. That was why we discontinued the Senate room.
From my uninformed position,
On Thu, 13 Aug 2009, Prof. John C Nash wrote:
As far as we can gather, there is general satisfaction with the Algonquin
venue given proximity to transitway and availability of parking.
Hmmm. This makes me think. Has U of O started using the old Algonquin site
that we used to meet at (Lees), w
On Sun, 14 Jun 2009, Brad Hudson wrote:
I note that you are running an alpha version of Ubuntu with the proprietary
nvidia driver. Have you tried running it with the open source nv driver?
Brad,
Can you please suggest the easiest way to switch? I have had nothing but
hassle from the nvidia
On Tue, 13 Jan 2009, Pedro I. Sanchez wrote:
> Also, I stopped using my server at home as a SMTP relay after I found
> out that many sites, even companies' mail servers, just drop messages
> relayed via a dynamic IP address, as the one you get from Rogers. I
> guess they assume that is SPAM.
Simi
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