I really never imagined my "lazy keyboard habits" would lead to all this
discovery.
Thanks.
JN
On 2018-04-06 06:07 AM, Brett Delmage wrote:
> On Thu, 5 Apr 2018, Dianne Skoll wrote:
>
>> On Thu, 5 Apr 2018 10:16:29 -0400
>> J C Nash <profjcn...@gmail.com> w
, JN
On 2018-04-05 09:25 AM, Dianne Skoll wrote:
> On Thu, 5 Apr 2018 09:17:21 -0400
> J C Nash <profjcn...@gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> When I am in a terminal and want to cd to the appropriate folder
>> I typically type just the first couple of characters then hit tab.
&
I have set my /home directory so that there are several symlinks
that point to directories on a second hard drive. Most of these
are directories under version control (git or svn).
When I am in a terminal and want to cd to the appropriate folder
I typically type just the first couple of
This may introduce a tangent, but I find the limit is often not the
coded one but issues related to
- long lines wrapping round and becoming difficult to read
- inevitable fumble fingers
- getting 250 characters into the line and not remembering whether the
parameter should be X or x and
I should note that I gave a talk on a topic closely related to this
http://wiki.oclug.on.ca/doku.php?id=meetingpresentations2017#april
(Backup to USB drives in a group or family context: strategies)
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I've had some dvds (DVD+R or DVD-R types) report read errors when I went to
check them after a couple of years. It seems
the physical media is not as stable as originally advertised.
JN
On 2018-02-25 02:03 PM, Rick Leir wrote:
> How are dvd's for archiving photos? I have been betting on them.
I gave a little talk at OCLUG on how I put rsync into a script and then link
that
to Double Commander so I have a "button" that rsync's left window to the right
one.
Also buttons for my "remove from A (left) if in B (right)" directory tree.
I'm finding these aids helpful
I also have special
t grub could be much more
user-friendly.
I'll report back when I figure out this machine
JN
On 2018-02-19 04:10 PM, Alex Pilon wrote:
> On Mon, Feb 19, 2018 at 10:51:30AM -0500, J C Nash wrote:
>> Also downloaded Clonezilla clonezilla-live-20170905-zesty-amd64.iso and used
>> mi
ux kernel,
> just not sure if it is worth the trouble.
> I have a Dell XPS developer edition laptop that can with Ubuntu on it direct
> fro Dell. It has secure boot disabled right
> out of the box.
>
>> On Feb 19, 2018, at 12:53 PM, J C Nash <profjcn...@gmail.co
n changes. It knows how to shrink the windows filesystem and set up
> the partitions. Then install Mint on the Ubuntu partition. Maybe you can go
> directly to Mint.
>
> It has been a while since I have monkeyed with partitions, so I hope I said
> this all correctly.
> Cheers --Rick
Background (skip to QUERY if you wish):
While in Florida recently, my wife and I spotted a nice 11.6" Dell Inspiron
for $300 US. The design is "old", with 500GB spinning disk, 4 GB Ram, quad
core processor that isn't terribly powerful. However, it is a size Mary likes
for travel, and enough disk
I'll second Robert's choice of Asus, mainly because they seem to come
set up with C: and D: in the pre-installed Windoze. The D: has been empty
on the one's we've had (4 laptop; we've also had 3 EEEs, but they were
set up a bit differently). The empty partition is easy to set up for dual
boot,
See in line as answers to Brenda.
JN
On 2017-12-11 10:23 PM, Brenda J. Butler wrote:
>
>
> This response is a bit late, but since no one else seems
> to have publicly answered:
>
Scott and I both answered off-list. Should perhaps have put a msg
that we did so on the list.
>
> On Wed, Dec
December Meeting: Scripting and script examples
Date: December 7, 2017 at 7 p.m.
Location: Algonquin (Woodroffe) P201
This will be a karaoke session for members to present short examples of
scripting in different tools. We hope for "cool"
examples which illustrate interesting ways to write
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. Possibly particular places that might remain vulnerable (here I'm
thinking of my 10 year old Linksys WRT54GL
--
For the November meeting, I'll be presenting an overview of how I set up a
server
to provide some fairly simple functions for a domain name I've had since 1996.
This
mostly went well and will serve as a prototype for the planned movement of tux
to a
similar VPS -- our hardware is a decade and a
Dear OCLUG members:
There have been a number of postings over the years asking about good places to
get different
services. I have a similar issue now with domain renewal and web hosting
renewal coming up,
and possible a slightly different set of needs.
While the list provides answers of
I've been looking at some of the web postings about the Wannacry malware, and
it seems
that it is a Samba version 1 exploit. Seemingly not a direct impact on Linux
users at
the client level, nor on Linux servers, though I welcome correction if I'm not
right on
this.
Two questions:
1) To help
This Saturday!
Hack session to advance OCLUG live distro
When: April 29, 2017, 13:30 - 16:30
Where: 18 Spyglass Ridge, Stittsville
(2 blocks S of Hazeldean on Springbrook,
Rona is opposite Springbrook.)
RSVP: Please let me know if you are likely to come, even if
not
be helpful, while geeqie offers many features.
Will post when I have more information.
JN
On 2017-04-20 11:48 PM, Richard Guy Briggs wrote:
On 2017-04-20 17:53, J C Nash wrote:
I've been trying a number of viewers (more than I care to name!).
It seems that mapivi and the libjpeg-progs (rdjpgcom
I've been trying a number of viewers (more than I care to name!).
It seems that mapivi and the libjpeg-progs (rdjpgcom and wrjpgcom)
put the "comment" somewhere different from geeqie and pix and
Gimp and Irfanview are happy to show the comments I put in, but the
interface isn't set up for
I've been using mapivi to add comments to jpg photos. This works fairly well,
but the
interface is not terribly nice for just viewing the images. Unfortunately, I
can't seem
to find a (linux) image viewer that shows the image and displays the comments
too. In fact,
a lot of viewers make it
Some years ago I set up several wikis with Mediawiki, which uses SQL etc.
underneath. Later I discovered Dokuwiki which doesn't use a database. There
is some loss of functionality of course, but the whole structure can be just
copied or tarballed and reset elsewhere, and it is relatively easy to
Note that OP was NOT on oclug list and I had to approve the posting. He may not
be reading these questions.
JN
On 2017-03-15 09:29 AM, Stephen M. Webb wrote:
On 2017-03-15 06:13 AM, Jeremy James wrote:
Hello all I am looking for a linux consultant who can help us set up a software
Weather and events led to cancelling Saturday's session. I'll try again
in a couple of weeks with notice on this list.
I've put some tentative planning notes on the oclug wiki at
http://wiki.oclug.on.ca/doku.php?id=oclug-live-distro
This is an attempt to reduce the tasks to smaller chunks.
For those interested, I'm hosting OCLUG folk interested in learning how to
build a usable
liveUSB based on Arch. This will be a mutual help session -- I've managed to
build live
CD and USB before, but mostly following recipes without totally understanding
them.
Goals: create documentation and
It went quite fast, and to a good home.
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A friend gave me one of these 15" clunker "laptops". Said it was "broken", but it booted then installed Linux Mint 18
just fine. Interesting box -- 4GB RAM, 300GB drive, lots of sockets, even an eSata. And a DVD writer.
Suspect the battery is flaky, which I've noticed gives Windoze trouble, and
Thanks to all for quick responses.
Alex' suggestion of hostname.local works well for sshfs, and makes a lot of sense. I'll use that. My local static IP was
around since early 2000s on whatever "server" I set up on my LAN to try out different things and share files. Some
scripts will need
I recently updated a desktop machine to LM18 "Sarah". It dual boots BunsenLabs
Hydrogen (successor to CrunchBang,
running Debian Jessie).
It has been useful to sshfs to this desktop to transfer files over LAN, so I have used a static IP. The approach was to
edit /etc/network/interfaces. My
I have several external 3.5" drives. Usually old ones from decommissioned
machines. I've bought cases for them
over the years. Happened to be cleaning up a disk today. Grabbed power block
from where they are kept on shelf and
... SMOKE!
Drive OK on separate test out of case, but I'm tossing
There has been some talk about cleaning up the wiki, and this is one aspect of
that.
Shall we put on the agenda for tomorrow night?
JN
On 16-11-30 10:44 AM, Jeff Dubois wrote:
> Is there a contact phone number for one of the Board members of OCLUG?
>
>
>
> Perhaps John? Or an email
At the last OCLUG meeting I presented a possible club project. After
some discussion by phone and email, here is the revised proposal,
hopefully pared down to essentials but still widely useful.
OCLUG liveUSB
Statement of goals
- a liveUSB that can be booted on a very wide array of hardware
uOttawa is moving to email only on Exchange Server. For reasons I do not
fully comprehend, IMAP will be dropped in next few months.
As far as I can determine, my options are
- Evolution (which I've found awkward for my workflow)
- Exquilla add-in for Tbird (not free - seems to be $10 per year).
This is timely, as OCLUG Board is meeting tonight.
Personal view (do not take as Board position): This does fit with our
mandate. It is appropriate for the web site to have moderated
announcements that are = 4 lines, say, and at no charge. We used to
run a mailing list for this, but multiple
J C Nash (U30A) nas...@uottawa.ca
On 15-05-13 10:18 PM, Prof J C Nash (U30A) wrote:
Here's Charles' msg. Anyone have an idea why original misfired?
JN
I've had real problems with the list publishing my messages as well - so
much that I've pretty much given up wasting my time with posting
Kraemer wrote:
On 2015-05-13 9:49, Prof J C Nash (U30A) wrote:
1) am I living in a fool's paradise if I think my secured browser is
any safer than a general browser. My gut feeling is that I should not
mix general browsing with transactions.
Who/What are you trying to secure yourself against
A couple of years ago I discovered how to make multiple profiles for
Firefox and ended up with a Secured Browser button on my Linux Mint
panel that launches Firefox with NoScript and some other stuff in a
fairly strict mode for my banking and related use. I find this works
well, and suggested to
Here's Charles' msg. Anyone have an idea why original misfired?
JN
Forwarded Message
Subject: dificulty asking a question on the OCLUG list.
Date: Wed, 13 May 2015 21:39:57 -0400 (EDT)
From: Charles MacDonald aa...@ncf.ca
To: linux-ow...@lists.oclug.on.ca
CC:
The issue seems to be SELinux. I created a Centos 7 VM locally (SELinux
seems to be default set to enforcing) and tried to install Dokuwiki
and got the same error msgs about directories not being writable. Went
to google and found how to disable SELinux (one line in a config file
and reboot).
I've recently had a new server set up for me, but that simply means a
standardized script has been run. I used to use Ubuntu, but Telfer now
has standardized on Centos 7. This seems to act strangely with respect
to php files (I'm trying to run Dokuwiki). The main glitch is that files
seem not to
PM, Prof J C Nash (U30A) nas...@uottawa.ca
mailto:nas...@uottawa.ca wrote:
I recently had some issues with my research (virtual) server at uOttawa.
As it was Ubuntu 12.04 decided to upgrade. Telfer standard is now
Centos 7, and I decided to go with that. However, I'm finding
Permissions on directory reset as per Alex' warning.
I'll look into getting the certificate, noting that many sites I go to
these days squawk about outdated or missing ones. A good tutorial on how
to get them and where to put them would be valuable.
There was a question about knowledge of PKI --
I recently had some issues with my research (virtual) server at uOttawa.
As it was Ubuntu 12.04 decided to upgrade. Telfer standard is now
Centos 7, and I decided to go with that. However, I'm finding that I'm
getting an error when I do some email backups using fetchmail,
particularly in the MDA
Yep. I've some stuff too.
JN
On 14-08-22 06:51 AM, Robert P. J. Day wrote:
quite simply, i have way too much stuff these days that i'd like to
give away to good homes -- books, cables, routers, etc -- and i'd be
happy to load up a box or four and bring it all to the next meeting,
and
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.
JN
On 14-07-19 03:40 PM, Shawn H Corey wrote:
I have decided that I need a new motherboard. Can anyone recommend a
store
Afraid this penguin likes to stay dry for picnics and will unfortunately
drop out. Bucketing down at our place just now. Hope to see folks next time.
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Anyone know of tools to detect malware specifically in pdfs? I was
expecting to get a file and impatiently opened wrong email and a file
that might be infected (the packaging was close to what I was expecting.
Sigh. The crooks are getting too good.) As I'm on Linux, I suspect no
damage, but it
Maybe we can get a chance to try the file with different readers and
find out what is actually happening. I've had some similar difficulties
with files sent to me to edit.
JN
On 14-03-01 06:58 PM, Charles MacDonald wrote:
On 14-02-27 09:37 PM, Alex Pilon wrote:
But do we know that it is
This has bitten me lately too.
Tangentially, I am sometimes able to shrink pdf's with shrinkpdf, but it
is not 100%. But that doesn't solve the password issue, which is, I
fear, an attempt by Adobe to seize a part of the common pasture by
unilaterally putting up fences.
JN
On 14-02-26 07:51
Does anyone know how Facebook is able to bypass the TBird junk filter
with it's xxx -- you have notifications pending. I keep marking them
junk, to no avail.
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It would be useful to me, and I suspect to others, to have a brief
discussion of reasonable choices for machines on which to install
Linux, particularly laptops etc. I've seen some discussion of the
chromebooks, noise about Haskell processors, as well as UEFI concerns.
I'll be willing to try to
Many thanks to Robert for really great treat.
JN
On 13-12-06 06:50 AM, Robert P. J. Day wrote:
first, for those lucky sods who made it to OCLUG meeting
last night, there were chocolate and other goodies courtesy
of a new shop literally just around the corner from where
i live:
Most ASUS laptops give boot choice if you hit ESC while splash is
showing. At least all my 5 do.
JN
On 13-10-13 08:12 AM, Robert P. J. Day wrote:
(kind of a windows+linux question, but here goes.) just handed a
spiffy new ASUS ultrabook to test set up for a linux class to teach in
a
good for dual-booting Windows and Linux via EFI.
Peter
On Sun, 2013-10-13 at 10:45 -0400, Robert P. J. Day wrote:
On Sun, 13 Oct 2013, Prof J C Nash (U30A) wrote:
Most ASUS laptops give boot choice if you hit ESC while splash is
showing. At
least all my 5 do.
but all that does is dump me
On a much earlier upgrade, I had more disk than Ubuntu SAID it required
by quite a margin, but I don't think the space estimate was accurate and
I ran out of disk and
That day some new swear words were invented.
JN
On 13-09-18 08:44 AM, Robert P. J. Day wrote:
last night, i threw
Was on TVO at 2100 last night, Codebreakers.
JN
On 13-08-28 10:30 AM, Eric Brackenbury wrote:
Who knew !
http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tommy_Flowers
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Seems 'sudo apt-get clean' and 'sudo apt-get autoclean' got rid of a
problem in the cache as JFM suggested.
Thanks folks.
JN
On 13-08-23 10:00 AM, Paul Belanger wrote:
On Fri, Aug 23, 2013 at 9:04 AM, Prof J C Nash (U30A) nas...@uottawa.ca wrote:
I've been having an issue with one of my
Not this Thurs. But I believe next Tues as Shopify is busy Thurs this
month. Can someone on exec confirm.
JN
On 13-07-29 10:46 AM, Robert P. J. Day wrote:
rday
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Some of you know I have been looking into various solutions for
different scanning tasks. Note that workflow is an important
consideration, but I'd like to find economical solutions to share with
others. This is still ongoing work, and I am hoping to try out a higher
definition webcam than I
Hi,
I've a small script to allow me to update a sort of diary log. The
process is, in summary form,
svn update
gedit myfile
svn -m put it back commit
I'd like to detect a failure to connect on the update and/or commit
stages so that I can do something that lets me locally save
There are numerous, rather random posts about controlling digital
cameras via USB. Most success seems to be with high-end digital SLR
types. I'm wondering if anyone has any experience locally. I've a ton of
old docs to capture, and have built a copy stand which sort of works
with a cheap
We're starting at 6 with a meeting for new users of Linux, and will have
tools for liveUSB boot and/or install.
Check oclug.on.ca for details of where to come.
JN
On 13-03-29 07:15 PM, Robert Nassrallah wrote:
Hello,
I'm a new Linux user, and I'm interested in going to your Annual General
I've used remastersys once to set up a sort of appliance for folk dance
music and instructions that could go on a live USB as well as be
installed. Remastersys lets you build an iso of a working system.
There are likely some pros and cons of doing this, but I'm wondering if
it would make a
Has anyone used a script to set the screensaver rather than the
interactive GUI? I'm using Mint, but other pointers welcome. I'm looking
into a script to set up new machines e.g., when I visit colleagues and
can have a VM, that would have the components and settings I like, and
it would be
Slides of the talk are posted on the wiki. As the topic is far from
closed (there is no fully scriptable pathway yet, for example) I'll be
happy to share ideas off-list. A colleague wants to try with some math
formulas, which may be a greater challenge.
The basis for the talk is a historical
If the mini-penguins are R/O, can you set up a protocol -- assuming you
burn the ROM -- to authenticate via an authentication server? Thus all
the mini-penguins can be identical.
JN
On 13-03-19 06:32 PM, Robert P. J. Day wrote:
On Tue, 19 Mar 2013, Brenda J. Butler wrote:
So, you're saying
a
potential model and script.
JN
On 13-03-17 09:50 AM, aemau wrote:
On Saturday, March 16, 2013 09:25:31 PM Prof J C Nash wrote:
Summary of what I've found.
I haven't been followting this thread b uit if you're looking for something
like
Create multi boot USB stick/hard disk with whole iso
for
debian-live and for debian-testing-netinstall images...
I can't remember the name now, but I'll try and remember when I get
home to check the key...
On Tue, Mar 12, 2013 at 10:35 PM, Prof J C Nash (U30A)
nas...@uottawa.ca mailto:nas...@uottawa.ca wrote:
THanks. I'd thought
To close this thread and provide info others may find helpful.
I found a suitable rechargeable CMOS battery (ML1220) at Alexander
Battery on Spruce St. Had to get it ordered in. $6 each. I bought a
spare, as they come without the lead and tiny plug, so I had to unsolder
leads and solder to
Hi,
My neighbour, who some of you have met, has been using a 10-year old
laptop of mine that works not too badly, but is getting a bit slow with
Ubuntu 12.04. She is interested in upgrading. I said I'd ask on list if
anyone has something they are planning to recycle for reasonable $ that
For some time an older (3+ years) Asus EEE 1005HA I has been giving a
message on bootup
Please enter setup to recover BIOS settings
then offers F1 for setup, or F2 for defaults.
F2 works OK, so it's only a minor issue, but I'm wondering if others
have experience of this and know of fixes
to change the battery,
and on this model, seems to be a common problem once I found the right
search terms. Nevertheless, will give it a go.
Cheers, JN
On 13-02-10 09:56 AM, Paul Belanger wrote:
On Sun, Feb 10, 2013 at 9:40 AM, Prof J C Nash (U30A) nas...@uottawa.ca
wrote:
For some time an older
I had a request from George Neville-Neil asking if I can be faculty
sponsor for BSDCan. I'll unfortunately be away at the time of the
meeting. Wondering if there is anyone else in OCLUG who is at uOttawa too.
If you are on GOSLING list, you'll see this again. The lists are
somewhat but not
Thanks to several on list, Don Kelly in particular, I was able to see
that IMAP was not connecting at uOttawa (but was on gmail). I spent
about an hour with a couple of the Telfer IT folk, and we could not get
a connection, so phoned central CCS. I sent them some logs and later in
the day,
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