10:21, Prof J C Nash (U30A) wrote:
>> 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
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 li
I had done so.
JN
On 15-05-13 11:04 AM, Stephen 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
>> mi
Here's another suggestion that list has some issues.
Let's put on next Board discussion.
JN
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To: Prof J C
Here's Charles' msg. Anyone have an idea why original misfired?
JN
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Date: Wed, 13 May 2015 21:39:57 -0400 (EDT)
From: Charles MacDonald
To: linux-ow...@lists.oclug.on.ca
CC: nas...@uottawa.ca, charles.na
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
As far as I could determine, dokuwiki was not in the repository, though
it does seem to have been in the past. "yum install dokuwiki" says it
isn't available, though I certainly agree that install from package is
the right way to go and have the SELinux settings adjusted that way.
I also don't thi
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). Dok
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 be
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 --
chmail: Query status=6 (IOERR)
>
>
>
>
> On Thu, Apr 16, 2015 at 2:11 PM, Prof J C Nash (U30A) <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 upgr
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
I recently received a help request from Marlene Harris, partner of Gary
Jones who gave our Randall Leavitt seminar on GIMP.
Marlene is in need of some general help with Linux, and I think her
request points to a need OCLUG should in some manner be addressing,
especially in these times when Microso
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
To my mind, this is a highly suitable way for open-source tools and the
training to use them to be promoted/marketed. I've been to proprietary
"seminars" where the best part was the free cookies -- except losing the
extra sugar-weight was not fun. Open source SHOULD be about providing
value in all
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
> stor
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.
JN
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link, which could
be malware.
I've kept the file (renamed it), and can supply if anyone wishes.
Best, JN
On 14-05-20 08:46 PM, Richard Guy Briggs wrote:
> On 14/05/20, Prof J C Nash (U30A) wrote:
>> Anyone know of tools to detect malware specifically in pdfs? I was
>> expecting to
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 woul
Hi,
I was allowing Dmitri Korovkin's post and accidentally allowed a spam
one. Sorry.
JN
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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
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 P
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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, Alex Pilon wrote:
> On Wed, Feb 19, 2014 at 03:29:45PM -0500, Prof J C Nash (U30A) wrote:
>> 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
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
I use cups-pdf (pdf is my default print form) and then print from text
editor like gedit.
JN
On 14-01-24 07:20 AM, Robert P. J. Day wrote:
ok, it's early and i'm tired so i'm sure i'm missing a simple
solution, but i have a moderately lengthy text file i want to convert
to PDF. if it was s
I've been in Ogdensburg at the Price-Chopper/Lowes opposite Walmart and
last Dec the lineup was several HOURS for pickup. All Canadians! Out in
the cold too.
JN
On 13-12-11 06:09 AM, Robert P. J. Day wrote:
> totally off-topic, but i suspect some folks here might have
> advice -- i want to orde
I had a question about DSL service (Bell, NCF, Teksavvy) on Spyglass
Ridge (a street in Amberwood Village) in Stittsville.
Anyone have any experience with DSL thereabouts?
JN
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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:
>
> ht
etty slick once
it works. REFInd works 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
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 coupl
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 c
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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. Anyone any ideas about that. If I manually try to fetch
the file that is listed as failing I can get it OK. If it is a timing
glitch, that would explain the diversity of "fixes", which likely just
get lucky.
JN
On 13-08-23 11:53 AM, Prof J C Nash (U30A) wrote:
Seems 'sudo apt
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) wrote:
I've been having an issue with o
I've been having an issue with one of my machines that is running Linux
Mint Olivia, which is based on Ubuntu Raring (13.04). The apt-get update
equivalent (or that run in a terminal) gives failures with
Failed to fetch
http://security.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/dists/raring-security/main/
and relate
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 al
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 cha
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 Webcam
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 goo
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 nice
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 n
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
This looked interesting, but when I tried it, my stick booted to
grub-rescue. Tried twice, also with USB HDD, which simply booted the
native OS on the machine.
If someone wants to spend an hour or so playing, I'll offer coffee.
Multisystem seems so far the best, but live-fat-stick does offer a
ns". It "just
worked" on the computers I tested it on, I used it mainly 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
a nice way to have iso's bootable,
including the boot-repair disks.
Best, JN
On 13-03-12 10:18 PM, Richard Guy Briggs wrote:
On Tue, Mar 12, 2013 at 06:36:14PM -0400, Prof J C Nash (U30A) wrote:
I've an old 40G 2.5" drive from a dead laptop that is in a USB case.
My thought was to u
I've an old 40G 2.5" drive from a dead laptop that is in a USB case.
My thought was to use it for holding a bunch of .iso images of liveCDs.
However, I've had no joy trying to set up booting of these.
Multisystem "sort of" worked once. Seems glitchy, and attached to
different systems had diff
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 tabs
Indeed. sudo needed. I tend to run sudo su before doing this sort of
work, but recognize the hazards.
JN
On 13-02-27 09:49 AM, Shawn H Corey wrote:
> On Wed, 27 Feb 2013 09:34:12 -0500
> ed stuckems wrote:
>
>> n Wed, Feb 27, 2013 at 8:29 AM, Prof J C Nash (U30A)
>> wr
I've noticed that my usb-SATA cables sometimes need to be checked
(pulled apart and reconnected). It looks like
fdisk -l
isn't showing the device? Realize this may be a long shot.
JN
On 13-02-27 08:21 AM, ed stuckems wrote:
> Hello folks:
>
> I need to resize an ntfs partition to make room for
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
would
o recast the case 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)
> wrote:
>>
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 e
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 comp
age with subject or body 'help' to
>> linux-requ...@lists.oclug.on.ca
>>
>> You can reach the person managing the list at
>> linux-ow...@lists.oclug.on.ca
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>> When replying, please edit your Subject line so it is more specific
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I've run a Koolu box for about 4 years. Claim is 15w only. Had a
built-in 80g IDE drive, now replaced with 320G. 4 USBs, Ethernet, video,
and sound. I run Lucid-server on it. Unfortunately, I don't think available.
I'd also be interested in results Martin finds, and suspect there must
be some bo
In preparing for Thurs OCLUG meeting where I've been asked to talk about
this, I today tried to carefully download my last month's mail.
Had lots of troubles, and managed with offlineIMAP to see a protocol
stall (or something like it) and also to log something similar in
Thunderbird. This looks
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