I did install Thunar in Ubuntu, but it behaves differently there. I also tried
some of the
thunar add-ons that were in the repository, but these did not seem to change
things.
However, I admit I did not delve. I did note that in Ubuntu, an attempt to
unmount drive
gave an error msg "Cannot open
5:42 -0400
From: Prof. John C Nash
Reply-To: nas...@uottawa.ca
To: Robert P. J. Day
What about Moodle.? Open Source, 40,000 sites, and I know the developers (in
Perth
Australia). Note that Moodle runs the Open U in UK (>200,000 students)
It looks like Articulate is pushing the "pres
Previous Board had considered moving Linux in the Wild to September, and having
a regular
monthly meeting in July due to serious problems getting a room for early Sept.
We nearly cancelled Sept last year due to lack of venue. Members may wish to
comment on
this as a positive / negative change.
J
Some items we need to sort out for the upcoming seminar:
1) projector. The Library does not have one. Apparently there is a screen (Mike
K will
check, but if anyone has experience of the Emerald Plaza facilities, do let us
know), but
no projector.
At the OCLUG meeting, Aaron suggested he may be
I've used Ext2IFS in the past. http://www.fs-driver.org/
Pro -- it really does work
Con -- it really does work, giving access to Linux files ignoring permissions
and owners!
I eventually took it off my machines at uOttawa as I wanted to keep the
security on my
Linux systems that had dual boot i.
This might be exactly the type of topic for a meeting where we try to interest
people from
"business".
JN
On 05/05/2011 01:22 PM, R RENAUD wrote:
> --- On Thu, 5/5/11, Robert P. J. Day wrote:
> | I'm looking at picking up a seriously fast notebook
> ...
> | but i'm intrigued that this system
Thanks for noting this. I'll ask if anyone knows which of the two we are in
tonight and
can post here and copy Roland R. Fortunately both rooms are in the T building.
JN
On 05/03/2011 05:09 PM, Robert P. J. Day wrote:
>
> just a note, on this page:
>
> http://oclug.on.ca/location/24/
>
> t
After much effort, we now have a list of just 43 members.
20 is the quorum, and they HAVE to be members.
Anyone who did not yet confirm had better do so ASAP.
Thanks to those who did respond.
JN
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Is it possible to check speed using a live CD or live USB of a different
kernel, since
that seems to be a concern?
JN
On 04/28/2011 11:05 AM, Shawn H Corey wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I'm having problems with my DSL. Currently it's running below 20 KB/s
> and it's suppose to max out at 300 KB/s. This
If you don't want to be hand-holding for 26 hours a day, you'll need to wrap
whatever you
use in a VERY VERY user-friendly front end. My experience of most of the ticket
systems is
that they are designed by and for geeks, who are a minority of the population.
That's OK
for source code tracking e
National Capital Freenet (using Teksavvy DSL) is a community-based option some
of us like
and support. www.ncf.ca
Best,
JN
On 02/27/2011 05:09 AM, Robert P. J. Day wrote:
>
> a couple of us are taking possession of a condo in the market area
> 2nd week of april, and we will of course need h
I recently completed a 313 page book using Latex. The learning cost is heavy,
but the
rewards are too.
Latex is also used by a lot of technical / scientific publishers. I've a paper
in process
at the moment. Style sheet supplied. Bibliographic support is strong, but again
needs
learning.
There
As some of you are aware, I've been concerned that some Lucid (Ubuntu 10.04)
apps don't
work correctly. alsaplayer was one of these. However, on Wed. I noted that
there was a
newer version of alsaplayer in that project's site. It built and ran fine on my
ASUS
UL30A. However, it did not build to
Could we ask the Umi cafe folk if it's OK there?
JN
On 02/02/2011 12:31 AM, Lisa L wrote:
> Hello all, thought some of us might be interested in this. ~Lisa
>
>
> Forwarded conversation
> Subject: Anyone want to install Debian 6 -Squeeze this weekend? Ottawa
> release party anyone?
> -
In watching this thread, I'm reminded of the discussion at the Nov. meeting
about some
glitches in recent distros, particularly Ubuntu. I've been finding Mint Debian a
friendlier choice since an attempt to put Ubuntu (I think 10.10, but may have
been 10.04)
on an Asus Eee 900 caused a lockup that
choice?
Best,
JN
On 12/27/2010 12:05 PM, Stephen Gregory wrote:
> On Sun, Dec 26, 2010 at 08:26:57PM -0500, Prof. John C Nash wrote:
>
>> I've a server in Canada and am thinking of trying privoxy or similar
>> tunnel. Does anyone have experience or advice on use of privox
Hi,
My wife wants to view some TVO transmissions over the Net while in the USA, but
gets a
message that she is in the USA and content is only for Canada. I've a server in
Canada and
am thinking of trying privoxy or similar tunnel. Does anyone have experience or
advice on
use of privoxy or simil
Following the death of former OCLUG founding member Randal Leavitt, it was
proposed with
some enthusiasm that OCLUG consider how to do something in his memory. At the
November
Board meeting, the Board decided to initiate a series of workshops to be held
at public
venues such as Public Libraries
After consultation and discussion, the Board has codified the migration plan
that is now
on the (existing) Tux wiki at
http://devel.oclug.on.ca/wiki/MigrationPlan
For members, the main effect will be that we are implementing an Acceptable Use
Policy
once the new system is running. This will
I'm passing this on for info.
I've no opinion of its value/utility.
JN
Original Message
Subject: Linutop OS4.0 is available!
Date: Wed, 17 Nov 2010 12:11:13 +0100 (CET)
From: Linutop Team
Reply-To: Linutop Team
To: i...@oclug.on.ca
Hello,
We are happy to announce Linutop O
The Board did discuss topic below at last exec meeting, but did not really make
a decision.
I had already suggested that for a WINE session it makes no sense to talk in
generalities
-- one needs to have a set of applications which are to be run BEFORE
presenting or will
get "Does it run XYZ?" q
Sending this again. We seem to still have moderation / mailing list problems.
JN
Original Message
Subject: Fwd: Need Presenter Information ASAP
Date: Sun, 07 Nov 2010 15:43:41 -0500
From: Prof. John C Nash
Reply-To: nas...@uottawa.ca
To: linux
The Board did discuss topic
From: Prof. John C Nash
Reply-To: nas...@uottawa.ca
To: linux
The Board did discuss topic below at last exec meeting, but did not really make
a decision.
I had already suggested that for a WINE session it makes no sense to talk in
generalities
-- one needs to have a set of applications which are
For what it's worth, there's been a lot of traffic on the R-devel list in the
past few
months about Windows builds. They are done under cygwin with a kit of tools
(Rtools) from
Duncan Murdoch at UWO who is a longstanding colleague of mine. Very nice work,
but also
very fiddly if you stray from t
Dear OCLUG members:
I've received a lot of conflicting advice on an agenda for tonight's meeting.
There are 3 big items, and probably time for only 1.5, so I am going to take
the
Chairman's prerogative and set an agenda that I hope is a reasonable -- but
inevitably
unsatisfying -- compromise.
On a closely related issue, I've used Gnome-Commander for some time and
generally like it,
but it really seems to be impossible to change the defaults for it (which are
not the same
as for Gnome! Go figure.) I'm now looking into emelfm2 which seems to have more
active
development, but is a bi
One of my Telfer colleagues is interested in getting Linux on this device.
Anyone know
much about the issues. As he says, he needs wifi WPA2 enterprise.
JN
Original Message
Subject:hp iPaq hx2410 for android/linux
Date: Thu, 16 Sep 2010 11:06:54 -0400
From: James,
On a highly non-tech tangent, Loblaws is selling "Little Penguin" crackers on
special
until Sept 16. Essentially "fish" but in form of penguins. $1.49 per box.
Thanks to Mary Nash for buying some to provide a little joy to the day.
JN
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> Subject: Re: [OCLUG-Tech] informing the masses of IPv6 [Was: Canadian
> domain registrar with IPv6 support]
> From: Bart Trojanowski
> Date: Mon, September 06, 2010 11:42 am
> To: nas...@uottawa.ca
> Cc: Michael Richardson, oclug politics
> , oclug t
On Mon, Sep 6, 2010 at 9:59 AM, Prof. John C Nash wrote:
>> On 09/06/2010 08:48 AM, Bart Trojanowski wrote:
>>> Panic! Only 270-some days of IPv4 left! :P
>>
>> This may be worth pushing as an "event" for OCLUG and others (GOSLING?), say
>> on the "onl
This may be worth pushing as an "event" for OCLUG and others (GOSLING?), say on
the "only
6 months left" date. It is a political and managerial issue (Canada falling
behind) as
well as a technical issue. Perhaps we can get some interest to run a 1/2 day or
1 day
overview at one of the univers
Given that there are discussions about different service providers and there
are concerns
WHERE things are hosted:
Dreamhost appears to be in California.
Freelists says it is a service of Avenir Technologies. They are in Islamabad
Pakistan.
JN
On 09/04/2010 12:28 PM, Brenda J. Butler wrote:
So nobody goes to the wrong location, we're meeting at uOttawa in Desmarais
7170 on
September 7 at 1900. Algonquin has not yet released rooms, and there was a
danger of no
room at all. See oclug.on.ca.
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I've a page in a book I'm writing that generates a 17.2MB file. And my printer
has just
8MB, so things go a little amiss. May have to downsample the graphics.
Does anyone have an old 100 pin SDRAM in 16 or 32 MB size? Or even 2 8MB
strips. There are
two open slots on my Laserjet 2200.
On net
Thanks Dave.
JN
On 10-08-04 10:50 AM, Dave O'Neill wrote:
> On Mon, Aug 02, 2010 at 07:34:13AM -0400, Dave O'Neill wrote:
>> I've got the go-ahead to get OCLUG set up on Hosted CanIt. Someone in
>> charge needs to fill out http://www.roaringpenguin.com/node/hostedform
>> to get things rolling.
>
This might be doable. I've managed with a 1G, but a 2G would be better if other
materials
to be supplied. A 1G ran out of space as a couple of packages were added. This
is a
bootable USB with private space that is persistent. Rather nice, but sometimes
a bit slow.
Perhaps we could set up a "w
After some board discussion, we've decided to ask OCLUG mail gurus what is possibly going
on. Seems TUX may be relaying some spam. Hopefully not compromised.
JN
Original Message
Message-ID: <4c52cb48.6010...@uottawa.ca>
Date: Fri, 30 Jul 2010 08:53:28 -0400
From:
Note that there is a sign-up list on the wiki -- this page is accessible from
the main
oclug.on.ca page. You need a login, but can create one if you need to.
JN
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Original Message
Subject:10 June Brookstreet Hotel - Top Vendors giving open Technical
Seminars and Demo'g New Products
Date: Tue, 8 Jun 2010 12:12:44 -0700
From: Sally Bixby
To:
/Dear //Vic,/ / I know the timing is pretty s
To follow up on my queries of a few days ago, here are my findings so far.
Comments
offline unless I've made egregious errors. I'm planning to put them on the wiki
assuming
no major issues.
I used 1GB USB keys or a 1GB SD card in a USB carrier.
1) Getting persistent live USB.
I found the Ubu
Following up on J-F's interesting presentation, I tried a Linux Mint live USB.
This works fine. I also tried using usb-creator to make one that is persistent,
but a test
file saved in /home/mint is not being kept.
Anyone had any experience with perstistent live USB? Seems like a nice idea.
Thi
Several folk responded REALLY quickly. Thanks.
'file' seems to work just fine, and on top of this it works in Windows/Cygwin.
JN
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With a colleague I've been building some statistical tools for Lin and Win. We
want 64
bit. Does anyone know of a quick check to see if a binary is 64 bit. I think
there should
be something like
checkbin myfile
that will return the type e.g., ELF 32, ELF 64 etc.
Of course, we'd like to
I've a new Asus UL30 that is quite nicely running Ubuntu 9.10. (For info,
Debian testing
AMD64 crashed the wired ethernet -- rebooting in the Win7 even showed no
adapter! Had to
power down and restart. If anyone wants to try to sort this out to submit a bug
report,
contact me off list.)
Howe
p and similar issues to fix manually. openprinting generally is fairly
quiet about these extra functions, but indeed I had looked there.
JN
Charles MacDonald wrote:
Prof. John C Nash wrote:
Thought Linuxers may want to let out a "boo" for Samsung.
When we got the SCX 4521F Multifunct
Thought Linuxers may want to let out a "boo" for Samsung.
When we got the SCX 4521F Multifunction printer/fax/scanner there was a Linux driver on
CD. Didn't work. But one off the Samsung site did (thanks to Dmitri and Nataliya
Korovkin's help). But now the Samsung site has not Linux files.
Wi
external USB boot (what was eventually done)
JN
Message: 3
Date: Sat, 12 Dec 2009 23:57:52 -0500
From: ed stuckems
Subject: Re: [OCLUG-Tech] Re: Laptop partitioning
To: "Prof. John C Nash"
Cc: linux@lists.oclug.on.ca
Message-ID:
Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1
On
I generally agree. My own approach would be to use a liveCD and and external
drive (which
she doesn't yet have) and partimage the existing partitions, dd the boot
sector, then blow
them all away. Or just blow them away anyway! And I'd use Win under a VM
(though that does
mean acquiring a real Wi
Yes. She has used this on her desktop. However, the current issue is to NOT
repartition
the new laptop in a non-recoverable way in the first couple of months when it
may need to
be returned if there is anything defective. If it had only 3 primary
partitions, then we
could shrink one and put in a
I had given drive swapping a thought, but my friend needs to boot Windows
sometimes for
tax submission and another app that drives a non-linuxed scanner. Then also
looked to see
if there was an internal slot for an SSD card, which would really be the ideal
solution
for many, many folk.
So we ar
1 -0800 (PST) From: R RENAUD
> Subject: Re: [OCLUG-Tech] Re: Laptop partitioning To:
> linux@lists.oclug.on.ca Message-ID:
> <561396.83694...@web88301.mail.re4.yahoo.com> Content-Type: text/plain;
> charset=iso-8859-1 --- On Tue, 12/1/09, Prof. John C Nash
> wrote:
>> &
Have been helping a friend with a new Lenovo G550 to set up Ubuntu. We
have eventually decided (for now) to put Jaunty on a USB key (already
tested an external HD and it's fine) because the wonderful nasties at
Lenovo have put 5 partitions on the drive, plus leaving some unallocated
space.
As
This is a built-in (well, actually clipped in inside box) SSD device
that is used as the HD of the Asus 900. No moving parts.
So wearout would be nasty.
JN
Hi John
What are you backing up to ?
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I was worried about the "wearout" of SSD in my Asus Eee 900, so I put
the following lines in my /etc/fstab
tmpfs /var/log tmpfs defaults 0 0
tmpfs /tmp tmpfs defaults 0 0
tmpfs /var/tmp tmpfs defaults 0 0
Possibly others can suggest improvements on this. Of course, I am
relying on RAM to hold
Shawn got it!
And the example.pl was in the package downloaded with the Perl module
itself. Sigh.
Thanks,
JN
Shawn H Corey wrote:
> Prof. John C Nash wrote:
>> Related to my recent photo captioning talk, I've been scanning for other
>> tools and found the Perl module JPEG
Related to my recent photo captioning talk, I've been scanning for other
tools and found the Perl module JPEG::Comment. It can be downloaded from
http://cpan.uwinnipeg.ca/dist/JPEG-Comment.
I tried downloading and installing -- as root I did make and make
install, then tried 'perl example.pl' in
An academic organization I've been involved with wants to put in a
back-end content management system for their website. They like the
current "face", but want a more maintainable system. Base is Apache on a
virtual linux box environment. They want an open source solution. While
I've built several
I received notice of the following to our info mailbox. Note that it is
NOT free -- you have to pay museum admission.
JN
On November 21, Canada Science and Technology Museum in Ottawa is
organizing a special NABU Network event.
Historic NABU Network Demonstration Event
Saturday November 21, 2009
-
Rob Echlin, B. Eng.
Automation Delivers!
http://talksoftware.echlin.ca
Ottawa, ON
Mobile: 613-266-8311
--------
*From:* Prof. John C Nash
*To:* linux@lists.oclug.on.ca
*Sent:* Sat, October 17, 2009 6:09:19 PM
*Subject:* [OCLUG-Tech] dma in Ubunt
Recently k3b has been complaining on startup:
DMA disabled on device HL-DT-ST - DVDRAM GSA-4167B
I'm running Ubunutu Hardy (Jaunty seems to be set up very differently,
with different /dev/... for the DVDRW)
When I try
hdparm -d /dev/hda
I get
/dev/hda:
using_dma = 0 (off)
Putt
Thanks to all who responded.
Eric Brackenbury is handling the organization and he and/or Roland
Renaud will chair. We seem to have more than enough panelists -- great!!
Sorry I'm going to be missing.
JN
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Our October meeting is a forum / panel on virtualization.
Roland Renaud has been called away until 26 Sept, and I have to be away
24 Sep - Oct 13 (will miss meeting that I REALLY wanted to attend), but
I'd like to have arrangements more or less set so whoever MC's the
meeting can focus on that
Self-explanatory.
JN
Original Message
Subject: Copyright legislation input
Date: Sun, 06 Sep 2009 00:48:10 -0700
From: Bill
To: i...@linux-gatineau.org, i...@linux-quebec.org, i...@losurs.org,
i...@mountainlinux.ca, i...@muug.mb.ca, i...@nanlug.org, i...@nflug.org,
i...@ocl
This came from one of the IT staff at uOttawa. I've put in my 2 cents
that demanding file formats is one thing, but asking students to pay
more than $200 for software when there are Free/Libre alternatives falls
in the "not nice" column.
>You may find the document “How_to_buy_a_Laptop_Best_Pra
OCLUG members may have some interest in the current copyright
consultation being conducted by the federal government. One response has
been
http://www.copyrighttownhall.ca/doku.php
Another is (particularly about "computer programs")
http://www.ic.gc.ca/eic/site/008.nsf/eng/00450.html
"How the
time because an
outside group had booked them for a totally non-academic purpose. The
Registrar had to intervene so we could fulfill course calendar. However,
the subsequent implementation of the policy is rather silly.
JN
Brett Delmage wrote:
On Thu, 13 Aug 2009, Prof. John C Nash wrote:
A
This is not a technical issue, but many of the contributors are regulars
at the OCLUG meetings.
Unfortunately Algonquin has no rooms this Fall for Tues evening. Richard
H. has managed to reserve Thurs. as a fall-back possibility. We have
been offered Tues at Code Factory for $125 per night.
We now appear to have a BBQ and transport for it. Thanks Brett and Lisa.
Suggestion has been made that a patio umbrella to keep the cooking food
dry might be helpful if weather is less than wonderful. Of course, some
penguins like their food wet, others not.
Any offers?
JN
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From: Brett Delmage
To: Prof. John C Nash
References: <4a66358f.5080...@uottawa.ca>
On Tue, 21 Jul 2009, Prof. John C Nash wrote:
Roland R has usually supplied the BBQ, but this year has to be away. Does
anyone have BBQ that could be brought to LiT
Roland R has usually supplied the BBQ, but this year has to be away.
Does anyone have BBQ that could be brought to LiTW? We'll need to
arrange fuel too and possibly transport.
JN
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I've seen problems like this in R, where - is "minus". I wonder if there is
a script in the middle somewhere that is trying to subtract. You are
certainly losing something!
JN
Greetings,
I'm having an odd issue with my bash config. In it I'm defining functions like
git-dirstatus()
{
do
Thanks.
There's not a lot, so maybe Mary and I bring a pizza sometime convenient
(probably a date after LiTW as we're off to holiday and conference in
France next week).
The negs are from my father's deed box. We suspect we already have all
the pix, so can do a lo res scan to see what's ther
I've a couple of dozen of some 50-70 year old negs in larger-than-35 mm
size. Have a scanner for 35mm. Sigh.
Does anyone have equipment that can scan such negatives? Not urgent.
John Nash
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