Re: [OCLUG-Tech] help for new Linux users - before the club meeting

2013-05-05 Thread R RENAUD
I've been using unix for over 30 years but I'm still a new user on many topics. If the interest is there, maybe this should expand to a general informal question session, with priority given to the new to linux people so they don't feel overwhelmed. roland

Re: [OCLUG-Tech] Linux Digest, Vol 93, Issue 1

2012-09-07 Thread R RENAUD
Probably because you appear to be getting the daily digest rather than getting the mail as its sent. The timestamp on my reminder was Thursday, September 6, 2012 5:07:21 PM. roland From: Eric Brackenbury To: linux@lists.oclug.on.ca Sent: Friday, September 7

Re: [OCLUG-Tech] any personal experience out there with hybrid SSD drives?

2011-05-06 Thread R RENAUD
--- On Fri, 5/6/11, Paul B. wrote: > Roland, > great results, but I'd like to request one clarification: > did you constrain the hdd benchmark with the same ramdisk > size as the > SSD, or did you mess around with the ramdisk size only > after running the > comparison test? Having checked my no

Re: [OCLUG-Tech] any personal experience out there with hybrid SSD drives?

2011-05-05 Thread R RENAUD
--- 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 comes with dual hybrid SSD | drives.  anyone out there using these kinds of drives?  can you | testify to noticeably better performance? ... In December I bo

Re: [OCLUG-Tech] confusing room numbers on location page

2011-05-03 Thread R RENAUD
The correct room is T304. Thanks for correcting my error Ian. roland --- On Tue, 5/3/11, Ian Ward wrote: > From: Ian Ward > Subject: Re: [OCLUG-Tech] confusing room numbers on location page > To: linux@lists.oclug.on.ca > Date: Tuesday, May 3, 2011, 9:26 PM > This was a new "location" created

[OCLUG-Tech] fyi - OCLUG October meeting - World Domination and Control, over USB

2010-10-04 Thread R RENAUD
Location Note: We're back at Algonquin College and have room P211A on Tuesdays until at least December. We'll see what happens after that. http://oclug.on.ca/ OCLUG meets on the first Tuesday of every month at 7pm October Meeting: World Domination and Control, over USB Date: October 5, 2010 at

[OCLUG-Tech] OCLUG September meeting - Note: DIFFERENT DATE AND LOCATION

2010-09-06 Thread R RENAUD
DIFFERENT DATE AND LOCATION Note that OCLUG's September meeting is Tuesday and that the venue has changed. We're hoping that this will be stabilized before the October meeting. http://oclug.on.ca/ September Meeting: The R statistical language Date: September 7, 2010 at 7 p.m. Location: Univer

Re: [OCLUG-Tech] backup with rsync

2010-06-24 Thread R RENAUD
--- On Thu, 6/24/10, James L wrote: > > wrote: > >> I'm using the following > >> command to backup my home directory: > >> > >> rsync -avh --delete /home/rjl /mnt/esata/home/ > >> > >> But why does it keep deleting WinXP.vdi? > >> > >> deleting home/rjl/.VirtualBox/HardDisks/WinXP.vdi > >> > >> l

Re: [OCLUG-Tech] [oclug] backup with rsync

2010-06-23 Thread R RENAUD
I forgot to mention that oc...@lists.oclug.on.ca is a deprecated list. Use this one instead. linux@lists.oclug.on.ca roland --- On Thu, 6/24/10, R RENAUD wrote: > From: R RENAUD > Subject: Re: [oclug] backup with rsync > To: "General Membership Discussion List" > D

Re: [OCLUG-Tech] Fw: 10 June Brookstreet Hotel - Top Vendors giving open Technical Seminars and Demo'g New Products

2010-06-08 Thread R RENAUD
--- On Tue, 6/8/10, R RENAUD wrote: > I found this which is a bit more readable. Ok, sorry, it wasn't more readable. The one I received from the old mailing list didn't have the html stripped out when I forwarded it to myself as a

[OCLUG-Tech] Fw: 10 June Brookstreet Hotel - Top Vendors giving open Technical Seminars and Demo'g New Products

2010-06-08 Thread R RENAUD
I found this which is a bit more readable. --- On Tue, 6/8/10, Sally Bixby wrote: From: Sally Bixby Subject: 10 June Brookstreet Hotel - Top Vendors giving open Technical Seminars and Demo'g New Products To: i...@oclug.on.ca Date: Tuesday, June 8, 2010, 7:12 PM Dear Vic,   I know the tim

[OCLUG-Tech] OCLUG June Meeting: GNU Lilypond and GPS in Linux - Tonight

2010-06-03 Thread R RENAUD
http://oclug.on.ca/ OCLUG meets on the first Thursday of every month at 7pm June Meeting: GNU Lilypond and GPS in Linux Date: June 3, 2010 at 7 p.m. Location: Algonquin College (Woodroffe Campus), room T117 GNU Lilypond Speaker: Boris Shingarov In this talk, Boris will present his work on GNU Li

[OCLUG-Tech] OCLUG May Meeting: Disk Partitioning, Ubuntu LTS, Net Neutrality

2010-04-28 Thread R RENAUD
http://oclug.on.ca/ May Meeting: Disk Partitioning, Ubuntu LTS, Net Neutrality Date: May 6, 2010 at 7 p.m. Location: Algonquin College (Woodroffe Campus), room T117 Disk Partitioning Speaker: Lisa Lovchik Disk partitioning allows having a hard limit on the size of a given filesystem and allows

[OCLUG-Tech] OCLUG April meeting

2010-03-17 Thread R RENAUD
I'm reposting this to the correct mailing list - roland I've just updated the meeting information on the OCLUG web page. (http://oclug.on.ca/) Michael Richardson's talk on Net Neutrality has been moved to the May meeting. The April meeting is the OCLUG Annual General Meeting consisting of repo

Re: [OCLUG-Tech] MythTV questions, anyone?

2009-12-18 Thread R RENAUD
--- On Fri, 12/18/09, Bart Trojanowski wrote: > Clayton, > > thanks for doing the presentation, I found it most > informative.  I > picked up a WinTV-HVR-850 and will be setting up Myth on a > BeagleBoard. > > Unfortunately, by now I've forgotten everything you > said.  Could you > post your sli

Re: [OCLUG-Tech] Re: Laptop partitioning

2009-12-01 Thread R RENAUD
--- On Tue, 12/1/09, Prof. John C Nash wrote: > Have been helping a friend with a new > Lenovo G550 ... wonderful nasties at > Lenovo have put 5 partitions on the drive, plus leaving some > unallocated space. > > As I recall, the structure was > > 1 MB free unallocated > 200 MB NTFS /dev/sda1 >

Re: [OCLUG-Tech] Presentation Offer

2009-10-06 Thread R RENAUD
--- On Tue, 10/6/09, Jeff Green wrote: > My name is Jeff Green.  I recently started up an > ethical hacking website that strongly pushes Linux.  ... Hi Jeff, Thanks for offering to give a presentation. I'm the speaker co-ordinator for the board and agree that this would be interesting to the gro

Re: [OCLUG-Tech] tutorial on Kubuntu 9.04? Funny problems. Gigabyte Built in video

2009-05-02 Thread R RENAUD
--- On Sat, 5/2/09, Charles MacDonald wrote: ... > But I have been getting a few glitches.. > > 1) Screensize. The unit is connected to my old 21 inch > monitor which suggests I use 1600 X 1200 as resolution. > maximum that the System settings Display applet will do is > 1360X768 which gives a

[OCLUG-Tech] OCLUG Board of Directors - need member(s) - resend

2009-04-05 Thread R RENAUD
Margaret Tidman writes on Mar 24, 2009: To: oclug-annou...@lists.oclug.on.ca, oc...@lists.oclug.on.ca Subject: [oclug] OCLUG Board of Directors - need member(s) Date: Tue, 24 Mar 2009 20:47:21 -0400 The OCLUG Annual General Meeting is on April 7, 2009 and the new Board of Directors will be

[OCLUG-Tech] fyi - OCLUG's April meeting

2009-04-03 Thread R RENAUD
http://oclug.on.ca/ OCLUG meets on the first Tuesday of every month at 7pm 2009 AGM: 2009 AGM Date: April 7, 2009 at 7 p.m. Location: Algonquin College (Woodroffe Campus), room T117 OCLUG Annual General Meeting We will be electing a new board for 2009. See the Board Election 2009 Wiki Page for

[OCLUG-Tech] stupid bash question

2009-03-14 Thread R RENAUD
To: ala...@twobikes.ottawa.on.ca Subject: [OCLUG-Tech] stupid bash question In-Reply-To: References: X-Mailer: VM 8.0.9 under Emacs 22.2.1 (i486-pc-linux-gnu) FCC: ~/Mail/outgoing --text follows this line-- ala...@twobikes.ottawa.on.ca writes: | I have two directories which are mostly the same.

[OCLUG-Tech] OCLUG March Meeting: SETI and Wine

2009-02-24 Thread R RENAUD
http://oclug.on.ca/ OCLUG meets on the first Tuesday of every month at 7pm March Meeting: SETI and Wine Date: March 3, 2009 at 7 p.m. Location: Algonquin College (Woodroffe Campus), room T117 Using Gnu Radio for SETI Speaker: Marcus Leech The speaker will describe some current work at SBRAC

[OCLUG-Tech] speakers needed for OCLUG March meeting

2009-02-18 Thread R RENAUD
We're looking for speakers for the Mar 3 OCLUG meeting. If you can speak on a topic but won't be ready by Mar 3, let me know anyway. Advance planning would be nice. Possible topics (or suggest your own): RSS/ATOM feed readers - What are they? Why would I want to use them? - Sample programs

[OCLUG-Tech] OCLUG's February meeting - Australian Linux Conference, HDR photography

2009-02-02 Thread R RENAUD
OCLUG meets on the first Tuesday of every month at 7pm February Meeting: Australian Linux Conference, HDR photography Date: February 3, 2009 at 7 p.m. Location: Algonquin College (Woodroffe Campus), room T117 Australian Linux Conference Speaker: Josh Bush The 10th Australian Linux Conferenc

Re: [OCLUG-Tech] speakers needed for OCLUG Feb meeting

2009-01-21 Thread R RENAUD
Richard Guy Briggs writes: | On Wed, Jan 21, 2009 at 12:21:30PM -0800, R RENAUD wrote: | > We're looking for speakers for the Feb 3 OCLUG meeting. | | Josh Bush, who was here last winter and spoke of Tasmania having just won the | bid for the 2009 LCA will be returning to Ottawa. He&#x

[OCLUG-Tech] Fw: bank of montreal fees

2009-01-21 Thread R RENAUD
Wow! I really messed up on this one. Another good reason not to send sensitive information via email. Sorry. roland --- On Wed, 1/21/09, R RENAUD wrote: > From: R RENAUD > Subject: bank of montreal fees ... > Hi Lindsay, ... ___ Linu

[OCLUG-Tech] speakers needed for OCLUG Feb meeting

2009-01-21 Thread R RENAUD
We're looking for speakers for the Feb 3 OCLUG meeting. If you can speak on a topic but won't be ready by Feb 3, let me know anyway. Advance planning would be nice. Possible topics (or suggest your own): RSS/ATOM feed readers - What are they? Why would I want to use them? - Sample programs

[OCLUG-Tech] bank of montreal fees

2009-01-21 Thread R RENAUD
Hi Lindsay, Mom called the Bank of Montreal about the account fees you are being charged for your joint account. The bank just phoned me and said that because it's a new year, they need indication that you are still a student. If you go to any Bank of Montreal and show them you are still a studen

Re: [OCLUG-Tech] sending mail from home to rogers.com using postfix (or anything)

2008-11-28 Thread R RENAUD
Mark Little writes: | > file /etc/postfix/main.cf | > | >    myhostname = cpe0050180174de-cm0019475e1ed2.cpe.net.cable.rogers.com | >    relayhost = [smtp.broadband.rogers.com] | > | | Take the relayhost line out and your postfix should act like a proper MTA | and do a DNS lookup for the correct

[OCLUG-Tech] sending mail from home to rogers.com using postfix (or anything)

2008-11-28 Thread R RENAUD
SUMMARY: - How to configure procmail (or something else) to   "use authentication" to send mail to smtp.broadband.rogers.com. - When sending mail, I get "530 authentication required" errors in   /var/log/maillog. - I've tried using the instructions in the file   README-Postfix-SASL-RedHat.txt  

[OCLUG-Tech] Re: OCLUG December meeting - Linux and photography - moved to January

2008-11-28 Thread R RENAUD
Jean writes: | > R RENAUD writes: | > | After the November OCLUG meeting, there was some discussion about | > | having Linux and photography as a future talk. | > I've received encouraging feedback about this topic and 3 people have | > volunteered to be "experts&quo

[OCLUG-Tech] OCLUG December meeting - speakers needed

2008-11-26 Thread R RENAUD
We now have 4 "experts" for the January meeting about Linux and Photography so that's looking good. For December, we're still a bit light on content.   - Steve Lusk will talk about Shamir's Secret Sharing System             20 - 30 min   - Roland Renaud will try to assemble a short talk

[OCLUG-Tech] Re: OCLUG December meeting - Linux and photography - moved to January

2008-11-24 Thread R RENAUD
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: | On Mon, Nov 24, 2008 at 11:06:33AM -0800, R RENAUD wrote: | > I've received encouraging feedback about this topic and 3 people have | > volunteered to be "experts". | > I was hoping for 3 - 5 experts so let me know if you are interested. | |  

[OCLUG-Tech] Re: OCLUG December meeting - Linux and photography - moved to January

2008-11-24 Thread R RENAUD
R RENAUD writes: | After the November OCLUG meeting, there was some discussion about | having Linux and photography as a future talk. I've received encouraging feedback about this topic and 3 people have volunteered to be "experts". I was hoping for 3 - 5 experts so let me

[OCLUG-Tech] OCLUG December meeting - Linux and photography

2008-11-21 Thread R RENAUD
After the November OCLUG meeting, there was some discussion about having Linux and photography as a future talk. Someone, I think it was Steve Lusk, suggested having an "experts" panel since there are several group members that know some aspects of this subject rather than someone who knows them a

[OCLUG-Tech] OCLUG December meeting - Linux and photography

2008-11-16 Thread R RENAUD
After the November OCLUG meeting, there was some discussion about having Linux and photography as a future talk. Someone, I think it was Steve Lusk, suggested having an "experts" panel since there are several group members that know some aspects of this subject rather than someone who knows them a