Re: [GTALUG] Calander

On Wed, Jun 21, 2023 at 9:30 AM bitmap via talk wrote: > Long time lurker here. I always see the announcent for an interesting > meeting jst after it has happened. Is there a share calendar I can sub > to? > This appears to have meeting dates to the end of 2023: gtalug.org/gtalug.ics

Re: [GTALUG] CVT-RB: another video mystery

On Tue, Jun 20, 2023 at 11:24 AM Scott Allen via talk wrote: > > > https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vertical_blanking_interval#Vertical_blanking_interval_in_digital_video > > If one follows through that link, it seems we still have vblank because accessibility tools required it for timing and

Re: [GTALUG] war story: supporting an old printer on Windows, with Linux

That seems a lot. Doesn't windows have generic PCL or PS drivers? Even Apple's IPP assumes PCL On Mon., Jun. 5, 2023, 17:41 D. Hugh Redelmeier via talk, wrote: > A friend has an old trusty HP LaserJet 4MP printer. > > This is so old that HP no longer makes Windows drivers for it and HP no >

Re: [GTALUG] Chromebook death dates

On Sun, May 28, 2023 at 10:25 PM James Knott via talk wrote: > > Do they actually "brick"? On Mon, May 29, 2023 at 11:20 AM D. Hugh Redelmeier via talk < talk@gtalug.org> wrote: > > So: I would think that this is stupid reporting but a useful but partial > Public Service Announcement. > > So

Re: [GTALUG] Cheap small computers

On Mon, Apr 24, 2023 at 2:35 AM D. Hugh Redelmeier via talk wrote: > There are a lot of used Lenovo ThinkCentre M93p Tiny computers > available, starting at $100. > > I just got one of these, for $100 as recommended. It's rather nice (apart from the whole Windows thing), but ... no wifi! I

Re: [GTALUG] The good old days of oreilly.com

While this won't get you your O'Reilly titles back, Toronto Public Library has full O'Reilly Safari access for members. I find it useful for dipping into those books I couldn't quite ever justify buying. Stewart --- Post to this mailing list talk@gtalug.org Unsubscribe from this mailing list

Re: [GTALUG] Cheap small computers [was Re: DECTalk TTS in source for Linux]

On Wed, Apr 26, 2023 at 3:16 PM D. Hugh Redelmeier via talk wrote: > > This one is described here. It is the best one listed on this page. > > > Note, though, that parkytowers doesn't seem to have been updated in several years, and didn't typically

Re: [GTALUG] Cheap small computers [was Re: DECTalk TTS in source for Linux]

On Wed, Apr 26, 2023 at 10:53 AM Ansar Mohammed via talk wrote: > https://www.ebay.ca/itm/292442306475 > > $20/unit with shipping > That's got a VIA C7 inside. It's a very slow 32-bit processor that was superseded 15 years ago. Stewart --- Post to this mailing list talk@gtalug.org Unsubscribe

Re: [GTALUG] Fedora 38 is out

On Fri., Apr. 21, 2023, 14:13 BCLUG via talk, wrote: > > > I never, ever use fgrep or egrep and I think it's a bad idea. > Well, that's me told. I've used fgrep since the days when regular grep on a large file would take minutes, while fgrep would take seconds. I also learned egrep's slightly

Re: [GTALUG] UNIX of ESP32 [was Re: Canadian hosting?]

On Wed, Apr 12, 2023 at 3:45 PM D. Hugh Redelmeier via talk wrote: > I window shop for these on AliExpress. Most ads are unclear about > just what modules they use. > This is why using established designers and resellers is a good idea. Even on AliExpress, there are vendors who develop their

Re: [GTALUG] how I sign PDFs

On Wed, Apr 12, 2023 at 2:54 PM D. Hugh Redelmeier via talk wrote: > We don't seem to have a Public Key Infrastructure that makes digital > (cryptographic) signatures useful for non-computer work. > We do, but it might not be a "we" that intersects with our "we". The building industry in

Re: [GTALUG] Canadian hosting?

On Tue., Apr. 11, 2023, 19:59 Znoteer via talk, wrote: > > > baremetal.ca Thanks. They don't seem to offer servers, though. We also are settled on Digital Ocean. Stewart > > --- Post to this mailing list talk@gtalug.org Unsubscribe from this mailing list

Re: [GTALUG] Canadian hosting?

On Tue, Apr 11, 2023 at 8:40 AM Giles Orr via talk wrote: > On Mon, 10 Apr 2023 at 15:16, Alex Kink via talk wrote: > > > > Digital Ocean, ... > > I second the Digital Ocean suggestion > Thanks, all! Looks like Digital Ocean has exactly what we need at a price we can work with. US ownership

Re: [GTALUG] ppp inside private network, but no DNS returned?

On Wed, Mar 1, 2023 at 1:08 AM William Park via talk wrote: > I don't do dialup anymore. But, looking at my old PPP setup (I'm > surprised I still have it), 'dns-addr' is assigned in /etc/ppp/options. > Yeah, there's a lot going on in ppp systems. I was slightly surprised how the old scripts

Re: [GTALUG] ppp inside private network, but no DNS returned?

On Tue, Feb 28, 2023 at 4:13 PM William Park via talk wrote: > Ah, they want you to debug for them for free. > This is absolutely not the case. Never attribute to malice that which can be more easily explained by massive bureaucracy. Also, these are devices that are on a network that couldn't

Re: [GTALUG] ppp inside private network, but no DNS returned?

to add > in the IP addresses of the target systems. > > > > On 2023-02-28 14:50, Stewart Russell via talk wrote: > > Hey - we've got a fun little problem happening right now. > > > > We're connecting a Linux box via LTE to a client's private network. > > They want

Re: [GTALUG] ppp inside private network, but no DNS returned?

On Tue, Feb 28, 2023 at 2:55 PM James Knott via talk wrote: > > > Doesn't the PPP server normally provide the DNS address? > https://www.rfc-editor.org/rfc/rfc1877.html#section-1.1 I'd have expected so, but that RFC says "By default, no primary DNS address is provided." thanks --- Post to

[GTALUG] ppp inside private network, but no DNS returned?

Hey - we've got a fun little problem happening right now. We're connecting a Linux box via LTE to a client's private network. They want us to connect to a host on that network and upload files via sftp. We've demonstrated that all of this works with every other LTE network, but in their walled

Re: [GTALUG] mystery: JVC TVs with "Linux" in their name

On Wed, Feb 8, 2023 at 10:49 PM D. Hugh Redelmeier via talk wrote: > > I just noticed that JVC seems to have TVs with "Linux" in their name. > It was either JVC or Sharp who were using a Raspberry Pi Compute Module 3 in their televisions. I thought they were keeping that slightly quiet. There's

[GTALUG] Ubuntu Pro - a new, non-optional walled garden from Canonical

I should really stop running Ubuntu for the good of my health. This morning, my various Ubuntu systems announced that a whole bunch of packages would be unavailable unless I registered for Ubuntu Pro — https://ubuntu.com/pro Ubuntu Pro is free-of-charge for "personal" users for up to five

Re: [GTALUG] rejuvinating an old machine: inexpensive SSD

On Thu., Jan. 5, 2023, 08:23 James Knott via talk, wrote: > On 2023-01-04 22:33, Colin McGregor via talk wrote: > > plus a boat part > > Anchor?  > Steady on there - we're not in the US where USPS fixed price shipping boxes have no weight limit, so people can ship lead ingots across the

Re: [GTALUG] rejuvinating an old machine: inexpensive SSD

On Mon, Jan 2, 2023 at 11:45 PM D. Hugh Redelmeier via talk wrote: > > There was one infamous exception: Amazon (used to) mingle their SD > cards with other vendors SD cards in their warehouse. So "sold by > Amazon" SD cards could actually be supplied by a disreputable vendor. > All hell broke

Re: [GTALUG] Weird pivot from the Linux Foundation: Overture Maps Foundation

On Thu, Dec 15, 2022 at 12:28 PM Evan Leibovitch via talk wrote: > From the FAQ: > > Data contributed to ODbL licensed datasets will be contributed under both >> the ODbL and CDLA permissive v2. Contributions to CDLA permissive v2 >> datasets will be contributed under the CDLA permissive v2. >>

[GTALUG] Weird pivot from the Linux Foundation: Overture Maps Foundation

I was surprised and disappointed to read this today: The Linux Foundation, a global nonprofit organization enabling innovation through open source, today announced the formation of the Overture Maps Foundation , a new collaborative effort to develop interoperable open

[GTALUG] How to keep using an old CIFS device

Ever since NTLM support was removed from the kernel last year, I've been unable to access my network scanner. It's quite old (~ 2012), but it has a huge scan area and I have a

Re: [GTALUG] CZUR scanners under Linux

On Mon, Nov 14, 2022 at 12:25 PM Peter King via talk wrote: > > One of the ways in which OCR contributes real value is if you have a large > number of documents that are idiosyncratic in the same way ... If anyone > knows of anything open-source that works reasonably well, I'd love to hear >

Re: [GTALUG] Borked Python setup, please help

On Mon, Nov 7, 2022 at 10:41 AM D. Hugh Redelmeier via talk wrote: > Wow. The Python2 -> Python3 transition is still claiming victims! > You bet! I think it will continue for some time. I *think* that systems are only supposed to provide an executable called "python3" now, but de facto, the

Re: [GTALUG] DNS benchmarking

On Thu, Nov 3, 2022 at 1:29 PM Scott Allen via talk wrote: > ... If it's mostly for web browsing, your browser might be > configured for DNS over HTTPS (DoH) > > TIL that Firefox had already set this for me, and was using "CIRA Canadian Shield" (the default). As for DNS, never explicitly fiddled

[GTALUG] Tonight's meeting announcement?

Did it go out? As far as I understand, Colin McGregor will be introducing Linux on Boats. --- Post to this mailing list talk@gtalug.org Unsubscribe from this mailing list https://gtalug.org/mailman/listinfo/talk

[GTALUG] Data archaeology: archive KDE distortion from 2004ish

A friend has a data problem. Her father used to use Linux, and left copious art notes in pictures stored in DigiKam, KDE’s photo management tool. This was in 2004 or so. Now my friend is trying to recover the notes. Current DigiKam won’t read the database. Given her very-tech background, we

Re: [GTALUG] File chooser [was desktops]

On Thu., Jun. 23, 2022, 13:39 D. Hugh Redelmeier via talk, wrote: > > > Why would someone want it to be on? What does it improve? > Modals, some people say [citation needed], should stop all interactions to focus on the file activity. The old Macintosh OSs kept that strict modality for far

Re: [GTALUG] May Meeting

Ah, I'd wondered where they'd gone. --- Post to this mailing list talk@gtalug.org Unsubscribe from this mailing list https://gtalug.org/mailman/listinfo/talk

Re: [GTALUG] Removing snapd from Ubuntu

I just did the 22.04 upgrade thing, and it seems that Firefox will be held at v 99 if you don't have snapd. So beware of old/held packages as you update. Another delightful thing I found is that Ubuntu took its very own special path in the "Sensible things to do in the Python 2 / Python 3"

Re: [GTALUG] Back to basics: upgrading from Windows to Linux

On Thu, Apr 28, 2022 at 2:15 PM D. Hugh Redelmeier via talk wrote: > On the other hand, Canonical is the owner of Snap and pushes it hard. > So on a Ubuntu system you may end up needing to use Snap. > > I manage to have working Ubuntu desktops without snapd, but it's a bit of a fight initially.

Re: [GTALUG] More pointless battles [was: I'm discarding an old notebook!]

On Thu., Feb. 17, 2022, 10:29 D. Hugh Redelmeier via talk, wrote: > > I would like to think that they are drawing down inventory for a Pi Day > announcement. That seems to be an unlikely reason when so many models are > OOS. > No, it's not that (and believe me, as an AR, I have to be very

Re: [GTALUG] UPS brand recommendations?

On Tue., Nov. 9, 2021, 14:47 Dave Cramer via talk, wrote: > Well they cover shipping both ways. I thought it was a decent deal > It sounds like good product stewardship/EPR to me. Lead-acid battery recycling is one of the good and true stories of how recycling should work. The fines for losing

Re: [GTALUG] UPS brand recommendations?

This is probably not what Scott's looking for, but A-1 Electronics (the weird surplus place near Canada Computers Etobicoke) refurbishes APC UPSs and sells them at a reasonable price. No idea of current availability, but they used to have a few from mid-sized to too-heavy-to-move server room units

Re: [GTALUG] Looking for assistance with Firefox

So my "only one window and if I can't read each tab title, close some" is well outside the norm here. I think I seldom reach 10 tabs Stewart --- Post to this mailing list talk@gtalug.org Unsubscribe from this mailing list https://gtalug.org/mailman/listinfo/talk

[GTALUG] Fedora 34 with EFI boot on Raspberry Pi 4

At last night's Raspberry Pi meetup, Chris Tyler demonstrated Fedora 34 (aarch64) on Raspberry Pi 4. It's supposed to be a fully supported distribution, although the documentation hasn't quite caught up. It looked pretty neat, and I might be tempted to try it. I've been a Debian user this entire

[GTALUG] My slides: Pages → Searchable PDF (→ archive.org)

Are here: https://scruss.com/wordpress/wp-content/uploads/2021/07/Pages_to_SearchablePDF-GTALUG_Lightning_Talk-20210713.odp (LibreOffice) or PDF: https://scruss.com/wordpress/wp-content/uploads/2021/07/Pages_to_SearchablePDF-GTALUG_Lightning_Talk-20210713.pdf cheers, Stewart --- Post to this

Re: [GTALUG] Kurzweil Reading Edge

On Sat., May 29, 2021, 07:37 Mike Kallies via talk, wrote: > > It's approached as a gadget guy, so no deep dives, but he demos it and > gets into a bit of the history and the warts of the aging machines. > He's the only person I've seen demo one who included and commented on the recognition

Re: [GTALUG] You may already have a Windows licence and not know it …

On Thu, 15 Apr 2021 at 12:05, D. Hugh Redelmeier via talk wrote: > > There was a limited time where you could update pre Win 10 systems to Win > 10 without buying a new license. If you did that, Microsoft recorded this > fact in their central system. > > That period is over. > > No, it's not.

Re: [GTALUG] You may already have a Windows licence and not know it …

On Tue, 13 Apr 2021 at 21:08, Howard Gibson via talk wrote: > >That file exists on my system, and I bought it as a motherboard and > processor. > Maybe your motherboard BIOS came with a Windows licence? I don't know all the ways it can get embedded there. Either way, if you start the

Re: [GTALUG] You may already have a Windows licence and not know it …

On Tue, 13 Apr 2021 at 20:13, Giles Orr via talk wrote: > > When you installed Linux on a Windows computer? I wiped Windows, but > the firmware data is still there: > Or if it was pre-installed on your computer by the vendor. I don't think the laptop I bought in 2013 ever ran Windows, but that

[GTALUG] You may already have a Windows licence and not know it …

If the file /sys/firmware/acpi/tables/MSDM exists (it's read-only to root), there's probably a key embedded in there you can pull out with strings Stewart --- Post to this mailing list talk@gtalug.org Unsubscribe from this mailing list https://gtalug.org/mailman/listinfo/talk

Re: [GTALUG] RMS on britannica.com

On Wed, 7 Apr 2021 at 10:21, D. Hugh Redelmeier via talk wrote: > > The article seems to be mostly limited to non-controversial and positive > things. It seems to be written very sympathetically. That's probably > appropriate. > Britannica doesn't really rank as a quality reference work. It

Re: [GTALUG] Has the graphics-card world gone mad?

On Tue., Mar. 30, 2021, 09:50 o1bigtenor via talk, wrote: > > > > My LG 4k monitor is actually made by Goldstar. > LG was formerly known as Lucky Goldstar. It's probably embedded in some ancient table, like the "Acer" name for my Asus monitor. Cheers Stewart --- Post to this mailing list

Re: [GTALUG] Raspberry Pi

On Thu., Mar. 4, 2021, 22:48 Aruna Hewapathirane, < aruna.hewapathir...@gmail.com> wrote: > > Oh my .. Thank you so much Stewart. Nearest major intersection is > Lawrence Ave West and Caledonia Road. > Ah; other end of town. We can work something out. I've also got a FireFly SBC you can have.

Re: [GTALUG] micro controllers

Another Canadian supplier of semi-industrial microcontrollers is Universal Solder out of Yorkton, SK: https://www.universal-solder.ca A particularly handy board they sell is the CANADUINO PLC 300-24 — https://www.universal-solder.ca/product/canaduino-plc-300-24-arduino-mega2560-based-diy-kit/ —

Re: [GTALUG] HP Z420 + rx5600 + MSI MAG272CQR ?

On Sat., Feb. 13, 2021, 13:26 steve--- via talk, wrote: > > Havent tried to boot Linux yet but looking at Ubuntu 20. If > they haven't messed it > up much more that 18.04... > If it's snapd that annoys you (it was for me) it's fairly easy to remove. In 20.10, I think, they made

Re: [GTALUG] YAD-Zenity-GTK on Pi - assistance needed

On Fri, 29 Jan 2021 at 20:02, Kevin Cozens via talk wrote: > > The original question was about a Pi 1 model b. > > > Exactly the same OS distro, though. I don't bother with the 64-bit things on Raspberry Pi, as the community support is with the 32-bit Raspberry Pi OS. --- Post to this mailing

Re: [GTALUG] YAD-Zenity-GTK on Pi - assistance needed

On Fri, 29 Jan 2021 at 15:22, Giles Orr via talk wrote: > > What this suggests to me (I'm guessing here, hoping someone can help > me figure it out) is that YAD is compiled with GTK support on Debian > and Fedora, but some other graphical library on the Pi. Seems to be built with GTK support

[GTALUG] Mike's links from tonight

* Free As In Health Care « blarg? — http://exple.tive.org/blarg/2016/08/29/free-as-in-health-care/ * The Evolution Of Open « blarg? — http://exple.tive.org/blarg/2018/11/09/the-evolution-of-open/ --- Post to this mailing list talk@gtalug.org Unsubscribe from this mailing list

[GTALUG] First new home computer for decades - Raspberry Pi 400

... and it runs Linux. https://www.raspberrypi.org/products/raspberry-pi-400/?resellerType=home --- Post to this mailing list talk@gtalug.org Unsubscribe from this mailing list https://gtalug.org/mailman/listinfo/talk

Re: [GTALUG] Freedom and Graphene

On Sun, 1 Nov 2020 at 09:57, Evan Leibovitch via talk wrote: > > … my current provider (Koodo/Telus). > ah, no: stick with Koodo. Everything about them is better. The only reason I'm with Freedom is that they have better US prices, and Catherine (used to) travel there a lot. This is now a

Re: [GTALUG] inexpensive X86 Single Board Computer

On Mon., Oct. 5, 2020, 11:33 Kevin Cozens via talk, wrote: > They > have also been promoting the Wio Terminal. Seeed sent me a Wii Terminal a couple of months ago for review. Quite a nifty and powerful little microcontroller box. Very nicely made. Only issue is that it's a bit new, and the

Re: [GTALUG] Seeding of some September discussion ideas

On Tue, 8 Sep 2020 at 11:16, Christopher Browne via talk wrote: > The September "etherpad" has been seeded with things that I saw this month > that struck me as interesting... > https://etherpad.wikimedia.org/p/gtalug-september > > Please, by all means, add more > Probably best if I don't add

Re: [GTALUG] MathML Support on the Internet

On Mon, 17 Aug 2020 at 18:56, Don Tai via talk wrote: > This does not render properly using Tor, which is surprising, as Tor is > based on Firefox > That's odd. Tor Browser 8 is based on Firefox Quantum. But then, I don't know what fonts you have installed > > Chromium also does not render

Re: [GTALUG] MathML Support on the Internet

Hi Howard - I got your http://home.eol.ca/~hgibson/MathML.html page looking roughly how one might want it in Firefox. Note that this Firefox Quantum ( ≥ v.57): all bets are off for older versions that use a different engine. First off, the maths fonts on your system are probably crap. TeX Gyre

Re: [GTALUG] Looks like IBM is planning to eliminate RHEL

> ... The truth and reconciliation movement in Canada, > by stating there is systematic racism in this country ... But there is systemic and horrific racism in this country. I'm sure many of us here were affected by "No Canadian Experience" hiring policies. Just because a website espouses

Re: [GTALUG] Raspberry Pi 4 with 8G of RAM

On Thu., May 28, 2020, 14:08 Dhaval Giani, wrote: > >> Maybe a plug here > https://www.oracle.com/linux/downloads/linux-arm-downloads.html > > It won't have accelerated graphics either. If the Foundation hasn't done it for their release for the hardware they know best. Stewart > --- Post to

Re: [GTALUG] + Raspberry Pi's Raspbian now supports Orca screen reader.

I work for an assistive tech charity. We're certainly pleased that the Raspberry Pi Foundation has integrated Orca, but Distance Computer Comfort - our free adaptive computer technical support service - hasn't had any calls about this. I also don't know what integration testing the Foundation has

Re: [GTALUG] Wine for running Windows 10 apps on Linux gets big upgrade | ZDNet

On Thu., Jan. 23, 2020, 11:42 D. Hugh Redelmeier via talk, wrote: > > This means that it will ill-become them to legally stomp on WINE. > That's a Good Thing. But it isn't working to improve WINE. > Aww. I was really looking forward to running WSL under WINE Stewart > > > --- Post to this

Re: [GTALUG] Any experience with "Linux on Windows"?

On Wed., Jan. 15, 2020, 10:15 Lennart Sorensen via talk, wrote:: > > I have X410 app for windows 10, so it does run X apps. > There's also a free X server for Windows 10. It's not accelerated, but will do in a pinch. The WSL1 terminal is awful compared to what most distros provide. Copy and

Re: [GTALUG] Problem with /dev/ttyUSB* serial port

Is your user a member of the dialout group? You can't access serial ports unless you are. Also, 'baudrate=57142' looks a bit odd. 57600 is more standard, but I've seen that number used for a couple of motor controllers. Is there a way you can try it without the USB extender? Are you using more

Re: [GTALUG] "Atom Pi"

On Mon., Sep. 16, 2019, 12:30 D. Hugh Redelmeier via talk, wrote: > ... I just assumed that it was some surplus board that was > being blown out. Maybe it is. > It is. It's from a home server thing that bankrupted the developer before they got to market. Once they're gone, they're gone. While

Re: [GTALUG] Raspberry Pi 4

On Tue., Sep. 3, 2019, 12:45 Lennart Sorensen, wrote: > > Vertical enter key, '|' key on left where shift should be. What's to > like about that keyboard? Eww! > I honestly think I'm too old to care. I've been using it for the last couple of weeks and it's pretty decent. The mouse is good

[GTALUG] Magic SysRq: ever known to fail?

This shouldn't happen, but I've got a Linux computer with the clock frozen at an hour ago and unsaved work that I can't access Does Magic SysRq always work? Am I doing it wrong? (Alt + PrtSc + key, eg REISUB) A website took out Firefox's JS process, which coincidentally manages Gnome's UI.

[GTALUG] For Chris: Commodore BASIC as a scripting language

This is not a place of honour:. https://github.com/mist64/cbmbasic Go do some damage! --- Post to this mailing list talk@gtalug.org Unsubscribe from this mailing list https://gtalug.org/mailman/listinfo/talk

Re: [GTALUG] EOMA68

It certainly sounds like it has an image problem: https://elinux.org/Embedded_Open_Modular_Architecture/EOMA68 They never did ship, did they? Stewart > > > --- Post to this mailing list talk@gtalug.org Unsubscribe from this mailing list https://gtalug.org/mailman/listinfo/talk

Re: [GTALUG] Raspberry Pi 4

On Thu., Jun. 27, 2019, 13:37 Kevin Cozens via talk, wrote: > > > Um... it isn't Pi day. They always bring out the new models on Pi day. > Given that they've launched models in January, February, March, June and November, I won't ever ask you to draw me a circle ... This one came out early as

[GTALUG] Raspberry Pi 4

More RAM, proper USB 3 and fast Ethernet, better processor, and dual HDMI output (incl 4K @ 60Hz): https://www.raspberrypi.org/products/raspberry-pi-4-model-b/ --- Talk Mailing List talk@gtalug.org https://gtalug.org/mailman/listinfo/talk

Re: [GTALUG] war story: fixing an LCD TV

On Fri., May 31, 2019, 13:46 Evan Leibovitch via talk, wrote: > Right now I have a dual screen setup with one 24" and one 22". The colour > doesn't quite match between the two of them > Have you tried colour calibrating them? Different vendors have different white points, and almost every

Re: [GTALUG] Q4OS anyone?

On Fri., May 17, 2019, 10:11 Ken Heard via talk, wrote: > > I am thinking of using the Q4OS operating system instead of Debian > Looks as if it missed its last update and the documentation is extremely sparse. It may be lovely, but Q4OS doesn't look like it has a big enough user community to be

Re: [GTALUG] Question Fodder - RISC-V

Though I couldn't make tonight's session, I know that the ST-Link programmer appears as a /dev/St.? (stlink0, maybe?). It's not a TTY or storage device. There are many clones available for pennies. Yeah, I've had the misfortune of being stuck with some "Blue Pill" controller boards that have bad

Re: [GTALUG] "93% of Paint Splatters are Valid Perl Programs"

> > The pubdate is April 1st, but I think it highlights the weakness of all other languages *but* Perl ... --- Talk Mailing List talk@gtalug.org https://gtalug.org/mailman/listinfo/talk

Re: [GTALUG] reverse engineering

On Fri., Mar. 29, 2019, 11:28 Kevin Cozens via talk, wrote: > > It was just something I noticed. I was partly surprised that ghidra > included > some older processors in their list of ones for which they can decompile > code. > Z80 will still show up in industrial control things. It seems very

Re: [GTALUG] Microsoft open sources Windows Calculator

On Sun., Mar. 17, 2019, 12:47 James Knott via talk, wrote: > > Figs = Figures Shift, a function necessary with the 5 bit code to handle > both alphabet and numbers/punctuation. > I can confirm that Baudot is alive and (maybe not quite) well in RTTY for amateur radio. It's one of the few digital

Re: [GTALUG] Western Digital's open source RISC-V core

Yeah, I think it is. This link from Seeedstudio (a well respected open hardware company, and yes, they have 3 Es) has all the goods, including super-tiny Linux boards: https://www.seeedstudio.com/sipeed Cheers Stewart > --- Talk Mailing List talk@gtalug.org

Re: [GTALUG] Ontario Bill 72: "Right to Repair"

On Thu., Mar. 7, 2019, 12:24 Ansar Mohammed via talk, wrote: > > Please don't confuse this issue with the maker community or "tinkerers". > This is about empowering 3rd party repair of devices so that manufacturers > don't continue to gouge you for basic repairs. > I understand this, but the

Re: [GTALUG] Pine Book Pro

On Mon, 4 Mar 2019 at 15:52, Lennart Sorensen via talk wrote: > > Never mind delete, who thought moving the '\ and |' key? Swap it with > delete which is hardly ever used, but | sure is. Eek. > That was a feature of the original Pinebook. I don't think they're going to change it. Stewart ---

Re: [GTALUG] Spamhaus block

On Thu, Feb 21, 2019, 15:53 Marc Lijour, wrote: > +1 > > turns out that OVH is cheap and not-for-profit organizations are looking > for cheap (same as spammers I guess), ... > We're not looking for cheap at all. A site hosted by WPEngine isn't cheap. It's the arbitrariness of spam blocking: we

Re: [GTALUG] Spamhaus block

On Thu, Feb 21, 2019, 15:42 Don Tai via talk, wrote: > ... You need to move to another host provider. > This is not always an option. The not-for-profit I work for has a web site run from WP Engine. It can send e-mail for updates, subscriptions, etc. Just one of the wp.com hosts that the mail

Re: [GTALUG] Samsung monitor power supply

On Wed, Feb 13, 2019, 09:28 James Knott via talk > I thought they moved up to Steeles Ave. Did they die there? > Yes. The owners retired and sold up. Graham Greene, former manager, has kept some of it going at SteamLabs and the Science Centre: https://thegorillastore.com/ Stewart > --- Talk

Re: [GTALUG] Pine Book Pro

On Jan 30, 2019, at 12:22, Alex Volkov via talk wrote: > > Hey Everyone, > > It looks like Pine64 are releasing Pinebook Pro, a laptop that I'm actually > willing to pay money for and then use. > > https://forum.pine64.org/showthread.php?tid=7093=43850#pid43850 > > > > The original

Re: [GTALUG] google news alternatives?

I use theoldreader.com. it costs money after a certain number of feeds, but I've never hit that. It may be more screen-reader friendly than Feedly Cheers Stewart --- Talk Mailing List talk@gtalug.org https://gtalug.org/mailman/listinfo/talk

Re: [GTALUG] Looking for Someone to Answer some Questions - the python fork

On Tue, Jan 15, 2019, 08:13 Alvin Starr via talk > > It may be old but if the description of the memory footprint is correct > then it looks to be the smallest implementation which has some value in > memory constrained applications. > IIRC PyMite (another name for this project) was a subset of

Re: [GTALUG] Looking for Someone to Answer some Questions

Try Chris Tyler at Seneca CDOT again. He may not be directly involved in compiler development, but if there's anyone doing this work locally, he will know them and can introduce them to you. Stewart --- Talk Mailing List talk@gtalug.org https://gtalug.org/mailman/listinfo/talk

Re: [GTALUG] Linux on ppc64 (G5) - distro support

On Thu, Dec 6, 2018, 13:19 Mike > > Jessie even manages power and those prodigious fans just nicely. That's good to know. Both my G5s needed PRAM resets (Option-Command-P-R, which is quite special to manage with one hand), SMU resets (the tiny tact switch below the SIMMs) and a battery check.

Re: [GTALUG] (Informal Announcement) GTALUG Meeting on Tuesday (2018 Oct 8)

So, did I miss you all at Kabul Express? --- Talk Mailing List talk@gtalug.org https://gtalug.org/mailman/listinfo/talk

Re: [GTALUG] ancient computer history

On Tue, Sep 18, 2018, 10:48 James Knott via talk, wrote: > I also used to maintain a PDP-8i > computer. When browsing through the programming manual, I found DEC > actually recommending self modifying code, to get around the limitations > of the instruction set! The basic PDP-8 didn't have a

Re: [GTALUG] Online Course for Lex/Yacc?

On Mon, Sep 17, 2018, 15:36 William Park via talk, wrote: > > Language is C; environment is embedded board of consumer/business > printers > So is this embedded as in "limited memory" and printers like "horrid binary protocols"? This might not fit with that kind of parser. Stewart > --- Talk

Re: [GTALUG] An LibreOffice question.

Not without macros. LibreOffice is kinda hamstrung by its file format and MS Excel compatibility. Gnumeric can do this, but it's never had to play to a big compatibility or business market. It's supposed to have true engineering notation in LibreOffice Calc > 4.5 or so, not just the three s.f.

Re: [GTALUG] Help need in bash

On Thu, May 31, 2018, 14:40 Stephen via talk, wrote: > > #!/bin/bash > cd /big1/memes/; > > shopt -s nullglob > for f in "*.png" > do > echo $f > This is where you get the PNG echoes. b=${f%.png} > echo $b > done > You can also do convert file.{png,jpg} and bash will do

Re: [GTALUG] off topic question from Re: VM decisions for school laptop..

On Thu, Apr 12, 2018, 10:45 Alvin Starr via talk, wrote: > > Once upon a time there was an xserver that would run on windows but I > don't know if such a thing still exists. > The vowel-free VcXsrv is still in (occasional) development. Works decently with the Windows Linux

Re: [GTALUG] VM decisions for school laptop..

On Thu, Apr 12, 2018, 09:22 James Knott via talk, wrote: > > > Windows 10 has something called the Linux subsystem for Windows. > > However, unless I'm missing something, it's command line only. > You can do graphical things, but they require an X server running under Windows.

Re: [GTALUG] USB-C/3.1 Video and Linux

On Thu, Mar 29, 2018, 12:33 Russell via talk, wrote: > > I think I just read that Windows 10 now has a virtual linux console. > Yup. I just installed Debian 9 under Windows 10 today. It doesn't feel like a VM, but it's a decidedly odd experience running 'apt' on a Windows

Re: [GTALUG] OT: UEFI and Windows mysteries [was: New Deaktop PC -- To Run debian Linux - PCPartPicker Recipe]

On Wed, Mar 28, 2018, 16:53 Bob Jonkman via talk, wrote: > > I welcome further off-topic insights, although the list moderators may > not be so tolerant. > I think "hardware that refuses to run Linux" is pretty on-topic. The threat of the locked-out BIOS* is still with us. Hugh

Re: [GTALUG] PC build recommendation

On 27 February 2018 at 16:08, Alex Volkov via talk wrote: > > What is the procedure for calibration? is there a way to do it in Linux? > Do I need a special device for that? > Yes, you need a device, but the procedure is simple. I can lend you my ColorHug, a display calibrator

Re: [GTALUG] PC build recommendation

On Feb 27, 2018 11:32, "Lennart Sorensen via talk" wrote: Why a SATA M.2 rather than the much faster NVMe? I got NVMe for about the same price as SATA last year. It's definitely worth the upgrade, though do be sure your board's BIOS is updated to understand it. With Newegg,

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