Re: [GTALUG] printer options

On Feb 8, 2018 6:31 PM, "D. Hugh Redelmeier via talk" wrote: Printer settings can get even more complicated when you look at ppds. I think that is because different printers have different settings. I'd strongly advise any sane user to avoid looking at PPDs. Initially they

Re: [GTALUG] Linux Journal, RIP

On Feb 2, 2018 13:45, "D. Hugh Redelmeier via talk" wrote: I'd like a good PDF to epub converter. But any converter is an impediment. PDF is marks on paper. Unfortunately, the tools that create PDF with all the information needed to display reflowable content aren't

Re: [GTALUG] Linux Journal, RIP

On Jan 31, 2018 18:01, "Tim Carroll via talk" wrote: They are back. with new funding. linuxjournal2 http://www.linuxjournal.com/ I wish them good luck trying to refactor their way out of existing debt. Trying to claim they're brand-new, start-over but with a lead story about

Re: [GTALUG] How to go fast without speculating... maybe

On 31 January 2018 at 09:38, Lennart Sorensen via talk wrote: > > If you like an ARM laptop, this is coming soon: > https://www.asus.com/ca-en/2-in-1-PCs/ASUS-NovaGo-TP370QL/ > > I wonder how long it will take after release before someone has Linux > installed on one. > There's

Re: [GTALUG] Raspberry Pi 3 Model B for $50 at Newegg.ca

On Nov 22, 2017 9:38 PM, "Stewart C. Russell" wrote: The card's a Class 10/UHS-1, so as fast as is useful on a Raspberry Pi. The official branded NOOBS cards are either Transcend or AData; I don't have one here to check. They're Transcend, packaged by Element14, with a

Re: [GTALUG] Raspberry Pi 3 Model B for $50 at Newegg.ca

On Nov 22, 2017 12:40 PM, "Digiital aka David via talk" wrote: Speaking of Pi's.. How about a good source in the GTA that doesn't charge for a Pi Zero Wireless as much as a Pi3? There are no official Raspberry Pi resellers in the GTA, so we're all limited to buying one

Re: [GTALUG] Raspberry Pi 3 Model B for $50 at Newegg.ca

On Nov 22, 2017 03:00, "Kevin Cozens via talk" wrote: On 2017-11-21 11:51 PM, William Park via talk wrote: > While shopping at Newegg.ca, I found > 0007_sp=Homepage_FDD-_-P3_13-300-007-_-11212017> > That sounds

Re: [GTALUG] FSOSS 2017 cancelled due to strike

On Oct 18, 2017 10:18 AM, "D. Hugh Redelmeier via talk" wrote: That's a shame. I saw Chris Tyler last week before the strike was called, and he was pretty disconsolate about it going ahead. While there might be occasional grizzles

[GTALUG] Myles's Open Data Talk

Great talk from Myles tonight. Canada is trying to be better about open data, but it has a long way to go. There are open PDF scraping tools, but they tend to be very limited in domain. It's always fun when you get data that must be published, but there's no stipulation that it's usable. The best

Re: [GTALUG] Spam is basically dead

On 17 August 2017 at 19:30, David Collier-Brown via talk wrote: > Spamcop.net should not be compared to the extortionist sites, nor the > email vendors. It's honest, and living on a shoestring. > On a shoestring? They're part of Cisco. They run an RBL, so they can still block

Re: [GTALUG] Spam is basically dead

On 17 August 2017 at 12:54, David Collier-Brown wrote: > If they don't voluntarily agree to stop emailing me, I drop them into > spamcop form below: > > ^u^a^c... ^p and they get their corporate email provider flagged as a > spammer. > > This usually gets them told there will

Re: [GTALUG] Question

Can't help much with the security, but IoT security is typically hilarious. I have a potentially nice Linux/MIPS-based Onion Omega 2+ IoT board. When it's on a wireless network, I can't find a way to turn off its access point. As the AP has a trivially-guessable default password, it would open a

Re: [GTALUG] Hashbang syntax in bash script [was: Watching a network folder: is there a smart way of doing this?\

It's also handy for your Perls & Pythons if you're running perlbrew or that weird python overlay thing equivalent. Stewart --- Talk Mailing List talk@gtalug.org https://gtalug.org/mailman/listinfo/talk

[GTALUG] Router advice sought

So my WRT-350N decided to stop being a router last night and to start being a brick instead. All ports and WiFi appear to be dead. People have discussed the latest and greatest here - so what's the best basic router for: * enough wireless range for a smallish two storey house; * able to connect

[GTALUG] @ Re: What Not To Backup

On Dec 23, 2016 3:58 PM, "William Park via talk" wrote: Our audience is GTALUG members, so they know what we're talking about. I dunno; certainly wouldn't include me. Rsnapshot is about the limit of what I can handle. You can set it to do daily, weekly and monthlies. For me,

Re: [GTALUG] email client with autocorrect?

That check before send is awesome for also catching the things you should have said better or not at all. If only Thunderbird would fix their editor and its random text style switching ... Stewart --- Talk Mailing List talk@gtalug.org https://gtalug.org/mailman/listinfo/talk

Re: [GTALUG] Suggestions: A Book for a Beginner, new to the Linux Shell

On Jul 18, 2016 11:03 PM, "Loui Chang" wrote: > > What crazy build are you using where texinfo pulls in texlive? Various debian-based things like Raspbian and Ubuntu. Particularly galling on SD-card systems where TeX snarfs ~15% of your storage. And please, it's rather

Re: [GTALUG] How to repeat a char in a line? (on Windows)

Is it always 480? Is copy and paste cheating? 480 is conveniently 30 * 16, so it's M * 10 (can most people count that high?), then Ctrl-A, Ctrl-X, Ctrl-V, Ctrl-V, Ctrl-V After that, it's Ctrl-A, Ctrl-X, Ctrl-V, Ctrl-V repeated 5 times. Should be 480 repeats. Stewart --- Talk Mailing List

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