April 2015 - Talk - lists.gtalug.org

Toronto Star videos no longer work
by James Knott 26 Apr '15

26 Apr '15

Has anyone else noticed that the videos on the Toronto Star site no longer work with Linux? I've tried Firefox, Seamonkey and Chromium browsers. The videos do work in Windows.

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Linux Australia Hacked
by R. Russell Reiter 24 Apr '15

24 Apr '15

There's a nice little presentation illustrating the effect of pushing a JMP instruction across bufferspace on hacked.com. https://hacked.com/linux-australia-hacked/ -- Sent via K-9 Mail.

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Libregraphics Meeting, Toronto, 29 Apr to 2 May 2015
by Bob Jonkman 23 Apr '15

23 Apr '15

-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Hi again: Here's something I knew about, but that almost slipped my mind: > The Libre Graphics Meeting (LGM) is an annual meeting on free and > open source software for graphics. > > Held yearly since 2006 the Libre Graphics Meeting aims to attract > developers, artists and professionals who use and improve free and > open source software graphics applications. The LGM aims to bring > these people together in the cause of creating high quality free > graphics applications. 29 April to 2 May 2015 at Robarts Library and the Earth Sciences Building at the University of Toronto http://libregraphicsmeeting.org/2015/program/ - --Bob. - -- Bob Jonkman <bjonkman(a)sobac.com> Phone: +1-519-669-0388 SOBAC Microcomputer Services http://sobac.com/sobac/ http://bob.jonkman.ca/blogs/ http://sn.jonkman.ca/bobjonkman/ Software --- Office & Business Automation --- Consulting GnuPG Fngrprnt:04F7 742B 8F54 C40A E115 26C2 B912 89B0 D2CC E5EA -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v2.0.20 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Ensure confidentiality, authenticity, non-repudiability iEYEARECAAYFAlU4epwACgkQuRKJsNLM5eqDgACfRlF9rNKq3rf8pTdhAejalQMT vZIAoJuUzfxMarZYMGJuOx+KdDa6SiLO =aTNh -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----

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Toronto Ubuntu 15.04 Vivid Vervet Release Party
by Bob Jonkman 23 Apr '15

23 Apr '15

-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Hi all: There are a number of significant Linux distribution releases happening -- Linux Mint Debian Edition 2 "Betsy" just came out this past Friday, Ubuntu 15.04 "Vivid Vervet" is coming out next Thursday, and Debian 8.0 "Jessie" is being released the Saturday after that. As far as I know, only Ubuntu is having a release party, to which I'd like to welcome all Linux distro users in the Toronto area: *What*: Toronto 15.04 Release Party *When*: 8:00pm to 11:45pm, Thursday, 23 April 2015 *Where*: Alio Lounge, 108 Dundas Street West, Toronto, Ontario *Map*: http://osm.org/go/ZX6BtMGSN-?m=&node=1113718580 *LoCo Event*: http://loco.ubuntu.com/events/ubuntu-ca/3074/detail/ Mike Kaulbach (genii in IRC) is providing free coffee and all the fixings to decorate your own cupcakes. Hope to see you there! Thanx, - --Bob. - -- Bob Jonkman <bjonkman(a)sobac.com> Phone: +1-519-669-0388 SOBAC Microcomputer Services http://sobac.com/sobac/ http://bob.jonkman.ca/blogs/ http://sn.jonkman.ca/bobjonkman/ Software --- Office & Business Automation --- Consulting GnuPG Fngrprnt:04F7 742B 8F54 C40A E115 26C2 B912 89B0 D2CC E5EA -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v2.0.20 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Ensure confidentiality, authenticity, non-repudiability iEYEARECAAYFAlUrSAkACgkQuRKJsNLM5erWUgCgzIL2DEIe/DC8tG0RqI+6Nx2z 8sUAn2jfDvMNEY12aeiIr6Vekv014Reb =h2Vj -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----

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Myths and misunderstandings about ZFS
by Daniel Wayne Armstrong 22 Apr '15

22 Apr '15

Interesting article about the ZFS filesystem... In the past I have defaulted to the usual ext(2,3,4) but the ability to make filesystem snapshots and rollbacks would be useful: http://distrowatch.com/weekly.php?issue=20150420#myth -- (o< .: Per curiositas ad astra .: http://www.circuidipity.com (/)_

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One Plus One, sans invites.
by Scott Sullivan 21 Apr '15

21 Apr '15

They've just announced that an invite will no longer be required. https://blog.oneplus.net/2015/04/open-sales-for-the-oneplus-one-forever/ I've had mine for the better part of year and love it. -- Scott Sullivan

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MCM/70 computer
by Tom Low-Shang 20 Apr '15

20 Apr '15

Any of our *cough*older*cough* members ever use the MCM/70? Programmable in only APL, very nerdy indeed. :) http://spacing.ca/toronto/2015/04/15/toronto-invented-pc-forgot/ http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MCM/70 -- Tom Low-Shang 416 857 7013 GTalk/Jabber tomlowshang(a)gmail.com

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toggle notifications in GNOME 3.16?
by Matt Price 20 Apr '15

20 Apr '15

Hey eveyrone! I'm running Gnome 3.16 in Arch Linux. When I am working, I would like to be able to shut off desktop notifications, preferably from the command line or with a keyboard shortcut. I figure there must be a way to do this, but I can't find a setting in gconf-settings or other likely places. ANyone have hints? thaks, Matt

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Fwd: Re: May 2015 GTALUG talk on OSM
by Myles Braithwaite 17 Apr '15

17 Apr '15

Stewart conformed for May's meeting. -------- Original Message -------- Subject: Re: May 2015 GTALUG talk on OSM Date: Fri, 17 Apr 2015 14:39:36 -0400 From: Stewart Russell <scruss(a)gmail.com> To: Myles Braithwaite <me(a)mylesbraithwaite.com> Hi Myles - absolutely! I'm working on the slides with Richard, who did the OSM talk for GTALUG in around 2010.

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Dan Gilmore on computing freedom
by David Mason 16 Apr '15

16 Apr '15

https://medium.com/backchannel/why-i-m-saying-goodbye-to-apple-google-and-m…

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