May 2015 - Talk - lists.gtalug.org

meeting tomorrow: topic?
by D. Hugh Redelmeier 15 Jul '15

15 Jul '15

According to <http://gtalug.org/> : "GTALUG is currently looking for speakers for the 9th December, 2014 meeting. If you are interested in speaking please contact our talks coordinator." Let's brainstorm on this. Here's a poorly organized dump of some of my thoughts. - I'd love to hear Lennart talk about what he's learned working on routers. - I'd like to learn what each of you has learned using Linux (or perhaps, not able to do using Linux) and what your current Linux-related interests are. - I'd like to hear how people have set up their internet gatways. What's worth doing, what's easy, what's hard. (It's time for me to revisit this after having a pretty static setup for a decade. I'd be willing to talk about what I've done but it is pretty stale.) - I'm interested in setting up my in-house services like a cloud. Perhaps <http://owncloud.org/>. Motivation: I want to keep control of my own data as much as possible. Can anyone speak to this? - Subproblem of above: I run MediaWiki already. Tips and tricks (eg. from Drew) about care, feeding, and use would be welcome. - I'd be willing to share 10 minutes worth of what I've learned about little Windows gadgets as Linux platforms. - I'd love to discuss whether this is interesting and useful <http://www.banana-pi.com/eacp_view.asp?id=64> This is a version of the Banana Pi with an added ethernet switch: 5 x 1G eithernet ports. The Banana Pi is intended to mimic the Raspberry Pi in some ways but with a stronger processor; my impression has been that this is goofy and that the Cubieboard2 and Cubietruck <http://cubieboard.org/> were more transparent uses of the Allwinner chips. But gluing on a switch seems very attractive. - chatting about peoples' workflow always seems useful: it's not just the tools, its how we use them, how we find them useful, and where they don't quite meet expectations. Examples: backup methodology, distro update methodology, favourite editor (leave out tribalism), programming language, etc. - why Go is interesting <https://golang.org/>. Why Rust is interesting <http://www.rust-lang.org/>. Why Python 2.x still has a loyal following. - what are you doing with your _____? Example: Raspberry Pi. - How you make your mobile device work with your desktop? Summary: we've had Question and Answer sessions, how about an Answer and Question session? By that I meen: people give a mini-chat about something they think is interesting and have the rest of us ask questions in response.

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writing to group
by Darryl Moore 01 Jun '15

01 Jun '15

Hello moderators. I lerk in the GTALUG newsgroup often but don't often respond. I did response to the last thread for the first time in a while, but got a message back saying my message was awaiting moderation. I'm expecting this one to as well, and you can choose whether to respond directly or to post in the newsgroup and respond there. Does this group seriously moderate each and every message that passes through? Or do you have membership levels with some people requiring moderation and others not? Just curious, as if my messages are likely to get significantly delayed, then that would certainly have an effect on whether I try to post much more in the future. Kind Regards, Darryl Moore

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free scanner
by D. Hugh Redelmeier 01 Jun '15

01 Jun '15

I went to my local "Environment Day". Among other things, folks can turn in "e-waste", electronic things that they no longer want. They just get destroyed and, with luck, some fractional part gets recycled. I hate seeing good things go to waste. So I intercepted a scanner and now have it. An HP Scanjet 6300C. It was large, so I thought that it would handle legal-sized paper. No luck, it is large but only handles A4 length and Letter width (and smaller). It is old and slow but does work with Linux (USB; I haven't tried its SCSI prot). Is anyone interested in having it? I could likely bring it to the next meeting. If not, I'm going to throw it back.

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Remote GUI access to a Linux box from Windows
by Alex Volkov 29 May '15

29 May '15

Hello everyone, I need to organize a remote gui access from several windows machine to a linux box, running Fedora 22 with GNOME. The major requirements are -- it's gonna work on a LAN, needs to be responsive, and the should exist a decent windows client. I think VNC is a bit too cumbersome, although there might be a better client out there. Has anyone used anything more recent? So far I'm most inclined on using X2Go -- http://wiki.x2go.org/doku.php, has anyone had any experience with it? Thanks, Alex.

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registrar for .ca
by Jeremy Baker 29 May '15

29 May '15

Looking for some advise about a good registrar for .ca and .com I've been using registeryour.ca, but have found them lacking in customer support and features (dnssec). I would like to move to someone that is more responsive and has support for the following dnssec ipv6 I was just looking at namespro.ca, and their prices are cheaper for .ca and .com. Any experience with them? -- Jeremy Baker <jab(a)mbcs.ca> GnuPGP fingerprint = EE66 AC49 E008 E09A 7A2A 0195 50EF 580B EDBB 95B6

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Updated Code of Conduct
by Myles Braithwaite 29 May '15

29 May '15

We have updated the Code of Conduct. You can view it here: <http://gtalug.org/about/code-of-conduct/>. If you are interested in what's changed you can view the diff here: <https://github.com/gtalug/code-of-conduct/commit/5e00d6df1ea54855f0e512a01b…>. If you have any questions, comments, or concerns about the GTALUG Code of Conduct please contact one of the GTALUG Board <board(a)gtalug.org>.

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Help to setup for scanning
by o1bigtenor 27 May '15

27 May '15

Greetings I'm hoping that someone out there has achieved success and can point me to some pointers! I bought a Brother MFC-J6510DW largely because it can scan 11 x 17 inch documents (I have too many like that that I would like to get into electronic format!!). I can see the machine as a printer but cannot get the machine to scan a page. I have installed XSane 1.0.24 backend and XSane1.0.14 frontend. Tried running the ethernet cable through the router (a la network usage) and can't get anything useful to occu. I have also tried running the ethernet cable directly into my main machine (Debian testing) with also no joy. Have also contacted Brother support and although their website and the stickers on the machine laud their online chat and telephone support for linux its email support (if they can be bothered! (they are taking a very long time to respond!!)). Any suggestions? TIA Dee

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print serving / print clients
by D. Hugh Redelmeier 27 May '15

27 May '15

I have a Linux machine with a non-networked Brother printer (HL-5150D). I want the Fedora 20 machine to be a print server for a Ubuntu 12.04 machine. They are not co-operating for me. What protocol do you use or recommend? IPP (my naive choice), JetPrint (I think that's what the HP-invented protocol is called), LPR, or SMB, ...? Which are secure, easy, powerful? What firewall hacking is needed?

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[GTALUG-Announce] Meeting on 9th June at 7:30pm - GPG Key-Signing Party and Round Table Q&A Session
by Myles Braithwaite 26 May '15

26 May '15

<http://gtalug.org/meeting/2015-06/> # GPG Key-Signing Party and Round Table Q&A Session See the bottom of this email for instructions on the GPG Key-Signing Party. A Round Table Q&A Session is where we take questions from the audience, and the audience discusses and attempts to answer those questions from their own knowledge. It's a great way to meet fellow members of our community and discover the skill sets we each bring to the table. ## Location George Vari Engineering and Computing Centre 245 Church Street, Room 203 Ryerson University <http://goo.gl/maps/16oJ2> <http://www.openstreetmap.org/way/23447525> ## Schedule * 6:00 pm - Before each meeting a group of GTALUGers dine at Love At First Bite (96 Gerrard Street E). * 7:30 pm - Meeting and presentation. * 9:00 pm - After each meeting a group of GTALUGers move to the The Imperial Pub (54 Dundas St East) for refreshments and more socializing. # Code of Conduct We want a productive happy community that can welcome new ideas, improve every process every year, and foster collaboration between individuals with differing needs, interests and skills. We gain strength from diversity, and actively seek participation from those who enhance it. This code of conduct exists to ensure that diverse groups collaborate to mutual advantage and enjoyment. We will challenge prejudice that could jeopardize the participation of any person in the community. The Code of Conduct governs how we behave in public or in private whenever the Linux community will be judged by our actions. We expect it to be honored by everyone who represents the community officially or informally, claims affiliation, or participates directly. It applies to activities online or offline. We invite anybody to participate. Our community is open. Please read more about the GTALUG Code of Conduct here: <http://gtalug.org/about/code-of-conduct/>. If you have any questions, comments, or concerns about the GTALUG Code of Conduct please contact one of the GTALUG Board Members. # GPG Key-Signing Party 1. Create an OpenPGP keypair for yourself (if you haven't) already. 2. Print or write down your key fingerprint and bring it with you. You'll have to confirm at the signing that the list is correct for your key. 3. Send your public key before the event to the `pgp.mit.edu` keyserver. 4. Bring a goverment-issued picture ID of yourself. ### At the Key Signing Party 1. Each participant should meet up face to face with every other participant to receive their key fingerprint and examine their ID, and to give them your key fingerprint and have them examine your ID. 2. Each participant should meet up face to face with every other participant to receive their key fingerprint and examine their ID, and to give them your key fingerprint and have them examine your ID. ### After the Key Signing Party 1. Find the key ID on the fingerprint. The fingerprint will have an 8-character ID listed after the key size. Typically it looks like this: '1024D/64011A8B'. The actual ID portion is the '64011A8B'. You'll notice this is also the last 8 characters of the fingerprint itself. 2. Fetch the public key using the key ID. If you're running GnuPG on the command line, you can do this by typing: `gpg --keyserver pgp.mit.edu --recv-keys <KeyID>` (where KeyID is obviously the ID of the key you want). 3. Check that the fingerprint of the key you've just fetched matches the fingerprint on the slip of paper: `gpg --fingerprint <KeyID>` and compare it with the hard copy in front of you. 4. If (and only if) you are happy that the fingerprints match and the person showed you sufficient ID, you can do the actual 'signing' part of the process: `gpg --sign-key <KeyID>` and answer the questions it asks. 5. Next you need to send the signed copy of their key back to them. Now upload the signed key back to the server `gpg --keyserver pgp.mit.edu --send-key <Key_ID>`. You should get back something like 'gpg: sending key <Key_ID> to hkp server pgp.mit.edu'. ### Help Get your KEYID from your keyring as the part following the 1024D/ as follows: gpg --list-secret-keys | grep sec Here is how to send your key to the keyserver: gpg --keyserver gpg.mit.edu --send-keys <KEYID> Get your fingerprint information: gpg --fingerprint KEYID --- GTALUG Announce mailing list announce(a)gtalug.org http://gtalug.org/mailman/listinfo/announce

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Looking for a postgresql dba, junior is fine
by Dave Cramer 25 May '15

25 May '15

I have a client who is in need of someone with postgresql experience. If you know how to use psql, and linux cmd line I'm interested. Dave Cramer

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