February 2016 - Talk - lists.gtalug.org

unlimitel cancellation policy
by Dave Cramer 11 Feb '16

11 Feb '16

So I decided to move my voip to voip.ms unlimtel has a nice cancellation policy.. $5 tor remove a DID and they take whatever else is left in the account. Lady asks me why I am cancelling. I said this is why... she says "this is the terms of the agreement" to wit, yes I understand but now you know why I am cancellling buyer beware Dave Cramer

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SCO vs. IBM legal battle over Linux may – finally – be finished | Network World
by James Knott 10 Feb '16

10 Feb '16

http://www.networkworld.com/article/3032050/open-source-tools/sco-vs-ibm-le… Someone should drive a stake through SCO's heart, just to be sure.

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SCAP , compliance and you.
by David Thornton 10 Feb '16

10 Feb '16

Hey guys, Just a quick follow up on my talk last night. SCAP is Security Content Automation Protocol http://scap.nist.gov/ Various bodies make xml files that describe tests, they publish xccdf files that have all of the "things to test" Big Database of checks here: https://web.nvd.nist.gov/view/ncp/repository RedHat supports this and ships with all the required open source software ( rhel 6 and 7): - openscap - openscap-utils - openscap-scanner - scap-security-guide *For RHEL6:* The files for STIG for RHEL6 http://iasecontent.disa.mil/stigs/zip/Oct2015/U_RedHat_6_V1R9_STIG_SCAP_1-1… unzip that stuff and run: /usr/bin/oscap xccdf eval --results /var/www/html/STIG-rhsa-results-oval-before.xml --report /var/www/html/STIG-rhsa-oval-report-before.html /root/STIG/U_RedHat_6_V1R9_STIG_SCAP_1-1_Benchmark-xccdf.xml *For RHEL7* it's even easier: install all the same packages: Then: /usr/bin/oscap xccdf eval --results /var/www/html/ssg-rhel7-results-before.xml --report /var/www/html/ssg-rhel7-report-before.html --profile xccdf_org.ssgproject.content_profile_rht-ccp /usr/share/xml/scap/ssg/content/ssg-rhel7-ds.xml Here is the redhat 7 documentation https://access.redhat.com/documentation/en-US/Red_Hat_Enterprise_Linux/7/ht… I've attached a sample RHEL7 report ( the rhel 6 one is not as sexeh ) If you have any questions , let me know. David

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Mini-printers lightning talk
by Stewart Russell 09 Feb '16

09 Feb '16

Hi all, * Slides: http://scruss.com/wordpress/wp-content/uploads/2015/11/gtalug201511-MiniPri… * my driver installation guide for Raspbian: http://scruss.com/blog/2015/07/12/thermal-printer-driver-for-cups-linux-and… * my general notes on mini-printers: http://scruss.com/blog/2014/08/02/notes-on-mini-printers-and-linux/ Cheers Stewart

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[GTALUG-Announce] Meeting on Tuesday at 7:30pm
by Myles Braithwaite 09 Feb '16

09 Feb '16

<http://gtalug.org/meeting/2016-02/> # Raspberry Pi Projects and Lighting Talks To start off the meeting we have two ten minute talks about using the Raspberry Pi in interesting ways: * Alex Volkov's Over-Enginerring of a Flower Pot using a Raspberry Pi. * Mike Kalles's using a Raspberry Pi for Intrusion Detection. After Alex's and Mike's talk there will be a bunch of audience organised short talks. If you would like to give a talk, all you have to do is write your name on a post-it and stick it on the whiteboard in the front of the room. When your talk get's picked you will have five minutes of uninterrupted time for you to present, then five minutes of audience questions/concerns. ## 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 - Please discuss on the general mailing list (i.e. <talk(a)gtalug.org>) where you want to go for dinner. * 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. # Upcoming Meetings * 8th March: systemd with Bill Thanis and another 30 minute talk. * 12th April: Vector Graphics Panel with Trent, Stewart, and Myles. # 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 the GTALUG Board @ <board(a)gtalug.org>. --- GTALUG Announce mailing list announce(a)gtalug.org https://gtalug.org/mailman/listinfo/announce

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Spare Thinkpad AC adapters?
by Scott Sullivan 09 Feb '16

09 Feb '16

If anyone has spare Thinkpad AC adapters, and would like to see them go onto good use, contact me off list. Specifically I'm looking for the 20v with the round barrel. Not the rectangle from recent years. Wattage doesn't matter. -- Scott Sullivan

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Lightdm "Secure Remote connection"
by Giles Orr 08 Feb '16

08 Feb '16

Lightdm offers as one of the options at the login screen, a "Secure Remote connection" (this is on Debian jessie). If this is selected, you enter a username and password as usual, and when you click "Log in" it asks for a "host:port" combination. I haven't used this before, so I guessed that 192.168.0.105:22 (a valid machine on my network) would be appropriate. After some cogitation and a bit of screen flashing, this returns to the login prompt. What settings do I need locally and remotely for this to work? Where should I look for errors? Any thoughts? A bunch of points that may help: - ssh is installed on both machines, sshd is running and remote logins work both ways - the lightdm and lightdm-gtk-greeter packages are installed on both machines - the remote machine is running Ubuntu trusty - the remote user I'm trying to connect as is already running a local X session on the remote machine: I'm assuming that doesn't matter? - wireshark and the hard-to-read logs in /var/log/lightdm/ (on both ends of the connection) suggest that ssh connects properly and X starts ... and then fails, but I'm not clear on why. Nor am I totally sure I'm reading this right - this feature appears to be totally undocumented: the interface explains nothing, there's nothing in the man page, and even Google knows nothing ... I even resorted to code diving, but "Secure Remote connection" isn't in there. It's also not anywhere in /etc/ where I would have expected to find it if it was an option configured by Debian (although it could be under /usr/ ... I haven't done a grep of that entire tree ...) Thanks for any assistance. -- Giles http://www.gilesorr.com/ gilesorr(a)gmail.com

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Motherboards and Network Chips
by Howard Gibson 07 Feb '16

07 Feb '16

I am trying to update Linux on my desktop. I have a Gigabyte GA-990FXA-UD3 with a Realtek RTL8111/8168/8411 network chip built into it. Installing Fedora_20 onto this is dead easy. If I try anything more recent, the networking does not work. I have tried Fedoras 22, 23, KFedora_23, and Ubuntu_15.04. When I boot from the install DVD, there is no network. I have even installed a wireless card. This works fine from Fedora_20. It does not work from KFedora_23. How up to date is Slackware these days? Normally, when something does not work, I go out on the internet and find a solution. Non-functioning network is an order of magnitude more difficult. I had network problems upgrading my laptop. I was able to overcome them, but we seem to have transitioned from an easy install of Linux, to a difficult one, at least for some motherboards and network chips. Has anyone figured out a reliable way to install Linux on this hardware? -- Howard Gibson hgibson(a)eol.ca howard.gibson(a)teledyneoptech.com jhowardgibson(a)gmail.com http://home.eol.ca/~hgibson

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Headless laptop - controlling X settings
by Giles Orr 06 Feb '16

06 Feb '16

I have an old laptop (an Acer Travelmate 270 to be exact) that has no screen. The screen busted years ago, and I simply removed it. This wasn't a big problem until a couple days ago: I'd hook it up to an external screen via the VGA out, and everything was fine. But a couple days ago, I upgraded from Debian wheezy to Debian jessie, and after the upgrade the external monitor now claims the provided signal is "Out of Range." This doesn't appear to be the same as "No signal" because after several minutes it switches off (about when the screen blanking would kick in) and pressing a keyboard button brings back the "Out of Range" signal. I can ssh into the machine, so there's an option to fix it. I could potentially install Ubuntu or re-install wheezy, but I'd prefer to fix this if possible. How do I tell X to detect and use the monitor over the external VGA connector - and only that connector, ignoring the now-missing internal screen candidate? And failing that, how can I force 1024x768 (which is what was working fine with wheezy) with mirroring across both outputs? Thanks. P.S. I was clever enough to try ssh with X-forwarding and then running arandr and eventually xrandr, but they work with the X server they can talk to ... which is your local machine, not the remote you've sshed into. Even had that worked, I wouldn't know what settings to put into what file: it was bad enough back in the days of editing /etc/X11/Xorg.conf by hand, but it's now been replaced by a twisty maze of start-up scripts that are supposed to detect everything for you that mostly work but which have remained stubbornly opaque to me when they fail ... -- Giles http://www.gilesorr.com/ gilesorr(a)gmail.com

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Linux Conference at Conestoga College, 30 Jan 2016
by Bob Jonkman 04 Feb '16

04 Feb '16

-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Hi Everyone: Colin Mills has organized a Linux Conference at Conestoga College on 30 January 2016 from 9:00am to 4:00pm Map: http://osm.org/go/ZXnnGeOx-?m= (yes, the arrow points right at the correct room in the building!) - -------- Forwarded Message -------- Date: Sun, 17 Jan 2016 16:33:23 -0500 From: Colin Mills <colin.j.mills96(a)gmail.com> To: KWLUG discussion <kwlug-disc(a)kwlug.org> Subject: [kwlug-disc] Linux Conference... List-Subscribe: <http://kwlug.org/mailman/listinfo/kwlug-disc_kwlug.org> Hi Everyone, Just wanted to remind you about the Linux Conference coming up on January 30th 2016. The conference will be held at Conestoga College Doon campus in room 1E05. If you have any questions please feel free to talk to me about it. Cost: $5.00 at the door Schedule: 9:30->10:40: Bob Jonkman :: What is Free Software? 10:40->12:00: Randy Kolenko 12:00->1:00: Lunch (Pizza and Coffee :: A programmer's favorite meal) 1:00->2:10: Ed Barsalou :: IOT Talk 2:10-3:20: Colin J. Mills :: LFS Educational? 3:20-4:00: Unscheduled. (Anyone is more then welcome to apply just talk to me. If we cant get someone Bob volunteered to do his GNU Social workshop). 4:00-4:20: Closing remarks. Colin J. Mills (cjm) Conestoga College, Kitchener Ontario Canada. 2nd Year Software Engineer. "Don't patch bad code - rewrite it" -- P. J. Plauger - ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- - -- Bob Jonkman <bjonkman(a)sobac.com> Phone: +1-519-635-9413 SOBAC Microcomputer Services http://sobac.com/sobac/ 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 iEYEARECAAYFAlacYqkACgkQuRKJsNLM5eqV1wCgtX60gxA3beimL/bM4MLILMSK fFAAn3TNupmycN1Fu+gsSSXG3rzP+eb4 =+1Cx -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----

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