April 2016 - Talk - lists.gtalug.org

Netgear 5-port Gigabit switch -- $10 ?
by William Park 05 Sep '16

05 Sep '16

Canada Computer is selling - Netgear GS105E ProSafe Plus Switch, 5-Port Gigabit Ethernet - 5 Ports - 5 x RJ-45 - 10/100/1000Base-T - Wall Mountable - http://www.canadacomputers.com/product_info.php?cPath=355&item_id=077172&ut… for $10. Any comment on the item? -- William

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war story: I fixed a tablet
by D. Hugh Redelmeier 13 May '16

13 May '16

I have an Asus Transformer T100TAF tablet-with-keyboard that I bought to run Linux. It turned out to be hard to convert it to Linux from Windows. Scott gave me a glimmer of hope in a posting Monday. So I brought it on Tuesday. Unfortunately, the T100TAF did not function. I've just now fixed it and I thought that the story might help someone. <http://www.transformerforums.com/forum/asus-transformer-book-t100-battery-i…> Summary: with no good hypothesis, I opened the tablet, unplugged the battery connector, plugged it back in, and everything now works. Opening a tablet is more traumatic than opening a notebook but probably easier than opening a cell phone. Soon I can try debian 8.4.0 multiarch on this 32-bit UEFI machine.

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dinner before May meeting
by D. Hugh Redelmeier 10 May '16

10 May '16

We decided that dinner locations should be discussed ahead of time on the list. So far it has almost been a monologue. So let's try starting earlier. A month earlier. I've added a few UNTESTED locations to our lists <https://wiki.gtalug.org/pre-meeting_dinner> I will make an opening suggestion: Thai on Yonge. Bob Jonkman suggested this as we walked past it on Tuesday. The reviews also look good to me. Other suggestions?

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another little computer: the kangaroo
by D. Hugh Redelmeier 07 May '16

07 May '16

I bought one of these little computers: <http://www.microsoftstore.com/store/msca/en_CA/pdp/InFocus-Kangaroo-Signatu…> If you are a student you an get 10% off of the $149. I bought mine at newegg for $130 but the price changes regularly. I'm typing this from a live Fedora stick on this processor. The screen is 3840x2160@30 -- the best mode for this display and pretty good for an Atom. The CPU is an Intel Atom x5-z8500. I don't really understand the naming scheme. Scott pointed out that the Intel specs for this processor don't mention the VT-I feature. That scared me. <http://ark.intel.com/products/85474/Intel-Atom-x5-Z8500-Processor-2M-Cache-…> Here are the flags from /proc/cpuinfo: fpu vme de pse tsc msr pae mce cx8 apic sep mtrr pge mca cmov pat pse36 clflush dts acpi mmx fxsr sse sse2 ss ht tm pbe syscall nx rdtscp lm constant_tsc arch_perfmon pebs bts rep_good nopl xtopology nonstop_tsc aperfmperf pni pclmulqdq dtes64 monitor ds_cpl vmx est tm2 ssse3 cx16 xtpr pdcm sse4_1 sse4_2 movbe popcnt tsc_deadline_timer aes rdrand lahf_lm 3dnowprefetch ida arat epb dtherm tpr_shadow vnmi flexpriority ept vpid tsc_adjust smep erm As I understand it, vmx means it supports VT-I. Some of the other flags have to do with virtualization too. BTW, note that it supports AES-NI, something that the Haswell Celeron and Pentium don't do. Although this doesn't have ethernet, it has a single USB 3.0 port. I've used a USB 3.0 hub to connect a gigabit ethernet dongle and the Fedora live stick.

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Use Tor and the FBI Wants to Hack you.
by Stephen 30 Apr '16

30 Apr '16

http://www.commondreams.org/news/2016/04/29/supreme-court-quietly-approves-… -- Stephen

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Printers
by Randy Jonasz 29 Apr '16

29 Apr '16

Hey everyone, We just moved and unfortunately the printer I had got destroyed. So I'm in the market for a wireless colour fax/printer that will play nicely with linux. Can anyone recommend something that will cost no more than $300? Thanks! Randy

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[GTALUG-Announce] Meeting on 10 May at 7:30pm
by Myles Braithwaite 26 Apr '16

26 Apr '16

<http://gtalug.org/meeting/2016-05/> # Round Table Q&A Session 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 - 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. # 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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Fwd: Toronto Homebrew Hosting Club on Thursday at 7:30pm
by Myles Braithwaite 25 Apr '16

25 Apr '16

We're having our second ever Homebrew Hosting Club on this Thursday at 7pm at the HackLab.TO. If you are interested in self hosting you should definitely come out. ---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: Myles Braithwaite <me(a)mylesbraithwaite.com> Date: Tue, Apr 19, 2016 at 2:49 PM Subject: Toronto Homebrew Hosting Club on Thursday at 7:00pm To: homebrewhostingclub(a)gtalug.org # Toronto Homebrew Hosting Club on Thursday, 21st April at HackLab <https://homebrewhosting.club/> Are you building your own website? Setup and running your own calendar/contacts server? Developing your own publishing web app? Hosting a Gnu-based-social-network? Running your own Wiki? Hosting your own email server? Did you buy a $35 VPS and looking to replace Google Apps with your a self hosted solution? Or some other digital magic-cloud service? If so, we are a meetup of people in the Greater Toronto Area passionate about self hosting, in the same structure as the [Homebrew Computer Club][1] meetings in Silicon Valley (and the [Homebrew Website Club][2]). It will be a gathering of like-minded people to swap ideas, talk shop, and general awesomeness about hosting your own infrastructure. Our second meetup will be on Thursday 21st April 2016 at 7:00 p.m. at the Toronto [HackLab][3] (near the corner of [Queen Street West and Dufferin Street][4]). [1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Homebrew_Computer_Club [2]: https://indiewebcamp.com/Homebrew_Website_Club [3]: https://hacklab.to/ [4]: http://www.openstreetmap.org/node/3522641496

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distro for an old Thinkpad
by Stewart C. Russell 24 Apr '16

24 Apr '16

Hi - I've been setting up an old Thinkpad R51 as Protolab's small CNC controller. I've been trying to use Debian 8, but it seems not to like the Radeon 250M in the machine at *all*. I'm stuck with "an error occurred / click here to log out", and no sshd to access the machine remotely. Can anyone suggest a light(ish) graphical distro that's user focussed and will allow fairly recent packaged apps like Cura and LinuxCNC to run? I realise that this Thinkpad is slower than a Raspberry Pi 3 (I benchmarked it) but it does have a parallel port that we can use with the ZenBot CNC. cheers, Stewart

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Anyone tried UbuntuBSD?
by Giles Orr 24 Apr '16

24 Apr '16

I just downloaded UbuntuBSD from https://sourceforge.net/projects/ubuntubsd/ . I really like the idea: ZFS and no systemd. But attempting to install it in VirtualBox, I got "error: failed in building a Huffman code table" (a line that stumped Google!) and got dropped to the 'grub>' prompt (where I admit to being a bit lost). This happened on two different machines, one Debian, the other Ubuntu, and I'm fairly sure they're amd64 systems (needed since the ISO is x64). An md5 file to verify the download would be a plus, but I haven't found one. -- Giles http://www.gilesorr.com/ gilesorr(a)gmail.com

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