April 2016 - Talk - lists.gtalug.org

update to Win 10, a war story
by D. Hugh Redelmeier 11 Apr '16

11 Apr '16

I have a few tiny computers with Windows 8.x. They came with 2G of RAM and 32G of m.2 SATA SSDs. (A raft of systems were produced with these specs since the Windows licensing fees were essentially waived when these limits were observed.) 2G RAM + 32G HDD is actually a useful size for normal Linux distros. But there's not enough room for dual booting with Windows. I wanted to update to Windows 10 (1) before the deadline for free updates (2) because I could then wipe Windows and install linux without losing the ability to go back to licensed Windows. Note that the Windows 10 license authentication is based on Microsoft cloud records but previous versions require a magic code (that is no longer printed on the device) (I recently found out that it is in the ROM of these machines and can be discovered from Linux). For the life of me, I could not get one of the machines to update. The update process kept making disk demands that were impossible to fulfill on a 32G disk. I've been trying off and on for months. I've spent a couple of hours on the phone with HP and Microsoft support. I just solved the problem. I had installed an extra 8G of RAM in the machine. Once I removed it, Windows was happy to update. There was NO hint of this in any of the diagnostics. None of the support folks brought it up. Sheesh. Every time I muck with Windows I find new reasons not to touch it.

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Bill That Would Ban End-to-End Encryption Savaged by Critics
by Ivan Avery Frey 10 Apr '16

10 Apr '16

http://interc.pt/1MkA3Xx

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Making a second HD transparent to the user
by phiscock＠ee.ryerson.ca 09 Apr '16

09 Apr '16

The time is coming when I will have to increase my hard drive storage. I could backup, replace the current drive with something larger, and then copy the backup to the new, larger drive. Or I could add a second SATA drive. Is it possible to configure that second drive so that it seamlessly appears as an increase of size of the first drive? Peter -- Peter Hiscocks Syscomp Electronic Design Limited, Toronto http://www.syscompdesign.com USB Oscilloscope and Waveform Generator 647-839-0325

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Re: [GTALUG] Can't list directory contents
by qwerty172 08 Apr '16

08 Apr '16

Try echo * If that gives you something then ssh is not setting your environment. also use the full path for the utilities. Ie /bin/ls should work. Bill Sent from Samsung Galaxy NoteRandy Jonasz <rjonasz(a)rjonasz.ca> wrote:On Wed, 2016-04-06 at 22:14 -0400, ted leslie wrote: > run df & mount in both env. compare. > also you may want to find out exactly how your encrypt part is > mounted and what tech it uses. > Ultimately you should be able to mount it manually, and then you can > try those step from > a non-mount state to a mounted state with each login method as well, > it may shine light. OK, this is very puzzling. I ssh into my laptop from my laptop and df and mount do not list this drive as mounted! I have two nfs mounts that autofs mounts and they show up. I can even manually mount the backup drive in the ssh session on the same directory it is mounted from xterm shell. I'm confused as to what is going on. --- Talk Mailing List talk(a)gtalug.org https://gtalug.org/mailman/listinfo/talk

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Can't list directory contents
by Randy Jonasz 07 Apr '16

07 Apr '16

Hey everyone, I have the strangest problem. At home I have a manjaro laptop that has a mounted encrypted drive on /mnt/backup. At home I can cd into the directory and ls its contents. From work, when I ssh in from another manjaro laptop I cannot see the mounted drive. Is there something I can do to "fix" this? Thanks! Randy

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Free / Cheap Ebooks
by Digiital aka David 05 Apr '16

05 Apr '16

Thought I would share this. https://www.packtpub.com/ Go to the website above and scroll down half way and click on FREE LEARNING FOREVER you will need to signup for a account. Every day/few hours they release a new free ebook. Here is a sample of what they have given away the past few days. [image: Inline image 1]

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Users in an automated environment
by David Thornton 05 Apr '16

05 Apr '16

In "managing infrastructure with puppet" they defines users in manifests. I've seen user rpms. How do you do it.

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File Permission Nusance
by Stephen 05 Apr '16

05 Apr '16

I have Apache running on my system for web development with php. Apache writes to an error.log file unique for the specific web site that I am working on. During debugging the log file grows, and I like to clear it every now and then. I had to change ownership of the file to me. I five read/write to everyone. But when I truncate the file and save, Apache no longer writes to it. The Apache error logs do not indicate a problem. I restart Apache and all is good again. But this is a nuisance. Is there a way to avoid this nuisance? Thanks -- Stephen

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Debian user[add|del] and [add|del]user
by Ivan Avery Frey 04 Apr '16

04 Apr '16

In Debian useradd and userdel are low level utilities and their man pages recommend that administrators use adduser and deluser. I've found a way to differentiate between the low level utilities and the recommended ones. The low level utilities use "Latin" order where the verb component comes after the object and the recommended commands the other way around. So the recommended commands' syllables' order matches that of our everyday language while the low level utilities' syllables' order matches that of a "dead" language.

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PCI Slot Fan Seeker
by Scott Sullivan 04 Apr '16

04 Apr '16

Okay... So this maybe silly, but does anyone have one or more of these kicking around their parts bins? Ultra PC Vent II System Exhaust with 2 - 45mm Fans http://www.tigerdirect.ca/applications/SearchTools/item-details.asp?EdpNo=6… Had two of these come into my possession (in retro sea-foam green!) from one of Hacklab's Junk Independence days. They were surprisingly the perfect cooling solution for keeping even temperatures in my NAS boxes. From the research I can find, the company that had these produced has been out of business for some time. And so the best I can find is singles on ebay. I also suspect these may be also lurking on dusty shelves of the some of the college street computer shops. Anyways, looking to get my hands on another, and if it's taking up space with someone, let me know! I'll give it a good home. -- Scott Sullivan

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