January 2017 - Talk - lists.gtalug.org

Question
by o1bigtenor 13 Jan '17

13 Jan '17

Greetings Am trying to find (for need in the not to distant future) some of what is normally called 'accounting' software (its really record keeping software but that's a different argument!). What are you using that is, or could be, multi-user and has room for some complexity? (I am presently using 10 digit account numbers to get the granularity I want.) TIA Dee

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Resources I Mentioned Last Night
by Myles Braithwaite 👾 11 Jan '17

11 Jan '17

AdBlocker though DNS /cc @Hecktor * Good for blocking Ads though `/etc/hosts` file <http://someonewhocares.org/hosts/zero/hosts> * Better <https://github.com/StevenBlack/hosts/> Raspberry Pi VPN Gateway Provider /cc @Evan * VPN Provider: <https://www.privateinternetaccess.com/> * Tutorial for making a VPN Gateway: <https://gist.github.com/superjamie/ac55b6d2c080582a3e64> * Onion Pi: <https://learn.adafruit.com/onion-pi/overview> Jobs * Google Interview University: <https://github.com/jwasham/google-interview-university>

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Notes from the whiteboard - Jan 2017 round table
by Stewart C. Russell 11 Jan '17

11 Jan '17

Christopher Browne sent through notes from the whiteboard from last night, but they got caught up in the list's attachment filter. I took the liberty of unpacking the images and putting them on the wiki: https://wiki.gtalug.org/meeting:2017-01 Thanks to all who contributed! cheers, Stewart

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Notes from the whiteboard
by Christopher Browne 11 Jan '17

11 Jan '17

Pics of whiteboards...

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dinner suggestion
by D. Hugh Redelmeier 10 Jan '17

10 Jan '17

I'm interested in dinner. I propose Kaiju, in the food court in the basement of the Aura building, 384 Yonge St. We were last there in April. Each of us can choose which vendor in the food court to use. <https://wiki.gtalug.org/pre-meeting_dinner#kaiju_japanese_curry> If another venue has already been selected, please announce that.

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Toronto Mesh - "State of our Networks" mini-conference
by Giles Orr 10 Jan '17

10 Jan '17

https://tomesh.net/state-of-our-networks/ I thought this might be of interest to some people on the list (this weekend): Brought to you by Toronto Mesh, ‘State of our Networks’ is a one-day, hands-on conference about the past, present, and future of building our own network infrastructures to communicate and access the internet in our city. Join us for: - hands-on workshops* to build mesh nodes and learn about low-power networks - talks about a history of Toronto’s internet - planning how to build resilient and accessible communications networks and connections to the internet -- Giles http://www.gilesorr.com/ gilesorr(a)gmail.com

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Anyone want an Apple TV?
by David Collier-Brown 10 Jan '17

10 Jan '17

I have the second-last model, which I've tried and didn't like. I'll bring it to the meetings if anyone wants it. --dave -- David Collier-Brown, | Always do right. This will gratify System Programmer and Author | some people and astonish the rest davecb(a)spamcop.net | -- Mark Twain

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Bash Problem
by Stephen 10 Jan '17

10 Jan '17

I am new to Bash scripts. I am trying to create a script to use avconv to convert mkv files to mp4 file. Run one at a time the command runs fine. When I execute this script I get an error about an unknown parameter. I am guessing that the expansion with the filename variables is failing. Can someone help me correct? Thank you! #!/bin/bash # Usage: convert file to mp4 shopt -s nullglob ext='.mp4' for f in *.mkv do base=$(basename $f .mkv) nFname=$base".mp4" echo $nFname avconv "-i $f -c:v libx264 -c:a copy $nFname" done -- Stephen

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Samba Nobody (File ownership) problems returns
by Stephen 09 Jan '17

09 Jan '17

Scenario Samba is installed and used on server running Ubuntu 16.10. In addition to server software, normal desktop programs are installed. Certain folders are shared. Guests may access and create files. Windows computers copy files to the shared folders. These files have ownership of nobody:nobody I have two Windows 10 computers. The problem happens with both, Desired behaviour These files are given ownership of the owner of the directory. Method The samba.conf file has an entry for each shared folder, like this: [public] comment = Stephen Public path = /home/stephen/Public writeable = yes ; browseable = yes guest ok = yes force user = stephen force group = stephen Situation This has been working as desired since I did a new install of 16.10. Today I noticed the nobody ownership problem. I had it after the install of 16.10 because I forgot to update samba.conf. Hence the return of the problem. It has been a week since I did a file copy that worked as desired. I copy files infrequently. It is worse. A sudo chown to change permissions to stephen:stephen executed without error. But within nautilus the context menu on the files had the commands to rename and delete greyed out. Even though the permissions section of the properties did say the ownership was changed. I have not made any configuration changes. I have performed one, maybe two, system updates. There has also been a Windows 10 update. Any and all help appreciated. -- Stephen

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processor progress sure has slowed down
by D. Hugh Redelmeier 09 Jan '17

09 Jan '17

I got an ad from NCIX for systems with Intel's new Kaby Lake processors. Here's the headline: UP TO [LARGER FONT] 28% BETTER PERFORMANCE* [/LARGER FONT] versus a 3-year-old-desktop The footnote shows that a i7-7700K processor system was being compared with a i7-4770K. Some of the improvement would be in DDR4 vs DDR3 and so on. OS and video card were the same. The power requirement of the CPU went up slightly. You'd normally expect a 7xxx processor to be compared with a 6xxx procecessor, but they've reached back an extra two generations to show even a modest 28% improvement. There are useful features added to the processors since the Haswell generation. Like a working TSX-NI: Haswell had it, with bugs, so Intel suppressed it with a microcode update. Not completely fair since the K models never had it. Intel has put a lot of extra transistors into on-chip video, something useful at least sometimes. Perhaps this shows where Intel feels it needs to compete -- AMD has a better on-chip GPU but an uncompetitive CPU. One can only hope that AMD's Zen/Ryzen lives up to AMD's talk.

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