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Git/Gitolite Question
by Peter King 08 Mar '17

08 Mar '17

I have a repository cloned from an original master repository -- but the server it was taken from, hosting the original master repository with git/gitolite, is now defunct, leaving me with only my cloned repository. I have now set up another server running git and gitolite, and I can successfully log in via ssh, clone/pull/push the gitolite-admin repo, and add a new bare repo to that server by editing gitolite-admin, all as it should be. How do I take the old repository cloned from the defunct server and set it up as master on the new git/gitolite server? There are a few steps involved, and it isn't clear how or in what order to carry them out: (1) put the old repository on the new git/gitolite server, to be managed by gitolite (2) make that repository on the new git/gitolite server to be the master/origin from now on From looking at the documentation and googling around, it seems like I can accomplish (1) by just modifying the gitolite-admin on my local machine to add a "new" repository (namely the old cloned repository) to which I give myself access. One thing I'm not clear about is whether I then put the old cloned repository in the proper place in my filesystem and then push the changes to gitolite-admin, or first push the changes so that there is a "new" empty repo created by gitolite, pull the empty repo, replace it with the old cloned repo, or what. Anyway, at some point in the process (after the above? in the middle?) I need to set git/gitolite up to point to the old cloned repository, now managed by gitolite, to be the orgin/master. When? Sorry for the elementary questions, but I don't want to make any mistakes in re-situating the old cloned repository. If anyone knows the answers and can tell me, preferably assuming that I'm a complete novice to git/gitolite, I'd appreciate it. Thanks! -- Peter King peter.king(a)utoronto.ca Department of Philosophy 170 St. George Street #521 The University of Toronto (416)-978-3311 ofc Toronto, ON M5R 2M8 CANADA http://individual.utoronto.ca/pking/ ========================================================================= GPG keyID 0x7587EC42 (2B14 A355 46BC 2A16 D0BC 36F5 1FE6 D32A 7587 EC42) gpg --keyserver pgp.mit.edu --recv-keys 7587EC42

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[GTALUG-Announce] Meeting on 14 March at 7:30pm
by hi＠gtalug.org 06 Mar '17

06 Mar '17

<http://gtalug.org/meeting/2017-03/> # Let's Encrypt and Lighting Talks To start off the meeting we have a ten minute talk about Let's Encrypt with Myles Braithwaite. After Myles' 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 Imperial Pub (54 Dundas St East) for refreshments and more socialising. # 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 jeopardise 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 honoured 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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How to find out if you're behind proxy?
by William Park 02 Mar '17

02 Mar '17

Hi all, Do you know any simple way to find out if you're behind a proxy? Usually , I get "Connection reset by peer" when I ssh to a machine which only accepts my key. But, that message could be caused by other problems. -- William

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Re: [GTALUG] General Hacker Stuff -Point of Sale and other exploits
by Russell Reiter 02 Mar '17

02 Mar '17

On Mar 2, 2017 3:51 AM, "ac via talk" <talk(a)gtalug.org> wrote: On Wed, 1 Mar 2017 17:30:33 -0500 Alvin Starr via talk <talk(a)gtalug.org> wrote: > Heading out on a trip a little while back we asked our credit card > company if we needed to notify them. > The response was we only needed to notify them if we were heading to > the U.S. because it is just about the last place on earth that still > uses magstripe credit cards. > A guy I worked for years ago with seeing people with "will work for > food" signs on the side of the road in California said. > > "America is a third world country. They just don't know it yet". > dude, you are soooo funny! I was so surprised to be able to pay with my mobile in Walmart (and even at Dollar Store etc) on my last trip to the US (so, it was almost like home (and I live in a small town in Africa, -here we cannot swipe either - you either have to have a smart phone or a chip card, etc) but, yeah, most people in the US still swipe.... maybe it is also the cost of re-issuing cards as every consumer seems to have at least 50 cards (I only have one) so I had "card envy" :) ymmv but Americans love swiping :) Wow this reminds me of some of the early issues around energy conservation. When Energy Star started operations in Canada they offered trade in rebates to upgrade appliances like fridges & ac's etc. They would then ship those energy hogs to needy developing nations as a charitable contribution. I guess they actually did that until someone crunched the carbon and said, all things considered and from a global perspective, it would be better to ship ES units instead. lm not surprised that developing and lesser populated areas would chose perminance and retention of sustainable technology over disposability and repetive wastfullness. The US has always been the third world; in post columbian discovery, after Eurasia and Africa. Typically, like the youngest in a clan it is favoured, demanding, petulant, selfish and envied. Just like its current president. As for america not knowing it yet. That too is a condition of the young. Russell ac --- Talk Mailing List talk(a)gtalug.org https://gtalug.org/mailman/listinfo/talk

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General Hacker Stuff -Point of Sale and other exploits
by Russell Reiter 02 Mar '17

02 Mar '17

IMHO Here's a link to a must see Defcon 24 video. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mV_0k9Fh590 Modern Magstripe hacking & more. They're using iron oxide not ammonium dichromate as I related in an earlier post but; refunding to a different credit card than the original one charged. Can't wait to see how this one turns out. Does everything old become new again and if so how quickly does that happen?

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General Hacker Stuff -Point of Sale and other exploits
by Russell Reiter 01 Mar '17

01 Mar '17

Forgot to reply to all so Dee's getting this twice. Sorry On Mar 1, 2017 5:25 PM, "o1bigtenor" <o1bigtenor(a)gmail.com> wrote: On Wed, Mar 1, 2017 at 3:33 PM, Russell Reiter via talk <talk(a)gtalug.org> wrote: > IMHO Here's a link to a must see Defcon 24 video. > https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mV_0k9Fh590 > > Modern Magstripe hacking & more. > > They're using iron oxide not ammonium dichromate as I related in an earlier > post but; refunding to a different credit card than the original one > charged. Can't wait to see how this one turns out. > > Does everything old become new again and if so how quickly does that happen? When it comes to computers I'm thinking somewhere between 5 and 10 years. In regards to a lot of other areas its seems like the head shift every 25 to 30 some years means that there is a lot of redoing because that research, from the early part of the previous cycle, has been forgotten! I like a quote from the video, paraphrasing ... behind every point of sale system, there is an obsolete operating system. So you gotta wonder, is it forgotten or conviently omitted? I call this the RANDdumb factor. Microsofts first security flaw was when Bill Gates lost the punch tape at the faire. I don't see that they've impoved on that layer of trust at all. Why should they, in confusion there is profit. Microsoft & partners are very, very profitable. Thats why what they really sell is a solution to a problem which they themselves created by coveting a market, instead of opening up standards to a higher level of knowledge and oversight. Russell Regards Dee

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