August 2017 - Talk - lists.gtalug.org

16 Aug '17

Hi All, I posted this on another list, then I thought that I should also share here... Six Golden Rules: ** Spam is basically dead... ** 1. Bounce when no rDNS (exim/postfix/sendmail/qmail - 2 second conf) 2. Use 10+ dnsbl with properly configured spamassasin (cache locally) - with 2 (or more, or less) points per dnsbl listing (five minutes copy & paste for exim/postfix) -> dnsbl from here: http://multirbl.valli.org/ 3. hard bounce any incoming score over 10 (10 second conf) 4. hand white/black bad domains, like the spammy twitter.com, etc (also allow your clients to hand manage their own white/black domain based lists) 5. iptables firewall sorbs drop & block spam nets (no need to worry about AS jack as you have point 1 (rDNS) 6. Filter outgoing (also using spamassassin & out rulesets) & delete abusive users (spend money/time on abuse admin) Andre

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Re: [GTALUG] Dinner Tonight (was Meeting on 8 August at 7:30pm)
by Christopher Browne 08 Aug '17

08 Aug '17

I'm at Kabul Express, at Dundas & Dalhousie... It's suitable for our purposes; I'd thought to go to Hokkaido Ramen, which seems not. (Bizzy & requires the full party to check in at once) On Aug 8, 2017 5:30 PM, "Peter Hiscocks via talk" <talk(a)gtalug.org> wrote: Any further thoughts on this? > hi(a)gtalug.org wrote: >> * 6:00 pm - Please discuss on the general mailing list (i.e. >> <talk(a)gtalug.org>) where you want to go for dinner. > > Anyone have any ideas where we should have dinner tonight? > > Here is a list of options: <https://wiki.gtalug.org/pre-meeting_dinner>. > --- > Talk Mailing List > talk(a)gtalug.org > https://gtalug.org/mailman/listinfo/talk > -- Peter Hiscocks Syscomp Electronic Design Limited, Toronto http://www.syscompdesign.com USB Oscilloscope and Waveform Generator 647-839-0325 --- Talk Mailing List talk(a)gtalug.org https://gtalug.org/mailman/listinfo/talk

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Dinner Tonight (was Meeting on 8 August at 7:30pm)
by Myles Braithwaite 👾 08 Aug '17

08 Aug '17

hi(a)gtalug.org wrote: > * 6:00 pm - Please discuss on the general mailing list (i.e. <talk(a)gtalug.org>) where you want to go for dinner. Anyone have any ideas where we should have dinner tonight? Here is a list of options: <https://wiki.gtalug.org/pre-meeting_dinner>.

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[GTALUG-Announce] Meeting Tonight at 7:30 pm
by hi＠gtalug.org 08 Aug '17

08 Aug '17

<http://gtalug.org/meeting/2017-08/> # The Tor Software Ecosystem with Sukhbir Singh When people talk about Tor, they almost always think of the Tor daemon or Tor Browser. While this was true earlier, the Tor ecosystem has now expanded and includes a diverse set of applications that serve a variety of different users helping them to protect their privacy online or to circumvent Internet censorship. In this talk, we will start by introducing Tor and then briefly walk through the applications that are built around it. PS: This talk for beginners as well as advanced users already using Tor. ## 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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Windows 10 will let everyone run Linux inside Windows following Fall Creators Update - TechRepublic
by James Knott 05 Aug '17

05 Aug '17

Microsoft has certainly changed, since Bill & Steve left! http://www.techrepublic.com/article/windows-10-will-let-everyone-run-linux-…

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Desktop swap
by Evan Leibovitch 04 Aug '17

04 Aug '17

Hi all. For about the mid-nineties to the late aughts, I was a heavy-duty KDE fan. The integration and customization was what I needed, it was good looking and functional. Then it started getting more bloated and slower, seemingly outpacing the increases in CPU speed and decreases in RAM cost. Or maybe it was just the Kubuntu implementation. But I found that it wasn't working for me. So I experimented for a while. Yech. I found GNOME to be something of soap opera that required a whole set of sub-choices (GNOME 2? GNOME 3? Mate? Unity? WTF?). My first GNOME experiences (with the default position of icons moved from the sensible bottom to the left) seemed more like an exercise in social engineering (ie, what the devs wanted dumb users to do) rather than any real attempt to make my computer less intrusive in the path to doing Real Stuff. And then I discovered Linux Mint and its wonderful little Cinnamon desktop. Yeah I know it's gtk based and has big chunks of GNOME in it, but its look-and-feel seems less ... disruptive. It's served me well for much of this decade. But I still miss KDE. So I've been having another look. I've been reading that prefer the Linux Mint version over Kubuntu, and that it's still big but now much speedier. I know it's technically possible to have both KDE and Cinnamon physically installed on my Mint desktop. But I've also been reading that the two systems are so different in default ways of doing things that switching between them is an invitation for grief that will bork things. Most of the forum stuff I've read says that it's much cleaner to do a reinstall. Has anyone else here played with systems that can casually switch between KDE/Qt and GNOME/gtk? Is anyone here using current KDE? Thanks! - Evan

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KDE Neon [was: Desktop swap]
by Evan Leibovitch 03 Aug '17

03 Aug '17

On 2 August 2017 at 12:18, Giles Orr <gilesorr(a)gmail.com> wrote: > This doesn't answer your question. That said, it may be of interest > given your reasons for leaving KDE. There's a group of people who > created a fork of KDE when it went to version 4 because they thought > KDE 3 was better. It's called "Trinity:" http://trinitydesktop.org/ So Trinity is to KDE as Mate is to GNOME ;-). FOLLOW-UP: it appears that, from here and elsewhere, the widespread advice is not to have a diversity of desktops to be switched between on a single system. Conflicting daemons , etc. Now the choice is down to "which OS"? I have been recommended the KDE version of Mint over Kubuntu, but my attention has been attracted to something called "KDE Neon". It strikes me as a fascinating twist, as a distribution actually produced and supported by the graphic interface developer. It will get bleeding-edge updates to the UI while the underlying system is conservative. Does anyone here have any experience with Neon? - Evan

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Bitcoin Blockchain Crypto Surface
by Russell 02 Aug '17

02 Aug '17

Now ... Eight Megabytes And Constantly Swapping Things just got tougher for little miners. http://www.bbc.com/news/technology-40800270 -- Russell Sent by K-9 Mail

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Linux on Windows (was Windows 10 will let everyone run Linux inside Windows following Fall Creators Update)
by Myles Braithwaite 👾 02 Aug '17

02 Aug '17

James Knott via talk wrote: > I've had Ubuntu on W10 for a while now. I didn't have to buy it, just > install from Windows Store. I haven't had the best of luck with running Ubuntu on Windows but that was back during the beta testing. Has it gotten more stable now?

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