February 2018 - Talk - lists.gtalug.org

Removing write protection from MicroSD card?
by Evan Leibovitch 05 Feb '18

05 Feb '18

Hey there. Subject says it. Regular SD cards have a physical switch but MicroSD don't, yet I can't use this because it's reported as write protected. Any suggestions? Is it a micro-brick? Thanks!

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Seen in passing: PDF to epub/docx converter for windows
by David Collier-Brown 04 Feb '18

04 Feb '18

https://www.lightenpdf.com/pdf-converter.html $29.99, with a free trial if you have a windows emulator handy --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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Increasing interest in the Go language
by David Collier-Brown 04 Feb '18

04 Feb '18

Later this month I'm joining a company that is fairly Go-intensive. They originally prototyped in Perl, but over time needed more performance but not to the level that would require assembler or even C. What else have folks observed? --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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Linux Journal, RIP
by Stewart C. Russell 01 Feb '18

01 Feb '18

Looks like last month was their last month of even digital publication: https://www.linuxjournal.com/content/linux-journal-ceases-publication Jason Scott has saved everything he can on archive.org: https://archive.org/details/linuxjournalmagazine Looks like he could use some help creating tables of contents for all the issues, though: So, next bit. I took the table of contents from a page on the site to generate the table of contents here: https://archive.org/details/Linux-Journal-2011-06 - so, unfortunately, this has to be done for each issue. Any brave soul want to do this task? — @jscott : https://twitter.com/textfiles/status/938198975982850048 I'm sure it would be an amusing SMOP for someone on the list, and Jason's good people to work with. archive.org's Python interface is pretty powerful, too — https://internetarchive.readthedocs.io/en/latest/ cheers, Stewart

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