April 2018 - Talk - lists.gtalug.org

suggestion: naming temp files
by D. Hugh Redelmeier 18 Apr '18

18 Apr '18

I often want temp files. Putting them in /tmp means that they will automatically be discarded on reboot -- kind of handy. But it means that they are public: they are in a space shared with all other users (if you have other users). I consider it a bad habit for that reason. Lots of people put temp files in the current directory or in their home directory. That's what I do. But then, when you come back a week later, how do you know that this file is garbage? The best way is to have a naming convention. Many people use tmp, tmp2, tmp3 as names. I find those visually too like real filenames and longer to type than I want. The names I use are 0, 1, 2, 3. They are short, distinctive, and unreasonable as permanent filenames. You can find the litter you left behind with: locate -r '/[0-9]$' You will notice that the system does have some files that match too so you cannot blindly delete all matches. To me, it is obvious. But I didn't think of it. I copied this from Chris Sturgess almost 30 years ago.

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Unison file sync talk is now on youtube
by Alex Volkov 16 Apr '18

16 Apr '18

Hello everyone, You can now watch Unison File Sync talk by Alex Volkov (Me!) From our April 2018 Meeting -- https://youtu.be/A21Gpl83jzM Presentation slides -- https://github.com/avolkov/unison-presentation/blob/master/slides.rst Alex.

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VM decisions for school laptop..
by Michael Galea 13 Apr '18

13 Apr '18

Hi All, My son is off to university for CS this fall, and will need a laptop. I'm looking at purchasing one for him, so he can run Windows and Linux. I'm figuring on going the VM route. He can use both OS's but is probably more familiar with Win, and his courses mandate a number of windows only tools. I'm heading in the direction of booting Win10 and using a VM running Debian. A bit of research indicates that the two most popular free VM contenders are VMware and Microsoft's Hyper-V. Can anyone recommend one over the other? Are there better choices? As per laptop specs, I am figuring on getting something with a late model Intel i7, 32 GB RAM, and 1-2TB storage. I figure many laptops must meet this spec. Is there anything else I should be looking for? -- Michael Galea

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USB 3.2 - Display Port symbol is a styalized P
by Russell 12 Apr '18

12 Apr '18

I found a logo for a Type-C USB 3.2 device having DisplayPort capability online. The USB 3.2 hardware is scheduled for distribution sometime in 2019 As Mailman drops image attachments from messages to this list, unless moderated I think, I can't show the actual logo. Here is my symbolic glyph description and my notes, for when I go looking for this hw. SS =~ ( +/+ P [: : : ...] The logo image I saw from USB-IF has two outlined upper case S's followed by the usb trident and a half sized open brace. Next comes two stacked (one over the other) + signs and an outlined upper case P. There is some sort microsized image on the label near the brace, but it is too fuzzy to see in the low resolution image I saw. Finally there is the port itself. -- Russell

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[GTALUG-Announce] GTALUG Meeting on Tuesday 10 April at 7:30pm
by hi＠gtalug.org 11 Apr '18

11 Apr '18

<http://gtalug.org/meeting/2018-04/> # IndieWeb by Myles Braithwaite; GitAnnex by Chris Browne and Unison by Alex Volkov ## IndieWeb by Myles Braithwaite IndieWeb is a set of principles and building blocks for you to independently maintain your social data on your own web domains rather than on large, centralized social networking services. Myles' will be disucssing how to setup your own IndieWeb compitable website. ## GitAnnex by Chris Browne git annex is a file synchronizer that uses Git to manage its metadata and to help provide synchronization infrastructure. I'll give an introduction and description of some common use cases. ## Unison by Alex Volkov Unison is a file synchronizer fior OSX, Unix and windows, it allows two replicas of a file or files to be changed independently, then brought up to date by propagating changes. I'll give a short introduction and common use cases for the program. ## 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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Re: [GTALUG] GnuPG/PGP key signing parties
by Antonio Sun 10 Apr '18

10 Apr '18

Hi All, Just got a reply from Sergio Durigan Junior that he'll be there in the meeting tomorrow, and able to sign our keys afterwards. If you unsure what to do/bring, check out the "signing-party" package & the "gpg-key2ps" tool Sergio mentioned below, and also, https://www.debian.org/events/keysigning HTH and hope to see you all tomorrow. On Tue, Apr 3, 2018 at 7:16 PM, Antonio Sun wrote: > Hi, > > The April 10th meeting is drawing near. > > Are all of you still planning to attend this GTALUG meeting and get our > keys signed? > > > > On Sat, Mar 10, 2018 at 3:53 PM, Sergio Durigan Junior via talk - > talk(a)gtalug.org wrote: > >> On Friday, March 09 2018, Rouben via talk wrote: >> >> > I’m a newbie to this list. The name is Rouben Tchakhmakhtchian; I’ve >> been a >> > Linux user since about 1998 (dabbled with it a bit before that). I’m >> > currently working at UofT in IT, and am still a die-hard open source >> > enthusiast. >> > >> > I was wondering, does the GTALUG community still organize GPG key >> signing >> > events? If not, I would also like to know how much interest there would >> be >> > in such an event. >> >> Hi Rouben, >> >> I sent an e-mail recently about doing a keysigning party at the next >> meeting, which will be on the 13th. One more person manifested >> interest, and now you also said you would like to do it. That's great. >> I think we should look for each other during the next meeting (or maybe >> do an announcement after the meeting is over but before going to the >> pub?) and do the signings. >> >> As has been said already, each person who is interested in getting their >> keys signed MUST bring paper slips containing information about their >> keys (on Debian GNU/*, you can install the "signing-party" package, >> which comes with the "gpg-key2ps" tool), and a government piece of >> identification (if you can bring two pieces, even better). >> >> We can do the signing either in the classroom or in the pub, whatever is >> more convenient. >> >> Cheers, >> >> -- >> Sergio >> GPG key ID: 237A 54B1 0287 28BF 00EF 31F4 D0EB 7628 65FC 5E36 >> Please send encrypted e-mail if possible >> http://sergiodj.net/ >> >

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does anyone know how to make CentOS 7's PPPoE client handle IPv6?
by D. Hugh Redelmeier 10 Apr '18

10 Apr '18

I have a DSL account with Teksavvy. They claim to support IPv6 on DSL. https://help.teksavvy.com/hc/en-us/articles/205837513-IPv6 I'm using a CentOS 7 box with Roaring Penquin PPPoE to connect. That's worked fine for a couple of years. But only for IPv6. I would like to enable IPv6 because BIND, my nameserver, is trying to access some IPv6 things and is failing. Does anyone know how to enable IPv6 in this situation? Almost as good would be convincing BIND that it should not talk IPv6. I'll need to do this anyway on another gateway at another location. It is hooked up via an ISP that doesn't support IPv6.

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For developers interested in AI
by David Collier-Brown 09 Apr '18

09 Apr '18

https://www.integrate.ai/ is looking for senior platform and full-stack engineers. Toronto startup, and /rather/ cool. --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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Better web searching with David Doyle talk is on youtube
by Alex Volkov 09 Apr '18

09 Apr '18

Hello everyone, You can now watch Better Web Searching with Ducks Go Go by David Doyle. From our March 2017 meeting -- https://youtu.be/fKRHP5s4E-Q Playlist of all presentations at that meeting -- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AgF8Y7K5ap0&list=PLUgE6dqIXiEslAD8Ojyyq3A6M… Alex.

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Really funny email from Microsoft
by D. Hugh Redelmeier 06 Apr '18

06 Apr '18

I got email from Microsoft. Maybe you did too. Subject: URGENT—Action needed before April 10 to help protect your PC Your final Windows 10 security update is on April 10, 2018 ... It sure looks like a scam but it really is from Microsoft. It is very badly worded. - it really only means that an old version of Win 10, "Anniversary Edition" will receive its last update on April 10 (one year after release). This explanation is nowhere in the email -- I had to infer it from googling. This is no big deal because the updates system will automatically take the system to the newest released version anyway. Well, it will try. The Windows Update system regularly chokes on my small systems. Mostly because Microsoft mandated 2G RAM and 32G disk for cheap licenses and update does not reliably work within those resources. Its failure modes are various, pathetic, and undocumented. - the message does not tell me which of my systems are still on old versions. I have lots of systems with Windows licenses that barely get used. Oops, in the HTML salad of the email was a link to a web page showing the status of all my devices (but it doesn't highlight the ones "at risk"). My major use-case for Windows on those machines is updating Windows. A secondary use-case is updating firmware of systems whose manufacturer is smart enough to release firmware updates but dumb enough to require Windows for those updates. - if the final update is to be released on April 10, should I not update on or after that date, not (just) before? In no way is this my final Windows 10 security update unless I scrub Windows from my systems. Or something more important ends (me, Microsoft, the world, ...).

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