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Ubuntu DLNA Server
by Stephen 14 May '18

14 May '18

So I have happily been using mediatomb for years. But I upgraded to 18.04 and it has been unsupported, and worse the upgrade deleted the binary! :( I tried compiling from source, but that is a bigger learning curve that I am up for at this time. I tried miniDLNA. Setup was easy. No errors. It shows up on my network. But has no content. No errors. No log. So I am at a loss. Any suggestions and/or help appreciated. Open to recommendations for a different sever, as well. Thanks -- Stephen

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[GTALUG-Announce] Call for Lightning Talks
by hi＠gtalug.org 14 May '18

14 May '18

# Call for Lightning Talks Lighting Talks is GTALUG's version of an un-conference, loosely structured short talks emphasizing the informal exchange of information and ideas between participants. A change of pace, rather than following a conventionally structured GTALUG meetings. 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 uninterrupted minutes for you to present your idea, then five minutes of audience questions. If you'd like to have slides or additional time, or just know you have something ready, please lets know in advance. Contact us at speakers(a)gtalug.org --- GTALUG Announce mailing list announce(a)gtalug.org https://gtalug.org/mailman/listinfo/announce

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Gnome on Fedora 28 silent change blindsided me
by D. Hugh Redelmeier 13 May '18

13 May '18

I'm used to notebook touchpads emulating left and right buttons with the lower portion of the touchpad. Clicks elsewhere on the touchpad count as left clicks. Silently, the new gnome that comes with Fedora 28 defaults to treating all clicks as left clicks. At least on my Acer Apire E11's touchpad. To get a right click, one is supposed to tap with two fingers. It can be configured back to the old behaviour, but this requires the gnome-tweak-tool (or a weird command in a shell window). Not very "discoverable"! This took me a while to figure out. <https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1573537>

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Git Annex talk is available on youtube
by Alex Volkov 11 May '18

11 May '18

Hey Everyone, You can now watch Git Annex with Christopher Browne, from our April 2018 meeting. https://youtu.be/qgVXg0eRws4 Alex.

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Notepad drops carrage return bits.
by Russell 10 May '18

10 May '18

The article described the move as a step backwards. Best quote from the comments. "On a mechanical typewriter when you pull the lever you get an LF first then a CR. So Windows is already backwards." https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2018/05/notepad-gets-a-major-upgrade-now-do… -- Russell

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Talk is in Lecture Theatre
by Alex Volkov 08 May '18

08 May '18

Hey everyone room 203 is locked. We're going to hod a meeting in the lecture theatre. Its just on the right from room 203.

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Last month, Hugh suggested Kaiju and the other food court places at Shops at Aurora
by David Collier-Brown 08 May '18

08 May '18

What do people think? --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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Upgraded to Beaver and Command Line Says 'command not found'
by Stephen 07 May '18

07 May '18

The program I wish to run is mediatomb The file is in /etc/init.d/ Samba started fine. Apache did not. Things look fine, but I am a novice with with. Never had a problem to diagnose before. Help appreciated! -- Stephen

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Crontab versioning
by Alex Beamish 04 May '18

04 May '18

I'm developing scripts that get run by crontab, so I'm in there making updates fairly regularly. I would love to be able to document the changes, so I'm wondering if there a usual and customary technique to version crontabs? Ideally there would be some sort of hook around 'crontab -e', but failing that, I'd have the output of 'crontab -l' (run regularly by cron?) go to a versioned file. Plan B sounds a bit hokey to me. -- Alex Beamish Software Developer / https://ca.linkedin.com/in/alex-beamish-5111ba3 Speaker Wrangler, Toronto Perlmongers / http://to.pm.org/ Baritone, Board Member, Toronto Northern Lights, 2013 Champions / www.northernlightschorus.com Certified Contest Administrator, Barbershop Harmony Society / www.barbershop.org

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Anyone using React Native?
by William Witteman 02 May '18

02 May '18

I was hoping to poke at React Native a little bit, but I have been having no end of trouble getting anything Node to work. Specifically, I keep getting CERT_UNTRUSTED errors when I do anything with npm in front of it. I am using Debian testing. If anyone is using it, I'd love some pointers. Thanks!

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