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Does anyone know an H-P repair shop?
by David Collier-Brown 13 Jan '25

13 Jan '25

A part came loose on my little LaserJet Pro MFP M177, and while I have the repair manual, I can't figure out how to put it back on! Of /course/, I can't ask H-P: their website and telephone service doesn't cover private laserjets, just people with a service-contract number (:-)) --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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Why do you like your chosen distribution?
by Karen Lewellen 08 Jan '25

08 Jan '25

Hi all, Hoping your holidays were magical. My question comes from a discussion on a Linux and disabilities list. New person frankly bewildered by why there are so many Linux distributions at all, along side the benefits of say a specific kind of desktop over another. Got me wondering in general what motivates you to prefer your distribution of choice? That too, with my actually wondering indeed why there are so many Linux distributions, how all those editions helps someone outside the operating system make a choice. Just curious, Karen

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Sun 19th - Junk Independence Day @ Hacklab.to
by Scott Sullivan 07 Jan '25

07 Jan '25

Another year, another JID appears. Hacklab's Junk Independence Day - Sunday January 19th, Noon - 6PM Come drop off your E-Waste and surplus electronics and parts. Peruse the bounty brought by others. Resist the temptation to take home more then you brought! Anything left over will be responsibly recycled. https://hacklab.to/archives/junk-independence-day-6/ -- Scott Sullivan

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A New Years present for FOSS projects
by Evan Leibovitch 02 Jan '25

02 Jan '25

Hi all, and happy 2025! This came out in October but I only saw it recently. *Announcing FLOSS/fund: $1M per year for free and open source projects <https://floss.fund/blog/announcing-floss-fund/>* I hope someone reading this can take advantage of it. Cute how the application needs to be submitted as a json file <https://floss.fund/funding-manifest/>, though they provide access to an online tool <https://vishnukvmd.github.io/funding.json/> that can generate the file from the information necessary to apply. -- Evan Leibovitch, Toronto Canada @evanleibovitch / @el56

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BorgBackup -- any experience?
by D. Hugh Redelmeier 29 Dec '24

29 Dec '24

Has anyone used <https://borgbackup.readthedocs.io/en/stable/index.html> Do you like it? Pros & cons?

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fastest auto-rejection I've ever seen
by David Collier-Brown 17 Dec '24

17 Dec '24

I applied for a position that fit me to a tee on Saturday, hoping to be near the front of the line. It seems I was: I got a rejection letter at 5:30 AM Monday. I suspect there were no humans involved, unless Glassdoor has an India office (they're don't list one, and they're based in California). --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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On a different subject - anyone know anyone from Canonical?
by David Collier-Brown 16 Dec '24

16 Dec '24

They have both good and bad reviews, so I'd like to actually talk (email) with someone there. --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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[GTALUG-Announce] REMINDER: AGM and General Meeting
by Alan Heighway 14 Dec '24

14 Dec '24

Annual General Meeting / Lightning Talks <https://www.gtalug.org/?p=142>December 3, 2024/0 Comments <https://www.gtalug.org/?p=142#respond>/in Uncategorized <https://www.gtalug.org/?cat=1>/by Alan Heighway <https://www.gtalug.org/?author=3> with Board of DirectorsAgenda: 1. Lighting Talks 2. AGM - Treasurer's Report - Nominations for Board of Directors - Vote (If Necessary) - Establishment of the 2025 Board of Directors Date / Time: December 10th, 2024 19:30 EST Location: In Person: TMU George Vari Engineering and Computing Centre, 245 Church Street (just north of Dundas), Room 201 (See note below) Online using Nextcloud: https://hub.gtalug.org/call/7m45sf9i NOTE: The doors to the building are normally locked. There will be someone from GTALUG at the doors on the southeast corner of Church and Gould to let people in. If you come late or don’t see anyone at the door please SMS at 647 657 6575 for THIS NIGHT ONLY. Do not call. *A*lan *H*eighway <http://heighway.ca/> heighway.ca VA3WAH / VA3YKZ [image: Please consider the environment before printing] --- GTALUG Announce mailing list announce(a)gtalug.org https://gtalug.org/mailman/listinfo/announce

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"free" physical objects
by Vasileios Papadiamantopoulos 08 Dec '24

08 Dec '24

Hi everyone, a few years back(before COVID) I participated in a very interesting GTALUG meeting. One of the participants talked about some "free" objects/artifacts that are circulating in our world and people can keep them for certain time. Each object has an id and the temporary "guardian" informs a portal that they have it in their possession using this id. Does anyone remembers this conversation? Does anyone know this project? Thank you for your time stopping by my message. Best, -- Vasileios Papadiamantopoulos, PhD Arch

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access to mailing list web pages broken
by D. Hugh Redelmeier 04 Dec '24

04 Dec '24

We moved most of our stuff to a new machine, but not our mail server of Mailman mailing list system: www.gtalug.org has address 138.197.153.212 gtalug.org has address 138.197.153.212 gtalug.org mail is handled by 0 penguin.gtalug.org. penguin.gtalug.org has address 69.164.222.247 But penguin thinks that it is gtalug.org and www.gtalug.org. and mailman thinks that it is running on gtalug.org or www.gtalug.org. Those are no longer true. What won't work: - links to the mailman web pages - mailing list archives - (maybe) access to our Wiki Even if you reference these by IP address rather than domain name, they won't work because the certificate validation will fail. This is wrong but it may be a while before it is fixed. Horrible work-around: add this line to /etc/hosts 69.164.222.247 gtalug.org www.gtalug.org But remove it as soon as you are done: it will block access to our new website. (Thank BC Ron for this suggestion.)

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