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Malware talk from May meeting is availabe on youtube
by Alex Volkov 20 May '18

20 May '18

Hey Everyone, Now you can watch Malware! talk with Garry Pejski from our May 2018 meeting on Youtube. https://youtu.be/QBVQorW3Wlc Alex.

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Fedora 27 packagekit reboot and install glitch
by Russell 19 May '18

19 May '18

After installing some recent F27 updates using the gnome software centre, the package kit watchdog has stopped exiting gracefully on an install routine. This happened after I chose to enable the recommended updates. The watch job wouldn't quit watching and I'd have to forcefully reboot, as the system would hang for a very long time. This is one of the few times I have given a linux a nominal three finger salute. Seven ctl-alt-del combos in two seconds stopped the job and shutdown eventually happened about two minutes later. My temporary solution is to mask the packagekit application service and only use dnf. Dragora's gui is also easy, however, the desktop integration is not as slick. I do like the native gnome software centre interface and the way the monitoring and notification app is tied into the calander. It is very central and easy to deal with. However for the time being; #systemctl mask packagekit.service Created symlink /etc/systemd/system/packagekit.service → /dev/null. I had been looking for a way to stop only the notification that F28 is now available as an upgrade. I'd get that notice once every day, but apparently if the watchdog is running, you get all notices and I have yet to discover a way to blacklist an individual notice, so I masked the entire service. I guess this is part of the bumps and bruises of switching over to systemd. I am trying out F28 on my M.2 Xpoint ram stick and I'm pretty pleased so far. The only issue which keeps me with F27 as main, is on par with every distro update I have ever done. ie. the sane backend and its D-bus internal references. On F28 my brother MFC-L2710DW cannot connect to the brscan. Following the sane systemd recomendations I've gotten to the socket via telnet, but I just can't glue the endpoints together. Hopefully Brother will repackage the driver as systemd takes over Fedora init entirely. -- Russell

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Sending array variable over CGI ?
by William Park 18 May '18

18 May '18

Hi all, If I'm sending single valued data over web, eg. a=111, b=222, c=333, then I can do http://.../xxx.cgi?a=111&b=222&c=333 How do I send array data, like A[1]=111, A[2]=222, A[3]=333 to a CGI script? I don't think I can do something like http://.../xxx.cgi?A[1]=111&A[2]=222&A[3]=333 Or, can I? I have seen a same variable repeated, http://.../xxx.cgi?A=111&A=222&A=333 but that means the CGI script has to build the array. -- William Park <opengeometry(a)yahoo.ca>

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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 13 May '18

13 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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