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Hardware Hack - help needed
by Giles Orr 12 Apr '17

12 Apr '17

I have a deceased Thinkpad 340CSE. I'd like to use it as a shell for a Raspberry Pi (the case has a lot of space). The original keyboard is a thing of beauty by modern laptop standards, with several millimetres of movement and a good feel - so I'd like to use it if at all possible. Unfortunately, a lot of searching has sent me repeatedly to a page on how to convert a T60 keyboard to USB - different keyboard, different connector(s). There's a full explanation with photos here: https://www.gilesorr.com/blog/thinkpad-retrofit-1.html If you have any suggestions, feel free to let me know on or off list. If you think I need to add more information to the web page, same thing: let me know. If you know someone who might be able to help, please forward this to them. Thanks! -- Giles https://www.gilesorr.com/ gilesorr(a)gmail.com

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[Fwd: Re: Hardware Hack - help needed]
by phiscock＠ee.ryerson.ca 11 Apr '17

11 Apr '17

> Back in the days of the Commodore PET, I wanted to convert the keyboard >> into Dvorak layout. Nowadays, I'd find the keyboard translation table, >> edit that and blow a new ROM. > Usually keyboards are wired as a matrix with the lines in the cable representing the X and Y scan lines and each switch at the junction of a pair of scan lines. The output scan lines have resistor pullups so they are normally all in the high state. One set of 'input' scan lines (say X) is then sequentially made LOW and the other set of scan 'output' lines is read in and decoded. When a switch is closed, one output line will go low when some specific input line is activated. This scan operation can happen very fast, so the keyboard is repeatedly scanned at 60 times a second or faster. (This matrix arrangement minimizes the number of required connections to the keys.) Then a computer decodes the XY coordinates into a key code. This would not be difficult to do with an arduino type processor: you'd use the output parallel port lines as the keyboard output scan lines, and another parallel input port as the input scan lines. Send the decoded information out the Arduino usb port. We used to give this to our EE students at Ryerson as an exercise in assembly language programming. Peter -- Peter Hiscocks Syscomp Electronic Design Limited, Toronto http://www.syscompdesign.com USB Oscilloscope and Waveform Generator 647-839-0325

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[GTALUG-Announce] Meeting Tonight at 7:30pm
by hi＠gtalug.org 11 Apr '17

11 Apr '17

<http://gtalug.org/meeting/2017-04/> # A Bit More Than Mostly Searchable: Scanned Paper You Can Find with Stewart Russell Building on a GTALUG Lightning Talk from 2015, Stewart goes over what you'll need to turn messy piles of paper into a (mostly) organized archive of compact searchable electronic files. ## 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 jeopardies 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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Fw: surprise!
by GTALUG Talk 10 Apr '17

10 Apr '17

Yo! I've got something awesome that is going to surprise you, just take a look http://seallf.org/evolution.php?2627 GTALUG Talk

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Qualcomm mobile and linux kernel vulnerabilities
by Russell 08 Apr '17

08 Apr '17

Setting SElinux permissive and exploiting kernel IDR routing maps etc ... His test app on Google play will tell you if you are patched yet. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vAo76EjL_m4&index=11&list=PL9fPq3eQfaaAvXV3… -- Russell Sent by K-9 Mail

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computer to a good home.
by Alvin Starr 06 Apr '17

06 Apr '17

I was using this system as a file server for a number of years. The motherboard is a Asus SLI/KFN5-D with 2 AMD quad core Optron CPU's with something like 12G of ram. It also has a 3wear 8port raid controller with 8 SATA cables. The motherboard and case are ok but the power supply had a problem and in trying to fix it managed to fry the drives and drive enclosures. There are 2 4 drive SATA holders and 5 drive SATA holder but unfortunately the back-plane electronics look to be fried. If someone wants it they are welcome to it otherwise it will be going to the recycling dumpster. -- Alvin Starr || voice: (905)513-7688 Netvel Inc. || Cell: (416)806-0133 alvin(a)netvel.net ||

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April 9th Junk Day at Hacklab.to
by Scott Sullivan 05 Apr '17

05 Apr '17

https://hacklab.to/archives/junk-independence-day-april-9th/ Bring you used or broken electronics. Swap meet from the pile, leftovers go to proper recycling after. -- Scott Sullivan

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[GTALUG-Announce] Meeting on 11 April at 7:30pm
by hi＠gtalug.org 02 Apr '17

02 Apr '17

<http://gtalug.org/meeting/2017-04/> # A Bit More Than Mostly Searchable: Scanned Paper You Can Find with Stewart Russell Building on a GTALUG Lightning Talk from 2015, Stewart goes over what you'll need to turn messy piles of paper into a (mostly) organized archive of compact searchable electronic files. ## 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 jeopardies 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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Selectively restoring WordPress posts from old SQL dump
by William Witteman 30 Mar '17

30 Mar '17

I have a bunch of WordPress blogs sharing a database, which seemed like a good idea at the time. Now I have a bunch of posts that were overwritten at *some* time in the past by bad data, but my backups are good. My backup testing works perfectly well for complete replacement, but I don't want to do that - I want to cherry-pick for one blog of several, and only replace posts that existed in November with the same IDs in today's database, but leave everything else alone. Does anyone have any thoughts? Right now I am hoping not to have a couple of terminals open and try to manually run UPDATEs with copy-n-paste, because that seems rather error-prone. Thanks! William

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Cybersecurity Action Plan
by Russell 30 Mar '17

30 Mar '17

The PDF link available in this article says phase two ends today. The first line item was "Standardize Linux Devices." I wonder how well they did that? Is such a national standard even possible? What distro would they use? Could and should there be a governmental standard compiler and a national security board ensuring device compliance? http://www.theglobeandmail.com/news/national/federal-documents-say-2014-chi… -- Russell Sent from my Android device by K-9 Mail

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