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Thinkpad [2] : Power malfunction on suspend; faster suspend to disk?
by Matt Price 15 Jun '16

15 Jun '16

Another thinkpad issue, this one more serious: when I suspend to ram, my Thinkpad T440s sometimes has a serious power malfunction. While suspend generally succeeds, at some point the pulsing power light on the lid goes out and it’s no longer possible to power on the laptop. I have to open the lid, disconnect the internal bettery, and generally also hit the internal power reset button. I can then restart, but of course lose all my work. At first this happened about once a month, then once a week, and now it happens several times a day. 1. Anyone else having this issue? And do you know what actually causes it, and if it can be fixed? I’ve searched online and there are various threads about it, but I haven’t found any actionable information. Recently updated my BIOS and changed some BIOS settings, but to no apparent effect. 2. As a workarond, I’ve just switched from suspend-to-ram to hybrid suspend, which writes an image to disk before suspending to ram. (Took me a long time to do this, because I had no swap partition & my main partition was encrypted, so I had to resize the encrypted partition, ettc.) This seems to work! Yay! However, suspend-to-disk is really slow. In the old days I used Txonice for hibernaion, but that project has really slowed down in the last few years. Is anyone still using it? How about uswsusp? Is either one compatible with the systemd hibernation commands? My experience with tuxonice was that it was abot 5 times faster than native hibernation, so I’d really like to compress the disk image Thanks again! Matt

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Thinkpad [1] : Twitchy lid close switch
by Matt Price 15 Jun '16

15 Jun '16

Hi Folks, It’s been a long time since I participated i n the group, hope everyone’s well! I have Arch installed on a Thinkpad T440s; it’s mostly worked well for quite a while, but I’m running into some problems; separating them out into individual emails for clarity. The simplest issue is a very sensitive lid close sensor. The sensor is inside the lid hinge, and it often registers a state change when I adjust the screen angle. So, two questions: - any other THinkpad users to there seeing this, and if so, have you figured out a hardware fix? - failing that, does anyone have a suggestion for a software fix – say, a custom script that systemd can run as a hook before the LidSwitch event fires? I don’t know much about the systemd power management features. I noticed the “HoldoffTimeoutSec” variable in /etc/systemd/logind.conf, and currently have it set to 30s (cf. https://www.freedesktop.org/software/systemd/man/logind.conf.html) But it hasn’t yet solved my problem. As usual, thanks so much for your help! Matt

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40" 4k Philips Monitor for $699.95 at BestBuy, Jun. 8 and 9 only
by CLIFFORD ILKAY 14 Jun '16

14 Jun '16

Hello, I had bought a Wasabi Mango 42" monitor from a Korean vendor on eBay last May and when it broke down for the second time within the first 13 weeks, neither the vendor nor Wasabi Mango provided warranty support. Fortunately, I had bought a SquareTrade warranty and they came through and reimbursed me for the full purchase amount. Orchids for SquareTrade, onions for Wasabi Mango and gnestore on eBay, and onions for eBay's useless reputation system that prevents buyers from leaving reviews after 90 days from purchase. All that does is provide an incentive for the seller to be responsive within the first 90 days and not even pretend to care once the buyer can no longer leave a negative review. Just to give you an idea of how ill-equipped Wasabi Mango must be to provide after-sale support and how little they care about their reputation, I left a scathing review of their monitor on their Facebook page and they never responded and the last time I checked some months ago, it was still there for the whole world to see. I bought this same 40" 4k Philips monitor for $699.99 at a Black Friday sale last year at BestBuy and it has been working great(*). The Wasabi Mango was an LG IPS panel. This one is a VA panel. Theoretically, the IPS panel is supposed to be "better" but I really do not have any objections to the video quality on the Philips. I have not noticed any dead pixels and the brightness is uniform throughout. It has an easy-to-use joystick control and a hard power switch. I have an ASUS GT 960 Strix video card running the nVidia binary driver on Fedora 23 driving the monitor through a DisplayPort cable. (*) Once every few months, I have to update the binary driver (it's not automatically updated) when I lose X after a kernel update. Occasionally, I'll see a flickering of a window that is not in the foreground. If I move the mouse, the flickering will disappear, which has me suspect the video driver and not the monitor. It's not frequent enough to be anything more than a minor irritant. Neither of those things are particular to this monitor. With a panel this large, I have not found any need for font-scaling. There is no way I could read text on a 28" 4k monitor without font-scaling. It would be hard to beat the price/performance of this monitor and with the weaker Canadian dollar, monitor prices have been firm. You will not see this monitor at this price very often. In short, it's a great buy if you've been thinking of upgrading to a 4k monitor. -- Regards, Clifford Ilkay + 1 647-778-8696

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dinner before June meeting: Basil Box?
by D. Hugh Redelmeier 14 Jun '16

14 Jun '16

Reference material: <http://wiki.gtalug.org/pre-meeting_dinner> Please help maintain and improve this wiki page. If you went to May's dinner, consider adding a comment about Thai on Yonge. I tentatively suggest we go with Miles' suggestion from last month: I'm interested in Basil Box. This is Thai (I think), just like last month. This is a consequence of nobody else making a suggestion. But if you are quick we can decide on another location. <https://wiki.gtalug.org/pre-meeting_dinner#basil_box> Address: 351 Yonge St. (part of Ryerson SLC building, opposite Elm St.) <https://www.yelp.ca/biz/basil-box-toronto> <http://www.blogto.com/restaurants/basil-box-toronto> Do read the reviews to understand what this is: - food is (intentionally) cold - you choose what goes into your "box" - apparently this is like Chipotle (I've never been to one)

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Yahoo/Rogers/Outlook and GTALUG (was We are having DMARC/DKIM troubles)
by Myles Braithwaite 13 Jun '16

13 Jun '16

tl;dr Hopefully this issue is fixed. I have added `REMOVE_DKIM_HEADERS = Yes` to the `mm_cfg.py` file. This basically removes the sender's DKIM email header when sending the message to the subscribers. This should stop the issues.

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Re: [GTALUG] We are having DMARC/DKIM troubles ...
by Alvin Starr 12 Jun '16

12 Jun '16

On 06/12/2016 02:23 AM, ac(a)main.me wrote: > On Sat, 11 Jun 2016 18:24:43 -0400 > CLIFFORD ILKAY <clifford_ilkay(a)dinamis.com> wrote: > <snip> >> This is obviously a problem for non-technical users. They simply do >> not understand any of this and it all becomes too complicated for >> them. Most users do not know how to add anything to their address >> book or create message filters/rules and they think the list server >> is broken and should be "fixed" when in fact, it's their email >> provider. >> I never see these issues with subscribers who have Gmail accounts, by >> the way. >> Email is dying a slow death. The alternatives, like Twitter direct >> messaging, Slack (ugh!), WhatsApp (double ugh!), and various instant >> messaging schemes are worse. Those will eventually be polluted by >> spammers, too. >> > Would like to start my reply by saying that I received my first spam in > 1987, from CompuServ and that imnsho email will never die, it is too > well suited to human nature. > > These days, I am trying all sorts of new ways of trapping new spam bots > and figuring out how to get more spam, more data, more bots. > Huge multi nationals like Google etc do not share their data > > To understand the small spam problem in 2016, one has to > understand the differences in modern email. > > Mass email providers like @gmail.com @yahoo.com @hotmail.com are > hard/difficult to block - and they know that - so some of them, like > yahoo.com for example, does not spend as much money as say google.com > does - to fight abuse. > > If @dinamis.com would dare to send spam - @dinamis.com would simply end > up in a rbl > > Our rbl's commonly block at least 100 yahoo servers for each single > google.com server and the blocks last anything from an hour to weeks, > depending if they stop their spam > > Interestingly, if Google is blocked for spam they bounce back to their > user with : technical error at the receiver - this is kinda evil as it > implies that their is a problem at the receiving server, when Google > full well knows that their is an admin restriction due to Google being > abusive... > > branding I guess, users have to be kept as mushrooms for as long as > possible so that the large guys can dominate and take over the world :) > > All you need to end up on an RBL is one hacked user. Been there. Cleaned up after that. If you have a few tens to hundreds of million of clients(like the big guys) you will have lots who are compromised and now sources of spam. Its amazing the the big guys don't have all their mail servers blocked all the time. Your right that its annoying that the big guys seem to get by without paying attention to the rest of us. As an aside some times I get the feeling RBLs are getting close to being extortionist in their tactics. I have had clients with mail servers that get black listed and they find themselves having to pay to get off some of the RBL's. -- Alvin Starr || voice: (905)513-7688 Netvel Inc. || Cell: (416)806-0133 alvin(a)netvel.net ||

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OT: Cisco SP112 Vs Grandstream HT702
by Ivan Avery Frey 12 Jun '16

12 Jun '16

Which is the better VOIP adapter?

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We are having DMARC/DKIM troubles ...
by Stewart C. Russell 11 Jun '16

11 Jun '16

If replies seem patchy, we've just had a bunch of people - mostly Yahoo and Rogers users - auto-kicked from the list due to DMARC. This is an ongoing pain for list admins. The reason given by Yahoo is this: https://help.yahoo.com/kb/postmaster/SLN7253.html Yeah, they're advising Reply-To mungeing as an industry standard. Joy! cheers, Stewart

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pfsense
by James Knott 10 Jun '16

10 Jun '16

Lack of support for dhcpv6-pd caused me to change my firewall/router from openSUSE to pfsense. The more I work with pfsense, the more I like it. I installed it a couple of weeks ago and am impressed with the features in it. Of course, since they also sell hardware running on it, I'd expect pfsense to be professional grade. It certainly appears to be. I know this is a Linux list, but I strongly recommend pfsense, which runs on FreeBSD. The only thing missing is I haven't got Wireshark running on it (yet). https://www.pfsense.org/ Anyone using IPv6 on Rogers or many other providers needs something that supports dhcpv6-pd. Pfsense does.

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Bob Young (former Red hat CEO) is giving a talk at DemoCampHamilton25
by Myles Braithwaite 09 Jun '16

09 Jun '16

DemoCampHamilton25 - 16 June 2016 at 6pm - Registration is Required McMaster Innovation Park - 175 Longwood Road South - Hamilton <http://www.eventbrite.ca/e/democamphamilton25-tickets-24971188497> DemoCamp is an event for the regional technology and startup community to come together and share what they've built, give each other feedback, and connect with one another. The event involves a series of 5 minute live tech demos + 5 minutes of audience Q&A.

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