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[GTALUG-Announce] Meeting on 11 October at 7:30pm
by hi＠gtalug.org 29 Sep '16

29 Sep '16

<http://gtalug.org/meeting/2016-10/> ### Annual General Meeting (7:30 p.m.) * GTALUG Update - 5 minutes * Treasury Update - 5 minutes * Board Elections - 15 minutes ### Ansible (8:00 p.m.) Ansible allows you to turn your infrastructure administration into a codebase. Descripting all the processes that are necessary for deploying a server with a set of provisioning scrips that can be stored in version control. Myles Braithwaite will be giving an overview of deploy and configure your infrastructure with Ansible. Alex Volkov wil be going over running Vagrant as test environment, setting free as in speech LXC and KVM hypervisors with Vagrant, notes on getting from bare hardware running with Debian automated install, and a few wrong Ansible commands. ## 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 jeopardise 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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FSOSS 2016 registration is now open
by Stewart C. Russell 28 Sep '16

28 Sep '16

As Scott mentioned at Tuesday's meeting: What ==== The 16th Free Software and Open Source Symposium http://cdot.fsoss.ca/ Where ===== Seneca@York Campus 70 The Pond Rd, North York, ON M3J 3M6 http://www.openstreetmap.org/?mlat=43.77151&mlon=-79.50007#map=18/43.77151/… geo:43.772,-79.5 When ===== 2016-10-27 – 2016-10-28 (Last Thursday & Friday in October) How much ======== $75 early bird until beginning of October How === http://fsoss2016.strikingly.com/#register-for-fsoss (or go through the main http://cdot.fsoss.ca/ link) Why === I enjoyed this a lot the last time I went. Price seems to have gone up a bit, but it goes up a *lot* if you miss the early bird. Easy to get to by transit, kinda expensive to park. ISTR a somewhat stodgy pizza lunch is thrown in, but the campus is about a 10 minute stroll to Bamiyan Kabob, a truly epic Afghani restaurant. cheers, Stewart (oh, and in same location *tonight* is the Raspberry Pi meetup: https://www.meetup.com/Raspberry-Pi/events/229466291/ )

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Interesting article on a new grep written in Rust
by Christopher Browne 27 Sep '16

27 Sep '16

http://blog.burntsushi.net/ripgrep/ This takes me well back in time; we had a talk back in 2006 ( https://github.com/gtalug/legacy-wiki-extract/blob/master/legacy-pages-proc… ) talking about the state of the art at that time. The issues that were discussed at that point tended to be about whether you'd want your "grep" to expand regular expressions or leave them dynamic. The state of things have certainly changed since then. I have often tended to use, for repository-oriented searches, ack-grep (a recursive grep implemented in Perl), and was aware of The Silver Searcher; I'm giving ripgrep a good try as alternative based on how interesting the blog entry was. The new state of affairs are that we still have "Ol reliable," but there are a pretty substantial set of newer options. ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------- what tools are we benchmarking? ripgrep (rg) (v0.1.2) - You’ve heard enough about this one already. GNU grep (v2.25) - Ol’ reliable. git grep (v2.7.4) - Like grep, but built into git. Only works well in git repositories. The Silver Searcher (ag) (commit cda635, using PCRE 8.38) - Like ack, but written in C and much faster. Reads your .gitignore files just like ripgrep. Universal Code Grep (ucg) (commit 487bfb, using PCRE 10.21 with the JIT enabled) - Also like ack but written in C++, and only searches files from a whitelist, and doesn’t support reading .gitignore. The Platinum Searcher (pt) (commit 509368) - Written in Go and does support .gitignore files. sift (commit 2d175c) - Written in Go and supports .gitignore files with an optional flag, but generally prefers searching everything (unlike every other tool in this list except for grep). ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------- FYI, the Rust language project was founded by Graydon Hoare, who used to be in Toronto, once upon a time... -- When confronted by a difficult problem, solve it by reducing it to the question, "How would the Lone Ranger handle this?"

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Permission Issue Ubuntu 16.04
by Stephen 20 Sep '16

20 Sep '16

**Apologies I had screenshot attachments on the first try. Message too big.** I have rebuilt my computer and installed 16.04. Was 14.04. There has been a change in permission behaviour. I have a Windows 10 computer that I use for my photography and Photoshop. I copy and paste folders over the network to my Linux machine for backup and using on my web sites. I did this today and the folders and files were all created with all permissions set to "nobody". They are created in a folder my user owns. The Windows username is the same as my Ubuntu username. In the past the copied folders and folders received my user ownership. I want to return to this behaviour. Reviewing documentation I see "big" solutions. Create users to my group. Test if this will work. Fingers crossed. Did not have to do this before. Can someone help with an easier solution? Thank you. -- Stephen

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Lenovo IdeaPad Miix 700, $770 at CanadaComputers -- opinion?
by William Park 20 Sep '16

20 Sep '16

I just came across http://www.canadacomputers.com/product_info.php?cPath=710_577_664_668&item_… Any opinion? -- William

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Re: [GTALUG] Lenovo IdeaPad Miix 700, $770 at CanadaComputers -- opinion?
by mrsabidel＠yahoo.ca 20 Sep '16

20 Sep '16

Hi William I have a couple of lenovo's that are better than that and I am not impressed. In my opinion, it is too much money for what you get. Obviously it is great for social media, etc and portability. Good luck. CheersAbby Sent from my LG Mobile ------ Original message------From: William Park via talk Date: Mon, Sep 19, 2016 22:42To: talk(a)gtalug.org;Cc: Subject:[GTALUG] Lenovo IdeaPad Miix 700,$770 at CanadaComputers -- opinion? I just came across http://www.canadacomputers.com/product_info.php?cPath=710_577_664_668&item_… opinion?-- William---Talk Mailing Listtalk@gtalug.orghttps://gtalug.org/mailman/listinfo/talk

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PyCon Canada 2016
by Myles Braithwaite 19 Sep '16

19 Sep '16

tl;dr today is the last day for early bird tickets for PyCon Canada 2016 <https://www.eventbrite.com/e/pycon-canada-2016-tickets-27545680873> PyCon Canada is a community run Python (the programming language not the snake) conference being held in Toronto on November 14 to 15th (with Hackathons/Sprints from 16 to 17). I have been going for the last four years and it's amazing, so much so that I help organise this year's and last year's conference. Here are a couple of the talks I really enjoyed last year: François Maillet's talk on Hacking his Living Room for an Epic NHL Goal Celebration with Hue Lights: <https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8Ayacv1SWx8> Mike Fletcher's talk on Embracing the Singularity: <https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s85jIUaVfeo> Jake Sethi-Reiner's talk on learning to code Python at ten years old: <https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EVtFhap5U3I>

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Write-protect on a MicroSD card?
by Evan Leibovitch 13 Sep '16

13 Sep '16

Hey all. A MicroSD card just went corrupt in an RPi and I'm wondering if it can be salvaged or reformatted. I can read from it no problem (two partitions, /boot is FAT and / is ext2). But it appears that the thing appears to the reader as enabling hardware write-protection, as if I had engaged the little slider on a regular sized SD card. Any suggestions? Both Windows (sdcard.org formatting tool) and Linux (dd) refuse to write to it, and the "dirty bit" can't be cleared from the boot partition. Any suggestions? Or is the card toast? Thanks! -- Evan Leibovitch Geneva, CH Em: evan at telly dot org Sk: evanleibovitch Tw: el56

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Newbie
by Devlin 13 Sep '16

13 Sep '16

Is this the right place to ask questions about things Linux? Like software recommendations and help?

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Tonight's Dinner ([GTALUG-Announce] Meeting on Tuesday at 7:30pm)
by Myles Braithwaite 13 Sep '16

13 Sep '16

On Mon, Sep 12, 2016 at 10:46 AM, <hi(a)gtalug.org> wrote: > * 6:00 pm - Please discuss on the general mailing list (i.e. <talk(a)gtalug.org>) where you want to go for dinner. I'm thinking of going back to Banh Mi Boys (399 Yonge St), Vietnamese style sandwiches. You can see the menu here: <http://www.banhmiboys.com/menu.htm>. Anyone got any other ideas? You can see a restaurant list here: <https://wiki.gtalug.org/pre-meeting_dinner>.

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