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Skylake bug
by D. Hugh Redelmeier 12 Jan '16

12 Jan '16

<http://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2016/01/intel-skylake-bug-causes-pcs-to-free…> Skylake CPUs can hang during certain computations. Prime searching folks found this. Interesting that Intel says that new firmware can fix it. (The article reminds us that Haswell CPUs had a but in the TSX feature and that the firmware fix just removed TSX. I felt robbed because one reason I bought a system with that processor was that I wanted to play with TSX.))

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[GTALUG-Announce] Meeting Tonight at 7:30pm
by Myles Braithwaite 12 Jan '16

12 Jan '16

<http://gtalug.org/meeting/2016-01/> # A Journeyman's Tour of Vim with Giles Orr We won't be covering i-a-h-j-k-l:wq, but instead looking at a variety of commands and plugins you may not be familiar with that can make your editor even better. This will include a discussion of neovim, colours, dealing with your vimrc, mappings, buffers and tabs, sessions, plugins, VimScript, and possibly a couple other topics. ## 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 - Before each meeting a group of GTALUGers will dine at North of Brooklyn (469 Church St) * 7:30 pm - Meeting and presentation. * 9:00 pm - After each meeting a group of GTALUGers move to the The Imperial Pub (54 Dundas St East) for refreshments and more socializing. # 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 jeopardize 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 honored 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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Looking for a Sr. System Engineer in Markham
by Ijaaz Ullah 11 Jan '16

11 Jan '16

Nightingale Informatix, Markham, Ontario (www.nightingalemd.com) We're looking for a Sr. Linux Engineer to take on the daily management and operation of our next generation product platform. http://www.nightingalemd.com/about/careers/?id=17 As a Sr. Linux System Engineer you will be responsible for day-to-day management of our infrastructure (production, staging, development and corporate IT). This includes Linux servers (CentOS), IIS, VMWare, cloud environments, SAN/NAS and network devices. The software stack includes Puppet, Apache, Ngnix, Jetty and PostgreSQL. The successful candidate must demonstrate that their breadth in technical knowledge can harmonize with the business objectives and client needs. Major responsibilities include: - Day-to-day management of all systems - Automating away daily chores - Automating server builds and software deployment in our cloud environment - Building tools and automation to help manage our systems more efficiently - Managing our networks, including our many switches, routers, firewalls, VPNs, load balancers - Tuning Network and Systems performance - Managing and tuning SANs, NASs, and backup system - Participating in the on-call rotation for after-hours incident resolution. The ideal candidate will be a highly motivated individual with 8+ years of experience in the related field with a software or technology company and will possess the following skills and attributes: - 8+ years of progressive hands on experience in system administration in a distributed Unix/Linux environment - Must have a College diploma or University degree in computer science or engineering, or must have relevant job experience - Must have strong knowledge of Linux on the command line (includes bash scripting) - Must have excellent written and oral communication skills. - Must have experience building, configuring and maintaining highly available enterprise Linux environments - Must have experience building highly automated, scalable cloud environments - Must have experience with a scripting or programming language (perl, c, python, etc.) - Must have experience with an RDBMS database, PostgreSQL an asset - Must have experience with networking equipment, architectures, protocols and troubleshooting tools (i.e. ping, dig, tcpdump, wireshark) - Experience with automation and configuration management tools in a production environment, a large asset (Puppet, Ansible, Salt, Chef, CFEngine, etc.) - Experience managing a web site / web environment (Apache, Nginx, IIS) - Experience with system and network monitoring and trending tools (Nagios, CollectD, Graphite, Cacti) - Experience with database clustering and database performance tuning - Experience with Java Application / Servlet management Interested? Please send resume/cover letter to jobs(a)nightingalemd.com Ijaaz Ullah Vice President IT & Privacy Officer T: 905-307-3645 C: 416-566-6880 W: www.nightingalemd.com E: iullah(a)nightingalemd.com ________________________________ This message contains confidential information and should only be viewed by the intended recipients. If you are not the intended recipient you should not disseminate, distribute or copy this e-mail. Please notify iullah(a)nightingalemd.com immediately by e-mail. If you have received this e-mail by mistake please delete this e-mail from your system. For additional information about our email terms & conditions click here<http://www.nightingalemd.com/about/email-disclaimer/>

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Questions for sys install
by o1bigtenor 11 Jan '16

11 Jan '16

Greetings Laptop my wife has been using a her computer is starting to have occasional graphics issues. Its an all in one mobo but its also almost 7 years old so looked for a replacement. BestBuy had some systems on sale for after Christmas so ordered an Asus desktop. AMD mobo 6 GB of ram, built in wifi w DVD RW all for can $360 inc shipping. Now comes the kicker. Wanted to set the uefi bios to boot from Cd-rom so that I could use gparted to give myself some disc room to enable a dual boot system (Debian testing being the flavor du jour). It will NOT boot onto the cd-rom it says that an illegal modification has been made to the bios and the next boot option must be chosen. (There was zero material with this system. It boots and all but there is nothing with it. Even the OS key is burned into the bios. There isn't even a system sticker any more!!) Any suggestions on how to get this system to boot onto the cd-rom short of pulling the hard drive and replacing it? TIA Dee

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(question) What is the purpose of UID==GID?
by William Park 11 Jan '16

11 Jan '16

Just curious... I noticed that distros tend to create user account with unique UID and unique GID (and usually both are the same id). For example, UID=1000 and GID=1000. What is the reason behind it? -- William

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best choices for tiny mlinux media centre in 2016?
by Matt Price 11 Jan '16

11 Jan '16

Hi everyone, I'm looking to replace my desktop-based xbmc movie playing box with a much smaller and more energy-efficient ARM-based DIY project. II'd love to hear what other people recommend for specs. I'd like to build a system with: - relatively simple and manageable OS (Raspbian has been nice on my old RP rev b) - some kind of hobbyist board, raspbi or beaglebone or whatever seems best; - cheapest possible large ssd drive - a power button (!) - a wireless keyboard or other control device - HDMI out - some kind of a box to hold everything together (likely self-designed out of some very cheap scrap materials) - power source that can drive all these pieces - as little cost as possible So, what do you all think? I really look forward to your suggestions. m

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Any SUSE users on the list.
by Russell Reiter 11 Jan '16

11 Jan '16

A link to this event was in an advertisement which popped up while reading the star online this morning. http://events.suse.com/events/suse-expert-days-toronto/event-summary-0c1655…

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[GTALUG-Announce] Meeting on 12th January at 7:30pm
by Myles Braithwaite 10 Jan '16

10 Jan '16

<http://gtalug.org/meeting/2016-01/> # A Journeyman's Tour of Vim with Giles Orr We won't be covering i-a-h-j-k-l:wq, but instead looking at a variety of commands and plugins you may not be familiar with that can make your editor even better. This will include a discussion of neovim, colours, dealing with your vimrc, mappings, buffers and tabs, sessions, plugins, VimScript, and possibly a couple other topics. ## 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 The Imperial Pub (54 Dundas St East) for refreshments and more socializing. # 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 jeopardize 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 honored 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 http://gtalug.org/mailman/listinfo/announce

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Is there an "ubuntu" package for xterm-toolbar?
by Paul King 10 Jan '16

10 Jan '16

I was wondering if anyone on this list uses xterm with a toolbar? Toolbars are the thingies which would normally work on CTRL+mousebutton, except that they are permanently fixed on to the top of the window below the title bar. I can get a toolbar by default on Cygwin/X, but not in Ubuntu Studio 14.x. The Ubuntu manpage for xterm says that +tb is the option to use, but all I get from that is a error message. Supported and documented under xterm, but not in the actual Ubuntu binary ... ? Do I need to download a different package which has the toolbar option compiled in? Anyone know? Paul King

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Unix on Windows -- VirtualBox, BusyBox, Cygwin
by William Park 09 Jan '16

09 Jan '16

Something I (re)discovered recently... Windows is unavoidable at work. So, you're working on Windows machine, but you need your favourite Unix tools and utilities to process some file. What do you do? So far, I found 3 solutions: 1. VirtualBox -- virtualbox.org Keep VirtualBox running minimized, with shared folder enabled. Then, bring it up whenever you need it. This is what I usually do, because VirtualBox is needed for other things. But, this only works on your desktop. If you have to move around to many machines, then this may not be ideal, because even though you can put VMs on USB stick, you need to install VirtualBox on those machines. 2. BusyBox (for Windows) -- frippery.org/busybox/ It's single binary, and it's ideal for USB stick. You get all the programs that BusyBox comes with. But, sometimes, you need a full set of options that you're familiar with. 3. Cygwin -- cygwin.com It's single directory which you can put on USB stick. That directory becomes your root filesystem, but you can access other drives through /cygdrive which acts like /mnt. This is my recent (re)discovery. I knew about it, but totally forgot. -- William

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