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[GTALUG-Announce] Meeting on Tuesday at 7:30pm
by Myles Braithwaite 05 May '16

05 May '16

<http://gtalug.org/meeting/2016-05/> # Round Table Q&A Session A Round Table Q&A Session is where we take questions from the audience, and the audience discusses and attempts to answer those questions from their own knowledge. It's a great way to meet fellow members of our community and discover the skill sets we each bring to the table. ## 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 https://gtalug.org/mailman/listinfo/announce

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Use Tor and the FBI Wants to Hack you.
by Stephen 30 Apr '16

30 Apr '16

http://www.commondreams.org/news/2016/04/29/supreme-court-quietly-approves-… -- Stephen

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Printers
by Randy Jonasz 29 Apr '16

29 Apr '16

Hey everyone, We just moved and unfortunately the printer I had got destroyed. So I'm in the market for a wireless colour fax/printer that will play nicely with linux. Can anyone recommend something that will cost no more than $300? Thanks! Randy

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[GTALUG-Announce] Meeting on 10 May at 7:30pm
by Myles Braithwaite 26 Apr '16

26 Apr '16

<http://gtalug.org/meeting/2016-05/> # Round Table Q&A Session A Round Table Q&A Session is where we take questions from the audience, and the audience discusses and attempts to answer those questions from their own knowledge. It's a great way to meet fellow members of our community and discover the skill sets we each bring to the table. ## 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 https://gtalug.org/mailman/listinfo/announce

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Fwd: Toronto Homebrew Hosting Club on Thursday at 7:30pm
by Myles Braithwaite 25 Apr '16

25 Apr '16

We're having our second ever Homebrew Hosting Club on this Thursday at 7pm at the HackLab.TO. If you are interested in self hosting you should definitely come out. ---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: Myles Braithwaite <me(a)mylesbraithwaite.com> Date: Tue, Apr 19, 2016 at 2:49 PM Subject: Toronto Homebrew Hosting Club on Thursday at 7:00pm To: homebrewhostingclub(a)gtalug.org # Toronto Homebrew Hosting Club on Thursday, 21st April at HackLab <https://homebrewhosting.club/> Are you building your own website? Setup and running your own calendar/contacts server? Developing your own publishing web app? Hosting a Gnu-based-social-network? Running your own Wiki? Hosting your own email server? Did you buy a $35 VPS and looking to replace Google Apps with your a self hosted solution? Or some other digital magic-cloud service? If so, we are a meetup of people in the Greater Toronto Area passionate about self hosting, in the same structure as the [Homebrew Computer Club][1] meetings in Silicon Valley (and the [Homebrew Website Club][2]). It will be a gathering of like-minded people to swap ideas, talk shop, and general awesomeness about hosting your own infrastructure. Our second meetup will be on Thursday 21st April 2016 at 7:00 p.m. at the Toronto [HackLab][3] (near the corner of [Queen Street West and Dufferin Street][4]). [1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Homebrew_Computer_Club [2]: https://indiewebcamp.com/Homebrew_Website_Club [3]: https://hacklab.to/ [4]: http://www.openstreetmap.org/node/3522641496

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distro for an old Thinkpad
by Stewart C. Russell 24 Apr '16

24 Apr '16

Hi - I've been setting up an old Thinkpad R51 as Protolab's small CNC controller. I've been trying to use Debian 8, but it seems not to like the Radeon 250M in the machine at *all*. I'm stuck with "an error occurred / click here to log out", and no sshd to access the machine remotely. Can anyone suggest a light(ish) graphical distro that's user focussed and will allow fairly recent packaged apps like Cura and LinuxCNC to run? I realise that this Thinkpad is slower than a Raspberry Pi 3 (I benchmarked it) but it does have a parallel port that we can use with the ZenBot CNC. cheers, Stewart

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Anyone tried UbuntuBSD?
by Giles Orr 24 Apr '16

24 Apr '16

I just downloaded UbuntuBSD from https://sourceforge.net/projects/ubuntubsd/ . I really like the idea: ZFS and no systemd. But attempting to install it in VirtualBox, I got "error: failed in building a Huffman code table" (a line that stumped Google!) and got dropped to the 'grub>' prompt (where I admit to being a bit lost). This happened on two different machines, one Debian, the other Ubuntu, and I'm fairly sure they're amd64 systems (needed since the ISO is x64). An md5 file to verify the download would be a plus, but I haven't found one. -- Giles http://www.gilesorr.com/ gilesorr(a)gmail.com

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Ubuntu 16.04 out
by D. Hugh Redelmeier 23 Apr '16

23 Apr '16

I just downloaded AMD64 live desktop Ubuntu 16.04. Downloading was quick. 8 minutes on my supposedly 25mbit VDSL connection. It used to be that you had to use a specialized tool to write ubuntu on a USB stick from a .iso file. Just dd-ing it works with this release (at least). The 64-bit .iso does not have 32-bit UEFI support. Rats. I think that this would only have required: EFI/BOOT/BOOTx32.EFI, EFI/BOOT/grubi32.efi and a 32-bit version of the grub command. I don't think that it would add significantly to the .iso size and would allow support for a bunch of cheap devices. debian multiboot manages this.

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Experience with MonoPrice SlimRun Ethernet cables?
by Terry Tanski 20 Apr '16

20 Apr '16

Anyone have experience using the following SlimRun CAT6 or CAT6A cables in a moderately dense datacenter environment? http://www.monoprice.com/product?c_id=102&cp_id=10232&cs_id=1023208&p_id=13… - Are they sufficiently shielded? - Are they easily bent or kinked? - Good quality cable ends? - Do the shorter CAT6 work properly for 10G? I have used MonoPrice CAT6 cabling before and found no issues with their product but I used the traditional thicker cable. Thanks in advance for any insight, Terry Tanski ComQi Canada Inc. ttanski(a)cogeco.ca

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Man deletes his entire company
by Stephen 19 Apr '16

19 Apr '16

The mind wobbles .... http://www.nydailynews.com/news/national/man-deletes-entire-company-running… -- Stephen

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