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Recommended Linux Password Lengths
by Ivan Avery Frey 02 Jun '16

02 Jun '16

What is the recommended Linux password length today?

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Web Site Locks up FF on Ubuntu
by Stephen 02 Jun '16

02 Jun '16

FF 46.0.1 Ubuntu 14.04 http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/opinion/editorials/ct-edit-president-cli… I have to do a soft reboot. This site is handled perfectly by Chromium and cause no problems for FF on Win 10. Can others check and report? Suggestions? Thank you -- Stephen

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pulling the plug on home phone
by Dave Cramer 02 Jun '16

02 Jun '16

So rogers has a pretty good deal 90 a month for internet, phone, TV for 2 years. I pay more than that for my home phone alone. Any horror stories using rogers for internet. I have my own voip phone so I'm not so worried about LD Dave Cramer

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[GTALUG-Announce] Tuesday, 14 June at 7:30pm - Nerd Money with Warren McPherson (was Tuesday, 7 June at 7:30pm - Nerd Money with Warren McPherson)
by Myles Braithwaite 02 Jun '16

02 Jun '16

The previous email had an error. The correct date is Tuesday, **14** June 2016 at 7:30pm. On Thu, Jun 2, 2016 at 9:27 AM, Myles Braithwaite <me(a)mylesbraithwaite.com> wrote: > <http://gtalug.org/meeting/2016-06/> > > # Nerd Money with Warren McPherson > > The outrage, the greed, the cryptography, the possibilities! > > **Crypto Literacy** - a quick kindergarten class of the foundational > ideas that enable the current crop of "Applied Cryptography" > applications. > > **Innovation of Bitcoin** - After a hundred failed attempts to create > digital money the innovations of Hashcash and Bitcoin Mining turn out > to be the enablers for a new internet epoch. > > **Blockchains and Society** - Polarizing emotional debates where > people arguing contradictory positions all imagine themselves to be > defending the little guy. > > The dichotomy between open Bitcoin community and advocates of private, > permissioned blockchains. > > ## 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>. -- Myles Braithwaite | http://mylesb.ca/e --- GTALUG Announce mailing list announce(a)gtalug.org https://gtalug.org/mailman/listinfo/announce

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[GTALUG-Announce] Tuesday, 7 June at 7:30pm - Nerd Money with Warren McPherson
by Myles Braithwaite 02 Jun '16

02 Jun '16

<http://gtalug.org/meeting/2016-06/> # Nerd Money with Warren McPherson The outrage, the greed, the cryptography, the possibilities! **Crypto Literacy** - a quick kindergarten class of the foundational ideas that enable the current crop of "Applied Cryptography" applications. **Innovation of Bitcoin** - After a hundred failed attempts to create digital money the innovations of Hashcash and Bitcoin Mining turn out to be the enablers for a new internet epoch. **Blockchains and Society** - Polarizing emotional debates where people arguing contradictory positions all imagine themselves to be defending the little guy. The dichotomy between open Bitcoin community and advocates of private, permissioned blockchains. ## 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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Network down after reboot
by William Witteman 31 May '16

31 May '16

I recently rebooted my Debian desktop, and there is no working network now. Networking has "just worked" for so long that I am at a loss as to what to do. I haven't changed /etc/network/interfaces in forever, but ifconfig -a shows that eth0 is not being configured, and if down eth0 confirms it. I tried fiddling with the Network Tools thing in Gnome, but it hasn't changed anything. Did I miss a change to how this is done and need to learn a new approach? Thanks!

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looking to identify two books in these images
by Dave Cramer 31 May '16

31 May '16

The white book in this one. http://beaver1.fastcrypt.com/~davec/book1.png the orange book in this one http://beaver1.fastcrypt.com/~davec/book2.png Dave Cramer

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pigs with wings
by D. Hugh Redelmeier 29 May '16

29 May '16

I'm going to do the unthinkable: throw out a working notebook tomorrow. An NEC Versa SX from 1999. Running Fedora Core 1. Pentium 2 @ 233MHz 256M of RAM 10G HDD [an upgrade from something considerably smaller] Video: Trident Cyber 9388 Screen: 1024x768. No built-in networking (that's what PCcards are for). Swappable bay for CD writer and floppy drive (I have both). Came with a Windows NT 3.5 license (if I remember correctly). but with Win98 installed. The video is a problem: it is only "TrueColor": 16 bits/pixel. The X driver has a long-standing bug where at each power-on the video might be in a state where the colours are screwed up. The only cure is to power cycle. The fundamental problem is that X doesn't know how to fully initialize the device. Kind of 50/50, if I remember correctly. I'm playing with it now. The screen is bright and clear. I quite like the feel of the keyboard. There is a constant fan noise. The machine was quite nice for its day but things are mostly better now. I bought this 17 years ago, lets say 8 doublings by Moore's law. Current nice notebooks vs this: RAM: 16G (2^6 better) SSD/HDD: 256G vs 10G (2^5 more capacity but a lot faster) HDD/HDD: 2T vs 3.2G (2^10 more capacity and a bit faster) screen: 3200x1800 vs 1024x768 (2^3 better) CPU: 2.4GHz vs 233MHz (2^3 faster clock but more instructions/second too) So: Growth is impressive but Moore's law doesn't seem to have applied.

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Printing Problem - Can't find printer
by Stephen 27 May '16

27 May '16

I am using Ubuntu 14.04 Printer is Epson WF-2630 Wi-fi connection. Hard coded IP address When I try to print, I get a Gnome pop-up saying printer is off-line. Using the web interface to CUPS the reported error is printer not found. I can always ping the printer. I can always print from a windows computer on the same network. I can, from the CUPS web interface "modify" the printer settings. I click through without changing anything. When I am finished, the stalled print job is printed. Any ideas how I can print without "modifying" the printer settings? -- Stephen

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Metapackages for "security testing" ?
by William Park 26 May '16

26 May '16

Does anyone know any Ubuntu metapackage names for security auditing and testing? I'm currently downloading Kali (Debian based) and Backbox (Ubuntu based) to be installed on VM later. But, it would be nicer to "apt-get install xxx". At the moment, I don't know what "xxx" might be. -- William

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