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[GTALUG-Announce] GTALUG Meeting on 8th March at 7:30pm
by Myles Braithwaite 03 Mar '16

03 Mar '16

<http://gtalug.org/meeting/2016-03/> # systemd and What's Your Setup * systemd with **Bill Thanis** * What's Your Setup: A round table dicussion on what you use to get stuff done. ## 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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Doing a 30min Talk at 8th March GTALUG Meeting
by Myles Braithwaite 29 Feb '16

29 Feb '16

If anyone is interested in doing a 30 minute talk at the next GTALUG meeting (8th March) get in touch with me @ me(a)mylesbraithwaite.com.

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looking for an inexpensive vps
by Dave Cramer 28 Feb '16

28 Feb '16

OVH has approx. $10/mth virtual servers. But it doesn't look like you get root access ? This is the price range I am looking at. Is there anything else out there ? I'd like to run debian and be able to install my own packages. Dave Cramer

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Upcoming Linux Conference in Toronto
by Christopher Browne 23 Feb '16

23 Feb '16

http://events.linuxfoundation.org/events/linuxcon-north-america This is upcoming, August 22-24, at the very south tip of Yonge Street, at Westin Harbour Castle. There's a call for papers on through April 26th. -- 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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Job Posting: Innovator in Residence, TPL - Mobile App Development
by Giles Orr 22 Feb '16

22 Feb '16

Toronto Public Library is looking for a Mobile App Developer for their Innovator In Residence program: this is as much a teaching position as anything. It's also part time and temporary: http://www.torontopubliclibrary.ca/content/about-the-library/pdfs/jobs/2016… -- Giles http://www.gilesorr.com/ gilesorr(a)gmail.com

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warning: Mint website served malware-infected .iso files (and more)
by D. Hugh Redelmeier 22 Feb '16

22 Feb '16

<http://arstechnica.com/security/2016/02/linux-mint-hit-by-malware-infection…>

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VPN Recommendations?
by phiscock＠ee.ryerson.ca 21 Feb '16

21 Feb '16

I've been using Hola to create a VPN, and then a friend pointed out this: http://lifehacker.com/hola-better-internet-sells-your-bandwidth-turning-its… so maybe Hola isn't such a good idea. Any recommendations from this group? Maybe OpenVPN? Thanks - Peter -- Peter Hiscocks Syscomp Electronic Design Limited, Toronto http://www.syscompdesign.com USB Oscilloscope and Waveform Generator 647-839-0325

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Getting debian "dwww" to work on Ubuntu Studio
by sciguy 21 Feb '16

21 Feb '16

I have Ubuntu Studio on which Debian "dwww" is installed. I needed to fix some directories by adding symbolic links to get everything to work. But for now, if I click on a command to see its manpage or documentation, I am asked to download the gzipped file. It is not uncompressing and converting to html. I imagine it should do something if it is appending ?type=man to all of the links. But I don't see a script to run the CGI query. There are none in the dwww directory, nor under dwww/cgi-bin (to non-Debian users, that's http://hostname/dwww) There was never a cgi-bin directory at any rate. I actually had to create one so the links to the manpages wouldn't break, but there are no scripts in there unless I wrote it, and I didn't write any. What is this script supposed to be called? There are no clues in the HTML. Can I download it from somewhere? pkingman

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Fedora Partitioning
by Howard Gibson 21 Feb '16

21 Feb '16

Updating my desktop to Fedora_23 continues to be a challenge. I figured out how to connect to the network. Now, it insists on a /boot partition separate from /home. This appears to be a new feature. I am trying to upgrade, rather than re-install everything. I don't recall how I managed to do this, but my root partition is /dev/sda1. My other partitions are contained in the extended partition /dev/sda2. Does anybody know how I can use the Fedora installer to split /dev/sda1 into two partitions /dev/sda1 and /dev/sda6?. I tried deleting /, and creating the two new partitions, and it did not work. Alternately, is there a way to use my root partition for booting? I have looked at my partition table using fdisk. It looks like I can delete /dev/sda1 and create the two new partitions sda1 and sda6. Definitely, this destroys my current setup, and my new install had damn well better work. Partitions sda1 and sda6 will be next to each other, followed by sda2. Has anybody done this safely? I have a Ubuntu DVD here. When I "Try Ubuntu", I was able to make it claim that my network was connected, but I was unable to ping the machine, or connect the browser to http://www.google.com. Is this how Ubuntu behaves in demo mode? The Ubuntu installer seems to over-write boot. If I play with it, I am forced to re-install something. Fedora_20 was a dead cinch to install. How did everything get so complicated? -- Howard Gibson hgibson(a)eol.ca howard.gibson(a)teledyneoptech.com jhowardgibson(a)gmail.com http://home.eol.ca/~hgibson

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Ubuntu Studio: Sound not working in all applications
by Paul King 20 Feb '16

20 Feb '16

I have what I must describe as a strange sound problem under Linux Ubuntu Studio 14.x. The operating system sound is dead, so is sound which ought to come out of media players like VLC. Sound also fails to work in the browser. BUT, it DOES work perfectly under Audacity. I have tried to change the system settings to the same settings as Audacity, but I haven't been successful. THere was touted to be a window called "Sound Preferences", but when I clicked on the speaker icon to select "sound preferences" from the dropdown, the window that came up was "System settings", which only had icons for the printer, desktop and one other thing that had nothing to do with sound that I can't recall. Any ideas?

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