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Talk for February?
by Matt Lee 18 Jan '15

18 Jan '15

I'm coming to Toronto for the week of 16th-20th February, and if nobody's talking, I'd like to talk about some of the cool stuff we're doing at Creative Commons. --- Matt Lee Creative Commons Boston, MA, USA

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Ubuntu need Adobe Flash?
by Chris Aitken 18 Jan '15

18 Jan '15

Hi, I haven't posted here for years. I guess Ubuntu has been working well for me, so I haven't had the need. I can't play videos on the Internet. I get an error that ... "Firefox has prevented the outdated plugin "Adobe Flash" from running on youtube.com." I get similar errors (that Adobe Flash needs updating) from other sites - fo instance trying to play videos Posted on facebook. My Firefox is 29.0 Mozilla Firefox for Ubuntu canonical - 1.0 I'm running Ubuntu 12.10. I tried to install in this way ... chris@owner-HP-Compaq-dc5750-Small-Form-Factor:~$ sudo apt-get install fashplugin-nonfree [sudo] password for chris: Reading package lists... Done Building dependency tree Reading state information... Done E: Unable to locate package fashplugin-nonfree chris@owner-HP-Compaq-dc5750-Small-Form-Factor:~$ ^C chris@owner-HP-Compaq-dc5750-Small-Form-Factor:~$ I thought re-installing Firefox might bring with it updates, but it seems I already have the latest version ... chris@owner-HP-Compaq-dc5750-Small-Form-Factor:~$ sudo apt-get install firefox Reading package lists... Done Building dependency tree Reading state information... Done firefox is already the newest version. The following packages were automatically installed and are no longer required: linux-headers-3.5.0-17 linux-headers-3.5.0-17-generic suckless-tools Use 'apt-get autoremove' to remove them. 0 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 0 not upgraded. chris@owner-HP-Compaq-dc5750-Small-Form-Factor:~$ I tried the gui Synaptic Package Manager, which offered the hope that ... flashplugin-installer (version 11.2.202.359ubuntu0.12.10.1) will be re-installed No such luck ... W: Failed to fetch http://security.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/pool/multiverse/f/flashplugin-nonfree/fla… 404 Not Found [IP: 91.189.92.201 80] Also, I tried Epiphany, to see if the problem is system-wide or browser-specific. I got similar errors trying to play videos. Sigh. Any ideas? I'm off to be soon, but I'll stay up for a little while, in case anyone is online. Chris Aitken

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Seminar by Professor Grabriella Coleman at York on Tuesday
by D. Hugh Redelmeier 18 Jan '15

18 Jan '15

I went to her talk at U of T on Friday and found it very interesting. I imagine that Tuesday's talk is the same. <http://www.yorku.ca/yuevents/index.asp?Event=33152&Category=0&ShowCal=&Time…> Unfortunately the York description is scant so I'm including the U of T description. ---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: Dimitris Hatzinakos <dimitris(a)COMM.UTORONTO.CA> To: IPSI-L(a)listserv.utoronto.ca Date: Mon, 5 Jan 2015 11:20:21 -0500 Subject: [GW-C] Seminar by Professor Grabriella Coleman, Friday Jan. 16 IPSL-L List Occasional postings from the Identity, Privacy and Security Institute, University of Toronto http://www.ipsi.utoronto.ca ----------------------------------- SEMINAR ANNOUNCEMENT Friday, January 16, 2015 12:00 noon Room MC254 (5 King’s Colllege Road) Professor Gabriella Coleman McGill University “Hacker, Hoaxer, Whistleblower, Spy: The Many Faces of Anonymous” Anonymous, a group of hackers and activists came to the fore in 2008 when they attacked the church of Scientology. Since then their collective action has come up against corporations and supported the Arab revolutionaries. Coleman will share her story of becoming an Anonymous confidante and interpreter. She talk about the motivations of the group, the many facets of their culture, and the increasing importance of hacker activism more generally. Gabriella (Biella) Coleman holds the Wolfe Chair in Scientific and Technological Literacy at McGill University. Trained as a cultural anthropologist, she researches, writes, and teaches on computer hackers and digital activism. She is the author of “Coding Freedom: The Ethics and Aesthetics of Hacking” published by Princeton University Press and Hacker, Ho -- Dimitrios Hatzinakos Professor Bell Canada Chair in Multimedia Director, Identity, Privacy and Security Institute (IPSI) Electrical and Computer Engineering University of Toronto dimitris(a)comm.utoronto.ca ---------------------------------------------------- IPSI-L Listserv IPSI-L is a low-traffic moderated list of news and upcoming events sent to members of the privacy and security community from the Identity, Privacy and Security Institute of the University of Toronto (http://www.ipsi.utoronto.ca) If you have an event you would like to promote or news to share, send an email to IPSI-L(a)listserv.utoronto.ca. Messages will be reviewed before posting. To SUBSCRIBE, send a blank email to: IPSI-L-subscribe-request(a)LISTSERV.UTORONTO.CA. To UNSUBSCRIBE, send a blank email to: IPSI-L-unsubscribe-request(a)LISTSERV.UTORONTO.CA.

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China's Baidu builds its own supercomputer to beat Google at image search
by Thomas Milne 16 Jan '15

16 Jan '15

*China's Baidu builds its own supercomputer to beat Google at image search* http://news360.com/article/274664893 Shared via News360 <http://www.news360.com/app>

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Running Hadoop on a 32 bit linux (Fedora 21 or Linuxmint 17) computer
by Clive DaSilva 16 Jan '15

16 Jan '15

Hello all I decided to take a shot at Hadoop as a lot of my career adventures deal with manipulating large data streams. While Hadoop usually runs from a cluster of Linux boxes, for self-experimental purposes, some of the distros have included Hadoop or work- alikes( Apache Bigtop for Ubuntu being one example which insists on a 64 bit box) for single node activity, but it's not clear as to whether you need a 32 or 64 bit computer, as after two days of googling the subject, I find the documentation to be quite vague. Does anyone here have experience with this beast? Any suggestions, links, etc would be appreciated. --------- Clive DaSilva - cdasilva(a)iprimus.ca --------- GTALUG Talk Mailing List - <mailto:talk@gtalug.org> talk(a)gtalug.org <http://gtalug.org/mailman/listinfo/talk> http://gtalug.org/mailman/listinfo/talk

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OFF: The worst HTML/javascript code I've ever seen
by Mauro Souza 16 Jan '15

16 Jan '15

I was browsing the interwebs today when I got an article on The Daily WTF: http://thedailywtf.com/articles/comments/pass-by-nullpointer There's a Java null pointer exception triggered by javascript, there's funny collor definitions (like blueBackground = #F6F9FC), there's recreation of date functions, there's a table inside a div inside a span inside a li... The offending site is hosted at http://203.143.139.44:8080/wps/portal/en/site/home?country=vietnam But, please, use curl or wget (or axel, aria2, lynx -dump -source, telnet, netcat) to get that page. You browser will curse you if you force it load this heavily garbled code. Mauro http://mauro.limeiratem.com - registered Linux User: 294521 Scripture is both history, and a love letter from God.

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LeafletJS workshop at #maptime next Thursday
by Richard Weait 16 Jan '15

16 Jan '15

LeafletJS is a general purpose library to put maps on web pages. A LeafletJS workshop will be part of #maptimeTO, next Thursday. LeafletJS is open source (MIT license) and runs on Linux (plus probably everything else with a browser) Event announcement follows. Please RSVP http://www.meetup.com/OpenStreetMap-Toronto/events/219769107/ regards, Richard Time: 1830H Date: Thursday 22 January 2015 Location: Mozilla Community Space, 5th Floor, 366 Adelaide Street West Map: http://www.openstreetmap.org/way/61430204 #Maptime is time for learning and sharing knowledge at the intersection of "Maps" and "The Internet". Beginners are welcome. Bring your computer so that you can work on your projects. Maptime starts with short show and tell. Attendees demonstrate their current projects and share key lessons, or ask for assistance. Maptime proceeds with workshop time when attendees self-study, or assemble in ad-hoc groups for collaboration. Maptime is friendly, diverse and inclusive. Join us. This month Joshua Frazier will lead a workshop on the basics of the Leaflet JavaScript library (leafletjs.com) the most popular open source solution for publishing maps on the Web. Join us to create a map on a web page, learn about map tiles and how Leaflet uses them, explore a variety of map tiles based on OpenStreetMap data, add and customize markers and popups, manipulate mouse interactions, and more! No web development or JavaScript experience necessary. Maptime is dedicated to providing a harassment-free experience for everyone, regardless of colour, ethnic origin, gender, gender identity and expression, sexual orientation, disability, physical appearance, body size, race, age or religion. We do not tolerate harassment of event participants in any form. Sexual language and imagery is not appropriate for our events. Participants violating these rules may be sanctioned or expelled from the event at the discretion of the organizers.

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Coming to a router near you soon: Celerway's plan to give your networking a makeover | ZDNet
by Thomas Milne 15 Jan '15

15 Jan '15

Isn't this just a kludge? Shouldn't we work on improving the available networks so we don't need this malarkey? http://www.zdnet.com/article/coming-to-a-router-near-you-soon-celerways-pla…

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Mike Hoye - Social Engineering
by David Thornton 14 Jan '15

14 Jan '15

Found a copy of that talk online! http://exple.tive.org/blarg/2014/10/29/social-engineering/ David

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[GTALUG-Announce] Meeting 13th January at 7:30pm
by Myles Braithwaite 14 Jan '15

14 Jan '15

<http://gtalug.org/meeting/2015-01/> # Social Engineering: Building A Community On Purpose with Mike Hoye Community building in Open Source is usually "organic" - meaning "accidental, unsupervised and messy". The bazaar has matured a lot in the last twenty years, though, and now we know a lot about how we can do better. Mike Hoye, Mozilla's Engineering Community Manager, would like to tell you what works, what doesn't, and why that's important. ## Location George Vari Engineering and Computing Centre 245 Church Street, Room 203 Ryerson University <http://goo.gl/maps/16oJ2> ## Schedule * 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 one of the GTALUG Board Members. _______________________________________________ announce mailing list announce(a)gtalug.org http://gtalug.org/mailman/listinfo/announce

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