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Re: [GTALUG] Sarah Sharp Public Lecture on Linux Kernel & USB 3.0
by Bob Jonkman 09 Nov '14

09 Nov '14

-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Hello Everybodeee! Elana Hashman from the UofW CSClub asked me to pass this on. I may consider playing hookey from work to go to this... On 08/11/14 07:35 PM, Elana Hashman wrote: > Hi Bob, > > [...] I thought I'd shoot you an invite about this talk we're > hosting. The Women in Computer Science (WiCS) committee is hosting > Sarah Sharp, author of the USB 3.0 driver, to give a talk on Thu. > Nov. 20. Would you be able to pass the word on to the local LUGs? > > Here's an email I sent out earlier: > > *** > > Hello! > > On behalf of the Women in Computer Science Undergraduate Committee, > I would like to invite you to attend our public lecture, "Breaking > into Open Source and Linux: a USB 3.0 success story." Our speaker > is Sarah Sharp, Linux kernel developer and maintainer, and the > author of the Linux USB 3.0 driver. Sarah will provide a deep dive > into how USB 3.0 support was added to the Linux kernel, as an > example of the technical, social, and cultural challenges in > getting involved in open source development. You can read Sarah's > full bio and order a ticket for the talk on the Eventbrite page: > https://www.eventbrite.com/e/public-lecture-breaking-into-open-source-and-l… > > > > The talk will be held in the Modern Languages Theatre of the Arts > on Thursday, November 20th at 5:30PM. > > If you require any disability accommodations, please let me know. > We have hearing aids and wheelchair seating available, and we are > working to provide real-time transcription of the talk. > > Please do not hesitate to contact me for questions or more > information. > > > Hope to see you there! > > -- Elana Hashman Undergraduate Representative Women in Computer > Science Committee David R. Cheriton School of Computer Science > ehashman(a)uwaterloo.ca > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.15 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Ensure confidentiality, authenticity, non-repudiability iEYEARECAAYFAlRfyS8ACgkQuRKJsNLM5ers0wCg+K6TtLTGNn3/UTxBnaImJBk6 0gEAoOJhydPwpS9LS7KjcQzJQwHe3LlY =2hfr -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----

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[OT] Git Conundrum
by Scott Elcomb 07 Nov '14

07 Nov '14

In a wee bit of a spot :( Have a git repo with squashed bugs coming back from the dead - and a conference tomorrow where early adopters are supposed to be trained on using the software. The strange thing is that there doesn't seem to be any indication of corruption or bad merges. There are a few dangling commits, blobs and trees but they don't look to be related. Not having run into this scenario before I'm not quite sure where to start. Any pointers or suggestions? Thanks, -- Scott Elcomb @psema4 http://psema4.com/pubkey.txt http://www.pirateparty.ca/

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Collecting (g)mail
by Giles Orr 03 Nov '14

03 Nov '14

I've finally got around to copying my mail from gmail to my home machine. I'm using getmail ( http://pyropus.ca/software/getmail/ , also in the Ubuntu repos), but it barfs after collecting my 80,000 messages across six hours - and then considers the next run to be "new" so it doesn't do collect only new mail, it collects it all again. And having not spotted that these are the same messages, it duplicates them and the backup directory is now twice the size it should be ... I'm using IMAP, and yes, it's set to only collect new mail. So has anyone got getmail fully working with gmail, or does someone have another recommended way of fetching gmail onto a local machine? Thanks. -- Giles http://www.gilesorr.com/ gilesorr(a)gmail.com

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Why Everyone Wants to Kill the Mouse and Keyboard
by Thomas Milne 02 Nov '14

02 Nov '14

Why Everyone Wants to Kill the Mouse and Keyboard http://gizmo.do/boYucko <http://pocket.co/sDAQD> Sent from Pocket.

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How can I read html email stored in Maildir format?
by Walter Dnes 01 Nov '14

01 Nov '14

My 7-year-old modem/router is starting to occasionally get flakey, so I ordered a new one from Teksavvy. Canada Post sent a tracking update, and it was unreadable in mutt, not to mention that 90% of the email was graphics... -- Mutt: Attachments I 1 EM ALERT Form [text/html, quoted, utf-8, 24K] I 2 filename.BMP [image/bmp, base64, 109K] I 3 filename.BMP [image/bmp, base64, 16K] I 4 filename.BMP [image/bmp, base64, 16K] I 5 filename.BMP [image/bmp, base64, 16K] I 6 filename.BMP [image/bmp, base64, 16K] I 7 filename.BMP [image/bmp, base64, 36K] I copied the email to a text file, consulted with "Mr. Google", and found the sed invocation to turn it into something that Firefox could read. According to the tracking link, the modem/router has been accepted at Chatham and is now on route to Richmond Hill. Since I live in Vaughan, that means I'll probably have to pick it up at a depot somewhere. Anyhow, back to topic... what apps/programs are capable of *DIRECTLY* reading HTML mails that are stored in Maildir format? -- Walter Dnes <waltdnes(a)waltdnes.org>

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capturing the output of any program and inserting in db
by Dave Cramer 29 Oct '14

29 Oct '14

Is there anything out there that is written simply ? By this I mean I don't want to have to install a framework or a jvm or any large dependencies. Ideally this would be written in bash or the like. The goal is to monitor cron jobs using something other than mail. Dave Cramer

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Storing Securities in a Git Repo
by Myles Braithwaite 28 Oct '14

28 Oct '14

Does anyone have any experience storing securities (i.e. AWS access and security keys) in a Git repository? I did some Googling and found a two solutions, git-crypt[1] and blackbox[2]. Anyone tried them before? [1]: https://github.com/AGWA/git-crypt [2]: https://github.com/StackExchange/blackbox -- Myles Braithwaite | http://mylesb.ca/e

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riseup.net
by Giles Orr 27 Oct '14

27 Oct '14

After FSOSS on Thursday and Friday, I spent some time looking at prism-break.org. One of the sites they recommend for email is riseup.net: is anyone familiar with them and/or have an account? How is their user interface? Are there two of you out there who would be willing to (privately) send me an invite so I can bypass what is apparently a very long wait for a regular request? Their site says "To create codes, existing users can login to user.riseup.net and click 'Invites'." I'm interested in experiences, not just invites. Getting away from gmail would be a plus, and riseup does claim to support IMAP. Thanks. -- Giles http://www.gilesorr.com/ gilesorr(a)gmail.com

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wierd usb problem: refuses to mount rw
by Matt Price 24 Oct '14

24 Oct '14

In what appears to be a recent and spontaneous change, teh Ubuntu box I use to run our PVR has stopped mounting USB keys rw. THis is on Ubuntu -- when Ifirst noticed the problem I was still running 13.10, but am now updated to 14.10. WHen I plug in a key, it will sometimes (but not always!) appear to mount as usul to /media/matt/something , opening up a nautilus window. but any attempt to write to the disk will fail due to lack of write permission. Attempts to remount also fail: ~$ sudo mount -o rw,remount /media/matt/Linux\ Mint\ 17\ Xfce\ 32-bit/ mount: cannot remount /dev/sdb1 read-write, is write-protected Meanwhile, dmesg says this, which I don't entirely understnad: 794.736021] usb 1-6: new high-speed USB device number 4 using ehci-pci [ 794.869458] usb 1-6: New USB device found, idVendor=1221, idProduct=3234 [ 794.869463] usb 1-6: New USB device strings: Mfr=1, Product=2, SerialNumber=3 [ 794.869466] usb 1-6: Product: Flash Disk [ 794.869469] usb 1-6: Manufacturer: USB2.0 [ 794.869471] usb 1-6: SerialNumber: 100000000000068B [ 794.869731] usb-storage 1-6:1.0: USB Mass Storage device detected [ 794.872208] scsi7 : usb-storage 1-6:1.0 [ 795.874368] scsi 7:0:0:0: Direct-Access USB2.0 Flash Disk 2.50 PQ: 0 ANSI: 2 [ 795.874586] sd 7:0:0:0: Attached scsi generic sg2 type 0 [ 795.875227] sd 7:0:0:0: [sdb] 2068480 512-byte logical blocks: (1.05 GB/1010 MiB) [ 795.876225] sd 7:0:0:0: [sdb] Write Protect is off [ 795.876228] sd 7:0:0:0: [sdb] Mode Sense: 0b 00 00 08 [ 795.877226] sd 7:0:0:0: [sdb] No Caching mode page found [ 795.877229] sd 7:0:0:0: [sdb] Assuming drive cache: write through [ 795.882222] sd 7:0:0:0: [sdb] No Caching mode page found [ 795.882226] sd 7:0:0:0: [sdb] Assuming drive cache: write through [ 795.882860] sdb: sdb1 [ 795.882863] sdb: p1 size 2445312 extends beyond EOD, enabling native capacity [ 795.885227] sd 7:0:0:0: [sdb] No Caching mode page found [ 795.885229] sd 7:0:0:0: [sdb] Assuming drive cache: write through [ 795.885858] sdb: sdb1 [ 795.885861] sdb: p1 size 2445312 extends beyond EOD, truncated [ 795.891228] sd 7:0:0:0: [sdb] No Caching mode page found [ 795.891233] sd 7:0:0:0: [sdb] Assuming drive cache: write through [ 795.891235] sd 7:0:0:0: [sdb] Attached SCSI removable disk [ 796.069733] ISO 9660 Extensions: Microsoft Joliet Level 3 [ 796.070732] ISO 9660 Extensions: RRIP_1991A ----- this happens with all usb keys, all of which I am able to mount on my laptop, which runs arch linux. Any htoughts on how to proceed? Thanks as always, Matt

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Unbootability
by Peter King 23 Oct '14

23 Oct '14

I'm trying to revive an old computer. The CPU is an Athlon XP 2500, on an Asus A7X87 motherboard, with 3GB of RAM. The internal connections are all PATA. It has both USB ports and a DVDRW drive installed. Up until a month or so ago, it ran as well as an old computer could, with Gentoo installed. Then a hard disc went bad, and that's when the fun began. The BIOS, which dates from 2004, wouldn't let me boot from a USB stick (the only options are USB-FDD and USB-ZIP). So I started burning boot CDs, all of which fail: Gentoo current install disc; SysRescue CD; the Debian 7.0 live install disc; Archliinx; and OpenBSD. As I said, they all fail, quite early on in the process: the BIOS tells me "ATAPI CDROM: No Emulation" and then starts loading each disc, but fails one way or another, never getting through a kernel load as far as I can tell (which isn't very far). I have swapped the DVDRW drive out for another one, with no change in results; I have changed the PATA cable connected to the DVDRW twice, also with no change in results. MemTest seems quite happy with the installed RAM. The boot failures are inconsistent, but, for what it's worth, here is how they each fail: (1) Gentoo install disc: Gets as far as starting to load the kernel when the screen goes black. Sometimes that triggers a BIOS reboot, but at other times it just sits there. Tried several combinations of kernel modules: nofb, noacpi, no-hardware-detection, and so on, without any making a difference. (2) Sysrecue CD: Latest version simply segfaults after the "ISOLinux" declaration. (3) Debian 7.0 live install disc: Gets to the menu of choices, and will usually allow me to make a choice; picking "Install" in any form causes a black screen followed by a reboot. Under the "Advanced" menu I can run MemTest, though. (4) Archlinux install disc: Once I got to the menu, with the motherboard wildly beeping in the background, but wasn't able to select any of the choices. Every other time it just triggers a reboot. (5) OpenBSD 5.6 install disc: Starts loading the kernel but freezes after printing the UC copyright notice. Google turns up lots of suggestions for the "no emulation" message, most of which are either "switch the cable" or "change the drive", both of which I've tried, as noted. The next thing I'll try is to remove one hard disc, install it in some other functional computer, and install a bootable Gentoo (or whatever) on it there, then reinstalling the disc on the old computer to see if it will boot from it. I'm happy (enough) to do that, but I'm bothered by the brick wall I've hit in trying to do something ordinary, namely to boot from a CDR. Any ideas? -- Peter King peter.king(a)utoronto.ca Department of Philosophy 170 St. George Street #521 The University of Toronto (416)-978-4951 ofc Toronto, ON M5R 2M8 CANADA http://individual.utoronto.ca/pking/ ========================================================================= GPG keyID 0x7587EC42 (2B14 A355 46BC 2A16 D0BC 36F5 1FE6 D32A 7587 EC42) gpg --keyserver pgp.mit.edu --recv-keys 7587EC42

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