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Windows eats Fedora installation sticks
by D. Hugh Redelmeier 10 Sep '24

10 Sep '24

Old news, I know. But I've been burned again. A Fedora installation USB stick, prepared by dd-ing the .iso file onto the raw stick works fine. But if you have that stick in the computer, and Windows sees it, it will drop a few bytes on it. The result is that the stick cannot be used to boot Fedora (until you rewrite it). Sheesh. Why did it happen to me, when I know of the problem? To run the stick, during power on, I have to hit a key to get into the choose-a-device-to-boot-from menu. It's a race, and sometimes I lose.

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Tom's Hardware: "AMD announces unified UDNA GPU architecture — bringing RDNA and CDNA together to take on Nvidia's CUDA ecosystem"
by D. Hugh Redelmeier 10 Sep '24

10 Sep '24

<https://www.tomshardware.com/pc-components/cpus/amd-announces-unified-udna-…> This seems important to me. I lost a lot of interest in playing with AMD GPU Computing when consumer cards were no longer supported by AMD's computing stack. Unfortunately, it is clear that this unification will take years because there are GPUs in the product pipeline that haven't got the memo. I found one particular paragraph disappointing: The company also remains focused on ROCm despite the emergence of the UXL Foundation, an open software ecosystem for accelerators that is getting broad support from other players in the industry, like Qualcomm, Samsung, Arm, and Intel. ROCm seems to be to be an imperfect emulation of CUDA. How is that going to be a winner?

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OT: Shots fired - heads up
by ac 10 Sep '24

10 Sep '24

Usually when google or microsoft does really weird stuff the large RBL do not penalise them the same as everyone else. But, it seems the tide may be shifting... Just today, Microsoft has been sending out these "we have videos of you doing weird sexual stuff and pay money" and Google cloud has been sending out UBE to literally purchased/stolen/trojan data (and maybe doing other stuff that I do not knwo of or do not have data for - for the two mentioned things I do have my own hard data...) So microsoft has picked up some serious listings today but what is interesting is that SpamCop has now started listing @google servers I know that many on this list trust & use @google, but heads up: Me for one, drop (silently) on spamcop listing... (so some things from some @google places will not be read and may just disapear into /dev/null) example: https://multirbl.valli.org/lookup/209.85.166.74.html Hopefully both huge players will step up and take actual action against their (sometimes large corporate) abusers, but probably not. Notably the past few weeks many interesting things have been happening in the Interent abuse field, I see that many services are publishing data, downgrading and treating large esp's like everyone else... I read in a thread here recently that email is dead, I have been hearing that same thing for 30? years now and always for different reasons. But volumes of actual transactional email has seen exponential growth, year on year, with not even a hint of any decline in the growth itself. What has declined in email is some application stuff, like mailing list usage. In many areas use has grown, notably 2f, id and business use has risen, (among some uses) anyway ymmv.

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Re: [GTALUG] Windows eats Fedora installation sticks
by Howard Gibson 09 Sep '24

09 Sep '24

BODY { font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:12px; }Hugh, Some sticks out there have a read-only switch. Maybe you need one of those! -- Howard Gibson hgibson(a)eol.ca http://home.eol.ca/~hgibson On Wed 04/09/24 11:43 AM , "D. Hugh Redelmeier via talk" talk(a)gtalug.org sent: Old news, I know. But I've been burned again. A Fedora installation USB stick, prepared by dd-ing the .iso file onto the raw stick works fine. But if you have that stick in the computer, and Windows sees it, it will drop a few bytes on it. The result is that the stick cannot be used to boot Fedora (until you rewrite it). Sheesh. Why did it happen to me, when I know of the problem? To run the stick, during power on, I have to hit a key to get into the choose-a-device-to-boot-from menu. It's a race, and sometimes I lose. --- Post to this mailing list talk(a)gtalug.org [1] Unsubscribe from this mailing list https://gtalug.org/mailman/listinfo/talk Links: ------ [1] mailto:talk@gtalug.org

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Junk Independence Day, Sept. 22
by Scott Sullivan 09 Sep '24

09 Sep '24

Just a heads up, Hacklab is having it's next JID event later this month. Junk Independence Day Sunday September 22 2PM – 6PM https://hacklab.to/archives/junk-independence-day-5/ -- Scott Sullivan

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Re: [GTALUG] Recommendation for a media center front end?
by Howard Gibson 08 Sep '24

08 Sep '24

BODY { font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:12px; } On Sun 08/09/24 2:01 PM , Steve Litt via talk talk(a)gtalug.org sent: D. Hugh Redelmeier via talk said on Sun, 8 Sep 2024 01:55:12 -0400 (EDT) >I hate top posting. I recommend only quoting what's relevant to your >message. And quoting in chronological order. Putting the burden on >the reader isn't a good idea in a mailing list (there are more readers >than writers). Thank you!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Top posting with full quoted text retention is for CYA in business situations. Mailing lists are a collaborative mind meld like would be conducted around a table if we were in person. Around a table replies certainly don't come before earlier statements, and if you had to rehash every single bit of the conversation just to make an additional point, progress would be impeded by more than an order of magnitude. SteveT I find it difficult to not top post at the moment because Primus' service is messed up and their POP mail is not working. I am accessing it through webmail. The webmail puts my signature at the top of the screen, with the quote down below. There is no command that shortens lines. I suspect I am in rich text (HTML?) mode whether I like it or not. Sending emails in a professional association, I caught crap for bottom posting. The other people were just not used to it. This may be part of Microsoft's determination to change user interfaces in all their applications. Another thing I cannot do with Primus webmail is show email chains. Microsoft Outlook does display that. The problem with bottom posting is that a lot of people do not delete the lines they are not replying to. You scroll down to read the original message, the first reply, the second reply, the third reply, and so on down to some literary gem like "fuck you asshole", probably spelled wrong. There's fifteen minutes of your life you will not be getting back. -- Howard Gibson hgibson(a)eol.ca http://home.eol.ca/~hgibson

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Re: [GTALUG] Recommendation for a media center front end?
by Alvin Starr 08 Sep '24

08 Sep '24

On 2024-09-08 06:15, ac via talk wrote: > On Sat, 7 Sep 2024 22:46:40 -0400 > Alvin Starr via talk<talk(a)gtalug.org> wrote: snip >> I have a mythtv front-end running on a RP 4-B. >> It is OK for my 1080 TV so long as I don't try to run h265 encoded videos. >> > +1 > > I do not have any h265 encoded media but what is the issue? (is it slow or > choppy or does it not work at all? - the rb4-b specs says it supports hevc?) > It is slow with lots of pauses depending on the complexity of the images. I believe that the issue is there is no GPU based decoder for h265 so it falls back to the CPU and that is just not fast enough to do a full 1080P file. -- Alvin Starr || land: (647)478-6285 Netvel Inc. || home: (905)513-7688 alvin(a)netvel.net ||

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Kanban suggestions?
by Evan Leibovitch 04 Sep '24

04 Sep '24

Hi all. I'm looking for a tool to help with project management, specifically to do with content creation. I have a fair bit of experience with Trello and some with Asana, but am wondering if people have experience with any of the FOSS alternatives. There are quite a few project management options, but none of them seems to specialize on Kanban. I'm able to self-host on an Ubuntu server but a cloud service would be nice; remote access is a really-nice-to-have but not a deal-breaker. Does anyone here have any experience using Tiaga or OpenProject? Thanks for any answers... -- Evan Leibovitch, Toronto Canada @evanleibovitch / @el56

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access to iLO on HP ProLiant DL360p Gen8 Server
by Zbigniew Koziol 01 Sep '24

01 Sep '24

Greetings to all who may be remember me (it is already around 16 years as I left Canada). To others - too :) I have bought that machine for computer simulations in physics, not having before experience with similar ones. The first start and installing mint there went easy. My guess is that I shut it down improperly (I do not remember details). Now, it is my guess, the machine is in standby mode (when power is connected). The unfortunate thing is that I did not do any initial BIOS configuration and I did not care to write down iLO IP address. The lights on both power suppliers are off. The light on the front is amber. Two lights near iLO cable are green, one solid, the second is blinking, suggesting that iLO works properly. By reading the internet and documentation I found out that sometime people have similar problems. What is advised is resetting the beast to factory setting. That apparently can be done by 3 methods: 1) with some magic of removing/swapping power suppliers, 2) by changing S6 to ON on system maintenance switch and 3) by removing CMOS battery. I did try the methods 1) and 2). In case of method 3) - I do not know how to remove battery. It does not look the same as it is drawn in the original technical documentation. Now, I thought I will try to use iLO. First, I need its IP address. Yes, I know basics of using ping, nmap, etc. However, I have at home a simple Huawey router. It allows to have netmask of the type 255.255.255.0, only, hence scanning the entire possible IP range is in practice, impossible. It happened that that I discovered an option on my desktop computer to configure the network connection as "shared to other computers". Hence, connected to cable directly to iLO and found out that my IP is now 10.42.0.1. Does that mean that this is IP of iLO? That would be a something, however, the problem does not end there. How to connect to iLO anyway? My Huawey router does not allow me to change a configuraion in such a way that 10.42.0.1 could be an address of a connected device: it wants 10.42.0.1 to be the gateway address. Any advise would be greatly appreciated. -- Zbigniew Kozioł, PhD, National Center for Nuclear Research, Materials Research Laboratory, 05-400 Otwock-Świerk, Poland http://nanophysics.pl

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War Story : Acer Laptop with LFS OS
by ac 19 Aug '24

19 Aug '24

Hi, Hopefully this post will help someone somewhere and save a few days of their lives (which they will never get back) ISSUE : Suddenly and at boot time my very old and trusty laptop, which I know backwards and have changed many components on, over the years, including even at the component level, started flashing a weird and very unexpected ^[ set of characters at boot time. If you are allergic to long winded drivel you can safely stop reading here and scroll all the way down to the last para; for this particular issue and it's solution. If you are still reading, here follows what you may probably do (and what I actually did) - feedback and comments are most welcome :) So, habits. New BAD habits. use Google and 10 years of accumelated Fu. Gots to be that I am p0wned, and definately not just p0wned BUT actually p0wN3D, must be nation state or someone that knows what I know. but how? the resources are so very thin at those levels and there has to be a springboard. (we still need to make a name for that, or maybe there is a name and I just don't know aboot it as I haven't been on irc for over 15 years :) ) switch to new clean device, update all externals, update all passwords, planetary. run through all systems, logs, all the usual stuff, weird activity, weird network activity (uhm Donald and ethanol soaked dude? seriously?) - anyway, dump data, super paranoid, block half of North America (the island bits, you know who you are :) All of Korea, China, India, Russia and everything with a pulse... So, that day well spent, back to the Acer device... lemme see who this was and how I can waste a day, or more, of their lives and see how they like bad medicine. With REVENGE in mind, a spare week and few retirement zero's tucked away safely i start the next wasted day... Find the entry point. First step setup spare device, copy everything. But I do not have spare model laptop, so in this case the plan is to work on same frame, on copies ( I even have extra mainboard, so am good to go, or so I thought...) On the duplicated device flash bios. same issue. At this point I made a very basic rookie mistake. Instead of following the frame inputs I jumped to disk. Impatience, usually a thing of youth, but I think it is something that is and has been growing in culture for a decade or so now, EVERYWHERE. We are all getting much less tolerant and much less patient. We are in the drive trough of live and we want it now. not just now, now. and fsck.vfat you if you do not think like me, look like me or even if I just do not 'feel' you. One can get lost, very easily, on disks and OS. So, on disk, the issue is much more prominent. **IT** ==== (IT, the clown kid killing thing) is here. The HORROR is real. Terror, chaos and consternation, I struggle to kill it. it is under my bed. It is intermittently sending inputs to kernel as me, form my keyboard. I spend lots of time and lots of effort but I simply cannot find any reason, in code, anywhere, how this is happening. I read a lot of code (btw - we, all of us, should be so grateful to lgpl, shared libraries and the code we all use, even today, even when some of the dude's are dead already, they are remembered, in code, forever) wow, I have typed a lot, let's end this? this is the last para, so the solution to this problem is : My wife's hair dryer (after about a minute confirmed the issue) Over the years the high quality Acer keyboard was replaced only once, about 5 years ago but the new keyboard seems to have had dust (or gunk?) buildup on the bottom left side ctrl and one or two other keys. These would become intermittently stuck and produced chaos, horror and terror. If your keyboard is a few years old, even if you clean and wipe it, gunk and dust can become trapped. Solution: Take out, open the keyboard and clean properly. *sigh* yes, I am an idiot. but I am sure that there are many other idiots out there. In fact I happen to be convinced that idiots are now the majority and we RULE! :)

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