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David Tilbrook
by D. Hugh Redelmeier 16 Jan '21

16 Jan '21

David Tilbrook passed away in the night yesterday. COVID-19, dammit. David had given a couple of talks at GTALUG. He was a long-time UNIX guy. We did CS degrees at the same time at the University of Toronto. He was an official member of DGP (I was only a guest) where (and when) the first U of T UNIX system was installed. We and Rob Pike worked on text editors (ed, qed), among other things. You know when a GUI interface changes the cursor symbol to indicate that the system is busy? He invented that. He was one of the founders of HCR, a Toronto UNIX software house. He did a lot of interesting things, knew a lot of interesting people, and had a lot of interesting stories. He has a good family too. I miss him. In fact, I've missed him for a year -- we were planning to visit when COVID showed up. "We" included Christopher Browne, now also passed.

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The Best of GTALUG
by Warren McPherson 15 Jan '21

15 Jan '21

I would love to hear people's thoughts about the best things about GTALug. For me, there is an element of digital citizenship that is uncelebrated but remarkably compelling. I would love to hear the thoughts of other people in the group. I have two questions in mind. What was a moment for you of GTALUG at it's best? What would you like to see more of, or what direction would be good to explore? <http://www.avg.com/email-signature?utm_medium=email&utm_source=link&utm_cam…> Virus-free. www.avg.com <http://www.avg.com/email-signature?utm_medium=email&utm_source=link&utm_cam…> <#DAB4FAD8-2DD7-40BB-A1B8-4E2AA1F9FDF2>

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Rust Frontend Funding in GCC News
by Nicholas Krause 13 Jan '21

13 Jan '21

Greetings, I'm aware Hugh and some people's interest in seeing a possible GCC Rust Front-end if possible. Seems some companies are working on funding people to work on it full time: https://opnsrcsec.com/open_source_security_announces_rust_gcc_funding Cheers, Nick

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odd evince command behaviour
by D. Hugh Redelmeier 12 Jan '21

12 Jan '21

I have a PDF filename named "RE: something.pdf" This fails: evince "RE: someting.pdf" with the error messages on stdout: ** (evince:397922): WARNING **: 11:14:02.077: The specified location is not supported ** (evince:397922): WARNING **: 11:14:02.080: set_filenames: The specified location is not supported The message in the evince window is more interesting: Unable to open document “file:///tmp/evince-397922/document.SR35V0- something”. The specified location is not supported. Clearly evince is trying to treat the prefix "RE:" as something magic. Just what, I don't know. But it sure isn't in the evince man page. This command works fine: evince ./"RE: someting.pdf"

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[GTALUG-Announce] Meeting Tomorrow
by hi＠gtalug.org 11 Jan '21

11 Jan '21

https://gtalug.org/meeting/2021-01/ # Using OpenEmbedded Linux to automate and control the wood-fired heating of his home with Trevor Woerner Trevor Woerner will be presenting his recent work using OpenEmbedded Linux to automate and control the wood-fired heating of his home. Bio: Trevor Woerner is a senior software developer with deep knowledge of deploying embedded Linux systems. He lives on a farm outside Toronto. His technical blog is at: https://twoerner.blogspot.com/ ## Location We will be meeting on Zoom: * Join Zoom Meeting -- https://us02web.zoom.us/j/88449213217?pwd=MjlMT2VHRFFqbE9RMVB3SDVlSk5yUT09 * Meeting ID: 884 4921 3217 * Passcode: 658008 * Find your local dial-in number -- https://us02web.zoom.us/u/kvVXMQGoD ## Schedule * 7:30 pm - Meeting and presentation. # 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 jeopardise 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 honoured 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: https://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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Is there a meeting tomorrow?
by D. Hugh Redelmeier 11 Jan '21

11 Jan '21

I haven't seen an announcement. The front page of the website is still announcing last month's meeting. That may be because we can no longer change the website. This list works. Maybe https://mastodon.social/@gtalug works, but the latest I see is from Stewart Russell about last month's meeting.

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Anyone familiar with SMART?
by Giles Orr 09 Jan '21

09 Jan '21

Now that our list is back (Hallelujah, thank you Hugh and TLUG), I'm resending this message I originally sent on the 23rd as I haven't yet found an answer. On Wed, 23 Dec 2020 at 15:18, Giles Orr <gilesorr(a)gmail.com> wrote: > > I just bought two new, identical, external USB hard drives. While > I've used SMART on and off over the years, I think this is the first > time I used it immediately on connecting a drive. I'm using > 'gsmartcontrol', a GUI that I'm liking. In the "Statistics" tab I'm > seeing, under "Rotating Media Statistics (rev 1)", "Number of > Mechanical Start Failures" = "1". This is straight out of the box, > brand new. Where this gets really weird is that both of the drives > show exactly the same error. These are WD easystore drives. So ... > is this something I should be worried about? -- Giles https://www.gilesorr.com/ gilesorr(a)gmail.com

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[GTALUG-Announce] On the recent GTALUG Outage
by Scott Sullivan 07 Jan '21

07 Jan '21

Folks, As many of you have noticed, GTALUG's mailings and website were down since Dec 17th. This was the result of the operations/executive failing to act in a timely manner after Chris's passing. A payment was missed, and our server was shutdown by the hosting provider. Over the holidays an attempt was made to recover the account, but we came under the mistaken impression that the server had been deleted. And so we focused our efforts on recovering DNS and establishing a new server from our regular backups. We have great thanks to express to Hugh Redelmeier. A steadfast volunteer and contributor of our community. Uncoordinated with the board, he reached out our provider and offered to pay the bill. Successful by-passing our misunderstandings, hotfixing the situation, and bringing us back on-line. He will be compensated for an out of pocket costs. Speaking personally, these are hard times. I as I've returned to help bridge the gap from Chris's passing, I've found to many functions and knowledge and pool in to few people and was not being effectively taught to new contributors. We failed to get enough visibility into our areas of risk. We failed to effectively communicate with our community via our other social media channels about our situation. I'm personally working with the current board to full on-board our lastest board members. Establish handbooks for the various functions and roles. In the past, the board was just the voting head of a rotating group of some 10-15 individuals that contributed and attended the executive meetings. If you want help spread the load, or be involved in how the group functions. Please see and consider joining the operations mailing list. https://gtalug.org/mailing-list/#operations Meeting Minutes of the Executive meetings can be found here: https://board.gtalug.org/ Executive / Board Meetings have always, and continue to be open to attendance from our community. -- Scott Sullivan Wearing the Hats of, A Director & Secretary --- GTALUG Announce mailing list announce(a)gtalug.org https://gtalug.org/mailman/listinfo/announce

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gtalug.org
by D. Hugh Redelmeier 07 Jan '21

07 Jan '21

I'm not an insider, so I might get this wrong. The GTALUG mailing list and web site are hosted on a linode.com machine. It appears that the service was paid for through Chris Browne. When he died, it appears that payments stopped and the machine went dark (December 17 or perhaps a bit later). I asked linode if I could pay for the node so that it could be restarted. I told them (correctly) that I had no authority. They have temporarily started the node. This will last for one billing cycle (whatever that is) while they consider what to do. I appologize for my unauthorized intervention but the mailing list is our lifeblood. Alex is working on a replacement for the linode node.

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"dd" in Windows?
by William Park 17 Dec '20

17 Dec '20

Hi all, How do you write "image" file to USB stick in Windows 10? In Linux, I would do 'dd', but it has to be Windows. 'dd' is available in Git for Windows, Windows Subsystem for Linux, BusyBox for Windows, and Ubuntu in Hyper-V VM. But, I can't get them to access USB drive. -- William Park <opengeometry(a)yahoo.ca>

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