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How do you send out email?
by William Park 04 Feb '21

04 Feb '21

It turns out upgrading to Postfix is not as easy as I thought. I have to upgrade/install shit load of libraries... might as well upgrade the distro. I tried Thunderbird, and it does work. But, it's not much different from using web! --William

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FOSDEM conference this weekend
by D. Hugh Redelmeier 04 Feb '21

04 Feb '21

<https://fosdem.org/2021/> I haven't looked closely at the schedule.

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Learning Dart/Flutter
by William Park 04 Feb '21

04 Feb '21

Anyone here using Dart/Flutter? If so, what tutorial/doc/book did you start with? There is way too much fluffs online...

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February Speaker Wanted
by Stewart C. Russell 31 Jan '21

31 Jan '21

Hi Folks - if anyone has a topic for the February meeting (or indeed any future meeting) please let me know. We've even got guidelines! https://gtalug.org/speaking/ It would be lovely if some folks stepped up. Please. Your club is only as good as you're prepared to make it. cheers, Stewart - Speaker Coordinator

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RISC-V based GPUs?
by Ivan Avery Frey 31 Jan '21

31 Jan '21

https://www.tomshardware.com/amp/news/risc-v-open-source-gpu-nvidia-intel-a…

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Vulcan Ecosystem Survey Results for 2020
by Nicholas Krause 30 Jan '21

30 Jan '21

Greetings Everyone, Since I've been playing around with Vulcan and have to take a survey the results were sent to me for last year's results. This is the survey of what the development landscape looks like based on last year's survey for the Vulcan ecosystem i.e. 2020: https://www.lunarg.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/01/2020-Vulkan-Ecosystem-SDK… Maybe it interests some people here who are interesting in high performance GPU computing, Nick

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Fwd: HISTORIC opportunity for cheaper Internet in Toronto
by David Collier-Brown 29 Jan '21

29 Jan '21

A proposal for a community broadband, in Toronto! --dave

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YAD-Zenity-GTK on Pi - assistance needed
by Giles Orr 29 Jan '21

29 Jan '21

YAD ("Yet Another Dialog") is a fork of Zenity - essentially a way to display GTK+ dialogues from shell scripts. I've chosen YAD because it supports a couple things Zenity doesn't have, namely form buttons and tabs. I've created an ugly but functional interface that's meant to go on a 3.5" touch screen on a Raspberry Pi. But here's the problem: by the time it gets on a screen that small, the buttons are too small to reliably poke with a finger. So I want to increase the font size. All that was needed to fix that on my Fedora desktop was: # file: ~/.configs/gtk-3.0/settings.ini [Settings] gtk-font-name = Sans 32 And voila, 'yad' appears with a super-huge font. However - this behaviour isn't replicated on the Pi. It's an old(ish) Debian stretch install on an old Pi B (not Pi 2 B, just "Pi B"). I'm pretty sure that ~/.configs/gtk-3.0/settings.ini is the right file, because when I mis-configured it, 'yad' complained loudly. But it ignores the font setting that works fine on another host. I tried 'yad --font' which throws up what amounts to a GTK font selection dialogue, and "Sans 32" is a valid font on the Pi. Anyone got any ideas on this? -- Giles https://www.gilesorr.com/ gilesorr(a)gmail.com

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Re: [GTALUG] Fwd: HISTORIC opportunity for cheaper Internet in Toronto
by David Collier-Brown 29 Jan '21

29 Jan '21

The best is probably the Star's article, https://www.thestar.com/business/opinion/2021/01/26/torontos-broadband-plan… Sources, from the original article * Agenda Item: Affordable Internet for All - City of Toronto http://app.toronto.ca/tmmis/viewAgendaItemHistory.do?item=2021.EX20.8 * Mapping Toronto’s Digital Divide - Ryerson Leadership Lab https://www.ryersonleadlab.com/digital-divide * Toronto’s Broadband Plan an Indictment of CRTC’s Delay on Affordable Internet - The Star https://www.thestar.com/business/opinion/2021/01/26/torontos-broadband-plan… * Want Faster, Cheaper Internet? Let’s Build It - OpenMedia https://openmedia.org/article/item/want-faster-cheaper-internet-lets-build-… * Hope Springs Municipal: How Small Towns are Driving Canada’s Digital Future - OpenMedia https://openmedia.org/article/item/hope-springs-municipal-how-small-towns-a… * Remarks by the President on Promoting Community Broadband - The White House https://obamawhitehouse.archives.gov/the-press-office/2015/01/14/remarks-pr… * Community-Owned Fibre Network: Value Leaders in America - Harvard https://cyber.harvard.edu/sites/cyber.harvard.edu/files/2018-01-10-Pricing.… * Localizing the Internet: Five Ways Public Ownership Solves the U.S. Broadband Problem - Institute for Local Self-Reliance https://community-wealth.org/sites/clone.community-wealth.org/files/downloa… On 2021-01-29 6:31 a.m., ac via talk wrote: > > Some web links, PLEASE? > > thanks > > On Thu, 28 Jan 2021 21:29:37 -0500 > James Knott via talk <talk(a)gtalug.org> wrote: > >> On 2021-01-28 8:52 p.m., David Collier-Brown via talk wrote: >>> Hydro was "purchasable" >>> >> ???? >> >> --- >> Post to this mailing list talk(a)gtalug.org >> Unsubscribe from this mailing list >> https://gtalug.org/mailman/listinfo/talk > --- > Post to this mailing list talk(a)gtalug.org > Unsubscribe from this mailing list https://gtalug.org/mailman/listinfo/talk -- David Collier-Brown, | Always do right. This will gratify System Programmer and Author | some people and astonish the rest davecb(a)spamcop.net | -- Mark Twain

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Odd VLC problem
by Evan Leibovitch 26 Jan '21

26 Jan '21

Hi all, Last week, in an attempt to make my desktop more readable to my ageing eyes, I bought a $40 stand and set up my monitors vertically (see 1st pic). Changing the KDE setup to accommodate this (Kubuntu 20.04 LTS) was easy, and all of my apps seem to work fine with the new setup ... except VLC. VLC no longer works the way it used to. Videos will now play only if I decouple the video window from the VLC interface ("Integrate video in interface" must be unchecked). And now if I try to resize the interface, it visually "stutters" (see second photo) and remains stuttered in this form until I resize the window again. I have tried multiple options for video output with no change in behaviour. Again, the videos display fine but only if I separate the video window from the interface window. Resizing the video window works fine. Also, videos displayed inside the browser (ie Plex and YouTube) work fine. All suggestions are appreciated. Evan Leibovitch, Toronto Canada @evanleibovitch / @el56

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