Re: Happy New Year!!!

Stephen Partington via PLUG-discuss said on Sat, 4 Jan 2025 10:46:59 -0500 >Fun fact, this month is the 1-year anniversary of my going 100% Linux >desktop. * * \ o / \|/ | C O N G R A T U L A T I O N S ! ! ! / \ _ / \/ /

Functional Programming discussion 1/8/2025 7pm Eastern Standard time

Hi all, Where: GoLUG: https://meet.jit.si/golug When: Wednesday, 1/8/2025 7pm sharp Eastern Standard time Arrive 15 minutes early for Microphone check & discussion Here are some of the benefits articulated by Functional Programming fans: * No side effects * Easier to test * Fewer bugs * Is

Re: Do I Need to Use a Network Switch / How to Configure

Keith Smith via PLUG-discuss said on Wed, 20 Nov 2024 08:58:13 -0700 >Thanks Alexander, > >I'm thinking this will do the job > >https://www.amazon.com/GS108NA-Netgear-ProSafe-Ethernet-1000Base-T/dp/B92RRM/ This router is half duplex. I think you'd be better off with a full duplex switch. Ste

Re: Do I Need to Use a Network Switch / How to Configure

Keith Smith via PLUG-discuss said on Tue, 19 Nov 2024 16:30:40 -0700 >Hi, > >I home office and have a home office Internet connection which allows >me to run servers. > >I am using a consumer grade router that has WIFI and 4 RJ11 ports. >Currently I need 6 RJ11 connects. Not everything is turne

Re: Microsoft Windows Deadline—10 Days To Update Or Stop Using Your PC

Snyder, Alexander J said on Fri, 8 Nov 2024 17:44:03 -0700 >I have a Samsung Galaxy Book ultra thin and the HDD is a chip soldered >to the board. How do I know this? My last one failed and I tried to >repair it. 🤕 We've come a long way baby. My 1984 Kaypro 2x had all its RAM soldered directly to

GoLUG meeting: Google's Material Design - an Implementation in React

Hi all, https://meet.jit.si/golug Right now, 10/2/2024 at 7PM Eastern Daylight time, Ron from BCLUG demonstrates how to use open-source tools to get a modern and consistent website design that is engaging, responsive, and feature-rich. He will show a mock-up conversion of an existing site writte

Re: ChatGPT ...

Snyder, Alexander J via PLUG-discuss said on Sun, 29 Sep 2024 08:32:23 -0700 >Yeah, I use the paid version (4o) all the time for code. It gives you >wrong stuff all the time, but I've found that it's about 80%-90% >correct, but it's the little stuff. Like yesterday I was writing some >Ansible auto

Re: Quickbooks

Keith Smith via PLUG-discuss said on Fri, 20 Sep 2024 12:32:20 -0700 >3) I learned about the Hedgehog concept at almost 50. I wish I would >have learned about it earlier. If you're like me and didn't know what the Hedgehog concept is, see this: https://www.jimcollins.com/concepts/the-hedgehog-

Re: Elastic as FLOSS again?

der.hans via PLUG-discuss said on Tue, 3 Sep 2024 20:12:22 + (UTC) >moin moin, > >Shay reportedly says Elastic is going to add AGPL to ES, so will be >Open Source again. > >https://devclass.com/2024/09/02/elasticsearch-will-be-open-source-again-as-cto-declares-changed-landscape/ Affero? E

CSS Lifeboat and Speedboat at GoLUG, 9/4/2024 7PM Eastern Daylight Time

Hi all, The Wednesday, 9/4/2024 GoLUG meeting commences at 7pm Eastern Daylight Time online at meet.jit.si/golug [1]. Who: Steve Litt, presenter. What: CSS Lifeboat and Speedboat. Where: Online GoLUG meeting at meet.jit.si/golug [1]. When:

Constructing Your Own Linux and FreeBSD Packages at GoLUG, 8/7/2024 7PM Eastern Daylight Time

Hi all, The Wednesday, 8/7/2024 GoLUG meeting commences at 7pm Eastern Daylight Time online at meet.jit.si/golug [1]. Who: David Billsbrough, presenter. What: Constructing Your Own Linux and FreeBSD Packages. Where: Online GoLUG meeting at m

Void Linux Presentation at Phoenix LUG, 7/11/2024 7PM Mountain Standard Time

Hi all, The Thursday, 7/11/2024 Phoenix Linux User Group (PLUG) meeting commences at 7pm Mountain Standard Time (NOT daylight savings time) online at https://lufthans.bigbluemeeting.com/plu-yuk-7xx . This will be a repeat of my 7/3/2024 Void presentation, but at a time more convenient to North Ame

Repeat of my Void Linux presentation at PLUG 7/11

I'll announce it again later, but at the 7/11/2024 PLUG meeting I'll be both "running the room" and re-giving the Void Linux presentation I gave at GoLUG meeting last Wednesday. That presentation was very well received. So if you missed it then (It started when Phoenix first shift workers were sti

Re: sudo in general, and not requiring password in particular (was Re: trouble adding my user to sudoers list)

Keith Smith via PLUG-discuss said on Wed, 03 Jul 2024 06:21:25 -0700 > > >On 2024-07-02 18:20, George Toft via PLUG-discuss wrote: >> I work for a bank, and you would be amazed at how much security is >> baked into the connecting your browser to their web servers. Makes >> the NSA look like fresh

Void Linux Presentation at GoLUG, 7/3/2024 7PM Eastern Daylight Time

Hi all, The Wednesday, 7/3/2024 GoLUG meeting commences at 7pm Eastern Daylight Time online at meet.jit.si/golug [1]. The past few months the Void Linux distribution has become the subject of curiosity and questions from folks wanting something closer to the metal, folks wanting to shed their tra

Re: OT Humidity, was time off

Thomas Scott via PLUG-discuss said on Sat, 22 Jun 2024 09:05:35 -0400 >Long term - I don't think the growth curve AZ is on is sustainable >without burying the water transport (converting canals to pipes) to >avoid evaporation from the exposed surface, but that has it's own set >of issues as well.

Re: OT Just in time: Was Humidity

Keith Smith via PLUG-discuss said on Fri, 21 Jun 2024 06:20:06 -0700 >And what about those supply chain issues? I studied Just-in-Time in >1989 or so. We have the Just-in-Time so tightly rapped that the >supply chain is very fragile. There is hope. I've read the >capitalists are figuring out

OT Humidity, was time off

Ryan Petris via PLUG-discuss said on Thu, 20 Jun 2024 04:05:30 -0700 >I lived in Florida for ~10 years myself, in the Ft. Walton >Beach/Navarre/Pensacola areas, and got my degree there at UWF. >Sometimes I wish I were still there but I'm enjoying the non-humidity >of Arizona for now. How do you l

Ignore him, correct him offlist, or killfile him and move on

There's been a long thread of people mocking somebody who asked a stupid question. Yeah, the guy's annoying; annoying enough that I piped all his posts to /dev/null starting two or three years ago. This thread worsens the list's signal to noise, and personally, it constantly reminds me of the annoy

Re: is there any way to fix this drive?

Please, I beg of you, if you're going to top-post over long threads, don't use words like "this", or "it" or "his" or "him" or "her" or "they" or "that" or "I agree" (with what?) so that we need to parse the big long thread to know the subject or object of your sentence. And sometimes, with multipl

Show and Tell at GoLUG, 5/1/2024

Hi all, The Wednesday, 5/1/2024 GoLUG meeting commences at 7pm Eastern Daylight Time online at meet.jit.si/golug . I'll be late because of my kids' birthday (this happens every May), but when I get there I'll show a simple no Javascript, CSS-only web-menu and a 100% CSS, no graphics knockoff of t

Re: AZ Developer Wages, per Feds

Ryan Petris via PLUG-discuss said on Thu, 25 Apr 2024 14:58:18 -0700 >I'm pretty certain that anyone directly involved with that was >prosecuted in some way, including developers that knowingly helped. LOL, I boycotted VW for 50 years because of the Holocaust. Then, just as I was getting ready to

Re: AZ Developer Wages, per Feds

David Schwartz via PLUG-discuss said on Thu, 25 Apr 2024 11:26:13 -0700 >I assure you, people are not moving to AZ chasing after our amazing >pay scale! Wouldn't this also depend on AZ cost of living? If in place A I make $50K and have $40K in expenses, while in place B I make $100K and have exp

Re: WordPress moving away from PHP to JavaScript

David Schwartz via PLUG-discuss said on Sat, 20 Apr 2024 13:43:39 -0700 >So I turned back to Delphi and didn’t look back. Hi David, Would you like to give a Lazarus demo/presentation at a future online GoLUG meeting? Thanks, SteveT Steve Litt Autumn 2023 featured book: Rapid Learning for

Re: WordPress moving away from PHP to JavaScript

Keith Smith via PLUG-discuss said on Sat, 20 Apr 2024 07:32:10 -0700 >Hi, > >This article says WordPress is moving away from PHP to JavaScript. I >think WordPress is shooting itself in the foot. My main question has >to do with resources given the shift from server side processing to >browser b

Linux Campfire Tales at GoLUG, 4/3/2024

Hi all, GoLUG meeting where anyone who wants to can share their Linux or BSD story. == What: Online: Linux Campfire Tales Who: Anyone wanting to tell a Linux story When: Wednesday 4/3/2024 at 7PM Eastern Daylight Time Where: Jits

Re: security: check xc-utils versions

der.hans via PLUG-discuss said on Sun, 31 Mar 2024 07:19:43 + (UTC) >Am 30. Mar, 2024 schwätzte Matthew Crews via PLUG-discuss so: > >> This, ladies and gentlemen, is what a Supply Chain Attack looks like. >> >> While I'm not sure that this specific vulnerability led to much harm >> (who knows

Re: security: check xc-utils versions

Matthew Crews via PLUG-discuss said on Sat, 30 Mar 2024 09:35:28 -0700 >Among the many questions that need to be asked: > >1. How can we trust source tarballs / archive files to be 100% correct >versus source code? >2. Without looking at the source code line-by-line, how do we detect >supply cha

Re: security: check xc-utils versions

der.hans via PLUG-discuss said on Fri, 29 Mar 2024 20:18:58 + (UTC) >moin moin, > >someone patched a potential remote exploit into xz-utils. It seems it >can compromise sshd. Void Linux downgraded xz to 5.4.6 to avoid the problem until the dust settled. SteveT Steve Litt Autumn 2023 featu

Re: Wayland on Kubuntu 22.04

Matthew Crews via PLUG-discuss said on Sun, 24 Mar 2024 10:38:47 -0700 >It's also going to matter what graphic card you have. If you are using >an Nvidia card, then Wayland support is poor all around even with new >cards and updated drivers, no matter what. If you are using Intel or >AMD graphic

Online presentation, System Transparency, 3/6/2024

Hi all, GoLUG meeting discussing the costs and benefits of transparent systems on 3/6: == What: Online presentation: System Transparency, Costs and Benefits Who: Steve Litt When: Wednesday 3/6/2024 at 7PM Eastern Standard Time Wh

Online presentation, HTML/CSS: Hard Core Examples, 2/7/2024

Hi all, GoLUG meeting showcasing several HTML/CSS hard core examples coming 2/7: == What: Online presentation: HTML/CSS: Hard Core Examples Who: Steve Litt When: Wednesday 2/7/2024 at 7PM Eastern Standard Time Where: Jitsi online

Re: Looking for opinions on email providers

David Schwartz via PLUG-discuss said on Wed, 31 Jan 2024 01:31:52 -0700 >Now, every *nix web host already has an STMP host built-in because as >I understand things, Linux won’t work without an MTA since it uses it >to send stuff between different parts of itself. > >Sendmail, mailman, and exit ar

Re: Looking for opinions on email providers

Keith Smith via PLUG-discuss said on Mon, 29 Jan 2024 05:48:53 -0700 >You have a website which makes me think you have email with that >account? Any reason not to use your hosting provider's email? Ex-actly! SteveT Steve Litt Autumn 2023 featured book: Rapid Learning for the 21st Century ht

Re: Linux friendly audio/video devices

Phil Waclawski via PLUG-discuss said on Thu, 18 Jan 2024 23:25:22 -0700 >the logitech webcams work very well with Linux >Phil W Yes they do. I've been using one for about a decade, and it's better than my daughter's laptop's builtin webcam. Those of you who have seen me at GoLUG meetings have see

Re: Why put Data Centers in HOT Phoenix?

Keith Smith via PLUG-discuss said on Sun, 31 Dec 2023 06:54:08 -0700 >I get the labor pool is probably a draw. > >I've always wondered why companies want to build data centers in >Phoenix given the extreme heat. > >Last year we had a month with daily highs of 116 degrees. That means >lots of A/C

Re: Tesla robot ATTACKS an engineer

Jim via PLUG-discuss said on Sat, 30 Dec 2023 20:50:59 -0700 >I don't like electric cars. >IMHO they're not ready to replace the internal combustion engine. >They don't have the range of a car with a gas tank and it  takes hours >to charge one.  I like the idea of hybrids that charge the battery

Online presentation, Making compilers with recursive-descent parse, 1/3/2024

Hi all, GoLUG meeting with compiler construction presentation this coming Wednesday: == What: Online presentation, Making compilers with recursive-descent parse Who: Hendrik Boom When: Wednesday 1/3/2024 at 7PM Eastern Standard T

Re: AWS S3 Backups - User Cron - Should I create a backup User?

Keith Smith via PLUG-discuss said on Tue, 19 Dec 2023 12:21:35 -0700 >Hi, > >I have been using the AWS S3 PHP SDK to backup my web content for >maybe 12 years. I'm revisiting it. > >I'm thinking that it might be more secure to create a backup user for >just this process. The credentials would b

Re: PLUG tonight Stammtisch Tuesday

der.hans via PLUG-discuss said on Fri, 15 Dec 2023 00:22:46 + (UTC) >moin moin, > >PLUG is in BigBlueButton at 19:00 tonight. Traditionally we do an end >of year pot luck in December, so we'll just be hanging out tonight. No >presentations. > >https://lufthans.bigbluemeeting.com/plu-yuk-7xx I

Reminder: GoLUG compiler theory presentations Wednesday, 12/6/2023

Hi all, This email is both a reminder of the meeting's who, what, where and when, and a progress report on my presentation and David's. First the meeting details: == What: Online presentation, Computer language and compiler const

Re: Firefox and VM

der.hans via PLUG-discuss said on Tue, 5 Dec 2023 18:48:33 + (UTC) >Am 29. Nov, 2023 schwätzte Steve B via PLUG-discuss so: > >moin moin Steve, > >I use debian lxc containers on a debian desktop for my containerized >Firefox profiles. > >Mostly I just use many Firefox profiles ( usually have s

Computer language and compiler construction presentation, 12/6/2023, 7PM Eastern Standard Time

Hi all, GoLUG meeting with compiler construction presentation this coming Wednesday: == What: Online presentation, Computer language and compiler construction Who: GoLUG's Steve Litt and David Billsbrough When: Wednesday 12/6/202

Re: Stammtisch Tuesday

der.hans via PLUG-discuss said on Wed, 22 Nov 2023 00:24:11 + (UTC) >Am 21. Nov, 2023 schwätzte Vikriti D'Vita via PLUG-discuss so: > >moin moin Vikriti, > >Boulders has been a great host for us for years. > >I have been in several times each year since the pandemic started. I >have worn a mas

Re: Stammtisch Tuesday

Keith Smith via PLUG-discuss said on Tue, 21 Nov 2023 10:56:23 -0700 >Ok, > >I get it. However I have also read that some medical professionals >say the mask is only 2% effective while adding other issues. Cmon Keith. I've read that Hillary was dating an alien from outer space and Bill Clinton's

Re: Trouble logging in after cloning ssd

Jim via PLUG-discuss said on Sun, 12 Nov 2023 21:21:50 -0700 >Thanks Steve.  I tried dd if=/dev/sda of=/dev/sde status=progress.  It >finished.  I used Gparted to expand the 240GB  from the original sd to >fill the 1TB ssd it was copied to. I replaced the original ssd with >the 1TB ssd, booted a

Parsing/compiler/interpreter discussions now on the GoLUG mailing list

Hi all, The GoLUG mailing list is currently featuring a discussion of parsing, compiler building, interpreter building, etc, with explorations into Backus-Naur form, flex, bison, and a Python approach. Our next meeting will be about these topics. The GoLUG mailing list is available at http://golu

Re: Trouble logging in after cloning ssd

Jim via PLUG-discuss said on Sun, 12 Nov 2023 16:52:04 -0700 >I have a Dell Optiplex 7010 with 32GB RAM and kubuntu 22.04 installed >on it.  I used clonezilla to make a copy of a 240 GB SSD onto a 1TB >SSD. When I tried to boot from the copy, I got to the gui login >screen.  I gave it my password

GoLUG: Ten Lesser Known HTML Elements You Might Find Handy, 9/6/2023

Hi all, On Wednesday, 9/6/2023, at 7:00 PM Eastern Daylight time, GoLUG's monthly online meeting features ten lesser known HTML elements you might find handy. As you know, many HTML elements were added with HTML Version 5 (HTML5), and many are handy either because they make the HTML more readable

Rules of the road for HTML for the visually impaired

I'm writing this to Eric Oyen and anybody else interested in this... How much does having in the proper place help a blind person? Same question for and . Does using instead of with a special class help those using screen readers and/or Braille machines? Same question with . Eric, the rea

Web host discussion, 8/2/2023

Hi all, Tonight (8/2/2023) at 7:00 Eastern Daylight time, GoLUG's monthly online meeting features a short presentation by Steve Litt about his home-grown Python based reminder/calendar system. Sy Ali will facilitate an audience-wide discussion of the future of Linux and Linux User Groups. Last but

Re: Public raspberrypi https/mail/dns... on Cox Cable

Keith Smith via PLUG-discuss said on Sun, 09 Jul 2023 12:33:36 -0700 >Hi, > >Was looking at the raspberrypi this morning and it brought me to the >same place I have come to several times in the post. > >I have a business account with Cox Cable which allows me to run 1 or >more servers. Last yea

Re: windows in a virtual machine

Michael Butash via PLUG-discuss said on Tue, 4 Jul 2023 08:07:17 -0700 >Agreed, use Virtualbox, Why not Qemu? SteveT Steve Litt Autumn 2022 featured book: Thriving in Tough Times http://www.troubleshooters.com/bookstore/thrive.htm --- PLUG-discu

I'm looking for a good shared hosting web host

Hi all, For many years Troubleshooters.Com has been hosted by the spectacular Futurequest in Orlando Florida. Sadly, because of hurricanes, the pandemic, inflation, and insanely skyrocketing rents in Orlando, they're going out of business within a few days, so I need a new web host. What I absolu

Re: Phoenix is emerging as the city of the future

Keith Smith via PLUG-discuss said on Thu, 22 Jun 2023 13:52:06 -0700 >Yes water is an issue. This was my first thought upon reading the subject of your post. This is a huge challenge. > And when I think of data centers in Phoenix >during the summer... machines pumping out heat and A/C units n

Re: Windoze licenses, "Bring us your Poor" edition

Michael Butash via PLUG-discuss said on Thu, 15 Jun 2023 18:22:08 -0700 >So interestingly enough, if/when I need windoze, I often buy from a >place like THIS, as a method of getting Windoze officially licensed, >flat cheap. >

Re: Stammtisch at Boulders Tuesday

der.hans via PLUG-discuss said on Fri, 16 Jun 2023 05:37:44 + (UTC) >moin moin, > >the FLOSS Stammtisch will be returning to Boulders on Southern this >coming Tuesday at 19:00. > >Boulders on Southern, 1010 W Southern Ave, Mesa, Arizona Mn, I sure am going to miss your Jitsi Stammtisches

Re: General FOSS discussion, 6/7/2023

able to update the language and set it up to generate js >as it’s assembly language output. Then what TMS built on top of this >is even more amazing. > >-David Schwartz > > > > >> On Jun 7, 2023, at 12:09 AM, Steve Litt via PLUG-discuss >> wrote: >

Re: The end of programming (not the replacement of programmers)

trent shipley via PLUG-discuss said on Tue, 6 Jun 2023 02:03:12 -0700 >*Pointy haired manager to programmer:* We are thinking of replacing >programming with AI. > >*Programmer:* Don't you mean you plan to replace programmers with AI. > >*PHM:* No, replace programming itself. > >*P:* How? Why?

Re: To Firewall or Not To Firewall

AZ Pete via PLUG-discuss said on Wed, 10 May 2023 18:14:30 -0700 >Hi All, [snip] >So, I'm asking the PLUG brain-trust, do I need to run a firewall on >Linux when connecting to public networks (such as a hotel WiFi)? > >Any thoughts are appreciated. A L W A Y S F I R E W A L L ! ! ! SteveT

FOSS bull session, 5/3/2023

Hi all, On Wednesday, 5/3/2023 at 7:00 Eastern Daylight time, GoLUG is having an online meeting which will be a Free and Open Source Software (FOSS) bull session.. The meeting location is https://meet.jit.si/golug . This meeting is online only. Because Sylvia's and my triplets' birthday is May 4

Re: GURPS Magic (OT, probably not FOSS)

trent shipley via PLUG-discuss said on Sun, 23 Apr 2023 07:48:08 -0700 >Why is Lua better than Julia or Scala (or other best language >contenders like Haskell or Smalltalk?) Word is out that Julia doesn't really work. I tried it, it was glitchy as hell. I have no know knowledge of Scala. SteveT

Re: GURPS Magic (OT, probably not FOSS)

trent shipley via PLUG-discuss said on Sat, 22 Apr 2023 16:31:13 -0700 >I know I'd rather not work in the dying VB.Net language. C# would >therefore be the obvious choice. I'd rather work in Scala, Python, or >Java (in that order). I know just enough Prolog to know it is almost >directly appli

Re: Stammtisch tonight

OK, I just got in and will try to stay in. SteveT Steve Litt via PLUG-discuss said on Tue, 18 Apr 2023 21:24:21 -0400 >der.hans via PLUG-discuss said on Tue, 18 Apr 2023 18:30:17 + (UTC) > >>moin moin, >> >>Stammtisch is in BigBlueButton at 19:00 tonight. >>

Re: Stammtisch tonight

der.hans via PLUG-discuss said on Tue, 18 Apr 2023 18:30:17 + (UTC) >moin moin, > >Stammtisch is in BigBlueButton at 19:00 tonight. > >Can someone be there to open it up? I likely can't be there until 19:30 >due to a kidling event. > >BBB room: https://lufthans.bigbluemeeting.com/plu-yuk-7xx

Lightweight computing discussion tonight, 4/5/2023

Hi all, Sorry for the late notice. Tonight at 7:00 Eastern Daylight time, 4/5/2023, GoLUG is having an online meeting where we'll discuss lightweight computing. The meeting location is https://meet.jit.si/golug . This meeting is online only. Anyone with any lightweight computing practices is welc

I'm making Plain TeX documentation

I got to Stammtisch exceedingly late, after most of you were gone, so you didn't hear this... I'm creating documentation on Plain TeX, the typesetting and programming system created by Donald Knuth in 1978 and updated through the years. Plain TeX is the simpler and less popular ancestor of LaTeX,

Re: Stammtisch tonight, help w/ coverage?

der.hans via PLUG-discuss said on Tue, 21 Mar 2023 19:59:31 + (UTC) >moin moin, > >Stammtisch is tonight at 19:00. > >https://lufthans.bigbluemeeting.com/plu-yuk-7xx > >I have a kidling activity that will run until at least 18:30, so I will >probably be late. > >Can someone show up on time and

Runit init system discussed at GoLUG, Wednesday, 3/1/2023, 7pm Eastern Standard

Hi all, At the Wednesday, 3/1/2023 online GoLUG meeting, Steve Litt will discuss the ins and outs of the runit init system. He'll cover the benefits and drawbacks of runit, and how its features compare to each of the several other Free Software init systems. And of course, the definition of an ini

Re: SCaLE rides, etc

der.hans via PLUG-discuss said on Tue, 28 Feb 2023 05:08:01 + (UTC) >Who else is driving and might have a seat? I'll be riding shotgun right next to you in spirit der.hans. I lived in LA 1980-1998, and went to most of the computer shows, computer clubs, and programming language get-togethers.

Re: How to restart ssh?

joe--- via PLUG-discuss said on Mon, 06 Feb 2023 17:05:57 -0700 >When I try to ssh or rsync from one of my >linux units to another, most of the time it >works, but sometimes I get this error message: > >ssh: connect to host 192.168.0.56 port 22: No route to host What does ping say immediately aft

Online website construction roundtable Wednesday, 2/1/2023, 7pm Eastern Standard

Hi all, Wednesday, 2/1/2023, there will be an online website construction roundtable. Who's at the roundtable? Everyone at the online meeting: We're looking for all viewpoints, including but not limited to direct editing of HTML, zen-coding editors, WYSIWYG editors, web construction via wordproces

Re: The Precisionists Inc

trent shipley via PLUG-discuss said on Wed, 25 Jan 2023 09:29:18 -0700 >(I'm autistic, bipolar, and attention deficit disordered). When they gave my son a 12 question test for ADD, I (mentally) answered 8 of the 12 such that I'd have been diagnosed ADD if the test had been given to me. A lot of p

Proxmox, was TDD w/ Python, ch 9

trent shipley via PLUG-discuss said on Wed, 25 Jan 2023 09:21:46 -0700 >> I recently configured Proxmox on a old piece hardware and am glad I >> did. >> >> Keith Hi Keith, How would you like to give a proxmox presentation at GoLUG? Thanks, SteveT Steve Litt Autumn 2022 featured book: Thrivi

Re: formatted USB to ext4

Harold Hartley via PLUG-discuss said on Fri, 20 Jan 2023 20:55:17 -0700 >I don’t see how any type of format can make any usb stick last any >longer than another type of format. Just speaking for myself, subjectively after quite a bit of experience, formatting Ext4 makes the *data* last longer th

Re: usb marked as read-only

Eric Oyen via PLUG-discuss said on Mon, 16 Jan 2023 16:38:57 -0700 >For most things, I use USB sticks in >a write once, read many configuration scenario. Another thing I've found anecdotally that helps lengthen the USB stick life, whether write once or write a bunch, is to format it as Ext4. I do

GoLUG FOSS bull session Wednesday night 1/4/2023

Hi all, Wednesday night, 1/4/2023, GoLUG is having a Free Software Bull Session (FSBS) starting 7PM Eastern STANDARD time. A good time will be had by all. Join us at https://meet.jit.si/golug Wednesday night. Thanks, SteveT GoLUG Publicity Coordinator

Re: McDonald's unveils first automated location

techli...@phpcoderusa.com said on Sat, 31 Dec 2022 18:40:37 -0700 >Steve, > >Why is our education system what it is today? 3 decades of cheaping out public education. Constant drumbeat of anti-teacher assertions. Drugs and crime you'd expect from a lot of (but not all) children of uneducated pare

Re: McDonald's unveils first automated location

techli...@phpcoderusa.com said on Sat, 31 Dec 2022 10:54:21 -0700 >Here are my thoughts. Nothing is free.. had an econ prof that used to >say there are no free lunches... it might be free to you but someone >paid for it. True. But schooling for the citizenry is an investment. Educated people p

Re: McDonald's unveils first automated location

Jim via PLUG-discuss said on Fri, 30 Dec 2022 18:14:49 -0700 >This doesn't surprise me a bit.  30 years ago I worked in some fast >food places and I saw the unreliability of many people who work there. >  The trend is toward more of the 'I don't have to work. Everybody >owes me.' attitude.  As op

Re: Python project ideas

trent shipley via PLUG-discuss said on Fri, 30 Dec 2022 13:37:28 -0700 >/home/user/Projects/flask-tutorial >├── flaskr/ >│ ├── __init__.py >│ ├── db.py >│ ├── schema.sql >│ ├── auth.py >│ ├── blog.py >│ ├── templates/ >│ │ ├── base.html >│ │ ├── auth/ >│ │ │ ├── login.htm

Re: McDonald's unveils first automated location

Keith Smith via PLUG-discuss said on Fri, 30 Dec 2022 07:31:06 -0700 >About 20 years ago I posted to a tech list that I thought H1B was a >bad thing and I got roasted. Self-hating programmers. SteveT Steve Litt Autumn 2022 featured book: Thriving in Tough Times http://www.troubleshooters.com/b

Re: dBase

George Toft via PLUG-discuss said on Thu, 29 Dec 2022 20:03:14 -0700 >I made a mistake in an application by using SQLite3.  I read about >SQLite's advantages over MySQL in that it has no network stack, so >it's faster.  My testing showed that was kinda true - it was faster >mostly, until multiple

Re: McDonald's unveils first automated location

George Toft via PLUG-discuss said on Thu, 29 Dec 2022 19:40:34 -0700 >You won't be replaced by a machine.  You will be replaced by someone >willing to do your job for $20-25 per hour. > >I've seen postings in a large company that stated they were paying >Tata Consultancy $66K for H1B DBA's.  Tata

Re: McDonald's unveils first automated location

Harold Hartley via PLUG-discuss said on Wed, 28 Dec 2022 20:56:25 -0700 >The technology has been available for almost a decade and with the use >of AI we will start seeing businesses starting to spend the money on >it as a lot of businesses have openings for jobs but no one seems >interested. Yo

Re: McDonald's unveils first automated location

Keith Smith via PLUG-discuss said on Wed, 28 Dec 2022 18:43:04 -0700 >Not sure anyone is suggesting they work for free. I assume they will >be highly paid as they are today. A full time job that doesn't put a roof over your head, pay for basic food, and if the job requires a car, pay for purcha

Re: McDonald's unveils first automated location

Keith Smith via PLUG-discuss said on Wed, 28 Dec 2022 07:22:37 -0700 >Thought you might find this interesting. > >https://www.foxbusiness.com/technology/mcdonalds-unveils-first-automated-location-social-media-worried-will-cut-millions-jobs Sounds like a good idea, but I pay with cash, and I don't

Re: Lazarus

On Mon, 2022-12-26 at 00:13 +, David Schwartz via PLUG-discuss wrote: > > There are two popular Delphi clones: Lazarus and FreePascal. Lazarus is the equivalent of Delphi. FreePascal is the equivalent of Turbo Pascal. SteveT --- PLUG-discu

Screen painter

Offlist, Keith Smith and I discussed creating a Rapid Application Development (RAD) system. The most needed thing, and the lowest hanging fruit in a RAD system is a screen painter. I personally don't have the skills to create a drag, drop and move screen painter, but I *do* have the skills to crea

Re: 4-year Programing and Analytics degree from Mesa CC

David Schwartz via PLUG-discuss said on Sun, 25 Dec 2022 07:20:47 + (UTC) > Steve does a nice job of defending the status quo, Thank you! > but I’m eager to > move beyond that. [snip] > First, let me say that I’ve made the majority of my income since 1997 > as a Delphi developer. It did g

Re: 4-year Programing and Analytics degree from Mesa CC

David Schwartz via PLUG-discuss said on Sat, 24 Dec 2022 17:51:44 + (UTC) >But what have we done for ourselves? We >still use imperative languages to write code line-by-line, they are >subject to the same types of errors, debugging works the same way >(well, we didn’t have debuggers until the

Re: 4-year Programing and Analytics degree from Mesa CC

Keith Smith via PLUG-discuss said on Fri, 23 Dec 2022 08:33:55 -0700 >In 1978 the UofA was charging $275 a semester. Was that per credit hour, per class, or for all classes taken in a semester? If the latter, it was a darned good deal, because in Chicago at least, rent was about $190/month, so th

Re: BASH textbook for kids

trent shipley via PLUG-discuss said on Thu, 22 Dec 2022 07:26:18 -0700 >Python is a great first language, and there is no shortage of beginning >Python books aimed at young beginners. I've never read a juvenalia >programming book, except maybe pre-Visual Basic BASIC with the line >numbers and goto

Re: Skills for the future

techli...@phpcoderusa.com said on Mon, 12 Dec 2022 18:44:10 -0700 >It's funny how some people talk about the no payroll tax states and >then you find out they make it up with property tax. Illinois has obscenely high property taxes, a fairly high state income tax, and very high sales taxes. IMHO

Re: Skills for the future

Keith Smith via PLUG-discuss said on Mon, 12 Dec 2022 17:55:05 -0700 >I agree, with one addition. In the 70's and 80's my pay lagged 20% to >30% behind inflation. What might have been decent pay was mediocre... I think that's because you were a kid in the 1970's, probably with less professional

CORRECTION: GoLUG meeting topic

Hi all, The correct topic for the GoLUG meeting is "Introduction to Go Language". Sorry for the error in the subject of the initial announcement. SteveT Steve Litt GoLUG Publicity Coordinator --- PLUG-discuss mailing list: PLUG-discuss@lists.phxli

GoLUG meeting features Python threads and thread discussion

Hi all, The Wednesday, December 7, 2022 GoLUG start at 7pm Eastern Standard time. It will be at https://meet.jit.si/golug. Full information is at http://golug.info. Come Join us on December 7th, for an introductory course to Go. No experience required, we'll cover some of the basics of Go syntax,

Re: Software Portfolio

David Schwartz via PLUG-discuss said on Thu, 01 Dec 2022 19:48:59 + (UTC) >I’ve met a few folks who like plaing with open-source projects, but >none of them ever said they thought it made a difference in terms of >getting a job. This is an anecdote, so take it for what it's worth: A friend

Re: Software Portfolio

trent shipley via PLUG-discuss said on Tue, 29 Nov 2022 20:50:30 -0700 >(Lead buried in last two or three paragraphs.) > >1. I'm autistic, so I can't interview worth a damn. [snip] >2.b. There is a tremendous shortage of software writers, but no one is >going to be studpid enough to hire one

Re: What is a full-stack PHP developer

Keith Smith via PLUG-discuss said on Fri, 25 Nov 2022 14:36:34 -0700 >Hi, > >I have read that to be qualified as a full-stack developer, one must >know how to troubleshoot the entire stack. > >Where are the boundaries. One man's opinion: "Full-stack developer" is a buzzword with a thousand dif

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