November 2020 - nmglug - lists.coactcloud.com

Happy Thanksgiving!
by LeRoy Diener 26 Nov '20

26 Nov '20

Hi NMGLUG folks, I give thanks for all your help. LeRoy -- I am the Love of God, no matter what. LeRoy Diener 213-LEROYIZ 213-537-6949 www.leroydiener.com/

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Thank you,
by Ted Pomeroy 21 Nov '20

21 Nov '20

NMGLUGers, thank you to all who joined me at the NMGLUG meeting on Thursday. I was in error about the correct site, but we did have a good show of people and good questions for a full meeting. Sam, thank you for the edit to the Meetings page. The link to "a virtual meeting place" is now a page on our site and the meetup location is clearly visible. I missed it due to my habit of just copying the link location. I should have looked where I was going. So if you forget and need the link, go to the website nmglug.org and follow information under Meetings. We meet again on Dec. 3rd. Given the Covid crisis status the virtual meetup seems best for that week as well. Till then have fun and stay safe, digital meetups are the way to go for now. Thank you, Ted P

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Meeting Address?
by Ted Pomeroy 19 Nov '20

19 Nov '20

NMGLUgers, I tried the old link and it failed. I am at https://meet.jit.si/NMGLUGSantaFe This may work for now. Ted P, Santa Fe

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Ubuntu 20.04 security hole
by Harold Furbiter 18 Nov '20

18 Nov '20

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DMCA takedown of github page youtube-dl - Why?
by LeRoy Diener 16 Nov '20

16 Nov '20

Hi NMGLUG folks, Does anyone know what's going on with this?' https://github.com/ytdl-org/youtube-dl/blob/master/README.md#readme That's the link I use frequently as a reference for explanations and for command flags, options, arguments, whatever. I visited the page today, but I saw Repository unavailable due to DMCA takedown. Why would DMCA take down a help page on github? Does anyone have any insight about this?' Thanks, LeRoy -- I am the Love of God, no matter what. LeRoy Diener 213-LEROYIZ 213-537-6949 www.leroydiener.com/

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does someone have a computer in ABQ - loan for linux class this weekend
by Mark Galassi 07 Nov '20

07 Nov '20

Dear ABQ and Santa Fe folk, I'm teaching one of my "serious computer programming for youth" courses this weekend, it will be online with Jitsi. The first thing we do is wipe an old laptop and install a GNU/Linux distribution. Then we program in Python for the weekend. One of my students lives in ABQ and does not have a laptop they can wipe, and I just found out now - too late to get someone to bring one down there. Does one of you have an old laptop (just needs 4gig of RAM) that you can let someone use for the weekend? Note that they will wipe the disk. They live on the west side (Ventano Ranch area), but are willing to drive anywhere in ABQ to pick it up. If so, could you please email me at mark(a)galassi.org or call me at 505-629-0759? Thank you! PS: the course is described at https://sites.google.com/view/serious-programming/

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does someone have a computer in ABQ - loan for linux class this weekend
by Mark Galassi 06 Nov '20

06 Nov '20

Dear ABQ and Santa Fe folk, I'm teaching one of my "serious computer programming for youth" courses this weekend, it will be online with Jitsi. The first thing we do is wipe an old laptop and install a GNU/Linux distribution. Then we program in Python for the weekend. One of my students lives in ABQ and does not have a laptop they can wipe, and I just found out now - too late to get someone to bring one down there. Does one of you have an old laptop (just needs 4gig of RAM) that you can let someone use for the weekend? Note that they will wipe the disk. They live on the west side (Ventano Ranch area), but are willing to drive anywhere in ABQ to pick it up. If so, could you please email me at mark(a)galassi.org or call me at 505-629-0759? Thank you! PS: the course is described at https://sites.google.com/view/serious-programming/

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Re: [nmglug] any experience with installing gnu/linux on chromebooks?
by Akkana Peck 02 Nov '20

02 Nov '20

Mark Galassi writes: > So, does anyone here have resources to point me to to answer this > question: "what's the best way to run a full GNU/Linux distro on a > chromebook?" I don't have any experience with chromebooks, but my husband has fiddled with several. Here's his take, in case it adds anything to Sam's responses. Dave North writes: > > This was on the Santa Fe LUG list. Do you know if there's a fairly > > short simple answer to this? I"m under the impression that modern > > chromebooks are much easier to install Linux on, or maybe you don't > > even need to because they have it already ...? > > ...and then... > > > 1. There is a way to unlock the boot so that you can boot from your > > debian or ubuntu or fedora USB drive. > > This was possible at one time, so depending on how old the machine is, it > might work. I'm not up to date for, oh, a few months, but I doubt anything > has changed in newer machines. > > > 2. I've seen someone set up some kind of apt installation on top of > > chromeOS and get emacs and gnuplot going. It seemed insufficient to get > > the benefits of all the great utilities. > > Depends on the power of the chromebook. You are basically running linux in a > virtual machine, and for security purposes, the variant runnin on chrome is > somewhat inefficient. On the other hand, even on my old piece o crud > chromebook, all the command-line stuff works fine once the machine > (eventually) fires up. > > > 3. I've heard that more recent chromebook models make the #2 type of > > integration work better. > > Yup. > > > would there be a resource available that lets you look up which makes > > and models (HP, Dell, Lenovo, ...) ones are good for that? > > Yes. Unfortunately I don't have a url at hand, but it's not that hard to > suss out with google. > > > So, does anyone here have resources to point me to to answer this > > question: "what's the best way to run a full GNU/Linux distro on a > > chromebook?" > > Either (a) find an old one that has the ability to change the bootloader or > (b) just use the virtual machine they supply and see if it's functional > enough.

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Re: [nmglug] any experience with installing gnu/linux on chromebooks?
by Sam Noble 02 Nov '20

02 Nov '20

On Sun, Nov 01, 2020 at 11:25:42PM -0700, Mark Galassi wrote: > Sam, thank you so much! That is golden information and just what I > needed. Cool. > Would you be able to give links to your favorite source for cheap > chromebooks? Uh, I think they all came from different ebay sellers. I was after the particular models. So just shopped for condition (more varied than usualy as many are sourced from grade schools) and price. If I was recommending a model today as a daily driver it'd be the Asus flip c100pa (minnie), though the c201pa (speedy) has slightly larger (and slightly mushier) keyboard. But there's a 4g version (which is typically 2x the cost of the 2g version on ebay, almost making brand new Pinebook Pro's cost competition) of minnie, and it has an aluminum chasis where the speedy is plastic. Also possibly of interest for class-day installs is that there is a less freedom focused fork of prawnos (shrimpos) available for minnie, which uses vanilla (well sunxi) linux in lieu of linux-libre, allowing for the possiblity of installing non-free firmware for the onbord wifi. (The PrawnOS crowd and I all use ath9k usb wifi) Here's one that looks good today: https://www.ebay.com/itm/ASUS-Chromebook-Flip-C100P-10-1in-32GB-Touch-Scree… -- sam

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Video format/quality question
by LeRoy Diener 02 Nov '20

02 Nov '20

Hi NMGLUG folks, I'd like to learn about the quality of different video formats. There is nothing critical about this topic for me. I'm just curious to learn. For my purposes, and what I'm asking about in this email, I'm ignoring audio. So, when I'm referring to video, it might as well be a silent video. I'm wondering about video quality only. 1 I heard in general that .mp4 files have a higher quality than .web files, but I don't know why. Can anyone explain this to me? 2 If two videos have the same resolution, such as 1920x1080, do these two videos have the same quality? It makes sense to me that the quality is the same. Am I missing something? 3 Here are some specs of 2 formats of the same video 248 webm 1920x1080 DASH video 2646k , webm_dash container, vp9, 30fps, video only 137 mp4 1920x1080 DASH video 4331k , mp4_dash container, avc1.64001e, 30fps, video only When my command included an option for bestvideo, the result was the mp4 video. I'm not sure why. I'm guessing it was the larger filesize. Being that the resolutions are the same, what extra info is included in the larger filesize? The only other difference is vp9 vs avc1.64001e. I have no clue what the difference is between those two. Thanks, LeRoy -- I am the Love of God, no matter what. LeRoy Diener 213-LEROYIZ 213-537-6949 www.leroydiener.com/

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