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upcoming "serious computer programming for kids", Sep. 26 / 27
by Mark Galassi 02 Sep '20

02 Sep '20

Dear nmglug folk, As you know a few times/year I teach kids courses on programming in python on gnu/linux systems. I will be teaching the next one with jitsi in late September. I hope you can get the word out. This course is the prerequisite to many good things for those who resonate with it, including ongoing mini-courses on various applications of programming and research internships at the Institute for Computing in Research and in Los Alamos. The info for the next "serious computer programming for youth" course is at: https://sites.google.com/view/serious-programming/ and I'm attaching a PDF flyer.

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Morning all.
by Wesley Robbins 02 Sep '20

02 Sep '20

So with Jared’s announcement for doing the pihole setup and training on Sept 26th. We are giving away five raspberry pi 3 to people or kids who want to learn Linux / programming or hardware hacking. The kits include the rpi3, 16 GB microsd, case, power supply, and (optional) a .96” oled lcd to learn i2c python by example. Might be wondering why there are 7 shown. Two are accounted for. Look forward to seeing some of you on the 26th.

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zoom, jitsi, hippa
by a 02 Sep '20

02 Sep '20

Hi. I would prefer using Jitsi on Debian 10, however, I require an application meeting HIPPA compliance for which zoom certifies, unfortunately, for which jitsi does not. issue: Iooking at the attachment information utilizing the suggested options, seem not to work, What application woud I use to open the program, With laptop using Debian 10, firefox, CimmanonThe problem seems to exist, whether i try opening thru the application or thru the browser. thanks

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Not a gnulinux problem but...
by Brian O'Keefe 02 Sep '20

02 Sep '20

I apologize for this being a non gnulinux problem but I don't know what else to do. My Roku is not working. The device starts but I cannot connect to any app. Checking setting shows my network is fine but no download speed, 0. I cannot connect to any roku website on my laptop or phone. I cannot contact customer support. It's as if my modem is choking on all roku. Since I can't get any web help I thought that I'd throw this out there and hope. I really appreciate any help. Thanks Brian --

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[ABQLUG] September meetup is live
by ABQLUG 01 Sep '20

01 Sep '20

Just a friendly reminder that the ABQLUG monthly meet is now live. Sorry if I confused anyone in the first email with the incorrect date. https://live.abqlug.com/SeptemberMeetup I hope to see you there! ~ Jared

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[ABQLUG] Monthly meetup is tomorrow (virtually)
by ABQLUG 31 Aug '20

31 Aug '20

Fellow NMGLUGers, The monthly Albuquerque Linux User Group will meet tomorrow, August 4th 2020 at 6:00 pm. Here is the link you can use to join: https://live.abqlug.com/SeptemberMeetup If you're going to use a desktop/laptop, all you should need is a modern web browser. If you are going to use a smartphone, you will want to install the Jitsi-meet app, and then set the Jitsi-meet server to live.abqlug.com. If you would like more information on how to attend the meetup, visit: https://www.abqlug.com/attendee/ If you're having issues using a microphone or camera, you might have to make sure that WebRTC is enabled in your browser if you have "locked down" your browser. The meetup will likely end around 8pm. NOTE: On September 26th, ABQLUG will host a (virtual) event. We plan on helping anyone interested in setting up a Raspberry Pi to use Pi Hole. We should have material for both novices and experts that will be available ahead of the event. To celebrate correctly, ABQLUG will be giving five FREE Raspberry Pi 3s. Later this week we will send a link on more information on how to participate! "See" you there! ~ Jared

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[PSA] There was a CL outage this morning
by ABQLUG 30 Aug '20

30 Aug '20

Early this morning there was a CenturyLink nation wide outage. Service started restoring around ~8:00 am. Although not everyone has come back up yet. Hopefully this will save you some time if you were calling your ISP to see what was wrong. This sub-reddit has been really handy for having information on outages of this scale. They often will have information than CenturyLink can provide over the phone: https://www.reddit.com/r/networking/comments/ijb8tn/global_as3356_level3_ou… Here is another handy link to see if CenturyLink is having current network issues: https://status.ctl.io/ Looks like a routing mistake (probably an automated one since it was early in the morning) was to blame. ~ Jared [ABQLUG]

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Meeting tonight,
by Ted Pomeroy 28 Aug '20

28 Aug '20

I recently made some effort to take advantage of the UEFI settings for two laptops: I took a fresh Xubuntu 20.04 usb media and tried to install with UEFI support. Didn't work, "Partition table not good" was the gist of the error. I tried a second usb of the same OS and learned from it that I need a "Bios boot dedicated partition of at least 5 GB." Aha, that helped, so I partitioned manually: bios=5Gb, root=80Gb, home=150Gb and Swap=6Gb. This is where I forgot to give a mount point for the home partition, which I corrected later. Still wouldn't boot. So instead of panic, I tried Bios setting, first defaults which didn't work, then adjusted Sata to ACHI, and finally under UEFI, turned that ON, and Presto!- Ubuntu appeared in the bios UEFI settings as my only UEFI sub-choice. Now it boots and the partitions match what the hardware expects. The result of my work put me back in touch with examining the BIOS settings and thinking through the options and deciding not to accept "Legacy mode" as the only or first choice. I wonder what the feelings of other Linux users are on this issue. What are the advantages of using the UEFI settings vs. the more easily booted "Legacy mode"? Ubuntu and Mint make the EFI system work quite well. Unless I am on an even older machine why use the Legacy? Just a few thoughts to remind us of our NMLUG meeting tonight, Aug. 27, 5:30-7:00. See the Virtual Meeting link for the Jitsi address at Nmglug.org Thank you, Ted P

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PureOS GnomeBoxes virtual machine on MX 'writable LiveUSB'
by Tom Ashcraft 07 Aug '20

07 Aug '20

PureOS GnomeBoxes virtual machine on MX 'writable LiveUSB' My notes with a bit of explication in case someone else might like to try this (looking at you, Brian) or maybe provide additional virtual machine/USB hints or comments. So far it all seems to work rather nicely--but it does make a ten-year-old plus AMD Turion II Toshiba Satellite L505 with 4MB RAM rather sluggish. I decided to try Qemu-KVM-VirtualMachineManager first rather than the recent edition proprietary VirtualBox available in MX for the sake of reinforcing general Debian transferable GNU FOSS skills. A couple of years ago I'd gotten fairly comfortable with setting up Ubuntu and Debian servers in Qemu-KVM-VirtualMachineManager virtual machines. Also, yesterday I had just done a passably successful installation of Windows 10 with spice guest additions that produced really nice choices of display resolutions, but was slow because I was unable to find any way to specify more than 16MB default for video, though it is supposed to be possible to do this through XML setting that never materialized in my instance of virt-manager). Probably some missing dependency that was unmentioned in the YouTube video I was using as a guide. At any rate, I couldn't make PureOS run under Qemu-KVM-VMM probably for similar reasons (i.e. I didn't know what I was doing.) Searching YouTube again I came accross Gnome Boxes which I had heard about from Jared at an abqlug meeting but forgotten. Like Qemu-KVM, gnome-boxes passes muster as Debian free software, shows and installs with apt. Really easy to use and works like a dream. However, there are several packages/dependencies in common with qemu-kvm, and also a few additional packages in common with both that are required to get both to work properly, at least in the case of using PureOS as a virtual machine. Also, there is one more that I think will be nice to have, and one more that is required to make it all go under MX. So here's all the stuff, probably pretty closely in order of best priority and sequence of installation. But first an aside about PureOS. The first update to the latest version replaces Pure Browser with Firefox ESR. Apparently most everything in PureOS is just Debian along with a special somewhat more highly curated/ranked software repository. I added several of my favorite packages via apt and noticed they were listed with a slash followed with the word amber. I assume this is as in green/amber/red categories of suspicion. Just a guess. I haven't yet looked into it. And just in case one happens to be preparing to create virtual machines on a computer not used for virtual machines before, remember to restart the computer, go into BIOS settings and make sure the virtualization setting is enabled... Now. Every command that follows a dollar sign below should be done (except in one case where noted otherwise): For reference https://wiki.debian.org/KVM applicable command/packages summation: $ sudo apt-get install qemu-kvm libvirt-clients libvirt-daemon-system virt-manager For reference (lifted from Chris Titus Tech who is coming from a place other than Debian but catches most of what seems to be missing in other references I've seen) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IdSxoSlxCNAhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=… Applicable commands: Installation: $ sudo apt install gnome-boxes qemu-kvm libvirt-bin *But* if you did the above from wiki.debian.org/KVM (as I think is likely best), all but gnome-boxes packages are consequently obsoleted and will cause defeat the entire command, so just do: $ sudo apt install gnome-boxes Add User to kvm: sudo usermod -a -G kvm $USER Allow users in kvm group to start VMs: sudo sed -i -e 's/\#group\ =\ "root"/group=kvm/g' /etc/libvirt/qemu.conf Wiki: https://wiki.gnome.org/Apps/Boxes For reference https://forum.mxlinux.org/viewtopic.php?t=54953 Fix MX problem with gnome-boxes and have more network options: $ sudo apt install bridge-utils qemu-utils And that did it. GnomeBoxes is pretty well entirely self-teaching and easy to figure out by clicking around a little. A very nice program. PureOS install thereafter initiates loading of live/demo instance, then imap & smtp, email password and keyring password setup is required in order to proceed to first full use of desktop. Closed welcome page and hit Activities > Install. Uses the Calamares installer Other things about the automated aspects of my virtual installation that I noted to note: Auto set/detected 'ATA QEMU HARDDISK - 20.0 GiB (/dev/sda)' Selected 'Erase disk', 'no swap', 'encrypt system'. Auto set/detected 'Boot loader location: Master Boot Record of ATA QEMU HARDDISK (/dev/sda)' Username, computer name, user password are set, then final commitment to overwrite the 20.0 GiB above is made and permanent installation proceeds. Takes at least a half-hour probably more on L505. Initial login and setup again first requires imap & smtp, email address info and setup in order to achieve first full access to desktop environment. Seems to me that from the security point of view, one's identity is probably now already compromised by association with an ip address and probably also some un-announced machine and browser identifications. However, if anonymity is not a necessary requirement for one's personal security, this set of arrangements likely represents a reasonable workable compromise on the part of the Librem developers between necessary social accountability/responsibility and the user's legitimate needs for privacy against the prevailing ubiquitous conditions of rampant unwarranted commercial/criminal/government intrusion. Therefore, in my case, because of the "pure" orientation of PureOS, I opted FOR DoH in Firefox. (The initial state was opt-in, not opt-out as Dr. Vixie has feared, and as I seem to remember it actually is in the non-ESR version of Firefox.) That is, it is perhaps reasonable that "they" should know who I am, but it is certainly none of their business what I do, unless it is illegal. I don't lie on my driver's license; I lock the door of my house; I draw my shades together in the evening. Firefox hamburger menu > Preferences > General. Scroll all the way to the bottom of the bottom, Network Settings > Settings. Scroll to bottom of opened Connection Settings window. Check box 'Enable DNS over HTTPS'. One does have to wonder exactly why this setting is so far out of sight. So. An easy-to-use encrypted Debian-based privacy-oriented OS in an easy-to-use GNU virtual machine in an encrypted easy-to-use Debian OS on a portable USB stick that still works as a storage device and likely works on, as far as I presently know, just about any Linux or Windows machine. A veritable Swiss army knife. Might work as a cat toy or bottle opener too (once). Tom

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[ABQLUG] August meetup is live!
by ABQLUG 04 Aug '20

04 Aug '20

https://live.abqlug.com/AugustMeetup Let me know if you have any issues getting in. ~ Jared

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