Chat Logs for Episode 509 — #Category5 on irc.freenode.net / cat5.tv/discord


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With 80 Posts:TheFu
With 57 Posts:Garbee
With 30 Posts:sparklyballs
With 30 Posts:sr_Wences
With 15 Posts:garywhite


Chat Logs:

6:58:07 PMgarywhite no, a cop got stabbed at the airport in Flint, MI
6:58:28 PMTheFu Cop stabbing, right? Flint wasn't in the headline I saw.
6:58:50 PMDennis_Kelley Didnt make the headline, bummer!
6:58:51 PMTheFu All the news here was about yesterdays house-of-rep election.
6:58:54 PMsparklyballs my town was on the news yesterday for the roads melting in the heat and some girls baring their asses on the beach
6:59:58 PMGarbee Yea I can hear it.
7:00:02 PMsr_Wences Hi everyone!
7:00:05 PMGarbee Very low, but audible.
7:00:14 PMsparklyballs feed on kodi is a little stop start
7:00:38 PMsr_Wences Sparkly - what have I missed over the last few weeks?
7:00:58 PMGarbee Feed is doing fine for me on live.cat5.tv
7:00:58 PMTheFu Kodi here is fine.
7:01:15 PMsr_Wences Web feed is good for me!
7:01:29 PMGarbee Guy mowing lawn, SashaD2 could not care less.
7:01:31 PMSolbu kodi is fine from Norway.
7:01:41 PMsr_Wences Hard boil the eggs!
7:01:58 PMGarbee Mail me a few.
7:02:15 PMsr_Wences Sashad2 - use them in your hair!
7:02:25 PMsparklyballs omelette or go home SashaD2
7:02:33 PMalpeck yes they are good for your hair
7:02:35 PMsr_Wences I don't know, I'm not a girl!
7:02:49 PMTheFu Devil's crab - tunafish - egg-based potato salad.
7:02:59 PMsparklyballs put flour in your hair too SashaD2 and you'd have fairy cakes in your ears
7:03:17 PMGarbee What about China and Eggs gets a show banned?
7:03:39 PMGarbee RobbieF: Just go, the lawn mower is very lowly audible on the stream.
7:03:48 PMGarbee It's probably far more distracting for ya'll in studio than us.
7:03:49 PMTheFu Bury them for 6 months. Eat them as 1,000 yr eggs.
7:04:31 PMSolbu "Tonight on Category 5: How to mow the lawn, using SSH into the engine.."
7:05:11 PMsparklyballs i used to love watching the hayter at work on the farm SashaD2 , that thing was brutal, bunch of seriously thick chains spinning off the PTO of a tractor
7:05:56 PMTheFu Solbu: So sunset at 23:30 tonight there?
7:06:11 PMSolbu Something like that, yes.,
7:06:34 PMsr_Wences I decided to install Ubuntu GNOME (16.04) since Ubuntu is going all GNOME and I kind of love it.
7:06:49 PMTheFu Around 8:53p sunset here.
7:06:52 PMHenryBB Nice!
7:07:18 PMsparklyballs i spun up a copy of stretch day after release testing out as a replacement for the host os on my HTPC
7:07:50 PMsparklyballs not quite ready for that task as of sunday, lot of the packages i needed weren't available yet
7:09:10 PMsr_Wences Ugh! Explaining Linux and the different distros and the different flavors. Good luck...
7:09:24 PMTheFu SLS
7:09:26 PMTheFu Slack
7:09:29 PMTheFu Debian ...
7:09:33 PMTheFu Redhat
7:09:35 PMsr_Wences I've tried with my kids and they just go, "Whatever!"
7:09:39 PMsparklyballs gentoo
7:09:59 PMsr_Wences Arch
7:10:08 PMsr_Wences Mandriva
7:10:21 PMsparklyballs alpine
7:10:21 PMsr_Wences SUSE
7:10:25 PMTheFu I think Debian is the oldest, mainstream, Linux distro.
7:10:40 PMTheFu Slackware is still around, but ...
7:10:42 PMSolbu RobbieF: Debian started in 1993, The Linux kernel came in 1991.
7:10:50 PMTheFu APT!!!!!!
7:10:55 PMTheFu Debian has APT!
7:11:38 PMsparklyballs slack has been around as long as debian
7:11:57 PMTheFu To avoid commercial programs.
7:11:59 PMTheFu ?
7:11:59 PMsr_Wences Knoppix!
7:12:11 PMsr_Wences Knoppix was my first one as a live CD.
7:12:45 PMTheFu Debian isn't as end-user friendly, right?
7:12:59 PMsr_Wences I don't think anyone said Mint yet....
7:13:05 PMSolbu RobbieF, SashaD2: a general rule is for new users to try a distro that your friends are using. That makes it easy to give help and support.
7:14:54 PMsr_Wences ... and the up and coming distro for 2017.... Solus OS!
7:15:00 PMTheFu Job 1 for Debian Stable is stability. In 1 yr when all the cloud APIs have changed, you'll want some newer programs, not those from "stable." That's my impression.
7:15:58 PMsparklyballs backports can go a long way to getting newer packages if you don't mind sacrificing some stability TheFu
7:16:22 PMTheFu But I can just use Ubuntu and get those, right?
7:16:29 PMsr_Wences HenryBB - Canonical is dropping Unity for 18.04. Unity is croaked.
7:16:42 PMTheFu Amen!!!!
7:17:03 PMHenryBB :O
7:18:05 PMalpeck Debian is currently #2 on distrowatch.com
7:18:15 PMGarbee Unity is done for 17.10 already.
7:18:30 PMGarbee 18.04 is just the next LTS.
7:18:52 PMsparklyballs i only LTS for ubuntu
7:19:02 PMsparklyballs *use LTS
7:19:34 PMsr_Wences LTS - Me too Im getting kind of tired of Nuke and Pave every 6 months.
7:19:41 PMgarywhite alpeck: That was updated at 00:30, almost 23 hours ago
7:19:45 PMTheFu Best for new users to try 5 different distros for 2-6 months each until they find what they like. Personal taste matters.
7:20:26 PMsr_Wences It makes sense that they intro GNOME in 17.20 - work out the kinks before you go to a LTS with GNOME.
7:20:35 PMsr_Wences 17.10 - oops!
7:20:54 PMgarywhite & why doesn't Canonical follow Microsoft & enable you to upgrade the OS without formatting the HDD
7:20:59 PMalpeck it still has a long way to go to bet Mint garywhite
7:21:12 PMTheFu garywhite: They do.
7:21:28 PMTheFu But there is cruft left behind.
7:21:54 PMsparklyballs it takes nearly as long to do that as a full install though TheFu
7:21:59 PMsr_Wences garywhite U=In Ubuntu, you can go from LTS to LTS pretty good.
7:22:23 PMGarbee SashaD2: Developers tend to like the "unstable" branches.
7:22:31 PMTheFu I'm a fresh install guy, myself. Also only use LTS Ubuntu. ... but ...
7:23:25 PMTheFu Fresh installed my laptop about 2 weeks ago. Took about an hour to get everything back.
7:23:26 PMalpeck I prefer LTS as well
7:23:26 PMsr_Wences I've been a distro hopper but as I've gotten oilder, I've stuck with LTS releases and hopped on a CraigsList laptop for goofing around.
7:23:36 PMTheFu All my settings, data, programs, everything.
7:23:43 PMGarbee Elementary OS FTW.
7:23:51 PMsr_Wences I kind of want to try a rolling release though - no more distro upgrades.
7:24:02 PMGarbee sr_Wences: OpenSUSE Tumbleweed
7:24:04 PMTheFu Rolling failures?
7:24:10 PMGarbee Fantastic choice for one to try out.
7:24:47 PMTheFu Arch is rolling. Every few weeks when I used it, something would break for a few days that I needed. If you can live with that, great. Thank you for your service.
7:24:57 PMgarywhite oh
7:25:19 PMsr_Wences Garbee - I just tried to install the latest Elementary on a laptop for my daughter (she likes pretty) and it crapped the n=bed twice. I had to install Ubuntu MATE and it worked fine. I had to add pretty colors and icons to make it more palatable.
7:25:22 PMsparklyballs i found that a total pain in the proverbial with arch TheFu
7:25:42 PMalpeck for migrating family and friends i prefer Mint
7:25:46 PMGarbee sr_Wences: That's odd. How old is that machine?
7:25:48 PMTheFu Arch reminded me of Slackware.
7:26:52 PMsparklyballs kernel makes the chicken SashaD2
7:27:31 PMGarbee SashaD2: "Kernel" is the piece (Linux in this case) that let's the OS talk to the hardware.
7:27:41 PMsr_Wences Garbee - it's old, but I have only had problems with it on Elementary. I installed a bunch of distros on it for kicks. LXLE, LXDE, Xubuntu, Fedora... and Elementary killed it and I had to format everything.
7:27:44 PMTheFu Ran gentoo for 6 months. In theory, everything is compiled for your hardware specifically and should run faster. Loaded Redhat disktop (it was long ago) and everything was faster.
7:27:57 PMMik3_0 and chicken makes the eggs
7:28:12 PMTheFu Kernel 3.13.xxx FTW!
7:28:39 PMGarbee sr_Wences: All those sound very light on the graphics save Fedora which because it is Gnome has some level of low-graphics support.
7:29:09 PMsparklyballs when the mood takes me at some stage i'm going to give setting up "linux from scratch" a whirl
7:29:21 PMTheFu Seems that knowledgeable kernel tuners are smarter about that stuff than me.
7:29:23 PMGarbee sparklyballs: I did attempt that once.
7:29:34 PMGarbee It was fun until I decided it was just taking too much time.
7:29:36 PMGarbee :/
7:29:36 PMsr_Wences Sashad2 - favorite laptops for scrubbing for LInux: XPS 13, Thinkpads, relatively recent Dell laptops.
7:29:45 PMSolbu SashaD2 is winning tonight. :-)
7:29:49 PMTheFu and chromebooks!
7:30:37 PMsr_Wences Sparklyballs the guys on the Mint Podcast jsut did a bunch of shows on Linux from scratch. It sounded like hard work. Lots of compiling.
7:30:41 PMMik3_0 I need an Evernote or OneNote app for Linux
7:30:45 PMnapa_polarbear hi all
7:30:47 PMTheFu Outlook - the 2nd largest virus ever created
7:31:00 PMHenryBB XD
7:31:01 PMTheFu Mik3_0: Basket Notes
7:31:02 PMnapa_polarbear hi all
7:31:07 PMsparklyballs i don't mind compiling
7:31:09 PMHenryBB hey!
7:31:12 PMMik3_0 doing it on the web sucks. Thanks TheFu I'll check it out
7:31:27 PMsr_Wences Mik3_0 - I've sold my soul to Google, so I use Google Keep.
7:31:28 PMTheFu There are lots and lots of personal note apps.
7:31:42 PMTheFu I self-host everything I can.
7:32:12 PMGarbee Why is Deb better than RPM RobbieF?
7:32:14 PMGarbee :P
7:32:17 PMMik3_0 I get nervous using google. They like to make cool things and stop supporting them :)
7:32:18 PMGarbee That's a dynomite question.
7:32:21 PMTheFu Not just free - F/LOSS!
7:32:44 PMTheFu HenryBB: Free is not enough. I don't want just the beer, I want the beer recipe!
7:32:44 PMGarbee DON"T!
7:32:47 PMGarbee That was a joke.
7:32:56 PMsparklyballs zypper is pretty decent package manager
7:32:59 PMGarbee Good to know Robbie knew where I was going though.
7:33:13 PMTheFu Holy war.
7:35:48 PMTheFu SashaD2: In major metro areas and college towns, there are "InstallFests" every few months. Experts help newbies to install Linux. Just google for "installfest" and your down or university.
7:35:55 PMTheFu s/down/town/
7:36:20 PMSashaD2 that is such a help! Thank you TheFu!
7:36:32 PMTheFu SashaD2: And don't forget the LUG - Linux Users Groups.
7:37:32 PMTheFu No! PDF is when page layout is needed.
7:38:38 PMTheFu IMHO, avoid PDF unless it is needed. PDF can be edited. Don't think of it as read-only, unless you use proprietary extensions from Adobe (yuck).
7:38:59 PMTheFu ODF files are best. Everyone can open them.
7:39:43 PMSashaD2 I just save as ODF?
7:40:26 PMTheFu Open Document Format - that's the default for LibreOffice. All the other "productivity suites" can read those files.
7:40:57 PMgarywhite I'll be darned, even Word has it
7:41:01 PMTheFu docx --
7:41:33 PMSolbu RobbieF: One thing that might be beneficial for users: How do they install additional software on it. I imagine it's different than on Ubuntu.
7:41:52 PMsr_Wences Sashad2 - ther might be programs that only work inWIndows that you need for work. Particularly small office programs.
7:41:54 PMGarbee Solbu: Probably Synaptic still.
7:42:03 PMsparklyballs as a non-gamer i haven't been burdened by windows since XP
7:42:04 PMTheFu SashaD2: Make a list of all the software used at work over a 2-4 month period and check that there are reasonable methods to use Linux to accomplish the same task.
7:42:07 PMGarbee CLI is the same though for Ubuntu users who do that.
7:42:34 PMTheFu Quicken / Investment apps / Tax software are Windows only here.
7:42:57 PMbenrob0329 Write everything as LaTeX, then render to PDF :PP
7:43:08 PMTheFu benrob0329: ouch!
7:43:21 PMbenrob0329 It doesn't look bad, honestly
7:44:15 PMTheFu Dual boot does have dangers.
7:44:19 PMalpeck haven't been able to port excel macro's to libreoffice calc due to lack of documentation
7:44:59 PMTSmith1 I've been wanting to try fusion360 but linux is a no go... what to do?
7:45:51 PMGarbee P2P/Torrent the ISOs and share the load.
7:46:16 PMGarbee SashaD2: No!
7:46:20 PMGarbee You'd only lose security.
7:46:28 PMb_withage Does debian stretch come with trixati installed?
7:46:40 PMGarbee The 32bit security APIs are less secure. Chrome (Google) is even not supporting 32bit anymore.
7:46:48 PMTheFu Does Pre-installed really matter?
7:47:11 PMTheFu If it is in the repos, install is bonehead.
7:47:33 PMnapa_polarbear play on linux for gamming
7:48:43 PMTheFu looks like a download manager ... .deb packages. Not in repos.
7:48:50 PMHenryBB I love gamming
7:48:52 PMGarbee TheFu: Tyranny of the Default. It isn't Mac/Windows/Android/iOS only.
7:48:52 PMHenryBB lol
7:49:05 PMsparklyballs there's a tixati torrent client
7:49:22 PMTheFu Garbee: Haven't been a default person in decades.
7:49:33 PMGarbee TheFu: We aren't normal.
7:49:51 PMTheFu I've been told that before and assume you have too. ;)
7:50:23 PMsparklyballs i'm english and normality is a premium package here
7:50:33 PMTheFu There are a few things that make me wish I lived in Canada.
7:50:43 PMsr_Wences dinner! I have to go Going to celebrate the summer solstice on the patio.
7:51:10 PMSolbu The Sims, mobile edition.
7:52:40 PMTheFu Who downloads 4G over wireless data?
7:52:42 PMHenryBB have a great dinner!!
7:53:00 PMHenryBB Technically our show is streamed on LTE ;)
7:53:27 PMTheFu I don't have data on my smartphone.
7:53:41 PMsparklyballs three in the uk used to do a package of unlimited data 300 minutes and 2000 texts for £10 a month sim only
7:54:23 PMgarywhite I have no data on my smartphone, & a 1TB cap on home Internet
7:54:38 PMTheFu $2.95/month for my cell plan.
7:54:43 PMsparklyballs lol at whole foods in the uk, there are 7 stores here and 5 of them are in one city
7:55:26 PMGarbee http://www.omgubuntu.co.uk/2017/06/nylas-mail-is-dead-jim
7:55:37 PMGarbee Nylas Mail client is no longer being developed or supported.
7:55:55 PMGarbee Kinda sad about that one.
7:56:01 PMGarbee Nylas was a decent mail client.
7:56:40 PMgarywhite He's dead, Jim
7:57:20 PMsparklyballs large companies don't innovate , they just buy the smaller companies that do
7:57:42 PMHenryBB ^
7:57:43 PMMik3_0 I just started using Nylas. I like that one
7:58:31 PMTheFu Thunderbird and K-9 mail for me.
7:58:55 PMsparklyballs the uk government is doing their level best to turn the internet here into a mini china situation
7:59:16 PMHenryBB great... :/
7:59:35 PMHenryBB its like what Edward snowden said, its privacy for all or privacy for none...
7:59:38 PMTheFu Groan
7:59:44 PMsparklyballs just about any government institute here has the right to peek at your data wirhout warrants
8:00:28 PMTheFu CraveTV ... paid, correct?
8:00:38 PMsparklyballs meh, as much as i am against government interference i'm getting sick of snowden
8:00:39 PMHenryBB think so
8:01:13 PMHenryBB its summer now so no more snow ;)
8:02:19 PMTheFu Hopefully Andy isn't "disappeared" by the govt there.
8:02:54 PMTheFu NY State Supreme Court justice was phished for $1M
8:03:56 PMsparklyballs netgear sent out a bunch of emails out today informing users of updates that are non-existent and the links in them are dodgy looking although they're actually genuine according to admins on netgear community support forum
8:04:44 PMGarbee HenryBB: He also said to use QubesOS.
8:04:51 PMGarbee https://www.qubes-os.org/
8:05:16 PMTheFu Qubes ... didn't they want approval to stop publishing security issues?
8:06:09 PMTheFu Forget that - can't find a source now.
8:06:47 PMGarbee TheFu: Yea, I wouldn't think that would be their official stance on things.
8:07:02 PMGarbee Their group is pretty open about vulnerabilities and fixing them.
8:07:17 PMTheFu Garbee: I remember being shocked. It was due to Xen issues, methinks.
8:07:32 PMsparklyballs two man cockpit
8:07:40 PMGarbee Oh, I think they kept one issue quiet until it was fixed because it was so critical.
8:07:54 PMGarbee That's not a problem though in the right cases.
8:08:22 PMGarbee They found a problem like two years ago iirc that was so massively bad they wanted patches out in production at major users before they opened the details up.
8:08:46 PMTheFu Like the Heap/Stack collision thing this week for all Unix systems?
8:09:29 PMGarbee TheFu: No idea what that is.
8:09:46 PMGarbee Doesn't seem that critical if I haven't heard of it. :P I'm fairly tuned into security problems.
8:09:46 PMTheFu There was an Ars article about it.
8:09:59 PMbenrob0329 ahh, finally get to sit down
8:10:04 PMGarbee https://arstechnica.com/security/2017/06/12-year-old-security-hole-in-unix-based-oses-isnt-plugged-after-all/
8:10:42 PMTheFu Local escalation.
8:11:20 PMGarbee I mean, you need to have access already.
8:11:42 PMGarbee So, the barrier is there so that this isn't *super* critical for most people. But for a good chunk it certainly is.
8:12:00 PMTheFu Exactly.
8:12:53 PMGarbee Thanks SashaD2, HenryBB, and RobbieF
8:13:03 PMbenrob0329 oh, you guys should try one of Unicomp's kayboards, they even offer Tux printed Super keys :PP
8:13:30 PMTheFu Das Keyboard FTW, if you don't have IBM 101M handy!
8:13:54 PMDennis_Kelley Thanks Guys! Awesome Show!
8:14:33 PMbenrob0329 TheFu: im using a Unicomp Classic 103 right now :D
8:14:52 PMbenrob0329 a note however: but a wire key puller
8:14:59 PMRobbieF thanks DK!
8:15:31 PMbenrob0329 sometimes the keys get in wierd places and need to be re-inserted
8:15:43 PMGarbee RobbieF: ponder that RPM question though...
8:15:44 PMGarbee :P
8:16:13 PMbenrob0329 like my spacebar wasn't quite in right, to i had to hit it in the center (as if it wasn't stabilised)
8:16:16 PMTheFu My desktop has a $0.50 IBM 101M. Picked up 3 at a swap meet in '96.
8:16:23 PMSashaD2 Thank you for a great night guys!!! see you next week!!!
8:17:26 PMgarywhite Does anyone remember iGoogle?
8:17:33 PMGarbee garywhite: yup.
8:18:20 PMgarywhite I've been trying to make a private Google site like my own web portal, but so far all I can get is the clock.
8:18:22 PMRobbieF thanks everyone!!
8:18:50 PMTheFu1 garywhite: If you aren't paying for a service then ...
8:19:04 PMgarywhite then?
8:19:33 PMGarbee RobbieF: You missed an opportunity (unless I missed it) to compare Linux Distro's to onions.
8:19:44 PMGarbee Way early in the show.
8:20:12 PMGarbee Super good though. At least you knew to chuckle at my deb vs RPM question. ;)
8:21:31 PMgarywhite TheFu: What if I'm not paying for a service?
8:21:51 PMTheFu Then YOU are the product.
8:22:11 PMTheFu being sold.
8:22:45 PMgarywhite It's basically just a page that I'm trying to set up with a clock, a weather widget, & a news widget
8:22:49 PMgarywhite nothing fancy
8:23:12 PMTheFu In for a penny, in for a pound.
8:23:39 PMTheFu Everyone has to decide where they draw the line for themselves.
8:26:05 PMgarywhite if not, I'm just gonna put my bookmarks into symbaloo
8:31:39 PMgpop7 Goodnight all.
8:35:18 PMgarywhite nvm, I found a new website that acts just like iGoogle

Participants

Does Not Include Lurkers
Dennis_Kelley
Garbee
HenryBB
Mik3_0
RobbieF
SashaD2
Solbu
TSmith1
TheFu
TheFu1
alpeck
b_withage
benrob0329
garywhite
gpop7
napa_polarbear
sparklyballs
sr_Wences