"gmcaplan---" == gmcaplan--- via WLUG <wlug@lists.wlug.org> writes:
Hi Tim, As you might remember, I attended several WLUG meetings when they were virtual. I read a recent email that led me to believe there is still a way for me t attend virtually. Is that true? If so. I will try attend some future meetings.
You should be able to find the link on the website for the monthly meetings, and we do still try to make them both virtual and in-person at the same time. So please do join next month!
Also, here is question that maybe you or someone in WLUG can help me with. My computer runs (for now, don't ask why) Ubuntu 18.04 LTS. A financial institution says I must run a virus scan very soon. I installed clamav and then ran freshclam. As far as I can tell, freshclam has been running for 15 hours, and is still running. Is that typical etc.?
I suspect they're just doing this for all people who connect via a web-browser. But it's hard to know if it's an ok thing because you don't tell us how many files you have and how much data needs to be scanned. And I would also rcommend that you upgrade to 20.04 or 22.04 as soon as you can. Both of those releases should run just fine on a system running 18.04, which is really quite old. It might also just be that you're web browser is old (in the financial institution's eyes) so they want a scan. Is this a laptop with limited memory and/or disk space? Or an old old CPU? More details would help us here. Thanks.
George Caplan
P.S. Here is some blatant self-promotion which doubles as recruiting info for UPchieve, which especially needs Physics and CS coaches (tutors). It also explains why I am too busy to update my OS ... for now. (I am now very close to 3000 tutoring session.) https://upchieve.org/blog/volunteer-math-tutor-george
That would make sense why you're so busy and why you don't want to possibly break thins with an upgrade. It might be simpler to spin up a VM on the system and install the latest version of Ubuntu in there, with a newer web browser and see if your financial institution will be happier then.
On 2024-04-12 9:16 am, Tim Keller via WLUG wrote
Having our own Jitsi instance was fantastic!
Jansen got into ollama AI stuff and it was really cool. He's expressed interest in doing a full end to end demo. We talked about the xz explot and it's entanglement with systemd and OpenSSH. It was a great conversation about the history and missteps of systemd and how we got to this place where so many pieces of critical software in the FOSS are supported by just a few people.
Next month's meeting will need to be moved around as it conflicts with something, I'll give more details as I learn them.
Thanks, Tim.
-- I am leery of the allegiances of any politician who refers to their constituents as "consumers".
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