December 2021 - Roundtable

How does on get the date function to work in Libre Office spreadsheet?
by eh＠eduardhiebert.com 08 May '23

08 May '23

Hi, I've formatted the cells as date mm/dd/yy and entered the values as is. Also tried by preceeding with equal sign in case deemed to be a formula but neither works. I assume a difference between two days yields the difference in days, correct? Or are the formula different than plain math? Eduard the Osborne guy at last meeting

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55" monitor and multiple laptops
by Adam Thompson 16 Dec '21

16 Dec '21

So there's the 55" TV I'm using as a monitor, and the cookie cooling racks I found at Lee Valley that are wide enough to accommodate my laptops *with* dock without having to take over the whole desk. Two notable downsides: HDMI power management doesn't work the same way with a TV as with a monitor, so I have to keep the remote handy to turn it back on every time I sit down... And the power button for the lower laptop is in the far back-right corner :-(. Thankfully I don't need it often! -Adam

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Reminder: MUUG Online Meeting, Tonight, Dec 14, 7:30pm -- Jellyfin, Extended Round-Table and Show-and-Tell
by Gilbert E. Detillieux 15 Dec '21

15 Dec '21

A reminder that the MUUG online meeting will be on BBB this evening... The Manitoba UNIX User Group (MUUG) will be holding its next monthly meeting online, on Tuesday, December 14th, at 7:30pm: Jellyfin, Extended Round-Table and Show-and-Tell MUUG has a tradition of making the December meeting more of an informal, social gathering. Because we're still meeting online, we've had to let go of some of the traditional aspects of this year-end meeting (like sharing food), but we will try to keep some of our socail December tradition alive. Show us your favourite gadget! As part of an extended round-table discussion, we'll try to keep the gadget show-and-tell. (This year, you don't have to haul it to the meeting site, but it will have to be small enough to show on your webcam!) If you have a cool device, something unusual, whether brand new or ready for the museum, there will be an opportunity to show it off. Mini-Presentation: Jellyfin This month, Wyatt Zacharias will demonstrate Jellyfin, a suite of free and open-source multimedia applications designed to organize, manage, and share digital media files to networked devices. Harvest Manitoba We won't be able to collect food and cash donations this year, but please remember that the needs for some may be greater than usual. We encourage you to donate to Harvest Manitoba, or your favourite local charity. This will once again be an online meeting. Stay tuned to our muug.ca home page for the official URL, which will be made available about a half hour before the meeting starts. (Reload the page if you don't see the link, or if there are issues with connecting.) The group holds its meetings at 7:30pm on the second Tuesday of every month from September to June. (There are no meetings in July and August.) Meetings are open to the general public; you don't have to be a MUUG member to attend. For more information about MUUG, and its monthly meetings, check out their web server: https://muug.ca/ Help us promote this month's meeting, by putting this poster up on your workplace bulletin board or other suitable public message board, or linking to it on social media: https://muug.ca/meetings/MUUGmeeting.pdf -- Gilbert E. Detillieux E-mail: <gedetil(a)muug.ca> Manitoba UNIX User Group Web: http://muug.ca/

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MUUG Online Meeting, Tuesday, Dec 14, 7:30pm -- Jellyfin, Extended Round-Table and Show-and-Tell
by Gilbert E. Detillieux 08 Dec '21

08 Dec '21

The Manitoba UNIX User Group (MUUG) will be holding its next monthly meeting online, on Tuesday, December 14th, at 7:30pm: Jellyfin, Extended Round-Table and Show-and-Tell MUUG has a tradition of making the December meeting more of an informal, social gathering. Because we're still meeting online, we've had to let go of some of the traditional aspects of this year-end meeting (like sharing food), but we will try to keep some of our socail December tradition alive. Show us your favourite gadget! As part of an extended round-table discussion, we'll try to keep the gadget show-and-tell. (This year, you don't have to haul it to the meeting site, but it will have to be small enough to show on your webcam!) If you have a cool device, something unusual, whether brand new or ready for the museum, there will be an opportunity to show it off. Mini-Presentation: Jellyfin This month, Wyatt Zacharias will demonstrate Jellyfin, a suite of free and open-source multimedia applications designed to organize, manage, and share digital media files to networked devices. Harvest Manitoba We won't be able to collect food and cash donations this year, but please remember that the needs for some may be greater than usual. We encourage you to donate to Harvest Manitoba, or your favourite local charity. This will once again be an online meeting. Stay tuned to our muug.ca home page for the official URL, which will be made available about a half hour before the meeting starts. (Reload the page if you don't see the link, or if there are issues with connecting.) The group holds its meetings at 7:30pm on the second Tuesday of every month from September to June. (There are no meetings in July and August.) Meetings are open to the general public; you don't have to be a MUUG member to attend. For more information about MUUG, and its monthly meetings, check out their web server: https://muug.ca/ Help us promote this month's meeting, by putting this poster up on your workplace bulletin board or other suitable public message board, or linking to it on social media: https://muug.ca/meetings/MUUGmeeting.pdf -- Gilbert E. Detillieux E-mail: <gedetil(a)muug.ca> Manitoba UNIX User Group Web: http://muug.ca/

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Do not use BellMTS Fibre internet
by Kevin McGregor 07 Dec '21

07 Dec '21

I recently switched from Shaw Gigabit Internet (1 Gb down, 100 Mb up) to BellMTS Fibre 500 (500 Mb down, 500 Mb up). And then a month or so later I find out that Bell BLOCKS ALL NTP TRAFFIC. So none of the systems in my home have the right time anymore. Yes, there is a workaround: Manually switch all of your devices and systems to point to ntp.mts.net to get the right time. This sucks. If I had known this, I would not have switched. The rep I talked to said there had been some sort of attack using NTP, so they just block it all now. Grr.

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shaw 2nd ip
by Trevor Cordes 02 Dec '21

02 Dec '21

I think with Shaw residential I can get 2 dynamic IPs? I'm using my modem in "bridge mode" or "wired mode" or whatever the shaw techs want to call it this week. In other words, the builtin router is disabled and it acts just like an old-style cable modem direct into my firewall. Obviously, I'm getting 1 dynamic. That's great. Can I get the 2nd too, but using just the one cable to the modem, and just the one NIC? I'm guessing I'll have to assign a 2nd IP, 2nd fake MAC, and/or "fake" interface to the existing interface? Then setup dhcpclient to use it (too)? (All in linux, of course.) Is what I'm describing doable or am I missing something here? Any tips on the sequence of events here? Thanks!

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Re: [RndTbl] Your message to Roundtable awaits moderator approval
by Hartmut W Sager 01 Dec '21

01 Dec '21

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