September 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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Apache reverse-proxy woes, solved
by Adam Thompson 15 Sep '21

15 Sep '21

I finally figured out what I had to do to make Apache 2.4 happy... 1) Unlike everything else in Apache, <Location> blocks are LAST-match-wins, not first. 2) If you have ProxyPass xxx configured in, say, <Location /> and then have <Location /server-status>, you must add a "ProxyPass !" directive in every more-specific location. This is because all Location blocks get *merged* at parse-time into a single config data structure, apparently. So by re-ordering <location> blocks and adding "ProxyPass !" to the namespace bits I didn't want to proxy, it works. -Adam

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Reminder: MUUG Online Meeting, Tonight, Sept 14, 7:30pm -- tmux(1)
by Gilbert E. Detillieux 14 Sep '21

14 Sep '21

A reminder that the MUUG online meeting will be on Jitsi this evening... The Manitoba UNIX User Group (MUUG) will be holding its next monthly meeting online, on Tuesday, September 14th, at 7:30pm: tmux(1) - THE terminal multiplexer This month, following up on his newsletter article from June, Brad Vokey will demonstrate tmux(1). tmux enables a number of terminals to be created, accessed, and controlled from a single screen. It can then be detached from your screen and continue running in the background, and then reattached later. Each session is persistent and will survive accidental disconnection (such as a ssh(1) connection timeout) or intentional detaching. Each session can also be attached to multiple different terminals, for easy access to your running server processes and current environment from multiple different computers all at the same time. Brad will go over the basic commands and concepts and will also demonstrate the tmux plug-in manager (tpm) showing us some useful plug-ins including: - tmux-resurrect (persists tmux environment across system restarts) - tmux-yank (tmux plugin for copying to system clipboard) - tmux-autoreload - Watches your tmux configuration file and automatically reloads it on change. - tmux-continuum - Continuous saving of your tmux environment. Automatic restore when tmux is started. Automatic tmux start when computer is turned on. and possibly more, if time permits! 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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Godot open source game engine
by Troy Denton 08 Sep '21

08 Sep '21

Any game developers on this list? Godot (https://godotengine.org/) is an open-source game engine - I'd call it a viable alternative to the Unity game engine. I recently participated in a "stop waiting for godot" game jam. The idea being, learning this new game engine and making a simple game over a weekend. You can see my little attempt here https://hamnstar.itch.io/log-game, and the rest of the entries at https://itch.io/jam/stop-waiting-for-godot/entries I'm very impressed by this open source project and the quality you can produce with it (note: my little game is intentionally retro-looking :) ) -Troy

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MUUG Online Meeting, Tuesday, Sept 14, 7:30pm -- tmux(1)
by Gilbert E. Detillieux 07 Sep '21

07 Sep '21

The Manitoba UNIX User Group (MUUG) will be holding its next monthly meeting online, on Tuesday, September 14th, at 7:30pm: tmux(1) - THE terminal multiplexer This month, following up on his newsletter article from June, Brad Vokey will demonstrate tmux(1). tmux enables a number of terminals to be created, accessed, and controlled from a single screen. It can then be detached from your screen and continue running in the background, and then reattached later. Each session is persistent and will survive accidental disconnection (such as a ssh(1) connection timeout) or intentional detaching. Each session can also be attached to multiple different terminals, for easy access to your running server processes and current environment from multiple different computers all at the same time. Brad will go over the basic commands and concepts and will also demonstrate the tmux plug-in manager (tpm) showing us some useful plug-ins including: - tmux-resurrect (persists tmux environment across system restarts) - tmux-yank (tmux plugin for copying to system clipboard) - tmux-autoreload - Watches your tmux configuration file and automatically reloads it on change. - tmux-continuum - Continuous saving of your tmux environment. Automatic restore when tmux is started. Automatic tmux start when computer is turned on. and possibly more, if time permits! 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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Fwd: Server for sale
by Colin Stanners 03 Sep '21

03 Sep '21

---------- Forwarded message --------- From: William Franzin <wfranzin(a)gmail.com> Date: Fri, Sep 3, 2021, 4:56 PM Subject: Server for sale To: Colin Stanners <cstanners(a)gmail.com> Hi Colin, Could you please forward this to any lists you think might help sell it. I've had this machine for a while now and haven't done anything with it other than power on test. It's clean and is ready for drives and install. No rails. HP ProLiant DL380p Gen8 Intel Xeon E5-2690 v2 3.00GHz 1 Processor 10 Cores, 256GB Mem 2x 2.5 inch empty trays + 6 covers Onboard 4x ethernet + 4x ethernet card Looking for $900 Thank you William

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