May 2022 - 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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This Fun Symphony Was Made Using Camera Shutter Clicks [Video]
by Adam Thompson 16 Jun '22

16 Jun '22

In the spirit of The User's "Symphony for Dot Matrix Printers"... In the spirit of the Floppotron... https://www.geeksaresexy.net/2022/05/30/this-fun-symphony-was-made-using-ca… Enjoy :-) -Adam Get Outlook for Android<https://aka.ms/AAb9ysg>

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Roguelike Celebration 2022 Call for Proposals
by Adam Thompson 29 May '22

29 May '22

https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSd_wueJS7kt-t_M0tLXRW8culS5ycy6q7-…

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Bug in smart reporting?
by Trevor Cordes 23 May '22

23 May '22

Date: Mon, 23 May 2022 00:31:56 -0500 Device: /dev/sdg [SAT], 2 Currently unreadable (pending) sectors Hitachi HDS723020BLA642, S/N:MN1220F317TJTD, WWN:5-000cca-369d1a23a, FW:MN6OA580, 2.00 TB Date: Mon, 23 May 2022 00:23:32 -0500 Device: /dev/sdh [SAT], 2 Currently unreadable (pending) sectors Hitachi HDS723020BLA642, S/N:MN1220F317TJTD, WWN:5-000cca-369d1a23a, FW:MN6OA580, 2.00 TB No reboot in between... Note the SNs are identical. That's impossible. The drive models are probably truly the same, but the SNs certainly are not. I think I found a bug in smart, unless someone can think of a reason why I'd be seeing this. The problem is, I just relied on a smart email like this to decide which drive to pull and replace. Now I'm not so sure the smart reporting is telling me anything correct. This is on a fairly new Fedora and smartmontools-7.2-11 >From today forward I would recommend double-checking smart reports before acting on them. (smartctl -a, hdparm -i, etc)

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Collection of Bash one-liners
by Adam Thompson 10 May '22

10 May '22

https://onceupon.github.io/Bash-Oneliner<https://onceupon.github.io/Bash-Oneliner/#hardware> Rather long, makes for good bedtime reading in that sense, but an interesting guide to what the standard Linux/MacOS shell can do. -Adam Get Outlook for Android<https://aka.ms/AAb9ysg>

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Reminder: MUUG Online Meeting, Tonight, May 10, 7:30pm -- AWS Fargate
by Gilbert E. Detillieux 10 May '22

10 May '22

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, May 10th, at 7:30pm: Running Containers in the Cloud With AWS Fargate AWS Fargate is a serverless container solution that greatly simplifies the infrastructure required to run containerized applications. Without the need for Kubernetes or physical hosts, containerized apps can be quickly created and scaled with ease. 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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Check your hardware acceleration settings!
by Alberto Abrao 09 May '22

09 May '22

Hello everyone, in anticipation of our meeting tomorrow, it may be a good idea to check your browser's hardware acceleration settings, especially if you were having issues before. First of all, Chromium used to be a lot more "daring" than Firefox. That has changed somewhat: if you had issues on previous meetings, now is a good time to try both browsers again and see which one performs better. Also, Nvidia is a cluster-yeah, as is tradition. Always remember Linus' words of wisdom. If your card is new enough (aka anything past 7xx series, if I recall correctly), you probably want the proprietary driver, as nouveau does not work with them well - if at all - because of the signed firmware blobs they use. Intel/AMD is smooth sailing. If you're hurting, a few packages usually bring extra features that gets all the juice out of the card. I won't go into specifics, this is very hardware/distribution dependent. A lot more can be done to "massage" both browsers into submission, but there is the potential for things to blow up. If you have issues during meetings that disabling video streaming is enough to solve, reach out to me and I will try to see if there's anything I can do to assist. For Firefox: - First of all, make sure you're running the latest version. Hardware acceleration was greatly improved in the last 5 or so versions. Here's a quick primer: 1) at the address bar, type "about:support" 2) Scroll down to "Graphics". On "Compositing", you want to see "WebRender", *NOT* WebRender (Software). 3) If you see WebRender (Software), you may want to force it. There be dragons, and you have been warned: - At the address bar, type about:config - There, search for gfx.webrender.all. Double click on it to enable. For Chromium: Type chrome://gpu at the address bar. - If Video Encode/Decode is enable, you're golden. - If not, and other things such as OpenGL/Canvas/Compositing are, you may be good enough. CPU utilization will be high, but it'll plow through if your machine is new enough - and by that I mean most circa-2011 and up x86 processors. Exceptions that come to my mind are some AMD A-series, C-series, and E-series (Ax-xxxx, C-xx etc) but you will be able to use hardware acceleration with these, so using the CPU to "plow through" is a moot point. - Still, if you want to force whatever you can, do the following: 1) type chrome://flags at the address bar. Enable (preferably one at a time, testing in-between): - Override software rendering list - Hardware-accelerated mjpeg decode for captured frame - Accelerated 2D canvas - Hardware decode acceleration for k-SVC VP9 2) Test. If you have issues, disable some and/or all. If you want to try some stuff on your own, the ArchLinux Wiki has some good resources, although you have to translate the packages it references to the equivalent in your distro. I hope that helps. If you have any questions, please reach out here and we'll talk. Kind regards, Alberto Abrao

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MUUG Online Meeting, Tuesday, May 10, 7:30pm -- AWS Fargate
by Gilbert E. Detillieux 04 May '22

04 May '22

The Manitoba UNIX User Group (MUUG) will be holding its next monthly meeting online, on Tuesday, May 10th, at 7:30pm: Running Containers in the Cloud With AWS Fargate AWS Fargate is a serverless container solution that greatly simplifies the infrastructure required to run containerized applications. Without the need for Kubernetes or physical hosts, containerized apps can be quickly created and scaled with ease. 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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Fw: [SECURITY] Fedora 34 Update: gzip-1.10-5.fc34
by Trevor Cordes 01 May '22

01 May '22

Ugh, seriously? This is such basic shell escape security. Also: vim gets yet another sec update. Begin forwarded message: -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Fedora Update Notification FEDORA-2022-6b512ae9e5 2022-04-30 18:40:14.825912 -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Name : gzip Update Information: zgrep applied to a crafted file name with two or more newlines can no longer overwrite an arbitrary, attacker-selected file. reproducer: $ touch foo.gz $ echo foo | gzip > "$(printf '|\n;e touch pwned\n#.gz')" $ zgrep foo *.gz (the unfixed version of zgrep creates the file called pwned)

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