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I won the CS2AI raffle
by Vicki Nemeth 07 Sep '22

07 Sep '22

And now to watch 28.5 hours of seminar archives about operational technology, industrial control system and building cybersecurity.

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MUUG Online Meeting, Tuesday, Sept 13, 7:30pm -- PHP/rsyslog, and bpytop
by Gilbert Detillieux 06 Sep '22

06 Sep '22

The Manitoba UNIX User Group (MUUG) will be holding its next monthly meeting online, on Tuesday, September 13th, at 7:30pm: RTFM Duo This month, we'll have a couple short RTFM-style presentations. First, Trevor Cordes (who normally prefers working quietly behind the scenes on coding or newsletter editing) will be presenting on rsyslog. Next, Brad Vokey will be presenting on bpytop. Fighting the PHPower with rsyslog Help! The new PHP8 has made normal, everyday scripting practices an error on screen or in the logfiles. Fight the power and reclaim your PHP sanity using rsyslog and its filtering options. But beware, rsyslog itself is a minefield of inexplicableness. Trevor Cordes will lead you on a quick and easy path to victory over PHP, and any other daemon you may disagree with! Bpytop - a Python port and continuation of bashtop(1) This month Brad Vokey will give us a quick demonstration of byptop. Bpytop is a colorful, efficient, responsive, terminal resource monitor that shows usage and stats for your processor, memory, disks, network and processes. Written in Python by the original author of bashtop, the author claims it is faster and much better supported. Add some bling to your original old top(1) command! 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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retbleed
by Trevor Cordes 18 Jul '22

18 Jul '22

Oh joy, Spectre is back. New kernels are out to fix the new retbleed. Retbleed preys upon the fix for Spectre-2 that we all had fun with a few years ago. Some people thought the retpoline wasn't enough of a fix and that returns could also be a target for these gadget & sidechannel attacks. Turns out they were right. Unlike past vulns that were only, or worse, on Intel, this one is slightly worse on AMD. Anyhow, early numbers predict a 12-25% slowdown of your box once you update and reboot. Joy indeed! Info: just google retbleed

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Reminder: MUUG BBQ, Tonight, July 12, 6:30pm
by Gilbert E. Detillieux 12 Jul '22

12 Jul '22

A reminder that the MUUG BBQ is this evening. (Details below.) At this point, we're past the RSVP deadline, but we can probably accommodate a few more people (especially if they bring a potluck item to share). So, please do let us know if you plan to come, and haven't already let us know... MUUG BBQ: Tuesday, July 12th, 2022 MUUG is having a summer BBQ and everyone is invited! Spouses, children, and significant others are also welcome to attend. Date: July 12th, 2022 Time: 6:30 pm Location: Brad’s place, 2942 Henderson Hwy, East St. Paul The MUUG board has decided it is time for all of us to try and get together in person – so we are hosting a BBQ event! Burgers, hot dogs, and pop will be provided by MUUG. Feel free to bring your own food to share with others and your own beverages if you like. *Please RSVP* via email to <board(a)muug.ca> with the subject “MUUG BBQ” *before July 10th* so we know how much food we need to buy. Detailed directions to Brad's place, and contact information, can be found in the June 2022 newsletter: https://muug.ca/pub/muuglines/pdf/muug2206.pdf For more information about MUUG, and its monthly meetings, check out their web server: https://muug.ca/ -- Gilbert E. Detillieux E-mail: <gedetil(a)muug.ca> Manitoba UNIX User Group Web: http://muug.ca/

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BGP data in real time?
by John Lange 10 Jul '22

10 Jul '22

Does anyone know of a good way for monitoring BGP route data in near real-time? There are several public BGPPlay sites out there but the data seems delayed? That being said, one challenge I'm having with the sites is the time stamps don't say which timezone they are in. I assume it is UTC but if that is the case then the data is at least a couple hours old on any of the sites I've found. John

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MUUG BBQ, Tuesday, July 12, 6:30pm
by Gilbert E. Detillieux 06 Jul '22

06 Jul '22

MUUG BBQ: Tuesday, July 12th, 2022 MUUG is having a summer BBQ and everyone is invited! Spouses, children, and significant others are also welcome to attend. Date: July 12th, 2022 Time: 6:30 pm Location: Brad’s place, 2942 Henderson Hwy, East St. Paul The MUUG board has decided it is time for all of us to try and get together in person – so we are hosting a BBQ event! Burgers, hot dogs, and pop will be provided by MUUG. Feel free to bring your own food to share with others and your own beverages if you like. *Please RSVP* via email to <board(a)muug.ca> with the subject “MUUG BBQ” *before July 10th* so we know how much food we need to buy. Detailed directions to Brad's place, and contact information, can be found in the June 2022 newsletter: https://muug.ca/pub/muuglines/pdf/muug2206.pdf For more information about MUUG, and its monthly meetings, check out their web server: https://muug.ca/ -- Gilbert E. Detillieux E-mail: <gedetil(a)muug.ca> Manitoba UNIX User Group Web: http://muug.ca/

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Fedora 36 subtle font breakage
by Adam Thompson 04 Jul '22

04 Jul '22

For the two of you this will affect :-) : https://utcc.utoronto.ca/~cks/space/blog/linux/Fedora36FontconfigMystery -Adam

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Ha! - the Nethack Challenge
by Adam Thompson 26 Jun '22

26 Jun '22

https://nethackchallenge.com/report.html Turns out my favorite UNIX-based, curses-based game is useful as a benchmark for ML/AI, who'd've thunk? -Adam

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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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Reminder: MUUG Online Meeting, Tonight, June 14, 7:30pm -- Nftables vs pf
by Gilbert E. Detillieux 14 Jun '22

14 Jun '22

A reminder that the MUUG online meeting will be on BBB this evening... (Date corrected below.) The Manitoba UNIX User Group (MUUG) will be holding its next monthly meeting online, on Tuesday, June 14th, at 7:30pm: Nftables vs pf Alberto Abrao will show how to use nftables - the modern firewall subsystem of the Netfilter framework provided by the Linux kernel, and the successor to iptables - to create a basic firewall for your network. He will also compare it to OpenBSD's PF. 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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