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Linux for the disabled
by Frank H 05 Dec '19

05 Dec '19

I was diagnosed with ALS earlier in the year. Among other things, my voice is quickly becoming unintelligible, and my hands are weakening to the point that one day I won't be able to type. Eye tracking hardware/software is probably going to my mode of communication. Are you guys aware of anything like that for linux? When I use Windows, I feel like I'm in a stranger's house. Thanks,Frank

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Looking for PTP aware switch
by Gerald Brandt 04 Dec '19

04 Dec '19

Hi, I'm looking for an IEEE 1588v2/PTP aware switch. Looking around, I've found several ruggadized ones and a couple in office types. I only need something for use in office, and something with 16 or 24 GigE ports would work. The ones I've found are pretty expensive, considering we would need 4 of them. Gerald

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MUUG Meeting, Dec 10, 7:30pm -- UNIX @ 50, Round-table, Mingling and Munchies
by Gilbert E. Detillieux 03 Dec '19

03 Dec '19

The Manitoba UNIX User Group (MUUG) will be holding its next monthly meeting on Tuesday, December 10. The meeting topic for this month is as follows: UNIX@50 (A Personal History) UNIX turned 50 this past summer. Gilbert Detillieux has worked with UNIX systems for the last 40 of those 50 years. In this not-too-technical presentation, Gilbert will take you through 5 decades of UNIX evolution (with some personal reflections on the last 4 of those decades). Come for the interesting trivia, stay for the philosophical musings! Round-table, Mingling and Munchies As 2019 draws to a close, MUUG will continue our recent tradition of turning the December meeting into more of a social event. *Bring your favourite gadget!* We will have the usual round-table session, followed by the RTFM presentation (see above), then a gadget show & tell, and finally, some time for mingling, eating, and drinking. *This will be a pot-luck snack event.* Cookies and pop will be provided by MUUG, but members are encouraged to bring their own finger food to sample and share. Feel free to bring your own drink as well if you want something particular - just remember that we don't have a liquor license! Winnipeg Harvest Food Drive Also as in previous years, we will combine our pot luck with a food drive for Winnipeg Harvest. Cash donations are preferred this year as every $1 Winnipeg Harvest receives, they are able to pick up and deliver $20 worth of groceries. *Any member who donates at least $1 or brings at least 1 food item will be given an entry into the door prize draw!* Winnipeg Harvest has information about what they're looking for on their website: http://winnipegharvest.org/donate-food/ 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. ******************************************************************* Please note our new meeting location for this month: *Room 1L06* Lockhart Hall, University of Winnipeg, entrance on Ellice Ave. between Spence and Balmoral St. Parking is available on the surrounding streets and in the lots on nearby streets. Look for signage once you're at the building, or ask a security guard. ******************************************************************* 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: https://muug.ca/meetings/MUUGmeeting.pdf -- Manitoba UNIX User Group E-mail: <gedetil(a)muug.ca> c/o Gilbert E. Detillieux Web: http://muug.ca/ University of Manitoba Phone: (204)474-8161 Winnipeg MB CANADA R3T 2N2 Fax: (204)474-7609

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The "Save .org" petition
by Glen Ditchfield 27 Nov '19

27 Nov '19

As you may have heard, ICANN removed the price caps on .org domains, then quietly decided to sell the .org registry to a private equity firm linked to a former ICANN CEO and several American billionaires (https:// www.theregister.co.uk/2019/11/26/org_selloff_internet/) So, a bunch of respectable organizations have started a petition to stop that, at https://savedotorg.org/ . Signing might help.

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VA4WAN spare equipment giveaway this Wednesday
by Colin Stanners 26 Nov '19

26 Nov '19

Hi all, please forward to any other Manitoba IT / tech groups that may be interested. Our VA4WAN group (Winnipeg-wide amateur radio wi-fi / IP network) is doing some big stock cleanups and we have excess gear that is being given away at VE4WSC for anyone who wants it. This includes some routers / switches / very basic wallmount racks / outdoor radios / outdoor antennas / satellite dishes (without LNBs) / etc. On Wednesday Nov 27th from 7-9PM, we'll have it open to the public, so if you're interested please stop by at 2nd floor of 598 St Mary's Rd. If you expect to come late please RSVP to CStanners(a)gmail.com . Some of this equipment was donated to us with the terms that it can only be used by amateur radio operators, so if you are not a ham but desire equipment that we can't give to you, we'll help you try to find something else.

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Printers needing a new home
by Adam Thompson 25 Nov '19

25 Nov '19

(Hint: hit Reply, not Reply-All. Don't be that person.) I have two printers that don't meet my needs right now just taking up floor space. I need them to stop taking up so much space. I figure *someone* on these lists will be interested in free mid-range laser printers, right? First: 1 x HP LJ2000dtn (PCL6/PS3, 2 trays, duplexer, network, 24ppm) - tray "2" can't be inserted right now, which makes the printer mostly useless until that gets fixed. Free to a good home that cares enough to repair it - *probably* an easy job, no guarantees. No guarantees on the rollers, either, but it worked OK last time I used it. You pick it up from home (near St. Vital Center) or office (near UofM). It's kinda bulky but not that heavy (42lbs, but it comes apart) -> https://www.laserpros.com/img/TechTips/hp-2300-printer-specs.pdf And, recently acquired used to replace the HP but I screwed up on the model# (I thought it was a T652dn): 1 x Lexmark T652n (PCL/PS, 1 tray + 1 extra tray, network, 52ppm) comes with 2 extra toner cartridges (~10k pages each). Free to anyone who doesn't need duplexing. (Oops on my part when I got it.) Makes an alarming but apparently harmless thumping sound, and the 3rd-party non-Lexmark toner tends to oversaturate (you can adjust density in print driver to fix this). Everything seems to work, regardless. Weighs >50 lbs and is a rather large & awkward cube even after disconnecting the trays, so you can come pick it up. (It'll fit into the back of any taxi without issues.) -> http://brochure.copiercatalog.com/lexmark/0030G0125.pdf Reply if interested. They'll get dropped off at Urban Mine or similar if no-one wants them. -Adam

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Appropriate discussions for this list
by Gilbert E. Detillieux 12 Nov '19

12 Nov '19

A reminder that the <roundtable(a)muug.ca> mailing list was intended as a way to continue discussions around appropriate topics for the round-table sessions at our monthly meetings. As such, please limit your posts to technical topics that would be of general interest to members of MUUG. If you feel the need to post on topics related to politics or conspiracy theories, please find a more appropriate forum for such discussions elsewhere. We do not currently moderate postings to this list, but might consider doing so if things get out of hand. Thanks, Gilbert -- Manitoba UNIX User Group E-mail: <gedetil(a)muug.ca> c/o Gilbert E. Detillieux Web: http://muug.ca/ University of Manitoba Phone: (204)474-8161 Winnipeg MB CANADA R3T 2N2 Fax: (204)474-7609

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Re: [RndTbl] Roundtable Digest, Vol 179, Issue 3
by Geoffrey Jacobs 10 Nov '19

10 Nov '19

Let's not. On November 10, 2019 12:00:01 PM CST, roundtable-request(a)muug.ca wrote: >Send Roundtable mailing list submissions to > roundtable(a)muug.ca > >To subscribe or unsubscribe via the World Wide Web, visit > https://muug.ca/mailman/listinfo/roundtable >or, via email, send a message with subject or body 'help' to > roundtable-request(a)muug.ca > >You can reach the person managing the list at > roundtable-owner(a)muug.ca > >When replying, please edit your Subject line so it is more specific >than "Re: Contents of Roundtable digest..." > > >Today's Topics: > > 1. Big Think: How outrage mobs silence academics — and what we > can do to stop them (Ihor Jakowec) > > >---------------------------------------------------------------------- > >Message: 1 >Date: Sat, 9 Nov 2019 13:39:57 -0600 >From: Ihor Jakowec <ijakowec(a)icloud.com> >To: roundtable(a)muug.ca >Subject: [RndTbl] Big Think: How outrage mobs silence academics — > and what we can do to stop them >Message-ID: <3670AA93-321C-4A6B-B73F-F6305360DE51(a)icloud.com> >Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" > > >How outrage mobs silence academics — and what we can do to stop them >When the protection of academic freedom is compromised, scholarship and >greater society suffer the effects. > >Read in Big Think: https://apple.news/AcdPBy36UQiKat9h_tsK71g > > >Shared from Apple News > >Made me think. > >Ihor Jakowec > > >Sent from my iPhone >

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Re: [RndTbl] Roundtable Digest, Vol 179, Issue 3
by Kat 10 Nov '19

10 Nov '19

https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2018/dec/07/us-billionaires-hard-… On Sun., Nov. 10, 2019, 12:00 p.m. , <roundtable-request(a)muug.ca> wrote: > Send Roundtable mailing list submissions to > roundtable(a)muug.ca > > To subscribe or unsubscribe via the World Wide Web, visit > https://muug.ca/mailman/listinfo/roundtable > or, via email, send a message with subject or body 'help' to > roundtable-request(a)muug.ca > > You can reach the person managing the list at > roundtable-owner(a)muug.ca > > When replying, please edit your Subject line so it is more specific > than "Re: Contents of Roundtable digest..." > > > Today's Topics: > > 1. Big Think: How outrage mobs silence academics — and what we > can do to stop them (Ihor Jakowec) > > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > > Message: 1 > Date: Sat, 9 Nov 2019 13:39:57 -0600 > From: Ihor Jakowec <ijakowec(a)icloud.com> > To: roundtable(a)muug.ca > Subject: [RndTbl] Big Think: How outrage mobs silence academics — > and what we can do to stop them > Message-ID: <3670AA93-321C-4A6B-B73F-F6305360DE51(a)icloud.com> > Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" > > > How outrage mobs silence academics — and what we can do to stop them > When the protection of academic freedom is compromised, scholarship and > greater society suffer the effects. > > Read in Big Think: https://apple.news/AcdPBy36UQiKat9h_tsK71g > > > Shared from Apple News > > Made me think. > > Ihor Jakowec > > > Sent from my iPhone >

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Big Think: How outrage mobs silence academics — and what we can do to stop them
by Ihor Jakowec 09 Nov '19

09 Nov '19

How outrage mobs silence academics — and what we can do to stop them When the protection of academic freedom is compromised, scholarship and greater society suffer the effects. Read in Big Think: https://apple.news/AcdPBy36UQiKat9h_tsK71g Shared from Apple News Made me think. Ihor Jakowec Sent from my iPhone

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