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MUUG Meeting, June 10, 7:30pm -- Firefox Screen Scraping
by gedetil＠cs.umanitoba.ca 03 Jun '14

03 Jun '14

The Manitoba UNIX User Group (MUUG) will be holding its next monthly meeting on Tuesday, June 10. The meeting topic for this month is as follows: Firefox Screen Scraping This month Trevor Cordes will be demonstrating how to screen scrape web pages and programatically control Firefox with Perl. We'll tackle the scraping of even complicated, anti-scrape websites that require JavaScript logins. Now no site is unscrapable! Adam Thompson will be covering the netcat nc(1) utility for the RTFM section this time. The group holds its general 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 1L12, Lockhart Hall, University of Winnipeg, entrance on Ellice Ave. between Spence St. 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: http://www.muug.mb.ca/ Help us promote this month's meeting, by putting this poster up on your workplace bulletin board or other suitable public message board: http://www.muug.mb.ca/meetings/MUUGmeeting.pdf -- Gilbert E. Detillieux E-mail: <gedetil(a)muug.mb.ca> Manitoba UNIX User Group Web: http://www.muug.mb.ca/ PO Box 130 St-Boniface Phone: (204)474-8161 Winnipeg MB CANADA R2H 3B4 Fax: (204)474-7609

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Fwd: Re: Mike Pfaiffer
by Gilbert E. Detillieux 02 Jun '14

02 Jun '14

FYI... ----- Original Message ----- From: norm wall <mcwallus(a)shaw.ca> To: <roundtable-bounces(a)muug.mb.ca> References: <mailman.119.1401517600.1831.roundtable(a)muug.mb.ca> In-Reply-To: <mailman.119.1401517600.1831.roundtable(a)muug.mb.ca> Subject: Re: Your message to Roundtable awaits moderator approval Date: Sun, 1 Jun 2014 22:48:47 -0600 Thank you for addressing my inquiry about the passing of active roundtable member Michael Pfaiffer. I agree that it is most ironic as well as tradgic that Mike died from a disease that is most often associated with excessive alcohol intake. When we would go out for a bite to eat and I would order a cocktail, Mike would reply, "Sorry I don't touch the stuff". Next month will be the one year anniversary of his passing. From what I knew of Mike, he always put his family and friends first. My deepest condolences to his family, friends and roundtable members. Most Sincerely, Norm ----- Original Message ----- From: <roundtable-bounces(a)muug.mb.ca> To: <mcwallus(a)shaw.ca> Sent: Saturday, May 31, 2014 12:26 AM Subject: Your message to Roundtable awaits moderator approval > Your mail to 'Roundtable' with the subject > > Re: Re: [RndTbl] Mike Pfaiffer > > Is being held until the list moderator can review it for approval. > > The reason it is being held: > > Post by non-member to a members-only list > > Either the message will get posted to the list, or you will receive > notification of the moderator's decision. If you would like to cancel > this posting, please visit the following URL: > > > http://www.muug.mb.ca/mailman/confirm/roundtable/323ce78be5cfa9da8ac1f659b4… > -- Gilbert E. Detillieux E-mail: <gedetil(a)muug.mb.ca> Manitoba UNIX User Group Web: http://www.muug.mb.ca/ PO Box 130 St-Boniface Phone: (204)474-8161 Winnipeg MB CANADA R2H 3B4 Fax: (204)474-7609

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Linux distro for Pentium III
by Robert Dyck 01 Jun '14

01 Jun '14

I have a customer who wants a laptop with Linux. My impression is he wants to learn Linux. I have refurbished laptops: IBM ThinkPad A21m, with Pentium III processor @ 750 MHz, 512MB RAM, and I can upgrade the hard drive to 40GB. Which distro of Linux would you recommend? I would ask Mike Pfaiffer, but he passed away earlier this year. Thanks, Rob Dyck

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Skype latest version - Are they finally shifting the data into the cloud?
by Hartmut W Sager 29 May '14

29 May '14

Skype's invitation to upgrade to their latest version is interesting! Based on the new features, I am suspecting that Skype is finally shifting the data into the cloud (hitherto stored on and fragmented across your computers), as I said for years they must do. The following features (requiring the new Skype client software) suggest this new cloud architecture: • View your group chats and chat history across multiple devices. • Sync all messages across devices. • Group notification settings on one device will roam across all your devices. As for the following item: • Send and receive instant messages when your contacts are offline. It's about time for this feature!!! As my friends all know, this has plagued me for years. (Though not recently anymore, since I simply abandoned Skype for such purposes.) Practically every other system was free of this problem. (Gmail's text chat works great, by the way.) Hartmut Sager

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Re: [RndTbl] Roundtable Digest, Vol 113, Issue 2
by Michael Doob 13 May '14

13 May '14

On 14-05-13 12:00 PM, roundtable-request(a)muug.mb.ca wrote: > Send Roundtable mailing list submissions to > roundtable(a)muug.mb.ca > > To subscribe or unsubscribe via the World Wide Web, visit > http://www.muug.mb.ca/mailman/listinfo/roundtable > or, via email, send a message with subject or body 'help' to > roundtable-request(a)muug.mb.ca > > You can reach the person managing the list at > roundtable-owner(a)muug.mb.ca > > When replying, please edit your Subject line so it is more specific > than "Re: Contents of Roundtable digest..." > > > Today's Topics: > > 1. The Oldest Rivalry in Computing (John Lange) > > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > > Message: 1 > Date: Mon, 12 May 2014 15:42:28 -0500 > From: John Lange <john(a)johnlange.ca> > To: "Roundtable, MUUG" <Roundtable(a)muug.mb.ca> > Subject: [RndTbl] The Oldest Rivalry in Computing > Message-ID: > <CAPfXosj4MbcxL_X40Ef4jk31jyYuDpdrjwCR1mJJbP=ewNNiwA(a)mail.gmail.com> > Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" > > This mailing list is the only place I can think of where I could possibly > share this article: > > "Emacs and Vi have been battling for text-editor supremacy among > programmers for 40 years." > > http://www.slate.com/articles/technology/bitwise/2014/05/oldest_software_ri… > > > John >

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The Oldest Rivalry in Computing
by John Lange 12 May '14

12 May '14

This mailing list is the only place I can think of where I could possibly share this article: "Emacs and Vi have been battling for text-editor supremacy among programmers for 40 years." http://www.slate.com/articles/technology/bitwise/2014/05/oldest_software_ri… John

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MUUG Meeting, May 13, 7:30pm -- Raspberry Pi Camera
by gedetil＠cs.umanitoba.ca 06 May '14

06 May '14

The Manitoba UNIX User Group (MUUG) will be holding its next monthly meeting on Tuesday, May 13. The meeting topic for this month is as follows: Raspberry Pi Camera Wyatt Zacharias will once again be presenting on an application of the Raspberry Pi, this time using a camera with that hardware. Gilbert Detillieux will be presenting an RTFM on the ImageMagick suite of graphic tools, focusing on the convert(1) command. The group holds its general 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 1L12, Lockhart Hall, University of Winnipeg, entrance on Ellice Ave. between Spence St. 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: http://www.muug.mb.ca/ Help us promote this month's meeting, by putting this poster up on your workplace bulletin board or other suitable public message board: http://www.muug.mb.ca/meetings/MUUGmeeting.pdf -- Gilbert E. Detillieux E-mail: <gedetil(a)muug.mb.ca> Manitoba UNIX User Group Web: http://www.muug.mb.ca/ PO Box 130 St-Boniface Phone: (204)474-8161 Winnipeg MB CANADA R2H 3B4 Fax: (204)474-7609

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Re: [RndTbl] Router / NASA
by Robert Keizer 30 Apr '14

30 Apr '14

I run arch and zfs on my laptop. I haven't had any issues really.. assuming your not trying to saturate a few gbit sustained, I imagine the performance won't come into play. If you absolutely require encryption on disk as well, I would go with FreeBSD; Little bit more bare bones when compared with freenas. On 2014-04-21 1:06 PM, "Paul Sierks" <psierks(a)sierkstech.net> wrote: > Weird subject, I know. But this is only for personal residential use. I've > been running Arch on a system with a number of disks in raid for all my > shared storage needs. This system also doubles as a router / firewall with > Wifi, and other little things such as pxe booting. We'll recently I've been > wanting to use ZFS with it more and more. So I figured I'd get opinions. > Arch does have packages for ZFS, which would provide most features, just > not encryption. So would I be better to use pfSense or the like off a USB > and add what I need for ZFS, nfs, etc to it, or to just use FreeBSD? or is > there some other suggestions. > > Thanks, > Paul > _______________________________________________ > Roundtable mailing list > Roundtable(a)muug.mb.ca > http://www.muug.mb.ca/mailman/listinfo/roundtable >

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Odd shell differences
by Robert Keizer 25 Apr '14

25 Apr '14

I ran into this earlier today and thought I'd share. Shell fails. sh-4.2$ pwd /tmp/a sh-4.2$ mv /tmp/a /tmp/b sh-4.2$ pwd /tmp/b sh-4.2$ bash robert.keizer@qubit:/tmp/b$ mv /tmp/b /tmp/c robert.keizer@qubit:/tmp/b$ pwd /tmp/b robert.keizer@qubit:/tmp/b$ ls -alh /tmp/ | grep ^d.*c$ drwxr-xr-x 2 robert.keizer robert.keizer 4.0K Apr 16 16:09 c robert.keizer@qubit:/tmp/b$ ls -alh /tmp/ | grep ^d.*b$ robert.keizer@qubit:/tmp/b$ exit sh-4.2$ pwd /tmp/c sh-4.2$

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keeping /home contents with another distro install
by Kat 25 Apr '14

25 Apr '14

Why does Ubuntu recommend you keep the account names you already had? Is this just a convenience thing for re-attaching the home directories, or is there something else going on? https://help.ubuntu.com/community/Partitioning/Home/Moving No drives or partitions are encrypted. Basically, my install of Ubuntu has problems all over the place (including not playing nice with my ATI Radeon HD 3450 after an upgrade), and I want to start from scratch with Mint when I re-install anyway. When I installed last time around, I made several partitions and I put my /boot, /, and, /home (which is ext4 on sdb4), all on different partitions. (I have another install on another drive too, but that's a whole other ball of wax I don't care about at the moment. GRUB looks pretty messy.) The obvious thing to me is to make sure you don't select "format" when you set up your partitions in the installer (!), but I'm feeling paranoid about "I don't know what I don't know..." before I commit... Should I create a new /home on my install drive and change it to sdb4 later, or should I just let it get attached during the install process? -- ------------------------------------------------------------ Katherine Scrupa Network Technology CCNA, Hons.

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