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Please note our new meeting location: 1L08 Lockhart Hall, University of Winnipeg, entrance on Ellice Ave. between Spence and Balmoral St. (Check out the UofW's maps for nearby parking locations.)
For the RTFM, Kevin McGregor presented a pseudo-randomly chosen item from CLIMagic's Twitter feed!
For this month's RTFM, Gilbert Detillieux talked about the
trap(1p)
command, used for signal handling in Bourne shell scripts.
Proper use of "trap" is important in coding scripts
that clean up after themselves.
Gilbert has made his presentation slides, in PPT and PDF format, available online.
For this month's RTFM, Adam Thompson talked about the
dstat(1)
command, a versatile tool for generating system resource statistics,
and a replacement for vmstat, iostat and ifstat.
Winnipeg Harvest has apparently been running a shortfall all year, and needs your donations, particularly at this time of year! They have information about what they're looking for on their website.
"Wireshark is the world's foremost network protocol analyzer. It lets you see what's happening on your network at a microscopic level. It is the de facto (and often de jure) standard across many industries and educational institutions."
Kevin McGregor presented an RTFM from the depths of CLI Magic; @climagic on Twitter.
"A real-time clock is a computer clock that keeps track of the current time. Although the term often refers to the devices in personal computers, servers and embedded systems, RTCs are present in almost any electronic device which needs to keep accurate time."
Wyatt demoed the Python code he wrote to fetch the RTC data using I2C operations.
For this month's
RTFM topic,
Trevor Cordes presented the history command,
as found in (for example)
bash(1) or
tcsh(1).
FreeNAS provides a solid service platform based on FreeBSD and includes such features as replication, data protection, backups, encryption, snapshots, file sharing and a plug-in architecture.
Kevin McGregor presented an overview of these features and his experiences with implementing some of them.
For this month's
RTFM topic,
Adam Thompson talked about quoting special characters in shell input,
for example in
bash(1) or
tcsh(1).
OpenCart is a robust e-commerce solution for internet merchants to create their own online business and participate in e-commerce at minimal cost. It includes an intuitive admin interface that allows you to have complete control over your store. It also has thousands of high end themes available and integrates with hundreds of payment gateways and shipping integrations.
There is also a thriving OpenCart extension market with over 12,000 extensions currently written for it (and more being added all the time). If there is something you need your store to do, there is probably an extension already written for it. If there isn't, or if you don't like the price someone is charging for their extension, you can simply add the code yourself, add it to the OpenCart store, and maybe make a little money selling your extension to others.
For this month's RTFM, Michael Doob talked about PDFtk - A handy tool for manipulating PDF.
Gilbert Detillieux presented an RTFM on the
ImageMagick
suite of graphic tools, focusing on the
convert(1) command.
Gilbert has made his presentation slides, in
PPT and
PDF format,
available online.
Trevor has made his presentation slides, in ODP and PDF format, available online. He's also provided a tarball of the sample script files.
Adam Thompson covered the netcat
nc(1)
utility for the RTFM section this time.
Please note our new meeting location: 1L08 Lockhart Hall, University of Winnipeg, entrance on Ellice Ave. between Spence and Balmoral St. (Check out the UofW's maps for nearby parking locations.)