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Please note our current meeting location: Fortress Software Inc., 350 Keewatin St -- Unit #2
The meeting room will be open by 7:00 pm, with the actual meeting starting at 7:30 pm. If driving, enter the lot using the most north east entrance and drive around to the south west corner of the building. You can use any of the free, ample, and safe parking spots that say "reserved" in front of units #1 through #4 before entering unit #2. Bus stops #30814 and #30880 (route 77) are only 150 meters away. The last bus leaves for Polo Park at 10:15 pm and for Garden City at 10:31 pm. Logan Ave. bus routes #19, #26, and #27 are a 600 meter (8 minute) walk to the south.
MUUG meetings also take place online (typically using BigBlueButton) for those who can't be there in person. Meeting link will be provided on the home page, prior to meeting start time.
Before that, for our mini-presentation of a “desktop app”, Brad Vokey did a quick demonstration of his favorite GUI text editor: Sublime Text - “Text Editing Done Right”. Sublime Text is a fast, mature, light weight, beautiful, customizable, expandable, cross-platform, “shareware” text editor. Brad has previously written about Sublime Text in the MUUG 2021-06 newsletter (page 5), and he now gave us a quick intro into some of its features that he found most useful.
/bin Diving/bin directory?
Some of us could probably count on our hands the number of binary commands
we actually run on a regular basis,
but if we look inside we see thousands of installed binaries
(2,691 on this editor’s system to be precise).
So what the heck are all these and what are they for?
Well what better way to find out than dive in head first
and pick something at random.
In the premiere of the /bin Diving segment,
Gilbert Detillieux randomly selected a command from the
/bin directory and attempt to learn how to use it.
After a less-than-fruitful look at uwsgi,
Gilbert took another random stab and came up with updatedb.
This became an opportunity for some group participation as we
attempted to learn what we could about the command, and its companion
locate command.
This involved not just looking at the man page, but some side-trips to
look into various configuration files, and package meta data.
Alberto's presentation focussed on the various configuration files he uses for dnsmasq on his home network, including support for VLANS, and a VPN tunnel to his mother's home network in Brazil.
Our previously-scheduled presentation, by Trevor Cordes, on his favourite browser plugins, will be rescheduled for a later month, likely in early 2025.
/bin Diving!
Wyatt's pick this month was pbmtoepsi,
part of the NetPBM package.
To get this command to do something useful on Wyatt's terminal session,
other related commands were also used and looked up,
so that we could start with a JPEG file and end up with something
viewable as ASCII art on the screen.
Additional commands used included
jpegtopnm,
ppmtopgm,
pgmtopbm,
and finally pbmtoascii.
(Better results, including colour support, were obtained by using
jpegtopnm input.jpg | ppmtoterm.)
Please note our current meeting location: Fortress Software Inc., 350 Keewatin St -- Unit #2
The meeting room will be open by 7:00 pm, with the actual meeting starting at 7:30 pm. If driving, enter the lot using the most north east entrance and drive around to the south west corner of the building. You can use any of the free, ample, and safe parking spots that say "reserved" in front of units #1 through #4 before entering unit #2. Bus stops #30814 and #30880 (route 77) are only 150 meters away. The last bus leaves for Polo Park at 10:15 pm and for Garden City at 10:31 pm. Logan Ave. bus routes #19, #26, and #27 are a 600 meter (8 minute) walk to the south.
MUUG meetings also take place online (typically using BigBlueButton) for those who can't be there in person. Meeting link will be provided on the home page, prior to meeting start time.