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MUUG Special Event: Nov 15, 4:30pm -- Theo de Raadt on OpenBSD
by MUUG meeting announcements 13 Nov '13

13 Nov '13

The Manitoba UNIX User Group (MUUG) will be holding a "special event" meeting this Friday, November 15. The meeting topic is as follows: Theo de Raadt on OpenBSD Theo de Raadt, founder of the OpenBSD project, will be giving an informal talk about... well, whatever he's comfortable talking about. We expect to hear something about OpenBSD, but the details will be a surprise for everyone (possibly even Theo)! Doors open at 4:30pm. Talk starts at 5:30pm. Finger food will be provided, courtesy of MUUG. All interested people are welcome. (There is no charge for this event.) Location for this special event: King's Head Pub, 120 King St. The King's Head Pub, across from Old Market Square, is hosting this talk. The talk will be in the event room on the north side of the building. Enter through the main door on King St. Parking is available on surrounding streets and in various parkades nearby (including an indoor Impark lot immediately south of the King's Head). For more information about MUUG, and its monthly meetings, check out their Web server: http://www.muug.mb.ca/ Help us promote this special event, 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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MUUG Meeting, November 12, 7:30pm -- Visualization
by MUUG meeting announcements 05 Nov '13

05 Nov '13

The Manitoba UNIX User Group (MUUG) will be holding its next monthly meeting on Tuesday, November 12. The meeting topic for this month is as follows: Visualization This month is the MUUG annual general meeting, where we'll be electing our new board for the year, most likely by acclamation. After the break, Robert Keizer will be presenting a generic visualization framework, and some applications thereof. For this month's RTFM, Adam Thompson will talk about the dstat(1) command, a versatile tool for generating system resource statistics, and a replacement for vmstat, iostat and ifstat. 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 1L08, 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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MUUG Meeting, October 8, 7:30pm -- Xataface
by MUUG meeting announcements 01 Oct '13

01 Oct '13

The Manitoba UNIX User Group (MUUG) will be holding its next monthly meeting on Tuesday, October 8. The meeting topic for this month is as follows: Xataface This month Brad Vokey will (attempt to) give a demonstration of Xataface: an open-source, full-featured, web application framework for building front-ends to MySQL databases. Xataface auto-magically generates web forms, lists, menus, and more, so that non-technical end users can interact with MySQL databases safely and effectively using an easy to build custom web application. For this month's RTFM, Gilbert Detillieux will talk 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. 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 1L08, 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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MUUG Meeting, Sept 10, 7:30pm -- Cross-Platform GUI Programming
by MUUG meeting announcements 04 Sep '13

04 Sep '13

The Manitoba UNIX User Group (MUUG) will be holding its next monthly meeting on Tuesday, September 10. The meeting topic for this month is as follows: Cross-Platform GUI Programming Cross-platform GUI programming is a reality today, not the pipe dream many imagine it to still be. Doing so effectively requires using cross-platform tools, however, which programmers may not have even heard of. Adam will demonstrate the Lazarus programming environment for Windows and Linux, showing how easy it is to build, debug and run the same program under either or both operating systems. For the RTFM, Kevin McGregor will present a pseudo-randomly chosen item from CLIMagic's Twitter feed! 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 1L08, 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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MUUG Meeting, June 11, 7:30pm -- LyX, Meld, Asymptote
by MUUG meeting announcements 05 Jun '13

05 Jun '13

The Manitoba UNIX User Group (MUUG) will be holding its next monthly meeting on Tuesday, June 11. The meeting topic for this month is as follows: LyX, Meld, Asymptote This month, we have three presenters giving short (5-10 minute) demonstrations of some software that they have found interesting. Adam Thompson will demonstrate LyX, a WYSIVRTWYG (What You See Is Vaguely Related To What You Get) document creation and editing front-end for TeX and LaTeX. Trevor Cordes will demonstrate Meld, a graphical diff viewer that's designed for those of us who will never be comfortable with text-based diff output syntax. And finally, Michael Doob will demonstrate Asymptote, a markup language for producing high-quality graphics, which, like TeX, separates the concepts of markup from presentation, allowing graphics to be drawn with very high precision. The June RTFM will feature Gilbert Detillieux talking about the dpkg(1), apt-get(8), apt-cache(8) and aptitude(8) commands, used for package management in Debian and similar Linux distributions. 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 1L06, 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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MUUG Meeting, May 14, 7:30pm -- Perl, PHP, Python
by MUUG meeting announcements 07 May '13

07 May '13

The Manitoba UNIX User Group (MUUG) will be holding its next monthly meeting on Tuesday, May 14. The meeting topic for this month is as follows: Popular P's of Programming: Perl, PHP, and Python Trevor Cordes, Theodore Baschak, and Edwin Amsler will be presenting this month on 3 popular scripting langauages: Perl, PHP, and Python. The May RTFM will feature Robert Keizer, talking about GOCR, an Optical Character Recognition program, developed under the GNU Public License. It converts scanned images of text back to text files. 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 1L07, 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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MUUG Meeting, Apr 9, 7:30pm -- Red Hat Enterprise Virtualization
by MUUG meeting announcements 02 Apr '13

02 Apr '13

The Manitoba UNIX User Group (MUUG) will be holding its next monthly meeting on Tuesday, April 9. The meeting topic for this month is as follows: Red Hat Enterprise Virtualization Red Hat Enterprise Virtualization, based on the open-source oVirt platform, competes with VMware vSphere and Hyper-V's Operations Manager. The University of Winnipeg Library is implementing a small RHEV system, and Adam Thompson will introduce and demonstrate the software and discuss some of the challenges encountered as compared to using VMware vSphere. 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: Room 1L08, 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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MUUG Meeting, Mar 12, 7:30pm -- Mini-Topic Trio
by MUUG meeting announcements 05 Mar '13

05 Mar '13

The Manitoba UNIX User Group (MUUG) will be holding its next monthly meeting on Tuesday, March 12. The meeting topic for this month is as follows: Mini-Topic Trio Linux allows you to do some pretty cool stuff with digital cameras. Trevor Cordes will demonstrate how to use Linux to control a Canon SLR, and do some neat post-processing tricks such as exposure bracketing (AEB). After 30 years, the writing is on the wall for the venerable MBR (Master Boot Record). Now that drives larger than 2 TB are commonly available, something else will have to replace it. That something is heir-apparent GPT (GUID Partition Table). Kevin McGregor will discuss the history of disk partitioning, and how to make use of disks larger than 2 TB under Linux. The March RTFM will feature Gilbert Detillieux, talking about the rpm(8) and yum(8) commands, used for package management in Red Hat and similar Linux distributions. 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: Room 1L08, 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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Sad news...
by MUUG meeting announcements 13 Feb '13

13 Feb '13

It is with great sadness that I report that Doug Shewfelt passed away Sunday morning of a massive heart attack around 11:00am. Doug's passing was very quick and very quiet. Funeral arrangements are being made by the family. Details are not yet known, but the funeral will most likely take place in Manitou, MB, where Doug grew up, and where his mother still lives. (This will probably happen later this week.) I'll pass further information along when I have it. Doug was a fellow student with me, in the University of Manitoba's Computer Science Honours program, from 1979 to 1983. He then went on to work in IT for the City of Winnipeg, where he continued to work until this last weekend. He also went back to University, to obtain MSc and MBA degrees. He was active in the Manitoba UNIX User Group for over 20 years, and served as treasurer for most of that time. His "tech" interests also included amateur radio. His areas of interest were almost as numerous as his many circles of friends, who will greatly miss his endless curiosity, love of learning, generosity, and wonderfully quirky sense of humour. Farewell, Doug. Your 51 years on Earth ended far too soon! -- 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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MUUG Meeting, Feb 12, 7:30pm -- System Call Tracing
by MUUG meeting announcements 05 Feb '13

05 Feb '13

The Manitoba UNIX User Group (MUUG) will be holding its next monthly meeting on Tuesday, February 12. The meeting topic for this month is as follows: System Call Tracing This month's presentation will feature Adam Thompson, who will show how to profile and troubleshoot UNIX processes without needing access to source code, through the use of system-call tracing. Learn where, when, why (and for a few of these, how) to use dtrace, dtruss, ftrace, ktrace/kdump, ltrace, LTTng, par, ProbeVue, ptrace, strace, System Tap, tusc, trace, and truss to find out exactly what that troublesome program is doing behind the scenes. 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: Room 1L08, 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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