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MUUG Online Meeting, Tuesday, Oct 12, 7:30pm -- Ardour Audio Software and grepcidr
by Gilbert E. Detillieux 05 Oct '21

05 Oct '21

The Manitoba UNIX User Group (MUUG) will be holding its next monthly meeting online, on Tuesday, October 12th, at 7:30pm: Ardour Audio Software This month, Troy Denton will be presenting Ardour. Available on Linux (as well as macOS and Windows), Ardour allows you to record, edit, mix and master audio and MIDI projects. If you are an audiophile, or a beginner wanting to know how to get into audio manipulation, or just curious and like to see audio represented graphically, then this presentation is for you. RTFM Katherine Skrupa will be talking about grepcidr, a tool that filters input by IP addresses and networks, using both IPv4 and IPv6. The grepcidr command can be very useful in networks, including mail filtering, network security and log analysis. This will once again be an online meeting. Stay tuned to our muug.ca home page for the official URL, which will be made available about a half hour before the meeting starts. (Reload the page if you don't see the link, or if there are issues with connecting.) 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. 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, or linking to it on social media: https://muug.ca/meetings/MUUGmeeting.pdf -- Gilbert E. Detillieux E-mail: <gedetil(a)muug.ca> Manitoba UNIX User Group Web: http://muug.ca/

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Apache reverse-proxy woes, solved
by Adam Thompson 15 Sep '21

15 Sep '21

I finally figured out what I had to do to make Apache 2.4 happy... 1) Unlike everything else in Apache, <Location> blocks are LAST-match-wins, not first. 2) If you have ProxyPass xxx configured in, say, <Location /> and then have <Location /server-status>, you must add a "ProxyPass !" directive in every more-specific location. This is because all Location blocks get *merged* at parse-time into a single config data structure, apparently. So by re-ordering <location> blocks and adding "ProxyPass !" to the namespace bits I didn't want to proxy, it works. -Adam

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Reminder: MUUG Online Meeting, Tonight, Sept 14, 7:30pm -- tmux(1)
by Gilbert E. Detillieux 14 Sep '21

14 Sep '21

A reminder that the MUUG online meeting will be on Jitsi this evening... The Manitoba UNIX User Group (MUUG) will be holding its next monthly meeting online, on Tuesday, September 14th, at 7:30pm: tmux(1) - THE terminal multiplexer This month, following up on his newsletter article from June, Brad Vokey will demonstrate tmux(1). tmux enables a number of terminals to be created, accessed, and controlled from a single screen. It can then be detached from your screen and continue running in the background, and then reattached later. Each session is persistent and will survive accidental disconnection (such as a ssh(1) connection timeout) or intentional detaching. Each session can also be attached to multiple different terminals, for easy access to your running server processes and current environment from multiple different computers all at the same time. Brad will go over the basic commands and concepts and will also demonstrate the tmux plug-in manager (tpm) showing us some useful plug-ins including: - tmux-resurrect (persists tmux environment across system restarts) - tmux-yank (tmux plugin for copying to system clipboard) - tmux-autoreload - Watches your tmux configuration file and automatically reloads it on change. - tmux-continuum - Continuous saving of your tmux environment. Automatic restore when tmux is started. Automatic tmux start when computer is turned on. and possibly more, if time permits! This will once again be an online meeting. Stay tuned to our muug.ca home page for the official URL, which will be made available about a half hour before the meeting starts. (Reload the page if you don't see the link, or if there are issues with connecting.) 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. 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, or linking to it on social media: https://muug.ca/meetings/MUUGmeeting.pdf -- Gilbert E. Detillieux E-mail: <gedetil(a)muug.ca> Manitoba UNIX User Group Web: http://muug.ca/

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Godot open source game engine
by Troy Denton 08 Sep '21

08 Sep '21

Any game developers on this list? Godot (https://godotengine.org/) is an open-source game engine - I'd call it a viable alternative to the Unity game engine. I recently participated in a "stop waiting for godot" game jam. The idea being, learning this new game engine and making a simple game over a weekend. You can see my little attempt here https://hamnstar.itch.io/log-game, and the rest of the entries at https://itch.io/jam/stop-waiting-for-godot/entries I'm very impressed by this open source project and the quality you can produce with it (note: my little game is intentionally retro-looking :) ) -Troy

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MUUG Online Meeting, Tuesday, Sept 14, 7:30pm -- tmux(1)
by Gilbert E. Detillieux 07 Sep '21

07 Sep '21

The Manitoba UNIX User Group (MUUG) will be holding its next monthly meeting online, on Tuesday, September 14th, at 7:30pm: tmux(1) - THE terminal multiplexer This month, following up on his newsletter article from June, Brad Vokey will demonstrate tmux(1). tmux enables a number of terminals to be created, accessed, and controlled from a single screen. It can then be detached from your screen and continue running in the background, and then reattached later. Each session is persistent and will survive accidental disconnection (such as a ssh(1) connection timeout) or intentional detaching. Each session can also be attached to multiple different terminals, for easy access to your running server processes and current environment from multiple different computers all at the same time. Brad will go over the basic commands and concepts and will also demonstrate the tmux plug-in manager (tpm) showing us some useful plug-ins including: - tmux-resurrect (persists tmux environment across system restarts) - tmux-yank (tmux plugin for copying to system clipboard) - tmux-autoreload - Watches your tmux configuration file and automatically reloads it on change. - tmux-continuum - Continuous saving of your tmux environment. Automatic restore when tmux is started. Automatic tmux start when computer is turned on. and possibly more, if time permits! This will once again be an online meeting. Stay tuned to our muug.ca home page for the official URL, which will be made available about a half hour before the meeting starts. (Reload the page if you don't see the link, or if there are issues with connecting.) 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. 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, or linking to it on social media: https://muug.ca/meetings/MUUGmeeting.pdf -- Gilbert E. Detillieux E-mail: <gedetil(a)muug.ca> Manitoba UNIX User Group Web: http://muug.ca/

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Fwd: Server for sale
by Colin Stanners 03 Sep '21

03 Sep '21

---------- Forwarded message --------- From: William Franzin <wfranzin(a)gmail.com> Date: Fri, Sep 3, 2021, 4:56 PM Subject: Server for sale To: Colin Stanners <cstanners(a)gmail.com> Hi Colin, Could you please forward this to any lists you think might help sell it. I've had this machine for a while now and haven't done anything with it other than power on test. It's clean and is ready for drives and install. No rails. HP ProLiant DL380p Gen8 Intel Xeon E5-2690 v2 3.00GHz 1 Processor 10 Cores, 256GB Mem 2x 2.5 inch empty trays + 6 covers Onboard 4x ethernet + 4x ethernet card Looking for $900 Thank you William

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CIRA Board nomination
by Bill Reid 26 Aug '21

26 Aug '21

Hernan Popper would like to get nominated to participate in the CIRA Board elections. He needs 20 CIRA members to approve of him seeking the nomination. I know Hernan from when we had an active VoIP Muug Interest Group. If you are a CIRA member you should be getting an email with the credentials to support his nomination(probably tomorrow). I was a CIRA Director for 4 years and certainly support him becoming a Director. He has the skill and experience. If you own a .ca domain name and are not a member I encourage you to become one. There are no fees. -- Bill

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Climate change is messing with GPS time-keeping!
by Gilbert E. Detillieux 06 Aug '21

06 Aug '21

For those of you who took in Wyatt's May presentation on setting up a GPS-based NTP server,... https://muug.ca/meetings/20-21.html#may ... you may be interested in this bit of weirdness... https://twitter.com/ariadneconill/status/1422163289518313474?s=21 TIL: Climate change has resulted in the earth spinning faster, cancelling out leap seconds. “As I previously said, the reason it will affect live GPS is due to, and I hate to say it, global warming causing the earth to speed up, unexpectedly.” So, now you know!... :) Gilbert -- Gilbert E. Detillieux E-mail: <gedetil(a)cs.umanitoba.ca> Dept. of Computer Science Web: http://cs.umanitoba.ca/~gedetil/ University of Manitoba Winnipeg MB CANADA R3T 2N2

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Microsoft Quietly Released Its Own Linux Distro | Tom's Hardware
by Adam Thompson 26 Jul '21

26 Jul '21

https://www.tomshardware.com/news/microsoft-released-cbl-mariner-linux-dist… Normally we'd put this in the next newsletter, but that won't come out for a while, so here you go. -Adam

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Reason to get a PinePhone #@$%^&
by Vicki Nemeth 19 Jul '21

19 Jul '21

OCCRP feature page on Pegasus at https://www.occrp.org/en/the-pegasus-project/ ----- Forwarded message ----- From: Drew Sullivan <membership(a)occrp.org> To: <vicki(a)vickinemethwriter.com> Subject: The Pegasus Project - Letter from the Publisher Date: Mon Jul 19 2021 12:46:01 GMT-0500 (Central Daylight Time) View this email in your browser Share Tweet Forward Dear OCCRP Reader, Yesterday, OCCRP published a groundbreaking investigation that found that military-grade spyware licensed by the Israeli technology firm NSO Group has been used to hack the smartphones of dozens of journalists and activists worldwide. Pegasus can secretly steal personal data, read conversations, and switch on microphones and cameras — no clicking is needed from the target. Led by Forbidden Stories with tech support from Amnesty International’s Security Lab, The Pegasus Project is an international collaboration of more than 80 journalists from 17 media organizations. Journalists from OCCRP have been working on the project for months. NSO Group says Pegasus is meant only to help fight crime and terrorism, and claims to hold its government clients to that requirement. Our reporting explodes that narrative. Four of the journalists in our network — András Szabó and Szabolcs Panyi from our Hungarian member center Direkt36, and Azerbaijani journalists Khadija Ismayilova and Sevinj Vaqifqizi, all of whom have reported on corruption at the highest levels of government — were on a list of 50,000 names allegedly selected for targeting. “As a journalist, there is nothing more disheartening than when you have to tell your colleagues that the world's most invasive spyware is being used against them.” Miranda Patrucic, Deputy Editor in Chief While the Pegasus Project exposes clear cases of misuse of NSO Group’s software, the company is just one player in a global, multi-billion-dollar spyware industry. For-profit spyware companies have "democratized" access to cutting-edge technology, enabling repressive governments to surveil and track journalists and activists. With little regulation and oversight, surveillance technology presents one of the biggest threats to democracy and freedom of expression in the world today. We’ll be publishing more stories throughout this week and next on this important investigation. And we’ll keep digging. Drew Sullivan Publisher Join the fight against corruption. SUPPORT OCCRP Share Tweet Forward Copyright © 2021 Organized Crime and Corruption Reporting Project, All rights reserved. Organized Crime and Corruption Reporting Project Want to change how you receive these emails? You can update your preferences or unsubscribe from this list. -- Get the content marketing done for your IT firm, office space, and furniture and green housewares store. Visit VickiNemethWriter.com

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