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Winnipeg PET Users Group (WPUG)
by Tristan Miller 20 May '25

20 May '25

Dear all, I'm looking for information or documents related to the Winnipeg PET Users Group, which was active in the early 1980s. I'd be interested in obtaining newsletters, library disks, or any other material, and in speaking with anyone who was involved in the club. The only two members' names I am aware of are Bob Jolly and Larry Neufeld -- if anyone could put me in touch with them or anyone else with information about the group, that would be great. Apologies if this request is off-topic here -- if so, I'd be glad for pointers to where else to ask. Regards, Tristan -- Dr. Tristan Miller, Assistant Professor Department of Computer Science, University of Manitoba https://clam.cs.umanitoba.ca/ | Tel. +1 204 474 6792 _______________________________________________ Roundtable mailing list -- roundtable(a)muug.ca To unsubscribe send an email to roundtable-leave(a)muug.ca

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Uh... um... [SECURITY] Fedora 41 Update: woff-0.20091126-47.fc41
by Trevor Cordes 20 May '25

20 May '25

-------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Fedora Update Notification FEDORA-2025-49614a7cdf 2025-05-20 01:45:49.098339+00:00 -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Name : woff Product : Fedora 41 Security fix for CVE-2010-1028 and other security-relevant bugs; see https://github.com/bramstein/sfnt2woff-zopfli/pull/20/commits. ==== Uh, ok: https://www.tenable.com/cve/CVE-2010-1028 Uh... 2010?? Check out the "published" and "updated" dates. Is there any backstory to this? Seems rather odd!! _______________________________________________ Roundtable mailing list -- roundtable(a)muug.ca To unsubscribe send an email to roundtable-leave(a)muug.ca

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Windows activation in VM?
by Trevor Cordes 18 May '25

18 May '25

I'll need to activate my Win7 install in a VirtualBox VM soon. It's a legit copy with a legit code, all brand new/unused. I want to ensure that the VM will work even when the underlying laptop is upgraded in the future. Thus I started worrying about CPUID pass-thru, etc. I want to be sure I tweak everything now to avoid re-activation in the future. What things should I worry about here? Is there anything more than just CPUID? Looks like VB has a difficult way to set CPUID, not in the GUI. Then the next question is, what do I set it to? Does the CPUID provide just a id of the model of CPU, or does it also include a CPU serial #? If the latter, then I guess you need to make sure it's unique for that version of Windows or they may deny activation?? Any other thoughts? Thanks! _______________________________________________ Roundtable mailing list -- roundtable(a)muug.ca To unsubscribe send an email to roundtable-leave(a)muug.ca

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Mahjong unleashed!
by Trevor Cordes 10 May '25

10 May '25

I asked the wizards at the last meeting about getting some sort of accelerated/3d video working in a win7 guest on a linux host, so the wife can run her favorite win7(only!)-included Mahjong. I tried all the solutions offered. KVM was still impossible because even though there is a slightly obscure GL driver, the win7 support is experiemental, listed as buggy, and not updated in many years, nor talked about much (never a good sign). I decided not to fight with it to get it installed unless the other options were exhausted. So I tried the VirtualBox with the enable-3d option. Ya, so after realizing I needed to up the video-ram option, I was able to make a vm and install win7, install the guest programs, and... boom Mahjong just works, doesn't complain about no 3d, and runs basically as fast and pretty as it did on the old win7 bare metal laptop did. ... with basically zero effort and work. Astounding. Compare that to serious time wastage fighting with KVM/qemu and win7, during which I never got 3d working (with any avenue of attack), nor all the agent stuff working because of minimum windows version requirements and version mismatch hell when you try to go back to older agents. I think it was Rob who suggested vbox, so thanks Rob! At the beginning of all of this I read some simple advice that said VirtualBox should be used for Windows guests, and KVM for linux guests. But I wanted to be "extra FLOSSy" and try to use the not-non-free solution. Ya, so the moral of the story is, they're right, at least for obsolete Windows (which I know many people do require for legacy software). Wife will be super happy! MUUG for the win(7)! _______________________________________________ Roundtable mailing list -- roundtable(a)muug.ca To unsubscribe send an email to roundtable-leave(a)muug.ca

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IN-PERSON Winnisec Meetup This Friday, April 25th @ Skullspace - Topic: Threat Modeling
by Mark Campbell 22 Apr '25

22 Apr '25

Hello MUUG Community and Friends, This is your reminder for our upcoming IN-PERSON Winnisec meetup happening THIS Friday, April 25th, 2025! Join us at Skullspace (374 Donald St). Doors and networking start around 5:45 PM. This Month's Presentation: Threat Modeling - Scaling Your Program Dive into the world of threat modeling! This session will cover how you can evolve from creating individual threat models to building and scaling a comprehensive threat modeling program across your entire organization. It’s a crucial skill for anyone involved in securing systems and applications. Why Attend? * Gain practical insights into threat modeling. * Network with fellow cybersecurity professionals, students, and enthusiasts in the Winnipeg area. * Engage in discussions and share knowledge in a friendly atmosphere. Regular Schedule: Remember, Winnisec meets in person at Skullspace every 4th Friday of the month. It's a great opportunity to consistently connect and learn. We welcome everyone interested in information security, regardless of experience level. Find out more about Winnisec anytime at: https://winnisec.life<https://www.google.com/search?q=https://winnisec.life> We look forward to seeing you at Skullspace this Friday evening! Best regards, The Winnisec Organizers _______________________________________________ Roundtable mailing list -- roundtable(a)muug.ca To unsubscribe send an email to roundtable-leave(a)muug.ca

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.htaccess file: stopping robot with escape character in name
by Montana Quiring 22 Apr '25

22 Apr '25

Hello Folks, I'm trying to stop a bot from crawling a site using the .htaccess file. The problem is that it's using the backslash character as its name. Grrr... It's called: Unknown robot identified by bot\* This generates an internal server error: RewriteCond %{HTTP_USER_AGENT} ("Unknown robot identified by bot\*") [NC] I tried, this, but it didn't help: RewriteCond %{HTTP_USER_AGENT} ("Unknown robot identified by bot\\*") [NC] Any thoughts? Regards, -Montana _______________________________________________ Roundtable mailing list -- roundtable(a)muug.ca To unsubscribe send an email to roundtable-leave(a)muug.ca

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TW: Font nerdery. (Which typeface's capital "I" makes the best I-beam?)
by Adam Thompson 22 Apr '25

22 Apr '25

Since I know there's a bunch of font nerds in here: https://youtu.be/azDaPm13CT8 Get Outlook for Android<https://aka.ms/AAb9ysg> _______________________________________________ Roundtable mailing list -- roundtable(a)muug.ca To unsubscribe send an email to roundtable-leave(a)muug.ca

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Hide mouse cursor in Wayland, labwc compositor?
by Gilbert Detillieux 07 Apr '25

07 Apr '25

Hi folks. I'm trying to find something equivalent to "unclutter" or "xbanish" that will allow me to hide the mouse cursor when I'm running Wayland's labwc compositor. This is for a kiosk-mode application, using a Raspberry Pi and Debian 12 (Bookworm). Thanks! Gilbert -- Gilbert Detillieux E-mail: Gilbert.Detillieux(a)umanitoba.ca Computer Science Web: http://www.cs.umanitoba.ca/~gedetil/ University of Manitoba Phone: 204-474-8161 Winnipeg MB CANADA R3T 2N2 For best CS dept. service, contact <cs-support(a)lists.umanitoba.ca>. _______________________________________________ Roundtable mailing list -- roundtable(a)muug.ca To unsubscribe send an email to roundtable-leave(a)muug.ca

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Google Play Pass
by Trevor Cordes 07 Apr '25

07 Apr '25

My daughter likes to play some kid/toddler games on our Android tablet. I have banned ads from our home. Anyone who's tried to find games on Android will know that 99% of the free games (and even some for-pay games) have ad quantities that would put the worst of network TV to shame. And the ads are often very inappropriate. Plus, her attention span for these games is the size of a grain of sand, so we needed a faster way to find and cycle through games. So we used the excellent "App Finder" app (which I highly recommend) on the play store which did an ok job when you click the "no ads" button. This works ok, but we started getting down to just the for-pay games. And paying $1-$5 a game for the pay games doesn't sound too bad, except 90% of them she'll play once for 2 minutes and then never play again, making the purchase a waste. (There's no way to know whether a game will not interest her without paying & playing!) So we're giving the google Play Pass subscription service a try, mostly because we can try basically every for-pay play-pass game for free and throw the bad ones away with no remorse, AND it promises NO ADS. Like NO ADS EVER on badged play-pass games. Ya, so my son chose 3 promising play-pass games at random and all 3 of them instantly had ads galore. Basically nothing changed. So those instantly got uninstalled... I verified that I am indeed looking at "Play Pass Badged" games, that say "Play Pass" and have the icon, and are in the Play Pass-only section of the Play Store. I'm wondering if anyone else has play pass and can verify if all or some of their games did or did not have ads. Maybe there's something broken on the tablet, especially because it's in "supervised" (child) mode which seems to make things a disaster. (Google really hasn't tested all use / family scenarios.) Maybe I have to jump through some extra hoops somewhere? I can't believe that this is google's actual flagship mobile software product they are pushing. I'm not going to pay for it if I'm back to square one having to vet 9 games to find 1 that for realz doesn't contain ads. I'm buying it for the sole purpose of saving time. (P.S. It's $35 a year with an automatic 1 month free trial -- I have 30 days to cancel if I can't sort this out. P.P.S. You can apply the pass to every device in your "family group" so that's a bonus.) _______________________________________________ Roundtable mailing list -- roundtable(a)muug.ca To unsubscribe send an email to roundtable-leave(a)muug.ca

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closures
by Trevor Cordes 03 Apr '25

03 Apr '25

It dawned on me that in perl you can create a closure without even nesting functions (though you can also do it the "traditional" way). Perl allows you to have unnamed blocks that define their own variable scope, which can take the place of the outer function in giving you the local/protected variable you need. Of course this has the downside of only giving you one closure instance per definition/generator, instead of letting you call the generator multiple times to get multiple instances. But in many cases you just want one instance anyhow. P.S. The slides & code examples for the closure presentation will be up on the web site by tomorrow(ish). https://muug.ca/meetings/24-25.html#apr #!/bin/perl -w my $inc; { my $counter=0; $inc=sub { $counter++; print "$counter\n"; }; } $inc->(); $inc->(); $inc->(); print "$counter\n"; # Alberto shields up! _______________________________________________ Roundtable mailing list -- roundtable(a)muug.ca To unsubscribe send an email to roundtable-leave(a)muug.ca

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