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MUUG Meeting, Dec 11, 7:30pm -- Round-table, Mingling and Munchies
by gedetil＠cs.umanitoba.ca 04 Dec '12

04 Dec '12

The Manitoba UNIX User Group (MUUG) will be holding its next monthly meeting on Tuesday, December 11. The meeting topic for this month is as follows: Round-table, Mingling and Munchies Instead of a formal presentation this month, we will be starting the holiday season with an informal round-table meeting at a restaurant. We are leaving our normal meeting place at the IBM offices, and will be meeting at the Seine River Café. The Seine River Café is located at 390 Provencher Blvd, just east of Des Meurons. We will be meeting for dinner at 6:00 pm. Please email us to let us know how many people will be attending, so we have an idea of how much space to reserve with the restaurant. Brad Vokey will be collecting the RSVPs, so check out the MUUG web site for details on how to contact Brad. If you can't make it for dinner, drop by at 7:30 for an informal roundtable and social meeting - a great chance to chat with other MUUG attendees and to celebrate the holiday season. MUUG will be providing a few light refreshments; you can order more food and drink from the restaurant if you like. Winnipeg Harvest Food Drive As we have done in previous years, we are collecting non-perishable food items for Winnipeg Harvest. Please bring a non-perishable food to the December restaurant meeting to drop in our box. Winnipeg Harvest lists their most wanted food items here: http://winnipegharvest.org/10-most-wanted-food-items/ 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. 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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Re: [RndTbl] Screwdriver
by Adam Thompson 03 Dec '12

03 Dec '12

Princess Auto sells several security-bit sets, I believe at least two of them include the triangle bits. -Adam Kevin McGregor <kevin.a.mcgregor(a)gmail.com> wrote: >_______________________________________________ >Roundtable mailing list >Roundtable(a)muug.mb.ca >http://www.muug.mb.ca/mailman/listinfo/roundtable

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Screwdriver
by Kevin McGregor 02 Dec '12

02 Dec '12

Does anyone have, or know where I can get, a small triangle-head screwdriver? I have a long (150-bulb) Christmas tree light set that doesn't work at all. It has a controller to make the lights do different flashy things, and the controller seems to be held together with two screws with triangle-shaped sockets. Not Robertson, not Tor-x. The whole thing worked fine last year, and I'd like to have it working again. I thought I would take it apart to see if there was anything obviously wrong with it (check for voltages, etc.).

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by Gilbert E. Detillieux 26 Nov '12

26 Nov '12

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socket 775 motherboard
by Kat 25 Nov '12

25 Nov '12

Anyone have a socket 775 motherboard I could borrow to troubleshoot a problem.... and possibly buy, if mine turns out dead? -- ------------------------------------------------------------ Katherine Scrupa Network Technology CCNA, Hons.

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Upstream vendors can harm small projects: OpenBSD dev
by Adam Thompson 23 Nov '12

23 Nov '12

http://www.itwire.com/business-it-news/open-source/57589-upstream-vendors-c… Interesting interview with Marc Espie, the ports maintainer for OpenBSD. -Adam

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ThinkPad X300 battery FS
by Trevor Cordes 22 Nov '12

22 Nov '12

If anyone has an X300 or X301 and needs a brand new battery, email me back. I got stuck with an extra and would sell at a big discount. Thanks

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Re: [RndTbl] resizing an SD card image?
by Adam Thompson 21 Nov '12

21 Nov '12

One thing you can *sometimes* do is write the smaller image to the card, then use gPartEd (or similar) to increase it. -Adam Grigory Shamov <Grigory.Shamov(a)ad.umanitoba.ca> wrote: >Hi, > >Any easy way to resize a bootable image for SD card? There are ready Linux >images for booting on Android devices, like MK802. The problem is, 1) >sometimes you don't have a card for that size (say 4Gb image, 8Gb card) or >2) micro-SD card come in random sizes, so an image for 8Gb card can be >some kbytes too long for a 8Gb card of another vendor. > >I probably could mount the image, copy the contents and go over the >process of creating a bootable image myself. But is there a way of doing >it with a lesser effort? > >-- >Grigory Shamov > >HPC Analyst, Westgrid/Compute Canada >E2-588 EITC Building, University of Manitoba >(204) 474-9625 > > > > >_______________________________________________ >Roundtable mailing list >Roundtable(a)muug.mb.ca >http://www.muug.mb.ca/mailman/listinfo/roundtable

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time off by 1 hour
by Trevor Cordes 20 Nov '12

20 Nov '12

I have a rarely-on (media player) linux box that since the daylight savings changeover (I think) always boots with the time off by 1 hour. (I think it thinks it's 1 hour later than it really is.) It's a modern(ish) Fedora 16 with the latest updates. I can set the clock correctly manually or with ntpdate and all is fine until reboot. Then it's wrong again. I am running ntpd on it to set the clock using my own internal ntpd server that does keep correct time. I did check that the timezone was set to Americas/Winnipeg and the daylight savings stuff all looks correct. I use "system clock is set to GMT". Such a silly problem, and I'm stumped!

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resizing an SD card image?
by Grigory Shamov 20 Nov '12

20 Nov '12

Hi, Any easy way to resize a bootable image for SD card? There are ready Linux images for booting on Android devices, like MK802. The problem is, 1) sometimes you don't have a card for that size (say 4Gb image, 8Gb card) or 2) micro-SD card come in random sizes, so an image for 8Gb card can be some kbytes too long for a 8Gb card of another vendor. I probably could mount the image, copy the contents and go over the process of creating a bootable image myself. But is there a way of doing it with a lesser effort? -- Grigory Shamov HPC Analyst, Westgrid/Compute Canada E2-588 EITC Building, University of Manitoba (204) 474-9625

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