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Curling This Website Was a Mistake, but you *should* do it anyway (+ Ghost TTY)
by Ron 20 Apr '26

20 Apr '26

Dave from YSAP has another great video, this time covering ANSI codes for terminals running bash. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H8HhyEQ2cA4 First, this site you *should* curl: curl ysap.sh Pretty output - the web page displayed using ANSI codes. This site though, this is something else, run in a new terminal: curl -NL hotdogstand.lol Then... run `reset` to fix the interesting colours. Then, fix what reset can't. What a fascinating deep-dive into ANSI control codes, as Dave always does. He leans on the GhostTTY documentation - which is better than I think I've ever seen anywhere else on ANSI codes. Anyone use GhostTTY? How do you like it? Looks like it has GPU accelerated graphics. In a terminal. Cool!

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arcane knowledge about DEL vs BS keys
by D. Hugh Redelmeier 19 Apr '26

19 Apr '26

Chris Siebenmann, a long time local sysadmin, has a blog "Wandering Thoughts". I pointed to an entry yesterday. That prompted me to read some more. I found a very interesting posting about the plumbing of DEL and BS on terminal emulators: <https://utcc.utoronto.ca/~cks/space/blog/unix/VimAndForwardDelete> (There are a lot of other interesting entries.)

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Re: [kwlug-disc] Weird but handy shell tricks (fwd)
by D. Hugh Redelmeier 18 Apr '26

18 Apr '26

I wrote this to the KW LUG mailing list: > From: CrankyOldBugger <crankyoldbugger(a)gmail.com> > Not sure who could benefit from this, but here's a site with some useful > shell tricks: > > https://blog.hofstede.it/shell-tricks-that-actually-make-life-easier-and-sa… Yes, they are useful. Most are natural to an EMACS user (like me). Apparently "set -o vi" adjusts readline to respond to key sequences more familiar to vi users.

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Meeting tomorrow night, 19:30
by D. Hugh Redelmeier 13 Apr '26

13 Apr '26

Online using Nextcloud: https://hub.gtalug.org/call/7m45sf9i As I understand it, our scheduled speaker was not announced and has had to cancel. We'll chat. This will include Q & A and Show and Tell. And anything else that meets with the approval of our audience.

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Merging data into Spreadsheets?
by William Park 06 Apr '26

06 Apr '26

Question: How would you manage multiple people adding same kind of data into a spreadsheet? Situation: This company uses Excel spreadsheet as final form for their sales peoples. So, each person pulls his/her own data from CRM subsystem, and adds to this spreadsheet. Well, a moron overwrote other people's entries, and lost entire weekend's work. So they ask me, and I said, "I don't know, but I'll ask around". In my previous companies, such spreadsheet would be on a server. And, whenever someone opens to edit, it would lock the file. But, this only addresses "access". Not the "content". Possible Solution: I'm thinking "template". Each person would be populating same kind of data into spreadsheet. So, maybe a script merges data from his/her template? Maybe, a "web form"? I don't know.

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Ubuntu 26.04-beta
by William Park 29 Mar '26

29 Mar '26

I just saw "Ubuntu 26.04-beta" in DistroWatch.com

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AGAIN I have to cancel my Rust presentation
by Steve Litt 27 Mar '26

27 Mar '26

Hi all, Sorry, I have to cancel my April 1 Rust presentation, for the second time in a row. My county just loves to have their meetings the same night as GoLUG meetings. So, anybody can present on or discuss anything at the April 1 GoLUG meeting. At this point I'm not going to reschedule, because I don't want to cancel a third time. SteveT Steve Litt GoLUG Publicity Coordinator

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some thoughts about network hardware in my home
by D. Hugh Redelmeier 25 Mar '26

25 Mar '26

This is just in my home; mostly my home lab with too much equipment. Your usage is surely different. I decided a couple of years ago that all new switches will be 2.5G and that I will prefer computers with 2.5G (or better) NICs. 2.5G is very affordable. In fact 5G and 10G are creeping down in price. Do consider power consumption too. 8-port dumb or smart switches are cheap on a good day at AliExpress. Amazon isn't too bad either. So far, I have superstitiously avoided using smart switches since security vulnerabilities might lurk in their firmware. 5-port switches too often run out of ports. The modest extra cost of 8-port switches make many changes/additions easy. 16-port switches are quite a bit more expensive. I have one that only does 1G; I still find it useful. Many 8-port 2.5G dumb switches also have an 10G SFP+ port. I don't really have anything to plug into that. Except I found this <https://www.aliexpress.com/item/4000079929937.html> It allows my to connect two 8-port switches, at 10G, without using any of the normal ports. I hope that a pair of 8-port switches connected this way will be almost as good as a 16-port switch. (As usual, with the right tricks, and patience, you can save money over the normal AliExpress price. Figuring the tricks out is often labour-intensive.)

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siriusxm anyone?
by Karen Lewellen 23 Mar '26

23 Mar '26

Hi all, I want to buy a siriusxm onyx ez radio & home kit. Its a unit specifically allowing you to connect with a home stereo system. Customer care was kind enough to share the manual location. question though is best place to buy? especially to insure I get the plan I desire? Thanks, Kare

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My attempt to log into the TLUG talk website
by sciguy 15 Mar '26

15 Mar '26

I don't know if this is the right venue for this email, but if someone is running the site, could you please explain to me how it is that email is being sent to me from TLUG as it has been now for some decades, and when I try to log into https://lists.gtalug.org, I am told by means of some script that it hasn't heard of me, and there is no record of sciguy(a)vex.net existing. How am I now expected to make adjustments to my account if I am receiving email, yet the server is telling me I don't exist? Paul King

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