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Meeting Thurs, Mar. 31 - tomorrow
by Ted Pomeroy 30 Mar '22

30 Mar '22

NMGLUGers, GLUG Meeting: 31 Mar 2022 @ 5:30 pm - 7:00 pm,MDT; at virtual meeting place: https://meet.jit.si/nmglug Note from Free Software Foundation: "Free software means that the users have the freedom to run, edit, contribute to, and share the software. Thus, free software is a matter of liberty, not price. We have been defending the rights of all software users for the past 35 years. Help sustain us for many more; become an associate member today." And about LibrePlanet 2022, You can watch selected videos of the virtual conference events held Mar. 19-20: https://www.fsf.org/blogs/community/take-the-next-step-in-living-liberation… I enjoyed LibrePlanet - I attended several meetings and was delighted, inspired and overwhelmed by turns. At times I did participate in the IRC which was easy to follow and use. Many ideas and approaches to Free Software, some minutely focused and some broad and general. I hope to see a few of you tomorrow at our next meeting. Thank you, Ted P

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"Oldery" to close
by Ted Pomeroy 24 Mar '22

24 Mar '22

Today's "New Mexican" reports that the Second Street Brewery location on Second St. is slated to close by April 9th of this year. The Rufina St. and Railyard locations will continue in operation and tap beer to be brewed in a new location. This means we have one less option for in-person meetings, but can still use the other locations if we choose. We may want to consider in-person meeting as long as the next Covid surge/wave is not any worse than previous ones and there are no new restrictions either recommended or required. By the way, I am now on a desktop unit with an older install of LinuxMint, previously housed in a laptop donated to Mark Galassi for his next coding class for youth. It is running well and I have switched to an internal pci card for the wifi and can reach the local Senior Center for access. I still support a few seniors in their computing efforts. Another item was LibrePlanet, virtual for 2022. I attended a few of the talks and failed to utilize the virtual meet-up space with proximity chats via video. I did use that technology in an origami gathering, but did not want to push my participation at LibrePlanet. Hope all are well, Ted P

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Links from March 17th meeting
by Robert Citek 18 Mar '22

18 Mar '22

Thanks everyone for attending. Here are some of the links that Mark mentioned: https://markgalassi.sourceforge.io/workshop-prep/ https://markgalassi.sourceforge.io/workshop-prep/modern-software-eng.html https://markgalassi.sourceforge.io/workshop-prep/2020-modern-software-eng-h… https://github.com/unoconv/unoconv # deprecated, see unoserver https://github.com/unoconv/unoserver/ Regards, - Robert

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the Institute for Computing in Research is open for applications
by Mark Galassi 18 Mar '22

18 Mar '22

Dear nmglugers, We hire students to do research in all academic and technical areas (social science, the arts, humanities, science, ...), and our approach is deeply rooted in software freedom. We are hoping for a few more applications from high school students in Santa Fe, so if you know families with high school kids, please pass this on to them. I'm attaching the flyer, and full info is at: https://computinginresearch.org/

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git annex commands from last week
by Art Barnes 17 Mar '22

17 Mar '22

Hi all, Please see the attached for a paraphrased terminal history from the git-annex demo from last Thursday. Have a great weekend, -Art

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Hibernate failure
by LeRoy Diener 16 Mar '22

16 Mar '22

Hi NMGLUG folks, I'm having an issue recently that I hope I can get help with. It's on my Debian 11 system, updated. Recently, I've had problems when I leave the laptop overnight. When I stop, I click on Logout > Suspend, then the screen goes black and I close the lid. I expect that when I open the lid in the morning and enter my password, I should be back where I left off. When I've done this recently, it works sometimes. Other times, it crashes after the batteries run out of power in the middle of the night. Other times, it works, but I see a message in the morning "None of the screen lock tools ran successfully, the screen will not be locked. Do you still want to suspend the system?" Other times, it works, but I see a message in the morning "Authentication is required to hibernate the system." I have a setting in Power Manager to hibernate when inactive for one hour, so that's what I'm focusing on now. I found some helpful info in this link https://askubuntu.com/questions/543921/authentication-required-before-suspe… I found the file /usr/share/polkit- 1/actions/org.freedesktop.login1.policy In that file, I found this segment: <action id="org.freedesktop.login1.hibernate"> <description gettext-domain="systemd">Hibernate the system</description> <message gettext-domain="systemd">Authentication is required to hibernate the system.</message> <defaults> <allow_any>auth_admin_keep</allow_any> <allow_inactive>auth_admin_keep</allow_inactive> <allow_active>yes</allow_active> </defaults> </action> Other info: I usually have the laptop plugged into an external monitor, and I usually have the power strip (which powers the external monitor and laptop) turned off overnight. Any ideas? Thanks in advance. LeRoy -- There is something glorious birthing within all of us. (New for 2021) I am the Love of God, no matter what.BSA LeRoy Diener 213-LEROYIZ 213-537-6949 https://leroydiener.com

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Meeting March 3, 2022
by Ted Pomeroy 03 Mar '22

03 Mar '22

NMGLUGers, I had been amusing myself with an Optiplex 790, but will wait till I have more ram to proceed. I did establish that a new vga cable and the i915 firmware solved the resolution issues. The old cable was faulty. I am finding Debian 11 and Xubuntu 21.10 are both stable and do the work I want to do, so I use one or the other on a daily basis. I do have Debian 11 on a 32-bit machine that works well, but is much slower, of course. It does a good job of streaming music from the Internet to my radio for a chance to sample many more stations than I get otherwise. We have a meeting tomorrow and I hope to be on time this week. It is noted on my calendar: 3 March 2022 @ 5:30 pm - 7:00 pm(MST), at https://meet.jit.si/nmglug. Hope we have some interesting topics. Thank you, Ted P

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