November 2025 - Lug-nuts

by Brian E. Lavender

I have never used the xslt filter capability in libre office. Has anyone used it? https://help.libreoffice.org/latest/en-US/text/shared/guide/xsltfilter.html I did do some brief work witho FOP https://xmlgraphics.apache.org/fop/ Brian -- Brian Lavender https://www.brie.com/brian/ "There are two ways of constructing a software design. One way is to make it so simple that there are obviously no deficiencies. And the other way is to make it so complicated that there are no obvious deficiencies." Professor C. A. R. Hoare The 1980 Turing award lecture

5 days, 21 hours

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meeting tomorrow

by Brian E. Lavender

Don't forget we have the SacLUG tomorrow! https://www.saclug.org/articles/2025/november-2025.html Kevin demonstrates AI document repository When: Mon November 17, 2025 06:00 PM to 08:00 PM Speaker: Kevin Brisson Location: Bel Air #502 S.E.G.R. Kevin will present his Byte Vision local document analysis tool. https://github.com/kbrisso/byte-vision This talk will be at the Bel Aire Arden. Note that the meeting will be on Monday, rather than the usual Tuesday. 4320 Arden Way Sacramento, CA 95864 -- Brian Lavender https://www.brie.com/brian/ "There are two ways of constructing a software design. One way is to make it so simple that there are obviously no deficiencies. And the other way is to make it so complicated that there are no obvious deficiencies." Professor C. A. R. Hoare The 1980 Turing award lecture

5 days, 21 hours

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Xorg stuff

by Brian E. Lavender

While downloading F43 updates for my desktop, I found this thread on Xorg. Admittingly, I still do not fully understand how the windowing manager all fits together. I take it that there are various X libraries? https://discussion.fedoraproject.org/t/f43-change-proposal-x11libre-system-… I thought this quote was interesting: "Fedora will benefit from shipping an actively maintained Xserver instead of a moribund one whose maintainers themselves label as “unmaintained” (pushing Wayland as the replacement)." Brian -- Brian Lavender https://www.brie.com/brian/ "There are two ways of constructing a software design. One way is to make it so simple that there are obviously no deficiencies. And the other way is to make it so complicated that there are no obvious deficiencies." Professor C. A. R. Hoare The 1980 Turing award lecture

6 days

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Databse OS Pick OS

by Kevin B

I found Gary's database OS :) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pick_operating_system Very cool video on it https://youtu.be/pWZBQMRmW7k?si=8GCK3RlGZ8PLhvx_ BTW channel has really cool videos on tech - no bullshit - not too long - no dumb promotions Really interesting videos on chip technology Kevin

6 days, 1 hour

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upgraded to Fedora 43

by Brian E. Lavender

I upgraded to Fedora 43 on the Thinkpad. It seems to work well! I do have the Temurin Java repository activated. -- Brian Lavender https://www.brie.com/brian/ "There are two ways of constructing a software design. One way is to make it so simple that there are obviously no deficiencies. And the other way is to make it so complicated that there are no obvious deficiencies." Professor C. A. R. Hoare The 1980 Turing award lecture

6 days, 23 hours

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dnf cache

by Brian E. Lavender

I was looking at a way to cache packages for Fedora. I recall apt-cacher for Debian. It appears that one needs to create a shared file storage repository to cach packages. I just scanned the article. Anyone have a cache configured for Fedora packages? https://fedoramagazine.org/use-the-dnf-local-plugin-to-speed-up-your-home-l… Brian -- Brian Lavender https://www.brie.com/brian/ "There are two ways of constructing a software design. One way is to make it so simple that there are obviously no deficiencies. And the other way is to make it so complicated that there are no obvious deficiencies." Professor C. A. R. Hoare The 1980 Turing award lecture

1 week

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Re: Systemd

by Kevin Brisson

Gary, computers are hard and shouldn't be used by retired folks. :) Run it like below, it will load last. Use AI for docs - much easier and faster than our brains. Type=idle Behavior of idle is very similar to simple; however, actual execution of the service program is delayed until all active jobs are dispatched. This may be used to avoid interleaving the output of shell services with the status output on the console. Note that this type is useful only to improve console output, it is not useful as a general unit ordering tool, and the effect of this service type is subject to a 5s timeout, after which the service program is invoked anyway. https://www.freedesktop.org/software/systemd/man/latest/systemd.service.html Kevin

1 week, 4 days

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upgraded asus laptop with nvidia card to F43 and gui won't start

by Brian E. Lavender

What logs to check? I tried `journalctl -xe` and I don't see anything. Brian -- Brian Lavender https://www.brie.com/brian/ "There are two ways of constructing a software design. One way is to make it so simple that there are obviously no deficiencies. And the other way is to make it so complicated that there are no obvious deficiencies." Professor C. A. R. Hoare The 1980 Turing award lecture

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