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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

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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

7 months, 3 weeks

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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

7 months, 3 weeks

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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

7 months, 3 weeks

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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

7 months, 3 weeks

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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

7 months, 3 weeks

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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

8 months

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Kevin demonstrates AI document repository, November Meeting

by Brian E. Lavender

When: Mon November 17, 2025 06:00 PM to 08:00 PM Speaker: Kevin Brisson Location: Bel Air #502 S.E.G.R. https://www.saclug.org/articles/2025/november-2025.html 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 -- 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

8 months, 2 weeks

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Fingerprinting

by Gary

I recently had some issues with an old install, fc 25, and espeak. As a longer term solution, I'll upgrade the OS. But, I got some nice AI help in fixing my current install in the meantime. Although some sequences were out of order, and things like that, given the different functions involved, it saved me a lot of reading and research. But, I'm digressing. During the troubleshooting process, it occurred to me that it would be nice to know what my settings had been and how the espeak app was functioning before it just stopped, for no apparent reason. I was wondering if "fingerprinting" an app on the system is a common thing, or just too much effort to get anything useful in the end, and what other people are doing.

8 months, 2 weeks

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October meeting on Formal methods using Spark/Ada

by Brian E. Lavender

Formal Methods and Program Correctness When: Tue October 21, 2025 06:00 PM to 08:00 PM Speaker: Brian E. Lavender Location: Bel Air #502 S.E.G.R. 4320 Arden Way Sacramento, CA 95864 We will talk about the use of SPARK/Ada to verify program correctness using automated tools. -- 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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