[GTALUG] [GTALUG-Announce] Results of Elections

2018-10-26 Thread Bill Thanis via talk
My apologize for taking this long, but the results of the election are as follows: Scott Sullivan, Evan Leibovitch, and Gordon Chillcott. All were voted in by acclimation as no one else wished to run. Returing Officer: Bill Thanis --- GTALUG Announce mailing list annou...@gtalug.org

Re: [GTALUG] tr: Illegal byte sequence

2018-09-27 Thread Bill Thanis via talk
The Locale indirectly controls the character encoding on the shell. that is the reason why the locale settings have to do with this. I may be wrong, but I believe the shell on the MAC is hardcoded with a specific character encoding, probably 7 bit ascii. Try changing your count to 128. Bill On

Re: [GTALUG] Anyone here using Manjaro or OpenSUSE?

2018-09-10 Thread Bill Thanis via talk
I would shy away from opensuse. Its really a server implementation with a desktop façade. It can be a bit ornery to use sometimes. Bill On Sun, Sep 9, 2018 at 12:15 AM Evan Leibovitch via talk wrote: > Hi all. > > I'm looking to install a new distro, after using Mint and Kubuntu for a > long

Re: [GTALUG] Any Debian User Groups in the GTA?

2018-09-06 Thread Bill Thanis via talk
There was a group of people that were interested in debian that came to TLUG many years ago. I know that they met informally as well, but to my knowledge the group fizzled out as people became busy. I can't remember anyone who attended the informally meeting though. Anyone admit to being part of