Date
7pm, Wednesday, 8 May 2024
Topic 1/2: PiSCSI: Emulating a SCSI Hard Drive with a Raspberry Pi
Speaker: Adrian Hayes
Reliable and operational SCSI hard drives for vintage Macintosh computers are getting rarer and harder to find these days. Emulating SCSI hard drives can give your vintage Mac a new lease on life, with a number of modern upgrades available, one being the PiSCSI adapter.
Topic 2/2: GNU command-line tools
Speaker: Tom Ryder
The GNU core utilities is a suite of command-line tools that do basic file, shell, and text manipulation. A few of them, like ls(1)
or cp(1)
, are among the first and most common commands a GNU/Linux user would use. But how about basename(1)
, to strip a filename’s path or extension? Or fmt(1)
, to format text to a given width? Or factor(1)
, to print the prime factors of a number? Tom will go through some of the lesser-known coreutils programs, and show a bit about what they do, along with a few other tools in the same vein that are usually packaged separately, including bc(1)
and units(1)
.