Charter Telephone reviews, boylston?
by John Stoffel
Hi,
Anyone on here using Charter Telephone VOIP service? I've currently
got Verizon, but the wife hates it because our phone lines get flaky
all the time, esp when it rains.
So I'm thinking to save money and combine all my stuff onto Charter.
I've already got High Speed internet and regular old cable. Not wild
about Digital Cable since I'm happy with Tivo and I don't want yet
another set top box to have to deal with...
So, any horror stories about Charter Phone VOIP quality and service?
Thanks,
John
2 months, 2 weeks
Announce: WLUG Meeting Wed 9/12 7PM: Raspberry Pi
by Chuck Anderson
Hi folks,
The next Worcester Linux Users' Group (WLUG) monthly meeting will be
held on Wednesday, September 12, at 7PM. The location will be WPI
Higgns Labs, room 230 (computer lab).
Wednesday, September 12, 7:00 - 9:00 PM
WPI Higgins Labs, room 230 (computer lab)
WLUG member Karl Lind will be giving a presentation and demonstration
of two Raspberry Pi "credit-card sized" computers that run on the ARM
processor architecture.
Others are welcome to bring their own Raspberry Pi or other similar
devices to join in the fun.
Afterwards, we will go out for pizza and continue our discussions.
See you there,
Chuck
President, Worcester Linux Users' Group
http://www.wlug.org/
6 years, 3 months
Help with water level problems
by Eric Martin
Hey all,
I had a close call with my hot water heater this afternoon. I heard on odd
noise in the pipes and it turned out that my hot water heater was dumping
water out of the overflow valve. Luckily, I found it quick enough, and I'm
pretty sure I got it handled for < $150. There's a 1 Gal bucket under the
overflow valve, and if I had a water level detector emailing me that water
is in the bucket, I could have caught this earlier.
I was looking at buying an Arduino and setting up a simple circuit. I know
a few people have played with Arduinos, any suggestions on which one to get
and how to go about it? I don't need to know how much water is in the
bucket, I was thinking about a float type device or even two wires that
trip a relay. I just want a heads up that water is in the bucket so I can
stop before my basement floods.
Thanks in advance,
--
Eric Martin
6 years, 3 months
A question about KMS API's
by Jason Couture
Anyone know anything about the KMS API? From userland? I'm working on
a project and would like to use KMS/FB directly, as at boot there will
be no binaries available except ours, No libc even. Just a few static
binaries. if anyone could point me in the right direction, it would be
greatly appreciated it. I can't seem to find anything on it on google,
and I really don't have the time to go pouring over the kernel source.
6 years, 3 months
Re: [Wlug] Wlug Digest, Vol 106, Issue 5
by Karl Lind
Hi Chuck,
It doesn't have to be 2 HDMI compatible outputs. It just came to me that
the Pi has a composite video and a stereo audio out port too. One of each
would be super as I have power supplies, keyboards and mice for both my
Pi's. The four OS's (which might be overkill for time) that I plan to bring
for the demo are Raspian (a Debian distro that is running a web server),
Gentoo, Fedora and OpenELEC (an XBMC type distro). Also if possible
Ethernet access?
Karl
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> Date: Thu, 16 Aug 2012 09:56:44 -0400
> From: Karl Lind <electrolind(a)gmail.com>
> Subject: [Wlug] September talk
> To: Wlug(a)mail.wlug.org
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> Yep, still up for it. Is there a way to connect two HDMI sources up to
> projector/tv/video in the room? Reason I have two Pi's and I thought after
> the talk can have two running for demo purposes.
>
> Karl
>
> Date: Mon, 13 Aug 2012 12:51:25 -0400
> From: Frank Sweetser <fs(a)WPI.EDU>
> Subject: Re: [Wlug] September meeting topic?
> To: Worcester Linux Users Group <wlug(a)mail.wlug.org>
> Message-ID: <5029308D.3090301(a)wpi.edu>
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>
> Hi Karl,
>
> are you still up for giving a talk on the Pi for the September meeting?
> So
> far as I know it's open for topics, and that sounds like a great one.
>
> Frank Sweetser fs at wpi.edu | For every problem, there is a solution
> that
> Manager of Network Operations | is simple, elegant, and wrong.
> Worcester Polytechnic Institute | - HL Mencken
>
> On 07/13/2012 08:43 PM, Karl Lind wrote:
> > Howdy all,
> >
> > I would like to give a talk on the Raspberry Pi project and I have two
> > of them to demonstrate various OS's (I have worked with the Debian and
> > Fedora implementations and look forward to the others as they come
> > out.). I have four SD cards, so that's the number of OS's I can bring
> > with me.
> >
> > Have a great summer!
> >
> > Karl
> > ______________________________
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> Date: Thu, 16 Aug 2012 10:46:45 -0400
> From: Steve Pelland <steve.pelland(a)gmail.com>
> Subject: Re: [Wlug] September talk
> To: Worcester Linux Users Group <wlug(a)mail.wlug.org>
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> Karl,
> This meeting will be at the usual place? This will be the first one I get
> to attend. I also have a Pi and wanted to chat with others that have Pi's
> so this will be a great start.
>
> Steve
>
> On Thu, Aug 16, 2012 at 9:56 AM, Karl Lind <electrolind(a)gmail.com> wrote:
>
> > Yep, still up for it. Is there a way to connect two HDMI sources up to
> > projector/tv/video in the room? Reason I have two Pi's and I thought
> after
> > the talk can have two running for demo purposes.
> >
> > Karl
> >
> > Date: Mon, 13 Aug 2012 12:51:25 -0400
> > From: Frank Sweetser <fs(a)WPI.EDU>
> > Subject: Re: [Wlug] September meeting topic?
> > To: Worcester Linux Users Group <wlug(a)mail.wlug.org>
> > Message-ID: <5029308D.3090301(a)wpi.edu>
> > Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1
> >
> >
> > Hi Karl,
> >
> > are you still up for giving a talk on the Pi for the September meeting?
> > So
> > far as I know it's open for topics, and that sounds like a great one.
> >
> > Frank Sweetser fs at wpi.edu | For every problem, there is a
> solution
> > that
> > Manager of Network Operations | is simple, elegant, and wrong.
> > Worcester Polytechnic Institute | - HL Mencken
> >
> > On 07/13/2012 08:43 PM, Karl Lind wrote:
> > > Howdy all,
> > >
> > > I would like to give a talk on the Raspberry Pi project and I have two
> > > of them to demonstrate various OS's (I have worked with the Debian and
> > > Fedora implementations and look forward to the others as they come
> > > out.). I have four SD cards, so that's the number of OS's I can bring
> > > with me.
> > >
> > > Have a great summer!
> > >
> > > Karl
> > > ______________________________
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> Date: Thu, 16 Aug 2012 11:15:10 -0400
> From: Chuck Anderson <cra(a)WPI.EDU>
> Subject: Re: [Wlug] September talk
> To: Worcester Linux Users Group <wlug(a)mail.wlug.org>
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> The meeting room is still TBD. I can find out about connecting 2 HDMI
> sources--we should be able to come up with something.
>
> On Thu, Aug 16, 2012 at 10:46:45AM -0400, Steve Pelland wrote:
> > Karl,
> > This meeting will be at the usual place? This will be the first one I
> get
> > to attend. I also have a Pi and wanted to chat with others that have Pi's
> > so this will be a great start.
> >
> > Steve
> >
> > On Thu, Aug 16, 2012 at 9:56 AM, Karl Lind <electrolind(a)gmail.com>
> wrote:
> >
> > > Yep, still up for it. Is there a way to connect two HDMI sources up to
> > > projector/tv/video in the room? Reason I have two Pi's and I thought
> after
> > > the talk can have two running for demo purposes.
> > >
> > > Karl
> > >
> > > Date: Mon, 13 Aug 2012 12:51:25 -0400
> > > From: Frank Sweetser <fs(a)WPI.EDU>
> > > Subject: Re: [Wlug] September meeting topic?
> > > To: Worcester Linux Users Group <wlug(a)mail.wlug.org>
> > > Message-ID: <5029308D.3090301(a)wpi.edu>
> > > Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1
> > >
> > >
> > > Hi Karl,
> > >
> > > are you still up for giving a talk on the Pi for the September
> meeting?
> > > So
> > > far as I know it's open for topics, and that sounds like a great one.
> > >
> > > Frank Sweetser fs at wpi.edu | For every problem, there is a
> solution
> > > that
> > > Manager of Network Operations | is simple, elegant, and wrong.
> > > Worcester Polytechnic Institute | - HL Mencken
> > >
> > > On 07/13/2012 08:43 PM, Karl Lind wrote:
> > > > Howdy all,
> > > >
> > > > I would like to give a talk on the Raspberry Pi project and I have
> two
> > > > of them to demonstrate various OS's (I have worked with the Debian
> and
> > > > Fedora implementations and look forward to the others as they come
> > > > out.). I have four SD cards, so that's the number of OS's I can bring
> > > > with me.
> > > >
> > > > Have a great summer!
> > > >
> > > > Karl
>
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6 years, 3 months
September talk
by Karl Lind
Yep, still up for it. Is there a way to connect two HDMI sources up to
projector/tv/video in the room? Reason I have two Pi's and I thought after
the talk can have two running for demo purposes.
Karl
Date: Mon, 13 Aug 2012 12:51:25 -0400
From: Frank Sweetser <fs(a)WPI.EDU>
Subject: Re: [Wlug] September meeting topic?
To: Worcester Linux Users Group <wlug(a)mail.wlug.org>
Message-ID: <5029308D.3090301(a)wpi.edu>
Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1
Hi Karl,
are you still up for giving a talk on the Pi for the September meeting?
So
far as I know it's open for topics, and that sounds like a great one.
Frank Sweetser fs at wpi.edu | For every problem, there is a solution
that
Manager of Network Operations | is simple, elegant, and wrong.
Worcester Polytechnic Institute | - HL Mencken
On 07/13/2012 08:43 PM, Karl Lind wrote:
> Howdy all,
>
> I would like to give a talk on the Raspberry Pi project and I have two
> of them to demonstrate various OS's (I have worked with the Debian and
> Fedora implementations and look forward to the others as they come
> out.). I have four SD cards, so that's the number of OS's I can bring
> with me.
>
> Have a great summer!
>
> Karl
> ______________________________
_________________
> Wlug mailing list
> Wlug(a)mail.wlug.org
> http://mail.wlug.org/mailman/listinfo/wlug
>
6 years, 3 months
BBQ interest survey: aug14/aug15 ?
by Doug Mildram
Sum sum summatime....
...and it's crunch time, do-or-die for our annual summer WLUG bbq.
I'm looking at hosting ..... REAL SOON, e.g. tues/wed aug14/15,
now that I see the weather (tuesday looking like the best sunny day next
week).
My rough location: boylston (near berlin+Clinton, 10min from 495/hudson,
20min or less from worcester via 290 east...)
Timing: loose....6-8pm or later;
Challenges: my grill is half-gone (2 of 4 burners work OK)
and my motivation depends on some feedback.
Reply to me ..........whether you'd (want to)(be able to) attend
with or w/o SO's,pets,kids,anyone! Usually I provide
beef/sausages/buns/etc,
a few soda choices, and leave the rest to fate or better.
Here's your form letter for a reply (just to me, dmildram(a)gmail.com)
--Possible #humans: _____ (opt: dogs?) _____
--Tues aug 14: ok?
-- Wed aug 15: ok?
-------(opt) I'd be curious what town you're coming from.
Vegetarian, anyone? My wife will help me attempt healthy choices...
-----------------------------
I hope to post some (anonymized) results,
and hopefully choose/announce,,,,,,,,,,,
perhaps by sunday eve or monday morning.
--doug
6 years, 4 months
September meeting topic?
by Karl Lind
Howdy all,
I would like to give a talk on the Raspberry Pi project and I have two
of them to demonstrate various OS's (I have worked with the Debian and
Fedora implementations and look forward to the others as they come
out.). I have four SD cards, so that's the number of OS's I can bring
with me.
Have a great summer!
Karl
6 years, 4 months
BBQ tues aug14 6pm Boylston,MA (addr,directions...)
by Doug Mildram
Sorry if the last-minute planning was inadequate for anyone.
Few replies so far == small turnout == could be good anyways!
You and even friends/family are invited to my house, roughly aug14 6pm-8pm,
540 Linden St Boylston MA (red house on corner of Mile Hill Rd,
probably enough room in my driveway for all to park, then street
is OK)
I've got ample burgers,sausages,cheese,peppers,onions,buns,tortilla
chips,salsa;
less beverages.
If you like old-fashioned verbose directions, choose one of:
http://webpages.charter.net/mquinty/directions/boylston_from_auburn_worc_...
http://webpages.charter.net/mquinty/directions/boylston_from_495+62.txt
http://webpages.charter.net/mquinty/directions/boylston_from_rte2_lancast...
6 years, 4 months
Cross-compiling for Windows
by dulsi＠identicalsoftware.com
I cross compile a program for windows on my linux box. After doing so I
grab all the dlls and package them up. Typically this involves grabbing
what I knew was needed and then testing on a windows box to determine if
anything is missing. Is their some program in wine that can output what
dlls are needed (like ldd) so I can write a script to package up
everything? Obviously it doesn't generally change except when I upgrade to
a new Fedora version but it would be nice to automate packaging
everything.
Dennis Payne
dulsi(a)identicalsoftware.com
6 years, 4 months
