November 2018 - WLUG - wlug.mailman3.com

Frantic last minute room change

by thinkbrown＠gmail.com

Hey WLUG! Frantic last minute change of room. Due to the relative inaccessibility of Stratton after 5PM, we moved to Campus Center room 128 (the Taylor Room). This is on the first floor (down the stairs through the main entrance). Sorry for the last minute notice Logan (pretending to be Tim)

Nov. 8, 2018

Reminder! WLUG Meeting NEXT week! Nov. 8th, 2018! NOTE: LOCATION CHANGE!

by Tim Keller

Hey Gang! We've got a meeting next week! Date and Time: Nov. 8th, 2018 @ 7pm Location: *Stratton Hall Room 309* Topic: GNURadio / Software Defined Radio / GQRX Presenter: Ian Gelman Here's what Ian had to say about his presentation... I'd like to throw my hat in the ring and give an overview+demo of GNURadio, a FOSS package for graphically developing DSP applications and interfacing with Software-Defined Radios (SDR). I spent last summer at MITRE using this software heavily, and I'm also using it for my MQP work. For the demo, I'd like to bring down some hardware from my lab ( https://www.ettus.com/product/details/UN210-KIT) as well as the $20 RTL-SDR dongle ( http://www.nooelec.com/store/sdr/sdr-receivers/nesdr-mini-rtl2832-r820t.html) to show reception of broadcast FM, ADS-B telemetry from airplanes, as well as some real time views of Wi-Fi, Bluetooth, and streaming drone footage from a DJI Phantom 3 Pro. Here's the outline: What's SDR? Why should we care? Why do I care? Who uses GNURadio? GNURadio fundamentals Introducing the workflow/flowgraph interface Cloning/Building/Installing (this won't be specific, just mentioning the GitHub repo and where the quickstart guide is) How to contribute (also GR-hackfest!) GNURadio as a software development framework Ex: GQRX (http://gqrx.dk) For the demo, I'll show off some stuff I've made with GNURadio, as well as GQRX to interface with the RTL-SDR. I'm pretty confident that I can cram it inside of 2 hours, because I'll be basically recycling the slides I made for my MITRE presentation, minus the branding and project-specific content. As usual, drinks and snacks will be provided and we'll head out to dinner afterwards. NOTE: I will be unable to attend this meeting. Thanks, Tim. -- I am leery of the allegiances of any politician who refers to their constituents as "consumers".

Nov. 2, 2018

Re: Too bad about redhat...

by Tim Keller

I guess the question I have is this. IBM just spend 34B on redhat. Okay, now what. Is it possible that RedHat's support stuff was generating so much revenue that IBM thinks it can simply sit back and let it print money? While that's possible, I don't think RedHat has made 34B in it's entire existence. Thusly, there will be a point where the people who push the heaps of money around at IBM go "You know, we spent 34B on this thing, how are we going to get some ROI out of this?" My interactions with AIX and it's adoption of RPM as a method of software installation makes me think that possibly IBM sees a transition plan where AIX gets supplanted with Linux over time. Again, this is just conjecture. My fears are that those who care about FOSS in IBM and RedHat will be pushed aside by those in IBM who'll want a short term return on investment that makes the shareholders happy. Tim. On Thu, Nov 1, 2018 at 10:30 AM Jon "maddog" Hall <jon.maddog.hall(a)gmail.com> wrote: > I think that this is a big enough deal that IBM knows it is "bet the farm". > > Did you know that IBM has over 600 engineers working on "Open Source" > projects of all kinds? > > md > > On Thu, Nov 1, 2018, 06:55 Dennis Payne <dulsi(a)identicalsoftware.com > wrote: > >> IBM of today is far different than the IBM that started investing in >> Linux. They have sacrificed the long term for short term profits. The >> question in my mind is does IBM realize this? Will they use Red Hat to >> reinvigorate? Or will they just cost cut it to death as well? >> >> https://www.cringely.com/2018/10/29/red-hat-takes-over-ibm/ >> >> _______________________________________________ >> WLUG mailing list -- wlug(a)lists.wlug.org >> To unsubscribe send an email to wlug-leave(a)lists.wlug.org >> > _______________________________________________ > WLUG mailing list -- wlug(a)lists.wlug.org > To unsubscribe send an email to wlug-leave(a)lists.wlug.org > -- I am leery of the allegiances of any politician who refers to their constituents as "consumers".

Nov. 1, 2018

Re: Too bad about redhat...

by Jon "maddog" Hall

I think that this is a big enough deal that IBM knows it is "bet the farm". Did you know that IBM has over 600 engineers working on "Open Source" projects of all kinds? md On Thu, Nov 1, 2018, 06:55 Dennis Payne <dulsi(a)identicalsoftware.com wrote: > IBM of today is far different than the IBM that started investing in > Linux. They have sacrificed the long term for short term profits. The > question in my mind is does IBM realize this? Will they use Red Hat to > reinvigorate? Or will they just cost cut it to death as well? > > https://www.cringely.com/2018/10/29/red-hat-takes-over-ibm/ > > _______________________________________________ > WLUG mailing list -- wlug(a)lists.wlug.org > To unsubscribe send an email to wlug-leave(a)lists.wlug.org >

Nov. 1, 2018

Re: Too bad about redhat...

by Dennis Payne

IBM of today is far different than the IBM that started investing in Linux. They have sacrificed the long term for short term profits. The question in my mind is does IBM realize this? Will they use Red Hat to reinvigorate? Or will they just cost cut it to death as well? https://www.cringely.com/2018/10/29/red-hat-takes-over-ibm/

Nov. 1, 2018