Hello,
My name is Forrest I am a gamer and a Linux enthusiast that mainly uses a Arch Based distro called Manjaro. My friend reached out to the group for me and then emailed and told me about it so I thought I would create a account and introduce myself. I would also like to say my level of understanding is probably more on the beginners level of things and have been learning slowly and would like to learn more about other things like raspberry pis and servers since I recently obtained a server from a family members work because they upgraded, I will also leave specs of the two custom built computers I own and the name of the server I have down below, I look forward to meeting you all next meeting.
Sincerely,
Forrest
Server:
Dell PowerEdge 2950 (Minimal Manjaro XFCE Installed)
Raid Slots 6
Hard Disk Drives 6 (2 146GB 10K RPM, 4 600GB 15K RPM)
That's all I know atm
Custom PC's:
Current Rig
Case: NZXT H440 (EnVyUs Edition)
Mobo: ASRock Fatal1ty Z270 Gaming K6
GPU: EVGA GTX 1080 Ti SC2 (11GB GDDR5X)
CPU: Intel i7 7700K Quad Core 4.2 GHz (No Overclock)
RAM: 16GB G.SKILL Ripjaws V DDR4 3200
HDD: 2TB FireCuda (SSHD) + 2TB FireCuda (SSHD) + 250GB Samsung 850 EVO (SSD) + 1TB Crucial M.2 NVMe SSD
OS: Windows 10 Pro / Manjaro KDE
Other Rig
Case: NZXT H440
Mobo: Asrock Z75 Pro3
GPU: EVGA GTX 980Ti Hybrid (6GB GDDR5)
CPU: Intel Core i7 2600 Quad Core 3.4 GHz (Overclocked to 4GHz)
RAM: 16 GB DDR3 1600
HDD: 2TB (7200RPM HDD) + 128GB (SSD)
OS: Windows 10 Pro 64Bit
The other day, my computer crashed to a blank, black screen. On reboot, my
BIOS didn't see the SSD that held my OS. I tried swapping the SSD onto
different cables and different motherboard connectors. When I started the
computer back up, it saw the SSD, but gave me a GRUB rescue prompt. On the
next reboot, the BIOS again didn't see the SSD. That's repeatable: warm
boots make the SSD disappear; it re-appears on cold boots, but dumps me to
the GRUB rescue prompt.
I figured the SSD has died and I already requested an RMA, but I can't boot
to my Windows drive if I remove the SSD, so maybe it's not actually dead.
I don't have the patience to troubleshoot from the GRUB rescue prompt and I
wasn't thrilled with Manjaro, so I'm going to try to install good, old
Debian to the SSD while I wait to hear back about an RMA.
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Rich
Hey Everybody,
We've got a meeting tonight!
Location: WPI Campus Center Room 304 (Peterson Conference Room)
Topic: TBD, open forum, etc.
I'm going to show off Visual Studio Code for Linux running on my laptop
with the emacs, git and python integrations I've been using. That'll
probably be pretty quick and then we can open it up to a general discussion
around what's going on in linux, what people are interested in and what
people would like to see for topics.
There will possibly be some new people since I've created the Meetup site.
Snacks and refreshments will be provided and we'll head off for dinner
afterwards.
Later,
Tim.
--
I am leery of the allegiances of any politician who refers to their
constituents as "consumers".
I've got some updates and ideas for the upcoming meetings!
I've reached out to Daniel Moghimi about doing a talk regarding his work on
the various security issues he's found in modern CPUs. He's agreed to speak
either March or April. I'll work to finalize the details with him.
I'm definitely interested in doing a Keysigning party, we'll just have to
work out the logistics and what additional presentations that we'd like to
go along with it. I know a while a go Eric Martin showed off a cool keyfob
that had his key stored in it.
I recently stumbled across a cool technology called "Node Red" which people
are using to do automation stuff with IoT and MTQQ. https://www.nodered.org It
allows you to create flows using their graphing engine.
Another piece of software that people might find interesting is subsonic
<http://www.subsonic.org/>. It lets you run your own music streaming
service. This way you're not subjected to whatever algorithm spotify /
pandora / etc wants to subject you to! I recently helped a buddy build a
home nas to run it and it's pretty damn slick.
Let me know if you have any more ideas for meeting topics!
Later,
Tim.
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I am leery of the allegiances of any politician who refers to their
constituents as "consumers".
Hey Gang,
This is my usual reminder that we've got a meeting next week.
Here's the details...
Date & Time: February 13th, 2020 @ 7PM
Location: WPI Campus Center Room 304 (Peterson Conference Room)
Presenter: Joshua Stone
Topic: Modernizing the Linux Desktop with Silver/Blue, Toolbox and Flatpak
Our speaker this month is Joshua Stone. He's going to giving a talk about a
couple of cool technologies in Fedora! Josh provided me some details about
these innovations so I've mashed them up and included them below.
Silverblue: https://fedoramagazine.org/what-is-silverblue/
Toolbox: https://docs.fedoraproject.org/en-US/fedora-silverblue/toolbox/
Flatpaks: https://flatpak.org/
*Silverblue* s a Fedora variant designed around immutability where a new
system image is committed as the new /sysroot without affecting the state
of the running system. This is reminiscent of Android A/B updates, although
the update backend -- ostree -- has elements of a version control system
like git.
*Toolbox* is also interesting as it lets you switch into an unprivileged
development environment that can be built up and torn down without
affecting the host as tools are installed inside a container.
*Flatpak* uses the same file storage backend as Silverblue to manage apps
and shared
runtimes. This app distribution technology allows you to decouple apps and
operating systems as everything is built and run inside a sandbox, making
upgrades easier. Compare needing only one version of an app to package as a
flatpak, versus packaging for different versions.
As usual, snacks and refreshments will be provided and afterwards we'll
head off for dinner to continue the conversation.
Thanks,
Tim Keller
WLUG President
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I am leery of the allegiances of any politician who refers to their
constituents as "consumers".
