October 2022 - WLUG - wlug.mailman3.com

!!!! Reminder!!! Wlug Meeting Oct 13th @7PM: Topic: Fotoxx, Speaker: Dick Miller, Location: WPI Mid Century Room.

by Tim Keller

Hey Everybody! Date/Time: Oct 13th 2022, 7PM-??PM Physical Location: WPI Mid Century Room (rm 321) Virtual Location: https://meet.jit.si/WlugMA Speaker: Dick Miller Dick Miller is going to be speaking about Fotoxx! https://kornelix.net/fotoxx/fotoxx.html From the webpage: Navigate a large image collection using a thumbnail browser, click on an image to view or edit. A rich set of edit and retouch functions is available. Import RAW files and edit with deep color. Save revised images as JPEG, PNG (8/16 bits/color), or TIFF (8/16). Select an object or area within an image (freehand draw, follow edges, flood matching tones...), apply edit functions, copy and paste, resize, blend, warp, etc. without using layers. Edit functions have fast feedback using the full image or selected zoom-in area. Edit image metadata (tags, geotags, dates, ratings, captions...). Search images using any combination of metadata and file and folder names or partial names. Click a marker on a scalable world map to view all photos from that location. Batch functions are available to rename, add/revise metadata, copy/move, resize, convert format. Fotoxx uses your image files wherever they are and maintains a separate index for fast searching. Fotoxx is standards compliant and can be used with other photo programs (no lock-in). Fotoxx is easy to use but unconventional, so read the user guide (at least the first few pages) before jumping in. Fotoxx has deep functionality. Do not expect to master it in a few minutes. Along with the presentation, as usual expect the usual amount of banter about all things Linux/FOSS/etc. Definitely some talk about mdadm..which I'm sure will digress into a weird demo... Snacks and Refreshments will be provided and we'll head off to have dinner afterwards to continue the conversation. I hope to see you there! Thanks, Tim. -- I am leery of the allegiances of any politician who refers to their constituents as "consumers".

Oct. 12, 2022

Re: Mojotron: Robot Wars

by John Stoffel

>>>>> "Dennis" == Dennis Payne <dulsi(a)identicalsoftware.com> writes: > On Tue, 2022-10-11 at 21:06 -0400, John Stoffel wrote: >> > > > > >> >> And once I actually checked the settings, I was able to tweak the >> keys >> to be more sane for my brain. Very cool. > My younger brother is left handed and found he needed to change the > controls as well. I do sometimes bring my arcade machine to > events. You are welcome to try it there. Joystick controls movement > and four of the buttons control direction of fire. That might explain it, I'm a lefty too.

Oct. 12, 2022

Re: Mojotron: Robot Wars

by Dennis Payne

On Tue, 2022-10-11 at 21:06 -0400, John Stoffel wrote: > > > > > > > And once I actually checked the settings, I was able to tweak the > keys > to be more sane for my brain. Very cool. My younger brother is left handed and found he needed to change the controls as well. I do sometimes bring my arcade machine to events. You are welcome to try it there. Joystick controls movement and four of the buttons control direction of fire. -- Dennis Payne dulsi(a)identicalsoftware.com https://mastodon.gamedev.place/@dulsi

Oct. 12, 2022

Re: Wlug Meeting Oct 13th @7PM: Topic: Fotoxx, Speaker: Dick Miller, Location: WPI Mid Century Room.

by John Stoffel

>>>>> "kstratton---" == kstratton--- via WLUG <wlug(a)lists.wlug.org> writes: > I am looking googling mdadm for a raid 1 drive. In particular I am > making notes of how to mount a raid1 drive (for emergency recovery). > Is the expected location of the raid array at /dev/mdXX or > /dev/md/mdXX? Is it one of those two is historical or is it one of > those thing that just does not matter? So if you are talking about mirrored drives, you should be able to start the array with one drive missing. So you won't have any problems getting your data back, because it hasn't really gone away. If you look at the output of /proc/mdstat, you will see something like this (using one of my one RAID1 pairs as an example): $ cat /proc/mdstat Personalities : [linear] [raid0] [raid1] [raid10] [raid6] [raid5] [raid4] [multipath] md0 : active raid1 sdj2[4] sdi2[3] 185545656 blocks super 1.2 [2/2] [UU] bitmap: 1/2 pages [4KB], 65536KB chunk So /dev/md0 has two disks, /dev/sdj2 and /dev/sji2. In the worst case, I could boot the system from a LiveCD and just do: mdadm -A -a auto to assemble automatically any arrays it finds. A good reference to all this is the Linux RAID Wiki at: https://raid.wiki.kernel.org/index.php/Linux_Raid but the big big big thing I want to stress is that you *never* run the 'mdadm --create ...' command when trying to recover a broken RAID array of any type unless you are absolutely certain you know what you are doing. DO NOT. Get help first. Post to the Linux RAID mailing list. But DO. NOT. try to create an array to recover it. It's almost certainly the wrong thing to do. I'd be happy to talk Linux RAID at the meeting, but as most of you know, I'm happy to talk period. See you thursday! John

Oct. 12, 2022

Re: Mojotron: Robot Wars

by John Stoffel

>>>>> "John" == John Stoffel via WLUG <wlug(a)lists.wlug.org> writes: >>>>> "Dennis" == Dennis Payne <dulsi(a)identicalsoftware.com> writes: >> On Sun, 2022-10-09 at 18:55 -0400, John Stoffel wrote: >>> Thanks for doing this! I didn't even notice the kickstarter, but I >>> also admit I don't pay *any* attention to kickstarter at all really. >>> Maybe my loss? >> Kickstarter is horrible. It sucks me in all the time. :) >>> > https://gitlab.com/dulsi/mojotron >>> >>> Will try it out at some point. >> Let me know if you have any problems. > No problems, but man it's hard using the wasd keys to move and the > arrow keys to shoot! I do see some warnings when I compile on Linux > Mint 21.x, but it runs fine. And once I actually checked the settings, I was able to tweak the keys to be more sane for my brain. Very cool.

Oct. 12, 2022

Re: Mojotron: Robot Wars

by John Stoffel

>>>>> "Dennis" == Dennis Payne <dulsi(a)identicalsoftware.com> writes: > On Sun, 2022-10-09 at 18:55 -0400, John Stoffel wrote: >> Thanks for doing this! I didn't even notice the kickstarter, but I >> also admit I don't pay *any* attention to kickstarter at all really. >> Maybe my loss? > Kickstarter is horrible. It sucks me in all the time. :) >> > https://gitlab.com/dulsi/mojotron >> >> Will try it out at some point. > Let me know if you have any problems. No problems, but man it's hard using the wasd keys to move and the arrow keys to shoot! I do see some warnings when I compile on Linux Mint 21.x, but it runs fine. Thanks. John

Oct. 11, 2022

Re: Mojotron: Robot Wars

by Dennis Payne

On Sun, 2022-10-09 at 18:55 -0400, John Stoffel wrote: > Thanks for doing this! I didn't even notice the kickstarter, but I > also admit I don't pay *any* attention to kickstarter at all really. > Maybe my loss? Kickstarter is horrible. It sucks me in all the time. :) > > https://gitlab.com/dulsi/mojotron > > Will try it out at some point. Let me know if you have any problems. -- Dennis Payne dulsi(a)identicalsoftware.com https://mastodon.gamedev.place/@dulsi

Oct. 11, 2022

Re: Wlug Meeting Oct 13th @7PM: Topic: Fotoxx, Speaker: Dick Miller, Location: WPI Mid Century Room.

by kstratton＠fastmail.us

I will try to make it to the virtual location. It sound interesting. I am looking googling mdadm for a raid 1 drive. In particular I am making notes of how to mount a raid1 drive (for emergency recovery). Is the expected location of the raid array at /dev/mdXX or /dev/md/mdXX? Is it one of those two is historical or is it one of those thing that just does not matter? On Fri, Oct 7, 2022, at 12:54 PM, Tim Keller via WLUG wrote: > Hey Everybody! > > Date/Time: Oct 13th 2022, 7PM-??PM > Physical Location: WPI Mid Century Room (rm 321) > Virtual Location: https://meet.jit.si/WlugMA > Speaker: Dick Miller > > Dick Miller is going to be speaking about Fotoxx! > https://kornelix.net/fotoxx/fotoxx.html > From the webpage: Navigate a large image collection using a thumbnail browser, click on an image to view or edit. A rich set of edit and retouch functions is available. Import RAW files and edit with deep color. Save revised images as JPEG, PNG (8/16 bits/color), or TIFF (8/16). Select an object or area within an image (freehand draw, follow edges, flood matching tones...), apply edit functions, copy and paste, resize, blend, warp, etc. without using layers. Edit functions have fast feedback using the full image or selected zoom-in area. Edit image metadata (tags, geotags, dates, ratings, captions...). Search images using any combination of metadata and file and folder names or partial names. Click a marker on a scalable world map to view all photos from that location. Batch functions are available to rename, add/revise metadata, copy/move, resize, convert format. Fotoxx uses your image files wherever they are and maintains a separate index for fast searching. Fotoxx is standards compliant and can be used with other photo programs (no lock-in). Fotoxx is easy to use but unconventional, so read the user guide (at least the first few pages) before jumping in. Fotoxx has deep functionality. Do not expect to master it in a few minutes. > > Along with the presentation, as usual expect the usual amount of banter about all things Linux/FOSS/etc. > > Snacks and Refreshments will be provided and we'll head off to have dinner afterwards to continue the conversation. > > I hope to see you there! > > Thanks, > Tim. > -- > I am leery of the allegiances of any politician who refers to their constituents as "consumers". > _______________________________________________ > WLUG mailing list -- wlug(a)lists.wlug.org > To unsubscribe send an email to wlug-leave(a)lists.wlug.org > Create Account: https://wlug.mailman3.com/accounts/signup/ > Change Settings: https://wlug.mailman3.com/postorius/lists/wlug.lists.wlug.org/ > Web Forum/Archive: https://wlug.mailman3.com/hyperkitty/list/wlug@lists.wlug.org/message/MMMMO… > -- kstratton(a)fastmail.us

Oct. 10, 2022

Re: Mojotron: Robot Wars

by John Stoffel

> Crowdfunding of Mojotron: Robot Wars didn't succeed. I've learned a > lot about running a kickstarter and think I could do better next > time. But just because funding failed doesn't mean the code should > be locked away. Thanks for doing this! I didn't even notice the kickstarter, but I also admit I don't pay *any* attention to kickstarter at all really. Maybe my loss? > https://gitlab.com/dulsi/mojotron Will try it out at some point. > Binaries are available for purchase from itch.io > https://dulsi.itch.io/mojotron-robot-wars > On Thu, 2022-07-28 at 17:58 -0400, Dennis Payne wrote: >> This video had a larger purpose behind it. I've been creating a >> kickstarter for Mojotron: Robot Wars. Kickstarter is a crowdfunding >> site. I've thought it could be useful for funding open source >> projects >> so I've finally gotten around to trying it. The project is not live >> yet >> but you can signup to be notified of it's launch. Current plan is to >> launch on Aug 6th. >> >> https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/850526497/mojotron-robot-wars > -- > Dennis Payne > dulsi(a)identicalsoftware.com > https://mastodon.gamedev.place/@dulsi > _______________________________________________ > WLUG mailing list -- wlug(a)lists.wlug.org > To unsubscribe send an email to wlug-leave(a)lists.wlug.org > Create Account: https://wlug.mailman3.com/accounts/signup/ > Change Settings: https://wlug.mailman3.com/postorius/lists/wlug.lists.wlug.org/ > Web Forum/Archive: https://wlug.mailman3.com/hyperkitty/list/wlug@lists.wlug.org/message/WAEZV…

Oct. 9, 2022

Re: Mojotron: Robot Wars

by Dennis Payne

Crowdfunding of Mojotron: Robot Wars didn't succeed. I've learned a lot about running a kickstarter and think I could do better next time. But just because funding failed doesn't mean the code should be locked away. https://gitlab.com/dulsi/mojotron Binaries are available for purchase from itch.io https://dulsi.itch.io/mojotron-robot-wars On Thu, 2022-07-28 at 17:58 -0400, Dennis Payne wrote: > This video had a larger purpose behind it. I've been creating a > kickstarter for Mojotron: Robot Wars. Kickstarter is a crowdfunding > site. I've thought it could be useful for funding open source > projects > so I've finally gotten around to trying it. The project is not live > yet > but you can signup to be notified of it's launch. Current plan is to > launch on Aug 6th. > > https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/850526497/mojotron-robot-wars -- Dennis Payne dulsi(a)identicalsoftware.com https://mastodon.gamedev.place/@dulsi

Oct. 9, 2022