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Reminder!!! Meeting tomorrow night! Topic: Nix

by Tim Keller

Just a reminder that we've got a meeting tomorrow night! Date: June 12th, 2025 Time: 7pm Location: Technocopia, 44 Portland st. Worcester MA Virtual Location: https://meet.jit.si/WlugMA Topic: Nix Package Manager Presenter: Xavier Ruis Fellow WLUG member Evan White has asked his friend Xavier to speak at WLUG and he's graciously agreed. Xavier Ruis is one of the organizers of the Boston Typescript club and will be giving a talk about the Nix Package manager! https://nixos.org/ Nix is a packaging system that allows for the creation of "declarative builds and deployments" It works on all the distros as well as the NixOS linux distribution. Afterwards we'll head off to dinner to continue the conversation! I hope to see you there! Tim.

June 11, 2025

WLUG.. Already?!? Yup! June 12th 2025 Topic: Nix Package Manager, Presenter: Xavier Ruiz

by Tim Keller

Hey Everybody! Fellow WLUG member Evan White has asked his friend Xavier to speak at WLUG and he's graciously agreed. Xavier Ruis is one of the organizers of the Boston Typescript club and will be giving a talk about the Nix Package manager! https://nixos.org/ Nix is a packaging system that allows for the creation of "declarative builds and deployments" It works on all the distros as well as the NixOS linux distribution. Here's all the vital details! Date: June 12th, 2025 Time: 7pm Location: Technocopia, 44 Portland Ave. Worcester MA Virtual Location: https://meet.jit.si/WlugMA Afterwards we'll head out to dinner and continue the conversation. I hope to see you there! Tim -- I am leery of the allegiances of any politician who refers to their constituents as "consumers".

June 9, 2025

Re: Reminder!! Meeting This Thursday!! May 29th, 2024 Topic: Mini-PC, QLC+

by John Stoffel

>>>>> "Tim" == Tim Keller via WLUG <wlug(a)lists.wlug.org> writes: > Hey Everybody! > We've got a meeting this week! > Time: 7pm > Date: May 29th, 2025 > Location: Technocopia > Virtual Location: https://meet.jit.si/WlugMA > Topic: BeeLink Mini-PC > Presenter: John Stoffel. > Long time WLUG member John Stoffel has graciously agreed to show off > his new, small, but mighty desktop. We'll put it through its paces > with a couple quick demos and tests. I may need to blow it all away and run some ventoy stuff on there... if only because it depends so much on working LDAP and NFS mounts! More will be shown at the meeting. > Along with his mini pc, he's also got QLC+ lighting control software > and an LED instrument with RGBW Leds in it to demo and show off it > being controlled by a linux system. QLC+ has slowed down in > development lately, but it's an interesting alternative to QLAB when > you don't have a Mac, and Qlab only runs on Macs. I'll be trying to have some example show files in place, it might be a bit hard to see over the video, but hopefully it will look good!

May 27, 2025

Reminder!! Meeting This Thursday!! May 29th, 2024 Topic: Mini-PC, QLC+

by Tim Keller

Hey Everybody! We've got a meeting this week! Time: 7pm Date: May 29th, 2025 Location: Technocopia Virtual Location: https://meet.jit.si/WlugMA Topic: BeeLink Mini-PC Presenter: John Stoffel. Long time WLUG member John Stoffel has graciously agreed to show off his new, small, but mighty desktop. We'll put it through its paces with a couple quick demos and tests. Along with his mini pc, he's also got QLC+ lighting control software and an LED instrument with RGBW Leds in it to demo and show off it being controlled by a linux system. QLC+ has slowed down in development lately, but it's an interesting alternative to QLAB when you don't have a Mac, and Qlab only runs on Macs. As usual, we'll head off for dinner afterwards to keep the conversation going. Later, Tim.

May 27, 2025

Re: Meeting this week, May 22nd at 7pm! Topic: Mini PC!

by John Stoffel

>>>>> "Tim" == Tim Keller via WLUG <wlug(a)lists.wlug.org> writes: > Date: May 29nd (updated!) > Topic: Mini-PC.Long time WLUG member John Stoffel has graciously > agreed to show off his new, small but mighty desktop. We'll put it > through its paces with a couple quick demos and tests. We'll likely > get OpenWebUI running on it, as well as Cadoodle. I've also got QLC+ lighting control software and an LED instrument with RGBW Leds in it to demo and show off it being controlled by a linux system. QLC+ has slowed down in development lately, but it's an interesting alternative to QLAB when you don't have a Mac, and Qlab only runs on Macs. https://www.qlcplus.org/ https://qlab.app/ For those of you who want me details of the mini PC, it's a Beelink Mini PC AMD Ryzen 7 5850U system with 1Tb NVME and 16gb of RAM. https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0C2P486GQ?ref=ppx_yo2ov_dt_b_fed_asin_title I'm super impressed by what it provides, and it's certainly an upgrade over my old AMD Athlon Phenom II Quad core system I was using as my desktop before. > I recently started (trying!) to use a glove80 keyboard so I'll bring > that along so people can give it a try as well. I'm sad to say that http://www.wasdkeyboards.com where I got my CODE keyboard quite a number of years ago seems to be no more. So eventually I'll be looking for a new tenkeyless model to replace the two I have, mostly because the keycaps are wearing off. > As usual, we'll head off for dinner afterwards to keep the conversation going. The more the merrier! John

May 22, 2025

Re: Let's not be stupid.. Moving the meeting to the 28th.

by Tim Keller

Yeah.. I meant the 29th.. Thanks! On Wed, May 21, 2025 at 12:50 PM Frank Sweetser <frank.sweetser(a)gmail.com> wrote: > So the 28th is a Wednesday. Did you mean to say it's going on Thursday > the 29th? > > On Wed, May 21, 2025 at 11:16 AM Tim Keller via WLUG <wlug(a)lists.wlug.org> > wrote: > >> John texted me this morning that there's a nor'easter on the way. >> >> The weather people, who are using Linux to run the large models are >> predicting heavy rain and winds, localized flooding, etc. >> >> I care more about the members of this group than keeping to a schedule. >> >> I think it makes sense to move the meeting to the 28th.. >> >> Stay safe everybody! >> 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/ES4SV… >> > > > -- > - Frank > -- I am leery of the allegiances of any politician who refers to their constituents as "consumers".

May 21, 2025

Re: Let's not be stupid.. Moving the meeting to the 28th.

by Frank Sweetser

So the 28th is a Wednesday. Did you mean to say it's going on Thursday the 29th? On Wed, May 21, 2025 at 11:16 AM Tim Keller via WLUG <wlug(a)lists.wlug.org> wrote: > John texted me this morning that there's a nor'easter on the way. > > The weather people, who are using Linux to run the large models are > predicting heavy rain and winds, localized flooding, etc. > > I care more about the members of this group than keeping to a schedule. > > I think it makes sense to move the meeting to the 28th.. > > Stay safe everybody! > 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/ES4SV… > -- - Frank

May 21, 2025

Let's not be stupid.. Moving the meeting to the 28th.

by Tim Keller

John texted me this morning that there's a nor'easter on the way. The weather people, who are using Linux to run the large models are predicting heavy rain and winds, localized flooding, etc. I care more about the members of this group than keeping to a schedule. I think it makes sense to move the meeting to the 28th.. Stay safe everybody! Tim. -- I am leery of the allegiances of any politician who refers to their constituents as "consumers".

May 21, 2025

Meeting this week, May 22nd at 7pm! Topic: Mini PC!

by Tim Keller

Hey Everybody! We've got a meeting this week! Date: May 22nd Time: 7PM Location: Technocopia Virtual Location: https://meet.jit.si/WlugMA Topic: Mini-PC.Long time WLUG member John Stoffel has graciously agreed to show off his new, small but mighty desktop. We'll put it through its paces with a couple quick demos and tests. We'll likely get OpenWebUI running on it, as well as Cadoodle. I recently started (trying!) to use a glove80 keyboard so I'll bring that along so people can give it a try as well. As usual, we'll head off for dinner afterwards to keep the conversation going. Thanks, TIm. -- I am leery of the allegiances of any politician who refers to their constituents as "consumers".

May 20, 2025

Re: Next month meeting date, some input needed.

by John Stoffel

>>>>> "Frank" == Frank Sweetser via WLUG <wlug(a)lists.wlug.org> writes: > The 22nd would work for me. Sounds like the 22nd is the "good enough" date for people. Now for a topic! Can we get a talk on the web browser being developed for the new non-linux system? I totally am blanking on the name(s) right now, but we've mentioned it at the past few meetings. I'll try to bring my new tiny little desktop. The only gotcha is that it depends on my home NFS server for NFS home directories and LDAP for authentication. Which leads to another topic... keeping home directories in sync when you have laptops, home servers, remote systems, etc. How do people keep their setups consistent? I came from an era of Xterms and DEC workstations where all home and tool directories were on NFS servers, and the systems were very light on anything but enough to boot the OS. This way people could sit down at any system, login and their environment was just there. Now with everyone having laptops, I think most colleges have gone away from big computer labs any more. But keeping your files safe is tough. iCloud, OneDrive, rsync, etc have helped, but I'm not sure what the real answer is here. This could be an interesting topic! John

May 2, 2025