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Re: You-Do-It Electronics is dead, long live You-Do-It Electronics

by John Stoffel

I’ll second electronics plus as well, but not sure how much long Fran will keep it running… Sent from my iPhone > On Jun 28, 2024, at 4:01 PM, Jeff Moyer via WLUG <wlug(a)lists.wlug.org> wrote: > > Hi, David, > > David Glaser via WLUG <wlug(a)lists.wlug.org> writes: > >> You-Do-It Electronics went out of business. It was a very nice >> resource. Does anyone know of a similar electronics store that is >> within a 1 hour drive of Woosta? > > That is sad. I don't know of another store that is as big as > You-Do-It, but there is Electronics Plus in Littleton: > http://www.electronicsplus.com/ > > They are more like a radioshack in terms of size and inventory. > > -Jeff > > _______________________________________________ > 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/WSZ6C…

June 28, 2024

Re: You-Do-It Electronics is dead, long live You-Do-It Electronics

by Jeff Moyer

Hi, David, David Glaser via WLUG <wlug(a)lists.wlug.org> writes: > You-Do-It Electronics went out of business. It was a very nice > resource. Does anyone know of a similar electronics store that is > within a 1 hour drive of Woosta? That is sad. I don't know of another store that is as big as You-Do-It, but there is Electronics Plus in Littleton: http://www.electronicsplus.com/ They are more like a radioshack in terms of size and inventory. -Jeff

June 28, 2024

You-Do-It Electronics is dead, long live You-Do-It Electronics

by David Glaser

You-Do-It Electronics went out of business. It was a very nice resource. Does anyone know of a similar electronics store that is within a 1 hour drive of Woosta? -David

June 28, 2024

Problems Solved

by gmcaplan＠gmcaplan.org

I used grub-customizer to remove image 212 from grub. hat solved the error problem. Then a removed and re-installed alsa-base and pulseaudio. Now sound works.

June 27, 2024

Re: Seeking Ubuntu Help

by John Stoffel

>>>>> "gmcaplan---" == gmcaplan--- via WLUG <wlug(a)lists.wlug.org> writes: > I hope one or more of you can help me. > I upgraded today from Ubuntu 18.04 LTS to 20.04 LTS on my desktop > computer. (I know I am way behind, but I can do this only in the summer > etc., etc.) > I used the built-in Ubuntu update feature. > It worked better than I expected and took less that two hours. The data > backups I did ahead of time took much longer. > Anyway, 20.04 is running but I have two problems. > Number One: > Many terminal commands give this message: > Errors were encountered while processing: > linux-image-4.15.0-212-generic > Processing was halted because there were too many errors. > W: Can not find PkgVer for 'linux-image-extra-4.4.0-122-generic' > E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (1) > In particular, here is what happens when I try to remove 4.4.0-212. > sudo apt-get --purge remove linux-image-extra-4.4.0-212-generic > Reading package lists... Done > Building dependency tree > Reading state information... Done > E: Unable to locate package linux-image-extra-4.4.0-212-generic > E: Couldn't find any package by glob > 'linux-image-extra-4.4.0-212-generic' > E: Couldn't find any package by regex > 'linux-image-extra-4.4.0-212-generic' This is funky. I suspect that you have an old package from a previous upgrade, did you come from Ubuntu 16.x or earlier on this same system? You might try to run the following, all as root or with sudo: apt clean apt update apt install --fix-missing apt upgrade and see what each command says. So please share the full and complete outputs. You might also be able to do: apt purge linux-image-extra-4.4.0-212-generic But maybe you can share the output of: dpkg-query -l | grep linux-image-extra and see if that package is listed and share with us the full details? From the looks of it, you DID do a previous upgrade from Ubuntu 16.0 at some point, but didn't didn't do: apt autoremove once you finished the ugprade to 18.x, but I think we can make this work with a bit of finagling. Also, please look at these instructions, and once we get this fixed, I'm going to suggest you go right to 22.04 LTS, and then just stick with LTS versions if you can't upgrade very often. https://help.ubuntu.com/community/EOLUpgrades But the last thing to try, if none of the above works might be to do: dpkg --purge --force-remove-reinstreq linux-image-extra-4.4.0-212-generic and see if _that_ does the trick. John > Number Two: > I cannot get audio out of Line Out to my speakers. And I cannot get > audio into Line In to make recordings. I *do* get audio from the audio > output on my HDMI monitor. This might be related to the need for codecs, > but when I try various terminal commands to load more codecs, I get > problem Number 1 ! Yeah, let's fix your apt-repo, which seems to be in a wierd state. But maybe you can also post what your hardware is, including the output of: lspci > Some of what I read on the Web mentions tex files that could cause > Number 1. I do have TeXstudio installed. I tried to uninstall > texstudio and texlive, but when I do that, I get the message ant > Number One! Yeah, I doubt that's the problem, but we'll try to help here. Do you have any special stuff in /etc/apt/sources.list or do you have any extra file in ls /etc/apt/sources.list.d/ and what I'd probably do is remove all extra sources in there for now, just to make sure things are ok.

June 27, 2024

Seeking Ubuntu Help

by gmcaplan＠gmcaplan.org

I hope one or more of you can help me. I upgraded today from Ubuntu 18.04 LTS to 20.04 LTS on my desktop computer. (I know I am way behind, but I can do this only in the summer etc., etc.) I used the built-in Ubuntu update feature. It worked better than I expected and took less that two hours. The data backups I did ahead of time took much longer. Anyway, 20.04 is running but I have two problems. Number One: Many terminal commands give this message: Errors were encountered while processing: linux-image-4.15.0-212-generic Processing was halted because there were too many errors. W: Can not find PkgVer for 'linux-image-extra-4.4.0-122-generic' E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (1) In particular, here is what happens when I try to remove 4.4.0-212. sudo apt-get --purge remove linux-image-extra-4.4.0-212-generic Reading package lists... Done Building dependency tree Reading state information... Done E: Unable to locate package linux-image-extra-4.4.0-212-generic E: Couldn't find any package by glob 'linux-image-extra-4.4.0-212-generic' E: Couldn't find any package by regex 'linux-image-extra-4.4.0-212-generic' Number Two: I cannot get audio out of Line Out to my speakers. And I cannot get audio into Line In to make recordings. I *do* get audio from the audio output on my HDMI monitor. This might be related to the need for codecs, but when I try various terminal commands to load more codecs, I get problem Number 1 ! Some of what I read on the Web mentions tex files that could cause Number 1. I do have TeXstudio installed. I tried to uninstall texstudio and texlive, but when I do that, I get the message ant Number One! I'd appreciate any help or suggestions. Thank you. George Caplan email: gmcaplan(a)gmcaplan.org Phone: 978-263-5288 (landline, no texts)

June 26, 2024

Re: LLM's and graphical interfaces.

by John Stoffel

Jansen, Thanks for posting this tutorial! I don't have any nVidia hardware at home so I'll have to try and spin this up in the cloud somewhere. Won't get much of a chance to poke at this until the next meeting. Will we see you and your wife there by any chance? John

June 25, 2024

Re: LLM's and graphical interfaces.

by Jansen Smith

I made a mild how-to, for replicating my setup. Please note that the Nvidia driver setup is a SEPARATE "huge deal" that is out of scope for this how-to. You'll know the system is working if you see action in response to a prompt while running nvtop: I run the open-webui stack found here: https://github.com/open-webui/open-webui In order to have ollama (the LLM backend) available for my other fun projects and to ensure that the GPU is utilized by ollama, make sure you run the api and gpu compose files: docker compose -f docker-compose.yaml -f docker-compose.api.yaml -f docker-compose.gpu.yaml up -d --build I've catted my own versions of these files below: (base) house@chonkers:~/open-webui$ cat docker-compose.gpu.yaml services: ollama: # GPU support deploy: resources: reservations: devices: - driver: ${OLLAMA_GPU_DRIVER-nvidia} count: all capabilities: - gpu (base) house@chonkers:~/open-webui$ cat docker-compose.api.yaml version: '3.8' services: ollama: # Expose Ollama API outside the container stack ports: - ${OLLAMA_WEBAPI_PORT-11434}:11434 (base) house@chonkers:~/open-webui$ cat docker-compose.yaml version: '3.8' services: ollama: volumes: - ollama:/root/.ollama container_name: ollama pull_policy: always tty: true restart: unless-stopped image: ollama/ollama:${OLLAMA_DOCKER_TAG-latest} open-webui: build: context: . args: OLLAMA_BASE_URL: '/ollama' dockerfile: Dockerfile image: ghcr.io/open-webui/open-webui:${WEBUI_DOCKER_TAG-main} container_name: open-webui volumes: - open-webui:/app/backend/data depends_on: - ollama ports: - 3131:8080 environment: - 'OLLAMA_BASE_URL=http://ollama:11434' - 'WEBUI_SECRET_KEY=' extra_hosts: - host.docker.internal:host-gateway restart: unless-stopped volumes: ollama: {} open-webui: {} (base) house@chonkers:~/open-webui$ On Thu, Jun 13, 2024 at 11:48 AM John Stoffel <john(a)stoffel.org> wrote: > > Thanks for sending out this info Jansen, now to find time to actually > play with this stuff! > > > (can this email address be added to the mailing list?) > > > the self-hosted webui i use is here: > > https://github.com/open-webui/open-webui > > > ollama! > > https://github.com/ollama/ollama > > > here's the docker for ollama: > > https://hub.docker.com/r/ollama/ollama > > > On Tue, May 14, 2024 at 5:32 PM Kevin Harrington < > mad.hephaestus(a)gmail.com> wrote: > > > ---------- Forwarded message --------- > > From: Tim Keller via WLUG <wlug(a)lists.wlug.org> > > Date: Tue, May 14, 2024, 4:49 PM > > Subject: [WLUG] LLM's and graphical interfaces. > > To: Worcester Linux Users' Group General Discussion < > wlug(a)lists.wlug.org> > > Cc: Tim Keller <turbofx(a)gmail.com> > > > A couple meetings ago Jansen showed up a really cool graphical > interface for LLM. > > > Does anybody remember what it was? > > > 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/XVOQB… > > _______________________________________________ > > 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/4ZQIW… >

June 23, 2024

This is for Brendan! Running VMs with GPU pass through

by John Stoffel

I haven't spent any time on this, but saw this article and thought of Brendan right off the bat. https://www.theregister.com/2024/06/19/proxmox_xcp_ng_gpu_passthrough/ This might be what he needs to run stuff at home on his GPU pass-through attempts. John

June 21, 2024

Re: Reminder: Meeting June 13th 2024 at 7PM! Topic: Your own personal LLM!

by John Stoffel

Hi all, I think we had a good meeting last night, it was certainly neat seeing how well ollama2 and ollama3 are at answering questions. It was also interesting to see how it could start going off the rails a little bit when asked interesting questions, because it couldn't (in my mind!) reason about things properly. Can you tell I'm an AI skeptic in some ways? It will make big changes at some point, but I don't think it will be as much as people think right away. It's still on the hype phase, and we haven't gotten to the reality crash yet. So hopefully we'll get some more details posted so we can all play around with ollama3 on our own systems. It's a bummer I can't use my AMD GPUs since that's all I have, no nVidia stuff at all in my house. And for next month, what do people want to talk about? I can try to resurrect my talk on KiCad, updated for v8 that was released ealier this year. Or I can talk about 'duc' which is the software package I help maintain. It's for indexing large large filesystems and displaying disk usage via CLI, GUI or web pages. It's really useful for when you have a 12Tb filesystem with 30 million files, because plain 'du' just takes way too long. https://github.com/zevv/duc is where you can find it. It's been quiet for a long time, but I've been recently getting ready to update and push out a new release. Hopefully this month if I'm lucky! John

June 14, 2024