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Reminder! Meeting March 11th, 2021!! Topic: Random Linux stuff!!
by Tim Keller March 10, 2021

March 10, 2021

Hey Everybody, It's that time of month again! yeah, we're still remote, but soon... maybe soon we won't be!!! Date: March 11th, 2021 Time: 7PM Location: Jitsi @ https://meet.jit.si/WlugMA Topic: The usual random smattering of fun stuff. I'm sure we'll talk about the massive exchange hack.. the OVH fire and much more.. fully expect us to fall down various rabbit holes. As usual, snacks and refreshments won't be provided and we won't be going out for dinner afterwards. I hope to see you there! Later, Tim. -- I am leery of the allegiances of any politician who refers to their constituents as "consumers".

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Linux video edit SW : OpenShot is cool ! and.... AppImages
by Doug Mildram Feb. 28, 2021

Feb. 28, 2021

doug> Pardon my non-meeting-attendance all but 1? month since 2020...anyways, (new fun thing or things I got to learn, below) Mostly this email is a Fun/FYI, but I suspect OpenShot could be popular and maybe some of you use it,etc and maybe even one/some of you are dabbling,etc at video editing. Myself, barely so far. TMI Since a friend (for sister's anniversary) wanted to create a slideshow+music ( MP4, say ) I discovered how easy that is on Linux lately (googling offers ~10 or Top Ten choices of SW). And since I put linux on this friend's desktop, it's a great match and way to teach/learn. (gawd, these life-story-in-pictures quests sure can make a camera-bound picture owner/taker have to cope w their mess of jpegs in cellphone) DRUM ROLL: I only tried one offering for video editing, and scored. .......................chose one that some review(s?) said is most user friendly. It (OpenShot) seems great, for my too-simple needs (slideshow of static pics, adding music/mp3) and can obviously do so much more. Output and input choices have huge lists (eg AVI,MP4 variants,etc for output..... you generate/export to). SO ANOTHER THING i learned doing this is: There's a release/package thing I wasnt aware of ... ....seems a too-easy alternate, in favor of pkgs/release-dependent installs/updates. IT IS CALLED an App Image and it really appears to me to be THIS SIMPLE: a) You download one big file, eg for OpenShot a 130-140mb one-executable file that they name OpenShot-v2.5.1-x86_64.AppImage , you can get from https://www.openshot.org/download/ .....which says......... b) AppImage requires no installation. Just download, make executable, and run. doug> Correct, it doesn't unzip anything, and the one executable "fits all". Wow! I will admit that (on my Mint desktop) the first time I run it (as me/plain-user), the GUI intro/setup dialog/window does ask me Yes/No ? for some question about creating something for?on? the Desktop, and I said YES and I did not get anything added to my ~/Desktop. But who cares? More fun anyways to launch it from a terminal and watch the stdout as you run the GUI. p.s. it DOES save PROJECT (not output/export result, but your per-video project setups) in your linux homedir under ~/.openshot_qt/ ...mine looks like: doug0@host:IN_MY_HOMEDIR:~$ ll .openshot_qt/ drwxrwxr-x 2 doug0 doug0 4096 Feb 27 14:23 transitions drwxrwxr-x 2 doug0 doug0 4096 Feb 27 14:23 profiles drwxrwxr-x 2 doug0 doug0 4096 Feb 27 14:23 preview-cache drwxrwxr-x 2 doug0 doug0 4096 Feb 27 14:23 presets drwxrwxr-x 2 doug0 doug0 4096 Feb 27 14:23 assets drwxrwxr-x 2 doug0 doug0 4096 Feb 27 15:17 cache -rw-rw-r-- 1 doug0 doug0 1453 Feb 27 15:57 libopenshot.log drwxrwxr-x 2 doug0 doug0 4096 Feb 27 15:57 title drwxrwxr-x 2 doug0 doug0 4096 Feb 27 15:57 thumbnail drwxrwxr-x 2 doug0 doug0 4096 Feb 27 15:57 blender drwxr-xr-x 30 doug0 doug0 4096 Feb 28 10:15 .. drwxrwxr-x 2 doug0 doug0 4096 Feb 28 10:39 recovery drwxrwxr-x 12 doug0 doug0 4096 Feb 28 10:43 . -rw-rw-r-- 1 doug0 doug0 17352 Feb 28 10:43 openshot.settings -rw-rw-r-- 1 doug0 doug0 1774732 Feb 28 10:43 openshot-qt.log Around 4mb of setup for (so far my only) 66mb MP4 mini-video of PICS w/ 6min of music, the MP4 I exported elsewhere. ( the above HIDDEN dir is a bit of a secret to ignore. ) "Transitions" is a cool feature of the software. ----- I miss the braintrust of you, my friends...my own fault for retiring,moving,etc. -doug (how clueless am I for not knowing about some open SW released w/ AppImage until now?)

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Reminder! Virtual Meeting Tonight!! 7PM via Jitsi!
by Tim Keller Feb. 19, 2021

Feb. 19, 2021

Hey Gang, We've got a meeting tonight at 7PM! Location: Our usual Jitsu haunt: https://meet.jit.si/WlugMA Topic: I think the Itanium thing got beat to death, but we can still talk about it. Apparently there's still a pa-risc port of linux kicking around? Now I want to run it as a VM! Daryl McBride (SCO asshole) just fired for Chapter 13 so we can laugh at his expense. I'm sure there'll be some 3d printer talk, some Pi PICO chatter, plus whatever else. Later, Tim. -- I am leery of the allegiances of any politician who refers to their constituents as "consumers".

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Re: WLUG Meeting Feb 11th 2021! Topic: Good question!
by Robert N. Evans Feb. 11, 2021

Feb. 11, 2021

That is not what I see when I query one of the major name servers. I would guess your server is configured differently... rne@P5:~$ dig @1.1.1.1 isc.org ; <<>> DiG 9.16.1-Ubuntu <<>> @1.1.1.1 isc.org ; (1 server found) ;; global options: +cmd ;; Got answer: ;; ->>HEADER<<- opcode: QUERY, status: NOERROR, id: 31866 ;; flags: qr rd ra ad; QUERY: 1, ANSWER: 1, AUTHORITY: 0, ADDITIONAL: 1 ;; OPT PSEUDOSECTION: ; EDNS: version: 0, flags:; udp: 1232 ;; QUESTION SECTION: ;isc.org. IN A ;; ANSWER SECTION: isc.org. 9 IN A 149.20.1.66 ;; Query time: 24 msec ;; SERVER: 1.1.1.1#53(1.1.1.1) ;; WHEN: Thu Feb 11 10:03:30 EST 2021 ;; MSG SIZE rcvd: 52 -BE -----Original Message----- >From: Keith Wright via WLUG <wlug(a)lists.wlug.org> >Sent: Feb 11, 2021 1:04 AM >To: Worcester Linux Users' Group General Discussion <wlug(a)lists.wlug.org> >Cc: wlug(a)lists.wlug.org, Andre.Lehovich(a)gmx.com, Keith Wright <kwright(a)keithdiane.us> >Subject: [WLUG] Re: WLUG Meeting Feb 11th 2021! Topic: Good question! > >Andre Lehovich via WLUG <wlug(a)lists.wlug.org> writes: > >>> dig @66.92.74.188 isc.org >> >> Here you go, hope it's useful... > >Thank you. That's a lot of information. > >> quetzal:~ al$ dig @66.92.74.188 isc.org >> >> ; <<>> DiG 9.10.6 <<>> @66.92.74.188 isc.org >> ; (1 server found) >> ;; global options: +cmd >> ;; Got answer: >> ;; ->>HEADER<<- opcode: QUERY, status: NOERROR, id: 11995 >> ;; flags: qr rd; QUERY: 1, ANSWER: 0, AUTHORITY: 13, ADDITIONAL: 27 >> ;; WARNING: recursion requested but not available > ^^^^^^^^^ ^^^^^^^^^ ^^^ ^^^ ^^^^^^^^^ >That looks good. >I don't want to be doing recursion for you (nothing personal). > >But where did all the rest of that come from? >I've never seen anything like that! >Did my server send all that? Why?? > >> ;; OPT PSEUDOSECTION: >> ; EDNS: version: 0, flags:; udp: 4096 >> ;; QUESTION SECTION: >> ;isc.org. IN A >> >> ;; AUTHORITY SECTION: >> . 348191 IN NS c.root-servers.net. >> . 348191 IN NS d.root-servers.net. >> . 348191 IN NS e.root-servers.net. >> . 348191 IN NS f.root-servers.net. >> . 348191 IN NS g.root-servers.net. >> . 348191 IN NS h.root-servers.net. >> . 348191 IN NS i.root-servers.net. >> . 348191 IN NS j.root-servers.net. >> . 348191 IN NS k.root-servers.net. >> . 348191 IN NS l.root-servers.net. >> . 348191 IN NS m.root-servers.net. >> . 348191 IN NS a.root-servers.net. >> . 348191 IN NS b.root-servers.net. >> >> ;; ADDITIONAL SECTION: >> a.root-servers.net. 348191 IN A 198.41.0.4 >> a.root-servers.net. 348191 IN AAAA 2001:503:ba3e::2:30 >> b.root-servers.net. 348191 IN A 199.9.14.201 >> b.root-servers.net. 348191 IN AAAA 2001:500:200::b >> c.root-servers.net. 348191 IN A 192.33.4.12 >> c.root-servers.net. 348191 IN AAAA 2001:500:2::c >> d.root-servers.net. 348191 IN A 199.7.91.13 >> d.root-servers.net. 348191 IN AAAA 2001:500:2d::d >> e.root-servers.net. 348191 IN A 192.203.230.10 >> e.root-servers.net. 348191 IN AAAA 2001:500:a8::e >> f.root-servers.net. 348191 IN A 192.5.5.241 >> f.root-servers.net. 348191 IN AAAA 2001:500:2f::f >> g.root-servers.net. 348191 IN A 192.112.36.4 >> g.root-servers.net. 348191 IN AAAA 2001:500:12::d0d >> h.root-servers.net. 348191 IN A 198.97.190.53 >> h.root-servers.net. 348191 IN AAAA 2001:500:1::53 >> i.root-servers.net. 348191 IN A 192.36.148.17 >> i.root-servers.net. 348191 IN AAAA 2001:7fe::53 >> j.root-servers.net. 348191 IN A 192.58.128.30 >> j.root-servers.net. 348191 IN AAAA 2001:503:c27::2:30 >> k.root-servers.net. 348191 IN A 193.0.14.129 >> k.root-servers.net. 348191 IN AAAA 2001:7fd::1 >> l.root-servers.net. 348191 IN A 199.7.83.42 >> l.root-servers.net. 348191 IN AAAA 2001:500:9f::42 >> m.root-servers.net. 348191 IN A 202.12.27.33 >> m.root-servers.net. 348191 IN AAAA 2001:dc3::35 >> >> ;; Query time: 150 msec >> ;; SERVER: 66.92.74.188#53(66.92.74.188) >> ;; WHEN: Wed Feb 10 20:31:08 PST 2021 >> ;; MSG SIZE rcvd: 819 >> >> _______________________________________________ >> 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/JBBKO… >_______________________________________________ >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/2A6P2…

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WLUG Meeting Feb 11th 2021! Topic: Good question!
by Tim Keller Feb. 11, 2021

Feb. 11, 2021

Hey Everybody, We've got a meeting next week on the 11th at our same time (7pm) As for a topic, if somebody would like to present something, I'd be up for it. I figure we'd all toast the depreciation of Itanium in the linux kernel. Good riddance! We'll definitely be talking about the PI4 Nano!! As usual, I'm sure other topics will organically surface. Location: Our usual Jitsu haunt: https://meet.jit.si/WlugMA Later, Tim. -- I am leery of the allegiances of any politician who refers to their constituents as "consumers".

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Re: WLUG Meeting Feb 11th 2021! Topic: Good question!
by Robert N. Evans Feb. 5, 2021

Feb. 5, 2021

I don't want to join the endian wars. So I'll comment on something else. Stratus did not support Itanium because they follow rather than lead the market. When a replacement for PA-RISC was considered at Stratus we did look at Itanium. I recall studying the FW then called "EFI" around 2003 when I was in the VOS group. For the in-house VOS OS, Stratus would need compilers for PL/I and C and a modified linker to get to Itanium. Stratus never made this investment. What the VOS group did was to port to x86. Today VOS is still a 32-bit OS that runs on Motorola 68K, i860, PA-RISC and x86. This is unlikely to ever change for VOS as the compiler and linker tech leads have left Stratus. For the other three OS's supported by Stratus, Windows, Linux, VMware ESX, outsiders, not Stratus, would or would not be porting their OS to Itanium. (As was the case for amd64). Since the Stratus value add is to take applications coded to run on commodity HW and make the apps highly reliable by running on Stratus HW, Stratus would not move to Itanium until the customers already were developing to that platform. -- One more comment on a different topic: > >I personally play around with ATTiny85 and ATTiny84 MCUs when I get a >chance. Slowly looking at STM8 and STM32 stuff as well. And of >course the Arduino AVR stuff. > Me too, but somewhat bigger/faster MCUs. I still occasionally code in C, but it is more productive with high level interpreted languages on these chips. Lately I'm very excited about esp8266 and CircuitPython. FYI, A programmer's intro to esp8266: https://tttapa.github.io/ESP8266/Chap01%20-%20ESP8266.html -BE

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Disk mirroring in Linux -- MD-RAID or LVM? Advantages and disadvantages?
by Michael Voorhis Jan. 23, 2021

Jan. 23, 2021

Hi all; In Linux I can do software RAID using LVM or with MD (i.e., mdadm) as a basis. I'm currently thinking of a simple mirror of two conventional SATA disks. The machine is being built to do a compute-workload involving examination of many small(ish?) files, and will not be a desktop or a recreational/gaming machine. I don't know anything about the files or how they'll be examined. How would YOU setup a simple mirror in whatever Linux you use? Why do you prefer your selection? Thanks, --MCV.

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We've got a meeting this Thursday! (Jan. 14th, 2021) at 7pm!
by Tim Keller Jan. 14, 2021

Jan. 14, 2021

Hey Everybody, We've got a meeting this Thursday (Jan. 14th). at 7pm! It's going to be in our usual place on Jitsi: https://meet.jit.si/WlugMA <https://meet.jit.si/WlugMA> Nothing in particular is planned as a topic but I'm sure a few interesting things will bubble to the top... like the whole CentOS thing and what options there are for us now. Hope to see you there! Tim. -- I am leery of the allegiances of any politician who refers to their constituents as "consumers".

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dd-wrt and vlans
by Mike Long Jan. 10, 2021

Jan. 10, 2021

I have been lurking on this list of a long time and have learned much over the years. Now I'm hoping someone can point me to a good resource to understaning vlans. For some reason networking configurations beyond the most basic setups have never been something I really have gotten my head around. Databases are more my thing. I have a Linksys E4200 router that I have flashed with the latest dd-wrt v24-40559_NEWD-2_K2.6_mini. My objective is to setup multiple vlans with multiple SSID's associated with the vlans to segragate my business, home, and iot devices from one another. After trying this tutorial https://www.ciscopress.com/articles/article.asp?p=1730493 and reseting the router many times I decided I need to understand how vlans work and how to set them up properly with this setup. I would like to start by understanding the default setup and what role the default bridge br0 plays in that setup and then move on from there. Thanks in advance, Mike

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Urban planning software
by joshua.gage.stone＠gmail.com Jan. 5, 2021

Jan. 5, 2021

Hey everyone! I've been taking interest in urban planning recently, and figured I'd like to try visualizing street layouts. I'd like to mock up roads, parking spaces, intersections, sidewalkes, etc, but I'm not sure where to start. As far as I'm aware, AutoCAD Civil 3D and SketchUp are fairly popular applications in the field, but I'm interested in something that's FOSS. Does anyone have suggestions? Looking forward to hearing from you all, and I hope you're all having a good start to the new year! - Josh

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