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Announce: Meeting December 12th 7PM, WPI Campus Center Mid-Century Room 331
by Chuck Anderson Dec. 12, 2012

Dec. 12, 2012

We are having a WLUG meeting this evening, December 12, at 7:00 PM in the WPI Campus Center, Mid-Century Room 331. http://www.wpi.edu/Admin/CC/Floorplans/37678.htm This seems like a good time to talk about the WLUG website. We've had half-completed plans since about 2 years ago to replace the hardware and software to create a Wiki or Drupal site to replace the outdated and manually-maintained-by-me HTML site. This week I plan to finally migrate things over to the new server, but the content will still be the old HTML site for now. We need some volunteers to help build a new site in either MediaWiki or Drupal or some other framework. After the meeting, we'll continue discussions over at Tech Pizza. Hope to see you there, Chuck

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Meeting Wednesday pm?
by joel d Dec. 11, 2012

Dec. 11, 2012

Hi WLUG... Is there a meeting on Wednesday.? Thank you, Joel

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Ebook Creation
by dulsi＠identicalsoftware.com Dec. 5, 2012

Dec. 5, 2012

Has anyone made an ebook under linux? Specifically I'm taking about epub and mobi formats for supporting ereaders. I stupidly decided to do NaNoWriMo (National Novel Writing Month - 50,000 words in 30 days) and succeeded. I still have to clean up the novel but assuming I finish that I'd like to convert it to ebook format.

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OPENINGS - Sr Software Engineer - Linux kernel, drivers
by John Spencer Dec. 3, 2012

Dec. 3, 2012

Sr. Software Engineer (embedded Linux) Our client north of Boston has an opportunity for a Senior Software Engineer with at least 10 years of experience. The successful engineer needs to have an aptitude for real time systems and experience with capital equipment/devices. Strong background with embedded Linux kernel and driver development is required. The engineer will need a high comfort level developing low level Linux code as well as modifying existing low level Linux code. This is a contract to perm opportunity. Work must be done on-site. Client will not sponsor visas. Please send a Word version of your resume to jspencer@connectedsp. com As always your resume will not be sent anywhere without your prior approval. Regards, John Spencer Connected Systems Partners Connecting Top Talent with Top Companies 978-455-5550 x208 978-621-9743 cell jspencer(a)connectedsp.com www.connectedsp.com <www.connectedsp.com%20%20%20> GET CONNECTED! Unless otherwise explicitly instructed by sender, all information in this email is considered confidential and intended for the view and use of the recipient(s) only.

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LCD - to fix or not to fix?
by joel d Nov. 23, 2012

Nov. 23, 2012

Hi WLUG, My conundrum is whether to work on soldering most likely capacitors into an old 18 inch LCD later this week in a haze of starch and tryptophan. Is it worth it to re-hab it for use as a basement/workshop PC? Happy Thanksgiving, Joel

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November 14th?
by The Hammer Nov. 18, 2012

Nov. 18, 2012

Hello, I see of the website that our next meeting should be tomorrow (the 14th), but the location is to be announced. Wondering, do we have the location yet? Ron

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Announce: Meeting November 14th 7PM, WPI Higgins Labs 230
by Chuck Anderson Nov. 14, 2012

Nov. 14, 2012

Sorry I'm going to be missing the meeting this month, and thanks to Henrique for taking care of the room. -Chuck On Tue, Nov 13, 2012 at 03:14:34PM -0500, Henrique wrote: > Hey! > > I just talked to Chuck, and he is a bit busy. I got WLUG the same room as > last time Higgins Labs, Room 230, > (HL230<https://maps.google.com/maps?q=42.274129,-71.808384&num=1&vpsrc=0&ie=UTF8&l…>), > if you have any problem locating or getting into the building, just send me > a message at (631) 316-8142. I also already got a better room for next > month. > > Do we have a topic? > > Cheers, > Henrique "nican" Polido.

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help diagnosing PC issue: suspect power supply
by Brett Russ Nov. 7, 2012

Nov. 7, 2012

Hi, I'm trying to diagnose a home built PC running fine since 2007 but lately starting to act odd. Here are the system specs: Intel Core 2 Duo 1.8GHz cpu Asus P5B Deluxe mobo Nvidia 7900GS graphics card Kingston KHX6400 2x1GB DDR2 memory Sparkle ATX 400W power supply 3x 1TB SATA HDDs 1x SATA DVD-RW $ uname -a Linux spider 3.0.0-25-generic #41-Ubuntu SMP Mon Aug 13 17:58:59 UTC 2012 x86_64 x86_64 x86_64 GNU/Linux $ cat /etc/*release DISTRIB_ID=Ubuntu DISTRIB_RELEASE=11.10 DISTRIB_CODENAME=oneiric DISTRIB_DESCRIPTION="Ubuntu 11.10" $ uname -a Linux spider 3.0.0-25-generic #41-Ubuntu SMP Mon Aug 13 17:58:59 UTC 2012 x86_64 x86_64 x86_64 GNU/Linux What recently changed: i) replaced monitor, last one died ii) (carefully) vacuumed the dust from inside. Kept hand on case chassis, didn't touch any PCB/chips, etc. Here are the symptoms: 1) first started seeing BIOS claims of bad CMOS checksum at boot time. Immediately suspected the CMOS battery, replaced it and reset CMOS settings but I continue to see this. This is the one symptom that I can't yet place, unless it's simply a bad replacement battery. 2) next started seeing the monitor fail to wake up after entering power save 3) powering on the PC shows issues: 3a) often the monitor won't wake at boot 3b) the bios often doesn't finish POST, gets stuck at splash screen 3c) bios settings often don't survive across power cycles (possibly related to #1--battery issue?) 3d) bios doesn't always give the affirmative beep (likely same symptom as 3a, 3b) 3e) a cold power on or reset can take several "tries" before the system stays on. I.e. fans will spin up, then spin down, one to three times before staying on. When this happens it's pretty much guaranteed that it won't boot successfully. 4) system will freeze to user input while up. I.e. once I get Linux booted, as long as I disable monitor power save it will stay running for a while, but I observed it stopped responding to KB and mouse input earlier this morning. Here's what I've tried: a) reseated both DIMMs, reproduced issues; tried with just one DIMM, repro'd; tried other DIMM, repro'd b) reseated graphics card, repro'd; removed graphics card (now headless), repro'd problem 3e c) reseated CMOS battery (CR2032), repro'd d) pulled all non-essential cables and internal connections, including power and SATA cables from all drives, repro'd e) updated BIOS to latest version, repro'd Unfortunately I don't have another ATX power supply to try, but was thinking of buying one. I might also try an old PCI video card, but I suspect due to repro (b) above that it's not the cause. Anyone have any other insights or agree it sounds like a bad PS? I still can't explain symptom (1), will probably buy another battery to be sure. Five years seems like an old PC, but I'm not a gamer so this suits me fine. Thanks, Brett

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Next meeting on the 14th?
by Tim Keller Nov. 1, 2012

Nov. 1, 2012

Hey Gang, Firstly, I presume that the next meeting is going to be on the 14th? Secondly, do we have a topic? Later, Tim. -- I am leery of the allegiances of any politician who refers to their constituents as "consumers".

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Free hardware: Internal IDE CD drives
by joel d Oct. 26, 2012

Oct. 26, 2012

Could anyone use some internal CD drives? Just found a box full of them. They are "bare" IDE CD readers with no cables, drivers or manuals. Will gladly bring as many as people want to the next meeting. Don't be shy, I probably have 30 of them, and all are guaranteed to be worth every penny of free! Please kindly reply to me via e-mail directly if interested (to not clog up the WLUG e-mail). Thank you, Joel joelgroup(a)gmail.com

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