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Next Meeting April 18th 2019, Topic: Open Broadcast Software Location: Stratton Hall rm 106
by Tim Keller April 3, 2019

April 3, 2019

Hey Everybody, Our next WLUG meeting is going to be the 3rd Week of April!! I've shifted it down a week because of a scheduling conflict. Date/Time: April 18th, 2019 @7pm Location: WPI Stratton Hall Rm 106 Topic: Open Broadcaster Software (OBS) Presenter: Ian Gelman OBS (https://obsproject.com/) is free, open source software that allows you turn your Linux system into a powerful mobile TV studio. If you’ve watched any online content creators in the past couple of years, you’ve likely seen the software in action. In this talk, I’ll be giving an overview of what the software can do, as well as a case study on how OBS helped rocket a simple clementine to the top of the WPI subreddit. ( http://wpiwa.wpi.edu/clementine.html) We’ll finish up with a live demo where we’ll create a stream with some webcam footage, application displays, and an internet radio station. Snacks and Refreshments will be provided and afterwards we'll head off for dinner. Thanks, Tim. -- I am leery of the allegiances of any politician who refers to their constituents as "consumers".

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free small LCD monitors 15-19"
by Doug Mildram April 3, 2019

April 3, 2019

(final purge for this month, for me: some VGA and DVI-able hardware/MONITORS. (3) LCD monitors I am recycling or giving away. I'll choose the best taker(s) if any from WLUG perhaps mid-wednesday apr3. Or Thursday. ("TAKER"= someone or more of you, who emails me or the group saying "I'll take (this one/model ; or those 2 ; or all)". Pickup = occuring some later day; no rush. I'm not bringing them into work/WPI/worcester right away. CONDITION: All rather low-use (low hours, many years idle/unused) NO power supply issues nor any flaky issues on any of these. ==================Best one first: 18.1" 1280x1024 NEC MultiSync LCD1880SC ( TFT active) w/ VGA ( aka D-sub ) AND DVI. Very sturdy base, vertical sliding monitor 4-8" above table, and allows rotation 90 degrees if you like it the "tall" way. - Native *Resolution*. 1280 x 1024 at 60 Hz. - Contrast Ratio. 350:1. Response time: (cannot find it listed anywhere) - Color Support. 16.7 million colors. - Controls & Adjustments. Brightness, contrast, color balance, color temperature. - Dimensions (WxDxH) 15.2 in x 7.1 in x 15.5 in. - ==========SMALLEST,cutest, also well-made: 15" 1024x768 Sony SDM-S53 VGA(only) Contrast:500:1 Response time: 25msec ====================3 of 3, a low-end brand and oddball resolution: 19"(wide, but still rather small) 1440x900 Optiquest w/VGA(only)

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Arcade Machine Problem
by Dennis Payne April 2, 2019

April 2, 2019

My son's cub scout den put together an arcade machine for the Build It pin. It worked great. Then the day of the Blue & Gold where we were demoing it, it didn't work. I ended up using my laptop instead of the intended machine. I have now set it up four times on three computers and have discovered the cause of the problem. The machine is running Fedora. It has only one user and he automatically logs in. It is running wayland. Gnome is configured to automatically start EmulationStation. From there you can launch Ostrich Riders or Super Tux Kart. (I wanted only open source games with two players simultaneous preferably cooperative but more games can be put on.) The problem occurs if the machine does not have a mouse plugged in. EmulationStation starts normally but launching either game brings up the login screen. Any idea why a mouse is required and how that restriction can be removed? -- Dennis Payne dulsi(a)identicalsoftware.com https://social.freegamedev.net/channel/dulsi

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aging/free books for DNS,LDAP,TCP...*NIX+BSD
by Doug Mildram April 2, 2019

April 2, 2019

"Old" books in some cases, but some protocols never age out! (some of below maybe did...) Free books on my desk here at work/WPI, if unwanted I'll end up tossing: (2005) Addison-Wesley "The Design and Implementation of the FreeBSD OS" I got glassy-eyed diving into most of this kernel,fsys,devices,IPC,etc gore. (2003) ORA/O'Reilly "DNS & BIND Cookbook" (bind8,9) Cricket Liu 200+ pg paperback (2003) ORA "LDAP System Administration" Gerald Carter 290pg paperback (1994) Addison-Wesley "TCP/IP Illustrated, Vol. 1" W. Richard Stevens 550pg hardcover (1990) Prentice Hall "UNIX Network Programming" W. Richard Stevens 750pg hardcover ( things like fork/exec ; basic I/O ; FIFO,IPC,Sockets,TLI...ending in rlogin :) TOO OLD (1993) ORA "sendmail" ( v8 ) too old AND too nasty, though I like the Intro sec1+2 titles "MUA vs MTA" and "Why is sendmail so complex?"

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Reminder: WLUG Meeting TODAY! March 14th, 2019
by Tim Keller March 14, 2019

March 14, 2019

Hey Gang, After a comedy of email errors, the meeting it actually today.. seriously I just checked the calendar for the fourth time... Time/Date: March 14th, 2019 @ 7PM. Location: WPI Student Center Mid Century Room (Rm 331) Topic: Containerized applications Appimage, snaps, flatpack... I plan to talk about what they are and what they do and compare/contrast the different technologies used to make applications distribution agnostic. Snacks and Refreshments will be provided and afterwards well head off for dinner to continue the conversation. Thanks, Tim. -- I am leery of the allegiances of any politician who refers to their constituents as "consumers".

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Reminder: Next Meeting is THURSDAY March 14th, 2019 @7PM
by Tim Keller March 13, 2019

March 13, 2019

Hey Gang, We've got a meeting on Thursday!!! I don't know how I managed to screw up the date on the subject line and then send a follow up email thinking it was already Wednesday.. Sorry about that! I blame a lack of sleep... Time/Date: March 14th, 2019 @ 7PM. Location: WPI Student Center Mid Century Room (Rm 331) Topic: Containerized applications Appimage, snaps, flatpacks... I plan to talk about what they are and what they do and compare/contrast the different technologies used to make applications distribution agnostic. Snacks and Refreshments will be provided and afterwards well head off for dinner to continue the conversation. Thanks, Tim. -- I am leery of the allegiances of any politician who refers to their constituents as "consumers".

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Reminder: Meeting TOMORROW March 14th 2019 Location:
by Tim Keller March 13, 2019

March 13, 2019

Hey Gang, We've got a meeting tomorrow! I don't know how I managed to screw up the date on the subject line.. Sorry about that! Time/Date: March 14th, 2019 @ 7PM. Location: WPI Student Center Mid Century Room (Rm 331) Topic: Containerized applications Appimage, snaps, flatpacks... I plan to talk about what they are and what they do and compare/contrast the different technologies used to make applications distribution agnostic. Snacks and Refreshments will be provided and afterwards well head off for dinner to continue the conversation. Thanks, Tim. -- I am leery of the allegiances of any politician who refers to their constituents as "consumers".

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Sorry...
by Tim Keller March 13, 2019

March 13, 2019

My daughter got her tonsils out and it's been a long week.. already... I seriously thought it was Wednesday... The meeting isn't tomorrow, it's Thursday... Thanks, Tim. -- I am leery of the allegiances of any politician who refers to their constituents as "consumers".

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Next WLUG Meeting March 21st 2019, Topic: TBD
by Tim Keller March 12, 2019

March 12, 2019

Hey Gang, We've got a WLUG meeting on the 14th of March Location: WPI Student Center Mid Century Room (rm 331) Time: 7pm I've got a couple ideas for topics. 1. Snaps / flatpacks / appimage. These are entirely encapsulated applications that'll run on a variety of linux distributions. My new laptop runs snaps using snapd. This is just one of a bunch of new technologies for distributing software without having it tied to the machines glibc and underlying libraries. 2. Microsoft and its complicated relationship with the OSS community. Are we moving towards a dystopian future of locked and signed bootloaders? Where your only option is to run Windows 10 with the linux subsystem. Has google essentially done the same thing with Chromebook's and ChromeOS and Android? If someone has a topic that they're dying to do, let me know. As usual refreshments and snacks will be provided and afterwards we'll head off for dinner to continue the conversation. Thanks, Tim. -- I am leery of the allegiances of any politician who refers to their constituents as "consumers".

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(text-based mp3 player) Anyone use mpg321/mpg123 ?
by Doug Mildram Feb. 28, 2019

Feb. 28, 2019

Not trying to prove I'm the biggest dinosaur in the zoo, but I do like TEXT windows ("Terminal",etc) and to play my saved/local mp3 files, mpg123 floats my boat ....especially to random-play-everything-from-a-file-list", or just " cd ArtistDeJour ; mpg123 * */* " or such. mpg321 is not in base Mint (nor other release's base generally) pkg list, but Mint base+3rdparty DID grab everything else it / mpg321 needed. ( pardon confusion, 321 vs 123 = all the same, if you apt-get or otherwise get "mpg321" you get the "mpg123" command.) I had it working on CentOS, with full features usable mid-stream, ( "h" would display a menu of commands like " 1,2,3,4,5,6,7,8,9,0" would jump to 10,20,.....90% portions of the track) and so on. but I dumped CentOS on my fileserver-with-sound, replaced with Mint 19.1 (which BTW solved a firefox-hangs-my-box issue) and I lost the interactive features. e.g. "h" does nothing at the moment, and when I run mpg123 I don't see the "type h for help" output I used to get. So it's just not enabled! Anyone else use this? -doug p.s. whatever Remote Control option is, that's not what the trick needed, though I don't understand it. (I stared at the args/Options below until believing I didnt need any of these flags to use the cmds listed ) But what i CAN'T show at the moment is what the interactive cmds (which "h" will list, normally) are (were until I upgraded). But I think i will reboot on the centOS partition and try. -doug =============non-human "manpage"-like help below. $ mpg321 --help High Performance MPEG 1.0/2.0/2.5 Audio Player for Layer 1, 2, and 3. Version 0.3.2-1 (2012/03/25). Written and copyrights by Joe Drew, now maintained by Nanakos Chrysostomos and others. Uses code from various people. See 'README' for more! THIS SOFTWARE COMES WITH ABSOLUTELY NO WARRANTY! USE AT YOUR OWN RISK! Usage: mpg321 [options] file(s) | URL(s) | - Options supported: --verbose or -v Increase verbosity --quiet or -q Quiet mode (no title or boilerplate) --gain N or -g N Set gain (audio volume) to N (0-100) --skip N or -k N Skip N frames into the file --frames N or -n N Play only the first N frames -o dt Set output devicetype to dt [esd,alsa(09),arts,sun,oss] --audiodevice N or -a N Use N for audio-out --stdout or -s Use stdout for audio-out --au N Use au file N for output --cdr N Use cdr file N for output --wav N or -w N Use wave file N for output --test or -t Test only; do no audio output --list N or -@ N Use playlist N as list of MP3 files --random or -Z Play files randomly until interrupted --shuffle or -z Shuffle list of files before playing --loop N or -l N Play files N times. 0 means until interrupted -R Use remote control interface -3 Restart "remote shell". Used only when in "Remote control" mode. -F Turn on FFT analysis on PCM data. Remote mode only -B Read recursively the given directories -S Report mp3 file to AudioScrobbler -K Enable Basic Keys -x Set xterm title setting -b Number of decoded frames for the output buffer -p hostname:port Use proxy server -u username:password Use proxy server basic authentication -U username:password Use proxy server basic authentication by using environment variables --aggressive Try to get higher priority --help or --longhelp Print this help screen --version or -V Print version information Basic keys: * or / Increase or decrease volume. m Mute/unmute n Skip song. This version of mpg321 has been configured with the libao default as its default libao output device.

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