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WLUG Meeting Feb 11th 2021! Topic: Good question!
by Tim Keller 11 Feb '21

11 Feb '21

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 05 Feb '21

05 Feb '21

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 23 Jan '21

23 Jan '21

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 14 Jan '21

14 Jan '21

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 10 Jan '21

10 Jan '21

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 05 Jan '21

05 Jan '21

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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Web server & gallery & auto-backup
by Richard Klein 04 Jan '21

04 Jan '21

I'm looking for a replacement for Google Photos. I've gotten used to my mobile devices automatically backing up my photos to the cloud and then being able to share a link to those photos in places that have limited storage, such as free Slacks. I finally got off my butt and got my phone to backup photos to my Plex server, but I can't share a link to those photos on Slack. Also, the Plex app seems to be crashing on my tablet, but I haven't tried to troubleshoot that yet. I guess that means I should set up a web server. I don't see myself maintaining a full website; I mostly just want to archive and share my pictures. I'm running Debian. What specific packages do you guys like? -- Rich

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gmail issues?
by Chuck Anderson 04 Jan '21

04 Jan '21

Is anyone having issues getting bounced emails from gmail? https://techcrunch.com/2020/12/15/gmail-is-a-little-broken-right-now-one-da…

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PLEX
by hammerron 04 Jan '21

04 Jan '21

I played around with the PLEX "app" the other day, I downloaded it from the Ubuntu Software Center, and a PLEX app onto my Roku. I had a movie file that I placed in a designated folder and could easily watch it on the TV through Roku. I seems like a very slick (works well, easy to use) system. My question to you all is, can anyone tell me about the privacy factors? Looking on line gives me conflicting information. Does running PLEX on my PC give that company potential access to anything on my PC? Ron

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Lap Top with 28 GB HD
by hammerron 03 Jan '21

03 Jan '21

Very trivial, but anyone is curious I wound up putting Xumbuntu on the machine. It is not a speed demon but run smoothly. Ron

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