- WLUG - wlug.mailman3.com

The 3rd annual Northeast Linux Fest
by Jonathan Nadeau 06 Mar '13

06 Mar '13

Hello, I would like to annouce the 3rd annual Northeast Linux Fest. It will be on March 16 and 17 at Harvard University in the Science building. If you are new to Linux or a seasoned veteran this is the place for you. We will have speakers from Red Hat teaching you how to leverage virtualization using Openshift and KVM. The Fedora distribution will have their own track giving talks on all things Fedora. John Sullivan from the Free Software Foundation will be there also. Jon 'Maddog" Hall who has been there from the start of it all will be giving the keynote. We also will have an all day class for new Linux users. This event is free and to learn more about it here is the website. http://www.northeastlinuxfest.org -- Jonathan Nadeau http://www.jnadeau.org Northeast GNU/Linux fest http://www.northeastlinuxfest.org

1 0

Idea for next month's WLUG meeting....
by joel d 19 Feb '13

19 Feb '13

Over pizza last night I had a WLUG meeting idea I thought I would share with the group. Seems many WLUG members have Android phones and tablets. How about a show & tell about each of our favorite Android applications? Android is Linux-based so it is somewhat relevent to our group. I am not sure how we can "show these" up on a big screen but a laptop could easily go to the web page (or developer's page) via browser might work. I am happy to contribute my 5 to 10 favorites in the Android App world. Sharing these in this e-mail group might make sense also if people so choose. Anyone else have thoughts on this topic? Thank you, Joel

3 2

Announce: WLUG Meeting Wed 2/13 7PM More Raspberry Pi
by Chuck Anderson 13 Feb '13

13 Feb '13

Hi folks, The next Worcester Linux Users' Group (WLUG) meeting will be held at its regularly scheduled time: the 2nd Wednesday of the month, which is tomorrow, Wednesday, February 13, at 7PM. The location will be the WPI Campus Center, Mid-Centry Room 331, which should hopefully become our regular location. If people would like, I can bring my new Raspberry Pi to play with. I might even have a case for it by then. I have installed a distro called OpenELEC which is an XBMC port, but we can play with other distros as well, especially if people bring some spare SD cards they don't mind erasing. Wednesday, February 13, 7:00 - 10:00 PM WPI Campus Center, Mid-Centry Room 331 More Raspberry Pi Afterwards, we will go out for pizza and maybe raspberry pie. See you there, Chuck President, Worcester Linux Users' Group http://www.wlug.org/

1 1

Virtualization/Linux/Storage openings at MathWorks.
by Adam Keck 07 Feb '13

07 Feb '13

Hi All, We have a Linux/Virtualization position and a Storage/Virtualization position open. I believe both are project-focused. Please email me off-list, if you are interested. Thanks! -Adam

1 0

Announce: WLUG Meeting TODAY Wed 1/9 7PM
by Chuck Anderson 05 Feb '13

05 Feb '13

Hi folks, The next Worcester Linux Users' Group (WLUG) monthly meeting will be held Today, Wednesday, January 9, at 7PM. The location will be WPI Campus Center, Chairman's Room 129. Wednesday, January 9, 7:00 - 10:00 PM WPI Campus Center, Chairman's Room 129 Afterwards, we will go out for pizza and continue our discussions. See you there, Chuck President, Worcester Linux Users' Group http://www.wlug.org/

5 5

Are we having a meeting on the 10th?
by Tim Keller 09 Jan '13

09 Jan '13

Since it's now Tuesday and there's been no official announcement... Are we having a meeting on the 10th? If so, has a room been reserved? Is there a topic? Thanks, Tim. -- I am leery of the allegiances of any politician who refers to their constituents as "consumers".

3 2

Fwd: [Dc401-l] Javascript Hackathon at Betaspring - Providence Feb. 2nd 2013
by Adam Gomes 07 Jan '13

07 Jan '13

Thought that some of you might be interested in doing this. --Adam ---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: David Johnson <ag3nt5(a)gmail.com> Date: Mon, Jan 7, 2013 at 1:30 PM Subject: [Dc401-l] Javascript Hackathon at Betaspring - Providence Feb. 2nd 2013 To: "dc401-l(a)lists.dc401.org" <dc401-l(a)lists.dc401.org> DowncityJS is a 24-hour JavaScript Hackathon taking place in Providence, RI on February 2nd. The rules are simple: show up with your laptop, design or development skills, and assemble a team of likeminded hackers (or participate by yourself if you are brave enough) ready to build the best web application of JavaScript library in 24 hours. Food and beverages will be provided by the Founders League and space and connectivity will be provided by Betaspring. 95 Chestnut Street, 3rd Floor, Providence, RI 02903 Check out http://downcityjs.com/ for more info. __________________________________________ http://lists.dc401.org/listinfo.cgi/dc401-l-dc401.org

1 0

next WLUG meeting?
by The Hammer 07 Jan '13

07 Jan '13

Hi, Does anyone have the next meeting date/time/location? regards, Ron

1 0

Overriding NIS accounts
by Bill Mills-Curran 20 Dec '12

20 Dec '12

I have an issue at my work with the configuration of one of our several flavors of linux servers. The goal is to override the NIS-specified login directory definition by using this syntax in /etc/passwd: +userx:::::/home/userx: +@grpx:::::: +:::::: /etc/nsswitch.conf has (in part): passwd: compat shadow: files nis group: files nis The distribution is Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server release 5.2 (Tikanga). If this was working I would get the following: > echo ~userx /home/userx Instead, I'm getting the login dir specified in NIS. I've successfully configured a Red Hat 6.3 server to work properly, but this one is driving me batty. Any suggestions? TIA, Bill

3 8

Possible intrusion?
by Bill Mills-Curran 17 Dec '12

17 Dec '12

I was looking at the output of "last" recently and found several entries like this on my home server: userxx pts/0 c-24-91-141-172. Sun Dec 2 14:57 - 15:09 (00:11) (userxx represents my username) I did a reverse lookup on 172.141.92.24: host 172.141.92.24 24.92.141.172.in-addr.arpa domain name pointer AC8D5C18.ipt.aol.com. Looks like something from AOL. I got a little freaked, so I changed my password and also blocked that IP in /etc/hosts.deny. I'm not an aol user, but my wife is... but the "last" output shows this as connecting with my username. Any ideas? Thanks, Bill

9 11