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2D CAD for Linux
by Richard Klein March 15, 2011

March 15, 2011

I just read that DraftSight 2D CAD software is now available for Linux: http://www.3ds.com/products/draftsight/free-cad-software/ I use it all the time in Windows. It works, and the price is right. -- Rich

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Re: [Wlug] Wlug Digest, Vol 89, Issue 5
by David Hardy March 15, 2011

March 15, 2011

Hi, Pete; I was posting from my MIL's place at Shelburne-On-The-Bay, just south of Burlington and just off Route 7. We were house-sitting for her while she's snowbirding in Florida. The Bay opens up into Lake Champlain, which right now has a bit of ice near the shores and is otherwise open water, thanks to the moderate temps this week. We actually live in a 205-year-old farmhouse in West Montpelier. With two dogs and four cats, and two each, Windows and Linux boxes. My Windows 7 box has some VMS emulation sw on it for old lang syne, seeing as how that was my early experience in IT for years. Last worked with OpenVMS 7.1 four years ago. You're at Clark U.? Wow. I worked there in campus police from 1980-83, then the campus bookstore, where I sold DEC Rainbows in cooperation with DEC to students, faculty and staff, and then when they sold it out to Barnes and Noble, I went back to campus police for another eighteen months, finally leaving in '86 to go work out at Simplex Time Recorder, in Gardner, with a PDP-11 running RSX for CAD/CAM apps and a MicroVax running VMS 4.0. I first learned VMS down in the basement of the Goddard Library while I worked the dead shifts for the CPD, reading those old orange binder manuals. Several of the campus police are still there, including the chief, who started there as a patrolman, and of course some of the faculty are still teaching. Jack Foley was working as an assistant manager at one of the dining halls when I started there in 1980. I stopped by to visit in '06 and also applied for an IT job there, as I believe they still had VMS, plus the usual Windows, and also Red Hat. Never heard from them. Par for the job search for many years now. Also applied for IT gigs at WPI and never heard from them, either. So I am back in northern Vermont and after being bounced from a one-year temp contract nine months early, am on the job hunt again. So much fun. Regards, Dave On Tue, Mar 15, 2011 at 12:00 PM, <wlug-request(a)mail.wlug.org> wrote: > Send Wlug mailing list submissions to > wlug(a)mail.wlug.org > > To subscribe or unsubscribe via the World Wide Web, visit > http://mail.wlug.org/mailman/listinfo/wlug > or, via email, send a message with subject or body 'help' to > wlug-request(a)mail.wlug.org > > You can reach the person managing the list at > wlug-owner(a)mail.wlug.org > > When replying, please edit your Subject line so it is more specific > than "Re: Contents of Wlug digest..." > > > Today's Topics: > > 1. Re: KO (Pete Wason) > 2. Re: Wlug Digest, Vol 88, Issue 10 (Pete Wason) > 3. Re: Wlug Digest, Vol 88, Issue 10 (Pete Wason) > > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > > Message: 1 > Date: Mon, 14 Mar 2011 19:38:08 -0400 > From: Pete Wason <codevark(a)aim.com> > Subject: Re: [Wlug] KO > To: Worcester Linux Users Group <wlug(a)mail.wlug.org> > Message-ID: <4D7EA6E0.5090805(a)aim.com> > Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 > > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- > Hash: SHA1 > > I worked with a guy in the late '90s at a dotcom; at some point before > that he managed a huge team at DEC and was friends with KO, played golf > and such. Had great things to say about the man. > > On 2/12/2011 9:56 AM, kevin.paetzold wrote: > > Since we are reminiscing about DEC and KO.... > > > > I started at DEC in 1978 working on the DECSYSTEM20. My first manager > > was one of the first 100 DEC employees and even though I was initially > > working as a contractor for DEC (on an air force base) in Rome NY we > > made a trip to Maynard where he introduced me to the mill and to Ken > > Olsen. It was a fascinating time as I worked at the place which > > essentially funded the ARPANET and TCP/IP. I went to work in DEC > > engineering in Marlboro in 1981. Eventually I ended up at Stratus where > > among other things I now manage the Linux group (I never worked on VMS > > although I did do some stuff with the Ultrix group). It still amazes me > > (and many others) that DEC went away. I often tell my engineers that > > when I see some computer or software technology that DEC did not have I > > will let them know (there is some but not much that DEC did not have > > first and for which very little credit is given). > > _______________________________________________ > > Wlug mailing list > > Wlug(a)mail.wlug.org > > http://mail.wlug.org/mailman/listinfo/wlug > > > > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- > Version: GnuPG v1.4.10 (MingW32) > Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org/ > > iQEcBAEBAgAGBQJNfqbgAAoJEBARJW02o9tw44oH/2Tn2xUeai1p/UExIQtI8zUc > A8FGBBfpOBjteWaTKiRYNDdYhLNeI2v/DDyhtqJO+8DlKDLesFlDgEDShLXqlCZ3 > ege8GM49O5ZfCjA8Ta82J1DUtK7AhvPL6/D4py/gboENX//JGGCUqPGcxSWo0dCl > sxe/MTeS36JstyStQlVfHLtvuaQIdZalLaqn/ywuVeBROHOCo23UNEQBRQ77BgFG > fJuChOT6cQe2Ht0g2kDZEPYd2pxqDjXprr5M7RYlcyxMNu58QusokGjyK0+ezL3M > 5QVeySsAMegCvehLPHdhnMfQkAdUwmwg6zeTLq8ZTzAIxIsrBJ9/8UZ+7AUbAZs= > =LmGf > -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- > > > ------------------------------ > > Message: 2 > Date: Mon, 14 Mar 2011 19:41:37 -0400 > From: Pete Wason <codevark(a)aim.com> > Subject: Re: [Wlug] Wlug Digest, Vol 88, Issue 10 > To: Worcester Linux Users Group <wlug(a)mail.wlug.org> > Message-ID: <4D7EA7B1.5040502(a)aim.com> > Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 > > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- > Hash: SHA1 > > Hi, Dave - > > Just curious, where on Lake Champlain? I currently work at Clark U., and > lived in Burlington for about 6 years during the early to mid '80s. It's > my favorite city east of the Mississippi. > > Pete > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- > Version: GnuPG v1.4.10 (MingW32) > Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org/ > > iQEcBAEBAgAGBQJNfqexAAoJEBARJW02o9tw2zgH/08yRIIxybhN12On9ptOtxnE > NpzMQHSDsMDL2c22WwRdQxPPCPdA6I0OW594Gswg7vpbh6WOYtO2eXHBHf0rCjps > Lwc8dCVQGGnQn11nJ9FFEUmALIXxvXsfxYzvCcHNV7zM057D47rJEf9guZcZUNXj > yxMfLgHLW5nvP5f9JodvogNRO/Do5nUXYn1znWhq31Wyu/Afg3P85/DrO/QY0j9S > ZomjIiTNzRXKgZc5wBsfm+FEC5AvClSROhdQ0grQ5XSRkX5QzAr1/Gs+s/x8uKGX > gNQ43ZwnY9epsfvnbEokLi9X8ZKvKa5ye+2XOqT1I757zBWGHuSoIrNW3wKvV6w= > =BlEg > -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- > > > ------------------------------ > > Message: 3 > Date: Tue, 15 Mar 2011 00:06:03 -0400 > From: Pete Wason <codevark(a)aim.com> > Subject: Re: [Wlug] Wlug Digest, Vol 88, Issue 10 > To: codevark(a)aim.com, Worcester Linux Users Group <wlug(a)mail.wlug.org> > Message-ID: <4D7EE5AB.3010302(a)aim.com> > Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 > > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- > Hash: SHA1 > > heh that was weird. specifically chose reply to sender not list.. oh well > :) > > On 3/14/2011 7:41 PM, Pete Wason wrote: > > Hi, Dave - > > > > Just curious, where on Lake Champlain? I currently work at Clark U., and > > lived in Burlington for about 6 years during the early to mid '80s. It's > > my favorite city east of the Mississippi. > > > > Pete > _______________________________________________ > Wlug mailing list > Wlug(a)mail.wlug.org > http://mail.wlug.org/mailman/listinfo/wlug > > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- > Version: GnuPG v1.4.10 (MingW32) > Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org/ > > iQEcBAEBAgAGBQJNfuWrAAoJEBARJW02o9tw8SMH/3k85Pzwp/GwAKQ9qndOljvZ > j0jgHwy1Wnd0Uyl7GDGeHYwIqqf4k8l7aegZTzMsfWAQMheMlO1OYNw+fwJCarGA > eFkShc1BjXyz4bY2WiSWl1M4noyJr4FHMwYBRDgXT6HtI6SnphvzFgC8ofhiLqFE > yJWLLlSwJnHtBP+AJNBLF+DNc+Ev3FZatY5PAP5xojnb57g8Nr9fDJGzwb1PZzrm > PaHSwA0kxY2ajDX0aoQy5R8okuu3/HR9U++QKPNmMlM4aX1YpIQ8Q6CWNqC6vAB9 > kxTGEj3Skvki5/VBLu9mvZvrQOkA33/oj0keKWjCyRCD5Jk/9N6NrSkAdo/zHww= > =fp1Z > -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- > > > ------------------------------ > > _______________________________________________ > Wlug mailing list > Wlug(a)mail.wlug.org > http://mail.wlug.org/mailman/listinfo/wlug > > > End of Wlug Digest, Vol 89, Issue 5 > *********************************** >

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Re: [Wlug] Wlug Digest, Vol 88, Issue 10
by David Hardy March 15, 2011

March 15, 2011

I met KO once in Maynard at the Old Mill and got to see his original orange-crate desk that he shared with Gordon Bell. Nice guy and down-to-earth. First fulltime techie gig I had was at Simplex Time Recorder, Gardner, MA, operator for DEC PDP-11 running RSX CAD/CAM stuff, and a MicroVax running VMS 3.5 for the software engineers. 1986. Previously, as an assistant bookstore manager at Clark U., I'd been in charge of selling the DEC Rainbow PCs as part of the University's program for students, faculty and staff. 1984-85. Last time I worked on DEC stuff was the VAX/VMS 7000 and the Alpha OpenVMS boxen running 7.1 at an outfit in downtown Woostuh. 2006-07. >From what I've heard inside the old DEC social circles is that a lot of the VMS engineering that didn't migrate to HP went to India, and that many of the old VMS guys have long since moved on to...drum roll....Linux. In other old DEC scuttlebutt, there was supposed to be an open field somewhere off Route 12 in Leominster that contained all kinds of hw dumped/stored there by whatever DEC facility back in the day. During my own time at DEC in 87-89 one of our operators told us he'd gotten all kinds of stuff from there and was now storing it in his front yard in Sterling. Regards from the shores of Lake Champlain in winter, Dave Hardy > 2. nice remembrances: Ken Olsen, DEC, ..... (Doug Mildram) > > Message: 2 > Date: Wed, 9 Feb 2011 12:35:39 -0500 > From: Doug Mildram <dmildram(a)gmail.com> > Subject: [Wlug] nice remembrances: Ken Olsen, DEC, ..... > To: wlug(a)mail.wlug.org > Message-ID: > <AANLkTinCQXAHYjbuzRC+7YH9wZvVAoeokGCZoRiMDre3(a)mail.gmail.com> > Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" > > A nice article from Jon Hall is on top of the blog > > > http://www.linuxpromagazine.com/Online/Blogs/Paw-Prints-Writings-of-the-mad… > > along with many other replies about PDP-* systems, VMS, etc. > > My first HIGHtech job (1985) was hanging tapes and keeping dumb terminals > alive and connected to four > VAX 750/780's running (not VMS but) BSD4 unix (before NFS, before NIS) > for a robotics shop in Billerica called Automatix. csh% a.out > hello, world ! > -------------- next part -------------- > An HTML attachment was scrubbed... > URL: > http://mail.wlug.org/pipermail/wlug/attachments/20110209/aeb596ff/attachmen… > > ------------------------------ > > _______________________________________________ > Wlug mailing list > Wlug(a)mail.wlug.org > http://mail.wlug.org/mailman/listinfo/wlug > > > End of Wlug Digest, Vol 88, Issue 10 > ************************************ >

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KO
by kevin.paetzold March 14, 2011

March 14, 2011

Since we are reminiscing about DEC and KO.... I started at DEC in 1978 working on the DECSYSTEM20. My first manager was one of the first 100 DEC employees and even though I was initially working as a contractor for DEC (on an air force base) in Rome NY we made a trip to Maynard where he introduced me to the mill and to Ken Olsen. It was a fascinating time as I worked at the place which essentially funded the ARPANET and TCP/IP. I went to work in DEC engineering in Marlboro in 1981. Eventually I ended up at Stratus where among other things I now manage the Linux group (I never worked on VMS although I did do some stuff with the Ultrix group). It still amazes me (and many others) that DEC went away. I often tell my engineers that when I see some computer or software technology that DEC did not have I will let them know (there is some but not much that DEC did not have first and for which very little credit is given).

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Anyone familiar with XenServer 5.0?
by Pete Wason March 14, 2011

March 14, 2011

-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 I'm mucking about with three vhosts and one refuses to connect to the iSCSI SR the other two can see fine. Have tried a number of things, still no progress.. Pete -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.10 (MingW32) Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org/ iQEcBAEBAgAGBQJNfYmMAAoJEBARJW02o9tw9r8H/j7759HRudUsvem3sW55U+7e jJ7D0nFTKEx2JsBKqabrODWIGb+uKgZT8Lk+BXYYIgXDPUWmFa/uf5dAzk9U48xC ubiNcLFpPZhdcj9eym9N3UEh7x4m8HjvhmMU09946KpLBy8ak5ebEo8vqw0Jxv8R CziiekfonMMmiFGeQKB17qll+a0u5U+yrknt2gw4RooVYQeOBvQE7lVBK1FOoa0f 0dul4ZHO5hQrUw2Plx4TwL1BhdGV4U+yHDUv86jayZsFEniaZFtoQXkuvRTMlXws 7E+pYDKGyH37kPJewUhWV3GmHtX502wt2gOGR1U0XsbsO7wCnEECDxopbrbWRhw= =fV/D -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----

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WLUG Meeting Tomorrow (3/9) Virtualization Technologies!
by Tim Keller March 8, 2011

March 8, 2011

Hey Everybody, Remember, We've got a WLUG meeting tomorrow! I'm going to be giving a talk about virtualization technologies at 7PM. The meeting is going to be in the meeting room next to Morgan Hall (Look for the penguins!) Later, Tim. -- I am leery of the allegiances of any politician who refers to their constituents as "consumers".

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Reminder: WLUG Meeting Next Wed (3/9) Topic: Virtualization Technologies
by Tim Keller March 2, 2011

March 2, 2011

Hey Everybody, This is a reminder that next Wednesday I'm going to be giving a talk about virtualization technologies. I plan to do some white boarding, slides and a demo of different virtualization products currently on the market (both closed and open source). If anybody has specific questions or specific things they'd like to me to cover let me know and I'll update/expand my slides and notes to cover it. Thanks, Tim. -- I am leery of the allegiances of any politician who refers to their constituents as "consumers".

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Remembering KO
by Ken Jones Feb. 13, 2011

Feb. 13, 2011

I shall reveal my age. I was a working AN/FSQ7 programmer in Group 67 at Lincoln Labs when KO took off on his crazy venture to that mill in Maynard. I did not know Ken at the time as he was in Group 64 if my memory serves me correctly. DEC's first products were 'logic boards'. Those were the days of 'wire wrap' breadboarding. Ken's cards built with itty bitty new fangled transistor things slipped securely into a standard wire wrap board. I do not remember any specific cards, but I know they consisted of multiple individual NAND and NOR gates and probably a couple of FLIP FLOPs. >From that came the PDP-1 which I never saw. My memory focuses on the PDP-8 which was popular - so to speak. To put this in perspective the US had just deployed the SAGE air defense computers all around the country to detect and intercept Russian atomic bomb carrying jet airplanes. The SAGE computers used water cooled vacuum tube technology. I suggest, if you can find a library (remember them?), that is open check out "DEC is Dead, Long LIve DEC" The Lasting Legacy of Digital Equipment Corporation by Edgar Schein. (Is it available on NOOK?). My read of that book was that DEC was fine and healthy so long as it's engineers were producing products the customers did not know they needed, ie DEC was never consumer driven. (This is part of why KO was so beloved.) I was a TCP/IP aware person when I went to work for DEC in 1985. Inside those DEC walls DECnet was not only everything, it was the only thing. Ken Jones

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Off topic: good iPod Touch 4th Gen repairers?
by John Stoffel Feb. 10, 2011

Feb. 10, 2011

Guys, Got a 4th gen iPod Touch with a busted glass cover. Anyone know of a reliable and cost effective place to do the repair? Thanks, John --

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nice remembrances: Ken Olsen, DEC, .....
by Doug Mildram Feb. 9, 2011

Feb. 9, 2011

A nice article from Jon Hall is on top of the blog http://www.linuxpromagazine.com/Online/Blogs/Paw-Prints-Writings-of-the-mad… along with many other replies about PDP-* systems, VMS, etc. My first HIGHtech job (1985) was hanging tapes and keeping dumb terminals alive and connected to four VAX 750/780's running (not VMS but) BSD4 unix (before NFS, before NIS) for a robotics shop in Billerica called Automatix. csh% a.out hello, world !

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