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(for meeting projectors) laptops,VGA-out,linux....

by Doug Mildram

doug> Thanks Tim for bringing a functional laptop w/linux for last night's meeting. Our VGA-out projector worked fine as he installed a linux Mint VM (Mate Cinnamon) onto it. When that finished, I wanted to show/compare Mint Mate, which I had already on my laptop. When I unplugged Tim's laptop from VGA-out and tried my own thinkpad running Mint Mate (dualbooted, my alternate OS).....well,.....chirp. The projector stopped projecting. My Fn-F7 key seemed to be trying to cycle thru the blind toggles/choices (Duplicate display? screen-only? VGA-only might expect), but no video came out, I had to give up, not having tried VGA-out ever while running linux on my laptop. We put Tim's back onto VGA-out, and it also seemed dead, but we chose not to fight it, meeting being close enough to stop caring about projector, and it "wasnt a proud moment" for me. SO I WENT HOME and plugged my (same) laptop into my TV's VGA-in port. Started by booting win7. I'd never noticed a detail : at WHICH POINT does this start working....should I expect to see the dualboot/GRUB menu on TV? Apparently not. Soon enough though, Win7 (the OS preinstalled by Lenovo/thinkpad) came up and VGA-out/TV started working as usual. (somewhere AFTER "Resuming Windows", it starts working). To control VGA-out, Fn-F7 works ...I've got (4) choices: Duplicate, Extend(laptop-screen=#1, TV-VGAout=screen2), Projector Only (turns off laptop display), and Disconnect Projector (only laptop display ON). No doubt (i surmise), thanks to windows drivers. Feels like I learned: OS controls VGA-out (somehow naively I was inclined to believe this was more of an OS-independent hardware function). OK, now rebooted laptop/win7 to try Linux Mint from a win7 state with "Duplicate" working. "Shutting down Windows" displayed....laptop goes thru boot/BIOS?...TV is blank now, I've learned to expect this....Linux kernel boots, and I see some of the minimal console text messages as usual ALSO ON TV, laptop-screen AND TV quickly go to graphical mode, also displaying the Mate background... and this is where I was the most surprised. TV/VGA-out appeared "frozen' with the Mate background, appearing much like my laptop screen BUT MINUS anything else (no bottom launch/status/"panel" bar. Whatever I launch on my laptop screen, does not appear on VGA-out. Fascinating! Wed eve late, at my house, I could swear Fn-F7 still wasnt doing anything. But this Thurs AM, it DOES start working a bit (same 4 choices, but blind, and it's strange. TV/VGA-out doesnt show EVERYTHING). I wonder if I'd rebooted at the meeting, would that have helped, probably. Today I play with it some more (ALT-F2 helps when I'm in that semi-blind VGA-out situation, getting SOME things to show on TV) even though I'm not likely to use this feature much?ever? at home, unless I break a leg. Caveat, practice what you bring for meetings to project-OUT! HDMI is also an option in our WPI meeting/conf rms if you have it. ---trivia for Mate interest... (Mate = lightweight alternate to Cinnamon. Their start/launch menus are different, and I can find good stuff in Mate's Control Center. Cinnamon's Control center looks like this: https://docs.google.com/file/d/0B2V313X0LzmQclJCVkI5aFhIeDA/edit Couldnt find a good Mate comparison Control Center screenshot (not sharing some high-ad google'd choices) but I did like this decent page mostly cuz i love keyb shortcuts: http://securitronlinux.com/bejiitaswrath/some-useful-tips-for-the-linux-mat… where I learned CTL-ALT-d (lowercase "d" not DEL, which offers to reboot) .....lowers-or-raises what you're doing, a great "quick hide from over-shoulder" ninja move. (sorry to degrade tricks/skill(s) of a Real Ninja) Stay warm! --doug

March 10, 2017

Great Meeting last night! Thanks Frank and Jeff!

by Tim Keller

Hey Everybody, Last nights meeting was great. A big hardy thanks to Jeff and Frank for lugging in the printers and showing them off and giving us all a great education on modelers, slicers and printing software. Here are links to things that were talked about: 3d Printers: Kossel <http://reprap.org/wiki/Kossel> printrbot-plus <http://printrbot.com/shop/assembled-metal-printrbot-plus/> Modelers: openscad <http://www.openscad.org/> tinkercad <https://www.tinkercad.com/> Slicers: slic3r.org Printer Driving Software: Octoprint <http://octoprint.org/> Thanks, Tim. -- I am leery of the allegiances of any politician who refers to their constituents as "consumers".

May 15, 2015

Re: Jan. WLUG Meeting: Jan 10th, Topic: Keith's talk!

by Keith Wright

Tim Keller via WLUG <wlug(a)lists.wlug.org> writes (edited): > We've got a meeting on Thursday, January 10th, 2019 @ 7pm. > Location: WPI Campus Center, Taylor Room 128. > Topic: I'm not sure of the tile, but esteemed > longtime member Keith Wright will be giving a talk! > The reminders will definitely have the topic name in > them, hint, hint... I don't know, it's kind of a melange of what I have been doing and thinking about and not doing and forgetting... Let's call it "A Scheme to Bootstrap Trust". -- Keith

Jan. 5, 2019

Re: [Wlug] Meeting Ideas...

by brad

A meeting like so would probably be best suited for January. That would give me time to get kitchsync working. Also i hope i can i have a ipaq to install linux on (mine has already been ..... well, exorcized). Wes has been wanting to do for some time, let's hope he can make it January's meeting. Are there any other ipaq owners which would like to have this done? On Tuesday 10 December 2002 09:09 am, Marc Hughes wrote: > Since the ipaq install was described as a mini-demo, perhaps a PDA > night? > IPaqs, zauruses, palms, whatever else. > > I'd suggest... > How to install linux on them. (including explanation of distros, and > package formats) > How to sync them with a linux desktop. > How to sync the linux pda with a windows desktop. > Other cool stuff? good list of ideas. > war-walking? what is war-walking? > Hmm... Not sure how easy it is to show off PDA stuff to a large group > due to the screen size. I bet there's solutions to that (run vnc on the > pda?) Yeah the size could be a problem. VNC is a good idea, and i think i does work on the ipaq. > And also... Perhaps another talk someday could be "Linux on unusual > devices" ... PS2, dreamcast, toasters, refidgerators, whatever weird > things linux is running on. Anyone got any ideas there? That does sound interesting. --brad

Dec. 10, 2002

wlug/MeeGo tonite wed oct12

by Doug Mildram

doug> all confirmed and the oct5 quote below still accurate!...I'll be hosting: cra> ..WLUG meeting is Wednesday, October 12 at 7:00 PM at the WPI campus in Worcester, MA USA. The meeting room is in WPI's Morgan Hall (building 'H' on the campus map [1]), down the hallway to the right of the dining hall entrance. [1] http://www.wpi.edu/Images/CMS/WPI/walkingmap.pdf This month, Andy Stewart will be giving a talk & demo of MeeGo, a Linux distribution designed for Netbooks, Tablets, and other smaller devices. After the meeting, we'll go out for pizza. ---- doug> bring $1,$5's! for cash pizza/drinks..usually ~$6.

Oct. 12, 2011

Re: [EXT] Re: Physical WLUG Meeting is cancelled tomorrow...

by Chuck Anderson

format c: (make sure to run from a CMD window with Administrator privileges) On Wed, Mar 18, 2020 at 02:22:25PM -0400, Richard Klein via WLUG wrote: > Do you guys have a favorite IRC client for Windows? > > On Wed, Mar 18, 2020 at 1:28 PM Chris Thompson via WLUG <wlug(a)lists.wlug.org> > wrote: > > > I would certainly recommend organizing in IRC, but for more interaction, > > Jitsi is worth a shot. > > > > Zoom does work very well on Gnu/Linux, but yes - proprietary, so, > > personally not interested in using them more than I already am coerced to > > :P > > > > Jitsi usually handles rooms with up to about a dozen people pretty well, > > but often struggles beyond that. Most issues are resolved with a simple > > reload of the page. > > > > Try it out @ either of these instances, no registration require: > > > > https://meet.jit.si/ (typically pretty bleeding-edge, so sometimes less > > stable) > > > > or: > > > > https://meet.mayfirst.org/ (pretty up to date, but generally more stable > > of late) > > > > Tim, you may be able to recover your ident info with the following, once > > you've connected with #Freenode. If the name is registered with > > NickServ, it'll email you at the registered address: > > > > /msg NickServ SENDPASS turbox > > > > --Chris > > IRC: wolcen > > > > On 3/18/20 11:28 AM, Keith Wright via WLUG wrote: > > >> Subject: [WLUG] Re: Physical WLUG Meeting is cancelled tomorrow... > > >> From: madserge--- via WLUG <wlug(a)lists.wlug.org> > > >> > > >> Never used IRC before but I do have an app on Manjaro called > > >> Konversation that I think is a IRC client, would like to join if anyone > > >> can tell me any info about the chat room that would be great! > > > How did this work? > > > > > > I used IRC once before. A friend said "let's try this", > > > and told me what program to run and how to start. > > > > > > The conversation went something like: > > > Hi, are you there? Yes. It works! Yes. Well goodbye. > > > > > > That was many years ago, and I have forgotten the name > > > of the program. Then I got busy and forgot the WLUG > > > meeting entirely. > > > > > > Diane has been using something called Zoom on Windows. > > > Google turns up some hints that Zoom can work on Linux, > > > but it seems to be a binary mystery code that connects > > > to the mother ship and does secret stuff...anybody know?

March 18, 2020

Meeting Oct 12th 2017 at 7pm. Topic: Ansible Location: WPI Campus Center Rm 331

by Tim Keller

Hey Gang, Our next meeting will be on October 12th at 7pm. I'm going to give a quick talk on Ansible. It's a handy tool I use for install software on LOTS of computers. I'll also talk about Ansible playbooks as well. After that I figure we can talk about things people might want as topics and then head down for pizza at Tech. As usual snacks and refreshments will be provided. Thanks, Tim. -- I am leery of the allegiances of any politician who refers to their constituents as "consumers".

Oct. 4, 2017

Reminder: Meeting TOMORROW March 14th 2019 Location:

by Tim Keller

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".

March 13, 2019

Re: [Wlug] REMINDER: Meeting Wed. Nov. 20, 7 PM

by Theo Van Dinter

On Sat, Nov 16, 2002 at 09:48:23PM -0500, Andy Stewart wrote: > c) TiVO - doesn't that run Linux? Can you do any interesting hacks to the > Linux software that could be demonstrated at our meeting? Well, I won't be able to make the meeting, but if you want to see a little hack I did to my TiVo (yes, it runs Linux on a PPC processor), you can look at my homepage: http://www.kluge.net/~felicity/ It tells you what my TiVo is currently watching, as well as the listing of what it will be recording (todo), what's available to watch (now showing), and programs we told it to record (season passes). All the programming is done in TCL. I use the tivoweb software, which is essentially a webserver that interfaces with the TiVo data. I wrote/hacked together a few modules that grabs the information from the TiVo and spits it out in an easily parsible format. My linux server then grabs periodically via cron that information and puts it on the web server. :) There are some other standard modules that let you control the TiVo via web browser, etc. I really just like the fact that it uses my home broadband connection to get the daily information instead of the usual dial-up via modem. ;) -- Randomly Generated Tagline: They can always run stderr through uniq. :-) -- Larry Wall in <199704012331.PAA16535(a)wall.org>

Nov. 17, 2002

REMINDER!! WLUG MEETING TOMORROW!! Dec 11th 2025! Topic: Bazzite!

by Tim Keller

Here we are, the last WLUG meeting for 2025! Time: 7PM Date: December 11th, 2025 Location: Technocopia, 44 Portland St. Worcester MA. Virtual Location: https://meet.jit.si/WlugMA Topic: Gaming on Linux! I'm going to be showing off my bazzite powered gaming desktop (that my wife is going to be the primary driver on) In the past I've had lots of conversations with potential linux users that go something like "Linux is so cool, but about my games.." and then the conversation gets awkward. I know there's some complicated stuff going on at Steam, but one thing they have done as a company is really pushed the envelope for gaming on linux. Bazzite aims to be a distro that just has it all working out of the box and makes use of the silver/blue bootc environment to make the machine more resilient to novice linux users that might accidentally break something or lose power mid upgrade, etc. I'm sure it's going to be a lively discussion and there will be lots to talk about. I also know that Technocopia is doing a xmas party / maker swap so we'll want to be respectful to them as well. As always afterwards we'll head out for some dinner and keep the conversation going. Thanks, Tim. -- I am leery of the allegiances of any politician who refers to their constituents as "consumers".

Dec. 10, 2025

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