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Re: Next Meeting November 18th, NOT the 11th.

by Mher Mnatsakanyan

Happiest Birthday Tim. Enjoy the day. Cheers, Mher On Wednesday, 10 November 2021, Tim Keller via WLUG <wlug(a)lists.wlug.org> wrote: > 0. Thanks for the birthday wishes! My wife has pointed out that I've been > involved in WLUG for more than half my adult life at this point! > > 1. As for the dinner location, I have no idea, it's a surprise! > > 2. I'm totally down for having an in person meeting, we'd just have to > find a venue. The Hudson library worked really well, I'd be cool for that, > of other places are more central to others, we can figure something out. > Please propose locations and we'll figure out what works. I'm also not > opposed to having a rotating set of locations as long as it doesn't become > too confusing. > > 3. TrueNas Scale does look cool. There's talk of putting gluster on to of > ZFS for scale out storage, which slightly distresses me. I played with > gluster back in the day and was rather unimpressed with it, maybe it's > matured a bit) but last week poking at FreeBSD on a VM got me thinking > about TrueNAS and it's partner project TrueNAS Scale (which is a debian > based version of TrueNAS that supports containers, KVM, etc. > > 4. I was given a Raspberry Pi Zero as a gift. Apparently there's a tiny > unix you can run on it! > > Later, > Tim. > > On Wed, Nov 10, 2021 at 2:47 PM John Stoffel <john(a)stoffel.org> wrote: > >> >> Tim> My birthday is on the 11th and the family is taking me out for >> dinner. >> >> Where to? We can all meet up with you and sing. LOL! >> >> Tim> We'll have the meeting on the 18th instead! I've got some ideas >> Tim> for topics, but if someone has a burning desire to talk about >> Tim> something, let me know! >> >> Is this in person? >> >> Tim> Otherwise I think I'll show off my experiments with TrueNAS scale. >> >> That will be interesting to look at. >> > > > -- > I am leery of the allegiances of any politician who refers to their > constituents as "consumers". >

4 years, 3 months

Reminder: WLUG Meeting tonight: Topic ProxMox / Turning Pi 2

by Tim Keller

Hey Everybody! We've got a meeting tonight! Time: 7pm Date: February 8th, 2024 Location: Technocopia, 44 Portland St. Worcester MA Virtual Location: https://meet.jit.si/WlugMA For a topics, We've got two. Topic #1: Turing Pi 2 hardware Wlug member Zori Babroudi recently bought a Turning Pi 2 and a bunch of Pi and Rocks compute modules. Currently, it's a work in progress, but eventually once things are totally working on it, I'd like to show it off in its full glory. But in the meantime, we can marvel at the hardware. Ultimately, the plan is to run k8s on it and do some LLM based AI stuff as well. Topic #2: ProxMox With BroadCom's purchase and destruction of VMware, many of us are scrambling to look for alternatives to VMware Esxi. One great contender is ProxMox. It's a debian based distro that's focused on providing a great interface to manage vms running on kvm. It also has great support for video card pass through (something I know Brandon is *very* interested in). I've got a 3 node proxmox cluster that I will show off. John Stoffel has also been experimenting with it as well so both of us can talk about the good/bad/ugly of it. As usual, the conversation will be lively and focused around linux, FOSS, fair use and who knows what! Afterwards we'll head off for some dinner and keep the conversation going! I hope to see you there! Later, Tim. -- I am leery of the allegiances of any politician who refers to their constituents as "consumers".

2 years

Re: [Wlug] Meeting Wednesday May 12 7PM

by Frank Sweetser

On 5/6/2010 10:25 PM, Doug Chamberlin wrote: > I'll be bringing about 30 technical books I'm giving away for free. > Not sure how to handle it but maybe a raffle to determine order in which > they are taken. > Nothing fancy. Just trying to be fair. > Not that these will cause a mad rush or anything. > Anyway, here's a picture of them: > http://s754.photobucket.com/albums/xx181/greymont/?action=view&current=Avai… That's quite a collection - maybe we should only raffle away two or three per meeting to make 'em last? -- Frank Sweetser fs at wpi.edu | For every problem, there is a solution that WPI Senior Network Engineer | is simple, elegant, and wrong. - HL Mencken GPG fingerprint = 6174 1257 129E 0D21 D8D4 E8A3 8E39 29E3 E2E8 8CEC

15 years, 9 months

Re: Reminder!! WLUG meeting July 11th 2024 @7pm: Location: Technocopia!

by John Stoffel

>>>>> "Jansen" == Jansen Smith via WLUG <wlug(a)lists.wlug.org> writes: > Demoed new features of the LLM setup, including Llama3 and document parsing. It was certainly interesting to see this! And it really shows how having a graphics card helps, but if you blow out the size that can fit in the graphic card's memory, it slows way down again. > Talked to John about the open source game Mindustry, which Kevin & I > have compiled from source and > played: https://github.com/Anuken/Mindustry Ah.. it's a java game with graphics. I'll probably pass for now. I'm too much of a nethack/crawl/moria type of gamer. :-) Though I have to admit I've spent some time playing 'naev' which sorta reminds me of the classic 'elite' but without the 3-d graphics. https://github.com/naev/naev Not amazingly fast development, but it's a fun thing to play with. > On Thu, Jul 11, 2024, 5:53 PM Tim Keller via WLUG <wlug(a)lists.wlug.org> wrote: > Hey everybody! > We've got a WLUG meeting this Thursday at technocopia! > Time: 7pm > Date: July 11th 2024 > Location: 44 Portland St. Worcester MA > Virtual Location: https://meet.jit.si/WlugMA > Topic(s): > SSH exploits > There's been plenty of talk about Ubuntu upgrades, it's worth talking about various backup > strategies and options that are out there. If people have other things they want to talk > about, by all means! I've continued to tinker with the LLM stuff and I'll have that laptop > with me as well. > After the meeting we'll head off for dinner to keep the conversation going. > Later, > Tim. > -- > I am leery of the allegiances of any politician who refers to their constituents as > "consumers". > _______________________________________________ > WLUG mailing list -- wlug(a)lists.wlug.org > To unsubscribe send an email to wlug-leave(a)lists.wlug.org > Create Account: https://wlug.mailman3.com/accounts/signup/ > Change Settings: https://wlug.mailman3.com/postorius/lists/wlug.lists.wlug.org/ > Web Forum/Archive: > https://wlug.mailman3.com/hyperkitty/list/wlug@lists.wlug.org/message/UMVOQ… > _______________________________________________ > WLUG mailing list -- wlug(a)lists.wlug.org > To unsubscribe send an email to wlug-leave(a)lists.wlug.org > Create Account: https://wlug.mailman3.com/accounts/signup/ > Change Settings: https://wlug.mailman3.com/postorius/lists/wlug.lists.wlug.org/ > Web Forum/Archive: https://wlug.mailman3.com/hyperkitty/list/wlug@lists.wlug.org/message/G35R2…

1 year, 7 months

Re: [Wlug] This week's meeting

by Gregory Avedissian

We still haven't had a discussion about what distro Andy should use. Greg Eric Stein wrote: > We already did a talk about how to save power in linux with powertop > etc, I think... it was a good one. See you all Thursday! > > Eric > > Andy Stewart wrote: >> HI all, >> >> The website has been corrected...the meeting is Thursday, December 18th. >> The home page is correct, the "Meetings" page was incorrect. Thanks >> for letting me know. >> >> Maybe the topic should be about the use of Linux in power failures? >> Hummm, maybe not........ >> >> Later, >> >> Andy > > _______________________________________________ > Wlug mailing list > Wlug(a)mail.wlug.org > http://mail.wlug.org/mailman/listinfo/wlug >

17 years, 1 month

Reminder: Meeting Thursday April 14th 2016 NOTE LOCATION!

by Tim Keller

Hey Gang, This a reminder we've got a meeting Thursday April 14th! Here are the details: Date: April 14th, 2016 Time: 7pm Location: Atwater-Kent rm. 232 Topic: None Currently. If someone wants to speak let me know! I've reached out to a bunch of people but schedules/etc. have gotten in the way. Worse case scenario, we simply nerd out... If people are interested I can speak about hadoop and what's gone into building the clusters and some of the hardware and management challenges I've dealt with. Refreshments and snacks will be provided and we'll head over to tech pizza afterwards for some slices and more banter! Later, Tim. -- I am leery of the allegiances of any politician who refers to their constituents as "consumers".

9 years, 10 months

Re: [Wlug] Reminder: Meeting Dec. 10th at 7pm! NOTE: !!!!LOCATION CHANGE!!!!

by Chuck Anderson

A better description of the location is: WPI Sports and Recreation Center room 412 - Class of '61 Meeting Room 1. This is a new building as of a few years ago. It is next to Harrington Auditorium, on the hill between it and the football field. On Wed, Dec 09, 2015 at 03:07:19AM -0500, Robert Schwein wrote: > Ahhhh.... do you mean the "Sports and Recreation Center"? > > On 12/9/2015 3:04 AM, Robert Schwein wrote: > >The "Rec Center" is not on the WPI campus map. Can you help me > >find it? And, is room 61 really on the 4th floor? > > > >Thanks > >Bob > > > >On 12/7/2015 5:06 PM, Tim Keller wrote: > >>Hey Everybody, > >> > >>Dmitri Pal, the director of engineering at Red Hat has > >>graciously offered to speak about Kerberos, FreeIPA, SSSD and > >>I'm sure a whole host of other things! > >> > >>Here are the vitals! NOTE: THE LOCATION IS CHANGED FOR THIS MEETING!!!! > >> > >>When: December 10th, 2015 @ 7pm. > >>Where: Rec Center Rm. 61! (4th Floor) > >>Who: Dmitri Pal, Engineering Director at Red Hat! > >>What: FreeIPA, SSSD, Kerberos, etc. > >> > >>Refreshments and snacks will be provided and as always we'll be > >>heading to Tech Pizza afterwards to continue the lively > >>conversation! > >> > >>I'd also like to thank Chuck for getting this organized! > >> > >>Thanks, > >>Tim.

10 years, 2 months

Re: !!!! Reminder!!! Wlug Meeting Oct 13th @7PM: Topic: Fotoxx, Speaker: Dick Miller, Location: WPI Mid Century Room.

by Keith Wright

Patrick McEvilly via WLUG <wlug(a)lists.wlug.org> writes: > We lost the room on the web call. Will you guys be back on tonight? Right. That didn't work well. I was on jitsi within minutes of 7pm. At first I thought I had technical problems because I couldn't see or hear anybody. A few minutes and a few named rectangles showed up, including the all important "WLUG Meeting". But the guest speaker was not there. It was noisy and hard to hear anyone who was not near the mike. Around 7:30 there was talk of booting from a flash drive and then "WLUG Meeting" vanished. There were three of us left, me and two rectangles named jstone and PMcEvilly. We talked a bit about our computers, but didn't really have much to say. At 8pm the computer that runs ntpd (NetTimePro) said it was time to move along. This is not a gripe, it's a bug report. Jitsi actually seemed to work better from the public library. This is a bit frightening. WPI has been teaching over video chat for years. We did video chat meetings with the equipment in the student center back in the Andy Stewart days. Patrick McEvilly via WLUG <wlug(a)lists.wlug.org> writes: > Will you guys be back on tonight? I'm not sure what to make of that question. WLUG meetings are traditionally 1/month. On the other hand, I think the jitsi room is open all the time. -- Keith, Programmer in Chief, http://www.free-comp-shop.com/

3 years, 4 months

WLUG Meeting Sept. 15th, 2016 @ 7PM Topic: Docker Location: Washburn Labs Rm 232

by Tim Keller

Hey Everybody! We have a WLUG meeting on Sept. 15th at 7PM! Here are the vitals: Location: Washburn Labs Rm 232 @7pm Speaker: William Temple Topic: Container technologies... The speaker for this meeting is William Temple. Here's what he recently posted to the list (if you didn't already see it) Thanks for inviting me to give a talk on containers this Thursday. I'm a Senior at WPI and spent the last two summers working on container technologies at Red Hat under the Project Atomic/OpenShift banners. If you all are interested, topics for discussion could be: - Containers 101: Introduction & Motivations - Container Technologies -- docker -- Open Containers Initiative -- LXC, rkt, and others - Container Implementation -- namespaces -- cgroups -- security implications, comparison to Virtual Machines - Containers in Production (Kubernetes, etc.) - Containers in Consumer Environments (Flatpak, Snappy, etc.) If there are any other container-related topics you'd like to hear about, please just let me know and I can work them in. I'm mostly familiar with the Docker/OCI & Kubernetes orchestration stack, so I won't be able to go into technical details about other systems, but can give an overview if someone else wants to get into the weeds about any other container systems. I'd like to thank Logan for getting this organized and for William for being accomidating of our location and schedule change. As always, there will be refreshments and snacks and we'll head to Tech Pizza afterwards! See ya there! Tim. -- I am leery of the allegiances of any politician who refers to their constituents as "consumers".

9 years, 5 months

Re: Reminder WLUG Meeting tonight! Topic PiHole / Cadoodle!

by John Stoffel

>>>>> "Tracie" == Tracie Winslow via WLUG <wlug(a)lists.wlug.org> writes: > Actually, I was hoping I could show my pi-hole on my Linux mini-pc, > along with my setup of cloudflared to go with it. Please bring it and we'll make the time to show it! > -- > "For a long time it seemed to me that life was about to begin - real life. But there was always > some obstacle in the way, something to be gotten through first, some unfinished business, time > still to be served, a debt to be paid. At last it dawned on me that these obstacles were my life. > This perspective has helped me to see there is no way to happiness. Happiness is the way. So > treasure every moment you have and remember that time waits for no one." > - Souza > On Thu, Jul 10, 2025 at 4:17 PM Tim Keller via WLUG <wlug(a)lists.wlug.org> wrote: > Hey Everybody! > We've got a wlug meeting tonight! > Time: 7pm > Date: TODAY!!! July 10th, 2024 > Location: Technocopia, 44 Portland Ave. Worcester MA > Virtual Location: https://meet.jit.si/WlugMA > Topic: Ad blocking and CAD! > I'm going to give a quick demo of a PiHole server I literally built this afternoon running on > a Pi5. Pi-Hole is DNS blackholing software that drastically reduces how many ads get served to > your browser! > Cadoodle! Kevin has finally gotten Cadoodle to a place where he wants to show it to the world > so we're going to let him show off his great piece of software! > As usual, we'll go out to dinner after the meeting and keep up the conversation! > Later, > Tim. > -- > I am leery of the allegiances of any politician who refers to their constituents as > "consumers". > _______________________________________________ > WLUG mailing list -- wlug(a)lists.wlug.org > To unsubscribe send an email to wlug-leave(a)lists.wlug.org > Create Account: https://wlug.mailman3.com/accounts/signup/ > Change Settings: https://wlug.mailman3.com/postorius/lists/wlug.lists.wlug.org/ > Web Forum/Archive: > https://wlug.mailman3.com/hyperkitty/list/wlug@lists.wlug.org/message/BVGEQ… > _______________________________________________ > WLUG mailing list -- wlug(a)lists.wlug.org > To unsubscribe send an email to wlug-leave(a)lists.wlug.org > Create Account: https://wlug.mailman3.com/accounts/signup/ > Change Settings: https://wlug.mailman3.com/postorius/lists/wlug.lists.wlug.org/ > Web Forum/Archive: https://wlug.mailman3.com/hyperkitty/list/wlug@lists.wlug.org/message/IRNUG…

7 months

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