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Re: [Wlug] Announce: WLUG Meeting Wed 10/9 7PM Jim Gettys on Internet buffer bloat

by Chuck Anderson

I'd like to gauge how many people plan to go to this meeting, since it could be popular enough that I might need to get a bigger room. If people plan to attend, could they chime in? Thanks, Chuck On Mon, Sep 23, 2013 at 11:01:41AM -0400, Chuck Anderson wrote: > 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 > Wednesday, October 9, at 7PM. The location will be the WPI Campus > Center, Mid-Centry Room 331. > > This month we will have Jim Gettys from Bell Labs talk about Internet > buffer bloat. This is the talk that has been rescheduled from April. > > "Internet buffer bloat, by Jim Gettys (Bell Labs) > > VOIP and teleconferencing often perform much more poorly on today's > Internet than the Internet of a decade ago, despite great gains in > bandwidth. Lots of fiber, cheap memory, smart hardware, variability of > wireless goodput, changes in web browser behaviour, changes in TCP > implementations, and a focus on benchmarking Internet performance > solely by bandwidth, and engineer's natural reluctance to drop packets > have conspired to encourage papering over problems by adding buffers; > each of which may introduce latency when filled. > > The mistaken quest to never drop packets has destroyed interactivity > under load, and often results in actual higher packet loss, as TCP's > congestion avoidance algorithms have been defeated by these > buffers. The lessons of the "RED manifesto" of 1997 have been > forgotten or never learned by a new generation of engineers." > > Wednesday, October 9, 7:00 - 9:00 PM > WPI Campus Center, Mid-Centry Room 331 > > Afterwards, we will go out for pizza. > > See you there, > Chuck > President, Worcester Linux Users' Group > http://www.wlug.org/

Oct. 2, 2013

Re: Next WLUG meeting proposal

by Tim Keller

Unfortunately the 15th doesn't work for me either.. The 8th is definitely safe. May the 4th be with everybody! Tim. On Fri, May 3, 2024, 9:55 AM THE HAMMER via WLUG <wlug(a)lists.wlug.org> wrote: > Hey John, > > It's tough to go by me as I have not attended in too long a while. I can > say for me personally May 8th is booked. The 15th looks ok. If I'm not > able to attend either will do my best to view on line > > Ron > > > ------------------------------ > *From:* John Stoffel via WLUG <wlug(a)lists.wlug.org> > *Sent:* Thursday, May 2, 2024 3:51 PM > *To:* Worcester Linux Users' Group General Discussion <wlug(a)lists.wlug.org > > > *Cc:* John Stoffel <john(a)stoffel.org> > *Subject:* [WLUG] Next WLUG meeting proposal > > > Guys, > Tim & I both have conflicts on alot of Thursdays in May for the > regular WLUG meeting. We'd like to see how people feel about moving > it to either > > May 8th > > or > > May 15th > > instead this month. We're still checking with Technocopia to make > sure we will have access on either of those days, but we wanted to > reach out and make sure the rest of you are ok with this change. > > Thanks, > John (and sorta Tim) > _______________________________________________ > 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/6SOAC… > _______________________________________________ > 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/43F4C… >

May 4, 2024

Re: [Wlug] I presume we're meeting the 10th of Oct?

by Frank Sweetser

Fantastic idea! Plus if it's on Wednesday the 10th I should actually be able to make it for once... Frank Sweetser fs at wpi.edu | For every problem, there is a solution that Manager of Network Operations | is simple, elegant, and wrong. Worcester Polytechnic Institute | - HL Mencken On 10/4/2012 9:19 PM, David Glaser wrote: > How about the cloud -say OpenStack. I see references to it. > > -David > On 10/04/2012 03:38 PM, Tim Keller wrote: >> Hey Gang! >> >> I presume we're having a meeting on the 10th? Does anybody have a topic/idea? >> >> Thanks, >> Tim. >> >> -- >> I am leery of the allegiances of any politician who refers to their >> constituents as "consumers". >> >> >> _______________________________________________ >> Wlug mailing list >> Wlug(a)mail.wlug.org >> http://mail.wlug.org/mailman/listinfo/wlug > > > > _______________________________________________ > Wlug mailing list > Wlug(a)mail.wlug.org > http://mail.wlug.org/mailman/listinfo/wlug >

Oct. 6, 2012

Re: Generic VGA Driver, wireless routers, and Thursday meeting

by Keith Wright

John Stoffel via WLUG <wlug(a)lists.wlug.org> writes: > Can I tell you to just go and buy a cheap PCIe graphics card made in > the last 10 years? *grin* Your advice may be good, but I don't like your attitude. One of the things I like about Linux is that you are not forced to buy the latest whiz-bang computer. It runs just fine on old hardware. Getting it working is half the fun. See "Dumpster Diving for Linux" http://www.free-comp-shop.com/none/dumpster.html --- Tim Keller via WLUG <wlug(a)lists.wlug.org> writes: > The meeting is going to be at our usual virtual hang out.. > https://meet.jit.si/WlugMA @7pm. I hope to be there. > I don't have a topic yet, I suspect something natural will emerge. I don't have a suitable presentation, but I have written something about my latest Linux project. Maybe it will be a topic. See "How can a wireless router be added to a wired netork?" http://www.free-comp-shop.com/none/wireless.html Your advice is welcome and maybe useful. A few years ago one of the WLUG memebers (Frank Sweetser?) saved my bacon after my Idiot Service Provider suddenly decided it would no longer be convenient for them to continue running a secondary name server for me. They didn't even reduce my bill by the amount they had been charging for that service. The price remained the same, but now it was for extra email addresses that I had not requested and did not need. A few years later they quit providing any mailboxes at all. I think they would really rather just charge me for sending the invoice. To be fair, that seems to be hard for them. Frank (?) told me about Hurricane Electric, who run a secondary name server for free just for good will and advertising. They are good people, this plug is all I have ever done for them. https://dns.he.net/ -- Keith

Dec. 10, 2020

Re: WLUG meeting 9th is a NO GO, moving WLUG to the 16th of May.

by Tim Keller

When I was at PAX I got to see Dwarf Fortress with the new graphics engine running! I know, heresy, but it was cool. Apparently the guy who develops DF has some serious medical bills to pay. On Thu, May 9, 2019 at 10:03 AM John Stoffel <john(a)stoffel.org> wrote: > >>>>> "Tim" == Tim Keller via WLUG <wlug(a)lists.wlug.org> writes: > > Tim> Hey Gang, > Tim> WPI is going to be locked down for commencement on the 9th. > > Tim> I'm moving the meeting to the 16th due to commencement. > > Tim> The planned topic is gaming on linux. > > "crawl --sprint" rocks as a game! Will anyone talk about Dwarf > Fortress? > > Tim> I'll send out a more detailed email soon. > > I'll try to make it, been super busy. > -- I am leery of the allegiances of any politician who refers to their constituents as "consumers".

May 9, 2019

Re: Great meeting last night!

by John Stoffel

>>>>> "gmcaplan---" == gmcaplan--- via WLUG <wlug(a)lists.wlug.org> writes: > Hi Tim, As you might remember, I attended several WLUG meetings when > they were virtual. I read a recent email that led me to believe > there is still a way for me t attend virtually. Is that true? If > so. I will try attend some future meetings. You should be able to find the link on the website for the monthly meetings, and we do still try to make them both virtual and in-person at the same time. So please do join next month! > Also, here is question that maybe you or someone in WLUG can help me > with. My computer runs (for now, don't ask why) Ubuntu 18.04 LTS. A > financial institution says I must run a virus scan very soon. I > installed clamav and then ran freshclam. As far as I can tell, > freshclam has been running for 15 hours, and is still running. Is > that typical etc.? I suspect they're just doing this for all people who connect via a web-browser. But it's hard to know if it's an ok thing because you don't tell us how many files you have and how much data needs to be scanned. And I would also rcommend that you upgrade to 20.04 or 22.04 as soon as you can. Both of those releases should run just fine on a system running 18.04, which is really quite old. It might also just be that you're web browser is old (in the financial institution's eyes) so they want a scan. Is this a laptop with limited memory and/or disk space? Or an old old CPU? More details would help us here. Thanks. > George Caplan > P.S. Here is some blatant self-promotion which doubles as recruiting > info for UPchieve, which especially needs Physics and CS coaches > (tutors). It also explains why I am too busy to update my OS ... for > now. (I am now very close to 3000 tutoring session.) > https://upchieve.org/blog/volunteer-math-tutor-george That would make sense why you're so busy and why you don't want to possibly break thins with an upgrade. It might be simpler to spin up a VM on the system and install the latest version of Ubuntu in there, with a newer web browser and see if your financial institution will be happier then. > On 2024-04-12 9:16 am, Tim Keller via WLUG wrote > Having our own Jitsi instance was fantastic! > Jansen got into ollama AI stuff and it was really cool. He's expressed interest in doing a > full end to end demo. We talked about the xz explot and it's entanglement with systemd and > OpenSSH. It was a great conversation about the history and missteps of systemd and how we got > to this place where so many pieces of critical software in the FOSS are supported by just a > few people. > Next month's meeting will need to be moved around as it conflicts with something, I'll give > more details as I learn them. > Thanks, > 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/GEZL2… > _______________________________________________ > 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/RCJ5L…

April 12, 2024

Re: Meeting ideas

by Eric Martin

Sorry I missed it! If I can get some time I’d love to show off the Weather Station (Raspberry Pi / Weather Hat) my kids got me. At the moment it’s functioning as a refrigerator temp sensor due to issues I had a week or two ago… Eric > On Sep 8, 2022, at 8:52 PM, Tim Keller via WLUG <wlug(a)lists.wlug.org> wrote: > > During the meeting we talked about the following future topics. > > 1. Greenbone vulnerability CVM scanner > 2. Open Source Music player > 3. FOSS Blue tooth / Wifi Speaker. > 4. NextCloud (talked about it a long time ago but things have changed) > > Please let me know of other ideas. > Thanks, > 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/WVECS…

Sept. 9, 2022

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

by Pete Wason

Heya - fun meeting, cool stuff! I meant to mention, I have a ton (literally) of decommissioned equipment at work we're looking to give/sell/donate away. Mostly Dell, but some other brands mixed in. I may have posted a partial list at some point on the list. A few older servers (R805, R300, two 32-bay Celeros NAS units, Synology RS2416+ with SAS expansion chassis), Optiplex and Precision desktops, a few Precision laptops (that cost us between$4-7K when new), a 16-port KVM, about 30 monitors, keyboards, mice, etc. etc. etc. If you know anyone who needs any more tech to play with, I have it! I also have a bunch of stuff at home that's available. Pete Wason Clark Labs 921 Main Street Worcester, MA pwason(a)clarku.edu 508 849 2323 (Desk) 774 922 7202 (Cell) On 2/8/2024 2:11 PM, Tim Keller via WLUG wrote: > 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". > > _______________________________________________ > WLUG mailing list --wlug(a)lists.wlug.org > To unsubscribe send an email towlug-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…

Feb. 11, 2024

meeting topic

by Mike Leo

Am I wrong, or is the gentoo install insanely comlicated? Although I did not sit in front of it from start to finish, it seems like an install takes hours and hours of work... I followed the Handbook (some 80 pages of documentation), which i'm sure is very accurate and each step worked as advertised, but in the end it was too much. After an install of debian, which takes me less than 20 minutes, this was too much for my poor little brain to take, and I eventually gave up. In addition to that, I can't for the life of me, get slackware to consistantly install lilo correctly during the install. Any comments on either of these would be apreciated, however, I am just writing this to toss my vote in for a linux install fest as a meeting topic. I have no problem bringing in a laptop to show the simple, eligant, streamlined, 20 minute debian install, but I would like to also see someone go through a gentoo install, and assist on a slackware lilo config...all of which can be done via my laptop if needed. Thanks ! Mike

Jan. 30, 2006

Re: [Wlug] Wlug Digest, Vol 148, Issue 9

by James Barclay

A few days ago I watched a Matthew Moore You tube "Mythbusting Linux" (Https//www.youtube.com/watch?v=y_lhqg_p21k) and he shows how he got malware and his Arch Linux was hacked. I am using Linux Mint 17.3 and now have an antivirus program. I used Comodo for my XP and have it here. So now I guess we should have to buy an antivirus. I'm also looking for better ways to email and since I now have Yandex and Zoho as well as Gmail perhaps there is one even safer. I would also like to give kudos to Apple for refusing to give up the master key codes to NSA, DHS and the FBI though they have reasonably cooperated with these agencies in the past. All this from a newbie. Thank you. On Wed, Feb 24, 2016 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. Linux Mint servers hacked (Richard Klein) > 2. Re: Linux Mint servers hacked (John Platt) > 3. Topic ideas for next meeting? (Tim Keller) > 4. Re: Topic ideas for next meeting? (Frank Sweetser) > > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > > Message: 1 > Date: Tue, 23 Feb 2016 15:37:12 -0500 > From: Richard Klein <rich(a)richardklein.org> > Subject: [Wlug] Linux Mint servers hacked > To: Worcester Linux Users Group <wlug(a)mail.wlug.org> > Message-ID: > < > CA+_AdvkWx4V9ui1R5iNEN+df2dBwgaMf+EXXYD2Lp2QaqfFh2A(a)mail.gmail.com> > Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 > > I haven't read the whole story, but apparently intruders managed to > put an ISO on their servers that included a backdoor. If you > downloaded an ISO from them on Saturday, you're at risk. > > http://blog.linuxmint.com/?p=2994 > > > ------------------------------ > > Message: 2 > Date: Tue, 23 Feb 2016 15:54:46 -0500 > From: John Platt <jplatt39(a)gmail.com> > Subject: Re: [Wlug] Linux Mint servers hacked > To: Worcester Linux Users Group <wlug(a)mail.wlug.org> > Message-ID: > < > CAKNsmOgOxN19wzaR9Gw_BX2X68+CVBz29BiDu5YuoGWGYD9J4A(a)mail.gmail.com> > Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" > > Steven J. Vaughan-Nichols who is a big Linux Mint fan says that if you used > bittorent or did not use a mirror you are safe. > > http://www.zdnet.com/article/has-your-linux-mint-desktop-been-hacked/ > > On Tue, Feb 23, 2016 at 3:37 PM, Richard Klein <rich(a)richardklein.org> > wrote: > > > I haven't read the whole story, but apparently intruders managed to > > put an ISO on their servers that included a backdoor. If you > > downloaded an ISO from them on Saturday, you're at risk. > > > > http://blog.linuxmint.com/?p=2994 > > _______________________________________________ > > Wlug mailing list > > Wlug(a)mail.wlug.org > > http://mail.wlug.org/mailman/listinfo/wlug > > > -------------- next part -------------- > An HTML attachment was scrubbed... > URL: > http://mail.wlug.org/pipermail/wlug/attachments/20160223/21b884c9/attachmen… > > ------------------------------ > > Message: 3 > Date: Tue, 23 Feb 2016 16:16:29 -0500 > From: Tim Keller <turbofx(a)gmail.com> > Subject: [Wlug] Topic ideas for next meeting? > To: Worcester Linux Users Group <wlug(a)mail.wlug.org> > Message-ID: > < > CA+r3vQh5sTuh9sBtR6dNHVtLH+TEfyBSeWb-x-CuJW3trBGA4w(a)mail.gmail.com> > Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" > > Hey Gang, > > Anybody got any ideas for next meeting? > > My buddy Nick is going to be out of the country for the next meeting, so > he's yet again a no show... > > Thanks, > Tim. > > -- > I am leery of the allegiances of any politician who refers to their > constituents as "consumers". > -------------- next part -------------- > An HTML attachment was scrubbed... > URL: > http://mail.wlug.org/pipermail/wlug/attachments/20160223/2fccfe01/attachmen… > > ------------------------------ > > Message: 4 > Date: Tue, 23 Feb 2016 18:55:58 -0500 > From: Frank Sweetser <fs(a)WPI.EDU> > Subject: Re: [Wlug] Topic ideas for next meeting? > To: Worcester Linux Users Group <wlug(a)mail.wlug.org>, Tim Keller > <turbofx(a)gmail.com> > Message-ID: <28F9BAC6-0A5A-4E33-BA96-3CA92F7C1B15(a)wpi.edu> > Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" > > It wouldn't be a huge topic, but I could talk about the RPZ security > feature in BIND: > > https://dnsrpz.info/ > > On February 23, 2016 4:16:29 PM EST, Tim Keller <turbofx(a)gmail.com> wrote: > >Hey Gang, > > > >Anybody got any ideas for next meeting? > > > >My buddy Nick is going to be out of the country for the next meeting, > >so > >he's yet again a no show... > > > >Thanks, > >Tim. > > > >-- > >I am leery of the allegiances of any politician who refers to their > >constituents as "consumers". > > > > > >------------------------------------------------------------------------ > > > >_______________________________________________ > >Wlug mailing list > >Wlug(a)mail.wlug.org > >http://mail.wlug.org/mailman/listinfo/wlug > > -- > Sent from my Android device with K-9 Mail. Please excuse my brevity. > -------------- next part -------------- > An HTML attachment was scrubbed... > URL: > http://mail.wlug.org/pipermail/wlug/attachments/20160223/aa9b7384/attachmen… > > ------------------------------ > > _______________________________________________ > Wlug mailing list > Wlug(a)mail.wlug.org > http://mail.wlug.org/mailman/listinfo/wlug > > > End of Wlug Digest, Vol 148, Issue 9 > ************************************ >

Feb. 25, 2016

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