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Re: [Wlug] Reminder: Next WLUG Meeting will be Thursday February 12th 2015 @ 7pm Rm 331 (Mid-Century Room)

by Andy Stewart

On 02/05/2015 10:29 AM, Tim Keller wrote: > Hey Everybody, > > I'm glad to announce that our founder Andy Stewart will be doing a talk > on wireless mesh networking! > I expect this talk will be both entertaining and interesting. > > Afterwards we'll be retiring to Tech for pizza! > > Date: Thursday February 12th, 2015 7pm-9pm > Location: WPI Campus Center, Mid-Century Room 331 > > Later, > Tim. HI WLUG, Thanks, Tim, for sending that notice to the WLUG membership. Specifically, I will be discussing Broadband-Hamnet (trademark), which is a mesh network designed by amateur radio operators, but can be used by mere mortals :-) as well. One can reflash many versions of the the Linksys WRT54G with this software and create your own mesh network, as has been done in Austin, TX and I believe Seattle, WA. Also, the Ubiquiti hardware can be used. I will have slides and a few Linksys boxes to demonstrate the concept. Feel free to bring your laptop to connect to the demo network. One can connect via an ethernet cable (bring your own) or wirelessly. For more information: http://www.broadband-hamnet.org I look forward to seeing you at the meeting, and joining you afterwards for pizza. Andy -- Andy Stewart (KB1OIQ) Founder: Worcester Linux Users' Group Founder: Chelmsford Linux Meetup Group President: PART of Westford, MA (WB1GOF)

Feb. 6, 2015

Re: Reminder!!! Meeting tomorrow night! Topic: Nix

by John Stoffel

Hey guys, What a great meeting last week! A big shout out to Xavier for doing his presentation on NixOS! Hopefully Tim will be able to share the links to the slides and other info. We talked about: NixOS - A tool and environment for building systems in a deterministic manner. Sorta like Ansible, or Puppet, or Chef, or Salt or cfengine (old school!) or Terraform. But with it's own twist on how it keeps a hash pointing at the version you have, so you can mix-n-match tools versions easily. nushell (https://www.nushell.sh/) - a new shell for Linux and MacOS which includes some PowerShell like features. It looks interesting for sure. But maybe this old dog is too stuck in his ways to change direnv (https://direnv.net/) - A way to have your shell environment updated when you 'cd' into a directory, so that you don't have to remember what environment settings your need when you're moving around and doing work. I wish I had this for my engineers back when I was supporting an ASIC design team, they would have loved this. So who's going to present next month? And what are the feelings of those who are remote? Were you able to follow along and enjoy the talk? Doing both in-person and streamed stuff is tough at times, and I feel like we're not paying enough attention to those who try to comment from remote connections. Cheers, John

June 17, 2025

Re: recent post, Technocopia, hybrid meetings

by Andrew Oprea

open source robotics? I'm for it! On Wed, Aug 19, 2020 at 7:20 PM Kevin Harrington via WLUG <wlug(a)lists.wlug.org> wrote: > > As a theme, i would be interested in showing off the latest revisions of BowlerStudio and open source robotics in general. thoughts? > > On Tue, Aug 18, 2020 at 6:47 AM Chuck Anderson via WLUG <wlug(a)lists.wlug.org> wrote: >> >> I removed & banned the drive-by-spammer. >> >> Here is Technocopia's website for those interested: >> >> https://technocopia.org/ >> >> I like the idea of Hybrid meetings--some participants remote and some >> in-person. It's hard to do well, though. Does Technocopia have a >> videoconferencing setup with an in-room camera/mic system, projector, >> and PC that could join Jitsi? Maybe we could help them set one up. >> _______________________________________________ >> 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/SW5UB… > > _______________________________________________ > 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/PYIQU…

Aug. 20, 2020

Announce: WLUG Meeting Wed 4/10 7PM Jim Gettys on Internet buffer bloat

by Chuck Anderson

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, April 10, 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. "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, April 10, 7:00 - 10:00 PM WPI Campus Center, Mid-Centry Room 331 I will also be raffling off some more items. Afterwards, we will go out for pizza. See you there, Chuck President, Worcester Linux Users' Group http://www.wlug.org/

April 2, 2013

Re: [Wlug] The speaker for the February meeting has been lined up!

by Frank Sweetser

I've been watching the whole software defined network mania fairly closely, and while I honestly don't even know what a presentation about it would look like, I'd always be happy to just chat for a while about if it there's interest. (One little teaser - a good segment of it involves running Linux directly on enterprise class network gear!) 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 01/21/2015 10:43 AM, Tim Keller wrote: > Hey Everybody, > > Great news! Andy will be speaking at the Feb. meeting! He's going to be > doing a talk on Mesh networking. I figure this will "mesh" nicely with > Frank's talk about 802.11/[nn]/ networking. Once I get the official title for > the talk I'll send out a more official reminder. > > On a different note... Is there anything that people are interested in that we > could work on lining up speakers for? > > Here's a couple of ideas... > * Software defined networking > * Robotics > * Home automation > > > -- > 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 >

Jan. 26, 2015

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

by Cara Salter

On 2/12/24 17:10, John Stoffel via WLUG wrote: >>>>>> "Pete" == Pete Wason via WLUG <wlug(a)lists.wlug.org> writes: > >> 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. > > What kind of KVM is it? I'd love to get one for home for my main > server/desktop combo in my basement, but if someone else can really > use it, I'm ok with it. I was interested in the KVM to replace the... "interesting" KVM currently in my server rack. It's two nonfunctional KVMs kludged together to make one functional KVM with no docs and no monitor. One of the switches only has a functional switch, and one of the switches only has a functional keyboard, with a COTS Dell monitor essentially gaff taped on top. In general though, I'd love to see a list of equipment up for grabs! --cs

Feb. 12, 2024

Re: Meeting THIS WEEK, July 10th, 2025! Topic: ?TrueNAS? Pi Kiosk displays?

by Tracie Winslow

I have a pihole but I've been meaning to set one up on my Linux mini-pc instead. Want me to bring my Linux mini-pc and show how to set up a pihole and use 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 Tue, Jul 8, 2025, 6:01 PM Tim Keller via WLUG <wlug(a)lists.wlug.org> wrote: > Sure!! > > Another topic that came up in a side channel is what is involved in > setting up a pihole. > > On Tue, Jul 8, 2025 at 2:05 PM Kevin Harrington via WLUG < > wlug(a)lists.wlug.org> wrote: > >> I would like to do a proper introduction to CaDoodle now that it's >> released as beta! >> >> On Tue, Jul 8, 2025, 1:31 PM Tim Keller via WLUG <wlug(a)lists.wlug.org> >> wrote: >> >>> Hey Everybody! >>> >>> We've got a meeting this week! >>> Date: July 10th, 2025 @ 7PM >>> Location: Technocopia, 44 Portland St. Worcester MA >>> <https://www.google.com/maps/search/44+Portland+St.+Worcester+MA?entry=gmail…> >>> . >>> Virtual Location: https://meet.jit.si/WlugMA >>> >>> Topic: I could talk about TrueNAS if people were interested in that, >>> otherwise, this might be a bit of a freeform meeting. The other thing that >>> I've been doing lately is turning Pi's into kiosk displays.. but that's >>> going to take about 10 minutes to explain.. >>> If someone has something they really want to talk about let me know! >>> >>> As usual we'll head off to dinner afterwards and keep talking. >>> >>> See you there! >>> 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/XQUZT… >>> >> _______________________________________________ >> 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/JEFG4… >> > > > -- > 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/5WFZQ… >

July 9, 2025

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

by Chuck Anderson

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/

Sept. 23, 2013

Re: [Wlug] WLUG Notes From Last Nights STEM Meeting

by Richard Klein

OS disaggregated switches also came up last night: http://blogs.gartner.com/andrew-lerner/2014/04/17/network-disaggregation-is… ^^just a random article on the subject On Fri, Sep 11, 2015 at 8:39 PM, Joel <joelgroup(a)gmail.com> wrote: > Eric and all, > > Here are my notes from the STEM discussions. > > > Snap Circuits - a lego type electronics education kit. I recommend the 300 > or 500 size kits. At 8 my son can solo follow plans and build a FM radio > receiver that works. > > Lightbot - program logic thinking for young kids. > > Scratch - visual object programming via flash website. > . . . . . . code.org - sample scratch programs > > Alice 3 - app is not very stable. > . . . . . . - more powerful and complex items > > Squeak - > > What-if. Xkcd.com > > Theoatmeal.com > > Rasberry pi robot > > Tim included some ther non kid / STEM discussion about the systems tools > with Hadoop for rapid system building & clustering. > > > Since the meeting I found two more I plan to try with my 8 year old. . > > Dragonbox Algebra - unique app for learning Math. & Algebra. . IOS & > Android. > > MIT App Inventor - web app development which will also work on phones & > tablets. > > Hope this helps, > > Joel > > > _______________________________________________ > Wlug mailing list > Wlug(a)mail.wlug.org > http://mail.wlug.org/mailman/listinfo/wlug >

Sept. 12, 2015

Re: [Wlug] Upcoming Topics

by Mike

Oh sweet. Is that the next meeting? I must have missed something. ~Mike <quote who="Eric Martin"> > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- > Hash: SHA1 > > I was planning on covering ssh port forwarding, vnc forwarding over > ssh (more secure than x forwarding), and alternate authentication with > ssh (specifically Public Keys) when I presented ssh next meeting. > > Mike Perry wrote: >> I had a few ideas kicking in the back of my head for a meeting >> topic. By no means am I volunteering to give a talk on this, >> however I thought it would be a good idea to toss out. >> </end-disclaimer> >> >> How about a talk on port forwarding? The talk could include >> tunneling via program (like the old school datapipe proggy) and >> more appropriately the finner points of SSH port forwarding. Other >> peripheral topics could be including such as: port knocking, alt >> mechanisms of ssh authentication, and X11 forwarding. >> >> Just a thought... >> >> Cheers, Mike >> >> >> >> _______________________________________________ Wlug mailing list >> Wlug(a)mail.wlug.org http://mail.wlug.org/mailman/listinfo/wlug >> > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- > Version: GnuPG v1.4.2.2 (GNU/Linux) > > iD8DBQFEl+A3aI8VEtSi4H8RAroMAJ9lFmWiNVdwzybu/ClEQoF6z2nUYQCdFcUt > iDX9HBnwU8UPFiyCyFkuiNQ= > =9SxP > -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- > > _______________________________________________ > Wlug mailing list > Wlug(a)mail.wlug.org > http://mail.wlug.org/mailman/listinfo/wlug > -- They who would give up an essential liberty for temporary security, deserve neither liberty or security --Ben Franklin

June 20, 2006

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