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Re: [Wlug] another vote for a future meeting topic

by Mike Frysinger

On Wednesday 01 September 2004 09:41 am, Brian Waite wrote: > > > Also, can the gentoo build work via distcc? > > I looked deeper into the Gentoo distcc build and it looks like it > might not be very easy. They require (correctly) a hardened version of > the compiler if I under stood corretly and trying to ensure N machines > with M distors have the right compilers would be unreallistic. the hardened features are just propolice support (which is built into all of Gentoo by default now) in practice, you just need the same compiler version (gcc-3.3.3 with gcc-3.2.3 will probably get you in trouble) ... some ebuilds misbehave and append non-standard flags, but i'm working with people on fixing those -mike

20 years, 10 months

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

by Dick Miller

But wait, Tim! I want /my/ turn to apologize, too! My training as a physicist demands a /full/ analysis - and hopefully, /one or more potential solutions/. :-) Jill and I had planned to present the wonders of Fotoxx from our home in Natick, where a big TV screen and the Internet are readily available. About 5:30PM, Jill had mostly prepared our dinner and was about to slide it into the microwave oven. I was checking for late-afternoon e-mail, and read this short message (sent 5:05PM, but who's counting?): "See you there tonight, in person!" What say? /In person? /Well, there's just about time to do that... I ran down to the kitchen to consult with The Boss, and we decided to Go For It. I e-mailed back (sent 5:43PM, but who's counting?): "CU there! Have computer, will travel." Jill disassembled our dinner, as I assembled trusty Dicknote (my laptop) and a few accessories, chucked them into a shoulder bag, and we were off - into unusually thick 6PM stop-and-go traffic. That's when it started raining hard; almost the entire trip was tense driving. We arrived about 7PM, knowing where the meeting was but not where we were to park the car. We eventually parked in a big garage and, as person after person referred us onward, found a nice young lady who sketched us a map of our hike-to-be through the rainy WPI quadrangle and -- well, we arrived somewhat later than any of us had expected. Not good, but we /were/ there. We quickly set up for our Fotoxx demo. That's when I discovered that my laptop accessories did /not/ include /a critical HDMI adapter for Dicknote's display port/. My goof - in a hurry and under pressure, but my goof. With WLUG's help, we found an alternate adapter that failed to work, tried a loaned laptop with a hard-for-me-to-handle different GUI, tried running my favorite */Ubuntu-Unity 22.04 LTS/* <https://ubuntuunity.org/> in that laptop's RAM (booting from my */Ventoy thumb drive/* <https://www.ventoy.net/en/index.html>), and finally gave up. I ran the rest of the presentation from Dicknote, without my normal link to the room's big screen, to the Internet, and to so many of you. Folks in the room sat close by, looked over my shoulder, and tried Fotoxx themselves as, with frazzled nerves, I presented about half of what I'd intended. And that, said the physicist, is /why/ we were online so very briefly. *The Physicist's Phyx:**A check list*, printed on paper but as if carved into stone, for the items to be In The Bag for talks: /Dicknote, appropriate power supply, Ventoy thumb drive w/appropriate demo software aboard, at least one //*Display Port to HDMI Adapter <https://www.ebay.com/itm/133428969803>*//. Long HDMI cable, Tux penguin and other interesting goodies optional. A dime for phone call home, and an emergency parachute. Keep copies of said check list in carrying bag, in wallet, and in head. Keep the computer version of same, and copy it into each appropriate calendar entry./ Carrying case closed! Sorry about that! "The Kingdom was lost, all for the want of a two-penny nail!" Well, what with the falling dubloon, about $2 today. We sell these mighty HP EliteBook laptops (14" 2560x1440 display, Core i7 CPU, 16GB RAM, 1TB SSD and more, plus power supply /and that critical //Display Port adapter)/ populated with Ubuntu-Unity's Linux OS and vast amounts of FOSS with more on tap) all for about $700. So, /we stock that display port-to-HDMI adapter/; had we stayed home (he said, ruefully), all would have gone well. Well, we did enjoy meeting some of you, but... For*second prize*, I offer you these: 1. You can read a detailed description of Fotoxx and download various flavors of the latest Fotoxx 22.35 from Mike Cornelison's home base <https://kornelix.net/fotoxx/fotoxx.html>. 2. From within that Fotoxx article, I recommend downloading the appropriate /appimage/ package. Right-click on it, click on Properties > Permissions and click to check the box to make it executable. Close that window, double-click the appimage icon, wait a minute, and you'll have Fotoxx up and running in RAM - even after a Suspend, until you Close it or power down! You can try out Fotoxx and, when/if you wish, double-click its Install Fotoxx icon to add it to your computer's riches (from which it will load quite quickly). 3. You'll have its copious Help documentation aboard (even with the in-RAM version) and, in any Fotoxx operation, you can tap the F1 key to get specific documentation on /that/ operation. I think most of you can adjust its settings to find YOUR Pictures folder, etc. 4. Several of you already have reported early success and interest, and I welcome such messages. 5. Think you're getting good at the many instant capabilities of Fotoxx? Then you're ready to try *my challenge*. Starting with this unpromisingsmartphone through-the-windshield sunset grab shot: Fotoxx enabled me to quickly and accurately convert it into this (rather like our WPI drive might have been): If you choose to accept this challenge, upon your request I'll e-mail you the smartphone's full-sized (4160x2340x8) grab shot. Last, but not least, *Mike Cornelison's own 54-min. Fotoxx Demo And Tutorial <https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F5Kwnr4TrwM>* will reveal far, far more of its wonders than I did in twice that time. Gentlemen, start your Fotoxxen! Cheers from --Dick Miller, Partner, MMS <TheMillers(a)millermicro.com> Co-Leader, FOSS User Group in Natick (NatickFOSS.org) <http://millermicro.com/FOSSUserGroupNatick.html> <-Click here to learn about our VIRTUAL MEETINGS, join, or view later! -- *| A. Richard & Jill A. Miller | MILLER MICROCOMPUTER SERVICES | | Mailto:TheMillers@millermicro.com | 61 Lake Shore Road | | Web: http://www.millermicro.com/ | Natick, MA 01760-2099, USA | | Voice: 508/653-6136, 9AM-9PM -0400(EDT)| NMEA N 42.29993°, W 71.36558° |* Sent from an awesome, inexpensive, non-proprietary <https://www.gnu.org/proprietary/>, no-lock-in, no-bloatware, virus-resistant, free open-source software, /Linux/ <http://NatickFOSS.org/> PC - with /Ubuntu-Unity 22.04.1 LTS/ <https://ubuntuunity.org> and /Fotoxx 22.35/ <http://www.kornelix.net/fotoxx/fotoxx.html> making the most of the tiny camera within a Samsung Galaxy A53 5G smartphone <https://www.androidauthority.com/samsung-galaxy-a53-5g-review-3149923/>. On 10/14/22 12:55, Tim Keller wrote: > I'd like to apologize for the online meeting failure last night. > > Going forward our Jitsi game is going to have to be upped a bit. To > this end, I'm putting together a wlug "go-bag" that'll have a tripod, > a dedicated camera/mic and a laptop to run the whole shabang. Along > with that I'm going to toss in a whole bevy of "X to HDMI" adapters as > well as our own nice long HDMI cables, etc. > > This will eliminate delays in dealing with the student center, allow > for seamless virtual meetings, and properly record them to put up on > the youtube channel. > > Thanks for your understanding, > Tim. > > > On Fri, Oct 14, 2022 at 10:52 AM Keith Wright via WLUG > <wlug(a)lists.wlug.org> wrote: > > 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/ > > _______________________________________________ > 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/F2QEQ… > > > > -- > I am leery of the allegiances of any politician who refers to their > constituents as "consumers".

2 years, 8 months

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

by Eric Martin

Thanks Joel et al! I forgot about snap circuits, and I might get a set to play with my son. On Fri, Sep 11, 2015 at 9:17 PM Richard Klein <rich(a)richardklein.org> wrote: > 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 >> > > _______________________________________________ > Wlug mailing list > Wlug(a)mail.wlug.org > http://mail.wlug.org/mailman/listinfo/wlug >

9 years, 9 months

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

by John Stoffel

>>>>> "kstratton---" == kstratton--- via WLUG <wlug(a)lists.wlug.org> writes: > I am looking googling mdadm for a raid 1 drive. In particular I am > making notes of how to mount a raid1 drive (for emergency recovery). > Is the expected location of the raid array at /dev/mdXX or > /dev/md/mdXX? Is it one of those two is historical or is it one of > those thing that just does not matter? So if you are talking about mirrored drives, you should be able to start the array with one drive missing. So you won't have any problems getting your data back, because it hasn't really gone away. If you look at the output of /proc/mdstat, you will see something like this (using one of my one RAID1 pairs as an example): $ cat /proc/mdstat Personalities : [linear] [raid0] [raid1] [raid10] [raid6] [raid5] [raid4] [multipath] md0 : active raid1 sdj2[4] sdi2[3] 185545656 blocks super 1.2 [2/2] [UU] bitmap: 1/2 pages [4KB], 65536KB chunk So /dev/md0 has two disks, /dev/sdj2 and /dev/sji2. In the worst case, I could boot the system from a LiveCD and just do: mdadm -A -a auto to assemble automatically any arrays it finds. A good reference to all this is the Linux RAID Wiki at: https://raid.wiki.kernel.org/index.php/Linux_Raid but the big big big thing I want to stress is that you *never* run the 'mdadm --create ...' command when trying to recover a broken RAID array of any type unless you are absolutely certain you know what you are doing. DO NOT. Get help first. Post to the Linux RAID mailing list. But DO. NOT. try to create an array to recover it. It's almost certainly the wrong thing to do. I'd be happy to talk Linux RAID at the meeting, but as most of you know, I'm happy to talk period. See you thursday! John

2 years, 8 months

Re: Hey Everybody! WLUG Meeting this week!

by Gregory Boyce

On Mon, Jun 10, 2024, 2:42 PM John Stoffel via WLUG <wlug(a)lists.wlug.org> wrote: > >>>>> "Tim" == Tim Keller <turbofx(a)gmail.com> writes: > > > Currently we're having issues getting the Turing Pi 2 to boot, so > > doing a show off of Proxmox I could definitely do as well. > > I'ev got proxmox running at owkr with some basic VMs on it for > testing. I might be able to show it off doing some basic stuff like > live migrations. > I recently switched my home server to proxmox, and I've been spending time using terraform and packer to build and deploy VMs. I'd be happy to share code if anyone is interested. >

1 year

Re: [Wlug] Let's make WLUG meetings better!

by Charles R. Anderson

On Fri, Dec 06, 2002 at 11:23:09PM +0500, Bill Smith wrote: wsmith> Right... I've noticed this. Because Lokkit is kind of "secretive" in wsmith> what it actually has defined (one doesn't know until one goes in with wsmith> other tools), I didn't know if Lokkit was doing a good job or if it was wsmith> just doing something half-baked... <shrug> The firewall rules are stored in /etc/sysconfig/iptables (or /etc/sysconfig/ipchains on < 8.0 releases). It's just difficult to parse those files and determine High/Medium/Low, since someone could have hand edited the file after the fact. -- Charles R. Anderson <cra(a)wpi.edu> / http://angus.ind.wpi.edu/~cra/ PGP Key ID: 49BB5886 Fingerprint: EBA3 A106 7C93 FA07 8E15 3AC2 C367 A0F9 49BB 5886

22 years, 6 months

free stuff

by Scott Venier

I'm currently in the process of moving into a new apartment and have a couple of boxes worth of stuff that I don't really feel like packing up and moving. That means it's time for the annual WLUG freestuff shuffle. ;) http://www.scooter.cx/~scott/freestuff First come, first serve. Act quickly, and I can even bring it to the meeting tomorrow evening. Act less quickly, and we can meet some other time. Act slowly, and I have to lug it into the new apartment. That's no fun. If you're not local, or know someone who's not local that wants something, I'll ship as long as I get paypal'd the cost of shipping. Anything that's not claimed by Friday is getting put up on craigslist, so don't delay. Scott

21 years, 3 months

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

by Scott Venier

On Sat, 16 Nov 2002, Andy Stewart wrote: > a) Does anybody want to demo their scanner under Linux? How about a live > install of SANE ? > OK. I"ll bite. I've got an HP OfficeJet K60 that works quite nicely under SANE. I'm afraid the demo of installing would be a bit boring... printing worked out of the box with redhat 7.3, and scanning required installing 1 rpm. I've been playing with a CGI to make scanning a bit more streamlined (and something that I can do from work when I don't feel like working). It's still a work in progress, but I can show it off too. All this and we should still be able to hit the Boytan by 7:30. :) Scott

22 years, 7 months

Re: [Wlug] Thursday snow storm? Possible reschedule?

by Chuck Anderson

On Tue, Feb 11, 2014 at 04:22:05PM -0500, Keith Wright wrote: > Tim Keller <turbofx(a)gmail.com> writes: > > > The weather people (who are using super computers running linux) are > > currently claiming that we're going to be getting heavy snow on Thursday > > night. > > > > I don't think WLUG has ever had this scenario... What's our game plan? > > I was wondering how much I would need to apologize > if I did not show up after enthusiastically > endorsing Andy. I would not mind if it happened > next week instead. I'm checking meeting room availability and speaker availability (Andy) for next Thursday, Feb 20. I'll post an official update/meeting announcement tomorrow once things are hopefully confirmed.

11 years, 4 months

Re: [Wlug] SuSE 9.2 (x86/x86_64) needs a new home.

by Stephen C. Daukas

I have a Technical Resource Kit (SUSE - Novell 2004 DVDs 1A-1C) with all sorts of goodies. Let the bidding begin! ;-) Mike Leo wrote: >If noone takes it by the next meeting, ill take >it...ill give you $11! > >--- douglas.r.aker(a)verizon.com wrote: > > > >> >> >>Hi Adam, >> >>I'm interested. Assuming next meeting is Wednesday >>July 20th, I could >>probably complete the transaction then. >> >>Doug >> >> >> >> >> >> >> "Adam Keck" >> >> >> <ghostis(a)mac.com> To: >> "Worcester Linux Users Group" >><wlug(a)mail.wlug.org> >> Sent by: cc: >> >> >> wlug-bounces@mail >>Subject: [Wlug] SuSE 9.2 (x86/x86_64) needs a new >>home. >> .wlug.org >> >> >> >> >> >> >> >> >> 07/09/2005 06:38 >> >> >> PM >> >> >> Please respond to >> >> >> "Worcester Linux >> >> >> Users Group" >> >> >> >> >> >> >> >> >> >> >> >> >>Hello All, >> >> I have a retail boxed SuSE 9.2 Professional that I >>never used. Would >>anyone like to give it a better home? $10.00 takes >>it. I can bring it >>the next meeting. >> >>-Adam >> >>_______________________________________________ >>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 >> >> >> > > > > >____________________________________________________ >Sell on Yahoo! Auctions – no fees. Bid on great items. >http://auctions.yahoo.com/ >_______________________________________________ >Wlug mailing list >Wlug(a)mail.wlug.org >http://mail.wlug.org/mailman/listinfo/wlug > > > >

19 years, 11 months

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