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Re: Hey Everybody! WLUG Meeting this week!

by John Stoffel

>>>>> "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've got a three node setup as well as a backup node running at > work, but I don't have anything on it that I couldn't show the > world. Mine is strictly testing without anything it use that anyone could care about. I haven't spent that much time playing with it.

June 10, 2024

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

by Tim Keller

Hey Everybody! Date/Time: Oct 13th 2022, 7PM-??PM Physical Location: WPI Mid Century Room (rm 321) Virtual Location: https://meet.jit.si/WlugMA Speaker: Dick Miller Dick Miller is going to be speaking about Fotoxx! https://kornelix.net/fotoxx/fotoxx.html From the webpage: Navigate a large image collection using a thumbnail browser, click on an image to view or edit. A rich set of edit and retouch functions is available. Import RAW files and edit with deep color. Save revised images as JPEG, PNG (8/16 bits/color), or TIFF (8/16). Select an object or area within an image (freehand draw, follow edges, flood matching tones...), apply edit functions, copy and paste, resize, blend, warp, etc. without using layers. Edit functions have fast feedback using the full image or selected zoom-in area. Edit image metadata (tags, geotags, dates, ratings, captions...). Search images using any combination of metadata and file and folder names or partial names. Click a marker on a scalable world map to view all photos from that location. Batch functions are available to rename, add/revise metadata, copy/move, resize, convert format. Fotoxx uses your image files wherever they are and maintains a separate index for fast searching. Fotoxx is standards compliant and can be used with other photo programs (no lock-in). Fotoxx is easy to use but unconventional, so read the user guide (at least the first few pages) before jumping in. Fotoxx has deep functionality. Do not expect to master it in a few minutes. Along with the presentation, as usual expect the usual amount of banter about all things Linux/FOSS/etc. Definitely some talk about mdadm..which I'm sure will digress into a weird demo... Snacks and Refreshments will be provided and we'll head off to have dinner afterwards to continue the conversation. I hope to see you there! Thanks, Tim. -- I am leery of the allegiances of any politician who refers to their constituents as "consumers".

Oct. 12, 2022

Re: We've got a meeting next week on the 13th!

by soup

Are there any shipping ARM boards/chips for the consumer market? Quick look just shows a few ATX server boards with, relatively, ancient ARMs bundled. The stuff Apple is shipping has the same T2 "problem" the later intel machines have with running linux, it's kind of a pain, delicate, and ruins the point of having the hardware security in the first place. It'd be amazing if they'd work on 1st party support but considering their business model I don't see that ever happening. On the server side, I'm loving ARM. I saw the revolution coming back when AWS Graviton was first announced. Pushed a lot of things at work over early. With go binaries it's as simple as a compile flag. Graviton2 offerings were ~1/3 off the equivalent intel machines for EC2, similar discount for lambda. For some of our workloads they were faster than intel too. Haven't had occasion to test the grav3 stuff but I imagine it's better still. If you've got things in interpreted language, go, or projects that have been cross-arch and stable a while- mariadb, postgresql, nginx, et al., definitely would suggest seeing how it'd work for you. --- soup On Fri, Jun 7, 2024 at 12:20 PM Tim Keller via WLUG <wlug(a)lists.wlug.org> wrote: > Keith, > > It wasn't just you. It seems that it maxes out at some low number of > users.. why.. worth investigating, but not at the expense of people being > able to get into the meeting. > > Yeah, ARM for linux has been the "hotness" for a while. Pi definitely > brought it to the forefront, but now more and more there are viable arm > desktops. > > As for the AI, there are some FOSS solutions out there that are shockingly > amazing. "ollama" is just one of them. > No need to pay NVidia for AMD for the privilege. > > Tim. > > On Thu, Jun 6, 2024 at 1:58 PM Keith Wright <kwright(a)keithdiane.us> wrote: > >> Tim Keller via WLUG <wlug(a)lists.wlug.org> writes: >> >> > We've got a meeting next week! Note, I won't be using our own Jitsi >> server >> > but going to back to the old one since we've had so many issues. >> >> I think part of the problem was with my micophone to webserver >> interface. >> >> At this point I am thinking of this more as a test than a meeting, >> but I plan to do it. >> >> > If there's a topic that people would like us to tackle, I'd be up for >> it! >> >> I haven't been paying a lot of attention to the latest hardware, but >> the radio said something about ARM processor that caught my attention. >> ARM means rasberry pi means Linux, no? Wikipedia has an enormous >> article (the Citations alone are 11 pages two column) but the last >> thing on the page seems to say that Wine is no longer for playing >> Windows games on Linux, but that MS needs it to prop up the ass end >> of their sorry operating system. Is the monopoly gone? >> >> The radio also speaks of Nvidia. They sell those Invidious graphics >> cards. The ones that need special secret drivers that only work if >> you have the right *.dll? It seems that everyone now needs them to >> do Artifical Intelligence (all rise). Have they changed their attitude, >> or is it like: "Here's your AI. Pay the monthly bill to retain your >> licence to use it. Any attempt to try to find out what it does or >> how it works will be prosecuted to the fullest extent of the law of >> Connecticut."? >> >> -- Keith >> >> > > -- > 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/K35PA… >

June 7, 2024

Re: Meeting Thursday August 11th 2022! Topic: "Infrastructure as Code website with free hosting"

by Chris (wolcen) Thompson

OK, looking back I had 7-9p for last time and double-checking on wlug.org that appears correct. Sorry - I should have just double-checked the website to begin with :P On 8/11/22 12:10, Chris (wolcen) Thompson via WLUG wrote: > I didn't catch the time this happens at? (will be joining via Jitsi) > > Regards, > Chris > > _______________________________________________ > 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/KMP36…

Aug. 11, 2022

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".

Oct. 15, 2022

Re: [Wlug] Dec Meeting announcement / linux-raid problem

by Jason Couture

I hear you man, good luck. At least you had the backups. Sent from my android wireless device. On Dec 18, 2010 1:02 PM, "Eric Martin" <eric.joshua.martin(a)gmail.com> wrote: I have backups of some stuff but I have a program that isn't great about writing stuff properly so I wanted to see if I could get more. If I can't it's ok, the backups will suffice. I was just hoping for more :) The replacement is on it's way so this is a moot point pretty fast. On Sat, Dec 18, 2010 at 11:28 AM, James Gray <jamespgray(a)gmail.com> wrote: > > It appears there ha... -- Eric Martin _______________________________________________ Wlug mailing list Wlug(a)mail.wlug.org http://mail.wlug.org/mailman/listinfo/wlug

Dec. 18, 2010

Re: [Wlug] Topic for the next meeting: ownCloud

by thinkbrown＠gmail.com

I'd be happy to present. Logan On Oct 26, 2015 16:35, "Tim Keller" <turbofx(a)gmail.com> wrote: > Hey Gang, > > So thinking it over, with the holidays coming up, I know I'm going to be > taking an outrageous number of pictures. In lieu of spending money so I > have expanded storage on Google, the next logical step is to set up my > ownCloud. > > Logan, do you want to do this presentation / demo? > > 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 > >

Oct. 26, 2015

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 >

Sept. 13, 2015

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

Sept. 1, 2004

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

Oct. 12, 2022

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