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Re: [Wlug] Next Meeting: July 12th 2018 Topic: Open Forum Location: WPI campus Center room 301 (Hagglund)

by Keith Wright

Tim Keller <turbofx(a)gmail.com> writes: > So is guix GNU Herd or some new GUI frontend? It's big news on the Guile Scheme mailing list. It's a package managment system. -- Keith From: ludo(a)gnu.org (Ludovic Courtès) To: guix-devel(a)gnu.org, help-guix(a)gnu.org, gnu-system-discuss(a)gnu.org, info-gnu(a)gnu.org Subject: GNU Guix & GuixSD 0.15.0 released Cc: guile-user(a)gnu.org, nix-dev(a)lists.science.uu.nl We are pleased to announce the release of GNU Guix & GuixSD 0.15.0, representing 7,020 commits by 100 people over 7 months. This release brings us close to our goals for 1.0, so it’s probably one of the last zero-dot-something releases. • About GNU Guix is a transactional package manager for the GNU system. The Guix System Distribution, GuixSD, is an advanced distribution of the GNU system. In addition to standard package management features, Guix supports transactional upgrades and roll-backs, unprivileged package management, and per-user profiles. GuixSD offers a declarative approach to operating system configuration management and is highly hackable. Guix uses low-level mechanisms from the Nix package manager, except that packages are defined as native Guile modules, using extensions to the Scheme language. GuixSD uses the Linux-Libre kernel and the GNU Shepherd init system. It can be used on an i686, x86_64, armv7, or aarch64 machine. It is also possible to use Guix on top of an already installed GNU/Linux system, including on armv7, aarch64, and mips64el. https://www.gnu.org/software/guix/

7 years, 5 months

new/old toy soon? (yet another Gigabyte GA-NNN looming)

by Doug Mildram

Thanks for the support and keeping the list alive. Perhaps too alive (I can rant/ramble!) Are Gigabyte motherboards OK? I've only had one so far. Now dying perhaps. Looking ahead..... since I upgrade "combo style" (all ram and cpu attached/included) I'm gonna look at (days from now) a used motherboard+cpu+ram+beast video+beast fan, hope it fits under my hood, dude speaks well about his retired GIGABYTE GA-870A-UD3 SKT.AM3 AMD870+SB850 4XDDR3-1866, IEEE1394 USB3, SATA3, RAID, ATX plus cpu,ram, and even fan info on this BEAST of a fan, should i be scared? https://www.amazon.com/Noctua-NH-U9B-SE2-CPU-Cooler/dp/B002VT1GZ6 doug> I find it cool that a machine/mb that old, is still way more than I need. I've only got one HD/disk for example. I'll try to buy her a tiny computer NEW someday if my new/old cheap-out fails. I want less power! Good brakes please! Ballpark of $100+ for the combo you CAN still find online if you dare and you get lucky that it really works for you. ...below, tangent about the seller i will meet this weekend. Sounds very smart/honest! I almost got him interested in our meeting. He said: (plus, he's a CS engr) Hello network engineer, me> Engineer too....I also a) use Linux only at home b) used Linux only on that machine, rock solid :) The cpu does not come with embedded gpu : I saved 10$ at the time, too bad now!

7 years

Equipment up for grabs...

by William Smith

WLUG, I have some stuff that is looking for a new home. If you're interested in it, I can bring it to the January WLUG meeting or arrange shipping... :) Here's what I've got: o For whoever is interested: Cabletron MRX-2 10Base-T hub This beast has 12 10Mb ports, but port 6 is bad. Gravis Ultrasound Max sound card This is a 16-bit card. I cannot find the CD for it. VESA Local Bus motherboard Includes a P90 CPU Has 2 VLB slots, 4 16-bit slots, 2 8-bit slots. RAM (I forget if this has 32MB or 64MB) Diamond Viper VLB video card VLB I/O card This should go with the motherboard, since the motherboard dates back to just before the I/O stuff was built-in. o For sale or trade: DSL Modem WESTELL ADSL modem, model # 36R515. Has power cable, Ethernet cable, and instructions. o What I am looking for: one PCMCIA ethernet network interface. 10Mb minimum, but I certainly wouldn't turn down a 10/100... :) The stuff I have is available as-is. The motherboard, video, sound card and I/O card are known-working as of March 2001. The DSL modem is something my mother bought, decided she didn't want, so she passed it to me. I can't get DSL where I live, so I thought maybe someone else could use it. I have no way of knowing if it works. If anyone is interested in this stuff, I could bring it to a WLUG meeting. Best regards, -- William Smith wsmith(a)chezsmith.com Fall River, MA http://www.chezsmith.com

24 years

Re: [Wlug] March WLUG Meeting details update!

by Tim Keller

Jon, That would be fantastic! Obviously we'll work with your schedule. Let us know when and the spot's yours. Thanks, Tim. On Tuesday, March 8, 2016, Jon "maddog" Hall <jon.maddog.hall(a)gmail.com> wrote: > Hi Tim, > I am involved with a project to bring low cost Single Board Computers to Latin America. As part of this I am constantly evaluating SBCs for the project. > I could give a talk on some of the SBCs on the market, how to evaluate them and how to make a choice between the ones you might want to purchase. > Unfortunately I will not be able to do this until the June or July time frame. > If you are interested, please let me know. > maddog > > On Wed, Mar 9, 2016, 03:33 Tim Keller <turbofx(a)gmail.com> wrote: >> >> Hey Gang, >> Here are the details: >> Location: WPI Student Center Mid-Century Rm 331 >> Date & Time: March 10th, 2016 @ 7:00pm >> Topic: RPZ Bind plus round table. >> Snacks and refreshments will be provided. >> Afterwards we'll retire to Tech Pizza and continue the conversation! >> 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 > -- I am leery of the allegiances of any politician who refers to their constituents as "consumers".

9 years, 9 months

Re: [Wlug] Wlug Digest, Vol 32, Issue 20

by David Hardy

> Here's the link to the Night Life program site in Worcester: http://www.wpsweb.com/adulted/default.htm Lots of neat courses for many years now... Thanks Andy. Please send me a link to "Night Life." I did a google > search on that and "Worcester" but got a ton of stuff about bars! > > Doug > > Hi Doug, > > > > Since you cc'd the list, it should appear in the digest shortly. If it > > does not, please let me know and I'll investigate. > > > > I believe that the Night Life program in Worcester offers a class in > > Linux, taught by a WLUG member. However, I don't know what Night Life's > > policy is regarding a student's age. In addition, The Town of > > Chelmsford has a Community Education program which offers Linux classes > > (taught by another WLUG member), but that's probably too far away for > you. > > > > Finally, you're always welcome to attend a WLUG meeting in Worcester. > > We're open to all ages and ability levels. Keep an eye on the meeting > > postings in case something of interest comes along. > > > > Later, > > > > Andy > > > > > ------------------------------ > > _______________________________________________ > Wlug mailing list > Wlug(a)mail.wlug.org > http://mail.wlug.org/mailman/listinfo/wlug > > > End of Wlug Digest, Vol 32, Issue 20 > ************************************ >

19 years, 5 months

Re: Reminder, meeting tonight!

by Frank Sweetser

You can find links to the campus maps here: https://www.wpi.edu/coming-to-campus You're looking for the campus center, on the bottom floor. On Thu, Mar 16, 2023, 7:18 PM Joe Sherman via WLUG <wlug(a)lists.wlug.org> wrote: > Having a hard time finding the place. I am on campus but can't find the > building. Can anyone help me? > > On Thu, Mar 16, 2023, 4:34 PM John Stoffel <john(a)stoffel.org> wrote: > >> >> > New member, going to try and make my first appearance >> > tonight. Anything specific I should know or do? >> >> Welcome! We're a friendly bunch, so just come prepared to ask >> questions, butt in with opinions and have fun. >> >> I'll be bringing my OrangePi3 LTS board tonight, maybe a keyboard and >> mouse so we can see how well it works on the big screen. Assuming I >> have the right side connectors. >> >> Oh and Joe, if you're bringing equipment, make sure you bring all the >> video adapters you think you;ll need, and then some more. It's always >> a pain! >> >> Cheers, >> John >> > _______________________________________________ > 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/6VRAF… >

2 years, 8 months

Re: Meeting next week! March 14th 2024!

by Tim Keller

I knew this topic would be of interest to people! As I'm writing this Gmail is yelling at me to buy more storage.. For me the "self" is the level of control I have over it. Lately ISP's have gone out of their way to make it very hard to host services on your own networks and expose them to the internet. Tim. On Wed, Mar 13, 2024, 3:47 PM John Stoffel <john(a)stoffel.org> wrote: > >>>>> "Keith" == Keith Wright via WLUG <wlug(a)lists.wlug.org> writes: > > > Tim Keller via WLUG <wlug(a)lists.wlug.org> writes: > >> > >> We've got a meeting next week! > > > I hope to tune in via jit.si > > >> I think it's really worth talking about Self hosting. > > > I'm not quite sure what you mean by "Self". For twenty years I had a > > DSL connection with a static routable IPv4 address. I had an intenet > > host with Tandy Monitor that ran a name server, mail server, and web > > server. That's all broken now because the ISP no longer does DSL. > > That's certainly a definite form of self hosting! When you run your > own internet infrastructure (http, mail, ftp, ssh) that's you doing > the work and keeping the control. > > > Instead I pay $10 month for a VPS (Virtual Private Server) from > > AfterBurst, which comes with an IP address. Pretty much everything > > that used to be in my basement is now in "the cloud". It's not > > "Self" because its not my computer, but almost everything else is > > the same. AfterBurst does not do anything, just let me use their > > computer to do it myself. > > I do this too with a Linode Droplet ($5/mo) but I'm thinking I should > upgrade to something with more CPU and Memory so I can run some better > anti-spam tools. > > > The main problem I am dealing with now is that the internal (in home) > > network is notwork. I have been keeping notes and put them here: > > That sucks! > > > http://www.free-comp-shop.com/none/ipv6.html > > > I am trying to use IPv6, which I have never done before. If anybody > > has any suggestions... > > I've tried as well in the past, with the big issue for me being > getting from IPv6 internally to a (mostly) IPv4 network outside. I > think IPv6 probably works better as a gateway to your home, since you > can then assign multiple distinct IPs to your own block of 64 (or > whatever the count it) of internal IPs and make them visible to the > outside. So it removes NATing and such. > > But IPv6 just is a pain to do. I keep reading that Charter/Spectrum > offers IPv6 IPs, but I haven't made the leap. Still working on my > wireguard setup, which has falled to the side lately. > >

1 year, 8 months

Offer/Request still open

by Keith Wright

Doug Mildram via WLUG <wlug(a)lists.wlug.org> writes: > Thanks for the support and keeping the list alive. Yes, I have missed a couple of meetings, due to scheduling conflicts, but would not like to see them stop. Keith Wright via WLUG <wlug(a)lists.wlug.org> writes: > I could commit by Thursday to make some slides and > bring a laptop. I tested slide-showing a few months > ago with the WPI cable in the Mid-century Room and it > worked. > > Here's the catch: My usual ride is unavailable that > day. I don't drive and I have not been walking well. > > If someone could commit to pick me up at my house > about 1/2 hour before the meeting I would make sure > I was ready enough to fake it. I live about a mile > from WPI. Send me mail. > > I will show you some of what I have been doing, > and how I do it. I have a few slides and a vague plan for a short talk. Still no ride. If it doesn't happen this time, I'll do it some other time. -- Keith PS: Doug Mildram via WLUG <wlug(a)lists.wlug.org> writes: > I find it cool that a machine/mb that old, > is still way more than I need. Some people take pride in having the latest. I run an internet host, with name server (by definition), together with smtpd and httpd, on a machine with a Tandy monitor, all bought used. (Ask your grandfather what's a Tandy?)

6 years, 11 months

Re: WLUG Meeting Feb 11th 2021! Topic: Good question!

by John Stoffel

As I recall, Itanium was Intel's attempt to bi-furcate the market and keep 32bit for desktops and such, and to make their 64bit systems for workstations and such a seperate product so they could take more control of the motherboard, bios, etc. Then AMD came out with the AMD64 64-bit extenstions to the Intel 386 (486?) instruction set, since they had an architectural license to the ISA, so they just extended it and started shipping cheaper CPUs and chipsets that could easily suport more than 4gb of RAM, without requiring people to do major re-compiles of their software. Especially since it would support 32bit applications in a 64bit OS without *any* recompile needed. They ate Intel's lunch. Which is why the Pentium 4 (I think) was such a monster chip in terms of CPU GHz and heat, because they were trying to catchup with the Opteron and other AMD chips. John Tim> My perspective was from working at Stratus. Continuum at the time was our flagship line of servers Tim> that ran on PA-RISC and with Itanium it was clear the end of the line for PA-RISC was coming. Tim> Bob Evans and others who were more intimately involved can probably explain it better, but I Tim> remember Stratus getting a couple Itanium development workstations and my recollection was that Tim> the engineers weren't impressed. Tim> It wasn't a fundamental improvement on PA-RISC as far as they could tell. Ultimately VOS was Tim> ported to Xeon and the rest is history. I'm sure someone somewhere is still happily running Tim> PA-RISC based Stratus servers, but I have to imagine that number dwindles each year. Tim> Personally I have a hypothesis that Intel had really put it's bets on Xeon and wasn't really that Tim> invested in Itanium. What it did do was get HP out of the HPC market. It's fair to say that Xeon Tim> based systems running Linux pretty much put the coffin nails in MIPS, PA-RISC and ultimately Sparc Tim> and likely a few others I don't know about and with it the various operating systems that didn't Tim> get ported to Xeon. Tim> On Thu, Feb 4, 2021 at 11:44 AM Jon "maddog" Hall <jon.maddog.hall(a)gmail.com> wrote: Tim> I still vividly remember my boss showing me the plans for support of Intel's Itanium Tim> processor. Tim> As someone who taught operating systems and compiler design for a number of years I still Tim> remember my shock that THIS was the answer for Intel's 64-bit chip....an Ultra-Wide Tim> Instruction set. Tim> I wailed away about how all of this was WRONG, WRONG, WRONG.....mostly because I had spent the Tim> past six months proving why even a regular CISC system was the wrong answer, and here Intel Tim> was going in the opposite direction. Tim> After twenty minutes of me fuming my boss simply grinned, shrugged his shoulders and left my Tim> office. Tim> While I was proud of the fact that the Alpha processor was so prominent in the production of Tim> the movie "Titanic"......now I had to deal with a real life "Itanic"....watching it sink. Tim> md Tim> P.S. It was only a month or so after, I think, that AMD came out with a reasonable extension Tim> to the i86 architecture....which (although it was not RISC) I was reasonably happy with. Tim> On Thu, Feb 4, 2021 at 7:24 AM Tim Keller via WLUG <wlug(a)lists.wlug.org> wrote: Tim> Hey Everybody, Tim> We've got a meeting next week on the 11th at our same time (7pm) Tim> As for a topic, if somebody would like to present something, I'd be up for it. Tim> I figure we'd all toast the depreciation of Itanium in the linux kernel. Good riddance! Tim> We'll definitely be talking about the PI4 Nano!! Tim> As usual, I'm sure other topics will organically surface. Tim> Location: Our usual Jitsu haunt: https://meet.jit.si/WlugMA Tim> Later, Tim> Tim. Tim> -- Tim> I am leery of the allegiances of any politician who refers to their constituents as Tim> "consumers". Tim> _______________________________________________ Tim> WLUG mailing list -- wlug(a)lists.wlug.org Tim> To unsubscribe send an email to wlug-leave(a)lists.wlug.org Tim> Create Account: https://wlug.mailman3.com/accounts/signup/ Tim> Change Settings: https://wlug.mailman3.com/postorius/lists/wlug.lists.wlug.org/ Tim> Web Forum/Archive: Tim> https://wlug.mailman3.com/hyperkitty/list/wlug@lists.wlug.org/message/BJNCC… Tim> -- Tim> I am leery of the allegiances of any politician who refers to their constituents as "consumers". Tim> _______________________________________________ Tim> WLUG mailing list -- wlug(a)lists.wlug.org Tim> To unsubscribe send an email to wlug-leave(a)lists.wlug.org Tim> Create Account: https://wlug.mailman3.com/accounts/signup/ Tim> Change Settings: https://wlug.mailman3.com/postorius/lists/wlug.lists.wlug.org/ Tim> Web Forum/Archive: https://wlug.mailman3.com/hyperkitty/list/wlug@lists.wlug.org/message/ZDSLS…

4 years, 10 months

Re: WLUG Meeting Feb 11th 2021! Topic: Good question!

by Jon "maddog" Hall

I think that "TruCluster" was a layered product on top of "Tru64". I think that was slightly after my time at DEC also. I left in 1999. md On Thu, Feb 4, 2021 at 3:58 PM Jared Greenwald <greenwaldjared(a)gmail.com> wrote: > Sorry I was more thinking of TruCluster. I know we have a lot of contacts > in common from that time. > > On Thu, Feb 4, 2021, 3:30 PM Jon "maddog" Hall <jon.maddog.hall(a)gmail.com> > wrote: > >> The port of Tru64 to Itanium must have been after I left. I do not know >> anyone in the Tru64 product management that would have given any life to >> that project. No life. None. >> >> I can ask one of the engineering managers of that time. >> >> md >> >> On Thu, Feb 4, 2021 at 2:13 PM Jared Greenwald <greenwaldjared(a)gmail.com> >> wrote: >> >>> Still boggles my mind the amount of money HP spent on Itanium hardware >>> back after they acquired Compaq/Tru64 only to basically abandon the whole >>> thing and lay off everyone. >>> >>> On Thu, Feb 4, 2021 at 11:44 AM Jon "maddog" Hall via WLUG < >>> wlug(a)lists.wlug.org> wrote: >>> >>>> I still vividly remember my boss showing me the plans for support of >>>> Intel's Itanium processor. >>>> >>>> As someone who taught operating systems and compiler design for a >>>> number of years I still remember my shock that THIS was the answer for >>>> Intel's 64-bit chip....an Ultra-Wide Instruction set. >>>> >>>> I wailed away about how all of this was WRONG, WRONG, WRONG.....mostly >>>> because I had spent the past six months proving why even a regular CISC >>>> system was the wrong answer, and here Intel was going in the opposite >>>> direction. >>>> >>>> After twenty minutes of me fuming my boss simply grinned, shrugged his >>>> shoulders and left my office. >>>> >>>> While I was proud of the fact that the Alpha processor was so prominent >>>> in the production of the movie "Titanic"......now I had to deal with a real >>>> life "Itanic"....watching it sink. >>>> >>>> md >>>> >>>> P.S. It was only a month or so after, I think, that AMD came out with >>>> a reasonable extension to the i86 architecture....which (although it was >>>> not RISC) I was reasonably happy with. >>>> >>>> On Thu, Feb 4, 2021 at 7:24 AM Tim Keller via WLUG <wlug(a)lists.wlug.org> >>>> wrote: >>>> >>>>> Hey Everybody, >>>>> >>>>> We've got a meeting next week on the 11th at our same time (7pm) >>>>> >>>>> As for a topic, if somebody would like to present something, I'd be >>>>> up for it. >>>>> I figure we'd all toast the depreciation of Itanium in the linux >>>>> kernel. Good riddance! >>>>> >>>>> We'll definitely be talking about the PI4 Nano!! >>>>> >>>>> As usual, I'm sure other topics will organically surface. >>>>> >>>>> Location: Our usual Jitsu haunt: https://meet.jit.si/WlugMA >>>>> >>>>> 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/BJNCC… >>>>> >>>> _______________________________________________ >>>> 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/DM5K6… >>>> >>>

4 years, 10 months

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