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GPS on Linux

by Richard Klein

Andy, I think you were talking about using a GPS receiver with Linux after the last meeting. The receiver I had mentioned came in a couple days ago. It's a Navibe SP611 (http://www.geeks.com/details.asp?InvtId=NAVIBE-ORN) and it does indeed output NMEA 0183. The Navibe website is easy enough to find (http://www.navibe.com/) but it doesn't even acknowledge the existence of the SP611. Linux seems to recognize the serial/USB bridge in the GPS as a Prolific PL-2303: dmesg says: usb 2-1: new full speed USB device using uhci_hcd and address 3 pl2303 2-1:1.0: pl2303 converter detected usb 2-1: pl2303 converter now attached to ttyUSB0 But I can't get GPSMan or GPSDrive to recognize it. "cat /dev/ttyUSB0" gets no response, and I have to hit CTRL-C to get the command prompt back. Per this page (http://koti.mbnet.fi/lonnberg/pl2303x.html) I found that bMaxPacketSize0 = 64, which suggests the bridge is a PL-2303X rather than a plain vanilla PL-2303. Apparently this used to require a patch, but only up to kernel 2.6.8. uname -r says I'm at 2.6.15-1-686, so this shouldn't be an issue. What should I try now? Oh, the GPS receiver did send a stream of NMEA data to my Windows computer at work with GPSDiag, so the reciever doesn't seem to be defective. -- Rich

18 years

Re: [Wlug] Using Facebook as a Website

by Clint Moyer

Facebook is about as far away from open source as one can get. On Dec 13, 2012, at 12:31 PM, Keith Wright <kwright(a)keithdiane.us> wrote: >> From: E Johnson <iris.gates(a)gmail.com> >> >> Facebook required me to log in or sign up in order to access the >> page at the link provided. >> >> Using Facebook as the WLUG website would exclude me from having >> access to it. > > As I said at the Wed. meeting, Facebook must die. > > I don't think Facebook would exclude me, because I have > already excluded it. I do think the fact that nobody, except > Chuck, remembered the FB page that is already there, tells > you all you need to know about how useful it is. > > I am happy with the mailing list; I have never used > the web page, though I did look at it a couple of times > just to see that it was there, but if somebody else > wants to maintain other web pages, I have no objection. > > The web is made of pages I never look at. > > It's not a problem. > > -- Keith > _______________________________________________ > Wlug mailing list > Wlug(a)mail.wlug.org > http://mail.wlug.org/mailman/listinfo/wlug

12 years, 4 months

Re: Thanks for an amazing 2023, more fun to be had in 2024!

by Gregory Boyce

On Fri, Jan 5, 2024 at 2:20 PM John Stoffel via WLUG <wlug(a)lists.wlug.org> wrote: > >>>>> "Tim" == Tim Keller via WLUG <wlug(a)lists.wlug.org> writes: > > > > Thanks for sticking with WLUG! It's been a year of change and > > challenges. We found ourselves a new home at Technocopia and make > > some new friends along the way. This is going to be another amazing > > year of talks and demos, lively conversations and general geeking > > out on all things. > > > I look forward to many more WLUG meetings to come. > > I wonder what Tim and the rest of us can do to improve membership and > more importantly attendance at Technocopia? Is it too far for people > to drive? A bad day of the month? A bad time frame? A bad location? > For me, Thursdays are just tough. I'm divorced, and I spent Thursday evenings with my kids. The same is true for Tuesdays. If there was ever an interest in a weekend meetup, that could work better for me. I also have access to space at WorcShop in Leicester, if room for an event was needed. -- Greg

1 year, 3 months

Re: [Wlug] Here I am begging again.

by jrm8005＠gmail.com

> I have not been making the meetings. That does not mean my SUN ULTRA1 > running Aurora Linux can no longer create 'interesting' problems. This time > the second SUN ULTRA running Gentoo is in cahoots. > > I have a new SAMSUNG SyncMaster flat screen monitor. I have attached this > monitor via a Belkin SUN adapter to my ULTRA1's. It does not work!! The > monitor flashes a little square window saying something about "Not optimum > mode". It feels that it has not been configured correctly. The buttons on > the right of the monitor, which are there to set it up, also do not work > with the SUN's is attached. > > The monitor works fine with PC type machinery. The Belkin worked fine with > a regular old tube monitor. (I have not dug out the old monitor to check > whether it still works. I suspect it does.) > > Anybody have any ideas? Did your monitor come with a manual? If so, you should be able to find the supported modes listed in a table. Check that your X/drivers/dongle/etc are using a mode in that table. > > Ken Jones > kjones(a)ziplink.net > > _______________________________________________ > Wlug mailing list > Wlug(a)mail.wlug.org > http://mail.wlug.org/mailman/listinfo/wlug

15 years, 7 months

Re: [Wlug] Install-fest this Saturday, the 9th...

by Wesley Allen

Keller, Tim wrote: >Hey Fellow Lugers... > >This is a reminder that were going to be having an installfest this Saturday >on the 9th. If you know anybody who's interested in attending, please have >them send me email! > >I've got a couple of questions to ask... > >1. If your planning on attending as an installer, could you drop me a line. >Chuck and Andy are already on the list, I'd just like to have a clean number >so I can size the shifts. > >2. Has the install-fest been posted to the wpi news groups? If not, could >it please be posted. > >Thanks, >Tim. >_______________________________________________ >Wlug mailing list >Wlug(a)mail.wlug.org >http://mail.wlug.org/mailman/listinfo/wlug > Since I can never come to the meetings this may sound like a stupid question...where is the installfest going to be held; and what time? I don't know if I'll be able to go for long, but wouldn't mind helping out. (I've got a bit of a selfish reason for coming too, I was wondering if anyone who knows X better than I do has gotten a latop lcd to use the whole display without using the vesa driver). Maybe see you saturday? Wesley T Allen

23 years, 2 months

Re: Different topic... Embroidered T-shirts!

by Tim Keller

I recently did up a pretty shitty WLUG icon tile for the meetup group. I thought that would look pretty cool on a T-shirt. https://imgur.com/a/1CmyhDG If people have better ideas I'll take them! On Fri, Jan 24, 2020 at 12:08 PM Joel <joelgroup(a)gmail.com> wrote: > If successful, a tux penguin > polo could be "Geek Chic". > > Tag line could be, swim like a bird! > > Joel > > > > On January 24, 2020 12:03:11 PM Tim Keller via WLUG <wlug(a)lists.wlug.org> > wrote: > >> I've come into possession of a brother embroidery machine! >> >> I'd like to get it working with linux, but I'll just be happy to start >> putting WLUG and the tux penguin on a polo shirt! >> >> Hopefully for the Feb. meeting I'll have something! >> >> 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 >> >> > -- I am leery of the allegiances of any politician who refers to their constituents as "consumers".

5 years, 2 months

Re: Dec meeting.. not the 14th! 21st or 28th?

by Doug Mildram

cara> I'd also be interested in how people are self-hosting their VPNs (and john stoffel's view may be similar, I can't say, but hi anyways!) me/doug> I'm struggling with what's the benefit/motivation? My take which started long ago: 20-30 yrs ago as a sysadmin supporting remote access/workers, my (very not-genius-level) brain learned that a VPN... a box/product I'd install on "my"/work network, handing out INside-access to outside-workers for a session.... adds (pops up during session) a virtual interface on home-computer network stack, so while in a VPN session the home worker can magically "have an ipaddr on the inside of workplace network" thus allowed into not-public work servers (or drive their work desktop) BUT! on server setup, I+bosses must decide if yes/no allowing split-tunnel (policy set on VPN server which the VPN clients suffer with usually? if "no split") If yes/split-tunnel allowed, client gets a 2nd! default gateway = route to 0.0.0.0 giving best home-computer network performance (mixing work and play works well) BUT smart?/paranoid-workplace setups choose NO split tunnel, and force home-user's (ISP-given) default route to either disappear? or become unused via route metric/preference adjustment? so that, either way "don't let the home worker's unsafe world anywhere to tunnel near/into work network". Thus the downside! When workplace uplink is wimpy/ancient (e.g. T1/56kb then), and all home-user's internet traffic gets tunnelled in+out via WORK network pipe, envision as I had to discover, how that stinks awfully: adding+forcing+slowing-down home/play traffic via busy work pipe/route-to-0.0.0.0! Sorry to ramble, later I joined WPI netops, but not deep into security/VPN. (Frank/Chuck/Ben/John+more: I miss you all bigtime, I learned so much) So (now retired) I see endless TV ads for VPN's preaching the benefits of their secure VPN, and I don't get it, .... assume buyers/sheep are fooled. Real value = ? I may be blind, but lacking a VPN, my outside/web traffic is still https / encrypted, are they selling some enhanced default-gw world featuring bad-guys-blocked-from-hacking-you? I trust my home router, though I'm open minded to how "wide open" that might be, relative to some ideal. =====side rant, but I can tie it in :) One guy at work, long ago not WPI, did inappropriate network/chat/etc things on lunch/etc time, and ALL his internet traffic thru my/work router was directed to/from at a service/server which he subscribed to, with the benefit of anonymizing himself and hiding his uncool chat rooms (appearing to be elsewhere, tunnelling unsafe habits for work desktop whether sysadmin=netadmin=I was blocking them or not) Too bad for him though: cubicle wall height = below boss's eyeball from adjacent cubicle, and he got canned, while I helped his boss figure out what was going on. So, maybe or maybe not, that's the kind of VPN I suspect they're selling, but I don't see the value for normal folks....or maybe anyone. (educate me!) Unless their hosted-server-world-route network security is a win. Thanks for listening, and my thursday's look better than usual this month, so hoping for WLUG virtually dec 14. -doug On Thu, Dec 7, 2023 at 4:01 PM Cara Salter via WLUG <wlug(a)lists.wlug.org> wrote: > On 12/7/23 15:20, Tim Keller via WLUG wrote: > > That's true. Though, the 28th is now past xmas and likely people are > > going to be all over the place. > > > > For a topic, I was thinking about what VPN options are there for linux > > at this point? > > Obviously there's NordVPN, but there's also Proton as well. > > > > Something people might be interested in? > > > > I'd also be interested in how people are self-hosting their VPNs, > whether that's Wireguard, Wireguard with shenanigans on top, OpenVPN, or > something else. > > -- > cara > > _______________________________________________ > 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/NUSZZ… >

1 year, 4 months

Re: [EXT] Hierarchical note taking, Joplin, Trilium, browser extensions, etc..

by Krichevsky, Nicholas

It's not open source, but I use Obsidian at work. That said, it stores all the notes as markdown files on disk, so even if the company were to go up in flames, you can still access your notes Get Outlook for Android<https://aka.ms/AAb9ysg> ________________________________ From: Tim Keller via WLUG <wlug(a)lists.wlug.org> Sent: Friday, August 11, 2023 9:31:31 PM To: Worcester Linux Users' Group General Discussion <wlug(a)lists.wlug.org> Cc: Tim Keller <turbofx(a)gmail.com> Subject: [EXT] [WLUG] Hierarchical note taking, Joplin, Trilium, browser extensions, etc.. At last night's meeting, a new attendee brought up a problem she was having and one of the solutions that got bandied about was Joplin. After doing some research, this might be my new note taking app. Another very interesting FOSS tool out there is called "Trilium" https://github.com/zadam/trilium As much as I like google's keep.. I'm fully aware that google capable of just pulling the rug out from under me in a moment's notice. I've spun up U22.04.3 server and I'm going to tinker with Joplin and possibly Trilium and let people know what I think of them. Tim. -- I am leery of the allegiances of any politician who refers to their constituents as "consumers".

1 year, 8 months

RE: [Wlug] VNC performance

by Evans, Robert

Try using a registry editor on Windows: (Typically in these places on Windows 2000) C:\WINNT\regedit.exe C:\WINNT\system32\regedt32.exe Robert N. Evans Software Engineer S T R A T U S T E C H N O L O G I E S 111 Powdermill Road, Maynard, MA 01754-3409 U.S.A. * Tel. 978-461-7680 / * Fax. 978-461-3610 robert.evans(a)stratus.com Amateur Radio Call: N1BE -----Original Message----- From: Brad Noyes [mailto:maitre@ccs.neu.edu] Sent: Monday, December 03, 2001 2:36 PM To: wlug(a)mail.wlug.org Subject: [Wlug] VNC performance Hi All, I remember some time ago talking with Andy, and others about VNC performance at a wlug meeting. I remember that setting the depth 8 will help performance, as well as disabling the wallpaper. I am running the server on windows, and the client on a linux machine. VNC's site has info for disabling wallpaper, but it seems to involve editing a registry file. When i try to do so, i get an access denied message, because that file is read only. Can someone help me out here? I really know very little about windows. On the client side, the option '-depth 8' doesn't seem to do very much i get '16 bits per pixel'. If anyone knows of any other methods for speeding up VNC, please post. Thanks, --Brad _______________________________________________ Wlug mailing list Wlug(a)mail.wlug.org http://mail.wlug.org/mailman/listinfo/wlug

23 years, 4 months

Seeking Linux help for area non-profit - compensation potential

by Mike Peckar

Please do not reply to the list or to me. Boylston's public cable access channel (WBAC) is seeking to expand its services and offer Video on Demand and video file upload and download services for its staff and eventually the community. They currently have their web site and email hosted with an ISP and they are happy with that, but the ISP cannot provide them with these new services. They are looking for help in installing and configuring a linux box off their private LAN for this purpose. They also need other general help with their setup including configuring and troubleshooting VPN connections via their netgear VPN/firewall, etc. These folks are sort of windows literate, and they recognize that Linux will provide them with the most secure and cost-effective solution to meet their growing needs at this time. Ideally, they are seeking Boylston residents, but they are willing to bring in help from outside their community. They are also able to reasonably compensate for the above mentioned services and/or barter for access to their fine production equipment. If you are intersted in learning more about video and television production, this may be well worth your effort. To express your interest, please provide a brief summary of your skills, your level of interest in supporting WBAC, and any compensation requirements to: Tom Martiska Staff(a)wbactv.org

17 years, 10 months

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