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Re: Lap Top with 28 GB HD

by John Stoffel

>>>>> "hammerron" == hammerron via WLUG <wlug(a)lists.wlug.org> writes: hammerron> I recently got a Dell notebook/laptop. It is smaller than hammerron> a typical lap top (notebook?) and is very light in weight. hammerron> The hard drive is only 28 GB ! It currently runs Windows 10 hammerron> and has only 4 GB of free space on the hard drive. It hammerron> seems to just hang, if I try to update the Windows 10. Are you sure it's an SSD in there? It might be eMMC if it's a Chromebook like device, which is possibly sounds like. But as someone else said, the dell support site is really good. If it's an SSD in there, just moving to bigger one might be the way to go, they're pretty cheap these days at the smaller sizes. hammerron> I am thinking of attempting to install Xubuntu to see if it hammerron> runs. Tried Puppy Linux (a light weight distro) before and hammerron> think I'd like to go differently. I got the machine for hammerron> free so will not be disappointed if this goes nowhere. If hammerron> anyone has any ideas I'm all ears. (I might try to do this hammerron> install tonight) With only 4gb of RAM, it's going to be crappy for web browsing. It's amazing now how my 8gb desktop slows to a crawl and starts swapping if I have firefox and shotwell and some xterms open at the same time. Ugh! Trying to make the meeting tonight, but probably won't stay long.

4 years, 4 months

Re: IPv6, are you using it, should we be using it?

by Keith Wright

Frank Sweetser via WLUG <wlug(a)lists.wlug.org> writes: > Until someone figures out a way to make designing, building, and operating IPv6 > devices and networks cheaper than what we already have running on IPv4, nothing > much is going to change. > >> On Sat, Apr 12, 2025, 11:04 AM steve--- via WLUG <wlug(a)lists.wlug.org> >> wrote: >> >> I’ve been adding more and more matter/thread devices to my home and >> since I’ve seen more local ipv6 addresses I’ve tried enabling Ipv6 >> fully. BUT, Ive had struggles adding matter devices. >> >> Is this just older hardware choices like we have to create a 2.4 GHz >> only network? Is the world of devices not yet ready for IPv6? What are >> your thoughts on it? >> >> Steve Thibault >> I had no idea what is a matter/thread device. Google found a few explanations. Gotta say those are really stupid names and already used by philosophers and OS developers for much more important things. No matter. You remind me that I had a web page that I had forgotten about that recounts my experience with IPv6. Bottom line tldr: It works. I'm not surprised that matter/threads doesn't. "Any sufficiently advanced technology is no more reliable than magic." Fortunately, I don't care. I like switches that click and turn the power off and on when you push them. -- Keith PS: Where does the IPv5 Users Group meet?

1 week

The future of WLUG

by Joshua Stone

Hey all, Last night's meeting was excellent, and I'd like say thanks again to Tim for giving me a ride home! Last night's discussion gave me ideas of ways we could improve general activity, increase attendence, and improve outreach efforts. Hosting a meetup.com group would be certainly improve discoverability, and getting in touch with WPI's computer science group would be great too. I think what a lot communities are doing nowadays is having a text chat format for users who want to communicate more easily over the internet, especially with mobile devices. As an example, there are Discord servers for Fedora, Ubuntu, OpenSUSE, etc, and they have room sizes generally in the hundreds or even well over a thousand. Even before Discord they'd use IRC for providing support, posting updates, etc. Having a text chat of our own would certainly help improve participation -- I think Matrix would be a good option here because it has many nice features and has a fairly polished user experience: - Numerous clients available on desktop, mobile, and web ( https://matrix.org/clients/) - Persistent chat history - Link previews - Various bots to choose from for adding functionality ( https://matrix.org/docs/projects/bots/) - User moderation - Server federation - Self-hosting available, both client and server are completely FOSS - File sharing - Voice/video calls I have a screenshot if anyone wants to see what a Matrix chat room would look like: https://i.imgur.com/aVILcWB.png Or you can join the room I made: https://matrix.to/#/!EiTljkvagZDFKfQfFu:matrix.org?via=matrix.org Alteratively, if you have a Matrix client already: #wlug:matrix.org Any thoughts? -Josh

5 years, 3 months

Re: [Wlug] Talk for April...

by Tim Keller

I believe the previous talk was about btrfs and compared it to zfs. I would consider this talk a stand alone talk that would focus on the features of zfs. Though my head's really full of noise. It's quite possible I did a talk about zfs and don't even remember! Later, Tim. On 3/27/12, James Gray <jamespgray(a)gmail.com> wrote: > I'd like to hear more about ZFS. As you know there was a previous > presentation on ZFS as well, so it would be nice to cover some new ground. > I'd like to see some ZFS in action. > > On Mon, Mar 26, 2012 at 4:29 PM, David Glaser > <dglaser(a)glaserresearch.net>wrote: > >> Sounds good to me! >> >> -David >> >> On 3/26/2012 12:33 PM, Tim Keller wrote: >> >> Hey Everybody, >> >> At the last meeting, there was some talk about ZFS... >> >> Would people be interested in me doing a talk about ZFS? >> >> Thanks, >> Tim. >> -- >> I am leery of the allegiances of any politician who refers to their >> constituents as "consumers". >> >> >> _______________________________________________ >> Wlug mailing >> listWlug@mail.wlug.orghttp://mail.wlug.org/mailman/listinfo/wlug >> >> >> _______________________________________________ >> Wlug mailing list >> Wlug(a)mail.wlug.org >> http://mail.wlug.org/mailman/listinfo/wlug >> >> > -- Sent from my mobile device I am leery of the allegiances of any politician who refers to their constituents as "consumers".

13 years

Re: [Wlug] WLUG demos...

by Andy Stewart

-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 John Stoffel wrote: > I know I haven't been ot a meeting in a *long* time, but I do hope to > make one this spring if I can. Right now I'm playing with Arduino > controller boards on my Ubuntu desktop. Fun blinky LEDs, etc. > > http://arduino.cc > http://www.ladyada.com (where I got my parts) > http://www.sparkfun.com > http://www.evilmadscientist.com (lots of neat stuff) > > And loads of others in google. It's pretty neat to play with, and > it's interesting moving from the IDE (which has a sucky editor) to a > more pure Emacs/Makefile driven setup. > > I figure maybe I could come and demo this at some point. Any > interest? Loosely Linux related, since I'll be using an Ubuntu LiveCD > and thumb drive to setup and demo the environment. > > John Hi John, I've recently become very interested in this myself, and I plan to purchase an Arduino in a day or two and start playing around, since I have time these days (between jobs). If you'd like to come to WLUG in February to demo your Arduino, I think that would be great. Feel free to contact me off-list with the particulars if you care to proceed. Thanks! Andy - -- Andy Stewart, Founder Worcester Linux Users' Group (http://www.wlug.org) Chelmsford Linux Meetup Group (http://linux.meetup.com/393) Amateur Radio: KB1OIQ -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.2 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with SUSE - http://enigmail.mozdev.org iD8DBQFJePZ6Hl0iXDssISsRAvSHAJ9CGisf7hiaOMD3vnwbqF9VfzJ87wCfcAkX axZ7ktWR6sXLMqyHd1Y2NTc= =HADa -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----

16 years, 2 months

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

by Lexi Haley

Thank you Dick for the talk tonight ( so much as I was able to stay for ) - your enthusiasm for linux advocacy and outreach was recognizable; and I enjoyed romping around your website - I wonder if your Canopus star-tracker work in the 60s had any outputs still in use on the Voyagers (some 14.6 billion miles away now...)! Sorry I had to leave early, but I arrived home interested to check it out. I use TinyCore linux on my daily driver laptop (Dell Latitude (c) 2012), which didn't have fotoxx in its package manager - so I built it from the source packages on https://kornelix.net/fotoxx/fotoxx.html. Incidentally, there is a LONG OVERVIEW section on that page which combined with your talk offered me more description of the features. Once I built it I began checking it out. It absolutely suggests a talented and devoted developer; it is quirky and polished in my novitiate eyes. First off - from the building side - I observe it is a collection of executables - Michael Cornelison the author certainly has been hard at work - cloc says: github.com/AlDanial/cloc v 1.95 T=1.51 s (33.2 files/s, 118058.5 lines/s) ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Language files blank comment code ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- C++ 31 38465 16842 118237 C/C++ Header 4 540 230 2798 make 11 111 60 634 Text 1 11 0 47 CSS 3 35 33 19 ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- SUM: 50 39162 17165 121735 ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- It wasn't difficult to build - I made it into a TinyCore Linux package and then loaded it up. Initially it attempted to tackle my entire drive, but crashed (a corrupt PNG took it down during the indexing); I then aimed it at a media specific folder, and I was surprised to see it creating thumbnails for mp4 movies - ultimately these files are just easily launched into VLC by a keystroke. Things I like - I like the Map view - I like seeing the thumb-tack indication of where my photos' geotags point. I like the Gallery's balance between fast thumbnails and some brief metadata - and I like that folders are shown with a count of inner images and folders -a nice sort of bread crumbs. I also like the prepackaged set of effects and filters - For instance Voodoo 1 applied to one of my photos created a nice effect. I'm sure these features bring powerful image editing techniques into more hands more easily than something with a steeper learning curve (say GIMP). I'm not sure it is about to become my go-to software though. I have been a long time GIMP user and so appreciate the skill I already possess therein. However, it does remind me that I desire a better gallery experience - formerly I used to use F-Spot Photo Manager, but that seems to be in-between working builds for some time ... So, I am not sure what my next step will be, but I again thank you for tonight's romp through Fotoxx! Best of Wishes, Lexi On Thu, Oct 13, 2022 at 7:11 PM Tim Keller via WLUG <wlug(a)lists.wlug.org> wrote: > We are here at the WPI Campus Center! > > On Thu, Oct 13, 2022 at 5:43 PM Dick Miller <TheMillers(a)millermicro.com> > wrote: > >> CU there! Have computer, will travel. >> >> Cheers from >> --Dick (and Jill) Miller, Partners, MMS <TheMillers(a)millermicro.com> >> Co-Leaders, FOSS User Group in Natick (NatickFOSS.org) >> <http://millermicro.com/FOSSUserGroupNatick.html> -- >> >> >> >> * | A. Richard & Jill A. Miller | MILLER MICROCOMPUTER >> SERVICES | | Mailto:TheMillers@millermicro.com >> <TheMillers(a)millermicro.com> | 61 Lake Shore Road | | Web: >> http://www.millermicro.com/ <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 10/13/22 17:05, John Stoffel wrote: >> >> See you there tonight, in person! >> >> >> > > -- > 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/YLGET… >

2 years, 6 months

Re: [Wlug] computer for sale

by Karl Hiramoto

Nope, I tried once about two years ago, but I gave up. Ended up booting to windows when I needed to scan anything :-( > Karl, > > Have you been able to run the Visioneer scanner under linux? If so, I'd > like to know how. I haven't been able to do it with my 6100b. > > Greg > > > > Karl Hiramoto wrote: >> I could bring this to the next meeting if anyone is interested. >> >> Asking $150 or best offer. Dual boot machine with windows 2000 and >> Gentoo 2004.2 >> >> Dual Processor Pentium Pro 200mhz >> 17" Viewsonic Monitor with builtin mic and speakers >> DVD/CDROM dvd mpeg dxr2 decoder PCI card. >> 256M RAM (EDO 72pin) >> 20G hard disk (gentoo linux) >> 6G disk (fat 32) >> 6G disk (NTFS Windows 2000) >> 10/100 network card RTL-8139 >> Promise UDMA 33 PCI card >> ATI all in wonder (3D rage pro) TV tuner works in windows. >> Visioneer Paperport Flat bed Scanner with Parallel port cable interface >> ISA Creative labs AWE 32 gold sound card with RCA outputs. >> 2 USB ports >> floppy >> keyboard >> mouse >> >> >> _______________________________________________ >> 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 > -- Karl Hiramoto <karl(a)hiramoto.org> Work: 978-425-2090 ext 25 Cell: 508-517-4819 Personal web page: http://karl.hiramoto.org/ AOL IM ID = KarlH420 Yahoo_IM = karl_hiramoto

20 years, 7 months

Re: [Wlug] BBC cd

by Aaron Haviland

doug waud said: > Hi all > > A few meeting back, Andy gave out some BBC-Linux cd's. I decided to > try one and got hung up. > > Basically everything went well until I got to the stage of downloading > stuff from the net (the network card set-up worked fine). > > The download hung. It defaulted to the address 64.81.65.8 for zork.net > where the stuff was supposed to be. I suspected that zork.net had > moved so I went to another box and went to it via netscape. It came up > ok (the directory structure was slightly different but the files > were there). Zork has recently moved, actually. about a block from one san fransisco apartment, up the hill to another. Zork was also slashdotted yesterday (the article about the "begin " and other anti-LookOut tricks Nick Moffitt [a.k.a. Crackmonkey] [the guy who owns zork.net/crackmonkey.org] uses in his emails). Afaik, he had previously had apache set up so that zork was the default virtualhost. I can't say why he may have changed it. The reason (as i understand) that archives are stored on zork instead of on the lnx-bbc site, is that Nick is developing GAR (a linux clone of ports, done with Makefiles) for lnx-bbc. If you need help with this specific version of lnx-bbc, you might find some willing volunteers on #tron, irc.slashnet.org. just be sure not to use a proprietary IRC client or OS... -- Aaron Haviland orion [at] tribble [dot] dyndns [dot] org orion [at] zork [dot] net Canadians are from Canadia.

23 years, 2 months

RE: [Wlug] Linux

by Keller, Tim

Setag Lib, Microsoft linux is very very good. I use it all the time, though I find I keep getting "SEG_HATESELF" errors all the time. I'd be very interested in helping you get those diamonds out of your country! I am part of the non profit group "Wereever Others are Oppressed, Keep Intacted Entegrity" a.k.a. "WOOKIE". Currently we are in a grievous plight and need your help so we can help people whereever they are being oppressed, like the Galactic Senate. Thanks, Tim. -----Original Message----- From: Setag Lib [mailto:bsetag@wpidalamar.com] Sent: Monday, October 28, 2002 12:30 PM To: wlug(a)wlug.org Subject: Re: [Wlug] Linux Hi to you Andy too! Thank you for fast reply. I actually already got Microsoft Linux installed! It was very easy I am still having some questions though. I can't get on the internet, what is wrong? My Digital camera does not work either, why not? Also, now that we are such good friends, I would like to tell you about my late father who has recently died in Nigeria. If you are interested in helping my family get a chest of diamonds out of the country, I would be willing to make it worth your while. Thank you again! Setag P.S. This seemed a lot funnier shortly after the last wlug meeting. I guess it lost a bit when it got held up by the non-subscribed email thing. Of course if you still think Setag Lib (read it backwards) is real ... please send your bank account information so I can proceed with those diamonds. _______________________________________________ Wlug mailing list Wlug(a)mail.wlug.org http://mail.wlug.org/mailman/listinfo/wlug

22 years, 5 months

Re: LLM's and graphical interfaces.

by John Stoffel

Thanks for sending out this info Jansen, now to find time to actually play with this stuff! > (can this email address be added to the mailing list?) > the self-hosted webui i use is here: > https://github.com/open-webui/open-webui > ollama! > https://github.com/ollama/ollama > here's the docker for ollama: > https://hub.docker.com/r/ollama/ollama > On Tue, May 14, 2024 at 5:32 PM Kevin Harrington <mad.hephaestus(a)gmail.com> wrote: > ---------- Forwarded message --------- > From: Tim Keller via WLUG <wlug(a)lists.wlug.org> > Date: Tue, May 14, 2024, 4:49 PM > Subject: [WLUG] LLM's and graphical interfaces. > To: Worcester Linux Users' Group General Discussion <wlug(a)lists.wlug.org> > Cc: Tim Keller <turbofx(a)gmail.com> > A couple meetings ago Jansen showed up a really cool graphical interface for LLM. > Does anybody remember what it was? > Thanks, > 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/XVOQB… > _______________________________________________ > 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/4ZQIW…

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