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Re: Wlug Digest, Vol 23, Issue 4

by joel d

Hi, Based on one of our post-meeting pizza discussions last night I thought I would send an e-mail (something I do so rarely). Here is a site that has a good selection of WIFI gear (APs/amps/antennas). I have never ordered from them but they appear to have a good selection of radio gear. http://www.fab-corp.com/ A few ideas to remember: 1) A stronger omni directional antenna (greater db numbers) will improve both your transmit and receive and both are important for range for WIFI. 2) Directional antennas must be aimed at the other radio. You get more gain, but they are usually not the solution if you want to wander your house/deck/yard with the laptop. 3) Amplifiers have downsides; 1) another device to power 2) another device to fail later 3) a good one runs around $200 with both transmit amp and receive pre-amp. 4) Antennas are rated in decibels (db). Most antennas on access points are round 3db - 5db. In terms of signal strength an increase of 3db is a doubling of effective power (Ex 3db to 9db is roughtly 400% stronger). 5) The weakest link in WIFI is usually the card and particularly the internal antenna in the laptop on the far end. 6) You do not succeed unless both devices can both "transmit" and "receive" the other radio. 7) Selection of a feed cable for an external antenna is VERY important. At 2+ghz frequencies a long cable (>1 foot) or a poor quality cable will loose everything you are trying to gain with a better "numbers" antenna. >From a local computer AND radio geek, Joel Desrochers

20 years, 7 months

Re: Improving WLUG outreach

by Richard Klein

What do we know about WLUG's history? If it really is one of the oldest LUGs, it might merit a Wikipedia article. It would be great if we could flesh that out, too. This article seems like it could use a list of LUGs: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Linux_user_group On Tue, Jan 14, 2020 at 1:43 PM Dennis Payne via WLUG <wlug(a)lists.wlug.org> wrote: > The NatickFOSS group uses gettogether.community instead of meetup.com. I > don't know that it has gotten us any visibility but the software is open > source. I've been tempted to join meetup to go to Boston Indie Game > Developer meetings but have so far held off. > > The NatickFOSS group also gets a booth at the Science on State Street > event at Framingham State. It is a free STEM activity fair for kids. My job > at the event is to generally occupy the time of the kids so the other > members talk to the parents. First year I had a playstation controller > hooked up to my laptop and held it out to any kid that walked by. Last year > I brought the arcade machine assembled by my son's cub scout den. Any idea > if WPI does any thing similar? Even if it is something only for WPI > students it might be useful to alert people to the group's existence. > > > > -- > > Dennis Payne > dulsi(a)identicalsoftware.com > https://social.freegamedev.net/channel/dulsi > _______________________________________________ > WLUG mailing list -- wlug(a)lists.wlug.org > To unsubscribe send an email to wlug-leave(a)lists.wlug.org >

6 years, 3 months

Re: [Wlug] Seeking SuSE 9.1 personal edition

by Brian Waite

I have SUSE 8.0 enterpries, SUSE 8.2 Pro and , SUSE 9.1 pro DVD if anyone is interested BTW. Thanks Brian On Thu, 19 Aug 2004 10:28:57 -0400, Hemstreet, Jeffrey L (Jeffrey) <jhemstreet(a)avaya.com> wrote: > Also, if you install the personal edition, and you point to the > Suse ftp site for updates, it will allow you to install the packages > from the pro version. (At least the number of available packages > suddenly increase about 4x) > A friend of mine showed me this one, but I have not tried it myself. > Just wanted to pass it on. > > jeff > > > > > -----Original Message----- > From: wlug-bounces(a)mail.wlug.org [mailto:wlug-bounces@mail.wlug.org]On > Behalf Of Andy Stewart > Sent: Wednesday, August 18, 2004 9:29 PM > To: Worcester Linux Users' Group > Subject: [Wlug] Seeking SuSE 9.1 personal edition > > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- > Hash: SHA1 > > HI all, > > Does anybody have a copy of SuSE 9.1 *personal* edition? Can you bring it to > the next WLUG meeting (no, I'm not roping you into a presentation...)? > Please let me know. > > Thanks, > > Andy > - -- > Andy Stewart, Founder > Worcester Linux Users' Group > Worcester, MA USA > http://www.wlug.org > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- > Version: GnuPG v1.2.4 (GNU/Linux) > > iD8DBQFBJAJ4Hl0iXDssISsRAoS8AJ9+mR2XvXk/u3NQiqGjgvJ3G2kTEwCfQx0T > 2/S0fV2C4zSVC7fFgxf4wq0= > =pmTL > -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- > > _______________________________________________ > 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 >

21 years, 8 months

Re: [Wlug] Don't forget! I didn't forget!!

by Tim Keller

Keith, Firstly, Sorry about the broken foot, that sucks! I hope your on the mend quick. Secondly, Chuck recorded the whole thing! So, while you convalesce you'll be able watch it on youtube or where we end up putting it. Thanks, Tim. On Thu, Dec 10, 2015 at 9:33 PM, Keith Wright <kwright(a)keithdiane.us> wrote: > Chuck Anderson <cra(a)WPI.EDU> writes: > > > We have a lot to cover, so we'll be starting right at 7! > > I really wanted to be there. Last Saturday (5 days ago) > I fell and twisted my ankle. It's been sore, but I limped > to the coffee shop yesterday, I figured I could limp to > the WLUG meeting. > > But first I had a 4pm routine doctor appointment, I showed > him my foot, he said you should get an X-ray. > > No problem, just to be sure, they can do it in an hour. > > The X-ray techniciane said: "I'm not a doctor, so I > can't tell you anything official, but you should go > to the emergency room. I'll send the X-rays there." > > So the bottom line is I got home about 9:30 with > a cast on my broken foot. I think I'll stay here. > > See you next time. > > -- Keith > _______________________________________________ > 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".

10 years, 4 months

Re: [Wlug] WLUG BBQ !!!

by kstratton＠fastmail.us

I recently joined the mailing list to get an idea of how active this group is. Perhaps somebody can provide an approximate number of expected participants for this meeting? If I go (I am thinking about it...), I would have to take a 1/2 day off from work and drive from Connecticut. I am looking for an active group that provides an environment to accelerate my learning with Linux to hopefully reach a point of learning where it could be enjoyable to contribute back to some open source project or another. I am running Gentoo, so I am not a COMPLETE newbe. On Sat, 21 Jul 2007 10:37:56 -0400, "Andy Stewart" <andystewart(a)comcast.net> said: > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- > Hash: SHA1 > > > HI everybody, > > The WLUG BBQ is coming up fast: > > Date: Thursday, July 26th, 2007 > > Time: 6:00 PM > > Place: Eric Martin's house > > Address: 33 Lansing Avenue, Worcester, MA 01605 > This is 2.5 miles from WPI. > Look for the penguin! > > WLUG will supply burgers, dogs, munchies, soda, and the like. Thanks, > Eric, for hosting the BBQ this year! > > See ya there! > > 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 > > iD8DBQFGohpEHl0iXDssISsRAiXvAJ4qkWSBpHaGD/MTD9nWU5+/AW2wuwCeOQ5t > 4K5LyUHbm0MeiNc/QX5PnG4= > =JeTk > -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- > _______________________________________________ > Wlug mailing list > Wlug(a)mail.wlug.org > http://mail.wlug.org/mailman/listinfo/wlug -- kstratton(a)fastmail.us

18 years, 9 months

Re: [EXT] The future of WLUG

by Joshua Stone

That's excellent news! Sounds like the service is already paying for itself. I'm not opposed to video uploads, so long as the video/audio production is decent and the camera isn't in people's faces. I have a Sony video camera with native 4K and optical zoom, with a shotgun microphone attachment for capturing audio in front of the camera instead of the surrounding area. I also have a blue yeti if you want a good microphone for public speakers to use. We could make this a bit fancier and less intrusive by having a screencast of the speaker's computer to show slideshow material, terminal output, etc, and have an omnidirectional microphone listening and syncing with the screencast. -Josh On Wed, Jan 15, 2020, 13:51 Tim Keller <turbofx(a)gmail.com> wrote: > I've gotten a couple of hits about people possibly showing up for the next > WLUG meeting from meetup. That's cool! > > I went looking at the Boston Linux Users Group site and it's clear to me > that we're really missing the boat with putting our meetings on youtube, > well at least the ones with a definite presenter. > > Would people be freaked out about being on youtube? Is this something that > people would be interested in? I've got a decent DSLR we could use to take > video, but I don't want people to be uncomfortable. > > Tim. > > On Sun, Jan 12, 2020 at 1:41 PM <joshua.gage.stone(a)gmail.com> wrote: > >> Tim, >> >> Thank you very much for creating a meetup.com group for us! The UX for >> finding future meetups and adding meetup dates to a calender is quite good. >> Finding WLUG should also be fairly easy now when searching for "linux" >> within a 50 mile radius of Boston: >> >> >> https://www.meetup.com/find/?allMeetups=false&keywords=linux&radius=50&user… >> >> I've noticed that some search strings will show LUGs with overlapping >> interests but not WLUG. I think adding more words like "FOSS", "Android", >> "Libre", "Open Source", "Ubuntu", "Fedora", "OpenSUSE", "Arch Linux", >> "Unix", etc, to the related topics and/or What We're About section should >> improve this. >> >> I've tried setting up a community over Slack but I think the steps need >> to join was what made it too intrusive for new people -- take joining the >> Rust language Slack server for example: >> >> https://rust-slack.herokuapp.com/ >> >> - Send an invite link to your email >> - Register with a name and password >> - Be greeted with prompts about whether to send notifications >> - Open the #general channel >> >> And this has to be repeated for joining every community that has their >> own Slack server, or at least this has been my experience so far. I think >> Slack has cemented itself as more of a means for teams to collaborate on a >> project, not so much for casual users who want to jump right into a new >> chat. >> >> Matrix only needs to register a username and password (email is optional) >> on the server you're on, and once that's done you can join any number of >> channels on that server. This is much closer to the UX of IRC, and it's >> still superior in some ways because there's no fiddling with choosing a >> specific authentication method like SASL and/or authenticating with nickserv >> >> I think in general Matrix has more mindshare amongst Linux users as a >> modern alternative to IRC, which I think is worth considering when >> comparing frequency of posts on Reddit: >> >> >> https://old.reddit.com/r/linux/search?q=matrix&restrict_sr=on&sort=relevanc… >> >> -Josh >> >> On Sat, 2020-01-11 at 22:59 -0500, Tim Keller via WLUG wrote: >> >> This morning I went out and created a meetup group for WLUG: >> https://www.meetup.com/Worcester-Linux-Users-Group and paid for six >> months. Feel free to go and join up if you'd like. >> >> The matrix stuff is cool, I cut my teeth on IRC so I'm always partial to >> the old school but I also understand that eventually we'll want a slack >> channel as well maybe. >> >> Tim. >> >> >> >> On Fri, Jan 10, 2020 at 4:07 PM Anderson, Charles R via WLUG < >> wlug(a)lists.wlug.org> wrote: >> >> We also have an IRC channel: >> >> http://www.wlug.org/participate.html >> >> Internet Relay Chat >> >> Join the realtime chat on our IRC channel. >> >> Connect your IRC client to irc.freenode.net >> Join the #wlug-ma channel or join directly from this link: irc:// >> irc.freenode.net/#wlug-ma. >> See more information about Freenode and join the chat from your web >> browser >> >> but maybe IRC is too old school--no one chats on it anymore. >> >> On Fri, Jan 10, 2020 at 04:03:14PM -0500, Joshua Stone via WLUG wrote: >> > 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 >> _______________________________________________ >> WLUG mailing list -- wlug(a)lists.wlug.org >> To unsubscribe send an email to wlug-leave(a)lists.wlug.org >> >> >> >> _______________________________________________ >> >> 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". >

6 years, 3 months

LISA Conference in Boston

by Chuck Anderson

Here is a great opportunity to go to a professional Sysadmin/Linux/UNIX conference right here in Boston. Early Bird registration ends Monday. ===================================== Invitation to attend: The 25th Annual Large Installation System Administration Conference (LISA) ---------------------------------------------------------------- LISA is coming to Boston, December 4-9, 2011. With the addition of new speciality presentations and training, the breadth and quality of this year's tutorials, refereed papers, invited talks, and participants is unparalleled. 2011 LISA Conference highlights include: * The technical program with must-see invited talks such as: - The DevOps Transformation - The Operational Impact of Continuous Deployment - IBM's Jeopardy!-winning Watson Supercomputer * Practice and Experience presentations sharing real-life experiences on topics ranging from configuration management to security. * Over 40 tutorials taught by top instructors including: - Tobi Oetiker on RRDtool - Tom Limoncelli on Time Management for SysAdmins - Ted Ts'o on Data Recovery - Nan Lui on Puppet - Mark Burgess on Cfengine * "Guru Is In" sessions: get answers to your toughest questions. * The Vendor Exhibition highlighting new products and services and a look at who is hiring. * LISA's famed "hallway track" offers ample opportunity to meet and mingle with colleagues and industry leaders during breaks, BoFs, and other social activities. ----------------------------------------------------------- WHAT: LISA '11: 25th Large Installation System Administration Conference WHEN: December 4-9, 2011 WHERE: Boston, Massachusetts, USA Sheraton Boston Hotel WHO: System administrators, network administrators, DevOps, CIOs, CTOs, researchers, tool providers, support and help desk personnel, etc. WHY: Get the practical information you need to succeed. HOW: http://www.usenix.org/lisa11/progm Massive Discounts for Early Registration -- REGISTER NOW! ---------------------------------------------------------------- PS: Help us promote! -- Banners and buttons: http://www.usenix.org/events/lisa11/promote.html -- Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/event.php?eid=283935088299936 -- Twitter: http://twitter.com/#!/LISAConference #lisa11

14 years, 5 months

Re: [Wlug] RH 8

by Wesley Allen

How nice is rh8? I've got mdk9 and like it, but usb doesn't work!! And does anybody know if any pcmia usb/firewire cards are supported in linux? Wes On Tue, 15 Oct 2002 23:38:29 -0400 jeff <jmr71769(a)earthlink.net> wrote: >Aramico wrote: > >>Till now, i still get the problem in downloading RH 8 in >>several >>diffrent places. >>Can somebody tell me where can i download it ? >> >>All available sites are using identification's login for >>now.. >>..while the other could not be touched using wget...... >>;( >> >>Thanks! > > >this message is for aramico and anyone else concerned: > >if you guys need cd's burnt, please let me know. i'm the >linux 'courier' for a lot of my friends around the area >and would be more than happy to get you a copy of >whatever you need. i live right here in downtown >worcester. i usually do my 'deals' at the worcester >public library. just name the time and place and i'll be >happy to meet you there. > >i have all the recent copies of redhat, mandrake, debian, >gentoo, crux, and freebsd. > >my burner and my bike are at your service! > >later! > >-jeff >mwblug - soon to be a full-time wlug-er since my other >half (christian - mwblug) moved to boston and i don't see >the guy anymore. :-( > >p.s. i have copies of everything except for suse. > > > >_______________________________________________ >Wlug mailing list >Wlug(a)mail.wlug.org >http://mail.wlug.org/mailman/listinfo/wlug >

23 years, 6 months

Re: [Wlug] Balloon board

by Jamie Guinan

On Thu, 14 Dec 2006, Andy Stewart wrote: > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- > Hash: SHA1 > > Andre Lehovich wrote: > > After the meeting a few of us chatted about embeded hardware projects. The > > Balloon Board, based on the Strongarm CPU, has all open specs. Unfortunately > > it looks like a sample board is about $700. http://balloonboard.org/ > > > > An example product built using the board: > > http://www.toby-churchill.com/english/product_info/index.html > > > > --Andre > > Other possibilities for Linux friendly embedded projects: > > I made a firewall with Linux software with the Routerboard: > http://www.routerboard.com > > The USB development board looks interesting, but I haven't actually > tried it: > http://www.delcom-eng.com/ > > These look rather neat, but seem to be a little expensive IMHO, but not > unreachable: > http://www.gumstix.com > > The embedded development kits look interesting as well, but the prices > are exceedingly high. Two examples: > http://www.arcom.com/devkit-linux-apollo.htm > http://www.arcom.com/devkit-linux-pxa270-zeus.htm > > I don't think this vendor offers Linux support, but Linux does work with > these products: > http://www.hobbyengineering.com/SectionBS.html Here's a few more... 1) pickit1/pickit2, very reasonably priced, http://www.microchipdirect.com/ProductDetails.aspx?Catalog=BuyMicrochip&Cat… 2) NSLU2, $99 at many retailers, and I've seen quite a few on eBay. XScale (ARM), USB 2.0, Ethernet, http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NSLU2 One of my "someday" projects is to make my own computer-controlled alt-azimuth mount for amateur telescopes. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Altazimuth_mount Or even just a replacement controller for the existing motorized mount. -Jamie

19 years, 4 months

BBC cd

by doug waud

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). The problem is that the BBC script needs a dotted quad, not a zork.net. So the problem is to find out the dotted quad for zork.net. I tried ping zork.net and it pinged 66.92.188.166. I then went there and got crackmonkey.org. I tried pinging crackmonkey.org and got that same 66.92.188.166 I got pinging zork.net ! arp zork.net and crackmonkey.org also gives that same common dotted quad. Ping of the BBC default address 64.81.65.8 gives nothing. Unlike Netscape, Konquerer will take dotted quads. The 66.92.188.166 comes up crackmonkey.org consistent with the preceding while 64.81.65.8 gives the error message "could not connect to host 64.81.65.8". My question, then, is how does one get a dotted quad for zork.net? A related question is whether anyone tried/succeeded loading Debian starting with that BBC-linux cd? i.e. can it be done? (The README-DEBIAN on the cd gives alternative sites but none of them has the -bbc versions of the image and tarball the install script is looking for. I admit to not wanting to go down the path of redoing the install scripts :-( ) This email sure did not please the spell-checker! :-) doug

24 years, 3 months

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