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Re: Meeting Aug 10th at Technocopia at 7pm!

by THE HAMMER

Sadly, I will not make it. If I can might pop in virtually for a bit at least Ron ________________________________ From: Tim Keller via WLUG <wlug(a)lists.wlug.org> Sent: Wednesday, August 9, 2023 5:26 PM To: Worcester Linux Users' Group General Discussion <wlug(a)lists.wlug.org> Cc: Tim Keller <turbofx(a)gmail.com> Subject: [WLUG] Meeting tomorrow at Technocopia at 7pm! Hey Everybody! I know we were just there.. but getting back onto our schedule of the 2nd Thursday of the month means we'll eventually have two meetings close together. Date: August 10th, 2023 Time: 7pm Location: Technocopia in Worcester: 44 Portland St, Worcester, MA 01608 Virtual Location: https://meet.jit.si/WlugMA As for a topic, I haven't really thought one up, but I'm just sure stuff will come up! I'd love people's ideas for what to install on a chromebook that's no longer taking updates.. Bunsenlabs looks promising.. I'll bring snacks and refreshments and afterwards we'll head off for dinner! Later, Tim. -- I am leery of the allegiances of any politician who refers to their constituents as "consumers".

Aug. 10, 2023

Meeting October 9th at 7PM Topic: Jack from PIRG to speak about National Right to Repair

by Tim Keller

Hey Everybody, We've got a meeting on Thursday!! Topic: National Right to Repair day Speaker: Jack Frimet from PIRG. Time: 7PM Date: October 9th, 2025 Location: Technocopia Virtual Location: https://meet.jit.si/WlugMA Jack Frimet from PIRG <https://pirg.org> reached out to me and asked that he speak at this meeting. PIRG is an organization that among many other causes is advocating at the national level for the right to repair. As we are all aware, with Win10 reaching EOL, this is causing a tsunami of e-waste as people are forced to upgrade to run Win11. On Saturday Oct 18th, it's National Right to Repair day. PIRG in coordination with Techncopia is going to be hosting what's looking like to be a good old fashioned Install-fest. Sadly, I have a family conflict, but I'll be there in spirit! I hope to see you all on Thursday! Later, Tim. -- I am leery of the allegiances of any politician who refers to their constituents as "consumers".

Oct. 7, 2025

Re: [Wlug] Early reminder: upcoming WLUG meeting

by Richard Klein

I jotted down a couple very quick notes at the end of the meeting, so I thought I'd share them with everyone else. Of course, the meeting started with Nick giving a presentation of Miro, a media player with online guide, search tools, rating system, etc, built on gtk, python, libtorrent, and mozilla, that takes advantage of RSS and bit torrent: http://www.getmiro.com/ Miro began in Worcester! One of the many guys whose names I can't remember reminded us of the ACM@WPI swap meet this Saturday. This is the official page: http://www.acm.wpi.edu/swapmeet/ but I like the presentation of the data better here: http://www.socialweb.net/Events/87360.lasso Someone else recommended MonoPrice for cheap DVI/HDMI cables: http://www.monoprice.com/home/index.asp Alex, I think, recommended the Linux Mint distro, but I don't remember what the question was: http://www.linuxmint.com/about.php Finally, someone recommended the HP T57xx line of thin clients as a surprisingly capable platform with no moving parts that can be had for cheap on the used and/or gray market: http://h10010.www1.hp.com/wwpc/us/en/sm/WF06a/12454-12454-321959-338927-893… -- Rich

Jan. 23, 2009

Re: [Wlug] WLUG Meeting May 18th Topic: Codi / Plex / RetroPi Location: WPI student center Rm 129

by Tim Keller

Thanks Chuck! I'm working on getting my Pi3 running with RetroPi and seeing if i can borrow an Xarcade controller. On Thu, May 11, 2017 at 9:20 PM, Chuck Anderson <cra(a)wpi.edu> wrote: > I'll talk about Kodi. > > On Thu, May 11, 2017 at 08:49:13PM +0000, Tim Keller wrote: > > Hey Gang, > > > > Our next meeting is going to be May 18th! at 7pm. We'll be meeting in > the > > WPI Student Center Rm 129. (Go to the bottom of the stairs) > > > > Topic: Plex / Codi / RetroPi. or (So you've got a huge TV, what to do > > with? Watch movies and play retro computer games!!!) > > > > Everybody loves to watch movies, but DVD's scratch, get lost etc. A > better > > way to manage your extensive collection is through programs such as Plex > > and Codi. > > > > As for speakers we're going to have a diverse group speaking at this > > meeting. I will be speaking about RetroPi. I'm looking for speakers for > > Plex / Codi. Write me or just show up! > > > > As usual, snacks and refreshments will be provided and after the meeting > > we'll head off to Tech Pizza. > > > > Thanks, > > Tim. > _______________________________________________ > 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".

May 16, 2017

Re: WLUG history

by Jon "maddog" Hall

GNHLUG started in 1995, but was reduced to a mailing list about ten years ago. It no longer holds meetings. Every once in a while someone tries to resuscitate it, but it eventually goes into a coma again. I think BLU has been around a long time. It is what is left from the Boston Computer Society, and as such may have pre-dated even GNHLUG. md On Tue, Jan 14, 2020 at 7:01 PM Anderson, Charles R via WLUG < wlug(a)lists.wlug.org> wrote: > Not sure we are the oldest, but we /might/ be the oldest still in > operation. Is GNHLUG still in operation? If so, they are probably > older. I was inspired to dig into my archives: > > An early email from our founder, Andy Stewart: > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > > Date: Sat, 26 Jul 1997 22:22:18 -0400 > From: Andy Stewart <astewart(a)world.std.com> > To: "Worcester Linux Users' Group" <wlug(a)mass-pc.wpi.edu> > Subject: [Fwd: Caldera Inc. IT Forum] > > OK, gang, tell the man what you think! > > Remember, he is the gentleman who graciously donated the tee shirts and > CDROM discs from Caldera... > > Andy > > ---------------------- > > Date: Wed, 23 Jul 1997 12:30:22 -0600 > From: Paul La Fluer <paull(a)caldera.com> > Organization: Caldera, Inc. > To: astewart(a)world.std.com > Subject: Caldera Inc. IT Forum > > Hello Andy, I hope everything is going good. I am in the process of > organizing a conference while in New York. My goal is to rent out a > large ballroom in a hotel and have all the usergroups in the area come > and listen to Bryan Sparks our CEO and other talk about Linux and > OpenLinux. There will be presentations plus a Q&A session. I would like > to hear your feedback on the idea and if your group would attend. We > would be giving away door prizes like OpenLinux Base and Standard and > handing out t-shirts, papers and OpenLinux Lite and OpenDOS to all that > attend. Please give me some feedback on this idea. I need to know soon > to get things set up. > > Thanks, > > Paul La Fleur > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > > An email about our SECOND meeting (that refers to the first meeting): > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > > Date: Mon, 04 Aug 1997 21:29:13 -0400 > From: Andy Stewart <astewart(a)world.std.com> > To: "Worcester Linux Users' Group" <wlug(a)mass-pc.wpi.edu> > Subject: Next WLUG meeting > > The next scheduled meeting for the Worcester Linux Users' Group (WLUG) > is August 21, 1997, at 7 PM in the Gordon Library on the Worcester > Polytechnic Institute (WPI) campus in Worcester, MA. > > We had a great turnout of about 20 people at our very first meeting last > month - I hope to see all of you come back, and I'd like to extend a > welcome to anybody who would like to attend. > > I would suggest parking in the "lower library" parking lot and hiking up > the 102 stairs to the library (not to mention the 12 or so more stairs > in the library to get to the 2nd floor!). > > For more information, feel free to send me E-mail at: > > astewart(a)world.std.com > > Look for the penguin signs! Hope to see you there! > > Andy Stewart > WLUG > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > > I'd guess our first meeting was about July 23 or 24, 1997, or perhaps > the week before, July 16 or 17. > > But maddog from GNHLUG forwarded this, which says "as always, the > meeting are free..." which implies that July 30th is NOT their first > meeting. If they had monthly meetings, that would place their first > meeting in June 1997 or before. > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > > Date: Mon, 21 Jul 97 10:28:09 -0400 > From: "Jon 'maddog' Hall, USG Senior Leader" <hall(a)zk3.dec.com> > To: gnhlug(a)zk3.dec.com > Subject: GNHLUG - Linux Cluster meeting July 30th at Martha's Exchange > > Hi, > > We now have a venue for the July 30th meeting of the GNHLUG, with Loki, > a cluster of 16 Pentium PRO 200s, running Linux as the topic of the talk. > > We will be meeting on the *second* floor dining room of the Martha's > Exchange > Building in beautiful downtown Nashua. I will be picking up the speaker in > Cambridge that day and transporting him to Martha's for dinner, arriving > about > 1730 hours. For those of you who wish to join us for dinner, please RSVP. > The meeting itself will start at 1900 hours, with the speaker probably > getting > up steam about 1915 hours. > > As always, the meetings are free and open to everyone, and as a FINAL > enticement I will be handling out *free* CD ROMS with the V1.2 Debian > release > for Intel on it. > > M. Patrick Goda, a principal of the Loki > > ( http://loki-www.lanl.gov/ ) > > project at the Theoretical Division of the Los Alamos National Labs, a > Beowulf > > ( http://cesdis.gsfc.nasa.gov/linux-web/beowulf/beowulf.html ) > > style computer will be our speaker. I have convinced him to present a talk > on the Loki project, one of linking together 16 Intel Pentium Pro machines > to > create a system that has: > > o high reliability > o high throughput > > and generally 16-node IBM SP2 performance (over 1.2 GigaFlops) at 1/20th > the > cost (about $60K)!! > > Pat is a friend of mine that I introduced to Red Hat Linux when he was a > graduate student at the University of Hawaii (long story). > > Due to the fact that Patrick is a rare find, I will invite the Boston Linux > User's Group and the Worcester Linux User's group to join us that night, > so I > have arranged for larger quarters. > > Some additional Beowulf pages are from my own alma mater: > > http://einstein.drexel.edu/beowulf/Beowulf_concept.html > > including exerpts from the original Beowulf story: > > http://einstein.drexel.edu/beowulf/original_beowulf.html > > Warmest regards, > > maddog > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > > Nevermind, GNHLUG is definitely older by several years according to their > web page: > > http://wiki.gnhlug.org/twiki2/bin/view/Www/PastEvents > > 1996 > > When Where What Who How Many > 31 Jan 1996 UNH Durham Linux Linus Torvalds 200+ > > 1994 > > When Where What Who How Many > 19 Oct UNH (?) First meeting Members ??? > > > > On Tue, Jan 14, 2020 at 04:13:25PM -0500, Richard Klein via WLUG wrote: > > 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. > _______________________________________________ > WLUG mailing list -- wlug(a)lists.wlug.org > To unsubscribe send an email to wlug-leave(a)lists.wlug.org >

Jan. 15, 2020

Re: [Wlug] REMINDER!! Meeting TONIGHT! March 12th, 2015!

by Jamie Guinan

On Thu, 12 Mar 2015, Keith Wright wrote: > Jamie Guinan <guinan(a)bluebutton.com> writes: > > > I haven't been to a WLUG meeting in ages. Is it still in the same > > building in the southwest corner of the quad? The floorplan link is > > dead, > > It is not that building, the floorplan has been edited with > sheetrock, hammers, and saws. > > It is in the student center, west-by-northwest of the > central fountain. If you get there, > there is an information booth and list of events. > They will direct you to the second floor mid-century > room, with the slide rule memorial. Keith, thank you for the directions. The guy at the information booth was aware of the WLUG meeting. > > Is there parking available in the West Street lot? The West Street lot was wide open. I didn't bother to get a pass from security, but I doubt they care much at that hour. I enjoyed seeing all the Raspbery Pi projects. I'll try and make it to some more meetings this year. Best, -Jamie

March 13, 2015

Re: Hosting in-person meetings at library

by Tim Keller

I think it's a great idea! Speaking with the Technopia folks, they're interested in having us, but it sounds like it would happen in the Sept. time frame, I'd like to have a couple in person meetings before that. Is this something people would be interested in doing tomorrow? Thanks, Tim. On Tue, Jul 13, 2021 at 9:25 PM joshua.gage.stone--- via WLUG < wlug(a)lists.wlug.org> wrote: > Hey all, > > I've learned that the library in my town is open to the public for > hosting club meetings! More info: > > https://hudsonpubliclibrary.com/ > > Some of the benefits I can think of for having meetings at the library > include: > > - Free hosting > - Free public wifi > - Free on-site parking > - Low noise levels > - Projector and whiteboard are available > - Books, music, movies, etc, are available for checking out > (https://bark.cwmars.org/eg/opac/home) > - Adjacent to many restaurants, most having outdoor seating > - Has EV charging stations nearby > - Access to well-maintained walking trails and public parks > > Cons: > > - Conference room capacity is capped at 10 occupants > - Meetings must end 15 minutes before library's closing time, so would > have to end at 8:15PM > - Many restaurants might be closed by 9PM > > > I could imagine going back to our usual monthly meetings, from 7:00PM > to 8:15PM on Thursdays, then walking over to one of the restaurants > next door for food and drinks. I can personally vouch for these local > establishments, all reachable within a 5 minute walk: > > https://railtrailflatbread.com/ > https://www.wellysrestaurant.com/ > https://newcitymicrocreamery.com/ > https://www.lessthangreaterthan.com/ > https://www.kithandkinhudson.com/ > https://www.horseshoepub.com/ > https://freshwingma.com/ > https://www.medusabrewing.com/beer-garden > > What do you think? > > - Josh > > _______________________________________________ > 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/J7HU7… > -- I am leery of the allegiances of any politician who refers to their constituents as "consumers".

July 14, 2021

Re: WLUG Meeting tonight?

by Tim Keller

Chuck, That's awesome! I've seen there are apt repositories going as well! Since this week is a follies dejour for me.. You'll all laugh. Installing 6.12.8 I managed to mess up my order of operations and rebooted before fully updating the boot loader.. Don't install kernels when you're sleepy.. Tim. On Thu, Jan 9, 2025, 3:28 PM Keith Wright via WLUG <wlug(a)lists.wlug.org> wrote: > I am used to getting an email from Tim Keller when there is > a WLUG meeting. I am also used to it being on the second > Thursday of the month. One of those didn't happen. > > Two meetings ago I tried to do a presentation of LaTeX, > but share-screen did not work like it did three meetings ago. > > One meeting ago, share screen worked, but everyone was > talking about something else, and I wasn't really ready anyway. > > I could try again, though I am not really ready today either. > ---- > > Also > > > Hey Everybody, > > > > This is a reminder that we've got a meeting tomorrow at WPI! > > Time: 7pm > > Location: WPI Student Center Room 128 (Taylor Room) Down below the > stairs. > > Virtual Location: https://meet.jit.si/WlugMA > > Topic: frame.work laptop demo, passbolt demo > > > > Cara Salter has agreed to come and show off her frame.work laptop. This > > laptop is designed with upgrade ability in mind. Components such as the > > motherboard can be easily swapped for more powerful versions, etc. > > If Cara (or anyone with a frame.work) is still around, I would be > interested in an update on this. Does it still work, or did it > blow blue smoke? Did you actually upgrade anything? > Would you recomend it? > ---- > > Chuck Anderson via WLUG <wlug(a)lists.wlug.org> writes: > > > I noticed in "dnf update" on Fedora 41: > > > > Installing: > > kernel x86_64 6.12.4-200.fc41 updates 0.0 B > > kernel-core x86_64 6.12.4-200.fc41 updates 73.6 MiB > > kernel-modules x86_64 6.12.4-200.fc41 updates 62.5 MiB > > kernel-modules-core x86_64 6.12.4-200.fc41 updates 37.1 MiB > > kernel-modules-extra x86_64 6.12.4-200.fc41 updates 2.7 MiB > > OK. Google finds a page that says dnf is Fedora's replacement > for yum, which is apt or rpm re-done. Just another package manager. > > You installed a kernel; what did you notice that was interesting? > > -- Keith > > _______________________________________________ > 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/WMLWN… >

Jan. 10, 2025

Re: Jitsi..

by Joel

I very much like the proposed Pi5 topic. Joel On October 13, 2023 3:24:23 PM Tim Keller via WLUG <wlug(a)lists.wlug.org> wrote: > Microcenter is showing them available on Oct. 23rd. My plan was to drive there directly before going to work and just be waiting at the door and buy one. > Yeah, watching some video's I see the same stuff.. that starting with the pi4, you need active cooling.. which saddens me a bit. > I'm using one to drive my 3d printer, and at this point the pi4 with the fan is louder than the printer.. > > Tim. > > On Fri, Oct 13, 2023 at 2:46 PM Joe Sherman <joesherman1979(a)gmail.com> wrote: > I've been hearing if you haven't already ordered a PI 5 then you won't get one until the 3rd production batch. Unless you can find a store that bought for their own stock and they haven't sold out yet. > > Also, the PI 5 specs are a mix of good and bad. Good performance, bad cooling, and lack of hardware decoding for a bunch of video types. > > On Fri, Oct 13, 2023, 2:17 PM Tim Keller via WLUG <wlug(a)lists.wlug.org> wrote: > I hear you on the "no agenda" issue. I want to get back to having a defined topic and actually doing a presentation and then moving onto the general conversation. I think many people when they don't see we have a topic, decide not to come. > > I'm proposing for the next meeting that I do a talk on the useability of the pi5. I'm going to buy one as soon as it comes out and start mucking with it. > I'm actually thinking what I might try to do is make it my daily driver at home and see how that goes. > > Do people like that idea, think it's terrible? Let me know. > > Thanks, > Tim. > > > On Fri, Oct 13, 2023 at 12:09 PM Joshua Stone <joshua.gage.stone(a)gmail.com> wrote: > I didn't notice much of a performance issue with last night's meeting. If anything, the meetings are hard to follow from Jitsi now that most people are joining the meetings in-person but there isn't an agenda or some other signifier for what the topic is. > > The open-ended conversation format is fine, but doesn't always translate well for anyone joining virtually. > > One of the nice things about Jitsi Meet is that you can screenshare a slideshow for people to follow, but that doesn't seem to be leveraged. > > That being said, I would be all for a self-hosted Jitsi! Joining a meeting would be really convenient if it was as simple as clicking on: > > https://meet.wlug.org > > - Josh > > > On Fri, Oct 13, 2023 at 11:19 AM Tim Keller via WLUG <wlug(a)lists.wlug.org> wrote: > Last night it was brought to my attention that Jitsi has decided to become more "zoom" like. > That sucks. Moreover, and I've noticed this as well, their free instance's performance is all over the place.. some meetings the performance is spot on, other meetings, like last night, it was not so great. > > There should be zero barriers to people joining the meeting. > > To this end, I'm going to explore what it's going to take to stand up my own Jitsi instance. Likely hosted in some cloud provider with possibly a nice DNS entry. > > Thanks, > Tim. > > -- > I am leery of the allegiances of any politician who refers to their constituents as "consumers". > Cache content lost > > > -- > > I am leery of the allegiances of any politician who refers to their constituents as "consumers". > Cache content lost > > -- > I am leery of the allegiances of any politician who refers to their constituents as "consumers". > Cache content lost

Oct. 14, 2023

Reminder: Upcoming Meeting

by Andy Stewart

-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 HI Everybody, We have a WLUG meeting scheduled for Thursday, Sept. 15 at 7:00 PM in the Access Grid room at WPI. I'm not sure of the topic, but if nothing better turns up, I'll start babbling about my most recent USB experience (which started unpleasantly but ultimately had a happy ending), and we can segue from there into whatever topic people wish to discuss. Bring your Linux problems and try to stump the audience. :-) I'll bring my iAudio G3 MP3/Ogg player since a couple of people said they wanted to see it. I had hoped to have it at the last meeting but it wasn't shipped to me in time. Naturally, we'll go out for pizza after the meeting. We can discuss the insanity of looting televisions during a flood crisis, the possibility of adding anti-DRM language to GPL v3, and whatever else we find interesting. See ya then! Andy - -- Andy Stewart, Founder Worcester Linux Users' Group Worcester, MA, USA http://www.wlug.org -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.5 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with Thunderbird - http://enigmail.mozdev.org iD8DBQFDHmZ4Hl0iXDssISsRAka9AJ9HkAi7ZYGZfg7JokWZFeuzWbGK/wCfeJ9D yEQ7aHTYE9/JB6zT4fJUl0I= =8ain -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----

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