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Reminder: Meeting Tomorrow! Feb. 20th, 2018!!! Topic: Encryption! Note the Location!!!

by Tim Keller

Hey Gang, We've got a meeting tomorrow! My good friend Nick is going to deep dive on encryption! Location: Fuller Labs Rm 311 Time: 7pm The speaker for this meeting is my good friend Dr. Nick Howgrave-Graham. He's a cryptographer who has experience in both the making and breaking of encryption systems. This will be a general talk about some commonly used encryption systems, the math around them and how some of these systems have been broken through poor design. If there are some specific encryption algorithm / system that you'd like to deep dive, email the list, I'll let Nick know and possibly he can focus on that. As usual snacks and refreshments will be provided and afterwards we'll head off for a bite to eat. Thanks, Tim. -- I am leery of the allegiances of any politician who refers to their constituents as "consumers".

7 years, 11 months

Meeting minutes from earlier this week

by Andy Stewart

-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 HI everybody, We had our meeting in one of the rooms right off of the Morgan Hall dining area. I think there were 7 or 8 of us, with two newcomers (welcome!). The discussion started with GRUB and some of its more interesting features vs. LILO, such as command line editing and adding graphics to the background. I had made a GRUB bootable CD prior to the meeting. GRUB has a large number of features, and we touched on only a few. After that, we somehow ended up on the topic of VNC: http://www.realvnc.com http://www.tightvnc.com <-- There was also interest in the "suspend to disk" feature of my laptop, which actually worked in a live demo. One person asked if it was possible to do this on a desktop machine (I don't think so....). In addition, Mel K. (newcomer) brought his laptop, onto which he wanted to install RedHat 9.0, which was having trouble recognizing his external USB hard drive. I gave Mel my SuSE 9.3 pro CDs and asked him to give that a try. Mel said that he'd keep us apprised of his progress. Pizza / soda followed at the Tech Pizza restaurant where we've gone after the last several meetings. Mel mentioned that he has interest in VistA (open source medical software). Try http://www.vistasoftware.org and google turns up other seemingly related links. Later, 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 iD8DBQFDRx4CHl0iXDssISsRAgHDAJ9ZQ4B0Morwv7EcxvAicO9fCxl2LgCdFxFg 5z9ZHpXjfJMuedYXi0ySZMI= =fVQp -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----

20 years, 4 months

Re: [Wlug] REMINDER: Upcoming WLUG meeting

by Frank Sweetser

jbaillie(a)netzero.com wrote: > Hi Andy, I was thinking of attending the meeting tomorrow nite. I am a > first-timer and was wondering whether I need id to get into the > building, where to enter Morgan Hall for the best chance of finding the > grid room, and where to park? thanks, Hope you all don't mind a newbie. Hi there, Welcome! The meetings are held in the Lower Wedge, which is between Daniels and Morgan Hall (buildings A and H), which you can see on the campus map: http://www.wpi.edu/About/Visitors/Images/walkingmap.pdf You don't need an ID to get into the area, and there should be plenty of parking on the quad area in front of the buildings. See you there! -- Frank Sweetser fs at wpi.edu | For every problem, there is a solution that WPI Senior Network Engineer | is simple, elegant, and wrong. - HL Mencken GPG fingerprint = 6174 1257 129E 0D21 D8D4 E8A3 8E39 29E3 E2E8 8CEC

18 years, 3 months

Re: [Wlug] Reminder! WLUG Meeting Dec 14th 2017! NOTE! Different Change!!!

by Richard Klein

I haven't been in a while. We start at 7, right? On Tue, Dec 12, 2017 at 5:46 PM, Tim Keller <turbofx(a)gmail.com> wrote: > Hey Gang, > > Just a reminder we've got a meeting on the 14th! > > Topic: I think this will be an open topic meeting, though if there's > something people want to talk about I'm game. We could talk about what we > want to do with WLUG next year! > > Location: Taylor Room Campus Center Rm 128 > > Snacks and refreshments will be provided. Afterwards we'll head down to > Tech Pizza or the Boyton. > > Later, > 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 > >

8 years, 2 months

Re: WLUG history

by Andy Stewart

On 1/14/20 8:03 PM, Jon "maddog" Hall via WLUG wrote: > 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. I believe that BLU predates WLUG by quite a bit. I had just started learning about Linux, and I knew nothing of the GPL or the ideals surrounding Free Software. I decided that I wanted a place to hang out with people more knowledgeable about Linux. I lived in Worcester at the time, and I didn't want to drive to Boston or New Hampshire for a meeting due to the distance. I had never been to a user group meeting of any sort, yet I decided to jump into the deep end of the pool, with no clue of what to do, or how to do it, or what the result would be. All I thought was that people needed to be brought together. As a WPI alumnus, it seemed like a natural place for such a gathering. WLUG's first meeting was in July 1997 in the WPI Library. Maddog was there, and our first speaker was Jim Paradis. We had 17 people in attendance. I distinctly remember maddog telling me at that time that if we had 17 people in attendance in a year, we'd be doing quite well. We purchased really expensive food from DAKA, the WPI cafeteria service at that time. Later, we moved to different rooms on campus, and I brought soda and cookies. I never believed in charging membership dues for WLUG. I decided to go with small voluntary donations, just to defray costs, and no more. Somehow, it worked. We had something on the order of 50 people show up at what I think was probably the best attended WLUG meeting in history. I don't remember the year, but KDE had just come out, and I gave a talk about it. I have a feeling that this meeting took place in the big room in Olin Hall. The summer parties were always a big hit. Great food, conversations, and great people. While we occasionally had a speaker from outside of the club, most of the speakers were members of WLUG. We have a very talented membership who was never afraid to get up in front of the crowd to share what they know. I learned a lot from WLUG, both technically and otherwise. WLUG has its own Tux penguin, hand made by Doug Waud. WLUG Tux shows up at summer gatherings and other unexpected times. I'm sure if a bunch of us sat together after a WLUG meeting, we'd recall more stories and could, if desired, document the club's history. I think it would be a lot of fun! Andy

6 years

Re: Reminder: December meeting! 12/09/2021 @7pm Hudson Public Library!

by Joshua Stone

Hey Tim, Thanks for the update! This meeting agenda looks exciting! I might get some new inspiration for my Raspberry Pi. Do we have a preference for where we could eat after this meeting? Rail Trail Flatbread seemed to work well last time, maybe we can try Less Than Greater Than? https://www.lessthangreaterthan.com/eat - Josh On Tue, Dec 7, 2021 at 11:50 PM Tim Keller via WLUG <wlug(a)lists.wlug.org> wrote: > Hey Everybody, > > We've got a meeting this Thursday at the Hudson Public Library! > > Topic: Jail breaking that Wii you've got laying around to run Linux! > Then I'm sure it'll get even more interesting! > I'd like to brain storm about topics we'd like to talk about next year! > > Ideas that have been talked about: > 1. Pi-hole. What it is, how it works and why you want one! > 2. Raspberry Pi clusters.. How to build one and what would you do with one? > 3. Ham radio and Linux. > > I'll have snacks and refreshments on hand, we'll head off to dinner > afterwards! > 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/DX7SR… >

4 years, 2 months

Re: Meeting tomorrow!! Topic: The tao of linux.

by Jon "maddog" Hall

Sounds like a great meeting, especially for "newbies". Unfortunately I have a dinner theater engagement at that time, so have fun! md On Wed, Aug 7, 2024 at 11:38 PM Tim Keller via WLUG <wlug(a)lists.wlug.org> wrote: > Hey Everybody! > > Date: August 8th @ 7PM > Location: Techncopia, 44 Portland st. Worcester MA > Virtual location: https://meet.jit.si/WlugMA > > We've got a meeting tomorrow! I'm planning on giving a short talk on the > history of linux, how we got here, where are we going, why it matters and > delve into some unix history and philosophy.. i.e. "everything is (mosly) a > file.. no really.." > > I fully expect all the usual suspects will also have interesting tidbits > to add, corrections to make and generally it should be an interesting talk > to help people new to the FOSS world and in particular the linux world why > we love linux and why we think it's great. > > As usual we'll head off for dinner afterwards and keep the conversation > going! > > I hope to see you there! > 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/XJTBR… >

1 year, 6 months

Re: Physical WLUG Meeting is cancelled tomorrow...

by John Stoffel

Tim> I'm cancelling the physical WLUG meeting for March. Not a bad idea. Tim> WPI just put out a notice that they're closed for all Tim> events/meetings and I've been contacted by several members that Tim> they're going to be staying home out of an abundance of caution Tim> or they're under the weather... Tim> I'll be in our IRC channel tomorrow night and we can continue the fun online! Tim> Hopefully things will calm down for April. Heh, I haven't used irc for over a decade now, and never was a big irc user. Maybe I'll try to join up thursday night. I've been messing around with ATTiny85 chips and programming them from Linux lately. Need to get off my duff and do more with it. Ideally I'll be able to give a talk about KiCAD and designing boards with Linux (and windows) software. Very cool stuff. John

5 years, 11 months

Re: [Wlug] WLUG meeting - can someone post a summary?

by Andy Stewart

On Friday 18 April 2003 1:41 pm, John Stoffel wrote: > Hi all, > > Can someone post a summary of the presentation on the Digital Video > Recorder Tim did earlier this week? I'm interested in learning more, > but I wasn't able to make the meeting. > > John HI John et al, I posted a brief summary on the WLUG website, under Past Meeting Information. If anybody wants to embelish the description, please send me your suggestions and I'll post them. In fact, I found the talk so interesting that I just went out and bought the Hauppauge PVR-350. When it shows up, I'll have somthing with which to play. The MythTV website said that the CVS version of their software now (mostly) works with this card. We'll see... :-) It was a good talk! Thanks, Tim! Andy -- Andy Stewart, Founder Worcester Linux Users' Group Worcester, MA USA http://www.wlug.org

22 years, 9 months

Reminder! Meeting April 13th @ 7PM

by Tim Keller

Hey Gang, This is reminder that we've got a meeting this week! Location: Campus Center Room 331 Time: 7PM Topic: To be decided! Let me know if there's something that you have a burning urge to talk about! Thanks, Tim. Per our last meeting, here were some of the topics... Media server bake off Kodi (Xbmc) PLEX media center /server Open media vault (runs PLEX) Open ELEC (runs Kodi) Linux Arcade machines Research Distros Home Backup Server (zfs for linux) Bake off of backup solutions Sysadmin automation tools Salt / Puppet / Chef / Ansible Nicholas Howgraham-Grave Talk about finding flaws in RSA SHA1 collison stuff Git development Methods Virtualization on linux KVM / Vmware / OVB / Xen / Qubes Privacy on Linux: What to do when you're convinced the goverment is watching. Encrypted FS 2FA Isolated applications What distro is snowden running? 3d Printing and linux Tools for linux -- I am leery of the allegiances of any politician who refers to their constituents as "consumers".

8 years, 10 months

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