December 2007
We met in the RC146, at 7 pm Thursday December 20.
This month we had two main topics. Elliott Lake
discussed FreeNAS and
Eric Baenen discussed VMware and other virtualization software.
Some items mentioned include:
- building virtual machines, recommendations
- virtualization to support migration to Linux
- virtual machines for legacy OS's/apps
- server virtualization
- Xen vs Virtual Iron vs VMware vs VirtualBox vs Parallels
- VMware server vs VMware Player
- VMware vs Virtuozzo
Eric's "practical virtualization" slides are available in swf,
odp,
and pdf
file formats. Elliott's .ppt slides are here.
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November 2007
We met in RC146, at 7 pm Thursday November 15. Our evening started
with the usual Q & A session. Some of the topics discussed were:
- We used a Clearwire modem
and account that was donated to DMA®
by member Jeremiah Ilges of The Ohio
Technology Group in Springfield. Thank you Jeremiah and Ohio
Technology group!
- The Ohio Technology Group is donating $50 to DMA for each new Clearwire account if you mention DMA when you buy the account through OTG.
- Someone asked for video player suggestions. Both VLC and MPlayer were recommended.
- There was a question about synching with a Palm OS PDA.
J-Pilot was suggested, but some
people said they had problems with it and it was noted that there
hasn't been any development of it in over a year. See the Linux.com Synchronizing your Palm PDA
with Linux article for other options.
- Someone asked how to partition a drive. Use GParted,
which is used by most distros to partition a drive
during installation. Check out the GParted-LiveCD.
- Someone asked how to change the run level of
Ubuntu during bootup. Boot in single user mode. See Grub
Boot into single user mode for details and Debian
and Ubuntu Linux Run Levels for more info.
- GT & Paul V briefly talked about the newly
formed Dynamic Languages
SIG. You may subscribe to the mailing list here.
- GT announced that the DMA Holiday Dinner
is Wednesday, December 5.
This month's main topic was
microformats, excellenty
presented by Catherine Devlin. She explained that microformats are
small extensions to HTML that make it easier for machines to collect
and aggregate data about events, etc. from web pages. Catherine showed
event calendars from a few web sites, including our own, to show the wide
diversity in how event data is displayed on web pages. By using the hCalendar microformat,
it's relatively simple to keep the same appearance on a web page,
yet allow aggregators to easily extract the event data in a consistent
manor regardless of how it's displayed. There are also microformats for
address info (hCard),
licensing info,
such as for photos, and other situations. Catherine also demonstrated the
Operator add-on for
the Firefox web browser. In closing, she suggested checking out a couple
conferences. First is CodeMash
in Sandusky January 9-11, 2008. She also recommended PyCon 2008 in Chicago March 14-16,
2008.
After the meeting, several of us adjourned to the nearby TGI Friday's.
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October 2007
We met in the Student Union, room E163B, at 7 pm Thursday October 18.
There was no topic scheduled for this month's meeting, so we had an extended Q & A session.
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October 2007
Our latest ConfigFest (or InstallFest+) was held at Sinclair Community College from 10
am–4 pm Saturday, October 6th, 2007 in
room 4242 of building 4. Once again, Art Ross and Sinclair Community
College were great hosts. Turnout was a bit lighter than at some of our
previous fests, but we were busy most of the day. It would have been
good to have had more of our more experienced members present to help.
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September 2007
September 29, 2007 was the 5th annual Ohio LinuxFest and it
just keeps getting better each year. This year they added
an optional day of training on Friday, Sept. 28 for $300 and LPI
testing on Sunday.
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September 2007
We met in RC145 at 7 pm Thursday September 20. This month
Barry Hassler gave an excellent demonstration of configuring Asterisk, a very versatile PBX
system implemented in Open Source software.
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August 2007
No topic for this month's meeting had been set before the meeting.
After a brief Q & A session, Paul Visscher volunteered to give a brief
version of a couple previous presentations he had done previously - OpenWrt and "How Email Really
Works". Thanks, Paul!
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July 2007
We'll meet in room 150 of
Russ Engineering at 7 pm Thursday July 19.
For this month's meeting, Mike Gilbert demonstrated how to submit
bug reports.
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June 2007
We met in E163B (Discovery B) of the Student
Union at 7 pm Thursday June 21. The regular DMA monthly meeting
was rescheduled to the same night as this SIG this month to accomodate
"Dave Whittle's Picks for the Digital
Home" presentation, so GT did not attend the Linux SIG tonight.
Dave Lundy was occupied elsewhere, so Grant Root took notes in his
absence. Thanks, Grant!
- We discussed Ohio LinuxFest
and collected the money Nancy needed for our non-profit sponsorship.
- We had a programmer there whose Linux experience was pretty
limited, and in response to his questions we talked about
recommended distributions, demonstrated package management in
Kubuntu, and covered compilers, editors, ssh, version control, etc.
- Jason talked a bit about a newish project management suite called
redMine (http://www.redmine.org) which is written in Ruby-on-Rails.
We pulled up the web site and went through the demo.
- Paul Visscher demonstrated the use of swaks, which stands
for "Swiss Army Knife SMTP". It's a commandline tool for testing mail
servers.
- Paul Ahlquist talked about fanout and fanterm www.stearns.org/fanout, which
allow you to run commands on multiple machines.
- Paul Visscher talked about a number of useful networking
commands.
- Jason talked about the null
utility, which is "a combination of /dev/null, tee, md5sum,
with the addition of some other features".
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May 2007
We met in E163B (Discovery B) of the
Student Union at 7 pm Thursday May 17. For this
month's meeting, Ken Phelps gave a presentation on the DNS: how it works, and some
things you need to know about it. Also, Mike Gilbert was supposed to
discuss how to submit bug reports but we ran out of time.
Once again we didn't have a key signing
party. It's been far too long since we've had one.
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April 2007
This month Mike Gilbert discussed the "State of
Gaming on Linux" and demonstrated a wide variety
of games. Michael's presentation files are available
in PDF and TEX format. In addition, Jason
Cook briefly discussed LAN Parties.
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March 2007
We've moved! This meeting was held in room E163B (Discovery
B) of the Student Union at 7 pm Thursday March 15.
For this month's meeting, Brian Engle gave a presentation on the OpenBSD project, describing how the
system works, and some of the differences (philosophical and otherwise)
between OpenBSD, FreeBSD, and Linux. More details to follow...
Yet again, we did not have a key signing
party. It's been eons since we've had one.
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February 2007
This meeting was held in room 145 of the Russ Engineering
Center at 7 pm Thursday February 15. This month Paul Visscher and Paul Ahlquist teamed up to discuss
SMTP, and why it's
"worse than you can possibly imagine". See slides here. Also, Mike Gilbert
talked a bit about "The Debian Distribution". His presentation
PDF is here & source
file is here. More details
to follow in a few days.
Once again, there was no key signing
party. It's been several months since we've had one.
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January 2007
This meeting was held in room 145 of the Russ
Engineering Center at 7 pm Thursday January 18.
The topic for this month's meeting was a presentation
by Jason Cook about modifications to an Xbox game console to use it as
a MythTV front-end. Details to follow.
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