December 2009
This month, Jordan McCollum did a presentation on setting up and
using VirtualBox.
There yet more discussion of scheduling an Install / Config Fest,
but no date or location has been set. Why does this seem to be harder
to do than nailing Jello to a tree?
Is there any interest in starting a Droid SIG? At least
three of our members now have cell phones based on the Android OS.
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November 2009
No presentation was scheduled for this meeting. At the last meeting
there was some discussion of scheduling an Install / Config Fest, but
no date or location was set.
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October 2009
For our October meeting, Mike Marmer described
how to build your own linux distribution with Remastersys,
and why you might want to do so. It looks way beyond anything I'm
ever likely to try, but does sound interesting. There also the usual
Q & A session. GT is seeking volunteers to help with our next
Config/Install Fest. A date and location for it hasn't been set yet.
There was some discussion of the Diversity talk at Ohio LinuxFest,
and some sexist remarks Mark Shuttleworth made at LinuxCon. There was
interest expressed in learning about snort and wireshark. Perhaps those
would be topics at an upcoming meeting.
We adjourned to TGI Friday's.
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September 2009
The 7th annual Ohio
LinuxFest was Saturday, September 26, 2009 at the Hyatt Regency & Columbus
Convention Center, Columbus, OH and it just keeps getting better each
year. This year once again had an optional day of training on Friday,
Sept. 25 for $350 and LPI testing on Sunday, Sept. 27.
DLUG was well represented. I saw at least a dozen DLUG members
there, and there's a good chance I missed a few. I attended several
of the talks, plus a MythTV
BOF, which I recorded. You may see or just listen to it here. I came away with a renewed
enthusiasm about MythTV in particular, and Linux and Open Source
in general. It was a great way to spend what was otherwise a rather
crappy weekend.
Unconfirmed report of H1N1 flu at OLF
There is an unconfirmed report of an attendee who has been diagnosed
with the H1N1 flu virus. As a precautionary measure, OLF is
notifying everyone that attended the conference. If you were at OLF
over the weekend and have any symptoms, which include fever, cough,
sore throat, runny or stuffy nose, body aches, headache, chills and
fatigue -- please seek medical advice/attention immediately. See
www.cdc.gov/h1n1flu/sick.htm.
If you are identified by a medical professional as having the H1N1
virus, please contact the Ohio LinuxFest organizers at
team@ohiolinux.org and provide the following information:
- Contact information to reach you
- Your flight number or travel arrangements
- When you noticed the symptoms
The CDC has an excellent website that provides more information
at www.cdc.gov/h1n1flu/
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September 2009
Eric Baenen gave a presentation on "Open Source Software in
Government". It is the presentation he'll be giving at the AFCEA
InfoTech Conference at the Dayton Convention Center next month,
and he sought feedback to help him tweak the presentation.
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August 2009
No topic was scheduled for this meeting, but several were discussed, including:
- GT rehashed Computerfest®, and why it is no more.
- Grant brought snacks which he shared with us. Thanks, Grant!
- There was a question about upgrading Ubuntu LTS. You must upgrade to the next LTS, instead of the next regular release.
- GT mentioned that Sinclair Community College has a new Advanced Technical Intelligence program.
- 1TB drives are under $80!
- Rick Wills voluntered to do a presentation of math programs such as Octave, Sage, etc. at a future meeting.
- Grant gave a brief status report on a Trixbox / Asterisk installation with Aastra IP phones he did recently at the company where he is the IT manager.
- We took donations to pay for having a DLUG table at the upcoming Ohio LinuxFext.
- GT: Dayton has signed a WiFi contract to expand Wireless Dayton.
We adjourned to Milano's.
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July 2009
This month, no presentation had been scheduled.
Jordan McCollum gave an unscheduled presentation on VirtualBox, a free virtualization
program which enables running multiple OSes (or multiple instances of
the same OS) simultaneoustly. I'm sure I, and probably several others,
missed an excellent presentation simply because it hadn't been announced
at least a day or two in advance. Since no topic had been scheduled,
I elected to attend a different event that evening, which I would
have gladly missed had I known that there would be a VirtualBox or
other significant presentation. I suspect several more people are not
attending meetings when nothing has been scheduled, who would
attend if a topic of inteest to them were sheduled.
One of our members wants to take his netbook on his upcoming trip
to China. The machine is setup with Ubuntu. Derek is interested in
getting the Ubuntu upgraded, which should be trivial. Next he is very
interested in getting Skype going on the machine. That shouldn't be
too bad either. What might be interesting, at least, is setting things
up so that he can type in Chinese characters. Displaying such is no
problem, but getting them into Google, for example, is a bit daunting.
Perhaps some Wright State students or professors might have experience
with that and could help?
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June 2009
Elliott Lake discussed how to get reliable installations of Linux
onto a USB jump drive and have the installation act like a hard drive.
He's working with a different approach than what he has been using
previously to see if he can increase the number of Linux distributions
he can install on jump drives.
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May 2009
Our May meeting featured a presentation by Paul Visscher about
Revision (or
Version) Control Systems, including why you should use them if you
do any programming or modify system configuration files.
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April 2009
April 2009 meeting at W.S.U. Brandeberry Conference Room (292 Joshi)
This month we met in a new location - the Krishan
& Vicky Joshi Research Center. It's between
the Student Union and Russ Engineering. We met in the Brandeberry
Conference Room (292 Joshi).
No topic had been confirmed for this meeting, but we discussed many issues, including:
- DMA's 33⅓ picnic, to be held Sat., Sept. 12 at Thomas A
Cloud Park. Tickets will be $2 in advance or $5 at the event.
- GT is searching for Open Source software suitable
for generating tickets for the picnic. Although Scribus is a highly regarded desktop
publishing program, it didn't work well for that task. Someone suggested
gLabels.
- Penguicon in Michigan May 1-3.
GT, Grant will be attending, and Catherine Devlin will be one of the
featured speakers.
- Don Corbet donated a couple books and talked briefly about Ohio LinuxFest, which will be
held in Columbus Convention Center 25-26, 2009. He also mentioned
Florida Linux Show
and that Red Hat will be pushing
virtualization hard in their soon-to-be-released Red Hat 6 and Fedora 11.
- There will be a Jaunty
Jackalope (Ubuntu 9.04) release party May 9 at the Easton Town Center
(Columbus) Panera Bread location Saturday, May 9, where CDs will be
available.
- There was an extensive discussion of the new ext4 filesystem and
why you might want to switch to it (it's faster, handles huge
files, is better at avoiding fragmentation, fsck is faster, and it has
nanosecond timestamps), and a lot of reasons why you shouldn't switch
unless you really need the new features. You could lose data
with ext4 due to delayed allocation. Paul V strongly recommended LWN.net as a good
source of info if you want to keep current on ext4's progress.
- Don mentioned that this year marks both the 40th anniversary for Unix and 18th for Linux.
- Ken Phelps mentioned the transition of DMA's e-mail to
Gmail. If you have an @dma.org address, you need to visit the
"Gmail for Organizations" link at the bottom of the Gmail login page to continue using
your address.
- Steve Hayden has found some on-line tools to convert to/from degrees,
minnutes, seconds to fractional degrees, but is seeking an off-line
solution.
A few days before the meeting, Paul Visscher had offered to
discuss FUSE but only Grant had expressed an interest in the topic.
I assumed that Paul wouldn't do the presentation due to lack of interest.
Thanks for proving me wrong, Paul! As usual, Paul gave an excellent
presentation. Paul said he would put a copy of his presentation notes on
his website. Next month,
Paul will discuss Version Control Systems.
After the meeting, we adjourned to TGI Friday's.
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March 2009
No topic was scheduled for this meeting. A variety of subjects
were discussed, including:
We adjourned to One Eyed Jacks
on Col. Glenn, where Cold Beer and Cheeseburgers used to be.
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February 2009
Jason Cook discussed LAMP
and maintaining a LAMP system which he uses in his job at
Wikia, a spinoff of Wikipedia.
His talk included some discussion of a Global Load Balancing DNS system
written in-house, the Varnish
HTTP accelerator which is up to 20 times faster than squid, Nagios and
Hyperic monitoring systems, and much more. Welcome back, Jason!
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February 2009
A few of our members manned a booth at this year's
TechFest and
distributed Edubuntu 8.10 DVDs and
Ubuntu 8.10 CDs to students &
their parents. If you received one of them, you can find more info here.
Grant Root reported "Day 1 of TechFest was extremely successful at
the Linux SIG booth. We had huge numbers of kids and their parents
stop to try out the Linux laptops, listen to us talk about Linux, and
take an Edubuntu DVD."
"We had so many takers that we ran completely out of Edubuntu
DVDs!"
"The killer app on the Edubuntu laptop turned out to be Potato Guy.
Eric started that up, and every young kid who walked up stayed to play
with it. That gave us a chance to explain Linux and Edubuntu, and the
parents were thrilled that they could take home the same stuff their kid
was having fun with. Kstars
[sic] was also popular."
"The young kids also gravitated to the OLPC, which is little
and cute. They jumped right in and ran all sorts of applications on it.
The adults were interested too, especially when they found out what it
was — many of them had heard of it."
"Got lots of parents — and quite a few kids — who were
already using Linux or had at least heard of it. Very cool!"
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February 2009
InstallFest+ at Sinclair Community College
Our last InstallFest+ (formerly known as
Installfest) was held at Sinclair
Community College from 10 am–4 pm Saturday, February
7th, 2009 in room 4242 of building 4.
Once again, Art Ross and Sinclair Community College were our hosts.
Why Installfest+ instead of Installfest? Since Linux
has become much easier to install over the past few years, we've decided
to shift the emphasis away from just installing Linux. Sure, we'll help
you do that if that's what you want. But most people can get it installed
OK on their own these days, but sometimes find that they need help doing
certain things (printing, scanning, connecting with other networked
computers at home, playing music, etc., etc.) once it's installed.
So we'll try to offer help in those areas. If you have a problem
you want help with, bring your machine in and we'll help as best we can.
Please let us know in advance what problems you need help with so we
can attempt to be better prepared. There is no admission charge for
this event, although parking in the above ground garage is $2.
We had copies of several of the more popular recent distros, including:
ClarkConnect CE 4.3,
Damn Small Linux 4.4.10,
Debian 4.0 ("etch"),
Fedora 10,
KnoppMyth 5.5,
Mandriva Linux One 2009 (possibly both KDE 4 & Gnome versions) (formerly Mandrake),
MythDora 10.21 (MythTV 0.21 on Fedora 10),
SimplyMepis 7.0,
openSUSE 11.1,
OpenDisc 08.10,
SmoothWall Express 3.0 SP1,
Trixbox CE 2.6.2.1 (formerly Asterisk@Home),
Ubuntu 8.10 "Intrepid Ibex" CD,
Ultimate Boot CD 4.1.1, a handy bootable CD full of diagnostics & utilities,
and VectorLinux 5.9.
If you have unusual hardware (very new or very old PC, or
system with something other than an Intel Pentium or AMD Athlon
CPU such as Alpha, PowerPC (e.g. Mac), Sparc, new Inel-based
Mac, etc. or need specific help, please let us know in advance
so we can try to be prepared to help you. Contact info is here. We will also have help available for
anyone wanting to setup MythTV.
KnoppMyth is
probably the easiest way to do it, but there are several other ways,
including A.M.I.C.U.S.,
developed by our own Andrew Lynch.
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January 2009
InstallFest+ at Sinclair Community College
Due to circumstances beyond our control, the Linux
InstallFest+ which was originally scheduled for Jan. 24, is now
rescheduled for Feb. 7
January 2009
We don't yet have any particular topic
scheduled for this month, although I expect TechFest 2009 will
be discussed.
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