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2009-10-14T22:09:26Z

SteveSeverson: /* RCTC Main Campus, East Hall (EA) room 103 */

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= K-LUG - Rochester, MN Area Linux Users Group =

Note: To request a wiki account, please join the mailing list and post a message.

We can use presentations for upcoming meetings, please see [http://www.k-lug.org/Meetings a list of ideas] if you're willing but lacking a topic.

== LUG News ==

[http://www.google.com/calendar/embed?src=cXBkMGRtOGtndmFibm9yajJhcTRlM2s2OGtAZ3JvdXAuY2FsZW5kYXIuZ29vZ2xlLmNvbQ K-LUG Google calendar]

[http://www.google.com/calendar/embed?src=ODkyNDg3ZWZpbWh2OWduMHFyMTNtdG9qamtAZ3JvdXAuY2FsZW5kYXIuZ29vZ2xlLmNvbQ K-LUG unofficial activities Google calendar]

[http://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=720638962#/pages/K-Lug-Linux-User-Group/48319644279?ref=mf K-lug Facebook page]

=== Lunch: Thursday October 15th ===
11:30 am, at the Apache Mall food court near B&N. Look for a swarm of smartypants.

=== Planned Social: October TBD ===
A photography walk would also be fun and would need to be done when most of you are still willing to play outside, ie in October. Bring your camera, and we'll all try
our hand at taking pictures. We need someone to pick a starting
location, route, and to lead the event (this means you get to pick the
time and date!). Also, this would lead well into another photo
manipulation presentation, we had one on GIMP and one on PaintShopPro a
couple years ago, if anyone is willing to give such a presentation at a near-future meeting.

Update: Chris Abbey has expressed interest in leading this activity and in doing a presentation sometime in 2010. The tentative weekend for the two photowalks (one nature, one architectural) is October 24/25, stay tuned for more updates.

=== Annual Swap/Sale: Thursday November 12th ===
==== RCTC Main Campus, [http://www.rctc.edu/campustour/maps/buildingmaps.html East Hall (EA)] room [http://www.rctc.edu/campustour/maps/easthall.html 103] ====
This location is larger than we'd previously been able to get (thanks Jose!), and it's near the parking lot entrance. Set up at 6 pm, festivities begin at 6:30 pm.

Come if you want to Sell Stuff! 
Come if you want to show off Stuff! (prizes awarded for crowd favorites) 
Come if you want to Buy Stuff! (K-Lug Tee shirts available too) 
Come if you want to eat Stuff! (Pizza and Pop available for a donation) 

We need volunteers for creating advertising, putting up signs, running the recycling station, and of course everyone should bring their stuff to sell/swap. 
We'll make use of volunteer labor to help you get your stuff in and out too, no worries.

Job list - volunteers needed! 
-Bring your stuff to sell/swap. Everyone. 
In previous years some of the folks higher priced stuff or a lot of stuff have pre-announced their "list of goodies" on the news group or our wiki...that might bring out more customers.

-Bring your stuff to show off in the Vintage Electronics show, and a “hat” if you want to submit an item for viewers choice award. Everyone

-Come up with a Vintage Electronics viewers choice award, be in charge of distributing 1 ticket per customer, tally and award at end of night. _____________

-Create an advertising sales flier, here's last year's [http://www.k-lug.org/images/9/9b/Swapflyer_2008.pdf example (pdf)] that all the people responsible for posting can download and print. Include who, when, where, and what (sale, swap, recycling, vintage, pizza, free CDs). Jon Gullixson

-Print and show [http://www.k-lug.org/images/9/9b/Swapflyer_2008.pdf this Sale Flyer] to friends (currently last year's as an example). Everyone.

-Bring your computer stuff that needs to go to the recycling ($0.30 per pound, rounded up to the nearest dollar for ease of making change). Everyone.

-Help others bring their stuff up to the room, down to their cars. _____________

-Bring a bathroom scale that's accurate at low weight ranges, so we can figure out the appropriate recycling fee to charge. Mo Holahan

-Man the recycling area, do the weighing, cost figuring, and providing of change. _____________

-Bring your truck and be willing to take a load to the recycling during the recycling center's open hours (Mondays-Saturdays, 8-5). Brent V

-Coordinate the pizza fundraiser, buy pizza and pop plus bring paper plates and disposable cups in quantities sufficient for those who show up. Will be reimbursed out of the profits from the fundraiser (charge is a donation). Pizza supply list, from 2008 results: pizza (4), pop (4 2L), paper plates, napkins, plastic cups, ice. We had ~1/2 a pizza and ~2L worth of pop left over in 2008, but we broke even on the donations, so we were good. The "fancier" pizza flavors were the faster movers, such as supreme went much faster than cheese. And root beer and Mt Dew went much faster than Sprite. Set up a sign indicating that the pizza and pop are in this part of the room, that's it's for donation. Also label a cup as the donation collection container. _____________

-Making some (Ubuntu?) CDs to give away (5?). - Steve Severson

-Get a location - Tina W

-Posting. Volunteers are needed to post the flier to many locations. Please sign up to be the poster for the following (suggestions welcome): 
-KLUG mailing list and wiki (done) - Tina W 
-IBM calendar - _____________ 
-IBM Beehive- _____________ 
-Ham Radio Club _____________ 
-PCIG Website -_____________ 
-Mayo classifieds _____________ 
-Craigslist, Think Bank _____________ 
-Rochester Freecycle (limited to free pick-up of non-swapped items headed for recycling at the end of the swap) - (this probably won't get done due to posting requirements) _____________ 
-UCR bulletin boards - in hard copy _____________ 
-RCTC bulletin boards - in hard copy, bring your own push pins _____________ 
-IBM Building 107 - post hard copy - Steve Severson 
-IBM White Building(664) - post hard copy _____________ 
-Other IBM buildings - post hard copy _____________ 
-Venture Computer - send email of flyer, request posting - Steve Severson 
-NorLug? _____________ 
-Area 51? _____________ 
-Computer Liquidator on 2nd street? _____________ 
-p0wned? _____________ 
-Other places/ways to advertise? Public access? Would we qualify for free advertising on the radio, newspaper, etc? 
-Wherever else you can think of. _____________ 

-Create illegal wayfinding “Tonight!” signs for posting at UCR on the evening of. ("Tonight!" with arrows in appropriate directions, highlighting of what the event is and the room number, advertise the free linux CDs on our signs, etc) ________________

-Arrive at UCR at 5:45 pm, post illegal wayfinding signs on all entry doors, nearby directional corners, and on the room door. Bring masking tape. Also responsible for taking down at the end of the night. Find a door stop so we can prop the room door open. The masking tape and a pen are also useful for posting a sign above the pizza/pop, saying it's available for donation. And for putting a label on a cup as being the donation collection container. _____________

-Arrive at UCR before 6 pm, write welcome message on the chalk board, also list upcoming KLUG events and dates, K-LUG website address _____________

-People could list what they haven't sold and haven't tossed, post-swap. http://www.k-lug.org/ForSaleorWanted . _____________

-After it seemed like everyone was there and set up, we went around the room and let each seller advertise their highlights and freebies. Let buyers have a chance to ask if anyone had something in particular that hadn't been mentioned. Advertised the recycling, and the food.

=== Lunch: Thursday November 12th ===
11:30 am, at the Apache Mall food court near B&N. Look for a multitude of miscreants.

=== Planned Social: November TBD ===
Ideas can be found [http://www.k-lug.org/SocialMeeting here] or invent your own. What would you like to do? Tell Tina.

=== Annual Holiday Party / Game Night: Thursday December 10th ===
Our December social occurred last year at Pwned (now closed), in the
past it's been held at Area51 or it's been a LAN party (need host).
Other options could include a night of non-computer games at a house
(again need host, and btw if this type of thing interests you don't
forget to check out the Activities email list and calendar, links on the
wiki), X-box type games at a local movie theater, playing laser tag at
the House of Bounce, or whatever else you suggest. Let Tim or I know
what you'd like.

=== Planned Social: December TBD ===
Ideas can be found [http://www.k-lug.org/SocialMeeting here] or invent your own. What would you like to do? Tell Tina.

=== Free: Open Source Stickers for your Systems ===

[http://www.openstickers.com Openstickers.com] - download these images, print on sticker paper, cut and apply.

[[Image:Openstickers.png]]

=== Planned Technical Meeting: Thursday January 14th ===
No presenters yet, please volunteer! Need some ideas? [http://www.k-lug.org/index.php?title=Meetings&action=submit#Requested_topics_list Here are topics] your fellow K-LUGgers have requested.

=== Upcoming Meeting Crisis! ===
Well, not really a crisis, but we do need some meeting topics (& speakers) for 2009. We'd like to know what you want to see and hear about. Please email Tina or Tim with suggestions for topics. Should we run some previous sessions again (maybe something you really wanted to see but missed out on)? What type of topics are good, what type are bad? Also don't forget, Speakers earn up to $40 as an incentive for their presentation! Also see this page for a list of suggested topics http://www.k-lug.org/Meetings

=== Old News Items ===
See the [[OldNews]] page.

Main Page

2009-10-14T22:07:45Z

SteveSeverson: /* RCTC Main Campus, East Hall (EA) room 103 */

__NOTOC__

= K-LUG - Rochester, MN Area Linux Users Group =

Note: To request a wiki account, please join the mailing list and post a message.

We can use presentations for upcoming meetings, please see [http://www.k-lug.org/Meetings a list of ideas] if you're willing but lacking a topic.

== LUG News ==

[http://www.google.com/calendar/embed?src=cXBkMGRtOGtndmFibm9yajJhcTRlM2s2OGtAZ3JvdXAuY2FsZW5kYXIuZ29vZ2xlLmNvbQ K-LUG Google calendar]

[http://www.google.com/calendar/embed?src=ODkyNDg3ZWZpbWh2OWduMHFyMTNtdG9qamtAZ3JvdXAuY2FsZW5kYXIuZ29vZ2xlLmNvbQ K-LUG unofficial activities Google calendar]

[http://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=720638962#/pages/K-Lug-Linux-User-Group/48319644279?ref=mf K-lug Facebook page]

=== Lunch: Thursday October 15th ===
11:30 am, at the Apache Mall food court near B&N. Look for a swarm of smartypants.

=== Planned Social: October TBD ===
A photography walk would also be fun and would need to be done when most of you are still willing to play outside, ie in October. Bring your camera, and we'll all try
our hand at taking pictures. We need someone to pick a starting
location, route, and to lead the event (this means you get to pick the
time and date!). Also, this would lead well into another photo
manipulation presentation, we had one on GIMP and one on PaintShopPro a
couple years ago, if anyone is willing to give such a presentation at a near-future meeting.

Update: Chris Abbey has expressed interest in leading this activity and in doing a presentation sometime in 2010. The tentative weekend for the two photowalks (one nature, one architectural) is October 24/25, stay tuned for more updates.

=== Annual Swap/Sale: Thursday November 12th ===
==== RCTC Main Campus, [http://www.rctc.edu/campustour/maps/buildingmaps.html East Hall (EA)] room [http://www.rctc.edu/campustour/maps/easthall.html 103] ====
This location is larger than we'd previously been able to get (thanks Jose!), and it's near the parking lot entrance. Set up at 6 pm, festivities begin at 6:30 pm.

Come if you want to Sell Stuff! 
Come if you want to show off Stuff! (prizes awarded for crowd favorites) 
Come if you want to Buy Stuff! (K-Lug Tee shirts available too) 
Come if you want to eat Stuff! (Pizza and Pop available for a donation) 

We need volunteers for creating advertising, putting up signs, running the recycling station, and of course everyone should bring their stuff to sell/swap. 
We'll make use of volunteer labor to help you get your stuff in and out too, no worries.

Job list - volunteers needed! 
-Bring your stuff to sell/swap. Everyone. 
In previous years some of the folks higher priced stuff or a lot of stuff have pre-announced their "list of goodies" on the news group or our wiki...that might bring out more customers.

-Bring your stuff to show off in the Vintage Electronics show, and a “hat” if you want to submit an item for viewers choice award. Everyone

-Come up with a Vintage Electronics viewers choice award, be in charge of distributing 1 ticket per customer, tally and award at end of night. _____________

-Create an advertising sales flier, here's last year's [http://www.k-lug.org/images/9/9b/Swapflyer_2008.pdf example (pdf)] that all the people responsible for posting can download and print. Include who, when, where, and what (sale, swap, recycling, vintage, pizza, free CDs). Jon Gullixson

-Print and show [http://www.k-lug.org/images/9/9b/Swapflyer_2008.pdf this Sale Flyer] to friends (currently last year's as an example). Everyone.

-Bring your computer stuff that needs to go to the recycling ($0.30 per pound, rounded up to the nearest dollar for ease of making change). Everyone.

-Help others bring their stuff up to the room, down to their cars. _____________

-Bring a bathroom scale that's accurate at low weight ranges, so we can figure out the appropriate recycling fee to charge. Mo Holahan

-Man the recycling area, do the weighing, cost figuring, and providing of change. _____________

-Bring your truck and be willing to take a load to the recycling during the recycling center's open hours (Mondays-Saturdays, 8-5). Brent V

-Coordinate the pizza fundraiser, buy pizza and pop plus bring paper plates and disposable cups in quantities sufficient for those who show up. Will be reimbursed out of the profits from the fundraiser (charge is a donation). Pizza supply list, from 2008 results: pizza (4), pop (4 2L), paper plates, napkins, plastic cups, ice. We had ~1/2 a pizza and ~2L worth of pop left over in 2008, but we broke even on the donations, so we were good. The "fancier" pizza flavors were the faster movers, such as supreme went much faster than cheese. And root beer and Mt Dew went much faster than Sprite. Set up a sign indicating that the pizza and pop are in this part of the room, that's it's for donation. Also label a cup as the donation collection container. _____________

-Making some (Ubuntu?) CDs to give away (5?). Steve Severson

-Get a location - Tina W

-Posting. Volunteers are needed to post the flier to many locations. Please sign up to be the poster for the following (suggestions welcome): 
-KLUG mailing list and wiki (done) - Tina W 
-IBM calendar - _____________ 
-IBM Beehive- _____________ 
-Ham Radio Club _____________ 
-PCIG Website -_____________ 
-Mayo classifieds _____________ 
-Craigslist, Think Bank _____________ 
-Rochester Freecycle (limited to free pick-up of non-swapped items headed for recycling at the end of the swap) - (this probably won't get done due to posting requirements) _____________ 
-UCR bulletin boards - in hard copy _____________ 
-RCTC bulletin boards - in hard copy, bring your own push pins _____________ 
-IBM Building 107 - post hard copy Steve Severson 
-IBM White Building(664) - post hard copy _____________ 
-Other IBM buildings - post hard copy _____________ 
-Venture Computer - send email of flyer, request posting Steve Severson 
-NorLug? _____________ 
-Area 51? _____________ 
-Computer Liquidator on 2nd street? _____________ 
-p0wned? _____________ 
-Other places/ways to advertise? Public access? Would we qualify for free advertising on the radio, newspaper, etc? 
-Wherever else you can think of. _____________ 

-Create illegal wayfinding “Tonight!” signs for posting at UCR on the evening of. ("Tonight!" with arrows in appropriate directions, highlighting of what the event is and the room number, advertise the free linux CDs on our signs, etc) ________________

-Arrive at UCR at 5:45 pm, post illegal wayfinding signs on all entry doors, nearby directional corners, and on the room door. Bring masking tape. Also responsible for taking down at the end of the night. Find a door stop so we can prop the room door open. The masking tape and a pen are also useful for posting a sign above the pizza/pop, saying it's available for donation. And for putting a label on a cup as being the donation collection container. _____________

-Arrive at UCR before 6 pm, write welcome message on the chalk board, also list upcoming KLUG events and dates, K-LUG website address _____________

-People could list what they haven't sold and haven't tossed, post-swap. http://www.k-lug.org/ForSaleorWanted . _____________

-After it seemed like everyone was there and set up, we went around the room and let each seller advertise their highlights and freebies. Let buyers have a chance to ask if anyone had something in particular that hadn't been mentioned. Advertised the recycling, and the food.

=== Lunch: Thursday November 12th ===
11:30 am, at the Apache Mall food court near B&N. Look for a multitude of miscreants.

=== Planned Social: November TBD ===
Ideas can be found [http://www.k-lug.org/SocialMeeting here] or invent your own. What would you like to do? Tell Tina.

=== Annual Holiday Party / Game Night: Thursday December 10th ===
Our December social occurred last year at Pwned (now closed), in the
past it's been held at Area51 or it's been a LAN party (need host).
Other options could include a night of non-computer games at a house
(again need host, and btw if this type of thing interests you don't
forget to check out the Activities email list and calendar, links on the
wiki), X-box type games at a local movie theater, playing laser tag at
the House of Bounce, or whatever else you suggest. Let Tim or I know
what you'd like.

=== Planned Social: December TBD ===
Ideas can be found [http://www.k-lug.org/SocialMeeting here] or invent your own. What would you like to do? Tell Tina.

=== Free: Open Source Stickers for your Systems ===

[http://www.openstickers.com Openstickers.com] - download these images, print on sticker paper, cut and apply.

[[Image:Openstickers.png]]

=== Planned Technical Meeting: Thursday January 14th ===
No presenters yet, please volunteer! Need some ideas? [http://www.k-lug.org/index.php?title=Meetings&action=submit#Requested_topics_list Here are topics] your fellow K-LUGgers have requested.

=== Upcoming Meeting Crisis! ===
Well, not really a crisis, but we do need some meeting topics (& speakers) for 2009. We'd like to know what you want to see and hear about. Please email Tina or Tim with suggestions for topics. Should we run some previous sessions again (maybe something you really wanted to see but missed out on)? What type of topics are good, what type are bad? Also don't forget, Speakers earn up to $40 as an incentive for their presentation! Also see this page for a list of suggested topics http://www.k-lug.org/Meetings

=== Old News Items ===
See the [[OldNews]] page.

Links

2008-09-26T18:58:27Z

SteveSeverson: /* Hardware Links */

== K-Lug Links ==

'''Find a User Group in Your Area''' 
http://www.linux.org/groups/

'''When meeting topics are Unix related we sometimes combine meetings with the IBM PC User Group (PCIG)''' 
http://www.pcig.info

'''K-Lug has occasionally meets with the Northfield Linux User Group (Norlug)''' 
http://www.norlug.org

== Linux Links ==

[http://www.linuxhaxor.net/2007/09/05/68-linux-related-free-e-books/ Free Ebooks]
[http://www.vagabondodigitale.com/2008/01/10-sites-offering-free-linux-courses-online.html Online Linux Courses]

== Education Links ==
[http://www.lecturefox.com/ Online Lectures - Lecturefox]

== Hardware Links ==
'''Favorite Places to find hardware'''

[http://www.halted.com/ HSC Electronic Supply] ''Huge selection of surplus electronic and mechanical parts''

[http://www.sciplus.com/ American Science and Surplus] ''Surplus science and electronic stuff, some strange and unusual''

[http://www.ax-man.com/ Ax Man] ''Surplus in the Twin Cities, three locations''

[http://www.allelectronics.com/ All Electronics] ''Surplus electronics and computer accessories''

[http://www.modularhose.com/ Modular Hose] ''Flexible plastic hose and fittings/connectors''

[http://www.delikon.com/index.html Delikon] ''Flexible conduit and fittings/connectors''

[http://www.surpluscomputers.com/ Surplus Computers] ''Computers, peripherals and electronics''

Links

2008-09-26T18:50:57Z

SteveSeverson: /* Hardware Links */

Links

2008-09-26T18:37:01Z

SteveSeverson:

Meetings

2008-01-17T00:06:58Z

SteveSeverson: /* Potential topics */

__NOTOC__
= When do you meet? =

Technical meetings are once a month, during the second week of the month. On even numbered months we meet on Tuesday and on odd numbered months, Thursdays. For clarification, we start counting with 1 like the regular calendar, not 0. That means Tuesday meetings are February, April, June, August, October, and December, although we will move them to coincide with the Thursday PCIG meetings if we're sharing a speaker that month. Meetings start at 6:00 PM.

Check the main page for additional social meeting announcements.

We also meet for lunch on the 3rd Thursday of the month at the Apache Mall food court at 11:30 AM, sort of near the Barnes&Noble. Look for the geeks. For those coming from IBM, there are some people who carpool. For those coming from downtown, you can take the bus (route 7A, departing downtown at 11:12 am) or it's a 30 minute walk (plan to depart the SE corner of the courtyard between the Harwick and Medical Sciences building at 11 am) in decent weather.

= Where do you meet? =

At the University Center Rochester Heinz Center in room HA107. [http://www.roch.edu/html-spectrum/getting_to_ucr.html Need directions?]. [http://www.rctc.edu/campustour/maps/heintzA.html This map] may help you find the specific room.

= What do I need? =

An interest in Linux...that's it. We've got everyone from newbies to experts here so don't feel bad if you don't know a thing about Linux...that's what we're here for. To actually play with Linux you'll need at least a pentium (technically a 386 would work, but nobody has those kind of patience :), preferrably with a CD-ROM drive. We've got CDs and burners if you'd like your own copy too.

= How do I get started? =

Just attend one of our meetings or jump on the [http://lists.k-lug.org/mailman/listinfo/klug mailing list].

= Meeting minutes =

Occasionally we take [[:Category:Minutes | Meeting Minutes]]

= Potential topics =

This is a list of topics that people are willing to present on if there is sufficient interest.

{| border="1"
! Presenter !! Topic !! Date !! Interested Parties
|-
| Steve Fox
| PHP/MySQL programming
| Any
| Carter Lekatz, Tim Massaro, Tina Wood, Steve Severson
|-
| Kevin Arhelger
| XEN/vmware virtualization
| Any
| Tina Wood, Tim M, Chris Abbey, Bob Nix, Steve Fox, Steve Severson
|-
| Bill Marshall
| Samba
| ??
| Tina Wood, Tim M, Chris Abbey, Steve Severson
|-
| Kevin Neff
| USB Hardware project
| ??
| Steve Fox, Tina Wood, Tim Massaro, Jim Evans
|-
| Jose de Leon
| One Laptop Per Child
| Any
| Tina Wood, Steve Fox, Steve Severson
|}

= Requested topics list =
Can't think of something you want to present, and looking for ideas? Look no further. Got a topic you wish someone else would present on? Post it here.

-Open source applications in Education - anyone have experience with any applications such as Moodle, Sakai, LTSP? What others are there?

-samba

-copying your own DVD's to your own computer for personal use

-wireless access - Are others using your wireless connection, what have they done? How can you help protect yourself?

-remote access - Security for a machine you intend to leave online as a remote accessed server for yourself as well as family/friends. Including specifically alerts and monitoring of who is logged in remotely. Are others logged into your system? Have others logged in as you? Have you been rooted? What did any of these people do? How can you help protect yourself?

-Klug photo album - Do we want one? Who would be willing to put it together? Could we put it on a wiki page that's only accessible to a restricted list, such as those already signed up to the mailing list? Are we photogenic enough to be willing to have our mugs posted?

-virtual meetings - 1. Would anyone on our mailing list take advantage of meetings if they were virtual i.e. webcasts or whatever?
At least with Audio and Slides available.
2. Regardless of the answer to 1, it would be a cool meeting topic if someone could demo Asterisk, an opensource PBX system, with Voip capability...perhaps way more function than we need for "virtual meetings", but it could be used to allow all k-lug users to listen in on our meetings...then we could combine that with a tool like VNCserver to show slides and on-screen demos. This is a Linux friendly solution that may allow more people to participate in our meetings. What do people think? Perhaps there are better or simpler solutions to this problem?.

-VMWare player and server are now free, we could demo this to allow windows users to dabble in the linux world more easily

-Xen or KVM, I keep hearing about them but haven't used or seen em...why would I pick something over VMWare?

-Linux on a USB Key, how can I easily configure the contents I want on the key, including wireless without having to create a dual boot environment on my Pc.

-Apache for personal use (photo albums, maybe a wiki, music, etc)

-PlutoHome

-Thinclients and connecting them to a main home server

-Construct a set of slides and presentation material to conduct a Community Ed class, with the goal of making it easy for the presenter so that the "duty" of holding the class could be circulated among the K-Lug'ers willing to do it. If you had to do it once a year instead of four times, it might be easier to keep a class like that going. Live Knoppix CDs are an issue at the Community Education building, the PCs there would not boot from CD, so you'd need a floppy disk boot manager to get the CDs in play. The goal, especially for the Linux class, is to allow everyone to walk away at the end of the evening with a live-CD in hand.
Volunteers for teaching once presentation is written: Steve Schaper

-Voting and vote tracking

-Now that new cars don't come with cassette players, it becomes necessary to put those books on tape or music on tape on a more useful format for travelling. How to do this using cheap/free/already owned software and hardware. Could expand the topic to rescuing your any favorite out-dated audio material (record, 8-track, etc).

-aapml application mark up...what is it/how is it used. Is it going anywhere.

-Repairing/rebuilding a hacked machine

-Some workgroup like sessions to configure, build and install USB
Drive distributions. Maybe several evenings in a row so one missed
could be attended or used for catch up.

-More Home Automation related stuff if anyone has information to
share.

-A clean way to make copies of purchased DVD movies for viewing off
a laptop hard drive.

-Home Document Management (OpenDocMan project) scanning, indexing and
managing important documents.

-Introduction to Onion Routing, building and using Tor for fun and profit!

-Using the ports system under (Free|Open|Net)BSD

-LDAP Authentication and user management

= Information on the next social meeting =
See the [[SocialMeeting]] page

Meetings

2008-01-17T00:05:42Z

SteveSeverson: /* Requested topics list */

__NOTOC__
= When do you meet? =

Technical meetings are once a month, during the second week of the month. On even numbered months we meet on Tuesday and on odd numbered months, Thursdays. For clarification, we start counting with 1 like the regular calendar, not 0. That means Tuesday meetings are February, April, June, August, October, and December, although we will move them to coincide with the Thursday PCIG meetings if we're sharing a speaker that month. Meetings start at 6:00 PM.

Check the main page for additional social meeting announcements.

We also meet for lunch on the 3rd Thursday of the month at the Apache Mall food court at 11:30 AM, sort of near the Barnes&Noble. Look for the geeks. For those coming from IBM, there are some people who carpool. For those coming from downtown, you can take the bus (route 7A, departing downtown at 11:12 am) or it's a 30 minute walk (plan to depart the SE corner of the courtyard between the Harwick and Medical Sciences building at 11 am) in decent weather.

= Where do you meet? =

At the University Center Rochester Heinz Center in room HA107. [http://www.roch.edu/html-spectrum/getting_to_ucr.html Need directions?]. [http://www.rctc.edu/campustour/maps/heintzA.html This map] may help you find the specific room.

= What do I need? =

An interest in Linux...that's it. We've got everyone from newbies to experts here so don't feel bad if you don't know a thing about Linux...that's what we're here for. To actually play with Linux you'll need at least a pentium (technically a 386 would work, but nobody has those kind of patience :), preferrably with a CD-ROM drive. We've got CDs and burners if you'd like your own copy too.

= How do I get started? =

Just attend one of our meetings or jump on the [http://lists.k-lug.org/mailman/listinfo/klug mailing list].

= Meeting minutes =

Occasionally we take [[:Category:Minutes | Meeting Minutes]]

= Potential topics =

This is a list of topics that people are willing to present on if there is sufficient interest.

{| border="1"
! Presenter !! Topic !! Date !! Interested Parties
|-
| Steve Fox
| PHP/MySQL programming
| Any
| Carter Lekatz, Tim Massaro, Tina Wood
|-
| Kevin Arhelger
| XEN/vmware virtualization
| Any
| Tina Wood, Tim M, Chris Abbey, Bob Nix, Steve Fox
|-
| Bill Marshall
| Samba
| ??
| Tina Wood, Tim M, Chris Abbey
|-
| Kevin Neff
| USB Hardware project
| ??
| Steve Fox, Tina Wood, Tim Massaro, Jim Evans
|-
| Jose de Leon
| One Laptop Per Child
| Any
| Tina Wood, Steve Fox
|}

= Requested topics list =
Can't think of something you want to present, and looking for ideas? Look no further. Got a topic you wish someone else would present on? Post it here.

-Open source applications in Education - anyone have experience with any applications such as Moodle, Sakai, LTSP? What others are there?

-samba

-copying your own DVD's to your own computer for personal use

-wireless access - Are others using your wireless connection, what have they done? How can you help protect yourself?

-remote access - Security for a machine you intend to leave online as a remote accessed server for yourself as well as family/friends. Including specifically alerts and monitoring of who is logged in remotely. Are others logged into your system? Have others logged in as you? Have you been rooted? What did any of these people do? How can you help protect yourself?

-Klug photo album - Do we want one? Who would be willing to put it together? Could we put it on a wiki page that's only accessible to a restricted list, such as those already signed up to the mailing list? Are we photogenic enough to be willing to have our mugs posted?

-virtual meetings - 1. Would anyone on our mailing list take advantage of meetings if they were virtual i.e. webcasts or whatever?
At least with Audio and Slides available.
2. Regardless of the answer to 1, it would be a cool meeting topic if someone could demo Asterisk, an opensource PBX system, with Voip capability...perhaps way more function than we need for "virtual meetings", but it could be used to allow all k-lug users to listen in on our meetings...then we could combine that with a tool like VNCserver to show slides and on-screen demos. This is a Linux friendly solution that may allow more people to participate in our meetings. What do people think? Perhaps there are better or simpler solutions to this problem?.

-VMWare player and server are now free, we could demo this to allow windows users to dabble in the linux world more easily

-Xen or KVM, I keep hearing about them but haven't used or seen em...why would I pick something over VMWare?

-Linux on a USB Key, how can I easily configure the contents I want on the key, including wireless without having to create a dual boot environment on my Pc.

-Apache for personal use (photo albums, maybe a wiki, music, etc)

-PlutoHome

-Thinclients and connecting them to a main home server

-Construct a set of slides and presentation material to conduct a Community Ed class, with the goal of making it easy for the presenter so that the "duty" of holding the class could be circulated among the K-Lug'ers willing to do it. If you had to do it once a year instead of four times, it might be easier to keep a class like that going. Live Knoppix CDs are an issue at the Community Education building, the PCs there would not boot from CD, so you'd need a floppy disk boot manager to get the CDs in play. The goal, especially for the Linux class, is to allow everyone to walk away at the end of the evening with a live-CD in hand.
Volunteers for teaching once presentation is written: Steve Schaper

-Voting and vote tracking

-Now that new cars don't come with cassette players, it becomes necessary to put those books on tape or music on tape on a more useful format for travelling. How to do this using cheap/free/already owned software and hardware. Could expand the topic to rescuing your any favorite out-dated audio material (record, 8-track, etc).

-aapml application mark up...what is it/how is it used. Is it going anywhere.

-Repairing/rebuilding a hacked machine

-Some workgroup like sessions to configure, build and install USB
Drive distributions. Maybe several evenings in a row so one missed
could be attended or used for catch up.

-More Home Automation related stuff if anyone has information to
share.

-A clean way to make copies of purchased DVD movies for viewing off
a laptop hard drive.

-Home Document Management (OpenDocMan project) scanning, indexing and
managing important documents.

-Introduction to Onion Routing, building and using Tor for fun and profit!

-Using the ports system under (Free|Open|Net)BSD

-LDAP Authentication and user management

= Information on the next social meeting =
See the [[SocialMeeting]] page

ForSaleorWanted

2007-11-09T21:19:23Z

SteveSeverson:

{| border=1 align=center
|+This page is meant to be a preview to the K-LUG / PCIG Swap Sale, coming Nov 10th. List Items for Sale or Wanted
! Date Posted
! Sell or Wanted
! Item(s) Description
! Contact
|----
|28 Dec 2005
|Sell
|I have a HP Pavilion 510c /w Windows XP Home. Specs: P4 Celeron 1.3 System, 256 megs of RAM, 40 Gig, Floppy, CD-RW, Front USB, Onboard Audio/Video/LAN, Modem. Make a reasonable offer.Only home until the 16th of Jan, would like to sell before then. - Tim
| [[Kniteman77@gmail.com]]
|----
|X
|Sell
|IBM P200 CRT monitor [http://www-307.ibm.com/pc/support/site.wss/document.do?sitestyle=lenovo&lndocid=SBJR-3XNMFM 6555-773], refurb, great shape, will do 1600x1280 @ 75hz (or at least it did the last time I had it connected to anything.) Price: Make an offer.
| [[linux@cabbey.net]]
|----
|X
|Wanted
|Pentium or PentiumII laptop. 100-200MHz cpu, 32MB-64MB memory. Doesn't need to have a working display, as long as the system works.
|Rudi Chiarito
|
|----
|X
|Sell (Free)
|BP6 motherboard, dual Celeron ~300 MHz CPUs w/ water jackets.
|neffk zat ieee fdot org
|
|----
|}

Main Page

2007-11-03T04:15:29Z

SteveSeverson: /* Technical Meeting: Swap/Sale Thursday November 8th */

__NOTOC__

K-LUG - Linux Users Group.

== LUG News ==

=== Want a K-Lug Shirt? ===
[[Image:Klugpatchsm.png]]
Our first batch of shirts came out rather nice, especially for the price. We have folk who didn't get in on the first order. Please [http://www.queensboro.com/closeouts browse the deals here], and contact Tim if interested. (We need a minimum order of 4)

=== Technical Meeting: Swap/Sale Thursday November 8th ===
Swap meet!! Buy/Sell/Trade - at this annual event, even the general public can bring computer / gadget related gear to sell or trade, or just come to browse for the bargins. Set-up will be at 6 pm, with an estimated swap start time of 6:15 pm. We also plan to have a truck available to recycle old equipment at a price of $0.35 a pound, rounded up to the nearest dollar.

When: Thursday, November 8th, 6pm

Where: [http://www.rctc.edu/campustour/getting-to-ucr.html UCR Main Campus], [http://www.rctc.edu/campustour/maps/buildingmaps.html#ucr East Hall], [http://www.rctc.edu/campustour/maps/easthall.html room 128]. Set-up will be at 6 pm, with an estimated swap start time of 6:15 pm.

Attendance will include KLUG, members of PCIG, IBM Ham Radio Club, students from RCTC, and the general public.

'''We need your help!''' In order to make this a success, we need all of you to pitch in. How? There's all sorts of ways you can help, please sign up for these tasks below.

-Bring your stuff to sell/swap. Everyone.

-Print and show this revised [http://www.k-lug.org/images/e/e0/Flyer07.pdf Sale Flyer] to friends. Everyone.

-Bring your computer stuff that needs to go to the recycling ($0.35 per pound, rounded up to the nearest dollar for ease of making change). Everyone.

-Bring a bathroom scale that's accurate at low weight ranges, so we can figure out the appropriate recycling fee to charge. Tim Massaro

-Man the recycling area, do the weighing, cost figuring, and providing of change. -Steve Severson

-Bring your truck and be willing to take a load to the recycling during the recycling center's open hours (Mondays-Saturdays, 8-5). Tim Massaro

-Coordinate the pizza fundraiser, buy pizza and pop plus bring paper plates and disposable cups in quantities sufficient for those who show up. Will be reimbursed out of the profits from the fundraiser (charge is a donation). - Steve Fox

-Making some (Ubuntu?) CDs to give away. - Steve Fox

-Get a location (done) - Tina W.

-Posting. Volunteers are needed to post to many locations. Please sign up to be the poster for the following (suggestions welcome):

-KLUG mailing list and wiki (done) - Tina W.

-IBM calendar, Ham Radio Club and PCIG Website (done) - Tim Massaro

-Mayo classifieds - Eric Amundsen

-Craigslist, Think Bank (done) - Tim Massaro

-Rochester Freecycle (limited to free pick-up of non-swapped items headed for recycling at the end of the swap) - (this probably won't get done due to posting requirements)Volunteer_needed_here

-UCR bulletin boards - in hard copy - Ren

-RCTC bulletin boards - in hard copy - Volunteer_needed_here

-IBM White Building(664) - post hard copy (done)- Steve Severson

-Venture Computer - send email of flyer, request posting (done)- Steve Severson

-Wherever else you can think of. Volunteer_needed_here

Please RSVP for what tasks you can help with. If I haven't heard from anyone on a task, I'll have to start pestering people. This has got to be a group effort to be successful.

=== Planned Social: November, TBD ===
What would you like to do? Please submit suggestions/requests to the email list or off-list directly to Tina.

=== Planned Lunch: Thursday November 15th ===
11:30 am, at the Apache Mall food court sort of near Barnes&Noble.

=== Planned Social: Night at the Planetarium, Tuesday December 4th ===
7-8 pm at the Mayo High School Planetarium. This is a Community Ed class so you must pre-register with them, more details available at [http://www.rochester.k12.mn.us/ their website], -> Enrichment -> Adult -> Adults. Or sign up [https://activenet6.active.com/rochesterce/servlet/adet.sdi?activity_id=23872 online]. 
Description: 
Explore the nightly environment that is overhead with a visit to the planetarium. A tour of the heavenly sights is planned that will feature special sights specific to the month. Cosponsored with Rochester Astronomy Club. The planetarium is located at Mayo High School. 
Code Day/Date Time Sessions Fee 
8380.143 T Dec. 4 7-8 PM 1 $5 
Location: Mayo-Rm. 1-226 
Instructor: Rochester Astronomy Club

=== Planned Technical Meeting: Thursday December 13th ===
Linux games LAN party? Gaming night at Lounge51? Weigh in with your thoughts.

Gaming night at Lounge51 (formerly Xgames) with PCIG, unless someone else wants to research other options. Research I did last year on other options can be found at the [http://www.k-lug.org/index.php?title=OldNews&action=submit#Technical_Meeting:__Tuesday_December_12th Old News] page. Lounge51 details that were current as of December 2006:

Location: Lounge51, 115 North Broadway, this is next door to the Senior Center and just south of the railroad tracks. This is NOT the old Xgames location. If you're not sure about finding parking, there's free parking after 5 pm just around the corner in the Center Street ramp.

When: Thursday December 13th, 6 pm. However they open at 10 am, so you're welcome to start earlier. Also, while Lounge51's posted closing time is 9 pm, if three or more people want to keep playing and they're paying hourly rates, Lounge51 will stay open later.

Cost: $5/hour if a non-member. Other options are memberships or day passes. Snacking options: Pop, sugar, snack foods, basically anything that doesn't actually require a food license for them to sell.

Games available (and # of simultaneous players allowed): They have 24 computers. See [http://lounge51.com/content/Games.aspx here] for an old list of games. Many more are now available. As far as licensing, that varies. Some games are available on every computer at once, and for those it's not available all at once it sounds like things are at least improved over Xgames' limitations. Examples I was given on the phone were:

-Age of Empires (version not specified), all machines

-Battlefield 2 - 10

-Counter Strike 1.6 - 6

-Counter Strike Source - 12

-Warcraft III - all machines

If there is a particular game you want to know about, I can call to ask. If there's a lot of interest in a particular game they don't currently have enough licenses for AND you are willing to pre-pay, they'd look into getting additional licenses for us. Besides computer games, they also have a big screen tv, with an Xbox, PS2, PS3, Gamecube, DDR pad, Guitar Hero, and lots of games to go with them.

=== Planned Lunch: Thursday December 21st ===
11:30 am, at the Apache Mall food court sort of near Barnes&Noble.

=== Planned Social: December, TBD ===
Does anyone want to do anything else in the month of December? Input requested.

=== Planned Technical Meeting: Tuesday January 8th ===
Presenter needed. See our [http://www.k-lug.org/Meetings list of requests] if you need some ideas.

'''KLUG officer elections'''
Please submit your nominations for president, vice president, and treasurer to the email list prior to the day of the election. Self nominations are accepted.

=== Planned Social: January 2008, TBD ===
What would you like to do? Some ideas can be found [http://www.k-lug.org/SocialMeeting#Suggestions_for_future_socials here], or feel free to be original.

=== Planned Lunch: Thursday January 18th ===
11:30 am, at the Apache Mall food court sort of near Barnes&Noble.

=== Future Social: TBD ===
Paintball at Skyline Raceway. Exact date and time will be announced when known. More details on the [http://www.k-lug.org/SocialMeeting Social page], or pester Paul Kessler.

=== Old News Items ===
See the [[OldNews]] page.

Main Page

2007-11-03T04:14:32Z

SteveSeverson: /* Technical Meeting: Swap/Sale Thursday November 8th */

__NOTOC__

K-LUG - Linux Users Group.

== LUG News ==

=== Want a K-Lug Shirt? ===
[[Image:Klugpatchsm.png]]
Our first batch of shirts came out rather nice, especially for the price. We have folk who didn't get in on the first order. Please [http://www.queensboro.com/closeouts browse the deals here], and contact Tim if interested. (We need a minimum order of 4)

=== Technical Meeting: Swap/Sale Thursday November 8th ===
Swap meet!! Buy/Sell/Trade - at this annual event, even the general public can bring computer / gadget related gear to sell or trade, or just come to browse for the bargins. Set-up will be at 6 pm, with an estimated swap start time of 6:15 pm. We also plan to have a truck available to recycle old equipment at a price of $0.35 a pound, rounded up to the nearest dollar.

When: Thursday, November 8th, 6pm

Where: [http://www.rctc.edu/campustour/getting-to-ucr.html UCR Main Campus], [http://www.rctc.edu/campustour/maps/buildingmaps.html#ucr East Hall], [http://www.rctc.edu/campustour/maps/easthall.html room 128]. Set-up will be at 6 pm, with an estimated swap start time of 6:15 pm.

Attendance will include KLUG, members of PCIG, IBM Ham Radio Club, students from RCTC, and the general public.

'''We need your help!''' In order to make this a success, we need all of you to pitch in. How? There's all sorts of ways you can help, please sign up for these tasks below.

-Bring your stuff to sell/swap. Everyone.

-Print and show this revised [http://www.k-lug.org/images/e/e0/Flyer07.pdf Sale Flyer] to friends. Everyone.

-Bring your computer stuff that needs to go to the recycling ($0.35 per pound, rounded up to the nearest dollar for ease of making change). Everyone.

-Bring a bathroom scale that's accurate at low weight ranges, so we can figure out the appropriate recycling fee to charge. Tim Massaro

-Man the recycling area, do the weighing, cost figuring, and providing of change. Steve Severson

-Bring your truck and be willing to take a load to the recycling during the recycling center's open hours (Mondays-Saturdays, 8-5). Tim Massaro

-Coordinate the pizza fundraiser, buy pizza and pop plus bring paper plates and disposable cups in quantities sufficient for those who show up. Will be reimbursed out of the profits from the fundraiser (charge is a donation). - Steve Fox

-Making some (Ubuntu?) CDs to give away. - Steve Fox

-Get a location (done) - Tina W.

-Posting. Volunteers are needed to post to many locations. Please sign up to be the poster for the following (suggestions welcome):

-KLUG mailing list and wiki (done) - Tina W.

-IBM calendar, Ham Radio Club and PCIG Website (done) - Tim Massaro

-Mayo classifieds - Eric Amundsen

-Craigslist, Think Bank (done) - Tim Massaro

-Rochester Freecycle (limited to free pick-up of non-swapped items headed for recycling at the end of the swap) - (this probably won't get done due to posting requirements)Volunteer_needed_here

-UCR bulletin boards - in hard copy - Ren

-RCTC bulletin boards - in hard copy - Volunteer_needed_here

-IBM White Building(664) - post hard copy (done)- Steve Severson

-Venture Computer - send email of flyer, request posting (done)- Steve Severson

-Wherever else you can think of. Volunteer_needed_here

Please RSVP for what tasks you can help with. If I haven't heard from anyone on a task, I'll have to start pestering people. This has got to be a group effort to be successful.

=== Planned Social: November, TBD ===
What would you like to do? Please submit suggestions/requests to the email list or off-list directly to Tina.

=== Planned Lunch: Thursday November 15th ===
11:30 am, at the Apache Mall food court sort of near Barnes&Noble.

=== Planned Social: Night at the Planetarium, Tuesday December 4th ===
7-8 pm at the Mayo High School Planetarium. This is a Community Ed class so you must pre-register with them, more details available at [http://www.rochester.k12.mn.us/ their website], -> Enrichment -> Adult -> Adults. Or sign up [https://activenet6.active.com/rochesterce/servlet/adet.sdi?activity_id=23872 online]. 
Description: 
Explore the nightly environment that is overhead with a visit to the planetarium. A tour of the heavenly sights is planned that will feature special sights specific to the month. Cosponsored with Rochester Astronomy Club. The planetarium is located at Mayo High School. 
Code Day/Date Time Sessions Fee 
8380.143 T Dec. 4 7-8 PM 1 $5 
Location: Mayo-Rm. 1-226 
Instructor: Rochester Astronomy Club

=== Planned Technical Meeting: Thursday December 13th ===
Linux games LAN party? Gaming night at Lounge51? Weigh in with your thoughts.

Gaming night at Lounge51 (formerly Xgames) with PCIG, unless someone else wants to research other options. Research I did last year on other options can be found at the [http://www.k-lug.org/index.php?title=OldNews&action=submit#Technical_Meeting:__Tuesday_December_12th Old News] page. Lounge51 details that were current as of December 2006:

Location: Lounge51, 115 North Broadway, this is next door to the Senior Center and just south of the railroad tracks. This is NOT the old Xgames location. If you're not sure about finding parking, there's free parking after 5 pm just around the corner in the Center Street ramp.

When: Thursday December 13th, 6 pm. However they open at 10 am, so you're welcome to start earlier. Also, while Lounge51's posted closing time is 9 pm, if three or more people want to keep playing and they're paying hourly rates, Lounge51 will stay open later.

Cost: $5/hour if a non-member. Other options are memberships or day passes. Snacking options: Pop, sugar, snack foods, basically anything that doesn't actually require a food license for them to sell.

Games available (and # of simultaneous players allowed): They have 24 computers. See [http://lounge51.com/content/Games.aspx here] for an old list of games. Many more are now available. As far as licensing, that varies. Some games are available on every computer at once, and for those it's not available all at once it sounds like things are at least improved over Xgames' limitations. Examples I was given on the phone were:

-Age of Empires (version not specified), all machines

-Battlefield 2 - 10

-Counter Strike 1.6 - 6

-Counter Strike Source - 12

-Warcraft III - all machines

If there is a particular game you want to know about, I can call to ask. If there's a lot of interest in a particular game they don't currently have enough licenses for AND you are willing to pre-pay, they'd look into getting additional licenses for us. Besides computer games, they also have a big screen tv, with an Xbox, PS2, PS3, Gamecube, DDR pad, Guitar Hero, and lots of games to go with them.

=== Planned Lunch: Thursday December 21st ===
11:30 am, at the Apache Mall food court sort of near Barnes&Noble.

=== Planned Social: December, TBD ===
Does anyone want to do anything else in the month of December? Input requested.

=== Planned Technical Meeting: Tuesday January 8th ===
Presenter needed. See our [http://www.k-lug.org/Meetings list of requests] if you need some ideas.

'''KLUG officer elections'''
Please submit your nominations for president, vice president, and treasurer to the email list prior to the day of the election. Self nominations are accepted.

=== Planned Social: January 2008, TBD ===
What would you like to do? Some ideas can be found [http://www.k-lug.org/SocialMeeting#Suggestions_for_future_socials here], or feel free to be original.

=== Planned Lunch: Thursday January 18th ===
11:30 am, at the Apache Mall food court sort of near Barnes&Noble.

=== Future Social: TBD ===
Paintball at Skyline Raceway. Exact date and time will be announced when known. More details on the [http://www.k-lug.org/SocialMeeting Social page], or pester Paul Kessler.

=== Old News Items ===
See the [[OldNews]] page.

Main Page

2007-10-27T01:17:18Z

SteveSeverson: /* Technical Meeting: Swap/Sale Thursday November 8th */

__NOTOC__

K-LUG - Linux Users Group.

== LUG News ==

=== Want a K-Lug Shirt? ===
[[Image:Klugpatchsm.png]]
Our first batch of shirts came out rather nice, especially for the price. We have folk who didn't get in on the first order. Please [http://www.queensboro.com/closeouts browse the deals here], and contact Tim if interested. (We need a minimum order of 4)

=== Technical Meeting: Flood Relief...Date Flexible ===

Location CompuSwap - (Near Whistle Binkies South)

The current proposal for our Oct meeting is that we dig in and help Steve Severson with a United Way Flood Relief Project.
The recent flood in SE Minnesota meant that many victims lost their computers. The United Way Tech Team (and Steve) are coordinating a couple of hardware build parties to ready 200+ CompuSwap systems for deployment to people, nonprofits and schools throughout SE MN.
K-Lug helped with this type of event after Katrina and it is actually a lot of fun! A little cleaning, a little installing of diskdrives and memory and a little boot testing.

We plan to volunteer during one or more of these time sessions

Sat, Oct 27, 2007 09:00 am to 01:00 pm: (20 slots) [[https://vsadmin.united-e-way.org/olmsted/user/events/register.tcl?slot_id=10249729528 Register]] 

=== Technical Meeting: Swap/Sale Thursday November 8th ===
Swap meet!! Buy/Sell/Trade - at this annual event, even the general public can bring computer / gadget related gear to sell or trade, or just come to browse for the bargins. Set-up will be at 6 pm, with an estimated swap start time of 6:15 pm. We also plan to have a truck available to recycle old equipment at a price of $0.35 a pound, rounded up to the nearest dollar.

When: Thursday, November 8th, 6pm

Where: TBD. Set-up will be at 6 pm, with an estimated swap start time of 6:15 pm.

Attendance will include KLUG, members of PCIG, IBM Ham Radio Club(?), students from RCTC, and the general public.

'''We need your help!''' In order to make this a success, we need all of you to pitch in. How? There's all sorts of ways you can help, please sign up for these tasks below.

-Bring your stuff to sell/swap. Everyone.

-Print and show this revised [http://www.k-lug.org/images/e/e0/Flyer07.pdf Sale Flyer] to friends. Everyone.

-Bring your computer stuff that needs to go to the recycling ($0.35 per pound, rounded up to the nearest dollar for ease of making change). Everyone.

-Bring a bathroom scale that's accurate at low weight ranges, so we can figure out the appropriate recycling fee to charge. Tim Massaro

-Man the recycling area, do the weighing, cost figuring, and providing of change. Volunteer_needed_here

-Bring your truck and be willing to take a load to the recycling during the recycling center's open hours (Mondays-Saturdays, 8-5). Tim Massaro

-Coordinate the pizza fundraiser, buy pizza and pop plus bring paper plates and disposable cups in quantities sufficient for those who show up. Will be reimbursed out of the profits from the fundraiser (charge is a donation). - Steve Fox

-Making some (Ubuntu?) CDs to give away. - Steve Fox

-Get a location (done) - Tina W.

-Posting. Volunteers are needed to post to many locations. Please sign up to be the poster for the following (suggestions welcome):

-KLUG mailing list and wiki - Tina W.

-IBM calendar, Ham Radio Club and PCIG Website (done) - Tim Massaro

-Mayo classifieds - Eric Amundsen

-Craigslist, Think Bank (done) - Tim Massaro

-Rochester Freecycle (limited to free pick-up of non-swapped items headed for recycling at the end of the swap) - (this probably won't get done due to posting requirements)Volunteer_needed_here

-UCR bulletin boards - in hard copy - Ren

-RCTC bulletin boards - in hard copy - Volunteer_needed_here

-IBM White Building(664) - post hard copy - Steve Severson

-Venture Computer - send email of flyer, request posting (done)- Steve Severson

-Wherever else you can think of. Volunteer_needed_here

Please RSVP for what tasks you can help with. If I haven't heard from anyone on a task, I'll have to start pestering people. This has got to be a group effort to be successful.

=== Planned Social: November, TBD ===
What would you like to do? Please submit suggestions/requests to the email list or off-list directly to Tina.

=== Planned Lunch: Thursday November 15th ===
11:30 am, at the Apache Mall food court sort of near Barnes&Noble.

=== Planned Technical Meeting: Thursday December 13th ===
Gaming night at Lounge51 (formerly Xgames) with PCIG, unless someone else wants to research other options. Research I did last year on other options can be found at the [http://www.k-lug.org/index.php?title=OldNews&action=submit#Technical_Meeting:__Tuesday_December_12th Old News] page. Lounge51 details that were current as of December 2006:

Location: Lounge51, 115 North Broadway, this is next door to the Senior Center and just south of the railroad tracks. This is NOT the old Xgames location. If you're not sure about finding parking, there's free parking after 5 pm just around the corner in the Center Street ramp.

When: Thursday December 13th, 6 pm. However they open at 10 am, so you're welcome to start earlier. Also, while Lounge51's posted closing time is 9 pm, if three or more people want to keep playing and they're paying hourly rates, Lounge51 will stay open later.

Cost: $5/hour if a non-member. Other options are memberships or day passes. Snacking options: Pop, sugar, snack foods, basically anything that doesn't actually require a food license for them to sell.

Games available (and # of simultaneous players allowed): They have 24 computers. See [http://lounge51.com/content/Games.aspx here] for an old list of games. Many more are now available. As far as licensing, that varies. Some games are available on every computer at once, and for those it's not available all at once it sounds like things are at least improved over Xgames' limitations. Examples I was given on the phone were:

-Age of Empires (version not specified), all machines

-Battlefield 2 - 10

-Counter Strike 1.6 - 6

-Counter Strike Source - 12

-Warcraft III - all machines

If there is a particular game you want to know about, I can call to ask. If there's a lot of interest in a particular game they don't currently have enough licenses for AND you are willing to pre-pay, they'd look into getting additional licenses for us. Besides computer games, they also have a big screen tv, with an Xbox, PS2, PS3, Gamecube, DDR pad, Guitar Hero, and lots of games to go with them.

=== Planned Lunch: Thursday December 21st ===
11:30 am, at the Apache Mall food court sort of near Barnes&Noble.

=== Planned Social: December, TBD ===
Does anyone want to do anything else in the month of December? Input requested.

=== Planned Technical Meeting: Tuesday January 8th ===
Presenter needed. See our [http://www.k-lug.org/Meetings list of requests] if you need some ideas.

'''KLUG officer elections'''
Please submit your nominations for president, vice president, and treasurer to the email list prior to the day of the election. Self nominations are accepted.

=== Planned Social: January 2008, TBD ===
What would you like to do? Some ideas can be found [http://www.k-lug.org/SocialMeeting#Suggestions_for_future_socials here], or feel free to be original.

=== Planned Lunch: Thursday January 18th ===
11:30 am, at the Apache Mall food court sort of near Barnes&Noble.

=== Future Social: TBD ===
Paintball at Skyline Raceway. Exact date and time will be announced when known. More details on the [http://www.k-lug.org/SocialMeeting Social page], or pester Paul Kessler.

=== Old News Items ===
See the [[OldNews]] page.

Main Page

2007-10-10T14:38:20Z

SteveSeverson: /* Technical Meeting: Swap/Sale Thursday November 8th */

__NOTOC__

K-LUG - Linux Users Group.

== LUG News ==

=== Server Software Upgrade ===
'''Updated: Sun Sep 9 12:37:34 EDT 2007'''
The main migration has occurred. Some services are still being worked on, mainly mailman (the mailing list).
New name server IP address, for those of you that have domains pointing are: 70.90.241.186 and 70.90.241.187.
Join '''#klug''' if you are interested in the details.

=== Want a K-Lug Shirt? ===
[[Image:Klugpatchsm.png]]
Our first batch of shirts came out rather nice, especially for the price. We have folk who didn't get in on the first order. Please [http://www.queensboro.com/closeouts browse the deals here], and contact Tim if interested. (We need a minimum order of 4)

=== Technical Meeting: Flood Relief...Date Flexible ===

Location CompuSwap - (Near Whistle Binkies South)

The current proposal for our Oct meeting is that we dig in and help Steve Severson with a United Way Flood Relief Project.
The recent flood in SE Minnesota meant that many victims lost their computers. The United Way Tech Team (and Steve) are coordinating a couple of hardware build parties to ready 200+ CompuSwap systems for deployment to people, nonprofits and schools throughout SE MN.
K-Lug helped with this type of event after Katrina and it is actually a lot of fun! A little cleaning, a little installing of diskdrives and memory and a little boot testing.

We plan to volunteer during one or more of these time sessions

Wed, Oct 03, 2007 08:00 am to 12:00 pm: (20 slots) [[https://vsadmin.united-e-way.org/olmsted/user/events/register.tcl?slot_id=10249729394 Register]] 
Wed, Oct 03, 2007 01:00 pm to 05:00 pm: (20 slots) [[https://vsadmin.united-e-way.org/olmsted/user/events/register.tcl?slot_id=10249729394 Register]] 
Sat, Oct 13, 2007 09:00 am to 01:00 pm: (20 slots) [[https://vsadmin.united-e-way.org/olmsted/user/events/register.tcl?slot_id=10249729394 Register]] 
Sat, Oct 27, 2007 09:00 am to 01:00 pm: (20 slots) [[https://vsadmin.united-e-way.org/olmsted/user/events/register.tcl?slot_id=10249729394 Register]] 

=== Lunch: Thursday October 18th ===
11:30 am, at the Apache Mall food court sort of near Barnes&Noble.

=== Technical Meeting: Swap/Sale Thursday November 8th ===
Swap meet!! Buy/Sell/Trade - at this annual event, even the general public can bring computer / gadget related gear to sell or trade, or just come to browse for the bargins. Set-up will be at 6 pm, with an estimated swap start time of 6:15 pm. We also plan to have a truck available to recycle old equipment at a price of $0.35 a pound, rounded up to the nearest dollar.

When: Thursday, November 8th, 6pm

Where: TBD. Set-up will be at 6 pm, with an estimated swap start time of 6:15 pm.

Attendance will include KLUG, members of PCIG, IBM Ham Radio Club(?), students from RCTC, and the general public.

'''We need your help!''' In order to make this a success, we need all of you to pitch in. How? There's all sorts of ways you can help, please sign up for these tasks below.

-Bring your stuff to sell/swap. Everyone.

-Update our sale flier from [http://www.k-lug.org/images/e/ef/Swapflyer_2006.pdf last year] with the new logo, date, location, etc. Volunteer_needed_here

-Print and show this revised Sale Flyer to friends. Everyone.

-Bring your computer stuff that needs to go to the recycling ($0.35 per pound, rounded up to the nearest dollar for ease of making change). Everyone.

-Bring a bathroom scale that's accurate at low weight ranges, so we can figure out the appropriate recycling fee to charge. Volunteer_needed_here

-Man the recycling area, do the weighing, cost figuring, and providing of change. Volunteer_needed_here

-Bring your truck and be willing to take a load to the recycling during the recycling center's open hours (Mondays-Saturdays, 8-5). Volunteer_needed_here

-Coordinate the pizza fundraiser, buy pizza and pop plus bring paper plates and disposable cups in quantities sufficient for those who show up. Will be reimbursed out of the profits from the fundraiser (charge is a donation). Volunteer_needed_here

-Making some (Ubuntu?) CDs to give away. Volunteer_needed_here

-Get a location - Tina W.

-Posting. Volunteers are needed to post to many locations. Please sign up to be the poster for the following (suggestions welcome):

-KLUG mailing list and wiki - Tina W.

-IBM calendar - Volunteer_needed_here

-PCIG website - Volunteer_needed_here

-Ham radio club - Volunteer_needed_here

-Mayo classifieds - Volunteer_needed_here

-Craigslist - Volunteer_needed_here

-Rochester Freecycle (limited to free pick-up of non-swapped items headed for recycling at the end of the swap) - Volunteer_needed_here

-UCR bulletin boards - in hard copy - Volunteer_needed_here

-RCTC bulletin boards - in hard copy - Volunteer_needed_here

-IBM White Building(664) - post hard copy - Steve Severson

-Venture Computer - send email of flyer, request posting - Steve Severson

-Wherever else you can think of. Volunteer_needed_here

Please RSVP for what tasks you can help with. If I haven't heard from anyone on a task, I'll have to start pestering people. This has got to be a group effort to be successful.

=== Planned Social: November, TBD ===
What would you like to do? Please submit suggestions/requests to the email list or off-list directly to Tina.

=== Planned Lunch: Thursday November 15th ===
11:30 am, at the Apache Mall food court sort of near Barnes&Noble.

=== Planned Technical Meeting: Thursday December 13th ===
Gaming night at Lounge51 (formerly Xgames) with PCIG, unless someone else wants to research other options. Research I did last year on other options can be found at the [http://www.k-lug.org/index.php?title=OldNews&action=submit#Technical_Meeting:__Tuesday_December_12th Old News] page. Lounge51 details that were current as of December 2006:

Location: Lounge51, 115 North Broadway, this is next door to the Senior Center and just south of the railroad tracks. This is NOT the old Xgames location. If you're not sure about finding parking, there's free parking after 5 pm just around the corner in the Center Street ramp.

When: Thursday December 13th, 6 pm. However they open at 10 am, so you're welcome to start earlier. Also, while Lounge51's posted closing time is 9 pm, if three or more people want to keep playing and they're paying hourly rates, Lounge51 will stay open later.

Cost: $5/hour if a non-member. Other options are memberships or day passes. Snacking options: Pop, sugar, snack foods, basically anything that doesn't actually require a food license for them to sell.

Games available (and # of simultaneous players allowed): They have 24 computers. See [http://lounge51.com/content/Games.aspx here] for an old list of games. Many more are now available. As far as licensing, that varies. Some games are available on every computer at once, and for those it's not available all at once it sounds like things are at least improved over Xgames' limitations. Examples I was given on the phone were:

-Age of Empires (version not specified), all machines

-Battlefield 2 - 10

-Counter Strike 1.6 - 6

-Counter Strike Source - 12

-Warcraft III - all machines

If there is a particular game you want to know about, I can call to ask. If there's a lot of interest in a particular game they don't currently have enough licenses for AND you are willing to pre-pay, they'd look into getting additional licenses for us. Besides computer games, they also have a big screen tv, with an Xbox, PS2, PS3, Gamecube, DDR pad, Guitar Hero, and lots of games to go with them.

=== Planned Lunch: Thursday December 21st ===
11:30 am, at the Apache Mall food court sort of near Barnes&Noble.

=== Planned Social: December, TBD ===
Does anyone want to do anything else in the month of December? Input requested.

=== Planned Technical Meeting: Tuesday January 8th ===
Presenter needed. See our [http://www.k-lug.org/Meetings list of requests] if you need some ideas.

'''KLUG officer elections'''
Please submit your nominations for president, vice president, and treasurer to the email list prior to the day of the election. Self nominations are accepted.

=== Planned Social: January 2008, TBD ===
What would you like to do? Some ideas can be found [http://www.k-lug.org/SocialMeeting#Suggestions_for_future_socials here], or feel free to be original.

=== Planned Lunch: Thursday January 18th ===
11:30 am, at the Apache Mall food court sort of near Barnes&Noble.

=== Future Social: TBD ===
Paintball at Skyline Raceway. Exact date and time will be announced when known. More details on the [http://www.k-lug.org/SocialMeeting Social page], or pester Paul Kessler.

=== Old News Items ===
See the [[OldNews]] page.

User:SteveSeverson

2006-12-25T05:46:57Z

SteveSeverson:

Hacking MythTV

2006-12-25T05:46:13Z

SteveSeverson:

[[Category:Reviews]]
'''Hacking MythTV'''

Authors J. Wilson and Ed Tittel

When I first heard the title of the book "Hacking MythTV" I had a picture in my head of of a book that uncovered the hidden secrets of MythTV, something that would be useful after going through all the install and setup. Not so, the time to get this book is as soon as you have made the decision to build a MythTV media center. You could build a system from information gathered off the web, you'll find excellent user forums and guides for installing MythTV on Gentoo, Fedora and Ubuntu. You will also find fairly good support in the SuSE and Debian communities or could just install KnoppMyth and really save some time. There are others available but I am only mentioning the ones that I have experience with. Let me explain how "Hacking MythTV" differs from these methods.

In nearly all cases what I have found with the guides on the web is that they are setup like an assembly manual that comes with a kids new toy; follow step 1, 2, 3... and have lots of fun when done. But what if something goes wrong and you have no idea why you were doing 1, 2 or 3, other than that's what you were told to do. That is where this book sets itself apart from the other methods that I have worked with, you will find a lot of useful information included with the steps that will allow you to make some decisions specific to your own hardware or needs. Also if you do run into problems you may find it easier to resolve since you now have a better understanding of how each step of the install/setup process works.

Hacking MythTV will begin by describing what MythTV is all about and how it differs from alternatives; DVRs, PVRs, HTPCs and so on. You'll find some excellent tips on selecting hardware, not only Linux friendly hardware but also components that won't be a nuisance (sight or sound) in your family room. You will pick an install method, after being offered some options. Then on with the install and setup, again with very thorough details of frontends, backends, plugins... And then on to what I was expecting to find; some advanced tips and hacks. And if you do run into some problems you will find there is a troubleshooting section at the end of the book.

In my opinion if you have MythTV you need this book.

Review by Steve Severson

User:SteveSeverson

2006-12-25T05:35:56Z

SteveSeverson:

Hacking MythTV
Authors J. Wilson and Ed Tittel

When I first heard the title of the book "Hacking MythTV" I had a picture in my head of of a book that uncovered the hidden secrets of MythTV, something that would be useful after going through all the install and setup. Not so, the time to get this book is as soon as you have made the decision to build a MythTV media center. You could build a system from information gathered off the web, you'll find excellent user forums and guides for installing MythTV on Gentoo, Fedora and Ubuntu. You will also find fairly good support in the SuSE and Debian communities or could just install KnoppMyth and really save some time. There are others available but I am only mentioning the ones that I have experience with. Let me explain how "Hacking MythTV" differs from these methods.
In nearly all cases what I have found with the guides on the web is that they are setup like an assembly manual that comes with a kids new toy; follow step 1, 2, 3... and have lots of fun when done. But what if something goes wrong and you have no idea why you were doing 1, 2 or 3, other than that's what you were told to do. That is where this book sets itself apart from the other methods that I have worked with, you will find a lot of useful information included with the steps that will allow you to make some decisions specific to your own hardware or needs. Also if you do run into problems you may find it easier to resolve since you now have a better understanding of how each step of the install/setup process works.
Hacking MythTV will begin by describing what MythTV is all about and how it differs from alternatives; DVRs, PVRs, HTPCs and so on. You'll find some excellent tips on selecting hardware, not only Linux friendly hardware but also components that won't be a nuisance (sight or sound) in your family room. You will pick an install method, after being offered some options. Then on with the install and setup, again with very thorough details of frontends, backends, plugins... And then on to what I was expecting to find; some advanced tips and hacks. And if you do run into some problems you will find there is a troubleshooting section at the end of the book.
In my opinion if you have MythTV you need this book.

Main Page

2006-09-15T17:55:32Z

SteveSeverson: /* Planned Technical Meeting for Tuesday October, 10th */

__NOTOC__

== LUG News ==

=== Technical Meeting: Thursday, September 14th ===
Open source in Croatia, Croatian government. Guest speaker Vlatko Kosturjak, from Croatia, temporarily in the US. Room will be HA108, our new "permanent" location.

Wink has been postponed. [http://www.debugmode.com/wink/ Wink] software used for making demos of new products. Records screen sessions and audio.

=== Planned Technical Meeting for Tuesday October, 10th ===
Mister House - Home automation - road trip to a Rochester home being controlled by computers. We're limited to ~25 participants. If there are closer to 50, we might be able to split and have a second session. Please sign up, in order, below or email Tina to get added. Indicate if you could only attend if it were not the original October 10th date, you'd be at the head of the list if we had a second date.
Some details on Mr House: http://misterhouse.sourceforge.net/

{| border="1" cellpadding="5"
|-
| '''Name''' || '''# of attendees''' || '''Other date only'''
|-
|Tina Wood ||1||
|-
|Eldon Nelson || 1 ||
|-
|Tim Massaro || 1 ||
|-
|Steve Severson || 1 ||
|-

|}

Directions and map to Mister House can be found [http://brucewinter.googlepages.com/directionstomyhouse here].

=== CANCELLED Social: Saturday September 9th CANCELLED ===
Flatwater canoe trip down the Root River. See the [[SocialMeeting]] page. Please sign up by noon on Thursday.

=== Social: Wednesday August 23rd ===
Frisbee golf, 6:30 pm, East Park. Bring friends, bring frisbees.

=== Lunch: August 17th ===
11:30 am at the Galleria, near the Chinese restaurant.

=== Technical Meeting: Tuesday August 8th ===
We currently have no meeting topic. You can come to RCTC's HA104, find a janitor to open the room, and discuss whatever geeky topic crosses your mind. Or you can go to X-Games, although so far nobody has RSVP'd that they're going to be there. And/or, if you have IBM campus privledges, you can attend PCIG's presentation on VMware on Thursday August 10th.

=== Social: Thursday July 27 ===
Join us for a round of shoe throwing at East Park, 6:30 pm. If people have better equipment to bring/share, we can hopefully upgrade from shoes to golf disks (if you missed the last social and are confused, we're playing frisbee golf). Lightening or hail, stay home. Otherwise we play rain or shine.

=== Lunch: July 20 ===

Lunch, 11:30 in the Galleria food court, next to the Chinese restaurant. We will be inviting the Mayo open-source-discussion email list participants to attend as well.

=== Technical Meeting: Thursday July 13 **Note location change** ===
'''Ruby on Rails''' by Jose de Leon. Ruby is an open source scripting language and Ruby on Rails is an open-source web framework that makes developing web applications easy. Jose will demo an application he has written in Ruby on Rails and will discuss the International Rails Conference (http://railsconf.org/) he recently attended.
This is a joint meeting with [http://www.pcig.info PCIG]. Construction continues in the computer lab wing, so this meeting will occur in [http://www.rctc.edu/campustour/maps/heintzA.html HA104].

=== Links from Old News Items ===
[http://www.pcig.info the PC Interest Group's] | [[UCR Heinz Center, Room HB117b]] | [[ForSaleorWanted]] | [http://www.gimp.org Gimp] | [[OldNews]]

ForSaleorWanted

2006-08-05T10:20:55Z

SteveSeverson:

ForSaleorWanted

2006-08-05T10:19:04Z

SteveSeverson:

ForSaleorWanted

2006-08-05T10:16:44Z

SteveSeverson: