Portland Linux/Unix Group General Meeting Announcement
Who: Russell Senior
What: Part 1: A Network Relay via Cloud Instance ; Part 2: Retro Linux
Tape Recovery Show and Tell
Where: 5500 SW Dosch Rd, Portland
When: Thursday, March 7, 2024 at 7pm (Help with chairs a few minutes
early is always appreciated)
Why: The pursuit of technology freedom
https://pdxlinux.org
This is going to be a two-part talk, because each of the parts alone
isn't enough to fill an hour (let's hope).
The first part is going to be a description of how I relay network
connections from the Internet to my low-volume home-based email server
to evade potential ISP blockages.
The second part is going to be a show and tell about my resurrection of
an ancient Linux version in order to recover data from Quarter Inch
Cartridge tapes and ancillary topics. It will also include a short demo
of my MS-DOS 5.0 environment also (resurrected from tape) the month
before I installed Linux for the first time in December 1992.
About Russell:
I am a person for whom the Year of the Linux Desktop started in 1992 and
has continued annually, uninterrupted. I worked for a couple decades in
scientific data management and analysis. Since 2005, I have been
involved with the Personal Telco Project, a volunteer-based 501c3
non-profit trying to unscrew telecommunications policy in the Portland
metropolitan area. I did a short stint in data management for an
Oceanographic organization when it was housed at OH&SU. I also volunteer
at Portland State Aerospace Society working on their OreSat program. My
name, misspelled in glorious circuit board silkscreen, has literally
been in orbit for most of the last 2 years. I have done a bunch of PLUG
talks over the years (scrolling through the log, I recognize these):
2023-03-02 Anatomy of a mailing list meltdown
2021-10-07 Russell's Excellent High Altitude Balloon Adventure
2020-01-02 Reading wireless temperature sensors with RTL-SDR and rtl_433
2019-02-07 PGP Key Storage with a Yubikey 4
2018-02-01 How to get a Municipal Broadband network in the City of
Portland
2017-05-04 Going Coastal, Russell's Excellent Adventure at the Center
for Coastal Margin Observation and Prediction
2013-06-06 Hacking on the Beagle Bone Black
2008-11-19 OpenWrt, it's not just for Linksys Routers anymore
2008-02-07 MetroFi: How Lame is It?
2005-11-16 Mississippi Grant Project and Personal Telco
2004-10-20 Detection of electromagnetic fields with Linux
2003-12-17 Russell’s excellent hardlink adventure (disk-to-disk
backup systems)
Rules and Requests:
Masks are encouraged but not required.
PLUG is open to everyone and does not tolerate abusive behavior on its
mailing lists or at its meetings
Do not leave valuables in your car
Calagator Page: https://calagator.org/events/1250480986
Google Maps Link:
https://www.google.com/maps/place/5500+SW+Dosch+Rd,+Portland,+OR+97239
Some might head to Hillsdale Brewery & Public House near the Library:
https://www.mcmenamins.com/hillsdale-brewery-public-house
Rideshares likely available
PLUG Page with information about all PLUG events: http://pdxlinux.org/
Russell Senior
PLUG Volunteer
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