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[PLUG] SECOND ANNOUNCEMENT: January PLUG Meeting

[David Mandel]

                            MEETING ANNOUNCEMENT

                       The Portland Linux/Unix Group
                                 will meet
                         7 PM Thursday Jan 5, 2012
                                     at
                         Portland State University
                                   in the
                              Fariborz Maseeh
             College of Engineering & Computer Science Building
                              Room FAB 86-01
                       (This is in the basement.)
          The building is on SW 4th across from SW College Street.
       See location H-10 on map at http://pdxLinux.org/campus_map.jpg

    ***

                            PRESENTATION
                                 by
                           Keith Lofstrom
                         



    Since 2005, Randall Munroe's xkcd.com, "A webcomic of romance,
    sarcasm, math, and language" has covered many topics dear to FOSS
    advocates and has been discussed on the PLUG list many times.
    The #1000 comic is expected to appear Friday January 6 just after
    midnight eastern time, making Thursday January 5 "xkcd1k eve".

    Join us for a celebration of XKCD1K eve at the PLUG general
    meeting.  We can display and discuss/explain some of the
    Free/Libre/Open source cartoons, the various weblogs and forums
    that have sprung up around them, draw our own cartoons (Keith
    will bring art paper and pens), perhaps discuss the technology
    of web comics.

    Homework:  bring your own list of favorite xkcd cartoons, and
    we will display them at the meeting.  Bring your artistic and
    "right brained" friends.  Bring your black porkpie hat.  If
    you are Richard Stallman, bring your katana sword.

    Afterwards, at the Lucky Lab Brew Pub at 1945 nw Quimby, we
    can welcome comic #1000, just after 9pm Pacific Time.  Or not,
    Randall is a trickster and may give us strip #1025, avoiding
    the definition the size of a "kilo" ( http://xkcd.com/394/ ) .

    ***

        Agenda:

            7:00 - 7:30  Business
                 We will discuss the status of our ongoing projects
                 including PLUG's monthly Advanced Topics meetings,
                 PLUG's monthly hands on clinics, PLUG for Education,
                 etc.

            7:30 - 8:30  Presentation

                 See above

            9:00 - ...  Beer
                        The Lucky Lab Northwest Beerhall
                        1945 NW Quimby
                        Portland, Oregon

                                        David Mandel
                                        Chief Activist
                                        Portland Linux/Unix Group
                                        560 SE Alexander
                                        Corvallis, Oregon 97333
                                        (541) 730-5285 mobile
                                        dmandel at pdxLinux.org

        P.S.  The Mid Willamette Valley Linux Users Group is trying
              to reorganize.
              See http://www.lug.corvallis.or.us/ for details.

        P.S.  The Eugene Linux Users Group meets several times a month.
              See http://www.euglug.org for details.

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[PLUG] ANNOUNCEMENT: January PLUG Meeting

[David Mandel]

                            MEETING ANNOUNCEMENT

                       The Portland Linux/Unix Group
                                 will meet
                         7 PM Thursday Jan 5, 2012
                                     at
                         Portland State University
                                   in the
                              Fariborz Maseeh
             College of Engineering & Computer Science Building
                              Room FAB 86-01
                       (This is in the basement.)
          The building is on SW 4th across from SW College Street.
       See location H-10 on map at http://pdxLinux.org/campus_map.jpg

    ***

                            PRESENTATION
                                 by
                           Keith Lofstrom
                         



    Since 2005, Randall Munroe's xkcd.com, "A webcomic of romance,
    sarcasm, math, and language" has covered many topics dear to FOSS
    advocates and has been discussed on the PLUG list many times.
    The #1000 comic is expected to appear Friday January 6 just after
    midnight eastern time, making Thursday January 5 "xkcd1k eve".

    Join us for a celebration of XKCD1K eve at the PLUG general
    meeting.  We can display and discuss/explain some of the
    Free/Libre/Open source cartoons, the various weblogs and forums
    that have sprung up around them, draw our own cartoons (Keith
    will bring art paper and pens), perhaps discuss the technology
    of web comics.

    Homework:  bring your own list of favorite xkcd cartoons, and
    we will display them at the meeting.  Bring your artistic and
    "right brained" friends.  Bring your black porkpie hat.  If
    you are Richard Stallman, bring your katana sword.

    Afterwards, at the Lucky Lab Brew Pub at 1945 nw Quimby, we
    can welcome comic #1000, just after 9pm Pacific Time.  Or not,
    Randall is a trickster and may give us strip #1025, avoiding
    the definition the size of a "kilo" ( http://xkcd.com/394/ ) .

    ***

        Agenda:

            7:00 - 7:30  Business
                 We will discuss the status of our ongoing projects
                 including PLUG's monthly Advanced Topics meetings,
                 PLUG's monthly hands on clinics, PLUG for Education,
                 etc.

            7:30 - 8:30  Presentation

                 See above

            9:00 - ...  Beer
                        The Lucky Lab Northwest Beerhall
                        1945 NW Quimby
                        Portland, Oregon

                                        David Mandel
                                        Chief Activist
                                        Portland Linux/Unix Group
                                        560 SE Alexander
                                        Corvallis, Oregon 97333
                                        (541) 730-5285 mobile
                                        dmandel at pdxLinux.org

        P.S.  The Mid Willamette Valley Linux Users Group is trying
              to reorganize.
              See http://www.lug.corvallis.or.us/ for details.

        P.S.  The Eugene Linux Users Group meets several times a month.
              See http://www.euglug.org for details.

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Re: [PLUG] xkcd1k for plug general meeting January 5, maybe?

[David Mandel]

Keith,

What do I need to do to put out an announcement for this.

  Sincerely,
  David Mandel
  Chief Activist
  Portland Linux/Unix Group
  560 SE Alexander
  Corvallis, Oregon 97333
  (541) 752-3769 land
  (541) 730-5285 cell


On Wed, Dec 21, 2011 at 6:58 PM, Keith Lofstrom  wrote:
>> On Mon, Dec 19, 2011 at 1:21 PM, Keith Lofstrom  wrote:
>> > David often has trouble rounding up speakers for the PLUG
>> > general meeting.  If he does not have a speaker for
>> > January 5th, I propose a "xkcd1k eve" meeting.
>> > ...
>
> On Wed, Dec 21, 2011 at 01:28:40AM -0800, David Mandel wrote:
>> I must say, I do find the idea interesting.
>> What do others think?
>
> BTW, some point out that #1000 will not be the 1000'th strip,
> there are a few extras and gaps over the years.  The #1000
> nomenclature is an enumeration, not a count.  So there ...
>
> Randall Munroe is a trickster, so I'm guessing that strip #0999
> will be followed by strip #1025, which will show the black hat
> guy and Pope Gregory (run "cal 9 1752") burning strips #1000
> through #1024, sidestepping the issue of whether 1k is the
> binary or the decimal kilo.  If Munroe doesn't draw it, I will...
>
> Keith
>
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Re: [PLUG] xkcd1k for plug general meeting January 5, maybe?

[David Mandel]

I must say, I do find the idea interesting.
What do others think?

David Mandel

On Mon, Dec 19, 2011 at 1:21 PM, Keith Lofstrom  wrote:
> David often has trouble rounding up speakers for the PLUG
> general meeting.  If he does not have a speaker for
> January 5th, I propose a "xkcd1k eve" meeting.
>
> http://xkcd.com is the best webcomic in the universe, and
> has been mentioned on the list many times.  Many of the
> strips are about open source topics.  xkcd releases on
> mondays, wednesdays, and fridays.  Today (Mon Dec 19)
> was xkcd #992, discussed on the plug-talk list.
>
> Assuming author Randal Munroe keeps to the usual schedule,
> releasing the day's strip just after midnight Eastern time,
> that means it shows up here about 9pm the day before.
>
> If I've done my math right, that means that strip #1000,
> xkcd1k, shows up around 9PM Thursday January 5, 2012,
> while we are at afters at the Lucky Lab Northwest.
>
> So, I propose we connect a web browser to the PSU projector,
> and attendees suggest the numbers of their favorite xkcd
> cartoons for display on the Big Screen.  We can explain or
> discuss or ridicule them as needs be.  I can bring some
> big pads of paper, some black markers, and a flip-chart
> easel, and we can draw our own xkcd cartoons, at the
> meeting or at afters.
>
> If somebody is /really/ obsessive, they can set up some web
> connections with other west coast user groups, and we can
> swap our cartoons and comments back and forth.  In the long
> run, that might lead to other over-the-web presentations,
> and we could recruit speakers from other cities.
>
> If this makes sense, we can announce on Caligator, on the
> xkcd forums, and spread the word, and see who shows up.
>
> Keith
>
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[PLUG] SECOND ANNOUNCEMENT: December PLUG Meeting

[David Mandel]

                            MEETING ANNOUNCEMENT

                       The Portland Linux/Unix Group
                                 will meet
                         7 PM Thursday Dec 1, 2011
                                     at
                         Portland State University
                                   in the
                              Fariborz Maseeh
             College of Engineering & Computer Science Building
                              Room FAB 86-01
                       (This is in the basement.)
          The building is on SW 4th across from SW College Street.
       See location H-10 on map at http://pdxLinux.org/campus_map.jpg

    ***

                            PRESENTATION

                     Don't Fear the Autotools!

                                 by

                            Scott Garman
                       

    Autoconf. Automake. Libtool. This trio of build configuration
    utilities (known as the Autotools) are used in a large majority
    of compiled software applications for Linux, but they remain a
    mystery to many of us.

    In this gentle introduction to the Autotools, Scott Garman will
    help lift the veil of uncertainty most people have about them.
    You'll also learn about the Gnu Coding Standards and the Filesystem
    Hierarchy Standard, two specifications which explain a lot of the
    "why" behind the Autotools (yes, there is a method to this madness!).
    Finally, Scott will offer some practical tips for understanding
    and fixing errors you may see when building an Autotools-based
    package. It's sure to be a fun romp for the whole family.

    ***

        Agenda:

            7:00 - 7:30  Business
                 We will discuss the status of our ongoing projects
                 including PLUG's monthly Advanced Topics meetings,
                 PLUG's monthly hands on clinics, PLUG for Education,
                 etc.

            7:30 - 8:30  Presentation

                 See above

            9:00 - ...  Beer
                        The Lucky Lab Northwest Beerhall
                        1945 NW Quimby
                        Portland, Oregon

                                        David Mandel
                                        Chief Activist
                                        Portland Linux/Unix Group
                                        560 SE Alexander
                                        Corvallis, Oregon 97333
                                        (541) 730-5285 mobile
                                        dmandel at pdxLinux.org

        P.S.  The Mid Willamette Valley Linux Users Group is trying
              to reorganize.
              See http://www.lug.corvallis.or.us/ for details.

        P.S.  The Eugene Linux Users Group meets several times a month.
              See http://www.euglug.org for details.

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[PLUG] ANNOUNCEMENT: December PLUG Meeting

[David Mandel]

                            MEETING ANNOUNCEMENT

                       The Portland Linux/Unix Group
                                 will meet
                         7 PM Thursday Dec 1, 2011
                                     at
                         Portland State University
                                   in the
                              Fariborz Maseeh
             College of Engineering & Computer Science Building
                              Room FAB 86-01
                       (This is in the basement.)
          The building is on SW 4th across from SW College Street.
       See location H-10 on map at http://pdxLinux.org/campus_map.jpg

    ***

                            PRESENTATION

                     Don't Fear the Autotools!

                                 by

                            Scott Garman
                       

    Autoconf. Automake. Libtool. This trio of build configuration
    utilities (known as the Autotools) are used in a large majority
    of compiled software applications for Linux, but they remain a
    mystery to many of us.

    In this gentle introduction to the Autotools, Scott Garman will
    help lift the veil of uncertainty most people have about them.
    You'll also learn about the Gnu Coding Standards and the Filesystem
    Hierarchy Standard, two specifications which explain a lot of the
    "why" behind the Autotools (yes, there is a method to this madness!).
    Finally, Scott will offer some practical tips for understanding
    and fixing errors you may see when building an Autotools-based
    package. It's sure to be a fun romp for the whole family.

    ***

        Agenda:

            7:00 - 7:30  Business
                 We will discuss the status of our ongoing projects
                 including PLUG's monthly Advanced Topics meetings,
                 PLUG's monthly hands on clinics, PLUG for Education,
                 etc.

            7:30 - 8:30  Presentation

                 See above

            9:00 - ...  Beer
                        The Lucky Lab Northwest Beerhall
                        1945 NW Quimby
                        Portland, Oregon

                                        David Mandel
                                        Chief Activist
                                        Portland Linux/Unix Group
                                        560 SE Alexander
                                        Corvallis, Oregon 97333
                                        (541) 730-5285 mobile
                                        dmandel at pdxLinux.org

        P.S.  The Mid Willamette Valley Linux Users Group is trying
              to reorganize.
              See http://www.lug.corvallis.or.us/ for details.

        P.S.  The Eugene Linux Users Group meets several times a month.
              See http://www.euglug.org for details.

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Re: [PLUG] Linux equivalent to Camtasia

[David Mandel]

There seem to be a lot of tools for doing screencasting in Linux
including Istanbul, recordMyDesktop, xvidcap, wink,  pyvnc2swf,
byzanz, vnc2swf, ffmpeg, and a few others.  Unlike Camtasia most of
the Linux solutions do not include video/audio editing software in the
package so if you need that you need to move the output of these
packages into openshot, LiVES, keno, or other editing software.

Personally, I use ffmpeg which is a nice simple command line tool.
I generally use commands something like:

 xrandr -s 1280x720
 To reduce my screen resolution.
 My computer just isn't fast enough to capture things are full
resolution without an
 unacceptable lag between the audio and video.  I can avoid this
by reducing my capture
 rate (fps) or by reducing my resolution or by capturing the video
and audio separately and
 resyncing them in openshot or other editing software.  Of these
choices, I find simply
 reducing the screen resolution to be the best compromise for my
particular situation.

sleep 870; xmessage -g -125+60 Time for Intermission
 This sends me a message telling me when to end my video after 14
min 30 sec.

sleep 5; ffmpeg -t 00:14:59 -f oss -i /dev/dsp -f x11grab -s 1280x720
-r 25 -i :0.0 MyVideo.avi
 This creates a 15 minute video (unless I manually end it earlier).

This system seems to work pretty well - although once in a while I
wish I could pause a video
in the middle of it and go back and restart it.  (Of course, I can
effectively do this by cutting and
splicing in my editing software, but I avoid editing as much as
possible because editing is very
slow and time consuming.)

Hope this helps,

David Mandel
On Wed, Nov 2, 2011 at 9:10 AM, MJang  wrote:
> Folks,
>
> Just wondering if there's a Linux equivalent to Camtasia, for recording
> "lecture"-like demos. I'd like to be able to switch between OOo Impress
> presentations and active views of the command line / other admin tools.
> If it matters, I think my publisher would be looking for AVI files.
>
> I've heard xvidtune can do such, but don't see any clues from the man
> page (or my searches), except some references that suggest that it would
> be too crude for production.
>
> All I can find for Camstudio are Win .exe files.
>
> Any other suggestions would be appreciated.
>
> Thanks,
> Mike
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[PLUG] SECOND ANNOUNCEMENT: November PLUG Meeting

[David Mandel]

                            MEETING ANNOUNCEMENT

                       The Portland Linux/Unix Group
                                 will meet
                         7 PM Thursday Nov 3, 2011
                                     at
                         Portland State University
                                   in the
                              Fariborz Maseeh
             College of Engineering & Computer Science Building
                              Room FAB 86-01
                       (This is in the basement.)
          The building is on SW 4th across from SW College Street.
       See location H-10 on map at http://pdxLinux.org/campus_map.jpg

    ***

                            PRESENTATION

                               Part I

                      Hands-On IPv6 Networking

                                 by

                          Ted Mittelstaedt

    Ted will wrap-up his multi-month series on IPv6 networking (given
    at the Advanced Topics Meetings) with some demonstrations of
    real-world DNS client and server configuration and web content serving.

                              Part II

                               GitHub

                                 by

                           Daniel Hedlund
                       

    Daniel Hedlund will give an introduction to GitHub and demonstrate
    some command line tools for interacting with GitHub and how you can
    host a website on GitHub using Octopress (octopress.org)

    ***

        Agenda:

            7:00 - 7:30  Business
                 We will discuss the status of our ongoing projects
                 including PLUG's monthly Advanced Topics meetings,
                 PLUG's monthly hands on clinics, PLUG for Education,
                 etc.

            7:30 - 8:30  Presentation

                 See above

            9:00 - ...  Beer
                        The Lucky Lab Northwest Beerhall
                        1945 NW Quimby
                        Portland, Oregon

                                        David Mandel
                                        Chief Activist
                                        Portland Linux/Unix Group
                                        560 SE Alexander
                                        Corvallis, Oregon 97333
                                        (541) 730-5285 mobile
                                        dmandel at pdxLinux.org

        P.S.  The Mid Willamette Valley Linux Users Group is trying
              to reorganize.
              See http://www.lug.corvallis.or.us/ for details.

        P.S.  The Eugene Linux Users Group meets several times a month.
              See http://www.euglug.org for details.

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[PLUG] ANNOUNCEMENT: November PLUG Meeting

[David Mandel]

                            MEETING ANNOUNCEMENT

                       The Portland Linux/Unix Group
                                 will meet
                         7 PM Thursday Nov 4, 2011
                                     at
                         Portland State University
                                   in the
                              Fariborz Maseeh
             College of Engineering & Computer Science Building
                              Room FAB 86-01
                       (This is in the basement.)
          The building is on SW 4th across from SW College Street.
       See location H-10 on map at http://pdxLinux.org/campus_map.jpg

    ***

                            PRESENTATION

                               Part I

                      Hands-On IPv6 Networking

                                 by

                          Ted Mittelstaedt

    Ted will wrap-up his multi-month series on IPv6 networking (given
    at the Advanced Topics Meetings) with some demonstrations of
    real-world DNS client and server configuration and web content serving.

                              Part II

                               GitHub

                                 by

                           Daniel Hedlund
                       

    Daniel Hedlund will give an introduction to GitHub and demonstrate
    some command line tools for interacting with GitHub and how you can
    host a website on GitHub using Octopress (octopress.org)

    ***

        Agenda:

            7:00 - 7:30  Business
                 We will discuss the status of our ongoing projects
                 including PLUG's monthly Advanced Topics meetings,
                 PLUG's monthly hands on clinics, PLUG for Education,
                 etc.

            7:30 - 8:30  Presentation

                 See above

            9:00 - ...  Beer
                        The Lucky Lab Northwest Beerhall
                        1945 NW Quimby
                        Portland, Oregon

                                        David Mandel
                                        Chief Activist
                                        Portland Linux/Unix Group
                                        560 SE Alexander
                                        Corvallis, Oregon 97333
                                        (541) 730-5285 mobile
                                        dmandel at pdxLinux.org

        P.S.  The Mid Willamette Valley Linux Users Group is trying
              to reorganize.
              See http://www.lug.corvallis.or.us/ for details.

        P.S.  The Eugene Linux Users Group meets several times a month.
              See http://www.euglug.org for details.

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Re: [PLUG] Programming contest for Oregonians

[David Mandel]

Jim,

I'm glad you wrote to me directly as I wasn't sure what to think about
this at first; but your rules make this look like a legitimate contest
that is actually very interesting.  Thus, I am forwarding your posting
to the entire PLUG list.

David Mandel
Chief Activist
Portland Linux/Unix Group
541-730-5285 mobile

On Mon, Oct 24, 2011 at 2:17 PM, Green Driver Programming Contest
 wrote:
> Dear David,
>
> I found your email address while browsing the archives of the PLUG
> mailing lists. Since you signed an email as "Chief Activist", I
> thought you might be an appropriate person to contact regarding a
> commercial posting I would like to make to a PLUG mailing list.
>
> I work for a Eugene company that is running a programming contest for
> Oregonians. Would it be appropriate to announce it on any PLUG mailing
> list? I was inspired to ask partially do to postings like this one,
> entitled, "$50 Contest":
> http://lists.pdxlinux.org/pipermail/plug/2011-October/073695.html
>
> Our contest takes place on the weekend of November 19, and our prize
> pool is $1500-$7500. The website is
> http://www.imagreendriver.com/contest.php .
>
> Thanks for your time,
> Jim Apple
> Green Driver, Inc.
>
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Re: [PLUG] Local server reseller

[David Mandel]

Thanks for the information.  I use lots of second hand equipment and
the number of sources for this seems to be going down as new low end
equipment becomes so cheap.  Still, I think it is more environmentally
friendly to use recycled equipment and sort of COOL as well.  I will
definitely check this guys out.

David Mandel

P.S.  I love my 1990 Dodge Caravan.  Only has 250,000 miles on it.
Should be good for another couple hundred thousand; although it seems
to require a new transmission every 100,000 miles or so.

On Tue, Oct 18, 2011 at 8:44 PM, Bill Ensley  wrote:
> Hello all,
>
> I wanted to pass on a local server recycler that I recently purchased a
> dell server from.
>
> Nice guys, good prices, many kinds of servers, workstations, laptops,
> cables etc available
> If this is inappropriate here, my apologies, just let me know and I will
> not do it again.
>
> -Bill Ensley
> www.bearprinting.com
>
> C & M Recyclers
> Warehouse 11
> 21175 SW 108th Avenue
> Tualatin, Oregon 97062
> Were normally open 9 am to 4 pm Monday to Friday.
> We have a 6000 sq, foot warehouse with lots of computer stuff.
> Call ahead to make sure were there before you visit.
> 503-427-1644  - ware house
> 503-341-3348  - My cell
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[PLUG] Regarding the posting: Please leave the PLUG list and don't attend PLUG events in the future.

[David Mandel]

Please ignore the subject as this letter was written to ONE person and
I forgot to make the subject appropriate for CCs.

However, I did mean to post a copy of this letter to the list as I
want everyone to know that action is being taken.

Also, PLEASE:  no more postings or responses about these events.  They
only clutter the list.

If you have something to contribute, write to me personally at
p...@davidmandel.com.

Meanwhile, let get back to doing Open Source Software.

  Sincerely,
  David Mandel
  Chief Activist
  Portland Linux/Unix Group
  560 SE Alexander
  Corvallis, Oregon 97333
  (541) 752-3769 land
  (541) 730-5285 cell
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[PLUG] Please leave the PLUG list and don't attend PLUG events in the future.

[David Mandel]

Michael,

I'm very reluctant to write this letter, but ...

The main PLUG mailing list is for technical, business, and
philosophical discussions relating to Linux and other Open Source
Software.

The PLUG-Talk list is for discussions on most any topic so long as
they are civil and done with tolerance.

Unfortunately, you have consistently violated these rules.  (Yes,
others have violated these rules as well and I will be dealing with
them as well; but you have been the worst violator.)

Your letter with the subject of "Ban me? Ban yourselves." was the
final straw.   The PLUG community feels threatened by your statements.

Unfortunately, at this point I must take action to save the PLUG
community as many members are unsubscribing from the lists.

Thus, I am dropping you from all PLUG mailing lists effective immediately.
Please do not resubscribe, either using your current name/email or any
other name/email.
You are not welcome to post to the PLUG list under any name.
Please do not attend PLUG events as some of our members feel
threatened and may call police.

  David Mandel
  Chief Activist
  Portland Linux/Unix Group
  560 SE Alexander
  Corvallis, Oregon 97333
  (541) 752-3769 land
  (541) 730-5285 cell

P.S.  I posting a copy of the letter on the PLUG list.
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[PLUG] SECOND ANNOUNCEMENT: October PLUG Meeting

[David Mandel]

                            MEETING ANNOUNCEMENT

                       The Portland Linux/Unix Group
                                 will meet
                         7 PM Thursday Oct 6, 2011
                                     at
                         Portland State University
                                   in the
                              Fariborz Maseeh
             College of Engineering & Computer Science Building
                              Room FAB 86-01
                       (This is in the basement.)
          The building is on SW 4th across from SW College Street.
       See location H-10 on map at http://pdxLinux.org/campus_map.jpg

    ***


                            PRESENTATION

                             Arch Linux

                                 by

                           Daniel Hedlund
                       

    Arch Linux is an independently developed, i686- and x86_64-optimised
    Linux distribution targeted at competent Linux users. It uses
    'pacman', its home-grown package manager, to provide updates
    to the latest software applications with full dependency tracking.
    Operating on a rolling release system, Arch can be installed from
    a CD image or via an FTP server. The default install provides a
    solid base that enables users to create a custom installation.
    In addition, the Arch Build System (ABS) provides a way to easily
    build new packages, modify the configuration of stock packages,
    and share these packages with other users via the Arch Linux
    user repository.

    ***

        Agenda:

            7:00 - 7:30  Business
                 We will discuss the status of our ongoing projects
                 including PLUG's monthly Advanced Topics meetings,
                 PLUG's monthly hands on clinics, PLUG for Education,
                 etc.

            7:30 - 8:30  Presentation

                 See above

            9:00 - ...  Beer
                        The Lucky Lab Northwest Beerhall
                        1945 NW Quimby
                        Portland, Oregon

                                        David Mandel
                                        Chief Activist
                                        Portland Linux/Unix Group
                                        560 SE Alexander
                                        Corvallis, Oregon 97333
                                        (541) 730-5285 mobile
                                        dmandel at pdxLinux.org

        P.S.  The Mid Willamette Valley Linux Users Group is trying
              to reorganize.
              See http://www.lug.corvallis.or.us/ for details.

        P.S.  The Eugene Linux Users Group meets several times a month.
              See http://www.euglug.org for details.

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[PLUG] ANNOUNCEMENT: October PLUG Meeting

[David Mandel]

                            MEETING ANNOUNCEMENT

                       The Portland Linux/Unix Group
                                 will meet
                         7 PM Thursday Oct 6, 2011
                                     at
                         Portland State University
                                   in the
                              Fariborz Maseeh
             College of Engineering & Computer Science Building
                              Room FAB 86-01
                       (This is in the basement.)
          The building is on SW 4th across from SW College Street.
       See location H-10 on map at http://pdxLinux.org/campus_map.jpg

    ***


                            PRESENTATION

                             Arch Linux

                                 by

                           Daniel Hedlund
                       

    Arch Linux is an independently developed, i686- and x86_64-optimised
    Linux distribution targeted at competent Linux users. It uses
    'pacman', its home-grown package manager, to provide updates
    to the latest software applications with full dependency tracking.
    Operating on a rolling release system, Arch can be installed from
    a CD image or via an FTP server. The default install provides a
    solid base that enables users to create a custom installation.
    In addition, the Arch Build System (ABS) provides a way to easily
    build new packages, modify the configuration of stock packages,
    and share these packages with other users via the Arch Linux
    user repository.

    ***

        Agenda:

            7:00 - 7:30  Business
                 We will discuss the status of our ongoing projects
                 including PLUG's monthly Advanced Topics meetings,
                 PLUG's monthly hands on clinics, PLUG for Education,
                 etc.

            7:30 - 8:30  Presentation

                 See above

            9:00 - ...  Beer
                        The Lucky Lab Northwest Beerhall
                        1945 NW Quimby
                        Portland, Oregon

                                        David Mandel
                                        Chief Activist
                                        Portland Linux/Unix Group
                                        560 SE Alexander
                                        Corvallis, Oregon 97333
                                        (541) 730-5285 mobile
                                        dmandel at pdxLinux.org

        P.S.  The Mid Willamette Valley Linux Users Group is trying
              to reorganize.
              See http://www.lug.corvallis.or.us/ for details.

        P.S.  The Eugene Linux Users Group meets several times a month.
              See http://www.euglug.org for details.

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Re: [PLUG] Qcad Build

[David Mandel]

I haven't ever built qcad myself - just use it in openSuSE as it comes
with the distro.  I will admit, I would be lost without it.

David Mandel

On Thu, Sep 29, 2011 at 8:03 AM, Rich Shepard  wrote:
>   Has anyone here successfully built and installed QCad community edition? I
> keep encountering errors of missing source files while someone else running
> Slackware has succesfully built and used it.
>
>   I installed Qt3 (that's what QCad wants) and that required that I log out
> and back in to be visible to QCad. Now it's a different issue.
>
> Rich
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Re: [PLUG] Censorship... -> PLUG vs. POSUG

[David Mandel]

Michael,

Don't pull any speakers.
I don't really think anyone is advocating any changes from the current
system where we
occasionally have speakers on non-Linux, non-Unix Open Source related topics.
Indeed, this may become even more frequent in the future as Linux and
the BSDs and
other Unix OSs become more ubiquitous and are simply taken for granted.

David Mandel

On Mon, Sep 12, 2011 at 9:39 PM, Michael Dexter  wrote:
> On 9/8/11 9:53 PM, Russell Johnson wrote:
>>> This is PLUG (Portland Linux Users Group), not POSUG (Portland Open
>>>  Source Users Group).
>> Bill, Strictly speaking, it's "Portland Linux/Unix Group". 
>> re:http://www.pdxlinux.org/
>
> I saw this just after posting a PLUG AT meeting announcement about web
> serving... which could theoretically get into non-FLOSS technologies!
>
> Shall I pull it? I just learned of Ted's unavailability and consider it
> too late for another speaker.
>
> Should I pull the proposed topic for being too off-topic for PLUG?
>
> I trust it to be implied that I am discussing serving in a POSIX
> Linux/BSD environment but it's borderline none the less.
>
> And what of networking topics? Where would the community prefer David
> and I draw the line?
>
> Some have pointed out that the DevOps meeting might be more appropriate
> for these. I really should attend one...
>
> Are people okay with "PLUG meetings feature the interesting speakers
> that David and Michael can find"?
>
> Does anyone want to join in the speaker hunt to help keep things on-topic?
>
> Michael
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Re: [PLUG] Censorship...

[David Mandel]

Just to clarify things;  PLUG does stand for the Portland Linux/Unix
Group and we do occasionally delve into Open Source topics that have
little to do with either Linux or Unix.  On the other hand, this is
being sent simply to clarify the role and mission of PLUG, and isn't
meant as a statement about this particular thread in the mailing list.

  Sincerely,
  David Mandel
  Chief Activist
  Portland Linux/Unix Group
  560 SE Alexander
  Corvallis, Oregon 97333
  (541) 752-3769 land
  (541) 730-5285 cell


On Fri, Sep 9, 2011 at 4:53 AM, Russell Johnson  wrote:
>
> On Sep 8, 2011, at 4:00 PM, Bill Ensley wrote:
>
>> This is PLUG (Portland Linux Users Group), not POSUG (Portland Open
>> Source Users Group).
>
> Bill, Strictly speaking, it's "Portland Linux/Unix Group". re: 
> http://www.pdxlinux.org/
>
> Russell Johnson
> r...@dimstar.net
>
>
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[PLUG] SECOND ANNOUNCEMENT: September PLUG Meeting

[David Mandel]

                            MEETING ANNOUNCEMENT

                       The Portland Linux/Unix Group
                                 will meet
                         7 PM Thursday Sep 1, 2011
                                     at
                         Portland State University
                                   in the
                              Fariborz Maseeh
             College of Engineering & Computer Science Building
                              Room FAB 86-01
                       (This is in the basement.)
          The building is on SW 4th across from SW College Street.
       See location H-10 on map at http://pdxLinux.org/campus_map.jpg

    ***


                                PRESENTATION

                             Rapid Discussions

                                     on

                                 Any Topic

                                     by

                             Anyone & Everyone

     Instead of having a formal presentation, we will get together and
     discuss anything anyone wants to discuss in brief sessions of no
     more than a few minutes each.  If we have enough people involved
     we can break into smaller groups to handle each topic.

     AND YES - We are looking for speakers for upcoming months.
               We have been having trouble finding speakers lately.
               Volunteers and Recommendations are welcome.

    ***

        Agenda:

            7:00 - 7:30  Business
                 We will discuss the status of our ongoing projects
                 including PLUG's monthly Advanced Topics meetings,
                 PLUG's monthly hands on clinics, PLUG for Education,
                 etc.

            7:30 - 8:30  Presentation

                 See above

            9:00 - ...  Beer
                        The Lucky Lab Northwest Beerhall
                        1945 NW Quimby
                        Portland, Oregon

                                        David Mandel
                                        Chief Activist
                                        Portland Linux/Unix Group
                                        560 SE Alexander
                                        Corvallis, Oregon 97333
                                        (541) 730-5285 mobile
                                        dmandel at pdxLinux.org

        P.S.  The Mid Willamette Valley Linux Users Group is trying
              to reorganize.
              See http://www.lug.corvallis.or.us/ for details.

        P.S.  The Eugene Linux Users Group meets several times a month.
              See http://www.euglug.org for details.

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[PLUG] ANNOUNCEMENT: September PLUG Meeting

[David Mandel]

  MEETING ANNOUNCEMENT

                       The Portland Linux/Unix Group
                                 will meet
                         7 PM Thursday Sep 1, 2011
                                     at
                         Portland State University
                                   in the
                              Fariborz Maseeh
             College of Engineering & Computer Science Building
                              Room FAB 86-01
                       (This is in the basement.)
          The building is on SW 4th across from SW College Street.
       See location H-10 on map at http://pdxLinux.org/campus_map.jpg

    ***


                                PRESENTATION

                             Rapid Discussions

                                     on

                                 Any Topic

                                     by

                             Anyone & Everyone

     Instead of having a formal presentation, we will get together and
     discuss anything anyone wants to discuss in brief sessions of no
     more than a few minutes each.  If we have enough people involved
     we can break into smaller groups to handle each topic.

     AND YES - We are looking for speakers for upcoming months.
               We have been having trouble finding speakers lately.
               Volunteers and Recommendations are welcome.

    ***

        Agenda:

            7:00 - 7:30  Business
                 We will discuss the status of our ongoing projects
                 including PLUG's monthly Advanced Topics meetings,
                 PLUG's monthly hands on clinics, PLUG for Education,
                 etc.

            7:30 - 8:30  Presentation

                 See above

            9:00 - ...  Beer
                        The Lucky Lab Northwest Beerhall
                        1945 NW Quimby
                        Portland, Oregon

                                        David Mandel
                                        Chief Activist
                                        Portland Linux/Unix Group
                                        560 SE Alexander
                                        Corvallis, Oregon 97333
                                        (541) 730-5285 mobile
                                        dmandel at pdxLinux.org

        P.S.  The Mid Willamette Valley Linux Users Group is trying
              to reorganize.
              See http://www.lug.corvallis.or.us/ for details.

        P.S.  The Eugene Linux Users Group meets several times a month.
              See http://www.euglug.org for details.

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[PLUG] PLUG needs speakers!

[David Mandel]

Once again PLUG needs speakers - including for next Thursday.  If
anyone has a talk or any ideas on who I should ask about speaking,
please let me know.  I would actually like to get a list of people
scheduled in advance so we didn't need to worry about this every month
for a while.

  Sincerely,
  David Mandel
  Chief Activist
  Portland Linux/Unix Group
  560 SE Alexander
  Corvallis, Oregon 97333
  (541) 752-3769 land
  (541) 730-5285 cell
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Re: [PLUG] Linuxfest Northwest / LUG list

[David Mandel]

Jason,

Linux Fund generally drives a minivan to LinuxFest NW with a couple of
us and a couple other people and lots of baggage for our booth and
what not.  We would be interested in enlarging our minivan or joining
someone in a small bus or what ever.  However, we would want to make
sure that we had transportation that would allow us to use cheap
hotels and go to an office supply store for whatever we need while we
are at LinuxFest.  We would be happy to continue paying what we do now
without regard to what others pay.   We just want to see people attend
the event.

  Sincerely,
  David Mandel
  Chief Activist of Portland Linux/Unix Group
  Executive Director of Linux Fund
  560 SE Alexander
  Corvallis, Oregon 97333
  (541) 752-3769 land
  (541) 730-5285 cell


On Mon, Aug 22, 2011 at 9:59 AM, Jason Barnett
 wrote:
> Hello everyone,
>  I am trying to help compile a list of LUGs in the Pacific Northwest.  The
> list will be used to help promote the annual Linuxfest NorthWest held each
> April in Bellingham, WA.
>
> If anyone knows of other LUGs around and has any contact info for them, I
> would appreciate it if you would either respond to this mail or update the
> spreadsheet<https://docs.google.com/spreadsheet/ccc?pli=1&key=0AtmurxwGf0K2dHo5eGxOeXRTWHhJYjJBZWtEVTZFZmc#gid=0>
> .
>
> I am also trying to get a feel for any interest in having a bus from
> Portland/Corvallis area to the Linuxfest. How many would be interested if it
> were free and how many if it were ~$100 round trip.  I am not asking for a
> commitment, just to get an idea to see if it is worth pursuing.
>
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[PLUG] SECOND ANNOUNCEMENT: August PLUG Meeting

[David Mandel]

                            MEETING ANNOUNCEMENT

                       The Portland Linux/Unix Group
                                 will meet
                         7 PM Thursday Aug 4, 2011
                                     at
                         Portland State University
                                   in the
                              Fariborz Maseeh
             College of Engineering & Computer Science Building
                              Room FAB 86-01
                       (This is in the basement.)
          The building is on SW 4th across from SW College Street.
       See location H-10 on map at http://pdxLinux.org/campus_map.jpg

    ***


                            PRESENTATION

                        Open Source Software

                                 in

                           State Agencies

                                 by

                           Michael Smith

     Michael Smith works for the State of Oregon.  He will discuss
     his experience introducing and trying to introduce Open Source
     Solutions into state government agencies.

     Michael, you may wish to elaborate on my abstract.

    ***

        Agenda:

            7:00 - 7:30  Business
                 We will discuss the status of our ongoing projects
                 including PLUG's monthly Advanced Topics meetings,
                 PLUG's monthly hands on clinics, PLUG for Education,
                 etc.

            7:30 - 8:30  Presentation

                 See above

            9:00 - ...  Beer
                        The Lucky Lab Northwest Beerhall
                        1945 NW Quimby
                        Portland, Oregon

                                        David Mandel
                                        Chief Activist
                                        Portland Linux/Unix Group
                                        560 SE Alexander
                                        Corvallis, Oregon 97333
                                        (541) 730-5285 mobile
                                        dmandel at pdxLinux.org

        P.S.  The Mid Willamette Valley Linux Users Group is trying
              to reorganize.
              See http://www.lug.corvallis.or.us/ for details.

        P.S.  The Eugene Linux Users Group meets several times a month.
              See http://www.euglug.org for details.

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[PLUG] ANNOUNCEMENT: August PLUG Meeting

[David Mandel]

                        MEETING ANNOUNCEMENT

                       The Portland Linux/Unix Group
                                 will meet
                         7 PM Thursday Aug 4, 2011
                                     at
                         Portland State University
                                   in the
                              Fariborz Maseeh
             College of Engineering & Computer Science Building
                              Room FAB 86-01
                       (This is in the basement.)
          The building is on SW 4th across from SW College Street.
       See location H-10 on map at http://pdxLinux.org/campus_map.jpg

    ***


                            PRESENTATION

                        Open Source Software

                                 in

                           State Agencies

                                 by

                           Michael Smith

     Michael Smith works for the State of Oregon.  He will discuss
     his experience introducing and trying to introduce Open Source
     Solutions into state government agencies.

     Michael, you may wish to elaborate on my abstract.

    ***

        Agenda:

            7:00 - 7:30  Business
                 We will discuss the status of our ongoing projects
                 including PLUG's monthly Advanced Topics meetings,
                 PLUG's monthly hands on clinics, PLUG for Education,
                 etc.

            7:30 - 8:30  Presentation

                 See above

            9:00 - ...  Beer
                        The Lucky Lab Northwest Beerhall
                        1945 NW Quimby
                        Portland, Oregon

                                        David Mandel
                                        Chief Activist
                                        Portland Linux/Unix Group
                                        560 SE Alexander
                                        Corvallis, Oregon 97333
                                        (541) 730-5285 mobile
                                        dmandel at pdxLinux.org

        P.S.  The Mid Willamette Valley Linux Users Group is trying
              to reorganize.
              See http://www.lug.corvallis.or.us/ for details.

        P.S.  The Eugene Linux Users Group meets several times a month.
              See http://www.euglug.org for details.

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[PLUG] ANNOUNCEMENT: August PLUG Meeting

[David Mandel]

From: David Mandel 
To: Portland Linux User Group Announcements ,
Portland Linux User Group ,
Eugene Linux Users List ,
"Mid-Willamette Valley Linux Users Group" 
CC: David Mandel ,
Geoff Burling ,
Dennis Gilbert ,
Russell Senior 


Subject: ANNOUNCEMENT: August PLUG Meeting


 MEETING ANNOUNCEMENT

The Portland Linux/Unix Group
  will meet
  7 PM Thursday Aug 4, 2011
  at
  Portland State University
in the
   Fariborz Maseeh
  College of Engineering & Computer Science Building
   Room FAB 86-01
(This is in the basement.)
   The building is on SW 4th across from SW College Street.
See location H-10 on map at http://pdxLinux.org/campus_map.jpg

 ***


 PRESENTATION

 Open Source Software

  in

State Agencies

  by

Michael Smith

  Michael Smith works for the State of Oregon.  He will discuss
  his experience introducing and trying to introduce Open Source
  Solutions into state government agencies.

  Michael, you may wish to elaborate on my abstract.

 ***

 Agenda:

 7:00 - 7:30  Business
  We will discuss the status of our ongoing projects
  including PLUG's monthly Advanced Topics meetings,
  PLUG's monthly hands on clinics, PLUG for Education,
  etc.

 7:30 - 8:30  Presentation

  See above

 9:00 - ...  Beer
 The Lucky Lab Northwest Beerhall
 1945 NW Quimby
 Portland, Oregon

     David Mandel
 Chief Activist
 Portland Linux/Unix Group
 560 SE Alexander
 Corvallis, Oregon 97333
 (541) 730-5285 mobile
 dmandel at pdxLinux.org

 P.S.  The Mid Willamette Valley Linux Users Group is trying
   to reorganize.
   See http://www.lug.corvallis.or.us/ for details.

 P.S.  The Eugene Linux Users Group meets several times a month.
   See http://www.euglug.org for details.

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Re: [PLUG] PLUG at OSCON -- This week

[David Mandel]

Thank you John.
You should be able to get an exhibitor pass.
Also, Russell is correct about the setup times.

David

On Sat, Jul 23, 2011 at 8:39 AM, John Jason Jordan  wrote:
> On Sat, 23 Jul 2011 00:49:35 -0700
> David Mandel  dijo:
>
>>As in previous years, PLUG will have a booth at OSCON this year.  I
>>believe the expo hall is open next Tuesday evening and all day
>>Wednesday and Thursday.  We will some help staffing it.  Also, we can
>>use any fliers or whatever people can bring.
>>
>>And as always, other Oregon Open Source Groups are more than welcome
>>to put their literature on our table and help us staff the booth.
>
> I will bring PLUG fliers and will be there by 4:00 to get the booth set
> up before the Expo Hall opens at 5:00. I'll also stop by Sunday
> afternoon to see if I can get an Exhibitor pass instead of the regular
> Expo Hall pass that I signed up for earlier. Without an Exhibitor pass
> they probably won't let me in before 5:00.
>
> I don't have any PLUG business cards and, from past experience, a lot
> of visitors prefer to take just a card rather than the flier. And I'll
> also bring a long extension cord, just in case the booth does not have
> electricity. And I still have the banners and Clinic poster that I made
> for previous years.
>
> And I also volunteer to take responsibility for the booth and man it
> most of the time. It does not hurt to have two people to man the booth,
> so help is welcome. Besides, it's nice to be able to leave occasionally.
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[PLUG] PLUG at OSCON -- This week

[David Mandel]

As in previous years, PLUG will have a booth at OSCON this year.  I
believe the expo hall is open next Tuesday evening and all day
Wednesday and Thursday.  We will some help staffing it.  Also, we can
use any fliers or whatever people can bring.

And as always, other Oregon Open Source Groups are more than welcome
to put their literature on our table and help us staff the booth.

  Sincerely,
  David Mandel
  Chief Activist
  Portland Linux/Unix Group
  560 SE Alexander
  Corvallis, Oregon 97333
  (541) 752-3769 land
  (541) 730-5285 cell
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[PLUG] Fwd: Books and News from the O'Reilly User Group Program--July

[David Mandel]

-- Forwarded message --
From: Marsee Henon & Jon Johns 
Date: Wed, Jul 20, 2011 at 8:01 AM
Subject: Books and News from the O'Reilly User Group Program--July
To: dman...@pdxlinux.org


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New Releases:

  *The
Book of 
Ruby
*
By Huw 
Collingbourne

 
*Build
Mobile Websites and Apps for Smart
Devices
*
By Earle 
Castledine,
Myles 
Eftos,
Max 
Wheeler

 
*Building
and Testing with
Gradle
*
By Tim 
Berglund,
Matthew 
McCullough

 
*Building
Web Apps for Google
TV
*
By Andres 
Ferrate,
Amanda 
Surya,
Daniels 
Lee,
Maile 
Ohye,
Paul 
Carff,
Shawn 
Shen,
Steven 
Hines

 
*Continuous
Testing
*
By Rod 
Coffin,
Ben Rady

 
*Designed
for Use
*
By Lukas 
Mathis

 
*Developing
BlackBerry Tablet Applications with Flex
4.5
*
By Rich 
Tretola

 
*Developing
Microsoft SharePoint Applications Using Windows
Azure
*
By Steve 
Fox

 
*Dreamweaver
CS5.5: The Missing
Manual
*
By David Sawyer
McFarland

More New Releases
>>

Hi there,

Ignite Great 
Lakes,
the first-ever regional Ignite event, is coming to the Fillmore Detroit in
Detroit, MI on July 30. Get your free
ticketsbefore
they're all gone, or watch all the videos
live.

The Detroit Maker
Fairetakes
place July 30th & 31st this year. Get your tickets now, or watch some
of the new Meet The
Makervideos.
They're inspiring.

Congrats to Matt Harrington (San Francisco Bay Area F# user group) who
joined Microsoft in the SF Bay area. Follow him on on twitter
@mh415or
read his
blog

[PLUG] No-profit wants volunteer to build data base and possibly help with web site.

[David Mandel]

David

This is KB, I just spoke to you on the phone, thanks.
Here is an Executive Summary of ARTSMARTpdx, a new organization we are creating.



We are looking for someone (or a couple of people) to volunteer to
build our database for cataloguing inventory.
If you know of anyone who you think might be interested, please have
them contact me.
Many thanks for your time!
KB

KB Mercer
k...@artsmartpdx.org
619 890 5399
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[PLUG] SECOND ANNOUNCEMENT: July PLUG Meeting

[David Mandel]

                            MEETING ANNOUNCEMENT

                       The Portland Linux/Unix Group
                                 will meet
                         7 PM Thursday Jul 7, 2011
                                     at
                         Portland State University
                                   in the
                              Fariborz Maseeh
             College of Engineering & Computer Science Building
                              Room FAB 86-01
                       (This is in the basement.)
          The building is on SW 4th across from SW College Street.
       See location H-10 on map at http://pdxLinux.org/campus_map.jpg

    ***


                                PRESENTATION

                             Rapid Discussions

                                     on

                                 Any Topic

                                     by

                             Anyone & Everyone

     Instead of having a formal presentation, we will get together and
     discuss anything anyone wants to discuss in brief sessions of no
     more than a few minutes each.  If we have enough people involved
     we can break into smaller groups to handle each topic.

     One very short topic that I will be prepared to discuss for
     a few minutes will be:
          -  Open Source at Two Year Colleges
             Why are text books so damn expensive?

    AND YES - We are looking for speakers for upcoming months.
              Volunteers and Recommendations are welcome.

    ***

        Agenda:

            7:00 - 7:30  Business
                 We will discuss the status of our ongoing projects
                 including PLUG's monthly Advanced Topics meetings,
                 PLUG's monthly hands on clinics, PLUG for Education,
                 etc.

            7:30 - 8:30  Presentation

                 See above

            9:00 - ...  Beer
                        The Lucky Lab Northwest Beerhall
                        1945 NW Quimby
                        Portland, Oregon

                                        David Mandel
                                        Chief Activist
                                        Portland Linux/Unix Group
                                        560 SE Alexander
                                        Corvallis, Oregon 97333
                                        (541) 730-5285 mobile
                                        dmandel at pdxLinux.org

        P.S.  The Mid Willamette Valley Linux Users Group is trying
              to reorganize.
              See http://www.lug.corvallis.or.us/ for details.

        P.S.  The Eugene Linux Users Group meets several times a month.
              See http://www.euglug.org for details.

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[PLUG] ANNOUNCEMENT: July PLUG Meeting

[David Mandel]

                            MEETING ANNOUNCEMENT

                       The Portland Linux/Unix Group
                                 will meet
                         7 PM Thursday Jul 7, 2011
                                     at
                         Portland State University
                                   in the
                              Fariborz Maseeh
             College of Engineering & Computer Science Building
                              Room FAB 86-01
                       (This is in the basement.)
          The building is on SW 4th across from SW College Street.
       See location H-10 on map at http://pdxLinux.org/campus_map.jpg

    ***


                                PRESENTATION

                             Rapid Discussions

                                     on

                                 Any Topic

                                     by

                             Anyone & Everyone

     Instead of having a formal presentation, we will get together and
     discuss anything anyone wants to discuss in brief sessions of no
     more than a few minutes each.  If we have enough people involved
     we can break into smaller groups to handle each topic.

     One very short topic that I will be prepared to discuss for
     a few minutes will be:
          -  Open Source at Two Year Colleges
             Why are text books so damn expensive?

    AND YES - We are looking for speakers for upcoming months.
              Volunteers and Recommendations are welcome.

    ***

        Agenda:

            7:00 - 7:30  Business
                 We will discuss the status of our ongoing projects
                 including PLUG's monthly Advanced Topics meetings,
                 PLUG's monthly hands on clinics, PLUG for Education,
                 etc.

            7:30 - 8:30  Presentation

                 See above

            9:00 - ...  Beer
                        The Lucky Lab Northwest Beerhall
                        1945 NW Quimby
                        Portland, Oregon

                                        David Mandel
                                        Chief Activist
                                        Portland Linux/Unix Group
                                        560 SE Alexander
                                        Corvallis, Oregon 97333
                                        (541) 730-5285 mobile
                                        dmandel at pdxLinux.org

        P.S.  The Mid Willamette Valley Linux Users Group is trying
              to reorganize.
              See http://www.lug.corvallis.or.us/ for details.

        P.S.  The Eugene Linux Users Group meets several times a month.
              See http://www.euglug.org for details.

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[PLUG] Fwd: Books and News from the O'Reilly User Group Program--June

[David Mandel]

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From: Marsee Henon & Jon Johns 
Date: Fri, Jun 17, 2011 at 8:02 AM
Subject: Books and News from the O'Reilly User Group Program--June
To: dman...@pdxlinux.org


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Jun 2011 Issue

New Releases:

 
*Concurrent
Programming in Mac OS X and
iOS
*
By Vandad 
Nahavandipoor

 
*Developing
Android Applications with Flex
4.5
*
By Rich 
Tretola

  *DNS
and BIND on 
IPv6
*
By Cricket 
Liu

 
*Getting
Started with the Internet of
Things
*
By Cuno 
Pfister

 
*HTML5
Geolocation
*
By Anthony T. Holdener
III

 
*Introducing
Microsoft 
WebMatrix
*
By Laurence 
Moroney

 
*MacRuby:
The Definitive Guide - Early
Release
*
By Matt 
Aimonetti

 
*Marketing
Fine Art 
Photography
*
By Alain 
Briot

 
*Microsoft
Project 2010 Inside
Out
*
By Teresa S. 
Stover,
Bonnie 
Biafore,
Andreea 
Marinescu

 
*Motorola
Xoom: The Missing
Manual
*
By Preston 
Gralla

More New Releases
>>

Welcome

Android 
Open,
O'Reilly's newest conference for the whole ecosystem, will gather everyone
from developers creating the next cool apps to OEMs, along with carriers
hacking the platform for their specific business needs. Tracks include App
Development, Platform Development, and Business & Marketing. Speakers
include Massimo Banzi (Arduino), Eric Burke (Square), Mark Gross (Intel),
and many more.

Curious about OSCON
Java?
Hear keynotes by Java pioneers such as Martin Odersky, inventor of the Scala
language, Steven G. Harris of Oracle, and Raffi Krikorian, who leads
Applications Services at Twitter. They'll keynote at OSCON Java--new to the
Open Source Convention (OSCON),--July 25-27, Portland, OR.

Learn more about OSCON Data and Java from Sarah Novotny and Edd Dumbill as
they talk about the history and evolution of
OSCON.

Let us know if you'd like some OSCON discount flyers for your next meeting.
We'll send you some.

Team up with O'Reilly and many more organizations at the the Community
Leadership Summit happening in Portland, OR July 23-24. Peek at the guest
list 
here

[PLUG] SECOND ANNOUNCEMENT: June PLUG Meeting

[David Mandel]

                            MEETING ANNOUNCEMENT

                       The Portland Linux/Unix Group
                                 will meet
                         7 PM Thursday June 2, 2011
                                     at
                         Portland State University
                                   in the
                              Fariborz Maseeh
             College of Engineering & Computer Science Building
                              Room FAB 86-01
                       (This is in the basement.)
          The building is on SW 4th across from SW College Street.
       See location H-10 on map at http://pdxLinux.org/campus_map.jpg

    ***
                            Presentation

                      Introduction to OpenEMR
                                 by
                           Tony McCormick
                        

    Introduction to OpenEMR, maybe the most downloaded open source
    Electronic Heath Records system in the world.   This presentation
    will discuss how one of the first web based, php projects became
    a government certified EHR.  We'll demo the system, talk about
    the good, bad and ugly of a 10 year old project with ~500,000
    lines of code and get feed back on ways to move forward with
    out breaking the existing use.  ie: upgrade paths and models, etc.

    ***

        Agenda:

            7:00 - 7:30  Business
                 We will discuss the status of our ongoing projects
                 including PLUG's monthly Advanced Topics meetings,
                 PLUG's monthly hands on clinics, PLUG for Education,
                 etc.

            7:30 - 8:30  Presentation

                 See above

            9:00 - ...  Beer
                        The Lucky Lab Northwest Beerhall
                        1945 NW Quimby
                        Portland, Oregon

                                        David Mandel
                                        Chief Activist
                                        Portland Linux/Unix Group
                                        560 SE Alexander
                                        Corvallis, Oregon 97333
                                        (541) 730-5285 mobile
                                        dmandel at pdxLinux.org

        P.S.  The Mid Willamette Valley Linux Users Group meets
              every month.
              See http://www.lug.corvallis.or.us/ for details.

        P.S.  The Eugene Linux Users Group meets several times a month.
              See http://www.euglug.org for details.

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[PLUG] ANNOUNCEMENT: June PLUG Meeting

[David Mandel]

                            MEETING ANNOUNCEMENT

                       The Portland Linux/Unix Group
                                 will meet
                         7 PM Thursday June 2, 2011
                                     at
                         Portland State University
                                   in the
                              Fariborz Maseeh
             College of Engineering & Computer Science Building
                              Room FAB 86-01
                       (This is in the basement.)
          The building is on SW 4th across from SW College Street.
       See location H-10 on map at http://pdxLinux.org/campus_map.jpg

    ***
                            Presentation

                      Introduction to OpenEMR
                                 by
                           Tony McCormick
                        

    Introduction to OpenEMR, maybe the most downloaded open source
    Electronic Heath Records system in the world.   This presentation
    will discuss how one of the first web based, php projects became
    a government certified EHR.  We'll demo the system, talk about
    the good, bad and ugly of a 10 year old project with ~500,000
    lines of code and get feed back on ways to move forward with
    out breaking the existing use.  ie: upgrade paths and models, etc.

    ***

        Agenda:

            7:00 - 7:30  Business
                 We will discuss the status of our ongoing projects
                 including PLUG's monthly Advanced Topics meetings,
                 PLUG's monthly hands on clinics, PLUG for Education,
                 etc.

            7:30 - 8:30  Presentation

                 See above

            9:00 - ...  Beer
                        The Lucky Lab Northwest Beerhall
                        1945 NW Quimby
                        Portland, Oregon

                                        David Mandel
                                        Chief Activist
                                        Portland Linux/Unix Group
                                        560 SE Alexander
                                        Corvallis, Oregon 97333
                                        (541) 730-5285 mobile
                                        dmandel at pdxLinux.org

        P.S.  The Mid Willamette Valley Linux Users Group meets
              every month.
              See http://www.lug.corvallis.or.us/ for details.

        P.S.  The Eugene Linux Users Group meets several times a month.
              See http://www.euglug.org for details.

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Re: [PLUG] USENIX coming to Portland; anybody interested in Cfengine?

[David Mandel]

 Aleksey,

It sounds like Paul Heinlein is taking care of the details of
scheduling and getting space; but I want to chime in simply to think
you very much for offering to do this.  Your offer is very kind and
thoughtful.

  Sincerely,
  David Mandel
  Chief Activist (Self Appointed)
  Portland Linux/Unix Group
  560 SE Alexander
  Corvallis, Oregon 97333
  (541) 752-3769 land
  (541) 730-5285 cell


On Fri, May 13, 2011 at 6:34 PM, Aleksey Tsalolikhin
 wrote:
> Hi.  I'm coming up to Portland for the first time next month to teach
> "Introduction to Automating System Administration with Cfengine 3"
> day class at the USENIX (international Unix Users Group) conference.
>
> I am writing to let you know about the conference and the class
> (http://www.usenix.org/events/fcw11/training/tutonefile.html#f1)
> and to invite you to attend, if you haven't been invited yet.
>
> There will be other great tutorials, Linux Performance Tuning,
> SELinux, etc.  You might want to check it out if you haven't already.
>
> The day class is for pay, but if there is any local interest, I'd be
> happy to give a free presentation on the same subject, maybe 1-2 hours
> long, or whatever you can stand. :)
>
>
> Yours truly,
> Aleksey Tsalolikhin
> Unix/Linux sys admin and configuration management enthusiast
> Los Angles, California
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[PLUG] SECOND ANNOUNCEMENT: May PLUG Meeting

[David Mandel]

                            MEETING ANNOUNCEMENT

                       The Portland Linux/Unix Group
                                 will meet
                         7 PM Thursday May 5, 2011
                                     at
                         Portland State University
                                   in the
                              Fariborz Maseeh
             College of Engineering & Computer Science Building
                              Room FAB 86-01
                       (This is in the basement.)
          The building is on SW 4th across from SW College Street.
       See location H-10 on map at http://pdxLinux.org/campus_map.jpg

    ***
                            Presentation

                  Comments on the IPv6 Transition
                                 by
                          Ted Mittelstaedt
                                 of
                           Portlandia IT


    Ted Mittelstaedt of Portlandia IT will talk about IP addressing
    in general and how the IPv4 to IPv6 transition is being received
    by the Internet community. This talk is part of a series of
    timely IPv6 PLUG talks that Ted is giving over the coming months.

    ***

        Agenda:

            7:00 - 7:30  Business
                 We will discuss the status of our ongoing projects
                 including PLUG's monthly Advanced Topics meetings,
                 PLUG's monthly hands on clinics, PLUG for Education,
                 etc.

            7:30 - 8:30  Presentation

                 See above

            9:00 - ...  Beer
                        The Lucky Lab Northwest Beerhall
                        1945 NW Quimby
                        Portland, Oregon

                                        David Mandel
                                        Chief Activist
                                        Portland Linux/Unix Group
                                        560 SE Alexander
                                        Corvallis, Oregon 97333
                                        (541) 730-5285 mobile
                                        dmandel at pdxLinux.org

        P.S.  The Mid Willamette Valley Linux Users Group meets
              every month.
              See http://www.lug.corvallis.or.us/ for details.

        P.S.  The Eugene Linux Users Group meets several times a month.
              See http://www.euglug.org for details.

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[PLUG] ANNOUNCEMENT: May PLUG Meeting

[David Mandel]

                            MEETING ANNOUNCEMENT

                       The Portland Linux/Unix Group
                                 will meet
                         7 PM Thursday May 5, 2011
                                     at
                         Portland State University
                                   in the
                              Fariborz Maseeh
             College of Engineering & Computer Science Building
                              Room FAB 86-01
                       (This is in the basement.)
          The building is on SW 4th across from SW College Street.
       See location H-10 on map at http://pdxLinux.org/campus_map.jpg

    ***
                            Presentation

                  Comments on the IPv6 Transition
                                 by
                          Ted Mittelstaedt
                                 of
                           Portlandia IT


    Ted Mittelstaedt of Portlandia IT will talk about IP addressing
    in general and how the IPv4 to IPv6 transition is being received
    by the Internet community. This talk is part of a series of
    timely IPv6 PLUG talks that Ted is giving over the coming months.

    ***

        Agenda:

            7:00 - 7:30  Business
                 We will discuss the status of our ongoing projects
                 including PLUG's monthly Advanced Topics meetings,
                 PLUG's monthly hands on clinics, PLUG for Education,
                 etc.

            7:30 - 8:30  Presentation

                 See above

            9:00 - ...  Beer
                        The Lucky Lab Northwest Beerhall
                        1945 NW Quimby
                        Portland, Oregon

                                        David Mandel
                                        Chief Activist
                                        Portland Linux/Unix Group
                                        560 SE Alexander
                                        Corvallis, Oregon 97333
                                        (541) 730-5285 mobile
                                        dmandel at pdxLinux.org

        P.S.  The Mid Willamette Valley Linux Users Group meets
              every month.
              See http://www.lug.corvallis.or.us/ for details.

        P.S.  The Eugene Linux Users Group meets several times a month.
              See http://www.euglug.org for details.

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[PLUG] LinuxFest Northwest - April 30 - May 1 in Bellingham, Washington

[David Mandel]

Just to remind everyone.

LinuxFest Northwest will be April 30 - May 1 in Bellingham,
Washington.  Bellingham is in northwest Washington, not far from the
Canadian border.  The conference is free, on a weekend, in a beautiful
little harbor city with lots of spring flowers and fine beer right on
the Puget Sound.

See: http://linuxfestnorthwest.org for details.

  Sincerely,
  David Mandel
  Chief Activist
  Portland Linux/Unix Group
  560 SE Alexander
  Corvallis, Oregon 97333
  (541) 752-3769 land
  (541) 730-5285 cell
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[PLUG] Problems with Virtual Box

[David Mandel]

Have people had problems with Virtual Box on openSuSE or other Linux?
Or have I simply screwed something up with my particular installation
of Virtual Box?

I originally used Virtual Box with Windows 7 as the host OS and was
able to install and run most any OS I wanted including openSuSE,
Fedora, Ubuntu, several different versions of Knoppix, PC-BSD, and
openSolaris with few problems.

Now that I'm using openSuSE 11.3 as the host OS, I have been able to
install a good working version of Windows XP, but seem to have major
problems installing and running other OSs.  I may have been successful
with Ubuntu, and haven't tried openSuSE or Fedora; but have major
problems using Knoppix and PC-BSD.

Are problems like this common with virtual box in Linux?

I'm short on time and almost ready to go back to VM-Ware server which
has served me well over the years.

David Mandel
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Re: [PLUG] [PLUG-ANNOUNCE] TONIGHT: PLUG Advanced Topics IPv6 Networking Part 1

[David Mandel]

Oh, I wish I could be there tonight.
I love Corvallis, but sometimes it is a pain living "in the sticks".

David Mandel

On Tue, Apr 19, 2011 at 11:43 AM, Michael Dexter  wrote:
>
> REMINDER: PLUG Advanced Topics April Meeting
>
> IPv6 Networking with Ted Mittelstaedt: Part 1
>
> The first in a multi-part series on IPv6 networking by Ted Mittelstaedt,
> the author of The FreeBSD Corporate Networker's Guide.
>
> Part 1: Theory & management & ISP routing, as well as current events in
> the IPv6 realm. For example, did you know that Nortel just sold
> Microsoft a huge chunk of IPv4 legacy addresses for something like 7
> million dollars? This has really turned the tables on the game. Up until
> that happened the thought in the community was that the large ISP's
> would be the biggest pushers of IPv6 deployment. But this is an early
> indicator of what's going to happen. The large ISPs are going to spend
> millions in vacuuming every scrap of IPv4 out of all the corners on the
> Internet before they will start pushing their users to go to IPv6. That
> is a serious problem for any small ISP that does not have a stock of
> IPv4 because they will be run out of numbers and new customers will not
> be interested in their IPv6 offerings as long as the large ISPs still
> are handing IPv4 out.
>
> Where: Free Geek, 1731 SE 10th Avenue
>
> When: TUESDAY, April 19th, 7PM
>
> BYO Food and Beverages
>
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[PLUG] SECOND ANNOUNCEMENT: April PLUG Meeting

[David Mandel]

                            MEETING ANNOUNCEMENT

             PLUG Meeting will be different than normal

                          Richard Stallman
                           is speaking at
                     Portland State University
                 during PLUG's normal meeting time.

        So, instead of having a PLUG meeting we will attend
    Richard Stallman's talk at 7:00 PM on Thursday April 7, 2011
                                 at

        The PSU Native American Student and Community Center
                         710 SW Jackson St
                       Portland Oregon 97201

    And if Stallman's talk gets out early enough we will
    go over to The Lucky Lab Northwest Beerhall at 1945 NW Quimby
    Portland, Oregon afterwards.

    ***

                              Abstract
                                for
                       Richard Stallman Talk

                            Presented by
                     Portland State University
                             Chapter of
                 Association of Computing Machinery

    The Free Software Movement campaigns for computer users' freedom
    to cooperate and control their own computing. The Free Software
    Movement developed the GNU operating system, typically used with
    the Linux kernel, specifically to make these freedoms possible.

    The Portland State University Chapter of the Association for
    Computing Machinery and the Computer Science Department are proud
    to welcome Richard Stallman to PSU for this general-interest talk.
    Mr. Stallman is the father of the free software movement and the
    concept of 'copyleft', the original author of GNU Emacs, the GNU
    Compiler Collection, and many of the utilities used in the GNU/Linux
    operating system.

    This event is free and open to the general public. Mr. Stallman will
    be available for a brief Q&A session following the talk.

    ***


                                        David Mandel
                                        Chief Activist
                                        Portland Linux/Unix Group
                                        560 SE Alexander
                                        Corvallis, Oregon 97333
                                        (541) 730-5285 mobile
                                        dmandel at pdxLinux.org

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[PLUG] ANNOUNCEMENT: April PLUG Meeting

[David Mandel]

                            MEETING ANNOUNCEMENT

             PLUG Meeting will be different than normal

                          Richard Stallman
                           is speaking at
                     Portland State University
                 during PLUG's normal meeting time.

        So, instead of having a PLUG meeting we will attend
               Richard Stallman's talk at 7:30 PM at

        The PSU Native American Student and Community Center
                         710 SW Jackson St
                       Portland Oregon 97201

    And if Stallman's talk gets out early enough we will
    go over to The Lucky Lab Northwest Beerhall at 1945 NW Quimby
    Portland, Oregon afterwards.

    ***

                              Abstract
                                for
                       Richard Stallman Talk

                            Presented by
                     Portland State University
                             Chapter of
                 Association of Computing Machinery

    The Free Software Movement campaigns for computer users' freedom
    to cooperate and control their own computing. The Free Software
    Movement developed the GNU operating system, typically used with
    the Linux kernel, specifically to make these freedoms possible.

    The Portland State University Chapter of the Association for
    Computing Machinery and the Computer Science Department are proud
    to welcome Richard Stallman to PSU for this general-interest talk.
    Mr. Stallman is the father of the free software movement and the
    concept of 'copyleft', the original author of GNU Emacs, the GNU
    Compiler Collection, and many of the utilities used in the GNU/Linux
    operating system.

    This event is free and open to the general public. Mr. Stallman will
    be available for a brief Q&A session following the talk.

    ***


                                        David Mandel
                                        Chief Activist
                                        Portland Linux/Unix Group
                                        560 SE Alexander
                                        Corvallis, Oregon 97333
                                        (541) 730-5285 mobile
                                        dmandel at pdxLinux.org

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Re: [PLUG] Richard Stallman to speak at PSU Thursday evening.

[David Mandel]

Yes, I'm going to "cancel" the PLUG meeting and encourage people to
attend Stallman's talk instead.  Of course, we will have beer after
the meeting at the Lucky Lab Northwest like normal.

  Sincerely,
  David Mandel
  Chief Activist
  Portland Linux/Unix Group
  560 SE Alexander
  Corvallis, Oregon 97333
  (541) 752-3769 land
  (541) 730-5285 cell

On Sat, Apr 2, 2011 at 7:16 PM, Scott Garman  wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> I don't think I've seen it mentioned here yet, but Richard Stallman will
> be giving a talk Thursday evening (conflicting with the PLUG meeting?)
> for the PSU ACM chapter:
>
> http://calagator.org/events/1250460423
>
> Scott
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Re: [PLUG] DNS problems with the domain pdxLinux.org have been fixed.

[David Mandel]

Russell,

The text message didn't wake me up.  I was actually just sitting down
after working all day.  I looked at matters and then decided to wait
until morning before calling Wil - and one must remember my mornings
come rather late now days.

Dave

On Thu, Mar 31, 2011 at 10:35 AM, Russell Senior
 wrote:
>>>>>> "David" == David Mandel  writes:
>
> David> Note: The entire pdxLinux.org domain went down sometime after
> David> 8:00 PM Tuesday March 29, 2011.  Russell Senior brought this to
> David> my attention and Wil Cooley and I took care of the problem.
> David> Sorry it took so long.  Apparently, it was down all day
> David> Wednesday.  The problem was due to changes at EveryDNS.net.
>
> Credit where credit is due, Galen brought it to my attention (David:
> sorry if the text message woke you up! :-)
>
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[PLUG] Test Message: Testing to see if the list is working.

[David Mandel]

We seem to have a DNS problem.
Who is in charge of the DNS for pdxlinux.org.
The DNS is at EveryDNS.net and it isn't me.

  Sincerely,
  David Mandel
  Chief Activist
  Portland Linux/Unix Group
  560 SE Alexander
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[PLUG] DNS problems with the domain pdxLinux.org have been fixed.

[David Mandel]

Note:  The entire pdxLinux.org domain went down sometime after 8:00 PM
Tuesday March 29, 2011.  Russell Senior brought this to my attention
and Wil Cooley and I took care of the problem.  Sorry it took so long.
 Apparently, it was down all day Wednesday.  The problem was due to
changes at EveryDNS.net.

  Sincerely,
  David Mandel
  Chief Activist
  Portland Linux/Unix Group
  560 SE Alexander
  Corvallis, Oregon 97333
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[PLUG] Test Message - Is the server working correctly?

[David Mandel]

Test Message - Is the server working correctly?
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Re: [PLUG] help with iptables

[David Mandel]

Mike,

I haven't responded, because I don't have much experience using
iptables directly.  Once it gets beyond setting setting up a simple
chain of two or three iptable commands, I have always gone to some
fancy ready made script.

David Mandel

On Fri, Mar 25, 2011 at 9:10 PM,   wrote:
> Hi,Anybody want some free lunchs for a bit of iptables advice? I'm rewriting 
> student exercises for a Linux Networking class at PCC and want to add an 
> iptables task in each lab.  I know enough about packet filtering to introduce 
> the topic but not enough to write iptables rules an experienced practitioner 
> might develop. Using VirtualBox, each student creates a network on their PC 
> or MAC. Fedora guests act as servers, clients and an Internet gateway. In the 
> lab assignments, a student installs services, watches the traffic, 
> reconfigures, troubleshoot, etc. I need help writing rules that change from 
> one lab to the next.If there's a better place to post, please 
> adviseThanks,Mikemneal at pcc dot edu
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[PLUG] Fwd: [pdx-groups] Mark your calendars! PDX11 Civic Unconference April 1 and 2

[David Mandel]

-- Forwarded message --
From: Selena Deckelmann 
Date: Thu, Mar 17, 2011 at 1:23 PM
Subject: [pdx-groups] Mark your calendars! PDX11 Civic Unconference
April 1 and 2
To: pdxgro...@googlegroups.com


Hi!

We're having a civic unconference April 1 (starting 5pm) and April 2
(9am-6pm-ish)

We've got sponsors providing food and drink both days, and lots of
projects lined up for hackery on the 2nd. Hope to see you there!

Please distribute!

-selena

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Join us April 1-2 for the PDX11 Civic Unconference. Please RSVP!

http://pdx11unconference.eventbrite.com/

This community meeting is open to all!

Since the inaugural PDX11 meeting in December 2010, three teams have
been working separately to meet their goals. Everyone will reconvene
on April 1-2 for the PDX11 Civic Unconference to bring the teams back
together to share, discuss and hack on the software that supports the
goals of PDX11.

Each team will present their charter and discuss their initial
findings regarding available resources and the management tools needed
to bring it all together.

PDX11 is also assembling developers in the Hackathon community to work
on several key pieces of software including: Calagator, ePDX.org,
CivicApps inspired projects like PDXAPI, and open source Trimet data
processing applications. They also need developers who can pair up and
hack codes like Ruby, Python, PHP and Javascript. Non-technical work
includes documentation of resources, blogging, data entry, testing,
and feature requests.

We put together a detailed Q&A here: http://pdx11.org/node/2919

You'll find out:
* Where to RSVP?
* Where will this event be held?
* Why should I attend?
* Well, if an unconference isn't planned out ahead of time, what can I
expect to hear about if I attend?
* Where can I find out more about the Hackathon?
* What is PDX11 about again?
* When will this event take place?
* What is an unconference exactly?
* Can I get a more detailed schedule?

And there's an RSVP page so we can plan for food & drink:

http://pdx11unconference.eventbrite.com/

We are also seeking sponsors! Please contact me if your company is
willing to pitch in.

Thanks!
-selena

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[PLUG] SECOND ANNOUNCEMENT: March PLUG Meeting

[David Mandel]

                            MEETING ANNOUNCEMENT

                       The Portland Linux/Unix Group
                                 will meet
                         7 PM Thursday Mar 3, 2011
                                     at
                         Portland State University
                                   in the
                              Fariborz Maseeh
             College of Engineering & Computer Science Building
                              Room FAB 86-01
                       (This is in the basement.)
          The building is on SW 4th across from SW College Street.
       See location H-10 on map at http://pdxLinux.org/campus_map.jpg

    ***
                                Presentation
                    Free Content and the Data Revolution
                                     by
                               Daniel Hedlund
                           


    The amount of information available on the Internet has
    exploded in recent years and shows no sign of slowing down.
    Most of this information is freely available to anyone with
    a web browser --- but what does free mean?  Daniel Hedlund
    will lead a discussion on the meaning of open data and explore
    how the open source movement is no longer constrained to the
    realm of software.

    ***

        Agenda:

            7:00 - 7:30  Business
                 We will discuss the status of our ongoing projects
                 including PLUG's monthly Advanced Topics meetings,
                 PLUG's monthly hands on clinics, PLUG for Education,
                 etc.

            7:30 - 8:30  Presentation

                 See above

            9:00 - ...  Beer
                        The Lucky Lab Northwest Beerhall
                        1945 NW Quimby
                        Portland, Oregon

                                        David Mandel
                                        Chief Activist
                                        Portland Linux/Unix Group
                                        560 SE Alexander
                                        Corvallis, Oregon 97333
                                        (541) 730-5285 mobile
                                        dmandel at pdxLinux.org

        P.S.  The Mid Willamette Valley Linux Users Group meets
              every month.
              See http://www.lug.corvallis.or.us/ for details.

        P.S.  The Eugene Linux Users Group meets several times a month.
              See http://www.euglug.org for details.

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[PLUG] ANNOUNCEMENT: March PLUG Meeting

[David Mandel]

                            MEETING ANNOUNCEMENT

                       The Portland Linux/Unix Group
                                 will meet
                         7 PM Thursday Mar 3, 2011
                                     at
                         Portland State University
                                   in the
                              Fariborz Maseeh
             College of Engineering & Computer Science Building
                              Room FAB 86-01
                       (This is in the basement.)
          The building is on SW 4th across from SW College Street.
       See location H-10 on map at http://pdxLinux.org/campus_map.jpg

    ***
                                Presentation
                    Free Content and the Data Revolution
                                     by
                               Daniel Hedlund
                           


    The amount of information available on the Internet has
    exploded in recent years and shows no sign of slowing down.
    Most of this information is freely available to anyone with
    a web browser --- but what does free mean?  Daniel Hedlund
    will lead a discussion on the meaning of open data and explore
    how the open source movement is no longer constrained to the
    realm of software.

    ***

        Agenda:

            7:00 - 7:30  Business
                 We will discuss the status of our ongoing projects
                 including PLUG's monthly Advanced Topics meetings,
                 PLUG's monthly hands on clinics, PLUG for Education,
                 etc.

            7:30 - 8:30  Presentation

                 See above

            9:00 - ...  Beer
                        The Lucky Lab Northwest Beerhall
                        1945 NW Quimby
                        Portland, Oregon

                                        David Mandel
                                        Chief Activist
                                        Portland Linux/Unix Group
                                        560 SE Alexander
                                        Corvallis, Oregon 97333
                                        (541) 730-5285 mobile
                                        dmandel at pdxLinux.org

        P.S.  The Mid Willamette Valley Linux Users Group meets
              every month.
              See http://www.lug.corvallis.or.us/ for details.

        P.S.  The Eugene Linux Users Group meets several times a month.
              See http://www.euglug.org for details.

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[PLUG] SECOND ANNOUNCEMENT: February PLUG Meeting

[David Mandel]

                            MEETING ANNOUNCEMENT

                       The Portland Linux/Unix Group
                                 will meet
                         7 PM Thursday Feb 3, 2011
                                     at
                         Portland State University
                                   in the
                              Fariborz Maseeh
             College of Engineering & Computer Science Building
                              Room FAB 86-01
                       (This is in the basement.)
          The building is on SW 4th across from SW College Street.
       See location H-10 on map at http://pdxLinux.org/campus_map.jpg

    ***
                                Presentation
                               What is Open?
                                     by
                                David Mandel
                         


    David Mandel is interested in distilling the core ideas
    from the philosophy of Open Source Software and extending
    these into other areas like music, publishing, farming,
    and education.  In the past he has given presentations
    on Open Source Agriculture.

    In this presentation, David wants to discuss Open Source
    in education.  This is not a presentation about using
    Open Source Software in traditional classrooms as much
    as it is a discussion about using Open Source Philosophy
    to change traditional classrooms.  We will discuss the
    work of John Gatto author of "Dumbing Us Down", the Moore
    Method of teaching mathematics, and David Mandel's personal
    experience teaching mathematics and computer classes in
    community colleges.

    ***

        Agenda:

            7:00 - 7:30  Business
                 We will discuss the status of our ongoing projects
                 including PLUG's monthly Advanced Topics meetings,
                 PLUG's monthly hands on clinics, PLUG for Education,
                 etc.

            7:30 - 8:30  Presentation

                 See above

            9:00 - ...  Beer
                        The Lucky Lab Northwest Beerhall
                        1945 NW Quimby
                        Portland, Oregon

                                        David Mandel
                                        Chief Activist
                                        Portland Linux/Unix Group
                                        560 SE Alexander
                                        Corvallis, Oregon 97333
                                        (541) 730-5285 mobile
                                        dmandel at pdxLinux.org

        P.S.  The Mid Willamette Valley Linux Users Group meets
              every month.
              See http://www.lug.corvallis.or.us/ for details.

        P.S.  The Eugene Linux Users Group meets several times a month.
              See http://www.euglug.org for details.

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[PLUG] ANNOUNCEMENT: February PLUG Meeting

[David Mandel]

                            MEETING ANNOUNCEMENT

                       The Portland Linux/Unix Group
                                 will meet
                         7 PM Thursday Feb 3, 2011
                                     at
                         Portland State University
                                   in the
                              Fariborz Maseeh
             College of Engineering & Computer Science Building
                              Room FAB 86-01
                       (This is in the basement.)
          The building is on SW 4th across from SW College Street.
       See location H-10 on map at http://pdxLinux.org/campus_map.jpg

    ***
                                Presentation
                               What is Open?
                                     by
                                David Mandel
                         


    David Mandel is interested in distilling the core ideas
    from the philosophy of Open Source Software and extending
    these into other areas like music, publishing, farming,
    and education.  In the past he has given presentations
    on Open Source Agriculture.

    In this presentation, David wants to discuss Open Source
    in education.  This is not a presentation about using
    Open Source Software in traditional classrooms as much
    as it is a discussion about using Open Source Philosophy
    to change traditional classrooms.  We will discuss the
    work of John Gatto author of "Dumbing Us Down", the Moore
    Method of teaching mathematics, and David Mandel's personal
    experience teaching mathematics and computer classes in
    community colleges.

    ***

        Agenda:

            7:00 - 7:30  Business
                 We will discuss the status of our ongoing projects
                 including PLUG's monthly Advanced Topics meetings,
                 PLUG's monthly hands on clinics, PLUG for Education,
                 etc.

            7:30 - 8:30  Presentation

                 See above

            9:00 - ...  Beer
                        The Lucky Lab Northwest Beerhall
                        1945 NW Quimby
                        Portland, Oregon

                                        David Mandel
                                        Chief Activist
                                        Portland Linux/Unix Group
                                        560 SE Alexander
                                        Corvallis, Oregon 97333
                                        (541) 730-5285 mobile
                                        dmandel at pdxLinux.org

        P.S.  The Mid Willamette Valley Linux Users Group meets
              every month.
              See http://www.lug.corvallis.or.us/ for details.

        P.S.  The Eugene Linux Users Group meets several times a month.
              See http://www.euglug.org for details.

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[PLUG] Who are the top 10 interesting entrepreneur + open source companies in PDX?

[David Mandel]

Two different groups in two different states have recently ask:

Who are the top 10 interesting entrepreneur + open source companies in PDX?

Anyone have any candidates?

  Sincerely,
  David Mandel
  Chief Activist
  Portland Linux/Unix Group
  560 SE Alexander
  Corvallis, Oregon 97333
  (541) 752-3769 land
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[PLUG] SECOND ANNOUNCEMENT: January PLUG Meeting

[David Mandel]

                            MEETING ANNOUNCEMENT

                       The Portland Linux/Unix Group
                                 will meet
                         7 PM Thursday Jan 6, 2011
                                     at
                         Portland State University
                                   in the
                              Fariborz Maseeh
             College of Engineering & Computer Science Building
                              Room FAB 86-01
                       (This is in the basement.)
          The building is on SW 4th across from SW College Street.
       See location H-10 on map at http://pdxLinux.org/campus_map.jpg

    ***
                                Presentation
                             Mini Presentations
                                     by
                               Daniel Hedlund
                                    and
                              hopefully others


    Daniel Hedlund will give a little ad hoc mini-demo on
    setting up a VPS on Linode.com.

    David Mandel will discuss a couple ways of using virtualbox
    in a teaching environment.

    We invite others to join in with their own short little
    mini-presentations on simple little "hacks" that you find
    useful.

    ***

        Agenda:

            7:00 - 7:30  Business
                 We will discuss the status of our ongoing projects
                 including PLUG's monthly Advanced Topics meetings,
                 PLUG's monthly hands on clinics, PLUG for Education,
                 etc.

            7:30 - 8:30  Presentation

                 See above

            9:00 - ...  Beer
                        The Lucky Lab Northwest Beerhall
                        1945 NW Quimby
                        Portland, Oregon

                                        David Mandel
                                        Chief Activist
                                        Portland Linux/Unix Group
                                        560 SE Alexander
                                        Corvallis, Oregon 97333
                                        (541) 730-5285 mobile
                                        dmandel at pdxLinux.org

        P.S.  The Mid Willamette Valley Linux Users Group meets
              every month.
              See http://www.lug.corvallis.or.us/ for details.

        P.S.  The Eugene Linux Users Group meets several times a month.
              See http://www.euglug.org for details.

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[PLUG] ANNOUNCEMENT: January PLUG Meeting

[David Mandel]

                            MEETING ANNOUNCEMENT

                       The Portland Linux/Unix Group
                                 will meet
                         7 PM Thursday Jan 6, 2011
                                     at
                         Portland State University
                                   in the
                              Fariborz Maseeh
             College of Engineering & Computer Science Building
                              Room FAB 86-01
                       (This is in the basement.)
          The building is on SW 4th across from SW College Street.
       See location H-10 on map at http://pdxLinux.org/campus_map.jpg

    ***
                                Presentation
                             Mini Presentations
                                     by
                               Daniel Hedlund
                                    and
                              hopefully others


    Daniel Hedlund will give a little ad hoc mini-demo on
    setting up a VPS on Linode.com.

    David Mandel will discuss a couple ways of using virtualbox
    in a teaching environment.

    We invite others to join in with their own short little
    mini-presentations on simple little "hacks" that you find
    useful.

    ***

        Agenda:

            7:00 - 7:30  Business
                 We will discuss the status of our ongoing projects
                 including PLUG's monthly Advanced Topics meetings,
                 PLUG's monthly hands on clinics, PLUG for Education,
                 etc.

            7:30 - 8:30  Presentation

                 See above

            9:00 - ...  Beer
                        The Lucky Lab Northwest Beerhall
                        1945 NW Quimby
                        Portland, Oregon

                                        David Mandel
                                        Chief Activist
                                        Portland Linux/Unix Group
                                        560 SE Alexander
                                        Corvallis, Oregon 97333
                                        (541) 730-5285 mobile
                                        dmandel at pdxLinux.org

        P.S.  The Mid Willamette Valley Linux Users Group meets
              every month.
              See http://www.lug.corvallis.or.us/ for details.

        P.S.  The Eugene Linux Users Group meets several times a month.
              See http://www.euglug.org for details.

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[PLUG] Speakers needed

[David Mandel]

I have been sleeping on the job.
As a result, PLUG is out of speakers.

Does anyone have a burning desire to give the January meeting Thursday evening?
If not, I will announce a meeting of "Rapid Discussions".

Now, how about Feb, March, April, May, etc ... ?

  Sincerely,
  David Mandel
  Chief Activist
  Portland Linux/Unix Group
  560 SE Alexander
  Corvallis, Oregon 97333
  (541) 752-3769 land
  (541) 730-5285 cell

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Re: [PLUG] laptop, eSATAp, bare drive

[David Mandel]

I suppose I would try pretty much what you have mentioned.

I sometimes use usb drives, but as you said are slow - and some of
mine are SLOW, SLOW, SLOW as I still have some usb 1 left.

Recently, I bought an inexpensive Toshiba laptop.  I picked it over
several alternatives, because it had one of those USB/SATA ports built
in.  I use it with a normal full size hard disk (large capacity) in a
case that requires external power.  It is a pain to carry, but the
performance is great.  Couldn't be more pleased with it - although it
would be even better if I used a laptop disk and got my power from the
PC some way.  (By the way, I used to use a passport drive that used
two usb connectors - one for the signal and one for power.)

David

On Sat, Jan 1, 2011 at 8:43 AM, Keith Lofstrom  wrote:
> I like to back up my laptop hard drive overnight when I am on the
> road - a dd copy to an identical drive.  That worked with PATA and
> thinkpad ultrabays.  Not with SATA, though (long story).
>
> Moving 500GB in 6 hours requires a fast connection - 190Mb/s
> sustained rate.  USB with overhead probably doesn't do it.
> I would rather not carry a case and a power adapter.  And the
> drives will get bigger.
>
> With the newer laptop, it looks like the optimum setup, in theory,
> would be an expresscard34 "eSATAp" aka "powered eSATA" aka "USB/SATA"
> card, to a cable that connects directly to the back of a 2.5 inch
> SATA drive.  The SYBA SY-EXP50028 (at Newegg and Amazon) has the
> right form factor, but the JMB360 chipset has bad Linux support.
>
> Another possibility would be a cable with drive connector on one
> end, eSATA and USB (for power) at the other end, and a Linux
> compatable eSATA expresscard.  Plenty of linux compatable cards,
> but I can't find such a cable.  I might be able to make one,
> from an eSATA to SATA cable and a SATA-power and USB cable.
>
> Any suggestions, besides waiting for eSATAp to become more widely
> available?
>
> Keith
>
> --
> Keith Lofstrom          kei...@keithl.com         Voice (503)-520-1993
> KLIC --- Keith Lofstrom Integrated Circuits --- "Your Ideas in Silicon"
> Design Contracting in Bipolar and CMOS - Analog, Digital, and Scan ICs
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[PLUG] Fwd: Books and News from the O'Reilly User Group Program--Dec

[David Mandel]

-- Forwarded message --
From: Marsee Henon & Jon Johns 
Date: Thu, Dec 2, 2010 at 2:03 PM
Subject: Books and News from the O'Reilly User Group Program--Dec
To: dman...@pdxlinux.org


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*Agile
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[PLUG] SECOND ANNOUNCEMENT: December PLUG Meeting

[David Mandel]

                            MEETING ANNOUNCEMENT

                       The Portland Linux/Unix Group
                                 will meet
                         7 PM Thursday Dec 2, 2010
                                     at
                         Portland State University
                                   in the
                              Fariborz Maseeh
             College of Engineering & Computer Science Building
                              Room FAB 86-01
                       (This is in the basement.)
          The building is on SW 4th across from SW College Street.
       See location H-10 on map at http://pdxLinux.org/campus_map.jpg

    ***
                                Presentation
                       Open Source Desktop Publishing
                                    with
                                  Scribus

                                     by

                             John Jason Jordan

    Scribus is just a few years old, but has already achieved
    most of the features of the expensive commercial desktop
    publishing apps, and a few they don't have. If you need to
    do fliers, brochures, or whole books, Scribus is now the
    preferred tool.

    The presentation will start with a brief introduction to
    some of the terms of desktop publishing, especially how to
    get your computer to produce something that a print shop can
    put on a press. This will include matters such as typography,
    color management, banding and line screens, transparency,
    imposition, and several other issues.

    Then we will spend a few minutes on an overview of Scribus,
    how it is different from word processors, TeX, and advantages
    and disadvantages.  This will include the basic features of
    Scribus, including typographical controls, master pages, render
    frames, PDF forms, PDF export options, scripting, collect for
    output, and lots more. It will also cover how Scribus is the
    end tool in a process that starts with other programs.

    Finally we will reproduce the PLUG flier that was created
    in Scribus.  This will be presented on the screen showing
    the steps and features of Scribus necessary to produce it.
    Each member of the audience will have a paper copy of the
    flier to assist in following the process.

    ***

        Agenda:

            7:00 - 7:30  Business
                 We will discuss the status of our ongoing projects
                 including PLUG's monthly Advanced Topics meetings,
                 PLUG's monthly hands on clinics, PLUG for Education,
                 etc.

            7:30 - 8:30  Presentation

                 See above

            9:00 - ...  Beer
                        The Lucky Lab Northwest Beerhall
                        1945 NW Quimby
                        Portland, Oregon

                                        David Mandel
                                        Chief Activist
                                        Portland Linux/Unix Group
                                        560 SE Alexander
                                        Corvallis, Oregon 97333
                                        (541) 730-5285 mobile
                                        dmandel at pdxLinux.org

        P.S.  The Mid Willamette Valley Linux Users Group meets
              every month.
              See http://www.lug.corvallis.or.us/ for details.

        P.S.  The Eugene Linux Users Group meets several times a month.
              See http://www.euglug.org for details.

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[PLUG] ANNOUNCEMENT: December PLUG Meeting

[David Mandel]

                            MEETING ANNOUNCEMENT

                       The Portland Linux/Unix Group
                                 will meet
                         7 PM Thursday Dec 2, 2010
                                     at
                         Portland State University
                                   in the
                              Fariborz Maseeh
             College of Engineering & Computer Science Building
                              Room FAB 86-01
                       (This is in the basement.)
          The building is on SW 4th across from SW College Street.
       See location H-10 on map at http://pdxLinux.org/campus_map.jpg

    ***
                                Presentation
                       Open Source Desktop Publishing
                                    with
                                  Scribus

                                     by

                             John Jason Jordan

    Scribus is just a few years old, but has already achieved
    most of the features of the expensive commercial desktop
    publishing apps, and a few they don't have. If you need to
    do fliers, brochures, or whole books, Scribus is now the
    preferred tool.

    The presentation will start with a brief introduction to
    some of the terms of desktop publishing, especially how to
    get your computer to produce something that a print shop can
    put on a press. This will include matters such as typography,
    color management, banding and line screens, transparency,
    imposition, and several other issues.

    Then we will spend a few minutes on an overview of Scribus,
    how it is different from word processors, TeX, and advantages
    and disadvantages.  This will include the basic features of
    Scribus, including typographical controls, master pages, render
    frames, PDF forms, PDF export options, scripting, collect for
    output, and lots more. It will also cover how Scribus is the
    end tool in a process that starts with other programs.

    Finally we will reproduce the PLUG flier that was created
    in Scribus.  This will be presented on the screen showing
    the steps and features of Scribus necessary to produce it.
    Each member of the audience will have a paper copy of the
    flier to assist in following the process.

    ***

        Agenda:

            7:00 - 7:30  Business
                 We will discuss the status of our ongoing projects
                 including PLUG's monthly Advanced Topics meetings,
                 PLUG's monthly hands on clinics, PLUG for Education,
                 etc.

            7:30 - 8:30  Presentation

                 See above

            9:00 - ...  Beer
                        The Lucky Lab Northwest Beerhall
                        1945 NW Quimby
                        Portland, Oregon

                                        David Mandel
                                        Chief Activist
                                        Portland Linux/Unix Group
                                        560 SE Alexander
                                        Corvallis, Oregon 97333
                                        (541) 730-5285 mobile
                                        dmandel at pdxLinux.org

        P.S.  The Mid Willamette Valley Linux Users Group meets
              every month.
              See http://www.lug.corvallis.or.us/ for details.

        P.S.  The Eugene Linux Users Group meets several times a month.
              See http://www.euglug.org for details.

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Re: [PLUG] Clinic Sunday!

[David Mandel]

To any of my students who may be attending this month's clinic:

I promised to attend the clinics during Fall term.
However, I can not make it today.
As you know, it may snow or get very cold in the next couple days.
I have lots to do on my farm to prepare for possible freezing weather.
Better to keep pipes from freezing than to have to repair broken pipes.

David Mandel
541-730-5285 mobile

On Thu, Nov 18, 2010 at 8:24 AM, John Jason Jordan  wrote:
> Just in case you haven't been paying attention to the calendar, the
> famous PLUG Linux Clinic is this Sunday, November 21, at Free Geek
> at 1741 SE 10th Avenue, Portland from 1 – 5 PM.
>
> Bring your computer with Linux issues. Bring your  computer
> and we'll install Linux for you. We have monitors, keyboards, mice and
> cables, so all you need to bring is the box. Or just come and look over
> shoulders to see what Linux is all about.
>
> And if you're an expert with Linux, we need you too. The Clinic is a
> good way to learn how to support desktop Linux.
>
> We have all major distros and variations thereof. We also have coffee,
> cookies, and other edibles. And most important, we have fun.
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[PLUG] ANNOUNCEMENT: November Advanced Topics Meeting TONIGHT

[David Mandel]

Portland Linux/Unix User Group Meeting Announcement
PLUG Advanced Topics for November 2010

Topic: "Artificial Neural Networks: Principles and Applications" by
Cooper Stevenson

Date and Time: Tuesday, November 16th, 7PM
Location: Free Geek, 1731 SE 10th Avenue


Cooper will emphasize the financial industry's use of ANN's as it is
closest to what he does.
However, he will be mindful to cover other areas where they are useful
to as wide an audience as possible.

Cooper Stevenson's Bio:
Cooper is a leading expert in Information Technology systems for
business automation.
His award winning designs focus on expanding business intelligence and
automation for
medium and large industry. He moved Legislation through the Oregon
Legislature and
has written over ten publications for online resources. He is also
featured in CNET News,
Linux Today, and Linux.com. Recently, Cooper developed the first
automated artificial
neural network system for predicting financial securities price
fluctuations and business
process intelligence.

Calagator Link: http://calagator.org/events/1250459480

Food & Drink: At the last meeting we talked about having a Lucky Lab
menu and calling in an order. With their dinner rush beginning at 6PM,
you are welcome to call in and pay for your own order in the afternoon
and pick it up before the meeting. Or bring whatever food you wish for
that matter:

Lucky Lab on Hawthorne
503-236-3555
http://luckylab.com/html/menu.html#brewpub


David Mandel (for Michael Dexter)
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[PLUG] SECOND ANNOUNCEMENT: November PLUG Meeting

[David Mandel]

                            MEETING ANNOUNCEMENT

                       The Portland Linux/Unix Group
                                 will meet
                         7 PM Thursday Nov 4, 2010
                                     at
                         Portland State University
                                   in the
                              Fariborz Maseeh
             College of Engineering & Computer Science Building
                              Room FAB 86-01
                       (This is in the basement.)
          The building is on SW 4th across from SW College Street.
       See location H-10 on map at http://pdxLinux.org/campus_map.jpg

    ***
  A Presentation

by

   Allan Foster
of
  ForgeRock.com

 I will give a presentation on ForgeRock, how and why we
 were founded, and a little of the events and decisions that
 led up to the founding.

 I will also discuss some of the various Open Source Business
 Models, and why we chose ours.

 I will cover some of the unique situations in which we
 find ourselves, and how we chose to address them.

 I will also discuss how Open Source is becoming more
 relevant in Enterprise, and how this shift seems to be
 reaching a tipping point.

    ***

        Agenda:

            7:00 - 7:30  Business
                 We will discuss the status of our ongoing projects
                 including PLUG's monthly Advanced Topics meetings,
                 PLUG's monthly hands on clinics, PLUG for Education,
                 etc.

            7:30 - 8:30  Presentation

                 See above

            9:00 - ...  Beer
                        The Lucky Lab Northwest Beerhall
                        1945 NW Quimby
                        Portland, Oregon

                                        David Mandel
                                        Chief Activist
                                        Portland Linux/Unix Group
                                        560 SE Alexander
                                        Corvallis, Oregon 97333
                                        (541) 730-5285 mobile
                                        dmandel at pdxLinux.org

        P.S.  The Mid Willamette Valley Linux Users Group meets
              every month.
              See http://www.lug.corvallis.or.us/ for details.

        P.S.  The Eugene Linux Users Group meets several times a month.
              See http://www.euglug.org for details.

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[PLUG] ANNOUNCEMENT: November PLUG Meeting

[David Mandel]

                            MEETING ANNOUNCEMENT

                       The Portland Linux/Unix Group
                                 will meet
                         7 PM Thursday Nov 4, 2010
                                     at
                         Portland State University
                                   in the
                              Fariborz Maseeh
             College of Engineering & Computer Science Building
                              Room FAB 86-01
                       (This is in the basement.)
          The building is on SW 4th across from SW College Street.
       See location H-10 on map at http://pdxLinux.org/campus_map.jpg

    ***
                               A Presentation

                                     by

                                Allan Foster
                                     of
                               ForgeRock.com

    ForgeRock is an open source software company that is committed
    to an open source business model in a corporate environment.

    Talk topic to be announced soon!

    ***

        Agenda:

            7:00 - 7:30  Business
                 We will discuss the status of our ongoing projects
                 including PLUG's monthly Advanced Topics meetings,
                 PLUG's monthly hands on clinics, PLUG for Education,
                 etc.

            7:30 - 8:30  Presentation

                 See above

            9:00 - ...  Beer
                        The Lucky Lab Northwest Beerhall
                        1945 NW Quimby
                        Portland, Oregon

                                        David Mandel
                                        Chief Activist
                                        Portland Linux/Unix Group
                                        560 SE Alexander
                                        Corvallis, Oregon 97333
                                        (541) 730-5285 mobile
                                        dmandel at pdxLinux.org

        P.S.  The Mid Willamette Valley Linux Users Group meets
              every month.
              See http://www.lug.corvallis.or.us/ for details.

        P.S.  The Eugene Linux Users Group meets several times a month.
              See http://www.euglug.org for details.

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[PLUG] SECOND ANNOUNCEMENT: October PLUG Meeting

[David Mandel]

                            MEETING ANNOUNCEMENT

                       The Portland Linux/Unix Group
                                 will meet
                         7 PM Thursday Oct 7, 2010
                                     at
                         Portland State University
                                   in the
                              Fariborz Maseeh
             College of Engineering & Computer Science Building
                              Room FAB 86-01
                       (This is in the basement.)
          The building is on SW 4th across from SW College Street.
       See location H-10 on map at http://pdxLinux.org/campus_map.jpg

    ***
                               An Overview of
                                    eBox

                                     by

                              Dale Zeutenhorst
                          

    Zentyal (formerly eBox Platform) is an open source unified network
    server for small to mid size companies based on Ubuntu Linux.
    Zentyal can act as a Gateway, Network Infrastructure Manager,
    Unified Threat Manager, Office Server, Unified Communications
    Server or a combination of these.

    Dale Zeutenhorst is a long time consultant and small business
    owner.  He is currently owner and manager of Adept I.T.
    Service of Camas, Washington.  Before that he was Technical
    Manager at Microsharp where is was a key player in building
    the Netule family of server-appliances.

    ***

        Agenda:

            7:00 - 7:30  Business
                 We will discuss the status of our ongoing projects
                 including PLUG's monthly Advanced Topics meetings,
                 PLUG's monthly hands on clinics, PLUG for Education,
                 etc.

            7:30 - 8:30  Presentation

                 See above

            9:00 - ...  Beer
                        The Lucky Lab Northwest Beerhall
                        1945 NW Quimby
                        Portland, Oregon

                                        David Mandel
                                        Chief Activist
                                        Portland Linux/Unix Group
                                        560 SE Alexander
                                        Corvallis, Oregon 97333
                                        (541) 730-5285 mobile
                                        dmandel at pdxLinux.org

        P.S.  The Mid Willamette Valley Linux Users Group meets
              every month.
              See http://www.lug.corvallis.or.us/ for details.

        P.S.  The Eugene Linux Users Group meets several times a month.
              See http://www.euglug.org for details.

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[PLUG] David Mandel won't be at the fall PLUG meetings

[David Mandel]

Hello,

I'm teaching a class on Thursday evenings at Portland Community
College this term.
As a result, I won't be making the PLUG meetings, but that won't
change anything.
Michael Dexter will lead the meetings and we have the following
meetings scheduled:

Oct 7, 2010   -  Dale Zeutenhorst will present on eBox.
Nov 4, 2010  -  Dan Carrere will present - He gave me a topic, but I
seem to have forgotten it.
Dec 2, 2010  -  John Jordan will present on Scribus.

My class at PCC finishes a bit after 9:00 PM, so I should be able to
make BEER after the meetings.
Also, I intend to attend the clinics this term.

  Sincerely,
  David Mandel
  Chief Activist
  Portland Linux/Unix Group
  560 SE Alexander
  Corvallis, Oregon 97333
  (541) 752-3769 land
  (541) 730-5285 cell
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[PLUG] ANNOUNCEMENT: October PLUG Meeting

[David Mandel]

                            MEETING ANNOUNCEMENT

                       The Portland Linux/Unix Group
                                 will meet
                         7 PM Thursday Oct 7, 2010
                                     at
                         Portland State University
                                   in the
                              Fariborz Maseeh
             College of Engineering & Computer Science Building
                              Room FAB 86-01
                       (This is in the basement.)
          The building is on SW 4th across from SW College Street.
       See location H-10 on map at http://pdxLinux.org/campus_map.jpg

    ***
                               An Overview of
                                    eBox

                                     by

                              Dale Zeutenhorst
                          

    Zentyal (formerly eBox Platform) is an open source unified network
    server for small to mid size companies based on Ubuntu Linux.
    Zentyal can act as a Gateway, Network Infrastructure Manager,
    Unified Threat Manager, Office Server, Unified Communications
    Server or a combination of these.

    Dale Zeutenhorst is a long time consultant and small business
    owner.  He is currently owner and manager of Adept I.T.
    Service of Camas, Washington.  Before that he was Technical
    Manager at Microsharp where is was a key player in building
    the Netule family of server-appliances.

    ***

        Agenda:

            7:00 - 7:30  Business
                 We will discuss the status of our ongoing projects
                 including PLUG's monthly Advanced Topics meetings,
                 PLUG's monthly hands on clinics, PLUG for Education,
                 etc.

            7:30 - 8:30  Presentation

                 See above

            9:00 - ...  Beer
                        The Lucky Lab Northwest Beerhall
                        1945 NW Quimby
                        Portland, Oregon

                                        David Mandel
                                        Chief Activist
                                        Portland Linux/Unix Group
                                        560 SE Alexander
                                        Corvallis, Oregon 97333
                                        (541) 730-5285 mobile
                                        dmandel at pdxLinux.org

        P.S.  The Mid Willamette Valley Linux Users Group meets
              every month.
              See http://www.lug.corvallis.or.us/ for details.

        P.S.  The Eugene Linux Users Group meets several times a month.
              See http://www.euglug.org for details.

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Re: [PLUG] Ubuntu question

[David Mandel]

This is what I thought, but I could say for sure as I have personally
installed Ubuntu in a long time.

In any case, Craig wrote back to say he had solved the problem.

Thank you everyone.

David Mandel

On Fri, Sep 3, 2010 at 6:11 AM, Daniel B. Herrington
 wrote:
> David,
>
> If he installed Ubuntu, the installer would have prompted him for a
> username and password. That's what he would use to login. If he's using
> the livecd, then there shouldn't be a username and password, at least
> not in the most recent builds (~since 8.04?). I'm not familiar with
> earlier versions than 8.04.
>
> --
> Daniel B. Herrington
> Director of Field Services
> Robert Mark Technologies
> dherring...@robertmarktechnologies.com
> o: 651-769-2574
> ho: 503-419-6464
> m: 503-358-8575
>
>
> On Fri, 2010-09-03 at 00:34 -0700, David Mandel wrote:
>> Craig Wojcik  sent me the following question.
>> I don't use Ubuntu very often and don't know the answer off hand and
>> don't have time to do research on this at the moment.
>>
>> Would some Ubuntu user answer Craigs question for me.
>> Send the answer directly to Craig as he isn't (yet) a PLUG member.
>>
>> THE QUESTION IS:
>>
>> David,
>>
>> I am the person that spoke to you at the fair today about VBasic,
>> parallel port control of step motors etc.  I just installed Ubuntu on
>> a Win 7 computer to run as a choice on the initial startup.  It comes
>> up with a window for a name and password entry.  I tried to enter a
>> password of my choice and used my name but I can not get anything to
>> go forward from that point.  Is there an initial name/password
>> combination that I need to get things going?
>>
>> Regards,
>> Craig
>>
>>
>> Thank you,
>>
>> David Mandel
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[PLUG] Ubuntu question

[David Mandel]

Craig Wojcik  sent me the following question.
I don't use Ubuntu very often and don't know the answer off hand and
don't have time to do research on this at the moment.

Would some Ubuntu user answer Craigs question for me.
Send the answer directly to Craig as he isn't (yet) a PLUG member.

THE QUESTION IS:

David,

I am the person that spoke to you at the fair today about VBasic,
parallel port control of step motors etc.  I just installed Ubuntu on
a Win 7 computer to run as a choice on the initial startup.  It comes
up with a window for a name and password entry.  I tried to enter a
password of my choice and used my name but I can not get anything to
go forward from that point.  Is there an initial name/password
combination that I need to get things going?

Regards,
Craig


Thank you,

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[PLUG] SECOND ANNOUNCEMENT: September PLUG Meeting

[David Mandel]

                            MEETING ANNOUNCEMENT

                       The Portland Linux/Unix Group
                                 will meet
                         7 PM Thursday Sep 2, 2010
                                     at
                         Portland State University
                                   in the
                              Fariborz Maseeh
             College of Engineering & Computer Science Building
                              Room FAB 86-01
                       (This is in the basement.)
          The building is on SW 4th across from SW College Street.
       See location H-10 on map at http://pdxLinux.org/campus_map.jpg

    ***
                               An Overview of
                                 Berkley DB

                                     by

                               David Segleau
                         

    Berkeley DB originated at the University of California,
    Berkeley as part of the transition (1986 to 1994) from 4.3BSD
    to 4.4BSD and of the effort to remove AT&T-encumbered code.
    It has evolved a great deal since then and is now part
    of Oracle where it is distributed with source code under
    a dual use license.

    Berkeley DB (BDB) is a computer software library that provides
    a high-performance embedded database, with bindings in C, C++,
    PHP, Java, Perl, Python, Ruby, Tcl, Smalltalk, and other languages.
    BDB stores arbitrary key/data pairs as byte arrays, and supports
    multiple data items for a single key. BDB can support thousands
    of simultaneous threads of control or concurrent processes
    manipulating databases as large as 256 terabytes, on a wide
    variety of operating systems including most Unix-like and
    Windows systems, and real-time operating systems.

    ***

        Agenda:

            7:00 - 7:30  Business
                 We will discuss the status of our ongoing projects
                 including PLUG's monthly Advanced Topics meetings,
                 PLUG's monthly hands on clinics, PLUG for Education,
                 etc.

            7:30 - 8:30  Presentation

                 See above

            9:00 - ...  Beer
                        The Lucky Lab Northwest Beerhall
                        1945 NW Quimby
                        Portland, Oregon

                                        David Mandel
                                        Chief Activist
                                        Portland Linux/Unix Group
                                        560 SE Alexander
                                        Corvallis, Oregon 97333
                                        (541) 730-5285 mobile
                                        dmandel at pdxLinux.org

        P.S.  The Mid Willamette Valley Linux Users Group meets
              every month.
              See http://www.lug.corvallis.or.us/ for details.

        P.S.  The Eugene Linux Users Group meets several times a month.
              See http://www.euglug.org for details.

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[PLUG] ANNOUNCEMENT: September PLUG Meeting

[David Mandel]

                            MEETING ANNOUNCEMENT

                       The Portland Linux/Unix Group
                                 will meet
                         7 PM Thursday Sep 2, 2010
                                     at
                         Portland State University
                                   in the
                              Fariborz Maseeh
             College of Engineering & Computer Science Building
                              Room FAB 86-01
                       (This is in the basement.)
          The building is on SW 4th across from SW College Street.
       See location H-10 on map at http://pdxLinux.org/campus_map.jpg

    ***
                               An Overview of
                                 Berkley DB

                                     by

                               David Segleau
                         

    Berkeley DB originated at the University of California,
    Berkeley as part of the transition (1986 to 1994) from 4.3BSD
    to 4.4BSD and of the effort to remove AT&T-encumbered code.
    It has evolved a great deal since then and is now part
    of Oracle where it is distributed with source code under
    a dual use license.

    Berkeley DB (BDB) is a computer software library that provides
    a high-performance embedded database, with bindings in C, C++,
    PHP, Java, Perl, Python, Ruby, Tcl, Smalltalk, and other languages.
    BDB stores arbitrary key/data pairs as byte arrays, and supports
    multiple data items for a single key. BDB can support thousands
    of simultaneous threads of control or concurrent processes
    manipulating databases as large as 256 terabytes, on a wide
    variety of operating systems including most Unix-like and
    Windows systems, and real-time operating systems.

    ***

        Agenda:

            7:00 - 7:30  Business
                 We will discuss the status of our ongoing projects
                 including PLUG's monthly Advanced Topics meetings,
                 PLUG's monthly hands on clinics, PLUG for Education,
                 etc.

            7:30 - 8:30  Presentation

                 See above

            9:00 - ...  Beer
                        The Lucky Lab Northwest Beerhall
                        1945 NW Quimby
                        Portland, Oregon

                                        David Mandel
                                        Chief Activist
                                        Portland Linux/Unix Group
                                        560 SE Alexander
                                        Corvallis, Oregon 97333
                                        (541) 730-5285 mobile
                                        dmandel at pdxLinux.org

        P.S.  The Mid Willamette Valley Linux Users Group meets
              every month.
              See http://www.lug.corvallis.or.us/ for details.

        P.S.  The Eugene Linux Users Group meets several times a month.
              See http://www.euglug.org for details.

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Re: [PLUG] Financial security on the net

[David Mandel]

On Tue, Aug 17, 2010 at 11:37 PM, John Jason Jordan  wrote:
> There are millions of web merchants. I can't know them all. How can I
> tell if a site is trusted?

This is an excellent point.
You often end of doing business with people who may or may not be
trust worthy.  This happens in person as well as over the internet.  I
mean, how do I know the anonymous clerk at some store in Portland is
honest and not going to try to misuse my credit card?  I don't.
Indeed, I had a problem with some false charges to one of my accounts
a couple years ago.  As near as I can tell, some clerk in Florida
copied my credit card when I used it to make a purchase at a store
while on vacation in Florida.  My bank (US Bank) caught the problem
right away and it wasn't much of a problem for me; but it would have
been if the bank had missed it.

And the chances and fraud like this happening is much greater with
on-line transactions.

Basically, our current payment systems (personal checks, debit cards,
credit cards) are not very secure and this invites fraud when we have
so many transactions between buyers and sellers who have no personal
relationship with one another.  Our systems need to change to fit this
new environment.  And as I understand, Europeans have been making some
changes in the way they transact with debit and credit cards.

David Mandel
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[PLUG] SECOND ANNOUNCEMENT: August PLUG Meeting

[David Mandel]

                            MEETING ANNOUNCEMENT

                       The Portland Linux/Unix Group
                                 will meet
                         7 PM Thursday Aug 5, 2010
                                     at
                         Portland State University
                                   in the
                              Fariborz Maseeh
             College of Engineering & Computer Science Building
                              Room FAB 86-01
                       (This is in the basement.)
          The building is on SW 4th across from SW College Street.
       See location H-10 on map at http://pdxLinux.org/campus_map.jpg

    ***
                     Server Sky - Data Centers in Orbit
              Power for computation on a Moore's Law schedule

                   Keith Lofstrom, http://server-sky.com

    The EPA estimates US data centers (not including desktops)
    consumed 1.5% of total US electrical consumption in 2006.
    They predict a doubling to 3% of base load by 2011.  Our
    work as programmers and technologists continues this
    runaway exponential growth, and we will be stopped by
    environmental and resource limits soon.

    Server sky is a proposal to use newly emerging solid state
    technologies to build large arrays of 3 gram paper-thin
    solar-powered computation satellites in 6400km Earth orbits.

    A single server-sat replaces 15 watts of ground-based
    electrical generation, cooling, and power conversion, as
    well as the computation and communication hardware itself.
    Orbital server farms may start out as expensive as current
    approaches, but design improvement and cheaper launch will
    decrease costs exponentially over time, much as transistor
    cost has plummeted over the last four decades.

    This is open technology, responsive to public input, and
    the project needs volunteer software and engineering help
    to stay that way.  Eventually, Server Sky will create
    thousands of open technology jobs in the Portland area,
    and permit unbounded computation growth in space, while
    reducing energy demand and environmental damage on Earth.

    Earth can return to what it is good at green and growing
    things while we fill space with gray and computing things.

    ***

        Agenda:

            7:00 - 7:30  Business
                 We will discuss the status of our ongoing projects
                 including PLUG's monthly Advanced Topics meetings,
                 PLUG's monthly hands on clinics, PLUG for Education,
                 etc.

            7:30 - 8:30  Presentation

                 See above

            9:00 - ...  Beer
                        The Lucky Lab Northwest Beerhall
                        1945 NW Quimby
                        Portland, Oregon

                                        David Mandel
                                        Chief Activist
                                        Portland Linux/Unix Group
                                        560 SE Alexander
                                        Corvallis, Oregon 97333
                                        (541) 730-5285 mobile
                                        dmandel at pdxLinux.org

        P.S.  The Mid Willamette Valley Linux Users Group meets
              every month.
              See http://www.lug.corvallis.or.us/ for details.

        P.S.  The Eugene Linux Users Group meets several times a month.
              See http://www.euglug.org for details.

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[PLUG] ANNOUNCEMENT: August PLUG Meeting

[David Mandel]

                          MEETING ANNOUNCEMENT

                       The Portland Linux/Unix Group
                                 will meet
                         7 PM Thursday Aug 5, 2010
                                     at
                         Portland State University
                                   in the
                              Fariborz Maseeh
             College of Engineering & Computer Science Building
                              Room FAB 86-01
                       (This is in the basement.)
          The building is on SW 4th across from SW College Street.
       See location H-10 on map at http://pdxLinux.org/campus_map.jpg

    ***
                     Server Sky - Data Centers in Orbit
              Power for computation on a Moore's Law schedule

                   Keith Lofstrom, http://server-sky.com

    The EPA estimates US data centers (not including desktops)
    consumed 1.5% of total US electrical consumption in 2006.
    They predict a doubling to 3% of base load by 2011.  Our
    work as programmers and technologists continues this
    runaway exponential growth, and we will be stopped by
    environmental and resource limits soon.

    Server sky is a proposal to use newly emerging solid state
    technologies to build large arrays of 3 gram paper-thin
    solar-powered computation satellites in 6400km Earth orbits.

    A single server-sat replaces 15 watts of ground-based
    electrical generation, cooling, and power conversion, as
    well as the computation and communication hardware itself.
    Orbital server farms may start out as expensive as current
    approaches, but design improvement and cheaper launch will
    decrease costs exponentially over time, much as transistor
    cost has plummeted over the last four decades.

    This is open technology, responsive to public input, and
    the project needs volunteer software and engineering help
    to stay that way.  Eventually, Server Sky will create
    thousands of open technology jobs in the Portland area,
    and permit unbounded computation growth in space, while
    reducing energy demand and environmental damage on Earth.

    Earth can return to what it is good at green and growing
    things while we fill space with gray and computing things.

    ***

        Agenda:

            7:00 - 7:30  Business
                 We will discuss the status of our ongoing projects
                 including PLUG's monthly Advanced Topics meetings,
                 PLUG's monthly hands on clinics, PLUG for Education,
                 etc.

            7:30 - 8:30  Presentation

                 See above

            9:00 - ...  Beer
                        The Lucky Lab Northwest Beerhall
                        1945 NW Quimby
                        Portland, Oregon

                                        David Mandel
                                        Chief Activist
                                        Portland Linux/Unix Group
                                        560 SE Alexander
                                        Corvallis, Oregon 97333
                                        (541) 730-5285 mobile
                                        dmandel at pdxLinux.org

        P.S.  The Mid Willamette Valley Linux Users Group meets
              every month.
              See http://www.lug.corvallis.or.us/ for details.

        P.S.  The Eugene Linux Users Group meets several times a month.
              See http://www.euglug.org for details.

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[PLUG] Surprise: PLUG will have a booth at OSCON on Wednesday and Thursday - Volunteers Needed

[David Mandel]

Contrary to what I said at the last PLUG meeting; PLUG will have a
booth at OSCON.  This is a very last minute thing.  We were not
scheduled to have a booth due to lack of space, but at the last minute
space opened up.  So we have a booth, but are totally unprepared.  I
left our booth banner in Corvallis and we did not plan to man a booth.

So, Alan Olson will be helping out.
We could use a few other volunteers.
If anyone has any fliers for PLUG (or Open Source in Oregon or
whatever) that would be wonderful.
And I think Linux Fund would be willing to spend a few dollars for
printing costs; but check with me before getting anything printed if
you want reimbursed.
If anyone has anything to enhance the booth that would be cool as well.
(Maybe the PSU Rocket people could bring an Open Source Rocket!)

As in previous years, we want to advertise PLUG but we are also want
to advertise Open Source in Oregon and we are happy to use our booth
to advertise other Open Source groups in Oregon so long as PLUG's
message doesn't get entirely drown out - which is unlikely.


  Sincerely,
  David Mandel
  Chief Activist
  Portland Linux/Unix Group
  560 SE Alexander
  Corvallis, Oregon 97333
  (541) 752-3769 land
  (541) 730-5285 cell
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Re: [PLUG] Calling all editors; final site draft

[David Mandel]

Thank you Nathan.
I'm at OSCON and won't have much time to look at the web site this
week, but intend to look at it in detail.  However, overall it looks
wonderful.  So much better than the old site.  (That isn't to say
anything bad about the old site.  It was created around 2001 or 2002
and hasn't been actively maintained since that time - so it looks sort
of 2002ish.)

David Mandel

On Sun, Jul 18, 2010 at 5:07 PM,   wrote:
>
> greetings and salutations!
>
> At this point, a semi-final review is requested for the proposed new PLUG
> website; i'm taking all critiques, be it spelling, technique, aesthetics,
> broken links, etc.
>
> Proposed site viewable at: http://nathanewilliams.com/projects/pdxlinux/
>
> If you can find the time, try to get comments in by Tuesday, so I'll have
> time to implement suggestions prior to launch.
>
> One note I'll make is that the favicon of the bee is /not/ going to be on
> the live site, that's pulling across from another favicon for a different
> site sharing this hosting space. the favicon will continue to be the tux w/
> umbrella that's now on the current site.
>
> thanks folks!
>
> nathan
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[PLUG] SECOND ANNOUNCEMENT: July PLUG Meeting

[David Mandel]

                            MEETING ANNOUNCEMENT

                       The Portland Linux/Unix Group
                                 will meet
                         7 PM Thursday July 1, 2010
                                     at
                         Portland State University
                                   in the
                              Fariborz Maseeh
             College of Engineering & Computer Science Building
                              Room FAB 86-01
                       (This is in the basement.)
          The building is on SW 4th across from SW College Street.
       See location H-10 on map at http://pdxLinux.org/campus_map.jpg

    ***


                                PRESENTATION

                       Open Source Car Entertainment

                                     by

                                Kevron Rees
                           tripz...@nextabyte.com

    This presentation will discuss the innovation and excitement
    that open source software can bring to the car to make travelling
    more enjoyable and also save you money. The session will go into
    depth on what you need to do to turn your car into an open
    source super-car including what hardware is available and the
    open source software needed to make it all work.

    ***

        Agenda:

            7:00 - 7:30  Business
                 We will discuss the status of our ongoing projects
                 including PLUG's monthly Advanced Topics meetings,
                 PLUG's monthly hands on clinics, PLUG for Education,
                 etc.

            7:30 - 8:30  Presentation

                 See above

            9:00 - ...  Beer
                        The Lucky Lab Northwest Beerhall
                        1945 NW Quimby
                        Portland, Oregon

                                        David Mandel
                                        Chief Activist
                                        Portland Linux/Unix Group
                                        560 SE Alexander
                                        Corvallis, Oregon 97333
                                        (541) 730-5285 mobile
                                        dmandel at pdxLinux.org

        P.S.  The Mid Willamette Valley Linux Users Group meets
              every month.
              See http://www.lug.corvallis.or.us/ for details.

        P.S.  The Eugene Linux Users Group meets several times a month.
              See http://www.euglug.org for details.

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[PLUG] ANNOUNCEMENT: July PLUG Meeting

[David Mandel]

                            MEETING ANNOUNCEMENT

                       The Portland Linux/Unix Group
                                 will meet
                         7 PM Thursday July 1, 2010
                                     at
                         Portland State University
                                   in the
                              Fariborz Maseeh
             College of Engineering & Computer Science Building
                              Room FAB 86-01
                       (This is in the basement.)
          The building is on SW 4th across from SW College Street.
       See location H-10 on map at http://pdxLinux.org/campus_map.jpg

    ***


                                PRESENTATION

                       Open Source Car Entertainment

                                     by

                                Kevron Rees
                           tripz...@nextabyte.com

    This presentation will discuss the innovation and excitement
    that open source software can bring to the car to make travelling
    more enjoyable and also save you money. The session will go into
    depth on what you need to do to turn your car into an open
    source super-car including what hardware is available and the
    open source software needed to make it all work.

    ***

        Agenda:

            7:00 - 7:30  Business
                 We will discuss the status of our ongoing projects
                 including PLUG's monthly Advanced Topics meetings,
                 PLUG's monthly hands on clinics, PLUG for Education,
                 etc.

            7:30 - 8:30  Presentation

                 See above

            9:00 - ...  Beer
                        The Lucky Lab Northwest Beerhall
                        1945 NW Quimby
                        Portland, Oregon

                                        David Mandel
                                        Chief Activist
                                        Portland Linux/Unix Group
                                        560 SE Alexander
                                        Corvallis, Oregon 97333
                                        (541) 730-5285 mobile
                                        dmandel at pdxLinux.org

        P.S.  The Mid Willamette Valley Linux Users Group meets
              every month.
              See http://www.lug.corvallis.or.us/ for details.

        P.S.  The Eugene Linux Users Group meets several times a month.
              See http://www.euglug.org for details.

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[PLUG] Fwd: Books and News from the O'Reilly User Group Program--June

[David Mandel]

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From: Marsee Henon & Jon Johns 
Date: Wed, Jun 2, 2010 at 8:02 AM
Subject: Books and News from the O'Reilly User Group Program--June
To: dman...@pdxlinux.org


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Jon works with me in Sebastopol, CA, but he'll be getting out to community
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Two upcoming community events worth attending are the INETA Community
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and the Community Leadership
SummitJuly
17-18 before the O'Reilly Open Source Convention in Portland, OR. I'll
see you there.

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[PLUG] SECOND ANNOUNCEMENT: June PLUG Meeting

[David Mandel]

                            MEETING ANNOUNCEMENT

                       The Portland Linux/Unix Group
                                 will meet
                         7 PM Thursday June 3, 2010
                                     at
                         Portland State University
                                   in the
                              Fariborz Maseeh
             College of Engineering & Computer Science Building
                              Room FAB 86-01
                       (This is in the basement.)
          The building is on SW 4th across from SW College Street.
       See location H-10 on map at http://pdxLinux.org/campus_map.jpg

    ***


                                PRESENTATION

                          Puppet - An Introduction

                                     by

                                 Teyo Tyree
                             www.puppetlabs.com

    Puppet is a powerful configuration management tool that makes life
    easier for people managing systems and applications. This tutorial
    gives you an in-depth and hands-on introduction to Puppet that is
    ideal for beginners to Puppet and configuration management.

    Teyo is Co-Founder of Puppet Labs and the former Director of IT
    for 20/20 Research and professional systems administrator. Over the
    past 12 years Teyo has been using and promoting the use of open
    source tools to enable scaling and efficiency in IT operations.
    Teyo joined Puppet Labs in July of 2008 and has been traveling
    the world providing Puppet Labs’ customers with training and consulting.


    ***

        Agenda:

            7:00 - 7:30  Business
                 We will discuss the status of our ongoing projects
                 including PLUG's monthly Advanced Topics meetings,
                 PLUG's monthly hands on clinics, PLUG for Education,
                 etc.

            7:30 - 8:30  Presentation

                 See above

            9:00 - ...  Beer
                        The Lucky Lab Northwest Beerhall
                        1945 NW Quimby
                        Portland, Oregon

                                        David Mandel
                                        Chief Activist
                                        Portland Linux/Unix Group
                                        560 SE Alexander
                                        Corvallis, Oregon 97333
                                        (541) 730-5285 mobile
                                        dmandel at pdxLinux.org

        P.S.  The Mid Willamette Valley Linux Users Group meets
              every month.
              See http://www.lug.corvallis.or.us/ for details.

        P.S.  The Eugene Linux Users Group meets several times a month.
              See http://www.euglug.org for details.

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[PLUG] ANNOUNCEMENT: June PLUG Meeting

[David Mandel]

                            MEETING ANNOUNCEMENT

                       The Portland Linux/Unix Group
                                 will meet
                         7 PM Thursday June 3, 2010
                                     at
                         Portland State University
                                   in the
                              Fariborz Maseeh
             College of Engineering & Computer Science Building
                              Room FAB 86-01
                       (This is in the basement.)
          The building is on SW 4th across from SW College Street.
       See location H-10 on map at http://pdxLinux.org/campus_map.jpg

    ***


                                PRESENTATION

                                   Puppet

                                     by

                             www.puppetlabs.com

     Puppet is an open source data center automation and configuration
     management framework. Puppet provides system administrators with
     a simplified platform that allows for consistent, transparent,
     and flexible systems management.

    ***

        Agenda:

            7:00 - 7:30  Business
                 We will discuss the status of our ongoing projects
                 including PLUG's monthly Advanced Topics meetings,
                 PLUG's monthly hands on clinics, PLUG for Education,
                 etc.

            7:30 - 8:30  Presentation

                 See above

            9:00 - ...  Beer
                        The Lucky Lab Northwest Beerhall
                        1945 NW Quimby
                        Portland, Oregon

                                        David Mandel
                                        Chief Activist
                                        Portland Linux/Unix Group
                                        560 SE Alexander
                                        Corvallis, Oregon 97333
                                        (541) 730-5285 mobile
                                        dmandel at pdxLinux.org

        P.S.  The Mid Willamette Valley Linux Users Group meets
              every month.
              See http://www.lug.corvallis.or.us/ for details.

        P.S.  The Eugene Linux Users Group meets several times a month.
              See http://www.euglug.org for details.

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Re: [PLUG] Colocation Servers in PDX

[David Mandel]

I use to use seaccp.org in Seattle and liked them a lot; but Seattle
is a long ways from Corvallis when trouble happens.

I'm not aware of any equivalent in the Portland area.  One reason for
that is that we have osuosl.org. At Linux Fund, we finally moved
to osuosl.   They are great, but their mission is much more restricted
that seacpp's, so many people and groups who can use seacpp can not
qualify to use osuosl.  Also, seacpp gives users more freedom than
osuosl generally does.

There are a number of small, friendly, high quality for-profit hosting
services in Portland.  The one that comes to my mind is forked.net.  I
used them for several years and really like them.

Seacpp has had financial difficulties at times even though it is
located in Seattle.  Given that Seattle is larger than Portland and
that Portland is already served by the likes of osuosl and forked.net;
I doubt that a Seacpp could succeed in Portland - BUT I could well be
wrong on this.


  Sincerely,
  David Mandel
  Executive Director
  LinuxFund.org
  560 SE Alexander
  Corvallis, Oregon 97333
  (971) 223-5169 land
  (541) 730-5285 cell


On Thu, May 27, 2010 at 8:56 PM, Mike Connors  wrote:
>> Is there a community colocation datacenter in Portland OR? I am
>> looking for somewhere to put a server, and I would like to do it in a
>> community-based datacenter like sfccp.net or seaccp.org. Is there
>> something like this in Portland?
>
> Hi Ike - Not that I know of. I asked the same thing last fall and also
> asked if people would be interested in starting one. I'm still
> interested in such an endeavor...
>
> -Mike
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Re: [PLUG] Xen Hypervisor

[David Mandel]

OpenSuSE has good Xen support built into it at both the kernel level
and the administrative level.  (That is, there is Xen support built
into openSuSE's admin tools - yast and yast2).
The current version of OpenSuSE (openSuSE 11.2) still uses Xen as it's
preferred virtualization, but I expect this will change to KVM as most
everyone seems to be changing.

I have used Xen - sometimes successfully and sometimes not so
successfully.  Xen works very well once implemented, but it can be a
bit difficult to implement.  At times I have had trouble building
virtual machines and getting all the networking straight and what not.
 And I have had trouble when I was running on old hardware that
required running in paravirtualized mode.

As a result, I use VMWare server a good deal more the Xen.  But, I
have had very good experience with both of these virtualization
packages.  And although I have had pain with each of these packages,
they both work well and I am not shy about using either of them on
production machines.

Of course,  KVM seems to be the future and I will probably be there someday.

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Re: [PLUG] Grub Gripe

[David Mandel]

I was a bit slow to move from lilo to grub, but I moved years ago.
grub is a much richer boot loader and at this point much better
supported.  However, lilo works and deserves more respect than it
gets.  Even in recent years, I have encountered a situation or two
where lilo seemed to be the better boot loader for the situation.
However, that is rare.  In most situations, grub is much better than
lilo at this point.

David Mandel

On Fri, May 7, 2010 at 12:10 PM, MJang  wrote:
> On Fri, 2010-05-07 at 11:10 -0700, m0gely wrote:
>> WAYNE VAN LOON SR wrote:
>> > Now what is it that is so bad about LILO?
>>
>> It's no longer maintained as of years ago?
>
> Yup, last stable release as of Feb 2007. Nevertheless, LPI still tests
> LILO in its Level 1 and 2 exams. Despite objections, some of the people
> behind LPI claim that LILO is still in common use.
>
> Last I checked, LILO doesn't support encrypted password protection,
> making it a rather weak bootloader w/r/t security. But that's just me.
> I'm half wondering if/when to move to TrustedGRUB.
>
> Thanks,
> Mike
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[PLUG] SECOND ANNOUNCEMENT: May PLUG Meeting

[David Mandel]

                            MEETING ANNOUNCEMENT

                       The Portland Linux/Unix Group
                                 will meet
                         7 PM Thursday May 6, 2010
                                     at
                         Portland State University
                                   in the
                              Fariborz Maseeh
             College of Engineering & Computer Science Building
                              Room FAB 86-01
                       (This is in the basement.)
          The building is on SW 4th across from SW College Street.
       See location H-10 on map at http://pdxLinux.org/campus_map.jpg

    ***


                                PRESENTATION

                    How Linux Containers fit your cloud

                                     by

                                Alec Istomin
                             www.Parallels.com

    Linux, Cloud, Virtualization and hundreds other buzz words are out
    there to blow your mind. The session will share real life examples
    that actually make sense and deliver meaningful easy to use services to
    end users with minimum efforts from cloud administrators.

    A deeper introduction to Containers technology will be presented and
    will be helpful to anyone, especially for people familiar with any
    other virtualization solution for Linux.

    Overview of Parallels Commercial management tools for Containers and
    clouds with open command line and XML APIs will show how to put an
    infrastructure cloud solution to life.

    About the speaker:
    Alec Istomin is an Enterprise Solution Architect at Parallels,
    Renton,WA and originally joined the company (called SWsoft at
    the time) as a developer in early 2000. He has been involved
    with Linux and Virtualization all these years and led numerous
    cloud deployments. He has an M.S. in physics and applied
    mathematics from Moscow Institute of Physics and Technology
    (MIPT), Moscow.

    ***

        Agenda:

            7:00 - 7:30  Business
                 We will discuss the status of our ongoing projects
                 including PLUG's monthly Advanced Topics meetings,
                 PLUG's monthly hands on clinics, PLUG for Education,
                 etc.

            7:30 - 8:30  Presentation

                 See above

            9:00 - ...  Beer
                        The Lucky Lab Northwest Beerhall
                        1945 NW Quimby
                        Portland, Oregon

                                        David Mandel
                                        Chief Activist
                                        Portland Linux/Unix Group
                                        560 SE Alexander
                                        Corvallis, Oregon 97333
                                        (541) 730-5285 mobile
                                        dmandel at pdxLinux.org

        P.S.  The Mid Willamette Valley Linux Users Group meets
              every month.
              See http://www.lug.corvallis.or.us/ for details.

        P.S.  The Eugene Linux Users Group meets several times a month.
              See http://www.euglug.org for details.

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[PLUG] ANNOUNCEMENT: May PLUG Meeting

[David Mandel]

                            MEETING ANNOUNCEMENT

                       The Portland Linux/Unix Group
                                 will meet
                         7 PM Thursday May 6, 2010
                                     at
                         Portland State University
                                   in the
                              Fariborz Maseeh
             College of Engineering & Computer Science Building
                              Room FAB 86-01
                       (This is in the basement.)
          The building is on SW 4th across from SW College Street.
       See location H-10 on map at http://pdxLinux.org/campus_map.jpg

    ***


                                PRESENTATION

                    How Linux Containers fit your cloud

                                     by

                                Alec Istomin
                             www.Parallels.com

    Linux, Cloud, Virtualization and hundreds other buzz words are out
    there to blow your mind. The session will share real life examples
    that actually make sense and deliver meaningful easy to use services to
    end users with minimum efforts from cloud administrators.

    A deeper introduction to Containers technology will be presented and
    will be helpful to anyone, especially for people familiar with any
    other virtualization solution for Linux.

    Overview of Parallels Commercial management tools for Containers and
    clouds with open command line and XML APIs will show how to put an
    infrastructure cloud solution to life.

    About the speaker:
    Alec Istomin is an Enterprise Solution Architect at Parallels,
    Renton,WA and originally joined the company (called SWsoft at
    the time) as a developer in early 2000. He has been involved
    with Linux and Virtualization all these years and led numerous
    cloud deployments. He has an M.S. in physics and applied
    mathematics from Moscow Institute of Physics and Technology
    (MIPT), Moscow.

    ***

        Agenda:

            7:00 - 7:30  Business
                 We will discuss the status of our ongoing projects
                 including PLUG's monthly Advanced Topics meetings,
                 PLUG's monthly hands on clinics, PLUG for Education,
                 etc.

            7:30 - 8:30  Presentation

                 See above

            9:00 - ...  Beer
                        The Lucky Lab Northwest Beerhall
                        1945 NW Quimby
                        Portland, Oregon

                                        David Mandel
                                        Chief Activist
                                        Portland Linux/Unix Group
                                        560 SE Alexander
                                        Corvallis, Oregon 97333
                                        (541) 730-5285 mobile
                                        dmandel at pdxLinux.org

        P.S.  The Mid Willamette Valley Linux Users Group meets
              every month.
              See http://www.lug.corvallis.or.us/ for details.

        P.S.  The Eugene Linux Users Group meets several times a month.
              See http://www.euglug.org for details.

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[PLUG] Fwd: O'Reilly UG News: Developing Android Applications with Java Part 2

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Re: [PLUG] I have a willing advanced topics speaker

[David Mandel]

Russell,

Michael Dexter  is the contact point at present,
although Alan is still helping with the transition.

David Mandel


On Thu, Apr 1, 2010 at 3:31 PM, Russell Senior
 wrote:
>
> Not for tonight, but I have recruited a speaker for the advanced
> topics meeting.  She can talk this month (April 21).  Who is the
> correct coordinator these days?  Alan or Michael Dexter?
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[PLUG] Fwd: UG News: Discount for O'Reilly Open Source Convention (OSCON)

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[PLUG] SECOND ANNOUNCEMENT: April PLUG Meeting

[David Mandel]

                            MEETING ANNOUNCEMENT

                       The Portland Linux/Unix Group
                                 will meet
                         7 PM Thursday Apr 1, 2010
                                     at
                         Portland State University
                                   in the
                              Fariborz Maseeh
             College of Engineering & Computer Science Building
                              Room FAB 86-01
                       (This is in the basement.)
          The building is on SW 4th across from SW College Street.
       See location H-10 on map at http://pdxLinux.org/campus_map.jpg

    ***


                                PRESENTATION

                             Rapid Discussions

                                     on

                                 Any Topic

                                     by

                             Anyone & Everyone

     Instead of having a formal presentation, we will get together and
     discuss anything anyone wants to discuss in brief sessions of no
     more than a few minutes each.  If we have enough people involved
     we can break into smaller groups to handle each topic.

     Two topics that I will be prepared to discuss for a few minutes
     will be:
          -  Subsistence Computing
             How to do good computing on a low budget.
          -  Could we lose the internet to Government and Corporate
             interests?

    AND YES - We are looking for speakers for upcoming months.
              Volunteers and Recommendations are welcome.

    ***

        Agenda:

            7:00 - 7:30  Business
                 We will discuss the status of our ongoing projects
                 including PLUG's monthly Advanced Topics meetings,
                 PLUG's monthly hands on clinics, PLUG for Education,
                 etc.

            7:30 - 8:30  Presentation

                 See above

            9:00 - ...  Beer
                        The Lucky Lab Northwest Beerhall
                        1945 NW Quimby
                        Portland, Oregon

                                        David Mandel
                                        Chief Activist
                                        Portland Linux/Unix Group
                                        560 SE Alexander
                                        Corvallis, Oregon 97333
                                        (541) 730-5285 mobile
                                        dmandel at pdxLinux.org

        P.S.  The Mid Willamette Valley Linux Users Group meets
              every month.
              See http://www.lug.corvallis.or.us/ for details.

        P.S.  The Eugene Linux Users Group meets several times a month.
              See http://www.euglug.org for details.

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Re: [PLUG] [PLUG-ANNOUNCE] ANNOUNCEMENT: April PLUG Meeting

[David Mandel]

Yes.  That would fit well with a couple of the topics I was suggesting.
Would you will willing to spend a few minutes (say 5 minutes) talking
discussing
the need for a public cloud?  That would be great.

David

On Tue, Mar 30, 2010 at 2:32 AM, Paul Charles Leddy  wrote:
> how about: how cloud computing has shown the community that it needs a
> public cloud, a public option? ;)
>
> On Tue, Mar 30, 2010 at 5:11 AM, David Mandel  wrote:
>>                             MEETING ANNOUNCEMENT
>>
>>                        The Portland Linux/Unix Group
>>                                  will meet
>>                          7 PM Thursday Apr 1, 2010
>>                                      at
>>                          Portland State University
>>                                    in the
>>                               Fariborz Maseeh
>>              College of Engineering & Computer Science Building
>>                               Room FAB 86-01
>>                        (This is in the basement.)
>>           The building is on SW 4th across from SW College Street.
>>        See location H-10 on map at http://pdxLinux.org/campus_map.jpg
>>
>>     ***
>>
>>
>>                                 PRESENTATION
>>
>>                              Rapid Discussions
>>
>>                                      on
>>
>>                                  Any Topic
>>
>>                                      by
>>
>>                              Anyone & Everyone
>>
>>      Instead of having a formal presentation, we will get together and
>>      discuss anything anyone wants to discuss in brief sessions of no
>>      more than a few minutes each.  If we have enough people involved
>>      we can break into smaller groups to handle each topic.
>>
>>      Two topics that I will be prepared to discuss for a few minutes
>>      will be:
>>           -  Subsistence Computing
>>              How to do good computing on a low budget.
>>           -  Could we lose the internet to Government and Corporate
>>              interests?
>>
>>     AND YES - We are looking for speakers for upcoming months.
>>               Volunteers and Recommendations are welcome.
>>
>>     ***
>>
>>         Agenda:
>>
>>             7:00 - 7:30  Business
>>                  We will discuss the status of our ongoing projects
>>                  including PLUG's monthly Advanced Topics meetings,
>>                  PLUG's monthly hands on clinics, PLUG for Education,
>>                  etc.
>>
>>             7:30 - 8:30  Presentation
>>
>>                  See above
>>
>>             9:00 - ...  Beer
>>                         The Lucky Lab Northwest Beerhall
>>                         1945 NW Quimby
>>                         Portland, Oregon
>>
>>                                         David Mandel
>>                                         Chief Activist
>>                                         Portland Linux/Unix Group
>>                                         560 SE Alexander
>>                                         Corvallis, Oregon 97333
>>                                         (541) 730-5285 mobile
>>                                         dmandel at pdxLinux.org
>>
>>         P.S.  The Mid Willamette Valley Linux Users Group meets
>>               every month.
>>               See http://www.lug.corvallis.or.us/ for details.
>>
>>         P.S.  The Eugene Linux Users Group meets several times a month.
>>               See http://www.euglug.org for details.
>>
>> ==
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>> Portland Linux/Unix Group           http://pdxLinux.org
>> LinuxFund                           http://LinuxFund.org
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[PLUG] ANNOUNCEMENT: April PLUG Meeting

[David Mandel]

                            MEETING ANNOUNCEMENT

                       The Portland Linux/Unix Group
                                 will meet
                         7 PM Thursday Apr 1, 2010
                                     at
                         Portland State University
                                   in the
                              Fariborz Maseeh
             College of Engineering & Computer Science Building
                              Room FAB 86-01
                       (This is in the basement.)
          The building is on SW 4th across from SW College Street.
       See location H-10 on map at http://pdxLinux.org/campus_map.jpg

    ***


                                PRESENTATION

                             Rapid Discussions

                                     on

                                 Any Topic

                                     by

                             Anyone & Everyone

     Instead of having a formal presentation, we will get together and
     discuss anything anyone wants to discuss in brief sessions of no
     more than a few minutes each.  If we have enough people involved
     we can break into smaller groups to handle each topic.

     Two topics that I will be prepared to discuss for a few minutes
     will be:
          -  Subsistence Computing
             How to do good computing on a low budget.
          -  Could we lose the internet to Government and Corporate
             interests?

    AND YES - We are looking for speakers for upcoming months.
              Volunteers and Recommendations are welcome.

    ***

        Agenda:

            7:00 - 7:30  Business
                 We will discuss the status of our ongoing projects
                 including PLUG's monthly Advanced Topics meetings,
                 PLUG's monthly hands on clinics, PLUG for Education,
                 etc.

            7:30 - 8:30  Presentation

                 See above

            9:00 - ...  Beer
                        The Lucky Lab Northwest Beerhall
                        1945 NW Quimby
                        Portland, Oregon

                                        David Mandel
                                        Chief Activist
                                        Portland Linux/Unix Group
                                        560 SE Alexander
                                        Corvallis, Oregon 97333
                                        (541) 730-5285 mobile
                                        dmandel at pdxLinux.org

        P.S.  The Mid Willamette Valley Linux Users Group meets
              every month.
              See http://www.lug.corvallis.or.us/ for details.

        P.S.  The Eugene Linux Users Group meets several times a month.
              See http://www.euglug.org for details.

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[PLUG] Speaker needed for April 1, 2010 PLUG meeting - and the future as well.

[David Mandel]

We are out of speakers for the PLUG general meetings.

Next month's PLUG meeting is April 1, 2010.
Does anyone want to speak?
Or, does anyone know of someone I should contact?

We need speakers for months after that as well.

 Sincerely,
 David Mandel
 Chief Activist
 Portland Linux/Unix Group
 560 SE Alexander
 Corvallis, Oregon 97333
 (541) 752-3769 land
 (541) 730-5285 cell

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[PLUG] Fwd: Books and News from the O'Reilly User Group Program--March

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Date: Fri, Mar 12, 2010 at 9:02 AM
Subject: Books and News from the O'Reilly User Group Program--March
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[PLUG] SECOND ANNOUNCEMENT: March PLUG Meeting

[David Mandel]

                            MEETING ANNOUNCEMENT

                       The Portland Linux/Unix Group
                                 will meet
                         7 PM Thursday Mar 4, 2010
                                     at
                         Portland State University
                                   in the
                              Fariborz Maseeh
             College of Engineering & Computer Science Building
                              Room FAB 86-01
                       (This is in the basement.)
          The building is on SW 4th across from SW College Street.
       See location H-10 on map at http://pdxLinux.org/campus_map.jpg

    ***

                                PRESENTATION


                                   A Talk
                                     by

                               Jeri Ellsworth
                               (Circuit Girl)

    Jeri Ellsworth is a native Oregonian, born in Yamhill and raised
    in Dallas, Oregon.  Early on she became fascinated with electronics
    and 8-bit computers setting the stage for her unique approach to
    learning.  Not being challenged in school, she skipped higher
    education to pursue a career in car-racing and chassis fabrication.
    After that, she opened a chain of computer stores in Oregon and
    Washington.  She sold those to peruse a career in chip design,
    which lead her to design the CommodoreOne - based upon the
    Commodore 64 - using reconfigurable logic and the C64 DTV 30-
    games-in-one joystick, selling, a quarter million units.
    She currently works as an Oregon based consultant.

    I'm not sure what Jeri is going to speak about yet, but judging
    the talk she gave at Sanford, it should be very good indeed.
    See a video of her Sanford talk at:
    http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-1053309060448851979#

    Also, see her webs sites at:
    http://www.jeriellsworth.com/
    and
    http://www.fatmanandcircuitgirl.com/

    Note:  Jeri was originally scheduled to give this talk last month,
    but it didn't happen due to unexpected illess.  Thus, we have
    reschedule her for March.
    ***

        Agenda:

            7:00 - 7:30  Business
                 We will discuss the status of our ongoing projects
                 including PLUG's monthly Advanced Topics meetings,
                 PLUG's monthly hands on clinics, PLUG for Education,
                 etc.

            7:30 - 8:30  Presentation

                 See above

            9:00 - ...  Beer
                        The Lucky Lab Northwest Beerhall
                        1945 NW Quimby
                        Portland, Oregon

                                        David Mandel
                                        Chief Activist
                                        Portland Linux/Unix Group
                                        560 SE Alexander
                                        Corvallis, Oregon 97333
                                        (541) 730-5285 mobile
                                        dmandel at pdxLinux.org

        P.S.  The Mid Willamette Valley Linux Users Group meets
              every month.
              See http://www.lug.corvallis.or.us/ for details.

        P.S.  The Eugene Linux Users Group meets several times a month.
              See http://www.euglug.org for details.

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