Re: [PLUG] What to do First Thursday?

I would be interested in seeing this concept get put to work. Could we consider load-testing various alternative video conferencing tools so we can get a better sense of their capabilities? -wes On Mon, Apr 27, 2020 at 8:07 PM John Sechrest wrote: > I have been organizing Open Coffee meetings

Re: [PLUG] What to do First Thursday?

I have been organizing Open Coffee meetings with zoom. It works reasonably well. I have not been able to replace it with other tools yet. We just this weekend ran a startup weekend remote. The core tool for that was discord. If you want a text + video experience, that can work. It helps to have

[PLUG] What to do First Thursday?

Hello all, PLUG to me is a monthly meeting. The Clinics are great but are not a way for me to participate in. Would someone like to organize an online activity during the First Thursday time slot? I will drop in as I can as I do have a list of candidate speakers if a rhythm is established.

Re: [PLUG] Lenovo joins Dell: Linux on Laptops

On Mon, 27 Apr 2020, John Jason Jordan wrote: I wonder what incentives Red Hat provided to Lenovo. According to the article they're business partners. Perhaps Red Hat gets support business from companies running RHEL and issuing their employees with Fedora-installed Lenovo laptops. Stay

Re: [PLUG] Lenovo joins Dell: Linux on Laptops

On Mon, 27 Apr 2020 15:10:37 -0700 (PDT) Rich Shepard dijo: >Lenovo has joined Dell in selling laptops pre-installed with a linux >distribution by offering their ThinkPad X1 with Fedora Workstation 32 >later this year.

[PLUG] Lenovo joins Dell: Linux on Laptops

Lenovo has joined Dell in selling laptops pre-installed with a linux distribution by offering their ThinkPad X1 with Fedora Workstation 32 later this year. Small, specialty vendors have sold laptops

Re: [PLUG] Scanner dependent on USB port

On Mon, 27 Apr 2020, Rich Shepard wrote: I'm waiting for a webcam to arrive and am trying to determine whether it can be connected to a USB 3.x hub. Running lsusb is not reporting any device power consumption: What am I missing? Oops! I forgot the -v option to lsusb. There's much more

Re: [PLUG] Scanner dependent on USB port

On Sun, 2 Feb 2020, Galen Seitz wrote: I suggest using lsusb to check for the scanner. This command will tell you how much power every USB device is requesting. Look for your hub and the connected devices and add up the current. The limit for USB 3.0 is 900 mA total current. Given what you

[PLUG] Setting up LAMP on Xubuntu 18.04

Today's work is done, so I'm going to migrate the last of the stuff from ENU-1 to ENU-2, my desktop machines. The next task is installing LAMP on ENU-1. I've done this several times over the years, and I don't expect to run into any problems. Except one. A few years ago, in their infinite