Fort Wayne LUG Blogs

Newcomer Simón Ruiz gave a detailed presentation on the new (and old) features of Ubuntu’s latest release, 7.04 Feisty Fawn. Simón did a great job, managing to come up with features that surprised (and pleased) both Ubuntu newbies and veterans. I particularly liked the Disk Analyzer, which has already helped me recover several gigabytes of […]

The star of the November meeting was Ben Dailey who presented a detailed introduction to QEMU, an open source emulator that can emulate several different processors and architectures.
Ben followed his detailed talk with several demos, including time trials in booting Damn Small Linux on both VMWare and QEMU. VMWare won 38 seconds to 57, not […]

How bad can it be? That was my thought as I started my upgrade to the latest version of Ubuntu on Friday.
The answer is, “not that bad, but not that good, either.” If your not familiar with the Debian way of upgrading from one version to the next, let me explain. First, you change the […]

Our October meeting main talk was Christer Watson talking about FOSS in science, particulary astronomy. It was a good talk, covering both practical and philosophical reasons open source and science go together, as well as featuring cool graphics and the entertaining story of APES++ (did I get that right?), a software project gone horribly wrong.
Charlie […]

I thought for the good of the order I would start publishing a few notes from each meeting. This is NOT meant to be a complete record, and no, I’m NOT volunteering to keep minutes. (But if someone wants to, I would be happy to support them!)
Our September 21 meeting featured a presentation by James […]

Over the summer I spent a couple of weeks stuck in the hopeless pit of despair that is Linux/Palm synchronization. Sure, I know that some of it works most of the time, and a small fraction works all of the time, but a lot of things don’t work much at all. But I’m not going […]

I just survived my first NECC (National Educational Computing Conference). This year’s edition was in San Diego (you know, I could get used to living there), and was marked by a separate strand dedicated to Open Source, with talks taking place in the Open Source Pavillion and Playground. The area was organized by Steve Hargadon, […]

As I mentioned, I decided to give up the faithful and anorexically thin Sharp MM10 for a Dell Latitude X1 after I got to play with one at PyCon in Dallas. It came last week and I decided to put it to the test by loading Ubuntu Dapper Drake, flight 4 on it. Amazing, it […]

Live from beautiful (and rainy) Addison, Texas, it’s Pycon 2006. Or as we used to say when I lived here, “Sure, it’s cold, plastic, and heartless. But it’s not bad.”
The conference is actually pretty good, with its usual high geek quotient. My talk yesterday on teaching programming to 8th graders was well received. I got […]