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 […]

Rob and Ben lead us through the halls of Canterbury High School demonstrating the mesh networking capabilities of the Linksys WRT-54G routers, AFTER they had been re-flashed with the free, open source, and totally cool dd-wrt software. If you have wifi at home and want more control and features on your router, talk to Ben […]

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 […]

One of the problems of the Fedora world is that you get a box installed and a few months later you have to immediately upgade it. And upgrading can be a pain especially with yum and non standard repo configurations.
So I was more than exuberant when Ubuntu came with Long Term Support. I […]

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 […]

One of the nice things aobut linux is that it can go into anything and the results are pretty amazing.
One day not too long ago, my wife’s computer died. The only thing she was using it for was as a windows share so that she could access her files from anywhere in the house, […]

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, […]