http://fortwaynelug.org/wordpress Member Contributions Mon, 21 May 2007 12:50:26 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en 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 ... http://fortwaynelug.org/wordpress/2007/05/21/may-meeting-the-hotness-that-is-feisty-fawn/ 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 ... http://fortwaynelug.org/wordpress/2007/01/19/january-meeting-fun-hacking-the-wrt-54g/ 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 ... http://fortwaynelug.org/wordpress/2006/11/19/november-meeting-notes/ 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 ... http://fortwaynelug.org/wordpress/2006/10/30/upgrading-to-ubuntu-edgy-eft/ 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 ... http://fortwaynelug.org/wordpress/2006/10/19/october-meeting-notes/ 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 ... http://fortwaynelug.org/wordpress/2006/10/18/ubuntu-server/ 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 ... http://fortwaynelug.org/wordpress/2006/09/22/september-meeting-notes/ 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 ... http://fortwaynelug.org/wordpress/2006/09/20/it-just-works-huh-whats-up-with-that/ 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 ... http://fortwaynelug.org/wordpress/2006/08/07/fun-with-the-wd-netcenter/ I went to the West Coast for a couple of weeks. First, I wanted to say, it is absolutely amazing at the number of hotels with free wi-fi access for their guests. There was only one place we were that didn't have free access (Yosemite Valley) but even there it ... http://fortwaynelug.org/wordpress/2006/07/17/what-i-did-on-my-summer-vacation/