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Clug Meeting 5-22-10 Presentation about Rescue CD by Steve Jones

Wed, 02 Jun 2010 00:49:32 +0000

Steve Jones called the meeting to order at approximately 10:35. Approximately 15 people were present. While Steve was setting up his presentation, Mark Harris reminded the CLUG group that Oreilly offers a 35% discount on online orders of its books if we used the code : DSUG He also mentioned a special offer of $9.99 for any digital download of a book. The code for the price break for a digital download is: FABFA. Thank you Mark for informing us all about the excellent savings on good tech books. Steve packed a ton of information in his approximately 1 hour presentation. Fortunately, he provided us all with a handout with many of the important howtos associated with rescuing a system.

CLUG Picnic!

Wed, 26 May 2010 11:29:37 +0000

Start: 2010-06-26 10:30

End: 2010-06-26 20:30

Timezone: Etc/GMT+4

Description:

When: Saturday, June 26th. 10:30 - Dark
Where: Cummins Shelter, Rentschler Forest (Follow Signs)
Who: Members (and family) are invited, others may join at the picnic!!!
Now, the important issues, what do we want to eat?
E-mail me your dietary delights, but leave out the .Spam!

Bring something to share: Beverages, Side dishes, Desserts!
We'll provide meat, flatware, napkins, cups, etc.
Also, bring outdoor games, group games, maybe water balloons, anything!
Electricity is NOT available at the site.
A Motor Vehicle Permit is not required (it's included with the shelter)

Information about the park.
A map of the park (pdf).
Address of the preserve: 5701 Reigart Rd, Hamilton, OH 45011
Google Map to the park.
The preserve is North of Hamilton, very near the intersection of Route 4 and the Route 4 Bypass.

Introduction to MythTV by Bob Koblish 4-24-2010

Mon, 24 May 2010 23:27:05 +0000

Bob surveyed the technology and miscellaneous issues that accompanied his development of a personal MythTV system. His attached presentation provides a starting point for "diving into" the construction of your own MythTV system.

April 2009 Notes

Sat, 16 May 2009 03:10:14 +0000

Sat, 25-Apr-2009

Steve opened the meeting at 10:45 AM

Iassen Hristov gave a talk titled "The Wonders of S.S.H." on the versatility and various use cases for SSH.
Attached is an archive that contains the presentation in OpenOffice 2.0 and PDF format and the example shell scripts and config files

October 2008 notes

Mon, 27 Oct 2008 02:51:02 +0000

Sat, 25-Oct-2008

Steve opened the meeting at 10:45 AM

19 people attending, 3 new faces

Dan Ford presented introduction to databases.

Dan spoke of the fundamentals of relational databases, touched on normalization, data warehouses, SQL and various tools for MySQL

The presentation is attached in PDF format. The original (in OpenOffice format) is available from Dan's web site at http://sassafrassin.com/?p=484

Craig Austin is the president of this year's election committee. Please, send nominations to him.

Meeting was adjourned at 1

August 2008 Notes

Sun, 24 Aug 2008 01:12:08 +0000

Sat, 23-Aug-2008

Brett opened the meeting at 10:45 AM

19 people attending, 3 new faces

Meeting was open topic. No specific agenda. There will be a board meeting after the conclusion of the regular meeting next month (27-Sep-2008)

Meeting was adjourned around 12:30 PM

July 2008 Notes

Sun, 24 Aug 2008 01:02:23 +0000

Sat, 26-Jul-2008

Steve opened the meeting at 10:55 AM

20 people attending, 5 new faces

Iassen Hristov gave a talk about VoIP technologies and Asterisk.
OpenOffice 2.0 presentation is attached. Also in PDF format.

Meeting was adjourned at 1:30 PM

April 2008 Notes

Thu, 01 May 2008 02:19:13 +0000

Sat, 26-Apr-2008

Steve opened the meeting at 10:35 AM

19 people attending, 6 new faces

Steve presented on the subject of shell scripting. Bash was the main topic.
Steve gave numerous examples of the power of bash.

Interestingly the whole presentation was written with a bash script, each
slide as a function, complete with navigation functionality, etc. Pretty
neat. The actual presentation is attached.

Meeting was adjourned at 12:00 PM

March 2008 Notes

Mon, 24 Mar 2008 23:55:16 +0000

Sat, 22-Mar-2008

Steve opened the meeting at 11:05 AM

17 people attending, 3 new faces

Question of the day was: If you were to attend a class of Linux for beginners what would you teach
- general desktop use, don't start with cmd line to scare beginners
- hardware compatibility - sound (ALSA) issues
- shell scripting
Most people said they would like to see weekly frequency

Brett Birdsall showed a presentation on encryption. General concepts in asymmetric key encryption were discussed as well as how to generate keys, and how to encrypt/decrypt files.

Meeting was adjourned

November 2007 notes

Thu, 22 Nov 2007 23:47:51 +0000

Sat, 17-Nov-2007

Steve opened the meeting at 10:40 AM

18 people attending, 4 new faces

The official board elections were held as usual every November.

The nominees are:

President: Steve Jones
Vice President: Don Smith
Treasurer: Sandi Jones
Secretary: Iassen Hristov
Program Director: Brett Birdsall

Count: 11 members voted. 11 votes for. No absentee ballots. The new board is elected as presented above.

After the voting the meeting was open for free discussion.

Meeting was adjourned at 11:50 am

October 2007 Minutes

Mon, 12 Nov 2007 00:14:30 +0000

Sat, 27-Oct-2007

Celeste opened the meeting at 10:30 AM

15 people attending, 3 new faces

Tony Classik presented the X3D software.
X3D is the successor to Virtual Reality Modeling Language (VRML)
Tony showed us the Xj3D software and some pretty cool simple models.

For more information please visit
http://www.web3d.org/
http://www.xj3d.org/

Meeting was adjourned at 12:00 pm

September 2007 Minutes

Mon, 24 Sep 2007 03:36:34 +0000

Sat, 22-Sep-2007

Steve opened the meeting at 10:30 AM

14 people attending, 2 new faces

Iassen Hristov gave a presentation about use of Linux in special applications, appliances, embedded systems, low-power applications, etc.
The presentation in OpenOffice 2.0 format (765 KB) is attached to this post.
Among the discussed devices/platforms were WRT, Cobalt Qube, Tivo, VIA Mini-ITX and Gumstix.

Attendees were also able to see the actual Motorola WR850G, MIPS Qube 2 and Media Box Mini-ITX devices.

August 2007 Board Minutes

Mon, 24 Sep 2007 03:28:38 +0000

Saturday, August 25, 2007

Steve called the meeting to order at 12:30

6 board members were present.

The only point of discussion was the appointment of an election committee.

Craig Austin volunteered and was elected as the president of the election committee.

Meeting was adjourned at 12:40

August 2007 Minutes

Mon, 24 Sep 2007 03:19:11 +0000

Sat, 25-Aug-2007

Steve opened the meeting at 10:30 AM

17 people attending, 2 new faces

This meeting was open discussion.

One of the questions was: What is the first thing you install on your computer after you have finished installing your favorite Linux distro. Some of the answers were: Celestia, mc (midnight commander), some games, openssh-server

Meeting was adjourned at 12:00 pm

July 2007 Minutes

Sat, 28 Jul 2007 23:26:00 +0000

Sat, 28-Jul-2007

Steve opened the meeting at 10:30 AM

21 people attending, 1 new face

Steve made a show-and-tell session covering home network wiring. Topics covered:

Showed some tools used in the process
Showed different connectors, wires and wiring blocks
Showed an example panel board - a piece of plywood with mounted network switch, power strip, wiring block, etc.
Discussed various standards for cables, color coding, wiring and building codes.

External links: http://www.homephonewiring.com/