Eleven CLUG members were in attendance for our Open Meeting on 7/24/10.

Steve opened the meeting at ~ 10:30 am with the following question:

“If you had $250.00 to spend, what would you buy?” There were a variety of answers to that question, however, Koblish brought with him an ACER Aspire R1600 which costs ~$200.00. He plans to use the very compact unit as the front end for his MYTH front end. It is a very compact unit that makes very little noise.

There were, as usual, multiple discussions. The one your erstwhile secretary immersed in was a discussion of the theories discussing the possibility of generating gravitophotons (a directed gravity field). If the theories prove to be correct, Star Trek and the Enterprise might go the way of Dick Tracy's wrist-radio (everyone can have one). If you're interested in the background, google Heim theory , Droscher and Hauser and gravity.

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?

The CLUG picnic this year was a great success for the dozen or so folks attending. Food fare was excellent including broiled hot dogs and hamburgers prepared by Master Chef Steve Jones, delicious salads, diet killing desserts and, of course, cold water and sodas.

The shelter provided a safe haven from the sun with a cooling breeze accentuating the ambience of a relaxed summer day. Despite the sultry combination of sun and humidity outside the shelter the dining facility was comfortable.

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.

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.

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

I got this idea when I was standing in the closing ceremonies at last year's Ohio Linux Fest. About 1000 True Geeks were waiting as they raffled off books. They were all ages - from barely teenagers to octogenarians - and all shapes, sizes, hair styles, and what-have-you. I thought to myself, "I wonder, if we took the people in this room, and 1000 random computers, and we took 1000 Microsoft Types, and gave them 1000 random computers, which group would come up with a working network the fastest?"

Any guesses? ;)

So, as Your Humble Program Director, I decided to put it to the test. This coming meeting, bring a computer (or computers), and any networking "stuff" - cables, switches, NICs, hubs, routers, etc. - you may have, and let's just see how Our Tiny Corner of Geekdom will fare in putting up a working network. Those who're "Old Hands" at networking can teach us "Absolute Newbies" anything and everything, and I'm sure a lot - a lot! - of knowledge will be imparted and (hopefully!) absorbed.

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

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

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

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