Next Meeting – Tuesday, May 8th, 2012
Shawn Powers – LTSP
We’re excited that Shawn Powers will be coming down-state to share his experiences with LTSP with us. Shawn is the Associate Editor of Linux Journal Magazine, and the gadget review guy at Linuxjournal.com, but by day he works extensively with LTSP (which was the subject of an extensive three-part series in Linux Journal, from issues 215-217. Another interesting fact is that LTSP was created by our own Jim McQuillan). Shawn will talk about his recent experiences with LTSP, with a focus on getting technology into the hands of kids. You won’t want to miss this!
Command of the Moment
If we still have some time, we’ll jump back into our continuing series: Command of the Moment. We’ll pick some UNIX commands at random and ask folks to take 5-10 minutes to discuss them. A list of the commands we’ll be picking from is available here.
And of course we’ll have some of the other great features you’ve come to enjoy at our meetings, including current events and Job/People seekers.
Hope to see you there!
Community Updates
Episode 031 – Mother’s Day
http://smlr.us Downloads: MP3 format (for Freedom Haters!) OGG format (for Freedom Lovers!) Total Running Time: 1:08:40 Intro: Mat Enders, Tony Bemus, and Mary Tomich Intro Sound bite by Mike Tanner Kernel News: Mat Time: 2:51 Release Candidate: On Sun, 6 May 2012 15:34:14 Linus Torvalds released kernel 3.4-rc6 This is what Linus had to say [...] Read More »
A reminder of something more
Tonight we had a fairly sad conversation with a couple of our house mates (actually, a couple). It started off with them saying they were going to move out. We pretty much saw it coming, and it is probably the best thing to do (it is the way my partner and I were leaning as [...] Read More »
Bookie weekly status report: May 6th 2012
This week was spent on a big side project. I’ve been trying like mad to update the python-readability library and take it over to help use it in the Bookie project space. After spending a ton of time trying to do just this I gave up. I now present the breadability package. It’s a fresh [...]
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Episode 030 – Super Moon
http://smlr.us Downloads: MP3 format (for Freedom Haters!) OGG format (for Freedom Lovers!) Total Running Time: 1:11:53 Intro: Mat Enders, Tony Bemus, and Mary Tomich Intro Sound bite by Mike Tanner Kernel News: Mat Time: 7:36 Release Candidate: On Sun, 29 Apr 2012 15:47:52 Linus Torvalds released kernel 3.4-rc5 He had this to say about the [...] Read More »
Episode 24: Chris McDonough, Python, Pyramid, and the part time developer returns
Episode 24: Chris McDonough, Python, and the part time developer returns Intro Events Penguicon recap Chris McDonough interview Pylons Project Pyramid Web Framework Agendaless Part Time developer comes back http://501manifesto.org/ http://hmans.io/2012/04/23/the-501-developer-manifesto/ Somewhat related: work practice http://blaag.haard.se/You-deserve-practice/ New toys Craig: Samsung Galaxy S II / Ting.com Rick: ColorHug finally used Chris: Ubuntu Precise installation Books Craig: [...] Read More »
No body cares about your fixed costs
I recently had the chance to hear a proposal on how we could increase the production of quality open access monographs (not scholarly articles, but monographs). The method proposed can be summarized fairly easily: An author pitches a book to a publisher. The publisher and author work on it, as they do. The publisher submits [...] Read More »
Cancel vs. Inactive
Apparently there’s a certain pre-paid phone company that doesn’t quite understand the difference between an inactive phone vs. canceling an account: How do I cancel my account? It is not one of the options on your phone menu. It is not apparent how to get to a live human being to ask this question. It [...] Read More »
What you could have read
… if I had more time this week. 1. A new #bikelockfailblog post of a bike at the Glen Park Festival where the u-lock went around the fork. I failed to take a picture of it (forgot camera, and was too far away [looking down from parking lot] for my crap camera on my phone). [...] Read More »
Weekly Status Report: April 29th
More hacking! Spent a big part of the week working on my Penguicon presentation so few commits. Bookie Parser Tweaked the readable view with some nice CSS, dark background, favicon support, etc. Much nicer to read article with it now. Got the tests running on the TravisCI service. Updated the API to fill out and [...]
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