The Penguin way to computing.
About 5 people showed up. We had a pretty lively meeting. 2 new people showed up fro the meeting. Topics Discussed: Running Linux on 1GB Flash devices. Bob G said he was using 1GB USB sticks to run on Winterms. . There are a lot of USB bootable distros available. Hitachi is selling a 1TB […] →Read more
This meeting was scheduled on a holiday by accident. Normally, meetings do not get held on holidays. 3 people showed up for the meeting. Nobody had any Linux questions, so we just chatted about work. →Read more
About 10 people showed up for this meeting and we had 2 women, which was a rarity. Topics Discussed: Apple Windows Spoofs Mellisa mentioned that a user on YouTube called TrueNuff had a bunch of interesting spoofs on mac’s and pc ads. Totem with ugly [windows codecs] plug ins for watching DVDs Dave said that […] →Read more
Topics discussed: installing myth TV applications using pclinuxOS, a new Debian based distro. Complications setting up a hdtv system. (Wiring can be complicated.). Tunneling with socks and twister both allow you to tunnel encrypted data through ports that are not blocked by firewalls. Astericks Open Source PBX Tunneling voice data over ssh using Asterisks. Wireless […] →Read more
About 6 people showed up. We had a short meeting. Topics: Package managers: apt-get and yast How do you find dependancies when the package manager does not do it for you ? How do you get a list of the dependancies using rpm ? Samba Problems: Touble shooting samba →Read more