We had a scribus presentation this week. In the presentation, Dave B. compared a desktop publisher with a word-processor. He showed us how he uses Scribus to make a publication that he distributes. In his presentation, he illuminated the major differences between using a word-processor and desktop publishing program. His comparison was enlightening. For example,…

About 6 people showed for this meeting. Matt, the local who uses Linux for racing, came again. He brought his newest gadget called a mini-box. He wanted to use the device on-board monitoring computer for recording his car’s race data. Since he car will have a lot of vibration we recommended that he use a…

About 8 people showed up. We had an open meeting today. Topics discussed: 1. Novell’s Open Enterprise server using Suse to interconnect with Active Directory. 2. What Linux are you survey . The survey is found here. 3. What do people use for managing server configurations ? – Nick answer: cfengine, puppet, custom scripts with…

Notes from Nick: About seven people showed up in the Mavenspire Conference room. Question re: Ubuntu (installation) -> Graphics libs, why do these matter & how do they fit into general scheme of OS -> Ubuntu has customized some of these, apparently raising concern in community… why is this generating such hullabaloo? What is the…

Summary: The meeting theme for Monday Oct 5th 2009 was file-systems. During this meeting Ted gave a presentations on how to recover files that were deleted from an EXT2 file system. Since file pointers are moved with a delete, he used debugfs to dump the file contents directly from the inode. Journaled files systems have…