{"id":45,"date":"2007-11-23T12:14:13","date_gmt":"2007-11-23T16:14:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/annapolislinux.org\/?p=45"},"modified":"2007-12-10T11:34:48","modified_gmt":"2007-12-10T15:34:48","slug":"meeting-notes-nov-2007","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/annapolislinux.org\/?p=45","title":{"rendered":"Meeting notes Nov 2007"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This post was a little late. We met on 11\/07\/2007 at Barnes and Nobles as normal.<br \/>\nThe topics discussed where as follows:<br \/>\nMark brought in a USB micro controller. One of the problems that he had was the usb device numbers jumped around making it hard for him to track it.<br \/>\nHe was using lsusb to list the usb device but he was having trouble finding it in the dev tree. Normally, lsusb gives you an idea where to look.<br \/>\nFor example, when I do a lsusb on my machine I get the following output:<br \/>\nted@ted-home-desktop:~$ lsusb<br \/>\nBus 001 Device 002: ID 046d:c404 Logitech, Inc. TrackMan Wheel<br \/>\nBus 001 Device 001: ID 0000:0000  <\/p>\n<p>The device is bus 1 device 2 or it is mapped here:<br \/>\nted@ted-home-desktop:~$ ls -ls \/proc\/bus\/usb\/001\/002<br \/>\n0 crw-rw-r&#8211; 1 root root 189, 1 2007-11-23 10:30 \/proc\/bus\/usb\/001\/002<\/p>\n<p>The proc device corresponds to the device file:<br \/>\nted@ted-home-desktop:~$ ls -la \/dev\/bus\/usb\/001\/002<br \/>\ncrw-rw-r&#8211; 1 root root 189, 1 2007-11-23 10:30 \/dev\/bus\/usb\/001\/002<\/p>\n<p>It was later determined the proprietary was doing a raw dump to the device.<\/p>\n<p>Dave was having some problems sending email through the toad.net smtp mailservers.<br \/>\nToad net was recently purchased by  expedient.net. The support for Linux is now non existent said Dave.<br \/>\nWith the old toad.net, there was linux help from the support line. We think that expedient.net may have<br \/>\nbroken some of the toad.net servers. For example, with a regular dns lookup on the mail servers for toad we get the<br \/>\nfollowing:<br \/>\nted@ted-home-desktop:~$ host -t mx toad.net<br \/>\ntoad.net mail is handled by 0 mail.expedient.net.<br \/>\nMoreover a dns report search on toad.net says the don&#8217;t even have the virtual address of postmaster@toad.net functioning.<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/http:\/\/www.dnsstuff.com\/tools\/dnsreport.ch?domain=toad.net\">Here is the report.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>There was also a lengthy debate on why Ubuntu was better than SUSE. I am under the opinion if someone is starting out with Linux Ubuntu would be simpler. Moreover, ubuntu has a more open license model than SUSE. To add, the documention for Ubuntu is very dense and constantly being improved.  SUSE is a good Linux distribution, but there ties with Microsoft and Novell seemed to have tainted them in my humble opinion. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This post was a little late. We met on 11\/07\/2007 at Barnes and Nobles as normal. The topics discussed where as follows: Mark brought in a USB micro controller. One of the problems that he had was the usb device numbers jumped around making it hard for him to track it. He was using lsusb [&hellip;] <a class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/annapolislinux.org\/?p=45\" title=\"Permanent Link to: Meeting notes Nov 2007\">&rarr;Read&nbsp;more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-45","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-info"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/annapolislinux.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/annapolislinux.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/annapolislinux.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/annapolislinux.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/annapolislinux.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=45"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/annapolislinux.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/annapolislinux.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=45"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/annapolislinux.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=45"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/annapolislinux.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=45"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}