Re: [BLUG] Announcement

Scott,
Thanks for your work as prez. I haven't attended as many meetings as
I'd like, but have gotten a lot out of the ones I did attend. I hope
all works out well in Texas.
Chad Gillis

Quoting Scott Blaydes <sblaydes@sbce.org>:
> Dear fellow Linux geeks,
> My wife and I are moving back to Texas around Jan 1st due to her
> health. I won't be complaining about the warmer weather though.
> Mark Krenz has agreed to take over the role of President for the time
> being until a more permanent President/Dictator can be found.
>
> I would like to thank everyone for the great time I have had being
> involved in BLUG. While I will still be on the mailing lists, I will
> miss seeing everyone in person at the various events. My hope is to
> take some of the energy and ideas that I have gotten from BLUG
> members and use it to help grow the West Texas LUG in Abilene.
>
> Now, a round of applause for your new President Mark Krenz. <cue
> cheesy hail to the chief music>
>
> Thank you,
> Scott Blaydes

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[BLUG] Anyone here use Blender?

Does anyone on the list use or know someone in Bloomington that uses
the 3d software Blender?

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[BLUG] January get together

Well, there doesn't seem to be any interest in finding another
location to hold large meetings, so I thought instead we could have a
"get together" with a smaller group of people.

So whoever is interested, let's meet at 6:30pm on Thursday January
17th in Suso's conference room. There will be pizza and drinks and we
can talk about whatever. I was thinking that I could show you some of
the things I've been doing lately like setting up an Asterisk server
(VoIP), Postfix gateway, Xen, Apache, etc. It would be a good
oppurtunity for people to see how a web hosting provider runs. Or
whatever comes up, its up to the people who attend. This will not be a
sales pitch or anything like that. Its just a place to meet that won't
kick us out when they close.

Getting to the office is pretty easy. Go to the front entrance of
Fountain Square Mall where the green awning is. Go inside and back to
the security desk where the red payphone is (the Tardis). Instead of
traveling to another dimension, take a right and go down the stairs and
we are right there. I'll either be in the main office (008B) or the
room next door (008).

See you there,
Mark

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Re: [BLUG] Time for a discussion on time

On Mon, Dec 31, 2007 at 04:25:25PM +0000, Mark Krenz wrote:
>
> I'm sorry but I have a problem with this:
>
> date +"date: %Y %m %d, Standard week number: %W of %Y, ISO week number %V of %G"
> date: 2007 12 31, Standard week number: 53 of 2007, ISO week number 01 of 2008
>
> IMHO, week numbers should only refer to the current year because
> that's really the only place they are useful, in dividing up the year.
> Obviously in human terms, this week is made up of two different years,
> but in computer terms, that is too confusing. If I run a command that
> returns 200801, that tells me that its already 2008, but its not.
>
> Thoughts?

The ISO week doesn't use months and has years that don't align completely
with the gregorian year. Look up "week dates" in relation to ISO 8601.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ISO_week_date

Excerpted:

The system does not need the concept of month and is not well connected with
the Gregorian system of months: some months January and December are divided
over two ISO years.

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[BLUG] Any ideas as to another place for meetings?

Does anyone know of a good place to meet with the following ammenities?

* Open til 10pm or later. (or perhaps its just ok to stay til that time)
* Can hold 20+ people comfortably.
* Located in Bloomington
* Internet access (preferably a wall jack and wireless because some
people bring in their desktop computers)
* Would be nice if it had a projector screen, but not absolutely necessary.

I know there are a lot of meeting places at IU like this, but I'm not
affiliated with IU anymore so there would need to be someone dedicated
to reserving the rooms. Also, what would that mean for internet access
if you aren't a student?

Any suggestions are welcome.

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[BLUG] Time for a discussion on time

I'm sorry but I have a problem with this:

date +"date: %Y %m %d, Standard week number: %W of %Y, ISO week number %V of %G"
date: 2007 12 31, Standard week number: 53 of 2007, ISO week number 01 of 2008

IMHO, week numbers should only refer to the current year because
that's really the only place they are useful, in dividing up the year.
Obviously in human terms, this week is made up of two different years,
but in computer terms, that is too confusing. If I run a command that
returns 200801, that tells me that its already 2008, but its not.

Thoughts?

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Bloomington Linux Users Group
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[BLUG] video on new network model

Linux-friendly scientist and contributor to tcpdump and traceroute tools
gives a talk at Google, "A New Way to Look at Networking."
http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-6972678839686672840&q=engedu

Some ideas presented in the talk about his new network model:
* data-oriented "dissemination" network instead of node-oriented internet
* every chunk of data on the network is associated with a name, not an
IP address (the data matters, not the supplier)
* data is decentralized and ubiquitous; data doesn't live at one
specific location
* literally anything that can move bits can be a part of the network
* no more network congestion
* security, trust and integrity are derived from the data itself, not
from where it supposedly originated or the channel it arrived on
* eliminating phishing, pharming and spam would be trivial
* SSL would become irrelevant
* finer grained control over traffic, including a way to prioritize
incoming traffic - example: email and gaming traffic in one household
can be arranged so that email always gets delivered first before any
gaming traffic starts or continues. currently there's no way to do this.
* today's protocols are designed for a point-to-point conversation
between two applications on two machines. instead, the new network
should distribute data much like a radio tower would broadcast radio
signals ((multi)point-to-multipoint); instead of many copies of the same
data going to recipients one at a time, a single copy goes to every
recipient simultaneously.

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