[BLUG] Ohio LinuxFest needs your help!

I am currently coordinating volunteers for Ohio LinuxFest and can use
your help!

If you are interested in volunteering and know what you would like to
do, drop me a line with details. If you are interested in volunteering
and are up for anything, drop me a line. If you want to volunteer but
can only spare a couple of hours, drop me a line!

We are most in need of finding help for the check-in desk and for
assisting with the talks (starting/ending on time and fielding
questions), as well as locals to the Columbus area to help transport
folks to & from the airports.

Please send your interest, a phone number and whether you are local to
Columbus to schultmc@ohiolinux.org -- and thanks!

Michael Schultheiss
Volunteer Coordinator
schultmc@ohiolinux.org
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[BLUG] Ohio LinuxFest 2010

The eighth annual Ohio LinuxFest will be held on September 10-12, 2010
at the Greater Columbus Convention Center in downtown Columbus, Ohio.
Hosting authoritative speakers and a large expo, the Ohio LinuxFest
welcomes all Free and Open Source Software professionals, enthusiasts,
and everyone interested in learning more about Free and Open Source
Software.

Registration is open now at https://www.ohiolinux.org/register.html
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Re: [BLUG] Send me your /etc/crontab run-parts section

I have xubuntu,quimo2 and mint 8 & 9 if you want them. Just tell me where you want me to send them.

Jim Marple

> Date: Thu, 5 Aug 2010 13:21:45 +0000
> From: mark@slugbug.org
> To: blug@cs.indiana.edu
> Subject: [BLUG] Send me your /etc/crontab run-parts section
>
>
> Hi. I know some of you are running some more unique distributions out
> there. I'm building a table of each distribution's default crontab
> section for running hourly, daily, weekly and monthly jobs from cron.
> Surprisingly, each distribution made their own choices when it comes to
> when to run jobs. You can help me by sending me (not to the list) the
> run-parts section of your /etc/crontab (or equivilent) and the name and
> version of the distribution its from.
>
> The part that I'm talking about looks like thsi (on Red Hat at least)
>
> # run-parts
> 01 * * * * root run-parts /etc/cron.hourly
> 02 4 * * * root run-parts /etc/cron.daily
> 22 4 * * 0 root run-parts /etc/cron.weekly
> 42 4 1 * * root run-parts /etc/cron.monthly
>
>
> So far I have the following distributions:
>
> Red Hat/CentOS/Fedora - h01 d402 w422 m442
> Debian - h17 d625 w647 m652
> Ubuntu - h17 d625 w647 m652
> Gentoo - h00 d301 w415 m530 (Runs weeklies on Saturdays)
> Slackware - h47 d440 w430 m420
>
> The reason why I'm doing this is because when I have multiple virtual
> machines all on one host, I need to stager their default crontabs so
> that they don't all run at once, which can cripple the machine. Knowing
> about the different distros can help me plan accordingly.
>
> And yes I'll make this public. Thanks for your help.
>
>
> --
> Mark Krenz
> Bloomington Linux Users Group
> http://www.bloomingtonlinux.org/
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[BLUG] Send me your /etc/crontab run-parts section

Hi. I know some of you are running some more unique distributions out
there. I'm building a table of each distribution's default crontab
section for running hourly, daily, weekly and monthly jobs from cron.
Surprisingly, each distribution made their own choices when it comes to
when to run jobs. You can help me by sending me (not to the list) the
run-parts section of your /etc/crontab (or equivilent) and the name and
version of the distribution its from.

The part that I'm talking about looks like thsi (on Red Hat at least)

# run-parts
01 * * * * root run-parts /etc/cron.hourly
02 4 * * * root run-parts /etc/cron.daily
22 4 * * 0 root run-parts /etc/cron.weekly
42 4 1 * * root run-parts /etc/cron.monthly

So far I have the following distributions:

Red Hat/CentOS/Fedora - h01 d402 w422 m442
Debian - h17 d625 w647 m652
Ubuntu - h17 d625 w647 m652
Gentoo - h00 d301 w415 m530 (Runs weeklies on Saturdays)
Slackware - h47 d440 w430 m420

The reason why I'm doing this is because when I have multiple virtual
machines all on one host, I need to stager their default crontabs so
that they don't all run at once, which can cripple the machine. Knowing
about the different distros can help me plan accordingly.

And yes I'll make this public. Thanks for your help.

--
Mark Krenz
Bloomington Linux Users Group
http://www.bloomingtonlinux.org/
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Re: [BLUG] some advice to get a new laptop?

I had to mention frost byte systems because they specialize in systems for the visually impared

On Jul 27, 2010 1:03 PM, "Simón Ruiz" <simon.a.ruiz@gmail.com> wrote:
> On Tue, Jul 27, 2010 at 12:48 PM, Lord Drachenblut
> <lord.drachenblut@gmail.com> wrote:
>> I would like to throw recommendations towards vendors like zareason system76
>> and frost byte systems
>>
>> All are vendors who sell laptops with Linux installed
>
> I'll lend a voice to that.
>
> My father is still happy with a System76 laptop he bought two or three
> years ago.
>
> And I'm happy with a System76 desktop that I bought to be my
> workstation at work (on which I am currently writing this).
>
> Simón
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Re: [BLUG] some advice to get a new laptop?

On Tue, Jul 27, 2010 at 12:48 PM, Lord Drachenblut
<lord.drachenblut@gmail.com> wrote:
> I would like to throw recommendations towards vendors like zareason system76
> and frost byte systems
>
> All are vendors who sell laptops with Linux installed

I'll lend a voice to that.

My father is still happy with a System76 laptop he bought two or three
years ago.

And I'm happy with a System76 desktop that I bought to be my
workstation at work (on which I am currently writing this).

Simón

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Re: [BLUG] some advice to get a new laptop?

I would like to throw recommendations towards vendors like zareason system76 and frost byte systems

All are vendors who sell laptops with Linux installed

On Jul 27, 2010 12:04 PM, "Steven Black" <yam655@gmail.com> wrote:
> With 2G datasets you're probably going to want something fairly heavy
> on the RAM side.
>
> This brings a problem for 32-bit CPUs. Because Windows only supports
> up to 4 gig of RAM for the 32-bit version, it is unlikely to find many
> 32-bit laptops supporting RAM configurations greater than 4 gig.
> Because of this, I recommend a 64-bit CPU. (Even if you only buy the
> laptop with 4 gig of RAM. It is nice to be able to get a RAM upgrade
> if needed.)
>
> Anytime you're dealing with CPU-intensive tasks dual-core or better is
> going to be handy. For some tasks you can use both cores, for others
> you can let one core do the heavy work while other allows her to
> continue using the laptop instead of walking away from it to let it
> finish. At this point I think it would be hard to find something that
> isn't at least dual-core, though.
>
> I used to really like IBM Thinkpads. Since Lenovo took the helm,
> though, I've been less prone to advocating them. I had a Lenovo start
> overheating after I installed a BIOS update. The old BIOS wasn't
> available. Future updates didn't help. I found it would mostly
> continue to work if I ran the CPUs at "power-save" and never used 3D
> apps... and manually monitored the temperature. (It over-heated more
> frequently in Windows. -- It wasn't a Linux issue.) Personally, I'm
> never going to buy another Lenovo.
>
> If either of you are IU students you should check out the discounts.
> There's a KB article about them.
>
> Laptops are pretty universally *not* user-serviceable. That being
> said, RAM and hard drive upgrades are not always easy to perform on
> some laptops. The prices just keep dropping, though, so even if she
> thinks she won't need any more in the future this is still something
> to be aware of.
>
> Check http://linux-laptop.net/ before you purchase even if you're
> familiar with the brand and have had good luck with them in the past.
> It can save you a lot of trouble.
>
> A lot of webcams work in Linux. The problem here is that chipsets
> sometimes change even when the name of the product does not. Given the
> device in front of you and an 'lsusb' (or 'lspci') and you can find
> out whether it works fairly easily. You'll need a Google search of the
> product name to see if other folks have general success, some success,
> or total failure.
>
> Personally, I'm partial to the built-in webcams if they're available
> and have a supported chipset. They're just super convenient.
>
> I think the <$1000 price range is probably realistic. Depending on the
> size of the screen she wants and how much RAM she wants you may go
> over, but probably not by too much.
>
> Cheers,
> Steven Black
>
> On Tue, Jul 27, 2010 at 11:23 AM, Jose Ignacio Lucas Lledo
> <ignasilucas@gmail.com> wrote:
>> Dear BLUGers,
>>
>> My girlfriend is about to buy a new laptop, she asked me for some
>> advice, and I thought that I'd better ask you, guys. Her preferences are
>> the following:
>>
>> - First of all, she wants the hardware to be good, so that it can last a
>> long time. Her previous laptop (a 3 years old Lenovo of some kind that I
>> don't remember) had problems all the time. It performed much better,
>> though, once she switched to Linux. Right now keys "T" and "Y" do not
>> work, no matter how strong you hit them.
>>
>> - She'd like the laptop mostly to write, but also to run statistical
>> analysis with R, which may involve datasets of <= 2GB, and CPU-intensive
>> calculations. She wonders if 64 bit architectures are standard now in
>> laptops, or if they are worthy. Also, how many cores? I guess a dual
>> core is something good already, right?
>>
>> - She doesn't need a lot of storage capacity.
>>
>> In summary: she wants a robust laptop, whose processor she can feel
>> proud of, and in which she can run ubuntu. She uses skype with a webcam
>> often, and I know that not all webcams are automatically detected and
>> configured by ubuntu. Any ideas?
>>
>> Other considerations: I think some of you work on (or know about) local
>> businesses with awesome technical services; feel free to tell me about
>> them. About the budget, I don't think she wants to spend more than 1000
>> $.
>>
>> Thank you,
>>
>> Ignasi.
>>
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