November 2023 - Lug-nuts

December meeting
by Brian E. Lavender 02 Dec '23

02 Dec '23

I put Kupros on the schedule for December, yet we can change it. I want to say thank you again to Sen for contributing to the new SacLUG site! https://www.saclug.org Feel free to check the source for SacLUG https://github.com/brieweb/saclug.org -- Brian Lavender http://www.brie.com/brian/ "There are two ways of constructing a software design. One way is to make it so simple that there are obviously no deficiencies. And the other way is to make it so complicated that there are no obvious deficiencies." Professor C. A. R. Hoare The 1980 Turing award lecture

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test mail forward rule
by Brian E. Lavender 29 Nov '23

29 Nov '23

Testing my exim mail filter rule. The site is rendered with new info. https://www.saclug.org -- Brian Lavender http://www.brie.com/brian/ "There are two ways of constructing a software design. One way is to make it so simple that there are obviously no deficiencies. And the other way is to make it so complicated that there are no obvious deficiencies." Professor C. A. R. Hoare The 1980 Turing award lecture

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Location scouting
by Sen Hastings 29 Nov '23

29 Nov '23

Hey Y'all, So I've been doing some work on the source for the *new and improved* saclug site (thx to brian for adding me to the github project), and I've been thinking more about venues. Kupros has good food and cold beer but I think there is general agreement that it's too friggin loud. Also there is no facility to do presentations. Way way back in the before times I used to attend an open mic night at Sactown union brewery. In the interim it's name changed to Tower brewing, which then closed and was taken over by another brewing company and is now called Highwater brewing company. The front of the venue features a little stage-let with, (IIRCC) a white backdrop and some facilities for projection. While the establishment has no kitchen, they did(at least 3 years ago) have an agreement for pizza delivery from a local pizza place. Even though they have changed names 3 times and now have completely different owners, the fact that they are still doing the same types of meetups as they were 3.5 years ago gives me hope that the venue/logistics haven't changed much. I'll be doing some reconnaissance sometime this week, and am curious to see if anyone has any other suggestions for venues. sen-h.

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More location ideas
by Sen Hastings 29 Nov '23

29 Nov '23

I did some more snooping and this seems like a good biergarten option in west sac: https://drinkdrakes.com/places/the-barn/ If people wanna do a coffee shop most of the Temple locations have pretty good hours: https://templecoffee.com/pages/locations I've never tried chocolate fish so I have no idea what the group accommodations are like. I can say for a fact the Fair Oaks & Munroe Temple doesn't have big tables, but maybe midtown is better? River City Brewing is pretty close by to me in Carmichael, It's a part of the Milagro CentreTM which is one of those standalone food court type deals: https://www.rivercitybrewing.net/ https://milagrocentre.com/ The Milagro Centre also has standalone event space, lord knows what the pricing is like. Also the hours at River City Brewing are not great, I reckon we want an envelope of 2.5 - 3 hours, so like 18:30-21:00? gimme your thoughts, sen-h.

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distro that still works with 32 bit?
by Brian E. Lavender 22 Nov '23

22 Nov '23

Is it Alpline Linux that will run on 32 bit without the cmov instruction set? https://www.alpinelinux.org Brian -- Brian Lavender http://www.brie.com/brian/ "There are two ways of constructing a software design. One way is to make it so simple that there are obviously no deficiencies. And the other way is to make it so complicated that there are no obvious deficiencies." Professor C. A. R. Hoare The 1980 Turing award lecture

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meeting Tuesday at Kupros 6:30pm
by Brian E. Lavender 22 Nov '23

22 Nov '23

We will meet at Kupros at 6:30pm this Tuesday, Nov 21, 2023, at 6:30pm 1217 21st St. Sacramento, CA 95811 Bring your gadget(s) and laptop, and we will hang out. Brian -- Brian Lavender http://www.brie.com/brian/ "There are two ways of constructing a software design. One way is to make it so simple that there are obviously no deficiencies. And the other way is to make it so complicated that there are no obvious deficiencies." Professor C. A. R. Hoare The 1980 Turing award lecture

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Slackware 32 bit
by Brian E. Lavender 21 Nov '23

21 Nov '23

Will it run 32 bit on K6-II? Brian -- Brian Lavender http://www.brie.com/brian/ "There are two ways of constructing a software design. One way is to make it so simple that there are obviously no deficiencies. And the other way is to make it so complicated that there are no obvious deficiencies." Professor C. A. R. Hoare The 1980 Turing award lecture

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selling vintage K6-II machine
by Brian E. Lavender 19 Nov '23

19 Nov '23

I have an old (vintage) machine that I resurrected. I installed Debian 8.11 on it, so it's "ready to go". I couldn't bear to just take it to the recycling yard and just had to see if it worked. Debian stopped supporting the "full" 32 bit as of 8.11, so it's the newest Debian distro you can use. So, I don't put it on the "net" as a server as it doesn't get the latest security updates. I believe you might be able to use the latest Slack? https://sacramento.craigslist.org/sys/d/sacramento-32-bit-amd-k6-ii-vintage… Big fat forty dollars. Brian -- Brian Lavender http://www.brie.com/brian/ "There are two ways of constructing a software design. One way is to make it so simple that there are obviously no deficiencies. And the other way is to make it so complicated that there are no obvious deficiencies." Professor C. A. R. Hoare The 1980 Turing award lecture

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Howdy y'all, I'm new here.
by Sen Hastings 19 Nov '23

19 Nov '23

Hey y'all, my name is sen and embedded Linux enthusiast, full time Linux user since 2015 and pop_os aficionado. I've got a standalone Linux based videoplayer thing I've been working for a couple years: https://github.com/sen-h/VidOS I've also.done a couple talks, this one about right to repair: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JlGMvxmrnzM And this one about the history/problems of the raspi: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rgcs9ZSFdAE I'm back in Sac after having been in Austin TX for the last 3 years. I wanted to join a LUG back in Austin but, ya know covid :(, so this is my first ever LUG. It sounds like y'all meet monthly-ish at a brewery or something? How does that usually work? Is there one scheduled this month or not due to Thanksgiving? Cheers, Sen H. PS: does owning a steam deck make me an arch user? :P -- Sent from my Android device with K-9 Mail. Please excuse my brevity.

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Complexity .....and Chess
by Gary 10 Nov '23

10 Nov '23

IMHO for a variety of reasons, a lot of people left the work force. This caused the labor pool to reach further down the bell shaped curve to find willing participants. Unfortunately, the complexity of the world, which in my opinion is too complex or perhaps overly complex or perhaps more complex than it needs to be, remained the same. As a result, many even moderately complex things are breaking. Like for example chess on Linux. I just spent most of my afternoon installing various chess programs, they don't really work. Some don't work at all. Some sort of work, but have various sort of major features that don't work. Gnome-chess works. But I can beat it easily. I haven't played for a while, and I'm not that good. It says I can install another engine. But it fails to tell me how and if I go out to Google, the features that it documents don't actually exit on the actual app. Actually brutalchess might work too. It has no man page and no menu of any kind. There is no documentation of any kind on the web page, but there is a forum and a mailing lists. You just move and it starts playing. It seems like it makes pretty good moves, but the display is hard for me to see and I can't change it. 10 years ago, this was easy and worked just fine. Granted, enthusiasm for chess has wained somewhat. Sigh. I'm just glad I don't have any brain surgery scheduled in the near future. I doubt if people are going to get smarter or perhaps less careless, overnight. But perhaps the world will simplify a bid. Eventually. That would be a good thing IMHO. -Gary

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