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anybody here?
by Brian E. Lavender 17 Dec '24

17 Dec '24

I am at Kupros upstairs. I have a little tent sign with SacLUG. I have a feeling that this might be a slow night! Anybody coming to the social tonight? Brian -- Brian Lavender https://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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standford study says 9.5% of research engineers do virtually nothing.
by Brian E. Lavender 04 Dec '24

04 Dec '24

Seen on Slashdot and posted Xitter. Stanford Research Reveals 9.5% of Software Engineers 'Do Virtually Nothing' https://developers.slashdot.org/story/24/11/26/1346219/stanford-research-re… Seems like an interesting study. Brian -- Brian Lavender https://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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better top
by Brian E. Lavender 24 Nov '24

24 Nov '24

Someone said that there is a way better top these days. What is it? Brian -- Brian Lavender https://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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thank you to everyone who came
by Brian E. Lavender 19 Nov '24

19 Nov '24

We had an interesting meetup. Next meetup is in December. We talked Debian, purple air, putting IoT on its own network, code correctness using Spark/Ada, dotNet 9, and miscellaneous stuff. See everyone back in December. https://www.saclug.org/articles/2024/december-2024.html Brian -- Brian Lavender https://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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SacLUG social this coming Tuesday at Kupros
by Brian E. Lavender 18 Nov '24

18 Nov '24

We will have the next social this coming Tuesday! Kupros Craft House in Midtown Sacramento: 1217 21st Street Sacramento, CA 95811 6:30pm - 9:00pm Brian -- Brian Lavender https://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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dotNet 9 released
by Brian E. Lavender 13 Nov '24

13 Nov '24

Hey everyone, DotNet 9 was just released https://devblogs.microsoft.com/dotnet/announcing-dotnet-9/ You can find the installation instructions for Fedora here https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/dotnet/core/install/linux-fedora Brian -- Brian Lavender https://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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Halloween documents
by Brian E. Lavender 06 Nov '24

06 Nov '24

26 years ago, we had the Halloween documents https://linux.slashdot.org/story/23/11/05/046247/when-linux-spooked-microso… -- Brian Lavender https://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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Fedora 41 is out
by Brian E. Lavender 29 Oct '24

29 Oct '24

I think they are racing to 42! https://fedoramagazine.org/announcing-fedora-linux-41/ -- Brian Lavender https://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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social tonight
by Brian E. Lavender 15 Oct '24

15 Oct '24

Social tonight! Tue October 15, 2024 06:30 PM to 09:00 PM Kupros Craft House in Midtown Sacramento: 1217 21st Street Sacramento, CA 95811 Brian -- Brian Lavender https://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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upcoming meeting and is the list still working?
by Brian E. Lavender 08 Oct '24

08 Oct '24

Meeting next week at Kupros! https://www.saclug.org/articles/2024/october-2024.html When: Tue October 15, 2024 06:30 PM to 09:00 PM Speaker: You Location: Kupros Craft House 1217 21st Street Sacramento, CA 95811 We will return to Kupros for this meeting. This will be a social hangout. Bring whatever gadget or your favorite project or questions (maybe we can answer), and socialize. Brian -- Brian Lavender https://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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