Howdy Y'all,
I just got back from a dry run using the "Something Extra Gather Room"
at the Bel Air #502 on Arden and Eastern.
The address is 4320 Arden Way, Sacramento, CA 95864 and the gmaps page is:
https://maps.app.goo.gl/eBKZdheFGPSeDXFk7
I thought to do a dry run to sus out the AV setup and get a general lay
of the land, suffice to say I am VERY impressed. The SEGR is located
immediately inside to the left of the left most entrance, right in "THE
TAPROOM" area. It's one of those rooms where the walls are made of
partially frosted glass panels.
Coffee, beer, desserts and charcuterie are available at the nearby
counter,but you can also walk across the store and get something from
the deli if you want something more meal shaped. Just remember to
actually buy the food before you eat it. :p
The AV setup is a BIG tv with a BIG soundbar attached. The power button
for the TV is on the bottom edge in the center,so you have to wedge your
fingies between the tv and the soundbar to get at it. Once the TV is on,
some inputs can be switched and some sort of cable/broadcast tv box can
be controlled via the Crestron tablet thing on top of the media cabinet.
The pincode for the Crestron tablet is the store # twice, literally:
"502502". HDMI in is on the right side of the media cabinet. If you
really really want you can also plug into either HDMI 1 or DVI directly
on the tv, but then you only get audio from the crappy TV speakers and
not the nice sound bar.
The store wifi *seemed* to be ok, measuring at ~100Mb symmetric, but
then I had issues connecting to some ubuntu repos? I fell back to the
wifi hotspot on my phone which also worked p well, which tells me the
area has good T-Mobile coverage.
From what I can gather the room isn't used much and the staff there seem
pretty chill, so no ones gonna yell at us if we show up a little early
and leave a little late.
And the best part (aside from the beer) is that the 2hr booking cost $0.
This is absolutely my vote for the December meeting, but let me know
what y'all think. Shout out to Gary for the idea, I had *no idea*
meeting rooms in Raley's were a thing.
I'll send a follow up email with some photos/videos attached of the venue.
Cheers,
Sen-h.
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
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"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
Testing my exim mail filter rule.
The site is rendered with new info.
https://www.saclug.org
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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
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.
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.
Is it Alpline Linux that will run on 32 bit without the cmov instruction
set?
https://www.alpinelinux.org
Brian
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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
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
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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
Will it run 32 bit on K6-II?
Brian
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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
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
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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
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
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