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Looking over the stats for the last few years, it’s interesting to see what the most popular posts have been. Here’s the top 5:
I definitely need to write more technology related posts. I have a few drafts that I’ve been working on related to some DIY projects I’ve worked on including some detailed posts on moding a T-Amp, and designing a power supply for it and some wood working projects I’ve done. Hopefully I’ll find some time to publish them this summer.
So, we’re all over at my parents for family dinner this past Sunday night. Most of the family that lives in Utah is there with the exception of my brother Spencer who is home with a stomach flu. We’re barbecuing hamburgers, hot dogs and chicken along with all together way too much other good food to eat and…we’re all stuffed. I look outside and see one of my nieces Sara, drawing on the sidewalk with chalk and grab my camera…I can’t miss this opportunity. So that she can get low enough to the ground, Sara is sort of doing the splits.
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Engadget covers Steve Jobs’ latest “Open Letter” on flash here: http://www.engadget.com/2010/04/29/steve-jobs-publishes-some-thoughts-on-flash-many-many-thou/ in which he covers various reasons for Apple’s stance on flash.
(In a related note, they’re stance on “lower quality” from third-party tools completely is bogus. I’ve seen plenty of crappy applications grace their store that crash regularly and are *completely* lame.)
In my opinion, the so-called reasons are all secondary and meant as a smoke screen to hide the real reason Apple doesn’t want flash on the iPhone or iPad. I’ll explain what I believe that reason to be here: continue reading…
This month’s meeting will be on Networks security with Wireshark and some other tools, possibly scanrand and Nmap. Craig Kelly has volunteered to do the presentation. We’ll have a small private network with a few systems and a hub running as well as the wireless network. We’ll follow and analyze IRC traffic and some other protocols as well.
Tonight’s Salt Lake Linux Users Group meeting will be an introduction to Mono. See the mono-project for more information.
After a month off, we’re starting off the 2010 year for the Salt Lake Linux Users Group with a meeting on Hudson, an extensible continuous integration server, presented by Stephen Shaw of Novell.
Hello everyone!
This month’s Salt Lake Linux Users Group meeting will be an introduction to Linux and a basic overview of what it is. It will be a great opportunity to invite people who would like to know about what Linux is and get started. Please bring some people you would like to introduce to Linux.
Our Aug., 2009 Salt Lake Linux Users Group meeting is this Wednesday. Nilson Beebe will present on a new math library and decimal arithmetic. We decided to postpone last months topic till this month so no one missed his great talk. Should be very informative.
The June 17, 2009 Salt Lake Linux Users Group meeting will be on Blender a free open source 3D content creation suite, available for all major operating systems under the GPL presented by Christian Horn.
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This month’s Salt Lake Linux Users Group meeting will about a consumer Network Attached Storage device.
This month’s meeting will be presented on Parrot by Stephen Weeks:
Parrot is a virtual machine for dynamic languages and a very nice set of compiler tools. I’ll be walking through the steps of implementing a compiler for Parrot from the ground up, using scheme as an example.
This month, Clint Savage will be presenting on “Fedora Remix: Custom distributions based upon proven design” at the Feb 18, 2009 Salt Lake Linux Users Group meeting. continue reading…
A week or so ago I posted a request to the Salt Lake Linux Users Group members list for ideas for upcoming SLLUG meetings. Here’s a list of what they sent in. All great ideas. I think I got them all listed here. If you suggested an idea and it’s not in the list below, shoot me an email, reply to the thread on the sllug-members@sllug.org list or to this post here.
Hey, just letting people know that if I can’t find a laptop with an nvidia chipset, I’ll demo using GPSs on Linux and talk about gpsbabel, gpicsync and Google Earth instead of talking about Google Sketchup on Wine.
Either way, this meeting tonight will be a blast!
Oh I also have openSUSE 11.1 DVDs to give out. See you there!!!!
See the original post for directions and time, etc: SLLUG meeting: Wed. Jan 21, 2009: Google Sketchup 7 running on Wine demo
This month’s presentation will be by me…well, I started looking for a presenter a couple days ago so I looked around and saw that I was the only one available :) Here’s the announcement:
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A friend brought this dish with her to a party a week ago and I liked it so much that I asked for the recipe. I changed it just slightly and made it with non-sugar sweeteners. This makes an amazingly good Thanksgiving or Christmas appetizer or party tray.
Here’s the announcement I made for the December Salt Lake Linux Users Group meeting. Note the time/date change! It will be held on Monday, Dec. 8th and we will be attending a lecture rather than having an organized meeting. Should be fun!
Finally the long awaited ePUB format books are starting to show up on Penguin Publisher’s site! Here’s a search for the word ‘epub’ that turns up 682 results as of October 15th, 2008. Not all of them are available for download yet but a number of them are accessible right now.
This month’s meeting will be on databases. A combined meeting with the Utah Database Users Group. The original announcement follows:
