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1/13/2010

SLLUG meeting Jan. 20, 2010: Hudson, extensible continuous integration server

Filed under: Linux, Tech — marc @ 5:08 pm

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.

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11/16/2009

SLLUG meeting: Wed. Nov 18, 2009: Back to the Basics - Introduction to Linux

Filed under: Linux, Tech — marc @ 4:06 pm

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.

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9/22/2009

SLLUG meeting this Wednesday (Sept 23, 2009): Introduction to SUSE Studio

Filed under: Linux, Tech — site admin @ 5:03 pm

For this month’s Salt Lake Linux Users Group meeting I’ll be presenting on SUSE Studio. The announcement follows:

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8/17/2009

SLLUG Meeting: Wed. Aug. 19, 2009: A new math library and decimal arithmetic

Filed under: Linux, Tech — marc @ 7:38 am

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.

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6/16/2009

SLLUG meeting: Wed. June 17, 2009: Blender 3D content creation suite!!!!

Filed under: Linux, Tech — marc @ 9:16 am

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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4/13/2009

SLLUG meeting: Wed. April 15, 2009: Consumer NAS device

Filed under: Linux, Tech — marc @ 11:19 am

This month’s Salt Lake Linux Users Group meeting will about a consumer Network Attached Storage device.

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3/16/2009

SLLUG meeting: Wed. March 18, 2009: Parrot

Filed under: Linux, Tech — marc @ 4:07 pm

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.

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2/17/2009

SLLUG meeting: Wed. Feb. 18, 2009: Fedora Remix: Custom distributions based upon proven design

Filed under: Linux, Tech — marc @ 10:53 am

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. (more…) (209 words)

1/21/2009

Suggested SLLUG meeting topics

Filed under: Linux, Tech — marc @ 11:31 am

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.

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SLLUG meeting tonight - update

Filed under: Linux, Tech — marc @ 8:54 am

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

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12/4/2008

Salt Lake Linux Users Group meeting for December, 2008

Filed under: Linux, Tech — marc @ 4:21 pm

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!

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10/15/2008

ePUB books live on www.penguin.co.uk !!!

Filed under: General, Tech — marc @ 8:04 pm

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.

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10/14/2008

Oct. 22th, 2008 SLLUG meeting: udbug combined meeting

Filed under: Linux — marc @ 4:57 pm

This month’s meeting will be on databases. A combined meeting with the Utah Database Users Group. The original announcement follows:

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9/11/2008

Sept. 17, 2008 SLLUG meeting: Using Vyatta to replace Cisco gear

Filed under: Linux, Tech — marc @ 11:13 am

The September Salt Lake Linux Users Group meeting will be on Vyatta, and OpenSource network appliance. The original announcement follows:

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7/9/2008

SLLUG Meeting, July 16, 2008: KVM, the Kernel Virtual Machine

Filed under: Linux, Tech — marc @ 10:09 am

Stuart Jansen from Guru Labs will be presenting on KVM kernel based virtual machine at SLLUG this month. Here’s the announcement for next week’s Salt Lake Linux Users Group meeting: (more…) (199 words)

6/19/2008

Pidgin support for MSN sucks!

Filed under: Linux, Tech — marc @ 2:38 pm

Wow, I have several friends that use MSN and I use Pidgin to communicate with them. They have told me time and time again that I always appear off line when I am not or have been on line all day. I get this message a lot: “Message could not be sent because a connection error occurred:” when sending messages to them. (more…) (127 words)

5/20/2008

May 21, 2008 SLLUG meeting: OpenSuse Build Service

Filed under: Linux, Tech — marc @ 9:33 am

I’ll be presenting tomorrow night (Wed. May 21, 2008) on the OpenSuse Build Service at the Salt Lake Linux Users Group meeting. Everyone is welcome and it’s free! The announcement I wrote for the SLLUG mailing list follows: (more…) (260 words)

4/2/2008

I want better support for digitizer pads on Linux!

Filed under: Linux, (I)Rational Conception - Abstract Thought, Tech — marc @ 8:45 am

I don’t want to have to go through some winding, confusing process of reading HOWTOs, hand editing xorg.conf files, restarting X over and over again just to get decent support for my wacom digitizer pad. Especially when the experience on windows and mac is completely painless.

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2/19/2008

SLLUG meeting Wed. Feb 20, 2008 Linux Handheld devices

Filed under: Linux, Tech — marc @ 12:57 pm

Linux handheld devices at SLLUG this week (Wed. Feb 20, 2008). Hope to see everyone there!

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1/28/2008

Nokia to buy Trolltech, makers of QT GUI library

Filed under: Linux, Tech — marc @ 8:46 am

Wow, first it’s announced recently that MySQL will be bought by Sun and now Trolltech by Nokia. It’s pretty interesting, as I see Nokia’s primary interest in the embedded market. I wonder if this will translate into less focus on the desktop versions of the GUI tool kit.

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