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

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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)

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)

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)

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

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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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The January, 2008 SLLUG meeting will be held on Jan. 23 - postponed one week. It will be on small sub-notebooks, in particular the OLPC XO and the eeepc.

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“Poverty wants much; but avarice, everything”  
 
~ Publilius Syrus

It’s official. SCO is no longer traded on the Nasdaq stock exchange. Groklaw has an article covering the delisting news as well as SCO’s own press release on the subject. (more…) (40 words)

The Salt Lake Linux Users Group meeting is scheduled and will be on AJAX programming. Here’s the announcement:

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September’s SLLUG meeting will be held tomorrow (Wednesday, Sept, 19th, 2007). Lamont Peterson will be presenting. Here’s the announcement:

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This month’s Salt Lake Linux Users Group meeting will be on Alfresco, an OpenSource enterprise content management system. Hope to see a bunch of you there!

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I was working on a project at work to make installation of SLES 10 servers easier in the lab that I work in. One of the features of SuSE products is to save the configuration of a machine into an XML config file that will be later used by AutoYast to clone the machine. This is useful in a variety of cases such as mine where we have a lab that needs several machines installed and it takes time to go through the configuration on each install or in the case where a school or computing lab needs to install several nearly identical machines. This saves valuable time.

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Tonight’s SLLUG meeting will be on creating your own DIY Terminal server using Linux.

The full announcement follows:

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The Salt Lake Linux Users Group ( SLLUG ) All are invited to the October 2005 SLLUG meeting:

Date: Wednesday, February 21st, 2007 Time: 7:10 PM Cost: $0.00. Zip. Nada. Place: Engineering and Mines Classroom Building (EMCB) room 101 Directions: See directions and map URL at the bottom of this page

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I recently upgraded one of my work machines from a single processor whitebox to a dual 3.1GHz processor, hyperthreaded Dell 470. In doing so, I also installed OpenSuse 10.2 (x86_64). This is a big step up from the old box I was using. One thing I did notice however, was that when attempting to transfer the tar files of my old data from another machine, ssh would constantly die with the following error: “Disconnecting: Corrupted MAC on input.”

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This months SLLUG meeting will be held this week instead of next to avoid conflict with other activities closer to the holidays. Everyone is welcome! Looks to be a great presentation by Allen Parker on high perfornamce and scaling in the data center. A copy of the announcement follows:

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Novell wants to hear your opinion.

There’s been a lot of jumping to conclusions and knee-jerk reactions in the community over the last 72 hours about the Novell / Microsoft agreement. If you are worried or have questions about the Novell/Microsoft deal, you should let them know.

I just saw this on digg.com and think that the best thing you can do as a member of the OpenSource community is to voice your opinion on things you care about. There’s a TID (Technical Information Document) that has a link to a third-party site they contract with to do surveys.

Here it is:

http://www.novell.com/coolsolutions/tip/18041.html

In addition to this, Ted Haeger, who hosts Novell’s podcast Novell Open Audio, will be doing an interview on the Microsoft/Novell announcement. He’s asking for listeners to provide questions to ask.

Here’s a link to his posting about the interview and how to submit questions:

http://reverendted.wordpress.com/2006/11/03/microsoft-novell-and-novell-open-audio/

A friend of mine that works for RH just posted the following link on the PLUG list:

http://www.oracle.com/corporate/press/2006_oct/Oracle-Linux-Program.html

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