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Re: CentraLUG, TONIGHT! December 1st, NHTI Library Room 146

Ted Roche — 2008-12-01T19:13:59

Added to the topic list: - a tale of two upgrades: F9 to F10 inplace for the win! and fixing a buggy CentOS 4.7 with a CentOS 5.2 upgrade - overvoltage shutting down UPSes: a shocking tale! - we'll have a copy of Fedora 10 installed with all the latest shiny bits, and two liveCDs (GNOME/KDE) and a DVD to give away. - a book raffle if we get at least five attendees The Central New Hampshire Linux User Group will hold its monthly meeting On Monday, December 1st, starting at 7 PM at the New Hampshire Technical Institute Library, Room 146. Look for the penguin signs. We've have a laptop, projector, network connections and hold an informal Q & A and chat session. Possible topics might include: - the release of Fedora 10 last Wednesday (we'll have a disk or two to share; email me if you'd like one) - the recent Professional Ruby Conference held in Boston (nearly everyone at the conference deploys their apps on Linux!) - upcoming CentraLUG topics - recent GNHLUG meetings - your questions Hope to see you the

CentraLUG, Monday, December 1st, NHTI Library Room 146

Ted Roche — 2008-11-28T20:39:47

The Central New Hampshire Linux User Group will hold its monthly meeting On Monday, December 1st, starting at 7 PM at the New Hampshire Technical Institute Library, Room 146. Look for the penguin signs. We've have a laptop, projector, network connections and hold an informal Q & A and chat session. Possible topics might include: - the release of Fedora 10 last Wednesday (we'll have a disk or two to share; email me if you'd like one) - the recent Professional Ruby Conference held in Boston (nearly everyone at the conference deploys their apps on Linux!) - upcoming CentraLUG topics - recent GNHLUG meetings - your questions Hope to see you there!

NHRuby.org social meeting, Tuesday, Dec 2.

Scott Garman — 2008-11-24T18:17:44

The NH Ruby and Rails User Group will be doing something a bit different this month in lieu of its normal meeting. We'll be meeting early in December to have an informal get-together at the Rosa Restaurant in Portsmouth, NH. Join us at The Rosa for dinner and drinks - there will be conversation about your favorite Ruby and other web/technology topics, with ample opportunity to get sidetracked on non-Ruby related subjects. A note to shy geeks: we are a very welcoming and laid-back group, give us a try. :) We do ask that you RSVP directly to me (if you haven't already) so we have an accurate headcount for the restaurant, since we have reserved a semi-private room. WHEN: Tuesday, December 2, 2008. 7-9 PM. WHERE: The Rosa Restaurant, 80 State Street, Portsmouth, NH Links: http://www.therosa.com http://wiki.nhruby.org/index.php/Upcoming_meetings Regards, Scott -- Scott Garman sgarman at zenlinux dot com

[DLSLUG-Announce] PyCUDA and GPU Programming - DLSLUGMonthlyMeeting - 2008-12-04

Bill McGonigle — 2008-11-21T07:46:12

*************************************************************** Dartmouth-Lake Sunapee Linux User Group http://dlslug.org/ a chapter of GNHLUG - http://gnhlug.org *************************************************************** The next regular monthly meeting of the DLSLUG will be held: Thursday, December 4th, 7-9PM at: Dartmouth College, Carson L02 All are welcome, free of charge. Agenda 7:00 Sign-in, networking 7:15 Introductory remarks 7:20 PyCUDA and GPU Programming presented by Nicholas Sinnott-Armstrong Nick will give a talk about an exciting emerging technology that deals with the use of GPUs. PyCUDA (and CUDA in general) is an easy to use framework to take advantage of the massive processing power and memory bandwidth available on the GPUs of most enthusiast machines writing simple templated C code. A short int

MerriLUG Nashua, Thur 20 Nov,Photographic prowess via Linux tools

Jim Kuzdrall — 2008-11-19T12:24:56

Who : Máirín Duffy, Interaction Designer, Red Hat Engineering What : Techniques for creating and adjusting photos Where: Martha's Exchange Day : Thur 20 Nov **Tomorrow** Time : 6:00 PM for grub, 7:30 PM for discussion :: Overview Máirín Duffy is back to demonstrate the powerful image creation and correction programs Linux provides. She covers several tasks and problems many of us have encountered. After, you may ask her expert advice on your own image problem -- make that "photo problem". - Removing tint from photos: Too blue? Yellowish cast? Máirín briefly reviews a procedure for removing unwanted tint from photos. - Resizing photos without cropping or distortion: Make your photo just a bit wider or a bit taller without making your Aunt Bea look fat or giving your boss a pointy head. The GIMP liquid rescale plug-in preserves the composition while changing the aspect ratio. Máirín shows how. ( http://duffy.fedorapeople.org/temp/lqr/ ) - Face painting: Turn your kid

PySIG for November -- yes indeed,altho moved to Tuesday (the 23rd)

Bill Sconce — 2008-11-14T12:17:56

Hi, all - I stopped by the ABI, and we're in luck for moving our "4th Thursday" to "4th Tuesday" this month to get away from Thanksgiving. So, PySIG is ON, Tuesday the 23rd, 7:00PM at the Amoskeag Business Incubator, 33 South Commercial Street, Manchester. Agenda to follow. If we have one.(*) File formats and data interchange? A workshop? -Bill (*) Well we do have: get ready for the big T day, get the resistance built up... seems to call for cookies, heh.

MerriLUG Nashua, Thur 20 Nov,Photographic prowess via Linux tools

Jim Kuzdrall — 2008-11-13T14:28:46

Who : Máirín Duffy, Interaction Designer, Red Hat Engineering What : Techniques for creating and adjusting photos Where: Martha's Exchange Day : Thur 20 Nov **Next Week** Time : 6:00 PM for grub, 7:30 PM for discussion :: Overview Máirín Duffy is back to demonstrate the powerful image creation and correction programs Linux provides. She covers several tasks and problems many of us have encountered. After, you may ask her expert advice on your own image problem -- make that "photo problem". - Removing tint from photos: Too blue? Yellowish cast? Máirín briefly reviews a procedure for removing unwanted tint from photos. - Resizing photos without cropping or distortion: Make your photo just a bit wider or a bit taller without making your Aunt Bea look fat or giving your boss a pointy head. The GIMP liquid rescale plug-in preserves the composition while changing the aspect ratio. Máirín shows how. ( http://duffy.fedorapeople.org/temp/lqr/ ) - Face painting: Turn your ki

No NHRuby November meeting/early December social gathering.

Scott Garman — 2008-11-11T18:54:47

The NH Ruby and Rails User Group will not have a meeting this month (November) due to the Boston Professional Ruby conference which is happening the same week. Also, we will be holding a social gathering on Tuesday, December 2 in lieu of our December meeting. Join us in Portsmouth (location TBA) on 12/2 for dinner and drinks - there will be conversation about your favorite Ruby and other web/technology topics, with ample opportunity to get sidetracked on non-Ruby related subjects. A note to shy geeks: we are a very welcoming and laid-back group, give us a try. :) We're hoping to reserve a room at a local restaurant and thus request an RSVP by Saturday, Nov 15 if you're planning to attend so we can gauge the level of interest. Scott

MonadLUG November 13, 2008

charlie — 2008-11-11T12:23:30

Who: Group Activity What: Xen Hypervisor Date: Thursday, November 13, 2008 Time: 7:00PM ** Where: SAU 1 office, 106 Hancock Rd., Peterborough We'll have a host machine with the Xen kernel installed and we'll see what we can accomplish with it as a group. If you don't know anything about Xen virtualization you'll see a practical demo, and if you have some knowledge we'll ask you to share it. --charlie

GNHLUG is back on the Internet

Ben Scott — 2008-11-11T03:17:25

Greetings, As some of you noticed, the GNHLUG Internet server experienced an extended outage recently. We were down starting the morning of Thr 23 Oct, and are now back up as of Mon 10 Oct. A number of factors contributed to both the initial outage and the length of the downtime. More details will be posted to gnhlug-discuss for those interested. If you still see the "sad penguin" page on the web site, try forcing your browser to fetch a new copy of the page (SHIFT+CTRL+R in Firefox). I would like to apologize to the membership for the delay in getting things back online. Please report any further trouble to me. Thanks for your patience.

[DLSLUG-Announce] TONIGHT: Ubuntu Server: A ComprehensiveOverview- DLSLUG Monthly Meeting - 2008-11-06

Bill McGonigle — 2008-11-06T17:47:04

*************************************************************** Dartmouth-Lake Sunapee Linux User Group http://dlslug.org/ a chapter of GNHLUG - http://gnhlug.org *************************************************************** The next regular monthly meeting of DLSLUG will be held: Thursday, November 6th, 7-9PM at: Dartmouth College, Haldeman 041 All are welcome, free of charge. Agenda 7:00 Sign-in, networking 7:15 Introductory remarks 7:20 Ubuntu Server - A Comprehensive Overview. Have you heard the news? Most everyone knows that Ubuntu is an outstanding desktop but few know of its compelling server option. Join us to find out why Ubuntu Server is a highly affordable, usable, stable and secure platform on which to build just about anything. Joseph Guarino is a Sr. Consultant/Owner at Evolutionary IT which provides ente

PySIG, October 2008 -- Sphix, unittest, more

Bill Sconce — 2008-10-22T15:26:59

PySIG Manchester, NH 23 October 2008 ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Sphinx, presented by Arc Riley Kent's Korner: unittest ------------------------------------------------------------------------ ____________________________________________________________________ PySIG -- New Hampshire Python Special Interest Group Amoskeag Business Incubator, Manchester, NH 23 October 2008 (4th Thursday) 7:00PM (Beginner's Q&A at 6:30PM) The monthly meeting of PySIG, the NH Python Special Interest Group, takes place on the fourth Thursday of the month, starting at 7:00 PM. A beginners' session precedes, at 6:30 PM. (Bring a Python question!) Favorite-gotcha contest; a special Kent's Korner; Janet's cookies (JBD safe!); and more this month. ____________________________________________________________________ Sphinx, presented by Arc Riley A ReStructuredText-based markup fr

NHRuby meeting TOMORROW, Oct 21: Rails plugins,REST applications.

Scott Garman — 2008-10-20T15:44:18

Tomorrow night's NHRuby.org meeting will include two great talks: * Nick Plante will be talking about the Rails Plugin system. The Rails plugin system allows you to add powerful features to your applications by altering or enhancing key pieces of the framework. Plugins tend to be easy to use and can save precious development cycles, freeing you to focus on the elements that make your project truly unique. Although plug-ins are often dead simple to use, authoring them is not always quite as straightforward. Nick's presentation will give developers an overview of the Rails plugin architecture and the hooks that are provided for creating your own. We'll take a look at the genesis of a typical plugin, and see how we can extract and generalize our code, repackaging it in a modular way such that it can be reused across projects and redistributed within the Rails community. Along the way, we'll also learn a thing or two about Ruby metaprogramming practices, and examine strategies for testing and redistributing pl

NHRuby meeting Tuesday, Oct 21: Rails plugins,REST applications.

Scott Garman — 2008-10-19T02:34:40

This month the NH Ruby and Rails user group has a pair of great presentations for our October meeting: * Nick Plante will be talking about the Rails Plugin system. The Rails plugin system allows you to add powerful features to your applications by altering or enhancing key pieces of the framework. Plugins tend to be easy to use and can save precious development cycles, freeing you to focus on the elements that make your project truly unique. Although plug-ins are often dead simple to use, authoring them is not always quite as straightforward. Nick's presentation will give developers an overview of the Rails plugin architecture and the hooks that are provided for creating your own. We'll take a look at the genesis of a typical plugin, and see how we can extract and generalize our code, repackaging it in a modular way such that it can be reused across projects and redistributed within the Rails community. Along the way, we'll also learn a thing or two about Ruby metaprogramming practices, and examine strateg

[DLSLUG-Announce] Nov. 6th DLSLUG Meeting Available toSpeakers

Bill McGonigle — 2008-10-17T02:11:29

Hi, all, November's speaker isn't going to be able to make it, so the meeting is available for any and all presenters. Please contact me if you have something to show or talk about, large or small. I'm happy to report our December speaker is all-in. Outstanding requests are here: http://dlslug.org/topics.html Don't make me break out the nifties. Thanks, -Bill ----- Bill McGonigle, Owner Work: 603.448.4440 BFC Computing, LLC Home: 603.448.1668 bill-6ft+4TUC7y9qCwUM1VThig< at >public.gmane.orgCell: 603.252.2606 http://www.bfccomputing.com/ Page: 603.442.1833 Blog: http://blog.bfccomputing.com/ VCard: http://bfccomputing.com/vcard/bill.vcf _______________________________________________ DLSLUG-Announce mailing list DLSLUG-Announce-Gbln/yiLoe0dnm+yROfE0A< at >public.gmane.org http://dlslug.org/mailman/listinfo/dlslug-announce

MerriLUG Nashua, Thur 16 Oct, Communicating with Pidgins

Jim Kuzdrall — 2008-10-15T11:08:25

Who : Heather Brodeur, avid Pidgin user What : Introduction to Pidgin (formerly Gaim) Instant Messaging Where: Martha's Exchange Day : Thur 16 Oct **Tomorrow** Time : 6:00 PM for grub, 7:30 PM for discussion :: Overview Do you use Instant Messaging or IRC (Internet Relay Chat) for daily communications? Were you ever late replying because you weren't looking at that particular IM network? Pidgin has the solution! With Pidgin, Heather Brodeur logs on to multiple IM networks and perhaps an IRC channel or two simultaneously. Sound like a recipe for chaos? Not so. Heather says it works and is easy to use. Heather will first explain the advantages of Instant Messaging over email, phone, smoke signals, etc? That established, she will show how aggregating the services through Pidgin makes IM much easier to use. What does the user interface look like? How does the user do the basics of IM communication? How can you get started with Pidgin? Are there ways to optimize Pidgin to

PySIG in two weeks - Sphinx, and more

Bill Sconce — 2008-10-10T15:53:49

Mark your calendar: Thursday the 23rd. PySIG. Sphinx, presented by our own Arc Riley. Kent's Korner, we hope. Cookies, by Janet. Gotchas, too, probably. And more. As always, at the Amoskeag Business Incubator, 33 South Commercial Street, Manchester, 7:00 PM. (Our continuing thanks to PySIG's hosts, SNHU and ABI!) Beginner's session at 6:30 PM. Agenda to follow. -Bill __________________________________________________________________ http://sphinx.pocoo.org/ Sphinx is a tool that makes it easy to create intelligent and beautiful documentation for Python projects, written by Georg Brandl and licensed under the BSD license. It was originally created to translate the new Python documentation, but has now been cleaned up in the hope that it will be useful to many other projects. Although it is still under constant development, the following features are already present, work fine and can be seen “in action” in the Python docs: * Output formats: HTML (including Windows HTML Help) and

MerriLUG Nashua, Thur 16 Oct, Communicating with Pidgins

Jim Kuzdrall — 2008-10-09T13:42:16

Who : Heather Brodeur, avid Pidgin user What : Introduction to Pidgin (formerly Gaim) Instant Messaging Where: Martha's Exchange Day : Thur 16 Oct **Next Week** Time : 6:00 PM for grub, 7:30 PM for discussion :: Overview Do you use Instant Messaging or IRC (Internet Relay Chat) for daily communications? Were you ever late replying because you weren't looking at that particular IM network? Pidgin has the solution! With Pidgin, Heather Brodeur logs on to multiple IM networks and perhaps an IRC channel or two simultaneously. Sound like a recipe for chaos? Not so. Heather says it works and is easy to use. Heather will first explain the advantages of Instant Messaging over email, phone, smoke signals, etc? That established, she will show how aggregating the services through Pidgin makes IM much easier to use. What does the user interface look like? How does the user do the basics of IM communication? How can you get started with Pidgin? Are there ways to optimize Pidgin to

SLUG Durham / Mon 13 Oct / REST - REpresentational StateTransfer in HTTP

Ben Scott — 2008-10-09T01:36:41

Who : Brian Turnbull What : REST - REpresentational State Transfer in HTTP Date : Mon 13 Oct 2008 (this coming Monday) Time : 7 PM to 9 PM Where: Room 301, Morse Hall, UNH, Durham, NH Brian Turnbull will present the second part of his series on HTTP: "RESTful Web Services". REpresentational State Transfer is the theoretical underpinning of HTTP/1.1. Brian will explain what REST is, present examples of existing web services using REST, and also cover the practical application of REST and the Atom Publishing Protocol in creating a web service. The author of this announcement found Brian's first presentation on HTTP to be quite interesting; there's a lot more hidden behind that "http://" than most people realize. I learned more than I expected in September, and I expect to learn more in October. According to Wikipedia, REST abstracts everything into resources which are uniquely identifiable and accessible via a standard protocol which is stateless, cacheable, and layered, leading to a robust, scalable,

MonadLUG October 9, 2008

charlie — 2008-10-07T15:22:12

Who: Patrick Galbraith What: MySQL Replication Date: Thursday, October 9, 2008 Time: 7:00PM ** Where: SAU 1 office, 106 Hancock Rd., Peterborough http://wiki.gnhlug.org/twiki2/bin/view/www/MonadLUG ** Due to a scheduling conflict we will not be meeting in the SAU ** conference room where we normally meet, but in a smaller conference room ** in the Middle School. Please enter as usual at the SAU office and there ** will be signs and/or someone to meet you. (cf) About the presentation: Replication is one of the most useful features of MySQL. With replication, one can architect an asynchronous, scaled-out, redundant, distributed, and efficient paradigm that provides data to Web or other applications, either within or even across data centers. Patrick will discuss various replication schemes, their advantages and detriments of each. He will explain how to set up replication using his recent experience with a multimaster replication set-up he used to build a database architecture f

[DLSLUG-Announce] TONIGHT: A Teaching Compiler Written inMATLAB -DLSLUG Monthly Meeting - 2008-10-02

Bill McGonigle — 2008-10-02T17:07:43

[ Please get your RSVP's in if you're coming, for our DONUTS AND COFFEE sponsor ] *************************************************************** Dartmouth-Lake Sunapee Linux User Group http://dlslug.org/ a chapter of GNHLUG - http://gnhlug.org *************************************************************** The next regular monthly meeting of the DLSLUG will be held: Thursday, October 2nd, 7-9PM at: Dartmouth College, Carson L02 All are welcome, free of charge. Agenda 7:00 Sign-in, networking 7:15 Introductory remarks 7:20 A Teaching Compiler Written in MATLAB presented by Bill McKeeman Bill McKeeman will give a talk about an ordinary compiler (lex, parse, tree, gen, emit, asm) designed for teaching the principles of compiler writing. There are a few surprises, such as load-and-go, integrated bottom-up and/or top-down parsing,