[sf-lug] Meeting report for Sunday June 7, 2015

[John Strazzarino]

Nathan, Andrew, me, Bobbie, maestro, ken, Jim, mike and mark,  sound like a new record for attendees.

I also played with the USB NAS and it works fine on windows.  Did not have a chance to try it on Linux, but it should work fine.  Like linksys routers, you can load other os on the device.  I see that you can load Ubuntu on the USB NAS, for example.

More later

John


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> On Jun 7, 2015, at 3:49 PM, Bobbie Sellers <bliss-sf4ever at dslextreme.com> wrote:
> 
> Hi LUGers,
> 
>    I was a bit slow in getting to the meeting and John S
> was there with 3 tables pulled together for the meeting.
> Later a fourth table would be added.
>  I started up my computer and it gave me a glitch so I
> had to go and create a "burning group"!  I mis-spelled
> burning and to remove it I had to delete my account  in
> order delete the "burninng" group,
> Then I had to recreate my own account with all the stuff
> re-enabled and then recreate the burning group which
>     became one of my groups.
> 
>     John S forgot his network card for the Raspberry Pi which
> he is trying to turn into a music player.  He demoed this
> playing some music thru his flat screen TV/monitor.   He quit
> working on it fairly early,  Stayed until nearly 1300.
> 
>    Nathan having a problem with Gnome animations.
> He was helped by Ken and he was using KDE the last
> I saw.
> 
>    Andrew using Linux with Mac in a lab and came along
> with Nathan.
> 
>    Maestro  offering advice and I may take it to replace ktorrent with
> qbittorrent.  He was given a copy of Finnix 1.1.1 which goes to a
> terminal interface which reminded me of the Amiga with Unix.
> He also got the original of the late Makulu distribution which was
> on the Linux Pro disk last moonth
> 
>    Ken Schaefer and wife were there and Ken was helping with
> Nathan's problem.
> 
>    Michael who wants a new distro but not sure which cpu he
> has at home.  He is supposed to get in touch with me with that
> information and so I can get him at least one distribution to
> install.   Michael used to come to meetings a lot more often
> and it was good to see him again though I had to admit I had
> forgotten his name.
> 
>    Mark is trying to install Knoppix on his tower and
> asked my advice which I was willing to give but which
> he was unwilling to accept as it was intended.  We left
> him at  the Cafe wtih a 3+ more hours of time to endure
> while Knoppix worked on the installation on his tower
> computer which had had Windows Vista which he wanted
> completely removed.
> 
>    And a brief word.  He refused to let me go ahead and
> create partitions for him because like so many users he failed
> to understand the utility of partitions.  I was lucky enought to
> start understanding partitions with the Amiga and SCSI
> drives.  Linux has made it clearer to me.
> 
>    So if anyone wants a Knoppix installation you need a
> adequately  sized Swap partition, a 12+ GiB partition
> and I think a /home  partition is what you really need.
> I go a bit further with /boot   or on a UEFI machine a
> /boot/efi, / (root), /usr, /opt, /usr and   /var sized according
> to the directions found on Usenet by a  eccentric user
> of my acquaintance who is used to much smaller disks
> defined and formatted by cli tools.  All these are labeled
> as to distribution and function.
>    Before i go any further I must point out that for a Knoppix
> install that 12+ GiB partition must be formatted with the
> Reiser file system.
>     Now because of his refusal to let me create partitions the
> Swap partion was too small, making it larger involved moving
> the Reiser partition over.   That takes hours.
> 
>   Jim Stockford also attended briefly as he was tasked with home
> care for the parents of the GF.  He came in briefly promising to
> return after a chore only he could do.  Jim returned shortly after
> 1 PM and I finished packing up.  Jim gave me and my equipment
> a ride home.
> 
>  So this was an interesting meeting with the return of Michael.
> Andrew and Nathan are new to the UG and we can hope they
> will return.  I hope Mark completes the Knoppix install without
> further problems
> 
>      Next meeting will be on Monday June 22, 2015 from 6-8 P.M.
> at the Cafe Enchante.   Hope to see you there.
> 
>      Bobbie Sellers
> 
>    P.S.  Please feel free to correct any mistakes I may have
> made in writing this or offer clarification of your activities
> if I have made erreors in this report.
> 
>    bliss
> 
> 
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