[sf-lug] SF-LUG meeting notes for Monday April 16th 2018

[John]

Glad to hear that you aware back online 

John

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> On Apr 18, 2018, at 11:42 AM, Bobbie Sellers <bliss-sf4ever at dslextreme.com> wrote:
> 
> Hi LUGers,
>     Well I got back online as you can see thanks to the loan of an ADSL2+ modem
> by Aaron and the gift of another  Netgear router from John S.
> 
>     The meeting as I may have mentioned was small but very helpful for me.
> I came in an hour earlier than usual so that I had some time to deal with
> my e-mail which had stacked up with over 100 items waiting.  Still have
> to act on those that are not on SF-LUG mailing list.  Have ordered a
> another modem from Amazon and should have it installed by this time
> next week.
> 
>     John S. showed up about 5:30 PM with a bag of routers and a full of
> bon homie.  He left another Dell mini tower in his car.  But he brought
> a laptop and so tried out several of the distributions, which I had brought
> along.
> 
>     A few minutes later Aaron C. came in and had several items including a modem
> Siemens SpeedStream 4100 ADSL+ which he has kindly loaned me.
>     Later he bought the mini Dell tower from John S.
> 
>     Jim S. came in about 6:30 PM,  far earlier than we had hoped.
> 
>     A discussion ensued of which routers could use Open-Wrt or DD-Wrt
> software or other efforts to replace the firmware of the routers with a
> more secure version of Linux.    How such replacement could be
> accomplished was a matter of some discussion as well.  These efforts
> are based on Linksys WRT54G model router which used Open Source
> software thus making it accessible to developers originally but they are
> trying to get more routers supported.  The hardware requirement of
> more than 32 megabytes of ram is eliminating a lot of older cheaper
> devices. Read more about the effort at
> <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DD-WRT>.
> 
>     A little before 8 PM the meeting ended and transactions were concluded
> and Jim kindly gave myself and Aaron rides myself to home and Aaron to
> a transfer point.
> 
>     The next meeting will be on Sunday May 6th from 11 AM to 1 PM.
> 
>     I expect to have at least one major distribution release in hand but
> you will hear from me about April 30 with the regular meeting
> announcement.  Will also have Clonezilla in amd86, i686, and
> i686-PAE.
> 
>     Anyone attending the meeting is free to correct my omissions or
> incomprehension of the activities and asked to do so asap so that the
> membership not in attendance will not be mis-informed any longer
> than necessary.
> 
>     As always thanks for your attention.
>     Don't let Earth Day on the 22nd of April slip by without attention!
> 
>     Bobbie Sellers
> 
> 
> 
> 
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