MUUG Meetings Summaries http://muug.mb.ca/blog/meetings Just another way to catch up on past MUUG Meetings... Tue, 20 Nov 2012 23:21:11 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.2 Copyright © 2010 Manitoba UNIX User Group gedetil@muug.mb.ca (Manitoba UNIX User Group) gedetil@muug.mb.ca (Manitoba UNIX User Group) podcast 1440 http://muug.mb.ca/images/muug-podcast-sm.jpg MUUG Meetings Summaries http://muug.mb.ca/blog/meetings 144 144 Just another way to catch up on past MUUG Meetings... Manitoba UNIX User Group Manitoba UNIX User Group gedetil@muug.mb.ca no no November 13, 2012: OpenRISC System on a Chip http://muug.mb.ca/blog/meetings/2012/11/20/november-13-2012-openrisc-system-on-a-chip/ http://muug.mb.ca/blog/meetings/2012/11/20/november-13-2012-openrisc-system-on-a-chip/#comments Tue, 20 Nov 2012 23:19:09 +0000 gedetil http://muug.mb.ca/blog/meetings/?p=161 Continue reading →]]> Robert Keizer talked about OpenRISC and its applications:

  • Why run an FPGA device
  • What you can do with one
  • Running a linux kernel on an FPGA
  • In-lining custom instructions.

Rob has made his presentation slides, in ODP and PDF format, available online.

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]]> http://muug.mb.ca/blog/meetings/2012/11/20/november-13-2012-openrisc-system-on-a-chip/feed/ 0 1:01:47 Robert Keizer talked about OpenRISC and its applications: Why run an FPGA device What you can do with one Running a linux kernel on an FPGA In-lining custom instructions. Rob has made his presentation slides, in ODP and PDF format, available onli[...] Robert Keizer talked about OpenRISC and its applications: Why run an FPGA device What you can do with one Running a linux kernel on an FPGA In-lining custom instructions. Rob has made his presentation slides, in ODP and PDF format, available online. podcast Manitoba UNIX User Group no no November 13, 2012 Round-Table Discussion http://muug.mb.ca/blog/meetings/2012/11/20/november-13-2012-round-table-discussion/ http://muug.mb.ca/blog/meetings/2012/11/20/november-13-2012-round-table-discussion/#comments Tue, 20 Nov 2012 23:16:21 +0000 gedetil http://muug.mb.ca/blog/meetings/?p=159 Our November meeting started with a longer-than-usual round-table discussion, moderated by Brad Vokey, which also featured a gadget show-and-tell. Several members brought along gadgets to show off to the rest of the group.

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]]> http://muug.mb.ca/blog/meetings/2012/11/20/november-13-2012-round-table-discussion/feed/ 0 0:35:58 Our November meeting started with a longer-than-usual round-table discussion, moderated by Brad Vokey, which also featured a gadget show-and-tell. Several members brought along gadgets to show off to the rest of the group. Our November meeting started with a longer-than-usual round-table discussion, moderated by Brad Vokey, which also featured a gadget show-and-tell. Several members brought along gadgets to show off to the rest of the group. podcast Manitoba UNIX User Group no no October 9, 2012: Arduino Microcontroller http://muug.mb.ca/blog/meetings/2012/10/10/october-9-2012-arduino-microcontroller/ http://muug.mb.ca/blog/meetings/2012/10/10/october-9-2012-arduino-microcontroller/#comments Wed, 10 Oct 2012 21:15:09 +0000 gedetil http://muug.mb.ca/blog/meetings/?p=157 Sean Walberg, a local network administrator, web developer, tech writer and editor, showed us what we can do with the Arduino open-source microcontroller.

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]]> http://muug.mb.ca/blog/meetings/2012/10/10/october-9-2012-arduino-microcontroller/feed/ 0 0:44:25 Sean Walberg, a local network administrator, web developer, tech writer and editor, showed us what we can do with the Arduino open-source microcontroller. Sean Walberg, a local network administrator, web developer, tech writer and editor, showed us what we can do with the Arduino open-source microcontroller. podcast Manitoba UNIX User Group no no October 9, 2012 Round-Table Discussion http://muug.mb.ca/blog/meetings/2012/10/10/october-9-2012-round-table-discussion/ http://muug.mb.ca/blog/meetings/2012/10/10/october-9-2012-round-table-discussion/#comments Wed, 10 Oct 2012 21:12:49 +0000 gedetil http://muug.mb.ca/blog/meetings/?p=155 The October meeting started with the usual round-table discussion, moderated by Doug Shewfelt.

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]]> http://muug.mb.ca/blog/meetings/2012/10/10/october-9-2012-round-table-discussion/feed/ 0 0:30:49 The October meeting started with the usual round-table discussion, moderated by Doug Shewfelt. The October meeting started with the usual round-table discussion, moderated by Doug Shewfelt. podcast Manitoba UNIX User Group no no September 11, 2012: Network Cabling for Dummies http://muug.mb.ca/blog/meetings/2012/09/26/september-11-2012-network-cabling-for-dummies/ http://muug.mb.ca/blog/meetings/2012/09/26/september-11-2012-network-cabling-for-dummies/#comments Wed, 26 Sep 2012 16:41:11 +0000 gedetil http://muug.mb.ca/blog/meetings/?p=152 Continue reading →]]> Katherine Scrupa and Adam Thompson talked about network cabling, standards and some legalities, and demonstrated how to make your own network cables.

Katherine has made her presentation slides, in ODP and PDF format, available online. Adam has also made his presentation slides, in ODP and PDF format,available online.

Due to technical difficulties, an audio capture of this presentation is not available.

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]]> http://muug.mb.ca/blog/meetings/2012/09/26/september-11-2012-network-cabling-for-dummies/feed/ 0 September 11, 2012 Round-Table Discussion http://muug.mb.ca/blog/meetings/2012/09/26/september-11-2012-round-table-discussion/ http://muug.mb.ca/blog/meetings/2012/09/26/september-11-2012-round-table-discussion/#comments Wed, 26 Sep 2012 16:37:13 +0000 gedetil http://muug.mb.ca/blog/meetings/?p=150 Our September meeting started with the usual round-table discussion. Topics covered included CUPS printer configuration, X Window manager configuration, Apache PHP bugs, traffic shaping and net neutrality, and Windows 8.

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]]> http://muug.mb.ca/blog/meetings/2012/09/26/september-11-2012-round-table-discussion/feed/ 0 0:39:50 Our September meeting started with the usual round-table discussion. Topics covered included CUPS printer configuration, X Window manager configuration, Apache PHP bugs, traffic shaping and net neutrality, and Windows 8. Our September meeting started with the usual round-table discussion. Topics covered included CUPS printer configuration, X Window manager configuration, Apache PHP bugs, traffic shaping and net neutrality, and Windows 8. podcast Manitoba UNIX User Group no no May 8th, 2012: ZFS http://muug.mb.ca/blog/meetings/2012/05/09/may-8th-2012-zfs/ http://muug.mb.ca/blog/meetings/2012/05/09/may-8th-2012-zfs/#comments Wed, 09 May 2012 20:55:36 +0000 gedetil http://muug.mb.ca/blog/meetings/?p=147 Continue reading →]]> Edwin Amsler talked about (and demonstrated) ZFS. ZFS is a file system originally developed at Sun Microsystems. It has numerous features and has a native port to Solaris, OpenSolaris, and FreeBSD; Non-official ports have been made to Linux and Mac OSX.

Edwin focused on the basic usage of the file system and the snapshotting features that come built in.

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]]> http://muug.mb.ca/blog/meetings/2012/05/09/may-8th-2012-zfs/feed/ 0 1:00:48 Edwin Amsler talked about (and demonstrated) ZFS. ZFS is a file system originally developed at Sun Microsystems. It has numerous features and has a native port to Solaris, OpenSolaris, and FreeBSD; Non-official ports have been made to Linux and Mac [...] Edwin Amsler talked about (and demonstrated) ZFS. ZFS is a file system originally developed at Sun Microsystems. It has numerous features and has a native port to Solaris, OpenSolaris, and FreeBSD; Non-official ports have been made to Linux and Mac OSX. Edwin focused on the basic usage of the file system and the snapshotting features that come built in. podcast Manitoba UNIX User Group no no May 8th, 2012 RTFM: GNU parallel(1) http://muug.mb.ca/blog/meetings/2012/05/09/may-8th-2012-rtfm-gnu-parallel1/ http://muug.mb.ca/blog/meetings/2012/05/09/may-8th-2012-rtfm-gnu-parallel1/#comments Wed, 09 May 2012 20:52:26 +0000 gedetil http://muug.mb.ca/blog/meetings/?p=145 May’s RTFM featured the parallel(1) command, presented by Gilbert Detillieux. (GNU parallel is not yet a standard utility on most UNIX/Linux distributions, but is freely available and portable.)

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]]> http://muug.mb.ca/blog/meetings/2012/05/09/may-8th-2012-rtfm-gnu-parallel1/feed/ 0 0:28:18 May’s RTFM featured the parallel(1) command, presented by Gilbert Detillieux. (GNU parallel is not yet a standard utility on most UNIX/Linux distributions, but is freely available and portable.) May’s RTFM featured the parallel(1) command, presented by Gilbert Detillieux. (GNU parallel is not yet a standard utility on most UNIX/Linux distributions, but is freely available and portable.) podcast Manitoba UNIX User Group no no May 8th, 2012 Round-table Discussion http://muug.mb.ca/blog/meetings/2012/05/09/may-8th-2012-round-table-discussion/ http://muug.mb.ca/blog/meetings/2012/05/09/may-8th-2012-round-table-discussion/#comments Wed, 09 May 2012 20:49:39 +0000 gedetil http://muug.mb.ca/blog/meetings/?p=143 Our May meeting started with the usual round-table discussion, moderated by Brad Vokey.

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]]> http://muug.mb.ca/blog/meetings/2012/05/09/may-8th-2012-round-table-discussion/feed/ 0 0:25:54 Our May meeting started with the usual round-table discussion, moderated by Brad Vokey. Our May meeting started with the usual round-table discussion, moderated by Brad Vokey. podcast Manitoba UNIX User Group no no April 10, 2012: pfSense Firewall http://muug.mb.ca/blog/meetings/2012/04/11/april-10-2012-pfsense-firewall/ http://muug.mb.ca/blog/meetings/2012/04/11/april-10-2012-pfsense-firewall/#comments Wed, 11 Apr 2012 20:53:45 +0000 gedetil http://muug.mb.ca/blog/meetings/?p=138 Continue reading →]]> Adam Thompson talked about (and demonstrated) pfSense, a wholly UNIX-based network firewall and network services appliance that can run on anything from embedded devices up to the latest super-servers. pfSense is based on FreeBSD, and thus uses the pf(4) packet filtering framework from OpenBSD to do most of the heavy lifting. Supporting multi-WAN, HTTP acceleration, DNS, DHCP, authentication, and wireless NIC’s among other features, it’s an ideal system for someone who wants a free, open-source firewall that’s still incredibly easy to manage.

Adam has made his presentation slides, in ODP and PDF format, available online.

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]]> http://muug.mb.ca/blog/meetings/2012/04/11/april-10-2012-pfsense-firewall/feed/ 0 1:07:45 Adam Thompson talked about (and demonstrated) pfSense, a wholly UNIX-based network firewall and network services appliance that can run on anything from embedded devices up to the latest super-servers. pfSense is based on FreeBSD, and thus uses the [...] Adam Thompson talked about (and demonstrated) pfSense, a wholly UNIX-based network firewall and network services appliance that can run on anything from embedded devices up to the latest super-servers. pfSense is based on FreeBSD, and thus uses the pf(4) packet filtering framework from OpenBSD to do most of the heavy lifting. Supporting multi-WAN, HTTP acceleration, DNS, DHCP, authentication, and wireless NIC’s among other features, it’s an ideal system for someone who wants a free, open-source firewall that’s still incredibly easy to manage. Adam has made his presentation slides, in ODP and PDF format, available online. podcast Manitoba UNIX User Group no no