Open Discussion: We had a lively conversation about digital projectors and how the ambient light favored Carl but not Gib or Dennis. Then we chatted about internet service and various media sources, and had some suggestions for methods to avoid… Read more2022-06-11 Meeting

Open Discussion: Immediately after saying hi to everyone, Rich had a question about how to mount an nfs share.  Long story short: use showmount -e192.168.1.55 then mount 192.168.1.55:/sharename /mnt. We then talked about various subjects like features and costs of… Read more2022-05-14 Meeting

The Presentation: Drew showed two tablets that originally had Windows and have recently added Ubuntu.  Apparently all the hardware was working correctly under Linux with the exception of the onboard cameras.  He booted one into Windows to verify that the… Read more2022-04-08 Meeting

The Presentation: Carl talked about his impressions of Manjaro XFCE, his new favorite desktop distro.  He showed an introduction video for Manjaro XFCE followed by a side by side by side comparison of Windows, Ubuntu and Manjaro. The Discussion: We… Read more2022-03-12 Meeting

The Presentation: Gib led a discussion about cryptomining on low end hardware.  He started with a Raspberry Pi and found that it didn’t have much power.  He then switched to an older computer and found an increase in output.  From… Read more2022-02-12 Meeting

The Presentation: Pat gave an informative and interesting introduction to the InterPlanetary File System. The IPFS website describes this as: A peer-to-peer hypermedia protocol designed to preserve and grow humanity’s knowledge by making the web upgradeable, resilient, and more open…. Read more2022-01-08 Meeting

The Discussion: We talked about many topics including sources for TV viewing, unwanted phone calls, managing unwanted phone calls, how caller ID works, Gib’s idea for pre-approval of callers, and Pat’s new toy, a Pineapple Wifi device. Here are some… Read more2021-12-11 Meeting

The Presentation: Carl did a major belly-flop as he entertained and amused the group.  The live demonstration attempted to show how to take a Raspberry Pi image and customize it with ssh keys and network settings to allow a headless… Read more2021-11-13 Meeting

The Meeting: For the first time in over a year we were able to meet at the Westland Public Library. Since Carl was not able to attend, the presentation about ssh keys, putty, and the Windows ssh program was postponed…. Read more2021-09-11 Meeting

Online Meeting: We discussed services providing tv shows and movies.  This included various devices and software such as Roku, Plex, Kodi, StreamIO, YouTube, Amazon Video and locast.  The upshot?  There are several good options for a variety of situations. The… Read more2021-05-08 Meeting