The Discussion: Richard and Dennis talked about LED light bulbs and the various shades available.  They covered the advantages and disadvantages  of soft light and daylight shades. Dean offered some free servers which led into a further discussion of community… Read more2023-10-14 Meeting

The Presentation: We all heckled, enjoyed, and disagreed with The Linux Tier List, where Chris Titus shared his opinions on various Linux distros.  We even learned a bit in the process. The Discussion: Dennis talked about his frustration with the… Read more2023-09-09 Meeting

Carl gave a quick intro to virtualization. The qemu set of programs allow a virtual machine to be created using almost any type of virtual hardware.  So it is easy to create anything from a virtual i386 with a meg… Read more2023-08-12 Meeting

Carl unfortunately wasn’t able to attend or to present a demo of qemu and libvirt.  He will do this at the August meeting. Rich provided this quick summary of the meeting: Conversation for the whole time was as usual as… Read more2023-07-08 Meeting

We had another wide open discussion including various topics: An written by ChatGPT about TPM chips. A shot of Donald Trump’s bathroom. A website Pat recommends about privacy related info. The ultimate mesh network, helium, and its explorer. Richard started… Read more2023-06-10 Meeting

We pretty much spent most of the time chatting about all the usual stuff.  Projects that we’re working on, iced coffee vs energy drinks, coworkers with a different way of doing things, AI taking over the world, rustdesk, favorite distros,… Read more2023-05-13 Meeting

ChatGPT was the topic of the month and we had a very animated discussion. At the mention of “Night Agent,” Gib prompted ChatGPT to provide a description of the TV shoe. He then followed up seeking information about some of… Read more2023-04-08 Meeting

Open Discussion: Today we talked about several things, including recent power outages and creating screenshots.  There were three we spent more time on: fixing tables in mysql when the root account password is unknown. service mysql stop mysqld_safe –skip grant-tables… Read more2023-03-11 Meeting

Open Discussion: We had three new people join the group, and they introduced themselves and talked about their experiences with Linux.  We introduced ourselves and talked about favorite distros and reasons why a person may like “distro hopping.”  All was… Read more2023-02-11 Meeting

Open Discussion: Since we didn’t have a presenter for CoolEdit we talked about it.  Fortunately Michael attended and was able to give us a live demo of the program.  In further discussion we noticed that it was more difficult than… Read more2023-01-14 Meeting