njlinux.org » njlinuxmike http://njlinux.org North Jersey Linux User Group Tue, 24 Jan 2012 12:24:52 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 Meeting for 5.25.11 http://njlinux.org/2011/05/meeting-for-5-25-11/ http://njlinux.org/2011/05/meeting-for-5-25-11/#comments Mon, 23 May 2011 20:40:21 +0000 njlinuxmike http://njlinux.org/?p=385 Greetings LUG goers and comers. Our May meeting is approaching and we will again be meeting at the Converge Coworking site in Union, NJ.

See you at the meeting.

njlinuxmike

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See you at the meeting.

njlinuxmike

]]> http://njlinux.org/2011/04/meeting-for-4-27-11/feed/ 0 March meeting report. http://njlinux.org/2011/03/march-meeting-report/ http://njlinux.org/2011/03/march-meeting-report/#comments Thu, 31 Mar 2011 17:31:37 +0000 njlinuxmike http://njlinux.org/?p=370 Our meeting last night was a nice change of pace. Not only were we able to offload a bunch of the obsolete books from our library for a good cause, we also heard a great presentation by Evan Koblentz and Jeff Jonas of the Mid Atlantic Retro Computing Hobbyists group. They even brought in an Altair 8800 and started it up for us. Much thanks to them for an interesting evening. Additionally Evan and Jeff would like the NJLinux community to know about the Vintage Computer Fest coming up in May.

Rumor has it that Tory may be coming the the April meeting to do a presentation and I know Reg has been working on some things for us as well, as has Murph. So stay tuned for more details.

njlinuxmike

]]> http://njlinux.org/2011/03/march-meeting-report/feed/ 0 Meeting for 3.30.11 http://njlinux.org/2011/03/meeting-for-3-30-11/ http://njlinux.org/2011/03/meeting-for-3-30-11/#comments Wed, 23 Mar 2011 12:21:39 +0000 njlinuxmike http://njlinux.org/?p=329 Greetings LUG goers and comers. Our March meeting is approaching and we will again be meeting at the Converge Coworking site in Union, NJ. On the agenda so far for this month is a presentation by Evan Koblentz of MARCH. It will be a nice treat to have a guest speaker for a change.

Thanks go to our member Murph for getting the conversation started with Evan. Additionally, Evan will be collecting all the obsolete and unwanted books we have collecting dust in our library and putting them to good use either at MARCH or through donations to InfoAge.

See you at the meeting.

njlinuxmike

]]> http://njlinux.org/2011/03/meeting-for-3-30-11/feed/ 1 Njlinux now on IRC. http://njlinux.org/2011/03/njlinux-now-on-irc/ http://njlinux.org/2011/03/njlinux-now-on-irc/#comments Tue, 01 Mar 2011 21:15:01 +0000 njlinuxmike http://njlinux.org/?p=334 We’ve tried the discussion board thing in the past and it just never got used, which is ok except that it required a level of administration that was not equitable based on its use. So we canned it.

But, an IRC channel on irc.freenode.com is free and virtually painless to operate because Freenode does all the work. So what the heck we’ll give it a go. I started and registered the #njlinux channel earlier today. I should have the formal registration approval soon but the channel is up and going now, so come chat anytime.

If you have never used IRC then you should give it a try. If you don’t like it you can at least say you have tried it. Your current distro whatever it may be likely has a chat client installed. If not, the most common clients are xchat and irssi. I have used them both and they both work well.

When I first made my full time move to Linux I regularly sought help with problems through IRC. There will undoubtedly be a channel on the topic you require or are interested in, and if Freenode doesn’t provide for that particular topic then some other network likely will. It’s a great tool to have in your general purpose toolbox. If you’re completely green to IRC then you can find many good tutorials on-line that will get you going.

Cheers,

njlinuxmike (a.k.a. “raido” on the IRC)

]]> http://njlinux.org/2011/03/njlinux-now-on-irc/feed/ 0 Meeting for 2.23.11 http://njlinux.org/2011/02/meeting-for-2-23-11/ http://njlinux.org/2011/02/meeting-for-2-23-11/#comments Wed, 23 Feb 2011 21:10:16 +0000 njlinuxmike http://njlinux.org/?p=324 Oops, sorry LUGers, after sending the post to the mailing list I forgot to update the website. We are indeed having our meeting tonight. See below.

2011 is here and we are continuing the new year by having our February meeting in our new location. If you have been following the discussion on the discussion list you will have seen all debate over potential locations.

This month we will again be at Converge Coworking in Union NJ. Google map link below. Our member Nick Barter will be hosting the meeting and will be on site by 6:30PM.

GOOGLE MAP

Happy new year everyone, hope to see you at the meeting.

njlinuxmike

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This month we will be at Converge Coworking in Union NJ. Google map link below. Our member Nick Barter will be hosting the meeting and will be on site by 6:30PM. In case you need to reach him regarding the meeting his cell number is 201-370-3219.

GOOGLE MAP

Happy new year everyone, hope to see you at the meeting.

njlinuxmike

]]> http://njlinux.org/2011/01/meeting-for-1-26-11/feed/ 0 Meeting for 12.29.10 http://njlinux.org/2010/12/meeting-for-12-29-10/ http://njlinux.org/2010/12/meeting-for-12-29-10/#comments Wed, 01 Dec 2010 20:53:49 +0000 njlinuxmike http://njlinux.org/?p=300 Our annual holiday meeting will be the 29th. The plan is to meet in Hackensack at 7PM and then proceed to T.G.I. Fridays in Hackensack (just a couple miles away) at 8PM where we can finish with some holiday festivities. Please remember that this is our ultimate 235 Moore Street meeting. We really need you all to be looking into an alternate location for us to be able to meet at going forward. Hopefully we can use this last meeting of the year to solidify a plan for the future. Happy holidays, see you on the 29th.

T.G.I. Fridays directions below:

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]]> http://njlinux.org/2010/12/meeting-for-12-29-10/feed/ 0 Njlinux.org needs a new meeting place… http://njlinux.org/2010/10/njlinux-org-needs-a-new-meeting-place/ http://njlinux.org/2010/10/njlinux-org-needs-a-new-meeting-place/#comments Sun, 31 Oct 2010 22:33:47 +0000 njlinuxmike http://njlinux.org/?p=295 Greetings to my friends and fellow NJLUG members. As the new year is on the horizon, with these last months left in 2010 the time has come for me to announce my retirement as the host of the njlinux.org LUG. It’s hard to believe how fast time flies. We have been meeting here in Hackensack for better than 7 years. This is of course by no means an end to the njlinux.org LUG meetings. In fact, the meetings have recently shown a good deal of growth with new members attending regularly and more finding us on the web and meetup.com all the time. It will be important that the group find a new meeting facility so the growth can continue and we can provide our community with a place to discover Linux and the open source opportunity.

So, what we need now is for someone from the group or someone from the community to step up and find a new place to meet. I know it’s not going to be easy but it can be done if we all put our heads together. I will be hosting the remaining meetings in 2010 but we will need a new facility for the new year and going forward. I think now is a great time for everyone interested to start making use of the mailing list to get the discussion going and ideas flowing about how to find our new facility. We will meet two more times in Hackensack over the next 60 days but the discussion list is open 24/7.

Cheers,

Mike “njlinuxmike” Hanson

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If for some reason you usually get the meeting announcement and did not get one for this month, we can sort that out tonight.

Mike

]]> http://njlinux.org/2010/10/meeting-for-10-27-10/feed/ 0 NJLINUX discussion list now available. http://njlinux.org/2010/09/njlinux-discussion-list-now-available/ http://njlinux.org/2010/09/njlinux-discussion-list-now-available/#comments Thu, 30 Sep 2010 00:41:46 +0000 njlinuxmike http://njlinux.org/?p=280 NJLinux is moving to a Mailman based mailing list system for its meeting announcements and has started a discussion list for general LUG discussion. You can sign up through the links at the right under the LUG Links section, or HERE for the meeting announcements. And HERE for th discussion list.

Over the next month we will be migrating the old meeting announcement list to both new lists. Once that is done, you will be able to control your own subscription status.

Cheers

Mike

]]> http://njlinux.org/2010/09/njlinux-discussion-list-now-available/feed/ 0 Meeting for 9.29.10 http://njlinux.org/2010/08/meeting-for-9-29-10/ http://njlinux.org/2010/08/meeting-for-9-29-10/#comments Thu, 26 Aug 2010 18:08:23 +0000 njlinuxmike http://njlinux.org/?p=256 The August meeting was good. It was nice to see some new faces and have a good crowd. Rumor has it that Murph will be giving some sort of presentation for our next meeting so stay tuned for details. See you in September.

Mike

]]> http://njlinux.org/2010/08/meeting-for-9-29-10/feed/ 3 Meeting for 8.28.10 http://njlinux.org/2010/08/meeting-for-8-28-10/ http://njlinux.org/2010/08/meeting-for-8-28-10/#comments Tue, 24 Aug 2010 06:02:54 +0000 njlinuxmike http://njlinux.org/?p=251 Sorry for the late post everyone. The meeting is of course this Wed. Please try and bring some Linux questions that we can discuss and hopefully solve. See you there.

Cheers

Mike

]]> http://njlinux.org/2010/08/meeting-for-8-28-10/feed/ 0 Meeting for 7.28.10 http://njlinux.org/2010/07/meeting-for-7-28-10/ http://njlinux.org/2010/07/meeting-for-7-28-10/#comments Sat, 03 Jul 2010 04:06:07 +0000 njlinuxmike http://njlinux.org/?p=198 Our June meeting was very well attended with some newcomers thanks to Nick’s meetup announcement. It was nice to meet Nando, Joe and Clyde. Murph brought to attention the Hope conference and Software Freedom Day happening later this year. Anyone interested in participating in SFD please let the group know so that we can decide weather we will attempt to do a promotion of our own.  Nando offered to look into having some guest speakers attend in the future.

Next month we may have Reg doing a presentation. And I propose we discuss the article by Benjamin Mako Hill titled “Free software needs free tools” in the current issue of the Free Software Foundation Bulletin. It raises some interesting points regarding software freedom.

Mike

P.S. I intended to post my Linux bookmarks folder that I have accumulated over the years and did not do it last month. So here it is: Linux bookmarks

]]> http://njlinux.org/2010/07/meeting-for-7-28-10/feed/ 0 Meeting for 6.30.10 http://njlinux.org/2010/06/meeting-for-6-30-10/ http://njlinux.org/2010/06/meeting-for-6-30-10/#comments Wed, 02 Jun 2010 17:46:39 +0000 njlinuxmike http://njlinux.org/?p=187 Thanks to Murph for the pod-cast presentation at the last meeting. Keep a look out in that meeting post for some materials from him on the presentation. I believe he will be posting an XML file of all the pod-casts he covered.

For next month the agenda is light so far. I plan on doing a review of my Linux bookmarks folder that I have accumulated over the years. It will likely contain sites that prove to be helpful in your future Linux activities.

Drop me a line if any of you have suggestions or would like to present at the meeting.

Cheers

Mike

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