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North Jersey Linux User Group


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Quick summary of April’s meeting.

May 18

Posted by murph in Meetings | 2 Comments

Sorry for the late post.
Tory did a fantastic presentation on the setup of his home server setup for media organization.
Using ZFS on Solaris, he has set up a fault-tolerant, high performance storage solution for his modest home media system.

I couldn’t possibly encapsulate the presentation in a few paragraphs, it was packed full of home server goodness. I am having trouble uploading the presentation, and I wasn’t able to open the .pptx in Libreoffice.

Updated with Tory’s slide deck. See all of you Wednesday. ZFS Based Server

Meeting for 4.27.11

Apr 23

Posted by njlinuxmike in Announcement, Meetings | No Comments

Greetings LUG goers and comers. Our April meeting is approaching and we will again be meeting at the Converge Coworking site in Union, NJ.

See you at the meeting.

njlinuxmike

March meeting report.

Mar 31

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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

Meeting for 3.30.11

Mar 23

Posted by njlinuxmike in Announcement, Meetings | 1 Comment

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

Njlinux now on IRC.

Mar 1

Posted by njlinuxmike in Announcement | No Comments

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)

Meeting for 2.23.11

Feb 23

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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

Meeting for 1.26.11

Jan 24

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2011 is here and we are beginning the new year by having our January meeting in a 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 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

Possible meeting location: NYI, Bridgewater.

Dec 28

Posted by murph in Announcement, Meetings | 2 Comments

I got to take a look at the NYI facility at 999 Frontier Road in Bridgewater. They have several spots that they have offered for us to use.

They graciously had one of the admins there show me around the place.

The main location is a presentation room with a projector, along with several tables, folding chairs, and plenty of space to expand. I’ve put the pictures up on the website here.

I think that it is a good location, the only problem being that it is out of the way for most of the members of the group. Any comments?

Meeting for 12.29.10

Dec 1

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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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Njlinux.org needs a new meeting place…

Oct 31

Posted by njlinuxmike in Announcement, Linux, Meetings | 3 Comments

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

Meeting for 10.27.10

Oct 27

Posted by njlinuxmike in Announcement, Meetings | No Comments

We’re on for tonight. Everyone should have received the meeting announcement via the new GNU/Mailman announcement list. There are plenty of Linux related news items recently that could come up tonight or you can just bring your Linux questions and we’ll find some answers.

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

Changes to the mailing list……..

Oct 8

Posted by murph in Announcement | No Comments

Hello:

We’ve discussed at the last few meetings that there’s a need for change in communication with group members.

From those who responded in a recent informal poll, there was an overwhelming opinion that the mailing list was the preferred means of communication but we’ve seen that we need more interactivity as it’s been lacking somewhat in the current system, which Nick and Larry have graciously been providing for many years.

Mike has set up new mailing list software on one of the LUG’s machines, and we’ll be moving the users from the old mailing list to both the NJLinux-announce and the NJLinux-discussion lists.

Users that do not want to be on one or both of the lists can simply follow the directions to be removed through the instructions on the bottom of any of the announcements, or by just letting us know, so that you can
be removed manually.

Hopefully, though, all of the current users will stay and contribute to the community that we are trying to promote. We wanted to set up the new discussion list in an effort to be able to more easily get feedback and information from the members in order to arrange events like Software Freedom Day, the Revolution OS screening, etc.

So please, join us, join the discussion, and hopefully we can make the group more active and productive.

Thanks,
–Bob

NJLINUX discussion list now available.

Sep 29

Posted by njlinuxmike in Announcement | No Comments

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

Results from the Poll so far.

Sep 26

Posted by murph in Announcement, Meetings | No Comments

Out of the 90 or so folks on the mailing list, as well as the Meetup, Facebook, and the website, we have received 8 responses. The overwhelming majority went to the mailing list, with a few straggling votes for the web site, Facebook, Evites, and smoke signals, along with a deferment to see how the talk goes.

Tags:

Poll: NJLinux online communications.

Sep 15

Posted by murph in Announcement, Meetings | 1 Comment

I’d like to apologize for some of the lack of communication within the group.

Our withdrawal from having an event on SFD was mainly due to a lack of communication on my part, or more correctly, misdirected communication.  I’d like to improve that communication within the user’s group, but I’ll need your help to do it.  I was posting quite a few messages to the blog on the web site, but it appears that it went largely unnoticed.  What might be the best way to proceed going forward.

How would you like to be informed of upcoming events, meeting announcements, and coordination for group events?  If any of these seem unfamiliar, I’ll be doing a demonstration of these at the next meeting.

a)  Mailing lists – either the usual monthly announcement, or perhaps a new list for more frequent traffic
b)  Identi.ca – a microblogging service like twitter, which is opt-in, and allows fast, public communication between people, as well as broader reach.
c)  njlinux.org website – it has universal reach, but thusfar, has not gotten a lot of traction within the group.
d)  RSS feeds – primarily of the web site, and the identi.ca stream, this can be an easier way of getting information from b) and c)
e)  Other suggestions:  I’m open to other means of communication.

Please email your answer and suggestions to murph , or in the comments here, and I’ll bring and discuss the results at the next meeting.  If you’d like for your name to not be mentioned at the meeting, just let me know in the message.
More importantly, I’d like to try to coordinate some of the above, like having the identi.ca stream go to the website, and vice-versa, and maybe a weekly digest of the posts from either go out to the mailing list.  Suggestions would be great.

I’d like to do a quick demo of all of these technologies, and have a group discussion of them, at the next meeting, and try to come to a consensus as to what to do going forward.