I had the privilege last night of speaking to the Dartmouth-Lake Sunapee Linux User Group, one of five chapters of the Greater New Hampshire Linux User Group on the installation, configuration and management of WebMin, a Perl-based, BSD-licensed tool for remote, secure, web-based management of many, many different modules in a Linux/Unix/HP-UX/Solaris system. This is a great tool, providing a simple, discoverable, explorable GUI for systems controlled by sometimes-obscure text configuration files. Text files are superior to an opaque “Registry” but having a GUI as well is the best of both worlds! My slides and notes are available for viewing from the tedroche.com whitepapers site, written in Eric Meyer’s great S5: Simple Standards-Based Slide Show System – a single HTML page, a couple of magic CSS files and a couple of images give you a slide show with keyboard shortcuts, a handout/slideshow view toggle and a popup menu (move your mouse to the lower right corner) to navigate to any slide. Slick stuff, elegantly simple to use.
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Dartmouth Lake Sunapee Linux User Group tonight
Off to DLSLUG tonight, where Jeff Woodward will be demonstrating OpenAFS:
OpenAFS is a distributed filesystem product, pioneered at Carnegie Mellon University and supported and developed as a product by Transarc Corporation (now IBM Pittsburgh Labs). It offers a client-server architecture for file sharing, providing location independence, scalability and transparent migration capabilities for data. IBM branched the source of the AFS product, and made a copy of the source available for community development and maintenance. They called the release OpenAFS.
Dartmouth / Lake Sunapee Linux User Group
The Dartmouth – Lake Sunapee Linux User Group, a chapter of the Greater New Hampshire Linux User Group will meet on Thursday, April 7th, 7:00-9:00PM at Dartmouth College, Carson Hall Room L02 to hear Peter Nikolaidis present “Open Source E-Commerce with Interchange”
According to the website, “Interchange is an open source alternative to commercial commerce servers and application server/component applications. Interchange is one of the most powerful tools available to automate and database-enable your web site or build online applications. The talk will cover the basics of installing and configuring the software, as well as some demonstrations of existing sites running on Interchange.”
The Python Special Interest Group will be meeting before the main meeting at Everything But Anchovies, 603-643-6135, 5 Allen St Hanover, NH 03755, US at 5:30 PM to hear from the several Granite Staters who went to the Python conference in Washington, D.C.
The DLSLUG announcement email list is here, main web site here and the Greater New Hampshire Linux User Group here.
O’Reilly’s MAKE magazine, Dan Bricklin, and Linux innovation
Dan Bricklin’s Log says Get Make Magazine. “I started to read MAKE I got goose bumps. There’s real hope for the next generation.”
I have fond memories of building stuff with my Dad – crystal radio sets, adding a vernier dial to a shortwave set, building a couple of electronic sets, learning how gears and cams and pieces make ratchets and convert rotary power to linear and so forth. MAKE magazine seems to continue the tradition of taking things apart and (we hope) putting them back together, perhaps a little differently, perhaps a little better.
At my recent presentation to the Dartmouth-Lake Sunapee Linux User Group, I showed off the LinkSys WRT54G. As soon as we were done, I offered to pop the cover off my router so we could look inside. I was immediately surrounded. My fellow LUGgers could immediately identify the serial port solder pads on the circuit board, identify the RAM, EEPROM, radio transceiver, and so forth. I asked who was confortable using a soldering iron and better than half the hands went up. As the evening wore on, there was discussion of leasing a T-1 and turning yourself into the local community wireless ISP – several members had done that – and the 3 dB attentuation per meter of leaves when trying to reach more distant sites, how to get broadband to remote rural locations, and experiences with different DSL providers.
Innovation lives.
DLSLUG tonight: Hacking the Linksys WRT54G with Sveasoft firmware
I’ll be presenting "Hacking the LinkSys WRT54G with Sveasoft firmware" tonight to the Dartmouth-Lake Sunapee Linux User Group, a reprise of my November presentation to the Central NH Linux User Group, both chapters of the Greater New Hampshire Linux User Group
The presentation was edited with the Taco HTML Editor,
http://www.tacosw.com on the Mac and with
SciTE, http://www.scintilla.org/; on Windows and Linux. Interoperability is Good.
The templates for the document and instructions on their use are from the Simple Standards-based Slide Show System, S5 developed by Eric Meyer and available at http://www.meyerweb.com/eric/tools/s5/ under a Creative Commons license. Thanks, Eric!