Paul Elliott | 7 Feb 02:17

ALG meeting; GNU Linux Discussion

Start: 2012-02-09 19:00
End: 2012-02-09 21:00

Thursday, February 9, from 7-9pm we will have the Austin Linux Group
meeting at Cherrywood coffeehouse off 1400 E. 38th 1/2 St. It is not
far from the 38TH HALF/LAFAYETTE bus stop.
http://goo.gl/TrRsx
http://www.capmetro.org/gismaps/stops/4738.html

General GNU Linux discussion You can come to this meeting with generic
GNU/Linux questions, we will try to anwer them.

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Paul Elliott | 31 Jan 02:02

ALG meeting; GNU Linux Discussion

Start: 2012-02-02 19:00
End: 2012-02-02 21:00

Thursday, February 2, from 7-9pm we will have the Austin Linux Group
meeting at Cherrywood coffeehouse off 1400 E. 38th 1/2 St. It is not
far from the 38TH HALF/LAFAYETTE bus stop.
http://goo.gl/TrRsx
http://www.capmetro.org/gismaps/stops/4738.html

General GNU Linux discussion You can come to this meeting with generic
GNU/Linux questions, we will try to anwer them.

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Paul Elliott                               1(512)837-1096
pelliott@...               PMB 181, 11900 Metric Blvd Suite J
http://www.free.blackpatchpanel.com/pme/   Austin TX 78758-3117

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Shane Williams | 30 Jan 17:35
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Job Posting: Linux SysAdmin at School of Information - UT Austin

We're looking for Linux System Administration experience.  For full
details, take a look at the job posting at:
https://utdirect.utexas.edu/apps/hr/jobs/nlogon/11-09-07-01-9316/

The School of Information (which is its own school within UT Austin,
not a department) considers information and those who use it in a
variety of forms and contexts.  Across the information life-cycle,
whether in physical or digital format, from personal to social
settings, our faculty and students operate in a wide array of
disciplines.  No matter how traditional (librarianship or archivy) or
modern (information architecture or data mining) the specific area of
study, technology both empowers and complicates our interaction with
information, and the School makes use of information technology not
only as a tool, but as an object of study as well.

The System Administrator position would have specific responsibility
for server and network tasks, but would also work as part of a
relatively small team (three other IT employees) that provides much of
the broader IT support for the iSchool faculty, staff, and students.
The variety of work in our field often provides a chance to work with
new and/or interesting technology as well as an opportunity for staff
to be involved in the academic and research mission of the school,
whether through teaching and training, collaboration in grant
projects, etc.

If, after checking out the posting, you have any questions about the
school or position, please contact me at shanew@...

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Robert Parkhurst | 28 Jan 19:18
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Apple hardware on Linux

Hey!

I'm not sure if many people have this, and I know it can feel a bit
blasphemous, but the Apple "Magic" Trackpad doesn't work too bad on
Linux.  My test box is Ubuntu 11.10 (fully updated) and is running
GNOME 3 (aka "gnome-shell").

Initial configuration was pretty good/quick/painless.

Apparently under Unity with "utouch" gestures are fairly descently
supported.  For others, you'll have to get an app called "ginn" which
I just told gnome to add as part of its startup.  That will get you
the multi-touch gesture support (otherwise you'll be able to scroll
the mouse around but that's about it).

There's ANOTHER project that seems to be really cool but a bit
unstable at the moment called "touchegg".  It gives you middle
clicking and I think a few other things and is supposed to allow you
to even customize what gestures do what.  I'll be keeping an eye on
that one.

But for anyone looking for this or a trackpad in general I thought I'd share.

-Robert
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Paul Elliott | 23 Jan 21:38

ALG meeting at New Horizons Computer Learning Center; Linux and gaming

Start: 2012-01-19 19:00
End: 2012-01-19 21:00

Again Thursday, January 26, from 7-9pm Austin Linux Group will meet at
a new place:

New Horizons Computer Learning Center
300 E. Highland Mall Blvd
Suite 100
Austin TX 78752

Robert Parkhurst will talk on Linux and gaming.

For Thursdays Meeting @ New Horizons, Robert Barkhurst will give a
talk on Linux and gaming. We'll cover some of the basics of "where
Linux is", as well as a few popular games that run under Linux and/or
Linux with WINE.  And I'll talk about the release of "Oil Rush": A
naval strategy game released by Unigine.

Unigine is a company working on a new OpenGL game engine for all major
computer platforms (Linux, Mac OS X, Windows, Android). The goal is
for this engine to help bring new games to Linux.

To demo their new game engine, the company has been working on "Oil
Rush" and intend to release it this week!

In addition, Robert Parkhurst will see about ordering a copy of the game to hand out at
the meeting.

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Tristan Mendoza | 23 Jan 19:32
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NGINX web server

http://www.softwarequalityconnection.com/2012/01/nginx-the-faster-web-server-alternative/

NGINX: The Faster Web Server Alternative

This formerly obscure Web server is gaining popularity with businesses. 
NGINX is now the new number two Web server, largely because it promises 
a fast, light, open-source alternative to Apache. Here’s why it’s 
attracting so much attention.

by Steven J. Vaughan-Nichols | January 20, 2012 0 Comments and 93 Reactions
Picking a Web server used to be easy. If you ran a Windows shop, you 
used Internet Information Server (IIS); if you didn’t, you used Apache. 
No fuss. No muss. Now, though, you have more Web server choices, and far 
more decisions to make. One of the leading alternatives, the open-source 
NGINX, is now the number two Web server in the world, according to 
Netcraft, the Web server analytics company.
NGINX (pronounced “engine X”) is an open-source HTTP Web server that 
also includes mail services with an Internet Message Access Protocol 
(IMAP) and Post Office Protocol (POP) server. NGINX is ready to be used 
as a reverse proxy, too. In this mode NGINX is used to load balance 
among back-end servers, or to provide caching for a slower back-end server.
Companies like the online TV video on demand company Hulu use NGINX for 
its stability and simple configuration. Other users, such as Facebook 
and WordPress.com, use it because the web server’s asynchronous 
architecture gives it a small memory footprint and low resource 
consumption, making it ideal for handling multiple, actively changing 
Web pages.
That’s a tall order. According to NGINX’s principal architect Igor 
Sysoev, here’s how NGINX can support hundreds of millions of Facebook users.
Sysoev starts, “While the other web servers differentiate by having lots 
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Tristan Mendoza | 22 Jan 03:12
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Is Your Boss a Psychopath?? quiz

http://edition.cnn.com/2012/01/19/business/psycho-boss-quiz/index.html?iref=allsearch 

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Paul Elliott | 15 Jan 21:57

ALG meeting; GNU Linux Discussion

Start: 2012-01-19 19:00
End: 2012-01-19 21:00

Thursday, Janurary 19, from 7-9pm we will have the Austin Linux Group
meeting at Cherrywood coffeehouse off 1400 E. 38th 1/2 St. It is not
far from the 38TH HALF/LAFAYETTE bus stop.
http://goo.gl/TrRsx
http://www.capmetro.org/gismaps/stops/4738.html

General GNU Linux discussion You can come to this meeting with generic
GNU/Linux questions, we will try to anwer them.

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Paul Elliott | 8 Jan 00:00

ALG meeting; GNU Linux Discussion

Start: 2012-01-12 19:00
End: 2012-01-12 21:00

Thursday, Janurary 12, from 7-9pm we will have the Austin Linux Group
meeting at Cherrywood coffeehouse off 1400 E. 38th 1/2 St. It is not
far from the 38TH HALF/LAFAYETTE bus stop.
http://goo.gl/TrRsx
http://www.capmetro.org/gismaps/stops/4738.html

General GNU Linux discussion You can come to this meeting with generic
GNU/Linux questions, we will try to anwer them.

-- 
Paul Elliott                               1(512)837-1096
pelliott@...               PMB 181, 11900 Metric Blvd Suite J
http://www.free.blackpatchpanel.com/pme/   Austin TX 78758-3117

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Paul Elliott | 1 Jan 06:01

ALG meeting; GNU Linux Discussion


Posted December 2nd, 2011 by pelliott
Start: 2012-01-05 19:00

Thursday, Janurary 5, from 7-9pm we will have the Austin Linux Group
meeting at Cherrywood coffeehouse off 1400 E. 38th 1/2 St. It is not
far from the 38TH HALF/LAFAYETTE bus stop.
http://goo.gl/TrRsx
http://www.capmetro.org/gismaps/stops/4738.html

General GNU Linux discussion You can come to this meeting with generic
GNU/Linux questions, we will try to anwer them.

-- 
Paul Elliott                               1(512)837-1096
pelliott@...               PMB 181, 11900 Metric Blvd Suite J
http://www.free.blackpatchpanel.com/pme/   Austin TX 78758-3117

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Paul Elliott | 12 Dec 09:50

ALG meeting at New Horizons Computer Learning Center

Start: 2011-12-15 19:00
End: 2011-12-15 21:00

Again Thursday, December 15, from 7-9pm Austin Linux Group will meet
at a new place:
New Horizons Computer Learning Center
300 E. Highland Mall Blvd
Suite 100
Austin TX 78752
http://goo.gl/TnR9p

Topic TBD

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