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Free hardware giveaways!: 4 Aruba Wi-Fi access points, ... (Berkeley, CA)
by Michael Paoli 06 Dec '21

06 Dec '21

Free hardware giveaways!: 4 Aruba Wi-Fi access points, ... (Berkeley, CA) I still have fair bit of hardware remaining I'm hoping to give away fairly soon, notably including: 4 Aruba Wi-Fi access points. Details may be found on: https://www.wiki.balug.org/wiki/doku.php?id=balug:offered_wanted_hardware_e… I really don't have the space for or want these, but someone was getting rid of them and I thought they were far too good to simply get dumped to e-cycle - which is where they were otherwise headed. So, temporarily I've still got some of this hardware, looking to rehome it - and soon, most notably on the URL above, look for items that I myself am giving away that mention "rehome" in their notes. If interested, you may want to get it soon, lest it end up in e-cycle or otherwise dispensed with. And you'd generally need to pick these items up in Berkeley, CA Have mentioned 'em earlier on some other lists, e.g.: http://linuxmafia.com/pipermail/conspire/2021-December/011857.html etc.

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In-person BALUG at (some) Henry's Hunan restaurant
by Rick Moen 12 May '21

12 May '21

Today during the BerkeleyLUG discussion, we were pondering the possibility of resumed BALUG dinners at (some) Henry's Hunan restaurant. Answer: maybe. It's complicated. And the situation is fluid. _Probably_ yes, at the Excelsior District Henry's. Yesterday, CABAL had what might well be the first in-person LUG meeting since Before Times (at least, outside of New Zealand): http://linuxmafia.com/pipermail/conspire/2021-April/011579.html http://linuxmafia.com/pipermail/conspire/2021-May/011587.html http://linuxmafia.com/pipermail/conspire/2021-May/011595.html (By the way, I just identified the fault in my external speakers that impaired the meeting's "hybrid" nature: I just need to buy a replacement 3.5mm stereo mini M/M patch cable. The existing one has an intermittent wire.) Getting back to Henry's (a set of independently owned + operated Hunan-style restaurants), the main problem is figuring out which of the four locations, if any, has reopened for indoor dinner dining. 1 of 4: Henry's Hunan Restaurant 110 Natoma nr. 2nd St (inner SoMa district near SF MOMA -- trad. BALUG venue) San Francisco https://www.google.com/maps/place/110+Natoma+St,+San+Francisco,+CA+94105/@3… https://www.yelp.com/biz/henry-s-hunan-restaurant-san-francisco https://www.hhunan.com/ https://www.facebook.com/HenrysHunanNatoma/ (415) 546-4999 Google Maps claims no-contact delivery + delivery + takeout 2 of 4: Henry's Hunan Restaurant 1016 Bryant St nr. 8th St (outer SoMa district west of Mission Bay) San Francisco https://www.google.com/maps/place/Henry's+Hunan/@37.7722532,-122.4075852,15z/data=!4m5!3m4!1s0x0:0xf4418273161f19e7!8m2!3d37.7722475!4d-122.4075782 https://www.yelp.com/biz/henrys-hunan-san-francisco-4 (415) 527-6999 Google Maps claims takeout + delivery 3 of 4: Henry's Hunan Restaurant 4753 Mission nr. Ocean Ave. (Excelsior district) San Francisco https://www.yelp.com/biz/henrys-hunan-restaurant-san-francisco-6 https://www.google.com/maps/place/Henry's+Hunan+Restaurant/@37.722137,-122.4387277,17z/data=!3m2!4b1!5s0x808f7e8599e34b6b:0x798c1a6227d36806!4m5!3m4!1s0x808f7e85974259cf:0x73f557197a087a50!8m2!3d37.722137!4d-122.436539 (415) 585-8838 Google Maps claims _DINE-IN_ + takeout + delivery 4 of 4: Henry's Hunan Restaurant 1708 Church nr. 29th St (upper Noe Valley district) San Francisco https://www.yelp.com/biz/henrys-hunan-restaurant-san-francisco-9 https://www.google.com/maps/place/Henry's+Hunan/@37.7428546,-122.4266541,17z/data=!4m12!1m6!3m5!1s0x0:0xca9a9df03b716aee!2sHenry's+Hunan!8m2!3d37.7434322!4d-122.4268222!3m4!1s0x0:0xca9a9df03b716aee!8m2!3d37.7434322!4d-122.4268222 (415) 826-9189 Google Maps claims takeout + delivery (The former Henry's Hunan at 1398 Grant Ave., Chinatown district is gone, ditto the original Henry's Hunan at 924 Sansome nr. Vallejo, Chinatown/North Beach districts.) Problem: Our consensus is that Internet information about the operating status of this and other restaurants is mostly outdated and unreliable, but Google Maps's data seems overall best. BALUG planning should logically include telephoning any candidate venue during business hours and confirming in-person dining. That caveat having been noted, it _looks_ as if BALUG could resume in-person dining at the 4753 Mission (Excelsior district) Henry's Hunan. That location is about a 3/4 mile walk from BART's Balboa Park station, and served by Muni's 14 Mission and 49 Van Ness / Mission bus lines. I have never been to that Henry's, so cannot vouch for anything about it. (I hope this research-ifying proves useful.)

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Re: [BALUG-Talk] Possible solution of blankness or editing outline-only on BALUG DokuWiki?
by aaronco36 25 Apr '21

25 Apr '21

Quoting Michael Paoli <Michael.Paoli at cal.berkeley.edu> from [1]: ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Thanks for the report, but I'm unable to reproduce the issue. Anyone else able to reproduce it? Are you/anyone seeing the issue at this time? Anyone else also see it earlier? I've tried the following on: https://www.wiki.balug.org/wiki/doku.php without being able to reproduce the issue: Chromium Chromium incognito mode Firefox Firefox private browsing mode Lynx curl wget Chome on Android from another ISP Chrom icognito mode on Android from another ISP ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Cut-and-pasted a text screen-capture and submitted it as a [BALUG-Test] 'Test of BALUG Wiki pages' posting yesterday morning; see [2]. AFAICT, that "blankness or editing outline-only issue" for BALUG DokuWiki pages [3] and [4] occurred from before 08:00am PDT up through the late morning, and then went away by mid-afternoon yesterday. Probably reloaded both those BALUG DokuWiki pages a half-dozen times or so over the morning time-period using mostly Firefox-ESR standard mode and Firefox-ESR private browsing mode, and maybe once or twice using TOR browser in its [least] Safe mode. Same results for all browsers used to test those pair of pages during that entire morning time-period. Quoting Michael Paoli <Michael.Paoli at cal.berkeley.edu> from [5]: ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ That may have done it. Looks like I need to add more space to /var and/or clean some more stuff off of it: df -h /var Filesystem Size Used Avail Use% Mounted on /dev/mapper/balug-var 4.9G 4.5G 190M 97% /var # ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Thanks much, Michael, for effectively diagnosing and resolving the issue! :-) Besides considering the issue arising from the DokuWiki site itself or BALUG's device /dev/mapper/balug-var, was also considering the possibility that the issue might have arisen from my own browser client. Why so? Well, there was no issue whatsoever with successfully loading BALUG DokuWiki pages [3] and [4] throughout Sunday and Monday of this week. What changed on Tuesday afternoon was upgrading Firefox-ESR to a slightly higher, minor version as per 'less /var/log/apt/history.log' : > Start-Date: 2021-04-20 14:10:03 > Commandline: apt upgrade > Upgrade: firefox-esr:amd64 (78.9.0esr-1~deb10u1, 78.10.0esr-1~deb10u1) > End-Date: 2021-04-20 14:10:15 One or more bugs in the upgraded FF 78.10.0esr could have conceivably rendered text and links in the BALUG DokuWiki incorrectly afterwards, as remote as this possibility might seem to be. It's good to know that this wasn't the case at all, and that this latest Firefox-ESR browser was fine after all :-) Thanks again Michael! -Aaron =========================== REFERENCES =========================== [1]https://lists.balug.org/pipermail/balug-talk/2021-April/000220.html [2]https://lists.balug.org/pipermail/balug-test/2021/000048.html [3]https://www.wiki.balug.org/wiki/doku.php [4]https://www.wiki.balug.org/wiki/doku.php?id=balug:offered_wanted_hardware… [5]https://lists.balug.org/pipermail/balug-talk/2021-April/000221.html =========================== aaronco36(a)sdf.org

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Possible solution of blankness or editing outline-only on BALUG DokuWiki?
by aaronco36＠sdf.org 22 Apr '21

22 Apr '21

A blank window/page or editing outline currently appears when visiting the BALUG DokuWiki at [1]. According to a recent DokuWiki User Forum post 'Blank Page after Change Template'[2], one can apparently "make an edit to conf/local.php". Someone know how to [properly!] edit that particular PHP file, assuming that the blankness (or editing outline) on the BALUG DokuWiki happens to be this situation? On the outside chance that it's somehow related to the above, BALUG/SF-LUG/BerkeleyLUGs' last scheduled outage was apparently on Wed 2020-07-22 8:15am-4:45pm PDT US/Pacific according to [3]. -A ================================================================ REFERENCES ================================================================ [1]https://www.wiki.balug.org/wiki/doku.php [2]https://forum.dokuwiki.org/d/19095-blank-page-after-change-template [3]https://lists.balug.org/pipermail/balug-talk/2020-July/000216.html ================================================================

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"Slides", etc. from this Tuesday's meeting: Michael Paoli: sed - Streaming EDitor+
by Michael Paoli 17 Mar '21

17 Mar '21

Archive copy of the "slides", etc. from this Tuesday's meeting: Michael Paoli: sed - Streaming EDitor+ are available here: https://www.archive.balug.org/2021/2021-03-16/ The "slides" are in Libre Office Impress format. Eratta?! 8-O I did find at least one item that wasn't on the "slides" and should've been. For latest version(s), may also want to peek at: https://www.mpaoli.net/~michael/unix/sed/ which will likely be getting updated soon (but that location above may not be as persistent or available as the BALUG archive location/copy). The URL above is also linked to from the archived "slide" set.

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Re: [BALUG-Talk] Larry Platzek - contact update? [BALUG-Admin] Fwd: Mail delivery failed: returning message to sender (larryp@inow.com)
by Michael Paoli 04 Aug '20

04 Aug '20

[Bcc: Dick Verna] Anyone have updated/current contact information for Larry Platzek ? Hope all is well. > From: "Rick Moen" <rick(a)linuxmafia.com> > Subject: Re: [BALUG-Admin] Fwd: Mail delivery failed: returning > message to sender (larryp(a)inow.com) > Date: Mon, 3 Aug 2020 14:18:18 -0700 > Quoting Michael Paoli (Michael.Paoli(a)cal.berkeley.edu): > >> Dropping larryp(a)inow.com from the forwarding aliases. >> inow.com has two NS, neither of which function. >> >> Let me know if/when I should add it back. > > For those who don't know or have forgotten, that's Larry Platzek, > longtime member of the Linux community. A very long time ago > (2005-ish), after founders Art Tyde and David Sifry bowed out of BALUG, > Larry Platzek and Dick Verna ran BALUG (including primary listadmin > duty) and coordinated the meetings at Four Seas Restaurant in > Chinatown's upstairs banquet room. > > I think he's been living in the South Bay lately, but wouldn't swear to > it. My efforts to find current contact information are coming up dry. > > Lessons to learn: > > 1. Don't register your domains at GoDaddy. ;-> > 2. Make sure your whois data gives meaningful out-of-band contact > methods. > 3. If you have only two authoritative nameservers, shoot your > admins and get some who understand the RFCs and how to administer > DNS. > > It might be worth asking on balug-talk if anyone has a telephone number > or alternate e-mail address for Larry. > > If only because, y'know, we're all mortal, and I worry when people just > seem to vanish.

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BALUG/SF-LUG/BerkeleyLUG Scheduled outage W 2020-07-22 8:15am-4:45pm PDT US/Pacific
by Michael Paoli 21 Jul '20

21 Jul '20

BALUG/SF-LUG/BerkeleyLUG Scheduled outage W 2020-07-22 8:15am-4:45pm PDT US/Pacific PG&E has a scheduled ("maintenance") power outage: W 2020-07-22 8:30am-4:30pm PDT US/Pacific So, that almost certainly means an outage for the BALUG Virtual Machine (VM), which also hosts (excepting DNS slaves), all things: BALUG SF-LUG (except SF-LUG's list) BerkeleyLUG (except BerkeleyLUG's list) Expect it may be down or offline for any and/or all of: W 2020-07-22 8:15am-4:45pm PDT US/Pacific I probably won't send an update unless things significantly exceed the specified parameters. For the curious, expected to impact up to everything on these IPs: 96.86.170.224/29 2001:470:66:76f::/64 2001:470:67:76f::/64 2001:470:1f04:19e::/64 2001:470:1f05:19e::/64 2603:3024:1b29:0:5054::/64

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Re: [BALUG-Talk] Company in Concord seeks to donate older PCs to a LUG
by Michael Paoli 27 Jun '20

27 Jun '20

Also replied to 'em off-list regarding Partimus and such. references/excerpts: > From: "Michael Paoli" <Michael.Paoli(a)cal.berkeley.edu> > To: "Cameron Abrams" <cameronabrams25(a)gmail.com>, "Christian > Einfeldt" <christian(a)partimus.org>, "Grant Bowman" > <grant(a)partimus.org>, "James Howard" <james(a)partimus.org> > Cc: "Rick Moen" <rick(a)linuxmafia.com> > Subject: Re: Company in Concord seeks to donate older PCs to a LUG > Date: Fri, 26 Jun 2020 02:15:09 -0700 > Cameron / Partimus folks, perhaps y'all ought connect. :-) > > I believe Partiums is (approximately?) based in(/around?) San Francisco, > and also does / has done work with some East Bay (Oakland, if I > recall correctly) school(s). I believe Grant is also out in East Bay, > East of Concord. > > Also including link to list of lists (of [L]UGs), in case that's > also useful. > > Thanks for reaching out and asking! > > http://www.partimus.org/ > http://www.partimus.org/contact.php > > https://www.wiki.balug.org/wiki/doku.php?id=balug:bay_area_open_source_linu… > > references/excerpts: > http://linuxmafia.com/pipermail/dvlug/2020q2/000608.html > http://linuxmafia.com/pipermail/dvlug/2020q2/000609.html > https://groups.google.com/g/berkeleylug/c/Tr_WRg1STpI/m/qOZ_8bheCQAJ > https://lists.balug.org/pipermail/balug-talk/2020-June/000213.html > >> From: "Rick Moen" <rick(a)linuxmafia.com> >> To: dvlug(a)linuxmafia.com >> Subject: [dvlug] Company in Concord seeks to donate older PCs to a LUG >> Date: Thu, 25 Jun 2020 11:02:25 -0700 > >> ----- Forwarded message from Cameron Abrams >> <cameronabrams25(a)gmail.com> ----- >> >> Date: Thu, 25 Jun 2020 09:28:39 -0700 >> From: Cameron Abrams <cameronabrams25(a)gmail.com> > From rick(a)linuxmafia.com Thu Jun 25 18:11:04 2020 > Date: Thu, 25 Jun 2020 11:10:49 -0700 > From: Rick Moen <rick(a)linuxmafia.com> > To: BALUG-Talk(a)lists.balug.org > Subject: [BALUG-Talk] Company in Concord seeks to donate older PCs to a LUG > > ----- Forwarded message from Cameron Abrams <cameronabrams25(a)gmail.com> ----- > > Date: Thu, 25 Jun 2020 09:28:39 -0700 > From: Cameron Abrams <cameronabrams25(a)gmail.com> > To: dvlug-owner(a)linuxmafia.com > Subject: Do you take donations? > > Hello, > > I am contacting you on behalf of the company I work for. We are located in > Concord, and are in the midst of a transition. We would like to get rid of > some older PCs we have replaced with newer ones, and we are in the midst of > wiping all of our hard drives. We were wondering if perhaps this was a > Linux group that took donations, as we would rather put the PCs to use than > scrap them as e-waste. If you do accept donations and would like to discuss > this matter further, or if you do not accept donations but do know of other > local groups that accept donations, please email me back. > > Thanks, > > Cameron > > ----- End forwarded message -----

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Company in Concord seeks to donate older PCs to a LUG
by Rick Moen 25 Jun '20

25 Jun '20

----- Forwarded message from Cameron Abrams <cameronabrams25(a)gmail.com> ----- Date: Thu, 25 Jun 2020 09:28:39 -0700 From: Cameron Abrams <cameronabrams25(a)gmail.com> To: dvlug-owner(a)linuxmafia.com Subject: Do you take donations? Hello, I am contacting you on behalf of the company I work for. We are located in Concord, and are in the midst of a transition. We would like to get rid of some older PCs we have replaced with newer ones, and we are in the midst of wiping all of our hard drives. We were wondering if perhaps this was a Linux group that took donations, as we would rather put the PCs to use than scrap them as e-waste. If you do accept donations and would like to discuss this matter further, or if you do not accept donations but do know of other local groups that accept donations, please email me back. Thanks, Cameron ----- End forwarded message -----

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Thoughts on home brew routers?
by Charles Hathaway 23 Jun '20

23 Jun '20

Hey all, I'm looking into replacing my Verizon Fios router with one I can manage (configure DNS black hole, possibly setup a VPN connection, etc. etc.), but I'm hitting an overwhelming number of options, so I'm wondering what everyone else is doing. I'm basically looking for something which lets me access the underlying OS so I can easily fix(/break) things, and weighing the pros/cons of also having it do some file sharing stuff (Samba/NFS) or using it for hosting toy projects to show friends, with at least GbE speeds. In terms of hardware, I've seen ClearFog Pro <https://www.solid-run.com/marvell-armada-family/clearfog/> and it's big brother, ClearFog GT 8k <https://shop.solid-run.com/product/SRM8040S64D04GE008V12GE/>, both of which support running Linux (and then I could use things like iptables and dns-masq or whatever), but the review seem to be underwhelming. There is also pi-hole, which runs on Raspberry Pi hardware (and likely anything else), but I think that just does DNS, so I'd have to configure the routing on top of that; the problem there is that there is only 1 ethernet port on the Raspberry Pi, and a managed switch sounds a bit over the top for my setup (plus, noise). The other option I see is a small tower with 2 ethernet ports, probably a standard x86 box, and a standard switch. One pro to that is I might be able to get 10GbE, which I feel like will matter within the next 5 years (my FioS connection is already 1GbE), the con is needing two separate devices. In either case, I'd need a wireless AP, which is something I know next to nothing about. I think I want something supporting 802.11ac? Thanks in advance for the suggestions! I'm relatively new to this list, coming from the Philly Linux User Group, so I don't know if there are different expectations :). Charles -- Charles Hathaway, PhD Phone: +1 (518) 817-8024 charles@mcom:~$ fortune -s computers If at first you don't succeed, you must be a programmer.

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