http://www.virtualbox.org/
]]>President Paul Elliott
Secretary Denis Oxford.
Treasurer Clio Dunn.
System Administrator Carl Perry
Mailing List Carl Perry
Web Administrator Jason Schonberg
Program Coordinator Clio Dunn
Tom King
Stephen then proceeds to give a presentation on the various version of embedded Linux for consumer routers. This is mostly WRT for the broadcom chip set, but he does also cover WRT for Atheros. This discussion included:
* the history of WRT54G, the original linksys;
* other compatible routers:
* how to hard wire and access a router through a serial port;
* how to recover a brick;
* Actual examples of a flashed Linksys, Trendnet and Netgear routers.
Meeting was adjourned at 2100 hours.
]]>Lightly attended meeting with open discussion consisting of:
The Redmond Washington's virtual desktop.
Programing languages strengths and weaknesses. We covered:
Python
Perl
C++
Java
COBOL
JCL
For a small informal meeting a lot of information was exchanged.
Meeting adjourned at 20:30.
]]>Treasure Introduces speaker "Jim Hogg"
Jim gives his presentation on his experiences of teaching Computer Programing, specifically C++ in the Round Rock School System. Some Points of interest from his discussion were:
* He teaches students to code and compile remotely in a server he maintains in his class room.
* He encourages his students to use a live cd version of Linux.
* He encourages his students to use a Debian distribution so they can easily load and try different software packages
* His favorite distribution in Mepis Linux.
* He has received commendations from various educational organization for his efforts
* His presentation was filmed and the JPEG will be made available.
Jim said he would make his facility available if we wanted to do an install fest their.
He can be reached by Email at "jim_hog@roundrockisd.org"
Meeting was adjourned at 0900 pm.
]]>The friendly staff at the TACC covered general hardware designs of supper computers and the specific design of Ranger.
Other topics covered were:
* Capacity of Ranger;
* Project that the computing power of the TACC had been used on;
* Other super computers at the TACC;
Meeting adjourned at 2100, discussions lasted until 2130.
]]>The club celebrated Ubuntu 8.10 release program. The club provided
pizza for 23 attendees. These attendees included members of the GW
Linux Users Group and the Central Texas Users Group Linux SIG.
John Deardorf gave a presentation of the new features of *.10 Including
the new ffsf files system and encriptable mounts.
Our own President Stephen gave a presentation on "ubootem", a program to
make bootalbe CD's and pen drives from you favorite distribution.
The meeting adjourned at 2100.
]]>Workshops on putting open source firmware on many of the consumer routers.
The LinkSys WRT-54GL and previous versions of that router were mainstream for years... but G radio is pretty weak by today's standard; The new N routers are not just about faster signal, but the real benefit is often the better antenna MIMO signal designs.
With many routers, two or more can act as wireless repeaters (WDS mode) allowing you to reach areas with wired or wireless. It is also possible to connect two routers back to back with Ethernet cable and share out an existing WiFi connection with a new name and signal.
I will bring two Linksys WRT-310N routers with dd-wrt loaded and discuss the loading process, features, and . This is a well supported Linux router available at Buy.com, Newegg, Amazon and so forth for around $85 (also goes on sale at times for lower). This is a Broadcom based router with 32MB of RAM for running Linux - allows you a lot of flexibility in what services it can perform for your network. It is a little more expensive model given it is also a gigabit switch for the cabled side of the network.
Information on the routers supported by Linux dd-wrt:
We will also show a Atheros based Netgear WNR2000 802.11n router running a customized version of OpenWRT. Information on OpenWRT is here
]]>http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Texas_Advanced_Computing_Center
According to Wikipedia, this recently upgraded Ranger runs CentOS
Linux. Some tech details:
* 62976 CPU CORES
* 125 TERABYTES OF MEMORY
* 107 PETABYTES DISK SPACE
* 580 TERAFLOPS PERFORMANCE
The TACC tour is scheduled for 7:00pm on November 6, followed by a
pizza outing at 9:00pm. The Computer Club of Austin meeting is free
and open to non-members.
Jim Hogg, Linux promoter extraordinaire, will be giving a talk November 13th on the style and methods he uses to promote our favorite operating system. Jim has turned hundreds of people into devoted Linux users and taught them the easy methods for being a GNU/Linux Johnny Appleseed. Be there and contribute to the enthusiasm.
The presentation will occur at the regular ALG meeting on November 13 at:
Google map of how to get to 625E 10th St, Austin TX