The meeting today concerned the format of future meetings. Over the years the group has moved away from the formal style we started with to a far more casual and unstructured format. Dues have not been collected for years, introductions are rarely made, topics have been spotty at best. I take responsibility for these issues…
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Meeting-2014-11-22
This meeting covered an installation of ownCloud, ending with an exciting software RAID rebuild done live! The linked .pdf file is a complete walkthrough of the build. Thank you to all who attended! ownCloud
How to run a sub-domain of CLUG.Org
Why? Because DNS is a great enabler! Let’s say you want to share some information with the world but you have a regular, dynamic xDSL Internet connection. You start up a web server, open port 80 on your router, find your IP address is 72.49.120.103, then call some friends to let them know that address….
Dr. Richard Stallman
Richard Matthew Stallman (born March 16, 1953), often known by his initials, RMS, is an American software freedom activist and computer programmer. He campaigns for software to be distributed in a manner, such that a user receiving it, likewise receives with it the freedoms to use, study, distribute and modify that software: software that ensures…
Backup for gmail
Just read a useful article on lxer.com titled how to back up and restore gmail account in linux: http://xmodulo.com/2013/08/how-to-back-up-and-restore-gmail-account-on-linux.html It makes use of “Gmvault” to make a complete backup of your gmail account on your own computer. Seems like a useful application but might take a while if you’re backing up a few GB over…
Meeting-2013-08-24
There will be a meeting Saturday, August 24th, 2013, 10:00am, at the Pleasant Ridge Branch of the Cincinnati Public Library, located at 6233 Montgomery Road, Cincinnati, OH Google Maps Goodness The topic is setting up a web based camera server on the Raspberry PI, if there’s something specific you want to hear about, let me…
Raspberry Spi
# Insert an SD card into a Linux PC and; sudo fdisk -l # # Disk /dev/sdb: 3965 MB, 3965190144 bytes # 49 heads, 48 sectors/track, 3292 cylinders, total 7744512 sectors # Units = sectors of 1 * 512 = 512 bytes # Sector size (logical/physical): 512 bytes / 512 bytes # I/O size (minimum/optimal):…
Anybody looking for a Linux admin job?
I was recently contacted about a Linux administration position at a school (unnamed), but I’ve started a new job and wanted to know if any of you (or people you know) are interested? -Rod
Meeting-2013-07-27
There will be a meeting Saturday, July 27th, 2013, 10:00am, at the Pleasant Ridge Branch of the Cincinnati Public Library, located at 6233 Montgomery Road, Cincinnati, OH Google Maps Goodness I don’t have a topic yet, if there’s something you want to hear about, let me know, but leave out the Spam! Steve Jones E-Mail…
Changing the mount point of a partition
Hi CLUG, I have an external backup drive. The partition that has my Linux backup files (via rsync) is recognised as 43a15d01-9f3f-4069-bdab-106832d54ff0/ when I plug my removable drive into a usb port on my computer. I tried to rename the partition. This is what I get: mv 43a15d01-9f3f-4069-bdab-106832d54ff0/ backup/ mv: cannot move `43a15d01-9f3f-4069-bdab-106832d54ff0/’ to `backup/’:…