BELUG meeting Tuesday, February 13th, 2024 at 6:30pm

[Steve Herber]

BELUG: Supporting Linux and open source for 20 years.

The next BELUG meeting is tomorrow, Tuesday, February 13th at 6:30pm.

The Zoom link, with password, is:

https://us02web.zoom.us/j/131116407?pwd=OFkwZzZWMVhDdlhMTU91K2lOVkQvZz09

Meeting ID: 131 116 407
Passcode: 117647

We are also in-person at the North Bellevue Community Center. The address is:

North Bellevue Community Center
4063 148th Ave NE
Bellevue, WA. 98007

Please come early, if you can, to help set up the room.

The meeting will follow our normal format with introductions all around,
collecting technical questions to answer later, then any presentations,
and finishing with our best answers to the technical questions.

I am interested discussion topics for the coming months. Please send me
your suggestions.

Last month we discussed these and other topics:

A reminder that LinuxFest Northwest will be in Bellingham on April
26-28:

https://linuxfestnorthwest.org/

One member uses kubernetes in his home lab and uses them to support his
3d printer and laser cutter. Another person mentioned getting 3d models
from Thiniverse:

https://kubernetes.io/
https://www.thingiverse.com/

Another member was setting up a playstation emulator:

https://www.emuparadise.me/Sony_Playstation_Emulators/Linux/2

I wall-mounted a smart switch with a 3d printed bracket and another
member was installing a wall mounted server rack:

https://www.etsy.com/listing/1271766813/universal-wall-mounting-brackets-for?ref=yr_purchases
https://www.racksolutions.com/server-racks/wall-mount-racks

We spent some time talking about good backup solutions and the use of
snapshots and multiple backup storage systems:

https://www.pcworld.com/article/2050183/best-linux-backup-tools.html
http://snapper.io/
https://teejeetech.com/timeshift/

We discussed some of the open source cell phone software options:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_open-source_mobile_phones

Processing email was discussed and perl and procmail were mentioned:

https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/Procmail
https://blogs.perl.org/users/den/2023/05/how-to-send-and-receive-email-with-perl.html

As usual, we covered "related" topics:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trachtenberg_system

I hope to see you tomorrow.

Steve Herber her...@herber.us cell: 425-281-0355
Software Engineer, UW Medicine, IT Services