January Columbia Meeting Ideas

[Mike Erdely]

Hey, guys,

If you missed Michael Dexter's talk on Bhyve, you missed a good one.
Unfortunately, there were no slides or a recording.

What would you guys like to talk about for January's meeting? Our
regularly scheduled day/time would be Jan 30 @ 6:30 PM in Columbia.

-ME

[Mike Erdely]

Nobody is interested in meeting this month?

[Jason Crawford]

I've got my short talk about putting Ubuntu on my chromebook. Won't take too much time but can help with another talk. No slides just hands on.

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[Mike Erdely]

That works for me. See you Thursday.

Who else is coming?

[Johan Huldtgren]

I'll be there.

.jh

On 1/28/14, 7:21 AM, Mike Erdely wrote:
> That works for me. See you Thursday.
>
> Who else is coming?
>
> On Jan 28, 2014 12:05 AM, "Jason Crawford" <jasonrc...@gmail.com

> <mailto:jasonrc...@gmail.com>> wrote:
>
> I've got my short talk about putting Ubuntu on my chromebook. Won't
> take too much time but can help with another talk. No slides just
> hands on.
>
> On Jan 27, 2014 11:23 PM, "Mike Erdely" <mi...@erdelynet.com

> <mailto:mi...@erdelynet.com>> wrote:
>
> Nobody is interested in meeting this month?
>
> On Jan 3, 2014 9:46 AM, "Mike Erdely" <mi...@erdelynet.com

> <mailto:mi...@erdelynet.com>> wrote:
>
> Hey, guys,
>
> If you missed Michael Dexter's talk on Bhyve, you missed a
> good one.
> Unfortunately, there were no slides or a recording.
>
> What would you guys like to talk about for January's
> meeting? Our
> regularly scheduled day/time would be Jan 30 @ 6:30 PM in
> Columbia.
>
> -ME
>
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[Patrick Thomasson]

Me too
PT

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[Gareth]

I should be able to make it.
GD

[Mike Erdely]

Great! And, if this helps anyone make their decision as to whether to
come tonight or not:

I will probably give a short talk (if we have time) about two pieces
of software I'm running at home: pyTivo (which lets me copy files two
and from my Tivo) and minidlna (a DLNA-based media server that lets me
serve music, video, and pictures from my OpenBSD file server to my PS3
or Android devices. I won't be able to demo actually watching the
media, but I'll be able to show the software itself and in the case of
pyTivo, the web interface.

pyTivo is a port that I am currently working on in OpenBSD and haven't
even submitted to ports@. minidlna is already a port (package) in
OpenBSD.

-ME

On Wed, Jan 29, 2014 at 6:07 AM, Gareth <gareth...@gmail.com> wrote:
> I should be able to make it.
> GD
>

[Jason Crawford]

I use minidlna as well and its definitely a good tool. That TiVo stuff sounds nice maybe I'll be able to build a full OpenBSD media server now...

[Mike Erdely]

Sweet! We can talk about how you deal with adding files to your media
directory. Currently, I restart the daemon with "-R".

[Johan Huldtgren]

in the spirit of a media server discussion I can talk (briefly) about beets[1] which is a media library management program.

[1] http://beets.radbox.org

.jh
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[Jason Crawford]

So here's various links that I've used when hacking my Chromebook.

This was the first link I found on it, watching the video and all.
http://www.johnnythegeek.com/installing-ubuntu-12-04-on-acer-c7-chromebook-complete-guide/

This lets you install 64bit 12.04 on a 32bit chromeos chromebook. From here using update-manager (do-release-upgrade on command line) to go from 12.04 to 12.10 to 13.04 to 13.10.
http://chromeos-cr48.blogspot.ca/2012/04/chrubuntu-1204-now-with-double-bits.html

This script will install whichever version of Ubuntu you specify, but sticks to what Chromeos returns for `uname -m`
http://chromeos-cr48.blogspot.ca/2013/05/chrubuntu-one-script-to-rule-them-all_31.html

Various developer notes about chromebooks, and the specific one I demonstrated.
http://www.chromium.org/chromium-os/developer-information-for-chrome-os-devices
http://www.chromium.org/chromium-os/developer-information-for-chrome-os-devices/acer-c7-chromebook

Open-BIOS/firmware from FSF for chromebooks that you can flash to completely open them to any operating system. If you brick your chromebook you need to use a JTAG to reflash it back. Make sure to backup your old firmware first...
http://www.coreboot.org/Chromebooks

Exact model Chromebook I have.
Acer C710-2834

How to update your ChromeOS kernel from 3.4.0 to 3.8.0, and I can even include some config updates to allow you to use the kvm kernel modules for kernel-level hypervisors (disabled in the kernel by default).
http://superuser.com/questions/583269/chrubuntu-acer-how-to-load-kernel-3-8-0-16-instead-3-4-0