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2022-04-19 KCLUG Meeting, Parking, and Room Reservations
by Billy Croan 19 Apr '22

19 Apr '22

Greetings Everyone, I've gotten various questions from individuals and I wanted to answer them to all in one message. KCLUG is a member-supported "dis-"organization. So if you show up for a meeting, there is a meeting. If you don't, there isn't. Nobody is paid or obligated to run the group, so if there's something you think someone should be doing, "patches welcome", in the spirit of libre software :-) Anyone is free to book the room. I have no unique authority or title to enable me to do so. You don't have to live in KCMO, or even MO. I just asked Nicole Brewer (at the library) nicely last month and said I wanted to try to start the group up again and she was happy to oblige! She said she'd like to stop by sometime, so let's all be welcoming! I decided to try to re-activate the group again last month, so it's happening. I'll work on the website tomorrow at the meeting, at least the list-email-going-to-spam problem. This will be a good opportunity to show off opendkim and email signing. And I'm signing others up with shell accounts on the server to help with other website updates. This is a community project. KCLUG is, what all of you, choose to make of it. It's probably long overdue to replace the static html website with some CMS, so I'm accepting volunteers to take that on, and it's a great opportunity to resume-build. I can not guarantee I will be able or willing to do any specific task myself, on any schedule, but I'll try to make it to the meetings more going forward. "Breakfast" on the website, refers to the group heading to a restaurant after the meeting. It's always been sort of an 'afterparty thing' that folks talk about as they're packing up in the library and pick a spot. The Denny's that we went to before covid burned down again last year I think, and they didn't rebuild this time. I'll miss the free life entertainment that location provided.... We have the 1st Wed and 3rd Tue through June, reserved for room 312 in the downtown public library. (The original corner room we had). As we go forward if people always attend, we will get more reservations on the calendar. Each of us can demonstrate a technology or program to the group each week, so email the list with what you want to share and when to drum up attendance. The KCLUG meeting at the downtown location is a 'Library Sponsored Event'. Not that they're literally paying us, but they're providing the room for free. So if you park in the library's garage (to the west of the library itself) tell the front desk it's a library event when you come in, and let the librarian validate your parking ticket, not using the self-service validator on the south counter which is only good to discount 120 minutes to $3. -- If the librarian validates it, then it's free through the end of the night. The garage is more secure than the street, right next to the library, free now, and never full. Unless you drive a chevy bolt apparently. There's a big no-bolt or no-volt sign at the gate. I guess someone caught fire before that recall! They have a DC fast charger in the garage, but no L2 charger I have a few more 3d prints to share tomorrow, and I'll demonstrate setting up DKIM on linux tomorrow, because that seems to be something affecting our mailing list. (Hope this message finds you all well) -Billy Croan

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Re: KCLUG meeting tomorrow?
by David Nicol 18 Apr '22

18 Apr '22

Mr Johnson, you are welcome to try and revitalize kclug. On Mon, Apr 18, 2022, 07:26 <richdj(a)northcs.com> wrote: > > 4/18/22 > > David & Billy > > I emailed David in March re attempting to attend a > KCLUG meeting and found no one in attendance. The > library had no knowledge of there being a meeting. > > Unable to make the one on Wed April 6 but want to > try for tomorrow evening. Soooo. The big question is, > is there going to be one? Is the room reserved? > > If not then maybe it's time to update the web site > with information. > > Re information-the web site mentions the location of > a breakfast meeting but not mention of date or time. > Makes it a bit hard to make plans. > > Also. There is a 'webmaster(a)kclug.org' email listed > but that bounces. So does 'admin(a)kclug.org'. Is there > a point of contact? Maybe the group is basically no > longer active. If so, maybe it's time to take down > the website. > > Thanks. > > Richard Johnson > richdj(a)northcs.com > 816-741-8089 > >

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Re: Wed 2022-04-06 @ downtown library
by Jonathan Hale 06 Apr '22

06 Apr '22

64130 most of the time now.. but rarely ever go downtown (as I hate how narrow the streets are there.. and parking..) Plus, I work at the TMO campus in OPKS and think I was still at or near the campus till around 830-9pm today/tonight.. -----Original Message----- From: Billy Croan Sent: Apr 6, 2022 9:39 PM To: kclug , Monty Harder Subject: Re: Wed 2022-04-06 @ downtown library Well, we had 5 people today, and two new guys, Nick and Leeland. Thanks everyone for coming. I shared some 3d prints and tools (FossCAD, OpenSCAD, TinkerCAD), and the Wine tool PlayOnLinux. If you could check your email for a message from me on On Mon, Apr 4, 2022, 1:19 PM, I would appreciate it. That's when I first wrote the list. Let me know if you see it in your spam folder, why it is there is your see an answer, or send it to me with headers if you can. Also please let me know where you're coming from before the meetings and where you're going to afterwards if that's different. Just a zip code is probably fine if you want. I want to put pins on a map and validate if the downtown library is still the best location before I try to get the downtown library system to approve us again for free room use. :wq -Billy Croan On Wed, Apr 6, 2022, 4:29 PM Billy Croan wrote: I'll get there between 630 and 645 today. I'm going to bring some 3d printing examples too. Who else is coming? On Mon, Apr 4, 2022, 1:19 PM Billy Croan wrote: I got our old corner room, 312, at the downtown KC public library reserved for this Wednesday the 6th. I can show off xpra and some 3d printing/design stuff I've done lately. I can't go to breakfast afterwards like before, but should be at the library by 7 at the latest, and hope to see some of you there for the first time since covid.

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Wed 2022-04-06 @ downtown library
by Billy Croan 06 Apr '22

06 Apr '22

I got our old corner room, 312, at the downtown KC public library reserved for this Wednesday the 6th. I can show off xpra and some 3d printing/design stuff I've done lately. I can't go to breakfast afterwards like before, but should be at the library by 7 at the latest, and hope to see some of you there for the first time since covid.

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Please unsubscribe me
by JanChris Hoelscher 01 Apr '22

01 Apr '22

I've moved away from the KC area, and would like to be unsubscribed. -- Thanks - Chris.

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Re: KCLUG meeting
by David Nicol 18 Mar '22

18 Mar '22

Yikes. I need to do something about that. On Thu, Mar 17, 2022, 11:27 <richdj(a)northcs.com> wrote: > re: KCLUG meeting 3/15/2022 > > I found your email address in a KCLUG mail thread. > As 'admin(a)kclug.org' and 'webmaster(a)kclug.org' do > not work, I'm reaching out to you to find out about > the group. > > I went to the meeting Tuesday evening to find there > was no meeting. The desk said the room was not > reserved and they had no information. > > What gives? > > Who maintains the web site that I can contact. The > thread I read dated 2/22 sounds like you might be > the contact. > > Thanks. > > Richard Johnson > richdj(a)northcs.com > >

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Xpra: GNU Screen for GUIs
by Billy Croan 15 Mar '22

15 Mar '22

Anyone here use xpra and wouldn't mind showing it off at the library? I've found a couple gui programs that I want to keep running all the time, and I don't want to have a "server" running at home, nor keep my laptop on 24x7. So I want to run them on a remote server, and simply peek in on them when I need to use them. They need to continue executing when I'm not looking though. And I also don't want to have a Window locked in another window like rdp or vnc would do. I want full desktop integration. FreeNX was a nightmare last time I went down that rabbit hole, and this time I found xpra and it looks like it might do the trick!

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Re: KCLUG.org IP change
by David Nicol 22 Feb '22

22 Feb '22

oh wow, i talked you into testing Advenge with kclug.net. That project is still alive --- who wants restricted forwarding addresses? I need user testers -- patient ones lol. On Tue, Feb 22, 2022 at 1:40 PM Billy Croan <Billy(a)croan.org> wrote: > Okay DNS for kclug.org should be straightened out and .com. > > Does anyone know if David Nichol is still around? The last email I see > from him was 2019. I'm not even sure I've introduced my new last name to > him. > > He owned kclug.net originally. He transferred to me years ago when I was > both renewing everything for the next decade but he wanted email for.net > to forward to be handled by one of his servers at advenge.net. The > service still pings so I'm going to set it up as it was before I guess. > It's not like we're using email on .net. > > I also noticed that none of our domains have any SPF or dcim setup. Nor > dmarc nor bimi. > > I will set up SPF to allow mail from our server but I don't know how > excited I am to go much beyond SPF myself. > > On Tue, Feb 22, 2022, 1:26 PM Billy Croan <Billy(a)croan.org> wrote: > >> Also updating to whois contact info to not use my name. I'm putting the >> email address admin(a)KCLUG.org and the library postal address. This is >> just for the who is info not for our namecheap account. >> >> Also putting on whois privacy. >> >> On Tue, Feb 22, 2022, 1:20 PM Billy Croan <Billy(a)croan.org> wrote: >> >>> Oops. Sorry I didn't see this earlier. I checked the zone files and >>> there was nothing too fancy going on in them so I'm just going to import >>> them into name keeps posted DNS solution. That also gets us DNSsec for free >>> then I never had bothered to set up on my own DNS server >>> >>> On Tue, Feb 22, 2022, 10:57 AM Chris Bier <chris.bier(a)cymor.com> wrote: >>> >>>> I forgot that I don't have direct records access via Namecheap. Can you >>>> update it on your server, Billy? >>>> >>>> On Tue, Feb 22, 2022, at 09:10, Chris Bier wrote: >>>> >>>> Interesting. I hadn't heard that. 1.8 seems like a lot for that >>>> building. >>>> >>>> On Tue, Feb 22, 2022, at 08:55, Billy Croan wrote: >>>> >>>> That's curious. They're selling their building btw. Moving in with >>>> another datacenter downtown I think in the coming months. I doubt there >>>> will be a whole lot for us to do sincee we're virtual, but heads up. >>>> >>>> Also if you're looking for a new building, Walt it's asking 1.8m for >>>> it. It's out of Unreal's ballpark. They've already gotten interest from a >>>> neighboring company who wants to tear it down to store heavy equipment on >>>> the lot apparently. >>>> >>>> On Tue, Feb 22, 2022, 8:37 AM Chris Bier <chris.bier(a)cymor.com> wrote: >>>> >>>> >>>> NetStandard is bumping us to a different IP as our range is in conflict >>>> with someone else's. >>>> Our new IP is: 139.146.142.21 >>>> I'm updating DNS now. >>>> >>>> >>>> -- "Lay off that whiskey, and let that cocaine be!" -- Johnny Cash

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Web Site Updates
by Jonathan Hutchins 15 Dec '21

15 Dec '21

Ok, specified updates made, sorry "tomorrow" got stretched quite a bit. Any more corrections will be made when I get to it, which is obviously not right away. Walt, AFIK the site's on shared NetStandard hosting. Our own hardware died several years ago. (It's still in my basement if anybody's interested in it.) -- Jonathan

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Press enter, check facts
by Jonathan Hutchins 11 Dec '21

11 Dec '21

The calendar is fine. -- Jonathan

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