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"How do you deal with difficult people?"
by David Nicol 07 Jun '09

07 Jun '09

I've been asked this question regularly at job interviews lately and I don't recall getting asked it during prior job search efforts. Have other people been fielding the same question, or am I on some kind of HR "difficult people" watch list? (slight hyperbole) discuss.

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Router for sale
by Brian Kelsay 03 Jun '09

03 Jun '09

A friend of mine has a router he'd like to sell. It's not the kind he really needs for service at his house, so I told him I'd post it here to help him get rid of it. It is one that will take a cellular broadband card if you get your internet from Verizon or Sprint and want to have your home network linked up thru the cellular broadband. -------------------------------------------------------------------------- Here is some info about that router I have. I'll let it go for $150 D-Link DIR-450 3G Mobile Router *Product Features:* <info(a)sebikes.com>• Plug in Your 1xEV-DO Internet PC Adapter to Share Online Access• Works Virtually Anywhere 1xEV-DO Cellular Service is Available• Create a Wireless Network - Check E-mail, Go Online, and Share Files 199.99 Retail,

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Speaking of the next meeting
by Chris Bier 02 Jun '09

02 Jun '09

-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 I'll bring my old Xbox and we can try modding it for the "Demo day". -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.9 (GNU/Linux) iEYEARECAAYFAkolTlMACgkQE5xXU3JS1mTHnwCgvzPswsA6I3zXBqKYugPbYZNV IpgAn0EXnPAAOVzPJbL0Wou8WzmkXbDm =JsDa -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----

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Re: Speaking of the next meeting
by Philip Dorr 02 Jun '09

02 Jun '09

The library has a projector you could probably use On Jun 2, 2009 11:56 AM, "Jestin Stoffel" <jestin.stoffel(a)gmail.com> wrote: Hard mod or soft? I have an already hard-modded system (using the Xenium ICE chip) that can run Gentoo, but I think I may have lost the keyboard/mouse that I hacked for it. I also don't have a small enough TV to bring, so it would be a lame demo. On Tue, 2009-06-02 at 11:07 -0500, Chris Bier wrote: > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- > Hash: S...

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person wants to know what takes place at demodays and installfests
by David Nicol 02 Jun '09

02 Jun '09

an email from from "Quincy Wofford" <quincy.wofford(a)gmail.com>, 2:55 PM (9 hours ago) Hello I am a deployment specialist for the headquarters of a medical training college based in Mission, Kansas and I am interested in participating in KCLUG. I have little experience with Linux in general. I have installed and configured Debian, Red Hat, Fedora, and I have completely failed an install of Gentoo. I can use Linux command line for simple tasks, but I want to dig into the guts of Linux and take advantage of features I simply can't get in Windows. I have ZERO knowledge of the C programming language, but I do have interest in learning how the kernel works. I would like to attend the June 3rd meeting, but unfortunately I need to work on-site during that time... Could you tell me more about KCLUG activities? I've tried looking into some audio files and gallery photos but everything seems to be unavailable at the moment. What takes place at a DemoDay vs an Installfest? I hope to hear from you soon! Thanks, Quincy Wofford (816) 797-5791

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Spice up your LUG
by Greg Mischel Smith 01 Jun '09

01 Jun '09

Found an article about spicing up your local LUG. Apparently some currently do it through beer. http://tuxradar.com/content/spice-your-lug -Greg

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Linux Admin Job
by Jim Herrmann 28 May '09

28 May '09

Linkedin had a Linux Admin job available for those who are looking and qualified: http://www.linkedin.com/groupAnswers?viewQuestionAndAnswers=&discussionID=3… Been open for awhile, so they must be having a hard time filling. -- - That One - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rCUOHKznUyI

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kclug.net
by David Nicol 15 May '09

15 May '09

I sapparently own kclug.net, and the registration expires soon. Anyone want to take it over?

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NAS advice?
by Sean Crago 21 Apr '09

21 Apr '09

I'm now the proud adopted father of a 60GB Playstation 3, a native DLNA-compliant UPNP player. I've had an N800 in the house for a while too, so it'd be nice to be able to start utilizing those capabilities. My current desktop dual-boots and stores most of the files that I make available over my home intranet on a pair of removable hard drives. I'm torn, however, between buying a hardware NAS (Can any of them really handle transcoding a decent variety of codecs?) or building a Solaris/BSD box. The NAS I'd stuff with three or four newly purchased hard drives, preferably purchased separately. If I were to build a Solaris/OpenSolaris/Nexanta/FreeBSD/whatever box, I'd be running a JBOD ZFS array with the two pre-existing drives (gutted from the removable chassies) and two new ones that are each twice the size of the older ones. If I were to go down homebrew road, we'd be talking about an Atom, a Nano, or some other reasonably low-power processor and motherboard - As long as I get enough performance to saturate an 802.11g connection, I'll be fine. More interested in being able to stretch out its life on a UPS. The added flexibility and the massive cost savings (largely from the JBOD capabilities) of the going the homebrew way seem nice, but does anyone have any words of wisdom about problems that I might run into trying to run a decent transcoding UPNP server on an OS with a mature ZFS implementation (ie, presumably not Linux just yet - I'm not running a four disk array under FUSE), or point out any other concerns that might push me towards an off-the-shelf NAS? A few other concerns that might influence what I ought to do: 1: My house is concrete and brick throughout, with basically no way to run CAT6 without punching holes in the floor. As such, the wifi connection is most likely to be the interface that all this stuff runs off of. 2: The current drives I'm using are about a year and a half old. If you think I'm better off getting all new drives, that's fine - I can sell my old ones easily enough here. 3: I'll definitely have the new NAS behind a UPS, regardless, but Kathmandu is "down" to 12 hours of rolling blackouts from last month's high of 16 hours/day, and I'm not about to burn enough of your tax dollars in my generator to keep the house powered up 24/7. Unattended shutdown or, at the very least, the ability to safely recover from an abrubt shutdown is an absolute necessity. Thanks, Sean Crago Kathmandu

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"Open Source Bridge" conference announcement
by David Nicol 07 Apr '09

07 Apr '09

if i sent this to kulua too i would get yelled at for crossposting. ---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: Reid Beels <reid(a)opensourcebridge.org> Date: Sun, Apr 5, 2009 at 9:19 PM Subject: Kansas City Perl Mongers + Open Source Bridge To: davidnicol(a)gmail.com Hi david, I'm one of the organizers of Open Source Bridge, a new open source developers’ conference being held June 17–19, 2009 in Portland, Oregon. We’re aiming to connect people across projects, languages and experience and would love to have members of the Kansas City Perl community involved as speakers and participants. Details about the conference are included below. Bridge isn’t a typical conference. It’s entirely volunteer-run, by developers, for developers. Session tracks are technology agnostic, based instead around shared community experiences and focused on similarities between projects, not differences. Plus, we’ll be running a 24-hour hacker lounge for code sprints, bug bashes, bouncing ideas, starting new projects or just mingling. We’d be delighted it if you could mention Open Source Bridge at your user group meetings, post this email to your mailing list, and get us in touch with others in your community interested in participating. We just extended our call for proposals through April 10th, which is fast approaching, so please pass this information on as soon as possible. We don’t expect something for nothing, so we’re giving all of your user group members a discounted registration rate of $150. That’s $25 off the Early Bird rate, and $100 off our regular registration. User groups are very important to the chairs of our conference — that’s how they both got started in the open source community. We’re also offering a free conference pass to give away to a member of your group. If you’re interested in more ways to promote the conference, let us know! Thank You! Reid Beels Open Source Bridge reid(a)opensourcebridge.org http://opensourcebridge.org/ CONFERENCE PASS RAFFLE INFORMATION: You get one free conference pass to raffle off to a member of your group! We’ve found the most successful raffles tend to follow these conditions: 1) Let all of your members know about the conference, dates, and URL: http://opensourcebridge.org/ 2) Allow anyone in the group to sign up for the raffle. 3) Draw the winner at random, preferably at a public meeting. When you have selected a winner, email usergroups(a)opensourcebridge.org, CC the winner, and we’ll register them for you. DETAILS TO SHARE WITH YOUR GROUP’S MEMBERS: Open Source Bridge http://opensourcebridge.org Open Source Bridge is a new conference for developers working with open source technologies. It will take place June 17-19 in Portland, OR, with five tracks connecting people across projects, languages and experience to explore how we do our work and why we participate in open source. The conference structure is designed to provide developers with an opportunity to learn from people they might not connect with at other events. Open Source Bridge is run entirely by volunteers who believe in the need for an open source conference that focuses on the culture of being an open source citizen, regardless of where in the stack you choose to code. All proceeds from conference registration and sponsorship go directly to the costs of the conference. Our sessions and events will share in-depth knowledge about using, creating and contributing to open source as citizens of a greater community. You’ll find relevant information whether you write web apps for the cloud, tinker with operating system internals, create hardware, run a startup, or blog about technology. We're still seeking proposals — and just extended the deadline to April 10th — so submit yours before time runs out. Some examples of our proposals so far: Brian Aker on Drizzle, a reboot of MySQL designed “for the cloud”; Linux Kernel hacker Greg K-H about how Linux manages development; Ward Cunningham, inventor of the wiki, about what’s next in collaboration; Amber Case, an anthropologist living in both the physical and virtual worlds, about Cyborg Citizenship. (You can view all current proposals at http://opensourcebridge.org/proposals/) In addition to regular conference sessions, we will hold an unconference day for free-form sessions, and host a 24-hour dedicated “hacker lounge” at the top of the Portland Hilton. In addition to hosting the hacker lounge, the Hilton has offered Open Source Bridge attendees steeply discounted room rates, starting at $139/night. The city of Portland is a great place to visit. It has a thriving technical community, a love of all things open source and offers many attractions for visiting geeks, including Powell’s technical books, dozens of local brewpubs, and large greenspaces like Forest Park—all accessible by mass transit. Visit http://opensourcebridge.org/ to learn more about the conference, see our session proposals, and register to attend. Thanks! PS: Interested in taking advantage of the user group discount code that will allow user group members to register for $150? Enter “osb4228” when you register to receive the discount. -- "Your appreciation is my glorious gratuity." -- Herman Melville on IP rights

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