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Welcome to PenguinsUnbound.net. This site is for the Monthly Meeting of Linux Enthusiast. We plan to have the meeting the last Saturday of each month (or as close as we can get) see the Future meeting link. Our Next Meeting August 21from 10:00am to 12:00pm Lightweight Linux Distros You can download from our unoffical mirror http://apt-cache.ties2.net (and use our apt cache!) Looking for info on Linux distributions ? Check out w...

This is an anchor page for the list of future meetings. Our usual meeting place is at TIES (http://www.ties.k12.mn.us) at 1667 Snelling Ave. N., St. Paul, MN 55108. That is the SW corner of Snelling and Larpenteur.  See the Location for meetings link at left. Meeting are usually from 10am to 12pm.  Install Fests are usually 9:00am to 5:00pm or so. Meeting Pages are in Year Month Day format, YYYYMMDD for sort order in the wiki.See links in left pane for info about meetin...

Our usual meeting place is at TIES (http://www.ties.k12.mn.us) at 1667 Snelling Ave. N., St. Paul, MN 55108. We usually meet in the Learning Center Conference Room.  You will need to use the entrance on the west side of the building, under the walkway to parking garage. Occasionally we meet in the Larpenteur Room.  This is on the second floor above the parking garage.  To get to the Larpenteur room you can go in the same doors, then take the elevator or stairs to the sec...

Tux has been moon lighting! http://www.flickr.com/photos/pioneeradam/859019604/ Linus Interviewed by Charlie Rose http://www.charlierose.com/guests/linus-torvalds RevolutionOS  (Thanks for the links Rick)     http://www.revolution-os.com/     http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=7707585592627775409 Okay this isn't Linux, but they have some pretty funny OpenSource stuff.      http://geekz.co.uk/ Think your server room is hard to get...

You can contact me, Brian Dolan-Goecke        via my web page, http://www.goecke-dolan.com/Brian/sendmeail.php        phone me at 612-759-0967Thanks.

Here is a very relevant article, "Doe we still need LUGs?" http://www.linux.com/feature/118046 and there is sure to be some interesting comments on slashdot, http://linux.slashdot.org/linux/07/07/23/1357259.shtml

Some other Linux Meeting in the Twin Cities,

This page lists previous meeting dates, and links to meeting notes.

We are mostly me, Brian Dolan-Goecke.  I have been a Linux user for a long time, and enjoy talk about Linux anytime.  But having a family and a job limits my ability to talk about Linux.  I had been trying to start a Linux User Group, I am also open to talking about ANY Open Source Software issues/topics.

This page has some links to resources for Learning about and learning Linux. Please add and contribute links. OpenSource PodCast     http://www.gutsygeeks.com/ Ubunutu Zine (Online Magazine), this is in PDF format.     http://fullcirclemagazine.org/ A Linux manual, you can download in PDF and html, or view online.      http://rute.2038bug.com/index.html.gz The Debian APT HowTo Guide      This guide will be useful to...

TIES has recently added some OpenOffice 3 Classes to their training schedule.  For the convience of the Linux Community, and TIES, I have copied the class info here.  You can see more info about the classes on the TIES Teaching and Learning search page by searching for "OpenOffice". The Instructor and I are working to have Ubnutu Linux 9.04  as a platform option for these classes. If you are interested in taking a class you can contact:TIES1667 Snelling Ave. N., ...

Jack Ungerleider is going to talk about using the Insignia Pilot with Linux. Jack Says: "It will play ogg files but doesn't organize them very well. So I rip to MP3 using KAudioCreator and manage the music to the Insignia using Amorok. I've also taken to using Kyamo to edit the tags for album art. Works like a champ." Hardware run down: Insignia Pilot - 4Gb Media player - Best Buy "House brand" - price (6/22/2008) $119.99 4GB SD HC expansion card HP Pavillion dv6000 S...

July 28thFrom 10:00am to 12:00pmTopic, "Monitoring your hard disks status" Where, TIES Learning Conference Room Synopsis You have all that data, Gigs and gigs nearly a Terabyte, wouldn't it be nice to know how your disk drive is doing!  Thought you could only get those tools with big expensive server and raid/io equipment ?  Your average off the shelf ide/sata disk drive has had the ability to tell you information about the health of the drive for years, I will show you...

Our Next Meeting will Septemeber 29,2007 at TIES 1667 Snelling Ave. N., St. Paul, MN 55108 From 10:00am to 12:00pm About Virtualization with OpenVZ and a little bit about Kernel-based Virtual Machine. At TIES As of 9/14 Brian was not sure what he'd talk about, thinking either OpenVZ or MythTV. It will probably be whichever project he makes the most progress on! I (Fred Olson)  would be willing to talk about the saga of enlarging the s...

This meeting we will try and answer some Linux/Unix questions.  So come and bring your questions, and we will try and answer them. *** Note *** Our meeting this month will be in the Larpenteur room.  This room is above parking garage (see the picture) in the front of the garage on the side of the building facing Larpenteur.  You can go in the glass door under the skyway and take the stairs or the elevator to the second floor, then take the skyway to the parking garage a...

Vim, Love it! Hate it! Either way it is always useful to know more about it! Adam Monsen has volunteered to come and talk about

This month I will be going over IP. Home page for IP COP http://www.ipcop.org Forums are at http://www.ipcops.com Article about IPCop http://www.howtoforge.com/perfect_linux_firewall_ipcop Talk about     Why use IPCop     Features of IPCop Setup an IPCop machine     Load IPCop     Configure IPCop     Set some configuration optionsIPCop VPN ?     http://www.ipsec-howto.org/   &...

We are having an  Install Fest. April 26th 2008 From 8:00am to 4:00pm At TIES (the usual Location) Linux Install Fest and Ubuntu 8.04! Release Party So bring your computer(s) and bring your friends computer! We will be enjoying the new Ubuntu Release 8.04 BUT We are HAPPY to help with ANY LINUX, and we often know several different Linux/Unixes! We will have Linux/Ubuntu CD's ready to install, along with a local repository mirror and a few big fat internet pipes! Hope ...

Saturday October 27th, 2007 from 10:00 to 12:00 at TIES MythTV This wasn't the presentation that gave, and this presentation isn't complete.  We had an open discussion about MythTV, and I hope to incorporate some of that into the presentation. What I need to cover     Myth History, others, comercial     Configurations        Single machine        Client/Server config     Hardware to us...

Fred Olson, the Feb 2008 winner of a OLPC give away at a Meeting showed and talked about the XO-1 modelOLPC.  See his page:  http://fholson.cohousing.org/olpc/laptop.htm Saw this link to the next version of OLPC,http://www.xconomy.com/2008/05/20/negroponte-unveils-2nd-generation-olpc-laptop-its-an-e-book/

This month we are going to play around with Audacity.

III I NNN SS TTT AA L L I N N S T A A L L I N N SS T AAAA L L I N N S T A A L LIII N N SS T A A LL LLFFF !!F EEE SS TTT !!FF E S T !!F EE SS T !!F E S TF EEE SS T !! We will be having an Install Fest for Ubuntu 8.10! from 9:00am to 5:00pm This months PenguinsUnbound is having an Install Fest/Release party Nov. 8th from 9am to 5pm for the new release of Ubuntu 8.10!! (Although wewill be _happy_ to help you ...

'smartctl' is the command line tool to get info and control the S.M.A.R.T. capable drive. To start with you would probably want to query the status of your drive.  This command will print all S.M.A.R.T. info about the disk. sudo smartctl -a /dev/hda (You can figure out what hard drives your have by,        Looking in your dmesg output        Traversing your /proc/ide tree        Or looking in /proc/partitions, thi...

The primary tools to monitor S.M.A.R.T. capiable disk drives are the smartmontools, http://smartmontools.sourceforge.net/.These are comprised of two main tools, smartctl and smartd.  smartctl is used to access and set S.M.A.R.T. info on the drives.  The smartd tools is a daemon that run to continuely monitor the status of your drive and report/email that. These tools can be used to monitor both IDE (PATA and SATA drives) and scsi drives.  In addition they have drivers to work wi...

Linux Install Fest August 18, 2007 From 10:00 to 4:00 at TIES in the Grand Hall (Above the parking garage) (A/C and Wi-Fi included) We will be able to install most Linux version, and should be able to download any linux version you need. I was planing to have a talk about MythTV or Virtual Linux, but I have bee unable to prepare a presentation, so that will have to wait for the next meeting. Hope you an attend! Please, if you are bringing a computer to install Linux on have the hardware all r...

This meeting is early because of the State Fair runs August 21 through September 2. At this meeting I will talk about the Linux Terminal Server Project. (LTSP). A local teacher (David Groos) is building a lab with LTSP.  I am trying to help with this project.  I will talk about the what LTSP is and how it works. Here is a link to Davids Presentation - http://mpsscience.org:8181/rhs/Members/mrgroos/cesc/the-new-dealPlease consider contributing at the Ubuntu LoCo Minnesota Team Wiki -...

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Paul Cutler, the Community Manager will come and talk about Foresight (http://www.foresightlinux.org).From their webpage; Foresight is a desktop operating system featuring an intuitive userinterface and a showcase of the latest desktop software, giving usersconvenient and enjoyable access to their music, photos, videos,documents, and Internet resources.

S.M.A.R.T. is implemented by most (all ?) drive manufactures.  Some motherboards do enable and check this info also to be able to warn the users of possible disk failure.Some drive have additional information gathered by the S.M.A.R.T. firmware.  So the info gathered, relative use and accuracy varies by manufacture, drive, and model. Next Slide

We will take a look at WIki's and look at how to use the Wiki on the PenguinsUnbound Website.Then take a quick look at the new Ubuntu 8.10And then answer questions your have about Linux !Hope to see you there!!!

Example session, with drive errors.  I made this log via a Knoppix 5.1 bootable CD, that includes the smarttools. knoppix@Knoppix:~$ smartctl -hsmartctl version 5.36 [i686-pc-linux-gnu] Copyright (C) 2002-6 Bruce AllenHome page is http://smartmontools.sourceforge.net/ERROR: smartctl requires a device name as the final command-line argument.Use smartctl -h to get a usage summaryknoppix@Knoppix:~$ smartctl -hsmartctl version 5.36 [i686-pc-linux-gnu] Copyright (C) 2002-6 Bruce AllenHome page ...

On Ubuntu, the config file is /etc/smartd.conf you probably do not need to edit anything in there unless if you something non-standard.  By default smartd is configed to look for any drives and monitor them. But you do need to edit /etc/default/smartmontoolssudo vi /etc/default/smartmontools Then start the smartd daemonsudo /etc/init.d/smartmontools smartd logs /var/log/syslog Example log output, newfish log, multiple PATA ide disk (/dev/hda /dev/hdb /dev/hdc) Jul 28 01:00:27 newfish...

This page has no content. Enrich the Www workspace by contributing. I (Brian Dolan-Goecke) will be there all day.  In addtion these people will be here to help. In addition Jeff Lehman ( Redhat, Debian/Ubuntu and Gentoo) will be around all day to help. Time Who 8:00am 9:00am 10:00am  Jack Ungerleider (Until Noon, maybe later) SuSE and other stuff 11:00am ...

What is MythTV ?MythTV is a computer application, using Linux OS, to record and display TV.  It has been expanded to do more so you can now browse the web, listen to your music collection, check the weather and a lot more via the computer.

If have a chance you should look at the home page (http://smartmontools.sourceforge.net/) for this project.  They have a lot of great info available.

Here are some additional options that maybe useful.Option to handle how smartctl will work with a drive that is under "Power Managment", ie a laptop hard drive.From the manpage (http://smartmontools.sourceforge.net/man/smartctl.8.html) -n POWERMODE, --nocheck=POWERMODE    Specifieds if smartctl should exit before performing any checks when the device is in a low-power mode. It may be used to prevent a disk from being spun-up by smartctl. The power mode is ignored by def...

With modern disk drives info is gather and stored about the status of the disk.  The system that monitors the disk and track this info is called "S.M.A.R.T.", which stands for "Self-Monitoring, Analysis, and Reporting Technology" Note, all examples are from Ubuntu (either 6.06 or 7.04) unless explicitly stated otherwise. Next Slide

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This page will show you how to create a ring tone file  inAudacity.  I use Ubuntu Linux, and will use that in this tutorial. Audacity should work simular on Windows. The format of ring tones for my phone is "WAV (Microsoft 4 bit MS ADPCM)" at 22050 Hz no longer than 29 seconds.

This assumes the file system is a Linux ext3 file system

This page is about resources for getting help with Audacity

Base install of Ubuntu 6.06 LTS Need to recompile the kernel, doesn't come in standard kernels. Download kernel    http://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/v2.6/linux-2.6.18.tar.bz2 Download patch     http://download.openvz.org/kernel/branches/2.6.18/028stab039.1/patches/patch-ovz028stab039.1-combined.gz Patch Kernel bzcat linux-2.6.18.tar.bz2 | sudo tar -xvf -cd linux-2.6.18/sudo patch -p1 < ../patch-ovz028stab039.1-combined Compile Kernel (http://wiki.open...

QEMU - http://fabrice.bellard.free.fr/qemu/

Compiled into kernels on Ubuntu, 7.10. Need packages sudo apt-get install kvm qemu Install the kernel module For AMD processors sudo modprobe kvm-amd For Intel processors sudo modprobe kvm-intel Some machines have the VM extension of the CPU turned off in bios. Linux should tell you this in a system message (available via dmesg)when you try and load the kernel module.

This page has no content. Enrich the Www workspace by contributing.On boot'c' - to boot off the CD-Rom Drive'option' - bring up menu of boot options

Load Ubuntu as you would, you should use Unbutu 7.10.Then Load the MythTV Softwareapt-get install mythtv-backend-server mythtv-frontendAny additional software