------------------------------- Wed Aug 21 06:51:26 PM EDT 2024 ------------------------------- Transcript of Chat box from BLU meeting, Wed, Aug 21. 2024 Meeting held online via Jitsi Meet In attendance (9 total): Speaker(s): * Brandon Vogel BLU officers: * John Abreau * Jerry Feldman Attendees (named): * Violet Pfeiffer MIT Haystack * Edward Piecewicz * Robert Luoma Attendees (anonymous): * Chuba * hammerron * Lucas ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- hammerron says:I am a member of the Worcester LUG...I wanted to see if I could connect..hoping to see the presentation next month 18:32 ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Brandon Vogel says:Honestly didn't know there was a Worcester user group. Cool! 18:32 ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Violet Pfeiffer MIT Haystack says:👍 18:32 ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- H hammerron says:I think we have a website http://wlug.org hammerron says:we meet monthly and use jitsi simultaneously 18:33 ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Brandon Vogel says:I'm in Framingham - about halfway between Boston and Worcester 18:34 ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- hammerron says:gotcha..I live in CT, but the WLUG meets in Worcester, MA hammerron says:If ok, I will stick around a bit to listen to the presentation? 18:35 ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Violet Pfeiffer MIT Haystack says:I was looking in to WLUG before but didn't know hou met remotely 18:35 ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- hammerron says:Yes Violet, they do both 18:36 ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Brandon Vogel says:Absolutely stick around while I make a mess of a presentation! 18:36 ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- hammerron says:..thank you. bet it's good 18:36 ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Brandon Vogel says:I'll take that bet! 18:36 ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- hammerron says:MIT..that's cool. I went YEARS ago to the MIT flea. Bought my fist laptop there 18:38 ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Brandon Vogel says:I used to live a couple blocks from where they had the flea and still never made it there. Would love to check it out some year. 18:39 ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Violet Pfeiffer MIT Haystack says:I've been trying to go to the MIT Flea and sell stuff. How was it? 18:39 ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- hammerron says:...I was there years back. Bet its not so good...amazon is killing it 18:39 ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Violet Pfeiffer MIT Haystack says: https://w1mx.mit.edu/flea-at-mit/ 18:40 ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Brandon Vogel says: https://patch.com/massachusetts/cambridge/calendar/event/20240818/5937245b-7793-4ed3-bfd4-3774e3083f51/swapfest-the-flea-at-mit-tech-tools-ham-radio-test-equipment-computers-retro-electronics 18:40 ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Jerry Feldman says:JABR is running a dnf upgrade and it is taking a long time. 18:52 ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Edward Piecewicz says:The bracket? Edward Piecewicz says:They should be standardized. Edward Piecewicz says:I have one Kidde and one First Alert. 19:07 ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Violet Pfeiffer MIT Haystack says:👍 19:08 ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Violet Pfeiffer MIT Haystack says:😮 19:12 ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Brandon Vogel says: https://www.cfa.harvard.edu/news/behind-scenes-tour-chandra-operations-control-center-now-available 19:14 ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Jerry Feldman says:Save Chandra https://www.savechandra.org/ 19:16 ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Violet Pfeiffer MIT Haystack says:😮 19:17 ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- John Abreau says:And yet, they recently fixed a major malfunction in Voyager! 😮 19:18 ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Violet Pfeiffer MIT Haystack Violet Pfeiffer MIT Haystack says:👍 19:19 ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- hammerron says:How long will Chandra stay in orbit? 19:22 ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Violet Pfeiffer MIT Haystack says:🙁 19:22 ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Violet Pfeiffer MIT Haystack says:Isn't RHEL just the up stream for CentOS? Violet Pfeiffer MIT Haystack says:😱 19:25 ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Brandon Vogel says: https://linux.web.cern.ch/almalinux/alma9intro/ 19:26 ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Violet Pfeiffer MIT Haystack says:I'm testing CentOS Stream 9 and it is painful. Violet Pfeiffer MIT Haystack says:😭 Violet Pfeiffer MIT Haystack says:👍 Violet Pfeiffer MIT Haystack says:TigerVNC? I haven't tested it but have heard good things. Violet Pfeiffer MIT Haystack says:👏 19:45 ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Edward Piecewicz says:Thank you. 19:45 ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- hammerron says:This was waaay interesting in my opinion. Thank You! 19:45 ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Jerry Feldman says:I forgot to record 😦 19:47 ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- John Abreau says:Oh crap. 19:47 ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Violet Pfeiffer MIT Haystack says:😀 19:48 ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- hammerron says:Now slide rules are in...LOL 19:52 ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Violet Pfeiffer MIT Haystack says:LOL Violet Pfeiffer MIT Haystack says:👍 19:55 ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- meeting ended at 7:56 pm