I spent the morning at PodCampSLC 2010, including my presentation at 10am entitled ‘Capturing audio and video on the cheap’ or ‘How to keep the wife happy while buying lots of electronic equipment’.  I’ve been tinkering with audio and video recording equipment for several years now as part of the Utah Open Source Foundation and the Utah Open Source Conference and figured I had a lot to share.

My presentation slides were pretty basic, but cover some of the equipment I have purchased on the cheap.  In addition, we recorded the presentation using FreeSeeR, a free software application for  recording the desktop screen, external video and/or audio.

Enjoy the presentation slides and video as I really enjoyed presenting and am looking forward to PodCampSLC 2011!

Cheers,

Herlo

RSSCloud is an open protocol which creates a loosely-coupled Twitter-like network of people and 140 character status messages.  In plainer language, it enables real-time status updates on anything that can be pushed via RSS.  Why should you care?  Come to the SLLUG daytime SIG meeting to find out.

More information can be found at http://rsscloud.org/

So why not come down to BetaLoft next Wednesday, November 11, from 11:30am-1pm and learn about RSSCloud.

Cheers,

Herlo

Location:

BetaLoft SLC – 357 West 200 S, Suite 201, Salt Lake City
Map

See you all there.

Clint

The reason I’m posting is that I have been accepted as a speaker for Ignite Salt Lake 3 at the Murray Theatre on August 20.

I’ve thinking about my presentation and I think I’ve got a good idea for what I am going to do, but I am just fleshing out my ideas here.

My talk is entitled: Utah Open Source – Free Software Abounds

I plan talking about the basic concept of free software, the culture and how we do open source in Utah.  I intend to close out the presentation showing off the Utah Open Source Conference and it’s benefit to the community.

I’m planning on having some real fun at Ignite Salt Lake.  I sure hope you all will come and join me on August 20 at the Murray Theatre.

Cheers,

Herlo

This month’s SLLUG Daytime SIG meeting is this coming Wednesday, July 8, from 11:30am-1pm at BetaLoft.  I apologize for being slow getting this out, we’ve been working through a big datacenter move this past week at work.  Now that is over, it’s time for SLLUG Daytime at BetaLoft, (357 W 200 S Suite 201 Salt Lake City, UT, 84101).  Here’s a map if you need directions.

I’d like to let you all know that I (Herlo) will be presenting this month, and the topic is: Cobbler, the powerful, installation, dhcp, dns and repo server!

If you have ever wanted to setup a system with pxe, dhcp, customized repositories and more, then cobbler is for you.  Feel free to read up on the cobbler website before the meeting.

I should mention that cobbler supports several distributions of Linux, and will soon support Windows remote installation (using Linux RIS).  Albeit, I’ll focus on setup of cobbler, a simple installation server with just one distro, using kvm and koan (kickstart over a network) with some basic networking and showing the gui tools as well.

Bring your lunch and your brains and learn all about setting up your very own install server in under an hour.

See you all on Wednesday!

Cheers,

Herlo

Cooking with PAM

Thad Van Ry will cover the basics of Pluggable Authentication Modules (PAM). If you’re a Sys Admin who wants to know how PAM can help you or hurt you, this meeting is for you. Thad will go over the different stacks available as well as how to call modules and their control flags.

Thad is a Linux System Administrator for the LDS Church. He has been using Linux in his work life for the past 12+ years.

We meet in conference room A on the lower level of the Salt Lake Library.  Head down the stairs, make a left turn.  The conference room is directly under the foyer area (the area with all the shops on the 1st level)  If you aren’t clear, ask the information desk.  A map is available of all floor plans of the library.

Also, our meetings should be posted on the Electric Signs by the entrance to the library on the first floor.

• Legal: The largest change was to the legal section, previously there wasn’t one mainly due to the fact that when Paul presented it at UTOSC 2008, the Fedora Remix secondary trademark was not yet available.
  • For instance, one can now create a Fedora Remix and label it as such without asking permission of the Fedora Project or Red Hat
  • There are now clear guidelines as to the distribution of such Remixes, which will make it easier to protect the Fedora trademark.
• Artwork: The new Fedora Remix art allowed me to update the slides to include examples of some of the Fedora Remix logos (and one at the end with the four foundations) on every page as an OpenOffice.org Impress master slide set.  Maybe I will make these into templates one day if I decide to learn how.
• Approach:  When Paul did his presentation, I recalled he built an install DVD using pungi, but I felt it more appropriate to show a LiveCD being built which then let me reboot into a LiveUSB after converting it with livecd-iso-to-disk.
  • An additional thought I considered with my approach here (after I was done presentting, of course) would be to add the impress or pdf presentation loaded up in the Live Image.
  • Also, a true Fedora Remix would be nice with packages that I’ve created (or someone else’s repo that’s FOSS) to show the actual proof in the pudding.

I felt it went very smoothly and was quite useful.  I expect that the recorded version (I think they recorded it to video from what I recall) will be out in a short while.  I expect that a few folks will take these very simple tools and get some cool Fedora Remixes in the works.

I look forward to seeing more Fedora Remix presentations in the future.

Cheers,

Herlo

I’ve been meaning to write this post for a while, as I have been thinking about it for some time.  I’ve been working really hard on this presentation for tomorrow afternoon at the Southern California Linux Expo this weekend.  So I’d like to discuss what I’ve been working on and provide my links to slides (odp and pdf format) for those who wish to download them.  I’m guessing I’ll get asked where my slides are at least once, so here they are, right here, on this post.

Anyway, I’d like to discuss a little about the presentation’s concepts and tools here.  That way, if you did attend my talk, you can refer here to some of the points I’ll make.

First off, I’m going up against the Ubuntu Community Manager, Jono Bacon.  I wish him luck though, as I will swear less in my presentation :)  But I digress, I’m in the theater, so that should make room for the large crowd I’m expecting.  If you were worried you might not get into my presentation, don’t!  There’s plenty of seating.

Okay, now to my real points, I’ll be talking about three technologies used to build a full distribution.  Built and maintained within the fedora application space.  I think that’s great:

1. livecd-tools – This toolkit provides the building blocks for creating your own spin (or remix).  We’ll discuss how to use livecd-creator and livecd-iso-to-disk out of this package.  In fact, if all goes well, I’ll build a new Fedora LiveUSB right in the presentation.
2. pungi – This application is used for building Installation Media.  It can build CDs, DVDs or even provide for a network based install.
3. revisor – Revisor provides both of the above tools in one configurable GUI.  However, it also has a very powerful and flexible GUI.  In fact, the Fedora Unity group creates an updated ISO and makes it available about 3 months after each release using Revisor.

I hope this little review page can provide some answers to questions, plus access to my slides and any other resources you might need.

Cheers,

Herlo

Just wanted to give you all a quick reminder that the first SLLUG (daytime SIG) meeting will be this Wednesday, Feb 11 from 11:30am-1pm

The first meeting I will present ‘Fedora Remix: Custom distributions based upon proven design’

I should also mention that I’ll be bringing some swag to give away.  I have some cool computer bags and a copy of the latest openSUSE 11.1 boxed edition to give away.

I’ve included the details about location again below.  For particulars inside the library, read my previous post.

If you have questions, feel free to email me directly <herlo1 AT gmail>.

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Salt Lake Public Library:
210 E 400 S, Salt Lake City, UT‎ – (801) 524-8200‎
Google Map: http://tinyurl.com/slcpubliclibrary

See you all there.

Herlo

The topic I submitted, Fedora Remix.

It turns out that it’s a remix of another presentation from the Utah Open Source Conference by Paul Frields.  But things have changed since that presentation was given. Here’s a couple I’ll mention:

• First, Fedora has now approved a secondary trademark called ‘Fedora Remix’.    I’ll talk a little about how this can be used and what the benefit is to downstream groups and Fedora.
• The spin-kickstarts rpm created by Jeroen van Meeuwen provides over 30 kickstarts you can start with to make things better.

In preparation for this presentation at SCaLE 7x, and if you are in Utah, I’ll be presenting it (hopefully) a couple times at the Local User Groups (LUGs).

Cheers,

Herlo