Alright, got my email changed and account setup again so I can login.

Hi all, thought I'd post a bit of what I'm doing. I'm an old software guy, but new to linux. We are a startup company, and part of what we are doing is creating a fairly high-end controller computer. We have started from a Wind River SBC 8560 Freescale processor & ref board, and spun a new board, with some PCI slots (for hard drives, video, and ???), so serial IO's, and some other cool stuff.

So we start by building U-Boot 1.1.6, for the ppc8560. Flash it into our 16M flash, and boot! Actually this is a PIA, and took a JTAG probe, and some WindRiver software $$$$$ to do it. Must be an easier way, or at least cheaper way to get something on a bare hardware device?

So to do this, I need ELDK cross-compiler. What a nicely done piece of software this is, easy to install, and it just works!

Next we build the kernel, 2.6.14, cross-compiled for the ppc8560, host is my RedHat box.

Then set up uboot to load kernel via tftp, nfs mount file system, and away we go!

Jumping into Linux now cause work says that its necessary. Looking to get L+ certified sometime. Long road learning a new OS but i can do it. I have some books and a Suse Live 10.2 DVD to help me get started. I know two commands right now, 'ls -l' and 'rm'. And off i go into Linux.....

Hi All,

I just relocated and I wonder if someone can give me some references to tech schools which have a Linux certification programs.

Thanks

This is partly a test to see if I can actually post a message here.

The meeting at NFA last week was a good exchange and I enjoyed it a lot.

Dave sent a note which suggested some outreach techniques and I found, without registering, that I could not respond to it. But being persistent, after registering, I sent it again, content follows with slight editing :

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I think that only a few people will come around as a result of the Cogan event, and it
could require hours of setup, burning disks, a fee for the table, and hours
of sitting there. Not that I'm trying to discourage it if that's what you
want to do. Only that there are better, cheaper, approaches that will reach more people.

For example, my cable TV company, Eastern Connecticut Cable, will play a sign free for non-profits during most of the hours of the day while public access is not actively airing
something...that's most of the time. There are a few other places where free
classified ads are locally available also. Possibly you would be willing to

Hi, all...

Am I correct that part of the purpose of ECLUG is to "spread the Good News"? I mean we have the meetings and occasionally someone brings in a friend or coworker. That's good. It seems to me, though, that, while attracting huge throngs of passingly interested or highly needy members might not be in the best interest of the group, drawing a larger number of regular members would be beneficial. I think that, for ECLUG to be the local steward for all that is good and open-sourcey in Eastern Connecticut, we need more hands, eyes, mouths, brains and dollars.

I was just thinking that, while our meetings generally tend to fill up the conference room at Howard Street pretty well, the regular membership seems to be a ... I dunno... tight-knit clan... which is not, in itself, bad, but here's a few things we might look into doing to encourage meeting attendance, membership, donation, community awareness and the proliferation of Free and OpenSource Software:

1) Install-Fests: To do this right we need to plan well in advance, get commitments from members and spend some money. Find schools, or libraries in our communities with high-speed internet access (or build "installfest servers" to run them isolated) and advertize... posters, handbills, phonebills... no, no... forget that... Contact the local TV news organization, or NPR radio station and have them do a fluff piece on the the thing, perhaps even a radio spot or 2.

The Virtual Iron (http://www.virtualiron.com/) thing requires Infiniband.

This is a real high-buck enterprise server virtualization system.

Anyway... didn't want to leave you all hanging! ;)

The image you see in my profile is fabricated... at least the background is. The color has been altered to make me even less appealing (and, perhaps, appearing more "guilty").

I merely surprised myself with the camera while struggling through an especially unrelenting case of bedhead.

I chose to use this image to remind those who see it that the old addage "The camera doesn't lie" is, itself, a lie perpetrated by those who use cameras to tell further lies. In modern times, with even the most rudimetary tools and basic skills (by current standards), anyone can place you at the scene of a crime, perhaps even committing it.

Don't get me wrong. I'm a big fan of modern technology. What troubles me is that the vast majority of folks don't seem to fully grasp the implications of technology and its impact on the validity of what they may be led to believe, and, perhaps more importantly, what others may be led to believe about them.

OK... I'm off the soapbox now. Someone else's turn.

This is just some mental notes to track what needs to be done to this website, and what is leftover or remaining on the TODO list:

1. Import the old "schedule.html" file into the "Event" content type, entry-by-entry, including back entries.

2. Finish theming the site up to clean some of the odd artifacts

3. Create some "books" and chapters to move forward with for the System Administration mini-course.

4. Fix the PayPal module to tie into the ECLUG bank account to accept donations

5. What else is missing?