MELUG North - Maine Linux User Group, Northern Chapter

Maine Linux User Group, Northern Chapter

MELUG North, founded in April of 1999, is the northern chapter of MELUG, the Maine Linux User's Group. We are a small group of both hobbyists and professionals, hard core Unix users and newbies.

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This is the online component of Melug North. If you're in (or are thinking of moving to) Maine, USA, are closer to Bangor than other Melug chapters, and use Linux, this "social network" is a place to find news, information, and people of interest.

To join, create a Ning account if you haven't already, and then join this network. We're delighted to have you on board!

Comments are always welcome. Seth (and everyone else) will see them if you post them to the Meta forum section.

Latest Activity

Seth W. Klein replied to MadMarc's discussion 'keysigning party'

I suspect most of us do, when we have a need. That's not the way to do it, of course, but good paranoia is lots of work! If you want to check the appropriate howtos, etc., and run a keysigning party, we shouldn't have too much trouble finding spac...

October 21

Seth W. Klein replied to Joshua Gaylin's discussion 'Do you guys still meet?'

We don't currently meet. Last time we did, I was the only one who provided any content more than once a year, and there were plenty of meetings when Christian and I were the only ones who showed up. Some of our most successful meetings have been ...

October 21

Seth W. Klein and Matt Fisher are now friends

October 21

Seth W. Klein left a comment for Matt Fisher

October 21

Seth W. Klein left a comment for Brian Hodgins

October 21

Brian Hodgins added a blog post

Slackbuilds

September 22

Brian Hodgins replied to MadMarc's discussion 'keysigning party'

According to what I have found from a GPG howto myself (the official GnuPG site had manuals but they depended on someone already understanding them fundalmentally it seemed.), It seems like GPG is designed for transmitting messages from person a t...

September 19

Brian Hodgins replied to Joshua Gaylin's discussion 'Do you guys still meet?'

Yes, I do in fact use Slackware :) It's my all time favorite, and BSD-like. I just searched for the image, usualy go to the Slackware website to get it from the fan art section ( I think they call it propaganda, [I woke up earlier this morning tha...

September 19

Blog Posts

Slackbuilds

I moved my post from the forum to here, because it turns out it probably should have been put here in the first place. Sorry!

I was installing the Catalyst developer framework in Perl using Local::Lib the other day, and i could not help but notice an annoying sounding warning stating that my version of Perl, 5.10.0, which comes with the Slackware 13.0 GNU/Linux distribution, has the "Unknown error bug". Which makes fuzzy errors or doesn't report anything at all if there is something wrong with… Continue

Posted by Brian Hodgins on September 22, 2009 at 5:59pm

Local emerge --sync Mirror

I'm up to three Gentoo machines around me and one elsewhere, and I've been seeing the use for nightly syncing. I've been syncing by hand about once a week, but experience shows that I tend to miss a week if I'm unusually involved in something, and there's far too much chance that the week I miss will be the one when some attention requiring upgrade hits stable. This leaves the choice of picking the simple upgrades out by hand, which uses much more time, or raising the priority of the complex upg… Continue

Posted by Seth W. Klein on April 21, 2009 at 11:44am

Simple Image Editing

Unless you're superhumanly careful, if you have computer knowledge, you'll end up being the go to person for someone's computer questions. And sooner or later, they'll get a camera or a scanner and an account on Facebook or Myspace, and they'll want to rotate, crop, and resize an image before uploading it for all their friends. All the users who can handle The Gimp will probably have found it and won't be asking the question, but what to do for the ones who can't handle its complexity?

S… Continue

Posted by Seth W. Klein on November 21, 2008 at 5:30pm

Full Image Title Tooltips

Fans of the web comic xkcd (warning: sometimes not safe for work) who use Firefox 2.0 are familiar with the frustration of viewing the source to read the entire title tooltip behind the comic image. Firefox 3 fixes that, but before it's released and hits stable in distributions of choice, there is the Long Titles extension. (Thanks to… Continue

Posted by Seth W. Klein on May 28, 2008 at 10:47pm

Efficient Backups Using rsync And An External Disk

I was fixing my backups the other day, went looking, and discovered rsync --link-dest. With it, rsync substitutes hard links for files that haven't changed. The result:

tria tria # du -hs backup-*1.7G backup-2008-03-1982M backup-2008-03-20

40M backup-2008-03-21

40M backup-2008-03-22

76M backup-2008-03-23

37M backup-2008-03-24

63M backup-2008-03-25

206M backup-2008-03-26

42M backup-2008-03-27

101M backup-2008-03-28

70M backup-2008-03-29

52M backup-2008-03-30

64M b

… Continue

Posted by Seth W. Klein on April 2, 2008 at 1:00am