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Bill McGonigle | 3 Dec 08:45

[DLSLUG-Announce] TOMORROW - PyCUDA and GPU Programming - DLSLUG Monthly Meeting - 2008-12-04

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               Dartmouth-Lake Sunapee Linux User Group
                        http://dlslug.org/
               a chapter of GNHLUG - http://gnhlug.org
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The next regular monthly meeting of the DLSLUG will be held:

                  Thursday, December 4th, 7-9PM
at:              Dartmouth College, Carson L02

                  All are welcome, free of charge.

                            Agenda

7:00  Sign-in, networking

7:15  Introductory remarks

7:20  PyCUDA and GPU Programming
         presented by Nicholas Sinnott-Armstrong

       Nick will give a talk about an exciting emerging technology that
       deals with the use of GPUs. PyCUDA (and CUDA in general) is an
       easy to use framework to take advantage of the massive
       processing power and memory bandwidth available on the GPUs of
       most enthusiast machines writing simple templated C code. A
       short introduction to Python will be followed by an in-depth
       look at how easy it is to write really fast code for scientific
       and HPC applications at a very low system cost. Everyone who
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Jim Kuzdrall | 19 Nov 13:22

MerriLUG Nashua, Thur 20 Nov, Photographic prowess via Linux tools


Who  : Máirín Duffy, Interaction Designer, Red Hat Engineering
What : Techniques for creating and adjusting photos
Where: Martha's Exchange
Day  : Thur 20 Nov **Tomorrow**
Time : 6:00 PM for grub, 7:30 PM for discussion

:: Overview

    Máirín Duffy is back to demonstrate the powerful image creation and 
correction programs Linux provides.  She covers several tasks and 
problems many of us have encountered.  After, you may ask her expert 
advice on your own image problem -- make that "photo problem".

-   Removing tint from photos:  Too blue?  Yellowish cast?  Máirín 
briefly reviews a procedure for removing unwanted tint from photos.

-   Resizing photos without cropping or distortion: Make your photo just 
a bit wider or a bit taller without making your Aunt Bea look fat or 
giving your boss a pointy head.  The GIMP liquid rescale plug-in 
preserves the composition while changing the aspect ratio.  Máirín 
shows how.  ( http://duffy.fedorapeople.org/temp/lqr/ )

-   Face painting: Turn your kids into snowflake-bejeweled elves 
and reindeer using this cool GIMP trick.  No messy facepaint needed!  
Christmas cards?  (See http://duffy.fedorapeople.org/temp/barbara.png )

-   Screen prints from photos: Make solid color-area representation of 
your photo for a logo, icon, or poster.  Inkscape turns you into a 
budding Andy Warhol - or better.  Example:
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Bill Sconce | 14 Nov 13:16
X-Face

PySIG for November -- yes indeed, altho moved to Tuesday (the 23rd)

Hi, all -

I stopped by the ABI, and we're in luck for moving our "4th Thursday"
to "4th Tuesday" this month to get away from Thanksgiving.

So, PySIG is ON, Tuesday the 23rd, 7:00PM at the Amoskeag Business
Incubator, 33 South Commercial Street, Manchester.

Agenda to follow.  If we have one.(*)  File formats and data interchange?
A workshop?

-Bill

(*) Well we do have: get ready for the big T day, get the resistance
built up...   seems to call for cookies, heh.
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Jim Kuzdrall | 13 Nov 15:26

MerriLUG Nashua, Thur 20 Nov, Photographic prowess via Linux tools


Who  : Máirín Duffy, Interaction Designer, Red Hat Engineering
What : Techniques for creating and adjusting photos
Where: Martha's Exchange
Day  : Thur 20 Nov **Next Week**
Time : 6:00 PM for grub, 7:30 PM for discussion

:: Overview

    Máirín Duffy is back to demonstrate the powerful image creation and 
correction programs Linux provides.  She covers several tasks and 
problems many of us have encountered.  After, you may ask her expert 
advice on your own image problem -- make that "photo problem".

-   Removing tint from photos:  Too blue?  Yellowish cast?  Máirín 
briefly reviews a procedure for removing unwanted tint from photos.

-   Resizing photos without cropping or distortion: Make your photo just 
a bit wider or a bit taller without making your Aunt Bea look fat or 
giving your boss a pointy head.  The GIMP liquid rescale plug-in 
preserves the composition while changing the aspect ratio.  Máirín 
shows how.  ( http://duffy.fedorapeople.org/temp/lqr/ )

-   Face painting: Turn your kids into snowflake-bejeweled elves 
and reindeer using this cool GIMP trick.  No messy facepaint needed!  
Christmas cards?  (See http://duffy.fedorapeople.org/temp/barbara.png )

-   Screen prints from photos: Make solid color-area representation of 
your photo for a logo, icon, or poster.  Inkscape turns you into a 
budding Andy Warhol - or better.  Example:
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Scott Garman | 11 Nov 19:50

No NHRuby November meeting/early December social gathering.

The NH Ruby and Rails User Group will not have a meeting this month
(November) due to the Boston Professional Ruby conference which is
happening the same week.

Also, we will be holding a social gathering on Tuesday, December 2 in
lieu of our December meeting.

Join us in Portsmouth (location TBA) on 12/2 for dinner and drinks -
there will be conversation about your favorite Ruby and other
web/technology topics, with ample opportunity to get sidetracked on
non-Ruby related subjects.

A note to shy geeks: we are a very welcoming and laid-back group, give
us a try. :)

We're hoping to reserve a room at a local restaurant and thus request an
RSVP by Saturday, Nov 15 if you're planning to attend so we can gauge
the level of interest.

Scott
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charlie | 11 Nov 13:22

MonadLUG November 13, 2008

Who:  Group Activity	
What: Xen Hypervisor
Date:  Thursday, November 13, 2008
Time:  7:00PM
** Where: SAU 1 office, 106 Hancock Rd., Peterborough

We'll have a host machine with the Xen kernel installed and we'll see what 
we can accomplish with it as a group.  If you don't know anything about 
Xen virtualization you'll see a practical demo, and if you have some 
knowledge we'll ask you to share it. 

--charlie

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14 East Ridge Drive, Peterborough, NH 03458
603-924-1977  | 603-785-3320 (cell)
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Ben Scott | 11 Nov 04:16

GNHLUG is back on the Internet

Greetings,

  As some of you noticed, the GNHLUG Internet server experienced an
extended outage recently.  We were down starting the morning of Thr 23
Oct, and are now back up as of Mon 10 Oct.  A number of factors
contributed to both the initial outage and the length of the downtime.
 More details will be posted to gnhlug-discuss for those interested.

  If you still see the "sad penguin" page on the web site, try forcing
your browser to fetch a new copy of the page (SHIFT+CTRL+R in
Firefox).

  I would like to apologize to the membership for the delay in getting
things back online.

  Please report any further trouble to me.

  Thanks for your patience.

-- Ben Scott, GNHLUG server coordinator
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Bill McGonigle | 6 Nov 18:47

[DLSLUG-Announce] TONIGHT: Ubuntu Server: A Comprehensive Overview - DLSLUG Monthly Meeting - 2008-11-06

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               Dartmouth-Lake Sunapee Linux User Group
                        http://dlslug.org/
               a chapter of GNHLUG - http://gnhlug.org
***************************************************************

The next regular monthly meeting of DLSLUG will be held:

                  Thursday, November 6th, 7-9PM
at:             Dartmouth College, Haldeman 041

                  All are welcome, free of charge.

                            Agenda

7:00  Sign-in, networking

7:15  Introductory remarks

7:20  Ubuntu Server - A Comprehensive Overview.

       Have you heard the news? Most everyone knows that Ubuntu is an
       outstanding desktop but few know of its compelling server
       option. Join us to find out why Ubuntu Server is a highly
       affordable, usable, stable and secure platform on which to build
       just about anything.

       Joseph Guarino is a Sr. Consultant/Owner at Evolutionary IT
       which provides enterprise systems, network, security, marketing,
       training, SEO/SEM and FOSS solutions. On his free time you will
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Scott Garman | 20 Oct 17:42

NHRuby meeting TOMORROW, Oct 21: Rails plugins, REST applications.

Tomorrow night's NHRuby.org meeting will include two great talks:

* Nick Plante will be talking about the Rails Plugin system. The Rails
plugin system allows you to add powerful features to your applications
by altering or enhancing key pieces of the framework. Plugins tend to be
easy to use and can save precious development cycles, freeing you to
focus on the elements that make your project truly unique. Although
plug-ins are often dead simple to use, authoring them is not always
quite as straightforward.

Nick's presentation will give developers an overview of the Rails plugin
architecture and the hooks that are provided for creating your own.
We'll take a look at the genesis of a typical plugin, and see how we can
extract and generalize our code, repackaging it in a modular way such
that it can be reused across projects and redistributed within the Rails
community. Along the way, we'll also learn a thing or two about Ruby
metaprogramming practices, and examine strategies for testing and
redistributing plugin code.

* Brian Turnbull will be giving an introduction to RESTful web services
as a follow-up to his HTTP talk last month. REpresentational State
Transfer is the theoretical underpinnings of HTTP/1.1. This talk will
explain what REST is, present examples of existing web services using
REST, and also covers the practical application of REST and the Atom
Publishing Protocol in creating a web service.

WHEN: Tuesday, October 21, 2008. 7-9 PM.
WHERE: RMC Research Offices, 1000 Market Street, Portsmouth, NH.

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Scott Garman | 19 Oct 04:31

NHRuby meeting Tuesday, Oct 21: Rails plugins, REST applications.

This month the NH Ruby and Rails user group has a pair of great
presentations for our October meeting:

* Nick Plante will be talking about the Rails Plugin system. The Rails
plugin system allows you to add powerful features to your applications
by altering or enhancing key pieces of the framework. Plugins tend to be
easy to use and can save precious development cycles, freeing you to
focus on the elements that make your project truly unique. Although
plug-ins are often dead simple to use, authoring them is not always
quite as straightforward.

Nick's presentation will give developers an overview of the Rails plugin
architecture and the hooks that are provided for creating your own.
We'll take a look at the genesis of a typical plugin, and see how we can
extract and generalize our code, repackaging it in a modular way such
that it can be reused across projects and redistributed within the Rails
community. Along the way, we'll also learn a thing or two about Ruby
metaprogramming practices, and examine strategies for testing and
redistributing plugin code.

* Brian Turnbull will be giving an introduction to RESTful web services
as a follow-up to his HTTP talk last month. REpresentational State
Transfer is the theoretical underpinnings of HTTP/1.1. This talk will
explain what REST is, present examples of existing web services using
REST, and also covers the practical application of REST and the Atom
Publishing Protocol in creating a web service.

WHEN: Tuesday, October 21, 2008. 7-9 PM.
WHERE: RMC Research Offices, 1000 Market Street, Portsmouth, NH.
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Bill McGonigle | 17 Oct 04:10

[DLSLUG-Announce] Nov. 6th DLSLUG Meeting Available to Speakers

Hi, all,

November's speaker isn't going to be able to make it, so the meeting  
is available for any and all presenters.  Please contact me if you  
have something to show or talk about, large or small.  I'm happy to  
report our December speaker is all-in.

Outstanding requests are here:
   http://dlslug.org/topics.html

Don't make me break out the nifties.

Thanks,
-Bill

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