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LUG meets every week on Tuesday at 6:00pm at Kelley Engr. Center in KEC1007. We no longer meet in the Dearborn Library. Keep an eye out for helpful information and upcoming events posted here.
Featured Blog
DJ Petersen make a return visit to LUG to talk about his persistent IRC web client, Subway. DJ is a former OSU student who interned at Cloudkick last summer and is currently working as web developer in Eugene.
Subway was inspired when DJ saw MostAwesomeDude attempting to explain IRC and screen to a non-technical person over at the OSL. Though the idea that many of us run irssi/weechat on a server on a forked process so that we can come back and view messages and conversations while we were gone didn't quite sift through. IRC is like email or a social network to most of us, and it would be nice to bring people into that network who aren't as technical.
A currently existing persistent IRC web client is grove.io which requires payment, although it is open source. DJ wanted to extend the capbility of current balancers such as screen, but that wasn't appropriate for multiple clients. Paul Irish, a well-known front-end developer on the Google Chrome Developer Relations and JQuery teams, had publicly said he wanted to improve design over the current popular web IRC client, webchat so people spun ... more
Upcoming Events
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Recent Blogs
Oh, the love is in the air. For Valentine's Day, LUG got together and shared pieces of software or technology that they loved.
rTorrent - Jacques Uber
Tell subsonic to look at directory where music is downloaded. rTorrent watches a directory for new torrents. When it sees one it downloads it. Subsonic then sees the new media file, indexes it, and serves it. You can simply scp a torrent file over and it will automatically ...
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What is SOPA?
The Wild West of the clouds, the group of rampant pirates known as the Internet, has thrown their gloves to the ground against bills proposed in the House and the Senate in an effort to preserve its very own existence. The land where people are free to share pictures of their cats and seed virtual farms is being overrun by dinosaurs. The dinosaur leading the charge is a stegosaur representing Texas that some know ...
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Ian Milligan, a math graduate student, gave the LUG an introduction to Haskell. Haskell is a functional programming language that is quite different from the usual imperative programming languages. We did calculated Fib numbers and generators (infinite lists on the fly) Haskell-style. It was an intense experience that left several of us dazed, but it was interesting to see something different. At the end, here was our demo ...
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Beaver Bar Camp 8 was a large success. For those who don't know, Barcamp is ad-hoc gathering born from the desire for people to share and learn in an open environment. It is an intense event with discussions, demos, and interaction from attendees. This year, Mozilla signed on to generously sponsor BBC8 and gave a focused, hands-on workshop on Web Security. Along with ...
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Ben Kero, former OSU student and current Mozilla employee, came down to Corvallis to give a talk on GNU Privacy Guard (GPG) encryption and key-signing. A crowd of one PSU student visited as well to help create this web of trust. After Ben's presentation, which entailed a Bradley Manning example and spamming Ben's IRC nick, everyone went around ...
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In what many refer to as "the golden days", the OSU LUG was highly active in promoting Mozilla, namely celebrating the 50th, 100th, and 200th downloads of Firefox in creative ways: a lot of sidewalk chalk, high-altitude weather balloons, and for the finale...a crop circle. Led by the current founders of Cloudkick, they were able to pull off some cool displays. OSU LUG takes inspiration from its predecessors to do the same. Below is their ...
moreHello [your name here]! If you haven't already been told by someone, at OSU, you have helpful resources offered by OSU at your disposal. This guide will show some cool things you can do with these resources.
First, it is assumed that you know how to ssh into other boxes, use a command line text editor, use bash, or any other Unix-like command line utilities. If you don't yet know these things, go ahead and read these guides and ...
moreSSH is a secure client-server network protocol that allows you to connect with another box (computer). With this, you can transfer files between your local computer and the remote host. Even better, you can even edit files or execute commands on the remote host. This guide will explain how to effectively use SSH to communicate with another box and how to set up an SSH server so you can SSH into your box.
Basic SSH
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moreIRC is a real-time relay based chat protocol with no archiving. This means that when you send a message from your client to the server, the server just forwards the message to all of the other clients in the channel. At no point is that message stored, hence the name "relay chat". A downside to this is that you do not receive any messages if you aren't connected to the server.
What makes IRC so special is that is has been around for ...
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