July RRLug Meeting Minutes: 07/12/12

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Aug 082012
 

We had a really good meeting. We had 15 people in attendance and had some really informative demonstrations and discussions,

  • Arduino Development – Gary Melvin  has been busy with his Arduinos at work and at home lately. He gave  a  great discussion on using the Arduino with the LM34 thermal sensor and analog inputs.  He demonstrated how he reads  temperatures via the serial port, discussed his temperature web server project, then demonstrated reading these collected values using a TCP socket interface.
  • Raspberry Pi Demo – Peter Hedlund –  demonstrated his new Raspberry Pi and discussed some of the things he’s learned about it during the last month. He also gave a great discussion on  a two different Linux distributions  for the Raspberry Pi and a few  inherent problems with each,
  • Linux System Monitoring Tools (Part 2) – Sam Williams – Sam completed his discussion of Linux command line performance monitoring tools
  • Linux News – Sam Williams

It was a fun and informative meeting. We all had a great time. Thanks Gary and Peter for your help and demonstrations!

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May RRLug Meeting Minutes: 05/10/12

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Jul 112012
 

We had a great meeting on June 14th.  We had a smaller number attending, but this is mostly due to people beginning to take their vacations.

  • Firefox Development Enhancements – Sam led the discussion on  the new developer features that are currently include in the newest builds of Firefox, from Firefox16+.
  • Linux System Monitoring Tools (Part 1) – we discussed three tools that can be used for doing performance monitoring from the command-line. These tools included top, atop, and htop. Next month we will delve into the issue more deeply with the introduction of 3 more tools.
  • Linux News – we discussed several of the big Linux stories from the past month.
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