This post is to inform everyone of the various services that the Chicago GLUG has to offer. If you notice that I am missing or we should add a certain a group or service please leave a comment with a link and a brief description.
Groups and Services
Last.fm Group
Last.fm is a service that keeps track of what music you listen to, and then produces a large number of features personalised to you. So what our group does is that it combines all the track info from our members and generates charts based on our music tracks. It also generates a last.fm radio station based upon our track info. If you already have a last.fm account please join our group and tell your friends, if you don't have an account what are you waiting for.
Flickr Group
Flickr is a service that allows user to upload and host images. Our group is used to share images taken by our members at our events, screenshots and other just nerdy pictures. For example we have photos in our group from Stallman's talk and some of our meetings thanks to Jordan. If you already have a flickr account please join our group and share your photos with us. Also on a related note, if anybody has a digital camera and would be willing to take pictures at our meetings and maybe even the after-meeting hang out it would be greatly appreciated.
Facebook Group
Facebook is an English-language social networking website. It was originally developed for college and university students but has since been made available to anyone to join with an email address that connects them to a participating network, such as their high school, place of employment or geographic region. If you have a facebook account please join our group we will send out party invites for our meetings through facebook just so we can notify as many people as possible of our meetings.
Mugshot Group
Mugshot is a community software system created by Red Hat. Unlike social networking websites, it also has a desktop client component. It is meant to facilitate real-world interactions with friends, and make one's normal computer use more social. Current features include 'Web Swarm' which lets users share web links and join in conversations about them, and 'Music Radar', which displays which songs a user is listening to, and allows conversations about the song. Many features are planned, including 'TV Party'. Mugshot is free software. Most of the client code is distributed under the terms of the GNU General Public License (GPL). Various parts of the server code are distributed under the GPL, the Open Software License 3.0, the Apache License, and the MIT License, all of which are free software licences. So if you already have a mugshot account please join our group. If you need an invitation just let me know and I can send you an invite.
Google Calendar
Here is the google calendar for our group. Currently there are not that many items added to the group but we hope to fix this very shortly. This calendar is not just for our events but any events that might be interesting to our members. For instance, Ubuntu Chicago meetings, ChiPy meetings, UIC LUG meetings, Conferences in the area and other such things.
IRC
#chiglug on irc.oftc.net
#chiglug-server on irc.oftc.net
Those are our two irc channels the first one is our general channel. This is where a majority of our members hang out. Please stop by and say Hi, we won't bite. The second channel is for discussion of work being done on getting everything back running on our server. If you are interested in helping out with working on our server than please join that channel.
Chump
Chump RSS Feed
Chump is an IRC bot that pulls urls that are posted in our IRC channel and generates a website and rss feed containing the links. If you are in our IRC channel and need help working with Chump just ask someone that is in the channel.
Planet ChiGLUG
Planet ChiGLUG Feed
Planet is a blog aggregator that pulls in from blogs of local GNU/Linux enthusiast. If you would like your blog added to the planet, just send me a link to your blog and I will add it.
Mailing Lists
We currently have 2 mailing list: Announce and Discuss. The Announce list is just used to send out notification of meetings. The Discuss list is a general discussion list. Please sign up for the Announce list at a minimum it is a very low traffic mailing list and that way you will keep up with any changes that might arise to a meeting at the last minute.
Saturday, March 31, 2007
Chicago GLUG Groups and Services
This post is to inform everyone of the various services that the Chicago GLUG has to offer. If you notice that I am missing or we should add a certain a group or service please leave a comment with a link and a brief description.
Groups and Services
Last.fm Group
Last.fm is a service that keeps track of what music you listen to, and then produces a large number of features personalised to you. So what our group does is that it combines all the track info from our members and generates charts based on our music tracks. It also generates a last.fm radio station based upon our track info. If you already have a last.fm account please join our group and tell your friends, if you don't have an account what are you waiting for.
Flickr Group
Flickr is a service that allows user to upload and host images. Our group is used to share images taken by our members at our events, screenshots and other just nerdy pictures. For example we have photos in our group from Stallman's talk and some of our meetings thanks to Jordan. If you already have a flickr account please join our group and share your photos with us. Also on a related note, if anybody has a digital camera and would be willing to take pictures at our meetings and maybe even the after-meeting hang out it would be greatly appreciated.
Facebook Group
Facebook is an English-language social networking website. It was originally developed for college and university students but has since been made available to anyone to join with an email address that connects them to a participating network, such as their high school, place of employment or geographic region. If you have a facebook account please join our group we will send out party invites for our meetings through facebook just so we can notifiy as many people as possible of our meetings.
Mugshot Group
Mugshot is a community software system created by Red Hat. Unlike social networking websites, it also has a desktop client component. It is meant to facilitate real-world interactions with friends, and make one's normal computer use more social. Current features include 'Web Swarm' which lets users share web links and join in conversations about them, and 'Music Radar', which displays which songs a user is listening to, and allows conversations about the song. Many features are planned, including 'TV Party'. Mugshot is free software. Most of the client code is distributed under the terms of the GNU General Public License (GPL). Various parts of the server code are distributed under the GPL, the Open Software License 3.0, the Apache License, and the MIT License, all of which are free software licences. So if you already have a mugshot account please join our group. If you need an invitation just let me know and I can send you an invite.
Google Calendar
Here is the google calendar for our group. Currently there are not that many items added to the group but we hope to fix this very shortly. This calendar is not just for our events but any events that might be interesting to our members. For instance, Ubuntu Chicago meetings, ChiPy meetings, UIC LUG meetings, Conferences in the area and other such things.
IRC
#chiglug on irc.oftc.net
#chiglug-server on irc.oftc.net
Those are our two irc channels the first one is our general channel. This is where a majority of our members hang out. Please stop by and say Hi, we won't bite. The second channel is for discussion of work being done on getting everything back running on our server. If you are interested in helping out with working on our server than please join that channel.
Chump
Chump RSS Feed
Chump is an IRC bot that pulls urls that are posted in our IRC channel and generates a website and rss feed containing the links. If you are in our IRC channel and need help working with Chump just ask someone that is in the channel.
Planet ChiGLUG
Planet ChiGLUG Feed
Planet is a blog aggregator that pulls in from blogs of local GNU/Linux enthusiest. If you would like your blog added to the planet, just send me a link to your blog and I will add it.
Mailing Lists
We currently have 2 mailing list: Announce and Discuss. The Announce list is just used to send out notification of meetings. The Discuss list is a general discussion list. Please sign up for the Announce list at a minimum it is a very low traffic mailling list and that way you will keep up with any changes that might arise to a meeting at the last minute.
Groups and Services
Last.fm Group
Last.fm is a service that keeps track of what music you listen to, and then produces a large number of features personalised to you. So what our group does is that it combines all the track info from our members and generates charts based on our music tracks. It also generates a last.fm radio station based upon our track info. If you already have a last.fm account please join our group and tell your friends, if you don't have an account what are you waiting for.
Flickr Group
Flickr is a service that allows user to upload and host images. Our group is used to share images taken by our members at our events, screenshots and other just nerdy pictures. For example we have photos in our group from Stallman's talk and some of our meetings thanks to Jordan. If you already have a flickr account please join our group and share your photos with us. Also on a related note, if anybody has a digital camera and would be willing to take pictures at our meetings and maybe even the after-meeting hang out it would be greatly appreciated.
Facebook Group
Facebook is an English-language social networking website. It was originally developed for college and university students but has since been made available to anyone to join with an email address that connects them to a participating network, such as their high school, place of employment or geographic region. If you have a facebook account please join our group we will send out party invites for our meetings through facebook just so we can notifiy as many people as possible of our meetings.
Mugshot Group
Mugshot is a community software system created by Red Hat. Unlike social networking websites, it also has a desktop client component. It is meant to facilitate real-world interactions with friends, and make one's normal computer use more social. Current features include 'Web Swarm' which lets users share web links and join in conversations about them, and 'Music Radar', which displays which songs a user is listening to, and allows conversations about the song. Many features are planned, including 'TV Party'. Mugshot is free software. Most of the client code is distributed under the terms of the GNU General Public License (GPL). Various parts of the server code are distributed under the GPL, the Open Software License 3.0, the Apache License, and the MIT License, all of which are free software licences. So if you already have a mugshot account please join our group. If you need an invitation just let me know and I can send you an invite.
Google Calendar
Here is the google calendar for our group. Currently there are not that many items added to the group but we hope to fix this very shortly. This calendar is not just for our events but any events that might be interesting to our members. For instance, Ubuntu Chicago meetings, ChiPy meetings, UIC LUG meetings, Conferences in the area and other such things.
IRC
#chiglug on irc.oftc.net
#chiglug-server on irc.oftc.net
Those are our two irc channels the first one is our general channel. This is where a majority of our members hang out. Please stop by and say Hi, we won't bite. The second channel is for discussion of work being done on getting everything back running on our server. If you are interested in helping out with working on our server than please join that channel.
Chump
Chump RSS Feed
Chump is an IRC bot that pulls urls that are posted in our IRC channel and generates a website and rss feed containing the links. If you are in our IRC channel and need help working with Chump just ask someone that is in the channel.
Planet ChiGLUG
Planet ChiGLUG Feed
Planet is a blog aggregator that pulls in from blogs of local GNU/Linux enthusiest. If you would like your blog added to the planet, just send me a link to your blog and I will add it.
Mailing Lists
We currently have 2 mailing list: Announce and Discuss. The Announce list is just used to send out notification of meetings. The Discuss list is a general discussion list. Please sign up for the Announce list at a minimum it is a very low traffic mailling list and that way you will keep up with any changes that might arise to a meeting at the last minute.
A month with Epiphany
I decided that since Foresight has decided to have epiphany be the default browser I figured that I would give it try for a month and see how I like it. Today is the first day of this experiment, I have tried epiphany out before but I always find myself going back to firefox whenever I run into a problem. This time I am going to try and fix any issues that I run into. After using epiphany for a couple of hours I have generated an initial list of issues if anybody has any suggestions about fixing them they will be well appreciated.
ISSUES
If you have any solutions to these issues please leave a comment with the solution. Also if you know of any must need epiphany extensions please leave a comment with them.
ISSUES
- Session Saving: This is a big thing I miss from firefox. When epiphany opens it would be nice if it could open the tabs that were previously open.
- Have Cursor in Address Bar When New Tab Open: I would like to have the cursor be in the address bar when I open a new tab. This can be accomplished if I have the default home page be blank, but I would like to do this with a webpage set as the default home page.
If you have any solutions to these issues please leave a comment with the solution. Also if you know of any must need epiphany extensions please leave a comment with them.
Thursday, March 22, 2007
March Madness
No, this post is not about NCAA March Madness even though maybe it should be since SIU was kicking ass until they ran into Kansas. Sorry to all my friends back home and down at SIU, I was hoping that Kansas would lose. This post is about the fun I have had so far this March. Some of you out there might have wonder why you haven't seen me online for a couple weeks and those of you who know me know that it would take a lot to keep me offline that long. Well I spent the beginning of March in the hospital, I was in there from March 1st to March 19th. I will use this post to inform everyone of what exactly happened.
The story begins March 1st when I went to the emergency room with sharp pains in my gut. The pain turned out to be due to gallstones. This in itself is rare for a man to get, let alone at the age of 21. So the doctors were already interested in my case and then their fun just continued. During a routine procedure before removing my gallbladder a complication arose, I contracted pancreatitis this only happens 5-7% of the time. So I am really starting to feel special after this considering everything that is happening is unlikely. But of course I am specialKevin so my fun was not over yet. My doctors noticed that my platelet levels were low and I was starting to bruise and my nose was bleeding and I had acute kidney failure. These were not symptoms of the pancreatitis but of a very rare blood condition known as Thrombotic Thrombocytopenic Purpura or TTP. TTP occurs in 3.5 people per million every year. TTP is such a rare and interesting illness that it was featured in an episode of House M.D. (Episode #119 Kids), not only this but the episode actually replayed while I was in the hospital suffering from TTP. The treatment for the TTP is plasmapheresis, where the take out my plasma and replace it with plasma from 17 other people. But another connection to House M.D. is that the plasmapheresis team that treated me was consulted by the staff of House M.D. on the procedure of plasmapheresis. I still have to get outpatient treatments of plasmapheresis to treat the TTP but it is nice to be out of the hospital, especially since that is not how I wanted to spend my birthday and spring break.
I would now like to thank everybody for their wishes and prayers. Also thanks to all my friends who came to visit me in the hospital and help to make the best out of my birthday.
The story begins March 1st when I went to the emergency room with sharp pains in my gut. The pain turned out to be due to gallstones. This in itself is rare for a man to get, let alone at the age of 21. So the doctors were already interested in my case and then their fun just continued. During a routine procedure before removing my gallbladder a complication arose, I contracted pancreatitis this only happens 5-7% of the time. So I am really starting to feel special after this considering everything that is happening is unlikely. But of course I am specialKevin so my fun was not over yet. My doctors noticed that my platelet levels were low and I was starting to bruise and my nose was bleeding and I had acute kidney failure. These were not symptoms of the pancreatitis but of a very rare blood condition known as Thrombotic Thrombocytopenic Purpura or TTP. TTP occurs in 3.5 people per million every year. TTP is such a rare and interesting illness that it was featured in an episode of House M.D. (Episode #119 Kids), not only this but the episode actually replayed while I was in the hospital suffering from TTP. The treatment for the TTP is plasmapheresis, where the take out my plasma and replace it with plasma from 17 other people. But another connection to House M.D. is that the plasmapheresis team that treated me was consulted by the staff of House M.D. on the procedure of plasmapheresis. I still have to get outpatient treatments of plasmapheresis to treat the TTP but it is nice to be out of the hospital, especially since that is not how I wanted to spend my birthday and spring break.
I would now like to thank everybody for their wishes and prayers. Also thanks to all my friends who came to visit me in the hospital and help to make the best out of my birthday.
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