Continuous integration servers are a valuable tool in any shop that develops software. From their site (http://hudson-ci.org/):

“Hudson monitors executions of repeated jobs, such as building a software project or jobs run by cron. Among those things, current Hudson focuses on the following two jobs:

Building/testing software projects continuously, just like CruiseControl or DamageControl. In a nutshell, Hudson provides an easy-to-use so-called continuous integration system, making it easier for developers to integrate changes to the project, and making it easier for users to obtain a fresh build. The automated, continuous build increases the productivity.

Monitoring executions of externally-run jobs, such as cron jobs and procmail jobs, even those that are run on a remote machine. For example, with cron, all you receive is regular e-mails that capture the output, and it is up to you to look at them diligently and notice when it broke. Hudson keeps those outputs and makes it easy for you to notice when something is wrong.”

Time/Date:

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   Wednesday, Jan, 20, 2010
   7:10pm p.m.

   Place:
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   Room 101 or 103 in Lower Warnock Engineering Building

Directions/Parking:
Map: [http://www.map.utah.edu/index.jsp?find=62]
Parking can be found just East of the WEB building and there is a big lot just North of the Merrill Engineering building (MEB). Parking is free after 6:00 (Based on the signs posted. Always check in case this changes.)

Special thanks go to:
- U of U for providing the meeting room.
- Various Volunteers

This month’s Salt Lake Linux Users Group meeting will be an introduction to Linux and a basic overview of what it is. It will be a great opportunity to invite people who would like to know about what Linux is and get started. Please bring some people you would like to introduce to Linux.

We should hopefully have some Linux CDs/DVDs to give away as well.

Thanks to Stuart Jansen for putting this presentation together!

Ever wanted to dip your toe in the Linux waters? Wondered what everyone was 
talking about? Interested in openSource software? Wanted a free, powerful, flexible 
operating system? Here's your chance to learn about Linux!

http://www.linux.com
http://www.linux.org

   Time/Date:
   ———-
   Wednesday, Nov 18, 2009
   7:10pm p.m.

   Place:
   ———-
   Room 101 or 103 in Lower Warnock Engineering Building

Directions/Parking:
Directions - [http://www.map.utah.edu/index.jsp?find=62]
Parking can be found just East of the WEB building and there is a big
lot just North of the Merrill Engineering building (MEB).
Parking is free after 6:00 (Based on the signs posted. Always check in
case this changes.)

Special thanks go to:
- U of U for providing the meeting room.
- Various Volunteers

Hi everyone,

This month's Salt Lake Linux Users Group (SLLUG) meeting will be an introduction to SUSE Studio.

Have you ever wanted to make your own live CD? A specialty Linux
Appliance? A bootable USB Linux distro or virtual machine image
customized to exactly what you want?  SUSE Studio makes it incredibly
easy to do.

With it, you have the ability to add you own RPMs to a base image or
select from several repositories available in the openSUSE Build
Service. You can brand and customize your distro as well.

Does your company have a Linux product they want to support but find
many problems stem from a variety of unknown software beneath the
product or resulting from incompatible libraries found in older or
unsupported/tested distributions? Your company could control everything
in a single supported environment and distribute as a live CD or virtual
machine image solving the issues completely or just make an easy way for
customers to test-drive a product.

I’ll give a brief introduction to SUSE Studio to help you get started.

   http://susestudio.com
   http://susestudio.com/screencast/

   Time/Date:
   ———-
   Wednesday, Sept, 23, 2009
   7:10pm p.m.

   Place:
   ———-
   Room 101 or 103 in Lower Warnock Engineering Building

Directions/Parking:
Directions - [http://www.map.utah.edu/index.jsp?find=62]
Parking can be found just East of the WEB building and there is a big
lot just North of the Merrill Engineering building (MEB).
Parking is free after 6:00 (Based on the signs posted. Always check in
case this changes.)

Special thanks go to:
- U of U for providing the meeting room.
- Various Volunteers

I’ll have a few books to give away as well.

   Time/Date:
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   Wednesday, Aug 19, 2009
   7:10pm p.m.

   Place:
   ----------
   Room 101 or 103 in Lower Warnock Engineering Building

Directions/Parking: Directions - [http://www.map.utah.edu/index.jsp?find=62] Parking can be found just East of the WEB building and there is a big lot just North of the Merrill Engineering building (MEB). Parking is free after 6:00 (Based on the signs posted. Always check in case this changes.)

Special thanks go to: - U of U for providing the meeting room. - Various Volunteers

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This meeting is going to rock! Christian will be covering the VSE and the image editor, then show the game he’s been working on followed up by some questions and answers.

More info on blender can be found here:

http://www.blender.org/
http://www.blender.org/features-gallery/features/
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blender_(software)

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Time/Date:

Wednesday, June 17, 2009 7:10pm p.m.

Place:

Room 101 or 103 in Lower Warnock Engineering Building

Directions/Parking: Directions - [http://www.map.utah.edu/index.jsp?find=62] Parking can be found just East of the WEB building and there is a big lot just North of the Merrill Engineering building (MEB). Parking is free after 6:00 (Based on the signs posted. Always check in case this changes.)

Special thanks go to: - U of U for providing the meeting room. - Various Volunteers

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Network-attached_storage

We’ll look at a consumer NAS device and see what it’s about, starting with taking a peek the the teeny-weeny pcb that attaches to the biggish sata drive, looking at the services it offers, and how it can be put to good use in the home.

   Time/Date:
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   Wednesday, April 15, 2009
   7:10pm p.m.

   Place:
   ----------
   Room 101 or 103 in Lower Warnock Engineering Building

Directions/Parking:
Directions - [http://www.map.utah.edu/index.jsp?find=62]
Parking can be found just East of the WEB building and there is a big
lot just North of the Merrill Engineering building (MEB).
Parking is free after 6:00 (Based on the signs posted. Always check in
case this changes.)

Special thanks go to:
- U of U for providing the meeting room.
- Various Volunteers

Parrot is a virtual machine for dynamic languages and a very nice set of compiler tools. I’ll be walking through the steps of implementing a compiler for Parrot from the ground up, using scheme as an example.

From the Parrot web site:

“Parrot is a virtual machine designed to efficiently compile and execute bytecode for dynamic languages. Parrot currently hosts a variety of language implementations in various stages of completion, including Tcl, Javascript, Ruby, Lua, Scheme, PHP, Python, Perl 6, APL, and a .NET bytecode translator. Parrot is not about parrots, though we are rather fond of them for obvious reasons.”

http://www.parrot.org/

It seems that a class may have room 101 scheduled this semester so we may meet in 103 which is just across the hall from 101.

   Time/Date:
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   Wednesday, March 18, 2009
   7:10pm p.m.

   Place:
   ----------
   Room 101 or 103 in Lower Warnock Engineering Building

Directions/Parking:
Directions - [http://www.map.utah.edu/index.jsp?find=62]
Parking can be found just East of the WEB building and there is a big
lot just North of the Merrill Engineering building (MEB).
Parking is free after 6:00 (Based on the signs posted. Always check in
case this changes.)

Special thanks go to:
- U of U for providing the meeting room.
- Various Volunteers

Fedora offers a complete set of tools for generating your own
customized distribution. The output format can be installable CDs or
DVDs, or Live images suitable for CD/DVD or USB keys. These tools
allow sub-communities to consume and contribute to FOSS using a
platform that is geared toward their specific needs.

This talk will show off the tool set, and how the tools can be used to
fill a variety of needs for the hobbyist, the administrator, or the
FOSS advocate.

  http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Remix

It seems that a class may have room 101 scheduled this semester so we
may meet in 103 which is just across the hall from 101.

   Time/Date:
   ———
   Wednesday, February 18, 2009
   7:10pm p.m.

   Place:
   ———
   Room 101 or 103 in Lower Warnock Engineering Building

Directions/Parking:
Directions - [http://www.map.utah.edu/index.jsp?find=62]
Parking can be found just East of the WEB building and there is a big
lot just North of the Merrill Engineering building (MEB).
Parking is free after 6:00 (Based on the signs posted. Always check in
case this changes.)

Special thanks go to:
- U of U for providing the meeting room.
- Various Volunteers

• Fedora Remix
• Puppet and/or Zenoss
• Openmoko, maemo
• Mr House and LinuxMCE - smart home Linux style
• Android
• firefox/extension development/xulrunner
• Control4 (home automation)
• MythTV
• OpenICE
• gumstix
• Managing digital aspects of our lives
• Music creation and tools

All great ideas! There were a few people who not only suggested the topics but offered to present on them! Whoohoo! That’s just plain awesome. This year looks great. We’ll try to get these presentations lined up.

Either way, this meeting tonight will be a blast!

Oh I also have openSUSE 11.1 DVDs to give out. See you there!!!!

See the original post for directions and time, etc: SLLUG meeting: Wed. Jan 21, 2009: Google Sketchup 7 running on Wine demo

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A friend brought this dish with her to a party a week ago and I liked it so much that I asked for the recipe. I changed it just slightly and made it with non-sugar sweeteners. This makes an amazingly good Thanksgiving or Christmas appetizer or party tray.

Cranberry Salsa with Cream Cheese

• 1 bag cranberries
• 1/2 c. sugar equivalent of Splenda/agave nectar/Stevia or other non-sugar sweetener. (start with less and add to taste)
• 1 green onion
• 1/4 tsp. cumin
• 1/2 of a bunch of cilantro
• 1 med. jalapeño - seeds and veins removed if desired for less heat
• 2 tbs lime or lemon juice
• 1 pinch salt
• 1 - 2 blocks of cream cheese at room temperature

Remove soft and rotten cranberries from batch and wash. Chop cranberries, onion, cilantro and jalapeño to medium fine in food processor. Mix in sweetener, cumin salt and citrus juice. Cover and let macerate in fridge for 2 - 4 hours to let flavor build and the cranberries to soften. It will sweeten as it stands in the fridge so add less sweetener at the first and check before serving adding up to 3/4 c. sugar (total) equivalent.

Serve at room temperature poured over the top of the blocks of cream cheese with whole grain crackers.

Happy Holidays!!!!!!!!

Hi all!

In lieu of our SLLUG meeting for December 2008, we will be attending the University of Utah School of Computing Organick Lecture Series presenting Ed Catmull. Ed Catmull the co-founder of Pixar Animation Studios and president of Pixar and Disney Animation Studios.

You’ll probably want to arrive as early as possible to get good seats. Seating is limited!

   Time/Date:
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   Monday, December 8, 2008
   6:30 p.m.

   Place:
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   Room 104 in Lower Warnock Engineering Building

More details here:
http://www.cs.utah.edu/organick/2008-09/

Have a wonderful Holiday season! See you at the lecture and see you in January for an official SLLUG meeting once again!

All I can say is AWESOME!

The ePUB format is an open ebook standard open to all publishers. Several software e-reader software packages already exist that read ePUB books including Stanza (http://www.lexcycle.com) for Mac, Windows and iPhone/iPod touch and Adobe’s Digital Editions (http://www.adobe.com/products/digitaleditions). The one hardware reader that I’m aware of right now is the Sony Reader PRS-505 and PRS-700 or newer models.

I have the PRS-505 and have been waiting for a publisher to release titles in the open format for a couple months now. I’m very pleased that there are so many titles available now. Several other sites have free, out-of-copyright texts such as http://www.feedbooks.com, http://www.web-books.com and http://www.munseys.com. Sony’s own site sells thousands of books in their own proprietary format however, I’m glad there’s now source of high quality modern published works in an open format! Did I already say ‘awesome‘?

Presentation: This month’s meeting will be a combined meeting with the Utah Database User Group (http://udbug.org) on “why you love your database in 15 minutes”. Several 15 minute short talks about databases that run on Linux will be presented. Hope to see everyone there!

Time and place:

Date: Wednesday Oct 22, 2008
Time: 7:10pm
Place: Warnock Engineering Building (WEB) room 101 (Previously known as EMCB)
Cost: $0.00. Zip. Nada.

Directions/Parking:
Directions - [http://www.map.utah.edu/index.jsp?find=62]
Parking can be found just East of the WEB building and there is a big lot just North of the Merrill Engineering building (MEB).
Parking is free after 6:00 (Based on the signs posted. Always check in case this changes.)

Special thanks go to:
U of U for providing the meeting room.
Various Volunteers

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Getting ready to head home for the evening, last night (Sept. 18, 2008), I packed up my stuff, changed into my biking gear and headed out to where my bike had been securely locked while I was at work. I was a bit disappointed to find that my rear tire on my recumbent bike was flat. I had plenty of patches though, being an occasional commuter, I like to think I am prepared for such events. I removed the wheel and got the inner tube removed, patched and replaced in about 1o minutes. After pumping and pumping for much longer that it should have taken I noticed that it wasn’t holding more than 30psi and quickly dropped to nothing once I stopped. An hour later and 5 holes patched on the ancient rubber band I was kind enough to call an inner tube and I decided that there was no fixing the old oxidized piece of rubber.

The tube is about two or three years old and it turns out that my removing it from the tire stretched and cracked it, probably creating more holes that I had patches. Even if I did fix the ones I’d found, there’s no guarantee that I wouldn’t create more when re-installing the tube or that I wouldn’t get part way home before feeling that I was pushing my bike through sand on a beach as a new hole decided to show up and the tire deflates. I thought about any friends that might have a truck that could pick me up and called Debbi to whine about my situation (who doesn’t have a truck, but I just wanted to talk with her anyway). I knew however, that I’d just have to come back in the morning. My car is in the shop this week getting painted. Its supposed to be finished today. I found a body shop close to work so that I could commute on my bike and easily pick up my jeep when it was finished. Thinking that I’d have to at least get myself back to the area in the morning before any bike shops were open, I thought finding a way home seemed pretty useless.

Seeing that the sun was about half an hour from setting and no bike stores open at the time, I packed up and spent the night at the office on the most uncomfortable bed in the world. The building I work in has “health rooms” which are like small hotel rooms with a table, chair and a small bed for the employees when they are sick or work late and need a place to crash. Unfortunately, the cheap cot I slept on last night reminded me of the bed in Jerry Seinfeld’s parent’s condo in Florida. Everyone who slept on it ended up not being able to walk the next day with back problems (The Pen, The Cadillac) . The bed I slept in was sunken in the middle like a giant potato chip. I felt like I was being being bent into the shape of a banana all night long. The springs were uneven and hard so lying on my side was actually quite painful. The pillow (or what they seem to want to call a pillow) was almost completely flat and provided no support whatsoever for my head. I woke up with my neck feeling much worse than it did the night before. It was feeling fine last night. It’s not this morning.

I tossed and turned all night waking up several times and finally gave up trying to get any kind of good sleep at 6am. I walked back down the hall to my office and started working.

I am walking-distance from a theater in a mall so I decided to to see a movie last night (seeing as I didn’t have much else to do that was not work related). I saw Dark Night which started at 8pm. It was the only thing showing at a decent time - everything else either had already started or didn’t start till nearly 9:30 or 10pm. It was the second time I saw it and it was as good this time as the first. The nice thing about watching it last night was that there were only about 10 other people in the theater. I walked back from the theater to my office in the dark.

This morning about 9:00am the body shop called. My Jeep wont be done till next Wednesday.