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Homemade Neti Salt

marc — Sun, 29 Jan 2012 20:24:06 +0000

Using a neti pot or some other similar nasal irrigation system can be helpful in fighting a variety of health problems. On nasal irrigation, Wikipedia states: According to its advocates, nasal irrigation promotes good sinus and nasal health. Patients with chronic sinusitis including symptoms of facial pain, headache, halitosis, cough, anterior rhinorrhea (watery discharge) and [...]

Adobe Lightroom 1/2 off at Amazon

marc — Tue, 08 Nov 2011 18:14:57 +0000

Amazon has Adobe lightroom half off today. Not sure how long it will last. Awesome deal. I used Lighroom almost exclusively for my image editing. If you’d like to see some of my work, check out my sets on Flickr.

Ophir Mine Air Compressor

marc — Sun, 16 Oct 2011 20:15:20 +0000

Ophir Mine Air Compressor, originally uploaded by Mecworks. While visiting the Ophir mine in Utah, I was able to have access to the old mining buildings including the air compressor and electricity generation building.

Salt Lake Linux Users Group August meeting – 2011-09-21: Security – defeating typical firewalls

site admin — Fri, 16 Sep 2011 14:10:33 +0000

This month’s Salt Lake Linux Users Group meeting will be on Security and defeating typical firewalls. Ed Shirey will present on a mechanism for defeating a typical firewall, assuming both peers are behind firewalls and want to talk to each other with TCP/IP. For information about the technique and a summary of the technology, see [...]

Salt Lake Linux Users Group August meeting – 2011-08-24: Metasploit and OpenSource in Network Security

marc — Mon, 22 Aug 2011 17:06:37 +0000

Hey everyone! We will be having our August meeting on the 24th this month. Chad Butler is mentoring a SANS SEC-560 (Network Penetration Testing and Ethical Hacking) course. SANS has given him approval to present a portion of the course at the Salt Lake Linux Users Group membership. He will present on the basic structure [...]

Ice – Homestead, Midway, UT

marc — Mon, 01 Aug 2011 20:11:25 +0000

Ice – Homestead, Midway, UT, originally uploaded by Mecworks. From the ice castle at the Homestead in Midway, UT – 2004.

Toledo, Spain

marc — Mon, 01 Aug 2011 06:01:05 +0000

Toledo, Spain, originally uploaded by Mecworks. An old street I found while in Toledo, Spain.

SLLUG meeting March 16, 2011: Pizza and Django!!!!

marc — Thu, 10 Mar 2011 21:28:24 +0000

The Salt Lake Linux Users Group March 2011 meeting will be presented by Clinton De Young. Clinton will discuss the various form processing mechanisms available in the Python web framework, Django. The presentation will include instruction on how to use model-based forms, custom forms, form validation, SQL injection and cross-site scripting security, and default and [...]

SLLUG meeting Feb 16, 2011: Introduction to Shell scripting

marc — Wed, 16 Feb 2011 00:29:56 +0000

February, 2011 Salt Lake Linux Users Group meeting will be an introduction to shell scripting (Bash) by (possibly Matt Warnock) and myself. See you there! Time/Date: Wednesday, Feb. 16, 2011 7:10pm p.m. Place: Room 10{1|2|3|4|5} (Look for the SLLUG signs on the doors) in Lower Warnock Engineering Building Directions/Parking: Directions – http://www.map.utah.edu/index.jsp?find=62] Parking can be [...]

SLLUG meeting December 8, 2010: Hands on intro to Git

site admin — Thu, 02 Dec 2010 18:28:48 +0000

December’s Salt Lake Linux Users Group meeting will be held one week earlier than usual on the 8th of December (the second Wednesday) to avoid conflict with many holiday plans later in the month. Amjith Ramanujam will be presenting on: Hands on intro to Git Getting Started with Git Basic operations (Some comparison to SVN) [...]

Salt Lake Linux Users Group Nov. 2010 meeting: Advanced Linux filesystem topics

marc — Mon, 15 Nov 2010 22:51:16 +0000

Hello everyone! NOTE: We will have PIZZA (served out in the hall) at this meeting sponsored by Nicole from TEK Systems. RSVP to the sllug-members mailing list if you will be attending so we will know how much pizza to order. Joseph Hall will present this month at the Salt Lake Linux Users Group on [...]

Raw Chocolate Macaroons

marc — Mon, 01 Nov 2010 16:05:35 +0000

My raw chocolate macaroons are healthy and made with all natural ingrediants and with no refined carbohydrates. They’re easy to make and require no baking or dehydrating. Many recipies I’ve found call for dehydrated coconut. The reason for that is that moist coconut is usually sweetened with refined sugars and kept “moist” by adding propylene [...]

Raw Vanilla Macaroons

marc — Mon, 25 Oct 2010 15:54:37 +0000

My raw vanilla macaroons are healthy and made with all natural ingrediants and with no refined carbohydrates. They’re easy to make and require no baking or dehydrating. Many recipies I’ve found call for dehydrated coconut. The reason for that is that moist coconut is usually sweetened with refined sugars and kept “moist” by adding propylene [...]

Mono 2.8 is out!

marc — Thu, 07 Oct 2010 15:31:12 +0000

Mono 2.8 has been release after over a month from the time we branched. Lots of bug fixes and tons of improvements have been made. Big thanks go out to the Mono team software engineers who fixed all the issues the QA team and community found. Some of the highlights of this release are: C# [...]

Victoria’s Secret

marc — Fri, 17 Sep 2010 14:07:48 +0000

Victoria’s Secret, originally uploaded by Mecworks. The Provo River Bottoms shopping center is under construction right now while new cobble stone roads are put in place and what was once a through fair for cars will be a pedestrian only shopping area. I’m really happy about this change. It will be a much more inviting [...]