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* Great LinuxCourse book can be downloaded from the WURLUG site! Written by Alain Wenmaekers.
 
* Great LinuxCourse book can be downloaded from the WURLUG site! Written by Alain Wenmaekers.
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* Wednesday 22nd of June 2005 2000 hrs LinuxCafe
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* SecondInstallFest: Wednesday 15/12/2004 1900 hrs - HaarwegDirections
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* Talks and discussion on Cfruby: Tuesday 14/12/2004 15.30 Room C57 (building 312 Transitorium Dreijenlaan 3, see [http://www.wageningen-ur.nl/nl/adressen/kaart.gif Map])
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** Pjotr Prins: Introducing Cfruby / Cfengine for management of large scale (and heterogenous) computing environmnents
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** Pieter Neerincx: Managing Large Bio-informatics Clusters using Cfruby with the Sun Grid Engine
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* We were at the AID - see also StudentsAtWUR
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* Lately we have been plagued by Wiki spammers - I have therefore restricted editing to a number of IP ranges (including wur.nl and xs4all.nl). Test your IP by editing the JunkPage and hit 'Save'. If your IP does not work send me a note. In principle the Wiki is open for editing to anyone - as long as it is related to our context (Pjotr)
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* SecondInstallFest: Wednesday 15/12 2004, 1900 hrs - HaarwegDirections
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* Introducing GettingAFix: Wednesday 27/10 2004, 1900 hrs at Arion we will help people with Linux issues on their computer (for the rules see the GettingAFix page). Location: ARION Niemeijerstraat 6 6701 CP Wageningen. Easy access near the center of town. And afterwards we'll go out for a beer.
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* Talks and discussion on Cfruby: Tuesday 14/12 2004, 15.30 Room C57 (building 312 Transitorium Dreijenlaan 3, see [http://www.wageningen-ur.nl/nl/adressen/kaart.gif Map])
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** Pjotr Prins: <b>Introducing Cfruby / Cfengine for management of large scale (and heterogenous) computing environmnents</b>
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** Pieter Neerincx: <b>Managing Large Bio-informatics Clusters using Cfruby with the Sun Grid Engine</b>
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* LinuxNewbies, March 30th 2004, was a great success. Again a large crowd puller!
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* Add yourself to the [http://lugww.counter.li.org/groups.cms?&cc=NL&rc=99 Linux counter].
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* We've just had our FirstInstallFest, which had an overwhelming turnout. People had to stand in the corridor and there were not enough monitors, keyboards, mice and indeed experts available to help all people. See FirstInstallFestPictures
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* We will definitely repeat this event, only next time in a somewhat more structured manner (limited number of tickets), and are thinking about organizing workshops and seminars about various themes ("linux for beginners" for instance) as well. There is apparently a great demand for this kind of help, and we would like to invite everyone interested in attending a course or seminar to add his/her name and favorite subject(s) to the list of RequestedSubjects.
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* http://www.wurlug.org/ has been registered by Stephan. The facility includes a [http://www.wurlug.org/phpBB2/index.php bulletin board]

Revision as of 07:53, 15 April 2009

Older stuff

June 17th 2008, LinuxCafe Wageningen

The yearly LinuxCafe for those of us who have nothing better to do!

6 December 2007 1900 hrs: LinuxMeet in Wageningen

Haarweg, see HaarwegDirections!

  • Play with BOINC
  • Play with OpenFiler NAS
  • Demonstration of XEN 64bits Linux on 8 CPU machine

Beforehand Chinese food in the Nude (17:45 hrs).

19 June 2007 1400-1600 hrs: Using Linux - MAC/OSX mini-symposium at WUR

  • We organise a mini-symposium for scientists who use, or want to use
  • Linux or MAC/OSX at WUR (Location: Room C85 at the Transitorium on De Dreijen - building 312, up the hill). Speakers:
    • Armijn Hemel, Key-note speaker, on Unix in Academic Context
    • Harm Nijveen on Linux at Bio-informatics Wageningen University
    • Hylke van der Schaaf on Setting up your Linux-MAC/OSX system @WUR
    • Andre ten Bohmer on WUR FB/ICT support for Unix systems
    • Pjotr Prins on Linux: Wheels within Wheels - virtualisation with Linux and Windows

the poster can be downloaded from Here

Also

  • Afterwards we will have drinks
  • There will be a Cluster meeting at 13:00 hrs

News

  • New beamer based latex presentation templates by Patrick Bogaart. See TeXWUR.
  • Linux loving men are sexier.
  • Tu 24th of October 2006 - 19:30 hrs - next GettingAFix! Chinese dinner before - for those who care about food. See HaarwegDirections.
  • Added page about general considerations before StartingToUseLinux
  • LinuxCafe Thursday May 11th 2006 2000 hrs at Cafe De Zaaier
  • BibUtils: A great tool for converting bibliography formats, for example Endnote to BibTex and back
  • Check out the Nix packaging system. Software installation management with roll-back. A brilliant idea and it (should) go main stream!
  • IMAPs is available now! See WURImapForDummies
  • Pjotr has created WUR style support (TeXWUR) for presentations using LaTeX (do away with PowerPoint from today!)
  • Minutes of SecondAnnualMeeting
  • WURLUG hosts TeXMed - the NCBI PubMed to BibTeX converter(!)
  • Great LinuxCourse book can be downloaded from the WURLUG site! Written by Alain Wenmaekers.


  • Wednesday 22nd of June 2005 2000 hrs LinuxCafe
  • SecondInstallFest: Wednesday 15/12/2004 1900 hrs - HaarwegDirections
  • Talks and discussion on Cfruby: Tuesday 14/12/2004 15.30 Room C57 (building 312 Transitorium Dreijenlaan 3, see Map)
    • Pjotr Prins: Introducing Cfruby / Cfengine for management of large scale (and heterogenous) computing environmnents
    • Pieter Neerincx: Managing Large Bio-informatics Clusters using Cfruby with the Sun Grid Engine
  • We were at the AID - see also StudentsAtWUR
  • Lately we have been plagued by Wiki spammers - I have therefore restricted editing to a number of IP ranges (including wur.nl and xs4all.nl). Test your IP by editing the JunkPage and hit 'Save'. If your IP does not work send me a note. In principle the Wiki is open for editing to anyone - as long as it is related to our context (Pjotr)
  • SecondInstallFest: Wednesday 15/12 2004, 1900 hrs - HaarwegDirections
  • Introducing GettingAFix: Wednesday 27/10 2004, 1900 hrs at Arion we will help people with Linux issues on their computer (for the rules see the GettingAFix page). Location: ARION Niemeijerstraat 6 6701 CP Wageningen. Easy access near the center of town. And afterwards we'll go out for a beer.
  • Talks and discussion on Cfruby: Tuesday 14/12 2004, 15.30 Room C57 (building 312 Transitorium Dreijenlaan 3, see Map)
    • Pjotr Prins: Introducing Cfruby / Cfengine for management of large scale (and heterogenous) computing environmnents
    • Pieter Neerincx: Managing Large Bio-informatics Clusters using Cfruby with the Sun Grid Engine
  • LinuxNewbies, March 30th 2004, was a great success. Again a large crowd puller!
  • We've just had our FirstInstallFest, which had an overwhelming turnout. People had to stand in the corridor and there were not enough monitors, keyboards, mice and indeed experts available to help all people. See FirstInstallFestPictures
  • We will definitely repeat this event, only next time in a somewhat more structured manner (limited number of tickets), and are thinking about organizing workshops and seminars about various themes ("linux for beginners" for instance) as well. There is apparently a great demand for this kind of help, and we would like to invite everyone interested in attending a course or seminar to add his/her name and favorite subject(s) to the list of RequestedSubjects.