[lug] Digest (8 messages) - Wed, 13 Jun 2012 20:04:39 -0400

Subject : [lug] Digest (8 messages)

From : lug-owner@lists.ncsu.[redacted]

Date : Wed, 13 Jun 2012 20:04:39 -0400

The Lug Digest
Volume 1 : Issue 283 : "text" Format

Messages in this Issue:
201205/10 : Re: Power Management Problem
Emery Chen <jechen@ncsu.[redacted]>
201205/11 : mdwtab latex package
Anirban Sarkar <asarkar3@ncsu.[redacted]>
201205/12 : Re: mdwtab latex package
Jonathan Page <jdpage@ncsu.[redacted]>
201205/13 : Re: mdwtab latex package
Srinath Krishna Ananthakrishnan <sananth5@ncsu.[redacted]>
201205/14 : [TriLUG-announce] June 14 Meeting - OpenGL
Jeremy Davis <jeremydavis@jeremydavis.[redacted]>
201206/1 : Summer Hack Day with NCSULUG
Barry Peddycord III <bwpeddyc@ncsu.[redacted]>
201206/2 : Re: Realmkit for FC 17
Jack Neely <jjneely@ncsu.[redacted]>
201206/3 : [TriLUG-announce] Reminder for Thursday Meeting - OpenGL
Bill Farrow <bill@arrowsreach.[redacted]>

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Date: Thu, 17 May 2012 14:15:18 -0400
From: Emery Chen <jechen@ncsu.[redacted]>
To: lug@lists.ncsu.[redacted]
Subject: Re: Power Management Problem
Message-ID: <4FB54036.5040007@ncsu.[redacted]>

Hey,

Arch by default runs your processor at maximum frequency using the
performance scaling governor. Seems like you've remedied that already. I
noticed on my machine with Arch, using the open source Radeon drivers my
video card runs at also runs at max speed, causing high temps while
idle. The proprietary drivers have proper scaling. Not sure if you have
an AMD/ATI video, but if you do check out
https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Radeon#Powersaving

Emery

On 05/17/2012 11:53 AM, Margherita Di Leo wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I had a similar problem using debian. It can be a video driver
> problem. Try to install the proprietary video drivers.
> Hope this helps,
>
> madi
>
> On Thu, May 17, 2012 at 5:35 PM, Nachiappan A <nachimdu@gmail.[redacted]
> <mailto:nachimdu@gmail.[redacted]>> wrote:
>
> Hi All,
>
> I have been using Arch linux in my Lenovo laptop for close to a
> year now. I have a dual boot option with windows, which came with
> the laptop by default.
> When I boot into windows the laptop runs for close to 4 hours on
> battery(DC current), but linux with-stands only 2.5 hours max.
> I have tried quite a lot of options like Laptop-Mode-Tools,
> PM-utils, changing the frequency scaling governor, none of which
> helped.
> The new linux kernel 3.3 has got ASPM fix, so I tried forcing ASPM
> and even this doesnt seem to make any difference.
>
> Can someone help me out solving this issue ?
>
>
> Thanks,
> Nachiappan A
>
>
>
>
> --
> Ing. Margherita Di Leo, Ph.D.

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Date: Wed, 30 May 2012 13:21:29 -0400
From: Anirban Sarkar <asarkar3@ncsu.[redacted]>
To: lug@lists.ncsu.[redacted]
Subject: mdwtab latex package
Message-ID: <CAA4NhdiA9va5RTonU-7Qtmtc=umnKmtB+r5136org-hRrbEU+g@mail.gmail.[redacted]>

Hi all,

If you have used the mdwtab latex package for creating tables, could you
suggest some good/easy references or share a simple code for a table?

--
Thanks,
Anirban Sarkar,
Graduate Student,
Department of Electrical & Computer Engineering,
NC State

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Date: Wed, 30 May 2012 17:50:42 -0400
From: Jonathan Page <jdpage@ncsu.[redacted]>
To: lug@lists.ncsu.[redacted]
Subject: Re: mdwtab latex package
Message-ID: <CAPF9Lqv-f5XgWSee_wQNfHEbMaoB5dbCbUWGG9x4bZ5ZY9BBhw@mail.gmail.[redacted]>

On Wed, May 30, 2012 at 1:21 PM, Anirban Sarkar <asarkar3@ncsu.[redacted]> wrote:

> If you have used the mdwtab latex package for creating tables, could you
> suggest some good/easy references or share a simple code for a table?
>

The mdwtab documentation is here (pdf):
http://mirror.ctan.org/macros/latex/contrib/mdwtools/mdwtab.pdf

What follows doesn't *technically* answer your question, but you should
take a look at pandoc (http://johnmacfarlane.net/pandoc/). Among a huge
variety of other things, it lets you write Markdown or Textile and have it
converted to LaTeX, a PDF (via pdflatex), HTML, DOCX, etc. It's much nicer,
since you don't have to write LaTeX all of the time.

If you need something that markdown or pandoc's markdown extensions don't
provide (like math), you can just include regular LaTeX in your markdown.

I've used this system for writing papers, work documents, and bits of my
website, and it works fantastically.

--
Jonathan Page

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Date: Wed, 30 May 2012 18:08:33 -0700
From: Srinath Krishna Ananthakrishnan <sananth5@ncsu.[redacted]>
To: lug@lists.ncsu.[redacted]
Subject: Re: mdwtab latex package
Message-ID: <CAJjEb_RDp0zkbeNTiNEe4_YzzFr2AAQJ=Zcjy4VnBrt=z4Rp-g@mail.gmail.[redacted]>

Brilliant! Thanks Jonathan! :)
--
Thanks,
Srinath Krishna Ananthakrishnan
North Carolina State University

http://www4.ncsu.edu/~sananth5

On Wed, May 30, 2012 at 2:50 PM, Jonathan Page <jdpage@ncsu.[redacted]> wrote:

> On Wed, May 30, 2012 at 1:21 PM, Anirban Sarkar <asarkar3@ncsu.[redacted]> wrote:
>
>> If you have used the mdwtab latex package for creating tables, could you
>> suggest some good/easy references or share a simple code for a table?
>>
>
> The mdwtab documentation is here (pdf):
> http://mirror.ctan.org/macros/latex/contrib/mdwtools/mdwtab.pdf
>
> What follows doesn't *technically* answer your question, but you should
> take a look at pandoc (http://johnmacfarlane.net/pandoc/). Among a huge
> variety of other things, it lets you write Markdown or Textile and have it
> converted to LaTeX, a PDF (via pdflatex), HTML, DOCX, etc. It's much nicer,
> since you don't have to write LaTeX all of the time.
>
> If you need something that markdown or pandoc's markdown extensions don't
> provide (like math), you can just include regular LaTeX in your markdown.
>
> I've used this system for writing papers, work documents, and bits of my
> website, and it works fantastically.
>
> --
> Jonathan Page
>
>

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Date: Thu, 31 May 2012 21:58:42 -0400
From: Jeremy Davis <jeremydavis@jeremydavis.[redacted]>
To: trilug-announce@trilug.[redacted]
Subject: [TriLUG-announce] June 14 Meeting - OpenGL
Message-ID: <CACSroP01P7guhU2fBMkbCqKYp75XrYUf2JsyO2ACi0fhLbPWnQ@mail.gmail.[redacted]>

Topic: OpenGL
Presenter: John Riselvato
When: Thursday, June 14, 7pm
Where: Red Hat HQ, NCSU Centennial Campus, 1801 Varsity Dr, Raleigh, NC
Webpage: http://trilug.org/2012-06-14/opengl

This TriLUG meet is an introduction in OpenGL. OpenGL (Open Graphics
Library) is a hardware independent, cross-platform, cross-language API
for developing graphical interfaces. It takes simple points, lines and
polygons and gives the programmer the liberty to create outstanding
projects.

This presentation will cover the following:
- Introducing GLUT
- Creating a 2D Square
- Manipulating the Square
- OpenGL Rotation &Transform
- Adding 3D Rotation to the 2D Square
- Generating a pseudo-complex objects with a simple for loop

Although OpenGL is cross-language, the presentation code will be
displayed in C but understanding C is not needed.

Bio:
John Riselvato is a Computational Science Intern at Shodor in Durham,
North Carolina. John specializes in iOS development for Shodor, with
two apps currently on the app store. Recently he had an opportunity to
work on an OpenGL and CUDA project during his internship which sparked
a large interest in OpenGL.
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Date: Thu, 07 Jun 2012 14:35:11 -0400
From: Barry Peddycord III <bwpeddyc@ncsu.[redacted]>
To: lug@lists.ncsu.[redacted], trilug@trilug.[redacted]
Subject: Summer Hack Day with NCSULUG
Message-ID: <1339094111.1930.30.camel@davinci>

Hai lugz.

While most of you are probably off doing amazing things in the real
world this summer, some of us are still stuck at NC State for the time.
Since things get really boring on campus this time of year, we propose
to have a Summer LUG Hack Day for anyone who's around. No theme in mind,
just a chance to beat the heat and hang out with the cool nerds.

Right now, we want to have it in EB2 on Saturday June 30th, from 10:00 -
18:00. We've got two rooms in mind depending on how many people we
expect to show up, so if you think you may come (threshold >=75%
confidence), let us know so we can book the room according to the size
of our group.

This is generally geared towards our student and associate members, but
I'm crossposting this to the TriLUG mailing list just in case someone in
the area wants to come and drop by. You can let me know on- or off-list.

Thanks,
NCSULUG Secretary-Elect
Barry Peddycord

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Date: Thu, 7 Jun 2012 16:55:44 -0400
From: Jack Neely <jjneely@ncsu.[redacted]>
To: Warren Jasper <wjasper@ncsu.[redacted]>
Cc: lug@lists.ncsu.[redacted]
Subject: Re: Realmkit for FC 17
Message-ID: <20120607205544.GN19106@virge.linuxczar.[redacted]>

On Wed, Jun 06, 2012 at 05:10:39PM -0400, Warren Jasper wrote:
> Hi Jack,
>
> Hope you are doing well, it's been a while since we talked. I noticed
> that the new Linux kernel 3.X
> had some minor changes to the kernel API which involved some minor
> patches to all my drivers,
> so I put FC 17 on a box and started patching the kernel. It would have
> been nice to have
> a "light" version of the realmkit with only afs and some type of kerb
> login authentication via
> either the virtual console, ssh, or gdm. While I'm on the subject of
> desktops, GNOME is a bit different on FC17.
>
> Anyway, do you know of anybody interested in helping me get a very
> lightweight version of the realmkit
> working? For a student operated distro, it make more sense than the
> current realmkit model, or at least
> a way to download the minimal components without going to dropbox or
> googledocs to share files, while
> still getting the latest versions of software.
>
> Thanks,
>
> Warren

Warren,

Indeed its been too long. Things have been completely crazy and I've
been trying to get a lot of neglected Realm Linux maintenance done.

Myself and a bunch of folks that been evaluating our configuration
management tools and comparing them with Puppet. Puppet has matured a
lot, and there's lots of interest in moving from Bcfg2 to Puppet. Its a
lot easier to use and to write specification for as well.

I've got a basic Puppet Realm Linux setup now that folks can use in a
testing/development sorta way. The instructions are here:

http://lists.ncsu.edu/cgi-bin/digest?list=realmlinux-dev&archive=realmlinux-dev.201206&Submit=Show+Archive

A "light" version of RL has also been bandied about of late. Perhaps
there are some folks out there that would like to hack on the Puppet
spec a bit to enable a "light" version for Fedora that doesn't require
some of the extra packages built for the normal versions?

I'm hoping that in the near future it might be possible to deploy RL (at
least on RHEL/CentOS) with something as simple as

puppet apply foo.pp

There are OpenAFS packages in rpmfusion.org that work well for Fedora.

Jack
--
Jack Neely <jjneely@ncsu.[redacted]>
Linux Czar, OIT Campus Linux Services
Office of Information Technology, NC State University
GPG Fingerprint: 1917 5AC1 E828 9337 7AA4 EA6B 213B 765F 3B6A 5B89

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Date: Wed, 13 Jun 2012 20:03:24 -0400
From: Bill Farrow <bill@arrowsreach.[redacted]>
To: TriLUG General List <trilug@trilug.[redacted]>,
TriLUG Announce <trilug-announce@trilug.[redacted]>,
durham-makerspace@googlegroups.[redacted]
Subject: [TriLUG-announce] Reminder for Thursday Meeting - OpenGL
Message-ID: <CAPm8Nr0hmTM0W9BQ-8TaHEfN0HHRG27FnMMtSMDHZjbdKc4bng@mail.gmail.[redacted]>

Last minute reminder for the TriLUG meeting tomorrow night. If you
would like to follow along with the example code during the meeting,
you can prepare your laptop by installing freeglut and downloading the
examples ahead of time:

sudo apt-get install freeglut3-dev gcc make
wget http://trilug.org/~bfarrow/OpenGLPresentation_Linux_v1.tgz
tar zxf OpenGLPresentation_Linux_v1.tgz
cd OpenGLPresentation_Linux
make
./helloworld

Topic: OpenGL
Presenter: John Riselvato
When: Thursday, June 14, 7pm
Where: Red Hat HQ, NCSU Centennial Campus, 1801 Varsity Dr, Raleigh, NC
Webpage: http://trilug.org/2012-06-14/opengl

This TriLUG meet is an introduction in OpenGL. OpenGL (Open Graphics
Library) is a hardware independent, cross-platform, cross-language API
for developing graphical interfaces. It takes simple points, lines and
polygons and gives the programmer the liberty to create outstanding
projects.

This presentation will cover the following:
- Introducing GLUT
- Creating a 2D Square
- Manipulating the Square
- OpenGL Rotation &Transform
- Adding 3D Rotation to the 2D Square
- Generating a pseudo-complex objects with a simple for loop

Although OpenGL is cross-language, the presentation code will be
displayed in C but understanding C is not needed.

Bio:
John Riselvato is a Computational Science Intern at Shodor in Durham,
North Carolina. John specializes in iOS development for Shodor, with
two apps currently on the app store. Recently he had an opportunity to
work on an OpenGL and CUDA project during his internship which sparked
a large interest in OpenGL.
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