Tuesday March 11th, 2024 NCLUG Meeting

[Sean Reifschneider]

Those books were donated by Al Sweigart, the author, I'm just the conduit.
He wouldn't even
accept money for the shipping.  The books were:
_The_Recursive_Book_of_Recursion_ and
_Beyond_the_Basic_Stuff_with_Python_.  Thanks all go to Al, I just used
them to confuse
the heck out of Jim when I dropped them off at his house.

Sean

On Tue, Mar 11, 2025 at 7:32 PM Bob Proulx <bob at proulx.com> wrote:

> j dewitt wrote:
> > What: Tuesday March 11th, 2024 NCLUG Meeting
>
> I just had a routine eye exam, which due to my retina tear (all good
> now), requires dilation.  I can almost see something.  Somewhat.
> Almost.  So notes are going to be touch typed without much review for
> syntax, gramar, spelling, or sanity.
>
> We had a good turnout of people at tonight's meet.  Which for us means
> that we filled both of the workbench tables in the creator hub meeting
> area.  Pretty good for us was just short of 20 people.  Awesome!
>
> Aaron was first in time with a talk announcement putting him first in
> line to talk at the meeting!  The topic was an open WiFi
> demonstration.  Aaron brought a handful of Aruba Networks IAP Instant
> Access Point.  They are now very available on the used market from
> eBay.  They now run OpenWRT making them very desirable devices.
>
> Stacked with that was a 48-port high performance enterprise network
> switch.  Loud!  Dual power supplies.  40Gbps interconnect.  POE ports.
> Loud!  Much quieter after it boots up fully.  The only purpose of this
> switch over a small consumer switch is that Aaron pretty much only has
> full size enterprise equipment and this was his spare equipment.
>
> The plan was to live demo show loading OpenWRT onto a factory firmware
> Aruba WiFi device.  We lost focus a little bit because it takes so
> long to boot the network switch and then to boot the Aruba IAP WiFi
> device.  We also had multiple comments about Aaron using the perfectly
> valid Kermit utility for serial interfacing.  Kermit is perfectly
> valid!
>
> Stephen demonstrated a new Android thing.  The latest Android has a
> built in GNU/Linux container feature.  The first time it runs it will
> download about 500MB of system to create the container.  And then on
> the phone you have what appears to be a full featured GNU/Linux system
> in minimal install.  Which then will want to download maybe a Gig more
> in order to install enough for it to be useful to do something serious
> with it.
>
> Set up the container.  Install sshd.  Then ssh *into the phone* and
> there is a full GNU/Linux system running as a virtual machine on the
> phone.  The phone's file system is not fully available but the phone's
> Download directory is shared allowing a drop area.  Stephen
> demonstrated compiling GNU bash as an example of being able to do
> pretty much anything on this virtual machine.
>
> This is similar to Termux but whereas that is an Android app and
> interacts like an Android app this is either a container or a virtual
> machine and is not limited by the Android API.  It is limited by
> running in the virtual machine environment and can't access most of
> the phone's file system it can do everything else in a perfectly
> normal system way.  It loads up Debian 12 Bookworm which is current.
>
> James brought in three nice Python books that were donated by Sean.
> Those were given away to people who were interested in them.  I didn't
> catch the three titles but they were three nice Python books from
> Sean.  From No Starch Press.  Autographed by the author.  Thanks Sean!
>
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