BerkeleyTIP TOMORROW Jan 3 Sat- Party Time :) Video Talks: Asterisk, GPU

Fri Jan 2 00:11:43 PST 2009

YOU ARE INVITED TO ATTEND  :)  Join in with the friendly BTIP people.
IRC & VOIP communication - Use Ekiga VOIP SW & a Headset.

GLOBAL SIMULTANEOUS GNU(Linux), BSD & All Free SW & HW Monthly Meeting
TIP = Talks, Installfest, Potluck & ProgrammingParty
January 3rd 2009, Saturday.
Time: 10 AM - 6 PM    (All times Pacific USA)
  Adjust for your local time zone.   (Ex: = 1 PM - 9 PM Eastern)
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VIDEO TALKS
12N  - The Asterisk Telephone System - Paul Charles Leddy NYLUG
 2PM - GPU Computing - John Stone CLUG.org.za

U C BERKELEY LOCATION ATTENDEES: 1) PLEASE RSVP TO ME! THANKS!
2) NEW BERKELEY MEETING LOCATION THIS MONTH!!  TO BE DETERMINED.
SEE DETAILS at  http://groups.google.com/group/BerkTIP
Post CARPOOL messages on that list! :)
3) No POTLUCK this month. I'm waiting till we get VOIP perfected.

==  TALK TOPICS, PROGRAMMING PARTY, INSTALLFEST, DISCUSSION  ==
Two great TALK TOPICS this month, one on the Asterisk Telephone/VOIP
system, and the other on GPUs -  Graphics Processing Units (the hardware
in graphics cards) which can do general purpose computing.

The directed PROGRAMMING PARTY will be to investigate Asterisk & Ekiga
with a goal to work on improving their technology for VOIP for the
BerkTIP-Global meeting. Undirected = work on whatever you're interested
in - what _is_ that?  Post a message to the BTIP-Global list.

INSTALLFEST: Maybe several laptop installs/upgrades in Berkeley, KUbuntu
& RH likely.  What are _you_ looking to do?  Post a message to the
BTIP-Global list.

DISCUSSION ITEMS:  Lots of exciting things to talk about: New AMD Phenom
II out Jan 8th, 64bit GUI distros, Firefox multi instance. Is OpenOffice
in poor development shape?  What's the best File System?  Intel hires
Alan Cox.  BTIP VOIP improvement features.  And, planning for the 2009
year - What would be fun to try to accomplish this year? International
members?  Better VOIP?  Video conferencing? Live talks?

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=====  BERKELEY-TIP: WHAT IT IS, WHAT WE DO, YOU ARE INVITED  =======

BerkeleyTIP is the MONTHLY GLOBAL / world wide
GNU(Linux), BSD & all Free Software & Hardware MEETING.
SIMULTANEOUS around the world.
TIP = Talks, Installfest, Potluck & ProgrammingParty
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The 1st Saturday of every month.

We get together to LEARN, TALK, HELP, HAVE FUN,
& PRODUCE more FREE SOFTWARE.
And, wherever you are, you're invited. :)
Come to Berkeley, or join with us on line, using VOIP & IRC.
Beginner to Expert - Old to Young - Student, Working or Retired -
Male or Female - Everyone is INVITED & WELCOME.
YOU DON'T HAVE TO PROGRAM, OR BE A PROGRAMMER.
END USERS WELCOME TO LEARN, CHAT, GET INSTALL HELP, etc.
JOIN with the meeting FOR ALL OR JUST PART of the TIME.
JOIN with the meeting FOR ALL OR JUST SOME of the ACTIVITIES.

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=====  CONTENTS:
=====  1) IRC & VOIP Communication
=====  2) VIDEO Talks- Thanks to CLUG & NYLUG videographers!
=====  3) ProgrammingParty = VOIP
=====  4) INSTALLFEST

=====  1) IRC & VOIP Communication
Join from home, or wherever you can get an IRC & VOIP connection.
Join by yourself, or with friends.
IRC: Freenode.net, Channel: #BerkeleyTIP
VOIP: Use Ekiga SW & a VOIP headset, 
  Do an Ekiga loopback test before the meeting, to ensure your system
  works properly.
http://groups.google.com/group/BerkTIPGlobal/web/irc-voip
Join the IRC channel & we'll help you get set up on VOIP.

=====  2) VIDEO Talks- Thanks to CLUG & NYLUG videographers!
Times are Pacific USA time - Adjust for your local time zone:
  Ex: Eastern time = Pacific + 3, ie 12N PST = 3PM EST
12N  - The Asterisk Telephone System - Paul Charles Leddy NYLUG
 2PM - GPU Computing - John Stone CLUG  www.clug.org.za

Download the videos the day or night before, so your connection is free
for VOIP, not consumed by the video download. Videos are typically
100 MB - 1 GB.
http://groups.google.com/group/BerkTIPGlobal/web/videos

== DOWNLOAD LINKS
The Asterisk Free Software Telephone System - Paul Charles Leddy
Run time: 1:22:15
http://nylug.org/meetings/index.shtml?20081000
http://www.archive.org/details/NYLUG_2008_10_23_General_Meeting_Video/

GPU Computing - John Stone
Keywords: GPU Computing; Parallel computing; HPC; high performance
computing; protein folding; vmd
Run time: 01:42:37
http://www.archive.org/details/clug-28-10-2008-gpu-computing

=====  3) ProgrammingParty = VOIP
We'll work on learning about the Ekiga & Asterisk software. Goal is to
improve the SW or config to improve aspects of VOIP for the BTIP meeting
- more end user info, details about the connection, communication
between client & server, & server admin interface.

=====  4) INSTALLFEST
In Berkeley we'll likely be working to figure out why a Dell Vostro 1 yr
old with a new KUbuntu 8.04 (I chose that over 8.10 to avoid KDE 4 till
its got more bugs out & more features in) is locking up, in fact might
have messed up the booting SW, cause it hangs booting linux now, but
boots the preinstalled-nonfreesw OS.  Possible suspects: bad WiFi
driver, bad NVidia HW or driver, perhaps leading to bad disk writes. Or,
maybe bad disk or controller or MBoard?

IF item 2: is a possible Ubuntu Intrepid install help.  IF item 3: is a
possible distro upgrade on a 5+yo IBM thinkpad with a several years old
RH.  The owner knows in the past there have been problems with the power
management or battery driver, & hates dealing with the details of having
to investigate & locate a driver, then patch & compile a custom kernel
to make it work.

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