<div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:tahoma,sans-serif"><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:tahoma,sans-serif">Not sure how long to walk from 368 Phillip Street to Dana Poter(20 minutes?), but there is alternative to UW's parking as per below..<br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:tahoma,sans-serif"><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:tahoma,sans-serif">Anyone who would like to do an in-person meeting can park at 368 Phillip Street for the duration.</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:tahoma,sans-serif">I've
sought permission from the property owner and he's cool with geeks
being geeks, geeking out at DP and parking at his building:-)<br></div><div><br></div><div><div style="font-family:tahoma,sans-serif" class="gmail_default">So, don't let parking concerns prevent you from enjoying the in-person meeting!</div></div></div><div><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_signature" data-smartmail="gmail_signature"><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr"><div><span class="gmail_default" style="font-family:tahoma,sans-serif"></span><br>Ron S.<br><br></div></div></div></div></div></div><br></div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Sat, Mar 2, 2024 at 11:08 PM Paul Nijjar via kwlug-disc <<a href="mailto:kwlug-disc@kwlug.org">kwlug-disc@kwlug.org</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><br>
Online at <a href="https://webconference.kwlug.org/room/kwlug" rel="noreferrer" target="_blank">https://webconference.kwlug.org/room/kwlug</a> <br>
<br>
or in LIB 329 at the Dana Porter Library at the University of<br>
Waterloo. There is more location info here: <a href="https://kwlug.org/node/1345" rel="noreferrer" target="_blank">https://kwlug.org/node/1345</a><br>
<br>
It would be great to see you online or in person. It's been a long<br>
time!<br>
<br>
On Sat, Mar 02, 2024 at 09:38:02PM -0500, Kiwi Ssennyonjo wrote:<br>
> Where is the meeting this month<br>
> Sent from my mobile device<br>
> <br>
> > On Mar 2, 2024, at 20:27, Paul Nijjar via kwlug-announce <<a href="mailto:kwlug-announce@kwlug.org" target="_blank">kwlug-announce@kwlug.org</a>> wrote:<br>
> > <br>
> > <br>
> > A good number of people at KWLUG sure love running servers at home.<br>
> > (Who knew that there were even computer servers any more? I thought<br>
> > servers no longer existed because all our stuff is stored in The Cloud<br>
> > (tm), which is made of fluffy water particles and not computer<br>
> > hardware?) Like pogo sticks and macram�, servers are back in<br>
> > style. During last month's meeting the topic of Network Attached<br>
> > Storage (NAS) products came up, which provide storage for all those<br>
> > cat videos and family pictures accessible to different devices on your<br>
> > home network.<br>
> > <br>
> > We decided to devote this month's meeting to a no-holds-barred claws<br>
> > out fight between two products: TrueNAS and Unraid. TrueNAS is a<br>
> > family of storage products -- some based on FreeBSD, some based on<br>
> > Debian GNU/Linux. Unraid is a proprietary product based on Linux.<br>
> > Jason Paul and Colin_ will be standing up for TrueNAS, and John Steel<br>
> > will be defending Unraid. Regardless of the winner we will learn some<br>
> > things about what features are out there, and what people like and<br>
> > dislike about these NAS products. <br>
> > <br>
> > In other news, we will be having another restaurant meetup on<br>
> > Wednesday, March 13. The restaurant is TBA, but may involve Pho. I<br>
> > suppose you can pre-emptively RSVP to <a href="mailto:dinner@kwlug.org" target="_blank">dinner@kwlug.org</a> . We'll post<br>
> > more details to the website and mailing list as we have them.<br>
> > <br>
> > Elsewhere in the community, the UW Computer Museum is holding another<br>
> > hardware day on Tuesday, March 5 from 10am to 4pm. They will have lots<br>
> > of retro hardware on display, and I believe will be trying to get some<br>
> > of that gear working again. There will also be a talk by Devon Merner<br>
> > on how the iMac G5 was used in the development of the Xbox. See more<br>
> > information here: <a href="https://uwaterloo.ca/computer-museum/events/computer-museum-hardware-day-march-5-2024" rel="noreferrer" target="_blank">https://uwaterloo.ca/computer-museum/events/computer-museum-hardware-day-march-5-2024</a><br>
> > <br>
> > There are other events happening this month too! See <a href="http://watcamp.com" rel="noreferrer" target="_blank">watcamp.com</a> for<br>
> > more.<br>
> > <br>
> > That's what I have for this month. We will again be holding our KWLUG<br>
> > meeting in hybrid format (and would be interested in opinions about<br>
> > how that is going). The meeting will start at 7pm on both <br>
> > <br>
> > <a href="https://webconference.kwlug.org/room/kwlug" rel="noreferrer" target="_blank">https://webconference.kwlug.org/room/kwlug</a><br>
> > <br>
> > and in-person at the Dana Porter library, room LIB 329, at the<br>
> > University of Waterloo.<br>
> > <br>
> > - Paul<br>
> > -- <br>
> > Events: <a href="https://feeds.off-topic.kwlug.org" rel="noreferrer" target="_blank">https://feeds.off-topic.kwlug.org</a> <br>
> > Housing: <a href="https://unionsd.coop" rel="noreferrer" target="_blank">https://unionsd.coop</a><br>
> > Blog: <a href="http://pnijjar.freeshell.org" rel="noreferrer" target="_blank">http://pnijjar.freeshell.org</a><br>
> > <br>
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