<div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_quote"><br><div dir="ltr"><div style="font-family:tahoma,sans-serif">I walk slow, but it only takes me 13 minutes to go from 368 Phillip Street to Davis Centre by foot.</div><div style="font-family:tahoma,sans-serif">Anyone who would like to visit the museum can park at 368 Phillip Street for the duration.</div><div 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 DC and parking at his building:-)<br></div><div><br></div><div><div style="font-family:tahoma,sans-serif">So, don't let parking concerns prevent you from enjoying a visit to the museum!<br></div><br></div><div><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_signature" data-smartmail="gmail_signature"><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr"><div>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 8:27 PM Paul Nijjar via kwlug-announce <<a href="mailto:kwlug-announce@kwlug.org" target="_blank">kwlug-announce@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>
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>
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