Can you believe it's week 7 already? Neither can I.

FYM on Sunday!

We will be hosting an FYM (Free Your Machine) next Sunday (November 7 2021) from 11 am - 3 pm in room 197-204 (Bonderson, Sec Lab)! Just like last week, we will have free pizza. Halloween may be over, but you can still come in a costume if you really want.

We host these meetings regularly, and you're not obligated to stay for the whole time. We can help with anything Linux-related, ranging from basic UNIX/Linux help, including the UNIX servers and VPN access, to setting up your Linux environment up in a virtual machine or dual booting. We'll even help with any CPE 357 woes you have!

If you have any other questions about the club or Linux, feel free to come and talk to other members of the club. Hope to see you all there!

Recap of FYM on 10/31

Some random topics we discussed:

• The infrastructure cycle
  • First you deploy everything with scripts.
  • But that's not extensible, so you declare your infrastructure as data in JSON/YAML.
  • But that's not flexible enough, so you write a full deployment app for that.
  • But changing that is too hard, so you create a DSL for deploying your infrastructure.
  • But the DSL is too hard to maintain, so you end up going back to scripts again.
  • The cycle repeats and repeats, producing endless SRE/Sysadmin job security.
• Next.js 12 was released!
• Database design - what are the ways to do it?
  • SQL databases
  • NoSQL databases
  • ORMs
  • Using Postgres as a NoSQL database
  • Single-table design

Upcoming Tech Talk(s)

• Why use NixOS? - Astrid Yu, date still TBD. I'm working on it!

For a list of our previous talks, see https://cplug.org/tag/technical-talks/. If you would like to give a technical talk, please send us an email (cplug@calpoly.edu), or message one of the officers via Discord or Slack!

Happy Week 5! You're almost halfway through the quarter! I believe in you!

FYM on Sunday!

We will be hosting an FYM (Free Your Machine) next Sunday (2021 October 24) from 11 am - 3 pm in room 197-204 (Bonderson, Sec Lab)! Just like last week, we will have free pizza. We host these meetings regularly, and you're not obligated to stay for the whole time.

We can help with anything Linux-related, ranging from basic UNIX/Linux help, including the UNIX servers and VPN access, to setting up your Linux environment up in a virtual machine or dual boot. We'll even help with any CPE 357 woes you have!

If you have any other questions about the club or Linux, feel free to come and talk to other members of the club. Hope to see you all there!

Recap of FYM on 10/17

• We had pizza!
• We looked at The Waite Group's UNIX Primer Plus 2nd Edition, a manual for Berkeley UNIX Version 4.3, which had its final release in 1995.
• We discussed our favorite...
  • Distros: Most people use Arch Linux. There was also Linux Mint, Ubuntu, Debian, Fedora, Gentoo, NixOS.
  • Editors: Most people use Vim, Visual Studio Code, Sublime, or a combination of those. Surprisingly, no one here uses Emacs. If you use Emacs, please come. Otherwise, the Vim users will take over.
  • Programming languages: Languages people like include C, C++, Rust, Python, Java, JavaScript, TypeScript, Dart, and Go. Surprisingly, there were no English users.
• We also discussed Windows Subsystem on Linux.
• We discussed how we manage our configs, like dotfile repos and Nix flakes.
• We discussed some of the details of Arch Linux package management.
• Some of us also did homework, or worked on our own apps.

Upcoming Tech Talk(s)

• Why use NixOS? - Astrid Yu, date TBD

For a list of our previous talks, see https://cplug.org/tag/technical-talks/. If you would like to give a technical talk, please send us an email (cplug@calpoly.edu), or message one of the officers via Discord or Slack!

Happy Week 4! We hope your midterms have been going well! If you haven't taken them yet, we wish you good luck on them!

FYM on Sunday!

We will be hosting an FYM (Free Your Machine) this Sunday (2021 October 10) from 11 am - 3 pm in room 197-204 (Bonderson, Sec Lab)!

And yes, there will be free pizza!

We host these meetings regularly, and you're not obligated to stay for the whole time.

We can help with anything Linux-related, ranging from basic UNIX/Linux help, including the UNIX servers and VPN access, to setting up your Linux environment up in a virtual machine or dual boot. We'll even help with any CPE 357 woes you have!

If you have any other questions about the club or Linux, feel free to come and talk to other members of the club. Hope to see you all there!

Recap of FYM on 10/10

We didn't plan anything for this meeting, so we each worked on whatever we wanted.

• Jaxon installed Fedora Server on a mini PC, and Unraid on a rack server. He experienced a lot of problems while trying to use Windows to format the Unraid disk
• Astrid worked on her website's CMS, and got a basic Wireguard connection working between her laptop and VPS.
• Srirag worked on his NLP homework.
• Ellis worked on his CPE 357 homework.

At the end, we went to Fatte's Pizza and got pizza for dinner.

Upcoming Tech Talk(s)

Currently, we do not have any technical talks planned for this quarter. For a list of our previous talks, see https://cplug.org/tag/technical-talks/. If you would like to give a technical talk, please send us an email (cplug@calpoly.edu), or message one of the officers via Discord or Slack!