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Let's Encrypt
by J. Marsden DeLapp 04 Oct '16

04 Oct '16

I have been working on moving my web sites to being served only over a secure encrypted connection. It has been much easier than I expected. One little twist is that I have weather stickers (images) on my home page that come from http://weathersticker.wunderground.com and consequently that causes a warning that "parts of the page are not secure". I could just delete the weather stickers but I kind of like having the weather on my home page. I could install a weather station and connect it to my network and HVAC system and write a bunch of software to maximize my comfort. I could get up from my computer and stick my head out the window to see what the weather is like. And my last option is to ask for help. Anyone know of a good way to show current weather on a https site? Mars PS I am currently leaning towards sticking my head outside but it would be nice to have more forecast stuff like what this shows: http://forecast.weather.gov/MapClick.php?lat=35.6596&lon=-105.9882&unit=0&l… -- ============================================================= J. Marsden DeLapp, PE President DeLapp & Associates, Inc. dba DeLapp Engineering. Providing lighting and power planning, design and analysis services for commercial, industrial and large residential facilities. 1190 Harrison Road Ste 3a Santa Fe NM 87507 (505) 983-5557 https://DeLapp.com =============================================================

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October 27 meeting'
by Ted Pomeroy 02 Sep '16

02 Sep '16

Dear NMGLugers, Of note for our October schedule are two international Linux Foundation meeting to be held in Santa Fe: Linux Kernel Summit, October 31 - November 1, 2016 and Linux Plumbers Conference, November 2 - 4, 2016. I looked and the 'Plumbers' focus on shared libraries, media support and the inner workings of the layers ride next above the kernel. Both conferences are sold out and very focused on the people who do this work for us. I point out that our meeting on the 27th of October just might be on somebody's radar, if not, we could invite the Foundation to pass along out meeting info, if we are so bold. Thank you, Ted P.

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The benefits of open mapping
by Anthony J. Bentley 21 Aug '16

21 Aug '16

Hi all, Here's a subject near to my heart: open source maps (and other big data projects). There are several projects that combined can provide a nice alternative to Google Maps, depending on your area. Advantages include: - Licensing: You are free to copy the data for any purpose. Google Maps lets you download maps, but they're limited in size and what you can do with them. In contrast, with free maps I have the entirety of New Mexico, Texas, Arizona, and Colorado on my phone and they're completely routable without internet access. (This has saved me on a roadtrip or two after getting lost in areas without cell coverage!) - Crowdsourcing: Google doesn't put much effort into low-population areas, like my hometown of Datil, NM. And even in Albuquerque their road coverage isn't perfect (especially when it comes to one-way roads and such). Being able to fix bugs like that instantly is really great. - Privacy: We all know that Google makes its money from ads and user tracking. Some people are willing to put up with that for the resulting product, but others are open to privacy-respecting alternatives. Open source mapping is a great way for both non-technical and technical people to contribute to the community. Anybody can edit a map, and everybody can see the benefit of better ones. So, how can we help? - Edit OpenStreetMap! https://www.openstreetmap.org/ You can add roads or buildings, parking lots, fix one-way streets, or add bicycle infrastructure like trails and bike racks (that show up on http://opencyclemap.org/) or bathrooms in national parks, or... It's a lot like Wikipedia. Changes you make show up within a few minutes on the main site. - Work with local governments/entities to provide freely licensed data! Obviously I'm never going to add addresses for the hundreds of thousands of houses and businesses in the Albuquerque metro area all by myself. That's why there are projects that work with goverments to export data in a freely licensed, open source friendly format. Some examples: OpenAddresses (https://openaddresses.io/) for street addresses TransitLand (https://transit.land/) for public transportation National Map Corps (http://nationalmap.gov/TheNationalMapCorps/) a user-editable USGS landmarks database You can help by submitting address datasets, GTFS feeds, etc to the above projects, or convincing governments, universities, and other public entities to do the same. Albuquerque is a clear leader in this regard; they provide address data and public transit feeds along with a ton of other public domain data at their website: https://www.cabq.gov/abq-data Other good examples are UNM (https://opendata.unm.edu/) and Farmington. I'm not aware of any such initiative for Santa Fe... anybody up there willing/able to try making contacts in the government? The federal Department of Transportation has been asking localities to provide open transit feeds, which may help move things along. https://web.archive.org/web/20160404135841/http://gis.rita.dot.gov/Transit/… - Use and improve free software! There's a lot of neat stuff you can do with all these projects. Some of the software I use frequently for maps: Maps.me: offline Android maps OSMAnd: offline Android maps (free on F-droid) KDE Marble: desktop map viewer Mapillary: crowdsource photos (Street View alternative) JOSM: desktop openstreetmap editor Mapbox: create hosted maps to embed in your website Mapzen: provides routing software, etc to host on your own server -- Anthony J. Bentley

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another hardware exploration, and this weekend's installfest
by Mark Galassi 09 Jun '16

09 Jun '16

Dear nmglugers, This evening I'll bring in a laptop that has a dead screen. It also only powers on when you hit the "dvd play" special key... Anyone wanna take a screwdriver to it? And on Saturday morning at 9am I will teach my "serious programming for kids" course. I have space for another kid (age 13-18) if you know anyone. Does anyone feel like hanging out Warehouse 21 for the very start to help getting the installs going? This should be an easier group than past ones: somewhat smaller group of somewhat older kids.

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lets encrypt
by Jason Schaefer 09 Jun '16

09 Jun '16

Speaking of dreamhost, they have wonderfully implemented lets encrypt!! As usual with dreamhost, its seamless and trivial to use. For those running their own web servers, the lets encrypt folks have made the process almost too easy (for debian users). https://letsencrypt.org/howitworks/ ./letsencrypt-auto --apache On debian, this will verify your domain, issue a cert, install it on your server and enable it using /etc/apache2/sites-enabled Now, lets encrypt everything! Jason

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ElProxy.conf- for" openwrt proxy"
by a 29 May '16

29 May '16

conf file for openwrt proxy sorry about the organizational aberration.

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openwrt proxy addendum-will run on linux
by a 29 May '16

29 May '16

will run on linux.

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openwrt proxy
by a 29 May '16

29 May '16

nmglug, Attachment for specifics,As I understand the details I must make the lan address static,which is done, and the wan address "virtually static" or static via "fixed name" which I have not done and that is the extent of my understanding can anyone take it from here,andale caballero(a)s. Anthony

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open wrt redirect to virtual os on network computer
by a 26 May '16

26 May '16

NMGLUG Hi. openwrt, one of the network computers is windows 7 running xp virtually how do I redirect to xp its ip is not apparently anywhere displayed by open writ but: it the ip local address is 192.168.131.65 indicated by a firewall testing program. Any thoughts Caballero(a)s? Anthony

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anyone have unused laptop hard disks? (upcoming programming course)
by Mark Galassi 23 May '16

23 May '16

Dear nmglugers, One of my students for this weekend has a computer (actually three) that was given to him without a hard disk. I was wondering if anyone might have old laptop hard drives that they could donate - only if you don't need it anymore. Note that this can be a pretty tiny hard drive, it doesn't have to be a biggus diskus. https://youtu.be/2K8_jgiNqUc?t=1m46s I'm going to be bringing these laptops in on Thursday in case anyone is in the mood for disk swapping.

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