Hello Sudoers,
I've got a couple of questions for you savvy hackers on the list. I'm
looking to setup some multiple monitors stations, both at my place and
eventually at sudo room for data analysis, stats, and AI projects.
Firstly, can anybody recommend a Linux-based program that handles multiple
monitors well?
I've been using LXDE in Lubuntu, and am reluctant to use Unity/Ubuntu, but
I'd conceivably make a switch to a different display manager if I had to...
Secondly, does anybody have experience setting up >2 monitors for one
machine, without using more than 1 graphics card, in any OS/display
manager?
>From a preliminary search, it seems like there are a few hacks, but I'm
still not able to figure out how exactly to best proceed, and would
appreciate hearing from someone with more experience.
Thanks,
Sam
A friend is super interested, and I vaguely remember there being a
meeting today, but I can't remember what time. Please let me know!
Hack the planet.
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Thomas Riley York (杨德民) 510.926.0510
http://www.linkedin.com/in/tommyyork
"You are the source of Freedom : the price of Freedom is awareness and action"
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Will someone please do mother nature a gigantic favor and turn the National
Park Service website into something absolutely beautiful and captivating?
It currently takes a click and a scroll down in order to see the crappy
stock photos that are representative of billions of years of geological and
billionish of biological evolution (and that's just earth...but you get my
point).
http://www.nps.gov/seki/index.htm
I can be your writer/promoter. Seriously.
OK, feeling just a tad better after breathing some Wikipedia air (though
this article is itself in want).
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sequoia_National_Forest
Anyway, I bring this point up not to fart around but just to say that I was
unemployed when I first met Sudo Room, and because of Sudo Room I realized
that regardless of this fact, I could be a productive fucking human
being--more productive than I've ever been, ever. I'm beyond happy to see
so many people pursuing productive projects and passions, and look forward
greatly to tomorrow's (as in today's (as in Saturday's (as in I love
recursion talk to me about linguistics)) events.
That is all,
Vicky who has been too busy to go to Wednesday meetings but still thinks
about you and loves you and will begin going again regularly.
You too can be like 7 other people who who have already pledged their
attendance.
Recall from the
calendar,<https://sudoroom.org/ai1ec_event/today-i-learned/?instance_id=52225>and
Wiki<https://sudoroom.org/wiki/Just_enought_Sketch-up_to_pretend_you_can_3d_model>
:
Glance
- *WHEN* 2pm on Saturday the 16th of March.
- *DURATION* 2 hours
- *LOCATION* sudo room <https://sudoroom.org/wiki/Getting_there>
- *PRICE* $0
- *NUTSHELL* Live Sketchup and print tutorial
- *INSTRUCTOR* Max Klein aka notconfusing <http://notconfusing.com>
Plan
- Understand the workflow (Idea>Design>STL>Slice>Print).
- *IDEA* a miniature plate for canapes and appetizers that is ring and
allows you to hold a drink in the same hand.
- *DESIGN* we'll make a 3d digital representation in sketchup
- *STL* gloss over this detail and leave it for another class
- *SLICE* gloss over this detail and leave it for another class
- *PRINT* marvel, and take home.
Learn
On the right you'll see some examples of what I've 3D printed at sudo room,
having learned all my skills at sudo room, from sudoers.
- 3D Printing Theory
- Sketchup
- Navigation
- Basic Shapes
- Shape Manipulation
- Advanced Shapes
- Exporting
- Slic3r slicing software (in a minor way)
- Repetier Host Printer Software (in a minor way)
- How to manually adjust the 3d printer in times of crisis.
Bring
- Come with a laptop with sketchup <http://www.sketchup.com/> installed.
There's a free version for Windows and Mac. If you don't have this
installed, you cannot begin immediately.
- Bring a mouse. Sketchup is much easier with a mouse, and all but
impossible to learn with the track pad. Essential.
Attend
Add your name below if you know how, but you can also just show up on the
day.
- IsThisThingOn
- Tunabananas
- Bleeblahblue
- JustBrandon
- Rick
- Judi (who used the "edit" link, top of the page)
- Hbergeronx<https://sudoroom.org/mediawiki/index.php?title=User:Hbergeronx&action=edit&…>(
talk<https://sudoroom.org/mediawiki/index.php?title=User_talk:Hbergeronx&action=…>)
17:07, 14 March 2013 (UTC) (matt)
To the Sudo Kopimist congregation -
This week fort Friday Filosophy we will be having something from the Athenian Deli on Franklin off of Sudo Square. (http://www.atheniandeli.com/). Since last week's email got lost in the abyss of the mail server switch, I am also including last week's email as well below.
Following up on last week's discussion of manufacturing and consumer culture, we will be picking up the thread focusing on Planned Obsolescence. The excerpt below is from Giles Slade, Made to Break: Technology and Obsolescence in America (2006) pgs. 23-24. http://books.google.com/books?isbn=0674022033.
A bit of context for the quote - Slade describes the break-through in shifting cultural norms about disposable products with the popularity of sanitary napkins for women, in the inter-war period when women were exercising more control over family budgets. Slade digs up fascinating research on the explicit Anti-Thrift campaigns after World War I, when American advertisers linked together conspicuous consumption for social status and disposable products as patriotic support of the American economy.
> Anti-Thrift Campaigns
>
> Encouraged by the repetitive consumption of disposable paper products for both men and women, paper manufacturers developed toilet paper, paper cups, paper towels, and paper straws (rendering rye stalks obsolete). Gradually, the popularity of disposable personal products, purchased and used in the name of hygiene and health, caused Americans to generalize their throwaway habits to other goods. This was a significant development in the history of product obsolesence. As a throwaway culture emerged, an ethic of durability, of thrift, of what the consumer historian Susan Strasser calls "the stewardship of objects," was slowly modified. At first, people just threw their paper products into the fire. But as the disposable trend continued, it became culturally permissible to throw away objects that could not simply and conveniently be consumed by flames.
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Friday Filosophy 3/8: Stuxnet & the Problem of Evil
Dear Sudo folk.
The spanakopita are just about ready to take out of the oven - ricotta & cheese (sorry, vegans). My daughter, Eva, will be coming today (home with a bit of a fever), but likely not participating in the discussion. She wants to be an epidemiologist, like her mom, and may chime in about viruses - which apparently kind of look like nasty little monsters and have crooked teeth.
We will be picking up the subject left off last time of the communicative value of executable virus software with a real-life example about which to ruminate. Stuxnet (see http://www.stuxnet.net/) will be the focus, with an emphasis on the implications for the techno-social role of programmers, and the future of cyberwarfare.
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Hey guys, via Danny O'Brien from Noisebridge:
Fellow hacker Gent Thaçi is visiting San Francisco from Kosovo, one of the youngest countries in the world (in almost every sense of "young")
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kosovo#Declaration_of_independence He offered to give an informal talk at Noisebridge about the tech community in Kosovo, and his work creating software freedom there. Noted journalist, author, sudoroomian and hat-wearer Cyrus Farivar from Ars Technica and I will be SCRUPULOUSLY CROSS-EXAMINING Gent about global geek culture, and what it is like working on technology independence in a newly independent state. Like last week's awesome PyPy talk, this will be taking place in the main hackitorium, just before Noisebridge's Tuesday meeting. Come for the discussion, stay for the bureacracy-making! http://www.flossk.org/https://gentt.wordpress.com/ d.
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Cyrus Farivar
"suh-ROOS FAR-ih-var"
Journalist and radio producer | cyrusfarivar.com (http://cyrusfarivar.com)
Author, "The Internet of Elsewhere" | internetofelsewhere.com (http://internetofelsewhere.com)
US: +1 510 394 5485 (m) | Twitter/Skype: cfarivar
"Being a good writer is 3% talent, 97% not being distracted by the Internet."
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Hey I like how the node folks go hack at the museum sometimes!
Would anyone be up for a hack day at the Oakland museum? It's one of the best
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Romy Ilano
Founder of Snowyla
http://www.snowyla.com
romy(a)snowyla.com
The filosophy discussions on manufacturing sound cool
Do you have your talks on the wiki? That's sounds like a speech worth listening to!
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Romy Ilano
Founder of Snowyla
http://www.snowyla.com
romy(a)snowyla.com
