I really hate to have to say this, but I'm not finding a topic to present. A couple of months back Chris-the-boss remarked on some programming project I was embarked on that it was 'really cool' and should be the topic of an NLUG presentation.
If either of us could remember which project it was, THAT would be helpful. I just looked through (and updated) the spreadsheet of the various Perl scripts/programs I've written at Watkins. The number is somewhere between 250 and 300, which surprised me. I'm not sure that a presentation on how I'm now controlling all the exterior lights on campus is a particularly compelling subject. (They turn on 30 min. before sunset and turn off 30 min. after sunrise. Thank you, are there any questions?) The big project for me over the summer was the transition from our Trixbox PBX to the 'new' Elastix PBX. Many dark rabbit holes, finally some beams of light which weren't oncoming trains. I did have a big BFO (blinding flash of the obvious) in the process. Neither Trixbox nor Elastix actually lets you listen to your already-existing name/busy/unavailable voicemail recordings. You may review a new recording, but you can't listen to the existing ones, especially the 'busy' message. I wrote some software that shows the extensions and names. If you click on an extension number it brings up the outgoing recordings, if any - converting them to MP3 format in the process. That wasn't enough. Chris said what it should really do is send Email to each person who is missing a recording. OK, a new program does that and will have an auto-nag feature (I LOVE those) to keep pestering until people make the recordings. It attaches any existing recordings (as MP3s) along with a PDF 'splaining how to make the recordings. Still, I don't think any of the PBX machinations amount to an effective and interesting presentation. We have Ubiquiti's UniFi access points on campus, now a total of 21. They're a mix of 802.11n, 802.11a/n and 802.11ac. They all run BusyBox Linux, and we have been battling some 5.8 GHz Enterprise WPA2 authentication issues. Chris suggested I write a program to reboot them once a day, just as a prophylactic measure. OK, I discovered the Perl Net::SSH::Expect module which allows a login with user name/password and rebooting ensued. After poking around in BusyBox I chanced on ifconfig (anybody ever heard of that?!!) and thought it would be a Really Cool Thing™ to report on receive errors and bandwidth. Yes, it turns out a couple of APs at the dorms need to have their wall jacks re-terminated, or perhaps moved to the next closer jack. Good news, lesson learned. Since it was Thanksgiving weekend and no one could tell me not to, I wrote some software to send a daily Email report on the bandwidth for each SSID on each AP. Looks nice, we'll learn a lot from it. Still, not a compelling presentation, I think. I hope someone is available to give a presentation. So sorry to flake out at the last minute like this. Curt On Tue, Dec 2, 2014 at 2:59 PM, Curt Lundgren <[email protected]> wrote: > I'll have to work on that - perhaps tomorrow. > > On Tue, Dec 2, 2014 at 2:30 PM, Andrew McElroy <[email protected]> > wrote: > >> Let me know a title and a description and I'll get meetup. Com updated >> >> Sent from my iPhone >> >> On Dec 2, 2014, at 1:58 PM, Curt Lundgren <[email protected]> wrote: >> >> The effects of gamma rays on man-in-the-moon marigolds - a play I've >> never seen. >> >> I did agree to present, I guess I'd better pick a topic tuit suite. >> >> Curt >> >> On Tue, Dec 2, 2014 at 1:50 PM, Howard White <[email protected]> wrote: >> >>> The web site says Curt Lundgren is presenting. Gamma Rays on what???? >>> >>> I've referred at least two recruiters to the Dec. 9 meeting. 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