BahrainLUG

Our next LUG meeting will be on 4:00PM Saturday, April 11th at the Youth Innovation Center (for directions see Youth Center Directions). the topic will be as follows:

Live Guitar Effects in Linux

Creox C is a live time guitar effects pedal for Linux. This application and many of the different effects one can do with it will be presented. In addition the audio editor Audacity will be presented.  We'll show how to use Audacity as a simple program to remove vocals from a song, and record new one's from scratch. Other then the guitar effects some other media players that might be of interest, Such as Songbird, Banshee, and VLC will also be presented.

This will be the first multi-media software being presented in the LUG which will be interesting to see. Rakan Rabayah will be doing the presentation, and it's also fun to get presentations from a new voice in the LUG. 

Our next LUG meeting will be on 3:30PM Saturday, March 14th at the Youth Innovation Center (for directions see Youth Center Directions). the topic will be as follows:

FM Radio Recording Fun

I recently bought the Griffin radio shark 2, a USB FM receiver, and did a mini-project to schedule recodings of my favorite local radio shows on my Linux box. This project is a perfect example of where open-source and the Unix approach to modular software made it possible for me to get exactly what I wanted done in just a few hours of tinkering. Below I have a list of functionality that I've configured with a list of the tools used.

Functionality

• scheduled recordings of radio shows and encoding in MP3 format.
• Live Radio streaming of local FM radio to any computer on the Network
• Control channels of fm receiver from any computer on the Network

Tools Used

• cron - schedules programs
• bash - shell scripting language
• shark2 - controls the FM receiver
• arecord, aplay - record and playback audio from the ALSA sound system
• lame -MP3 encoder
• icecast - audio streaming server
• darkcast - icecast streamer
• apache, php - web-server and web scripting language
• sudo - command that lets you execute as another user

I'll present a demo of all this software working together. I'll also go through the process that I went through to put all this software together to make it work. The idea is to give the audience a feeling of how one can combine different applications in Linux together to solve a problem or perform a task. We'll also probably have a lot of fun and laughs in the process. Look forward to seeing you guys there.

Our next LUG meeting will be on 3:30PM Saturday, February 14th at the Youth Innovation Center (for directions see Youth Center Directions). the topic will be as follows:

Vmware ESX and Infrastructure

Vmware ESX and Vmware Infrastructure are two exciting virtualization products by Vmware. This presentation will give a run down on the VMware ESX product and what you can do with it. The presentation will cover the installation and value of the software when compared to running virtualization software on top of a regular OS. The demo will also cover common operations like creating virtual machines, and different networking setups. Afterwards information on VMware infrastructure and many VMware technologies like VMware VMotion, VMware HA, VMware Consolidated Backup will all be discussied. Ali Al-Mahdi will be the presenter for this presentation.

Our next LUG meeting will be on 3:30PM Saturday, January 17th at the Youth Innovation Center (for directions see Youth Center Directions). the topic will be as follows:

E-Readers and Open Source

With the advent Electronic Paper a number of E-Book Readers have entered the market. This amazing display technology uses electronic ink with no back light, so reading text feels very natural and comfortable on the eyes, unlike reading text from conventional displays. The presentation will primarily focus on the Sony Reader and the open source software calibre which is an e-book library management application. The Amazon Kindle will also be available in the presentation. These are the two major e-Book readers in the market and both run Linux. I'm also excited to say that Jeremy Bicha, one of our LUG regulars will be doing the presentation. I absolutely love seeing different people present in LUG, and I can't wait to see this presentation.

The Youth Innovation Center is located in Umm Al-Hassam. The zoomed out map shows generally where the center is located in reference to Mahooz, Umm Al-Hassam, and Mina Salman. The zoomed in map shows the directions to the Youth Center in greater detai.

directions

1. Drive from the traffic light for the Sitra bridge towards Adliya
2. At the first traffic light turn right
3. Take the first right turn after that to enter the complex
4. Once inside the complex the first building on your right is the  Youth Innovation Center

Presentation notes and videos for the past three presentations have been posted on our sites wiki. These are the links to each presentation page.

• Virtualbox

• One Laptop Per Child

• Neo Freerunner

You can also find a complete list of all the past presentations with links to their pages, videos and notes on the wiki at:

http://reblug.com/wiki/doku.php

 enjoy

We weren't able to get the usual meeting place so we've arranged to have the meeting in one of the nearby hotels. The name of the hotel is the Marine Tower. It is next to the Belle View where we usually meet. The meeting room is on the 9th floor, facing you once you exit the lift. directions and map are as follows:

directions

1. Turn off Al-Fatih Highway as if going to Jaffar Pharmacy
2. Take a right at Jaffar Pharmacy
3. Take the second right
4. Take another right. On your left side you will see the Marine Tower

Our next LUG meeting will be on 4:00PM Saturday, November 8th at the Belle View Apartment. The week topic will be:

Everyone is welcome.