UM IEEE

Meeting minutes can be found here. We transfered power to the new executive and decided on several management positions. We still need people to fill Archive and Promotions management positions. We also need a UMES representative. This is an elected position, so please send your nominations to Evan Thompson.

Today's tip is, for the most part, common knowledge among Linux users. However, there seems to be enough people in the dark on this one that it's worth bringing up.

Say you have a CD image, in the .iso format. Chances are, if you're reading this, you have several. A lot of people think you have to burn the iso to a CD before you can read its contents. They're wrong. With a simple command, you can mount the image as part of your (virtual) filesystem.

mount -t iso9660 -o loop ~/gentoo-2006-1.iso /mnt/iso

UM IEEE will be having a meeting tomorrow (Thursday the 26th) at 5:30 pm, in EITC E1-514. All of this years' and last years' executive are expected to attend, as well as anyone interested in a management position. All other members are welcome and encouraged to attend.

Edit: 2007-04-26 16:21: A final copy of the meeting agenda is available here (pdf). Please submit all proposed agenda items to Evan.

Tip #2, of course, was lost in the great server fire of 2007.

So this week, I'll show you how to talk to other users on the same machine as you. Sometimes you'll find yourself logged on to a remote server, and for some reason, feel the urge to say hello to the other user whom you happen to notice is also logged in. There are a couple of ways to do this.

First, the 'intended' way:

write username [tty]

Well, it's that time of year again. Elections are coming up soon, and although each of our candidates is running unopposed, we encourage you to get involved in the election process. Please come to the candidates (pizza) night. The candidates are as follows:

• Chair: Evan Thompson
• Vice Chair: Matt Sebastian
• Treasurer: Dan Froese
• Secretary: Burke Libbey

On Thursday April 5th, we will be having a pizza and movie night. This will be an opportunity for candidates to talk to IEEE members and answer questions. Bring a few bucks for pizza and we'll have a blast. I hope to see you all there

Scenario: You're going to reformat your hard drive. You probably have important data somewhere on it, but you don't feel like looking at the moment. You decide to back up the entire drive to a remote server, but aren't sure how to go about it.

Well, like most things in Linux, you don't need any software that you don't probably have already.
dd if=/dev/hda | ssh -c blowfish user@machine "dd of=/home/username/hda.img"