Just a quick reminder that the deadline for submitting talk proposals for CPOSC is this Friday! More details can be found on the CFP page.
Monthly Archive for July, 2008
We had a special guest at tonight’s meeting! Brad Lhotsky, a Security Administrator at National Institutes of Health (NIH) gave a talk on Network Introspection with Open Source Tools. Here’s the abstract:
“Information Security is a hot field these days. However, most Security Policies deal with the world from the perspective of high school physics class: no friction, zero air resistance. This presentations intends to demonstrate how to leverage a variety of Open Source Projects to gain a better understanding of your network. Leveraging this understanding, it’s possible to attach security policies to networks that actually increase productivity and limit wasted time and money.”
Brad will be giving this talk at the LinuxWorld Conference & Expo this year.
At the June meeting (6/10/08), Todd (tmz) gave a presentation called “What is packaging and why should you care?” which is the first in a series of talks about that various packaging systems available for Linux.
I did a talk on “Flying Light with Lighttpd”. Lighttpd is a secure, fast, high-performance web server that is really worth checking out, especially if you are using a framework like Rails or Django.