CPLUG

Hi,

The next CPLUG meeting will be on Tuesday, 9/13/2011 at 6:30 PM at ITT in Harrisburg.

This month, Doug will be talking about backups and duplication using Duplicity.

Duplicity (http://duplicity.nongnu.org/) backs directories by producing encrypted tar-format volumes and uploading them to a remote or local file server. Because duplicity uses librsync, the incremental archives are space efficient and only record the parts of files that have changed since the last backup. Because duplicity uses GnuPG to encrypt and/or sign these archives, they will be safe from spying and/or modification by the server.

We’ll be in the same room as last time (Theory 9). Directions and details are on the website: http://cplug.net/wp/meetings/

See you then!

The next CPLUG meeting is Tuesday, August 9, 2011 at 6:30 PM at ITT in Harrisburg. This month, Nathan will be presenting a gentle introduction to Linux iptables. What’s iptables you ask?

Quoth Wikipedia: “iptables is a user space application program that allows a system administrator to configure the tables provided by the Linux kernel firewall (implemented as different Netfilter modules) and the chains and rules it stores. Different kernel modules and programs are currently used for different protocols; iptables applies to IPv4, ip6tables to IPv6, arptables to ARP, and ebtables for Ethernet frames.”

It’ll be a good talk for both users new to Linux and users who’ve been using it for a while.

Details on the Meetings page. See you then!

This month’s CPLUG meeting is Tuesday, 7/12 at 6:30 PM at ITT. It’ll be in the same room as last time.

Ron will be bringing a laptop and some USB drives to demo what you can do with USB booting in Linux. We’ll see what kinds of utilities are file backup solutions work well from USB drives. Sounds cool.

The rest of the meeting will be a general new user info session. If you are new to Linux, bring your questions! If you’ve been using LInux for a while, please come and help provide answers!

This month’s CPLUG meeting will be Tuesday, June 14, 2011 at 6:30 PM at ITT. Vik will be talking about virtualization on Linux. He’ll be talking about platform and OS level virtualization, with demos of KVM, VirtualBox, and Linux Containers.

Details and directions on the Meetings page.

See you then!

Nathan will be chatting about Red Hat Cluster Suite and some virtualization topics at tomorrow night’s meeting (5/10/11). It will be at 6:30 PM at ITT.

Check the meetings page for details and directions.

See you then!

UPDATE: We are in room Theory 5 at ITT tonight.

The Security B-Sides conference is coming up in June, and they are looking for speakers and attendees:

“Think you have to go to Washington or Vegas for an awesome computer security conference? Think again! Pittsburgh is getting its own Security Bsides this summer, featuring awesome talks and the chance to meet other local Infosec people as well as nationally recognized experts. There are a lot of people in Pittsburgh doing awesome things in the field; let’s get them all together! Oh, did we mention it’s all free – even the food and beer??”

Details at the link above.

Nathan has the plague and won’t be able to make it tonight. But the meeting is still on! We’ll have some general Linuxy discussion at ITT and then head over to LBC for some food and beer.

See you then!

The next CPLUG meeting is Tuesday, April 12, 2011 at ITT in Harrisburg. Nathan will be talking about Red Hat Linux Cluster Suite.

The next CPLUG meeting will be this Tuesday (3/8) at 6:30 PM at ITT in Harrisburg. Doug will be discussing IPv6. With the last of the 4.3 billion IPv4 addresses assigned in February, this is a timely topic. Come check it out!

See you then!

The slides from Tuesday’s talks on AVR Microcontrollers for the Linux User (PDF) and Physical Computing with Arduino & ZigBee are online. Enjoy!