CPLUG

Tonight’s talk was on hardware hacking, physical computing, and the Arduino microcontroller platform. The slides are now online if you want to check them out.

The next meeting will be on May 12, 2009.

The February 2009 CPLUG meeting is over, and was on various security topics:

First up, Jerod Lycett gave a talk on some security basics, including information about passwords, wireless and a few other items of interest.

Second, Jeff Best talked about security and compliance, including the 5 W’s of security. He has a wiki page posted at http://cplug.pbwiki.com/Security-Stuff.

After pizza, John Place talked about SSH, its history, some of its more overlooked but very useful features, and a bit into ~/.ssh/config, and how you can make your SSH life easier using it.

Finally, Chris Moates gave an impromptu talk about the yubikey, a device from Yubico that generates one time passwords. More information on the yubikey can be found at http://www.yubico.com.

Here’s some pictures of each speaker:

The next meeting will be on March 10th.

The January CPLUG meeting was held on January 13, 2009. We had two topics:

1. 10 Ubuntu Tips and Something That Drives Me Batty: Eric did a talk that went into what he uses on his desktop system and tweaks he made to get it all working the way he likes.
2. Open Source in Africa: Mark talked about his organization and how they’re working with various groups in Africa to get various Open Source solutions setup.

The next meeting will be on Tuesday, February 10, 2009.

The December CPLUG meeting was held on December 9, 2008. There was one talk on TiddlyWiki, followed by what has been called “an installfest and social extravaganza”!

The next meeting will be on January 13, 2009.

Remember, the mailing list is the best way to keep track of upcoming events. Sign up!

We have a meeting coming up tomorrow (11/11/08) at 6:30 PM.

We didn’t have an official October meeting, so the meeting this month will have a belated-Halloween theme — Dead Protocols and Zombie processes!

We’re going to talk about a number of has-been protocols that were quite cool in their hay day, and Chris will be explaining what those zombie’s in our process lists are (amongst other things).

See you tomorrow!

We didn’t have a formal meeting with presentations in October due to CPOSC being the same month. Although we did meet at ITT to chat and allow some of the speakers a chance to test out their hardware with the projectors.

The next meeting will be November 11, 2008.

Just a quick reminder about the meeting this coming Tuesday. As usual, we have two talks:

1. A programmer from Mapquest will be spending some time talking about how mapping and routing work, their development platforms (including Linux), and all sorts of similar goodies.
2. Eric will be doing a talk called “Staving Off The Apocalypse with pfSense (how to save the world with a router).”

See you then!

In case this is of interest to anyone here, Joey Lott, the author of the book Adobe Flex 3, will be speaking just up the street from where CPLUG meets. Details for the event can be found at CPAUG.

Adobe released the Flex 3 SDK under the open source Mozilla Public License.

The August CPLUG meeting will be tomorrow night at 6:30 PM at ITT. The topics will be:

• 10 Awesome Firefox Plug-ins (Jason May)
• Embedded Linux Distributions (Bob Igo)

Directions can be found on the meetings page.

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.