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Installfest – December 8th

gurupilgrim — Sat, 26 Nov 2011 20:40:33 +0000

A fun time to watch, learn and try Linux on your own computer or someone else’s. Bring whatever devices you’d like to experiment with; your laptop or tower to install Linux on, or any peripherals as well. There will be several Monitor/Mouse/Keyboard sets available to use if you would like to just bring a tower and connect it there. Bring your Linux CDs or DVDs to share, if you don’t have a Linux disk, there will certainly be a few extra there to choose from. Some details are still in the works. If you have any suggestions, feel free to share.

This is also a great time to jump in if you’ve never attended this kind of event or if you are completely new to Linux!

This event will be held at ITT Tech in Harrisburg at 6:30pm.

Duplicity at this month’s meeting

John — Tue, 06 Sep 2011 02:14:30 +0000

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!

August meeting topic is iptables

John — Mon, 08 Aug 2011 00:50:24 +0000

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!

July meeting: USB booting and new user discussion

John — Mon, 11 Jul 2011 00:06:04 +0000

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!

KVM, VirtualBox, and Linux Containers this month

John — Mon, 13 Jun 2011 14:52:26 +0000

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!

Cluster/virtualization talk this month

John — Mon, 09 May 2011 22:44:26 +0000

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.

Cluster talk postponed, meeting still on

John — Tue, 12 Apr 2011 21:32:29 +0000

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!

Next Meeting: Red Hat Linux Cluster Suite

John — Wed, 30 Mar 2011 01:37:14 +0000

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

IPv6 at the March Meeting

John — Tue, 08 Mar 2011 00:35:38 +0000

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!

February Meeting: Arduino and AVR

John — Tue, 01 Feb 2011 00:56:57 +0000

Weather permitting, we are rescheduling the talks from last month to February. The meeting will be on Tuesday, 2/8/2011 at 6:30 PM.

Robert will be talking about the AVR. The AVR is a modified Harvard architecture 8-bit RISC single chip microcontroller which was developed by Atmel. There’s a great gcc toolchain for use in Linux.

John will be doing a follow-up to his previous Arduino (www.arduino.cc) talk. This time he’ll cover XBee wireless communication and connecting physical objects (e.g. toilets) to the Internet (e.g. Twitter).

It’s winter, so please watch the mailing list for updates on the day of the meeting.