CPLUG

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.

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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!

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!

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.

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.

At the meeting on Tuesday, the topics were Amazon’s Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2) and OpenVPN.

Nate’s EC2 presentation slides are below. You can check out Matt’s OpenVPN presentation notes on his website.

Continue reading ‘May meeting slides and notes’

The next CPLUG meeting will be on Tuesday, May 13, 2008 at 6:30 PM. Nathan Powell will be talking about Amazon’s super-cool Elastic Compute Cloud and Matt Rinehart will be discussing OpenVPN.

We are still in need for one (possibly two) people to speak at the upcoming meeting on May 13, 2008. There are a wide variety of topics available, and just about anything involving Linux would be welcome.

If you are interested, either post a comment below or email Eric directly.

In addition to Chris’ talk on user privileges, Todd Z. will be doing a presentation on revision control:

Revision control is used by many open source projects, large and small. You can use it too, to follow or contribute to those projects, or to track your config files, scripts, and whatnot. We’ll talk about various revision control tools as well as the differences between centralized and distributed systems.

The meeting will be on Tuesday, April 8 at 6:30 PM. Details and directions are on the meetings page.