CPLUG

Tuesday, December 11th, 2012 at 6:30pm

Bring your laptops or desktop towers, and all the Linux bootables you can find. We’re going to spend the entire meeting installing Linux! This is the Open Source version of a Holiday party.

Having trouble getting started with Linux? This is your chance to watch it all happen, and maybe just get the chance to do it yourself. The room will be filled with a combination of Linux guru’s and Linux newbies.

See you there!

IPv6, that mysterious networking protocol that it seems everyone has an opinion about. It stands as one of the most misunderstood concepts in technology today.

Ever wish you could connect directly to your home computer, but figured the only way was with a public v4 address or a VPN solution? IPv6 has more to offer than 340,282,366,920,938,463,463,374,607,431,768,211,456 addresses.

System Administrator Chris Moates will be bringing these things to light in a talk on IPv6. He will start by answering the big question, “Why do I need to know this?”. Then we will go in-depth and learn the many benefits of turning to the protocol.

The meeting will take place as always at ITT Tech Harrisburg Campus on September 11 at 6:30pm.

Pizza will be ordered at the start of the meeting.

Due to the late notice on the upcoming meeting, the organizer, Nate Moss will be presenting on Open Source Software for Images and Photos. This is simply a modified version of a presentation he recently gave to the Lancaster County Photography Meetup Group. He will be covering a variety of Open Source programs, leaving out the Windows ones, and focusing on the possible workflows that might benefit anyone working with images.

We all wish the best for Chris Moates as he was called away on short notice. I’m sure we will be excited to learn about IPv6 at another meeting.

IPv6, that mysterious connectivity protocol that has some people excited, some scared and most confused, will all be brought to light on September 11 at our monthly meeting. Ever wish you could connect directly to your home computer, but figured the only way was with a public v4 address or a VPN solution? IPv6 has more to offer than 340,282,366,920,938,463,463,374,607,431,768,211,456 addresses.

System Administrator Chris Moates will be presenting IPv6 starting with the answer to the big question: Why do I need to know this? Then going in-depth and explaining the many benefits of turning to the protocol.

The meeting will take place as always at ITT Tech Harrisburg Campus on September 11 at 6:30pm

See you there!

This is very short notice, but there will definitely be a meeting tomorrow evening.

Jim Capp will be presenting Virtualization, particularly KVM and Live Migration.

Starts at 6:30pm at the ITT Tech Harrisburg Campus. Pizza will be ordered at the start of the meeting.

See you there!

Tuesday evening June 12th, Seth Jerome will be speaking on user-friendly distros, and combining the talk with some everyday CLI (Command Line Interface).

Not familiar with Linux yet? Ever wish you could just jump into Linux and use it? This is the perfect chance to do just that. Seth Jerome is a long time Linux user, involved in CPLUG for close to 15 years. He will be showing you several options for ‘distributions’ of Linux that are easy to get started with.

This is also the perfect time to ask questions and get answers about Linux!

Pizza will be ordered at the start of the meeting for $1.50 per slice.

Hope to see you there!

Nate
Organizer – CPLUG

Nate Moss will be speaking this month on inter-connectivity and compatibility  between open and closed source, using Ubuntu and Windows.

This will focus primarily on office and graphics programs, and show some web related tools as well. See first hand how compatible LibreOffice is with Microsoft Office, and how to work seamlessly across your LAN in both Windows and Linux.

Monthly meetings take place at ITT Tech at 6:30pm on the second Tuesday of every month.

Tuesday Evening January 10  at 6:30pm

An introduction to software Equivalents in Linux. See the alternatives to programs like Photoshop and Microsoft Word, Learn how to network with Windows.

Also possibly an introduction to project management and user administration in Linux.

This will be held at the ITT Tech Harrisburg Campus, most likely in room Theory 9.

Tuesday December 13th – 6:30pm

No lecture, no lab, just a relaxed social event. Bring one item to share, soda, chips or a snack, pizza will be ordered shortly after 6:30. Possibly some games or other optional activities just for fun. This is a great way for newbies to get familiar with the group without the worries of being too technical. Bring your friends!

This will be held at the ITT Tech Harrisburg Campus.

Monthly Meetings are held on the second Tuesday of the month. This meeting will be on November 8th at 6:30pm at the ITT Tech Harrisburg Campus.

Seth Jerome, one of the original CPLUG members will be giving a talk and running a lab on LinuxMCE (http://linuxmce.com). Bring your laptop, and Seth continues:

And a network cable, preferably at least 12ft. Otherwise we’ll be sitting in each others laps.
Also,

I will send another message regarding this meeting to ask all who plan on attending to speak up, so as that I can create the diskless images in advance.
I will be asking the people who wish to connect to the core server to provide the following if you can:

1. first name

2. type of video card on your laptop/netbook
- as root or use sudo
- #lspci -v|grep VGA
00:02.0 VGA compatible controller: Intel Corporation 82Q963/Q965 Integrated Graphics Controller (rev 02) (prog-if 00 [VGA controller])
- or perhaps you just know. Nvidia cards will be no issue, you can use the full UI, however ATI and Intel chipsets we may be stuck with UI1. Which is not a bad thing, just not as sweet.

3. the MAC address of your network card, the wired one.
-  #ifconfig|grep HWaddr
should return something like:
eth0 Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr 00:1c:c4:f1:c0:f5 <— this is the address

4. Please visit LinuxMCE on the web. Perhaps viewing the main page/forums/wiki you may have some questions for me.
- http://www.linuxmce.org
Can’t wait to see you all again.
Best Regards,

Seth

If you don’t have an Ethernet cable, there may be a few extras available. If you have extras, please bring them. You can contact Seth through the mailing list at cplug@cplug.net.

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.