CPLUG

Special guest at the next meeting

John — Wed, 03 Jun 2009 22:28:05 +0000

There will be a special guest speaker at the June meeting! The topic will be “Building Highly Available systems from unreliable components” by Dennis Gerasimov.

The presentation will give a brief introduction to the concepts of availability, reliability, the use of redundancy and monitoring to improve the availability. An overview of hardware and network architecture for building highly availably systems will be followed by discussion of various methods to achieve high availability using open source software: Linux-HA for monitoring and fail over, several methods of achieving HA with Apache, MySQL replication and shared cluster storage.

See you then!

Vera Z-Wave and TODO apps

John — Wed, 03 Jun 2009 22:25:26 +0000

The first talk at CPLUG’s May meeting was presented by Rob, who discussed “Home Automation with the Vera Z-Wave controller”. After the break, Lon and Eric discussed the online TODO apps Remember the Milk and Hiveminder.

And don’t forget, you can check out the full list of previous meeting topics.

The next meeting will be on June 9, 2009. See you then!

CPOSC 2009 Call for Participation

John — Sat, 30 May 2009 23:32:29 +0000

CPOSC, the Central PA Open Source Conference, is a one-day, multi-track, low-cost conference about all things open source: software, programming, operating systems, community and more. It will take place on Saturday, October 17, 2009 in Harrisburg, PA.

The Call for Participation (CFP) is open right now and we are currently looking for interesting talks and presentations. If you’ve given a talk at CPLUG before, or if you’ve got a cool topic to talk about, please don’t be shy! We’d love to hear your idea!

The Speaker FAQ page has all the info you need to submit an abstract. And yes, you can submit more than one! ;)

More info is available at the CPOSC 2009 website. Check it out, and we hope to see you in October!

Hardware hacking with Arduino

John — Wed, 15 Apr 2009 03:34:21 +0000

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.

Magento and LimeSurvey

Tux — Mon, 13 Apr 2009 13:39:01 +0000

BTW, there were two talks at meeting on March 10. The first one was about PHP survey software called LimeSurvey, presented by Dennis. The second talk was about the Magento e-commerce application and VirtualBox, presented by Bob.

The next meeting will be tomorrow, April 14, at ITT. Check the mailing list for details!

February 2009 Meeting

Chris — Wed, 11 Feb 2009 19:15:47 +0000

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.

January meeting

John — Sat, 31 Jan 2009 16:05:27 +0000

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

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.
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.

December Installfest

John — Mon, 12 Jan 2009 00:44:22 +0000

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!

November meeting tomorrow

John — Mon, 10 Nov 2008 20:56:14 +0000

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!

October meeting

John — Fri, 07 Nov 2008 02:12:42 +0000

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.