http://cplug.net/wp Central Pennsylvania Linux User Group Wed, 03 Jun 2009 22:28:05 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en 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 ... http://cplug.net/wp/2009/06/03/special-guest-at-the-next-meeting/ 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 ... http://cplug.net/wp/2009/06/03/vera-z-wave-and-todo-apps/ 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 ... http://cplug.net/wp/2009/05/30/cposc-2009-call-for-participation/ 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. http://cplug.net/wp/2009/04/14/hardware-hacking-with-arduino/ 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 ... http://cplug.net/wp/2009/04/13/magento-and-limesurvey/ 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 ... http://cplug.net/wp/2009/02/11/february-2009-meeting/ 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 ... http://cplug.net/wp/2009/01/31/january-meeting/ 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 ... http://cplug.net/wp/2009/01/11/december-installfest/ 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, ... http://cplug.net/wp/2008/11/10/november-meeting-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. http://cplug.net/wp/2008/11/06/october-meeting/