Central Pennsylvania Linux User Group
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!
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.
Just a quick reminder about the meeting this coming Tuesday. As usual, we have two talks:
See you then!
In case this is of interest to anyone here, Joey Lott, the author of the book Adobe Flex 3, will be speaking just up the street from where CPLUG meets. Details for the event can be found at CPAUG.
Adobe released the Flex 3 SDK under the open source Mozilla Public License.
The August CPLUG meeting will be tomorrow night at 6:30 PM at ITT. The topics will be:
Directions can be found on the meetings page.
Just a quick reminder that the deadline for submitting talk proposals for CPOSC is this Friday! More details can be found on the CFP 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.