announce November 2007

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BALUG Meeting: ACCRC+Linux: Keeping CPUs From Landfills (Next Tuesday, Nov. 20th)

by Andrew Fife

The Bay Area Linux Users Group (BALUG) will be hosting a great talk by James Burgett of the Alameda County Computer Resource Center (ACCRC): 6:30pm - Next Tuesday November 20th, 2007 Four Seas Restaurant 731 Grant Ave. San Francisco, CA 94108 Parking: http://www.portsmouthsquaregarage.com/ RSVP(a)balug.org - Not required, but much appreciated! James Burgett's talk is loosely titled: "Free Software, The Environment, Social Welfare, and the Digital Divide" About the Alameda County Computer Resource Center: The Alameda County Computer Resource Center (ACCRC) is an electronics recycling & redistribution center. The ACCRC recycles unwanted electronics and computer equipment from the public with little or no recycling fees. The computer hardware is then refurbished, installed with GNU/Linux and distributed to schools, non-profit organizations and economically and/or physically disadvantaged individuals. Cost: The meeting is free, but dinner is $13 About BALUG: BALUG is lively gathering of Linux users & free software enthusiasts that combines great food, community & intimate access to featured speakers. We meet in the bar of the Four Seas Restaurant from 6:30pm. At 7pm, we share a family-style Chinese dinner, which is followed by our guest speaker. ---------------------------------------- Andrew Fife Untangle - Open Source Security Gateway download.untangle.com 650.425.3327 (O) 415.806.6028 (C) afife(a)untangle.com

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Reminder General Meeting TOMORROW! Bob Blick on Storage and Backup

by Paul Peterson

Start: 2007/11/13 - 7:30pm End: 2007/11/13 - 9:00pm Location: O'Reilly, Sebastopol, CA http://nblug.org/genloc Speaker: Bob Blick This talk covers storage and backup in a home or small office where files are stored on a single server running Linux or on a Network Attached Storage device. Files are shared to Windows, Linux, and OSX using Samba. Every day all files are backed up to an external USB hard drive using Rsync. Network Attached Storage drives can save space and electricity by serving files to multiple clients without the need for a computer. The Western Digital MyBook World is a NAS with gigabit ethernet, a USB host port, and 500GB to 2TB of storage. It runs Linux internally and has a full system and GNU development environment preinstalled.

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