Howdy Folks:
Eric S. Raymond will be kicking off the start of a great 2008 at The Bay
Area Linux Users Group (BALUG) with a talk on January 15th. If you
haven't been to BALUG in a while, this a great opportunity to check out
what we're up to... and who knows you may just wind up eating dinner with
Eric S. Raymond at your table.
If you'd like to come, please RSVP:
RSVP(a)balug.org
Upcoming 2008 speakers include:
Jan - Eric S. Raymond
Feb - Bruce Perens
March 24th (New Date) - Mark Shuttleworth
April - Eric Allman
May - Jeremy Allison
June - Andrew Morton
So why not signup for BALUG's extremely low volume announce list:
http://lists.balug.org/listinfo.cgi/balug-announce-balug.org
Meeting Details...
6:30pm
January 15th, 2008 (Next Tuesday)
Four Seas Restaurant
731 Grant Ave.
San Francisco, CA 94108
Parking: http://www.portsmouthsquaregarage.com/
Cost:
The meetings are always 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.
BALUG Mailing list Policy:
BALUG promises not to abuse other LUGs mailing lists. Our current
policy
is to make one monthly announcement on other Bay Area LUGs mailing
lists.
If you feel this is not appropriate for a particular list, please tell
us
which list and what you feel would be a more appropriate policy for that
list. Please send feedback to balug-contact(a)balug.org.
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Andrew Fife
Untangle - Open Source Security Gateway
download.untangle.com
650.425.3327 (O)
415.806.6028 (C)
afife(a)untangle.com
Start: 2008/01/08 - 7:30pm
End: 2008/01/08 - 9:00pm
Location:
O'Reilly, Sebastopol, CA
http://nblug.org/genloc
Speaker: Paul Stagnoli and Brian Davidson
Description:
Paul Stagnoli and Brian Davidson, of Exchange Bank, will be discussing
hacking the Advantech FWA-660 network appliance. The FWA-660 specs
include four Ethernet ports, a Celeron processor, up to 512 meg of ram,
on-board USB and printer support, compact flash support, and a 30 gig
hard drive.
Paul will demonstrate how to install Ubuntu server onto the box via
PXE. Brian will discuss case mods he made to add USB and Printer
support to the box.
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Kyle Rankin
NBLUG President
The North Bay Linux Users Group
http://nblug.org
IRC: greenfly(a)irc.freenode.net #nblug
kyle(a)nblug.org
