Start: 2011/11/08 - 7:30pm
End: 2011/11/08 - 9:00pm
Location: O'Reilly Media
Speaker: Kyle Rankin
Description:
Have you been wondering what you are going to do with all those
high-powered graphics cards you bought now that Bitcoins have declined in
value? Why not use them to crack passwords? In this talk Kyle Rankin will
discuss the basics of how to use the processing power of your graphics card
to crack various types of password hashes.
We will also hold our 2011 NBLUG Board elections at this meeting to be sure
to turn up and vote.
--
Kyle Rankin
NBLUG President
The North Bay Linux Users' Group
http://nblug.org
IRC: greenfly(a)irc.freenode.net #nblug
kyle(a)nblug.org
Start: 2011/10/11 - 7:30pm
End: 2011/10/11 - 9:00pm
Location: O'Reilly Media
Speaker: You
Description:
Instead of a regular speaker, this month we are going to do a hackfest.
Like the previous hackfests we will take half of the meeting to conduct
lightning talks from the first four people who sign up for one. After
that we will spend the rest of the time in a more loosely-structured
social setting where everyone can show each other what they have been
working on or ask for help. This would be a good meeting to bring your
computers.
--
Kyle Rankin
NBLUG President
The North Bay Linux Users' Group
http://nblug.org
IRC: greenfly(a)irc.freenode.net #nblug
kyle(a)nblug.org
Automotive: the next hot mobile platform
Start: 2011/09/13 - 7:30pm
End: 2011/09/13 - 9:00pm
Location: O'Reilly Media, Sebastopol, CA
Speaker: Alison Chaiken
Description:
Desktop, laptop, phone, tablet . . . car! Which OS should we run on
car "in-vehicle infotainment" systems: Windows, Android, WebOS, MeeGo
or a traditional embedded choice like Angstrom? What are the
associated opportunities for app developers and systems programmers?
Two Chinese companies, Geely and HawTai, sell cars with MeeGo
pre-installs. The automotive business model diverges significantly
from that of consumer electronics products, giving MeeGo some
advantages over Android. Who are the players in the automotive Linux
space and what are their plans? What reference hardware is suitable
for testing automotive apps? I'll describe what's new in IVI and show
a simple demo running on the Atom-based ExoPC.
Alison Chaiken is a recovering physicist who has been rendering
expensive hardware inoperable in Silicon Valley since 1992, most
recently at Nokia. She has recently joined Open Mobile World Wide to
work on Android virtualization on Linux. Alison is on the OSCON 2012
Program Committee and solicits suggests for Linuxy presentations and
activities.
Start: 2011/08/09 - 7:30pm
End: 2011/08/09 - 9:00pm
Description:
In this talk I'll describe what Bitcoin is, how and why it's used, and how
it works under the hood. I'll also show a live demo in Linux of bitcoind,
pooled mining, and Namecoin (a distributed DNS). If you are completely
unfamiliar with Bitcoin there's a short overview video at
http://www.weusecoins.com [1] - if you *are* familiar with Bitcoin, please
feel free to speak up during a Q&A at the end!
Location: O'Reilly Media, Sebastopol, CA
Speaker: Allan Cecil
Links:
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[1] http://www.weusecoins.com
Start: 2011/07/12 - 7:30pm
End: 2011/07/12 - 9:00pm
Location: O'Reilly Media
Speaker: E. Frank Ball
Description:
It's possible to lease a virtual private server (VPS) for as little as
$10/year. I'll talk about what you get, what to look out for, and how to
find a good deal when shopping for a budget server. Also a discussion about
the OpenVZ virtualization technology.
--
Kyle Rankin
NBLUG President
The North Bay Linux Users' Group
http://nblug.org
IRC: greenfly(a)irc.freenode.net #nblug
kyle(a)nblug.org
Start: 2011/06/14 - 7:30pm
End: 2011/06/14 - 9:00pm
Location: O'Reilly Media
Speaker: E. Frank Ball
Description:
It's possible to lease a virtual private server (VPS) for as little as
$10/year. I'll talk about what you get, what to look out for, and how
to find a good deal when shopping for a budget server. Also a
discussion about the OpenVZ virtualization technology.
Kyle Rankin
NBLUG President
The North Bay Linux Users' Group
http://nblug.org
IRC: greenfly(a)irc.freenode.net #nblug
kyle(a)nblug.org
Start: 2011/05/10 - 7:30pm
End: 2011/05/10 - 9:00pm
Location: O'Reilly Media
Speaker: Kyle Rankin
Description:
What would you do if you had to securely decommission a remote
server without remote console or power access? How would you securely erase
all the hard drives over an ssh session and halt the machine when you are
logged into the machine itself? Kyle has recently done just this and in
this (mostly live demo) talk, Kyle will walk you through the process of how
to securely erase your server remotely.
--
Kyle Rankin
NBLUG President
The North Bay Linux Users' Group
http://nblug.org
IRC: greenfly(a)irc.freenode.net #nblug
kyle(a)nblug.org
Start: 2011/04/12 - 7:30pm
End: 2011/04/12 - 9:00pm
Location: O'Reilly Media
Speaker: You
Description:
Instead of a regular speaker, this month we are going to do a hackfest. Like
the previous hackfests we will take half of the meeting to conduct lightning
talks from the first four people who sign up for one. After that we will spend
the rest of the time in a more loosely-structured social setting where everyone
can show each other what they have been working on or ask for help. This would
be a good meeting to bring your computers.
--
Kyle Rankin
NBLUG President
The North Bay Linux Users' Group
http://nblug.org
IRC: greenfly(a)irc.freenode.net #nblug
kyle(a)nblug.org
Start: 2011/03/08 - 7:30pm
End: 2011/03/08 - 9:00pm
Location: O'Reilly Media, Sebastopol, CA
Speaker: Sam Bowne
Description:
"Anonymous, Wikileaks, and DoS" -- Part of the talk is non-technical,
about the exploits of Anonymous, Wikileaks, th3j35t3r, HB Gary, B of A,
etc., and then some demos, testing the common DoS tools against Apache,
IIS, and nginx. Sam's webpage: http://samsclass.info/contact.html
--
Kyle Rankin
NBLUG President
The North Bay Linux Users' Group
http://nblug.org
IRC: greenfly(a)irc.freenode.net #nblug
kyle(a)nblug.org
Start: 2011/02/08 - 7:30pm
End: 2011/02/08 - 9:00pm
Location: O'Reilly Media
Speaker: Nathan Knuth
Description:
OpenSSL is an open source security library providing the underlying
cryptographic algorithms for many applications. This talk will focus on
the steps necessary to enhance OpenSSL to make use of application
specific hardware for cryptographic processing. The OpenSSL command line
and kernel crypto interfaces will be discussed.
--
Kyle Rankin
NBLUG President
The North Bay Linux Users' Group
http://nblug.org
IRC: greenfly(a)irc.freenode.net #nblug
kyle(a)nblug.org
