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by augie

-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 WHAT: A caravan of Linux geeks heading towards Linux World. WHERE: Meet out in front of the Starbucks in the Rohnert Park Safeway shopping center. <http://maps.yahoo.com/py/maps.py?Pyt=Tmap&ed=yKqnpOp_0TrstpKPH2fu.ZhDLlpltc…> http://locations.hotspot.t-mobile.com/page7.asp?PalID=4134 WHEN: 08:00 Wednesday 6th August 2003. WHY: This is just a group meet up. You should have arranged transport before hand. Links: http://www.linuxworldexpo.com augie. - -- irc.nblug.org #nblug registered linux user #229905 gpg public key: http://www.schwer.us/schwer.asc Key fingerprint = 9815 AE19 AFD1 1FE7 5DEE 2AC3 CB99 2784 27B0 C072 -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.0.7 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQE/JV5yy5knhCewwHIRAnViAJ9u90W/mLb9qlWyQ7X+mAb1XYd+ggCeI09k sFl5r3tOxuidmqF8WS+jENY= =mWwb -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----

21 years, 4 months

Special Event : Presentation in WINDSOR For Windsor Senior Computer User's Group

by ME

Date: 08/11/2003 What: Special Event Topic: !SPECIAL EVENT in WINDSOR!: Introducing Linux to: Windsor Senior Computer User's Group Speaker: Paul Stagnoli (THIS IS NOT A GENERAL MEETING! See August 12 for the general meeting event in Sebastapol.) Purpose: Introductory presentation and demonstration of Linux Coordinator: Paul Stagnoli and M.E. Where: NOT IN SEBASTAPOL: Event in Windsor, CA When: August 11 @ 1:00PM - 4:00PM PDT Who: Paul Stagnoli and M.E. URL: http://www.nblug.org/ Status: Confirmed Difficulty: Beginner Subject: [NBLUG] August Special Event Announcement Details: :NOTE NOTE::NOTE NOTE::NOTE NOTE::NOTE NOTE: This is NOT a regular event! This is a SPECIAL EVENT and WILL NOT take place in Sebastapol. Community Outreach (remote presentation: Introducing Linux!) This event will take place in Windsor for the Windsor Senior Computer User's Group. Paul Stagnoli will be offering a presentation to the Windsor Senior Computer User's Group. In this presentation Paul will introduce some of the features found in Linux and offer the members of their group a comparison to other well known OS. To attend this event, contact M.E. from NBLUG. ( dugan [at] nblug.org ) Seating is rather limited and primarily for members of their group. If you would like to participate in future Community Outreach events for NBLUG, please contact me. What is Community Outreach? In cases where remote groups desire to learn more about Linux, we try to offer them demonstrations of Linux and answer questions. These are primarily targeting users who have heard of Linus but may have never seen it. -ME -ME

21 years, 5 months

General Meeting: Cool Linux Apps! (Several mini-presentations)

by ME

Date: 08/12/2003 What: General Meeting Topic: Cool Linux Apps - Mini review from multiple NBLUG Members Speaker: Multiple: See details Where: O'Reilly and Associates, Sebastopol, CA. When: August 12, 2003 @ 7:30PM Status: Tentative Difficulty: Beginner-Intermediate Details: Presentation should cover introductions to the following applications by the associated members: xv (Ron W.: Confirmed.) xmms (Troy: Confirmed.) xine (Kyle: Confirmed.) mplayer (Kyle: Confirmed.) Laptop-net (Kyle: Confirmed.) bc (Andru: Confirmed.) Gaim (Troy: Confirmed.) OpenOffice (Troy: Confirmed.) Items not taken: (may be covered later in another presentation) Xchat (NOT COVERED THIS MEETING) kismet (NOT COVERED THIS MEETING) gpg (NOT COVERED THIS MEETING) Bios: (Still waiting for some speakers to submit brief bios) Andru: Andru works for SSU as Operating System Security Specialist. He has been a member of NBLUG since the very first meeting. He has used Linux for nearly a decade, and it is his operating system of choice. He often lurks in the mailing list, but when he answers a question, he often has something useful and clever to offer. He will discuss "bc" and uncover useful features that you may not have considered useful unless you saw them in action. Kyle: Full-time Sysadmin for The Green Sheet, Inc. -- a local financial services publication. Kyle is finishing up a B.A. in Computer Science part time. He has been a member of NBLUG since January of 2003. Kyle has been using Linux since his first Redhat 5.1 install at the beginning of 1998 and has been using Linux exclusively as a desktop OS since 1999. Ron: (bio to be added after submission) Troy: First introduced to Linux in 1995 or so on the beloved and overworked nermal.santarosa.edu. Switched to Linux on the desktop for fun and work in 1999. Finds booting other OS's less necessary with the advent of native Linux games such as RTCW, Unreal Tournament and Frozen Bubble.

21 years, 5 months

NBLUG T-Shirt and Web Logo Contest

by augie

-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 http://nblug.org/augie/nblug_logo.html Purpose: NBLUG needs a new website logo, and wants some t-shirt design ideas. Deadline: There is currently no deadline for submissions, however this is subject to change. Where to send submissions?: Send submissions to tshirt(a)nblug.org . Rules: * Submissions can be for either the web logo or the t-shirt design or both. * Images for the T-Shirt must conform to the cafepress.com standards. o http://www.cafepress.com/cp/info/help/images.aspx o http://www.cafepress.com/cp/info/help/help_image_sizes.aspx * Images for the web must conform to ME's standards. o Banner: o 600x64 pixels o Use "web palette" if possible o Should include text "NBLUG" and "North Bay Linux Users' Group" o Formats can be any of these: png, jpeg, gif (best quality is ok) o NO ANIMATION! o Desired: banner could represent what we do (linux-stuff) o Desired: banner could represent something about our region (North Bay) * Images must be licensed under an open license, if no license is explicitly stated one will be chosen by the board. o The Creative Commons may help you here: http://creativecommons.org/license/ * Acting/elected board members will pare down submissions into a top 5 or so, of which the general population will vote on, most votes wins. o If the board finds that none of the submitted images are acceptable then the acting/elected president has veto power, and can appoint or pick new logos as s(he) sees fit. o If no general population voting system is in place by the time of the contest deadline, then the board will vote and decide the winners. * Board members may submit artwork, however they must then abstain from voting. * Tie is broken by acting/elected board members. * If desired multiple logos can be selected. * First place in each category (t-shirt, web logo) receive a copy of Revolution OS, subsequent winners receive O'Reilly shwag. augie. - -- irc.nblug.org #nblug registered linux user #229905 gpg public key: http://www.schwer.us/schwer.asc Key fingerprint = 9815 AE19 AFD1 1FE7 5DEE 2AC3 CB99 2784 27B0 C072 -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.0.7 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org iD8DBQE/DvN0y5knhCewwHIRAoUBAJ9khGM070aldxeZOLJpog2p8QMb7gCcCxji ZE3uLR6CVjK211C0/E0+zzU= =QNMo -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----

21 years, 5 months

General Meeting: Dealing with spam!

by ME

WHAT: General Meeting TOPIC: Panel/Board review on some common methods for dealing with spam SPEAKER: Panel of NBLUG members (E.B., M.E. and E.E -- names below) WHERE: O'Reilly and Associates, Sebastopol, CA. http://www.nblug.org/location.shtml WHEN: July 8, 2003 @ 7:30PM STATUS: Confirmed Difficulty: Beginner-Intermediate This is our normal monthly meeting at the normal scheduled time and place. NBLUG meetings are open to all and are free of charge. Hello NBLUG members! We have a great presentation for you: Dealing with spam in Linux... Details: Most of us get spam, and many of us who get spam don't want it. So, what do we do about it? Come hear a panel of NBLUG members talk about various methods that can be used in Linux to help decrease the amount of spam that makes it to your inbox. Eric (Acting NBLUG VP) is presently employed at SRJC and has found several methods for filtering spam. He has experience with such tools as Procmail, SpamAssassin and others. Frank Ball (Active NBLUG Board Member) works at Agilent. He has found help in avoiding spam with customized ipchains/iptables rules as well as employments of other tools. M.E. (Acting NBLUG President) quit his University staff job to become a student of Computer Science who has found sanctaury from spam with procmail and spamassassin. OTHER UPCOMING NBLUG EVENTS: August 12: Cool Linux Apps - Mini review from multiple NBLUG Members September 9: The GIMP - A tour by Bill Kendrick (Tentative) October 14: MythTV (Encoding Video with Linux) (Tentative)

21 years, 5 months

NBLUG Elections? Yes! New web site? Yes! Docs? Yes!

by ME

Hello NBLUG Members! (This message sent to both lists.) NBLUG is going through some changes. We hope you like them. :-) NOMINATIONS FOR NBLUG ELECTION ARE OPEN! (See end of message for details.) #1 We have bylaws to help us be more organized and open about our operation: http://www.nblug.org/docs/bylaws.html (Some minor changes to wording will be included after we get suggested changes from Bill and Kat and then ratify them.) #2 We have a constitution to help document our new structure and let people know how it is expected to work and encourage participation in making things work: http://www.nblug.org/docs/constitution.html (Some minor changes to wording will be included after we get suggested changes from Bill and Kat and then ratify them.) *** If you dont like something in either of the above, contact a board member so it can be discussed at the next board meeting. #3 We have a new website format to replace our present website. To get a sneak peek, check out: http://www.nblug.org/new/ Features: * Better organization and separation * Look/feel similar to other sites * Works in lynx, as well as graphical browser * Does not use frames * Search feature to search our web contents and web docs * Search archived email messages for our two lists! * Expanded links (Thanks to Frank Ball and user submissions) * Validated to be true HTML 4.0 by w3c * Plus much much more.... We realize the copyright is an obviously strange item. We are working on selecting a GPL-like licensing for all web content. New site will replace old site this Friday evening. Send initial bug reports to ME for this new site. #4 Be on the lookout for a new InstallFest (brought to you by Greg!) It is looking like it will be on a Saturday in September. More later from Greg. #5 Several other kewl ideas in the works thanks to Eric, Augie, and others. Expect to see more information on these later. NOMINATIONS FOR NEW NBLUG ELECTION: #6 If you have read our new constitution, you will note that we have several elected positions. (such as President, Vice President, Scribe, Treasurer etc.) If you want to run for an office, or nominate someone to run for an office, then make your nomination in PUBLIC on the nblug talk list being sure to include the following text in your subject: Subject: [NOMINATION] Any nomination not conforming the the above (using the above subject and sent to the talk list for nblug) will not be considered valid. Later, a summary list will be provided listing all nominations with offices. A short period will permit corrections to the list. If you wish to nominate more than one person for an office, place all of your nominations in one message. NOTE: In order to vote, you will need to have been subscribed to one of the NBLUG lists (announce or talk) before 11:00pm on June 4, 2003. At that time, a complete list of all email addresses was pulled from these lists to generate a list of all NBLUG users by e-mail. (One vote per email address.) Nominations will be open for 3 weeks. Information on how to vote will be provided later. (We will likely have a web-based voting system.) If you would like to ask questions about any of the above, you can try doing so on-list, or wait until the *end* of our Tuesday meeting. We'll try to reserve 10 to 15 minutes for open questions and discussion. -ME Acting President

21 years, 6 months

General Meeting Announcement: Intro to building a Kernel

by dugan＠passwall.com

WHAT: NBLUG General Meeting TOPIC: Introduction to building a Linux Kernel SPEAKER: M.E. (http://mike.passwall.com/) WHERE: O'Reilly and Associates, Sebastopol http://nblug.org/directions.cgi http://ora.com/oreilly/seb_directions.html WHEN: Tuesday, June 10, 2003 @ 7:30PM This is our normal monthly meeting at the normal scheduled time and place. NBLUG meetings are open to all and are free of charge. Description: The "Acting President of NBLUG" will jabber on about installing and upgrading a kernel by building it from source. "Why?" will be covered, and general procedures to make the process easier will be included. He hopes to make this an intermediate level presentation. If you are new to Linux, this might be nice to see -- even if you do not plan to build a custom kernel, as you can see what is available to you if you should ever decide to build one later. If you have built your own kernel, applied diff-patches, and/or modified your kernel, you will likely not gain much benefit from this introduction/ (I will not be covering the actual source code, or internal workings of the kernel.) Bio: M.E. is the acting president of NBLUG while we are in transition to having elected officers. (Expect new bylaws and constitution to be posted soon.) He is an active member on the list, and is sometimes helpful. ;-) Having been a member of NBLUG since the first meeting, and a user of Linux for nearly a decade, M.E. has really enjoyed the Linux lifestyle. Wrote majority of RFP for 3 story tall book robotic system, was project coordinator for its integration, and acceptance director. http://mike.passwall.com/ars/ Reverse engineered Apple's NetBooting protocols from Mac OS X Server, and ported the system over to Linux after modifying the source code to ISC's DHCP Server (proof of concept) to permit Apple machines to NetBoot Mac OS from a Linux Box. http://mike.passwall.com/macnc/ Work-in-progress "Introduction to networking" pages that describe some things such as the ISO OSI 7 Layer model: http://mike.passwall.com/networking/netmodels/ and links to other "stuff" like breaking down the contents of a TCP header and IP header: http://mike.passwall.com/networking/ And "Useless Trivia" like computer passwords found in movies and computer security too: http://mike.passwall.com/uselesstrivia.html Plus other "stuff" ;-) OTHER UPCOMING NBLUG EVENTS: July 8 : How to deal with spam (panel review) August 12: Not Disclosed September 9 : Using the GIMP (tentative)

21 years, 6 months

Reminder: Linux on PS2 tomorrow night

by Eric Eisenhart

This is just a quick reminder that we're having our regular monthly meeting tomorrow night. The topic is Linux on the Sony PlayStation(r) 2 with a speaker from SCEA (Sony). WHAT: NBLUG General Meeting TOPIC: Linux -> Sony PS2! SPEAKER: Adam Bertsch from SCEA WHERE: O'Reilly and Associates, Sebastopol http://nblug.org/directions.cgi http://ora.com/oreilly/seb_directions.html WHEN: Tuesday, May 13 @ 7:30PM Also note that there will be a GnuPG keysigning party after the meeting. If you're interested, go to http://nblug.org/augie/gpg/gpg-announce.html for more information and email your key to augie(a)nblug.org immediately. -- Eric Eisenhart NBLUG Co-Founder & Vice-President Pro Tempore The North Bay Linux Users Group http://nblug.org/ eric(a)nblug.org, IRC: Freiheit@freenode, AIM: falschfreiheit, ICQ: 48217244

21 years, 7 months

GPG Key Signing Party!

by augie

-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 <http://nblug.org/augie/gpg/gpg-announce.html> WHAT: GnuPG Key Signing Party. WHERE: O'Reilly and Associates, Sebastopol http://nblug.org/directions.cgi http://ora.com/oreilly/seb_directions.html WHEN: After the general meeting. WHY: A key signing party properly facilitates the signing of your GnuPG public key by other GnuPG users. Having your public key signed increases the "web of trust" for everyone, and brings more validity to your key, as it represents your identity. What to bring? 1. Your self (physical attendance is mandatory) 2. Picture ID 3. Your Key ID, Key type, HEX fingerprint, and Key size (probably just make a print out from your keyring...unless you've got all this memorized ;) ) 4. Something to write with 5. NO computer! How does it work? 1. Before the party generate a key pair, and either upload your public key to a public key server such as www.keyserver.net, or be prepared to tell people from where they can access your public key on the internet. 2. Email your public key to the coordinator: augie(a)nblug.org 3. The coordinator prints a list with everyone's key ID, key type, fingerprint, and key size from the compiled keys and distributes copies of the printout at the meeting. 4. Bring along a paper copy of your key ID, key type, fingerprint, and key size that you obtained from your own keyring. Also bring a photo ID. 5. You will be making two marks on the listing, one for correct key information (key ID, key type, fingerprint, and key size) and one if the ID check is ok. 6. Now mingle. The point is to meet as many people, and get as many signatures as you can. 7. When you meet someone read your key ID, key type, fingerprint, key size, and user ID from your own printout, not from the distributed listing. This is because there could be an error, intended or not, on the listing. This is also the time to confirm ID information. If the key information matches your printout then place a check-mark by the key on your own distributed list, and if the ID appears to be valid place another check-mark on your own distributed list. 8. That's it! When you get home, take a look at your list, any keys on your list with TWO check-marks are valid keys, and you may download that key from the keyserver or from another location that the key owner has specified. Sign that key and upload it back to the server you got it from, or email it back to its owner. Links: http://www.nblug.org/augie/gpg - shameless self promotion http://www.mandrakesecure.net/en/docs/gpg.php - good brief introduction into GnuPG http://www.gnupg.org/gph/en/manual.html - more indepth information - -- irc.nblug.org #nblug registered linux user #229905 gpg public key: http://www.sonic.net/schwer/schwer.asc Key fingerprint = 9815 AE19 AFD1 1FE7 5DEE 2AC3 CB99 2784 27B0 C072 -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.0.7 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org iD8DBQE+qiyRy5knhCewwHIRAsEXAJ0RA5Aqua5WtzwjIpILrN50kwnenACdFMHV 8ju4+ObHklrwDNGvlnpVIh0= =FKvA -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----

21 years, 8 months

General Meeting Announcement: Linux -> Sony PS2!

by dugan＠passwall.com

WHAT: NBLUG General Meeting TOPIC: Linux -> Sony PS2! SPEAKER: Adam Bertsch from SCEA WHERE: O'Reilly and Associates, Sebastopol http://nblug.org/directions.cgi http://ora.com/oreilly/seb_directions.html WHEN: Tuesday, May 13 @ 7:30PM This is our normal monthly meeting at the normal scheduled time and place. NBLUG meetings are open to all and are free of charge. Hello NBLUG members! We have an exciting presentation for you: Linux on the Sony Playstation 2! For some background information and to get info on, go to http://playstation2-linux.com/ More info about this presentation from the speaker: ------------------------------------------------------------- So what is this Linux for PlayStation(r) 2 kit, anyway? What do I get, what can I do with it, and how do I use it? What sort of cool stuff are other people doing with the kit? Where do I get more information and who can I talk to? We'll learn the answers to these questions and then allow the talk to go wherever the group wants to take it. Live demos will be available and there will be an opportunity for hands-on experience depending on interest after the talk. This presentation will be provided to us by Adam Bertsch of SCEA. Here is a brief Bio: ------------------------------------------------------------- Adam Bertsch is a Sr. Systems Administrator at Sony Computer Entertainment, America. Adam is responsible for the Linux kit website in the United States and Canada as well as evangelism for the Linux kit. Adam also pushes Linux within the corporate culture at SCEA and works with the Research and Development group in a more traditional sysadmin capacity. Adam came to SCEA from VA Linux Systems in 2001 where he was a member of the Professional Services team working with security, high capacity/availability servers, and Source Forge(tm). OTHER UPCOMING NBLUG EVENTS: Jun 10, 2003: Introduction to custom Linux Kernels (ME) Jul 8, 2003: Panel/Board review: methods to deal with spam (ME et al.)

21 years, 8 months

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