[NBLUG] Monthly General Meeting Announcement

Welcome, and good day party people! Here's your latest NBLUG General Meeting Announcement... Last Month Recap ---------------- For those who attended our last meeting, you got to enjoy Eric standing in front of the room waving his arms around trying desperately to fly out of the country. OK, well, it wasn't EXACTLY like that, but you get the picture. Instead, mostly his arms were flying as he was drawing like a mad man on the white board discussing how to turn your Linux box into a router and NAT (Network Address Translation) box for your home network. It was a good presentation, and has sparked a lot of good discussion on the nblug-talk list. Eric will be following up with two more presentations in his series of Linux and the Home Network, so stay tuned for those. They are currently slated to cover using your Linux box as a file/print sharing box and how to do simple firewalling with Linux. NBLUG InstallFest Update ------------------------ I've gotten a couple of queries as to when the next InstallFest will be. I'm currently looking at September or October, but don't really have any preferences one way or the other. I do know that it will certainly be either of the two months...guaranteed. If you have thoughts on when you think the next InstallFest should be (given the choice of Sep or Oct), feel free to drop me a line, or post on the nblug-talk list General Meeting Announcement ---------------------------- OK. Here it is. You've slogged your way through all that other junk, and now you've found your way to the real meat of the announcement. Brad Cox (our very own NBLUG Webmaster) will be giving a presentation on Linux IP-service clustering. Specifically the talk will be centered on the Linux Virtual Server (LVS) open source project. Designing and implementing a cluster of Linux boxes using LVS and some associated utilities to serve TCP and UDP services will covered, as well as why one would want to do such a thing and why one would want to do it this way. Brad has informed me that he's actually working on slides - oh my! Be prepared what should be a very interesting technical discussion. As always, our meetings are on the second Tuesday of the month (this one falling on Aug 8) at 7:30PM. Remember to get there early, as we stop handing out door prize tickets once the meeting has started. See you all there! -Dustin -- Founder & President The North Bay Linux Users' Group http://www.nblug.org/ dustin(a)nblug.org