GnuPG is the free open source version of the OpenPGP standard. GPG can be used to encrypt and/or digitally sign files for secure storage or email. I’ll cover creating GPG keys and using them for encryption and signing.

Tonight is a roundtable hackfest of anything Linux or Open Source related. A projector will be available for anyone who wants to use it to present something but this is generally an opportunity for 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 or projects.

This talk will cover a introduction of mini-computing at home using Linux. Topics covered will include Rikomagic’s MK802 and MK802II based on the All-winner A10 Chip set and Android operating system. There will be a brief introduction to the Dalvik VM, an overview of Hardware specifications, comparisons of similar devices, as well as a demonstration of stock and custom images. Recently restricted releases of Chromecast by Google have prompted a revisit to hardware that is Linux-friendly and ships with access to root. Active participation for this talk is encouraged, so if you have similar devices do not hesitate to bring as a HDTV will be available for demonstration.

Linux developers play a major role in bringing forth the surprisingly near-term technology of autonomous vehicles. The talk will present lessons from a few years of work on vehicular SW and make the case that automotive software will have an outsized societal impact. Imminent decisions by government and private industry will influence how long-running problems like privacy and security play out in this new space. What code is important in automotive Linux, and what’s it like to work on it? What are the opportunities for software developers and EE’s, and where might one get started?

Alison Chaiken has worked as an automotive software developer for 3 years, starting with MeeGo-IVI at Nokia, continuing as a contractor, and then joining Mentor Embedded Software Division. She is the organizer of the Silicon Valley Automotive Open Source Group and rides bicycles in any time that is somehow left over.

Edit 7/10/2013: slides from the presentation are available at http://she-devel.com/Chaiken_NBLUG_2013.pdf.

According to Wikipedia: A Lightning talk is a short presentation given at a conference or similar forum. Unlike other presentations, lightning talks last only a few minutes and several will usually be delivered in a single period by different speakers.

Everyone is invited and encouraged to talk about Linux.

• Which distro are you running?
• What hardware are you running Linux on?
• What projects are you working on?
• We want to hear about it.

A sign up form will be provided at the beginning of the meeting for anyone wanting to give a lightning talk.

Like IPv6, DNSSEC is one of those great ideas that just hasn’t seen widespread adoption yet. That’s a shame because it turns out it’s not that difficult to deploy DNSSEC for a domain once you have the basic concepts down. In this talk Kyle will talk about general security issues that have plagued DNS over the years, how DNSSEC addresses some of them, how DNSSEC works, and finally how to deploy DNSSEC yourself.

The meeting will start with lightning talks (5-10 minute presentations), which will be followed by a general round table discussion of Linux.

Anyone wishing to give a lightning talk should sign-up at the beginning of the meeting, and the projector will be available for anyone who needs it.

This unique talk will cover the NAND part of the open source http://nand2tetris.org/ project, which has an aim of showing how to build a general-purpose computer system from the ground up. This talk will take advantage of the Nand2Tetris hardware simulator running under Linux to delve into how NAND gates alone can be used to build other logic gates and complex circuits. The talk’s focus and depth will be driven by audience feedback and will range from physical gate construction and logic gate simulation to the Nand2Tetris project’s end educational goals.

This meeting will be comprised of two presentations.

1. Introduction to the BeagleBone: an ARM based development board running Linux - by Jezra Lickter

2. NTP - Network Time Protocol: How it works and how to use it to properly synchronize your computer’s clock to an internet time server - by Frank Ball

You used to install Linux with floppy disks or CD-ROM. If you have a lot of servers, want to live in the 21st century, or just don’t feel like getting up from your desk you should abandon that approach in favor of PXE booting over the network. In this talk Kyle will give an introduction to how PXE and kickstart/preseed installations work and follow up with how to adapt Debian and Ubuntu’s preconfigured PXE menus to create your own custom nice-looking PXE menu installer.

NBLUG’s yearly elections will be held on 2012-11-13. For more information on the positions open, see the Elected Officers section of https://nblug.org/bylaws.

After the election is concluded we will have time allotted for lightning talks followed by the announcements of the election result. The remainder of the night will be a hackfest with rumors of a possible code sprint happening.