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.

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.

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 weusecoins.com - if you are familiar with Bitcoin, please feel free to speak up during a Q&A at the end!

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.

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.

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.

“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

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.

For this meeting we will revisit a time-honored (but recently neglected) NBLUG tradition: Stump the Geek. We’ll open up the floor for questions about Linux and we’ll try our best to answer them. Be gentle…

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.

During this meeting we will also conduct our annual NBLUG elections. You can find out more about the open positions at https://nblug.org/bylaws

When a server is used in production, you want every possible level of fault tolerance. Ethernet bonding allows you to create redundant NICs on a server so that you can lose a NIC, a ethernet cable, or even potentially a switch, without downtime.

In this talk Kyle will introduce the concept of ethernet bonding, discuss the different bonding modes, and describe how to set up bonding on Red Hat and Debian-based systems.

Instead of a regular speaker, this month we are going to do a hackfest. Like the previous hackfest 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.