North Bay Linux Users’ Group

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Puppet Systems Management Tool

When: Tue September 09, 2008 07:30 PM to 09:00 PM

Speaker: Eric Eisenhart

Location: O'Reilly Media

Still using ssh in a for loop to manage server clusters? Rewriting the entire hard drive of hundreds of workstations just to tweak one setting? Managing your systems by hand? Having trouble keeping up with all the changes to all the systems? Maybe it’s time to try something new.

Puppet is a system for automating system administration tasks. Puppet is also a declarative language for expressing system configuration, a client and server for distributing it, and a library for realizing the configuration.

Huh? In other words, you edit files in a nice readable language and magically the right things change in the right order on all the right systems. It’s like your systems configure themselves.

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Published Tue 09 September 2008 by Eric Eisenhart

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CTL” Enterprise Project Management

When: Tue August 12, 2008 07:30 PM to 09:00 PM

Speaker: Alex Honor

Location: O'Reilly Media

CTL is a new open source project for enterprise management, written in Java, but with bindings to Python, Perl, Ruby, shell, Javascript, and more. CTL is not an acronym; think of what ‘apachectl’ does for the Apache webserver, and imagine what such a tool might do for your entire enterprise and you’ve got CTL.

About the Speaker:

Alex Honor is open source project lead and principle architect at ControlTier. Formerly, he was head of E*trade system engineering, and carried them from dot boom to dot bomb and has been specializing in cradle to grave distributed enterprise software management ever since.

Published Tue 12 August 2008 by Dustin Mollo

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Introduction to the Haiku Operating System

When: Wed July 09, 2008 07:30 PM to 09:00 PM

Speaker: Jorge G. Mare, Scott McCreary & (possibly?) Urias McCullough

Location: O'Reilly Media

Haiku is an open source operating system inspired by the BeOS that is specifically focused on personal computing. The intent of this presentation is to give a general introduction to both the Haiku project and operating system. The talk will cover among other things the history of the project, some of its most important milestones, recent developments, the code base, as well as the global community that supports it. We will also introduce some of the aspects that make the Haiku operating system unique both from a technical as well as end user perspective. We will wrap up the talk with an interactive live demo/QA session.

Published Wed 09 July 2008 by Dustin Mollo

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NBLUG 10th Anniversary!

When: Tue June 10, 2008 07:30 PM to 09:00 PM

Speaker: NBLUG Founders Dustin Mollo, Eric Eisenhart, and possibly Kat Ogaz

Location: O'Reilly Media

General Meeting June 10: NBLUG 10th Anniversary!

That’s right, 10 years ago (almost to the day) NBLUG held its first meeting. Come hear the founders discuss NBLUG, what the group was like then, and how it has changed through the years. We’ll also be providing cake!

Published Tue 10 June 2008 by Dustin Mollo

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Introduction to KDE 4

When: Tue May 13, 2008 07:30 PM to 09:00 PM

Speaker: Fabio A. Locati

Location: O'Reilly Media

Introduction to KDE4

KDE 4 was released on April 2, 2008 and is the newest version of the K Desktop Environment.

Fabio Locati will speak on the history of KDE and Qt(the toolkit behind KDE) and he will also discuss the framework of KDE.

Plans for the upcoming 4.1 release will be revealed and there will be a live KDE demo.

Published Tue 13 May 2008 by Dustin Mollo

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OpenVPN

When: Tue April 08, 2008 07:30 PM to 09:00 PM

Speaker: Bob Blick

Location: O'Reilly Media

OpenVPN - Adding Trust to Untrusted Networks

Virtual Private Networks allow you to connect two networks securely.

A traveler with a laptop frequently uses a random internet connection but wants to connect securely to a home or office network.

Traditional solutions are not well suited to the random connections of the traveler with a laptop.

OpenVPN is a versatile cross-platform open source solution that’s easy to set up.

This presentation will have an overview of the lingo and components of VPN and a how-to demonstration of an OpenVPN server and laptop client.

Slides

Published Tue 08 April 2008 by Dustin Mollo

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Scaled-Down Laptops - Asus EeePC and OLPC XO

When: Tue March 11, 2008 07:30 PM to 09:00 PM

Speaker: Brandon Williams and Allan Cecil

Location: O'Reilly Media

The Asus EeePC and the One Laptop Per Child XO are two small laptops with very little in common. This month we have two presenters, Allan Cecil and Brandon Williams.

Allan will talk about the One Laptop Per Child Project XO laptop, which is technologically very unusual and supports some exciting educational and networking applications. A mesh networking demo of multiple XOs is planned, so if you are one of the lucky ones to already have an XO, bring it along and join in the demo.

Brandon will be discussing the EeePC, its hardware specifications, capabilities, the default operating system, and its great suite of open source software. He’ll discuss some of the niche distros popping up specifically for the EeePC, some of the popular hardware hacks floating around the web, and discuss some available options to the potential buyer. We’ll also hear about upcoming Ultra-Mobile Pc’s, why their popularity will continue to grow, and upcoming technology that are going to keep making them cheaper, smaller, and more portable.

Published Tue 11 March 2008 by Kyle Rankin

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Introduction to Forensics

When: Tue February 12, 2008 07:30 PM to 09:00 PM

Speaker: Kyle Rankin

Location: O'Reilly Media

In this talk Kyle Rankin will provide an introduction to performing forensics analysis on Linux machines using the popular Sleuthkit tools with their easy-to-use Autopsy web-based front-end. The talk will cover initial installation and configuration of Sleuthkit and Autopsy, basic concepts and considerations for a forensics investigation, and at the end there will be a demo with a compromised Linux image.

Published Tue 12 February 2008 by Kyle Rankin

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Advantech FWA-660 Network Appliance

When: Tue January 08, 2008 07:30 PM to 09:00 PM

Speaker: Paul Stagnoli and Brian Davidson

Location: O'Reilly Media

Paul Stagnoli and Brian Davidson, of Exchange Bank, will be discussing hacking the Advantech FWA-660 network appliance. The FWA-660 specs include four Ethernet ports, a Celeron processor, up to 512 meg of ram, on-board USB and printer support, compact flash support, and a 30 gig hard drive.

Paul will demonstrate how to install Ubuntu server onto the box via PXE. Brian will discuss case mods he made to add USB and Printer support to the box.

The takeaway will be that beyond the pre-packaged solutions hitting the market, there are other viable options for creating a home “appliance” that can act as a router, firewall, and file server all in one small, yet reasonably powerful box.

Published Tue 08 January 2008 by Kyle Rankin

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Virtualization Panel

When: Tue December 11, 2007 07:30 PM to 09:00 PM

Speaker: NBLUG Panel

Location: O'Reilly Media

Curious about virtualization? In this talk a panel of NBLUG members will highlight a number of different virtualization technologies including but not limited to VMware, OpenVZ, Solaris zones, and more!

Published Tue 11 December 2007 by Kyle Rankin

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Storage, Sharing and Backup: Samba, Rsync, and the MyBook World NAS

When: Tue November 13, 2007 07:30 PM to 09:00 PM

Speaker: Bob Blick

Location: O'Reilly Media

This talk covers storage and backup in a home or small office where files are stored on a single server running Linux or on a Network Attached Storage device. Files are shared to Windows, Linux, and OSX using Samba. Every day all files are backed up to an external USB hard drive using Rsync.

Network Attached Storage drives can save space and electricity by serving files to multiple clients without the need for a computer. The Western Digital MyBook World is a NAS with gigabit ethernet, a USB host port, and 500GB to 2TB of storage. It runs Linux internally and has a full system and GNU development environment preinstalled.

There will be a demonstration and also a look at some RAID controllers and a NAS drive, with performance critiques.

Published Tue 13 November 2007 by Dustin Mollo

installfest

CANCELLED: Installfest PLUS!

When: Sat October 20, 2007 10:00 AM to 04:00 PM

Speaker: None

Location: O'Reilly Media

I’m very sorry to announce that, due to a lack of sign ups, we’ve chosen to cancel the upcoming installfest (scheduled for Sat. 10/20). Our hope is to schedule another in the spring.

We still want to open the ‘fest up to issues beyond simply installing, so if you have suggestions, please send them along. We’d also like to advertise the ‘Installfest+’ to a wider audience, so please feel free to chime in with your ideas.

Thanks,

-dave. (Installfest coordinator)

Published Sat 20 October 2007 by Dave Sisley

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