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June 2012 Meeting

admin — Thu, 03 May 2012 15:00:28 +0000

Our next meeting is:

June 6, 2012
7:00 PM

Please note that we enter through the back (Northwest) corner meeting room. Not at the front door of Windward. If you turn left off Yorkton into the parking lot we’re at the door near the chain link fence. Just look for the geeks.

If you have any questions, comments, suggestions please join our mailing list and post there.

LONG LIVE THE PENGUIN!

May 2012 Meeting

admin — Thu, 05 Apr 2012 15:00:55 +0000

Our next meeting is:

May 2, 2012
7:00 PM

Windward Software

If you have any questions, comments, suggestions please join our mailing list and post there.

LONG LIVE THE PENGUIN!

April 2012 Meeting

admin — Thu, 08 Mar 2012 15:00:35 +0000

Our next meeting is:

April 4, 2012
7:00 PM

Windward Software

If you have any questions, comments, suggestions please join our mailing list and post there.

LONG LIVE THE PENGUIN!

March 2012 Meeting

admin — Thu, 02 Feb 2012 15:00:38 +0000

Our next meeting is:

March 7, 2012
7:00 PM

Windward Software

If you have any questions, comments, suggestions please join our mailing list and post there.

LONG LIVE THE PENGUIN!

LinuxFest Northwest 2012

admin — Fri, 06 Jan 2012 19:28:11 +0000

Bellingham, WA • April 28th & 29th

What is LinuxFest Northwest?

LinuxFest Northwest is a free annual event produced by the Bellingham Linux Users Group and volunteers from other open source user groups. It is held on the campus of Bellingham Technical College.

The Fest features Linux and open source experts and aficionados sharing their experience and enthusiasm with a wide variety of free and open source technologies. This generally means that there will be a lot of smart people who come with something to share and a desire to learn. This is a free+cheap event that’s held on a weekend, so there are also folks who don’t usually go to commercial conferences. All in all, it’s a lot of fun with fresh faces on eager people.

This is an awesome event. Nathan and John will definitely be attending. Anybody else interested in making the trip?

www.linuxfestnorthwest.org

February 2012 Meeting

admin — Thu, 05 Jan 2012 15:00:04 +0000

Our next meeting is:

February 1, 2012
7:00 PM

Windward Software

TOPICS
Dan has offered to do a presentation on the YubiRADIUS Server software

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LONG LIVE THE PENGUIN!

January 2012 Meeting

admin — Tue, 13 Dec 2011 00:13:54 +0000

Our next meeting is:

January 4, 2012
7:00 PM

Windward Software

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LONG LIVE THE PENGUIN!

Dec 2011 Meeting Minutes

admin — Mon, 12 Dec 2011 00:48:06 +0000

Thanks Eric for writing up the minutes for this months meeting:

It’s been a while since we’ve posted minutes from the meeting. Sorry about that; I’ve missed a lot of meetings…

Bob started by demoing a live CD that will replace a lost Windows password. The site is http://www.pogostick.net/~pnh/ntpasswd/

and gives you instructions on how to use it. The website claims that the method works on every version of Windows since NT3.5 (all the way to 7…including 64-bit).

Backing up data was next on the menu. Neil wanted to know what various backup solutions were being utilized in the group. Instead of providing a play-by-play I’ll just list some of the ideas/packages that were thrown around:

Bash scripts (tarball)
rsync

automysqlbackup

Git

repository for configuration files
Bacula

Amanda

Arkeia

fwbackups

Dirvish

CrashPlan

NimbleStorage

Some other points that came out of the discussion was that RAID configuration should not be used as a backup solution because replicating corrupt data is still corrupt data.

Buying a group lot of Yubikeys was brought up. It looks like we’ll get a bunch. Let me know if you want in. There will be 10 in the lot available however at least 5 have been spoken for. They’ll likely end up in the $11-12 for each (incl tax and shipping).

Doing a mall presentation and install fest was discussed. A public install fest was generally discouraged, however, the idea of supporting a non-profit organization was put out there. If you know of any speak up on the mailing list.

A couple of other ideas: having an entry in the Peachfest parade distributing various forms of material (maybe get sponsors if need be), working with school-age kids in some way or another.

A great idea of doing a joint video unified meeting with another LUG was suggested. Perhaps Bellingham, Calgary, Victoria…etc…

I believe that wraps up this month’s meeting. Cheers.

November 2011 Meeting

admin — Tue, 12 Jul 2011 17:14:21 +0000

Our next meeting is:

November 2, 2011
7:00 PM
Windward Software
Please note that we enter through the back (Northwest) corner meeting room. Not at the front door of Windward. If you turn left off Yorkton into the parking lot we’re at the door near the chain link fence. Just look for the geeks.

Nick has offered to do a presentation on the newest release of Ubuntu. Featuring all that is new and exciting.

John will talk about YubiKey.

Anything else that people would like to discuss?

If you have any questions, comments, suggestions please join our mailing list and post there.

LONG LIVE THE PENGUIN!

April 2011 Meeting topic is System Administration

admin — Thu, 10 Feb 2011 21:50:29 +0000

(Sorry about the late update to the meeting notification)

Nathan has offered to do a presentation on Chef and Puppet.

Fergus and John will show off our Notion Ink Adams. Fergus is running the EdenX ROM which is basically the stock ROM with some customizations. John is running what is known as Beast ROM.

If you have anything you’d like to see discussed or have a presentation you’d like to do, please post it in the Mailing List (link at the top of the site).

April 6, 2011
7:00 PM
Windward Software