December 2008
This month Paul Visscher discussed ssh tunnels.
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November 2008
No specific topic was scheduled for this month, so we had an extended
Q & A session that covered many topics.
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October 2008
Nancy mentioned that she saw a white Jetta with the license "My
Linux", but apparently it's not ownwd by one of our members. Gary
briefly discussed the recent Ohio LinuxFest. About half of tonight's
19 attendees went. Gary also mentioned that our next Installfest /
Configfest will be held at Sinclair Community College on Saturday,
January 24. Watch for more details soon. Somone asked how many had
installed Ubuntu 8.10. A few have so far. Someone else asked what
printers are supported by Linux. It was recommended to check the OpenPrinting database of supported
printers. There was some discussion about Ubuntu parking the disk head
too often. Apparently that's been fixed. There was also discussion
about random failures with solid state disks related to repeatedly
writing to the same area. Paul V. recommended that folks check out Linux Weekly News.
For the main presentation, Paul Visscher discussed his work installing
and configuring Linux in Centerville Schools. They currently have
700-800 client machines running Linux as well as using LTSP with about
300 Asus EeePCs. They use Puppet and Clonezilla to maintain the same
configuration across multiple computers.
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October 2008

October 11, 2008 was the 6th annual Ohio LinuxFest and it
just keeps getting better each year. This year once again had
an optional day of training on Friday, Oct. 10 for $350 and LPI
testing on Sunday.
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September 2008
Tonight we'll discuss Ohio
LinuxFest and our next InstallFest / ConfigFest. Michael
Gilbert will continue his monthly "in-security" talk.
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August 2008
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July 2008
As best I know, Elliott will continue leading the panel discussion
of "How to Introduce and Encourage Linux Use to Resistant
Organizations" this month and Michael Gilbert will continue his
monthly "in-security" series. I haven't heard of any other topics for
this month so far.
Please bring printouts of your public key
and government issued photo ID to participate in the key
signing party. It's been far too long since we've had one.
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June 2008
We returned to Wright State University for our June 19 meeting.
This month was the start of a series of panel discussions headed up
by Elliott Lake about "How to Introduce and Encourage Linux Use
to Resistant Organizations". They discussed experiences they
have encountered when trying to start implementation of Linux projects
and suggest ways to improve them. Also, Michael Gilbert continued
his monthly "in-security" series - security issues that have
popped up within the past month.
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May 2008
We met at New
Horizons® Computer Learning
Centers, 1890 Commerce Center Blvd., Fairborn, OH for the Thursday
May 15 meeting.
This month Michael Gilbert demonstrated
Eee PC and discussed
installing a Debian based distro on one. He also discussed "in-security" -
security issues that have popped up within the past month, and is looking
forward to making it a monthly discussion. Also, Eric Baenen gave
a quick overview of the Linux for South West Ohio Libraries project that
was recently started.
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April 2008
We met at New
Horizons® Computer Learning
Centers, 1890 Commerce Center Blvd., Fairborn, OH for the Thursday April
17 meeting. New Horizons is near the large Kroger store on the north
side of Dayton-Yellow Springs Rd.
This month we didn't have a topic, so we had an extended Q&A session.
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March 2008
We met in Student Union, room 157, Wright State University
for the Thursday March 20 meeting. This month, we had a
demo by Eric Baenen of cloning and restoring systems with Clonezilla Live. Also,
Jason Cook talked about Wikia and
some of the things he is doing there.
We had some Fedora 8
x86 Live CDs to give out at tonight's meeting, as well as a Fedora
T-Shirt.
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February 2008
We met in Rike Hall, room 016, Wright State University
for the Thursday February 21 meeting, which was very nice. The desks
are wired with power and ethernet, but without a Wright State account,
you can't get online. This month Don Corbet discussed and demonstrated
installing "Out-of-the-box XEN" para- and full virtulization
and the difference under different CPU's running SLES-10 or Fedora.
We gave out some Fedora 8
x86 Live CDs at tonight's meeting, courtesy of Red Hat Fedora.
The new Milano's at the
corner of North Fairfield and Kemp - a little over a mile south of
TGI Friday's - has been suggested for the after-the-meeting meeting.
They have free Wi-Fi.
Please bring printouts of your public key
and government issued photo ID to participate in the key
signing party. It's been far too long since we've had one.
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January 2008
We met in Student Union 156C at 7 pm Thursday January 17.
This month we had a presentation by Michael Gilbert that he called
"Running a secure system by knowing your vulnerabilities",
which included discussion of WebKit
and KDE4. We expected to also have
a fair amount of discussion of Eric Baenen's proposal to "do more
to help more people convert from proprietary software to Open Source
Software and Linux.", but I didn't hear any. But since I wasn't
feeling too good that night, I may have missed it.
Please bring printouts of your public key
and government issued photo ID to participate in the key
signing party. It's been far too long since we've had one.
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