Annapolis Linux Users Group

Next Meeting Sept 14 2010 (changed due to holiday 9/6/2010)

The next meeting is scheduled for Monday Sept 13 2010 since the first Monday is a holiday.

August 2010 Meeting notes

Dave B. had some questions about x509 certificates and how they work. In summary, Dave Dodge gave a short background on how x509 does. The talk then spawned into PGP and how key based encryption works.

Using Verizon Action Tech as a bridge to reduce the performance bottleneck. According to Brad, when most cable modems refer to NAT but are actually doing PAT. PAT and NAT are better explained on wikipedia.
PAT has limitations when you plug in a lot of devices. Thus, to him you get better results putting your cheap verzion action tech fiber modem in Bridge mode and run NAT on an open source router.

Printer recommendations. Someone said the best printer is the one with the cheapest toner. Most printers are given away free, but the toner cost a fortune to replace. Thus, be weary of free printers.

New file-systems: BTRFS and ZFS filesystem and Oc2fs.

Using UPS bypass.

Token ring networks.

Next meeting is August 2nd 2010

Hi the august 2010 meeting will be held on August 2nd 2010 at 7pm. We hope to have a speaker. However, we do not have anything finalized as of this post.

July 2010 meeting notes

About 6 people showed up for this meeting. This meeting was an open topic.
Thus, we just talked about random things.

Topics:
1. Fon Router
Patrick R. gave a review of the Fon Router. He says in Europe many are given the fon router if they setup an open/free wireless. Here in America Star bucks and Barnes and nobles is all free so it is a null point for star bucks. However, as a corporate entity they could probably get free routers from fon for providing open/free wireless.

2. DC LUG
DC Lug and GWU are having a interesting speaker this month according to Michael. One of particular interest was new screen technology that the Linux based ‘one laptop per child’ project has introduced. The new screens require a very small amount of power. They use sunlight to illuminate when used in sun light. Also the screens are practically indestructible. The screen technology is being used by new the mini laptops.

3 Oracle and Open source. Orcale is one of the most expensive commercial software solutions. Now it owns Sun, and Mysql. Both Sun Java and Mysql are very large open source projects now under it.

4. Patrick gave a plug for his podcast. He is a blogger press agent. As an agent he does stories for plan8.

5. Misc. quotes:
“Centos is a north american distro.”
“Redhat and jboss don’t work together despite being under the same corporate umbrella.”
“Sony sued itself once. The case was Sony entertainment vs Sony electronics.”
“Open sources biggest educational stronghold is Hawaii”

Next Meeting July 12th 2010 (since July 5th is a Federal Holiday)

Our next meeting is on July 12th 2010 at 7PM.

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