Monday Feb 2 2009 Meeting

We had a Monday July 11th meeting at Ijet in Annapolis. About 8 people showed up. During the meeting we talked about virtualization and Red Hat certifications.

About 10 people showed up. Topics Discussed: 1. DNS troubleshooting 2. using cronjobs to do backups a. rsync b. ssh keys 3. Linux Desktop environments 4. Mutithreading programming

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We talked about Mavenspire’s meeting place. Mavenspire offered to host our meetings for us in their very plush facility. The location is only .5miles from our current location in Suite H, 53 Old Solomon’s Island Rd, Annapolis MD. We got to sample Barnes and Nobles free internet, which was painfully slow. There was a talk…

About 8 people showed up for this meeting. We had to fight for chairs with the Annapolis Linux knitters who seem to be getting really big. Subjects Discussed: Amanda Tape backup system. Dustin, a new guy from Zamanada , gave a basic description of the Amanda backup system. In summary, Amanda does backups as if…

About 5 people showed up. We had a pretty lively meeting. 2 new people showed up fro the meeting. Topics Discussed: Running Linux on 1GB Flash devices. Bob G said he was using 1GB USB sticks to run on Winterms. . There are a lot of USB bootable distros available. Hitachi is selling a 1TB…