March 2010

This is a list of known companies that hire Linux people. Yes, A number of companies in the Annapolis area hire Linux people. ARINC Defence Contractor and Airline Service Company. Use: C++, C, Oracle, Perl, Python and Zope. USi The world’s largest ASP. Use Linux in some capacity, but mostly uses Solaris and FreeBSD. Covesoft…

We had an open meeting. About 8 people showed up for the meeting. We had a bunch of new people during this meeting. We discussed using the Linux command line. We helped a user with an Ubuntu install. We also discussed Linux news sources.

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…

About 5 people showed up for the meeting. Tough Book CF-Y4 configuring on Debian. Mark brought his new lightweight toughbook. The toughbook does not have any fans and weighs in at about 3lbs. He had debian installed on it but was having trouble with the wirless card, and getting the max display size. Dave worked…

1. Trouble shooting X. 2. Central Repositories for code. 3. Managing startup scripts through Yast 4. Compiliers 5. Dos2Unix 1. Someone had a problem with X on a laptop with SUSE running. Some basic trouble shooting methods for getting X working were discussed. One ideas was to load Knoppix to see if the the latest…

Everyone came late this evening. The meeting started around 7:15pm. Topics: Webhosting virtual server space vs. regular physical server Home networking: ssh tunnels verizon dsl / verizon high speed fiber Distro Wars Ubunto vs Debian vs Mandrivia Alien for transforming rpms into deb packages Building machines from scratch Cases: coolmaster vs lain-li case Filtering Spam…