Meeting Notes Dec 4 2006

About 6 peoples came to the meeting. During the meeting, we discussed topics revolving around the following: Ubunto and ndiswrapper Ndiswapper info can be found here . Ndiskwrapper is an application that taints the Linux kernel and allows it to use Windows drivers for devices. During the meeting, we tried to get Ubunto to detect…

Richard Cruz gave a presentation on AMD’s | SEAMICRO “SECRET SAUCE” TO EFFICIENCY. During this presentation, he will showed some really cool new hardware. SeaMicro is a AMD owned company that provides tiny modular servers which are helping making server datacenters more efficient. Directions: http://annapolislinux.org/?page_id=23

7 people showed up to the meeting. Topics Discussed: GNUCASH Bladecenter on Linux SNORT IDS system for the cheap. Ethics Sound Card problems with Alsa Tanget Topic: Microwaves wireless and fires. Power coils and flloresant bulbs. CENTOS : A redhat enterprise like version of Linux. ACM vs IEEE for journal use: ACM seems cheaper Compiling…

About 6 people showed up. John Massey from Washington College talked about alternative Open Source trouble ticketing system. On his mac, he was running a virtual session with Ubuntu. On Ubuntu, he had GLPI running. On GLPI he was using a inventory module called OSC inventory. Together the two applications integrate together created a full…

Topics discussed: installing myth TV applications using pclinuxOS, a new Debian based distro. Complications setting up a hdtv system. (Wiring can be complicated.). Tunneling with socks and twister both allow you to tunnel encrypted data through ports that are not blocked by firewalls. Astericks Open Source PBX Tunneling voice data over ssh using Asterisks. Wireless…

Speaker: Dr. Carl Albing Subject: Bash $x=’ls’ $x=$(ls) echo $x printf “….%s..%05d\n” loops while read aline do . . . done echo $? to see if things were successful $? — get results cd /tmp/mytmp || exit -2 rm $filename cp /tmp/mytmp || {echo “error: can not cd”; exit } rm $filename cd /tmp/mytmp &&…