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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…

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 7 people showed up for the meeting. Topics discussed: 1. Cray computers and vector extensions. A new guy Matt was trying to get some old Cray software to do combustion simulation working on a Linux box. Dave mentioned that Crays normally used vector extensions with Fortran, so it might be tricky. 2. Astricks PBX…

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…

8 people showed up for this meeting. Talked about data recovery and how to recover files that are deleted. Normally, when you delete a file under Unix it is very hard to recover the file. However, if the file is stored on specific filesystems the file could be recovered. Here is a short list of…

Topics discussed were: finding hackers: RKHUNTER appears to be better at finding problems then stuff like chkroot kit, which is older. fixing hacked machine permissions with the he chattr command. Embedded Linux Linux devices admin tools New Directory Services that help link Linux and Unix with Windoze. RHDS (Red Hat Directory Server) Package managers for…