Interesting events in the area

This post was a little late. We met on 11/07/2007 at Barnes and Nobles as normal. The topics discussed where as follows: Mark brought in a USB micro controller. One of the problems that he had was the usb device numbers jumped around making it hard for him to track it. He was using lsusb…

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. We had an open meeting today. Topics discussed: 1. Novell’s Open Enterprise server using Suse to interconnect with Active Directory. 2. What Linux are you survey . The survey is found here. 3. What do people use for managing server configurations ? – Nick answer: cfengine, puppet, custom scripts with…

About 6 people showed up for the May 7th meeting. Linux Questions that came up: There was a question of how to run multiple sound streams under Linux. Normally, the sound daemon allows for this. When the sound daemon is not configured properly streams might cause conflicts. What is good fs to use now that…

Matt Ward from Red Hat gave a presentation on containers The slides for the presentation can be found here: https://redhat.slides.com/mward-1/deck-4/live#/64 For additional reading he referred user to these sites: Systemd vs Docker https://lwn.net/Articles/676831 May the Fork Be with You. A short History of open source Forks. https://thenewstack.io/may-fork-short-history-open-source-forks/ Container Format Dispute on the Twitter Shows Disparities…

I lost the notes for this meeting. But, we did have a meeting.