Meeting June 6th @7PM

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 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…

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…

We had a meeting again in Starbucks at the Barnes and Nobles. About 11 people showed up. The subjects of discussion touched on programming languages, how to use AI for fun, how to make a secure home network, and new PC innovations. Stan brought some Linux questions that were answered. In the short discussion about…

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

Summary of talk: Password recovery and Johntheripper. Linode and vpslink for virtual servers. ssh clients for the Blackberry midssh question: How do you find the libraries needed for dynamic drivers ? answer: ldd Linux games for kids: World of goo . Nick said that he installed Mandriva and thought it was faster than the previous…