Since Monday October 16, 2000, we have been meeting in the Barnes and Noble’s coffee shop located in the Harbor Place plaza. (Take 50 East to Parole, RD.) The Harbor Place shopping plaza is at the corner of Solomon’s Island Rd and Aris T Allen Hwy(665).
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Meeting Room: Barnes and Noble’s Bookstore coffee shop-masquerade as customers.
If you don’t want to spend money that is OK too. We spend enough for you. 😉
About 6 people showed up to the meeing. Topics: Wireless cards with Linux SSH tunnels Finding RPMS. Wireshark. Gumsticks. Cell Phones. Linux only Tv Tunners. We had a question as to what wireless card to get. Cisco, Linkysys, and Lucent Orinco was thrown out. Here is a list of cards that HP has tested to…
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
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…
Dick Seabrook from AACC came and talked about Linux and programming classes available at AACC. Recently he came out of retirement and has been putting together some very challenging introductory to advance Linux classes. He is teaching CSI 135 in the fall semester. Take csi 135 online if you want to develop shell programming skills…
We had about 8 people at this meeting. We met at the Starbucks in Severna Park, MD. Topics discussed: Ijet paid our Meetup bill – Thanks ijet. ezboot Drives – 250GB SSD drives are selling for $50 and the price of them is getting really low. Media servers – Kodi Nix and systemd – Patrick…
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…
