The Penguin way to computing.
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 […] →Read more
About 6 people showed up for this meeting. This meeting was an open topic. Thus, we just talked about random things. Topics: 1. Fon Router Patrick R. gave a review of the Fon Router. He says in Europe many are given the fon router if they setup an open/free wireless. Here in America Star bucks […] →Read more
About 6 people showed up for this meeting. We had an open meeting. New Linux issues: 1. Nick was having some issues setting up Subversion 1.6 and in dependency hell. 2. Demitri was setting up Ubuntu 10 on this new System76 laptop. He had some questions about cron and anacron, which put us in a […] →Read more
About 8 people showed up for the meeting. We had two new users. Demitri a pen tester showed up. Also, Brad, who works at home for a firm in Chicago came. We had an open and lively discussion about a number of different topics. topics discussed: a) vm servers and the cloud b) init.d and […] →Read more
We had an open meeting this day. Michael Tanenhaus gave a quick overview on how to setup Asterisks. In summary, there are two parts to configure for asterisks to function. There is the ‘/etc/dahdi’ stuff which configures the card, previously known as ‘zapper’. The ‘/etc/asterisks’ stuff holds the extensions and the software configuration for the […] →Read more