Meeting Notes April 4 2006

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 […] →Read more

Meeting Notes March 7 2006

About 8 People showed up. Topics discussed: 1. Make Magazine 2. Non Agressive video games for kids. 3. SATA devices 4. Academy Awards 5. Backing up a home directory and using scp. 6. Ham Fest (next is Sat 3/25/06) 7. Books 8. Commerical Kernel mods. 1. Make Magzine is a neat magazine that shows how […] →Read more

Meeting Notes Feb 2006

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 […] →Read more

Linux Jobs in the area

This is a list of known companies that hire Linux people. Yes, A number of companies in the Annapolis area hire Linux people. ARINC Defence Contractor and Airline Service Company. Use: C++, C, Oracle, Perl, Python and Zope. USi The world’s largest ASP. Use Linux in some capacity, but mostly uses Solaris and FreeBSD. Covesoft […] →Read more

Meeting Notes Jan 2006

Happy New year !!!! I was only able to stay for an hour today. However, during the time we went over the following topics: Linux World: Future of Computing Recent Microsoft exploits allow people to code in documents with meta tags The Linux Phone Switch: Asterisk Comparing Unidata with Oracle. How Oracle uses Joins while […] →Read more