I would like to find a new place to meet in Annapolis. More specifically, although Barnes and Nobles is an easy site for people to find us, we are limited in what we can do. In the future, I would like the LUG to have the option of more formal presentations. Moreover, I think we…

About 6 people showed up for the meeting. Short meeting. We only trouble shot Mark’s laptop chatted a little and all left. The meeting started about 8PM. Mark brought in his laptop and was complaining that he was not able to the SMP kernel module to run. We did some basic troubleshooting and sure enough…

We had about 5 people show up for this meeting. During the beginning of the meeting we had a lengthy discussion of RedHat vs SUSE. Two members were having problems with RHEL 5 upgrades. Apparently, the new version of RedHat goes out and gets updates automatically. Although this my be a configuration that need to…

6 people showed up for the meeting. Topics Discussed: Xen Virtual Servers. Xen is a virtual server project that has both free and commercially supported bundle. Like Vmware multiple virtual servers can run on it. However, Xen does not appear to offer clustering or Disaster Recovery clusters like VMware does. Phishing emails. I explained a…

About 7-8 people came to this meeting. Scripting Languages: We started the discussion talking about scripting languages. Dustin uses Perl for his Amanda project at work. He went in some detail on how they used the scripting language to run a bunch of different processes and encapsulates some of it in C. I mentioned that…