[Gllug] REMINDER GLLUG meeting 10th November Westminster University

[Frank Scott]

On Fri, Oct 26, 2007 at 05:37:09PM +0100, Dan Kolb wrote:
> There will be a Gllug meeting on Saturday 10th November, at the New Cavendish
> Street campus of Westminster University, with the first speaker starting at
> 1.30pm.
> 
> This venue is under the shadow of the BT Tower; the nearest tube stations are
> Great Portland Street, Warren Street, and Goodge Street. You will find a map at
> http://www.wmin.ac.uk/page-7679 or at http://shorterlink.org/1882
> 
> You will need to sign in at the front desk to gain access to the building.
> 
> We've got three speakers lined up:
> 
> * Armijn Hemel - UPnP (in)Security.
> 
> Universal Plug and Play (UPnP) is becoming an omnipresent technology and
> support for it is being added to more and more routers, gateways and DSL
> modems. Chat clients (MSN Messenger), networked games and gaming networks
> (X-Box Live and others) depend on UPnP to work correctly.  Up until now, there
> haven't been any real problems with UPnP, except for the occasional buffer
> overflow. UPnP seems to be working just fine. But it's not! The protocol is
> unclear and flawed by design and many implementations have security holes you
> can drive a truck through, leaving your network open to a variety of
> interesting attacks.
> 
> * Karanbir Singh - automated systems provisioning with Cobbler and CentOS. A
> brief intro to cobbler itself and then a live demo on setting up real machines
> and Xen + VMware virtual machines.
> 
> Cobbler is a Linux boot server that allows for rapid setup of network
> installation environments. With a simple series of commands, network installs
> can be configured for PXE, reinstallations, and virtualized installs using Xen
> or KVM. Cobbler uses a helper program called 'Koan' (which interacts with
> Cobbler) for reinstallation and virtualization support.
> 
> * Rich Jones - hacking a FORTH Compiler on public transport
> 
> There should, again, be time to fit in a few lightning talks after the last
> speaker, should anyone wish to talk about a favourite topic in 10 minutes or
> less.
> 
> As usual, the meeting will adjourn to a local pub.
> 

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