[sclug] This months chit chat

[Daniel Lower]

Hiya, 

Basic summary of the stuff that was talked about this month:

- Tom talking about firewalls and the problems of Wireless networking
zones and using IP Cop http://www.ipcop.org/ WEP128 and WEP64 are
also useless.
http://www.cisco.com/warp/public/779/largeent/issues/security/sbytes/v03i04_0501.html#vuln5
any other good info URLS appreciated.

- Simon Heywood talking to me about a new Debian Boot System
  Can you remember the name now Simon? Runset Init Suite ring any
bells?  or maybe you read it in this discussion "Replacing the Aging
Init Procedure on Linux"
 
http://developers.slashdot.org/developers/03/10/02/1553253.shtml?tid=106&tid=185
	

- Also mentioning Subversion alternative to CVS
http://subversion.tigris.org/
  Discussion on slashdot
http://developers.slashdot.org/developers/02/12/21/048202.shtml?tid=156

- Leon having fun with his HP Laptop Linux Laptop.net is very useful
for finding people in your position: Leon which model is yours?
http://www.linux-laptop.net/hp.html 

- Useful Gadgets for giving a laptop a serial connection via USB
there are Drivers for Linux apprently: http://www.keyspan.com/

- Talking of Guis and mention of D-Bus came up
http://www.freedesktop.org/Software/dbus
   The specification for the hard-core
http://pdx.freedesktop.org/Software/dbus/doc/dbus-specification.html


- Leon rootOnRaid fun http://karaolides.com/computing/HOWTO/lvmraid/
  Very detailed step by step from the Linux Documentation Project 
	http://www.tldp.org/HOWTO/Root-RAID-HOWTO-4.html

Fun chit-chat at the end of the evening.

- Bit of a talk of Retrogaming aka gadgets like:
	http://www.thinkgeek.com/cubegoodies/toys/5d39/

- Humorous Red Vs Blue Digital Cyberworld Quake/Halo style
mini-series
  http://www.redvsblue.com/ 
  http://www.redvsblue.com/faq.shtml
  Reliably informed it's Hilarious


Tip of the month:

How do I get vi to compile a program and go to the first error well
from Simon's vi book
:make does that.

If anything was discussed that isn't hear it's because nobody told me
:-).



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