LILUG General Meeting - Tuesday, 11 July, 2000
From Lilug
Meeting Summary
Speakers
- Tom Rothamel - GPG (Part 1)
- Tom Rothamel began his multi-part series on Gnu Privacy Guard (GPG). You can read Tom's handout on background information. He explained a little about cryptography and contrasted the three major types of encryption (one-time pads, symmetric ciphers and asymmetric ciphers). He then went on to outline how LILUG will get to participate in the creation of public and private keys and sign these keys for authenticity. Tom prepared a handout. The electronic version of the handout will be available here on lilug.org very soon. Before the next meeting, LILUG members interested in participating in the key signing are requested to follow the instructions in Tom's handout by downloading GPG and creating their keypairs, and then mailing a copy of the public key to Tom.
- Chris Lansdown - Perl Intro
- Chris Lansdown gave an introductory talk on Perl. His talk included a handout. Chris will be publishing an electronic version of the handout.
Discussions/Announcements
Parking
- LILUG President Matt Newhall reminds all LILUG members that the proper place to park for our Monthly Meetings is in the parking lot in front of Horton Hall. Please check the main meetings page on this site for the campus map. Matt also mentioned that Campus Security should not be ticketing properly parked cars. If someone is forced to pay for a parking ticket while parked properly, LILUG will consider reimbursing the individual out of the group's treasury. Please make every effort to park legally while visiting campus.
Problems
- After reinstalling Red Hat 5.1, it takes a long time to telnet to that server from other machines on the LAN
- A member suggested that if it is taking about 2 minutes before seeing the login prompt, it's a DNS issue. Suggestions included reviewing /etc/resolv.conf and making sure that the order for hosts in /etc/nsswitch.conf is files then dns, and then make sure all local servers on the LAN have their IP addresses and FQDNs listed in /etc/hosts.
- What are the major architectural differences in the kernels of NT vs. Linux that would make users prefer one over the other?
- This question would take a very long time to fully answer, and of course our group would show particular bias towards Linux anyway. But some suggestions included how Microsoft put the graphics subsystem into the NT kernel, and therefore sacrificing stability for speed of graphics. The modularity and open source of the kernel in general make it very attractive as well.
Raffle
- We got a surprise donation by Tim Sailer of one copy of a RedHat Linux book, which was raffled off. The lucky winner was John Leita. Congratulations!
(Meeting summary taken from Minutes published on original LILUG website from 12 July 2000)
Msurico 14:16, 27 May 2006 (EDT)
Contributed Notes on Meeting From Others
- none