LILUG General Meeting - Tuesday, 12 September, 2006
From Lilug
Meeting Summary
Announcements
- LILUG Vice-President Mark Drago announced that LILUG President Matt Newhall's wife gave birth to a baby boy, Sebastian, last night (and that's why Matt N is not at the meeting!).
Speaker
- Jeff Sipek - GNU Privacy Guard, Part Two
- LILUG Special Publicity Coordinator Jeff Sipek gave the second of his two part talk series on GNU Privacy Guard. Jeff gave an overview of Part One. Then he led the group in the actual verification process, which began with a display of the printed key list and the sha1sum hash value. This was followed by each person on the key list coming forward and showing photo ID, which gave each other participant the opportunity to trust (or not trust) that particular person's identity and key.
- Jeff will follow up with an email to the list on the final steps, which will include each person signing all other keys he/she trusts, sending the signed keys back to Jeff, and Jeff then compiling and redistributing the signed keys.
MiniTalks
- We gave members the opportunity to give imprompu 5-10 minute talks on favorite Linux topics.
- Harris Landgarten - Amazon S3 project
- Amazon already has projec t called Simple Storage Service (S3) for 15 cents per GB per month. Associated with this is a new project where they are running a huge Xen farm. You can put any Linux image that will run on the 2.6.16 kernel on to their Xen farm, Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2), for 10 cents/hour.
- Mark Drago - Ethereal/Wireshark
- Mark gave a short demonstration of Wireshark (formerly Ethereal), which allows for troubleshooting and analyzing network traffic.
Group Business
Raffles
- Ubuntu Linux For Non-Geeks book - Alex Gill
- Perl Hacks book - Bill Burns
- Hacking The Cable Modem book - Jeff Sipek
Msurico 22:07, 12 September 2006 (EDT)
Contributed Notes on Meeting From Others
- none