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Mar 15, 2014 - 1 minute read

New event system in use

I am trying out a different event manager and while I think it is better than the prior one, it doesn’t post an article on the site. I currently need to add an item manually and the RSS feed does not see the calendar events directly. I don’t think there are too many people who look at the RSS feed, but you never know. I’ll have to ask about it at the meeting.

Feb 9, 2014 - 1 minute read

February Meeting 2014

Git for sysadmins

Talking about git:  what is it, what are the components, how do you make them go?

Also a look at gitk and its capabilities, looking at a large codebase (1/4 million lines of code, about 8 years of development, 9,000 revisions committed).

Speaker Bio

Talk by Brenda J. Butler, Maker member at CREDIL.

Brenda has been programming on unix/linux environments for ~20 years, doing application development, web sites, kernel programming and embedded programming, with a little system administration and teaching thrown in for good measure.  Yep, Jill of all trades.

Jan 17, 2014 - 28 minute read

Building a Firewall Appliance with pfSense and ALIX2D3

Purpose

I am aware that this topic has been done before and probably more times than is worth counting, however this was originally written as a HOWTO for my brother to install a replacement for his old gateway box. I wanted to include all of the stuff that is usually left out, as I felt that would reduce the number of possible phone calls until he wanted to do something interesting with the unit.

Jan 8, 2014 - 1 minute read

January Meeting: Ringing in the GNU year

Title: January Meeting: Ringing in the GNU year
Location: CHANGE!!! Dymon Self Storage, 323 Coventry Rd.
Link out: Click here
Description: Another calendar year has rolled over, time to learn to write the date correctly again.

Not a whole lot to talk about this month:

  • I’m still working out my documentation management system and it is getting closer to something I think I can live with. AsciiDoc or AsciiDoctor are the closest to useful that I have managed to find so far.
  • Slightly more useful enhancements to your daily desktop for those not running a vanilla linux or bsd
    • Cygwin
    • MinGW
    • homebrew
    • macports
  • Slightly esoteric, but current and interesting: Hacking SD cards

Start Time: 18:45
Date: 2014-01-16
End Time: 20:45

Dec 6, 2013 - 1 minute read

December Meeting: Annual Social

Title: December Meeting: Annual Social
Location: Mill Street Brew Pub
Link out: Click here
Description: Annual social event. Just food/drinks/good times.

If you are attending, you need to let me know so I can make sure we have sufficient space. I need this info no later than Dec 12, 2013
Start Time: 19:00
Date: 2013-12-19
End Time: 21:30