Thanks to Jim, I’ve corrected the calendar entry. The meeting is next week, not tonight (Oct 13). If you are looking for a meeting to atend tonight, the ocbug (ocbug.ca) meeting is tonight.

Title: October Meeting
Location: The Second Cup, Bells Corners
Link out: Click here
Description: We have a couple of topics for October:

• Documentation systems
  • basically what systems do you use, what could we do better?
  • Do you use a Wiki? a CMS? a spreadsheet? Google docs? etc.
  • self-contained or db based?
  • What works and what does not?
• Certifications - do they have any value?
  • Who has certifications?
  • Why do you have them?
  • Have they helped?
  • Should “I” get any/more?
  • Do certifications help with my job?

Start Time: 19:00
Date: 2011-10-13
End Time: 21:30

Title: September Meeting (Note that this is the LAST Thursday in the month)
Location: The Second Cup, Bells Corners
Link out: Click here
Description: As we had a very small turnout for the last meeting, I’ll bring along some photos of the new firewall appliance I assembled with components from pc engines. I’m quite impressed so far.

Hopefully we can stand another of my “doc” talks as well. If I’m successful, I’ll provide the whole thing as an epub file.

Title: August Meeting
Location: The Second Cup, Bells Corners
Link out: Click here
Description: Time for the monthly meeting.

Topics:

• Firewall appliances (DIY and commercial)
• Diagramming tools
• Documentation tools
• Other “stuff”, ask questions, bring topics

Start Time: 19:00
Date: 2011-08-18
End Time: 21:30

I recently decided to upgrade the unmanaged 24 port gig switch I have been using to a managed switch - make that 2 managed switches. I saw a deal on ebay for a couple of Dell 2724 switches that can be placed in managed mode. The price was quite good and I wanted to be able to create a couple of VLANs, but I didn’t want the howl of the fans from the Cisco switch I have.