DCLUG - Bytes 2004

Date: Wednesday, February 18, 2004 Speaker(s): Adam Rossi, president of PlatinumSolutions Adam Rossi, president of PlatinumSolutions, will discuss the benefits of using open source Java web application frameworks. Adam was a co-developer of Expresso web framework, as well as other projects; recently his company has been working on Keel, a Java server side meta-framework or "framework of frameworks" that provides standard interfaces for a variety of other open source frameworks and components to quickly and seamlessly create Java applications. Keel 2.0 was released in December 2003, and will be the presented in this talk. The presentation will also cover the practical aspects of putting together open, pluggable Java frameworks and toolkits to solve real-world problems in web application development. Mr. Rossi's company used these principles as well as the Keel software to build web systems for the FBI, as well as the U.S. Naval Safety Center. Slides: http://dclug.tux.org/200402/2004-02-18_dclug_keel.pdf Discussion: -

Date: Wednesday, March 17, 2004 Speaker(s): John Gorski, Silicon Graphics Inc. The topic was presented by SGI on their Altix line, which is based on Itanium hardware and Linux OS. Slides: see http://dclug.tux.org/200403/index.html Discussion: -

Date: Wednesday, April 21, 2004 Speaker(s): Jeff Frederick Jeff Frederick, an engineer from Novell presented an overview of the Linux plan of action at Novell. He discussed the newly announced products that support customer environments running on Linux. In addition, he discussed some of the future product plans. There were more people from Novell, with varying areas of expertise, so bring your technical and philosophical questions, if you are curious about what Novell, Ximian and SUSE are doing with Linux. Slides: No slides were received.  However, SUSE isos were put up on the tux.org server placing a heavy load on the server. Discussion: -

Date: Wednesday, May 19, 2004 Speaker(s): Benjy Messner Benjy Messner talked about PPC Linux: uses, advantages/disadvantages, comparing and contrasting with the familiar x86 implementations. Benjy planned to demonstrate hardware and software PPC environments. Slides: see http://dclug.tux.org/200405/index.html which points to http://dclug.tux.org/200405/linuxonppc.pdf Discussion: -

Date: Wednesday, June 16, 2004 Speaker(s): Jay Beale of Bastille, Honeynet, author and more Jay Beale of the Bastille Linux project talked about securing Linux installations, using his excellent software as an example. Slides: see http://dclug.tux.org/200406/index.html Discussion: -

Date: Wednesday, July 21, 2004 Speaker(s): Kent L. Miller Kent L. Miller and friends presented their remote-control radio toy driven by Linux. Images of vehicle at: http://dclug.tux.org/200407/index.html. You may be able to flip through the images sequentially like the old photograph movies... Discussion: -

Date: Wednesday, August 18, 2004 Speaker(s): Bill DeSalvo Platform Computing will provide an in-depth technical presentation on supporting parallel job execution on Linux HPC clusters. Discussion will include a description of Parallel Application Manager (PAM) integrations for various cluster management systems (Scyld, Scali, RMS, etc.), and some of the scalability issues they have investigated on very large systems. Session will conclude with an overview on Grid computing environments using Beowulf-style clusters. Slides available at: http://dclug.tux.org/200408/index.html Discussion: -

Date: Wednesday, September 15, 2004 Speaker(s): Richard Bejtlich Richard Bejtlich discussed the Sguil project (sguil.sf.net) and demoed it. Besides working on Sguil, Richard wrote a book on network security monitoring (www.taosecurity.com/books.html) (which he graciously gave DCLUG a copy!). Sguil is a proactive GUI/reporting environment for network intrusion detection tools such as snort and barnyard. Slides available at: http://dclug.tux.org/200409/index.html Discussion: -

Date: Wednesday, October 20, 2004 Speaker(s): Serge Wroclawski This month meeting's talk was about the popular Linksys WRT54G router. Serge Wroclawski discussed the router's capabilities and using the OpenWRT distribution on the router, including a demonstration of flashing the device and making customizations to the new router. No slides are available at this time... Discussion: -

Date: Wednesday, November 17, 2004 Speaker(s): Mark Lame Mark Lame talked about spam fighting techniques. After a general review of mail processing software stack, he discussed SpamAssasin, DSPAM and ClamAV, and dig into DSPAM deployment issues. Slides available at: http://dclug.tux.org/200411/200411-talk/spampresentation.html (Note: slides are images that will automatically refresh unless you have some different browser settings. Also the text link on the top of each page is for show only.) The DCLUG meeting dates for 2005 are: Jan 19, Feb 16, Mar 16, Apr 20, May 18, Jun 15, Jul 20, Aug 17, Sep 21, Oct 19, Nov 16 and Dec 21. Discussion: -

Date: Wednesday, December 15, 2004 Speaker(s): Grisha Trubetskoy Grisha Trubetskoy will talk about the Linux VServer project (www.linux-vserver.org), the concepts behind it, how it compares with other virtualization projects, overview of the VServer utilities as well as how to create a virtual server using OpenVPS tools. Slides available at: http://dclug.tux.org/200412/DCLUGtalk/LUGtalk.html Discussion: -

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