Layman & Advanced - Third Annual Xmas Beer Bash!
Everyone (even Windows Users) is invited to share a beverage and food with
us at the Market Street Pub (120 SW 1st Street, Gainesville, FL). The "meeting"
starts at about 7:30PM, but come by whenever you want to. I hope to see
everyone there!
Layman/Advanced - GPG/Darkstar
GPG -- Gnu Privacy Guard, This topic has been canceled for this month due
to illustration problems. So we are getting a talk on...
Darkstar -- a CVS-based OS
development and distribution system using Linux. The idea is to put sources for
base Linux packages up on CVS so that any updates to the base system are
compiled from a known good source tree. This was talked about on the FLU list
and tonight we get a demo.
Layman/Advanced - Netpliance I-Opener, Hacked
Layman/Advanced - Novell Directory Services (NDS) on Linux
Layman/Advanced - FreeBSD, a Linux User's Point of View
Layman/Advanced - Building Custom PHP4 Modules
The Internet as well as business increasingly rely on databases, yet
interfacing your data to a website isn't always easy.
PHP makes the job easier. PHP is an
application server as well as a programming language. PHP was created by
Rasmus Lerdor as a simple Perl program to track visitors but because of
contributions by the OpenSource community it quickly grew with features and
was eventually rewritten in C. Local FreeBSD developer, Chris Faulhaber, will
provide an introductory as well as an advanced treatment of the power of PHP in
website development.
Layman/Advanced - Using the Palm Pilot with Linux
The Palm Pilot, or Palm, made by 3Com Corp has quickly become the standard
by which most Personal Digital Assistants or PDAs are judged. We'll have a show
and tell presentation that will demonstrate how easy it is to interface the
Palm with Linux as well as show off several useful utilities including the
Pilot-tools suit and J-pilot.
Layman/Advanced - DNS Configuration - Donald Cowart
Domain Name Service, or DNS, forms the basis through which names are
resolved on a TCP/IP based network such as the Internet. Smaller networks such
as those that make up a corporate WAN or LAN can also benefit from DNS. This
month Donald Cowart, System Administrator for the Alachua County Public Library
will present the steps needed to setup a simple DNS server under Linux.
Slides from the meeting are here.
Layman/Advanced - Building an RPM from Scratch
The challenge of building an RPM was a topic that was recently presented on
our mailing list, the linux-l. The discussion created such an interest that
Eli Ben-Shoshan generously decided to share his knowledge of the subject with
us this month as well as talk about his efforts with Mesa and OpenGL. This
presentation will be somewhat advanced but as always, all are welcome to
attend.
Layman Linux - Basic Security