The Linux Supporters Group Adelaide.Meets at the Adelaide South West Community Centre, 171.Sturt Strret Adelaide, at 7.30pm, on the first Wednesday of each Month.
April Meeting Barry Dwyer will present MySQL-database in Linux.
Details to follow soon.
Cost is $3.00, refreshments provided, also our usual speak to a geek session.
LINUX SUPPORTERS GROUP ADELAIDE
We meet at the Adelaide South West Community Centre, 171 Sturt Street starting at 7.30pm.
Two topics, two speakers:
Preparation for Encryption Workshop – The packages to install for encryption schemes like GPG, and Secure Shell (SSH) facilities to be covered in our May Workshop segment.
Steganography & White-Noise Encryption – A look at how software projects are developed and managed, using these two advanced encryption methods as an illustration.
Refreshments &c. + our usual Speak-to-a-Geek session ’til about 10pm; cost $3 for the evening.
LINUX SUPPORTERS GROUP
A Reminder to our supporters, that the LINUX LOUNGE will start for 2010 on Friday Feb5th 2pm-4pm Adelaide South West community Centre.171.Sturt Street Adelaide.
All Welcome.
LINUX SUPPORTERS GROUP
We re-commence our Meetings for 2010 at the usual venue: the Adelaide SouthWest Community Centre, 171 Sturt Street, Adelaide.
Starting at 7.30pm, PAUL SCHULZ shall present “LinuxConf 2010″ followed by “Satellites and Ham Radio with Linux”.
The usual Speek-to-a-Geek session follows. Refreshments provided.
Cost for 2010 is $3.00 All Welcome.
Next time you feel pretty special because you run Linux, ponder the statistics from w3counter.com/globalstats.php and reflect on just how special you really are!
percentage of Windows users = 86
percentage of Mac OS X users = 7
percentage of Linux users = 2
Linux User & Developer (Issue 81, Jan 2010) : Explanation of how to use Windows 7 as a client of a Linux server — Open source desktop publishing using Scribus — Analysis of network security for web servers — Review of the JoliCloud netbook operating system — EasyPeasy Linux on an enclosed DVD.
Linux Journal (Issue 188, Dec 2009) : Very simple firewall specification for wireless browsing — Some hints on using virtual terminals 1-6 — Small desktop-notification programs: blinkd, osd_cat, notify-send — Very small embedded experimental board called ‘Beagle Board’ — About the Player Project (robot control software framework) — Tutorial on the the structure of the typical embedded system — The Mesh Potato router project — Using the Linux Terminal Server Project.
Linux Magazine (Feb 2010) : Setting up telnet, network file system and subsystem for Unix-based applications in Windows 7; Linux under Windows - cygwin, colinux, virtualization; A bit about cloud computing; All about GRUB 2; Videos+mencoder+sox; Using shell built-in commands.
Linux Shell Handbook (Linux Magazine - Spring 2010): — This is a fantastic special edition, with detailed tutorials on over 300 bash commands, covering topics such as: introduction to bash, files management, search tools, regular expressions, pipes, textmanipulation, configuration files, disk utilities, time commands, mount, users, sudo, processes, dvd commands, networks, ssh, ftp, rsync, wireless, cron, at, scripting, etc. — also a Knoppix 6.2 DVD.
Linux+ 4/2009 — Xen virtualisation — Tutorial on Dynamic Host Configuration Protocol (DHCP) — Tutorial on RAM Disks in Linux, including how to configure firefox to use one — Musings on the rise of Linux on the ARM-powered smartbooks after the ix86-powered netbooks were smothered by you know who.
Linux Journal Nov 2009 — Using ‘vim’ with other applications — Virtualisation comparison — DNS and ipv4 — Filesystems: ext3 vs. XFS.
Linux Format Christmas 2009 — Shell scripting tutorial with basic examples — Network security using wireshark for sniffing — The usefulness of /proc and /sys explained — Creating video discs using dvdstyler — X-forwarding for remote desktops — UNR (ubuntu netbook remix) on DVD for USB booting.
Linux User & Developer, Issue 80, 2009 — Interview with Klaus Knopper — Notes on securing the Linux Kernel — Project control tutorial using ganttproject — A bit about gnuplot.
… and Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year to you all!
Added to our “Tutorials” section from our November meeting:
The Linux Supporters Group will meet on the above date.
Where: The Box Factory, 59 Regent Street South, Adelaide (between Carrington St. and Halifax St.)
For Our Annual Bar. B. Que and Movie Night.
Commencing at 6pm, movie will follow the Bar. B .Que at 7.30pm. Cost is $5.00 per person.
The movie is ‘Pulse’ (Kairo) which is related to computer viruses.
There is plenty of parking in Carrington St and Halifax St.
Multiple Booting — Tips, Traps and Treasures.
Presented By Hayden Tremethick.
Discover the secrets of successful multi-booting without tears or gnashing of teeth.
Meeting commences at 7.30pm. Cost $2.00. Refreshments provided.