Corel Officer / Halflife Server
05/04/2000 at 12:00 AM
A demonstration of the Corel Office Suite running on Linux (of course!). Word processing, spreadsheeting, and presentation graphics that rival MS Office!
Also a demonstration of setting up a Halflife server (that’s a game running on Linux, for you non-gamers).
Linuxfest 2000!
04/15/2000 at 12:00 AM
Linux demonstrations, advice, and Linux software give-aways! Open to the community; drop by and see what all the talk is about!
Topics and demonstrations:
– Home Networking and Firewalls
– Linux on the Desktop
– Installing and Upgrading Linux
– Linux Applications
– E-business on Linux
– Linux Games and Online Play
– Linux/Apache (Web Serving)
Linux Fest 2000 Press Release in simple HTML
Linux Fest 2000 Press Release in plain text
Linuxfest 2000 Last Call!
03/02/2000 at 12:00 AM
A final organizational meeting before Linux Fest.
The magic of PHP
02/03/2000 at 12:00 AM
This meeting should be a great follow-up to last month’s meeting where Greg demonstrated the Apache Web server. PHP is a server-side scripting language for creating dynamic Web pages. PHP integrates with Apache and HTML. When a visitor opens a page, the server processes the PHP commands and then sends the results to the visitor’s browser. Very cool. For a more thorough introduction, see:
http://www.builder.com/Programming/PHPIntro/index.html
Resources:
PHP Web Site: http://www.php.net
PHP Base Library Site: http://phplib.netuse.de
MySQL Web Site: http://www.mysql.com
Thanks to Kris Dahl for sinding in these links!
Apache for the Beginner
01/06/2000 at 12:00 AM
An introduction to Apache setup and administration under Red Hat Linux. Greg is a networking instructor at Bellingham Technical College. This is sure to be a popular night!
https://blug.org/photos/greg.jpg – Pic of Greg (please excuse low-light grainyness)
BLUG Y2K Party at Boundary Bay!
12/02/1999 at 12:00 AM
Can nerds really have fun? BLUG’s first annual year-end party, where BLUGers can meet in a relaxed atmosphere, have a beer, and talk about their favorite subject–Linux!
VMware, Tripwire
11/04/1999 at 12:00 AM
VMware is software that runs multiple virtual computers on a single PC–at the same time–without partitioning or rebooting. Really.
Tripwire is a security tool that allows you to monitor the files on your system, and detect any unauthorized changes. It is used as an intrusion detection method, and as a way to clean up a system that has been hacked.
Setting Up a PPP Connection
10/07/1999 at 12:00 AM
This somewhat impromptu demonstration involved installing Linux on a box and simulating a connection to another Linux box over a dedicated telephone line using PPP. (Well, with a little help from the audience we got through most of this!)
Getting Hip to Qmail
09/02/1999 at 12:00 AM
Qmail is a secure, reliable, efficient, simple message transfer agent. It is meant as a replacement for the entire sendmail-binmail system on typical Internet-connected UNIX hosts.
Secure: Security isn’t just a goal, but an absolute requirement.
Reliable: qmail’s straight-paper-path philosophy guarantees that a message, once accepted into the system, will never be lost.
Replacement for sendmail: qmail supports host and user masquerading, full host hiding, virtual domains, null clients, list-owner rewriting, relay control, double-bounce recording, arbitrary RFC 822 address lists, cross-host mailing list loop detection, per-recipient checkpointing, downed host backoffs, independent message retry schedules, etc. In short, it’s up to speed on modern MTA features. qmail also includes a drop-in “sendmail” wrapper so that it will be used transparently by your current UAs.
Overall performance: What really matters is how well qmail performs with your mail load. Red Hat Software found one day that their mail hub, a 48MB Pentium running sendmail 8.7, was running out of steam at 70000 messages a day. They shifted the load to qmail—on a smaller machine, a 16MB 486/66—and now they’re doing fine.
In my presentation I hope to cover:
* Introduction and explanation of Qmail
* Why use Qmail? (why sendmail is not the best thing to use)
* How to install Qmail
* Installing a mailing list manager to go along with Qmail
* Configuring your POP3 and IMAP services to understand Qmail
What is Coda?
08/05/1999 at 12:00 AM
In a situation where a single computer is used, all files are often stored on the local disk. When the computer is part of a network of workstations, it is often advantageous to have the workstations share files across the network. This talk will explore network-based file systems and give an introduction to the distributed file system called Coda. Coda will be demonstrated using several networked PCs.