administrator

Flavio will give us a tutorial on the use of the SUDO utility for system administration tasks. It’s a very powerful
tool allows you to give certain people the ability to do things that they would otherwise need to be root for.

Richard and Duane will give an overview of how to rip tracks from Audio CDRoms and show how to burn new CDRoms containing those tracks. Also, they’ll show some CDRom players for Linux.

Jim will give a VERY brief look at using a digital camera with Linux. Including grabbing the pictures from the camera
and viewing them on the computer screen. If we run out of time for this topic, it’ll hopefully be moved to the July meeting.

After the meeting, everybody is invited to grab dinner at a local restaurant

This month, we’re fortunate to have a presentation from someone who has been working
with all kinds of directory services including NT Domains, Active Directory, eDirectory, !OpenLDAP and Kerberos.

Andrew will give us an in-depth look at what LDAP and Kerberos are, and how it can be used to provide authentication
and directory services in a cross-platform world.

During the week of April 25th, Ubuntu had their Ubuntu Down Under developer meeting
in Sydney, Australia. MUG Members Jorge Castro and Jim !McQuillan were among the 70 developers
at the UDU, and they’ve got pictures to prove it.
They’ll cover the extraordinary process behind the design of the next version of Ubuntu Linux.

After the meeting, everybody is invited to grab dinner at a local restaurant

Mark has volunteered to do a presentation on System and Network monitoring tools. He
recently wrote an article for Linux Magazine about a tool called ZABBIX. He’ll be showing that
and other tools such as Nagios and MRTG. He’ll also cover the basics of SNMP.

[[http://www.gnome.org/projects/beagle/][Beagle]] is an experimental tool for indexing and
searching your data. With the use of the
Lucene.NET indexer, beagle can be queried fast for useful information.

Jorge has been playing with it, and he has offered to share what he’s learned about it.

After the meeting, everybody is invited to grab dinner at a local restaurant

This month, we’ll have 3 presentations.

• Novell Linux Desktop – Duane Brown
  Duane will give us his first impression of Novell Linux Desktop 9 (NLD9)

• Ubuntu – Jorge Castro
  Jorge will show us what all the excitement is about, and show us the differences
  between the current ‘Warty Warthog’ release, and the upcoming ‘Hoary Hedgehog’ release.

• Qt3 Introduction – Richard Staff
  Richard has been working with the Qt3 tutorials and has offered to share his insights and experiences
  with it.

After the meeting, everybody is invited to grab dinner at a local restaurant

There are several Free/OpenSource database management packages available, including
!MySQL, Firebird, The Berkeley Database and !PostgreSQL.

Bill has given many MUG presentations over the years, and this month, we’re happy to
have him give us a review of the !PostgreSQL Database Management System.

At our January MUG meeting, we opened the floor to nominations for the board of directors.
We have 6 board positions, and there were 6 people nominated. Those people are:

1. Jim !McQuillan
2. Jim Glutting
3. Dick Williams
4. Duane Brown
5. Dave Satwicz
6. Jorge Castro

At the February meeting, we’ll again open the floor to nominations, and then we’ll hold
the election.

One area that gets ignored by many people is a System Level Backup. That is
a backup of the operating system, that can be used to rebuild the system, in the case
of a hard drive failure.

Mondo Archive is a wonderful tool for backing up entire hard drives, or parts of a drive, and
it also includes the ability to make a bootable CDRom or boot/root floppy set that can be used
to quickly rebuild a system after the hard drive has been replaced.
Jim will go through a quick overview of using Mondo, just to give you an idea of its features.

After the meeting, everybody is invited to grab dinner at a local restaurant

Wolf has an impressive list of credits to his name. Some of you may have heard him talking at one of our previous MUG meetings on his work at Mozilla (He’s the father of XUL).
Wolf has a new job at Troll Tech as Evangelist for Qt and Ambassador to the Open Source Community.

Wolf, in his usual style, will be both informative and entertaining, as he shows us what’s new with the Qt toolkit.

Even if you aren’t interested in Qt, you should be at this meeting to hear what Wolf has to say.

After the main presentation, we need to open the floor for nominations to the MUG Board of Directors. If you are interested in being on the MUG Board, or know somebody who is, this will be your chance to nominate yourself or someone else to the board. Elections will be at the February 8th meeting.

After the nominations, we’ll open the meeting up to an information Q&A time, where people can bring up questions, and hopefully, someone will be on hand to help with the answers.

After the meeting, everybody is invited to grab dinner at a local restaurant

!OpenPGP is a non-proprietary protocol for encrypting email using public key cryptography. It is based on PGP as orginally developed by Phil Zimmermann. The !OpenPGP protocol defines standard formats for encrypted messages, signatures, and certificates for exchanging public keys.

Dr. Robert J. Meier will be showing us the fundamentals of Open-PGP.

After the meeting, everybody is invited to grab dinner at a local restaurant

Matt Benjamin, co-founder of The Linux Box Corporation, has over 10 years of
experience in Information Technology. He is a contributor to a variety of open
source software packages and tools. Matt will talk about distributed Linux file
systems including NFS v4 and AFS on the 2.6 kernel.

MUG board member Ron Colcernian will show us
some tricks he’s developed for doing programming in the Postscript printer language. If you’ve ever written
a program that needs to print more than just plain text, this is very handy information to have.

After the meeting, everybody is invited to grab dinner at a local restaurant

If you send or receive email on the Internet, chances are good that your message goes through at least one sendmail server before reaching its’ recipient.

This month, we have Michael Elliott, system adminstrator for MSEN (A large Internet service provider in the Detroit area).

Michael is prepared to tell us all we ever wanted to know about Sendmail.

If you’ve ever had to deal with sendmail’s configuration file, you’ll respect Michael and his abilities even more.

MUG member Jorge Castro will show us the new features of the just-released !SpamAssassin-3.0. !SpamAssassin is a fantastic tool for eliminating the nuisance of spam from our daily lives. You definately will want to see this presentation.

Last September, John Lodden gave us an excellent overview of IP Telephony.
At that time, he suggested a follow-up presentation on a project called
[[http://www.asterisk.org][Asterisk]]. Asterisk is a complete PBX system that you can run on a Linux machine.

Well, a year has passed, and John is back to tell us all about Asterisk.

If you are interested in running a PBX, complete with voice mail, menu, multi-lines, and VOIP, then you really don’t want to miss this presentation.

Be the first on your block with a PBX in your home :-)