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Continuing the security topics from last month’s meeting:
We won’t have time to cover every detail of every topic above, but we’ll at least touch on the highlights and see where the conversation takes us.
This will be a collaborative discussion. We invite (and encourage) audience participation!
Best practices, Common sense and even some non-obvious techniques
We’ll be covering many things, including the following:
We won’t have time to cover every detail of every topic above, but we’ll at least touch on the highlights and see where the conversation takes us.
This will be a collaborative discussion. We invite (and encourage) audience participation!
The next MUG meeting is scheduled for Tuesday, June 14th.
The Michigan Ubuntu Loco will be sponsoring this meeting. They’ll be providing all of the presentations.
Included in this meeting will be:
And more to come!
The next MUG meeting is Tuesday, May 10, 2011 at 6:30pm at the ESD building in Southfield.
We’ll be having a series of lightning talks.
We’re allocating 10 minutes for each session. We still have room to add a couple more, so if you have something you’d like to share with the group, please let us know so we can add it to the list.
Engineering Society of Detroit
20700 Civic Center drive
Suite 450
Southfield, MI 48076
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Speaker: Scott Moser
Byobu is a Japanese term for decorative, multi-panel screens that serve as folding room dividers. As an open source project, Byobu is an elegant enhancement of the otherwise functional, plain, practical GNU Screen. Byobu includes an enhanced profile and configuration utilities for the GNU screen window manager, such as toggle-able system status notifications.
Speaker: Jim McQuillan
Expect is a Unix automation and testing tool, written by Don Libes as an extension to the Tcl scripting language, for interactive applications such as telnet, ftp, passwd, fsck, rlogin, tip, ssh, and others. It uses Unix pseudo terminals to wrap up subprocesses transparently, allowing the automation of arbitrary applications that are accessed over a terminal. With Tk, interactive applications can be wrapped in X11 GUIs. Jim will show some practical examples of using Expect to automate FTP downloads.
Lori Birman is the membership director for the Engineering Society of Detroit (ESD). This month, Lori will give us a brief presentation on the benefits of being a member of the ESD. MUG is now an affiliate member of the Engineering Society of Detroit (ESD). As an affiliate, our members are entitled to become members of the ESD.
Craig Maloney will give us another of his awesome presentations.
Ever thought about podcasting, but not sure where to start? Craig Maloney will demonstrate how he puts together his audio podcast “Open Metalcast”, using Ubuntu Linux, Audacity, and a USB microphone. This will be the podcast that will be released as episode #16. Craig will also answer questions about how he uses WordPress to distribute the files, pitfalls over licensing, and ways to promote your show once you’ve recorded it. He’ll also present some tips and tricks for getting the best quality for your podcast.
Why do we resist change? Why is “process” a dirty word in software development? Why can’t you just leave me alone so I can write software?
In an industry that is becoming progressively more competitive and lean the process used to develop systems and software is the last frontier for competitive advantage. No longer is one country or culture dominating the software profession. Similar education, technologies, infrastructure, and skills are available to all corners of the world, but innovative and useful processes that harness these resources effectively have eluded all but a handful of organizations.
With their high-failure rates, high cost, and over-reliance on mountains of documentation, over complicated and ill-deployed processes have soured the industry on processes based on models such as CMMI, ITIL, ISO, and SPICE. But the success or failure of the systems development process doesn’t lie in these source models, but in the interpretation and deployment of processes based on those models, and this distinction can make the difference between a vibrant and innovative company and one that is struggling for survival.
The application of agile methods to the development of software and systems has revolutionized the industry, but consistency, predictability, and repeatability still have not been realized by most engineering and IT organizations. The CMMI provides an excellent model for the integration of agility with disciplined structure that will address these business needs, but the method used to develop such an approach has never materialized.
His presentation will summarize research conducted while co-authoring the SEI technical Note “CMMI or Agile: Why not Embrace Both?!” and will discuss the reasons for the perceived conflict between agile and CMMI, the science behind radical change, along with some surprising findings and solutions.
Lori Birman is the membership director for the Engineering Society of Detroit (ESD). This month, Lori will give us a brief presentation on the benefits of being a member of the ESD.
MUG is now an affiliate member of the Engineering Society of Detroit (ESD). As an affiliate, our members are entitled to become members of the ESD. We had scheduled to have Lori Birman at the February meeting to introduce us to the ESD and explain the benefits. Unfortunately, Lori has a scheduling conflict this month and has agreed to present at our March 8th meeting.
At this months meeting (weather permitting), we’ll be holding elections for the board of directors. At the January 11th meeting, we opened the nomination period. Currently, the following people have been nominated:
The nomination period will remain open until just before the elections on Tuesday, February 8th. If you or someone you know would like to help drive the direction of MUG, please consider submitting a nomination.
Dave Satwicz will be covering the netcat command this month. Netcat is often referred to as a “Swiss-army knife for TCP/IP.” Its list of features includes port scanning, transferring files, and port listening, and it can be used as a backdoor.
At the February 8th meeting (weather permitting), we’ll be holding elections for the board of directors. At the January 11th meeting, we’ll officially accept nominations for candidates to the board. If you or someone you know would like to help drive the direction of MUG, please consider submitting a nomination.
LAST meeting at this location!
Starting with the January 2011 the MUG meetings will be held at:
Engineering Society of Detroit
20700 Civic Center Drive
Fourth floor, Suite 450
Southfield, MI 48076
Main Topic: LinuxTV
Devin Heitmueller will be talking about LinuxTV, which is an open source project dedicated to making TV and video capture work well under Linux. This talk will cover the current state of hardware support, the various applications out there, and how you too can watch HD television being freely transmitted over the air. Break free from the crummy DVR your cable company is charging you fifteen bucks a month for!
Devin has been an active contributor to the Linux kernel
since 2007, focusing primarily on the media subsystem. He has also contributed patches to a variety of other projects including Wireshark, Perl core, Kaffeine, and !MythTV. He currently works at a popular TV tuner manufacturer but has previously held positions as a Linux kernel maintainer for embedded security products, designing ISDN terminal adapters and IP routing hardware for 3Com, and working at
Lucent Bell Laboratories.
Secondary Topic: IPMI – Intelligent Platform Management Interface
The Intelligent Platform Management Interface (IPMI) specification is an Intel-led standard that defines a set of common interfaces to a computer system that system administrators can use to monitor system health and manage the system. More than two hundred companies support IPMI. Dell, Hewlett-Packard, Intel Corporation, and NEC Corporation announced IPMI v1.0 on 1998-09-16, v1.5 on 2001-03-01, and v2.0 on 2004-02-14. The technology is now considered a de-facto standard
Jim McQuillan will give an overview of the technology, how to configure it, and a demonstration of some very useful tricks with IPMI, including running a remote console and monitoring temperature sensors.
Command of the month: netcat
Dave Satwicz will be covering the netcat command this month. Netcat is often referred to as a “Swiss-army knife for TCP/IP.” Its list of features includes port scanning, transferring files, and port listening, and it can be used as a backdoor.
Main Topic: Linux gaming
Fun and Games with Craig Maloney
Think Linux gaming is Frozen Bubble and Quake clones? Think
again. Craig will show some of the more recent games available
for Linux, with a quick demo of each of them.
Secondary Topic: The new MUG web site.
Will Fuqua has been working on bringing the MUG web site out of the 80’s. He’ll show off state of nation, um site. While he’s at it we can also pick his brain about what he’s using to make it happen.
Command of the month: netstat
Did you ever want to know what network connections are active on your system? How about knowing what services are listening, waiting for incoming connections?
In this month’s Unix Command Line session *_Jim Glutting_* will give us an introduction to netstat. An extremely useful tool for seeing what’s happening on your network.