Linux Sound Shoot Out
03/02/2006 at 12:00 AM
Do computer speakers suck? Are there alternatives to iPod?
WarDriving
02/02/2006 at 12:00 AM
Chris Huchel will preset on the Art of Wardriving and GPS on Thursday Feb 2nd in D bldg at BTC. From Wiki Pedia:
Wardriving (also known as LAN Jacking) is searching for Wi-Fi wireless networks by moving vehicle. It involves using a car or truck and a Wi-Fi-equipped computer, such as a laptop or a PDA, to detect the networks.
Many wardrivers use GPS devices to measure the location of the network find and log it on a website. For better range, antennas are built or bought, and vary from omnidirectional to highly directional. Software for wardriving is freely available on the Internet.
LinuxFest Northwest 06 planning mtg
01/26/2006 at 12:00 AM
A linuxfest planning mtg will be held at Peakserv 5:30 pm on Thrusday January 26th.
All those interested in LFNW planning please attend.
.ORG Committee mtg at Mark’s Thursday
01/12/2006 at 12:00 AM
The regular mtg of the .ORG committee is this Thursday 7pm. at Mark’s
All blug’rs who are interested in the mysterious inner workings of BLUG are encouraged to attend.
They’re lots-o-fun and a little work, see you there,
For directions email “Mark Ashworth”. You can find his address on the Contact page.
Have I Been Hacked?
01/05/2006 at 12:00 AM
The January BLUG meeting is tomorrow, Jan 5 at 7PM at Bellingham Technical College building D. After our usual news and Q and A session, I will be giving this month’s presentation. It is titled “Have I Been Hacked??”. I will talk about:
— How systems are hacked, local vs remote and root vs non-root exploits
— What is a rootkit
— Techniques for detecting rootkts
— John
Christmas Party -Clowns!
12/17/2005 at 12:00 AM
Hot news break! Tonight! Dec 17th 6pm till 10pm
ZigZag and Ragz the clowns, Will be at the blug picnic tonight!
http://www.zigzag-ragz.com/
Secretly disguised as blug members, Ragz and Zig-Zag
are world famous clowns actually trained at Ringling Bros!
Bring the kids and the whole family tonight Saturday Dec 17th
at 6pm to the Fairhaven Park Pavilion.
It’s Free and a potluck with lots of door prizes!
How to Get There
To reach Fairhaven Park, take exit 250 off I-5,
head west on Fairhaven Parkway 1 1/2 mi to 12th St(traffic light).
Turn left and stay left at the next light to
follow Chuckanut Drive 300 yds to a left turn into Fairhaven Park.
Parking lot is to the right as you enter.
POTLUCK CHRISTMAS PARTY
12/06/2005 at 05:00 PM
This year’s Blug potluck Christmas party/LFNWfundraiser will be held SAT. DEC 17th from 6pm till 10pm in the Fairhaven Pavilion at Fairhaven Park (same place as last year) in Bellingham.
vi/vim, Unisom, diagnostics
12/01/2005 at 12:00 AM
For our last regular 7pm BLUG meeting in D bldg at BTC this year we’re having a great line up of presenters.
1. Mark Ashworth will make that infamous default editor “Vim” familiar and easy to use.
http://neolectric.com/ref/vim-tips.txt
2. John Blanford will cover a few more handy diagnostic commands to use in your terminal window.
3. Adrian Klaver will cover Unison. Unison is a cross platform file synchronizer. There is both a text based and GUI based interface. It falls between using tar and using a revision control system and it’s fairly simple to set up and learn.
Troubleshooting techniques
11/03/2005 at 12:00 AM
Troubleshooting and command line tips hosted by Wes Taylor. Bring your favorite tips and share them at the meeting.
Asterisk C Voice over IP
10/05/2005 at 12:00 AM
Have you ever thought that you might like toexperiment with or use an IPBX at home or in your business? Here’s your chance to see what it’s all about.
Asterisk C is an Open Source, Linux based, IPBX application developed by Mark Spencer of Digium, the company behind Asterisk. Asterisk @ Home evolved from the core Asterisk. It consists of several major components.
These were developed under GPL supported relatively by users themselves. It consists of applications, a provisioning system, an installer, and an operating system that, together, make a complete package ready for use as an out of the box PBX.
You might be asking, “What is Asterisk?” Think of Asterisk as the world’s finest telephony toolkit. Just about anything you’ve ever heard on a telephone can be built with Asterisk. It provides a rich collection of building blocks which allow people to call you using virtually any telephony platform including POTS (plain old telephone system) and VoIP (voice over IP).
I chose a bundled Asterisk product called Asterisk @ Home that provides Linux, Asterisk, Apache, MySQL, and PHP all rolled into a single CD.
I will bring in a working Asterisk @ Home system to give you a hands-on approach to what Asterisk is all about.