Capital Area BSD Users Group

I started the meeting with a presentation on using OpenBSD as a remote MP3 player using OpenBSD, mpd, icecast, ssh and mplayer. I use this to listen to music on my laptop wirelessly (in a DMZ) and the MP3 files are on my OpenBSD server on my LAN. It’s secure and easy to use.

We followed this up with Patrick’s suggestion for a round table discussion on some “Best Practices.” This was a very informal discussion that covered things like shell configuration files, using OpenSSH’s multiplexing and dynamic port forwarding, shell command history using, set -o emacs/vi and more.

We then made our way to The Green Turtle for more casual BSD discussions and food (and drink). Thanks to everyone that made it.

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This month we’ll be meeting on Tuesday, August 26, 6:30pm EST at SRA/Raba in Columbia, MD (Suite 205).

We will have a round table discussion about SysAdmin best practices. If you have any, please share. If you want to demo something, bring your laptop or let me know in advance to see if I can accommodate with my laptop (I don’t usually let others drive). If there is time (of course there will be time), I will give a "dazzling presentation of OpenBSD as a multimedia powerhouse" (ohai, Johan). "dazzling" is code for "short". And "presentation" is code for "thrown-together demo". And "multimedia powerhouse" is a euphemism for "remote MP3 player".

After the meeting, we’ll spend too much time deciding where to grab some grub and drink and then go there. See you there.

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Jason Dixon started the meeting with a demo of mod_security. He was followed by a brief introduction and a demonstration of Amanda from Dustin Mitchell. I am proud of myself for not bringing up Bacula even once (ohai, Jason).

We followed the meeting up with some pizza and drinks at Pub Dog (or is it Dog Pub).
Thanks to Jason and Dustin for presenting and everyone else for attending. See you in August.

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