Capital Area BSD Users Group

We're moving to Thursdays!

This month, we're meeting (today) Thursday, September 24 (6:30 PM EDT) at OmniTI's Columbia Office ([Google Maps]).

I will be giving a talk summarizing my recent experience migrating from my i386-based Mac Mini to my amd64-based PowerEdge 840 for erdelynet.com/capbug.org/metabug.org's mail & web.

Edit: I'll also be showing some pictures of my recent attempt to make my Soekris into a WAP.

Then we'll head to Victoria Gastro Pub for refreshments. See you there!

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We met again at OmniTI (thank you for hosting us).

I (Mike Erdely) gave a short talk about using Bacula's encryption mechanisms to store data encrypted on the storage media. Devon O'Dell gave an informal but very interesting talk about the differences between pre-emptive and co-operatively scheduled threading. Then, Jason Dixon introduced us to his new creation: Blogsum. Keep a look out for capbug.org to be using it in the near future. Finally, I gave another short talk describing my experiences with turning off greylisting in OpenBSD's spamd(8).

After the awesome talks, we adjourned to Victoria Gastro Pub for some food and drink. A good time was had by all.

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Our monthly meeting is next Tuesday, August 25 (6:30 PM EDT) at OmniTI's Columbia Office ([Google Maps]). We'll have a series of short talks by different speakers.

• Devon O'Dell - Differences between pre-emptive and co-operatively scheduled threading (high-level talk)
• Jason Dixon - Introducing Blogsum, a simple blog written for OpenBSD
• Mike Erdely - Bacula encrypting data before sending to Storage Daemon & erdelynet.com spamd/spamassassin setup and results (edit: merdely 200908202211)

Afterwards we'll adjourn to Victoria Gastro Pub for refreshments. See you there!

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I have made reservations for ten people at Victoria Gastro Pub for August 13 at 6:00 PM. There are currently 8 seats still available. Reply to the mailing list to save a spot.

See you there!

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This month we met at OmniTI again. I gave a talk entitled "Taking the plunge: A guide to tmux for screen users" (slides). It was a very informal talk with a lot of Q&A and some demonstrations. It should be noted that I love tmux.

After the talk we went to Victoria Gastro Pub for some food and libations.

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After a month off, we will be meeting on July 28 at 6:30 PM EDT at OmniTI's Columbia Office ([Google Maps]).

I will be giving a talk entitled "Taking the plunge: A guide to tmux for screen users".

After, we will adjourn to a local establishment for refreshments.

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We again met at OmniTI this month. Jason gave a very good introduction to packet filters in general and OpenBSD PF (slides). After everyone was up to speed on the basics of OpenBSD PF, we used OmniTI's lab computers loaded with an OpenBSD 4.5 LiveCD that Jason created to get hands-on experience with PF. The lab computers were already booted to the CD, so all we had to do was log in. The computers were connected to a switch in the lab that was configured with two VLANs. Jason gave us tasks geared towards learning PF:

1. Configure vlan100 interface to use DHCP
2. Configure vlan200 interface with a static IP
3. Nat on vlan100 for vlan200's network
4. Allow SSH from outside to a host on the vlan 200 network
5. Block all other inbound traffic
6. Bonus: Give SSH priority over HTTP

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This month, we will be meeting on May 26 at 6:30 PM EDT at OmniTI's Columbia Office ([Google Maps]). (NOTE: Be sure to go to OmniTI and not SRA/RABA!)

This month Jason will be doing a firewall/networking interactive lab. We will be using OmniTI's lab machines along with a custom OpenBSD 4.5 Live CD that Jason created to play with VLANs and PF. Jason has been kind enough to make enough CDs so that you can take one home with you.

After, we will adjourn to a local establishment for refreshments.

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We had a good turnout for the OpenBSD 4.5 Release Party. Seven CapBUG members and one wife met at Victoria Gastro Pub. In addition to celebrating OpenBSD's 4.5 release, to be fair we also celebrated Amanda's 2.6.1p1 release, DragonFlyBSD 2.2.1, NetBSD 5.0, FreeBSD 7.2, Firefox 3.0.8, 3.0.9, and 3.0.10.

We were also able to bask in the glory that is Jason's new laptop. While there are BSD files on the disk, we won't mention what OS he runs (it's definitely not Debian).

Thanks to everyone that attended and see you on the 26th.

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This month we met for the first time at OmniTI. Thank you to Jason, Devon and Theo S. for allowing us to meet at your office.

Devon gave an excellent talk about Plan 9: Plan Nizzle is tha Shizzle. At our next meeting, we'll take a vote as to whether we should rename CapBUG to CapP9UG and how to pronounce it.

Thank you to Dru Lavigne for posting CapBUG events to her Twitter Feed for BSD Events. We gained a new member to CapBUG and #metabug (freenode) from April's meeting announcement.

After the talk, we met at Victoria Gastro Pub where we enjoyed some good drinks and good food (mmmm.... duck fat fries!)

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