Capital Area BSD Users Group

CapBUG is hosting an OpenBSD 4.5 Release Party at Victoria Gastro Pub in Columbia, MD [map] on Thursday, May 14, 2009 at 6:30 PM EDT.

Please join us for a Lagunitas Undercover Investigation Shut-down Ale (or some other beverage).

Please RSVP either by replying on the mailing list (or email info@capbug.org if you are not subscribed).

This gathering is in addition to the not-yet-planned monthly meeting schedule for Tuesday, May 26.

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This month, we will be meeting on April 28 at 6:30 PM EDT at OmniTI’s Columbia Office ([Google Maps]).

NOTE THE CHANGE IN VENUE!

One of our new members, Devon O’Dell, will be giving an introduction to Plan 9. He will be showing off some of the basics:

(stuff about using rio, mouse chording, editing the terminal buffer, etc). It’d get into plumbing (e.g. RFC:1234 + middle click = you get to read RFC 1234), private namespaces (goodbye $PATH), and importing / exporting the network stack, which will be demonstrated to work both ways using different network stacks.

If time permits, I might get a bit into some of the differences between Plan 9’s implementation of C and its C library as well. (For instance, Plan 9 has polymorphism in structs, and a `typestr’ keyword which allows for operator overloading, among other things).

This sounds interesting. Thanks, Devon.

After the meeting, we’ll find a nearby place to grab some food and drink.

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This month we’ll be meeting on Tuesday, March 31, 6:30pm EDT at SRA/Raba in Columbia, MD (Suite 205).

We’ll discuss using BSD on the desktop (or laptop). Feel free to bring a machine for a demonstration. I will, of course, be demonstrating scrotwm on top of OpenBSD. Like you didn’t already know that.

After the meeting, we’ll head to a nearby watering hole for refreshments.

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Meeting Update
The Tuesday meeting (for Jan. 27) is postponed to Thursday!

Because of bad weather, we’re moving our meeting this month to Thursday, January 29, 6:30pm EST at SRA/Raba in Columbia, MD (Suite 205).

We will still be discussing final details about DC*BSDCon. If you can, please join us to talk about how you can help with the conference.

After, we’ll go out for beers at Frisco Burritos.

Stay warm.

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Update: This month we’ll be meeting on Thursday, January 29, 6:30pm EST at SRA/Raba in Columbia, MD (Suite 205).

Assuming we’re not all snowed in, we’ll be meeting to discuss final details about DC*BSDCon. If you can, please join us to talk about how you can help with the conference.

After, Jason will take all of us out for beers at Frisco Burritos. That, or you have to pay your own way. It depends on if you’re hallucinating or not.

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This month we’ll be meeting on Tuesday, December 16, 6:30pm EST at SRA/Raba in Columbia, MD (Suite 205). Note: this is a change from our normal “last Tuesday of the month” to accommodate the holidays. We should get back to normal in January.

Patrick Thomasson will give a presentation about using RADIUS for authenticating wireless connections. I will bring in my landisk that Maki helped me connect a serial port to and give a demo of it.

Then, we’ll head across the street for some food and drinks. Hope to see you there.

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This month we’ll be meeting on Tuesday, November 18, 6:30pm EST at SRA/Raba in Columbia, MD (Suite 205). Note: this is a change from our normal “last Tuesday of the month” to accommodate the holidays.

We will have a sort of general discussion about PostgreSQL including its license (BSD!), some best practices and possibly some demonstrations.

Starting this month, we’re going to add a new “monthly agenda item” to the meetings. Patrick Thomasson suggested that we encourage our meeting participants to share a small “admin trick” each month. Many of us learn so much from the simple little things others do each day. I think this is a great idea. So, during each month prior to the meeting, if you do something cool in your work, make a note of it and share it with us at the next meeting! Patrick says he already has some to share with us on the 18th.

There will also be updates about DCBSDCon.

After the meeting, we’ll convene for food and drinks at a local establishment.

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This month we’ll be meeting on Tuesday, October 28, 6:30pm EST at SRA/Raba in Columbia, MD (Suite 205).

We will have a sort of round table discussion about SysAdmin best practices, tools and tricks.

After the meeting, we’ll convene for food and drinks at a local establishment.

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

Jason Dixon will be talking about “Network accounting and stuff” and I will do a brief demo of using VNC and SSH to provide remote technical assistance.

After the meeting, we’ll convene for food and drinks at a local establishment.

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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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