July Meeting - mod_security and Intro to Amanda

July 29, 2008
6:30 pmto8:30 pm

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

Jason Dixon will be giving a presentation on the mod_security Apache module.

Afterwards, Dustin Mitchell will give an introduction to Amanda ‘mini-talk’.

Following the talks, we’ll have food and drinks at a local food/drink establishment.

Please RSVP to the list (or to me) if you are attending so I can have an approximate head count.

June Meeting - “Wiring Down” FreeBSD and tmux

June 26, 2008
6:30 pmto8:30 pm

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

This month, Patrick Thomasson will talk about “wiring down” devices in FreeBSD. After that, I’ll give a demonstration of a BSD-licensed screen-like tool called tmux.

Then, we’ll head over to a local watering hole for some beers and grub.

May Meeting - Bacula

May 27, 2008
6:30 pmto8:30 pm

This month we’ll be meeting on Tuesday, May 27, 6:30pm EST at Raba in Columbia, MD. Directions

I will be talking about and demonstrating Bacula.

Afterwards, we’ll congregate at a nearby water hole for food and drinks and wish a fond farewell to one of our CapBUG members from Day 1: blambert@.

April Meeting - ZFS and Dtrace

April 29, 2008
6:30 pmto8:30 pm

This month we’ll be meeting on Tuesday, April 29, 6:30pm EST at Raba in Columbia, MD. Directions

Theo Schlossnagle, CEO of OmniTI Computer Consulting, will give a talk on ZFS and Dtrace.  Both of these are available in FreeBSD, although many of the useful features are not integrated yet.  Theo will introduce both technologies and give practical examples (on OpenSolaris) for using them in engineering environments.

Todd Carson will also give a brief talk on how his diff became OpenBSD 4.2 Errata entry 008.

Afterwards, we’ll congregate at a nearby water hole for food and drinks, and to celebrate the release of OpenBSD 4.3!

March Meeting - From Diff to Errata & Configuration Versioning

March 25, 2008
6:30 pmto8:30 pm

This month, we’ll be meeting on Tuesday, March 25 at Raba in Columbia, MD.

Todd Carson will give a brief talk on how his diff became OpenBSD 4.2 Errata entry 008. Todd will talk about his Errata submission next month. I will talk about using CVS to store your configuration files.

As usual, we’ll grab a beer and food after the meeting at either Green Turtle, Nottingham’s or the Dog Pub.

February Meeting - SysAdmin Games

February 26, 2008
6:30 pmto8:30 pm

This month, we’ll be meeting on Tuesday, February 26 at Raba in Columbia, MD. Jason Dixon will be serving as BOFH for our first SysAdmin Games. As usual, we’ll grab a beer and food after the meeting at either Green Turtle, Nottingham’s or the Dog Pub.

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January Meeting - Screen Tricks & Imitating Windows Services

January 29, 2008
6:30 pmto8:30 pm

This meeting marks CapBUG’s 1 year anniversary. For this meeting, we’ll gather at my office in Columbia, MD again. To celebrate occasion, Patrick Thomasson will be bringing a special cake.

I will give a mini-talk about how I use GNU/screen, how I have it set up and how I use mutt and irssi. Following my talk, Johan Huldtgren will give a mini-talk about setting up a samba PDC/ file / print server.

The meeting audio will be broadcast (Slides will be linked here and URL for audio will be active during the talk). This should work fine for x11/vlc users (or systems with QuickTime support). A CapBUG representative will be available in #metabug on Freenode to field questions.

After the meeting, we’ll head over to The Dog Pub in Columbia for food and drinks.

November/December Meeting - Porting

December 18, 2007
6:30 pmto8:30 pm

We will hold our Nov/Dec combo meeting on Tuesday, December 18 at 6:30 at the Raba Office in Columbia, Maryland (the usual place). We’ll hit either The Green Turtle or Nottingham’s afterwards.

I will be giving a talk “Intro to Porting” mostly inspired by bernd@’s talk at OpenCON.

October Meeting - Beer & BSD

October 30, 2007
6:30 pmto8:30 pm

Due to unforeseen circumstances, we will not have a regular meeting this month and will just meet at Nottingham’s for “Beer & BSD”. We’ll eat food, drink beer, maybe play pool and talk about BSD, if it comes up.

See you there at 6:30 PM EDT.

September Meeting - Dying and ipsec

September 25, 2007
6:30 pmto8:30 pm

This month, we’ll meet at the PROTEUS headquarters in Annapolis Junction (near Columbia, MD) [map] at 6:30 PM ET.

Jason Dixon will give his entertaining, popular “BSD is Dying” talk. Then, we’ll break out our laptops and set up some ipsec tunnels with OpenBSD.

After the meeting, we’ll head over to the Courtyard Cafe at the Couryard Marriott for beers.