Capital Area BSD Users Group

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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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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As reported on The OpenBSD Journal, a Linux kernel developer removed the BSD License text from Reyk Floeter’s Atheros wireless driver.

As Theo de Raadt wrote in a comment to The OpenBSD Journal article:

The other files in the driver, written by Reyk, are the replacement for the HAL. This basically is the hidden register access code which Sam (basically employeed by Atheros) refused to release. This code was placed by Reyk under an ISC license, something our project prefers to use since it is so simple that even a grade 5 student cannot misunderstand what it says. It translates to “You can do anything, but not delete the text”.
Only Reyk could change that copyright notice, since he is the author.

At this time, Slashdot does not consider this news (even though a story has been submitted). This must be a too negative reflection of their beloved Linux.

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This month, we’ll meet at the Raba office in Columbia again at 6:30 PM ET. We are considering moving the meetings to PROTEUS in the future, but this month the meeting is at “the usual place”.

Johan will give a short talk on FreeBSD’s GEOM. Bret will stop being a straphanger and give a short talk about contributing code/diffs to OpenBSD. After the talks, if we have time and interest, I can possibly do a demo on starting a port.

After the talks, we’ll then head over to Nottingham’s or The Green Turtle for a couple beers.

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This month, we’ll meet at the Raba office in Columbia again at 6:30 PM ET. I will give a short talk on Yaifo. Barring anyone else having a topic to discuss, we’ll then head over to Nottingham’s for a couple beers.

Update: Prior to or following my Yaifo talk, Patrick will give a talk on OpenVPN.

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This month, we’re not having a meeting. We’re just going to meet at Nottingham’s in Columbia for Beer and BSD (stolen from PhxBUG) at 6:30 PM EDT (22:30 UTC).

Nottingham’s Address:
8850 Stanford Blvd, Suite 1100
Columbia, MD 21045

See you there!

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Our May CapBUG meeting will be May 29 at 6:30 PM (22:30 UTC).

This month, we’ll have Marcus Ranum give his talk on dumb ideas in computer security. From his website:

“Let me introduce you to the six dumbest ideas in computer security. What are they? They’re the anti-good ideas. They’re the braindamage that makes your $100,000 ASIC-based turbo-stateful packet-mulching firewall transparent to hackers. Where do anti-good ideas come from? They come from misguided attempts to do the impossible - which is another way of saying ‘trying to ignore reality.’ Frequently those misguided attempts are sincere efforts by well-meaning people or companies who just don’t fully understand the situation, but other times it’s just a bunch of savvy entrepreneurs with a well-marketed piece of junk they’re selling to make a fast buck. In either case, these dumb ideas are the fundamental reason(s) why all that money you spend on information security is going to be wasted, unless you somehow manage to avoid them.”

This meeting will also be broadcast as part of MetaBUG.

We will again hold this month’s meeting at Raba in Columbia, MD.

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