The feature presentation for our ALE Central Meeting
at 7:30pm on Thursday, Jan. 17, 2013 will be:
“Virtualization Management For The PHB
Using Pretty Screens With Pointy Clicky Interfaces”
with Jim Kinney
Synopsis:
— Jim will go over some nice features of two systems, ovirt
and cloudmin, and demonstrate how they can be used for
both simple and enterprise-scale virtualization management.
Short-failings of each will also be moaned over.
Bio:
–- James (Jim) Kinney became a zealous fan of Linux and
Liberated Open Source Software the first time he saw a
discarded Next Cube running Slackware in 1992. In the
20 years since his introduction to Linux & FLOSS goodness,
James transformed his obsession into a career. First at Emory
University where he taught physics, converted their computer
lab to Linux and helped co-found LUGE, the Linux Users Group
of Emory. Next followed a 10+ year stint as an entrepreneur
Linux & Open Source consultant. Notable projects included
the installation of 40+ Linux servers running 2000+ student
stations in Atlanta public schools, server upgrade work at
Google, systems integration for a travel booking company,
and consulting for Cox Communications
– Currently Jim works with the Internet Security Systems
group of IBM along side some [other] really bright people
who are actively involved in protecting all aspects of
critical path communications (despite any MicroSoft
products in the pavement).
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The meeting will be held at Emory Law School in our
usual Gambrel Hall, room 1C venue.
Our meeting time frame is 7:30pm to ~9:30pm
Directions to Emory Law School can be found at
http://ale.org/?page_id=2
NOTE: Due to student activities at the Emory
venue, our December ALE CENTRAL Meeting is
being merged into the ALE-NW@SPSU meeting in
the form of a GPG/PGP Key Signing party with a
bit of post party solstice socializing at the
Marietta Diner.
ALE GPG/PGP Keysigning Party
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7:30pm to ~9:15pm
SPSU Campus, Atrium “J” Bldg. rm J266,
on Thursday, December 13TH.
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organized and presented by Jeremy Bouse
with special introduction by Michael Warfield
(directions link and parking notes below)
Synopsis:
— For those who participate, the key signing party serves to confirm
the identity of other PGP Key users by connecting them to a “key ring”
and including them in the “web of trust” needed to validate their keys,
signatures and identities in the wider world.
— Internationally recognized I.T. cryptography and security expert
Michael Warfield will present a brief GPG/PGP introduction, with our
ardent GPG enthusiast, keymaster Jeremy “Clortho” Bouse, directing
the key signing process.
— Participation in the key signing requires advanced preparations,
including generating and verifying any new keys you want to have
signed and then registering ALL keys you want to be signed with
the official event Keyring that is set up on the Biglumber Key server:
http://biglumber.com/x/web?keyring=2952
— The deadline for uploading your key to the Keyring is midnight,
(12:00am) on Tuesday, December 11, 2012.
— Detailed instructions, including “How To” info with shell command
line examples and background information on the process can be
found at these links:
http://ale.org/static_pages/keysign_party_121213.html
http://ale.org//static_pages/gpgstepbystep-111208.html
— The final step on the day of the signing party will be to download and
print out Jeremy’s final key ring text file (which will NOT be labeled “DRAFT”)
from http://undergrid.net/ale12/ksp-ale12.txt and then
fill in the checksum information for all of the keys you have
placed in the ring to confirm their authenticity.
If you still have questions or need clarifications AFTER reviewing all of
the instructions above, you can email Jeremy via jbouse[AT]debian.org.
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ADDITIONAL PGP / GPG INFORMATION ON VIDEO:
— For those unfamiliar with PGP or interested in learning more about the
GnuPG implentation of PGP cryptography and the value of protecting your
privacy and your identity with PGP signatures, we suggest you review our
video of David Tomaschik’s March 2011 presesntation on the topic,
“Protecting Privacy, Identity & Systems with GnuPGâ€
This is available for download or streaming under the file name
“ale-20110317-gpg-tomaschik.mp4” at these URL’s:
http://arxion.net/ale/ and http://patshead.com/ale/
A torrent is also available at
https: //s3.amazonaws.com/datalore/ale-20110317-gpg-tomaschik.mp4?torrent
The video file is ~443MB as h.264 encode in an mp4 wrapper.
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DIRECTIONS
Southern Polytechnic State University
Room J266 of the Atrium (J) building
Campus map and a link to directions please see
http://www.spsu.edu/visitspsu/campusmaps/index.htm
Parking in non reserved spaces in the P60 deck is best.
building J, the Atrium building, is a short distance east
of the parking deck.
Our Featured Presentation for the
Thursday, Nov. 15th , 7:30pm
ALE Central meeting will be
Reduction in a Land of
VMs and Small Devices
presented by
Brian MacLeod
Synopsis:
— Files everywhere, multiple computers in rooms, and a network that keeps
falling behind the times. Sounds like your workplace, right? For many
of us, this also describes our home.
— This maddening mix led to a reformulation of my digital home life that
scraps old servers and desktops for Virtual Machines and network “appliance”
devices to restore sanity, reduce power consumption, and improve reliability.
Armed with a little common sense and tools from the Linux sysadmin world,
engineering a better solution comes into reach.
:: Tools mentioned: NFS, Ansible, CFengine, SSH, OpenVPN
:: Tech level: beginner, overview
Bio:
— Brian MacLeod is a Systems Engineer with PACE at Georgia Tech, working
on OS management, storage, and backup infrastructure for researchers
to use in their computing needs.
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The meeting will be held at Emory Law School in our
usual Gambrel Hall, room 1C venue.
Our meeting time frame is 7:30pm to ~9:20pm
Directions to Emory Law School can be found at
http://ale.org/?page_id=2
The ALE CENTRAL meeting for Thursday, Oct. 18th,
2012 at 7:30pm in Emory Gambrel Hall room 1C will be a reprise
of last weeks ALE-NW presentation:
Securing a Debian Box to NISPOM Standard
presented by Jonathan Meek
Abstract:
In order for any computer system to hold classified data on a U.S. Government
system, it must be certified by the Defense Security System (DSS) which requires
the computer system to align to the National Industrial Security Program
Operation Manual (NISPOM) standards. By default, Red Hat Linux is the default
Linux operating system of choice by DSS and others are typically not passed. So
what does one do when a system is based on Debian and needs to meet NISPOM
standards? In this presentation, it will be shown the steps needed to meet
NISPOM standards on a Debian system.
Speaker Bio:
Jonathan Meek is a Research Scientist for Georgia Tech Research Institute, doing
work in the Quality Assurance Department of the Electronic Systems Lab. He holds
a bachelors degree in computer science and is currently working on his masters.
He started working with Linux in 2006 at the suggestion of one of his
professors. Previous to his work at Georgia Tech Research, he worked at King &
Spalding LLP on the IT Support team. His hobbies include running, writing, movie
trivia, and teaching the Computer merit badge to Boy Scouts. He holds
memberships with the National Eagle Scout Association, Association of Computer
Machinery and Pi Kappa Phi Fraternity.
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The meeting will be held at Emory Law School in our
usual Gambrel Hall, room 1C venue.
Our meeting time frame is 7:30pm to ~9:20pm
Directions to Emory Law School can be found at
http://ale.org/?page_id=2
The featured presentation for our ALE CENTRAL
meeting on Thursday, Sept. 20th, 2012 at 7:30pm will be
a reprise of Orlando Karam’s excellent presentation from
ALE-NW in August:
Linux on ARM and the Raspberry Pi
Abstract:
— ARM is a family of computer architectures, different from x86,
and characterized for its low cost and low power consumption.
Many cell-phones and tablets run on ARM, and now there are many
low-cost low-power servers running on ARM. We will discuss some
of the available hardware and the status of the software, with a
special focus on the Raspberry-Pi, a $35 computer system designed
with a focus on education, but useful on many domains.
Bio:
— Orlando Karam was born in the US but grew up in Mexico. He got
hooked up on Unix while a grad student at Tulane University, and
has been running Linux on servers and laptops for more than 15 years.
He teaches computer science at Southern Polytechnic State University,
and has been exploring the potentials of his raspberry pi since it was
delivered to him about 10 weeks ago.
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The meeting will be held at Emory Law School in our
usual Gambrel Hall, room 1C venue.
Our meeting time frame is 7:30pm to ~9:20pm
Directions to Emory Law School can be found at
http://ale.org/?page_id=2