Our feature presentation for the Thursday,
Jan. 20, 2011, 7:30pm ALE Central Meeting
might be best introduced with the wistful
words of a wise Walrus…
“The time has come,” the Walrus said,
“To talk of many things:
Of shoes–and ships–and sealing-wax–
Of cabbages–and kings–
And why the sea is boiling hot–
And whether pigs have wings.”
— The Walrus and the Carpenter — Lewis Carol —
… because the time has come for
“A Timely Introduction to IPV6”
presented by Michael Warfield
*** Video of this presentation is now available for download or streaming
as file name “Brave_New_World_of_IPv6-Warfield20110121ale.mp4″ at:
– http://arxion.net/ale/
– http://patshead.com/ale/
– http://questy.org/ale/
File is ~234MB, h.264 encoded in an mp4 wrapper. Torrent files and
MD5 check sums are at the URL’s as well.
Presentation slides in are available here:
http://www.wittsend.com/mhw/2011/IPv6-BNW-ALE-2011.pdf
***
Synopsis:
— Yes, indeed, the time has come. The time has come and has run
out and the Internet version of Y2K is upon us. With over a decade of
warnings that it was coming, we have finally run out of of the 32 bit
version 4 Internet addresses and the last are being assigned out.
There are no more. And, with mobile devices and a plethera of
embedded devices, we are demanding and consuming Internet
addresses at an accelerating rate. More and more draconian ideas
on the horizon have come to light for keeping IPv4 beating on life
support for a few more years. The time has come.
— One recent author likened this current situation with IPv4 to be like
a huge company that has run out of bottled water in their store room
and distributed the last of their stock to the water coolers. Everyone
still gets a drink, for a while, but the water coolers will soon begin to
run out. But, it’s really more complicated than that. IPv6 is like the
newer bottles and a fresh supply, but the bottles are bigger and people
are complaining that they’re not sure the bottles will fit their coolers
and asking if they have to replace them and not wanting to change
and how do they deal with these bottles that are a different shape
and size and color. And as their coolers run dry, they’re eyeing their
neighbors cooler… And the alternative choices for what they had,
that they “just know” will still fit their cooler, and are “just as good”
(according to what they are told) in reality taste nasty. The time
HAS come.
— IPv6 has been with us and universally available for many many years
for those who want to explore it and play with it. This introduction will
examine the current state of the art and prepare the listeners to go
home this very night and be on line on the global IPv6 network before
their heads hit the pillows. It’s time to make that shift and make that
change and put it behind us. Time to move beyond this Y2K problem
once and for all. The time has come.
Bio:
— Michael Warfield is a Senior Researcher and Analyst for the X-Force
Managed Security Services of IBM Internet Security Systems.
— With computer security experience dating back to the early 1970s and
Unix experience dating back to the early 1980s, Mike is responsible for
doing research into security vulnerabilities and intrusion protection
techniques for IBM-ISS X-Force.
— Prior to joining ISS, now IBM-ISS, Mike has held positions such as, a
Unix systems engineer, Unix consultant, security consultant and network
administrator on the Internet. He is one of the resident Unix gurus at
the Atlanta UNIX Users Group and is one of the founding members of the
Atlanta Linux Enthusiasts. He is also an active member of the Samba
development team and is a contributor to the Linux Kernel and numerous
Open Source Software projects. Mike has published articles on both
Samba and on Security and is a respected cryptographer in the Open
Source community.
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ALE NW / SPSU Interactive Skype-Cast Details:
We will also be broadcasting the Emory meeting audio and
screen casting the presentation slides in sync to the SPSU
campus via an attended (moderated) Skype call. The SPSU
classroom venue will be showing the presentation with a
video data projector and appropriately amplified audio.
A live mic will also be available so that SPSU / ALE NW
attendees can relay questions via the Emory moderator.
The SPSU meeting has been organized by Joshua
Roberts and (faculty sponsor) Orlando Karam and will
be held in Room J 381 of the “Atrium” building (the “J”
building) on the SPSU campus. The campus map
can be found here:
Best parking is in the large lot at the south end of
campus next to the baseball diamond and the “L”
and “O” buildings. Try not to park in reserved
spaces, though I’ve been told that parking restrictions
are not currently being enforced in the evenings.
It was also recommended that you arrive on the
campus a little early and allow time to navigate
the road and building construction detours.
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Our meeting time frame is 7:30pm to ~9:30pm
Directions to Emory Law School can be found
HERE (or via the side bar link).
With apologies…
Our regular Central Meeting venue wasn’t available for
December 16th, thus our December meeting took the
form of the “Solstice Social” held December 4th.
We’re back on our regular schedule starting January 20th
when we’ll have a presentation on IPV6 with Michael Warfield.
One that is not to be missed! Full details coming soon!
‘Tis the season where our regular Emory Law School venue is
commandeered by students taking finals, thus providing our
group with a great excuse to get out of our “shells” and party…
Announcing the third annual
ALE SOLSTICE SOCIAL
a Family Friendly celebration taking place
7:00pm to 11:00pm on
Saturday, December 4th, 2010
Our event is being hosted by Geoffrey Myers at the
Chestnut Hill Community Clubhouse
5184 Lupine Ln NW
Acworth, GA 30102-6940
(near i75 at i575 in Cherokee county).
This is a BRING YOUR OWN WHATEVER event,
so all contributions of beverages and munchies for
yourself or for the sharing will be most welcome.
Note that the facility has a large gas grill that will
be fired up and available to satisfy the cooking needs
of both carnivores and fans of charred veggies.
Also, as a followup to November’s ALE Central
presentation on Classic Computing with David
Greelish, the evening will feature an
ANTIQUE TEQUENOLOGY SMACK DOWN!
Party goers are encouraged to bring along the
most obscure and antiquated systems, peripherals
and gadgets they can dig out of their piles of
old school techno-junk for a little “Stump the
Graybeards” show and tell contest of
“What the heck IS that thing, anyway?”
The three owners of the items judged most unique by
the crowd will win a KURO BOX PRO Linux NAS
(or whatever you want) box, courtesy of David Hamm.
RSVP helpful but not required. Also, help
with setup at 6pm, cleanup at 11pm, as well
as donations of $5 to $10 toward the $70 venue
rental will all be greatly appreciated. Please
email Geoffrey Myers to RSVP or volunteer
to assist with setup or cleanup.
Our Featured Presentation at the ALE Central meeting
for Thursday, Oct. 21, 2010 at 7:30pm will be
Practical Server Security Management with SELinux
as presented by rabid Linux fanboy and security guru,
James Kinney
Synopsis:
— Running a Linux server with SELinux in enforcing targeted
mode is quite daunting for many, if not most sysadmins.
SELinux really needs to be a part of the toolkit used to
address security issues, but a toolkit that admins will use
and not just turn off by default. Over the course of a 1+
hour seminar, we will demonstrate various tools, both gui
and command line, and consider the analysis process for
resolving SELinux “Access Denied” problems on servers
running in “Enforcing Targeted” mode. If time permits, a
brief look at the concepts of higher security methods like
MCS and MLS will also be covered.
(Full Frontal) Bio:
— James (Jim) Kinney became an over-zealous GNU Linux
fanboy the first time he saw a discarded Next Cube running
Slackware in 1992. Several thousand installs later his
enthusiasm has escalated to “rabidly over-zealous Linux
fanboy advocating for the total world domination process
to speed up!” He is actively involved in helping this process
by promoting that “fdisk solves all windows problems
universally” and that “apple is one byte shy of a whole fruit”.
— In the 18 years since his introduction to Linux goodness,
James has turned an obsession into a living. First at Emory
University where he converted a Mac lab to Linux (and
ultimately used the same lab machines for a proto-type
Beowulf cluster in nice +5 mode so the students wouldn’t
notice) and helped co-found LUGE (Linux Users Group of
Emory). Next followed a 10+ year stint as a Linux
consultant (note to self: windows consultants make money
because things break all the time; Linux consultants only
make money setting things up so they never hear from
the client again until the next time they want a new
machine) with a few notable projects like making Linux
systems run thin clients in schools despite the technical
obstacles and political chaffing, a stint at “We’re not evil,
We just archive EVERYTHING FOREVER” Google, an
appearance at a travel booking company, and a ride with
“we wanna be just like Comcast” Cox Communications,
which all led Jim to realize that he really likes craft and
Belgian beer and Linux security systems (and Linux
fanboy activities like trash-talking other OS wannabes
from Redmond and Cupertino).
— Currently at GTRI, Jim works with some really bright
people who are actively involved in extending SELinux
policy to protect all aspects of critical path communications.
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We will be meeting in our usual Gambrel Hall room 1C venue.
Meeting time frame is 7:30pm to ~9:30pm
Directions to Emory Law School can be found
HERE (or via the side bar link).
The highlight presentation at the ALE Central Meeting
for 7:30pm on Thursday, Sept. 16th, 2010 will be:
“The Joy of Sox:
a tour of command-line sound processing”
as presented by the very soxy and alluring Charles Shapiro
Synopsis:
— This short talk will include some rather silly sox stunts, an
explanation of the sox command line with plenty of runnable examples,
and a show-off of my very own simple but effective batch-mode
vinyl/cassette album processor, done in bash(1), sox(1), and lame(1).
bio:
— Charles Shapiro is a fan of fencing, gadgetry, juggling, gizmos,
beer brewing, obscure weaponry, radio control (in all it’s connotations),
and most anything else the that lesser world might consider “geek”.
Consistent to these avocations he has been a professional programmer
for over 14 years, specializing in C and Unix with a couple years of
C++, Perl and a plethora of Python in the mix. He can type faster than
most people can talk, is a Linux Lunacy Cruise alumnae, a liberty
minded friend of the EFF, an officially sanctioned Richard Stallman
impersonator for the FSF, and a seriously committed GNU Linux
zealot since 1996.
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We will be meeting at Emory Law School in our
usual Gambrel Hall, room 1C venue.
Meeting time frame is 7:30pm to ~9:30pm
Directions to Emory Law School can be found
[here]