VLUG is Victoria Linux User Group. I went to their monthly meeting last night (2nd Tuesday of every month), and the topic was “mini presentations”. It was an enjoyable evening with great presentations. If you are curious to passionate about Linux or open source this is a great community to participate in. It is free and welcoming to all members of the public.
The mini presentations were:
- Boot remotely / wake on Lan by Brent Sirna
- sshfs also by Brent Sirna
- Wireshark (Ethereal) not by Clark Brunsdon
- First experience with Python (vs C++) (for Spoken Webfeeds) by Anthony Howe
There were about 20 people and two penguins there, which I think is down from ~30 the meetings I attended a couple of years ago. Many community members do
not go to meetings, and participate mostly on the mailing list. I took a few photos, but my camara battery was low on juice.
My Notes
Boot remotely:
ethtool
http://www.codeproject.com/useritems/WOL.asp
http://forums.gentoo.org/viewtopic-t-460044.html
sshfs:
add user to the appropriate group
http://www.linuxjournal.com/article/8904
wireshark:
Always use https not http for any of your personal activity on the Web.
Capture all network packets in “promiscuous mode” (ethernet), (wireless need “monitor mode”, many cards do not have this feature, ~50%). Will not be able to send and receive traffic.
(A lot of security adviseries against it because it supports all these network protocols)
runs on libpcap (gtk2 for UI)
Two types of rules: capture rules: filter on capture and display rules: filter on display
(ethercap)
Python, spoken Webfeeds
http://www.vanpyz.org/conference/2006/proceedings/uRkIOa/PythonTelephony.ppt
produced in 5 weeks, test the waters early, C++ would take at least 3 months
Universal Feed Parser from http://feedparser.org
prop. text-to-audio library used and even it is quite primative
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