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Salt Lake Linux Users Group August meeting – 2011-09-21: Security – defeating typical firewalls

site admin — Fri, 16 Sep 2011 14:10:33 +0000

This month’s Salt Lake Linux Users Group meeting will be on Security and defeating typical firewalls. Ed Shirey will present on a mechanism for defeating a typical firewall, assuming both peers are behind firewalls and want to talk to each other with TCP/IP. For information about the technique and a summary of the technology, see [...]

SLLUG meeting December 8, 2010: Hands on intro to Git

site admin — Thu, 02 Dec 2010 18:28:48 +0000

December’s Salt Lake Linux Users Group meeting will be held one week earlier than usual on the 8th of December (the second Wednesday) to avoid conflict with many holiday plans later in the month. Amjith Ramanujam will be presenting on: Hands on intro to Git Getting Started with Git Basic operations (Some comparison to SVN) [...]

Salt Lake Linux Users Group Nov. 2010 meeting: Advanced Linux filesystem topics

marc — Mon, 15 Nov 2010 22:51:16 +0000

Hello everyone! NOTE: We will have PIZZA (served out in the hall) at this meeting sponsored by Nicole from TEK Systems. RSVP to the sllug-members mailing list if you will be attending so we will know how much pizza to order. Joseph Hall will present this month at the Salt Lake Linux Users Group on [...]

Mono 2.8 is out!

marc — Thu, 07 Oct 2010 15:31:12 +0000

Mono 2.8 has been release after over a month from the time we branched. Lots of bug fixes and tons of improvements have been made. Big thanks go out to the Mono team software engineers who fixed all the issues the QA team and community found. Some of the highlights of this release are: C# [...]

Most popular Technology related posts

marc — Wed, 05 May 2010 16:45:34 +0000

Looking over the stats for the last few years, it’s interesting to see what the most popular posts have been. Here’s the top 5: GMRS J-Pole Antenna Bash Scripting Tip: Running a script as root Bash Scripting Tip: processing filenames with spaces Bash scripting tip: Convert IP address to HEX 4×8 plywood sheet 1″ and [...]

Bash scripting tip: Convert IP address to HEX

marc — Thu, 05 Jul 2007 20:43:01 +0000

I was working on a project at work to make installation of SLES 10 servers easier in the lab that I work in. One of the features of SuSE products is to save the configuration of a machine into an XML config file that will be later used by AutoYast to clone the machine. This [...]

Bash Scripting Tip: Running a script as root

marc — Thu, 23 Feb 2006 19:12:17 +0000

When scripting admin type tools in bash, many times you need to run a script as root. A script sometimes requires mounting file systems, adding users, moving/editing/renaming files and some other things that the user executing the script may not have rights to do. In my case, I have written some bash scripts to help [...]

Bash Scripting Tip: processing filenames with spaces

marc — Fri, 23 Sep 2005 17:06:45 +0000

I can’t take credit for this. Stuart Jansen of Guru Labs referenced Tensai‘s brilliance (nice play on words Stuart. For thoes who don’t know, ‘tensai’ in Japanese means smart or brilliant). Tensai is one of the members of PLUG and is also on irc.freenode.net’s #utah most of the time. Tensai in turn blames Hans Fugal [...]