12 January 2010

09 February 2010

09 March 2010

13 April 2010

Topic: Instiki

Instiki is a simple, Ruby-based wiki that can be set up in a few minutes. It can be used as a public wiki, but it is also gaining popularity as a desktop wiki as a way to keep notes, etc. It provides a simple markup language for formatting. With the proper browser add-on, it can even display mathematical formulas.

11 May 2010

Topic: Using Free Software to Access Linux from Windows

Stephen Herr will talk about Linux in a Windows world: the use of Cygwin, VNC, and SSH to connect to Linux Servers.

08 June 2010

Topic: NoSQL Basics Using MongoDB

Rick Burton will talk about NoSQL databases and MongoDB

MongoDB, used by The New York Times, Joomla Ads, SourceForge, and many other companies, is a document-based, highly flexible, NoSQL database that presents a new conceptual model for data storage.

About Rick:

I'm Rick Burton, married, 5 kids, 3 2/3 grandkids, software engineer, amateur astronomer, and incurable geek. I've worked for ISPs, consulting companies, software developers (Lockheed Martin being the most well-known) and currently run Data Pathways along with my wife, Patti. I became a Linux enthusiast with Slackware 2.0 in the early 90s.

13 July 2010

Topic: Continuing NoSQL Operations Using MongoDB

Rick Burton will present a follow-on to last month's talk about NoSQL databases and MongoDB. This month, he'll be exploring document add/edit/delete, collections of documents, and searches with a bit of regular expressions tossed in.

MongoDB, used by The New York Times, Joomla Ads, SourceForge, and many other companies, is a document-based, highly flexible, NoSQL database that presents a new conceptual model for data storage.

About Rick:

I'm Rick Burton, married, 5 kids, 3 2/3 grandkids, software engineer, amateur astronomer, and incurable geek. I've worked for ISPs, consulting companies, software developers (Lockheed Martin being the most well-known) and currently run Data Pathways along with my wife, Patti. I became a Linux enthusiast with Slackware 2.0 in the early 90s.

10 August 2010

This month's topic is TrueCrypt. TrueCrypt runs on Linux, Macintosh and Windows and can be used to encrypt your partitions or virtual partitions (files that can be mounted as partitions). Keep the data on your thumb drives and SD chips secure.

14 September 2010

Topic: A decade in the life of a Linux/Unix System Administrator

Mark Henry will talk about various Linux topics including:

• Backup/restore technologies Bacula and Storix
• Open source cloning software Clonezilla
• OpenAFS on Linux and AIX
• Linux Certifications
• Virtualization with Xen
• Little bit of gentoo

Mark Henry has worked for InfoPrint Solutions, a Ricoh Company (formerly IBM Printing Systems) in Boulder for 10 years. As a software engineer with multiple Linux/Unix certifications he works supporting and securing systems in a development environment. Recent accomplishments include setting up distributed compiling on multiple gentoo systems and implementing FIFO in his sock drawer at home.

12 October 2010

Topic: Modern Perl with Chris Fedde

Or, what happened to Perl while you were sleeping

09 November 2010

Topic: VM shootout

14 December 2010

Topic:State of CLUE

Please come participate in a lively discussion about CLUE's direction for the coming year. What have we done this past year? What are we doing now? What should we do in the next year? Who will help us do it?

There are some things that we've not done as well as we could. There are some resources we have that we aren't using. There is some coordination needed to make a group like this successful.

You can help! Come and tell us what you like and what you don't. Come hear what others are saying. This is your chance to get involved and make your ideas happen!

Highlights:

• Web site face lift (can Drupal save the day?)
• The fate of VPSLink
• Finding the One True List (and selling the others on eBay)
• Will Hillary challenge the standing President?

This is a Free Meeting, just like we have Free Software and Free Lunch. There will be a meeting. All are welcome to partake. All are invited to contribute according to their means. Some will schedule, some will speak, some will record, some may bring refreshments, some may even bring cash. And many may just lurk. But there will be a meeting that you may use, modify, and redistribute it as you like.