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First AWS user group meeting - December 17, 6PM, St. Boniface Library
by Mark Campbell 15 Nov '18

15 Nov '18

Hey MUUG users, long time admirer here. Myself and Mike Himbeault from the City of Winnipeg are creating a AWS user group after some discussions after The Long Con and our first free(!), free pizza(!) event is *December 17th * at* 6PM *at the *St. Boniface Library*. You can register, see the talk details, and see the schedule at the eventbrite : https://www.eventbrite.ca/e/winnipeg-aws-user-group-december-meetup-tickets… We're doing two talks: S3 + CloudFront for static web content and exploring Elastic Beanstalk. Afterwards we're heading to a nearby pub for further discussion. Should be a fun time! There's going to be some veteran AWS users there who love to talk shop and did .I mention that there will be free pizza? I hope to see a few of you out there! -Mark Campbell

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Presentation slides available
by Gilbert E. Detillieux 14 Nov '18

14 Nov '18

For those of you interested in my presentation last night on setting up a captive portal, I've made my slides available on the MUUG web site... https://muug.ca/meetings/18-19.html#nov There are web links on the slides to all the sources I used as I was learning how to set this up, which may be helpful to you. Share and enjoy! Gilbert -- Manitoba UNIX User Group E-mail: <gedetil(a)muug.ca> c/o Gilbert E. Detillieux Web: http://muug.ca/ University of Manitoba Phone: (204)474-8161 Winnipeg MB CANADA R3T 2N2 Fax: (204)474-7609

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Person looking for guest lecturer for a class of enthusiastic UofW Network Security Students
by Bradford C. Vokey 13 Nov '18

13 Nov '18

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Job opportunity on my team.
by Sean Cody 13 Nov '18

13 Nov '18

Hey there, we're looking to find more folks for our team. Specifically security focused 'infrastructure specialists' to build and deploy security services at 'enterprise' scale. We are growing the practice as well as tackling some very unique challenges so this is a great time to try something different or suffer my presence on a more frequent basis. This kind of thing doesn't come up often and we'd very much like to get the word out there for local folks (security talent isn't just limited to Toronto and Vancouver). As a technical lead in this role, I'd be happy to field any questions and if you'd like to hear more about the role please get in touch. https://gwlcareers-greatwestlife.icims.com/jobs/16036/senior-security-engin… https://www.linkedin.com/feed/update/urn:li:activity:6467883747298598912 Please forward this along to anyone you think would be interested, despite my graylisting (consider it a test) I definitely would like to hear from you! -- Sean P.S. X-Posting to Skullspace as well...

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MUUG Meeting, Nov 13, 7:30pm -- Captive Portal, RTFM: date
by Gilbert E. Detillieux 06 Nov '18

06 Nov '18

The Manitoba UNIX User Group (MUUG) will be holding its next monthly meeting on Tuesday, November 13. The meeting topic for this month is as follows: Build an IP Captive Portal from Scratch (For Fun and Education, but Not for Profit) Love 'em or hate 'em, captive portals are widely used to restrict Internet access to authorized users. What if you need to set one up, but all the "canned" solutions aren't quite right for your use case? This presentation by Gilbert Detillieux will show you the various components that make up a captive portal, and how you can set one up from scratch, using Linux Netfilter/iptables, the Apache web server, ISC DHCPD and BIND, and some custom back-end scripting. RTFM: date The lowly date(1) command has been a fixture of UNIX systems from the very early days. Yet there may be features in this command that would surprise you. Adam Thompson will present this RTFM. The group holds its meetings at 7:30pm on the second Tuesday of every month from September to June. (There are no meetings in July and August.) Meetings are open to the general public; you don't have to be a MUUG member to attend. ******************************************************************* Please note our new meeting location for this month: *Room 1M28* Manitoba Hall, University of Winnipeg, entrance on Ellice Ave. between Spence and Balmoral St. Parking is available on the surrounding streets and in the lots on nearby streets. Look for signage once you're at the building, or ask a security guard. ******************************************************************* For more information about MUUG, and its monthly meetings, check out their web server: https://muug.ca/ Help us promote this month's meeting, by putting this poster up on your workplace bulletin board or other suitable public message board: https://muug.ca/meetings/MUUGmeeting.pdf -- Manitoba UNIX User Group E-mail: <gedetil(a)muug.ca> c/o Gilbert E. Detillieux Web: http://muug.ca/ University of Manitoba Phone: (204)474-8161 Winnipeg MB CANADA R3T 2N2 Fax: (204)474-7609

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No Starch discount until Friday
by Kat 31 Oct '18

31 Oct '18

No Starch Press (@nostarch) tweeted at 0:03 PM on Wed, Oct 31, 2018: Happy Halloween! Treat yourself with 40% off all books (including ebooks) today through Friday, November 2nd with code TRICKORTREAT40 at checkout. https://t.co/DwLB1MOSE4 https://t.co/tQmRSPXlSF (https://twitter.com/nostarch/status/1057679566385295360?s=03) Get the official Twitter app at https://twitter.com/download?s=13

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IBM to buy RedHat
by Hartmut W Sager 30 Oct '18

30 Oct '18

IBM to buy RedHat for $34 billion. Comments? (I anticipate an avalanche of comments.) Hartmut W Sager - Tel +1-204-339-8331

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setting up RAID 1 with mdadm
by Gilles Detillieux 18 Oct '18

18 Oct '18

Circumstances finally forced me to bite the bullet and learn something I had been putting off for too long: setting up a RAID array under Linux. I'm almost embarrassed, now that I've done it, that I waited so long because it was way simpler than I'd imagined. I thought I'd have to figure out all kinds of magic with LVM, parted, and mdadm, but I found this tutorial that showed a simple set of mdadm commands to set up RAID 1: https://www.digitalocean.com/community/tutorials/how-to-create-raid-arrays-… This was actually one of the simplest scenarios: the system had an SSD for the root/boot partition, and two 2 TB hard drives for data storage (/dev/sdb & sdc), so I just needed to set up RAID 1 and not worry about the intricacies of booting from RAID. So, software RAID seemed like the quick & easy way to go with a minimum of fuss. Now the nagging question: is it really this simple, or does the tutorial above oversimplify and omit some important steps? Can someone with ample RAID and mdadm experience advise or provide tips on anything else I should do or lookout for? Thanks, Gilles -- Gilles R. Detillieux E-mail: <grdetil(a)scrc.umanitoba.ca> Spinal Cord Research Centre WWW: http://www.scrc.umanitoba.ca/ Dept. of Physiology and Pathophysiology, Rady Faculty of Health Sciences, Univ. of Manitoba Winnipeg, MB R3E 0J9 (Canada)

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MUUG Meeting, Oct 9, 7:30pm -- Reproducible Builds, RTFM: netcat
by Gilbert E. Detillieux 02 Oct '18

02 Oct '18

The Manitoba UNIX User Group (MUUG) will be holding its next monthly meeting on Tuesday, October 9. The meeting topic for this month is as follows: Reproducible Builds Many of us run some amount of Free and/or Open Source Software, but how can we ever be sure that what we're actually running was built from the allegedly published source code? Whilst not a complete security solution in and of itself, find out how this project helps influence and improve security and development as part of a wider set of policies. Presented by Muz. RTFM: netcat, with Wyatt Zacharias A look into a computer networking utility for reading from and writing to network connections using TCP/IP protocol, designed to be a reliable "back-end" tool that can be used directly or easily driven by other programs and scripts. The group holds its meetings at 7:30pm on the second Tuesday of every month from September to June. (There are no meetings in July and August.) Meetings are open to the general public; you don't have to be a MUUG member to attend. ******************************************************************* Please note our new meeting location for this month: *Room 1M28* Manitoba Hall, University of Winnipeg, entrance on Ellice Ave. between Spence and Balmoral St. Parking is available on the surrounding streets and in the lots on nearby streets. Look for signage once you're at the building, or ask a security guard. ******************************************************************* For more information about MUUG, and its monthly meetings, check out their web server: https://muug.ca/ Help us promote this month's meeting, by putting this poster up on your workplace bulletin board or other suitable public message board: https://muug.ca/meetings/MUUGmeeting.pdf -- Manitoba UNIX User Group E-mail: <gedetil(a)muug.ca> c/o Gilbert E. Detillieux Web: http://muug.ca/ University of Manitoba Phone: (204)474-8161 Winnipeg MB CANADA R3T 2N2 Fax: (204)474-7609

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GPS rollover event coming up - are your NTP servers ready?
by Adam Thompson 19 Sep '18

19 Sep '18

So I just became aware of this… https://spectracom.com/resources/blog/lisa-perdue/2018/gps-2019-week-rollov… � Bottom line: on April 6th, 2019, your GPS receiver might start spitting out the wrong time. It’s a Y2K-style problem, the article describes the details. Make sure your firmware is updated and will handle this even properly, and/or your NTP software will correctly compensate for the crazy time the GPS receiver will start spitting out. � -Adam

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