June 2011 - Roundtable

MUUG Meeting, June 14, 7:30pm -- Practical Security
by gedetil＠cs.umanitoba.ca 07 Jun '11

07 Jun '11

The Manitoba UNIX User Group (MUUG) will be holding its next monthly meeting on Tuesday, June 14. The meeting topic for this month is as follows: Practical Security For our last meeting of the season, Sean Cody will be speaking on Practical Security. The term "security" is thrown around quite readily and its meaning has been diluted to being a product adjective as opposed to a process or mind set. This presentation will go over the basic theory of computer security and will attempt to equip you with the knowledge to properly evaluate computer security, products and mitigation strategies. Before the break, Michael Doob will present an RTFM topic on using top(1) to browse and manage running processes. The group holds its general 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 meeting location: The IBM offices, at 400 Ellice Ave. (between Edmonton and Kennedy). When you arrive, you will have to sign in at the reception desk, and then wait for someone to take you (in groups) to the meeting room. Please try to arrive by about 7:15pm, so the meeting can start promptly at 7:30pm. Don't be late, or you may not get in. (But don't come too early either, since security may not be there to let you in before 7:15 or so.) Non-members may be required to show photo ID at the security desk. Limited parking is available for free on the street, either on Ellice Ave. or on some of the intersecting streets. Indoor parking is also available nearby, at Portage Place, for $5.00 for the evening. Bicycle parking is available in a bike rack under video surveillance located behind the building on Webb Place. ********************************************************************** For more information about MUUG, and its monthly meetings, check out their Web server: http://www.muug.mb.ca/ Help us promote this month's meeting, by putting this poster up on your workplace bulletin board or other suitable public message board: http://www.muug.mb.ca/meetings/MUUGmeeting.pdf -- Gilbert E. Detillieux E-mail: <gedetil(a)muug.mb.ca> Manitoba UNIX User Group Web: http://www.muug.mb.ca/ PO Box 130 St-Boniface Phone: (204)474-8161 Winnipeg MB CANADA R2H 3B4 Fax: (204)474-7609

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Linux training
by Montana Quiring 06 Jun '11

06 Jun '11

Hello, This year I would like to put some processional development energy into some Linux course(s) among other things. Are there any good (relevant, current, and uptodate) Linux server courses on-line or in Winnipeg that anyone would recommend? Some topics would probably be intermediate to advanced server admin, server security/hardening, Apache, etc. Regards, -Montana Quiring CTO of QMTS http://qmts.ca

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Re: [RndTbl] AGP video card.
by Adam Thompson 04 Jun '11

04 Jun '11

The cards in question are actually PCIe cards with a PCIe-to-AGP bridge. I don't believe there were any "native" AGP chipsets with HDMI-out. -Adam Trevor Cordes <trevor(a)tecnopolis.ca> wrote: >On 2011-05-24 Kevin McGregor wrote: >> They made AGP video cards with HDMI out? > >Yes, I just checked and I did sell some HD3450 AGP's with DVI+HDMI (no >adapter). So they do exist. Just my suppliers seem to have dropped >the HDMI ones :-( >_______________________________________________ >Roundtable mailing list >Roundtable(a)muug.mb.ca >http://www.muug.mb.ca/mailman/listinfo/roundtable >

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AGP video card.
by Sean Cody 04 Jun '11

04 Jun '11

I am in need of a decent AGP Video card with DVO for my brother to connect his T-Bird Shuttle PC to his LCD TV. I had purged my collection of legacy gear earlier this year and the cards I have left are fried. I don't need new, just AGP and DVI with basic GPU acceleration (he just watches video at 720p,via DVI->HDMI adapter). If it works/supported with Linspire all the better. -- Sean (mobile)

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burning large files
by Trevor Cordes 04 Jun '11

04 Jun '11

I need to burn a 5GB+ data file to DVD-DL, using command line tools in linux. Obviously burning small (sub 2 or 4GB) files to DVD is easy using mkiso and cdrecord, or whatever. Now I need to burn a large file and I'm discovering it's not so easy. It turns out there's a file size limit for ISO9660 of 4GB. Doing a bit of research, it looks like you must burn UDF format instead of ISO, but the UDF burning utilities on linux are limited. mkisofs has options -udf and -allow-limited-size which may solve my problem, though the "alpha" labelling of it doesn't inspire confidence. My other issue is I need to know exactly how much usable (non-FS) data space I get out of a DVD-DL. That number is well known down to the byte level for ISO9660 on DVD (single layer). I'm having a really hard time finding hard numbers for DVD-DL and UDF overhead. One would assume you get DVD-SL x 2 raw space. And one could probably guess at some reasonable overhead for UDF. Still, hard numbers will help me avoid coastering a multi-$$ DVD-DL blank. Hopefully someone has some experience with this? Thanks!

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GPG key signing or CACert assurance
by Ken Walker 01 Jun '11

01 Jun '11

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