Note that these dates and times are tentative to change. Crossed out events have already happened.

• Intro to Unix - Thursday 9/25 14-301 @ 7pm
  
• Free Your Machine - 10/4 @ 10am - 2pm 20-124
• Power of Unix - Monday after FYM -  10/6 14-31
• CPLUG + ACM LAN Party 10/11 7pm 14-301
• Subversion - 10/20 7pm 14-301
  
• Intro to Perl - 11/3 7pm 14-301
• Gnome-ify Me! - 11/17 7pm 14-301

Slides for past talks will be available as the speakers send them to me.

/Nat

For those of you who are hearing about us at all of these awesome WOW events, check out our irc channel, and join the cplug mailing list.

/Nat

Keep an eye on the events list or join #cplug to find out what’s going on.

/Nat

Definition of Holistic : Emphasizing the importance of the whole and the interdependence of its parts.

We are still trying to get a digital copy of the notes, but the talk covered security holes and how when creating a system you need to focus on every part of the system. If it is week anywhere then the entire system is flawed.

The talk was given by Mark Smith, the Lead System Admin from CreateSpace.

After the talk Mark led us in a contest to crack a set of unsecured virtual machines. after three hours of attempts, the only person to finish was Mark Gius, our very own Treasurer.

Thanks to Mark Smith and everyone who came out. We are done with meetings for this year, we hope to see you all in the fall.

/Nat

UPDATE:  There were actually 3 persons to finish the tasks, Mark was only the first one.

President: Austin Hendrix
Vice Pres: William Tracy
Treasurer: Mark Gius
Secretary: Michelle Khuu and Jeannie Nguyen
Web God: Nat Welch

and in our most contentious position

Master of What’s Going On: Tanya Luthin

Industry Relations will be dealt with at the next Execboard Meeting.

Mark

Anyway, thanks to those who showed up in 14-255 tonight for Josh’s talk. It was very informative. Here is Josh’s Bash Presentation as a PDF.

Upcoming May Events

5/6 - Bash Scripting Talk of Doom Death (Tentative, but appropriate, title)
Josh, aka SillyG, aka President of CPLUG, will be giving a talk on BASH scripting Tuesday May 13th at 7pm in a room to be determined. A lot of us have been waiting for this to happen, so come on by and learn a thing or two.

Update: Check our facebook group (cplug) and the BASH event through there for location, time, etc.

Thanks to everyone who showed up to our events this month. If you have any questions feel free to contact us. mgius would also like to say this about getting to know CPLUG:

There are 2 main ways to get active in the club. The first is the Mailing List. Just sign up for announce and cplug and go from there. The second way to hear about events, ask questions, and get to know us is through our IRC channel. We are #cplug on Freenode.net. If you need help setting up IRC we recommend XChat for Linux & Windows. Our mac users reccomend different things, but I’ve heard Colloquy, and if you use Pidgin/Gaim it has (bad) IRC support. For help on setting up IRC check this link.

Hope to see you guys soon at some of our other events or online.

/Nat

One of the things many people have been asking for is the ~/.screenrc file that victor uses. Victor learned about it from this Gentoo page. but the file should contain the following:

# use visual bell
vbell on
# replace ctrl-A by ctrl-O
escape ^Oo
# set a big scrolling buffer
defscrollback 5000
# Set the caption on the bottom line
caption always "%{= kw}%-w%{= BW}%n %t%{-}%+w %-= @%H - %LD %d %LM - %c"

I hope to get the other info up soon, also we need to finish getting the pages ready. It will happen this quarter, I promise.

Look forward to our SSH talk sometime in November.

There are still a few bugs to work out, and we still need to clean up the old information, and port over user profiles, but we have decided to put up the site now just to be amazing.

If you have any complaints, log them either on IRC or on the mailing list, or even email execboard at cplug dot org.

look forward to more updates every monday night.
/Nat