November Meeting: Utah Open Source

2023-11-21 Thread James Simister
Date: Tuesday, November 21st Time: 7:00pm Location: UVU Business Resource Center Victor Villa will be going over the Utah Open Source organization, the space and resources available in the UVU Business Resource Center, and some of the upcoming events and programs to be aware of. The Provo Linux

REMINDER: September Meeting tomorrow: Nix & NixOS Overview

2023-09-19 Thread James Simister
Date: Tuesday, September 19th Time: 7:00pm Location: UVU Business Resource Center Brad will be talking about Nix & NixOS. Nix is a tool that takes a unique approach to package management and system configuration with declarative builds and deployments. Learn how to make reproducible, declarative

September Meeting: Nix & NixOS Overview

2023-09-18 Thread James Simister
Date: Tuesday, September 19th Time: 7:00pm Location: UVU Business Resource Center Brad will be talking about Nix & NixOS. Nix is a tool that takes a unique approach to package management and system configuration with declarative builds and deployments. Learn how to make reproducible, declarative

July Meeting: "Persistent" Cheap Servers on Amazon EC2

2023-07-18 Thread James Simister
Date: Tuesday, July 18th Time: 7:00pm Location: UVU Business Resource Center When using Amazon EC2, you can save up to 90% off the cost of regular, On-Demand EC2 Instances by using Spot Instances. This is great for stateless servers, but what if you run something that needs to maintain data beyo

July Meeting: Home Assistant

2022-07-19 Thread James Simister
Date: Tuesday, July 19th Time: 7:00pm Location: This month Brad Nelson will be talking about Home Assistant, which is an open-source home automation tool. The Provo Linux Users Group (https://plug.org) meet monthly to discuss Linux, Linux-related topics, and technologies of interest to Linux u

May Meeting: Open Mic Night

2022-05-17 Thread James Simister
Date: Tuesday, May 17th Time: 7:00pm Location: UVU Business Resource Center We're planning on meeting together tonight to discuss a variety of topics. Bring your questions and your interesting projects from the last little while to discuss! The Provo Linux Users Group (https://plug.org) meet mo

REMINDER: December Meeting tomorrow: Happy Holidays! (No Meeting)

2021-12-21 Thread James Simister
Date: Tuesday, December 21st Time: 7:00pm Location: UVU Business Resource Center Traditionally we do not meet in December due to the many holiday and family plans. We will pick up again in January. Have a Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year! http://plug.org/uvu has directions and a map Pleas

December Meeting: Happy Holidays! (No Meeting)

2021-12-20 Thread James Simister
Date: Tuesday, December 21st Time: 7:00pm Location: UVU Business Resource Center Traditionally we do not meet in December due to the many holiday and family plans. We will pick up again in January. Have a Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year! http://plug.org/uvu has directions and a map Pleas

Re: October Meeting: How Email Really Works

2021-10-20 Thread James Simister
his one, but I had conflicting plans. Was this > online meeting recorded? > > > -- > Michael Holley > On October 19, 2021 at 10:40:02 AM, James Simister (ja...@plug.org) wrote: > > Date: Tuesday, October 19th > Time: 7:00pm > Location: Online event > > James will g

October Meeting: How Email Really Works

2021-10-19 Thread James Simister
Date: Tuesday, October 19th Time: 7:00pm Location: Online event James will give an overview of the technologies and practices that help protect email against spam and authenticate email delivery, along with their limitations. Specifically, we will cover SPF, DKIM, and DMARC. If you've wondered

Re: September Meeting: File ACLs

2021-09-22 Thread James Simister
Sadly, no. I don't currently have that option for meetings. Sorry. On Tue, Sep 21, 2021 at 8:12 PM Derek Carter wrote: > Was it recorded? > > On Tue, Sep 21, 2021, 20:05 James Simister wrote: > > > Hey all! Thanks for the meeting this evening! And a special thanks to &

Re: September Meeting: File ACLs

2021-09-21 Thread James Simister
youtube, etc... > > let's meet up soon to talk. i'll show you all my cards and what i have > going on for UTOS, etc. It's a game changer > > v > > On Tue, Sep 21, 2021 at 5:43 PM James Simister > wrote: > > > I need to verify that our room reservatio

Re: September Meeting: File ACLs

2021-09-21 Thread James Simister
e the equipment for that. On Tue, Sep 21, 2021 at 10:53 AM Doran Barton wrote: > On Tuesday, September 21, 2021 10:40:02 AM MDT James Simister wrote: > > This will be an ONLINE meeting. > > When will PLUG resume in-person meetings? Do it already. > > -- > Doran L. Barton - Li

September Meeting: File ACLs

2021-09-21 Thread James Simister
Date: Tuesday, September 21st Time: 7:00pm Location: Online event Aaron Toponce will be presenting on File Access Control Lists (ACLs). This will be an ONLINE meeting. Google Meet joining infoVideo call link: https://meet.google.com/avd-ofmd-uxh https://meet.google.com/avd-ofmd-uxh Please RSV

August Meeting: Argo Rollouts for progressive deployments

2021-08-17 Thread James Simister
Date: Tuesday, August 17th Time: 7:00pm Location: Online event James will present on Argo Rollouts, which is a Progressive Delivery Controller for Kubernetes. Argo Rollouts is a Kubernetes controller and set of CRDs which provide advanced deployment capabilities such as blue-green, canary, cana

April Meeting: SSH+MFA logins for your Linux hosts

2021-04-20 Thread James Simister
Date: Tuesday, April 20th Time: 7:00pm Location: Online event Multi-Factor Authentication (MFA) is useful to help further secure logins against unauthorized use. In addition to the usual username/password, a second one-time authentication code is also required to gain access to the secured acco

February Meeting: UNIX File Permissions

2021-02-16 Thread James Simister
Date: Tuesday, February 16th Time: 7:00pm Location: Online event Aaron Toponce will be covering UNIX file permissions, including:* The standard "rwx" permissions* The 7 file types* Default directory and file permissions with umask* Special permissions* User private groups* File ACLs This meetin

Re: January Meeting: Automounting Remote Home Directories with SSHFS

2021-01-19 Thread James Simister
d at all? I may be late. > > Thanks! > Steve > > > On Tue, Jan 19, 2021 at 10:40 AM James Simister wrote: > > > Date: Tuesday, January 19th > > Time: 7:00pm > > Location: Online event > > > > Looking for a way to access a remote filesystem seamles

January Meeting: Automounting Remote Home Directories with SSHFS

2021-01-19 Thread James Simister
Date: Tuesday, January 19th Time: 7:00pm Location: Online event Looking for a way to access a remote filesystem seamlessly and securely?SSHFS is a user-space filesystem built on top of SFTP (which is built on SSH), and it works practically anywhere you can use SSH. Rather than being limited to d

Re: PXE booting Linux

2020-12-11 Thread James Simister
That sounds like a perfect use of puppet/chef/salt, although I do see the attraction of running diskless. I had a PXE-boot Gentoo machine running for a while (with openrc), but wasn't satisfied with the speed. Maybe I did something wrong or had something misconfigured, but I had a pretty decent cor

September Meeting: [Cancelled]

2020-09-15 Thread James Simister
Date: Tuesday, September 15th Time: 7:00pm Location: UVU Business Resource Center This month's meeting has been cancelled. We'll see you in October! The Provo Linux Users Group (https://plug.org) meet monthly to discuss Linux, Linux-related topics, and technologies of interest to Linux users. If

August Meeting: An Introduction to Go

2020-08-18 Thread James Simister
Date: Tuesday, August 18th Time: 7:00pm Location: Online event James Simister will present on a brief introduction to the Go language. I recently needed to come up to speed (rapidly) on the Go language for work, and found in the process a new favorite language. There are some really cool

REMINDER: July Meeting tonight: A Whirlwind Introduction to Alien Technologies

2020-07-21 Thread James Simister
Date: Tuesday, July 21st Time: 7:00pm Location: UVU Business Resource Center Alpheus Madsen will present about "alien technologies" he has found interesting over the years, ranging from keyboards to computer languages to unusual forms of nuclear power. In this presentation, Alpheus Madsen will

REMINDER: July Meeting tomorrow: A Whirlwind Introduction to Alien Technologies

2020-07-20 Thread James Simister
Date: Tuesday, July 21st Time: 7:00pm Location: UVU Business Resource Center Alpheus Madsen will present about "alien technologies" he has found interesting over the years, ranging from keyboards to computer languages to unusual forms of nuclear power. In this presentation, Alpheus Madsen will

July Meeting: A Whirlwind Introduction to Alien Technologies

2020-07-14 Thread James Simister
Date: Tuesday, July 21st Time: 7:00pm Location: UVU Business Resource Center Alpheus Madsen will present about "alien technologies" he has found interesting over the years, ranging from keyboards to computer languages to unusual forms of nuclear power. In this presentation, Alpheus Madsen will

REMINDER: June Meeting tonight: Setup your own home Google App replacement with NextCloud

2020-06-16 Thread James Simister
Date: Tuesday, June 16th Time: 7:00pm Location: Online event Meet via NextCloud: https://cloud.sysadminathome.com/call/rtwjxfc9 In 2009 Bitcoin was released to the world as, what the developer hoped would be, a premier digital currency. In the following 11 years the true digital "currency" that

REMINDER: June Meeting tomorrow: Setup your own home Google App replacement with NextCloud

2020-06-15 Thread James Simister
Date: Tuesday, June 16th Time: 7:00pm Location: Online event In 2009 Bitcoin was released to the world as, what the developer hoped would be, a premier digital currency. In the following 11 years the true digital "currency" that has been adopted by the masses isn't Bitcoin, it's your privacy. K

Re: June Meeting: Setup your own home Google App replacement with NextCloud

2020-06-11 Thread James Simister
I agree. However, you are welcome to provide your own slice or two as you participate online. :) On Thu, Jun 11, 2020 at 10:12 AM Alan Kirkwood wrote: > It won't be the same without the pizza. :) > On Tuesday, June 9, 2020, 10:40:07 AM MDT, James Simister < > ja..

June Meeting: Setup your own home Google App replacement with NextCloud

2020-06-09 Thread James Simister
Date: Tuesday, June 16th Time: 7:00pm Location: Online event Michael Holley will present on how to setup your very own hosted "Google App replacement" with NextCloud. We will be meeting virtually again this month, this time via NextCloud! Additional info and links to come. -- The Provo Linux

April Meeting: Cancelled this month

2020-04-21 Thread James Simister
Date: Tuesday, April 21st Time: 7:00pm Location: UVU Business Resource Center Following the governor's recommendations on public gatherings and to help curb the potential threat of infection, we will not hold an in-person meeting this month for PLUG. Thanks for your understanding. Stay safe!

REMINDER: March Meeting tonight: Cancelled this month

2020-03-17 Thread James Simister
Date: Tuesday, March 17th Time: 7:00pm Location: UVU Business Resource Center Following the governor's recommendations on public gatherings and to help curb the potential threat of infection, we will not hold an in-person meeting this month for PLUG. It may be possible to hold online meetups in

REMINDER: March Meeting tomorrow: Cancelled this month

2020-03-16 Thread James Simister
Date: Tuesday, March 17th Time: 7:00pm Location: UVU Business Resource Center Following the governor's recommendations on public gatherings and to help curb the potential threat of infection, we will not hold an in-person meeting this month for PLUG. It may be possible to hold online meetups in

March Meeting: Cancelled this month

2020-03-14 Thread James Simister
Date: Tuesday, March 17th Time: 7:00pm Location: UVU Business Resource Center Following the governor's recommendations on public gatherings and to help curb the potential threat of infection, we will not hold an in-person meeting this month for PLUG. It may be possible to hold online meetups in

Presentation for Tuesday?

2020-03-10 Thread James Simister
I have been struggling to find a presenter for this month's meeting, so if any of you have a topic you'd like to discuss, or even better, know somebody that would be willing to present on Tuesday, please let me know. Thanks! James /* PLUG: http://plug.org, #utah on irc.freenode.net Unsubscribe:

Re: REMINDER: January Meeting tomorrow: Let's Encrypt!

2020-01-21 Thread James Simister
I'll do it. Otherwise, I kind of feel like a nuisance. > > On January 20, 2020 9:54:44 PM MST, James Simister > wrote: > >Will you be able to make it, Doran? ;) > > > >On Mon, Jan 20, 2020 at 2:31 PM Doran Barton > >wrote: > > > >> On Monday

Re: REMINDER: January Meeting tomorrow: Let's Encrypt!

2020-01-21 Thread James Simister
FYI- There may be a room conflict tonight. Hopefully I'll have signs to direct where we'll be. On Mon, Jan 20, 2020, 9:54 PM James Simister wrote: > Will you be able to make it, Doran? ;) > > On Mon, Jan 20, 2020 at 2:31 PM Doran Barton wrote: > >> On Monday, Jan

REMINDER: January Meeting tonight: Let's Encrypt!

2020-01-21 Thread James Simister
Date: Tuesday, January 21st Time: 7:00pm Location: UVU Business Resource Center AJ O'Neal will be giving us an overview of the latest in Let's Encrypt, a self-service, free SSL Certificate Authority. Just go in the front doors, and follow the signs. We're usually in a conference room in the bac

Re: REMINDER: January Meeting tomorrow: Let's Encrypt!

2020-01-20 Thread James Simister
Will you be able to make it, Doran? ;) On Mon, Jan 20, 2020 at 2:31 PM Doran Barton wrote: > On Monday, January 20, 2020 2:11:00 PM MST Charles Curley wrote: > > I shan't be able to attend, but would appreciate any recordings or live > > feed. Thanks! > > If only we knew someone we could ask to

REMINDER: January Meeting tomorrow: Let's Encrypt!

2020-01-20 Thread James Simister
Date: Tuesday, January 21st Time: 7:00pm Location: UVU Business Resource Center AJ O'Neal will be giving us an overview of the latest in Let's Encrypt, a self-service, free SSL Certificate Authority. Just go in the front doors, and follow the signs. We're usually in a conference room in the bac

January Meeting: Let's Encrypt!

2020-01-17 Thread James Simister
Date: Tuesday, January 21st Time: 7:00pm Location: UVU Business Resource Center AJ O'Neal will be giving us an overview of the latest in Let's Encrypt, a self-service, free SSL Certificate Authority. Just go in the front doors, and follow the signs. We're usually in a conference room in the bac

December Meeting: Merry Christmas & Happy New Year (No Meeting)

2019-12-17 Thread James Simister
Date: Tuesday, December 17th Time: 7:00pm Location: UVU Business Resource Center This month's meeting is cancelled. Happy holidays! We will be back in January. http://plug.org/uvu has directions and a map Please RSVP at https://www.meetup.com/UtahOpenSource/events/fvvcsqyzqbwb/ /* PLUG: http

REMINDER: November Meeting tonight: Building Armbian Linux for the Orange Pi

2019-11-19 Thread James Simister
Date: Tuesday, November 19th Time: 7:00pm Location: UVU Business Resource Center Gabriel Gunderson will be walking us through building a custom Armbian image for the Orange Pi. This will be a hands-on workshop. Gabriel has several Orange Pi Zero boards that he is donating to the workshop and wi

REMINDER: November Meeting tomorrow: Building Armbian Linux for the Orange Pi

2019-11-18 Thread James Simister
Date: Tuesday, November 19th Time: 7:00pm Location: UVU Business Resource Center Gabriel Gunderson will be walking us through building a custom Armbian image for the Orange Pi. This will be a hands-on workshop. Gabriel has several Orange Pi Zero boards that he is donating to the workshop and wi

Re: CA Cert issue has me stumped

2019-11-15 Thread James Simister
Curl could be compiled with different flags or different libs that would cause it to work differently than other apps. On Fri, Nov 15, 2019, 12:51 PM AJ ONeal (Home) wrote: > Are you actually on Linux? Or OS X? And how old? > > I nearly tore my hair out once when the issue was that the older ver

Re: CA Cert issue has me stumped

2019-11-15 Thread James Simister
If you use the --cacert option, I think you need to make sure the pem file is a bundle of certificates, including the entire chain back to the root cert. There is also a --capath option where you can specify a directory of certificates that can be used. If using openssl, use the c_rehash command to

November Meeting: Building Armbian Linux for the Orange Pi

2019-11-12 Thread James Simister
Date: Tuesday, November 19th Time: 7:00pm Location: UVU Business Resource Center Gabriel Gunderson will be walking us through building a custom Armbian image for the Orange Pi. This will be a hands-on workshop. Gabriel has several Orange Pi Zero boards that he is donating to the workshop and wi

October Meeting: Open Forum

2019-10-15 Thread James Simister
Date: Tuesday, October 15th Time: 7:00pm Location: UVU Business Resource Center We will be having an open forum for discussion. Bring your questions or topics of interest and let's share our knowledge! If there's interest, I can share my experience booting a diskless desktop Linux machine, or a

REMINDER: September Meeting tonight: Fundamentals of Haskell

2019-09-17 Thread James Simister
Date: Tuesday, September 17th Time: 7:00pm Location: UVU Business Resource Center In this presentation, Alpheus Madsen will discuss data types, lazy evaluation, functions and functoional programming, pattern matching, type classes, and if we have time, will briefly discuss monads and how they ar

REMINDER: September Meeting tomorrow: Fundamentals of Haskell

2019-09-16 Thread James Simister
Date: Tuesday, September 17th Time: 7:00pm Location: UVU Business Resource Center In this presentation, Alpheus Madsen will discuss data types, lazy evaluation, functions and functoional programming, pattern matching, type classes, and if we have time, will briefly discuss monads and how they ar

September Meeting: Fundamentals of Haskell

2019-09-11 Thread James Simister
Date: Tuesday, September 17th Time: 7:00pm Location: UVU Business Resource Center In this presentation, Alpheus Madsen will discuss data types, lazy evaluation, functions and functoional programming, pattern matching, type classes, and if we have time, will briefly discuss monads and how they ar

Re: Speakers?

2019-09-10 Thread James Simister
topic. > > Best, > Gabe > > On Thu, Sep 5, 2019 at 3:56 PM James Simister wrote: > > > > Hey, everyone! > > > > We are in need of some speakers for our PLUG meeting! > > > > Do you want an opportunity to present a topic you're passionate about?

Re: Speakers?

2019-09-05 Thread James Simister
Or polling the group for topics they’re interested to learn? > > I’d be happy to talk about Let’s Encrypt in November, maybe October. > > On Thu, Sep 5, 2019 at 3:56 PM James Simister wrote: > > > Hey, everyone! > > > > We are in need of some speakers for our PLUG

Speakers?

2019-09-05 Thread James Simister
Hey, everyone! We are in need of some speakers for our PLUG meeting! Do you want an opportunity to present a topic you're passionate about? Do you know of somebody who has a topic they'd be willing to share with us? We've still got this month's slot open, and I'd love to get the rest of the slot

REMINDER: July Meeting tonight: SELinux

2019-07-16 Thread James Simister
Date: Tuesday, July 16th Time: 7:00pm Location: UVU Business Resource Center Garrett Hyde will be presenting on SELinux. Just go in the front doors, and follow the signs. We're usually in a conference room in the back of the main floor (BR-117). Pizza is provided by Alpine Mindset Mentoring (ht

REMINDER: July Meeting tomorrow: SELinux

2019-07-15 Thread James Simister
Date: Tuesday, July 16th Time: 7:00pm Location: UVU Business Resource Center Garrett Hyde will be presenting on SELinux. Just go in the front doors, and follow the signs. We're usually in a conference room in the back of the main floor (BR-117). Pizza is provided by Alpine Mindset Mentoring (ht

Re: July Meeting: SELinux

2019-07-12 Thread James Simister
d. Video is obviously preferred, but > audio only is acceptable. I'm just starting to investigate SELinux on my > own and would love to see this presentation. > --- Dan > > On 7/12/2019 10:40 AM, James Simister wrote: > > Date: Tuesday, July 16th > > Ti

July Meeting: SELinux

2019-07-12 Thread James Simister
Date: Tuesday, July 16th Time: 7:00pm Location: UVU Business Resource Center Garrett Hyde will be presenting on SELinux. Just go in the front doors, and follow the signs. We're usually in a conference room in the back of the main floor (BR-117). Pizza is provided by Alpine Mindset Mentoring (ht

REMINDER: June Meeting tonight: Kubernetes

2019-06-18 Thread James Simister
Date: Tuesday, June 18th Time: 7:00pm Location: UVU Business Resource Center Mike Adams will amaze us with the ins and outs of Kubernetes! Just go in the front doors, and follow the signs. We're usually in a conference room in the back of the main floor (BR-117). Pizza will be provided, sponsor

REMINDER: June Meeting tomorrow: Kubernetes

2019-06-17 Thread James Simister
Date: Tuesday, June 18th Time: 7:00pm Location: UVU Business Resource Center Mike Adams will amaze us with the ins and outs of Kubernetes! Just go in the front doors, and follow the signs. We're usually in a conference room in the back of the main floor (BR-117). Pizza will be provided, sponsor

June Meeting: Kubernetes

2019-06-15 Thread James Simister
Date: Tuesday, June 18th Time: 7:00pm Location: UVU Business Resource Center Mike Adams will amaze us with the ins and outs of Kubernetes! Just go in the front doors, and follow the signs. We're usually in a conference room in the back of the main floor (BR-117). Pizza will be provided, sponsor

REMINDER: May Meeting tonight: Intro to HashiCorp’s Vault

2019-05-21 Thread James Simister
Date: Tuesday, May 21st Time: 7:00pm Location: UVU Business Resource Center Security is an important part of computing, and it all hinges on the ability to manage and audit access to the secrets needed to run your infrastructure. HashiCorp Vault is a secrets managements engine. It helps you secu

REMINDER: May Meeting tomorrow: Intro to HashiCorp’s Vault

2019-05-20 Thread James Simister
Date: Tuesday, May 21st Time: 7:00pm Location: UVU Business Resource Center Security is an important part of computing, and it all hinges on the ability to manage and audit access to the secrets needed to run your infrastructure. HashiCorp Vault is a secrets managements engine. It helps you secu

May Meeting: Vault

2019-05-14 Thread James Simister
Date: Tuesday, May 21st Time: 7:00pm Location: UVU Business Resource Center Presented by Derek Carter Just go in the front doors, and follow the signs. We're usually in a conference room in the back of the main floor (BR-117). http://plug.org/uvu has directions and a map Please RSVP at https:

REMINDER: April Meeting tonight: Chromebook Linux

2019-04-16 Thread James Simister
Date: Tuesday, April 16th Time: 7:00pm Location: UVU Business Resource Center Presented by Jeff Strong Just go in the front doors, and follow the signs. We're usually in a conference room in the back of the main floor (BR-117). http://plug.org/uvu has directions and a map Please RSVP at https

REMINDER: April Meeting tomorrow: Chromebook Linux

2019-04-15 Thread James Simister
Date: Tuesday, April 16th Time: 7:00pm Location: UVU Business Resource Center Presented by Jeff Strong Just go in the front doors, and follow the signs. We're usually in a conference room in the back of the main floor (BR-117). http://plug.org/uvu has directions and a map Please RSVP at https

April Meeting: Chromebook Linux

2019-04-09 Thread James Simister
Date: Tuesday, April 16th Time: 7:00pm Location: UVU Business Resource Center Presented by Jeff Strong Just go in the front doors, and follow the signs. We're usually in a conference room in the back of the main floor (BR-117). http://plug.org/uvu has directions and a map /* PLUG: http://pl

REMINDER: March Meeting tonight: Learn how to use Jenkins for fun and profit

2019-03-19 Thread James Simister
Date: Tuesday, March 19th Time: 7:00pm Location: UVU Business Resource Center Learn how to stand up a Jenkins server and write your first build job using the new Pipeline build type powered by a Jenkinsfile. You'll need to have a GitHub or GitLab account and it would be recommended to have Docke

REMINDER: March Meeting tomorrow: Learn how to use Jenkins for fun and profit

2019-03-18 Thread James Simister
Date: Tuesday, March 19th Time: 7:00pm Location: UVU Business Resource Center Learn how to stand up a Jenkins server and write your first build job using the new Pipeline build type powered by a Jenkinsfile. You'll need to have a GitHub or GitLab account and it would be recommended to have Docke

March Meeting: Learn how to use Jenkins for fun and profit

2019-03-12 Thread James Simister
Date: Tuesday, March 19th Time: 7:00pm Location: UVU Business Resource Center Learn how to stand up a Jenkins server and write your first build job using the new Pipeline build type powered by a Jenkinsfile. You'll need to have a GitHub or GitLab account and it would be recommended to have Docke

Slides from Bash presentation

2019-02-19 Thread James Simister
Hi all, Here is a link for the slides from tonight's presentation: https://drive.google.com/open?id=14ggfOW8pRJOEdftzchLbfHypF6si23_MS21pG6KLrc8 Enjoy! James /* PLUG: http://plug.org, #utah on irc.freenode.net Unsubscribe: http://plug.org/mailman/options/plug Don't fear the penguin. */

REMINDER: February Meeting tonight: An Evening with Bash

2019-02-19 Thread James Simister
ances, some of what it does may seem strange, confusing, or downright magical. Tonight we'll be uncovering some of that magic and discovering some cool, powerful things you can do really easily in your bash shells and scripts. Bring your bash questions, too! Presented by: James Simister Just

REMINDER: February Meeting tomorrow: An Evening with Bash

2019-02-18 Thread James Simister
ances, some of what it does may seem strange, confusing, or downright magical. Tonight we'll be uncovering some of that magic and discovering some cool, powerful things you can do really easily in your bash shells and scripts. Bring your bash questions, too! Presented by: James Simister Just

February Meeting: An Evening with Bash

2019-02-12 Thread James Simister
ances, some of what it does may seem strange, confusing, or downright magical. Tonight we'll be uncovering some of that magic and discovering some cool, powerful things you can do really easily in your bash shells and scripts. Bring your bash questions, too! Presented by: James Simister Just

REMINDER: January Meeting tonight: Wireguard VPN

2019-01-15 Thread James Simister
Date: Tuesday, January 15th Time: 7:00pm Location: UVU Business Resource Center Bryce Larson will discuss the pros and cons of wireguard compared to ipsec and openvpn and then demonstrate it. He will also show how it works well for dualstack networks because of it's ability to roam between any n

REMINDER: January Meeting tomorrow: Wireguard VPN

2019-01-14 Thread James Simister
Date: Tuesday, January 15th Time: 7:00pm Location: UVU Business Resource Center Bryce Larson will discuss the pros and cons of wireguard compared to ipsec and openvpn and then demonstrate it. He will also show how it works well for dualstack networks because of it's ability to roam between any n

January Meeting: Wireguard VPN

2019-01-08 Thread James Simister
Date: Tuesday, January 15th Time: 7:00pm Location: UVU Business Resource Center Bryce Larson will discuss the pros and cons of wireguard compared to ipsec and openvpn and then demonstrate it. He will also show how it works well for dualstack networks because of it's ability to roam between any n

REMINDER: November Meeting tonight: Why You Should NOT Use Rust

2018-11-20 Thread James Simister
Date: Tuesday, November 20th Time: 7:00pm Location: UVU Business Resource Center AJ ONeal will be presenting this month on Rust. Rust fanatics often can't wait to tell you how superior Rust is for whatever foobar app you're building. Such vehement protagonism is perhaps overly optimistic. Sadl

REMINDER: November Meeting tomorrow: Why You Should NOT Use Rust

2018-11-19 Thread James Simister
Date: Tuesday, November 20th Time: 7:00pm Location: UVU Business Resource Center AJ ONeal will be presenting this month on Rust. Rust fanatics often can't wait to tell you how superior Rust is for whatever foobar app you're building. Such vehement protagonism is perhaps overly optimistic. Sadl

November Meeting: Why You Should NOT Use Rust

2018-11-13 Thread James Simister
Date: Tuesday, November 20th Time: 7:00pm Location: UVU Business Resource Center AJ ONeal will be presenting this month on Rust. Rust fanatics often can't wait to tell you how superior Rust is for whatever foobar app you're building. Such vehement protagonism is perhaps overly optimistic. Sadl

Re: Auto rotating display

2018-11-08 Thread James Simister
I'm not as familiar with Ubuntu, but it sounds like the hardware has some sort of orientation sensing function and X probably samples that when it starts up. I wonder what would happen if you press Ctrl-Alt-Bksp. Usually that kills the X server, which typically will automatically restart right away

REMINDER: October Meeting tonight: Building Spaceship Controls for Fun and Learning

2018-10-16 Thread James Simister
Date: Tuesday, October 16th Time: 7:00pm Location: UVU Business Resource Center Speaker: Alex Anderson Do you want to build your own spaceship simulator? Let Alex show you how he developed multi-purpose controls for starship live action role playing. He’ll show you how these controls integrat

REMINDER: October Meeting tomorrow: Building Spaceship Controls for Fun and Learning

2018-10-15 Thread James Simister
Date: Tuesday, October 16th Time: 7:00pm Location: UVU Business Resource Center Speaker: Alex Anderson Do you want to build your own spaceship simulator? Let Alex show you how he developed multi-purpose controls for starship live action role playing. He’ll show you how these controls integrat

October Meeting: Building Spaceship Controls for Fun and Learning

2018-10-09 Thread James Simister
Date: Tuesday, October 16th Time: 7:00pm Location: UVU Business Resource Center Speaker: Alex Anderson Do you want to build your own spaceship simulator? Let Alex show you how he developed multi-purpose controls for starship live action role playing. He’ll show you how these controls integrat

Re: Potential October Meeting

2018-10-03 Thread James Simister
Thanks, Jess! That would be awesome! It looks really cool, and I'd love to have him come speak on the 16th! I am coordinating the meeting schedules, so all I would need is a confirmation from Alex that he'll be there on the 16th, plus a title and abstract for the talk so I can post it and announce

September Meeting: Quickstart to Kong: Managing your APIs

2018-09-18 Thread James Simister
Date: Tuesday, September 18th Time: 7:00pm Location: UVU Business Resource Center Victor Villa will be presenting an introduction to Kong, a Next-Generation API Platform for Modern Architectures. This will be a beginner-level developer / sysadmin introspective. Just go in the front doors, and f

Re: Speakers & Topics

2018-09-12 Thread James Simister
I'll jot you down for January. Thanks! On Tue, Sep 11, 2018, 07:18 Bryce Larson wrote: > I'll try to play with it before then and let you know. I graduate in > December so maybe I could present in January since I'll have more time then. > > On September 9, 2018 8:2

Re: Speakers & Topics

2018-09-09 Thread James Simister
e was telling me that they are > >> putting it in the linux kernel. I would be interested to learn more > >> about that. > >> > >> September 6, 2018 4:33 PM, "James Simister" > wrote: > >> > >> Hi all, > >> > >> We

Speakers & Topics

2018-09-06 Thread James Simister
Hi all, We've got open slots in the meeting schedule that are in need of a presenter and topic. If you have interest in a particular topic, or have a desire to speak to the group, let me know! Happy computing! James ja...@plug.org /* PLUG: http://plug.org, #utah on irc.freenode.net Unsubscribe:

REMINDER: August Meeting tomorrow: Secure Apache Web Hosting

2018-08-21 Thread James Simister
Date: Tuesday, August 21st Time: 7:00pm Location: UVU Business Resource Center James Simister will be presenting on hosting a secure web site using the Apache Web Server. We'll explore some security adjustments to make in your Apache configuration, and how to setup SSL using free certifi

August Meeting: Secure Apache Web Hosting

2018-08-20 Thread James Simister
Date: Tuesday, August 21st Time: 7:00pm Location: UVU Business Resource Center James Simister will be presenting on hosting a secure web site using the Apache Web Server. We'll explore some security adjustments to make in your Apache configuration, and how to setup SSL using free certifi

REMINDER: July Meeting tonight: Random Number Generators

2018-07-17 Thread James Simister
Date: Tuesday, July 17th Time: 7:00pm Location: UVU Business Resource Center Aaron Toponce will be talking on random number generators, how they're classified, a look at different algorithms, where they've been deployed, how mistakes have been learned, and where intuitions are right and where th

REMINDER: July Meeting tomorrow: Random Number Generators

2018-07-16 Thread James Simister
Date: Tuesday, July 17th Time: 7:00pm Location: UVU Business Resource Center Aaron Toponce will be talking on random number generators, how they're classified, a look at different algorithms, where they've been deployed, how mistakes have been learned, and where intuitions are right and where th

July Meeting: Random Number Generators

2018-07-12 Thread James Simister
Date: Tuesday, July 17th Time: 7:00pm Location: UVU Business Resource Center Aaron Toponce will be talking on random number generators, how they're classified, a look at different algorithms, where they've been deployed, how mistakes have been learned, and where intuitions are right and where th

REMINDER: June Meeting tonight: Random Number Generators

2018-06-19 Thread James Simister
Date: Tuesday, June 19th Time: 7:00pm Location: UVU Business Resource Center Aaron Toponce will be talking on random number generators, how they're classified, a look at different algorithms, where they've been deployed, how mistakes have been learned, and where intuitions are right and where th

REMINDER: June Meeting tomorrow: Random Number Generators

2018-06-18 Thread James Simister
Date: Tuesday, June 19th Time: 7:00pm Location: UVU Business Resource Center Aaron Toponce will be talking on random number generators, how they're classified, a look at different algorithms, where they've been deployed, how mistakes have been learned, and where intuitions are right and where th

June Meeting: Random Number Generators

2018-06-12 Thread James Simister
Date: Tuesday, June 19th Time: 7:00pm Location: UVU Business Resource Center Aaron Toponce will be talking on random number generators, how they're classified, a look at different algorithms, where they've been deployed, how mistakes have been learned, and where intuitions are right and where th

An Evening With Bash (slides)

2018-05-15 Thread James Simister
Hi all, Had a great time talking about Bash this evening! Here's a link to the slides I used tonight. I couldn't cover everything, but these are the things I've used the most or found the coolest. Lots more in the bash man page. https://drive.google.com/open?id=14ggfOW8pRJOEdftzchLbfHypF6si23_MS2

May Meeting: An Evening with Bash

2018-05-15 Thread James Simister
me of what it does may seem strange, confusing, or downright magical. Tonight we'll be uncovering some of that magic and discovering some cool, powerful things you can do really easily in your bash shells and scripts. Bring your bash questions, too! Presented by: James Simister Just go in

Re: Video from 4/17 meeting

2018-04-19 Thread James Simister
Also, the slides are available here: https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1NGv2W4EjKRerVT2UAo1pctmDLWFNXtMFCk9-Mb0qnB8/edit?usp=sharing Thanks, James On Wed, Apr 18, 2018 at 9:44 AM, Doran L. Barton wrote: > Here's video from last night's PLUG meeting: > > https://youtu.be/rPNG1awmWY0 > > -

REMINDER: April Meeting tonight: Keeping services up, and servers up to date: Using VRRP and conntrackd

2018-04-17 Thread James Simister
Date: Tuesday, April 17th Time: 7:00pm Location: UVU Business Resource Center In this presentation, Lloyd Brown will describe one High-availability approach involving VRRP (using keepalived), and conntrackd, to seamlessly failover IP-based services. This approach allows, among other things, auto

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