Title: December Meeting: Annual Social Location: Mill St. Brew Pub Link out: Click here Description: Party Time. As there are celebrations, gatherings and feasting at this time of year, it is only appropriate that we partake of the festive spirit and get together for a meal instead of our usual chit-chat. Spouses welcome. Of course, if there are technology related discussions, that would be normal for this crowd. Start Time: 19:00

Title: November Meeting 2012 Location: Tim Horton’s, 660 Eagleson Rd, Kanata Link out: Click here Description: This meeting Bruce would like to discuss MediaWiki Specifically installing it with a specific functionality. I think it would be quite interesting to go over the requirements, what he has found to solve the problem and the intricacies of getting all the components to work in a RHEL and Debian environment using packages vs. installing from source and the issues that causes.

Title: October Meeting: 2012 Location: Tim Horton’s, 660 Eagleson Rd, Kanata Link out: Click here Description: No selected topic this month. However we will have a RaspberryPi unit to look at, an AndroidPC motherboard, a secondary USB monitor and discuss the annual social. Start Time: 19:00 Date: 2012-10-18 End Time: 21:30

Title: September Meeting 2012 Location: Tim Horton’s, 660 Eagleson Rd, Kanata Link out: Click here Description: Nothing special this month. General discussion would be the theme. I just got back from vacation, so no real time to come up with a great topic. Start Time: 19:00 Date: 2012-09-20 End Time: 21:30

It seems that password theft is up. I’m not sure this is a surprise to anyone who reads this site, but it is so much easier than it used to be with all of the malware out there, better compute platforms, botnets, phishing, etc. It has gotten to the point where I have had to start using a password manager, simply due to the sheer number of passwords I need to track and the complexity rules I choose to use implementing passwords.