Title: May Meeting 2012
Location: Tim Horton’s, 660 Eagleson Rd, Kanata
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Description: It’s the week after BSDCan 2012 and a few of our regular attendees were at the conference as volunteers and attendees. Lots of interesting things, so perhaps a bit of a discussion of what went on at the conference is in order.

iX Systems left behind a stack of PC-BSD 9.0 64bit DVDs and some FreeNAS 8.0.4 p1 and 8.2 rc3 64 bit discs as well. I’ll bring along a handful of them. Feel free to take a bunch and pass them out to anyone who might want to play with an alternative OS. I think I installed PC-BSD 9 with no issues in a VM, which is a step above the RC versions we were playing with at the BSD install fest we did a while ago. (different user group)

Just a reminder that BSDCan 2012 starts May 11^th. On the evening of May 10^th, there will be an OCBUG meeting at the Royal Oak on Laurier near the University of Ottawa. This will be a very social meeting, as people from all over will be there as conference attendees, some of whom you may already know. Come out and meet old friends and make a few new ones. For anyone interested, registration for the conference and registration packages handouts will also be happening at the pub during this time.

Unfortunately, I didn’t see the comments that were pending until just recently and forgot to approve them. I think the talk on consulting is timely and we should have that talk. As I know we have at least one person looking for the ssh bits, we can have that discussion and if it peters out quickly, we can go on to talk about the issues Kent raised. If that doesn’t work out, we can always have the talk in May. Comments welcome.

Title: April Meeting 2012
Location: Tim Horton’s, 660 Eagleson Rd, Kanata
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Description:

Location: 660 Eagleson Rd. in Kanata
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After a brief discussion with one of our members, I was considering a talk on OpenSSH. I’m not sure which specifics I’ll be getting into yet, but I’ll have a small talk prepared in my normal informal style. I’ll attempt to get a short set of slides in place as well, so you have a take-away for your efforts. One of the items that seems to confuse people is the proper use of keys, so that will be covered, as well as a short discussion on RSA vs. DSA keys, the use of passwords vs. no passwords and ssh-agent.

Title: March Meeting
Location: Tim Horton’s, 660 Eagleson Rd, Kanata
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Description:

Google Map: http://g.co/maps/kza6h (yes, that is a short link)

We will be having a short discussion on small PBX installations and software options for install. I’ll bring along a couple of VoIP phones with me this time, just as examples. If you are looking for some physical sets, I have extras from previous deployments that I can sell to recover my cost for them.