Just so we have some notes fro the meeting, I have to provide the
following presentations before our next meeting:
- The finished Secure FTP Server presentation
- The SSL Certificate and useful commands presentation
- A short piece on care and feeding of an Apache based Secure file
downloading service
I mentioned BSDCan 2011 again.
http://www.bsdcan.org - the site appears
to be working now, so it must have been an anomaly. I meant to pass out
DVDs for PCBSD to everyone, but only managed to give out a few after the
meeting. I’ll bring some more to the next meeting.
Back in November or December I told the group about the LOPSA mentoring
project and the call for volunteers at the community meeting at LISA. I
believe that I had also stated that I had volunteered to be a mentor and
I’m happy to announce that a project came up and that I have been
matched up with someone who requires assistance with a backup system.
While we haven’t really started yet (this only just happened) I’m hoping
that it will be a pleasant experience for both of us. Once the project
is completed, I’ll post a note about the project and the solution used,
as well as a link to software and the type of environment. I’m hoping it
may make a useful talk for a meeting or at the very least an outline as
to how we solved a technical problem. As it is a short term project, I’m
hoping we will have it completed before the April meeting so I can at
least report the success of the project.
BSDCan, a BSD conference held in Ottawa,
Canada, has quickly established itself as the technical conference for
people working on and with 4.4BSD based operating systems and related
projects. The organizers have found a fantastic formula that appeals to
a wide range of people from extreme novices to advanced developers.
BSDCan 2011 will be held on 13-14 May 2011 at University of Ottawa,
and will be preceded by two days of Tutorials on 11-12 May 2011.
I mentioned the password cracking spreadsheet at Sans.org in our last
meeting, here is the relevant link:
Password cracking spreadsheet
On the same site there is a discussion on the issue of passwords vs.
passphrases and the spreadsheet is mentioned again:
How long to crack a password
Got this job ad from one of the agencies I’m in contact with:
Linux admin - contract