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Beautiful Security is a collection of essays on security thought from a variety of industry leaders. The sixteen chapters of the book cover a surprisingly wide base of security domains making it worth reading just for the exposure to the wealth of ideas. The fact that the essays are intellectually entertaining is a bonus.

The best sections of this book are the places where some of my long held beliefs get challenged by the chapter author, particularly the issues involved with security in cloud computing. I still have a healthy skepticism for the claims of cloud service providers, but the concept that we will not get any better at securing abstracted compute environments until we start using them is correct. You do not become an expert at something until you invest a significant amount of time and practice into it, so how can we expect to secure these environments unless we use them?

Title: January Meeting
Location: Pythian
Link out: Click here
Description: First meeting of the new year. Nothing formal scheduled, but I do have an interesting video to show if there is interest.
Topics:

• Automation
• Documentation
• Tools for the above

Start Time: 19:00
Date: 2011-01-20
End Time: 21:30

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Title: Annual Social
Location: The Lieutenant’s Pump
Link out: Click here
Description: Social event - food, talk, drink, etc.

Bring SO’s, all welcome.

I’ll see if I can arrange some extra goodies from LOPSA and/or Usenix.

We have a reservation under ovsage.

Start Time: 19:00
Date: 2010-12-16
End Time: 21:30

I saw a reference to a site on one of my emails or feeds earlier that gave this URL: http://www.quora.com/Linux/What-are-some-time-saving-tips-that-every-Linux-user-should-know

In a fit of “might be something out there”, I had a look and discovered a bash built-in that I had never run across before, disown. Take a look at the bash manpage for this little gem, but the nutshell version is that it will take a command that you either forgot to run nohup on or screen before you ran it and with some optional parameters, you can take a long running process, background it, run disown -h <jobid> and all of a sudden, you can disassociate the job with your terminal, allowing it to ignore SIGHUP and continue on even if you log out. While I am aware that there are other mechanisms, exiting a remote session and having ssh wait for exit is annoying. I know you can type ~& to background, but which level of ssh are you backgrounding?