It’s that time again…

Welcome to April. We are having a meeting this Thursday, April 21 at the Altera Technology Center as usual. It seems that none of the prior topics have panned out as expected, so this month, something that might be of broader interest: digital copyright law. There are a number of things that can be discussed, one of which is the potential Canadian modification of the copyright laws and allowing for serious privacy infringements. The current minister of heritage is bowing to pressure from the CRIA and these changes could appear as soon as June this year. This is not the first time that this has raised it’s head, and it may not be the last.

Ottawa Valley SAGE is pleased to sponsor another LPI exam session on May 28, 2005.

Yes, I know it’s a bit out of the way, but we do have use of the training center there, and it holds about 40 to 50 people. Traditionally, space has not been an issue.

We will try to have the next one in a downtown location, to assist with the people who prefer to not visit the ‘burbs.

We are considering offering another set of LPI exams on Saturday May 28, 2005. There will be two seatings, one at 11:00, the other at 1:00. The location is yet to be determined, but we definately have a location in the west end. A finalized location will be posted within the next two weeks.

Same old same old.. Well, not quite. I was looking at a project called openNMS and was wondering if anyone had looked at it yet, and if so, wanted to talk about it.

If not, I thought we could try it out.

If anyone wants to have a look, the project is located at www.opennms.org

It looks to be a pretty full featured monitoring system, and I can’t afford a copy of HP OpenView :) (supposedly neither can my employer). I’m planning on giving it a shot on my own network, so I may have some info for the meeting.

That last item should have read as email fixed. This doesn’t mean mailing lists, but that will be fixed shortly as well. You can now receive password reminders.