From Michael.Paoli at cal.berkeley.edu Fri Aug 16 23:37:31 2013 From: Michael.Paoli at cal.berkeley.edu (Michael Paoli) Date: Fri, 16 Aug 2013 23:37:31 -0700 Subject: [buug] BALUG Tu 2013-08-20: Rick Moen on Linux Malware; & other BALUG News Message-ID: <20130816233731.15249f7fuh89udrc@webmail.rawbw.com> BALUG Tu 2013-08-20: Rick Moen on Linux Malware; & other BALUG News ------------------------------ items, details further below: 2013-08-20: Rick Moen on Linux Malware 2013-10-15: Elizabeth Krumbach Joseph: Code Review for Systems Administrators Bill Honeycutt, tech goodies, and other giveaways volunteering to help BALUG Twitter https://twitter.com/#!/BALUG_org ------------------------------ For our 2013-08-20 BALUG meeting, we're proud to present: TOPIC: Linux Malware PRESENTED BY: Rick Moen[1] TOPIC SUMMARY: We had it first! Not counting the early Elk Cloner boot sector virus for the Apple II, computer viruses had been developed on Unix and become old hat when MS-DOS was just getting started and hadn't even been attacked, yet. The biggest Internet meltdown ever was caused by a 'worm' (program that propagates across networks) targeting BSD Unix. Our speaker will tour malware's colorful history and put it in perspective of larger security concerns including horrifically bad coding practices in many significant desktop projects and slipshod quality control. ABOUT THE PRESENTER: Rick Moen is longtime senior system administrator, who also runs nearby Linux user group CABAL[2], meeting at his and his wife's house in West Menlo Park, and has been fooling with various Unices since the 1980s. Having formerly been a technical employee at several Linux firms (Linuxcare, VA Linux Systems, and California Digital Corp.) during decades past, he stresses that it's not his fault and he has an alibi. 1. http://linuxmafia.com/~rick/ 2. http://linuxmafia.com/cabal/ So, if you'd like to join us please RSVP to: rsvp at balug.org **Why RSVP??** Well, don't worry we won't turn you away, but the RSVPs really help BALUG and the Four Seas Restaurant plan the meal and meeting, and with sufficient attendance, they also help ensure that we'll be able to eat upstairs in the private banquet room. Meeting Details... 6:30pm Tuesday, August 20th, 2013 2013-08-20 Four Seas Restaurant http://www.fourseasr.com/ 731 Grant Ave. San Francisco, CA 94108 Easy PARKING: Portsmouth Square Garage at 733 Kearny: http://www.sfpsg.com/ Cost: The meetings are always free, but for dinner, for your gift of $13 cash, we give you a gift of dinner - joining us for a yummy family-style Chinese dinner - tax and tip included (your gift also helps in our patronizing the restaurant venue). ------------------------------ For our 2013-10-15 BALUG meeting, we're proud to present: Elizabeth Krumbach Joseph[1] on Code Review for Systems Administrators The OpenStack project uses a public code review system and automated series of unit and integration tests before merging to confirm that code submitted is adhering to project standards and doesn't cause problems for other software in the stack. The OpenStack Infrastructure team not only manages this system using all open source tools, like Gerrit and Jenkins for review and testing, but also uses the system themselves for reviewing and testing changes being made to systems running the infrastructure itself. Puppet configuration files, Python scripts and more are subjected to automated syntax tests and then collaboratively reviewed in public by community and core team members alike before approval. This talk will give you a walk through of the actual software used to accomplish this and how this process has allowed the team to have a considerably open, collaborative approach to systems administration for the project infrastructure. Elizabeth Krumbach Joseph is an Automation and Tools Engineer at HP[2] working on the OpenStack Infrastructure[3] team. She is also a member of the Ubuntu Community Council[4] and on the Board of Directors for Partimus[5], a non-profit in the San Francisco Bay Area providing Linux-based computers to schools in need. 1. http://www.princessleia.com/ 2. http://www.hp.com/ 3. http://ci.openstack.org/ 4. https://wiki.ubuntu.com/CommunityCouncil 5. http://partimus.org/ ------------------------------ Bill Honeycutt, tech goodies, and other giveaways Bill Honeycutt was active in BUUG[1] for many years. He passed away earlier this year[2]. Among the many tech items to be given away, at least some will be making it from his estate, through BALUG to be given away, and includes many cool and useful electronics and tech items, many of which are of quite recent vintage. 1. http://www.buug.org/ 2. http://buug.org/pipermail/buug/2013-July/004009.html Book(s)!: Oracle Solaris 11 System Administration Thanks to Pearson's User Group program for providing these review copies. For details see: http://lists.balug.org/pipermail/balug-talk-balug.org/2013-July/005034.html Pearson User Group member page (member discounts: 35% off print, 45% off eBook): http://www.informit.com/usergroupwelcome CDs/DVDs/ISOs, etc. - have a peek here: http://www.wiki.balug.org/wiki/doku.php?id=balug:cds_and_images_etc We may also be able to "burn" images per request or copy to USB flash, etc. Donations of blank or +-RW media, USB flash, or funding thereof, also appreciated. See the above URL for details. ------------------------------ volunteering to help BALUG Want to volunteer to help out BALUG? 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