Monthly Archives: January 2012

Adam Thompson demonstrated installing CentOS 5.x and Ubuntu 11.10 under VMware, and discussed their relative footprints in a virtual environment. The conclusion? Ubuntu (at least, right out of the box) seems to be much lighter, both in terms of memory … Continue reading →

VM Install of Linux, by Adam Thompson [ 40:53 ] Play Now | Play in Popup | Download (40)

Sean Cody presented Hard Core SSH, where he showed us how he does VPN tunnelling using SSH and tunnel devices, and a few other ssh tricks like session mixing and ad-hoc port forwarding. Sean has made his presentation slides, in … Continue reading →

Hard Core SSH, by Sean Cody [ 36:37 ] Play Now | Play in Popup | Download (35)

January’s RTFM was brought to you by the letter “c” and Michael Doob, who presented cron(8) and the crontab(1) command.

RTFM: cron(8) and crontab(1), by Michael Doob [ 14:56 ] Play Now | Play in Popup | Download (25)

The January meeting started off with the usual round-table discussion, with topics including alternatives to Gnome and KDE, clock issues in Linux under VMware, feedback on the last newsletter, routing quirks in Linux, and multi-booting under EFI.

Round-table Discussion 2012-01-10 [ 27:21 ] Play Now | Play in Popup | Download (33)