HACKERS: SGV Linux Group
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godmode at 09.25.09 - 12:31 pm
Anybody have more info on this? Seems interesting.
Is there a fee for attending?
Will there be linux distro's?
Will I meet God there?
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are you talking about http://www.sgvlug.org/ ?
mfdn09.25.09 - 12:40 pm
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Yes I am, there's a ride coming up in the first week of October that's going to attend it.
godmode responding to a
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09.25.09 - 12:43 pm
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If I didn't work Thursday nights I'd def hit this up. = I used to work with some crazy linux hax0rs.
mfdn09.25.09 - 12:53 pm
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the hackers ones sound interesting to me
but it seems most are focused on web related stuff, last one i saw was drupal, this one coming up is open street map...*le yawn*
www is cool and all, but i'm a systems guy, i ono, i really just don't care about www related stuff
if it's hitting up a lug meeting, that could be fun, it's always a blast arguing with the die hard linux "activists" that got into it strictly to pour out their hatred for microsoft, there are always a few real *nix geeks too that got into it simply due to their love for computers ;)
an aircrack ng ride could be super interesting, don't do any damage, well maybe print out warnings through their networked printers ;) nothing malicious, just fun and exploration
sorry to be a downer on the web geek stuff, hehe
natefrogg09.27.09 - 8:44 am
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whatever geekass, it's all about the amigas =p
natefrogg09.27.09 - 9:01 am
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more replies to myself
this looks cool to me, not a ride though, if i get out of work in time i need to check it
http://www.bolthole.com/uuasc-la/
Perhaps you are managing a small number of UNIX/Linux servers by hand with a few well placed SSH keys and some handy homegrown shell scripts, but scaling up to managing the configuration of hundreds of servers is another story all together.
At the October UUASC-LA meeting we will have presentations followed by Q&A in a round table format covering three powerful open source tools that will automatically configure your UNIX servers, CFengine, Puppet, and Chef.
To start off the presentation, Aleksey Tsalolikhin, will be speaking about CFengine, the most mature tool presented at this talk. Aleksey has used CFengine to manage a few dozen ( HP-UX, and RHEL/CentOS) servers at Deluxe film labs for the last 3 years.
Then Chris McEniry will tell us how he uses the Ruby based tool Puppet to manage hundreds of servers and desktops at Sony Playstation for the last year and a half.
Software Engineer, John Dewey, will then show us how he has used another Ruby based tool Chef. John has created Chef cookbooks which are used to build standard Linux images that have been used to deploy Ruby on Rails, and Django on servers for personal use, startups, and this year's Rails Rumble competition.
After the presentations the speakers will then take questions from the audience, which should help us all get a better idea on how these tools can be used to tackle complex system management challenges.
natefrogg09.27.09 - 9:26 am
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First I thought that unix admin thing would be kind of bogus (I still see ruby stuff as more hype than anything else), but if that's hosted at Sun, I bet it'd be pretty rad, but again, Thursdays.. can't make it.
I can get into webstuff but don't really see the need for open street maps. google maps = problem solved.
If there's a geek ride any other night of the week i'd check it out.
mfdn09.27.09 - 10:44 am
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you know
wardriving? I wonder about doing a ride going warriding. Might be a bit difficult to setup on though....
braydon responding to a
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09.27.09 - 12:45 pm
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"I can get into webstuff but don't really see the need for open street maps. google maps = problem solved."
I don't agree...
where's the route calculator / application specifically for cyclists in los angeles?
braydon responding to a
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09.27.09 - 1:31 pm
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Doing a wardriving ride would be awesome. There's actually name for it that they coined, warriding. This
dude wrote a thesis on it. There should be some new tools out there since the time he wrote his paper. I would be up for exploring and possibly checking out some new programs. I have a nice proxim wireless card and a few other pieces of hardware to throw into the mix.
User1 responding to a
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09.27.09 - 11:03 pm
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Yeah it'd be handy to have a program that would either a) alert a sound when you went through a open hotspot, or b) would log all the spots you've been through
I have a
Neo Freerunner that would be good for this, because it's so small, but there are still a few bugs with the wireless drivers.... It also has GPS, so it could plot the points.
braydon responding to a
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09.28.09 - 12:15 am
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Also I think he was calling it Warbiking, not riding.
braydon responding to a
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09.28.09 - 12:17 am
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A geocaching ride I think would be more interesting though....
braydon09.28.09 - 12:18 am
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yes warbiking.
There's some program that think exist that automatically logs into different access points and checks on different parmeters then logs off. You heard of anything like this? I would be interested in doing this if anyone knows about it.
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09.28.09 - 1:13 am
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War driving meant something 7-10 years ago when there were only 4 people per zipcode with broadband and you wanted to go by and mooch off their connection.
Now there is internet everywhere. It's on your phone. There is no point mapping wifi access points unless you want to fuck with them.
Now to the other topic.
Open street maps. YES! It's like the wikipedia of maps. It's not the same as Google.
For example the other day I wanted to map a walking route of stairs in Silverlake.
Googlemaps doesn't show stairs. Open Street Maps does.! Therefore it's awesome!
And what's more awesome is that gmap.pedometer allows you to switch between a googlemaps and an openstreet maps overlay.
marino10.5.09 - 9:14 pm
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"War driving meant something 7-10 years ago when there were only 4 people per zipcode with broadband and you wanted to go by and mooch off their connection.
Now there is internet everywhere. It's on your phone. There is no point mapping wifi access points unless you want to fuck with them."
I would take a good WiFi connection over GPRS, etc.
"Now to the other topic.
Open street maps. YES! It's like the wikipedia of maps. It's not the same as Google.
For example the other day I wanted to map a walking route of stairs in Silverlake.
Googlemaps doesn't show stairs. Open Street Maps does.! Therefore it's awesome!"
Yeah this makes it really awesome, a higher degree of detail.
"And what's more awesome is that gmap.pedometer allows you to switch between a googlemaps and an openstreet maps overlay."
What's a shame though is that it doesn't display the Cycling Base Layer, but the Default one instead.....
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10.5.09 - 9:28 pm
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