At this weeks KLUG meeting Paul demonstrated the new Tails 3.3 distro installed on a USB thumb drive with a persistent and encrypted file system. We watched a short TED Talk video: https://youtu.be/Va07q3HFEZQ where we were introduced to the “DeepWeb”. Using the Tor browser built into Tails we learn more about visiting the Deep Web … Read more
Do you use the same 5 (or less) passwords for all your websites? You know you need to do better for your online information. Come to KLUG Tuesday October 3rd for an introduction to password managers. Keep all your important passwords secure, available and on you at all times. Agenda: Overview of why you need … Read more
Rafael Wolf of Express IT Solutions, LLC gave the Kalamazoo Linux Users Group a very technical and enlightening presentation in the use of the Raspberry Pi as a secure remote access solution. Using his creative solution only port 80 need be open for establishing an SSH connection. www.eitsonline.com
Kalamazoo College Departments of Physics and Mathematics/Computer Science sponsored a discussion on computing, freedom and privacy led by world renown “Free Software” activist and a member of the Internet Hall of Fame Dr. Richard Stallman. http://internethalloffame.org/inductees/richard-stallman Dr. Stallman gave an articulate and passionate talk on GNU (GNU is Not Unix), GPL (General Public License), and … Read more
Kevin Quiggle gave a great presentation on his “Home Built” NAS server at our Jan. 24th Meeting. The system featured an AMD motherboard with 16 Gb of RAM, three sets of mirrored SATA hard drives, NAS4Free and the ZFS file system. For more details of this build goto: https://sites.google.com/site/
The Kalamazoo Linux User Group was very pleased to welcome Kalamazoo’s native son, Matt Crampton, to our holiday party. Matt co-founded KLUG in 1998, and as a rising star in the Silicone Valley, he co-founded Gigwalk in 2010. He currently serves as Gigwalk’s CTO. Gigwalk is an innovative addition to the “Sharing Economy” where Gigwalkers … Read more
Kalamazoo Linux Users Group will hold our annual holiday party on December 27 from 6:00 P.M. – ? This year the party will be held at the new Kalamazoo Makers Space: www.kzoomakers.org – Pizza, salad, dessert and non-alcoholic beverages will be served. Please RSVP so, we may order adequate provisions.
The group remoted into the ClearOS server that we are setting up for our network lab. Working from a terminal on a Linux laptop we used the SSH protocol and learned the how to login remotely. We then created group and user accounts using command line tools. We will be expanding the network in future … Read more
All things Pi and more mini computing innovations will be on display. You will be able to have a hands on experience with everything on display and we hope to have some special demonstrations and speakers here for a fun and informative event! In addition to the technology on display the Kalamazoo Linux Users Group … Read more
The CompTIA Linux+ Study Group has begun. Anyone interested in joining may RSVP that they want to join the group at: www.kalamazoolinux.org … We meet from 6:00 to 7:00 P.M. every Tuesday before the general Kalamazoo Linux User Group (KLUG) meeting which runs from 7:00 to 9:00 P.M. We will continue to practice the CompTIA … Read more