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
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
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
Scott Mischke has arranged for a presentation by the Director of Information Security at MPI Research, Randy Slain, on security risk assessment “best practices”, especially as a precursor to qualification in the pharmaceutical industry; common challenges they face with security. identifying vulnerabilities and conducting due diligence audits to mitigate risks. The presentation will begin at … Read more
Scot Henderson made another great presentation at our weekly KLUG meeting. The topic, FLOSS or Free Libre Open Source software was very interesting and informative. We learned the difference between Free and non-free software in the GNU/Linux world. Scot introduced us to vrms (virtual Richard M Stallman); https://scottlinux.com/2014/02/19/find-non-free-software-installed-on-your-debian-machine/ … an apt that will detect any … Read more
Scot Henderson demonstrated the 3D printer that he built at home at our Tuesday night meeting. We also welcomed six new folks to our meeting to learn about the Linux operating system and the Open Source community and we gave two Dell desktop computers (with Linux Puppy installed) away last night so they could become … Read more
Charles Stemaly presented a brief introduction to basic networking, followed by a demonstration on finding other connected systems connected to the local LAN network using Linux commands and by using tools like NMap and Wireshark, all from within the Kali Linux distribution (www.kali.org). We then scanned a couple of websites using Nikto, which is a … Read more