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December 16th Meeting Details

Dual Head Sun and MultiMedia Demo: By John Baker
John Baker's back up this month and will be showing how to configure multi-head Sun Sparc systems (on his SS20), as well as do real time video capture on Sun hardware. You don't see this every day.

GPS Companion for the Handspring Visor Series PDAs: By Tom Weeks
Basically this demo will go over how to use the Magellan GPS module for the Handspring Visor. This little GPS springboard module is nice as it allows you to upload map files, show your location in real time, mark way points, etc. These low cost GPS solutions can now be had at Wal Mart for $79 brand new! If you have a Visor, you need to check this out. If you want to know more about Visor Handspring modules, See Here.

Portscanning/Security 101: By Tom Weeks and John Baker
This started off as one friend checking out another friend's home firewall security... and it struck us that the group might like to know more about this subject also.

Basically we're going to go over (in basic terms) internet machine security, port scanning (checking for holes), and basic rules for locking down--or machine machines (even machines at home on RR or ADSL) more secure.

[We bascially just used N-Map to show how to scan a box, see what ports are open, and then how to shut them down.]

If this ad hoc presentation turns out to be very popular, we might develop and expand it a bit for future meetings--getting into more technical details for the benefit of the group. Let us know what you think.

Free Stuff!

As usual, we will have some Linux Journal magazines to giveaway this month for those who come and enter to win.

P I Z Z A - N - C O K E ! Free for those who show up before 7:30. Partially sponsored by Pizza Hut manager Tony de la Pena, at 4250 Fredericksburg(210-736-2721).

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• 2002-01: The "Open K-12 Petition Drive" declares, "The Settlement Has Been Rejected by Honorable Judge Frederick Motz" regarding the throwing out of the settlement for Microsoft in its anti-trust case.
• 2001-11-05: Some of Infoworld's latest thoughts about Windows XP here and here.
• 2001-10-30: A good article on how Amazon.com switched to Linux to save millions on their technology costs.
• 2001-06-27: An article from Tech Republic on Five steps to deploying Linux in the enterprise. Good Read for IT management.
• 2001-11-06: A good artile on how Linux is finding it's way into many tech-products via the back end, replacing higher priced commercial OS'.
• 2001-11-05: A hole in Microsoft's Passport system (part of the .NET system) has forced them to take Passport off line for now. For more information on the Passport vulnerability, see this e-paper entitled, Microsoft Passport to Trouble.

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members as a service to both.  Feel free to contact the members below 
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