[RLUG] Next month's meeting topic

[Dennis Bagley]

As long as you are discussing backups.....

I recently came across a recommendation to put your home directory on a
separate partition - the concept being it simplified some aspects of
backups and put you in a better position when upgrading or changing a
distro.

Comments, qualifications, recommendations, directions?

Dennis


On Tue, 2006-01-10 at 12:02 -0800, Sebastian Smith wrote:
> Brian,
> 
> Sweet!  I just got a room confirmed, and was going to send out the 
> announcement (I'm completely disorganized this month).
> 
> I'm going to present a beginning level topic on the basics of Linux 
> backup.  This topic will cover some of the backup programs available and 
> how to use them, and some basic backup scripts.
> 
> I think I'll also bring the research robot, and briefly discuss what I'm 
> working on.
> 
> - Sebastian
> 
> On Tue, 10 Jan 2006, Brian Morris wrote:
> 
> > All,
> >
> > Since no item got more than a single vote, and since I had captured some
> > useful/informative spam logs recently, I have chosen to present
> > "Fighting Spam at the ISP Level" (as the advanced topic) at this week's
> > meeting.
> >
> > Sebastian: Are you presenting the basic topic?
> >
> > Brian
> >
> > Sebastian Smith wrote:
> >> Brian,
> >>
> >> Excellent list!  All are great topics.  A lot of them are very broad in
> >> scope though.  Perhaps they would be better suited as in introductory
> >> presentation to a long-running discussion -- I'm thinking GSA topics here.
> >>
> >> Anyway, I'd like to put my vote on topic 1.  I think it'd be great to have
> >> an introductory talk on the techniques for combating spam.  Then, have an
> >> open forum discussion of the ramifactions of the filtering techniques.
> >>
> >> Spam filtering is the next "big thing" on the tech horizon IMHO.  Those
> >> companies, ISPs, etc that haven't jumped on the bandwagon yet probably
> >> have some anti-spam technology in their 2006 budgets.  Addition of this
> >> technology will/does affect the way we communicate -- business practices
> >> will need to change.  So... it's very important -- now the email is the
> >> "killer application" -- that we all have an understanding of the new email
> >> dataflow model.
> >>
> >> We'll keep the polls open though.  So vote!  I've no doubt spam will be on
> >> the "discussion platter" within the next few months regardless of the
> >> results.
> >>
> >> - Sebastian
> >>
> >> On Sun, 18 Dec 2005, Brian Morris wrote:
> >>
> >>
> >> Sebastian,
> >>
> >> I could present one.   Pick one from this list, if you like (the topics
> >> would be presented from a fully Linux-centric point of view):
> >>
> >> 1) Fighting spam at the server/ISP level (Sendmail-intensive)
> >> 2) Post-instrusion tracing/investigation
> >> 3) Social engineering (and how to not be a victim of it)
> >> 4) The birth & death of a TCP packet/stream
> >> 5) Advanced syslog control
> >> 6) Network and physical attack vectors
> >> 7) How telephony works
> >> 8) Intro to BGP & OSPF
> >>
> >> Brian
> >>
> >> Sebastian Smith wrote:
> >>
> >>> We have a beginner-level topic for next month.  I'm not sure of the
> >>> official title, but it is an introduction to the Vi/Vim editors.  If you
> >>> don't use Vi/Vim you should attend the meeting because they are fantastic
> >>> -- especially for coding.
> >>
> >>> Would anyone like present an advanced-level topic?
> >>
> >>> - Sebastian
> >>
> >>
> >>
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