The feature presentation for our ALE Central Meeting at
7:30pm on Thursday, Sept. 15th, 2011 will be:
The Keys to Using SSH
with David Tomaschik
Synopsis:
— The Secure Shell, or SSH, is a powerful communications tool
most often used for securely accessing a command-line session
on a remote system. As essential as that functionality is, there is
much more to SSH than that. This talk will introduce SSH, and
discuss integral applications including secure file transfer,
accessing services behind a firewall, and running graphical
applications software remotely. Specific topics include:
– Starting with SSH
– SSH Keys
– Secure File Copying (SCP)
– Port Forwarding
– X11 Forwarding
– Advanced SSH options and functions
Bio:
– David is a system administrator and Drupal developer at
Kennesaw State University. Additionally, he is currently
pursuing a M.S. in Information Security from Georgia Tech.
When he’s not at the computer (a rare event), he enjoys
sci-fi books and movies and amateur photography.
NOTE:
This is a reprise of the talk offered at ALE NW / SPSU
on Sept. 8th, though to better address the experienced
ALE Central audience some advanced topics are being
added. Slides of the original talk have been posted here:
http://systemoverlord.com/presentations/keys-ssh
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Our ALE Central meetings are usually held at Emory
Law School in the Gambrel Hall lecture room 1C.
Our meeting time frame is 7:30pm to ~9:30pm
Directions to Emory Law School can be found at
http://ale.org/?page_id=2
The feature presentation for our ALE Central Meeting
at 7:30pm on Thursday, July 21st, 2011 will be:
“An Introduction to Drupal CMS”
presented by David Tomaschik
— MP4 Pixeo of this presentation is now available for download
courtesy Steve Brown and Fabric.com at:
ale-20110721-drupal-tomaschik.mp4
— and via Torrent with the torrent file at:
ale-20110721-drupal-tomaschik.mp4?torrent
— and among other ALE presentations courtesy of Aaron at:
arxion.net/ale
— with the presentation slides available courtesy David at:
drupal-open-source-content-management
Synopsis:
– Drupal is a freely distributable open source Content Management
System used for building everything from basic websites to web
applications and social media sites. Drupal is scalable and can
be tailored to meet many needs, from small personal sites to
sites that get millions of hits a day. This presentation will cover
everything from choosing a hosting platform to building content
to utilizing the power of community contributed modules, with
specific topics including:
– Why is Drupal the right choice?
– Choosing a hosting platform
– Initial installation and configuration
– Building basic content
– Managing themes, blocks, and other features
– The power of “contrib” (community-contributed modules)
– An overview of custom development
– How to run multiple sites from one codebase
Bio:
— David is a system administrator and Drupal developer at Kennesaw
State University. Additionally, he is currently pursuing a M.S. in
Information Security from Georgia Tech. When he’s not at the computer
(a rare event), he enjoys sci-fi books and movies and amateur
photography.
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The meeting will be held at Emory Law School in our
usual Gambrel Hall, room 1C venue.
Our meeting time frame is 7:30pm to ~9:30pm
Directions to Emory Law School can be found at
http://ale.org/?page_id=2
…and if you missed our March meeting, be sure to
check out Davids excellent presentation on
“Protecting Privacy, Identity & Systems with GnuPG”
available at http://arxion.net/ale/
The feature presentation for our ALE Central Meeting
at 7:30pm on Thursday, March 17th, 2011 will be:
“Protecting Privacy, Identity & Systems with GnuPG”
presented by David Tomaschik
*** Video of this presentation is now available for download or streaming
under the file name “ale-20110317-gpg-tomaschik.mp4” at these URL’s:
– http://arxion.net/ale/
– http://patshead.com/ale/
– http://jimkinney.us/downloads/
– http://dl.dropbox.com/u/9879631/
A member has also posted a torrent at Amazon S3:
– ale-20110317-gpg-tomaschik.mp4?torrent
File is ~443MB as h.264 encode in an mp4 wrapper.
Slides alone are available at SystemOverlord.com
For more on the math & history of public key encryption, gpg and pgp, visit:
– http://www.livinginternet.com/i/is_crypt_pkc_inv.htm
***
Synopsis:
— GnuPG is a GPL-licensed implementation of the OpenPGP standard,
first popularized by free (as in beer) and commercial implementations
known as PGP. GPG is used in encrypted e-mail, signed documents,
software package management, and even for SSH authentication.
If you are interested in protecting your privacy, your identity, your
software downloads, or in using one tool to manage SSH keys and
digital signatures, come and see how GPG can help you meet your goals.
We’ll also talk about best practices and options for using hardware
smartcards to protect your keys in your GPG usage.
Bio:
— David is a system administrator and Drupal developer at Kennesaw
State University. Additionally, he is currently pursuing a M.S. in
Information Security from Georgia Tech. When he’s not at the computer
(a rare event), he enjoys sci-fi books and movies and amateur
photography.
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The meeting will be held at Emory Law School in our
usual Gambrel Hall, room 1C venue.
Our meeting time frame is 7:30pm to ~9:30pm
Directions to Emory Law School can be found at
http://ale.org/?page_id=2
Our ALE Central Meeding presentation for
Thursday, July 12th, 7:30pm will be:
“Fun with Drupal 5:
Beyond Content Management”
Presented by Elmer Masters
Synopsis:
In the context of the current projects I’m working on, I’ll
talk about setting up Drupal multisites, sharing database
tables between sites, using external authentication, managing
content and users, customizing content-types, building
modules, and a bit of theming, time permitting.
Generally, I’ll expose that Drupal is not merely a content
management system, but functions well as a complete web
development framework and platform.
Bio:
By day Elmer Masters is the Director of Internet
Development for the Center for Computer-Assisted Legal
Instruction ( CALI, http://www.cali.org ) where
he is currently heading up a one-man project to move all of
CALI’s web resources to Drupal.
By night, he is also an admin of the Teknoids mailing list
and website ( http://www.teknoids.net ) and
occasionally blogs at http://www.content4.symphora.com/.
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Meeting time is 7:30pm to ~9:30pm
Directions to Emory Law School are at the
Central Meeting link on the side bar.
** ROOM NOTE **
We will be meeting in room 5F (top floor
of Gambrel Hall) due to renovations of the
first floor lecture rooms.