Our HLUG program for this Saturday will involve the Return of Robert Spotswood, and he'll speak on a trick you may find useful if you have some sort of system administrator job. Suppose - JUST SUPPOSE - that a Microsoft Windows network develops a virus problem (actually, you could assume a Mac or even Linux or anything else network in theory here). Robert has a Linux machine set up to go out onto a network and delete all sorts of bad guys, and is pretty well locked down itself so as to be as attack-resistant as possible. The demonstration will be set up for this Linux machine to clean up a stricken Windows computer (the probable industry predicament), and right before our eyes. It'll be my job to bring the stricken Windows machine, and we'll see if I can properly virus one without sending it all the way to Davy Jones' Locker.
Also new this week: the opening feature we're calling "Favorite Flag", which will be presented by a different presenter than the main presenter. Since every Nix-world command has 26-ish potential "flags" or alterations to its functional behavior, we should have an almost infinite supply of new things to learn about a command every time we have a Saturday Presentation. Flag to be announced, and probably assigned to somebody at the Wednesday meet.
