"Welcome back; your dreams were your ticket out..."

Long time no post! OK, here's the even REALER real schedule:

Dec. 8th - Steve Mussachia on the Linux Standards Base
Dec. 22nd - probably Hal-PC closed, so definitely no meeting.
January 12 - Pete Jamison on selected security topics (plus another thingie)
January 26 - Hal-PC general meeting (rather than Linux Presentation only)

Now, here's the longer explanation...

Coming up soonest is Steve's picture of how the Filesystem Hierarchy Standard and other such benchmarks fit into the larger Standards Base, and the current state of affairs with that. Then, the next thing will be me on topics like the tools and stats of insecure.org, oddities in Security+ training, and just for the heck of it, how a recently published article on Ndiswrapper promises to bail me out of that continuing mess.

On Jan. 26th we won't have a normal meeting (more from Rick on that general thing later) but I'll probably be reprising my um, Hard Drive Retirement speech, which involves mass realtime destructive testing before your very eyes. Many general members unconnected with Linux within Hal-PC haven't seen that yet, so expect several 911 calls and general bedlam.

As the great triad of Johnny, Doc and Ed often intoned, "more to come"...

LATEST Schedule

OCTOBER 27 - Possibly a surprise from me, since Aaron is not immediately available
NOVEMBER 10 - Steve Musacchia (on a Linux standards subject)
NOVEMBER 27 - Hal-PC closed for Thanksgiving Holiday
DECEMBER 8 - Robert Spotswood (on Transfer Control Protocol/Internet Protocol)
DECEMBER 22 - possibly Aaron's program - stay tuned!

... and I'll continue to mention whether or not I've been able to install Ndiswrapper.
As always, check Hal-PC for times.

Computer history, anyone??

Well, back in the day things were somewhat different. And in some ways, the same. Have a look at these links ---

A guy's basement
More great history from Jason Patterson
An ad-supported history site
the venerable Obsolyte.com

Inaugural Computer Page post

At this writing, I'm the President of the Saturday section of HLUG, or the Houston Linux Users' Group. This blog is being set up in case we need to get out word on HLUG programming changes that could happen on or after the spur of the moment, and to be a place to put comments of mine inappropriate for more formal channels - or any channels where it would be unclear as to who's blameworthy. The material here is solely attributable to me.

More specific info about HLUG: it meets at the headquarters of Hal-PC (the Houston Area League of PC Users) near San Felipe and the 610 Loop on the West side. There are currently three sections: Linux 101 with Sibley Cooley (first Tuesday of the month), the Linux Workshop (every Wednesday with Rich Archibald and company) and the Saturday Presentation Meeting with myself and whomever is conned into presenting.

Click here for times:
Hal-PC Website