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Oregon Latvian Community Center

5500 SW Dosch Road
Portland, OR 97239, USA (map)

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  • Thursday
    Mar 7 2024
    Portland Linux/Unix Group General Monthly Meeting: A Network Relay through a Cloud Instance; and Retro Linux Tape Recovery Show and Tell
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    Who: Russell Senior
    What: Part 1: A Network Relay via Cloud Instance ; Part 2: Retro Linux Tape Recovery Show and Telll
    Where: 5500 SW Dosch Rd, Portland
    When: Thursday, March 7, 2024 at 7pm
    Why: The pursuit of technology freedom

    The first part is going to be a description of how I relay network connections from the Internet to my low-volume home-based email server to evade potential ISP blockages.

    The second part is going to be a show and tell about my resurrection of an ancient Linux version in order to recover data from Quarter Inch Cartridge tapes and ancillary topics. It will also include a short demo of my MS-DOS 5.0 environment also (resurrected from tape) the month before I installed Linux for the first time in December 1992.

    About Russell:

    I am a person for whom the Year of the Linux Desktop started in 1992 and has continued annually, uninterrupted. I worked for a couple decades in scientific data management and analysis. Since 2005, I have been involved with the Personal Telco Project, a volunteer-based 501c3 non-profit trying to unscrew telecommunications policy in the Portland metropolitan area. I did a short stint in data management for an Oceanographic organization when it was housed at OH&SU. I also volunteer at Portland State Aerospace Society working on their OreSat program. My name, misspelled in glorious circuit board silkscreen, has literally been in orbit for most of the last 2 years. I have done a bunch of PLUG talks over the years.

    Rules and Requests:

    Masks are encouraged but not required.

    PLUG is open to everyone and does not tolerate abusive behavior on its mailing lists or at its meetings

    Do not leave valuables in your car

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  • Thursday
    Feb 1 2024
    Portland Linux/Unix Group General Monthly Meeting: New Year Show and Tell
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    Who: Ted, Michael, YOU...
    What: New Year Show and Tell
    Where: 5500 SW Dosch Rd, Portland
    When: Thursday, February 1st, 2024 at 7pm
    Why: The pursuit of technology freedom

    Ted: Bandwidth monitoring OpenWRT and DD-WRT routers with MRTG

    Michael: Managing Windows from FreeBSD Environments

    You: What have you been working on this last few months?

    Rules and Requests:

    Masks are encouraged but not required. CCC in Germany sent a LOT of people home with COVID-19. 19 as in 2019 and please people, it's not something we want to hang on to.

    PLUG is open to everyone and does not tolerate abusive behavior on its mailing lists or at its meetings

    Do not leave valuables in your car

    Website
  • Thursday
    Oct 5 2023
    Portland Linux/Unix Group: Firejail and Linux VPNs (In person!)
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    Portland Linux/Unix Group General Meeting Announcement

    Who: Mark/Xe1phix
    What: Firejail and Linux VPNs
    Where: 5500 SW Dosch Rd, Portland
    When: Thursday, October 5th, 2023 at 7pm
    Why: The pursuit of technology freedom

    In this presentation, Xe1phix will cover:

    Firejail - Sandbox - Namespace isolation (network namespaces, mount namespaces, user namespaces, PID namespaces), Seccomp-BPF - Syscall filtering Linux Capabilities (POSIX 1003.1e) filter AppArmor - Kernel module used to sandbox programs DNS-Over-HTTPS (DoH) - Encrypted DNS resolution using Mullvad DNS OpenVPN - Secure VPN setup Wireguard - Secure VPN setup Wireguard tunnels - Multihop VPN connections. Telegram - Instant Messenger Securely connecting to Telegram using Wireguard SOCKS5 proxy. Securely connecting to Telegram using OpenVPN SOCKS5 proxy. Sandboxing Telegram with Firejail Sandboxing Telegram with AppArmor qBittorrent Securely connecting to qBittorrent using Wireguard SOCKS5 proxy. Securely connecting to qBittorrent using OpenVPN SOCKS5 proxy. Using IPFilters to blacklist bad peers ProtonVPN - Trusted VPN setup DNS leak protection VPN Killswitch IPTables - Netfilter packet filter/firewall OPNSense/PFSense - OpenVPN setup Network forensics cheatsheets TCPDump, TShark, ngrep, ss, nfdump, etc Process logging cheatsheets Journalctl, lsof, ps, fuser, etc.

    Xe1phix is a Linux systems engineer (Linux+, LPIC-1, LPIC-2).

    He has studied Linux for 12 years, and has read over 200 books on Linux security. His primary focus, and passion in life is studying:

    Linux system hardening/security Linux memory forensics & malware analysis Intrusion Detection Systems (IDS)

    Rules and Requests:

    Please bring and properly fit a mask unless actively presenting

    PLUG is open to everyone and does not tolerate abusive behavior on its mailing lists or at its meetings

    Do not leave valuables in your car

    Website
  • Thursday
    Aug 3 2023
    Portland Linux/Unix Group: Using DRBD and LINSTOR to Facilitate Cloud Migration and Mobility (In person!)
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    Portland Linux/Unix Group General Meeting Announcement

    Who: Julia Iacoviello
    What: Using DRBD and LINSTOR to Facilitate Cloud Migration and Mobility
    Where: 5500 SW Dosch Rd, Portland
    When: Thursday, August 3rd, 2023 at 7pm
    Why: The pursuit of technology freedom

    There are many advantages to flexible cloud storage, but even with a good idea of how you might implement your environment in the cloud, the challenge of transferring legacy data may stand in your way. In this talk, Julia Iacoviello from LINBIT will explain core concepts of the open source, distributed replicated storage system, DRBD, as well as the open source storage management software, LINSTOR. Then, we will explore how these technologies can be leveraged to mitigate pain points in migrating production databases and other services into the cloud, including to containerized applications that rely on persistent stateful storage. Special considerations to be made for migration of existing data will be highlighted in this talk; additionally, a broad base of information about DRBD and general high-availability storage will be provided, with the hope that all that attend may learn something applicable to their particular use case, now or in the future.

    Rules and Requests:

    Please bring and properly fit a mask unless actively presenting

    PLUG is open to everyone and does not tolerate abusive behavior on its mailing lists or at its meetings

    Do not leave valuables in your car

    Website
  • Thursday
    May 4 2023
    Portland Linux/Unix Group: Setting up inexpensive home security cameras with ZoneMinder to secure your home or business Part II
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    Portland Linux/Unix Group General Meeting Announcement

    Who: Ted Mittelstaedt
    What: Setting up inexpensive home security cameras with ZoneMinder to secure your home or business Part II
    Where: 5500 SW Dosch Rd, Portland
    When: Thursday, February 2nd, 2023 at 7pm
    Why: The pursuit of technology freedom

    Today there are a number of inexpensive home security cameras on the market that can be used to decrease the chance that your home or property will be tampered with. There's been a rash of catalytic converter and gasoline thefts in the Portland area in recent years, these require expensive replacements and repair of vehicle gas tanks that have been drilled into. Many homes in Portland do not have garages and residents use street parking. With the increasing use of electric vehicles and portable charging cables, the potential for theft and mischief exists as well. While a camera system may not prevent a theft, a good system can get a clear picture of the perpetrators and allow police to make an arrest. These systems also serve as a visual deterrent. This presentation will cover several camera systems and different concerns for mounting, cabling, and camera selection as well as recording camera data using ZoneMinder running on Linux and considerations for setting up this system.

    Rules and Requests:

    Please bring and properly fit a mask unless actively presenting

    PLUG is open to everyone and does not tolerate abusive behavior on its mailing lists or at its meetings

    Do not leave valuables in your car

    Website
  • Thursday
    Apr 6 2023
    Portland Linux/Unix Group General Meeting

    Our speaker this month is John Stultz. John works for Google in the Android Systems team focusing on performance and working with the upstream Linux kernel community. He's spent most of his career prior working on AOSP devboards, Android upstreaming, PREEMPT_RT and Timekeeping. He'll be talking about Proxy Execution in the Linux scheduler for resolving priority inversion in cases where priority inheritance isn't sufficient.

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  • Thursday
    Feb 2 2023
    Portland Linux/Unix Group: Setting up inexpensive home security cameras with ZoneMinder to secure your home or business
    linux

    Portland Linux/Unix Group General Meeting Announcement

    Who: Ted Mittelstaedt
    What: Setting up inexpensive home security cameras with ZoneMinder to secure your home or business
    Where: 5500 SW Dosch Rd, Portland
    When: Thursday, February 2nd, 2023 at 7pm
    Why: The pursuit of technology freedom

    Today there are a number of inexpensive home security cameras on the market that can be used to decrease the chance that your home or property will be tampered with. There's been a rash of catalytic converter and gasoline thefts in the Portland area in recent years, these require expensive replacements and repair of vehicle gas tanks that have been drilled into. Many homes in Portland do not have garages and residents use street parking. With the increasing use of electric vehicles and portable charging cables, the potential for theft and mischief exists as well. While a camera system may not prevent a theft, a good system can get a clear picture of the perpetrators and allow police to make an arrest. These systems also serve as a visual deterrent. This presentation will cover several camera systems and different concerns for mounting, cabling, and camera selection as well as recording camera data using ZoneMinder running on Linux and considerations for setting up this system.

    Rules and Requests:

    Please bring and properly fit a mask unless actively presenting

    PLUG is open to everyone and does not tolerate abusive behavior on its mailing lists or at its meetings

    Do not leave valuables in your car

    Website