BALUG Tu 2010-06-15 The vi editor, introduction through advanced usage, presented by Michael Paoli; & other BALUG news
In this issue (details further below): 2010-06-15: The vi editor, introduction through advanced usage, presented by Michael Paoli; & other BALUG news Installfests (2010-06-13 in Berkeley; etc.) 2010-05-18 Sam Bowne IPv6/sslstrip/Slowloris materials/"slides" "Working in the Business" (Linux, IT, etc.), panel discussion
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Bay Area Linux User Group (BALUG) Tuesday 6:30 P.M. 2010-06-15 The vi editor, introduction through advanced usage, presented by Michael Paoli
Please RSVP if you're planning to come (see further below).
For our 2010-06-15 BALUG meeting, we're excited to present:
The vi editor, introduction through advanced usage, presented by Michael Paoli
Don't know what vi is? New to vi, or been using vi for years? Whatever familiarity and experience you do or don't have with vi, this presentation promises to include something useful for everyone. It will cover from basic introduction to vi, through many powerful and useful tips and tricks (e.g. handy and powerful editing operations, and leveraging vi to do much more than "just" edit files). Some of the differences and advantages and disadvantages of various vi implementations (historic vi, nvi, vim, etc.) will also be covered.
While vi may be simply and modestly described as "a screen oriented text editor", vi is in fact the standard (and de facto standard) text editor for at least UNIX, Linux, and BSD environments, and it's also been ported to many other environments. But don't underestimate vi just because it's "standard". vi is a quite powerful and capable editor, and greatly outperforms the text editing capabilities of many other editors.
Michael Paoli has been using vi for well over a quarter century, from humble beginnings with introductory documentation and quick reference card in hand, to oft repeated, "Wow, how did you do that?" remarks from co-workers watching some of his vi wranglings. He's also been doing Linux systems administration for over a dozen years, and used UNIX all the way back to his humble vi beginnings.
So, if you'd like to join us please RSVP to:
rsvp@balug.org
**Why RSVP??**
Well, don't worry we won't turn you away, but the RSVPs really help the Four Seas Restaurant plan the meal and they help ensure that we'll be able to eat upstairs in the private banquet room.
Meeting Details...
6:30pm Tuesday, June 15th, 2010 2010-06-15
Four Seas Restaurant http://www.fourseasr.com/ 731 Grant Ave. San Francisco, CA 94108 Easy PARKING: Portsmouth Square Garage at 733 Kearny: http://www.sfpsg.com/
Cost: The meetings are always free, but for dinner, for your gift of $13 cash, we give you a gift of dinner ticket to join us for a yummy family-style Chinese dinner - tax and tip included (your gift also helps in our patronizing the restaurant venue and helping to defray BALUG costs such treating our speakers to dinner).
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Installfests (2010-06-13 in Berkeley; etc.)
Looks like the Berkeley Linux Users Group[1] is doing an installfest in Berkeley on 2010-06-13, not at their regular (Bobby G's) location (they may not be meeting there that day), but at ZaReason[2]'s location in Berkeley. Details should be findable somewhere on their website[1] and/or list[3].
Noisebridge[4] and the Ubuntu California Team[5] teamed up for a 2010-05-30 installfest[6][7] at the Noisebridge[4] location in San Francisco.
The above are some examples of additional installfest activity in the (near) Bay Area region that have at least occasionally been happening, in addition to the quite regular installfests at Cabal[8].
1. http://www.berkeleylug.com/ 2. http://zareason.com/ 3. http://groups.google.com/group/berkeleylug?hl=en 4. https://www.noisebridge.net/ 5. https://wiki.ubuntu.com/CaliforniaTeam 6. https://www.noisebridge.net/wiki/Lucid_Lynx_Installfest 7. 2010-05-30 http://linuxmafia.com/pipermail/sf-lug/2010q2/007815.html 8. http://linuxmafia.com/cabal/
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2010-05-18 Sam Bowne IPv6/sslstrip/Slowloris materials/"slides"
At the 2010-05-18 BALUG meeting, Sam Bowne not only covered (and demonstrated) sslstrip and Slowloris, but also covered IPv6. Materials for/from the meeting, including now also IPv6, may be found on/via: http://samsclass.info/ipv6/evangelism.html http://lists.balug.org/pipermail/balug-announce-balug.org/2010-May/000152.ht...
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"Working in the Business" (Linux, IT, etc.), panel discussion
BALUG is working to assemble panel (and moderator) for "Working in the Business" (Linux, IT, etc.), panel discussion
Should make for very interesting, lively, informative and useful discussion/presentation/"talk/debate".
For more information, and also if you know someone you'd like as panelist or moderator (or are yourself interested), and/or if you have specific topics/questions you'd like to see covered by the panel, PLEASE HAVE A LOOK AT: http://www.balug.org/#panel At the present time we're ACTIVELY GATHERING INFORMATION ON POTENTIAL PANELISTS, MODERATORS, available dates, etc., to plan and coordinate this event. Please also do feel free to pass this information along to any contacts you feel appropriate that may be interested.
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