Meetings and Presentation

Monthly Meetings

Second Saturdays

MDLUG meets monthly at The Gaudior Academy in Inkster. At 12:30p to around 2:30p on the Second Saturday. Gaudior Academy is Located at 27100 Avondale Avenue Inkster MI 48141 Each meeting usually begins with MDLUG business. A presentation may follow. Often general discussions are the order of business. (Contact secretary at mdlug.org to learn the requirements and volunteer to do a presentation.) After the meeting, some of us usually go to a local restaurant.

IRC during the meeting

IRC discussions during the meeting

IRC will be used during the meeting so if you are not able to meet physicaly you can join the channel and keep up with the meeting! Either go to our MDLUG IRC page or connect to the irc.freenode.net server and join the #mdlug channel.

Presentation Notes and Handouts.

Downloads available in the links below

This is where you will find a listing of upcoming presentation and event information, and minutes from previous meetings. We are always in need of presenters. If you have a topic and there is an opening that works for you, please send an email to The Secretary

2012 Meeting Presentations and Minutes

Month Presentation Minutes
January Elections - If you would like to make a nomination for officers please email to the main list. Please refer to our bylaws (sections IV, VI, and VII) for eligibility.
Presentation: Michael Mol will be demonistrating IPV6.
Minutes
February Tech Tip: Mat Enders about SSHFS!
Presentation: Pat about "The Cloud" and Cloud Systems!
 Minutes
March Tech Tip
Presentation:
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April Tech Tip:
Presentation:
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May Tech Tip
Presentation:
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June Tech Tip
Presentation
Minutes
July Tech Tip
Presentation:
Minutes
August Tech Tip
Presentation
Minutes
September Tech Tip:
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October Tech Tip
Presentation:
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November Tech Tip
Presentation
Minutes
December Tech Tip
Presentation
Minutes

2011 Meeting Presentations and Minutes

Month Presentation Minutes
January Elections - If you would like to make a nomination for officers please email to the main list. Please refer to our bylaws (sections IV, VI, and VII) for eligibility. Minutes
February Tech Tip - Command Line Basics - Mat Enders
Presentation
Minutes
March Tech Tip
Discuss the plans for Penguicon 2011 ( http://www.penguicon.org )
Minutes
April Tech Tip: Commandline Tips and Tricks - Mat Enders
Presentation: Command line image manipulation using imagemagic. Short scripts to make editing multiple photos easy! - Mary Tolmich and Tony Bemus
Minutes
May Tech Tip
Presentation: Multiple-server hot site backups + quick restoration on the cheap using Amazon's EC2 - Mark Stanislav - http://www.uncompiled.com
Minutes
June Tech Tip
Presentation
Minutes
July Tech Tip
Presentation: How to Survive an Audit - Gib Nichols
Minutes
August Tech Tip
Presentation
Minutes
September Tech Tip: Swappiness - Tony Bemus
Presentation: A short Linux History - Tony Bemus
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October Tech Tip
Presentation: Carl Miller - email and email clients
Minutes
November Tech Tip
Presentation
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December Tech Tip
Presentation: Kevin O'Brien's Hardware Discovery Commands
Minutes

2010 Meeting Presentations and Minutes

Month Presentation Minutes
January Open Format Minutes
February Election
Don't rm, shred instead - Matt Enders		 Minutes
March Tech Tip - Find Files Modified Between two dates - Matt Enders
Presentations: Rsync - Mary Tomich, Webmin - Matt Enders		 Minutes
April Tech Tip - Find Files Access during a programs execution - Matt Enders
Short Presentation - Web HTTrack webinterface - Mary Tolmich and Gib Nichols
Presentation - Linux MCE - Tony Bemus		 Minutes
May Tech Tip - Find Files created during installation - Matt Enders
Short Presentation - Grub 2 - Mary Tolmich
Presentation -
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June Tech Tip - List open files - Matt Enders
Presentation -
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July Tech Tip - md5sum password - Matt Enders
Presentation - Unmeeting - Gib Nichols
Minutes
August Tech Tip - Reset Forgotten Root Password - Matt Enders
Presentation - Setting up your home LAMP (Linux Apache MySql Php) Server (web server) - Tony Bemus
Minutes
September Tech Tip - Reset Terminal - Matt Enders
Presentation - Virtual Box - Pat
Minutes
October Tech Tip - Running Complex Commands With sudo - Matt Enders
Presentation - Secure SMTP Server Configuration - Robbin
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November Tech Tip - Xmessage Popup - Matt Enders
Presentation -
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December Tech Tip - How to use sshfs - Matt Enders
Presentation - Introduction to Linux - Kevin O'Brien
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Archived Meeting notes and Presention info

Notes and downloads from before Janurary 2010

Notes for 2008:

January February March April
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May June July August
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September October November December
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Notes for 2007:

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May June July August
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September October November December
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Notes for 2006:

Presentation given at the April meeting
Minutes and attendance from the March meeting
Minutes from the February meeting
Minutes from the January meeting
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May June July August
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Archived Presention Info

Presentation Notes and downloads from before Janurary 2010

Presentations