I cant do a talk myself.. as I really don't know enough to do one.. which in my
mind is a Very Good Reason (tm) not to get up and make a complete fool of myself
at a SLUG meet. Anyhow I do have some suggestions I'd love to hear as talks and
they come direct from what I've seen on this mailing list over the past 2-3
months:
1) Firewalls
How to set them up
Why you need them
What methods you can use
What ports should be open for what services and what games?
Masq and other fun things to do with a firewall
2) VPN
How to set it up
How to use it
Why you might use one
Benefits and Costs in a personal or business realm
3) SSH
How it works
How to use it
4) common partitioning questions
how partitioning works in Linux
filesystems and why we use the mounting system
why have separate filesystems at all? Doesn't it work fine in Windows?
what the fstab file is and how to read it
Lilo
5) Samba
How it works & how it works with Windows
How to set it up
So if anyone is keen to talk on these topics (as well as what 'Gus suggested..
they sound kewl) rather than telling me to go RTFM here is one vote to having
even simple or common concepts as talks - because I think it gets forgotten that
not everyone is a linux-guru or einstein and I think there might be a few people
out there who would also like some of the basics covered in a talk every so
often.
Surely someone out there knows enough about these topics to hold my attention
for 30 minutes? Right? <throw down the challenge>
Aaron
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