PLUG's Upcoming Events

GAMES NIGHT on Jun 9th

Published: 05 June 2016

We've got a 2 presentations for this month's meeting from Todd Millecam and Aaron Jones.

Todd Millecam: Linux and Gaming Technology

Linux has never been considered much of a gaming platform, but to those who know how some of the tools work and how to make them work for you, it can provide a stable and higher performance environment than any proprietary OS.

I'll show you how to get Steam and Steam games working on (nearly) any distro.

I'll cover the different console emulators and how to use them in a Linux environment.

We'll discuss different GPU drivers and their advantages and disadvantages to the open-source ecosystem. We'll cover a few graphics libraries and what they do, and show you how to get most every game working on a Linux desktop environment. You might even learn enough to get started on writing your own game in Linux.

We'll go through all different types of gaming, from solitaire to Starcraft, and how to get most all of them to work on Linux.

Biography:
Todd has worked in Linux DevOps for 9 years. He Specializes in high performance and high availability systems

Aaron Jones: REAL gaming on Linux

Who needs Proprietary Graphics Drivers, GLX, or GUI's? Not us! We are going to play games the way they were meant to be played. In the terminal. Are you ready to enjoy some hard core gaming in VIM? How about collecting lamps and slaying monsters?

Still interested in running games that require a GUI or even worse... Windows? That's fine. We will discuss Steam Streaming and how you can create a gaming box for your home that you can access from your Linux system when you feel the need to do so.

Infocom, Visicorp, and Jack Daniels. Three companies that make gaming on Linux possible. Let's play!---

Biography:
Aaron spends the majority of my time on the computer using the terminal and would rather use Linux when ever he can.

Meeting on 5/12

Published: 11 May 2016

This month we will have Glen Walker presenting to us.

Title:
GET HIRED!

Description:
"How can I get a job in security?" As a hiring manager I have been asked this question many times over many years. To help security professions at many different levels I have been talking to InfoSec classes and groups about what my teams have been looking for and what differentiates the candidates we have hired at the companies at which I have worked.

I will discuss:

What training and experience we look for on resumes
The importance of "cultural fit" in the interview
How technical questions are selected and why
Other interview styles I have seen and how to handle them differently
How to better socially engineer your interview

Biography:
Glen Walker wrote his first BASIC program on a Commodore PET in 1980 and first installed RedHat Linux on an old computer in 1998. He has been an Information Security professional and hobbyist since 2009. More useful to you, he has also been a hiring manager and coach of hiring managers for sixteen years in the Network and InfoSec fields and is currently involved in Security Canyon's efforts to increase Metro-Phoenix's reputation and value as a prime location for InfoSec.

PLUG Meeting on 4/14

Published: 08 April 2016

Description:
Atom is a desktop editor, like Textmate or Sublime, and it is built on the Node.js framework called Electron. This is a tour of Atom's features and a look at what Electron can do. We have Github to thank for both of these tools and I hope you find them as useful as I do.

Biography:
Ed has been involved with Free Software for some time, and is most interested in how people, organizations and populations use, create and experience information. Recently, he is enjoying The Prescott National Forest as my "personal office" and The Valley of The Sun as a home away from home. Personal systems run either Fedora, CoreOS, Android or OpenBSD.

Installfest for March 19th moved

Published: 11 March 2016

The Installfest for March 19th has been moved to Gangplank.