From sigje at sigje.org Fri Jun 2 17:04:53 2006 From: sigje at sigje.org (Jennifer Davis) Date: Fri, 2 Jun 2006 17:04:53 -0700 (PDT) Subject: Socosa meeting June 7 - Storage Security Message-ID: Official announcement to follow later this weekend, but I wanted to get the word out before everyone starts relaxing (if they haven't already :), but Decru will be sponsoring the Socosa meeting on June 7 in Sebastopol at the O'Reilly Campus at 6pm. The meeting topic will be Storage Security, and Ed Hudson from Decru will be talking on storage security, including regulatory compliance and why you want to secure your storage. The talk will be vendor neutral, and Ed is very experienced with presenting to user groups having talked to security user groups in the past. go to www.socosa.org to learn more about the Sonoma County Sys Admin group. Jennifer From ahorn at deorth.org Fri Jun 9 16:30:55 2006 From: ahorn at deorth.org (Alan Horn) Date: Fri, 9 Jun 2006 16:30:55 -0700 (PDT) Subject: Upcoming BayLISA meetings. Thurs June 15th & Thurs June 29th Message-ID: General meeting - Thursday June 15th ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Please join us next thursday for the usual array of exciting subject matter. This month our topic is "MySQL Cluster in Production", presented by John David Duncan, MySQL AB. We will be meeting at Apple Campus in De Anza Building 3. Remember park in the back, as that is where the auditorium is located. You can register for free online at http://www.mollyguard.com/event/30732923 (This helps us with predicting attendance, so please use it if your principles allow ;) Special meeting - Thursday June 29th ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Also join us for an additional meeting this month, the topic is "Monitoring Solutions", presented by Thomas Stocking. Thomas will be comparing open-source monitoring solutions such as Nagios and Ganglia, to commercial offerings. This special meeting will be held at the Yahoo campus, 701 First Avenue, Sunnyvale CA. Directions to Yahoo are available online at : http://yhoo.client.shareholder.com/press/address.cfm When arriving, tell the guard-shack that you're attending a BayLISA meeting and you need to park in the parking structure. New corporate sponsor ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Cpacket Networks joined BayLISA as a corporate member this month, and we'd like to thank them for their valued support! Thanks, Alan From sigje at sigje.org Mon Jun 12 10:40:25 2006 From: sigje at sigje.org (Jennifer Davis) Date: Mon, 12 Jun 2006 10:40:25 -0700 (PDT) Subject: BayLISA Kilo-client presentation from NetApp Message-ID: Here is links to the Kilo-client presentation and videos presented in March of this year. http://www.netapp-web.com/newsletter/march2006/0306tot_kilo.aspx?anEvent=onLoad&guid=%7bA9B9FF52-50B3-46EF-8E36-5C62D4E5EFAD%7d If you have any questions about the presentation, please let me know and I'll pass them on to the relevant people. Jennifer From etraitel at gmail.com Mon Jun 12 15:05:24 2006 From: etraitel at gmail.com (Eyal Traitel) Date: Mon, 12 Jun 2006 15:05:24 -0700 Subject: Anyone done a research on conf calling service? Message-ID: I got a quote for 18 cents/min/participant and it seems it's very pricey. I'd love to hear on other services which are cheaper. I hope it's IT enough to not be an off-topic! Reply to me in person please just in case.... ;-) -- Yours, Eyal. -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From bill at wards.net Mon Jun 12 16:01:08 2006 From: bill at wards.net (Bill Ward) Date: Mon, 12 Jun 2006 16:01:08 -0700 Subject: Anyone done a research on conf calling service? In-Reply-To: References: Message-ID: <3d2fe1780606121601j5b345378uaa00766b62a10bc7@mail.gmail.com> There are free ones but you generally have to dial a long distance number (which is fine if everyone has cell phones with nationwide service) and there may be some concern about participants' email addresses being used for marketing purposes (so use a throwaway yahoo account). Google "free conference call" for some options. On 6/12/06, Eyal Traitel wrote: > > I got a quote for 18 cents/min/participant and it seems it's very pricey. > I'd love to hear on other services which are cheaper. > > I hope it's IT enough to not be an off-topic! Reply to me in person please > just in case.... ;-) > > -- > Yours, > Eyal. -- Help bring back the San Jose Earthquakes - http://www.soccersiliconvalley.com/ From bob at sutterfields.us Mon Jun 12 16:43:36 2006 From: bob at sutterfields.us (Bob Sutterfield) Date: Mon, 12 Jun 2006 16:43:36 -0700 Subject: Anyone done a research on conf calling service? In-Reply-To: <3d2fe1780606121601j5b345378uaa00766b62a10bc7@mail.gmail.com> Message-ID: Here is Skype's service: http://highspeedconferencing.com From sigje at sigje.org Thu Jun 15 10:12:19 2006 From: sigje at sigje.org (Jennifer Davis) Date: Thu, 15 Jun 2006 10:12:19 -0700 (PDT) Subject: Logo Creation Contest Message-ID: This August marks the 15th birthday of the Linux kernel, and the local Linux community is once again throwing a picnic and barbecue to celebrate! Picn*x15 will be held on Sunday, August 19th at the Baylands Park in Sunnyvale, Calif. The picnic is a free, family-friendly event. (For full details, see: http://www.linuxpicnic.org/ ) The picnic coordinators are holding a logo creation contest. The chosen artwork will appear on the official Linux anniversary picnic website, on flyers for the event and on t-shirts given out during the picnic (sponsored by Mirapoint). If you'd like to submit artwork for consideration for this year's event, email sigje at sigje.org with your logo idea. If you'd like to volunteer for the picnic, or sponsor this year's picnic we are still looking for both. Thank you, and I look forward to seeing you all at the picnic. BayLISA is sponsoring the picnic again this year, so please do come join the festivities. -- Jennifer Davis Picn*x XV Coordinator From sigje at sigje.org Thu Jun 15 11:06:58 2006 From: sigje at sigje.org (Jennifer Davis) Date: Thu, 15 Jun 2006 11:06:58 -0700 (PDT) Subject: Tonight! BayLISA June General Meeting - MySQL Cluster in Production Message-ID: Please join us for pizza sponsored by BayLISA! We will be meeting at Apple Campus in DeAnza Building 3. Remember park in the back, as that is where the auditorium is located. The theme for this meeting is MySQL and clusters. Topic: MySQL Cluster in Production Speaker: John David Duncan, consulting engineer with MySQL AB MySQL Cluster is the combination of MySQL with NDB Cluster, a high-performance distributed database system originally designed for telecom applications. JD Duncan will discuss the design of MySQL Cluster, and reveal how this design differs from "classic" MySQL replication, Oracle RAC, and other alternatives. He'll also share real-world stories of cluster administration. When: June 15, 2006, 7:00-9:45pm Location: Apple Campus, De Anza Building 3 Auditorium, 10500 N De Anza Blvd Cupertino, CA 95014 RSVP: http://www.mollyguard.com/event/30732923 or rsvp at baylisa.org Upcoming Talks: June 29, 2006 - Sponsored by GroundWork - Monitoring Solutions Time: 7:00-10:00pm Location: Yahoo Inc! 701 First Avenue Sunnyvale, CA Tom Stocking will be speaking about the evolution of open source tools for network and server monitoring and management. Nagios, Cacti, Gangli, and Weathermap will be covered. July 13, 2006 - Networking Event Time: 7:00-10:00pm Location: Yahoo Inc! 701 First Avenue Sunnyvale, CA Bring your resumes, business cards, and mingle with peers. July 20, 2006 - Shell Scripting Time: 7:00-10:00pm Location: Yahoo Inc! 701 First Avenue Sunnyvale, CA Jim Dennis will be guiding us through an all you can stuff in 2 hours of shell scripting. From sigje at sigje.org Thu Jun 15 11:37:29 2006 From: sigje at sigje.org (Jennifer Davis) Date: Thu, 15 Jun 2006 11:37:29 -0700 (PDT) Subject: Crepes Brunch! Message-ID: I've been tossing around the thought of meeting up for a breakfast/lunch regularly and I'm just going to start the ball rolling by having an open invite. We'll be meeting at the Whispers Cafe & Creperie at 12pm on June 18, 2006. They have other things (pancakes, french toast, as well as lunchy items like burgers), but the important part is just meeting up and talking about systems/security/networking type topics (or any other geeky subjects that come to mind). June 18, 2006 Whispers Cafe & Creperie 390 El Camino Real Belmont, CA 94002 No I don't think they have wireless.. but we can figure out a better place next time if people want wireless. No RSVPs required.. just show up if you feel like it on Sunday morning. Jennifer From lgj at usenix.org Mon Jun 19 09:40:02 2006 From: lgj at usenix.org (Lionel Garth Jones) Date: Mon, 19 Jun 2006 09:40:02 -0700 Subject: SRUTI '06 Workshop Registration Now Open to Public Message-ID: <4496D362.2060003@usenix.org> ---------------------------------- 2nd Workshop on Steps to Reducing Unwanted Traffic on the Internet (SRUTI '06) July 6?7, 2006 San Jose, CA, USA Sponsored by USENIX http://www.usenix.org/sruti06/proga ---------------------------------- Join us for the second SRUTI workshop, to be held in San Jose on Friday, July 7. The 2nd Workshop on Steps to Reducing Unwanted Traffic on the Internet (SRUTI '06) brings together networking and systems researchers and practitioners to explore new and promising directions in the reduction of unwanted traffic in its many forms. http://www.usenix.org/sruti06/proga The program includes a keynote talk by Rob Thomas of Team Cymru about the underground Internet economy. Plus the latest research on: * denial-of-service attacks * spam * botnets SRUTI is a highly interactive workshop, with substantial time devoted to questions and answers. We look forward to seeing you in San Jose. Steven M. Bellovin, Columbia University SRUTI '06 Program Chair ---------------------------------- 2nd Workshop on Steps to Reducing Unwanted Traffic on the Internet (SRUTI '06) July 6?7, 2006 San Jose, CA, USA Sponsored by USENIX http://www.usenix.org/sruti06/proga From bill at wards.net Mon Jun 19 14:49:29 2006 From: bill at wards.net (Bill Ward) Date: Mon, 19 Jun 2006 14:49:29 -0700 Subject: PenLUG this week: GTK+ in C++, Doug Barbieri Message-ID: <3d2fe1780606191449x4468fa2fke4fef26f6dea2d8@mail.gmail.com> Date: Thursday, June 22th, 2006 Time: meeting 7:00 - 9:00 PM, social/networking until 10 PM Location: Twin Pines Park, 1225 Ralston Ave, Belmont, CA 94002 RSVP: rsvp at penlug.org or http://upcoming.org/event/86257 (Note: RSVP is not required but we would like to know roughly how many people to expect) Speaker: Doug Barbieri, GTK in C++ The talk will cover the basics of gtkmm from the obligatory "Hello World" application to working with TreeView widgets. Layout, signals, menus and toolbars and dialogs will be discussed. At the end of the talk, an example application written using gtkmm will be shown. Doug Barbieri is a software engineer living and working in Davis, CA. He has been professionally designing and writing software for over 20 years. He is also a big fan of cross-platform, portable applications. From iennae at gmail.com Tue Jun 20 11:48:22 2006 From: iennae at gmail.com (Jennifer Davis) Date: Tue, 20 Jun 2006 11:48:22 -0700 Subject: Quiz Show announced! Webserver Tools of the Trade Seminar - Sep 16 Message-ID: The Networking event on July 13 will include a Quiz Show! You must RSVP to attend this event: http://www.mollyguard.com/event/30432023 Come out, meet your peers and if inclined join the challenging quiz show. There will be a number of rounds, and the top scorers will win prizes! All the categories will be system/security/network administration or BayLISA related. (Hint: Past BayLISA meetings!) BayLISA will be providing sandwiches, and beverages. You provide yourself, resume, and/or business cards. It's been a few months, but we are following up the first Tools of the Trade seminar with another free seminar on Web Server/Services Tools of the Trade on September 16. This will be a _free_ but limited size seminar. Jim Dennis, Heather Stern, and Guy Purcell will be MC-ing this event. RSVPs are required! http://www.mollyguard.com/event/31770025 Don't forget the monitoring talk is June 29 at the Yahoo campus. In coordination with our presenters who are also sponsoring the meeting we will be determining the interest in the Monitoring space and creating a special BayLISA SIG to help address some of the issues that come up with open source, commercial monitoring solutions, and encourage companies to go beyond just providing MIBs to their product. -- Jennifer Davis From sigje at sigje.org Mon Jun 26 14:58:21 2006 From: sigje at sigje.org (Jennifer Davis) Date: Mon, 26 Jun 2006 14:58:21 -0700 (PDT) Subject: Junior Security Analyst Message-ID: Junior Security Analyst Decru has obtained/is in process for multiple security certifications, including FIPS 140-2 level 3, Common Criteria level 4, CESG, DCSSI, PL-3, and DoD 5015.2. We are currently searching for a Junior Security Analyst. The qualified candidate will be a strategic member of the Decru's Engineering Team. Future career growth paths can include: design work, auditing and security management. Responsibilities: . Review copies of the engineering design docs (e.g. functional spec) for correctness, kick them back when they are not correct, and make updates as necessary. Basically, a doc reviewer and editor for all of engineering (SAN, NAS, LKM, SEP) . FIll in missing information in the engineering design docs, both information that engineering failed to provide, and information needed for a specific cert that engineering does not provide (e.g. make tables of which crypto engines are used by which source code modules, document buffers holding keys, follow code paths to document error handling etc.) . Take existing engineering design docs, and write correspondence mappings for these, for CC, and also for FIPS. Examples of correspondence documents are: 1. Security Policy Model, for SAN and NAS, and later, LKM 2. Correspondence from Security Policy Model to Functional Spec, from functional spec to High Level Design, from High Level Design to Low Level Design, from low-level design to source code 3. Correspondence from FIPS CKM to source code, from FIPS Finite State Model to Source Code . Test help: 1. Spec out Cert tests 2. Help write automated cert tests 3. Review and make sure the automated tests are kept up to date by QA Requirements: . Knowledge of C (enough to write test code, and also enough to read code in C) . Ability to write . smart, willing to learn . passionate about security From sigje at sigje.org Mon Jun 26 14:59:40 2006 From: sigje at sigje.org (Jennifer Davis) Date: Mon, 26 Jun 2006 14:59:40 -0700 (PDT) Subject: Junior Security Analyst In-Reply-To: References: Message-ID: Sorry about sending that to the wrong list folks. Resending to baylisa-jobs. Jennifer From ahorn at deorth.org Thu Jun 29 00:56:10 2006 From: ahorn at deorth.org (Alan Horn) Date: Thu, 29 Jun 2006 00:56:10 -0700 (PDT) Subject: CANCELLATION : June 29th (Tonight) Monitoring solutions talk at Yahoo Message-ID: Hi all, Sorry for the short notice, but we're going to have to reschedule this evening's scheduled talk on monitoring solutions, planned to be held at Yahoo. I'm out of town and have been unsuccessful in securing a backup Yahoo employee to help coordinate the meeting (required for us to use the room, much like at Apple). This talk will still take place in a little while however, don't worry. Thanks, Alan From sigje at sigje.org Fri Jun 30 12:11:06 2006 From: sigje at sigje.org (Jennifer Davis) Date: Fri, 30 Jun 2006 12:11:06 -0700 (PDT) Subject: Guava training Message-ID: Peter Mui from GROUNDWORK Open Source Inc let me know about this free upcoming training on July 12. There is limited space, so if you are interested make sure you let Taylor know soon! Guava Training Class, Friday, July, 7th, 1pm - 5pm, San Francisco Guava is a PHP-based application framework and environment providing a toolkit to develop AJAX-powered event-driven applications and a place to run multiple applications in one environment. Here's the homepage on sourceforge: http://guava.sourceforge.net/ Guava Lead Developer Taylor Dondich will be teaching a Guava training class covering: o Guava's internals o How to develop Guava applications o How to write small wrappers to wrap around existing web applications. Some programming experience will be helpful for the discussions on how to develop Guava applications and how to write wrappers for existing applications. What: Guava Training Class When: Friday, July, 7th, 1pm - 5pm Where: GroundWork Training Room, 139 Townsend St. (bet. 2nd & 3rd) SF Cost: Free! How: Send email to Taylor Dondich, tdondich at groundworkopensource.com to 1) attend in person or 2) via WebEx