18:00 -- 21:00 NEWLUG ~ Newcomer Linux Users Group
https://newlug.sluug.org/
A Linux Users Group for the newcomer.
St. Louis County Library ~ Prairie Commons Branch
915 Utz Lane,
Hazelwood MO 63042-2739
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One on one help for anyone curious about or new to Linux. All
meetings are free and open to the public.
TOPICS?
Whatever the newest user needs to know.
The newest user in the room may select the topic.
We won't pick just one ahead of time. We will accept suggestions and
requests, as the course of the meeting will be entirely up to those
that attend. Join us to share the knowledge, learning experiences,
problem solving and effective techniques.
We can mostly explore the traditional Graphical User Interface (GUI),
as it is easy to use, often familiar, and friendly to use. We do NOT
intend to focus on the Command Line Interface (CLI) as it is seldom
required and generally optional for day to day use with modern Linux.
We have access to many formal slide show presentations; but, we use
them only to present information and encourage discussion. We encourage
and prefer lively interaction and user questions. We always want user
questions to be asked. We never think that any question is too dumb.
A selected topic will NOT restrict the course of our meetings. These
topics are tentative. They are only suggestions.
Order of Events:
First some simple introductions, administrative minutia, announcements,
and then you can Call For Help during our Questions and Answers period.
Sometimes we will watch a video or have a slide show presentation,
after which there will be general discussions that usually lead to
additional topics.
Sometimes, there can be a live demonstration of a Linux distribution
(distro) installation, updating, changes, features and applications.
Users that bring their laptops (or even desktops) often connect to the
Internet for application installation and bookmarking of interesting web
sites. Early arrival may provide enough time to assist installation,
configuration and demonstration of Linux on hardware. The library will
NOT provide us with monitors, keyboards, power strips or computer mice.
Come early, come often!
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-- stan r.
-- https://newlug.sluug.org/ For the newcomer, anyone new to Linux.
-- I know about TCP/IP; but, understand less of it each day.
-- Save the earth..... It's the only planet with dark chocolate!
Regular monthly mtng in regular Nick & Elaina’s location.
Tell friends & co-workers! There is material for both the relatively new user as well as some goodies for the experienced expert!
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Thurs 21 Nov '19
How to make the best use of variables in the BASH shell.
by Stephen Lembark
of Workhorse Computing
One of the more powerful additions to BASH shell programming is
flexible variable handling -- and frequently one of the more
frustrating.
This talk looks at the ways in which variables are assigned,
evaluated, and interpolated in commands and shell code with the
hope of adding some sanity to the whole process.
How to make the best use of variables in the BASH shell.
Did you know about/how:
BASH interpolates variables in one pass.
Loops are re-parsed.
Variables can appear anywhere.
${...} protect, slice variables eval multi-pass processing.
<<TAG “here script”
-vx debugging
“Parameter Expansion”
Steve's Bio: Steve Lembark has been playing with computers for thirty years as a SysAdmin, DBA, Programmer, and ETL analyst, Architect, and general beer drinker. He is a principle AT Workhorse Computing.
His experience with shell programming started with DCL, since then he has survived batch, sh, ksh, and bash -- hence the need for beer.
3646 Flora Place
Workhorse Computing St. Louis, MO 63110
lembark(a)wrkhors.com <mailto:lembark@wrkhors.com> +1 888 359 3508
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The STLLUG meetings are usually on the third Thursday of each month from 6:30PM to 9:00PM.
VENUE Nick and Elena's Pizzeria
3007 Woodson Rd, Overland, MO 63114
LAST MINUTE WARNING!!!! Its in 2 hrs!! Tell your friends & co-workers and then come on over. You don’t have to be there for both talks…come later, leave early…but come!
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Wed 13 Nov '19
2nd month at NEW LOCATION:::: Siemens Digital Industries Software USA, 13690 Riverport Dr, Maryland Heights, MO 63043
Meetings are every 2nd Wednesday of the month from 6:30PM to 9:00PM.
BASE fish (friendly interactive shell) by Moisés Baltazar
The friendly interactive shell (fish) is a unix shell that attempts to be more user-friendly, interactive, and feature-rich then competing shells (sh, csh, bash, and zsh). Unlike zsh, which requires investing time to configure plugins to make it pop, the best things about fish are already builtin and enabled.
Moisés is a freelance consultant who specializes in Data Science. He speaks javascript and R, but dreams in python. He may be found on the web at moisesb.com <https://www.google.com/url?q=https://moisesb.com&sa=D&usd=2&usg=AOvVaw0yWNR…>, or @mobalt on github, kaggle, or linkedin.
MAIN Docker container Security by Robert Ward
Docker and other systems for running infrastructure in containers have become increasingly popular for businesses of all sizes over the past few years. Whether you're running them to avoid configuration headaches, for isolation between services, or to ensure a consistent deployment, containers have many benefits over traditional system deployment methods.
In this talk, we'll go through a 101 level introduction to deploying containerized infrastructure securely with Docker. The talk will cover topics like:
patching,
underlying host access, and
automated tools
to help guard against mistakes. We'll also talk about some best practices for building and deploying your containers that can help avoid trouble down the road.
Robert has given an earlier version of this talk at the STL2600 Group here at ArchReactor in early summer and at the Phreaknic Hackers Conference in Nashville.
Robert Ward is the co-founder and CTO of Juristat. In his role there he's helped build a fully containerized infrastructure that handles secure data from many of the top patent filers and firms in the country. He is also a co-founder of Arch Reactor Hackerspace, and a co-organizer of the monthly STL2600 meeting.
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SLUUG is your forum for exchanging information about OPEN standards, OPEN systems, OPEN source, products, services and architectures.
We usually start the general meeting with a basic session, which may include either simple tutorials, displays of newly discovered web sites, command line wonders, demonstrations of useful applications, amazing graphical packages, major resolution of long standing anomalies, blinking lights, or quantum shifts in both time and space. Then we will have our usually quick welcome, introduction, administrative announcements, and a Call For Help - Questions and Answers Period. After all that, we take a break before our main event.
