[CVALE] Welcome

[Craig Van Degrift]

Thanks Landon,

Unfortunately, you didn't notice that when I teach Linux, it is still in Los 
Angeles.  I have yet to find any interest in Linux within the Madera 
Community College administration.  

The idea of an annual or semi-annual meeting makes sense.  I doubt I would 
drive to Modesto for a monthly meeting.

Craig

On Monday 07 May 2007 09:16, Landon Blake wrote:
> Craig,
>
> Welcome to CVale! It is good to hear that Linux is being taught at a
> local community college. I checked out your website, and was intrigued
> with a couple of the links. The one on booting Linux and also using an
> encrypted filesystem on Linux seemed very interesting to me. I'll have
> to do some more reading there. I'll also have to take a look at your
> book list. :]
>
> You wrote: " When do you folks get together?"
>
> I think we have stopped having regular meetings. They used to be held
> once a month. I think most of us have become to busy to attend, and
> e-mail is soooooooo much easier.
>
> I suppose if there was enough interest the meetings might start again.
> Maybe we could do an annual or semi-annual meeting? Perhaps our meetings
> would do better with a more specific purpose, like teaching a short
> class on some aspect of Linux?
>
> I guess I'm starting to ramble...
>
> Welcome to our LUG!
>
> Landon
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: cvale-bounces at lists.fire2wire.com
> [mailto:cvale-bounces at lists.fire2wire.com] On Behalf Of Craig Van
> Degrift
> Sent: Friday, May 04, 2007 7:56 PM
> To: cvale at cvale.org
> Subject: Re: [CVALE] My next big step with Linux...
>
> Hello all,
>
> I just signed up on your list even though I am in Raymond (outside of
> Chowchilla), having moved up from LA 6 years ago.  Please let me
> introduce
> myself.
>
> I teach Algebra part-time in Madera CC, but still teach Linux at LACC 4
> quarters per year in blocks of 8 or 12 hours at their Community Services
>
> branch.  There, I use 14 old computers, a router, and a server to teach
> Linux
> in the following 4 sessions each quarter:
>
> 1: 8 hours on a Saturday to install Mandriva (maybe in the future
> Ubuntu), and
> mess around with the file system, learning about links, permissions,
> mounting, etc.  We use the freely distributable CDs and downloads for
> everything.
>
> 2: 8 hours on a Saturday understanding networking and compiling a custom
>
> kernel for the student machines.
>
> 3: 12 hours on a Friday evening and Saturday starting with a fresh
> install of
> Mandriva on a partition of the server and then step-by-step setting up
> its
> firewall with IP masquerading, dhcp, DNS (with a student computer being
> the
> secondary DNS server), SSH (with everyone messing with everyone else's
> machine), Apache, CUPS, Samba, Postfix, POP3, and IMAP (including
> encryption).  As usual in my classes, nearly everything is done using
> command-line instructions.
>
> 4: 8 hours on a Saturday quickly going through the setup necessary to
> run the
> sample Winestore program in the O'Reilly book "Web Database Applications
> with
> PHP and MySQL".  We install lots of packages, adjust some configuration
> files, and use command-line instructions to get acquainted with MySQL
> and
> PHP.
>
> I am a hard core anti-Microsoft guy who went from UCSD Pascal, to C64,
> to IBM
> DOS to OS/2 and finally to Linux, completely avoiding Microsoft
> products.  As
> a result, I always depend on my students to handle the windows side of
> the
> Samba demo and am completely useless when Windows questions come up.
>
> At home, I run Mandriva using it as a firewall, and router for my house
> computers.  My website is http://yosemitefoothills.com running over a
> slow
> SierraTel DSL connection.
>
> Since December, I have been entertaining myself by interfacing my
> computer
> with electronic circuits using USB.  That activity, which includes
> monitoring "1-wire" thermometers and building a moderate speed
> oscilloscope,
> is described on the web site (a work-in-progress).
>
> Unfortunately, I have not yet played with 64-bit computers and can't
> provide
> any help in that direction.  I personally find no need for a separate
> router/firewall.  Linux using iptables seems to do that just fine
> without any
> noticeable loss of performance.
>
> When do you folks get together?
>
> Craig Van Degrift