Howto

Contents 1 Group and Member contributions 1.1 How To Documentation 1.2 Videos 1.3 SlideShows and outlines 1.4 Reviews

Group and Member contributions

How To Documentation

• IRC/CHAT
  • How to use irssi and BitchX by Ronnie
  • How to use Pidgin by Ronnie

• Nix Terminal
  • Screen (or How I learned to stop worrying and love the terminal) by Stevo
  • How to backup your home directory using the tar utility

• Gimp Tutorials and Resources
  • Gimp Tutorials - This is a Download (90mb) of a series of (zipped) PDFs.

• GUI's
  • KDE4 Presentation by ~stevo 2/20/2010

• Misc Tips and Tricks
  • Vim tips and tricks

Videos

• Zabbix presentation - Demoed by Andrew Baker (4/09)
• Full Harddrive Encryption - Demoed by Stevo Hollingsworth (3/08)
• How to setup Software Raid in Linux - Demoed by Chad Godfirnon (1/08)
• Active Agenda Project - Demoed by Dan Zahlis and Mattias Thorslund (12/07)
• MySQL basic Usage and tools - Demoed by Chad Godfirnon (5/06)
• RT - Request Tracker - Demoed by Robert Nickel (4/06)
• Time Management for Networks and system administrators - Demoed by Tom Limoncelli (3/06)
• Installing and Using Ubuntu Linux for Beginners - Demoed by Steven Hollingsworth (5/05)
• How Interprocess communication works in Unix, as well as the LISP Programming Language - Demoed by Elliot Johnson (5/05)
• Package Management in Various Linux Distos - Demoed by Stephan Aleman (4/05)
• Logging and Graphing with RRDTool - Demoed by Robert Nickel (4/05)
• Beginning Linux Session 3 - Demoed by Drew Baker (2/05)
• Beginning Linux Session 2 - Demoed by Drew Baker (11/04)
• Integrating Samba and LDAP - Demoed by Mike Cederquist (11/04)
• Beginning Scribus Videos - Very nice videos of how to use Scribus, the Desktop Publishing program from the beginner level. A lifesaver for at least one Little Penguin.

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  [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xq4A2IEZpaY

YouTube Gimp Video] - Video Tutorial on how to make glass-like text. Part of the tutorial demonstrates how to create a text from path, which leads to a true drop shadow, a difficulty for me, up until now.

• YouTube Gimp Video - Video Tutorial on the basics of using the Paths Tool.
• Patrick May's Arduino project. (10/10)

SlideShows and outlines

• Active Agenda Presentation
• ESX Server Outline
• The Linux Terminal and file system explained
• Interprocess communications Presentation
• Package Management Presentation
• logging and Graphing with RRDTool Presentation
• Using Iptables and Short
• Building an OpenBSD Firewall Presentation

Reviews

• Asus Eee, reviewed by Andrew Baker