No meeting.  Taking a summer break.

Presentation: Raspberry Pi, Headless Dr. Meier described considerations and procedures to setup a raspberry pi without monitor, mouse, or keyboard. Especially useful for standalone servers, kiosks, and embedded hardware applications. He showed how to modify Raspbian image, for first time… Read more2017-06-10 Meeting

Presentation: Dual monitor configuration in Linux. Rich brought in his system and we discovered that the problems he experienced were from his video card. After swapping it out everything worked as expected. We also had plenty of time to discuss… Read more2017-05-13 Meeting

Presentation: Managing the Webserver at DPL. Victor Ibegbu, Assistant Director for Information Systems of the Detroit Public Library, talked about how their web server caters to a wider variety of users than most servers and do so within a very… Read more2017-04-08 Meeting

Presentation: Raspberry Pi Goodness. Gibson Nichols provided a hands-on exploration of the Raspberry PI, which is a small inexpensive computer that can be used for a wide variety of solutions. We did a walk-thru of a project to build a… Read more2017-03-11 Meeting

Presentation: Dr. Bob presented some humorous dialogs from staff trying to support non-technical people. Also Carl led a discussion about html, languages, xml, css, and html5 in the series about website development.

Election Results: President – Dr. Bob Meier Vice President – Gib Nichols Treasurer – Bill Lingner Secretary – Carl Miller Official Business: The elections were held in accordance with the bylaws. Bill gave the treasurer’s report, saying that the $67… Read more2017-01-14 Meeting

Official Business: We took nominations for officers and discussed their roles. Presentation: SSL Certificates. Dr. Bob talked about certificates, chains of trust, and the Let’s Encrypt service.

Presentation: We held an open discussion about MDLUG, our current meeting place, proposed new meeting locations and funding for non-free locations. Among other topics, we talked about Certificate Authorities and how certificates are used by servers and clients.

Presentation: The MDLUG meeting was held at the Conclave Science Fiction Convention. There were presentations and demos about Raspberry PIs, Arduinos, Copters and other cool devices.