[mdlug] MDLUG meeting 10/11/2014 - Good Meeting

[Kirk Ellis]

I met with SEMCO today and really enjoyed their KDE demonstration. One 
member was asking for anyone to volunteer for a Windows 7 presentation 
so I suggested I could probably put one together quickly as my book 
details *110 steps* on how to set up, secure and load up Windows 7 OS 
with open source software and much more.  Unfortunately, I am VERY BUSY 
launching my business, mailing and indexing prepublication books and so 
on.  I have a two hour presentation on the book prepared but no detailed 
slide presentations prepared on the 12 chapters in my *1000 page book*.

It was like a brick hit me in the head, why not start putting together 
detailed one hour presentations on each chapter of my book!  I'm finding 
that most computer, and other groups that meet don't want to sit for 
three hours as I highlight all the greatest stuff in my book but you all 
may want a one hour presentation on specific topics such as setting up 
and securing a router; everything you can do setting up, configuring, 
securing and loading Windows 7 with open source solutions; how to use 
free visualization solutions on top of your core OS with the four top 
Linux operating systems and loading them up with tons of open source 
solutions tailored to your needs; my 72 steps to avoid Identity Theft 
and so on.  These are only four of the twelve chapters of my book.  Plus 
*who the frack is Kirk A. Ellis* as I have not existed in the computer 
industry for over eight years after surviving cancer twice, nearly dying 
numerous times in war and from cancer so I'm hoping to keep the risk of 
giving me a one hour seminar mitigated.  While I worked in the IT 
industry for 28 years I gave numerous presentations to government and 
corporate bigwigs who only pretended to care, but I am rusty and 
somewhat frightened to get back up on the podium once again to promote 
my new business to people who are knowledgeable and really care.

Thank you for your help and consideration and I will be posting on my 
website all possible topics that my book covers and that I can put 
presentations together for if there is interest in these topics by your 
groups.  I am a stranger but I hope to become less so do to my life's 
history.  I should not be alive and I want to make the most of the time 
I have left to make a difference in the world of the infected Internet 
and the loss of personal privacy our would lives in.  Pick one topic and 
we can work on a date together to make a seminar happen on that topic.  
All this stuff takes time as I never imagined it would take eight years 
to write a book on small business and home computer user cyber security.

Believe me, book is the first comprehensive resource on small business 
and personal cyber security.  I have to find a way to get it out for 
public consumption in anyway possible.

*Kirk Ellis, President and CEO | ThatCyberSecurityGuy LLC*



On 10/12/2014 10:52 AM, gib at juno.com wrote:
> We had our mdlug.org meeting yesterday.  Several interesting ideas came up.  A few: 1. Current events (we have new ones of course). We talked about the HP break up, BAD USB exploit. 2. Beacons (Paypal). 3. Vitalization. 4. Blender (Okay I intended to talk about this but didn't get a chance). 5. Helicopters drones and quad-copters oh my. 6. Wearables 7. Raspberry PI (Drew had his set up and running and we used SSH to connect to it). 8. VMware has a new product EVO Rail (didn't get a chance to talk about this too much).  9. Elections 10. Penguicon. Other topics: Tony did  a demo of a product, OwnCloud, which he will demo at Tuesday's MUG.ORG meeting. TOR was mentioned along with NSA  and security topics. One new member said she works on security devices (nuspire.com). Another new member told us about the security book (ThatCyberSecurityGuy.com) he just wrote. The Keypass password tool was discussed. Setting Keypass up with OwnCloud sounded like a good discussion. Search engines
>    DuckDuckGo, SmartPage were mentioned. The domain name registrar NameCheap.com was a solution that Tony uses because it also provides useful services like dynamic DNS. So, just another MDLUG meeting with nothing special going on.  :)  Just kidding, we had a great meeting.
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