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

Mon Oct 13 12:14:20 EDT 2014

I think you have a good idea. I would also suggest that I have had good
results with uploading my presentations to Slideshare. Mine are all
CC-BY-SA, but you can choose the license you feel most comfortable with.

Regards,

On Mon, Oct 13, 2014 at 2:33 AM, Kirk Ellis <kirk at thatcybersecurityguy.com>
wrote:

> 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 engin
>>
> es
>
>>    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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