I attended a suburban Chicago Linux User Group last weekend for the first time - as it turns out - in my hometown of Batavia where Fermilab is located:
Fox Valley Linux User Group - August 2013 meeting:
http://www.meetup.com/FoxValleyLUG/events/131099572/
brief demo on using TrueCrypt to create an encrypted USB flash drive, but we should have plenty of additional time for other discussion and presentations/demos if anyone has anything they'd like to cover.
Here are notes I took which might be helpful to others:
- Erik Johnson's slides on TrueCrypt (from presentation at the meeting):
- TrueCrypt (the topic for this meeting)
- ArchLinux comparison of Disk Encryption packages:
- Debian used dm-crypt+LUKS when I said yes to disk encryption during setup:
- LastPass - several members recommended this is the way to go for password security
- Google 2-Factor Authentication - recommended by the LUG members at the meeting too
- Recommend backup plan for family (wife/next of kin):
- USB thumbdrive with LastPass on it with instructions in readme.txt (use TrueCrypt too?)
- Deadman switch for important personal data
- Google's inactivity "deadman" switch:
- Automate history for /etc/ config files (inotify + git!):
- LUG member highly recommended for O'Hare parking:
- Python interactive mode Tab Auto-Complete:
- Python mode for vim:
- vim cheetsheet for programmers:
- Chicago Python User Group:
- IPython - An enhanced Interactive Python
- Other 'enhanced' Python interactive shells:
- Travis CI - continuous integration for GitHub projects
- Chicago LUG
- http://chicagolug.org/
- Meets next on Sat Aug-24 at Pumping Station: One (http://pumpingstationone.org)
- NERP (Not-Exclusively-Raspberry-Pi) meetup at Pumping Station: One - Bi-weekly Mondays
- (focus on embedded systems, microcontrollers and single board computers: raspberry pi, beaglebone, android, arduino, msp430, etc)
- http://www.meetup.com/NERP-Not-Exclusively-Raspberry-Pi/
- Adafruit WebIDE - browser-based Python IDE targeting Raspberry Pi and BeagleBone
- Adafruit tutorials: Electronics projects with BeagleBone and Python
- Adafruit tutorials: Electronics projects with RaspberryPi and Python