Fox Valley Linux User Group: August 2013 meeting

23 Aug 2013

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):
- https://www.dropbox.com/s/bitqurkz17mv9nf/TrueCrypt.odp

TrueCrypt (the topic for this meeting)

ArchLinux comparison of Disk Encryption packages:
- https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Disk_Encryption#Comparison_table

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
- https://lastpass.com/

Google 2-Factor Authentication - recommended by the LUG members at the meeting too
- http://www.google.com/landing/2step/

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
- http://www.infoworld.com/t/identity-management/final-arrangements-hitting-the-digital-dead-mans-switch-216456
- http://www.deadmansswitch.net/

Google's inactivity "deadman" switch:
- http://boingboing.net/2013/04/13/google-adds-a-dead-mans-sw.html

Automate history for /etc/ config files (inotify + git!):
- http://joeyh.name/code/etckeeper/

LUG member highly recommended for O'Hare parking:
- http://www.ohareblueskyparking.com/

Python interactive mode Tab Auto-Complete:
- http://docs.python.org/2/library/rlcompleter.html
- http://sontek.net/blog/detail/tips-and-tricks-for-the-python-interpreter

Python mode for vim:

vim cheetsheet for programmers:
- http://michael.peopleofhonoronly.com/vim/

Chicago Python User Group:
- http://www.chipy.org/

IPython - An enhanced Interactive Python
- http://ipython.org/

Other 'enhanced' Python interactive shells:
- http://fishsoup.net/software/reinteract/
- http://www.dreampie.org/

Travis CI - continuous integration for GitHub projects
- http://about.travis-ci.org/blog/

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
- http://learn.adafruit.com/webide/overview

Adafruit tutorials: Electronics projects with BeagleBone and Python
- http://learn.adafruit.com/category/beaglebone/

Adafruit tutorials: Electronics projects with RaspberryPi and Python
- http://learn.adafruit.com/category/learn-raspberry-pi