LinuxChix Los Angeles

Hello all LinuxChix LA and all fellow Linux lovers!  It has been too long

since our last post on our blog.  We are still very active and will be

busy as usual at this years SCALE 9x Southern California Linux Expo!

http://www.socallinuxexpo.org/scale9x/

Make sure to register soon!

Any help any one can give with our LinuxChix LA booth would be much appreciated   Please come by and visit us at Booth #8!

We will have a meeting soon and the details will be posted as soon

as they are finalized.

Yours in Tux,

/jillix

Jill Bryant

Hello all Linux Chix!

First of all, just wanted to remind everyone that the SCALE 8x talks are available to listen to via mp3 downloads from the SCALE 8x Conference Schedule page:

http://www.socallinuxexpo.org/scale8x/conference-schedule-feb-19-2010

Make sure to listen to the WIOS talks with Amber Graner; Rikki Kite; Malakai Wade, Mirano Cafiero, & Saskia Wade Etc. Etc. and many of the other talks at SCALE 8x that you may have missed!  I have been enjoying listening to the talks that I went to a second time as well as those I missed

Second, last week was the Google I/O Developers Conference in San Francisco!  Some very important and exciting announcements about Android Frojo and Google TV where made.  Google gave out two Android smart phones, a Verizon Droid and the Sprint HTC Evo, to whoever attended the keynote speeches!  Make sure to watch Day 2 coverage of Google I/O 2010 on TWIT with Leo Laporte:

http://twit.tv/specials20

Third, I just discovered a wonderful new blog:

http://www.womenwithdroids.com/

In the Women With Droids WWD Profiles section Gina Trapani, Google developer and tech-guru, is highlighted!  Here is a wonderful interview with Gina that is linked from the Women With Droids site:

http://androidandme.com/2010/01/news/interviews/celebrity-android-user-gina-trapani/

I listen to the wonderfully talented and geeky Gina Trapani every week with Leo Leporte on the This Week in Google netcast.  A must listen for every Linux Chix:

http://twit.tv/twig

And, of course, last week TWIG also covered Google I/O:

http://twit.tv/twig43

Either by Tux or by Droid, Linux Rules The World!

/jillix

This recent inbox deposit got my attention.

• Subject: UPS Delivery Problem NR.6256171
• (Visible) Sender: Manager Rosella Edwards
• (Visible) Return email: manager@ups.com

There was also a not implausible message body considering that is right around the time that lots of Xmas presents get shipped off to various locations.

Hello! We were not able to deliver the package you have sent on the 1st of December in time because the recipient’s address is inexact. Please print out the invoice copy attached and collect the package at our department. /S/ United Parcel Service of America.

Of course it was sent to a public ‘info’ address which is not generally used. First Flag. It contained a .zip which I was instructed to open. Second Flag. And the IP where the email was originally sent (obtained from the view headers option in my email client) pointed to a location in Silesia. And Delete.

No. I didn’t open the attachment, which likely contained some variant of a Windows executable malware that wouldn’t have affected my lovely Ubuntu system. I wasn’t that curious, but I was impressed with social engineering involved in this particular bit of malware delivery.

Lesson? Don’t open zips from UPS reporting delivery problems. You’d be p0nwed!

It was Lorie and Sharon! On a trip down from the hinterlands Lorie zipped by and up to the Griffith Park Observatory we went for a quick hike to the top of Mt. Hollywood, and afterwards saw cosmic ray contrails in the cloud chamber (2002 Kuro5hin story on how to roll your own cloud chamber).

Then of course we balanced the outdoor healthy hike with a trip to Pinks for chili cheese hot dogs and onion rings.

We had a great time and decided to do this again soon. Look to the mailing list for the next scheduled Griffith Park hike day.

Wednesday was the second annual Ada Lovelace Day

“Ada Lovelace Day is an international day of blogging to celebrate the achievements of women in technology and science.”

http://findingada.com/about/

http://www.ubuntu-user.com/Online/Blogs/Amber-Graner-You-in-Ubuntu/Women-In-Near-and-Around-Ubuntu-Celebrating-Ada-Lovelace-Day-Part-1

I was listening to my favorite Linux podcast streams on my Chumby late last night and whose wonderful voice did I hear, Amber Graner!  Amber, whom of course, we know and love from SCALE and gave a wonderful talk at this years SCALE WIOS etc. was interviewed on FLOSS Weekly in celebration of Ada Lovelace Day!!!!!

FLOSS Weekly 114: Ada Lovelace Day

Hosts: Jono Bacon and Leo Laporte

Ubuntu volunteer, Amber Graner, talks about getting more women involved in Open Source.

FLOSS Weekly is one of my favorite Open Source streams on Leo’s TWIT Netcast Network and on the internet period!  I am so happy that FLOSS Weekly made sure to talk about the achievements of women in technology and science by doing an Ada Lovelace Day celebration!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

/jillix

So say I.
Enjoy March 14, Pi Day.

Google Doodle for Pi Day

The excellent SCALE presentation on Open Molar – open source dental practice management was highlighted at LinuxMedNews this week.  The audio of the presentation is up at the SCALE site – slides are to follow.

I don’t know what else to add, other than this is an exemplar of what can accomplished with some determination and open source tools.  It isn’t acceptable to lock up healthcare systems in proprietary systems (a driver for this project) – there are alternatives, including rolling-your-own.

A lot more SCALE 8x pictures have been posted on Flickr.com.  Just use the SCALE8x search to see them all.  Here are some more LinuxChix LA at SCALE 8x highlights:

Enjoy!

/JilliX

Great times, great friends, great talks. I’d do it again tomorrow.

Another wonderful SCALE was enjoyed by all. And we have to wait another year to enjoy this “tuxfiled” vacation. Sigghhhh . . .

Here are some of Beth Lynn Eicher’s candid pictures from SCALE 8x uploaded to Flickr

And here is my LinuxChix LA slideshow that was running on my Chumby at our LinuxChix LA Booth at SCALE 8X!:

LinuxChix LA Chumby Slideshow

Also, this is another post on SCALE 8x WIOS by Scott Ruecker at LXer.com that will fill in the gaps that our LinuxChix LA live WIOS blog post missed:

SCALE 8x: Day 1 – WIOS Talks

These are just the first SCALE pics and articles online . . . wait another few days and there will be hundreds more
To be continued . . .

/JilliX