PhxBUG - Phoenix BSD User Group

DCBSDCon 2009 will be held February 5,6 2009 at the Marriott Wardman in Washington DC.

There are a lot of cool speakers! Check the blog for more info and breaking news.

I love recycling used equipment that companies think is too old for practical use anymore. I recently dug through a junk pile in a lab and came up with a Nokia IP330 appliance, which I remember as being an i386-based system which could easily run *BSD.

After starting the Capital Area BSD Users Group, founders Mike Erdely and Jason Dixon realized that other BUGs could benefit from the pooled resource and information sharing of user groups world-wide. They discussed their ideas with Darren Spruell and Darrin Chandler of the Phoenix BUG, and the MetaBUG began to take shape.

The third and final article by Daniel Hartmeier, entitled PF: Firewall Management, has been posted to undeadly. A must-read series!

Daniel Hartmeier won't keep you waiting for more. He's already published the second PF installment entitled PF: Testing Your Firewall.

The second chapter, in a series of three, is about troubleshooting PF. Instead of just providing the common symptoms-to-solutions table, it tries to present a systematic procedure for problem analysis. The way is the goal. ;)