It seems like just about everyone is coming out with a PC that you can connect to your TV and play videos from. Of course, we all know just how many of those are running Linux under the hood. Why buy one of those when you can build your own? In this talk Kyle Rankin and Allan Cecil are going to discuss two fully-featured programs you can install on a regular Linux system to turn it into a media PC: Xbox Media Center (XBMC) and Boxee.

Everyone likes pretty pictures. Visualizing your data is one of the
best ways to see the "Big Picture"™ and a great tool to do that
is RRDtool. In this talk, Aaron will discuss the basics of how to use
RRDtool, how to write RRDTool scripts in bash and python, including some
discussion on cricket and munin. Aaron also will give a few demo examples
of some interesting graphs and generic scripts he created for the talk.

When your Linux system has problems, there are a number of ways to track down and solve them. In this talk I will discuss my overall philosophy for troubleshooting and then follow up with more specific examples of how to diagnose common problems on Linux systems. This talk will be more server-focused but most things should apply to desktops as well.

Roll: Roger, Bill, Frank, Kyle, Allan

Talk for August: As of yet undecided, still attempting to get in touch with Dane. Perhaps Aaron has a talk prepared?

Kyle's book is out - perhaps this would be a good jumping point for an upcoming talk in a future month?

Roll: Roger, Bill, Frank, Kyle, Allan, Aaron

Talk for September: No speakers are available so Kyle will talk about troubleshooting tips.
We need more speakers and will directly solicit for them during the September meeting.

Kyle will be responsible for posting the upcoming meeting details two weeks before each meeting as well as a reminder two days before the meeting. Roger will be the Nag At Large™ to remind Kyle to send these announcements.

Roll: Roger, Bill, Frank, Kyle, Allan, Aaron

We have several talks lined up!
Oct 13: Sam to talk about SSLstrip
Nov 10: Potential talk from Doug on cross-site scripting
Dec 8: Roger to talk about GNUplot

No other topics were brought up this week.