www@cplug:/guides$
man man

CPLUG President, pharkas, gave a presentation about the ins and outs of VIM as well as some powerful secrets! Download the presentation outline, the handy reference card for all the commands, and use pharkas' .vimrc to customize VIM to your needs!

• Outline of the VIM Presentation
• VIM Quick Reference Card
• Put this .vimrc file in your home directory to have all of the settings talked about during the presentation. Make sure the file is named .vimrc (The dot before it is mandatory). You can also view the file online and copy and paste the features you'd like into an existing .vimrc file. If you need help, feel free to mail execboard@cplug.org with any questions. Enjoy! :-)

Check out this excellent series of guides prepared by CPLUG Vice President, red0x. Stay tuned as we continue this awesome series!

1. Clone Over SSH
2. Tunnel Past Firewalls
3. Coming soon...

red0x and pharkas are giving a presentation about secure programming, wireless security, and more. Heres pharkas' presentation on wireless security and here are red0x's presentation on secure programming complete with code samples (a working buffer overflow for powerpc) and slides!

Our own Ryan du Bois has written a guide on keeping your home directory encrypted, and automatically decrypting it when you log in. Here it is.

Since defragmenting a disk in Windows can be important before installing Linux (as was made painfully obvious at the last Free Your Machine), we've put together this guide.

Please keep in mind that defragmenting your hard drive is a prerequisite for the upcoming and all future Free Your Machine events.

We're organizing a Free Your Machine for the second week of winter quarter and an introductory Linux presentation for the third week of winter quarter.We'd like some help organizing the presentation though- there's a lot of stuff to be covered, and it's going to take some work to get all the information collected.

We've set up a wiki at http://rkas.net/tavi for the Post-FYM presentation material. If you'd like to help us out, feel free to write up information under any of the headers, edit any information that's currently there, or add new stuff that you think is relevant.

If everyone chips in and helps fill out a couple of topics we'll have a very thorough presentation to give to the people who install Linux at next quarter's FYM. The wiki (or at least the information contained within) will also be passed on from year to year in the LUG so that the CPLUG can give an introductory Linux class without a ton of preparatory work.

We're also going to be going over the material in the wiki at the next members meeting and filling out any points that are left blank, so the more that's done now the better.

Any help is greatly appreciated!

We put together Linux Tips for New Users, to help enrich the Linux experience for new users. We'll try to expand this further, eventually.

CPLUG member Ryan Du Bois has contributed a guide for new Linux users, to help them out with basics and some terminal commands. Grab a copy here.