meetings – Victoria PiMakers And Others

December 9, 2015January 15, 2019

December 12 Meeting

Learn To Love Linux

Saturday, December 12, 2015
9:30 AM to 12:00 PM
Victoria Computer Club
85A Burnside Rd West (at Wascana), Victoria, BC (map)

Once your SD card is set up and the Pi booted, a powerful but complex command-line world lies behind the deceptively-easy graphical desktop interface. Raspbian is a special version of Debian Linux modified to run efficiently on the Raspberry Pi.
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Jan 30, 2025 6:30pm

http://www.makikiweb.com/netsig/2024_04_pen_testing_remote_wireshark_capture.html

NetSIG has had 44 sessions since it started in 2019. We have covered a lot of ground. Bring your Questions, and I'll try to bring Answers.

Afterword, we will go out for a beer/coffee. We'll be meeting in-person this month, at Quality Foods, View Royal, 27 Helmcken Rd #110. We will also setup a laptop in the upstairs small board room for those attending remotely.
We'll use Jitsi for the remote part of this meeting:

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https://meet.vinnythegeek.ca/netsig

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