Notes from last night's CentraLUG meeting

[Ted Roche]

Five people attended the February 1st meeting of the Central  New 
Hampshire Linux User Group. We met at Room 146 of the New Hampshire 
Technical Institute's Library from 7 to 9 PM.

There was lots of interesting discussion. Ed was attending for the first 
time, and is getting back into software engineering after some time in 
another career. He had some questions on what the different distros were 
and how they worked, and there were, of course, plenty of opinions. 
Susan had some updates on her research on the BF scheduler, the 
bleeding-edge Ubuntu releases, realtime kernels, and the Dragon 
Naturally Speaking application. I reviewed some of the upcoming 
meetings, and there was a lot of interest in the Seacoast LUG's "Sugar 
on a Stick" presentation and the Cascading Stylesheet presentation at 
PySIG at the end of the month.

Mark McSweeney made the main presentation. Mark works in a small office 
with a few partners, and budgets are tight. A few years ago, they had 
deployed a Microsoft back end and discovered that there were no 
satisfactory solutions for spam filtering on the Exchange server they 
had as a mail server. Mark came up with a very effective and economical 
solution using PostFix, Amavisd-new, ClamAV, DCC, Razor, Pyzor and 
SpamAssassin. Mark's slides can be found at 
http://wiki.gnhlug.org/twiki2/bin/view/Www/SpamFilter, including links 
to the solution he followed, an updated version of which can be found at 
http://www.freespamfilter.org/

Member Susan Cragin will be making the presentation at out March 1st 
meeting, on the Dragon Naturally Speaking 10 program running on WINE. 
Stay tuned for more details.

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Ted Roche
Ted Roche&  Associates, LLC
http://www.tedroche.com