Boston Linux & UNIX was originally founded in 1994 as part of The Boston Computer Society. We meet on the third Wednesday of each month at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, in Building E51.

Our Next Monthly Meeting
Wednesday, June 21, 2023 at 06:30 pm
Online at Jitsi

Implementing VisiCalc

A retrospective look at the early days of personal computing





Documents and Links From Recent Meetings



Rocky Linux Redux [Notes]
17 May 2023; Brian Clemens, Gregory Kurtzer, Neil Hanlon, Krista Burdine, Sherif Nagy, Chris "Stack" Stackpole, Taylor Goodwill, Scott Shinn
          
          Transcript of Jitsi chat :: png :: html :: txt

Connectivity Begins at Home [Notes]
19 April 2023; Bob Frankston
          
          Bob's slides :: odp :: flipbook :: pdf :: onedrive :: pptx
          Transcript of Jitsi chat :: png :: html :: txt

Tinkering With Cryptography [Notes]
15 March 2023; Brian DeLacey
          Bill Ricker's "Minority Report" in response to Brian's talk :: html :: flipbook :: pdf
          
          Brian's slides :: flipbook :: pdf
          Transcript of Jitsi chat :: png :: html :: txt

TEMPEST and Signal Intelligence (non-classified) [Notes]
15 February 2023; Federico Lucifredi
          
          Glowworm Attack: Optical TEMPEST Sound Recovery via a Device’s Power Indicator LED :: flipbook :: pdf
          Transcript of Jitsi chat :: png :: html :: txt

IoTFestival [Notes]
18 January 2023; Kurt Keville; Joe George; Shankar Viswanathan; Bob Frankston; Brian DeLacey; David Koehler; Mason Osborn; Justin Smith; Laura (COMP4960)
          
          Shankar's slides :: odp :: flipbook :: pdf
          Bob Frankston's slides :: flipbook :: pdf :: pptx
          Brian Delacey's slides :: flipbook
          Bill George's slides :: flipbook :: pdf
          jitsi whiteboard :: png :: svg
          Transcript of Jitsi chat :: png :: html :: txt

Home Router/Firewall using OPNsense [Notes]
21 December 2022; Shankar Viswanathan
          
          Shankar's slides :: odp :: flipbook :: pdf
          Transcript of Jitsi chat :: png :: html :: txt

Retrocomputing Tour [Notes]
16 November 2022; Federico Lucifredi
          
          Transcript of Jitsi chat :: png :: html :: txt

NixOS: Reproducible Builds and Deployments [Notes]
19 October 2022; Benjamin P. Kallus
          
          Bejamin's notes :: markdown :: flipbook :: pdf
          Transcript of Jitsi chat :: png :: txt

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