The list of talks for the CPLUG Security Conference is looking really good. We now have all but one of the Lightning Talks we wanted. The Lightning Talks should really be a lot of fun, but we need just one more :-)

Some people who read this have considered doing one. If you're interested, I'd be happy to brainstorm some Linux/security related topics with you. There is actually one person (from western MD) who occasionally reads this, who agreed to a talk, then seemed to drop off the face of the earth. Doh! If you're reading this, is your spam filter being over-zealous? :-) Drop me an email :-) (eric@openthought.net)

Barring any takers, I'll mention this in the next batch of email updates being sent out to the attendees.

I actually have a talk I'd like to do sometime, but I don't have time to both prepare it as well as plan the conference. There is a Linux project called Class Based Linux Kernel Resources (CKRM). It's roughly equivalent to file system quotas, but for Linux resources like memory, CPU, and bandwidth.

Since it can limit memory (and process) resources, I'd like to deliver a talk demonstrating that by launching a fork bomb... then opening up OpenOffice to continue the talk :-) When the talk is nearly complete, I'll close down OpenOffice and show the forkbomb still running, but only using the resources it's been allocated by CKRM. Fun fun.

Yeah, it's sounding like you may have all the job security you need down there :-)

Yeah, CKRM sounds really neat. I'm eagerly awaiting it to become included in the standard kernel. As for mainframes -- those things were pretty robust, so it wouldn't surprise me... but I've never really been a mainframe guy, so I dunno :-)