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 2010 - August 18

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2010 - July 21

10GbE Storage + 10GbE Network, a dynamic duo? Examine key Aspects, Technology, and Techniques Up Close!
Presented via live webcast  from the midwest by Dick Cecchini, a Sales Account Manager from Dynamic Network Factory, Inc.
 
The Stonefly line is DNF Corp's premiere line of storage and disaster recovery protection solutions.

Stonefly Inc. a leading maker of high-performance network attached storage (NAS), storage area networks (SAN), RAID and iSCSI systems, will discuss how certain storage and switches solutions can enhance your network. They will answer all your inquiries including:

  • How can 10GbE connectivity help my storage? Through bandwidth? Aggregation? Virtualization? ...etc
  • What are best tips and techniques for choosing & implementing 10GbE switch for IP SANs?
What are best ways to combine virtualization to your 10G network?
 
 

2010 - June 16

Not Your Father's Assembly Language
Randall Hyde

Just as high-level languages have evolved over the past 50 years, so has assembly language. Alas, assembly language has been unfairly demonized by software engineers whose main experience with assembly language was in a college or university assembly language course being taught with an assembler whose feature list came straight from the 1960s.  This talk will discuss why assembly language is still relevant and will describe a more modern implementation of assembly language (HLA - the High Level Assembler), emphasizing the portability aspects of HLA. 

Randall Hyde - Author of "The Art of Assembly Language" and "Write Great Code." Coauthor of "The MASM Bible"

 

 

2010 - May 19

DevOps: What it means for your job and your tools.


Across the IT industry there is a growing awareness of a disconnect between what is traditionally considered development activity and what is traditionally considered operations activity. This disconnect often manifests itself as costly inefficiency, frustrating bottlenecks, and morale killing conflict. In response to this awareness, a new movement called "DevOps" is on the rise. As the technology press and analysts continue to uncover this trend, it will undoubtedly fall to us individual practitioners and managers to evaluate how DevOps will impact our own organizations. This presentation will provide an introduction to DevOps, examine best practices and tooling that DevOps encourages, and provide tips for staying abreast of the latest DevOps developments.
 
Alex Honor
[ Project Leader - Open Source Software Development | ControlTier Software, Inc. | 1840 Gateway Drive - Suite #200, San Mateo CA 94404 | w: 650.306.9605 ]

 

 

2010 - April 21

Linux Network Troubleshooting

Kyle Rankin

 
In this talk, Kyle Rankin will break down network troubleshooting on a Linux system into a common set of tests and steps that you can apply to a majority of networking problems. Included will be basics of DNS troubleshooting, Layer 1, Layer 2, and Layer 3 troubleshooting, and an example problem solving session.
 
To view the slide presentation Click here then click on the background to continue to next slide.
Or Click here to read the troubleshooting chapter (4 pages) from his Ubuntu server book.
 
 

2010 - March 17

Server Aggregation
Benjamin Baer, the VP of Marketing for ScaleMP will talk about how server virtualization for aggregation can be used by organizations for their compute intensive applications running within Linux environments.

 

 

2010 - February 17

MLT (Media Lovin' Toolkit), Kdenlive (open-source video editor for GNU/Linux and FreeBSD), and OpenShot (non-linear video editor for Linux).

by Earl Malmrose

 
 

2010 - January 20

Regular Expressions

by Bill Ward

 
Whether running a simple grep command or writing a big Perl program, a thorough understanding of regular expressions is an essential skill for any system administrator. The talk will describe the history, syntax, and best practices for regular expressions; how a well-written regular expression can dramatically improve the speed of pattern matching; and give tips for using regular expressions in Perl programs.
 
 

2009 - December 16

Linux Troubleshooting

By Kyle Rankin

When your Linux system has problems, there are a number of ways to track down and solve them. In this talk I will discuss my overall philosophy for troubleshooting and then follow up with more specific examples of how to diagnose common problems on Linux systems. This talk will be more server-focused but most things should apply to desktops as well.

Then click any where on non-links to page forward in presentation.

 

 

2009 - November 18

SQL isn't everything
by Jesus Monroy

 
Today there is a push for SQL-based solutions, such as Oracle, DB2 or Mysql.  While these solutions are excellent for certain classes of problems, they don't work well for many things. Many issues arise including: scaling, performance and development cost.

For most applications today, people struggle with managing the database, security and performance. For many, their "data sets" are small enough, or infrequent enough, that a simple flat file will not only suffice, but excel. In addition, benchmarks of yesteryear (of 3-4 thousand records) being the crossover point for a full blown database are outdated.

In this talk we will discuss other solutions, starting with the power of basic flat files and flat memory arrays. Then an extended discussion on Berkeley DB, sleepycat dbm, local and network-distributed hash tables and other systems that can scale in size and performance to Google levels.

 

 

2009 - October 21

Ben Spade fighting more Spam on message boards.

Ben was President of the Silicon Valley Linux Users Group (SVLUG) in 1998.

He runs probably the best Telenovelas message boards on planet earth
http://www.telenovela-world.com/
  He gave one of the best talks of my early EBLUG Presidency. He will tell us more interesting things on the 21st of October - Bruce

  

 

2009 - September 16

 Allison Randall on the Parrot Virtual Machine

"Parrot is a register-based virtual machine being developed using the C programming language and intended to run dynamic languages efficiently. It uses just-in-time compilation for speed to reduce the interpretation overhead. It is currently possible to compile Parrot assembly language and PIR (an intermediate language) to Parrot bytecode and execute it.

Parrot was started by the Perl community, and is developed with help from the open source and free software communities. As a result, it is focused on license compatibility (Artistic License and GNU GPL), platform compatibility (Unix, Microsoft Windows, Mac OS X and Classic, VMS, Crays, Windows CE, Palm OS, and others), processor architectures compatibility (x86, SPARC, DEC Alpha, IA-64, ARM, Palms, old Macs), speed of execution, small size (around 700k depending on platform), and being flexible enough to handle the varying demands of Perl, Python, Tcl, Ruby, Scheme, and other dynamic languages. It is also focusing on improving introspection, debugger capabilities, and compile-time semantic modulation." , even Lua .
also see the wiki etc. online for more . - Bruce
aka. Kilgore Starslayer Excelsior [ Gigante ]

 For more information : http://en.allexperts.com/e/p/pa/parrot_virtual_machine.htm

 

 

2009 - August 19

 Edward Cherlin will speak about the Open Voting Consortium, a non-profit organization who has created a suite of Open Source, GPLed software for voting ballots.

It uses cryptographic security and is user-verifiable, auditable and publicly testable.

 Edward Cherlin is a political, education, and Open Source activist, Founding Member of OVC, and also the Founder of Earth Treasury.

 For more information about OVC:
 
To download the new OVC demo voting disk:
 
For more information about Earth Treasury:
 
 

2009 - July 15

Network Trust, Cryptography and how it relates to Linux by Stephen Weber.

  Raised in chad, living in Ontario, Stephen plans to talk about Network Trust, Cryptography and how it relates to Linux. You're unlikely to see this talk elsewhere as he plans to leave the country in 2 months. - Bruce

 

 

2009 - June 17th 

Edward Cherlin talks about OLPC (One Laptop Per Child).

Founder of Earth Treasury, a NGO
(Non-governmental organizations associated with the United Nations)
to link schools around the world for education and business.
Mokurai volunteers at OLPC and Sugar Labs (The award-winning Sugar Learning Platform) as a volunteer coordinator, localization administrator.
Edward works in high-tech market research and has training as a mathematician, teacher, linguist, philosphy, not to mention a Buddist priest. 

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2009 - May 20th

Kyle Rankin talks about DNS

Kyle Rankin

Kyle Rankin is a system administrator who enjoys troubleshooting, problem solving, and system recovery. He is also the author of:

Knoppix Hacks

Ubuntu Hacks

Knoppix Hacks, 2nd Edition

Knoppix Pocket Reference, 1st Edition

Linux Multimedia Hacks, 1st Edition

He has given presentations at Penguicon 7.0 in 2009 on:

Introduction to Forensics

In this talk Kyle Rankin will provide an introduction to performing forensics analysis on Linux machines using the popular Sleuthkit tools with their easy-to-use Autopsy web-based front-end. The talk will cover initial installation and configuration of Sleuthkit and Autopsy, basic concepts and considerations for a forensics investigation, and at the end there will be a demo with a real, compromised Linux image.

Where'd My Files Go? A Guide to Modern Ubuntu Distributions

While you might not be able to tell at a glance, a lot has changed behind the scenes on a modern Ubuntu system. For example, did you know that Ubuntu is phasing out System V init? That you can't loopback-mount the initrd? In this talk Kyle discusses the changes Ubuntu is making to what we might consider the traditional Linux system. There's a little something for everyone in the talk. For Linux newbies who are curious about what's under the hood Kyle covers the traditional and modern boot process including how init works followed up by a guide to where important files are in Ubuntu. For the experienced Linux user Kyle will show you how (and why) things have changed and where you can look now when you want to, for instance, change the default runlevel on an Ubuntu system.
 
Lightning Talks
 
How DNS Works
In this talk Kyle will cover the basics of how DNS (Domain Name System) works. The talk will include a short history of the service, how it works today, and a step-by-step walk-through of what happens between entering a domain into a web browser and getting back an IP address. Also covered is how you could use this new-found knowledge to take down the Internet. Specific implementations of DNS (BIND, djbdns, PowerDNS) will not be covered.

The Official Ubuntu Server Book

http://greenfly.org/talks/misc/how_dns_works.htm

 

 

2009 - April 15

 Meeting - Luke from prgmr.com

Prgmr.com provides low-cost, high-flexibility webhosting using Linux, NetBSD, and Xen.

 Prgmr.com Xen hosting News

 prgmr.com status can now be seen on our Xen hosting blog. If you want older news, see our historical status. Please note, all new status goes on the blog.

We cerified our new server as good on Jan 22, so ordering for Xen-based virtual private servers is open again.. We do occasionally have problems keeping up with demand so the signup page goes offline every now and again. Rest assured we are running as hard as we can to get new capacity up and in place. .

 

 He informs me:

"I plan on doing a high-level overview of virutalization technologies,
drilling down into Xen, with a focus on using xen to split large hardware
into small virtual private servers that are owned by mutually untrusted
users.

I want to explain a little bit how to use your Xen VPS as a customer.
(most of this part will be specific to prgmr.com, but we use standard
tools, xencons and PVGRUB to manage things, along with a few simple
shell scripts which I can share. Any of you could duplicate my setup without
too much effort.)

I also want to give a short talk about choosing hosting providers from
a customer perspective. When does it makes sense to rent a VPS, when it makes
sense to rent a server, and when it makes sense to co-locate your own
server."

- Bruce

 

 

 

2009 -  March 18

Sarah from Cloudmade.com

CloudMade help you make the most of map data. We source our maps from OpenStreetMap, the community mapping project which is making a free map of the world. Our aims are to continue the democratization of geo data and to expand access to open geo data through a range of simple yet powerful tools and APIs.

I enjoyed the talk she gave for SVLUG.org in January, so I asked her to visit us in March to talk about openstreetmap. She did confirm.

- by Bruce

 

 

2009 - February 18

 

Rick Moen from linuxmafia.com

"Debian: To Lenny and Beyond"

View the presentation in OpenOffice.org format here.

 

 

2009 - January 21

 

Vyatta

Vyatta is using open hardware and software technologies to revolutionize the network infrastructure market place, delivering incredible performance at unbelievable price points. Using the Vyatta system, you can create networking solutions for your business that can scale from the branch office to the service provider edge for a fraction of the cost of proprietary alternatives. Join the 25,000+ network and security professionals that download Vyatta every month to connect, protect, and optimize their networks, their way.

They make open source routers that compete with cisco, WHY CHOOSE VYATTA?