North Bay Linux Users Group - Speaker&Topic: Confirmed

Puppet Systems Management Tool

Tue, 19 Aug 2008 16:12:01 -0700

Start: 2008/09/09 - 7:30pm

End: 2008/09/09 - 9:00pm

description:

Still using ssh in a for loop to manage server clusters? Rewriting the entire hard drive of hundreds of workstations just to tweak one setting? Managing your systems by hand? Having trouble keeping up with all the changes to all the systems? Maybe it's time to try something new.

Puppet is a system for automating system administration tasks. Puppet is also a declarative language for expressing system configuration, a client and server for distributing it, and a library for realizing the configuration.

Huh? In other words, you edit files in a nice readable language and magically the right things change in the right order on all the right systems. It's like your systems configure themselves.

Location:
O'Reilly Media, Sebastopol, CA

Speaker:
Eric Eisenhart

URL:
puppet.reductivelabs.com/

"CTL" Enterprise Project Management

Sun, 27 Jul 2008 20:49:11 -0700

Start: 2008/08/12 - 7:30pm

End: 2008/08/12 - 9:00pm

description:

CTL is a new open source project for enterprise management, written
in Java, but with bindings to Python, Perl, Ruby, shell, Javascript,
and more. CTL is not an acronym; think of what 'apachectl' does for
the Apache webserver, and imagine what such a tool might do for your
entire enterprise and you've got CTL.

About the Speaker:

Alex Honor is open source project lead and principle architect at
ControlTier. Formerly, he was head of E*trade system engineering, and
carried them from dot boom to dot bomb and has been specializing in
cradle to grave distributed enterprise software management ever since.

Location:
O'Reilly Media, Sebastopol, CA

Speaker:
Alex Honor

Introduction to the Haiku Operating System

Sun, 06 Jul 2008 17:40:13 -0700

Start: 2008/07/08 - 7:30pm

End: 2008/07/08 - 9:00pm

description:

Haiku is an open source operating system inspired by the BeOS that is
specifically focused on personal computing. The intent of this
presentation is to give a general introduction to both the Haiku
project and operating system. The talk will cover among other things
the history of the project, some of its most important milestones,
recent developments, the code base, as well as the global community
that supports it. We will also introduce some of the aspects that make
the Haiku operating system unique both from a technical as well as end
user perspective. We will wrap up the talk with an interactive live
demo/QA session.

Location:
O'Reilly Media, Sebastopol, CA

Speaker:
Jorge G. Mare, Scott McCreary & (possibly?) Urias McCullough

URL:
http://www.haiku-os.org/

General Meeting -- NBLUG 10th Anniversary!

Mon, 02 Jun 2008 20:46:19 -0700

Start: 2008/06/10 - 7:30pm

End: 2008/06/10 - 9:00pm

description:

General Meeting June 10: NBLUG 10th Anniversary!

That's right, 10 years ago (almost to the day) NBLUG held its first
meeting. Come hear the founders discuss NBLUG, what the group was like
then, and how it has changed through the years. We'll also be providing
cake!

Location:
O'Reilly Media, Sebastopol

Speaker:
NBLUG Founders Dustin Mollo, Eric Eisenhart, and possibly Kat Ogaz

Introduction to KDE 4

Thu, 01 May 2008 21:13:50 -0700

Start: 2008/05/13 - 7:30pm

End: 2008/05/13 - 9:00pm

description:

Introduction to KDE4

KDE 4 was released on April 2, 2008 and is the newest version
of the K Desktop Environment.

Fabio Locati will speak on the history of KDE and Qt(the toolkit
behind KDE) and he will also discuss the framework of KDE.

Plans for the upcoming 4.1 release will be revealed and there
will be a live KDE demo.

Speaker:
Fabio A. Locati

General Meeting -- Scaled-Down Laptops - Asus EeePC and OLPC XO

Mon, 07 Jan 2008 08:46:12 -0800

Start: 2008/03/11 - 7:30pm

End: 2008/03/11 - 9:00pm

description:

The Asus EeePC and the One Laptop Per Child XO are two small laptops with very
little in common. This month we have two presenters, Allan Cecil and Brandon
Williams.

Allan will talk about the One Laptop Per Child Project XO laptop, which
is technologically very unusual and supports some exciting educational and
networking applications. A mesh networking demo of multiple XOs is planned, so
if you are one of the lucky ones to already have an XO, bring it along and join
in the demo.

Brandon will be discussing the EeePC, its hardware specifications,
capabilities, the default operating system, and its great suite of open
source software. He'll discuss some of the niche distros popping up
specifically for the EeePC, some of the popular hardware hacks floating
around the web, and discuss some available options to the potential
buyer. We'll also hear about upcoming Ultra-Mobile Pc's, why their popularity
will continue to grow, and upcoming technology that are going to keep making
them cheaper, smaller, and more portable.

Location:
O'Reilly Media, Sebastopol

Speaker:
Brandon Williams and Allan Cecil

General Meeting -- Introduction to Forensics

Mon, 07 Jan 2008 08:41:53 -0800

Start: 2008/02/12 - 7:30pm

End: 2008/02/12 - 9:00pm

description:

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 compromised Linux image.

Location:
O'Reilly Media, Sebastopol

Speaker:
Kyle Rankin

General Meeting -- Advantech FWA-660 Network Appliance

Mon, 07 Jan 2008 08:37:17 -0800

Start: 2008/01/08 - 7:30pm

End: 2008/01/08 - 9:00pm

description:

Paul Stagnoli and Brian Davidson, of Exchange Bank, will be discussing
hacking the Advantech FWA-660 network appliance. The FWA-660 specs
include four Ethernet ports, a Celeron processor, up to 512 meg of ram,
on-board USB and printer support, compact flash support, and a 30 gig
hard drive.

Paul will demonstrate how to install Ubuntu server onto the box via PXE.
Brian will discuss case mods he made to add USB and Printer support to
the box.

Location:
O'Reilly Media, Sebastopol

Speaker:
Paul Stagnoli and Brian Davidson

General Meeting -- Virtualization Panel

Mon, 10 Dec 2007 16:51:20 -0800

Start: 2007/12/11 - 7:30pm

End: 2007/12/11 - 9:00pm

description:

Curious about virtualization? In this talk a panel of NBLUG members will highlight a number of different virtualization technologies including but not limited to VMware, OpenVZ, Solaris zones, and more!

Location:
O'Reilly Media, Sebastopol

Speaker:
NBLUG Panel

General Meeting -- How DNS Works

Tue, 21 Aug 2007 08:20:14 -0700

Start: 2007/09/11 - 7:30pm

End: 2007/09/11 - 9:00pm

description:

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.

Location:
O'Reilly Media

Speaker:
Kyle Rankin

General Meeting -- Amazon Web Services

Fri, 10 Aug 2007 11:35:25 -0700

Start: 2007/08/14 - 7:30pm

End: 2007/08/14 - 9:00pm

description:

What’s possible in a post Web 2.0 world?

Innovation continues at a mind-bending pace, and this presentation will showcase some thought-provoking new directions that Web Services are headed in. The presentation will provide an overview of Amazon Web Services, including a Web Service named Mechanical Turk that allows computers to make requests of people, an online storage service, a Virtual Server controlled by a Web service, and more. There will also be a demo showing how to set up a virtual server. But mostly this will be an opportunity to have a discussion about innovation and entrepreneurial tools.

Location:
O'Reilly Media

Speaker:
Mike Culver

PowerDNS

Tue, 03 Jul 2007 08:18:26 -0700

Start: 2007/07/10 - 7:30pm

End: 2007/07/10 - 9:00pm

description:

The PowerDNS Nameserver is a modern, advanced and high performance authoritative-only nameserver. It is written from scratch and conforms to all relevant DNS standards documents. Furthermore, PowerDNS interfaces with almost any database.

In this talk August will discuss how PowerDNS can serve your Name Serving needs, some of its advantages and disadvantages, how it can play well with other Name Servers and how you can migrate to it.

August is the Senior System Administrator at Sonic.net; more information about him can be found at his personal website: www.schwer.us.

Location:
O'Reilly Media

Speaker:
Augie Schwer

General Meeting - Gamba

Mon, 30 Apr 2007 21:27:26 -0700

Start: 2007/06/12 - 7:30pm

End: 2007/06/12 - 9:00pm

description:

Visual Basic allows anyone, even beginners, to do Windows programming.

You can create powerful graphic applications just by dragging and
dropping widgets onto a form and typing a couple of lines of Basic.

Gambas takes rapid application development even further, and makes it
more powerful - with access to QT and KDE functions just a couple of
mouseclicks away - and it's for Linux!

In this presentation you'll get a quick introduction to the Gambas
development environment and see how easy it is to build a webcam
application.

Location:
O'Reilly Media

Speaker:
Bob Blick

General Meeting - Handheld Linux

Mon, 09 Apr 2007 11:09:04 -0700

Start: 2007/04/10 - 7:30pm

End: 2007/04/10 - 9:00pm

description:

Several handheld computers are on the market that run(or can be made to run) Linux. In this talk, Bob will discuss the differences between Linux on the desktop and on these little devices. He will compare models from Compaq/HP, Sharp and Nokia, the different window managers, and show some of the applications available. Bob has owned a few different handhelds and will bring a couple of them to demonstrate. Some technical points regarding Linux on small systems will also be brought up.

Location:
O'Reilly Media

Speaker:
Bob Blick

Asterisk

Tue, 09 Jan 2007 06:37:12 -0800

Start: 2007/01/09 - 7:30pm

End: 2007/01/09 - 9:00pm

description:

Chris will be briefly going over the history of Asterisk. He'll discuss a few available protocols like h.323, SIP, and IAX2. He'll go into a little more detail about IAX2 since it's simple and has low over head. Chris will be demonstrating a simple SIP device. Then make a call from one Asterisk server to another. Maybe even a couple servers hooked to each other. Possibly a call into his home PBX that goes over a VPN tunnel.

NBLUG members are invited to call my PBX by dialing: (707)703-1982 or connecting to: guest@odunix.org with their SIP or IAX2 client.

This is a link to his dial plan: http://www.odunix.org/pbx/

Here's an brief overview of what he will cover (Open Document format) http://odunix.org/pbx/asterisk/asterisk.odp

Speaker:
Chris Widger