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We are proud to announce our upcoming Installfest on Saturday, October 28th at O'Reilly (directions). If you are interested in attending, please pre-register on our Installfest page. If you would like to help out, please send an email to installfest[at]nblug.org. If you'd like to help promote the event, we also have a flyer (see attachment) that you can print it out, copy and plaster all over the place.

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Selecting the right Linux file system for your needs is a difficult and treacherous business. Every file system claims to be the best-performing and most robust -- how is a non-expert to cut through the hype? Next comes tuning your file system, requiring knowledge even more arcane.

In this talk, Val will describe the strengths and weaknesses of various file systems, discuss which workloads work best with which file system, and learn some basic concepts of file system design which help to evaluate tradeoffs. We will cover ext2, ext3, reiserfs, XFS, NFS, and others. This talk is your one-stop shop for picking the right file system for your needs, and tuning it for maximum effect.

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As a Linux geek who always like to experiment with the latest Linux distributions and tinker around with local servers, my closet looked a lot like a used computer store. Old discarded desktops were perfect platforms to try out Linux. Now that power has gotten more expensive, I've replaced a lot of local machines with virtual ones, and with the introduction of VMware Server, I have all but replaced my physical test platforms for virtual ones.

In this talk NBLUG president Kyle Rankin will introduce how to install and configure the free VMware Server software and demonstrate some of its features including how to create new virtual machines, how to manage a group of VMs with the VMware console, and how to backup virtual machines.

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• Roll Call (Eric)
• Approval of February Minutes (Eric)
• Items carried over from previous meeting:
  • Status of General Meeting Videos; Kyle was going to talk to Dan and get the oringal files to make VCDs
  • TaxID/non-profit Status (Jake)
  • Elections at next meeting
    • Election Procedure
    • Positions
      • President:
        • Kyle Rankin (accepted)
      • Vice-President:
        • Matt Hubert (accepted)
      • Treasurer:
        • Kat Ogaz (accepted)
      • Scribe (secretary):

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Kyle will demonstrate how to create your own DVD with menus from a sample video all with Open Source software. No XML editing required!

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Linux on the desktop gets more and more buzz as time goes on. In this presentation, a panel composed of NBLUG members will describe and demonstrate some of the major desktop environments/window managers available for Linux including Gnome, KDE, Fluxbox, and others.

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Sometimes it seems like as a community we take ourselves too seriously. We
run serious applications and our most important economic demographic is
large corporations with men in very expensive suits. Maybe the reason there
aren't many Linux based home computers is that we're all not playing enough
games.

Stephen Cilley and Paul Peterson present gaming in GNU/Linux. They will
discussing several modern (and not so modern) games and bitch about ahem
... discuss the difficulty involved in their use. They will present the
modern alternatives in video cards, processors, and do their best to avoid
the holy war while discussing distribution and windows managers. They will
demonstrate the use and futility of win32 API implementations in Linux along
with native free games and native non-free games.

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Allan will discuss how to mod the XBOX so you can run Linux from it, as well as how to use the newly-modded XBOX as a MythTV front-end.

Slides available at /presentations/linuxonxbox/linuxonxbox.html

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Ruby on Rails is an open-source web framework that's optimized for programmer happiness and sustainable productivity. It lets you write beautiful code by favoring convention over configuration."

Rob will demonstrate the creation of a simple database driven web application using the Rails framework. He'll also talk about some of the best practices that Rails brings to the web programming table and how it, and projects like it, are making programming more fun.

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1. Call to order and roll call
2. Approval of previous minutes
3. Status of General Meeting Videos -Kyle (Dan?)
4. Podcasting meetings? -Kyle
5. NBLUG Member idea: Post Linux questions to panel at meetings -Kyle
6. General Meetings:
1. Nov. Meeting - WRT54G
2. Dec. Meeting - ?
3. Jan. Meeting - ?
7. Next Installfest?
8. Splunk Sponsorship of a Meeting? -Augie
9. Status of previous action items:
   1. robble as new O'Reilly liason - some of the board will discuss it with him at or after the next general meeting on Tuesday and then we'll make the switch totally official, as long as he's agreeable