North Bay Linux Users Group - Date&Time: Definite

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/

InstallFest

Sun, 17 Sep 2006 16:48:51 -0700

Start: 2006/10/28 - 10:00am

End: 2006/10/28 - 5:00pm

description:

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.

Location:
O'Reilly Media in Sebastopol

Choosing and Tuning Linux File Systems

Thu, 06 Jul 2006 09:00:10 -0700

Start: 2006/10/10 - 7:30pm

End: 2006/10/10 - 8:30pm

description:

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.

Location:
O'Reilly Media, Sebastopol, CA

Speaker:
Val Henson

URL:
infohost.nmt.edu/~val/review/choosing.odp

VMware Server

Thu, 06 Jul 2006 08:58:01 -0700

Start: 2006/09/12 - 7:30pm

End: 2006/09/12 - 9:30pm

description:

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.

Location:
O'Reilly Media Inc. in Sebastopol

Speaker:
Kyle Rankin

Board Meeting

Mon, 27 Mar 2006 13:19:38 -0800

Start: 2006/04/04 - 6:00pm

End: 2006/04/04 - 8:30pm

description:

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):

Location:
Sizzling Tandoor

General Meeting - DVD Authoring with Linux

Mon, 30 Jan 2006 15:22:48 -0800

Start: 2006/02/07 - 7:30pm

End: 2006/02/07 - 9:00pm

description:

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

Location:
O'Reilly in Sebastopol

Speaker:
Kyle Rankin

General Meeting: Desktops

Wed, 11 Jan 2006 08:26:10 -0800

Start: 2006/07/11 - 7:30pm

End: 2006/07/11 - 9:30pm

description:

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.

Location:
O'Reilly Media, Sebastopol, CA

General Meeting - Gaming on GNU/Linux

Wed, 09 Nov 2005 08:31:04 -0800

Start: 2006/05/09 - 7:30pm

End: 2006/05/09 - 9:00pm

description:

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.

Location:
O'Reilly Media, Sebastopol, CA

Speaker:
Paul Peterson and Stephen Cilley

General Meeting - Linux on the XBOX

Wed, 09 Nov 2005 08:26:46 -0800

Start: 2006/03/14 - 7:30pm

End: 2006/03/14 - 9:00pm

description:

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

Location:
O'Reilly Media, Sebastopol

Speaker:
Allan Cecil

URL:
nblug.org/presentations/linuxonxbox/linuxonxbox.html

General Meeting - Ruby on Rails

Tue, 08 Nov 2005 15:11:54 -0800

Start: 2006/01/10 - 7:30pm

description:

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.

Location:
O'Reilly in Sebastopol

Speaker:
Rob Orsini

Board Meeting

Tue, 11 Oct 2005 15:49:27 -0700

Start: 2005/10/13 - 6:30pm

End: 2005/10/13 - 8:30pm

description:

Call to order and roll call
Approval of previous minutes
Status of General Meeting Videos -Kyle (Dan?)
Podcasting meetings? -Kyle
NBLUG Member idea: Post Linux questions to panel at meetings -Kyle
General Meetings:

Nov. Meeting - WRT54G
Dec. Meeting - ?
Jan. Meeting - ?

Next Installfest?
Splunk Sponsorship of a Meeting? -Augie
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

Location:
Sizzling Tandoor in Santa Rosa

General Meeting - Linux Distribution Round Table

Wed, 12 Jan 2005 16:00:09 -0800

Start: 2005/12/13 - 7:30pm

End: 2005/12/13 - 9:00pm

description:

Speakers TBD, but the presentation will be a round table discussion of some of the current popular Linux distributions.

If you're interested in talking about your favorite distribution for a few minutes, please contact speakers@nblug.org.

Location:
O'Reilly

General Meeting - SPLUNK

Sun, 09 Jan 2005 08:28:16 -0800

Start: 2006/04/11 - 7:30pm

End: 2006/04/11 - 9:28pm

description:

http://www.splunk.com/

Splunk is search software that indexes and links together ALL the IT data generated by ANY system, application or device making it possible to search and navigate your running IT infrastructure.

From one place, make sense of logs, configuration files, message queues, JMX notifications, SNMP and database transactions from any system, application or device:

Gain secure access to all your IT data
Perform ad-hoc investigations
Alert on problems spanning multiple tiers
Report on activities across the data center
Tap into a global community of IT experts

The speaker, Patrick McGovern is an expert in building thriving online communities. Prior to joining Splunk, he oversaw SourceForge.net, the world’s largest Open Source development website, for five years. Patrick grew the site from a few thousand users to over a million registered Open Source developers and 97,000 Open Source software projects. SourceForge.net is now the de facto repository for Open Source software. Splunk is leveraging his experience to build a vibrant community around key Splunk technologies and services. Patrick is a frequent speaker and panelist at key industry conferences. He holds a B.S. in Computer Science from the University of San Francisco.

Location:
O'Reilly

Speaker:
Patrick McGovern

URL:
www.splunk.com

InstallFest

Sun, 02 Jan 2005 10:48:07 -0800

Start: 2005/05/14 - 3:30am

description:

[textile]
Please note that this InstallFest is at O'Reilly. Please see below for information on the exact location and directions. This is not our usual installfest location. We've decided to start doing all of our InstallFests at O'Reilly.

WHEN:  Saturday, May 14 - 10:30AM - 4:30PM PDT
WHERE: O'Reilly in Sebastopol; http://nblug.org/genloc
WHO:   Anyone wanting help in installing Linux onto their computer
URL:   http://nblug.org/installfest/
WHAT DO I DO: Go to http://www.nblug.org/installfest/ to signup!!!!

What is an InstallFest and who can come?

Instead of putting all of the usual "what is an InstallFest" info in this and future announcements, we have a link up on our website as to what a NBLUG InstallFest entails and how to participate. If you point your browser of choice to http://www.nblug.org/installfest/ , you'll be presented with all the info you ever wanted to know about what goes on at an InstallFest, and how you can get the most out of attending one.

Location:
O'Reilly