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by Kyle Rankin

Start: 2009/08/11 - 7:30pm End: 2009/08/11 - 9:00pm Location: O'Reilly, Sebastopol, CA http://nblug.org/genloc Speaker: Aaron Grattafiori Description: Everyone likes pretty pictures. Visualizing your data is one of the best ways to see the "Big Picture" and a great tool to do that is RRDtool. In this talk, Aaron will discuss the basics of how to use RRDtool, how to write RRDTool scripts in bash and python, including some discussion on cricket and munin. Aaron also will give a few demo examples of some interesting graphs and generic scripts he created for the talk. -- Kyle Rankin NBLUG President The North Bay Linux Users' Group http://nblug.org IRC: greenfly(a)irc.freenode.net #nblug kyle(a)nblug.org

15 years, 2 months

General Meeting TOMORROW: Media Center PCs

by Kyle Rankin

Start: 2009/07/14 - 7:30pm End: 2009/07/14 - 9:00pm Location: O'Reilly, Sebastopol, CA http://nblug.org/genloc Speaker: Kyle Rankin and Allan Cecil Description: It seems like just about everyone is coming out with a PC that you can connect to your TV and play videos from. Of course, we all know just how many of those are running Linux under the hood. Why buy one of those when you can build your own? In this talk Kyle Rankin and Allan Cecil are going to discuss two fully-featured programs you can install on a regular Linux system to turn it into a media PC: Xbox Media Center (XBMC) and Boxee. -- Kyle Rankin NBLUG President The North Bay Linux Users' Group http://nblug.org IRC: greenfly(a)irc.freenode.net #nblug kyle(a)nblug.org

15 years, 3 months

General Meeting TOMORROW: Configuring and deploying Linux for an embedded software platform using LTIB

by Kyle Rankin

Start: 2009/06/09 - 7:30pm End: 2009/06/09 - 9:00pm Location: O'Reilly, Sebastopol, CA http://nblug.org/genloc Speaker: Nathan Knuth Description: From the LTIB website (www.bitshrine.org): The LTIB (Linux Target Image Builder) project is a simple tool that can be used to develop and deploy BSPs (Board Support Packages) for various target platforms. Using this tool a user will be able to develop a GNU/Linux image for their target platform. This talk with demonstrate the configuration and use of LTIB for assembling the components of an embedded Linux system. Topics will include uboot, Linux kernel, and root file system options. -- Kyle Rankin NBLUG President The North Bay Linux Users' Group http://nblug.org IRC: greenfly(a)irc.freenode.net #nblug kyle(a)nblug.org

15 years, 4 months

General Meeting TONIGHT: Native Client

by Kyle Rankin

Start: 2009/03/10 - 7:30pm End: 2009/03/10 - 9:00pm Location: O'Reilly, Sebastopol, CA http://nblug.org/genloc Speaker: Aaron Grattafiori Description: Google's Native Client project seeks to provide high-performance, cross-platform, browser-based applications yet allow them to be "untrusted". Performance is in the form of x86 binary code while Security comes from a dual layer sandbox. In this talk I'll overview the goals of the project, how it works, why you might care plus give a demo of a few Native Client applications. -- Kyle Rankin NBLUG President The North Bay Linux Users' Group http://nblug.org IRC: greenfly(a)irc.freenode.net #nblug kyle(a)nblug.org

15 years, 7 months

General Meeting TOMORROW: GUI Candy

by Kyle Rankin

Start: 2009/02/10 - 7:30pm End: 2009/02/10 - 9:00pm Location: O'Reilly, Sebastopol, CA http://nblug.org/genloc Speaker: Kyle Rankin Description: Last month we discussed some cool command line tools. This month Kyle will go to the opposite end of the spectrum and talk about desktop eye candy. Kyle will specifically discuss Compiz Fusion and Gnome Do and go into some of the more advanced configuration options available for Compiz. -- Kyle Rankin NBLUG President The North Bay Linux Users' Group http://nblug.org IRC: greenfly(a)irc.freenode.net #nblug kyle(a)nblug.org

15 years, 8 months

General Meeting TOMORROW: Cool Shell Tools

by Kyle Rankin

Start: 2009/01/13 - 7:30pm End: 2009/01/13 - 9:00pm Location: O'Reilly, Sebastopol, CA http://nblug.org/genloc Speaker: NBLUG Panel Description: A panel of NBLUG members will discuss cool shell tools. We will delve into topics like screen, vim, mutt, and others. -- Kyle Rankin NBLUG President The North Bay Linux Users' Group http://nblug.org IRC: greenfly(a)irc.freenode.net #nblug kyle(a)nblug.org

15 years, 9 months

General Meeting TOMORROW: Election and "Where'd my Files Go? A guide to the Modern Ubuntu Distribution"

by Kyle Rankin

Start: 2008/11/11 - 7:30pm End: 2008/11/11 - 9:00pm Location: O'Reilly, Sebastopol, CA http://nblug.org/genloc Speaker: Kyle Rankin Description: While you might not be able to tell at a cursory glance, a lot has changed behind the scenes on a modern Ubuntu system from what you might be used to if you have used Linux for years. For example, did you know Ubuntu is phasing out System V init? That you can't loopback-mount the initrd? In this talk I would discuss the current changes Ubuntu is making to what we might consider the traditional Linux system. There's a little something for everyone on the talk: For Linux newbies who are curious about what's under the hood I will cover the traditional and modern boot process including how init works and follow up with a guide to where important files are in Ubuntu. For the experienced Linux user I'll 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. We will also be holding NBLUG elections at the beginning of the meeting. -- Kyle Rankin NBLUG President The North Bay Linux Users Group http://nblug.org IRC: greenfly(a)irc.freenode.net #nblug kyle(a)nblug.org

15 years, 11 months

General meeting tomorrow, October 14

by Bob Blick

Linux Terminal Server Project LTSP: Raiders of the Lost Mainframe In the beginning there were only the mainframes. Administration only required configuration of one system. Users accessed the mainframe from dumb terminals. Everyone had access to the same resources and had the same software, because everyone was on the same system. Then came the personal computer. Users all got their own systems, and system administration became exponentially more difficult. LTSP gives us a way to get the terminal server, singular administration and control we admins want and still give users the warm fuzzy interface, speed and freedom they want. One system, one set of updates, one place to make changes. We're going to look in to some of the history of LTSP, overview the technology involved, and some of the many potential applications. Finally we'll look at the best way to implement LTSP, and how its working in production in our corporate environment. Date and Time: October 14, 2008 7:30 PM Location: O'Reilly Media, Sebastopol, CA Speaker: Josh Dukes and Aaron Grattafiori -- http://www.fastmail.fm - IMAP accessible web-mail

16 years

General Meeting--October 14: LTSP: Raiders of the Lost Mainframe

by Kyle Rankin

Start: 2008/10/14 - 7:30pm End: 2008/10/14 - 9:00pm Location: O'Reilly, Sebastopol, CA http://nblug.org/genloc Speaker: Josh Dukes and Aaron Grattafiori Description: In the beginning there were only the mainframes. Administration only required configuration of one system. Users accessed the mainframe from dumb terminals. Everyone had access to the same resources and had the same software, because everyone was on the same system. Then came the personal computer. Users all got their own systems, and system administration became exponentially more difficult. LTSP gives us a way to get the terminal server, singular administration and control we admins want and still give users the warm fuzzy interface, speed and freedom they want. One system, one set of updates, one place to make changes. We're going to look in to some of the history of LTSP, overview the technology involved, and some of the many potential applications. Finally we'll look at the best way to implement LTSP, and how its working in production in our corporate environment. -- Kyle Rankin NBLUG President The North Bay Linux Users Group http://nblug.org IRC: greenfly(a)irc.freenode.net #nblug kyle(a)nblug.org

16 years

General Meeting September 9: Puppet Systems Management Tool

by Kyle Rankin

Start: 2008/09/09 - 7:30pm End: 2008/09/09 - 9:00pm Location: O'Reilly, Sebastopol, CA http://nblug.org/genloc Speaker: Eric Eisenhart 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. -- Kyle Rankin NBLUG President The North Bay Linux Users Group http://nblug.org IRC: greenfly(a)irc.freenode.net #nblug kyle(a)nblug.org

16 years, 1 month

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