PLUG: May 2009 - The Open Source Data Center
During the last 10 years of system administration I have been involved in a number of data center migrations and build-outs. As these projects came and went I began to see patterns emerge in the set of services and software required to run a successful operations infrastructure. This presentation will describe these patterns, and provide an overview of the Open Source software available to implement them. About Dan: Dan Hanks has been involved with Linux System administration since 1998, when he worked for EagleNet Online, a small ISP in Provo, which, in a sense, was the birthplace of PLUG. After EagleNet he worked as a systems and database administrator for Nothsky/About.com/Primedia/United Online and is currently a system administrator for Omniture. He has varied interests, ranging from computers and technology to astronomy, geology, music, art, and family history research. He holds a Bachelor's degree in Computer Science from BYU, and is the father of 4 adventuresome children. He (occasionally) blogs at http://brainshed.com, and tweets as @danhanks.
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Ubuntu Utah: May 2009 - Partitions, Filesystems, LVM and RAID
The presentation was on partitions, filesystems, LVM and RAID by Aaron Toponce. The focus of my topic will by system administration, rather than for new beginners to the distribution, but it will be benificial for them as well learn how to properly work with their filesystems.
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PLUG: April 2009 - Control 4
Ryan Erickson works for Control4 (http://www.control4.com), and has worked and played with Home Automation for over 10 years. He will present an introduction to Home Automation, and discuss Control4's Home Automation products. Ryan will cover: # What is Home Automation? # How does it work? # Open Source Home Automation projects # DIY vs. 'Professional' # Control4's approach to Home Automation
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Ubuntu Utah - March 2009: Puppet, Systems Building Systems
Andrew Shafer works full time on the Open Source system management framework, Puppet. He brings with him a background in computational science, embedded Linux development, web frameworks and Agile methods. Andrew has been an Open Source user and advocate since the late 90s. He was a speaker at the 2008 Utah Open Source Conference.
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PLUG - March 2009: Parrot
Parrot is a virtual machine designed to efficiently compile and execute bytecode for dynamic languages. Parrot currently hosts a variety of language implementations in various stages of completion, including Tcl, Javascript, Ruby, Lua, Scheme, PHP, Python, Perl 6, APL, and a .NET bytecode translator. Parrot is not about parrots, though we are rather fond of them for obvious reasons. Guru at Guru Labs for 1.5 years. I teach, work on courseware, and assorted Perl programming. In my spare time I work on Parrot and recently a roguelike. I've been working on Parrot for about a year, in which time I've written a LOLCODE and Ruby compiler and done a lot of work on Exceptions and some work implementing features in Perl 6. I'd like to talk about Parrot and/or Perl 6! That's about as specific as I get. If nobody has any more-specific requests, I'd like to run through implementing a simple language and the parts of a Parrot compiler. Maybe scheme? I haven't decided yet.
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PLUG - February 2009: Git by Barry Roberts
I've been a programmer and sometimes sysadmin for Xactware Solutions for over 13 years. I program in Java, groovy, Python, Perl, bash and C#. Shockingly, the division I work for has become an island of Linux in a sea of Windows servers. I've been researching replacing CVS for over 5 years now. Last April, I helped all our developers and testers switch to Git. I've been the internal support person for Linux and Windows git clients since then. In this presentation I hope to use concrete examples and experience to convince every programmer that not using git is shortening your life, frightening your children, and contributing to the current economic malaise. We will also look at some cool git-related tools including a cross-platform gui I've done some minor hacking on to keep Windows users happy.
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Utah Python - March 2009: GridBackup
Shawn Willden presents on GridBackup: A peer to peer backup system built on top of the allmydata.org Tahoe distributed file system.
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Ubuntu Utah - February 2009: OpenVPN by Will Smith
The meeting focused around the simple setup for OpenVPN. Including the configuration files, commands and certificates.
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SLLUG - January 2009: GPS with gpsbabel, gpicsync and Google Earth
Marc Christensen presents on Geo Tagging pictures and overlaying GPS Data aligned with photos on Google Map and Google Earth
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UTOSC 2008: Drupal: From blank to blog in 30 minutes by Dirk Howard
Drupal is an extensible Content Management System (CMS) that is used for blogs, forums, photo galleries and many other uses. Installing Drupal on a blank website can be done in as little as 30 minutes. All you need is a web server that can handle PHP, a MySQL or PostgreSQL database, and either FTP or shell access to the web server. Within 30 minutes you can be blogging on your own site that you can customize anyway you want.
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