From hans at nyphp.com Mon Mar 8 10:02:26 2004 From: hans at nyphp.com (Hans Zaunere) Date: Mon, 8 Mar 2004 07:02:26 -0800 Subject: [Announce-nycbug] nyphp@GNUbies: Intro to Apache/MySQL/PHP Message-ID: <41EE526EC2D3C74286415780D3BA9F87CF0027@ehost011-1.exch011.intermedia.net> New York PHP Special Presentation: Introduction to AMP at GNUbies Meeting ------------------------------------------------------------------------ -- When: March 10, 2004 at 6:30 Where: IBM Building, Manhattan Details: http://nyphp.org As a special presentation, New York PHP President Hans Zaunere will introduce the powerful AMP Technology suite to the GNUbies group this Wednesday. From GNUbies.org: We are pleased to announce that at this month's Gnubies meeting, Hans Zaunere, President and Founder of New York PHP will be giving a basic introduction to AMP - that is an extremely popular combination of software used for web servers and includes the Apache web server, the MySQL database and, in this case, the PHP programming language used for web scripting. When using GNU/Linux as the OS this is often referred to as LAMP. A basic explanation of each of these will be followed by a demonstration of a basic setup including compiling and configuration and then the writing of a simple web application. Clearly, since this is a GNUbies meeting these will not be covered in depth, but you will get a flavor of what can be done and a system will be set up and running during the presentation providing basic practical information as well. As a freelance developer of GPS systems for the New York State Department of Environmental Conservation and other government organizations, Hans employed Open Source tools to massage and analyze geophysical data in 1995. While working as a network and systems administrator for a startup ISP, he discovered PHP and quickly migrated all modeling and monitoring tools to the web with the aid of Apache and MySQL. In 2001 Hans moved to Manhattan and took responsibility for critical medical data as a systems architect at New York University. Then in 2002, he established New York PHP and AMP Technology to develop and promote this key technology suite. Today he continues to wear systems architect and administration hats, providing business solutions through Open Source. As always, we are grateful to IBM for their generous donation of space for this mneeting. Please see http://gnubies.org for IBM's secuity measures for being admitted to the building or the meeting. Wednesday March 10, 2004 6:30 pm General Questions and Answers 7:00 pm Hans Zaunere on An Introduction to AMP for GNUbies (The Apache Web Server, MySQL Database and PHP Web Scripting Language) At the IBM building The IBM building, 590 Madison Ave. (57th Street and Madison Avenue) As always, our meetings are free and open to the public. And as always the most up-to-date information can be found at our website at http://www.gnubies.org or http://www.eskimo.com/~lo/linux See you there, --- Hans Zaunere President New York PHP http://nyphp.com From george at sddi.net Mon Mar 15 21:37:00 2004 From: george at sddi.net (G. Rosamond) Date: Mon, 15 Mar 2004 21:37:00 -0500 Subject: [Announce-nycbug] NY Linux User Group Message-ID: March 17th, 2004 Wednesday 6:30PM-8:00PM IBM Headquarters Building 590 Madison Avenue at 57th Street 12th Floor, home to the IBM Linux Center of Competency ** RSVP Instructions ** Unless you have already rsvp'ed for a prior meeting, everyone should RSVP to attend. http://rsvp.nylug.org Check in with photo ID at the lobby for badge and room number. George Georgalis (NYLUG.org) -on- Managing Unix Services with Daemontools ``Daemontools, so simple, it's like it wasn't there,'' says our own George Georgalis, this month's presenter. Daemontools is a powerful suite for maintaining high availability of your daemons. It serves a simple function: keep a daemon up, and log its output. Since it is not part of most distributions, most people don't take the time to learn much of this powerful alternative. While the operation is unlike any other service control system, it is not complicated. Daemontools' main attributes are: * it's easy to setup * it's easy to maintain * it's secure * it's well organized * it's reliable * it's always working Daemontools is licensed into the Public Domain, not GNU, but 100% free. George will demonstrate the build, installation, and configuration of daemontools, also the set-up of a few daemons under it (please submit daemon request to george at galis.org before the time of the meeting). A few of the presenter's scripts and related packages will also be discussed. The package is simple enough that there (most likely) won't be any unanswered question, ``other than why aren't we using it?'' Come find out. For More Information Visit: * daemontools Homepage http://cr.yp.to/daemontools.html * License Vetting by the FSF http://www.gnu.org/directory/All_Packages_in_Directory/daemontools.html * Third Party man Pages, Public Domain Libraries http://smarden.org/pape/djb/ * System and Kernel Logging Services http://smarden.org/socklog/ About George Georgalis: George is a NYLUG member, works in the NYC Metropolitan Area, is a *nix devotee, and maintains a traditional homepage (nice). He's helpful on the NYLUG lists, a good soul, and consequently will be spared purgatory. He's an asset. You can visit, mail or buzz him via http://galis.org/ or george at galis.org . Free Stuff! Swag of undetermined value and quantity may be distributed on a first-come, first-served basis. Arrive early for the best selection. Keysignings GPG cryptography. Immediately after the presentation and continuing at Stammtisch we will be gathering for a keysigning. For those who already have keys, please remember to bring paper printouts of your 40-character key fingerprint, as per the instructions in our howto docs. If you haven't created a key yet, and for keysigning details, our howto docs are a must read. http://www.nylug.org/keys Stammtisch After the meeting ... Join us around 8:30pm or so at TGI Friday's, located at 677 Lexington Avenue and 56th Street, second floor. Northeast corner. Please see our home page at http://www.nylug.org for the HTMLized version of this announcement, our archives, and a lot of other good stuff. Monthly Reminder! Please read the NYLUG-Talk Posting Guidelines at: http://www.nylug.org/mlistguide/ ________________________________________________________________________ March 2004 - The New York Linux Users Group, NYLUG.org