From announce at lists.nycbug.org Wed Aug 2 11:27:50 2006 From: announce at lists.nycbug.org (NYC*BUG Announcement) Date: Wed, 02 Aug 2006 11:27:50 -0400 Subject: [announce] TONIGHT: NYC*BUG Open Forum Message-ID: <44D0C476.1000303@sddi.net> August 2nd Wednesday Suspenders Restaurant & Bar in the back room 6:30 PM until we`re done 111 Broadway & Thames directions are here: http://suspendersbar.com/directions.html Our "Open Forum" meetings allow for short presentations on a variety of topics, in addition to providing a better environment for attendees to raise issues and problems they face day-to-day as *BSD sysadmins and developers. We look to these meetings as a "live" version of our dynamic `Talk` mailing list. We have prearranged a number of short spiels for each meeting, including. . . * Steven Kreuzer & Nathan Boeger have some methods for scaling a large member base. The technical challenges of scaling websites with large and growing member bases, like social networking sites, are numerous. One of these challenges is how to evenly distribute the growing member base across all available resources. This talk will explore various methods that address this issue. The techniques used can be generalized and applied to various other problems that need to distribute data evenly amongst a finite amount of resources. * Jesse Callaway will provide an overview of a *BSD solution to a Windows environment, rsync from remote Win32 systems to *BSD servers, and some fixes for commonly faced problems. And of course, we'll continue our discussions on NYCBSDCon. From announce at lists.nycbug.org Thu Aug 10 17:31:41 2006 From: announce at lists.nycbug.org (NYC*BUG Announcement) Date: Thu, 10 Aug 2006 17:31:41 -0400 Subject: [announce] NYCBSDCon CFPs Due August 15th Message-ID: <44DBA5BD.4050202@sddi.net> NYCBSDCon CFP Closing August 15th The deadline for the NYCBSDCon "Call for Presentations" is this coming Tuesday, August 15th. NYCBSDCon will be held at Columbia University in New York City on October 28th and 29th. Details on the CFP are online at http://www.nycbsdcon.org/cfp. The program committee will notify accepted submissions on September 1st. The website for last year's NYCBSDCon is available at http://2005.nycbsdcon.org.