From announce-nycbug at lists.nycbug.org Mon Jan 2 06:20:55 2006 From: announce-nycbug at lists.nycbug.org (announce-nycbug at lists.nycbug.org) Date: Mon, 02 Jan 2006 06:20:55 -0500 Subject: [Announce-NYCBUG] NYC*BUG Jan 4th Meeting Message-ID: <43B90C97.9000206@sddi.net> Trish Lynch: Java on FreeBSD in Heavy Production January 04, 2006 6-8 pm, Soho Apple Store at 103 Prince Street The name Trish Lynch is not unknown in BSD circles. Trish has been around since the mid-1990's doing advocacy and some small development, but what Trish is known for is deploying BSD into companies that have networks in disrepair or otherwise strained to the limits using Linux, and turning them into works of gold. First doing this at VA Linux/Andover.Net, Trish is known for putting BSD firewalls in front of Slashdot, a well-known and heavily trafficked Linux news site, later on, Trish won an Emmy Award by using FreeBSD in a high performance network designed to handle millions of viewers for interactive television at ABC's Enhanced TV. These days, Trish is deploying FreeBSD boxes with Java on them to multiplex video and voice at the 4th largest private Instant Message infrastructure, Paltalk. Trish will explain how Java can be a useful and stable environment on FreeBSD, as well as the particulars that go into deploying Java in such a highly stressed, highly attacked environment. Trish will also show where the pitfalls and idiosyncrasies with FreeBSD's Java lie, and how to get the most of the FreeBSD/Java production environment. From announce-nycbug at lists.nycbug.org Wed Jan 4 10:57:45 2006 From: announce-nycbug at lists.nycbug.org (announce-nycbug at lists.nycbug.org) Date: Wed, 04 Jan 2006 10:57:45 -0500 Subject: [Announce-NYCBUG] TONIGHT: Trish Lynch, Java on FreeBSD in Heavy Production Message-ID: <43BBF079.7060202@sddi.net> January 04, 2006 6 pm, Soho Apple Store at 103 Prince Street Java on FreeBSD in Heavy Production The name Trish Lynch is not unknown in BSD circles. Trish has been around since the mid-1990's doing advocacy and some small development, but what Trish is known for is deploying BSD into companies that have networks in disrepair or otherwise strained to the limits using Linux, and turning them into works of gold. First doing this at VA Linux/Andover.Net, Trish is known for putting BSD firewalls in front of Slashdot, a well-known and heavily trafficked Linux news site, later on, Trish won an Emmy Award by using FreeBSD in a high performance network designed to handle millions of viewers for interactive television at ABC's Enhanced TV. These days, Trish is deploying FreeBSD boxes with java on them to multiplex video and voice at the 4th largest private Instant Message infrastructure, Paltalk. Trish will explain how Java can be a useful and stable environment on FreeBSD, as well as the particulars that go into deploying Java in such a highly stressed, highly attacked environment. Trish will also show where the pitfalls and idiosyncrasies with FreeBSD's java lie, and how to get the most of the FreeBSD/Java production environment. From announce-nycbug at lists.nycbug.org Thu Jan 19 13:30:42 2006 From: announce-nycbug at lists.nycbug.org (announce-nycbug at lists.nycbug.org) Date: Thu, 19 Jan 2006 13:30:42 -0500 Subject: [Announce-NYCBUG] Tor Server in the NYC*BUG Colo Message-ID: <43CFDAD2.5000202@sddi.net> We are proud to announce that NYC*BUG is now hosting a Tor server (tor01.nycbug.org, nicknamed "nycbug") in our colocation cabinet, configured by Ray Lai. The Tor project, funded by the Electronic Frontier Foundation, is an anonymizing onion-routing network to provide unhindered surfing of the internet and more. Visit http://tor.eff.org/ for more information. The NYC*BUG colocation cabinet, donated by New York Internet, has a 10 meg pipe. It currently hosts a variety of projects, sites and lists, including FTP2.usa.openbsd.org, a mirror of BSDCertification.org and NYCBSCon.org. The new Tor server, not to mention the other hosted entities, are there to benefit the BSD community and beyond. Our success is based upon generous donations of hardware, time and money from a handful of people. However, to proceed forward, it is critical that more donations of hardware are made. Most importantly, we are looking for hard drives and RAID controllers. Of course, fully built systems (minimum ~Pentium III) are always welcomed, and will be put to use for useful purposes. If you can provide hardware for NYC*BUG colo, please contact us with the Submission menu tab on the nycbug.org web site. From announce-nycbug at lists.nycbug.org Mon Jan 30 08:54:58 2006 From: announce-nycbug at lists.nycbug.org (Announcements only list for NYCBUG (announcements are not cross-posted to other lists).) Date: Mon, 30 Jan 2006 08:54:58 -0500 Subject: [Announce-NYCBUG] Wednesday: Johnny Lam: Xen and the Art of SysAdmin Message-ID: <43DE1AB2.1070400@sddi.net> February 01, 2006 Johnny Lam: Xen and the Art of SysAdmin 6 pm, Soho Apple Store at 103 Prince Street This presentation will be about using Xen in the real world to simplify the maintenance of BSD systems. There will be a short introduction to Xen and how it works, an in-depth look at the details of one particular Xen setup along with some performance results, and how using Xen simplifies life as an admin. About the speaker: Johnny C. Lam is a senior pkgsrc developer whose main area of work is improving the portability and the capabilities of pkgsrc. He has headed the organizing of two pkgsrcCon meetings in Europe to promote a better understanding of pkgsrc infrastructure development. He is still looking to dupe someone else into taking maintainership of the Perl package. From announce-nycbug at lists.nycbug.org Tue Jan 31 23:26:56 2006 From: announce-nycbug at lists.nycbug.org (Announcements only list for NYCBUG (announcements are not cross-posted to other lists).) Date: Tue, 31 Jan 2006 23:26:56 -0500 Subject: [Announce-NYCBUG] NYC*BUG Web Site Relaunch Message-ID: <43E03890.2030801@sddi.net> NYCBUG Web http://www.nycbug.org NYCBUG is proud to announce the release of an updated website. We have a slightly new look, upgraded applications, and several new resources. We hope this will make the website more interactive and useful for the community. We would like to thank New York PHP (www.nyphp.org) for hosting our web service for the last two years. We are now hosting our own web service in the NYCBUG datacenter, graciously donated by New York Internet (www.nyi.net). The biggest change is that most of the website is now interactive. That means you, the NYCBUG community, can add data to almost every page. Another big change, not obvious to the user, is that the backend was ported from MySQL to PostgreSQL. Note.. we implemented CAPTCHA on all input forms to help hold down automated additions and spam. So you will have to type a pass phrase that matches the text in an image for all submissions. We have more plans for the future so stay tuned. Also, if you have any ideas, suggestions, criticism, etc, please let us know. You can send us a note by filling out a little form on the About page. Check out our brand new app, explained below: PortRequest. Read on to find out more! Regards, NYCBUG webmaster DETAILS: ================================== MAIN MENU - this is the heart of what NYCBUG is about. * Home - meetings listing * About - about us * MailingLists - our lists * NYCBSDCon - our conference * FAQ - questions and answers THE WEB APPS * WebApps Overview - this gives an over view of the current interactive web applications and a short description of each. This should be your first stop when visiting. * dmesgd - an old favorite that we spruced up with better search capabilities. We now offer more categories to filter and find what you want to know. You can now use Full Text Indexing and can combine search terms. Boolean searches are supported. For example "em0 | hme0", the | operator means OR. Other supported operators are & for AND and ! for NOT. Sample: "hme0 & !FreeBSD" .. of course, without quotes. * Library - Here is your chance to share your knowledge with other BSD users! Just fill out the form and submit it to us. If your submission is already published elsewhere, or, is too long to fit; then just type the url in the "Internet Link" and put a description in the "Submission" box. You may upload one (1) file, if needed. * BSDTracker - this app was developed to help promote the use and awareness of BSD. * Links - links to BSD resources on the web. This is one place we could use your help. You are encouraged to help us keep our links page up to date by submitting links to the database. * Gallery - a place to view snapshots from BSD events. If you have a batch of snapshots you would like to have in an album, please contact us! * Store - NYCBUG branded stuff * PortRequest - brand new app! This was suggested to us by Richard Bejtlich. According to the FreeBSD ports page (http://www.freebsd.org/ports/index.html): The FreeBSD Ports and Packages Collection offers a simple way for users and administrators to install applications. There are currently over 14,000 ports available. Sometimes you come across an application that looks really cool to try, but, there is no port. If you have the advantage of being a port maintainer, or feel adventurous, you could write your own port. The documentation (http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/porters-handbook/index.html) is an excellent guide. But, most users are not up to the task and have to wait until a port is built or install from source. With that in mind, Richard made the suggestion that there should be a central database that let people submit requests for ports of applications that are not in the ports tree yet. That way anyone could peruse the database and find ideas for ports to write. NYCBUG took up the challenge of creating a web application and that database; and host it on their site. The app provides: 1. A searchable frontend listing all available requests. 2. A way to submit Requests and add them to the database. 3. A way to comment on any Request. In the future the app will provide: 1. A link to the actual ports tree so completed Requests can be marked as such. 2. A Watch List where anyone can submit their email address and have changes to the database be emailed to them. Anyone can Submit a new Request! The form has several fields that require filling in. Submissions are visible immediately, so after submission, you will be taken back to the main form and your submission will be the default selection. Anyone can Comment on a Request! The form has a few fields that require filling in. You can even send a copy of the comment (or question) directly to the Requestor, if they have explicitly allowed this feature. Again, comments are visible immediately, so after submission, you will be taken back to the main form and your submission will be the default selection. Disclaimer: As a precaution, NYCBUG reserves the right to modify any submission deemed to be inaccurate or inappropriate. END From announce-nycbug at lists.nycbug.org Tue Jan 31 23:33:11 2006 From: announce-nycbug at lists.nycbug.org (Announcements only list for NYCBUG (announcements are not cross-posted to other lists).) Date: Tue, 31 Jan 2006 23:33:11 -0500 Subject: [Announce-NYCBUG] Wednesday NYC*BUG Meeting: Johnny Lam on Xen & the Art of Sysadmin Message-ID: <43E03A07.3030207@sddi.net> February 01, 2006 Johnny Lam: Xen and the Art of SysAdmin 6 pm, Soho Apple Store at 103 Prince Street This presentation will be about using Xen in the real world to simplify the maintenance of BSD systems. There will be a short introduction to Xen and how it works, an in-depth look at the details of one particular Xen setup along with some performance results, and how using Xen simplifies life as an admin. About the speaker: Johnny C. Lam is a senior pkgsrc developer whose main area of work is improving the portability and the capabilities of pkgsrc. He has headed the organizing of two pkgsrcCon meetings in Europe to promote a better understanding of pkgsrc infrastructure development. He is still looking to dupe someone else into taking maintainership of the Perl package.