From announce at lists.nycbug.org  Sun Mar  1 17:11:25 2015
From: announce at lists.nycbug.org (NYC*BUG Announcements)
Date: Sun, 01 Mar 2015 17:11:25 -0500
Subject: [announce] Wednesday NYC*BUG: DTrace/book party with GNN
Message-ID: <mailman.116.1425247905.4236.announce@lists.nycbug.org>

We have most meetings lined up through September, while AsiaBSDCon and
BSDCan are coming up, but this Wednesday we have a very special meeting.

Wednesday, March 4:
from "The Design and Implementation of the FreeBSD Operating System"
DTrace
George Neville-Neil
18:45, Stone Creek Bar & Lounge: 140 E 27th St

Abstract

Book Release Event for "The Design and Implementation of the FreeBSD
Operating System" with George Neville-Neil

The March meeting will be a special launch meeting for the recent
release of "The Design and Implementation of the FreeBSD Operating
System." George Neville-Neil, one of the three authors, will be speaking
on DTrace, which is covered in the book. Copies of the book will be for
sale and giveaway. Hors d'oeuvres will be provided before and after the
meeting.

DTrace is the tool of choice for debugging and performance tuning
systems running on FreeBSD. Originally developed for the Solaris
operating system, DTrace was ported to FreeBSD and has been developed
and enhanced within FreeBSD ever since. Used by both systems
administrators and developers, this talk will discuss both how DTrace
works, as described in the latest edition of "The Design and
Implementation of the FreeBSD Operating System" as well as how to
effectively use the system to monitor systems and diagnose problems.

Speaker Bio

George Neville-Neil works on networking and operating system code for
fun and profit. He also teaches various courses on subjects related to
computer programming. His professional areas of interest include code
spelunking, operating systems, networking, time and security. He is the
co-author with Marshall Kirk McKusick and Robert Watson of The Design
and Implementation of the FreeBSD Operating System and is the columnist
behind ACM Queue's "Kode Vicious." He serves as a Director of the
non-profit, FreeBSD Foundation.

He earned his bachelor's degree in computer science at Northeastern
University in Boston, Massachusetts, and is a member of the ACM, the
USENIX Association and the IEEE. He is an avid bicyclist and traveler
who currently resides in New York City.


From announce at lists.nycbug.org  Wed Mar  4 08:11:12 2015
From: announce at lists.nycbug.org (NYC*BUG Announcements)
Date: Wed, 04 Mar 2015 08:11:12 -0500
Subject: [announce] NYC*BUG Tonight: George Neville-Neil on DTrace
Message-ID: <mailman.121.1425474689.4236.announce@lists.nycbug.org>

2015-03-04 - The Design and Implementation of the FreeBSD Operating
System, George Neville-Neil
18:45, Stone Creek Bar & Lounge: 140 E 27th St
no RSVPs needed, Free and Open to All

Abstract

Book Release Event for "The Design and Implementation of the FreeBSD
Operating System" with George Neville-Neil

The March meeting will be a special launch meeting for the recent
release of "The Design and Implementation of the FreeBSD Operating
System." George Neville-Neil, one of the three authors, will be speaking
on DTrace, which is covered in the book. Some introductory comments will
be made by the book's editor. Copies of the book will be for sale and
giveaway. There will be some hors d'oeuvres provided.

DTrace is the tool of choice for debugging and performance tuning
systems running on FreeBSD. Originally developed for the Solaris
operating system, DTrace was ported to FreeBSD and has been developed
and enhanced within FreeBSD ever since. Used by both systems
administrators and developers, this talk will discuss both how DTrace
works, as described in the latest edition of "The Design and
Implementation of the FreeBSD Operating System" as well as how to
effectively use the system to monitor systems and diagnose problems.

Speaker Bio

George Neville-Neil works on networking and operating system code for
fun and profit. He also teaches various courses on subjects related to
computer programming. His professional areas of interest include code
spelunking, operating systems, networking, time and security. He is the
co-author with Marshall Kirk McKusick and Robert Watson of The Design
and Implementation of the FreeBSD Operating System and is the columnist
behind ACM Queue's "Kode Vicious." He serves as a Director of the
non-profit, FreeBSD Foundation.

He earned his bachelor's degree in computer science at Northeastern
University in Boston, Massachusetts, and is a member of the ACM, the
USENIX Association and the IEEE. He is an avid bicyclist and traveler
who currently resides in New York City.


From announce at lists.nycbug.org  Tue Mar 31 23:03:07 2015
From: announce at lists.nycbug.org (NYC*BUG Announcements)
Date: Tue, 31 Mar 2015 23:03:07 -0400
Subject: [announce] NYC*BUG Upcoming
Message-ID: <mailman.28.1427857402.5861.announce@lists.nycbug.org>

Reminder:

The March meeting will be held NEXT Wednesday.  There is no meeting
April 1.

April 8 2015
Blacklistd, Christos Zoulas
6:45, Stone Creek Bar & Lounge
140 E 27th St

Today's systems expose multiple network daemons and are constantly
attacked by a fleet of zombie bots or determined attackers. Scanning
logs to determine if an attack is in place in order to modify a firewall
to block an attack is an ad-hoc inelegant solution. Blacklistd is a
daemon and a library interface that attempts to correct this problem.

Christos' first experience with Unix was in 1983 while studying at
Cornell. He currently maintains a few Unix programs (file, tcsh,
libedit, rdist6) and he contributes to many others. He is a board member
of the NetBSD Foundation and a recipient of the USENIX Lifetime
Achievement Award for contributions to the Unix operating system. His
day job is in Finance.

Other Upcoming
note the special meeting on June 18.  Ingo Schwarze will be passing
through NYC and will be speaking. We will likely organize a social with
him for June 19.

BSCan registration is now open.

May 6: TBA
June 3: FreeBSD's NUMA, John Baldwin
June 12-13: BSDCan, Ottawa, Canada
June 18: Mandoc, Ingo Schwarze (WE NEED SPACE FOR THIS MEETING)
July 1: Staying in sync with the Precision Time Protocol, Steven Kreuzer
August 5: What's New with OpenBSD, Brian Callahan
October 1-2: EuroBSCon, Stockholm, Sweden (eurobscon.org)