From announce at lists.nycbug.org Wed Feb 1 09:17:00 2017 From: announce at lists.nycbug.org (NYC*BUG Announcements) Date: Wed, 01 Feb 2017 14:17:00 +0000 Subject: [announce] NYC*BUG Tonight, OS: The underlying overhead of computation Message-ID: Tonight, February 1 OS : The underlying overhead of computation, Antti Kantee 18:45, Suspenders, 103 Greenwich Street, 2nd Floor, Manhattan Notice: Location Change Abstract An operating system is a piece of code intended to help computer operators load punch cards -- hence "operating". The timesharing system was created to allow interactive shared access to the handful of computers which existed at the time. We will examine what is in the interactive punch card loader in 2017, what actually belongs in there, and why things are the way they are. Like science, the talk is highly religious. Unlike computer science, the talk is grounded in reality. Discussions, heretical opinions, and questions are encouraged Speaker Bio Antti Kantee has been a NetBSD committer since the 1900's and has managed to do many sorts of damage. He is probably best (or worst, depending on who you ask) known for his decade-long workhaul on rump kernels. Antti very recently moved to the Princeton area, so in case he appears particularly absent during his talk, he got lost on the way to the venue. From announce at lists.nycbug.org Tue Feb 28 19:43:43 2017 From: announce at lists.nycbug.org (NYC*BUG Announcements) Date: Tue, 28 Feb 2017 19:43:43 -0500 Subject: [announce] [CANCELED ] March 1 Message-ID: All I regret to say we are canceling tomorrow's meeting for march first . We didn't have a speaker lined up and we all have been a bit busy with work ; and we forgot to make sure we all did our parts . In any case we will be welcoming Mike Burns April 5th from [the] Classical Code Reading Group of Stockholm; for a reading of yes.c This will be a LMHQ. Also on May 3rd we will be having Rob Seward talk about his open source hardware random number generator. Again this talk will be at LMHQ . We are looking for talks for June and July . If you think you have an idea speak up now . We promise not that heckle first time speakers to much ;) . --- Mark Saad | nonesuch at longcount.org