[nycbug-talk] Breakout sessions at NYCBSDCon

Ray Lai nycbug at cyth.net
Wed Jun 4 19:05:42 EDT 2008


On Wed, Jun 4, 2008 at 6:56 PM, Okan Demirmen <okan at demirmen.com> wrote:
> On Sun 2008.06.01 at 19:28 -0400, Steven Kreuzer wrote:
>> Greetings-
>>
>> In case you are not aware, we have been working with the BSD Certification team
>> to give an exam at the conference in October.
>>
>> We will have a classroom at the conference that will be used to hold breakout
>> sessions to help let people brush up on some of the
>> topics that will be covered on the exam.
>>
>> We are currently looking for individuals who can give 30 minute refresher
>> courses on the following topics:
>>
>> 1. Subnetting
>> 2. tar/pax/cpio
>> 3. Regular Expressions
>> 4. pf (however, the exam is more on recognition than hands on)
>> 5. Permissions (octal, symbolic, chmod, umask, etc.)
>> 6. Basic Unix tasks (cron jobs, symbolic links, simple sh scripts, etc)
>> 7. rc and sysctl
>>
>> If you would like to volunteer, please attend the next NYCBUG meeting on June
>> 4th and come and find me so we can work out the details.
>
> after (during actually) this evening's meeting, we have:
>
> bsd cert tutorials
> ------------------
> 1. subnetting - mark
> 2. tar/pax/cpio - ?
> 3. regular expressions - ?
> 4. pf (however, the exam is more on recognition than hands on) - nikolai
> 5. permissions (octal, symbolic, chmod, umask, etc.) - ?
> 6. basic unix tasks (cron jobs, symbolic links, simple sh scripts, etc) - mike
> 7. rc and sysctl - ?
> 8. user administration - ivan

Damn, forgot about the meeting... um, I can do regexp and permissions,
but how deep do you need to go for regexp?  Nothing too fancy, I hope.

-Ray-



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