From announce-nycbug at lists.nycbug.org Sat Dec 3 22:22:14 2005 From: announce-nycbug at lists.nycbug.org (announce-nycbug at lists.nycbug.org) Date: Sat, 03 Dec 2005 22:22:14 -0500 Subject: [Announce-NYCBUG] NYC*BUG Dec 7th Meeting: Ike on Jail(8) Message-ID: <439260E6.1060903@sddi.net> Ike: Jail(8), a Secure Virtual Server 6 pm, Soho Apple Store at 103 Prince Street, New York, NY Jail(8), a Secure Virtual Server. Early unix mainframe computing brought elegant process and resource sharing systems which helped get more application use out of expensive hardware. These concerns have been largely been pushed aside in computing with the rise of desktop PCs, and large farms of ever-shrinking pizza boxes in the data center. Today, as more punch gets packed into 1u than ever, server resources can be further consolidated and abstracted to securely separate complex and sophisticated services in the same hardware server, by running secure virtual UNIX machines. FreeBSD Jails are a time-tested, secure, reliable UNIX virtual machine with endless uses. Who wants jails? * System Administrators who need to securely separate small yet * important services. * Software Developers who always need more dev machines. * System Architects who need affordable high-availability systems. * Educators who could use virtual machines to provide clean unix server * systems for student use. * Anyone who wants *secure* virtual machines. Why do these people want jail(8)? * The design of Jail(8) and jail(2) are secure, and because jails use native system utilities, * they are simple to work with. What I would like to focus on: * How Jails Work, the technical low-down * How to setup jails, the practical how-to, cooking show style... * When NOT to use jails * jail(8) security vulnerabilities/considerations * Jails vs. Linux UML, XEN, VMware- technical and philosophical differences * Tools and management practices From announce-nycbug at lists.nycbug.org Tue Dec 6 11:35:50 2005 From: announce-nycbug at lists.nycbug.org (announce-nycbug at lists.nycbug.org) Date: Tue, 06 Dec 2005 11:35:50 -0500 Subject: [Announce-NYCBUG] NYC*BUG Meeting Tomorrow Message-ID: <4395BDE6.2000208@sddi.net> Ike: Jail(8), a Secure Virtual Server 6-8 pm, Soho Apple Store at 103 Prince Street, New York, NY Jail(8), a Secure Virtual Server. Early unix mainframe computing brought elegant process and resource sharing systems which helped get more application use out of expensive hardware. These concerns have been largely been pushed aside in computing with the rise of desktop PCs, and large farms of ever-shrinking pizza boxes in the data center. Today, as more punch gets packed into 1u than ever, server resources can be further consolidated and abstracted to securely separate complex and sophisticated services in the same hardware server, by running secure virtual UNIX machines. FreeBSD Jails are a time-tested, secure, reliable UNIX virtual machine with endless uses. Who wants jails? * System Administrators who need to securely separate small yet * important services. * Software Developers who always need more dev machines. * System Architects who need affordable high-availability systems. * Educators who could use virtual machines to provide clean unix server * systems for student use. * Anyone who wants *secure* virtual machines. Why do these people want jail(8)? * The design of Jail(8) and jail(2) are secure, and because jails use native system utilities, * they are simple to work with. What I would like to focus on: * How Jails Work, the technical low-down * How to setup jails, the practical how-to, cooking show style... * When NOT to use jails * jail(8) security vulnerabilities/considerations * Jails vs. Linux UML, XEN, VMware- technical and philosophical differences * Tools and management practices From announce-nycbug at lists.nycbug.org Wed Dec 7 09:23:49 2005 From: announce-nycbug at lists.nycbug.org (announce-nycbug at lists.nycbug.org) Date: Wed, 07 Dec 2005 09:23:49 -0500 Subject: [Announce-NYCBUG] TONIGHT: NYC*BUG Message-ID: <4396F075.7070001@sddi.net> Ike: Jail(8), a Secure Virtual Server 6-8 pm, Soho Apple Store at 103 Prince Street, New York, NY Jail(8), a Secure Virtual Server. Early unix mainframe computing brought elegant process and resource sharing systems which helped get more application use out of expensive hardware. These concerns have been largely been pushed aside in computing with the rise of desktop PCs, and large farms of ever-shrinking pizza boxes in the data center. Today, as more punch gets packed into 1u than ever, server resources can be further consolidated and abstracted to securely separate complex and sophisticated services in the same hardware server, by running secure virtual UNIX machines. FreeBSD Jails are a time-tested, secure, reliable UNIX virtual machine with endless uses. Who wants jails? * System Administrators who need to securely separate small yet * important services. * Software Developers who always need more dev machines. * System Architects who need affordable high-availability systems. * Educators who could use virtual machines to provide clean unix server * systems for student use. * Anyone who wants *secure* virtual machines. Why do these people want jail(8)? * The design of Jail(8) and jail(2) are secure, and because jails use native system utilities, * they are simple to work with. What I would like to focus on: * How Jails Work, the technical low-down * How to setup jails, the practical how-to, cooking show style... * When NOT to use jails * jail(8) security vulnerabilities/considerations * Jails vs. Linux UML, XEN, VMware- technical and philosophical differences * Tools and management practices From announce-nycbug at lists.nycbug.org Tue Dec 13 22:37:35 2005 From: announce-nycbug at lists.nycbug.org (announce-nycbug at lists.nycbug.org) Date: Tue, 13 Dec 2005 22:37:35 -0500 Subject: [Announce-NYCBUG] a little Holiday Event this Saturday Message-ID: <439F937F.5070604@sddi.net> So as a last minute, informal event for the holidays, a number of us are going to get together at a bar called Coppers on the southeast corner of Grand and Thompson streets in Manhattan this Saturday, December 17th. Start arriving around 7 pm, and it should last until 10 pm at least. http://tinyurl.com/9oo7d George From announce-nycbug at lists.nycbug.org Thu Dec 15 17:16:10 2005 From: announce-nycbug at lists.nycbug.org (announce-nycbug at lists.nycbug.org) Date: Thu, 15 Dec 2005 17:16:10 -0500 Subject: [Announce-NYCBUG] REMINDER: Party tonight Message-ID: <43A1EB2A.2000601@sddi.net> A number of us are going to get together at a bar called Coppers on the southeast corner of Grand and Thompson streets in Manhattan tonight Saturday, December 17th. Start arriving around 7 pm, and it should last until 10 pm at least. http://tinyurl.com/9oo7d George From announce-nycbug at lists.nycbug.org Fri Dec 16 10:16:06 2005 From: announce-nycbug at lists.nycbug.org (announce-nycbug at lists.nycbug.org) Date: Fri, 16 Dec 2005 10:16:06 -0500 Subject: [Announce-NYCBUG] Re: REMINDER: Party tonight In-Reply-To: <43A1EB2A.2000601@sddi.net> References: <43A1EB2A.2000601@sddi.net> Message-ID: <43A2DA36.7000300@sddi.net> Correction. *Tomorrow*, Saturday, is this ad hoc holiday party. > A number of us are going to get together at a bar called Coppers on the > southeast corner of Grand and Thompson streets in Manhattan tonight > Saturday, December 17th. > > Start arriving around 7 pm, and it should last until 10 pm at least. > > http://tinyurl.com/9oo7d From announce-nycbug at lists.nycbug.org Tue Dec 27 10:05:37 2005 From: announce-nycbug at lists.nycbug.org (announce-nycbug at lists.nycbug.org) Date: Tue, 27 Dec 2005 10:05:37 -0500 Subject: [Announce-NYCBUG] NYC*BUG Year-End Thanks Message-ID: <43B15841.2030608@sddi.net> All those who are involved in NYC*BUG activities deserve a huge "Thanks!" NYC*BUG would not be one of the biggest and most influential BSD user groups around without you, the community. Whether you have followed up on a question on our talk list, helped out in organizing the successful NYCBSDCon or, attended one of the monthly meetings at the Soho Apple Store, "big thanks!" Concluding the second year of NYC*BUG, we can all look proudly back. Highlights from this past year include: * The implementation of a full cabinet with a 10 meg pipe at New York Internet, which is providing services to a wide variety of BSD causes, from a BSDCertication.org mirror and FTP2.USA for OpenBSD. * NYCBSDCon, a one day conference we held at Columbia University in September, with some 120 participants and speakers. * Various fundraising pushes, which assisted the *BSD community in a wide range of facets. * Many excellent monthly meetings, many with strong turn-outs, with speakers such as Phil Moore, Roland Dowdeswell and Mickey Shalayeff. And then there were the detailed arguments and discussions about implementing the BSDs at the after-meeting bar, the many incidents of much-needed assistance online, the almost perfect record of making audio recordings of our meetings, the tireless answering of questions and sharing of knowledge and experience on the mailing list, and so much more. We look forward the third year of NYC*BUG being even more successful. Thanks, and happy holidays to all. * * * * * * Upcoming meetings include: January 4th: Trish Lynch on Using Java on FreeBSD in Heavy Production February 1st: Johnny Lam on Xen and the Art of Sysadmin