From announce at lists.nycbug.org Tue Jul 4 17:15:00 2006 From: announce at lists.nycbug.org (Announcements only list for NYCBUG (announcements are not cross-posted to other lists).) Date: Tue, 04 Jul 2006 17:15:00 -0400 Subject: [announce] NYC*BUG Wednesday July 5th Message-ID: <44AADA54.10306@sddi.net> Alfred Perlstein on Sendmail Hacks Back to the Soho Apple Store! 6:30 pm, Soho Apple Store at 103 Prince Street Alfred will discuss the hacks used to turn Sendmail into a high performance solution for delivering millions of messages to OKCupid`s subscribers. Topics covered will be system tuning and sendmail hacks used in house to achieve massive throughput. Alfred Perlstein is the CTO of OKcupid.com, the largest free online dating site. He has been a FreeBSD hacker for five years, he`s worked on NFS, VFS, pthreads, networking and general system maintenance during his tenure on both FreeBSD and OS X kernels. From announce at lists.nycbug.org Wed Jul 5 14:33:04 2006 From: announce at lists.nycbug.org (Announcements only list for NYCBUG (announcements are not cross-posted to other lists).) Date: Wed, 05 Jul 2006 14:33:04 -0400 Subject: [announce] REMINDER: NYC*BUG Tonight Message-ID: <44AC05E0.2020001@sddi.net> July 05, 2006 Alfred Perlstein on Sendmail Hacks Back to the Soho Apple Store! 6:30 pm, Soho Apple Store at 103 Prince Street Alfred will discuss the hacks used to turn Sendmail into a high performance solution for delivering millions of messages to OKCupid`s subscribers. Topics covered will be system tuning and sendmail hacks used in house to achieve massive throughput. Alfred Perlstein is the CTO of OKcupid.com, the largest free online dating site. He has been a FreeBSD hacker for five years, he`s worked on NFS, VFS, pthreads, networking and general system maintenance during his tenure on both FreeBSD and OS X kernels. From announce at lists.nycbug.org Tue Jul 18 10:21:21 2006 From: announce at lists.nycbug.org (NYC*BUG Announcement) Date: Tue, 18 Jul 2006 10:21:21 -0400 Subject: [announce] NYCBSDCon 2006 Message-ID: <44BCEE61.50809@sddi.net> www.nycbsdcon.org CFP - Call for Presentations The NYCBSDCon program committee is accepting submissions for imaginative, embryonic and energizing presentations surrounding the BSD operating systems. We are looking to attract a wide range of speakers and attendees; therefore, topics of interest range from the esoteric to development to practical, everyday sysadmin life. Topics of interest for the NYCBSDCon 2006 include, but are not limited to: * Using the Andrew File System (AFS) in production * Large data management (large RAID, NAS, SAN, etc...) * Hands on Kerberos in enterprise environments * Network, server, and application security best practices * Network, server, and application monitoring * Patch management in large installations For a recent discussion of topics, see our mailing list thread. Each talk is expected to be 45-50 minutes. Presenters will have audio/visual and network connectivity. Abstracts for presentations are due August 15, 2006. Authors of accepted submissions should be able to provide the full presentation for publication on the NYCBSDCon website at www.nycbsdcon.org. Further instructions will follow the review process. Submissions accompanied by a non-disclosure agreement or a product advertisement will be rejected. Abstract submissions should be emailed to the nycbsdcon.org domain, with the address cfp, in either text, ps, pdf or like format, accompanied with a clear abstract. Conference Location: Columbia University, New York, NY Conference Dates: October 28-29, 2006 Important Dates: Date August 15 Call For Presentation abstracts deadline September 1 Accepted Presentations Notification October 7 Presentations Due October 28-29 NYCBSDCon Do not let travel and accommodation concerns get in the way of your submissions; we may have some opportunities to subsidize. From announce at lists.nycbug.org Mon Jul 31 12:58:25 2006 From: announce at lists.nycbug.org (NYC*BUG Announcement) Date: Mon, 31 Jul 2006 12:58:25 -0400 Subject: [announce] NYC*BUG Wednesday Aug 3rd: Open Forum Message-ID: <44CE36B1.3020506@sddi.net> August 2nd Wednesday Suspenders Restaurant & Bar in the back room 6:30 PM until we`re done 111 Broadway & Thames directions are here: http://suspendersbar.com/directions.html Our "Open Forum" meetings allow for short presentations on a variety of topics, in addition to providing a better environment for attendees to raise issues and problems they face day-to-day as *BSD sysadmins and developers. We look to these meetings as a "live" version of our dynamic `Talk` mailing list. We have prearranged a number of short spiels for each meeting, including. . . * Steven Kreuzer & Nathan Boeger have some methods for scaling a large member base. The technical challenges of scaling websites with large and growing member bases, like social networking sites, are numerous. One of these challenges is how to evenly distribute the growing member base across all available resources. This talk will explore various methods that address this issue. The techniques used can be generalized and applied to various other problems that need to distribute data evenly amongst a finite amount of resources. * Jesse Callaway will provide an overview of a *BSD solution to a Windows environment, rsync from remote Win32 systems to *BSD servers, and some fixes for commonly faced problems. And of course, we'll continue our discussions on NYCBSDCon.