From announce at lists.nycbug.org Mon Jul 2 13:26:03 2007 From: announce at lists.nycbug.org (NYC*BUG Announcements) Date: Mon, 02 Jul 2007 13:26:03 -0400 Subject: [announce] NYC*BUG (moved to Thursday) Message-ID: <4689352B.4030209@ceetonetechnology.com> July 05, 2007 Isaac `Ike` Levy on the Real Unix Tradition *Please note that we moved the meeting from Wednesday, July 4 to Thursday, July 5* 6:30pm, Suspenders Restaurant http://www.suspendersbar.com/location.php "The Real Unix Tradition" !!Please wear your your best shirt, a group photo-op will follow this month`s lecture!! UNIX hackers, all standing on the shoulders of giants. "...the number of UNIX installations has grown to 10, with more expected..." Dennis Ritchie and Ken Thompson, June 1972 "Well, it was all Open Source, before anybody really called it that." Brian Redman, 2003 UNIX is the oldest active and growing computing culture alive today. From it`s humble roots in the back room at Bell Laboratories, to today`s global internet infrastructure - UNIX has consistently been at the core of major advances in computing. Today, the BSD legacy is the most direct continuation of the most successful principles in UNIX, and continues to lead major advances in computing. Why? What`s so great about UNIX? This lecture aims to prove that UNIX history is surprisingly useful (and fun) - for developers, sysadmins, and anyone working with BSD systems. About the Speaker Isaac Levy, (ike) is a freelance BSD hacker based in NYC. He runs Diversaform Inc. as an engine to make his hacking feed itself, (and ike). Diversaform specializes in *BSD based solutions, providing `IT special weapons and tactics` for various sized business clients, as well as running a small high-availability datacenter operation from lower Manhattan. With regard to FreeBSD jail(8), ike was a partner in the first jail (8)-based web hosting ISP in America, iMeme, and has been developing internet applications in and out of jails since 1999. Isaac is a proud member of NYC*BUG (the New York City *BSD Users Group), and a long time member of LESMUUG, (the Lower East Side Mac Unix Users Group). From announce at lists.nycbug.org Thu Jul 5 14:32:33 2007 From: announce at lists.nycbug.org (NYC*BUG Announcements) Date: Thu, 05 Jul 2007 14:32:33 -0400 Subject: [announce] NYC*BUG Tonight: The Real Unix Tradition Message-ID: <468D3941.6060504@ceetonetechnology.com> July 05, 2007 Isaac `Ike` Levy on "The Real Unix Tradition" Please note that we moved the meeting from Wednesday, July 4 to Thursday, July 5 6:30pm, Suspenders Restaurant http://www.suspendersbar.com/location.php Food and drink will only be served before and after the meeting, but not during. So show up early if you're hungry! "The Real Unix Tradition" !!Please wear your your best shirt, a group photo-op will follow this month`s lecture!! UNIX hackers, all standing on the shoulders of giants. "...the number of UNIX installations has grown to 10, with more expected..." - Dennis Ritchie and Ken Thompson, June 1972 "Well, it was all Open Source, before anybody really called it that". - Brian Redman, 2003 UNIX is the oldest active and growing computing culture alive today. From it`s humble roots in the back room at Bell Laboratories, to today`s global internet infrastructure- UNIX has consistently been at the core of major advances in computing. Today, the BSD legacy is the most direct continuation of the most successful principles in UNIX, and continues to lead major advances in computing. Why? What`s so great about UNIX? This lecture aims to prove that UNIX history is surprisingly useful (and fun)- for developers, sysadmins, and anyone working with BSD systems. About the Speaker Isaac Levy, (ike) is a freelance BSD hacker based in NYC. He runs Diversaform Inc. as an engine to make his hacking feed itself, (and ike). Diversaform specializes in *BSD based solutions, providing `IT special weapons and tatics` for various sized business clients, as well as running a small high-availability datacenter operation from lower Manhattan. With regard to FreeBSD jail(8), ike was a partner in the first jail (8)-based web hosting ISP in America, iMeme, and has been developing internet applications in and out of jails since 1999. Isaac is a proud member of NYC*BUG (the New York City *BSD Users Group), and a long time member of LESMUUG, (the Lower East Side Mac Unix Users Group) http://lesmuug.org/. From announce at lists.nycbug.org Mon Jul 30 15:10:04 2007 From: announce at lists.nycbug.org (NYC*BUG Announcements) Date: Mon, 30 Jul 2007 15:10:04 -0400 Subject: [announce] NYC*BUG: Wednesday, August 1st, 2007 Message-ID: <20070730191004.GD20630@clam.khaoz.org> Marc Spitzer on Nagios 6:30pm, Suspenders Restaurant Nagios is a platform for monitoring services and the hosts they reside on. It provides a reasonable tool for monitoring your network and you can not beat the price. We plan on covering the following topics: # what it is # how it works # where to get it # how to install it # how to configure it # how to customize it for your environment # where the data is stored # how to write a basic plug-in About the Speaker Marc Spitzer started as a VAX/VMS operator who taught himself some basic scripting in DCL to help me remember how to do procedures that did not come up enough to actually remember all the steps, this was in 1990. Since then he has worked with HPUX, Solaris, Windows, Linux, and the BSDs, FreeBSD being his favorite. He has held a variety of positions, admin and engineering, where he has been able to introduce BSD into his work place. He currently works for Columbia University as a Systems Administrator. He is a founding member of NYCBUG and LispNYC and on the board of UNIGroup. Most of his career has been building tools to solve operational problems, with extra effort going to the ones that irritated him personally. He takes a great deal of pride in not needing a budget to solve most problems.