From announce at lists.nycbug.org Mon Jan 2 12:01:35 2012 From: announce at lists.nycbug.org (NYC*BUG Announcements) Date: Mon, 02 Jan 2012 12:01:35 -0500 Subject: [announce] NYC*BUG This Wednesday: AWK Message-ID: <4F01E2EF.6090606@ceetonetechnology.com> Onward into the ninth year of NYC*BUG! * Wednesday January 4th Meeting * February Meeting Call for Presentations ***** January 04, 2012 Matthew Story on AWK 6:45 PM, Suspenders Restaurant backroom 111 Broadway in Manhattan Your developers came to you wanting to use a new programming framework they just saw on MTV. It only builds on Ubuntu, and requires some bleeding-edge ports only available as .deb packages, as well as some large rpm`s which for some reason only install via yum. Not to mention you run a largely *BSD environment, with a few Linux, Solaris, UNIX etc? boxes in the mix. This is the moment when you whip out awk(1), on any of your UNIX systems, and proceed to blow their minds. Bio Matthew Story is a software developer at Tablet Hotels, who regularly abuses tcp services for fun and profit. ***** Our February meeting will be on "BSD Networking Topics." We are looking for additional contributions on anything relevant to the day-to-day grind of using the BSDs in production network environments. Topics are expected to be short presentations on anything from useful scripts or configuration tweaks. Email your submission to admin@ to discuss further. We particularly encourage: * speakers who have not presented at NYC*BUG before * utilization of Unix as a tool kit of interoperability From announce at lists.nycbug.org Wed Jan 4 08:49:17 2012 From: announce at lists.nycbug.org (NYC*BUG Announcements) Date: Wed, 04 Jan 2012 08:49:17 -0500 Subject: [announce] NYC*BUG Tonight Message-ID: <4F0458DD.2060009@ceetonetechnology.com> January 04, 2012 Matthew Story on AWK 6:45 PM, Suspenders Restaurant backroom 111 Broadway in Manhattan http://www.suspendersbar.com/ Your developers came to you wanting to use a new programming framework they just saw on MTV. It only builds on Ubuntu, and requires some bleeding-edge ports only available as .deb packages, as well as some large rpm`s which for some reason only install via yum. Not to mention you run a largely *BSD environment, with a few Linux, Solaris, UNIX etc? boxes in the mix. This is the moment when you whip out awk(1), on any of your UNIX systems, and proceed to blow their minds. Bio Matthew Story is a software developer at Tablet Hotels, who regularly abuses tcp services for fun and profit. From announce at lists.nycbug.org Mon Jan 9 00:05:13 2012 From: announce at lists.nycbug.org (NYC*BUG Announcements) Date: Mon, 09 Jan 2012 00:05:13 -0500 Subject: [announce] Fwd: [bsdcan-announce] BSDCan 2012 - call for papers In-Reply-To: <9FCB1025-AD92-4384-B1EA-DBA945157B14@langille.org> References: <9FCB1025-AD92-4384-B1EA-DBA945157B14@langille.org> Message-ID: <4F0A7589.10403@ceetonetechnology.com> Forwarded from bsdcan-announce AT lists.bsdcan.org: BSDCan 2012 will be held 11-12 May, 2012 in Ottawa at the University of Ottawa. It will be preceded by two days of tutorials on 9-10 May. NOTE: This will be Fri/Sat with tutorials on Wed/Thu. We are now accepting proposals for talks. The talks should be designed with a very strong technical content bias. Proposals of a business development or marketing nature are not appropriate for this venue. If you are doing something interesting with a BSD operating system, please submit a proposal. Whether you are developing a very complex system using BSD as the foundation, or helping others and have a story to tell about how BSD played a role, we want to hear about your experience. People using BSD as a platform for research are also encouraged to submit a proposal. Possible topics include: * How we manage a giant installation with respect to handling spam. * and/or sysadmin. * and/or networking. From the BSDCan website, the Archives section will allow you to review the wide variety of past BSDCan presentations as further examples. Both users and developers are encouraged to share their experiences. The schedule is: 8 Jan 2012 Proposal acceptance begins 29 Jan 2012 Proposal acceptance ends 19 Feb 2012 Confirmation of accepted proposals See also Instructions for submitting a proposal to BSDCan 2012 are available from: -- Dan Langille - http://langille.org _______________________________________________ bsdcan-announce mailing list bsdcan-announce at lists.bsdcan.org http://lists.bsdcan.org/mailman/listinfo/bsdcan-announce From announce at lists.nycbug.org Mon Jan 23 10:16:39 2012 From: announce at lists.nycbug.org (NYC*BUG Announcements) Date: Mon, 23 Jan 2012 10:16:39 -0500 Subject: [announce] Upcoming NYC*BUG Message-ID: <4F1D79D7.1080001@ceetonetechnology.com> * LAN Party with the Cassandra User Group Thursday, January 26th * NYC*BUG Meeting on BSD Networking Topics, February 1st * * * Cassandra LAN Party with the NYC Cassandra User Group Thursday, January 26, 2012, 6:30 PM Media6 Degrees 37 East 18th Street , New York, NY This is a special event held by the NYC Cassandra User Group which we`re participating in. This is a BYOL (Bring Your Own Laptop) event! Rather doing a presentation we will setup a multi-datacenter, multi-node environment in a confined lab environment. Cassandra NYC will provide the switches, the virtual machine image, the soda, and chips. We will then use our laptops to set up a 3 datacenter (simulating New York, Japan, France) cassandra cluster with as many laptops as people bring. This event is ideal for those who have never setup Cassandra and want to learn how to setup real world deployments. However, it is also going to be fun for those that have worked with cassandra before, because lets be real, setting up and playing with a multi-node Cassandra cluster is always fun! To help organized this event it is semi-important for us to have a rough count of how many laptops we will have available. If you register chose `bringing 1 guest` if you plan to bring your laptop to the LAN party. (We will provide a VM image on a pen drive). * * * We are looking for more submissions for the Feb 1st NYC*BUG BSD Networking Topics Meeting. Ping us at admin@ to discuss your topic. From announce at lists.nycbug.org Thu Jan 26 11:09:50 2012 From: announce at lists.nycbug.org (NYC*BUG Announcements) Date: Thu, 26 Jan 2012 11:09:50 -0500 Subject: [announce] Tonight: Special Cassandra Workshop Message-ID: <4F217ACE.70104@ceetonetechnology.com> Tonight Cassandra LAN Party with the NYC Cassandra User Group Thursday, January 26, 2012, 6:30 PM Media6 Degrees http://maps.google.com/maps?q=37+East+18th+Street+%2C+New+York%2C+NY 37 East 18th Street , New York, NY map This is a special event held by the NYC Cassandra User Group which we`re participating in. This is a BYOL (Bring Your Own Laptop) event! Rather doing a presentation we will setup a multi-datacenter, multi-node environment in a confined lab environment. Cassandra NYC will provide the switches, the virtual machine image, the soda, and chips. We will then use our laptops to set up a 3 datacenter (simulating New York, Japan, France) cassandra cluster with as many laptops as people bring. This event is ideal for those who have never setup Cassandra and want to learn how to setup real world deployments. However, it is also going to be fun for those that have worked with cassandra before, because lets be real, setting up and playing with a multi-node Cassandra cluster is always fun! To help organized this event it is semi-important for us to have a rough count of how many laptops we will have available. If you register chose `bringing 1 guest` if you plan to bring your laptop to the LAN party. (We will provide a VM image on a pen drive). And bring some network cables if you have some spares. From announce at lists.nycbug.org Fri Jan 27 09:38:01 2012 From: announce at lists.nycbug.org (NYC*BUG Announcements) Date: Fri, 27 Jan 2012 09:38:01 -0500 Subject: [announce] NYC*BUG Upcoming Message-ID: <4F22B6C9.2020903@ceetonetechnology.com> A few announcements about upcoming NYCBUG events and more. * Wednesday, February 1st meeting on BSD Networking Topics * Other Upcoming Meetings * BSDCan in May and CFP closing in two days * LOPSA PICC Conference * * * February 01, 2012 BSD Networking Topics 6:45 PM, Suspenders Restaurant backroom 111 Broadway in Manhattan Several times a year, we open the floor for more NYC*BUG attendees to speak in brief about a networking related topic of general interest to an array of people. Topics this time will include: * keeping FreeBSD ports updated * ucspi-tcp * CARP * lagg(4) There's always room for more, so come prepared. Remember, these are brief overviews of topics related to BSD networking on a day-to-day basic, not full-blown presentations. There is no need to prepare anything broad and comprehensive. These meetings are also an excellent opportunity for those who are new to speaking at technical events, so we encourage new speakers to prepare. * * * March meeting will be Marc Spitzer on Tcl, and in April Jan Schaumann will speak on the Useless Use of *. * * * BSDCan's CFP is closing soon. Get your submissions in! BSDCan 2012 will be held 11-12 May, 2012 in Ottawa at the University of Ottawa. It will be preceded by two days of tutorials on 9-10 May. * * * East coast regional Professional IT Community Conference: May 11-12, 2012 (yes, the same weekend as BSDCan...) http://www.picconf.org Obtain top-notch IT training from world-renowned instructors and investigate relevant cutting-edge technology with industry leaders and your peers in the IT field! This year?s theme "Scaling, Security, and Cost Savings," focuses on doing less with more. Learn how to effectively scale your IT infrastructure while making every penny count in today?s difficult economy. * Who will be there: System and network administrators, SRE/DevOps, network engineers, DBAs, and other IT professionals from industry, R&D, academia, and government. * What?s offered: Two days of technical immersion, including speakers, panels, training, and professional networking and problem solving. * When: Fri/Sat May 11-12, 2012 * Where: The Hyatt Regency in New Brunswick, NJ. Keep informed about conference information and registration discounts: * Twitter: http://www.twitter.com/picconf * Facebook: http://tinyurl.com/fb-picc * Email: http://lists.picconf.org/mailman/listinfo/picc12-announce We hope to see you there! -- John Boris PICC 2012 Program Chair PICC is a vendor-neutral, non-profit conference sponsored by the New Jersey chapter of the League of Professional System Administrators.