From announce at lists.nycbug.org Wed Feb 4 09:06:40 2015 From: announce at lists.nycbug.org (NYC*BUG Announcements) Date: Wed, 04 Feb 2015 09:06:40 -0500 Subject: [announce] NYC*BUG Upcoming Message-ID: <mailman.33.1423058811.4236.announce@lists.nycbug.org> REMINDER: There is NO NYC*BUG meeting tonight, even though it's the first Wednesday of the month. The February meeting will be next Tuesday, the 10th. ****** Tuesday, Feb 10, 645 PM Life with an OpenBSD Laptop, Issac ".ike" Levy Stone Creek Bar & Lounge 140 E 27th Street east of Lexington Avenue Have you ever been OpenBSD-curious? "OpenBSD is thought of by many security professionals as the most secure UNIX-like operating system, as the result of a never-ending comprehensive source code security audit." Yet, whether OpenBSD is right for you is a question that only you can answer. I'll share my practical experiences transitioning from Mac life to OpenBSD- the good, bad, and the ugly. For over 15 years, Mac OSX was "the computer I physically touch". I build infrastructure, and the computers I care about most, I rarely physically touch- servers on the internet. These servers provide me the leading edge of computer security, networking, cryptography, filesystems- all from Open and auditable codebases... I decided I'd had enough with my laptop being the ironic weakest link in my digital ecosystem. Forget religious debates about Operating Systems- I simply set out to build an Open Source, Stable, Securable, and full-featured laptop. And I was delighted that id doesn't suck to use! Speaker Bio Isaac (.ike) Levy is a crusty UNIX Hacker. A long-time community contributor to the *BSD's,ike is obsessed with high-availability and redundant networked servers systems, mostly because he likes to sleep at night. Standing on the shoulders of giants, his background includes partnering to run a Virtual Server ISP before anyone called it a cloud, as well as having a long history building internet-facing infrastructure with UNIX systems. .ike has been a part of NYC*BUG since it was first launched in January 2004. He was a long-time member of the Lower East Side Mac Unix User Group, and is still in denial that this group no longer exists. He has spoken frequently on a number of UNIX and internet security topics at various venues, particularly on the topic of FreeBSD's jail(8). ******* Wednesday, March 4, 645 PM The Design and Implementation of the FreeBSD Operating System, George Neville-Neil Stone Creek Bar & Lounge 140 E 27th Street east of Lexington Avenue Book Release Event for "The Design and Implementation of the FreeBSD Operating System" with George Neville-Neil The March meeting will be a special launch meeting for the recent release of "The Design and Implementation of the FreeBSD Operating System." George Neville-Neil, one of the three authors, will be speaking on DTrace, which is covered in the book. Copies of the book will be for sale and giveaway. Prentice Hall, the publisher, will be sponsoring hors d'oeuvres. DTrace is the tool of choice for debugging and performance tuning systems running on FreeBSD. Originally developed for the Solaris operating system, DTrace was ported to FreeBSD and has been developed and enhanced within FreeBSD ever since. Used by both systems administrators and developers, this talk will discuss both how DTrace works, as described in the latest edition of "The Design and Implementation of the FreeBSD Operating System" as well as how to effectively use the system to monitor systems and diagnose problems. Speaker Bio George Neville-Neil works on networking and operating system code for fun and profit. He also teaches various courses on subjects related to computer programming. His professional areas of interest include code spelunking, operating systems, networking, time and security. He is the co-author with Marshall Kirk McKusick and Robert Watson of The Design and Implementation of the FreeBSD Operating System and is the columnist behind ACM Queue's "Kode Vicious." He serves as a Director of the non-profit, FreeBSD Foundation. He earned his bachelor's degree in computer science at Northeastern University in Boston, Massachusetts, and is a member of the ACM, the USENIX Association and the IEEE. He is an avid bicyclist and traveler who currently resides in New York City. ***** AsiaBSDCon is March 12-15 in Tokyo, Japan BSDCan is June 12-13 in Ottawa, Canada. Registration opens in early March. Start making your plans now. From announce at lists.nycbug.org Mon Feb 9 11:32:44 2015 From: announce at lists.nycbug.org (NYC*BUG Announcements) Date: Mon, 09 Feb 2015 11:32:44 -0500 Subject: [announce] NYC*BUG: Feb 10 "Life with an OpenBSD Laptop" Message-ID: <mailman.43.1423499579.4236.announce@lists.nycbug.org> List of Upcoming Events: Feb 10: "Life with an OpenBSD Laptop" Isaac Levy March 4: "The Design and Implementation of the FreeBSD Operating System: DTrace" George Neville-Neil March 12-15: AsiaBSDCon, Tokyo, Japan April 8: TBA May 6: TBA June 3: "FreeBSD's NUMA" John Baldwin June 12-13: BSDCan 2015, Ottawa, Canada ***** February 10, Tuesday Life with an OpenBSD Laptop, Isaac (.ike) Levy 18:45, Stone Creek Bar & Lounge: 140 E 27th St no RSVPs necessary Abstract Have you ever been OpenBSD-curious? "OpenBSD is thought of by many security professionals as the most secure UNIX-like operating system, as the result of a never-ending comprehensive source code security audit." Yet, whether OpenBSD is right for you is a question that only you can answer. I'll share my practical experiences transitioning from Mac life to OpenBSD- the good, bad, and the ugly. For over 15 years, Mac OSX was "the computer I physically touch". I build infrastructure, and the computers I care about most, I rarely physically touch- servers on the internet. These servers provide me the leading edge of computer security, networking, cryptography, filesystems- all from Open and auditable codebases... I decided I'd had enough with my laptop being the ironic weakest link in my digital ecosystem. Forget religious debates about Operating Systems- I simply set out to build an Open Source, Stable, Securable, and full-featured laptop. And I was delighted that id doesn't suck to use! Speaker Bio Isaac (.ike) Levy is a crusty UNIX Hacker. A long-time community contributor to the *BSD's, ike is obsessed with high-availability and redundant networked servers systems, mostly because he likes to sleep at night. Standing on the shoulders of giants, his background includes partnering to run a Virtual Server ISP before anyone called it a cloud, as well as having a long history building internet-facing infrastructure with UNIX systems. .ike has been a part of NYC*BUG since it was first launched in January 2004. He was a long-time member of the Lower East Side Mac Unix User Group, and is still in denial that this group no longer exists. He has spoken frequently on a number of UNIX and internet security topics at various venues, particularly on the topic of FreeBSD's jail(8). From announce at lists.nycbug.org Sun Feb 22 19:21:02 2015 From: announce at lists.nycbug.org (NYC*BUG Announcements) Date: Sun, 22 Feb 2015 19:21:02 -0500 Subject: [announce] NYC*BUG Upcoming Message-ID: <mailman.93.1424650876.4236.announce@lists.nycbug.org> We are putting the finishing touches on the next SEVEN meetings. This is likely the best stretch of meetings we've assembled since we officially launched in 2004. Note that we are in the process of overhauling how we manage the web site. Web site updates and details for some meetings are in the pipeline. Additionally, there are two BSD Cons upcoming: AsiaBSDCon 2015, March 12-15 in Tokyo, Japan BSDCan 2015, June 12-13 in Ottawa, Canada The quick list of upcoming meetings. All meetings will be in Stone Creek's backroom at 6:45 PM at this point, but NOT all on the first Wednesday of the month. March 4: George Neville-Neil on the "DTrace", based on the new release of "The Design and Implementation of the FreeBSD Operating System." Introductory comments from the books editor. Hors d'oeuvres will be provided, in addition to copies of the book. April 8: Christos Zoulas "Blacklist'd" May 6: We are waiting on details, but we likely have a remote speaker coming in. Stay tuned. June 3: John Baldwin "FreeBSD's NUMA" July 1: Steve Kreuzer "PTP: Precision Time Protocol" August 2: Brian Callahan "What's New with OpenBSD?" September 6: John C. Vernaleo "Bitrig" As mentioned on talk@, we will start using NYC*BUG meetings to get PGP/GPG key signings done! We will provide some how-to documentation for those unfamiliar.