From announce at lists.nycbug.org Mon Jan 5 12:50:28 2015 From: announce at lists.nycbug.org (NYC*BUG Announcements) Date: Mon, 05 Jan 2015 12:50:28 -0500 Subject: [announce] NYC*BUG Upcoming Message-ID: Note the date of upcoming meeting. We are not meeting on the first Wednesday of the month for January and February. For the foreseeable future, we will be meeting at Stone Creek in the private backroom. No need for RSVPs. www.stonecreeknyc.com 140 E 27th Street between Lexington and 3rd Avenues Meetings will be 645 PM as usual. There will be no meeting on January 7th! January 13th, Tuesday, 18:45 Designing Versatile Unix Utilities, Eric Radman Abstract Designing versatile utilities for Unix-like systems requires attention to specific concerns and involves specific disciplines. This talk aims to highlight the key concerns in play during the development of entrproject.org that are applicable for anyone who endeavors to develop tooling that establishes more effective paradigms for working on *BSD. Speaker Bio Eric has been building and supporting in-house and public-facing Internet services on BSD and Linux for more than 13 years. His most significant endeavours have centered on eradicating operational dissonance between services by writing new applications or restructuring existing network services to take advantage of common data marshaled by PostgreSQL. For nearly 5 years he has also functioned as apologist for the use of built-in self-tests and test-driven development. Eric refuses to believe that the ThinkPad keyboard is dead, notwithstanding abundant evidence that it has been replaced. Although he has never been an outstanding writer, he considers composing essays and to be essential and a compelling reason to be up before sunrise. Select journal entries can be found on his home page at http://eradman.com/. **** February 10th: TBA March 4th: TBA **** AsiaBSDCon 2015 is March 12-15th in Tokyo, Japan. **** BSDCan 2015 will be held June 12-13th. Deadline for the Call for Papers is January 19th. Registration will open in March. From announce at lists.nycbug.org Wed Jan 7 09:46:50 2015 From: announce at lists.nycbug.org (NYC*BUG Announcements) Date: Wed, 07 Jan 2015 09:46:50 -0500 Subject: [announce] NYC*BUG: Meeting Date moved for January Message-ID: Reminder that there is no NYC*BUG meeting tonight, and that it will happen on Tuesday, January 13th. The new location is Stone Creek Bar & Lounge located at 140 E 27th Street just east of Lexington Avenue in Manhattan. There is a private backroom with full facilities. The January 13th meeting will be: Designing Versatile Unix Utilities, Eric Radman 18:45 Stone Creek Bar & Lounge: 140 E 27th St (www.stonecreeknyc.com) Notice: day and location change Abstract Designing versatile utilities for Unix-like systems requires attention to specific concerns and involves specific disciplines. This talk aims to highlight the key concerns in play during the development of entrproject.org that are applicable for anyone who endeavors to develop tooling that establishes more effective paradigms for working on *BSD. Speaker Bio Eric has been building and supporting in-house and public-facing Internet services on BSD and Linux for more than 13 years. His most significant endeavors have centered on eradicating operational dissonance between services by writing new applications or restructuring existing network services to take advantage of common data marshaled by PostgreSQL. For nearly 5 years he has also functioned as apologist for the use of built-in self-tests and test-driven development. Eric refuses to believe that the ThinkPad keyboard is dead, notwithstanding abundant evidence that it has been replaced. Although he has never been an outstanding writer, he considers composing essays and to be essential and a compelling reason to be up before sunrise. Select journal entries can be found on his home page at http://eradman.com/. **** February meeting will be on February 10th. Topic is TBA. In March, we return to the first Wednesday of the month with the meeting on March 4th. That meeting will be the book launch with George Neville-Neil on "The Design and Implementation of the FreeBSD Operating System." From announce at lists.nycbug.org Sun Jan 11 12:58:08 2015 From: announce at lists.nycbug.org (NYC*BUG Announcements) Date: Sun, 11 Jan 2015 12:58:08 -0500 Subject: [announce] Tuesday's NYC*BUG: Designing Versatile Unix Utilities Message-ID: Tuesday, January 13 "Designing Versatile Unix Utilities" Eric Radman 18:45, Stone Creek Bar & Lounge (www.stonecreeknyc.com) 140 E 27th St between Lexington & 3rd Ave Note day and location change! Abstract Designing versatile utilities for Unix-like systems requires attention to specific concerns and involves specific disciplines. This talk aims to highlight the key concerns in play during the development of entrproject.org that are applicable for anyone who endeavors to develop tooling that establishes more effective paradigms for working on *BSD. Speaker Bio Eric has been building and supporting in-house and public-facing Internet services on BSD and Linux for more than 13 years. His most significant endeavors have centered on eradicating operational dissonance between services by writing new applications or restructuring existing network services to take advantage of common data marshaled by PostgreSQL. For nearly 5 years he has also functioned as apologist for the use of built-in self-tests and test-driven development. Eric refuses to believe that the ThinkPad keyboard is dead, notwithstanding abundant evidence that it has been replaced. Although he has never been an outstanding writer, he considers composing essays and to be essential and a compelling reason to be up before sunrise. Select journal entries can be found on his home page at http://eradman.com/. From announce at lists.nycbug.org Tue Jan 13 07:34:05 2015 From: announce at lists.nycbug.org (NYC*BUG Announcements) Date: Tue, 13 Jan 2015 07:34:05 -0500 Subject: [announce] NYC*BUG Tonight: Designing Versatile Unix Utilities Message-ID: Tuesday, January 13, 645 PM Designing Versatile Unix Utilities, Eric Radman Stone Creek Bar & Lounge backroom: 140 E 27th St just east of Lexington Notice: day and location change RSVPs are not required Abstract Designing versatile utilities for Unix-like systems requires attention to specific concerns and involves specific disciplines. This talk aims to highlight the key concerns in play during the development of entrproject.org that are applicable for anyone who endeavors to develop tooling that establishes more effective paradigms for working on *BSD. Speaker Bio Eric has been building and supporting in-house and public-facing Internet services on BSD and Linux for more than 13 years. His most significant endeavors have centered on eradicating operational dissonance between services by writing new applications or restructuring existing network services to take advantage of common data marshaled by PostgreSQL. For nearly 5 years he has also functioned as apologist for the use of built-in self-tests and test-driven development. Eric refuses to believe that the ThinkPad keyboard is dead, notwithstanding abundant evidence that it has been replaced. Although he has never been an outstanding writer, he considers composing essays and to be essential and a compelling reason to be up before sunrise. Select journal entries can be found on his home page at http://eradman.com/. From announce at lists.nycbug.org Sun Jan 18 19:48:27 2015 From: announce at lists.nycbug.org (NYC*BUG Announcements) Date: Sun, 18 Jan 2015 19:48:27 -0500 Subject: [announce] NYC*BUG Upcoming Message-ID: There's a number of exciting upcoming events happening. First, Digital Ocean now provides FreeBSD support. The developer was at the meeting this past Wednesday, and he'll be speaking with GNN@ about its launch. http://www.meetup.com/DigitalOcean_Community/events/219651453/ ****** The February meeting will be on the 10th, the second Tuesday of the month, back at Stone Creek. The location worked out well for Eric Radman's meeting, and we look forward to continuing to conducting meetings there. The meeting will be Ike (.ike) Levy on "Life with an OpenBSD Laptop: a UNIX-lover's tale of migrating away from the Mac" == 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, Secureable, and full-featured laptop. And I was delighted that id doesn't suck to use! == 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 his 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). ****** We have another special meeting planned for March 4, back to the first Wednesday of the month. GNN@, one of the three authors of "The Design and Implementation of the FreeBSD Operating System," now in its second edition, will be speaking. Prentice Hall, the publisher, will be sponsoring the meeting, and the editor will also be speaking. It should be an exciting and packed meeting, and we *may* have to resort to RSVPs for the event. Stay tuned... From announce at lists.nycbug.org Thu Jan 22 10:38:00 2015 From: announce at lists.nycbug.org (NYC*BUG Announcements) Date: Thu, 22 Jan 2015 10:38:00 -0500 Subject: [announce] NYC*BUG Upcoming for Feb & Mar Message-ID: Just a quick note about the next two upcoming NYC*BUG meetings set for February 10 (a Tuesday) and March 4 (back to the first Wednesday). This year we want a bigger NYC crowd at BSDCan than usual. It's one of the premier BSDCons, and a great opportunity to meet developers and users from around the globe. Face-to-face beats IRC/svn/git/cvs/email interactions any day of the week! Save the dates: June 12-14th. ****** TUESDAY, Feb 10 Life with an OpenBSD Laptop, Isaac (.ike) Levy 18:45, Stone Creek Bar & Lounge: 140 E 27th St just east of Lexington No RSVPs! 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 it 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). **** March 4, Wednesday, 645 PM Stone Creek at 140 E 27th Street just east of Lexington Ave This is a special book release meeting for "The Design and Implementation of the FreeBSD Operating System" featuring one of the authors, George Neville-Neil. They will likely also be a speaker from Prentice Hall, the publisher. Hors d'oeuvres and drinks will be provided, and copies of the book will be available for sale, and for author signing. NOTE that we might have to implement RSVPs for this meeting, as it will certainly attract an even larger crowd than usual.