From announce at lists.nycbug.org Sun Mar 1 17:11:25 2015 From: announce at lists.nycbug.org (NYC*BUG Announcements) Date: Sun, 01 Mar 2015 17:11:25 -0500 Subject: [announce] Wednesday NYC*BUG: DTrace/book party with GNN Message-ID: We have most meetings lined up through September, while AsiaBSDCon and BSDCan are coming up, but this Wednesday we have a very special meeting. Wednesday, March 4: from "The Design and Implementation of the FreeBSD Operating System" DTrace George Neville-Neil 18:45, Stone Creek Bar & Lounge: 140 E 27th St Abstract 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. Hors d'oeuvres will be provided before and after the meeting. 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. From announce at lists.nycbug.org Wed Mar 4 08:11:12 2015 From: announce at lists.nycbug.org (NYC*BUG Announcements) Date: Wed, 04 Mar 2015 08:11:12 -0500 Subject: [announce] NYC*BUG Tonight: George Neville-Neil on DTrace Message-ID: 2015-03-04 - The Design and Implementation of the FreeBSD Operating System, George Neville-Neil 18:45, Stone Creek Bar & Lounge: 140 E 27th St no RSVPs needed, Free and Open to All Abstract 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. Some introductory comments will be made by the book's editor. Copies of the book will be for sale and giveaway. There will be some hors d'oeuvres provided. 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. From announce at lists.nycbug.org Tue Mar 31 23:03:07 2015 From: announce at lists.nycbug.org (NYC*BUG Announcements) Date: Tue, 31 Mar 2015 23:03:07 -0400 Subject: [announce] NYC*BUG Upcoming Message-ID: Reminder: The March meeting will be held NEXT Wednesday. There is no meeting April 1. April 8 2015 Blacklistd, Christos Zoulas 6:45, Stone Creek Bar & Lounge 140 E 27th St Today's systems expose multiple network daemons and are constantly attacked by a fleet of zombie bots or determined attackers. Scanning logs to determine if an attack is in place in order to modify a firewall to block an attack is an ad-hoc inelegant solution. Blacklistd is a daemon and a library interface that attempts to correct this problem. Christos' first experience with Unix was in 1983 while studying at Cornell. He currently maintains a few Unix programs (file, tcsh, libedit, rdist6) and he contributes to many others. He is a board member of the NetBSD Foundation and a recipient of the USENIX Lifetime Achievement Award for contributions to the Unix operating system. His day job is in Finance. Other Upcoming note the special meeting on June 18. Ingo Schwarze will be passing through NYC and will be speaking. We will likely organize a social with him for June 19. BSCan registration is now open. May 6: TBA June 3: FreeBSD's NUMA, John Baldwin June 12-13: BSDCan, Ottawa, Canada June 18: Mandoc, Ingo Schwarze (WE NEED SPACE FOR THIS MEETING) July 1: Staying in sync with the Precision Time Protocol, Steven Kreuzer August 5: What's New with OpenBSD, Brian Callahan October 1-2: EuroBSCon, Stockholm, Sweden (eurobscon.org)