BALUG-Admin March 2006

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Job postings?
by Francis St. Amant 28 Mar '06

28 Mar '06

Hi, Riverbed uses Linux as the OS on our market leading network appliances. I have a number of jobs available for Linux-savvy engineers. Do you have a place to post jobs? Thanks. - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - Francis St. Amant Sr. Mgr., Platform/OEM Engineering Riverbed Technology francis(a)riverbed.com <mailto:francis@riverbed.com> Voice: 415-344-4480 FAX: 415-247-8801

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update balug web page
by Larry Platzek 23 Mar '06

23 Mar '06

Hi Ann, Would you like to try to update the balug web page so the "coming up" block shows we have no speaker for April? login and you will see the Dmin menu on the left side, click on administration then click on 3rd-party then blocks then edit on the block you wish to change (the block should be deactived before you do the edit as it is now as I am writing this email) you will need to edit the content block. when you are happy with your edit click on update at bottom center of screen. You will then want to activate the page. I hope this is at least simi usefull, as I know of no place this has been documented. I did update the next meeting block for April already. I hope this can be documented better and place where the right people can find. I do not intend to micro manage, but this is a small task that does need to be done. Larry Platzek larryp(a)inow.com

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Reminder: S.F.: BALUG 2006-03-21: Tom Limoncelli: Time Management for System Administrators
by Michael Paoli 18 Mar '06

18 Mar '06

Just a brief reminder: in San Francisco for the 2006-03-21 Bay Area Linux Users Group (BALUG) meeting, we have as guest presenter Tom Limoncelli, of Google, on: Time Management for System Administrators (and everyone else too) Tom Limoncelli is the author of the new book from O'Reilly, "Time Management for System Administrators" (The book was the #1 computer book on Amazon on Feb 10, 2006) and is also co-author of the book "The Practice of System and Network Administration" from Addison-Wesley more details on the meeting, presentation, etc. here: http://lists.balug.org/pipermail/balug-announce-balug.org/2006-March/000058…

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(pre-) "reminder" announcement regarding 2006-03-21 meeting
by Michael Paoli 17 Mar '06

17 Mar '06

Well, I'm thinking of sending out a "reminder" announcement probably on Thursday or Friday to the "announce" list regarding the 2006-03-21 BALUG meeting. Anything anyone can think of that ought to get included/updated/added/changed with such a "reminder" announcement? references: http://lists.balug.org/pipermail/balug-admin-balug.org/2006-February/000133… http://lists.balug.org/pipermail/balug-announce-balug.org/2006-March/000058…

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Re: [Balug-admin] BALUG 2006-03-21: reserverations or anything of that sort?
by Michael Paoli 11 Mar '06

11 Mar '06

We'll probably be okay without RSVP or reservation system. The restaurant can handle a fair sized crowd - hopefully we will have a good turnout. references/excerpts: Quoting Raymond Wong: > Sorry to bug you, but none of the linked-to messages for the Tom Limoncelli > event indicates any sort of RSVP, is it really just going to be a free for > all at the restaurant? Are we that sure we won't max the place out, or did I > miss spotting another message about that? < Date: Sat, 4 Mar 2006 00:15:19 -0800 < From: Michael Paoli < To: Tom Limoncelli < Cc: Dick Verna, Larry Platzek < Subject: Re: Tom Limoncelli talk/presentation March 21st at BALUG < Sounds good. Attendance varies - I think it's ranged from about 8 to < roughly 200 or more, at least historically. These days with a speaker < such as yourself, and with us getting the information out fairly well < ahead of time, we'd likely be somewhere in the 15 to 35 range, and < probably more towards the mid to high end of that range, and possibly < more than 35. Since we haven't done or found need to do any RSVP type < system, at least thus far in recent years (the restaurant has space to < generally accommodate 100+ of us, though service might be something of < an issue if we caught them quite off-guard relative to their < expectations), we often don't really know what the turnout will be < until about the time the meeting starts. < Quoting Tom Limoncelli: < > About how many people tend to show up? http://lists.balug.org/pipermail/balug-announce-balug.org/2006-March/000058…

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BALUG talk for January 17th, 2006
by xiaowen 02 Mar '06

02 Mar '06

Hi Dick and Larry and everyone, If there's no presenter scheduled yet for the January 17th meeting, could I give a talk on Conary and rBuilder Online? Conary is an open source software management and provisioning tool that applies new ideas from distributed configuration management tools such as GNU arch and monotone. Rather than concentrating on separate package files as RPM and dpkg do, Conary uses networked repositories containing a structured version hierarchy of all the files and organized sets of files in a distribution. http://wiki.conary.com/ rBuilder Online is a collaborative development environment that can be used to easily package open source software and produce complete distributions. http://www.rpath.com/ I came to both the September and October BALUG meetings on The Digital Tipping Point and shell programming respectively and found the topics interesting and the audience knowlegeable and enthusiastic about Linux. I'd love to be able to present on these couple of new and exciting technologies that I've worked with the past few months. Thanks, Xiaowen

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S.F.: BALUG 2006-03-21: Tom Limoncelli: Time Management for System Administrators
by Michael Paoli 02 Mar '06

02 Mar '06

For the 2006-03-21 Bay Area Linux Users Group (BALUG) meeting, we have as guest presenter Tom Limoncelli, of Google, on: Time Management for System Administrators (and everyone else too) synopsis: Whether you use Perl, Python or Ruby, whether you use Windows, Linux or Unix, all system administrators have a problem with time management. Users interrupt you constantly with requests, your managers want you to get long-term projects done but flood you with requests for quick- fixed, and the machines you manage just never behave, causing problems at the most inopportune moments. Tom will discuss techniques he has developed over the last 15 years for dealing with these things --- all of which (and more) can be found in his new book from O'Reilly, "Time Management for System Administrators". http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/0596007833/tomontime-20 (The book was the #1 computer book on Amazon on Feb 10, 2006) Tom Limoncelli has over 15 years of system administration experience and has been teaching workshops on Time Management at conferences since 2003. Tom has worked for both large and small organizations, including Bell Labs and AT&T. He speaks at conferences around the world. His previous book, The Practice of System and Network Administration, is considered a standard reference in system administration. He now works at the Google NYC office. His web site is www.EverythingSysadmin.com more details here: http://lists.balug.org/pipermail/balug-announce-balug.org/2006-March/000058…

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