CSU East Bay LUG

2008-December: no meeting

2008-11-26T10:00:00.000-08:00

No meeting. Quarter break.

Happy Thanksgiving. Happy Holidays.

CSUEB Linux User Group meets 2008-Nov-15: FLOSS Your Career

2008-11-10T20:08:00.000-08:00

CSUEB Linux User Group Meeting
Saturday, November 15, 2008
2-4pm Valley Business & Technology Center 217

FLOSS Your Career

Shohei Azuma will map out some IT career paths with Linux in both software and hardware. He will also moderate an open discussion about IT career path with Linux in mind.

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If you got questions, we'll hash out answers.

If you're the person with the answers, we've got people with questions.

If you've got something cool to show us, come and show it off.

Not a Linux user? Not a problem.
Not a CS major? Not a problem.

Discuss: http://groups.google.com/group/csueb-lug

Blog: http://csueb-lug.blogspot.com

CSUEB Linux User Group meets 2008-Oct-18: CompCore infrastructure (Rocks + CentOS)

2008-10-07T20:20:00.000-07:00

CSUEB Linux User Group Meeting
Saturday, October 18, 2008
2-4pm Valley Business & Technology Center 217

CompCore infrastructure

Prof. William Thibault will talk about the clusters at CompCore.

CompCore's Linux clusters use the Rocks cluster distribution, based on CentOS. This talk will discuss how Rocks simplifies creation and maintenance of clusters for both computation and visualization. The CompCore 9-panel display wall will be demonstrated.

Prof. Thibault will also be soliciting ideas for projects.

/etc/cron.monthly

If you got questions, we'll hash out answers.

If you're the person with the answers, we've got people with questions.

If you've got something cool to show us, come and show it off.

Not a Linux user? Not a problem.
Not a CS major? Not a problem.

Discuss: http://groups.google.com/group/csueb-lug

Blog: http://csueb-lug.blogspot.com/

2008-September: no meeting

2008-09-15T22:30:00.000-07:00

No meeting. Quarter break.

CSUEB Linux User Group meets 2008-Aug-16: CompCore infrastructure (Rocks + CentOS)

2008-08-11T09:47:00.000-07:00

CSUEB Linux User Group Meeting
Saturday, August 16, 2008
2-4pm Valley Business & Technology Center 217

CompCore infrastructure

Prof. William Thibault will talk about the clusters at CompCore.

CompCore's Linux clusters use the Rocks cluster distribution, based on CentOS. This talk will discuss how Rocks simplifies creation and maintenance of clusters for both computation and visualization. The CompCore 9-panel display wall will be demonstrated.

Prof. Thibault will also be soliciting ideas for projects.

/etc/cron.monthly

If you got questions, we'll hash out answers.

If you're the person with the answers, we've got people with questions.

If you've got something cool to show us, come and show it off.

Not a Linux user? Not a problem.
Not a CS major? Not a problem.

Discuss: http://groups.google.com/group/csueb-lug

Blog: http://csueb-lug.blogspot.com/

CSUEB Linux User Group meets 2008-July-19

2008-07-18T10:22:00.000-07:00

CSUEB Linux User Group Meeting
Saturday, July 19, 2008
2-4pm South Science 149

If you got questions, we'll hash out answers.

If you're the person with the answers, we've got people with questions.

If you've got something cool to show us, come and show it off.

Discuss: http://groups.google.com/group/csueb-lug

Blog: http://csueb-lug.blogspot.com/

Not a Linux user? Not a problem.
Not a CS major? Not a problem.

UPDATE: The doors in the 1st (first) floor might be closed due to construction. In that case, use the doors on the 2nd (second) floor, and then go down to the 1st (first) floor.

July 2008 meeting

2008-07-06T20:27:00.001-07:00

Next meeting will be on Saturday, July 19th, 2008 from 2 p.m. to 4 p.m.

I'll try to reserve Science South 149, cause it's got wireless.

I haven't got any topics yet. Any requests?

2008-June: no meeting

2008-06-08T10:06:00.001-07:00

No meeting. Quarter break.

CSUEB Linux User Group meets 2008-May-17

2008-05-12T14:52:00.000-07:00

CSUEB Linux User Group Meeting
Saturday, May 17, 2008
2-4pm South Science 105C

If you got questions, we'll hash out answers.

If you're the person with the answers, we've got people with questions.

If you've got something cool to show us, come and show it off.

If all else fails...,
* Eddy Mulyono will talk about Virtualization in Ubuntu Hardy, including KVM, QEMU, libvirt, virt-manager, etc. If you want to read ahead, you can check out https://help.ubuntu.com/community/KVM

Discuss: http://groups.google.com/group/csueb-lug

Blog: http://csueb-lug.blogspot.com/

Not a Linux user? Not a problem.
Not a CS major? Not a problem.

CSUEB Linux User Group meets 2008-Apr-19

2008-04-16T15:02:00.000-07:00

CSUEB Linux User Group Meeting
Saturday, Apr 19, 2008
2-4pm South Science (SC-S) 105C

If you got questions, we'll hash out answers.

If you're the person with the answers, we've got people with questions.

If you've got something cool to show us, come and show it off.

Among the things we can play with:

Ubuntu Hardy 8.04 beta
(any Fedora Sulphur folks?)
Bluetooth in GNOME
(any KDE folks?)
SVN (and git) in emacs
(any vi folks?)
etc.

Discuss: http://acc.csueastbay.edu/mailman/listinfo/csueb-lug

(Archives: http://acc.csueastbay.edu/mailman/private/csueb-lug/ )

Not a Linux user? Not a problem.
Not a CS major? Not a problem.

slides from march meeting

2008-04-16T14:13:00.000-07:00

Slides from last month's meeting are up.

Shohei Azuma talked about "Ultra Monkey: opensource load balancing" and MySQL replication(1way and multi ways).

Eddy Mulyono talked about the current state of packaging across distros (Ubuntu, Gentoo, rPath),
lessons learned, and what's next in ".rpm .deb .ebuild .tgz OMG!".

CSUEB Linux User Group meets 2008-Mar-15

2008-03-15T14:00:00.000-07:00

CSUEB Linux User Group Meeting
Saturday, March 15, 2008
2-4pm South Science 105C

Shohei Azuma will talk about:
* MySQL replication(1way and multi ways)
* Ultra Monkey: opensource load balancing

Eddy Mulyono will give a preview of his LugRadio Live USA talk titled
".rpm .deb .ebuild .tgz OMG!", in which he will be looking at the
current state of packaging across distros (Ubuntu, Gentoo, rPath),
lessons learned, and what's next.

Discuss: http://acc.csueastbay.edu/mailman/listinfo/csueb-lug

(Archives: http://acc.csueastbay.edu/mailman/private/csueb-lug/ )

Not a Linux user? Not a problem.
Not a CS major? Not a problem.

2008-Feb: no meeting

2008-02-16T10:45:00.000-08:00

No meeting. :(

2008-Jan: no meeting

2008-01-19T10:47:00.000-08:00

No meeting. :(

2007-Dec: no meeting

2007-12-15T10:48:00.000-08:00

No meeting. Quarter break.

CSUEB Linux User Group meets 2007-Nov-17

2007-11-17T10:49:00.000-08:00

CSUEB Linux User Group Meeting
Saturday, November 17, 2007
2-4pm South Science 105C

Discuss: http://acc.csueastbay.edu/mailman/listinfo/csueb-lug

(Archives: http://acc.csueastbay.edu/pipermail/csueb-lug/ )

Not a Linux user? Not a problem.
Not a CS major? Not a problem.

CSUEB Linux User Group meets 2007-Oct-20

2007-10-20T10:50:00.000-07:00

CSUEB Linux User Group Meeting
Saturday, October 20, 2007
2-4pm South Science 105C

Discuss: http://acc.csueastbay.edu/mailman/listinfo/csueb-lug

(Archives: http://acc.csueastbay.edu/pipermail/csueb-lug/ )

Not a Linux user? Not a problem.
Not a CS major? Not a problem.

2007-Sep: no meeting

2007-09-15T10:52:00.000-07:00

No meeting. Quarter break.

CSUEB Linux User Group meets 2007-Aug-17: DefCon and LinuxWorld highlights

2007-08-17T10:53:00.000-07:00

We're (still) experimenting with new schedule: Friday instead of Saturday.

CSUEB Linux User Group Meeting
Friday, Aug 17, 2007
5-6.30pm South Science 105C

Comparing Notes: DefCon 15 and LinuxWorld Expo 2007

Some of us attended DefCon 15. Some of us attended LinuxWorld Expo
2007. Some of us will share our highlights of the conventions.

Not a Linux user? Not a problem.
Not a CS major? Not a problem.

CSUEB Linux User Group meets 2007-Jul-20: Short and sweet talks, ep. II

2007-07-01T10:00:00.000-07:00

We're experimenting with new schedule: Friday instead of Saturday.

CSUEB Linux User Group Meeting
Friday, July 20, 2007
5-6.30pm South Science 105C

Short and sweet, ep. II.

This month, we will have several short and sweet talks about various topics.

Currently, we have:
* FUSE (filesystem in userspace)
* SSHFS (why SFTP when you can mount?)

We're still hashing out the details in our mailing list. We'd love to
hear YOUR short and sweet discoveries. Join the discussion! (or peek
at the archives at http://acc.csueastbay.edu/pipermail/csueb-lug/ ).

Not a Linux user? Not a problem.
Not a CS major? Not a problem.

2007-Jun: no meeting

2007-06-01T10:02:00.000-07:00

No meeting. Quarter break.

recap of 2007-May meeting

2007-05-19T10:18:00.000-07:00

Thanx for all who came to this month's CSUEB LUG meeting.

Recap:

Welcome Cagdas and Eric!

Cagdas runs openSUSE. Peter dabbles with Gentoo. Eddy is tempted by the vibrant Ubuntu community.

Shohei Azuma talked about VMware + Qemu-img and showed how he hosted Windows XP on top of Ubuntu Feisty. I found out that:

vmware-tools will "forward" my toggling of the emulated hardware to the guest OS.
VMware Player doesn't play Windows Vista very well.
I should be paying attention to memsize settings in .vmx files to not choke my host OS.
VMware seems to run very well under Windows. Hm....

Eddy Mulyono talked about using Revelation to manage passwords. Some interesting points:

Revelation for Windows: I thought there was such a thing. I dug, and found none. So I lied.

Eddy Mulyono talked about using GIMP to create Hackergotchis. The "volunteer" is Little by Little.

Hilary talked about her experience updating Fedora 5 to 6 using Yum.

FedoraProject.org says "Don't!".
rpm -qf yum-utils
Don't upgrade everything. Upgrade chunks at a time.

We decided to experiment, moving our meetings from 2-4pm on 3rd Saturdays to 5-6pm on 3rd Fridays. No meeting for June due to finals/break. Next meeting is 2007-July-20th.

CSUEB Linux User Group meets 2007-May-19: Short and sweet talks

2007-05-01T10:12:00.000-07:00

CSUEB Linux User Group Meeting
Saturday, May 19, 2007
2-4pm South Science 105C

Short and sweet.

This month, we will have several short and sweet talks about various topics:
* managing your usernames & passwords
* maintaining Fedora
* creating VMware images
* ${YOUR short and sweet experience here}

Come to our LUG meeting to find out and share.

Not a Linux user? Not a problem.
Not a CS major? Not a problem.

2007-April: no meeting

2007-04-01T10:07:00.000-07:00

No meeting. :(

CSUEB Linux User Group meets 2007-Mar-17: Meldware (Mail+Calendar Server)

2007-03-01T10:23:00.000-08:00

CSUEB Linux User Group Meeting
Saturday, March 17, 2007
2-4pm South Science 105C

Meldware

Meldware Communication Suite provides a cross platform mail server
(IMAP/POP/SMTP),
calendar server (iCal/WCAP), administration client and webmail/webcalendar

Come to our LUG meeting to find out more.

Aron Sogor will give a technical talk about using Meldware and Linux to support both open source clients (ThunderBird/Evolution/Firefox) and legacy clients (Outlook/IE).

Aron is an experienced speaker having given talks at JBossWorld,
AjaxWorld, JavaOne and a number of private talks for companies like
Windriver, Vodafone.

Not a Linux user? Not a problem.
Not a CS major? Not a problem.

links from 2007-Feb meeting

2007-02-17T10:29:00.000-08:00

http://www.scribemedia.org/2006/07/09/dhh/

http://www.infoq.com/interviews/David-Hansson

http://streamlinedframework.org

CSUEB Linux User Group meets 2007-Feb-17: Ruby on Rails

2007-02-01T10:27:00.000-08:00

CSUEB Linux User Group Meeting
Saturday, February 17, 2006
2-4pm VBT 311

Ruby on Rails

Ruby is a programming language.

Rails is a web framework written in Ruby.

Come to our LUG meeting to find out more.

Bob Daniels will talk about Ruby on Rails and RadRails.

Not a Linux user? Not a problem.
Not a CS major? Not a problem.

CSUEB Linux User Group meets 2007-Jan-20: Django

2007-01-01T10:31:00.000-08:00

CSUEB Linux User Group Meeting
Saturday, January 20, 2007
2-4pm Science South 105C

Django: a WWWeb application framework

Web application frameworks helps you get your web application up and running, FAST. Be it an online store, a weblog, a social networking site, or a water quality monitoring site. Most web frameworks help you deal with databases and SQL, with webservers and HTTP, with templates and CSS. Django is one such framework. It is "a high-level Python Web framework that encourages rapid development and clean, pragmatic design".

Come to our LUG meeting to find out more.

Eddy Mulyono will talk about Django. He looks forward to encounter some hardcore PHP and Ruby on Rails coders.

Not a Linux user? Not a problem.
Not a CS major? Not a problem.

2006-December: no meeting

2006-12-01T10:09:00.000-08:00

No meeting. Quarter break.

notes from 2006-Nov meeting

2006-11-18T10:39:00.000-08:00

Shohei Azuma from Kikkoman IT talked about Nagios.

slides

CSUEB Linux User Group meets 2006-Nov-18: Nagios

2006-11-01T10:35:00.000-08:00

CSUEB Linux User Group Meeting
Saturday, November 18, 2006
2-4pm Science South 105C

1 sysadmin. 500 systems. How?

Thanks to sysadmins, us users can browse the web and send/receive emails without a hassle. They make sure systems and services are up and running. But, as we know, computers go bad from time to time.

To maintain a level of service to the users, sysadmins has various tools in their belt. Among these tools, monitoring tools allow them to monitor systems and services. In some cases, monitoring tools can give sysadmins first signs of trouble, allowing the issue to be dealt with before it becomes a real issue.
Nagios is one of these monitoring tools.

Come to our free LUG meeting to find out more.

Shohei Azuma from Kikkoman IT will talk about Nagios.

Not a Linux user? Not a problem.
Not a CS major? Not a problem.

CSUEB Linux User Group meets 2006-Oct-21: Version Control

2006-10-01T11:14:00.000-07:00

CSUEB Linux User Group Meeting
Saturday, October 21, 2006
2-4pm Science South 105C

What can version control do for you?

It provides a place to store your source code.
It provides a historical record of what you have done over time.
It can provide a way for developers to work on separate tasks in parallel, merging their efforts later.
It can provide a way for developers to work together without getting in each others' way.

<http://www.ericsink.com/scm/scm_intro.html>

Come to our LUG meeting to find out more.

Prof. Hilary Holz will talk about backups and Subversion.
Eddy Mulyono will share his love/hate relationship with Bazaar.

2006-September: no meeting

2006-09-01T10:10:00.000-07:00

No meeting. Quarter break.

2006-July: no meeting

2006-07-01T10:11:00.000-07:00

No meeting. :(

2005-December: no meeting

2005-12-01T10:11:00.000-08:00

No meeting. Happy holidays!