Jun west side mtg Wed

[der.hans]

moin moin,

tomorrow or today, depending on if you read this Tue or Wed :).

19:00
Arizona Conservatory for Arts and Academics
2820 West Kelton Lane, Phoenix, AZ 85053

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Most important item first: Grandma's Cheesecake will be served at this
meeting! Now on to the topics...

Topic: Denny is bringing in his MythTV server to give a demo on how MythTV
works. We will also use Live CDs to build client viewers.

Presenter: Denny Hipsher

Denny has been an avid computer user since the late 80's, when he used my
Turbo XT computer to login to the Prodigy online service via a 2400 baud
modem. Over the years, and the upgrades, he has always used no cost
software in one form or another. Shareware, freeware, and open source all
fit well with his nonexistent budget.

Denny also liked watching tv for as long as he can remember. But the
network execs insisted on putting some of his favorite shows on at times
that he would rather be doing other things, like sleeping. Programming the
VCR to record these shows got old fast. Like way back in the 70's fast.
And tape management got to the point where he didn't know what shows he
had or how much blank space was left on a given tape. Or even which of the
50 tapes he was round robin recording on was up next. But for 30 years he
had no better option.

Then Denny bought a HDTV tuner card for my computer and never looked back.
Sure the software that came with the card sucked. But that was easily
replaced with free software. Come see it in action at the next west side
meeting.

Topic: HA Clustering on linux...

Why HA cluster? Benefits, Drawbacks, HCM not covered (not in 30 minutes).
HA Clustering basics: Heartbeat, group broker, service mangler, services
(layers). Specific technologies: Heartbeat (the project), brief cover of
VCS and HACMP to show what's expected. Infrastructure techs: drdb, iscsi,
regular SAN, GFS/NFS, NIC's, etc. Service examples:
Apache/tomcat/whatever, NFS/GFS/whatever, DRBD, Databases (oracle, db2,
mysql, postgres, they all really play the same at this level)

Presenter: James McPhee

James has been involved with Linux since he installed Slackware 3.4 back
in 1998, two days before 3.5 came out; 2.0.32 kernel FTW!! His
professional career started in 2000 in American Express's web engineer
dept ( he started with NT, but quickly hopped to Sun). James started work
with IBM in 2002 as a SysAdmin/Eng lead. In 2006 he went to work for Perot
Systems as an AIX engineer where he's been introducing as much OSS as
possible for his own sanity. His primary technologies have been Web or
cluster-related systems. The giant web environments really are
multi-layered clusters if you think about it. He's not die-hard OSS and
will use commercial software if it makes more sense. The current apps he
runs use windows/citrix, aix/oracle, and some of its own proprietary
stuff. Where he has a choice he's running RHEL, Suse, Ubuntu, CentOS, and
Gentoo (different sites are willing to load different beasts).

Topic: Ubuntu desktop class - Using the Internet

This month's talk will start on connecting to the Internet and web
browsing. It will include an extra-curricular introduction to Firefox 3.

Presenter: der.hans

der.hans is a well-known Free Software advocate. He is currently teaching
Free Software classes for Mesa Community College's Business and Industry
Institute, http://www.LuftHans.com/Classes. He is chairmain for PLUG and a
founding member of LOPSA where he is also the volunteer coordinator and
education committee chair. He is also the founder of the Free Software
Stammtisch, co-founder of LOPSA-US-AZ and a past president for ASULUG. He
has many years of experience as both a system administrator and software
developer.

June's west side meeting is co-sponsored by LOPSA-US-AZ.

ciao,

der.hans
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