Author Archives: gedetil

Edwin Amsler talked about (and demonstrated) ZFS. ZFS is a file system originally developed at Sun Microsystems. It has numerous features and has a native port to Solaris, OpenSolaris, and FreeBSD; Non-official ports have been made to Linux and Mac … Continue reading →

ZFS, by Edwin Amsler [ 1:00:48 ] Play Now | Play in Popup | Download (13)

May’s RTFM featured the parallel(1) command, presented by Gilbert Detillieux. (GNU parallel is not yet a standard utility on most UNIX/Linux distributions, but is freely available and portable.)

RTFM: GNU parallel(1), by Gilbert Detillieux [ 28:18 ] Play Now | Play in Popup | Download (6)

Our May meeting started with the usual round-table discussion, moderated by Brad Vokey.

Round-table Discussion 2012-05-08 [ 25:54 ] Play Now | Play in Popup | Download (4)

Adam Thompson talked about (and demonstrated) pfSense, a wholly UNIX-based network firewall and network services appliance that can run on anything from embedded devices up to the latest super-servers. pfSense is based on FreeBSD, and thus uses the pf(4) packet … Continue reading →

pfSense Firewall, by Adam Thompson [ 1:07:45 ] Play Now | Play in Popup | Download (21)

April’s RTFM featured the date(1) command, presented by Michael Doob.

RTFM: date(1), by Michael Doob [ 13:50 ] Play Now | Play in Popup | Download (15)

The catchphrase of the last year, and two years to come. The basics. Everyone by now has heard of “The Cloud.” Most people, even in the IT industry, are baffled as to what the cloud actually is. This no-frills, down-to-earth … Continue reading →

The Cloud, by Rob Keizer Play Now | Play in Popup | Download (34)

March’s RTFM featured the sort(1) and uniq(1) commands, presented by Brad Vokey.

RTFM: sort(1) and uniq(1), by Brad Vokey [ 17:40 ] Play Now | Play in Popup | Download (12)

Our March meeting started with the usual round-table discussion, moderated by Doug Shewfelt.

Round-Table Discussion 2012-03-13 [ 25:34 ] Play Now | Play in Popup | Download (14)

One of the most important new developments in the Linux 2.6 kernel was the Logical Volume Manager, version 2 (or LVM 2). Logical volume management is a widely-used technique for deploying logical rather than physical storage. With LVM, “logical” partitions … Continue reading →

Linux LVM, by Kevin McGregor [ 40:46 ] Play Now | Play in Popup | Download (40)

February’s RTFM featured the traceroute(1) command, presented by our president, Katherine Scrupa.

RTFM: traceroute(1), by Katherine Scrupa [ 14:27 ] Play Now | Play in Popup | Download (15)