MUUG Meetings Summaries http://muug.mb.ca/blog/meetings Just another way to catch up on past MUUG Meetings... Wed, 09 May 2012 20:55:36 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.2 Copyright © 2010 Manitoba UNIX User Group gedetil@muug.mb.ca (Manitoba UNIX User Group) gedetil@muug.mb.ca (Manitoba UNIX User Group) podcast 1440 http://muug.mb.ca/images/muug-podcast-sm.jpg MUUG Meetings Summaries http://muug.mb.ca/blog/meetings 144 144 Just another way to catch up on past MUUG Meetings... Manitoba UNIX User Group Manitoba UNIX User Group gedetil@muug.mb.ca no no May 8th, 2012: ZFS http://muug.mb.ca/blog/meetings/2012/05/09/may-8th-2012-zfs/ http://muug.mb.ca/blog/meetings/2012/05/09/may-8th-2012-zfs/#comments Wed, 09 May 2012 20:55:36 +0000 gedetil http://muug.mb.ca/blog/meetings/?p=147 Continue reading →]]> 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 OSX.

Edwin focused on the basic usage of the file system and the snapshotting features that come built in.

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]]> http://muug.mb.ca/blog/meetings/2012/05/09/may-8th-2012-zfs/feed/ 0 1:00:48 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 [...] 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 OSX. Edwin focused on the basic usage of the file system and the snapshotting features that come built in. podcast Manitoba UNIX User Group no no May 8th, 2012 RTFM: GNU parallel(1) http://muug.mb.ca/blog/meetings/2012/05/09/may-8th-2012-rtfm-gnu-parallel1/ http://muug.mb.ca/blog/meetings/2012/05/09/may-8th-2012-rtfm-gnu-parallel1/#comments Wed, 09 May 2012 20:52:26 +0000 gedetil http://muug.mb.ca/blog/meetings/?p=145 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.)

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]]> http://muug.mb.ca/blog/meetings/2012/05/09/may-8th-2012-rtfm-gnu-parallel1/feed/ 0 0:28:18 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.) 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.) podcast Manitoba UNIX User Group no no May 8th, 2012 Round-table Discussion http://muug.mb.ca/blog/meetings/2012/05/09/may-8th-2012-round-table-discussion/ http://muug.mb.ca/blog/meetings/2012/05/09/may-8th-2012-round-table-discussion/#comments Wed, 09 May 2012 20:49:39 +0000 gedetil http://muug.mb.ca/blog/meetings/?p=143 Our May meeting started with the usual round-table discussion, moderated by Brad Vokey.

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]]> http://muug.mb.ca/blog/meetings/2012/05/09/may-8th-2012-round-table-discussion/feed/ 0 0:25:54 Our May meeting started with the usual round-table discussion, moderated by Brad Vokey. Our May meeting started with the usual round-table discussion, moderated by Brad Vokey. podcast Manitoba UNIX User Group no no April 10, 2012: pfSense Firewall http://muug.mb.ca/blog/meetings/2012/04/11/april-10-2012-pfsense-firewall/ http://muug.mb.ca/blog/meetings/2012/04/11/april-10-2012-pfsense-firewall/#comments Wed, 11 Apr 2012 20:53:45 +0000 gedetil http://muug.mb.ca/blog/meetings/?p=138 Continue reading →]]> 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 filtering framework from OpenBSD to do most of the heavy lifting. Supporting multi-WAN, HTTP acceleration, DNS, DHCP, authentication, and wireless NIC’s among other features, it’s an ideal system for someone who wants a free, open-source firewall that’s still incredibly easy to manage.

Adam has made his presentation slides, in ODP and PDF format, available online.

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]]> http://muug.mb.ca/blog/meetings/2012/04/11/april-10-2012-pfsense-firewall/feed/ 0 1:07:45 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 [...] 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 filtering framework from OpenBSD to do most of the heavy lifting. Supporting multi-WAN, HTTP acceleration, DNS, DHCP, authentication, and wireless NIC’s among other features, it’s an ideal system for someone who wants a free, open-source firewall that’s still incredibly easy to manage. Adam has made his presentation slides, in ODP and PDF format, available online. podcast Manitoba UNIX User Group no no April 10, 2012 RTFM: date(1) http://muug.mb.ca/blog/meetings/2012/04/11/april-10-2012-rtfm-date1/ http://muug.mb.ca/blog/meetings/2012/04/11/april-10-2012-rtfm-date1/#comments Wed, 11 Apr 2012 20:48:54 +0000 gedetil http://muug.mb.ca/blog/meetings/?p=136 April’s RTFM featured the date(1) command, presented by Michael Doob.

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]]> http://muug.mb.ca/blog/meetings/2012/04/11/april-10-2012-rtfm-date1/feed/ 0 0:13:50 April’s RTFM featured the date(1) command, presented by Michael Doob. April’s RTFM featured the date(1) command, presented by Michael Doob. podcast Manitoba UNIX User Group no no March 13, 2012: The Cloud http://muug.mb.ca/blog/meetings/2012/03/14/march-13-2012-the-cloud/ http://muug.mb.ca/blog/meetings/2012/03/14/march-13-2012-the-cloud/#comments Wed, 14 Mar 2012 21:47:53 +0000 gedetil http://muug.mb.ca/blog/meetings/?p=134 Continue reading →]]> 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 presentation by Rob Keizer was on what the Cloud is, what its uses are, and the basics of setting up a private one.

Rob has made his presentation slides, in PPT and PDF format, available online. (Rob warns that they are incomplete and buggy, because of format conversions and such.)

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]]> http://muug.mb.ca/blog/meetings/2012/03/14/march-13-2012-the-cloud/feed/ 0 0:00:01 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 presentation[...] 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 presentation by Rob Keizer was on what the Cloud is, what its uses are, and the basics of setting up a private one. Rob has made his presentation slides, in PPT and PDF format, available online. (Rob warns that they are incomplete and buggy, because of format conversions and such.) podcast Manitoba UNIX User Group no no March 13, 2012 RTFM: sort(1) and uniq(1) http://muug.mb.ca/blog/meetings/2012/03/14/march-13-2012-rtfm-sort1-and-uniq1/ http://muug.mb.ca/blog/meetings/2012/03/14/march-13-2012-rtfm-sort1-and-uniq1/#comments Wed, 14 Mar 2012 21:36:55 +0000 gedetil http://muug.mb.ca/blog/meetings/?p=131 March’s RTFM featured the sort(1) and uniq(1) commands, presented by Brad Vokey.

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]]> http://muug.mb.ca/blog/meetings/2012/03/14/march-13-2012-rtfm-sort1-and-uniq1/feed/ 0 0:17:40 March’s RTFM featured the sort(1) and uniq(1) commands, presented by Brad Vokey. March’s RTFM featured the sort(1) and uniq(1) commands, presented by Brad Vokey. podcast Manitoba UNIX User Group no no March 13, 2012 Round-table http://muug.mb.ca/blog/meetings/2012/03/14/march-13-2012-round-table/ http://muug.mb.ca/blog/meetings/2012/03/14/march-13-2012-round-table/#comments Wed, 14 Mar 2012 21:33:10 +0000 gedetil http://muug.mb.ca/blog/meetings/?p=129 Our March meeting started with the usual round-table discussion, moderated by Doug Shewfelt.

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]]> http://muug.mb.ca/blog/meetings/2012/03/14/march-13-2012-round-table/feed/ 0 0:25:34 Our March meeting started with the usual round-table discussion, moderated by Doug Shewfelt. Our March meeting started with the usual round-table discussion, moderated by Doug Shewfelt. podcast Manitoba UNIX User Group no no February 21, 2012: Linux LVM http://muug.mb.ca/blog/meetings/2012/02/24/february-21-2012-linux-lvm/ http://muug.mb.ca/blog/meetings/2012/02/24/february-21-2012-linux-lvm/#comments Fri, 24 Feb 2012 18:11:16 +0000 gedetil http://muug.mb.ca/blog/meetings/?p=126 Continue reading →]]> 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 can span across physical hard drives and can be resized (unlike traditional ext3 “raw” partitions). Kevin McGregor summarized the basic principles behind the LVM and provided examples of basic operations which can be performed with it.

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]]> http://muug.mb.ca/blog/meetings/2012/02/24/february-21-2012-linux-lvm/feed/ 0 0:40:46 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, “logica[...] 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 can span across physical hard drives and can be resized (unlike traditional ext3 “raw” partitions). Kevin McGregor summarized the basic principles behind the LVM and provided examples of basic operations which can be performed with it. podcast Manitoba UNIX User Group no no February 21, 2012 RTFM: traceroute(1) http://muug.mb.ca/blog/meetings/2012/02/24/february-21-2012-rtfm-traceroute1/ http://muug.mb.ca/blog/meetings/2012/02/24/february-21-2012-rtfm-traceroute1/#comments Fri, 24 Feb 2012 18:08:35 +0000 gedetil http://muug.mb.ca/blog/meetings/?p=124 February’s RTFM featured the traceroute(1) command, presented by our president, Katherine Scrupa.

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]]> http://muug.mb.ca/blog/meetings/2012/02/24/february-21-2012-rtfm-traceroute1/feed/ 0 0:14:27 February’s RTFM featured the traceroute(1) command, presented by our president, Katherine Scrupa. February’s RTFM featured the traceroute(1) command, presented by our president, Katherine Scrupa. podcast Manitoba UNIX User Group no no