From gsutter at zer0.org Sat Oct 2 18:02:20 2004 From: gsutter at zer0.org (Gregory Sutter) Date: Sat, 2 Oct 2004 18:02:20 -0700 Subject: PGP key signings in the SFBA Message-ID: <20041003010219.GG69161@klapaucius.zer0.org> A group of PGP enthusiasts have started up a semi-regular key signing meeting, rotating between several Bay Area locations. If you are interested in attending a meeting and helping to extend the web of trust, please sign up for the mailing list, or just add your key to the appropriate meeting's keyring on Biglumber. Meeting info, Biglumber links and mailing list signup here: http://zer0.org/mailman/listinfo/ba-keysign/ The next meeting is Monday Oct 4 (2 days away), 7PM, in Berkeley. Next month's is in SF and the month after that in Mountain View. So far we're rotating between those three locations. The group and schedule are brand new, though, and subject to change for the better at any time. Greg -- Gregory S. Sutter I believe there are more instances of the mailto:gsutter at zer0.org abridgment of the freedom of the people by http://zer0.org/~gsutter/ gradual and silent encroachments of those in power than by violent and sudden usurpations. --James Madison -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: not available Type: application/pgp-signature Size: 155 bytes Desc: not available URL: From david at catwhisker.org Sun Oct 3 12:12:52 2004 From: david at catwhisker.org (David Wolfskill) Date: Sun, 3 Oct 2004 12:12:52 -0700 (PDT) Subject: UPS batteries? Message-ID: <200410031912.i93JCq0R001346@bunrab.catwhisker.org> Last night, Lynette noticed an "odd" smell in one part of the house; further investigation (mostly on her part; my sense of smell isn't very acute) identified the UPS I use for the non-Microsoft boxen as the apparent source of the odor. After some discussion (and considering that the time was late on a Saturday evening), we decided that about the best we could do would be to shut down the machines gracefully, then power them back up without the benefit of the UPS (thus freeing up the UPS for service or replacement). I note that during our previous power outage -- a couple of weeks ago -- the UPS only lasted a few minutes, vs. the 45 minutes it had lasted before. Thus, I expected that I would find something fairly wrong when I opened it up. I was not surprised, then, to find that some of the "sealed" lead-acid storage batteries had ruptured. Fortunately, this should merely be a matter of buying replacement batteries, putting them back in the cabinets (wired correctly), and a bit of testing, followed by deploying the UPS once again. Although I believe I have seen batteries like those I need at HSC (aka Halted), I don't recall the price, and they're not open until Monday. A quick search on the Net showed a huge variation in price for allegedly equivalent batteries -- from $45.00 each to $9.45 each (the latter vendor offered them for $8.95 each, qty. 2 or $7.95 each, qty. 10). I do have a few batteries that look OK, but the UPS itself uses 5 of these batteries, and the expansion unit has 10. The batteries are 12 V, 5.0 Ah units -- some are Yuasa NPH5-12; others are Portalec PX12050SHR. In any case, I expect to be needing to buy at least 15 batteries. Given that and the state of our finances, I have incentive to be rather conservative about spending money. So: Are there any particular vendors folks have used with especially noteworthy results (either positive or negative)? I will summarize private responses, of course. Thanks, david -- David H. Wolfskill david at catwhisker.org There is a use for spam: it helps identify spammers. I have no use for spammers. See http://www.catwhisker.org/~david/publickey.gpg for public key. From ariana at washpost.com Tue Oct 5 08:43:14 2004 From: ariana at washpost.com (Ariana Eunjung Cha) Date: Tue, 5 Oct 2004 11:43:14 -0400 Subject: washington post- interview request Message-ID: [Note: this was addressed to blw@, but it seemed apropos for the BayLISA membership (more than the Board per se, certainly), so I have approved the message despite it being sent from a non-subscriber, and re-directed it to baylisa at . -- postmaster at baylisa.org] Hello! I'm a reporter with The Post and am working on a story about the proliferation of adware/spyware and how it affects computer users. I was wondering if any of you might have a few minutes to chat by phone today about your personal experiences or work experiences trying to protect computers against adware/spyware. Also, do you happen to know any non-computer professionals who have had dealt with adware/spyware who you think might be willing to share their experiences with me? Thank you very much for your help! All the best, Ariana Ariana Eunjung Cha, San Francisco Bureau Chief The Washington Post (415) 503-0814 ariana at washpost.com www.washingtonpost.com From david at catwhisker.org Sat Oct 9 17:26:50 2004 From: david at catwhisker.org (David Wolfskill) Date: Sat, 9 Oct 2004 17:26:50 -0700 (PDT) Subject: UPS batteries? In-Reply-To: <200410031912.i93JCq0R001346@bunrab.catwhisker.org> Message-ID: <200410100026.i9A0QoCC030538@bunrab.catwhisker.org> Back last Sunday, I wrote about discovering that I needed to replace the ("sealed" lead-acid) batteries in my main UPS; discovering a significance range of prices for nominally equivalent 12V/5Ah batteries (from about $8.00 each - $45.00 each -- plus shipping (at 4.3 lbs per battery), handling, & taxes), I asked for vendors to either avoid or patronize. I received a couple of responses; one correspondent mentioned that he had bought some batteries at the Foothil swap meet ... and they were no good at all. He ended up paying APC for batteries, which worked fine. Another correspondent related that he got batteries from Rage Batteries (which was one of the (lower-cost) vendors on my list; that prices were reasonable, shipping prompt, and that there had been no problems since February (which this transpired)). I now I had seen 12V/5Ah Yuasa batteries at HSC, but I needed 15 of them -- and was reasonably certain HSC didn't have that many. Besides, I really wanted to start fresh with new batteries. I decided to go ahead and order from Rage, which I did Monday afternoon. The following morning, I wondered if I had done the right thing: their acknowledgement email had been bounced at my MTA for lack of a Message-Id. The batteries arrived Thursday morning; I re-assembled both the UPS and the expansion cabinet. After checking voltages and re-inspecting wiring, I plugged the UPS in ... using an outside electrical supply. It seemed to work OK, though I have yet to actually put a significant load on it. I did take the opportunity to tinker with the serial communications (the mode of which can only be changed when the UPS is not supplying power for anything. I had tried this a couple of years earlier, but was unable to get any response from the UPS back then; experiments in September 2003 convinced me that the problem was the serial port of my laptop: at that time, I sent the laptop in for repair (about 6 days before the warranty expired); after the 2nd round-trip, the serial port worked). But I had not messaed with the serial communications for the UPS then -- I don't like to bring my machines down unnecessarily. Anyway, I reviewed the user's manual (I have a PDF copy of it on my laptop) and tried setting the UPS to use 2400 bps .. which worked. :-) Here's a cut/paste from a display: UPS STATUS 03:48:36 POWER: LOAD OFF FREQUENCY: 60.0 Hz BATTERY: CHARGED BATTERY VOLTAGE: 069.3 V PERCENT LOAD: 000 % UTILITY VOLTAGE: 121 V LOAD VOLTAGE: 122 V STATUS: NORMAL OPERATION and here's one that shows the configuration: Exide Electronics Prestige Catalog #: D1512012252C Serial #: BR023B0053 Version #: 03.09 COMM mode: VT-100 Baud x100: 024 LAN mode: Novell Site Fault Detection: Enabled Copyright (c) 1993-1996 Exide Electronics. All Rights Reserved. New COMM: Computer New Baud: 024 New LAN: Novell [I note that this model UPS has been discontinued for some time. They still work, though.] Now, the above was from "VT-100" mode; if I switch it to "Computer" mode, I see a string EyzTx9T~14444C which a hex dump tells me is 45 79 7a 54 78 39 54 7e 31 34 34 34 34 43 but the user's manual doesn't seem to provide a decoder ring. :-( Then, while goofing around after setting the UPS back to VT-100 mode, I happened to hit ^L, and much to my surprise (since this doesn't appear to be documented either), I saw (and see) a display like: LODRLY=0 ON.SW =0 BAT.OV=0 UFAILD=0 STNDBY=0 UPSCON=1 BST.OT=0 CHGFAL=0 INVRLY=1 OFF.SW=0 BAT.UV=0 BYP.OV=0 STATUP=0 FQCONF=1 EE.HLD=0 TST.ST=0 BATRLY=0 OT.SF =0 CHK.OV=0 BYPAVL=1 INVRMP=0 KILUPS=0 EE.FUL=0 TSTFIN=0 CHRGER=0 SITE.F=0 TSTFLD=0 BYPREQ=0 INV.OV=0 PWRDWN=0 EE.EMP=1 HOT.ST=0 LAN.UF=1 HSK.OT=0 BATLOW=0 BYPORD=0 INV.UV=0 60 HZ =1 EE.SAV=0 OPNBAT=0 LAN.BL=0 DSR =1 BATDRN=0 EQLIZE=0 INV.ON=1 REQ.ON=0 FANSPD=0 105% =0 HORNON=0 PLUG&P=0 NO BAT=0 FREQOK=1 INSYNC=1 HV.UNT=0 P&PXMT=0 110% =0 UTIL_V INV_V BATT_V TEMP LOAD_I CREST VA/WATTS VA/WATTS %_LOAD OVL_SEC 00122 00122 00694 00300 00001 023 01500 00012 001 000 00445 00445 01759 00239 00001 01050 00011 001 000 LOD_ST SYS_ST BYP_ST INV_ST LST_HIS HIS_PTR I_AMP/PWM3 I_CAR/PWM4 INV_SP 20 255 254 040 46 254 0E42 125/225 141/146 120 UTLPER INVPER FRQERR PHSERR LOCERR BAT_CL SHT_CL ACT_CL CL_CNT OC_CNT MIN_INV 12505 12506 -00015 00004 -00001 020 001 020 000 000 65535 00600 00600 000 00279 000 00000 00000 00000 00000 00000 CNTRL MASK 1-6 LOLINE BATLOW DCUV EQUAL FLOAT EQLTMR CHGPER PEAK_AD 7F FF FF F7 F7 FF 00057 00570 00510 00708 00690 00000 027 00019 00546 SYSTEM ON_BAT BTR KILL_T MIN_TP MAX_TP CUR_TP FLT_TP STACK PART REV 04:54:58 00000 04000 000 017 055 038 00038 029 001 03.09 But again, I have found no decoder ring for this. Some of it seems fairly self-evident. And I started poking around, looking for software that someone else wrote to talk to the UPS. (All of the above cut/paste was via tip.) And I found the "Network UPS Tools" (ports/sysutils/nut in FreeBSD). This looks promising, though my particular type of UPS doesn't seem to already have a "driver" -- yet. So I figure I'll plan on writing one, if necessary to get one. Anyway, this definitely seems like progress.... Peace, david -- David H. Wolfskill david at catwhisker.org I resent spammers because spam is a DoS attack on my time. See http://www.catwhisker.org/~david/publickey.gpg for public key. From extasia at extasia.org Mon Oct 11 16:10:20 2004 From: extasia at extasia.org (David Alban) Date: Mon, 11 Oct 2004 16:10:20 -0700 Subject: [baylisa] SIG-BEER-WEST: Saturday 10/16 at 6:00pm in San Francisco Message-ID: <20041011161020.A3921@gerasimov.net> -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 SIG-beer-west http://extasia.org/sig-beer-west/ Saturday, October 16, 2004 at 6:00 pm San Francisco Bay area, CA Beer. Mental stimulation. This event: Saturday, 10/16/2004, 6:00 pm, at [1]Zeitgeist Bar and Guest Haus, San Francisco [1] http://www.sonic.net/~wwpints/zeitgeist/ Coming events (third Saturdays): Saturday, 11/20/2004, 6:00 pm, location to be determined Saturday, 12/18/2004, 6:00 pm, location to be determined Saturday, 01/15/2005, 6:00 pm, location to be determined Saturday, 02/19/2005, 6:00 pm, location to be determined The San Francisco Bay area's next social event for techies and their friends, sig-beer-west, will take place at 6:00 pm on Saturday, October 16, 2004 at [2]Zeitgeist Bar and Guest Haus located at [3]199 Valencia at Duboce in San Francisco, CA. [2] http://www.sonic.net/~wwpints/zeitgeist/ [3] http://tinyurl.com/2hacx According to their website, Zeitgeist has: [4]plenty of drafts, mostly micro-brewed beers, a good selection of call liquors, a beer garden, and hotel accomodation [4] http://www.sonic.net/~wwpints/zeitgeist/#Beers Concerning food, they say: the grill opens around 6.00 p.m. each day and closes when everyone's fed (or Aundre's fed up) Zeitgeist is on the [5]corner of Valencia and Duboce and [6]looks like this. It's [7]three blocks from the 16th St BART station (16th St and Mission). [5] http://tinyurl.com/2hacx [6] http://www.sonic.net/~wwpints/zeitgeist/exterior.html [7] http://tinyurl.com/3f8mp Festivities will start at 6:00pm and continue until we've all left. When you show up, you should look for some kind of home made sig-beer-west sign. We will try to make it obvious who we are. :-) Note: Please look for the sig-beer-west sign, not for a particular person. sig-beer-west may have different hosts from month to month. Everyone is welcome at this event. We mean it! Please feel free to forward this information and to invite friends, co-workers, and others (all of legal drinking age) who might enjoy lifting a glass with interesting folks from all over the place. Can't come this month? Mark your calendar for next month. (Do it now before you forget!) sig-beer-west occurs on the third Saturday of each month. Want to suggest a venue? Suggestions for new places to sip and gab are always welcome. Have questions, comments, or other ideas concerning sig-beer-west? Send all correspondence to the current sig-beer-west Instigator. The Instigator's handle is extasia. The Instigator's email address is <*the handle*> at <*the handle*> dot <*org*>. A subject beginning with "sbw: " will increase the chances that the Instigator's spam filters don't molest your message. sig-beer-west FAQ 1. Q: Your announcement says "techies and their friends". How do I know if I'm a techie, or a friend of one? A: Well, actually, you don't have to be a techie to attend. You just have to be able to find the sig-beer-west sign at this month's event. That's it. Simple, huh? 2. Q: I'm not really a beer person. In fact I'm interested in hanging out, but not in drinking. Would I be welcome? A: Absolutely! The point is to hang out with fun, interesting folks. Please do join us. 3. Q: Is parking difficult, like maybe I should factor this into my travel time? A: Absolutely. The earlier you arrive, the better your chances of finding a spot. Note for June 2004: Zeitgeist is [8]three blocks from 16th St BART. You may want to consider [9]BARTing and not worrying at all about parking. [8] http://tinyurl.com/3f8mp [9] http://www.bart.gov/ 4. Q: I've been thinking about attending sig-beer-west for some time now. Maybe I should start with this event? A: Yes!! ______________________________________________________________________ sig-beer-west was started in February 2002 when a couple Washington, D.C. based systems administrators who moved to the San Francisco Bay area wanted to continue a [10]dc-sage tradition, sig-beer, which is described in dc-sage web space as: SIG-beer, as in "Special Interest Group - Beer" ala ACM, or as in "send the BEER signal to that process". The original SIG-beer gathering takes place in Washington DC, usually on the first Saturday night of the month. [10] http://www.dc-sage.org/ ______________________________________________________________________ Last modified: $Date: 2004/10/11 22:49:55 $ -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.3 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQFBaxHmPh0M9c/OpdARAraLAKC8R12+q0NTShxwa5mTpAXKZsBwZACeMw49 vUvdobxRKEO+arE/w/aWjDw= =XroV -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- From dclark at mindsource.com Mon Oct 11 22:03:24 2004 From: dclark at mindsource.com (David Clark) Date: Mon, 11 Oct 2004 22:03:24 -0700 Subject: Appple OS X (panther) : MindSource BoF #49 Tuesday, October 26th Message-ID: <200410120503.i9C53OgG022218@kepler.mindsource.com> Greetings BayLisa Members. It's been a while since I posted to this group, and even longer (98?) since I was on the Board. This should be a great event! Please RSVP to bof04 at mindsource.com. Questions to bof04 at mindsource.com Dave At present we do have one extra panel seat if there are speakers out there who wish to join. # ------------------------------------------------------------ To: BayLisa Folks Fr: MindSource/dave (Reply to BoF04 at mindsource.com) Dt: Tuesday, October 26th 6:30 PM Re: Mac OS X (Panther) Administration - Seminar Michael's at Shoreline (near golf course in MV) MindSource BOF #49 Administering Panther Since 1994 MindSource has brought bright minds to the podium to present topics of interest to a wide variety of professionals. This month we will present a panel discussion on aspects of large heterogenous site administration of Apple's Panther. # Synopsis: Administering Macs in a heterogenous environment is an evolving art. The real world demands answers to practical issues such as name services, printers, security, and more. Whether you are administering 10 systems or 1000, this seminar will shine light on issues that are now becoming vital to the successful administration of OS X. # Topics MindSource engineers will speak on the following topics: * A brief history of OS X * Intro to the Panther UI for UNIX folk * Name Services * Printing and CUPS [ B R E A K ] * Setting up Distribution Images * File Sharing * Security * Integrating with Windows and other UNIX OS Note that the agenda is being updated and may change to reflect other topics. # New reservation policy: We ask that all guests reserve their seats in advance. Please register prior to attendance via email at BOF04 at mindsource.com\. # Location: Michaels at Shoreline 2960 North Shoreline Blvd Mountain View, CA 650.962.1014 # To find Michaels : * Get onto Shoreline Blvd, north of Highway 101 * Follow Shoreline all the way into Shoreline Park. * Go about a mile _into_ shoreline park past the ranger booth * Hang a left into the parking lot when you reach the round about (before the victorian house and the sailboard place) * See the map at: http://www.mindsource.com/bof.html As always, There will be great food! Food will be served at 6:00 with the presentation beginning around 6:30. # Cost: (none) Free and open to all IT professionals. # MindSource: * Find more information about MindSource on our web site : http://www.mindsource.com http://www.edisonsearch.com ==== MindSource BoF Newsletter ==== Mon Oct 11 21:06:49 PDT 2004 ==== end ==== -- % % % % % % % % % % % % % % % % % dt~ http://www.mindsource.com dave clark dclark at mindsource.com mindsource software engineers (r) fax: +1 650.254.8907 2685 marine way #1316 main: +1 650.254.8909 mountain view, ca 94043-1115 direct voice: +1 650.314.6407 % % % % % % % % % % % % % % % % % % % % % % % % % % % % % % From strata at virtual.net Tue Oct 12 21:42:50 2004 From: strata at virtual.net (Strata R. Chalup) Date: Tue, 12 Oct 2004 21:42:50 -0700 Subject: BayLISA Monthly: 10/21/04: The Security Role for Linguistic Content Analysis: Jim Nisbet Message-ID: <416CB24A.6080401@virtual.net> BayLISA Monthly Technical Talk & General Meeting Please RSVP to rsvp at baylisa.org so that we can get an idea of how many will be attending. This event is open to the general public. You do not need to be a member to attend. -------- Where: Apple Computer, Town Hall Auditorium Addr: Four Infinite Loop, Cupertino, CA http://www.baylisa.org/locations/current.html -------- Date: Thursday, 15 April 2004 Time: 7:30pm - 9:30pm PST The Security Role for Linguistic Content Analysis: Monitoring content that leaves the organization Jim Nisbet, Tablus Computational linguistics is not a technology usually associated with networking devices such as firewalls and packet monitors, but this technology offers some powerful new capabilities. The premise is that if we want to look for high-value information leaving the company then we need to look to the same kind of linguistic categorization technologies software companies have historically used. This talk principally explores content analysis techniques, ranging from regular expression pattern matching to latent semantic analysis which can be used to identify content characteristics reliably enough so that policies can be defined based on the content itself. Jim Nisbet has many years of industry experience in networking, databases and linguistic analysis. As the founder and CEO of Tablus, he has worked as both a product architect and developer since the start of the company. Prior to Tablus, Mr. Nisbet was the Senior Vice-President of Products and Technology for Semio Corporation, which provided content categorization solutions. Mr. Nisbet was the founder and Chief Technology Officer of DataTools, a database software tool company founded in 1991 and acquired by BMC Software in 1997. Before founding DataTools, Mr. Nisbet worked for Stanford University at the Center for Information Technology for over 15 years. -------- BayLISA meets every month on the 3rd Thursday of the month. A short period of announcements of general interest to the sysadmin community is presented, followed by a technical talk. Anyone may make an announcement; typical are upcoming presentations, user group meetings, employment offers, etc. For further information on BayLISA, check out our web site: http://www.baylisa.org/ Directions and details about the current meeting and future events: http://www.baylisa.org/events/ BayLISA makes video tapes of the meetings available to members. Tape library is often available at the general meeting, or for more information on available videos, please send email to "video at baylisa.org". If you have suggestions for speakers, or would like to volunteer to present a talk at one of our meetings, please email the Board and Working Group at "blw at baylisa.org". Thanks! -------- -- ======================================================================== Strata Rose Chalup [KF6NBZ] strata "@" virtual.net VirtualNet Consulting http://www.virtual.net/ ** Project Management & Architecture for ISP/ASP Systems Integration ** ========================================================================= From pmui at usenix.org Mon Oct 18 14:37:40 2004 From: pmui at usenix.org (Peter Mui) Date: Mon, 18 Oct 2004 14:37:40 -0700 Subject: LISA Pre-reg deadline this Friday Oct. 22 Message-ID: (Hi, is this an appropriate posting to this list? We don't want to be perceived as spamming. Thanks!) (cut here) ------------------------------------------------------------------------ --- (** Pre-registration deadline Friday, October 22 -- Register NOW **) Register now for LISA, the 18th Annual Large Installation System Administration conference at: http://www.usenix.org/lisa04/progm LISA comes to Atlanta November 14-19. As always, the breadth and quality of this years tutorials, refereed papers, invited talks, and participants is excellent. Some highlights: Professional TRAINING: The biggest and best slate of tutorials we've ever had: 36 instructors teaching 51 full-day and half-day tutorials, 30 of which are new. Some quick examples: o John Sellens: System and Network Monitoring o David Rhoades: Securing Web-based Apps o Eric Allman: Advanced Sendmail o Rik Farrow: Thinking Like a Hacker o Peter Baer Galvin: Advanced Solaris Administration o James Mauro and Richard McDougall: Solaris Kernel Performance, Observeability, and Debugging PAPERS and INVITED TALKS: luminaries such as Joshua Goodman, Esther Filderman, Gerald Carter and Yi-Mon Wang will present cutting-edge issues in topics such as: o Looking at both symptom and state information for configuration faults o Biology and Informatics for System Adminstrators o Electronic Presidential Campaigning and the lessons learned o How spammers are circumventing Bayesian filtering o Information Security Laws o Grid Computing Birds-of-a-Feather sessions and Work-in-Progress reports give you a preview of next year's news, or present fledgling work of your own and get feedback from the audience. Single- and multi-day registration options let you attend for one day or several. PRE-REGISTRATION DEADLINE NEXT FRIDAY! Register by October 22 and save up to $300. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ --- WHAT: LISA - the 18th Large Installation System Administration Conference WHEN: November 14-19, 2004 WHERE: Atlanta, GA: Atlanta Marriott Marquis WHO: System Administrators, Network Administrators, CIOs, CTOs, Researchers, Tool Providers, Support and Help Desk personnel, etc. WHY: To get to and stay on the cutting edge of computer system administration HOW: http://www.usenix.org/lisa04/progm ------------------------------------------------------------------------ --- From sigje at sigje.org Wed Oct 20 11:26:24 2004 From: sigje at sigje.org (Jennifer Davis) Date: Wed, 20 Oct 2004 11:26:24 -0700 (PDT) Subject: Upcoming November Elections In-Reply-To: References: Message-ID: In case you missed this the first go around, I'm sending it again. The October meeting happens tomorrow at the DeAnza 3 auditorium on the Apple Campus in Cupertino (Yes, we have been moved for this month's meeting back to the old meeting location. Jim Nisbit will be talking about The Security Role for Linguistic Content Analysis.. sounds intriguing, find out more on http://www.baylisa.org!) Are you interested in shaping the future of BayLISA? Elections are coming up in November. This year we have four slots available. Interested candidates should prepare a brief statement prior to the October meeting, where they will be called upon to present their statement for up to 5 minutes. These statements will also be emailed to the general membership. Elections are held at the November meeting. You must be a current member to run for Board or to vote in the Board election. You can become a member right now at: http://www.baylisa.org/members/ ---------------------------------------------------------------- The following Board members terms complete on 12/31/2004: - Strata Rose Chalup - Brad Robinson - Alan Stewart - Heather Stern Board members whose terms expire this year must announce their candidacy if they wish to run for re-election. The following Board members terms complete on 12/31/2005, and will NOT be affected by this year's elections: - Jennifer Davis - Jim Hickstein - Rick Moen ------------------------------------------------------------------ The BayLISA Board is made up of seven members, elected annually by the general membership. Since an individual Board member serves for two years, the composition of the Board changes annually, electing 4 new members in even years, and 3 in odd years. The officers of the Board are elected annually by the Board members, and consist of President, Treasurer, and Secretary (usually referred to as "Arch" for historical reasons). If you are interested in becoming a candidate, please let us know via email to "blw at baylisa.org". Even if you are not interested in running for Board, as a member of the organization you are welcome to all Board meetings held on the first Thursday of every month (except for November) in San Mateo. Contact the Board at blw at baylisa.org for detailed location information. -- Jennifer Davis Election Commmittee BayLISA Board of Directors From matt at offmyserver.com Wed Oct 20 13:22:40 2004 From: matt at offmyserver.com (Matt Olander) Date: Wed, 20 Oct 2004 13:22:40 -0700 Subject: FreeBSD HPC Cluster Presentation Message-ID: <20041020132240.N53039@knight.ixsystems.net> hey gang, my company is sponsoring a FreeBSD cluster presentation next month at Hurricane Electric in Fremont. so, if you missed Brooks Davis speaking at BSDCon last year, this will definitely be cool. cheers, -matt **** High Performance Computing Blade Cluster Presentation Using FreeBSD Come join us while Brooks Davis demonstrates a FreeBSD cluster running on cutting edge Intel Blade hardware. Brooks will show us how to build a High Performance Cluster on FreeBSD using popular open-source software. Intel representatives will demonstrate the cool new Intel Blade hardware and systems management software. A question and answer session will follow after the presentations. Rumor has it that Beastie, the FreeBSD mascot, may also make an appearance with numerous FreeBSD giveaways. OffMyServer will provide food and beverages and FreeBSD Mall will be on-hand with FreeBSD books and CDs. About the Speakers Brooks Davis - FreeBSD Clustering Expert Brooks is a FreeBSD committer focusing on networking. In his day job, Brooks designed, built, and maintains a 225 node (and growing) computing cluster using FreeBSD. His professional interested include high performance computing, high performance networking, massive storage, and system administration research. Brooks graduated from Harvey Mudd College in 1998 with BS in Computer Science. He is a member of the IEEE Computer Society, SAGE, and USENIX. Bill Elwell - Intel Blade Server Product Marketing Bill has spent 7 years with Intel performing Product Marketing duties for workstation motherboards, Itanium Servers and now for Intel's line of blade servers. Prior to joining Intel, Bill spent 9 years in Systems Engineering and Product Marketing rolls for a Zenith Data Systems. His first few years after college were spent designing data collection systems for the FAA and NASA. Bill graduated from Drexel University in Philadelphia with a BS in Electrical Engineering. About the Event Sponsored by OffMyServer, Intel, and FreeBSD Mall Hosted at Hurricane Electric in Fremont, California When: Wednesday, November 17th, 7:00pm Where: Hurricane Electric, 760 Mission Court, Fremont, CA 94539 RSVP Space is limited so please RSVP at http://www.offmyserver.com/cgi-bin/store/bladecluster.html Your email address will only be used to notify you about changes and notifications regarding this event. **** -- Matt Olander Chief Technology Officer, OffMyServer Inc. Public Relations, The FreeBSD Project (408)943-4100 Phone (408)943-4101 Fax www.offmyserver.com www.freebsd.org -- "Those who don't read have no advantage over those who can't" -Mark Twain From mark at bitshift.org Wed Oct 20 14:18:49 2004 From: mark at bitshift.org (Mark C. Langston) Date: Wed, 20 Oct 2004 14:18:49 -0700 Subject: FreeBSD HPC Cluster Presentation In-Reply-To: <20041020132240.N53039@knight.ixsystems.net> References: <20041020132240.N53039@knight.ixsystems.net> Message-ID: <20041020211849.GB41225@bitshift.org> On Wed, Oct 20, 2004 at 01:22:40PM -0700, Matt Olander wrote: > > When: Wednesday, November 17th, 7:00pm D'oh! Sounds very cool, but it's smack-dab in the middle of LISA. Will slides, etc. be available after the fact? -- Mark C. Langston GOSSiP Project Sr. Unix SysAdmin mark at bitshift.org http://sufficiently-advanced.net mark at seti.org Systems & Network Admin Distributed SETI Institute http://bitshift.org E-mail Reputation http://www.seti.org From strata at virtual.net Thu Oct 21 00:58:17 2004 From: strata at virtual.net (Strata R. Chalup) Date: Thu, 21 Oct 2004 00:58:17 -0700 Subject: BayLISA TONIGHT at NEW LOCATION (10/21/04) Message-ID: <41776C19.9040104@virtual.net> ****** REMINDER AND LOCATION CHANGE INFO ************ This month only, BayLISA will be in DeAnza 3 at the Apple campus! http://www.baylisa.org/locations/apple-deanza3.html Same driveway, different building. We were pre-empted on short notice to the previous BayLISA site at DeAnza 3. ****************************************************** -------- Where: Apple Computer, DE ANZA 3 AUDITORIUM Addr: 10500 N. De Anza Blvd, Cupertino, CA http://www.baylisa.org/locations/current.html -------- Date: Thursday, 21 October 2004 Time: 7:30pm - 9:30pm PST The Security Role for Linguistic Content Analysis: Monitoring content that leaves the organization Jim Nisbet, Tablus Computational linguistics is not a technology usually associated with networking devices such as firewalls and packet monitors, but this technology offers some powerful new capabilities. The premise is that if we want to look for high-value information leaving the company then we need to look to the same kind of linguistic categorization technologies software companies have historically used. This talk principally explores content analysis techniques, ranging from regular expression pattern matching to latent semantic analysis which can be used to identify content characteristics reliably enough so that policies can be defined based on the content itself. Jim Nisbet has many years of industry experience in networking, databases and linguistic analysis. As the founder and CEO of Tablus, he has worked as both a product architect and developer since the start of the company. Prior to Tablus, Mr. Nisbet was the Senior Vice-President of Products and Technology for Semio Corporation, which provided content categorization solutions. Mr. Nisbet was the founder and Chief Technology Officer of DataTools, a database software tool company founded in 1991 and acquired by BMC Software in 1997. Before founding DataTools, Mr. Nisbet worked for Stanford University at the Center for Information Technology for over 15 years. -------- BayLISA meets every month on the 3rd Thursday of the month. A short period of announcements of general interest to the sysadmin community is presented, followed by a technical talk. Anyone may make an announcement; typical are upcoming presentations, user group meetings, employment offers, etc. For further information on BayLISA, check out our web site: http://www.baylisa.org/ Directions and details about the current meeting and future events: http://www.baylisa.org/events/ BayLISA makes video tapes of the meetings available to members. Tape library is often available at the general meeting, or for more information on available videos, please send email to "video at baylisa.org". If you have suggestions for speakers, or would like to volunteer to present a talk at one of our meetings, please email the Board and Working Group at "blw at baylisa.org". Thanks! -------- -- ======================================================================== Strata Rose Chalup [KF6NBZ] strata "@" virtual.net VirtualNet Consulting http://www.virtual.net/ ** Project Management & Architecture for ISP/ASP Systems Integration ** ========================================================================= From bill at wards.net Mon Oct 25 21:52:51 2004 From: bill at wards.net (William R Ward) Date: Mon, 25 Oct 2004 21:52:51 -0700 Subject: Peninsula Linux Users' Group, Thursday, Oct 28, 2004 Message-ID: <16765.55331.693133.596154@komodo.home.wards.net> We have a meeting of the Peninsula Linux Users' Group (PenLUG) this week! Here are the details about this meeting. For more information or directions go to http://www.penlug.org/ Our website is a TWiki; please feel free to create a user account and modify the website if you have something to contribute. Thanks! Date: Thursday, October 28, 2004 Time: 7:00 - 9:00 PM Location: 100 Oracle Parkway, Redwood Shores, CA 94065 Room 1op104 Agenda: ======= 7:00 - 8:30 PM: Presentation by Ramona Howard: "RaveHD" 8:30 - 9:00 PM: Members' Minutes 8:45 - 9:00 PM: Adjourn to IHOP (Belmont) for social & food time Presentation by Ramona Howard: "RaveHD" ======================================= RaveHD is the first High-End Disk Drive Recorder to open its source code to its clients. Although this is not an open source product (as in free beer) the customer does receive full source code to everything written by SpectSoft within the software. With the exception of QT all code was written in-house by SpectSoft which includes a universal driver for the AJA line of I/O boards, RS422 library and image library in addition to information of utilizing a MySQL database is all part of the product. RaveHD is currently being utilized by some top studios for the making of feature films with many more slated to come online shortly. Bringing video and film one step closer and providing tools strictly on the Linux platform is what we do. We are a 100% Linux facility, focused entirely on the media industry. Members' Minutes ================ Members will have an opportunity to take a few minutes to... * Describe their latest Linux discovery * Ask questions and get help from other members * Discuss Linux projects You can just stand up and talk, or give a short demo or presentation. If you need audio/visual support for your Members' Minute, please contact Bill in advance to arrange for your needs. We have a limited number of books courtesy of Prentice-Hall to give away as an added inducement to participate in this portion of the meeting. :-) RSVP ==== Although it is NOT required, we like to have an idea of how many people to expect, so if possible please email rsvp at penlug.org if you are planning to attend. -- William R Ward bill at wards.net http://bill.wards.net ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- Help save the San Jose Earthquakes - http://www.soccersiliconvalley.com/ From strata at virtual.net Sat Oct 30 17:35:32 2004 From: strata at virtual.net (Strata R. Chalup) Date: Sat, 30 Oct 2004 17:35:32 -0700 Subject: It's that time again! Message-ID: <41843354.2030403@virtual.net> [Apologies if you are on all 3 of our main lists (baylisa, baylisa-jobs, and baylisa-announce) and receive 3 copies of this. BayLISA has a no-spam policy, so we don't send out individual reminders to folks to renew. This message is our only way of reaching you at the current time.] BayLISA Elections are coming up, and that means it's time to RENEW your membership (if you are in a position to do so). You are not at all required to be a member to come to meetings, or to be on our mailing lists. However, our paid membership is at an alltime low (less than a dozen people other than Board members), and lack of funding is limiting our ability to do things like bring in out of town speakers and pay professionals to do our nonprofit corporate filings. We could use your support! If you're in doubt as to your status, please renew or ask me to look up your expiration date! Regular member: $45 Full-time student: $15 Corporate: $500 Still unemployed for over a year? We will RENEW you FREE, send me mail. If you have already signed up as a new member via the web form at http://www.baylisa.org/cgi-bin/newentry.cgi but have not yet sent in your dues, please use PayPal to send them to "payment at baylisa.org" as soon as possible. If you would like to renew, the easiest way to do it is to send your dues via PayPal, to "payment at baylisa.org". If your email has changed and you'd like it updated, please indicate this when you send it in. You can also mail a check to us at: BayLISA PO Box 61315 Sunnyvale CA 94088-1315 The PO Box is checked at least weekly, and will be checked the morning of the November meeting. You could just bring a check to the meeting, but it would be much easier for us to if you did this in advance. cheers, and thanks, Strata Chalup BayLISA Treasurer -- ======================================================================== Strata Rose Chalup [KF6NBZ] strata "@" virtual.net VirtualNet Consulting http://www.virtual.net/ ** Project Management & Architecture for ISP/ASP Systems Integration ** =========================================================================