From lgj at usenix.org Mon Dec 3 10:34:38 2007 From: lgj at usenix.org (Lionel Garth Jones) Date: Mon, 03 Dec 2007 10:34:38 -0800 Subject: USENIX '08 Call For Papers Submissions Deadline: January 7, 2008 Message-ID: <47544C3E.7040604@usenix.org> --------------------------------------- Call for Papers 2008 USENIX Annual Technical Conference June 22-27, 2008, Boston, MA Paper Submissions Deadline: January 7, 2008, 11:59 p.m. PST http://www.usenix.org/usenix08/cfpb/ --------------------------------------- Dear Colleague, On behalf of the 2008 USENIX Annual Technical Conference program committee, we request your ideas, proposals, and papers for tutorials, refereed papers, and posters. Authors are invited to submit original and innovative papers to the Refereed Papers Track of the 2008 USENIX Annual Technical Conference. Papers can be either full papers of at most 14 pages or short papers of at most 6 pages. Authors are required to submit papers by 11:59 p.m. PST, Monday, January 7, 2008. In full papers, we seek high-quality submissions that further the knowledge and understanding of modern computing systems, with an emphasis on implementations and experimental results. Short papers should describe early ideas, advocate a controversial position, or present interesting results that do not require a full-length paper. We encourage papers that break new ground or present insightful results based on practical experience. The USENIX conference has a broad scope. Specific topics of interest include but are not limited to: * Architectural interaction * Deployment experience * Distributed and parallel systems * Embedded systems * Energy/power management * File and storage systems * Networking and network services * Operating systems * Reliability, availability, and scalability * Security, privacy, and trust * System and network management and troubleshooting * Usage studies and workload characterization * Virtualization * Web technology * Wireless, sensor, and mobile systems More information on these and other submission guidelines is available on our Web site: http://www.usenix.org/usenix08/cfpb/ IMPORTANT DATES: Paper submissions due: Monday, January 7, 2008, 11:59 p.m. PST Notification to authors: Wednesday, March 12, 2008 Final papers due: Tuesday, April 29, 2008 Poster submissions due: Tuesday, May 6, 2008 Please note that January 7 is a hard deadline; no extensions will be given. We look forward to your submissions. 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To change your contact information, please visit: http://www.usenix.org/membership/ If you have any questions about the mailing list, please send email to office at usenix.org. We may also be reached via postal mail at: USENIX Association 2560 9th Street, Suite 215 Berkeley CA 94710 (510) 528-8649 From david at catwhisker.org Wed Dec 5 11:11:53 2007 From: david at catwhisker.org (David Wolfskill) Date: Wed, 5 Dec 2007 11:11:53 -0800 Subject: xbiff-like program to monitor remote mailbox? In-Reply-To: <20071119214311.GS7943@bunrab.catwhisker.org> References: <20071119214311.GS7943@bunrab.catwhisker.org> Message-ID: <20071205191153.GP84162@bunrab.catwhisker.org> On Mon, Nov 19, 2007 at 01:43:11PM -0800, David Wolfskill wrote: > This may well be a self-inflicted wound, but I'd kinda like to find a > reasonably elegant way around it regardless.... >... > I think what I want is something that can run on a system that supports > X, but that has a somewhat more general way to determine the salient > attributes of a mailbox (which may well reside on a remote machine). > > Any suggestions? I received a few suggestions, and I looked into some of them. Yes, I am (as one responder alluded) an "xterms & window manager" type of person. In particular, the window manager I use most often is piewm, which is a slight modification of tvtwm, which is essentially twm but with the possibility of multiple "desktops". I gather that some folks -- for whatever reasons -- use environments that are fancier; I don't. I did manage to get one of the pointed-to programs to "work," after a fashion, but for my purposes, it seemed awkward, at best: I opt to run my MUA (mutt) from my desktop machine, and set it up to talk IMAP over an SSH tunnel to the IMAP server. Thus, while having the notification service also use IMAP is a possibility, it's slightly clunky. But: I did find (for some plausible use of the term "find") an approach that appears to be working for me: I looked at the man page for xbiff(1) and noted the stanza labeled "checkCommand," which reads: |X DEFAULTS | The application class name is XBiff. This program uses the Mailbox | widget. It understands all of the core resource names and classes as | well as: | | checkCommand (class CheckCommand) | Specifies a shell command to be executed to check for new mail | rather than examining the size of file. The specified string | value is used as the argument to a system(3) call and may | therefore contain i/o redirection. An exit status of 0 indi- | cates that new mail is waiting, 1 indicates that there has been | no change in size, and 2 indicates that the mail has been | cleared. By default, no shell command is provided. and tried my hand at cobbling up a Perl script that could be invoked as the xbiff checkCommand, with some reasonable success. I'm lousy at naming things, so the script is currently called "rbiff." It uses "ssh -x" to issue "ls -lT" and "ls -lTu" against the mailbox on the remote system (assuming UNIX mbox format, vs. (e.g.) MailDir). And it doesn't really need much privilege to do that much -- just enough to login & do an "ls -l" against a file. Anyway, it uses those commands to obtain the size, atime, and mtime of the file, stuffs those away in a file (~/.rbiff_status), along with information about the name of the remote host, the username, and the file to check, and then, on re-invocation, uses the stored information at the "previous values"for comparison. So this way, I can still use xbiff(1), but there is no requirement that X stuff reside on the remote system at all. :-} I invoked it as xbiff -xrm 'xbiff*checkCommand: rbiff -s harry' (where "harry" is the name of the remote server; the remote username was the same as that on the invoking system, so I let it default. And the mailbox filename to check worked with the default as well, so I left it alone, too). So thanks, folks, for your suggestions anyway. If anyone's interested in my little script, I can make it available. Peace, david -- David H. Wolfskill david at catwhisker.org Proprietary data formats obfuscate, rather than disseminate, information. See http://www.catwhisker.org/~david/publickey.gpg for my public key. -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: not available Type: application/pgp-signature Size: 195 bytes Desc: not available URL: From sigje at sigje.org Thu Dec 6 11:59:11 2007 From: sigje at sigje.org (Jennifer) Date: Thu, 6 Dec 2007 11:59:11 -0800 (PST) Subject: BayLISA Anuual SBC Holiday Meeting Message-ID: <20071206115128.H50061@slick.sigje.org> Hey folks, It's been a long, but productive year for me as I'm sure it has been for many of you. Mark your calendars, December 20 is fast approaching. We will be meeting in our standard location 7pm, in Building E on the Yahoo campus (directions to be sent in a couple weeks if you aren't sure how to get there). As always, if you have a "short but cool" talk to present, please send an email to me with a description so that we can allocate time for you. The best talk of the night wins a $50 gift certificate. Second and third place win a $25 gift certificate. (best talk is determined by the audience). We will have dinner, drinks, and holiday pie to celebrate. Come socialize, enjoy the technical talks, and vote on the best talks. Jennifer Davis - December's MC From cwarden at xerus.org Wed Dec 12 21:51:10 2007 From: cwarden at xerus.org (Christian G. Warden) Date: Wed, 12 Dec 2007 21:51:10 -0800 Subject: BayLISA Anuual SBC Holiday Meeting In-Reply-To: <20071206115128.H50061@slick.sigje.org> References: <20071206115128.H50061@slick.sigje.org> Message-ID: <20071213055110.GA11730@xerus.org> On Thu, Dec 06, 2007 at 11:59:11AM -0800, Jennifer wrote: > As always, if you have a "short but cool" talk to present, please send an > email to me with a description so that we can allocate time for you. Is it safe to assume there will be a projector available for the SBCs? Christian From mikey at dsbp.cx Thu Dec 13 00:51:16 2007 From: mikey at dsbp.cx (Michael Turner) Date: Thu, 13 Dec 2007 00:51:16 -0800 Subject: BayLISA Anuual SBC Holiday Meeting In-Reply-To: <20071213055110.GA11730@xerus.org> References: <20071206115128.H50061@slick.sigje.org> <20071213055110.GA11730@xerus.org> Message-ID: <4760F284.8050605@dsbp.cx> Yep, that's a safe assumption. :) Mikey Christian G. Warden wrote: > On Thu, Dec 06, 2007 at 11:59:11AM -0800, Jennifer wrote: > >> As always, if you have a "short but cool" talk to present, please send an >> email to me with a description so that we can allocate time for you. >> > > Is it safe to assume there will be a projector available for the SBCs? > > Christian > > > From sigje at sigje.org Thu Dec 13 06:28:54 2007 From: sigje at sigje.org (Jennifer) Date: Thu, 13 Dec 2007 06:28:54 -0800 (PST) Subject: BayLISA Anuual SBC Holiday Meeting In-Reply-To: <20071213055110.GA11730@xerus.org> References: <20071206115128.H50061@slick.sigje.org> <20071213055110.GA11730@xerus.org> Message-ID: <20071213062834.G15599@slick.sigje.org> Yes. We provide all of that equipment. Jennifer On Wed, 12 Dec 2007, Christian G. Warden wrote: > On Thu, Dec 06, 2007 at 11:59:11AM -0800, Jennifer wrote: >> As always, if you have a "short but cool" talk to present, please send an >> email to me with a description so that we can allocate time for you. > > Is it safe to assume there will be a projector available for the SBCs? > > Christian > From sigje at sigje.org Wed Dec 19 11:34:16 2007 From: sigje at sigje.org (Jennifer) Date: Wed, 19 Dec 2007 11:34:16 -0800 (PST) Subject: [LinuxPicnic] Linux Picnic voting memberships & 2008 steering committee (fwd) Message-ID: <20071219113033.B58467@slick.sigje.org> Hey Folks, I'm forwarding on part of a message from Ian Kluft with regards to the Linux Picnic which is an event that BayLISA has been participating in for the last 3 years (prior to that many members were associated with it as well). This is an opportunity for BayLISA members to become more involved with the process of the setup, and organization of the Picnic as a whole and not just volunteering at the site. Please do sign up at member-reg at linuxpicnic.org if you'd like to get involved with this process. It's a great way to meet new people, and get some experience with event coordination/planning. Jennifer Voting Memberships ------------------ The idea behind voting memberships is that you must have volunteered at a previous picnic to qualify. That keeps it fair and simple. So I'd like to use a process from the draft charter that anyone who has volunteered at a previous Linux Picnic may state their interest in a voting membership - and that's good for a year. To renew your voting membership, repeat the process. For people who haven't volunteered at the picnic (no remote participation accepted in this case) then it's reasonable to ask them to volunteer at the next picnic to earn their voting privileges. Send a message to member-reg at linuxpicnic.org to claim your voting membership. Please include the following statements in your message: * your name and e-mail address (mail headers are OK if clear & accurate) * you are interested in being a member of the Linux Picnic * which year(s) you volunteered at the picnic Some time after Christmas, we'll set up a vote to approve the charter and elect members to the 2008 Steering Committee. Notes about voting memberships in the Linux Picnic will be posted at http://www.linuxpicnic.org/twiki/bin/view/Volunteers/LinuxPicnicMembers Steering Committee ------------------ According to the current draft of the charter, the Linux Picnic Steering Committee would be comprised of the following: * up to 6 members who are Linux Picnic members elected by the membership * up to 6 members representing Open Source Partner Organizations (OSPOs) * up to 3 members appointed by the Board of Directors of the South Bay Community Network (sbay.org) If the OSPOs send more than 6 representatives, the remainder of the Steering Committee will narrow the list to 6. The Steering Committee may make policies with guidance on how to do that. The Steering Committee will select one or two of its members to be the Linux Picnic Coordinator(s) for a calendar year term. The Coordinator(s) act as the executive leadership of the Linux Picnic. However, the Steering Committee still has the final word on policy-making. All the members of the Steering Committee will be considered officers of the Linux Picnic. The corporate By-Laws require officers of SIGs to be members of the corporation. That keeps a strong bond as a legal link to protect volunteers under the "Volunteer Protection Act of 1997" and any liability insurance that the corporation obtains in the future. It also helps ensure that leaders are on the same page about maintaining compliance with IRS 501(c)3 rules by which we've been granted tax-exemption status. Notes about the Steering Committee will be posted at http://www.linuxpicnic.org/twiki/bin/view/Volunteers/SteeringCommittee Open Source Partner Organizations --------------------------------- According to the current draft of the charter, Open Source Partner Organizations (OSPOs) are any non-profit Open Source software organizations which commit to the following: * It will encourage its members to participate in the Linux Picnic. * It will encourage readers of its mail lists, web sites and other means of communication that it operates to attend the picnic. The participating organizations from 2007 instantly qualify for 2008: * BayLISA - Bay Area Large Installation System Administrators * Haiku OS - Open Source OS based on BeOS * LUGOD - Linux User Group of Davis * Smaug - Santa Cruz Microsoft-Alternative User Group * SVWUX - Silicon Valley Wireless Users & Experimenters (I'm not including sbay.org because it's in a different category as the 501(c)3 non-profit corporate umbrella for the picnic.) From sigje at sigje.org Wed Dec 19 11:25:17 2007 From: sigje at sigje.org (Jennifer) Date: Wed, 19 Dec 2007 11:25:17 -0800 (PST) Subject: BayLISA Annual December SBCs - TOMORROW - December 20, 2007 Message-ID: <20071219112430.F58467@slick.sigje.org> Location: Yahoo Inc Address: 700 First Avenue Bldg E Classroom 9 Maps and directions to Yahoo are available at http://yhoo.client.shareholder.com/press/address.cfm It's not too late to sign up to present an SBC (10-20 minute talk about something cool, interesting that helps you do your job, or a neat upcoming technology. The best talks of the night will win a $50 certificate (first place), $25 certificate (second and third place). Scheduled presentations currently include: All about the Yahoo! grid service.. WMII Window manager.. Writing your resume to get THE job.. Come hungry as we will be providing pizza, christmas PIE, and soda! Doors open at 7pm, and the meeting will start at ~7:30pm. RSVP to rsvp at baylisa.org or just reply to this email. Upcoming Meeting: January 18, 7pm at the Yahoo campus, Real Time Linux Jennifer Davis From rick at linuxmafia.com Wed Dec 19 12:54:39 2007 From: rick at linuxmafia.com (Rick Moen) Date: Wed, 19 Dec 2007 12:54:39 -0800 Subject: [LinuxPicnic] Linux Picnic voting memberships & 2008 steering committee (fwd) In-Reply-To: <20071219113033.B58467@slick.sigje.org> References: <20071219113033.B58467@slick.sigje.org> Message-ID: <20071219205439.GI30118@linuxmafia.com> Quoting Jennifer Davis (sigje at sigje.org): [snip] > All the members of the Steering Committee will be considered officers of > the Linux Picnic. The corporate By-Laws require officers of SIGs to be > members of the corporation. That keeps a strong bond as a legal link > to protect volunteers under the "Volunteer Protection Act of 1997" and > any liability insurance that the corporation obtains in the future. Just a brief note that the Federal Volunteer Protection Act of 1997, per analyses by attorneys in that field, really provides _no_ such protection, being written in far too narrowly scoped a fashion to do so, and... ...is unlikely to provide significant protection for volunteers. It will not shield volunteers from the time, expense and aggravation of defending a lawsuit, even if the Act is ultimately found to bar a judgment. At its worst, the Act may create a guide map for pleading within the statutory exceptions and limitations in order to plead technically adequate causes of action or defenses, thus surviving possible legitimate challenges early in an action and embroiling volunteers in expensive and protracted litigation. That's from Runquist and Associates, a SoCal law firm specialising in non-profits. Please see full text at: http://www.runquist.com/article_vol_protect.htm Runquist & Assoc. likewise point out that the assertion frequently heard, e.g., above, that volunteers must be a "member" to fall under the Act (such as it is), is simply incorrect. See also: http://en.tldp.org/HOWTO/User-Group-HOWTO-7.html#ss7.1 (section "Common Misconceptions Debunked"). (I am not an attorney, but did study law while preparing for my CPA examinations, during my prior professional existence as a staff accountant and tax preparer. Accordingly, this post is not intended as legal advice. If you need specific legal advice, consult a qualified lawyer.) From sigje at sigje.org Thu Dec 20 18:07:35 2007 From: sigje at sigje.org (Jennifer) Date: Thu, 20 Dec 2007 18:07:35 -0800 (PST) Subject: BayLISA Annual December SBCs - TONIGHT - December 20, 2007 In-Reply-To: <20071219112430.F58467@slick.sigje.org> References: <20071219112430.F58467@slick.sigje.org> Message-ID: <20071220180515.H63835@slick.sigje.org> Just wanted to remind folks that TONIGHT is the BayLISA SBC meeting. Additional speakers include: Peter Theony from Twiki - Wikis in the Workplace JS Rhiel - Novell's methods for keeping datacenters green Location is Yahoo campus, Building E 700 First Avenue, Sunnyvale CA From afife at untangle.com Mon Dec 24 13:41:08 2007 From: afife at untangle.com (Andrew Fife) Date: Mon, 24 Dec 2007 13:41:08 -0800 (PST) Subject: Eric S. Raymond @ BALUG (Jan 15th) Message-ID: <004901c84675$b2e57800$4301a8c0@Untangle.local> Howdy Folks: Eric S. Raymond will be kicking off the start of a great 2008 at The Bay Area Linux Users Group (BALUG) with a talk on January 15th. If you haven't been to BALUG in a while, this a great opportunity to check out what we're up to... and who knows you may just wind up eating dinner with Eric S. Raymond at your table. If you'd like to come, please RSVP: RSVP at balug.org Upcoming 2008 speakers include: Jan - Eric S. Raymond Feb - Bruce Perens March - TBD April - Eric Allman May - Jeremy Allison June - Andrew Morton So why not signup for BALUG's extremely low volume announce list: http://lists.balug.org/listinfo.cgi/balug-announce-balug.org Meeting Details... 6:30pm January 15th, 2008 Four Seas Restaurant 731 Grant Ave. San Francisco, CA 94108 Parking: http://www.portsmouthsquaregarage.com/ Cost: The meetings are always free, but dinner is $13 About BALUG: BALUG is lively gathering of Linux users & free software enthusiasts that combines great food, community & intimate access to featured speakers. We meet in the bar of the Four Seas Restaurant from 6:30pm. At 7pm, we share a family-style Chinese dinner, which is followed by our guest speaker. BALUG Mailing list Policy: BALUG promises not to abuse other LUGs mailing lists. Our current policy is to make one monthly announcement on other Bay Area LUGs mailing lists. If you feel this is not appropriate for a particular list, please tell us which list and what you feel would be a more appropriate policy for that list. Please send feedback to balug-contact at balug.org. ---------------------------------------- Andrew Fife Untangle - Open Source Security Gateway download.untangle.com 650.425.3327 (O) 415.806.6028 (C) afife at untangle.com