From SVEvents at comcast.net Sat Sep 1 17:19:15 2007 From: SVEvents at comcast.net (SVEvents) Date: Sat, 1 Sep 2007 17:19:15 -0700 Subject: CoolTech Club with Igor Plotnikov , September 5, 2007 Message-ID: <02d701c7ecf6$e5f754d0$6500a8c0@viceroy> Dear BayLisa members! CoolTech Club invites you to our September 5 meeting with Igor Plotnikov, serial entrepreneur, technologist and big supporter of our Club. By popular demand, this presentation will be significantly technical - do not forget to bring your engineering hats ;-) Please find details and sign up at http://www.khirman.com/ctc/20070905 . Please do not forget to SIGN UP! Pizza will be ordered strictly on registered headcount ( if you registered, but can't attend , just send me a note) See you next Wednesday! Stas Khirman Pioneering SSL VPNs - technological lesson from successful startup founder. Dr. Plotnikov presents in-depth technical and business review of SSL VPNs - innovative network security technology he pioneered with his uRoam startup. By leveraging the ubiquity, extensibility, ease of use of the web browser as a client, and the robustness of https protocol as a transport, SSL VPNs (Secure Sockets Layer Virtual Private Networks) deliver a comprehensive set of tools to cover wide range of user scenarios from occasional Intranet access to enterprise-scale remote access solutions with load balancing, failover, and fine-grained access-controls. In conclusion, Dr. Plotnikov discusses useful lessons to learn from uRoam history of conception, founding and funding, growth and successful acquisition by one of the best network equipment companies. PRESENTER Igor Plotnikov, Ph.D., Director of Engineering, Cisco Systems. Dr. Plotnikov is a serial entrepreneur, inventor and engineer. Dr. Plotnikov works on network security solutions at Cisco (NASDAQ:CSCO) after the acquisition of his second startup MI Secure. Previously to MI Secure, he served as VP of Engineering at F5 Networks. He joined F5 (NASDAQ:FFIV) as a result of its acquisition of uRoam, Inc. a pioneer in the SSL VPN market. Before co-founding uRoam, Dr. Plotnikov worked for Netscape Communications on key products such as CoolTalk and Netscape Conference. Prior to Netscape, he held the position of scientist at InSoft, which was acquired by Netscape in 1996. Early in his career, he was a co-founder and chief engineer at Stoik Software, Ltd., a private Russian company dedicated to image processing software development. He received his physicist-engineer diploma with honors from the Moscow Institute of Physics and Technology followed by a Ph.D. in Physico-Mathematical Sciences from the Institute in 1988. WHEN Wednesday, September 5, 2007 7:00pm - 10:00pm (Please be on time - we need to close doors at 7:15. Feel free to call me at 408-4803190 if you need any assistance). WHERE DLA Piper 2000 University Avenue East Palo Alto, California 94303 (Just behind Four Seasons hotel) (driving directions : http://www.dlapiper.com/global/about/offices/office.aspx?office=12 &show=directions ) AGENDA 7:00-7:15 - Welcome and Networking 7:15-7:20 - Welcome address and Club news 7:20-9:00 - "Pioneering SSL VPNs - technological lesson from successful startup founder" by Dr. Plotnikov 9:00-9:15 - Break and Networking 9:15-10:00 - Open Discussion and Brainstorm! COST: $5 to cover Pizza and soft drinks RSVP - mandatory! Please sign up on http://www.khirman.com/ctc/20070905 !!! -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From iennae at gmail.com Tue Sep 4 15:48:41 2007 From: iennae at gmail.com (Jennifer Davis) Date: Tue, 4 Sep 2007 15:48:41 -0700 Subject: Women in Tech Series from www.oreillynet.com Message-ID: Interesting information that may be of interest to BayLISA members: ---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: Marsee Henon Date: Sep 4, 2007 2:48 PM Subject: UG News--Women in Tech Series from www.oreillynet.com Women of Tech: Hear Us Roar, A Special Series from www.oreillynet.com The Mighty Voices of Sisterhood in Tech Sebastopol, CA--There's no doubt that women coders, developers, designers, and programmers are a powerful force in the modern tech industry, despite their smaller numbers compared to men. At the same time many of the major impacts and innovations of women at every level of the development and evolution of technology--from the first female coders to today's Web 2.0 pioneers--aren't all that well known. But starting now, O'Reilly Media aims to celebrate and give voice to the real-world experiences and concerns of these female trailblazers by publishing a new online series, "Women in Tech." The brainchild of Tatiana Apandi, an associate editor at O'Reilly, the series features articles solicited from technology's female side--and all focused on what it's like to carve out a career in technology. The timely new series reveals the challenges, rewards, and, sometimes, frustrations of being a woman in an industry still dominated by men. "Each day, we'll present a different woman's story that I believe will open readers' eyes to her unique perspective," explains Apandi. "We have contributions from conference organizers, authors, programmers, developers, and more--women who have pioneered prosperous careers in technology." "As the series progresses, I hope readers find that this myriad of female perspectives shows how valuable it is to hear different points of view," says Tatiana. "Whether readers think there are issues on which we need to work or that there are no issues at all, one underlying truth is that we need to support each other as individuals and help one another with our separate goals." With clarity, honesty, and wit, this collection reveals what it's like to be in the minority of the male-dominated geek culture. Here are just a few of the voices in this upcoming series: - Anna Martelli, Ravenscroft, Pythonista - Audrey Eschright, independent programmer/designer/publisher - CJ Rayhill, SVP of Product Management and Technology for Safari Books Online - Dawn Foster, Director of Developer Relations at Jive Software - Dru Lavigne, Chair of the BSD Certification Group Inc - Gabrielle Roth, member of the Portland Perl Mongers - Jeni Tennison, independent consultant and author - Jill Dyche, partner and co-founder of Baseline Consulting - Juliet Kemp, Systems Administrator for the Astrophysics group at Imperial College - Julia Lerman, Board member of the Vermont Software Developer Alliance, runs the Vermont.NET User Group - Kaliya Hamlin, unconference Shesgeeky.org organizer - Kirsten Jones, webmaster for The Perl Foundation - Lauren Wood, Chaired for the W3C DOM Working Group - Leslie Hawthorn, works for Open Source Programs Office at Google - Selena Deckelmann, leads PDXPUG, a PostgreSQL Users Group - Shelley Powers, software developer/architect, photographer, and author The "Women in Tech," series starts Sept 4. Find out what they have to share and join the discussion here: http://www.oreillynet.com/womenintech/ About O'Reilly O'Reilly Media spreads the knowledge of innovators through its books, online services, magazines, and conferences. Since 1978, O'Reilly Media has been a chronicler and catalyst of cutting-edge development, homing in on the technology trends that really matter and spurring their adoption by amplifying "faint signals" from the alpha geeks who are creating the future. An active participant in the technology community, the company has a long history of advocacy, meme-making, and evangelism. # # # O'Reilly is a registered trademark of O'Reilly Media, Inc. All other trademarks are property of their respective owners. -- Jennifer Davis From pmui at groundworkopensource.com Tue Sep 4 15:49:16 2007 From: pmui at groundworkopensource.com (Peter Mui) Date: Tue, 4 Sep 2007 15:49:16 -0700 Subject: BayLISA Monitoring SIG, Weds Sept 12, 7PM Message-ID: <8644F6F9-3A64-4C16-964E-A183534A87F0@groundworkopensource.com> (Hi: You're invited to the BayLISA Monitoring SIG, Weds Sept 12, 7PM. See the meeting announcement pasted below: feel free to post it and/ or forward it along to anyone else who might be interested. Many thanks, and hope to see you there! -Peter) ================================================= Sept. 2007 BayLISA Monitoring SIG: Data Integration Traditionally, acquiring the tools needed to create customized solutions that featured data persistence, data stream cross- referencing, cross-platform deployment, distributed architecture, and data aggregation from across multiple network domains required extensive use of proprietary software. (Consider the example of trying to merge Nagios, Ganlgia, SNMP, etc. data so that you can display it simultaneously.) Roger Ruttimann, project lead for Foundation (http://gwfoundation.sourceforge.net/) will talk about how Open Source components have matured to the point where building enterprise-class data aggregation and mining tools is relatively simple. What: BayLISA Monitoring SIG X: Data Integration Who: Anyone interested in IT monitoring issues and tools (newbies particularly welcome!) When: Wednesday, Sept 12 2007, 7PM Where: GroundWork Open Source, 139 Townsend St., San Francisco How: 139 Townsend St. is very near AT&T Ballpark. It is two blocks from the CalTrain Depot. Take the MUNI N, T or J trolley to 2nd and King (ballpark stop) or take the 30 or 45 bus (among others) crosstown. The Giants are playing a home game that evening (vs. Arizona, 7:15 start) so things will be hectic on the streets around GroundWork: street parking will be nonexistent, paid parking will be astronomically expensive, and public transportation will be slow and crowded: allow extra time for travel. Cost: Free!! Abundant pizza, an extensive assortment of fine soft drinks, and lots of snacks will be provided by GroundWork. We'll open up the doors at 6:30 or so and start the formal part of the meeting promptly at 7PM. 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Untangle, an open source software company, has developed a virtualization platform for packaging and delivering networking applications that make it easier for businesses to adopt open source software. In this presentation, Untangle's Founder/CTO, Dirk Morris, will layout a new model for deploying software at the network gateway to overcome the challenges of running multiple applications (firewall, IPS, VPN, AV, anti-spam, anti-spyware, etc.) on standard x86 based hardware. Dirk will present an insider's look at the tradeoffs Untangle made when designing a virtual network and tricks learned in maintaining high performance between competing applications running on the same system. Pizza and soda as usual. Doors open at 7, talks to start at 7:30. Directions to Yahoo see http://yhoo.client.shareholder.com/press/address.cfm and turn left into Bldg E, rather than right into Bldg. D. Details also at http://www.baylisa.org From cratz at hematite.com Sat Sep 22 15:27:12 2007 From: cratz at hematite.com (Tony Cratz) Date: Sat, 22 Sep 2007 15:27:12 -0700 Subject: Need help with Expect and Perl Message-ID: <46F596C0.6080302@hematite.com> Hello: I'm trying to get Expect to load a number of perl modules for me. This script will be used on a number of machines to take a fresh install and bring perl up to the level where it is needed for the environment. I used autoexpect to generate a script as I installed the modules, but when I go to a new install and try to run the script it does not see the first question asked by perl. All it does is hang. If you know Expect and would be willing to help me please contact me. Tony From asheesh at asheesh.org Sat Sep 22 18:44:13 2007 From: asheesh at asheesh.org (Asheesh Laroia) Date: Sat, 22 Sep 2007 18:44:13 -0700 (PDT) Subject: Need help with Expect and Perl In-Reply-To: <46F596C0.6080302@hematite.com> References: <46F596C0.6080302@hematite.com> Message-ID: On Sat, 22 Sep 2007, Tony Cratz wrote: > Hello: > > > I'm trying to get Expect to load a number of perl modules for > me. This script will be used on a number of machines to take > a fresh install and bring perl up to the level where it is > needed for the environment. It sounds like cfengine might be a better match. In general, I would suggest: (a) looking into cfengine, but if that isn't a good match for your problem: (b) Emailing the local Perl list and seeing if they can help, and/or (c) attaching the script in question. Best of luck! -- Asheesh. -- The more complex the mind, the greater the need for the simplicity of play. -- Kirk, "Shore Leave", stardate 3025.8 From cratz at hematite.com Sat Sep 22 20:39:06 2007 From: cratz at hematite.com (Tony Cratz) Date: Sat, 22 Sep 2007 20:39:06 -0700 Subject: Need help with Expect and Perl In-Reply-To: <46F596C0.6080302@hematite.com> References: <46F596C0.6080302@hematite.com> Message-ID: <46F5DFDA.6070808@hematite.com> Tony Cratz wrote: > Hello: > > > I'm trying to get Expect to load a number of perl modules for > me. This script will be used on a number of machines to take > a fresh install and bring perl up to the level where it is > needed for the environment. > I seem to have figured out the problem. It seems that the special control characters which was seen by autoexpect is not seen by expect. Once I stripped the script down I was able to get it to work. Tony From ulf at Alameda.net Sun Sep 23 01:58:56 2007 From: ulf at Alameda.net (Ulf Zimmermann) Date: Sun, 23 Sep 2007 01:58:56 -0700 Subject: Need help with Expect and Perl In-Reply-To: <46F5DFDA.6070808@hematite.com> References: <46F596C0.6080302@hematite.com> <46F5DFDA.6070808@hematite.com> Message-ID: <20070923085855.GZ824@evil.alameda.net> On Sat, Sep 22, 2007 at 08:39:06PM -0700, Tony Cratz wrote: > Tony Cratz wrote: > > Hello: > > > > > > I'm trying to get Expect to load a number of perl modules for > > me. This script will be used on a number of machines to take > > a fresh install and bring perl up to the level where it is > > needed for the environment. > > > > I seem to have figured out the problem. It seems that the > special control characters which was seen by autoexpect is > not seen by expect. > > Once I stripped the script down I was able to get it to work. > > > Tony > Before I started using cpan2rpm and then use yum/cfengine to install RPMs of the modules I need, I used perl to build bundles of the modules I cared about. But that meant to install certain devel rpms on all servers I needed those modules. -- Regards, Ulf. --------------------------------------------------------------------- Ulf Zimmermann, 1525 Pacific Ave., Alameda, CA-94501, #: 510-865-0204 You can find my resume at: http://www.Alameda.net/~ulf/resume.html From lgj at usenix.org Mon Sep 24 13:57:39 2007 From: lgj at usenix.org (Lionel Garth Jones) Date: Mon, 24 Sep 2007 13:57:39 -0700 Subject: LISA '07 - Latest News and Top 5 Reasons to Attend Message-ID: <46F824C3.5050609@usenix.org> Top 5 Reasons to Attend LISA '07 LISA '07 is coming up in November. New activities are still being added. Take a look at a few of the reasons to attend: # 1. Top-Notch Training Highly respected experts provide you with new information and skills you can take back to work to tomorrow. This year's program includes: * David N. Blank-Edelman on Over the Edge System Administration * Gerald Carter on Implementing [Open]LDAP Directories * Jacob Farmer on Disk-to-Disk Backup and Eliminating Backup System Bottlenecks * ?leen Frisch & Kyrre Begnum on Virtualization: VMs! What Are They Good For? * Rudi van Drunen on Hardware for the (Software-Oriented) Sysadmin * And more . . . The full training program can be found at: http://www.usenix.org/lisa07/training/ # 2. Invited Talks Industry luminaries discuss timely and important topics such as: * Keynote address by John Strassner, Motorola Fellow and Vice President, Autonomic Networking and Communications, Motorola Research Labs, on "Autonomic Administration: HAL 9000 Meets Gene Roddenberry" * Bruce Moxon, Network Appliance, Inc., "A Service-Oriented Data Grid: Beyond Storage Virtualization" * Erik Nygren, Akamai Technologies, "Experiences with Scalable Network Operations at Akamai" * Kenneth G. Brill, Uptime Institute, "The Economic Meltdown of Moore's Law" * And more . . . # 3. You'll See It Here First Cutting-edge practices and new or developing work are presented in the Refereed Papers Track, the Work-in-Progress Reports, and our new Poster Session Note: Poster submissions are open until October 14, 2007. Submitting a poster is a great way to let other people know about your work and to meet other people who are interested in the same issues. Find out more at: http://www.usenix.org/events/lisa07/activities.html#poster # 4. Get Answers to Your Toughest Questions in Guru Is In and Hit the Ground Running Sessions Check out the full technical program at: http://www.usenix.org/events/lisa07/tech/ # 5. Mingle with Industry Leaders The "hallway track," evening events, and the Vendor Exhibition offer additional opportunities to network with peers to gain that all-important insider IT knowledge. Take a look at the entire list of activities at: http://www.usenix.org/events/lisa07/activities.html Don't miss this opportunity to benefit from peer interaction on the topics that mean the most to you. For complete program information and to register, see: http://www.usenix.org/lisa07/progb The Early Bird Registration Discount Deadline is coming: Register by Friday, October 19, and save up to $300! Bringing 5 or more people from the same organization? Take advantage of the Multiple Employee Discount. For more details, see: http://www.usenix.org/events/lisa07/registration/ We're pleased to bring LISA to Dallas, TX, and we look forward to seeing you there. Paul Anderson, University of Edinburgh LISA '07 Program Chair lisa07chair at usenix.org P.S.: Please note the Special Attendee Room Rate: $175 single/double plus 15% tax at the Hyatt Regency Dallas. ----------------------------------------------------------- LISA '07: 21st Large Installation System Administration Conference http://www.usenix.org/lisa07/progb November 11-16, 2007, Dallas, TX Early Bird Registration Deadline: October 19, 2007 Sponsored by USENIX and SAGE ----------------------------------------------------------- From bill at wards.net Mon Sep 24 14:34:26 2007 From: bill at wards.net (Bill Ward) Date: Mon, 24 Sep 2007 14:34:26 -0700 Subject: PenLUG this week: Krugle Message-ID: <3d2fe1780709241434s6fcb4ad6i2188f5a35fa34877@mail.gmail.com> Date: Thursday, September 27th, 2007 Time: meeting 7:00 - 9:00 PM, social/networking until 10 PM Location: Bayshore Technology Park 1300 Island Drive Redwood City, CA 94065 Suite 106 - Training Room John D. Mitchell, Krugle Lost & Found: How Search-Driven Development Saves Developer Sanity Using Linux and Open-Source John D. Mitchell Chief Architect, Krugle Modern software development is beset with numerous challenges. As organizations grow, teams become more distributed, time to market pressure increases, requirements evolve more rapidly, and systems get exponentially more complicated, the sheer volue of data becomes overwhelming. High-quality information becomes harder to find at all and much harder to find quickly. Developers are already adapting to this new reality by using search tools to instigate their activities. Searching for code examples, bug reports, requirement details, workarounds, new tools, progress indicators, cost estimates, people to help, and the like. Alas, traditional search technologies have helped a bit in isolation but have not integrated all of the disparate sources of technical information into a single, coherent way that blends the realities of proprietary development with all of the benefits of the open-source ecosystem. This talk shows how tools and processes enabling search-driven development provides huge benefits in areas such as development speed, education, reuse, management, and risk reduction and how these tools and services were built with open-source software and deployed on Linux clusters. Speaker: John Mitchell John has developed systems ranging from aerospace and consumer electronics to medical informatics and e-commerce. He has written for a variety of publications including JavaWorld, Linux Journal, and Dr. Dobb's Journal. John brings extensive experience in technology transfer, open source, and development communities as both an independent consultant and CTO of such companies as the MageLang Institute and jGuru.com. From lgj at usenix.org Fri Sep 28 13:11:26 2007 From: lgj at usenix.org (Lionel Garth Jones) Date: Fri, 28 Sep 2007 13:11:26 -0700 Subject: USENIX Security '08 Call For Papers Message-ID: <46FD5FEE.5030809@usenix.org> --------------------------------- Call for Papers 17th USENIX Security Symposium July 28-August 1, 2008 San Jose, CA, USA http://www.usenix.org/sec08/cfpa/ Submissions Deadline: January 30, 2008 --------------------------------- Dear Colleague: On behalf of the 17th USENIX Security Symposium (USENIX Security '08) program committee, we are inviting you to submit high-quality papers in all areas relating to systems and network security. Please submit all papers by January 30, 2008, 11:59 p.m. PST (firm deadline). Please note that the USENIX Security Symposium is primarily a systems security conference. Papers whose contributions are primarily new cryptographic algorithms or protocols, cryptanalysis, electronic commerce primitives, etc., may not be appropriate for this conference. Refereed paper submissions are solicited in all areas relating to systems and network security, including: * Adaptive security and system management * Analysis of network and security protocols * Applications of cryptographic techniques * Attacks against networks and machines * Authentication and authorization of users, systems, and applications * Automated tools for source code analysis * Botnets * Cryptographic implementation analysis and construction * Denial-of-service attacks and countermeasures * File and filesystem security * Firewall technologies * Forensics and diagnostics for security * Intrusion and anomaly detection and prevention * Malicious code analysis, anti-virus, anti-spyware * Network infrastructure security * Operating system security * Privacy-preserving (and -compromising) systems * Public key infrastructure * Rights management and copyright protection * Security architectures * Security in heterogeneous and large-scale environments * Security policy * Self-protecting and healing systems * Techniques for developing secure systems * Technologies for trustworthy computing * Usability and security * Voting systems analysis and security * Wireless and pervasive/ubiquitous computing security * Web security Submissions are due January 30, 2008, 11:59 p.m. PST (firm deadline). For more details on the submission process, please see the complete Call for Papers at http://www.usenix.org/sec08/cfpa/ We look forward to receiving your submissions! Paul Van Oorschot, Carleton University Security '08 Program Chair sec08chair at usenix.org --------------------------------- Call for Papers 17th USENIX Security Symposium July 28-August 1, 2008 San Jose, CA, USA http://www.usenix.org/sec08/cfpa/ Submissions Deadline: January 30, 2008 ---------------------------------