From pmui at groundworkopensource.com Thu Apr 3 07:46:23 2008 From: pmui at groundworkopensource.com (Peter Mui) Date: Thu, 3 Apr 2008 07:46:23 -0700 Subject: Nagios & Ethan Galstad at BayLISA Monitoring SIG: Weds, April 9 2008, 7PM Message-ID: (Hi: You're invited to the BayLISA Monitoring SIG, Weds, April 9 2008, 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) ================================================= Monitoring SIG XV: Nagios 3.0 A very special SIG: Ethan Galstad, project lead for Nagios, will be in from Minnesota to talk about the features of the newly-released Nagios 3.0. He'll also be available to field your questions about Nagios in general and where it's headed. What: BayLISA Monitoring SIG XV: Nagios 3.0 Who: Anyone interested in IT monitoring issues and tools (newbies particularly welcome!) When: Wednesday, April 9 2008, 7PM Where: GroundWork Open Source, 139 Townsend St., San Francisco How: 139 Townsend St. is very near AT&T Ballpark. It is one and a half blocks from the CalTrain Depot. Take the MUNI T or N trolley to 2nd and King (ballpark stop) or take the 30 or 45 bus (among others) crosstown. Allow extra travel time as the Giants are playing a home game that evening (vs. the Padres, 7:15PM start) so all the streets, sidewalks, and public transit around our office will be packed. DO NOT DRIVE unless you're willing to sit in gridlock and pay exorbitant amounts for parking. Cost: Free!! Piping hot pizza, fridge cold pop, and room-temperature snack food 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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The Program Committee seeks to bring together researchers from a variety of disciplines, ranging from computer science and human-computer interaction experts through political scientists, legal experts, election administrators, and voting equipment vendors. EVT seeks to publish original research on important problems in all aspects of electronic voting. In addition to paper presentations, the workshop may include panel discussions with substantial time devoted to questions and answers. Proposals for panels should include a brief abstract, a list of possible panelists and their affiliations, and an indication of which of those panelists have confirmed participation. Panel proposals are due May 2, 2008. Please submit proposals to evt08panels at usenix.org. EVT '08 will be a two-day event, Monday, July 28, and Tuesday, July 29, 2008, co-located with the 17th USENIX Security Symposium in San Jose, California. We look forward to your submissions. David Dill, Stanford University Tadayoshi Kohno, University of Washington EVT '08 Program Chairs --------------------------------------- 2008 USENIX/ACCURATE Electronic Voting Technology Workshop (EVT '08) July 28-29, 2008 San Jose, CA, USA Sponsored by USENIX: The Advanced Computing Systems Association, and ACCURATE: A Center for Correct, Usable, Reliable, Auditable, and Transparent Elections Refereed paper submissions due: April 11, 2008, 11:59 p.m. PDT Panel proposals due: May 2, 2008 http://www.usenix.org/evt08/cfpb ----------------------------------------- From afife at untangle.com Fri Apr 11 18:25:06 2008 From: afife at untangle.com (Andrew Fife) Date: Fri, 11 Apr 2008 18:25:06 -0700 (PDT) Subject: Eric Allman @ BALUG (Tuesday!!) Message-ID: <00b401c89c3c$08db4de0$8600000a@afmeatloaf> Hi Folks: BALUG is very proud to host Eric Allman as our speaker this Tuesday, April 15th. Eric Allman is the original author of sendmail and he is giving an excellent talk titled "Email Evolvoing." (see abstract below) If you'd like to come please drop us an RSVP: rsvp at balug.org ***Why RSVP?*** We won't turn anyone away, but the RSVP's really help the Four Seas Restaurant know how much food to prepare and ensure that BALUG gets to meet in the upstairs banquette room. ***When & Where*** 6:30pm The Four Seas Restaruant 731 Grant Ave. San Francisco, CA 94108 Parking: $5 garage @ 733 Kearney (1 block away) ***Cost**** The meeting is free, but dinner is $13 for the family style Chinese dinner. ***Abstract*** Internet email is in a process of rapid evolution. Besides the obvious things, such as spam and malware, many other technology trends are having an impact. These include mobile devices, new messaging technologies, social networking, changing legal requirements, the rise of Software as a Service and Service Oriented Architectures, and an unstable underpinning of the network itself. Not surprisingly, many of these same forces do or will affect other parts of the network. This talk will describe these evolutionary pressures, point out some of the unexpected consequences of our attempts to adapt to these pressures, and make some dire predictions for the future. Generous time will be allotted to Q&A. -- Andrew Fife Untangle - The Open Source Network Gateway www.untangle.com/download 650.425.3327 desk 415.806.6028 cell -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From lgj at usenix.org Mon Apr 14 10:23:09 2008 From: lgj at usenix.org (Lionel Garth Jones) Date: Mon, 14 Apr 2008 10:23:09 -0700 Subject: USENIX Annual Tech '08 Registration Now Open Message-ID: <480392FD.5060205@usenix.org> --------------------------------------- 2008 USENIX Annual Technical Conference June 22-27, 2008, Boston, MA Early Bird Registration Deadline: June 6, 2008 http://www.usenix.org/usenix08/proga --------------------------------------- We're pleased to invite you to attend the 2008 USENIX Annual Technical Conference. This year we're offering 3 days of training followed by a 3-day conference program filled with the latest systems research, security breakthroughs, and practical approaches to the questions and problems you wrestle with. You'll also have many opportunities to chat with peers who share your concerns and interests. http://www.usenix.org/usenix08/proga Training: Sunday-Tuesday, June 22-24, 2008 The 3-day training program at USENIX '08 provides in-depth and immediately useful training on the latest techniques, effective tools, and best strategies, including: * Bruce Potter on Botnets: Understanding and Defense * Peter Baer Galvin on Solaris 10 Administration * Phil Cox and Brad Johnson on Securing Virtual Environments * Alan Robertson on Configuring and Deploying Linux-HA Find out more at http://www.usenix.org/events/usenix08/training/ Technical Sessions: Wednesday-Friday, June 25-27, 2008 The 3-day technical program begins with a keynote address by David Patterson, Director, U.C. Berkeley Parallel Computing Laboratory, on "The Parallel Revolution Has Started: Are You Part of the Solution or Part of the Problem?" and includes other noteworthy invited talks, such as: * Plenary Closing Session by Matthew Melis of the NASA Glenn Research Center on "The Columbia Accident Investigation and Returning NASA's Space Shuttle to Flight" * Drew Endy, Cabot Assistant Professor of Biological Engineering at MIT and a co-founder of the BioBricks Foundation (BBF), on "Programming DNA: A 2-bit Language for Engineering Biology" * Robert J. Lang on "From Flapping Birds to Space Telescopes: The Modern Science of Origami" The USENIX '08 Refereed Papers Track is the leading forum for presenting the latest in ground-breaking systems research. Be among the first to check out the latest innovative work in the systems field. The Poster Session at USENIX '08 is an excellent forum for discussing new ideas and getting useful feedback from the community. Poster submissions should include a brief description of the research idea(s); the submission must not exceed 2 pages. Send poster submissions to usenix08posters at usenix.org by Tuesday, May 6, 2008. Finally, don't miss the opportunity to pose your toughest questions to the experts in the Guru Is In sessions. Mingle with colleagues and leading experts in the Birds-of-a-Feather sessions and at the various evening social events, including a Poster Session & Happy Hour, vendor BoFs, and the Conference Reception. USENIX '08 promises to be an exciting showcase for the latest in innovative research and cutting-edge practices in technology. We look forward to seeing you in Boston. On behalf of the USENIX '08 organizers, Rebecca Isaacs, Microsoft Research Yuanyuan Zhou, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign USENIX '08 Program Co-Chairs usenix08chairs at usenix.org P.S. Don't miss the workshops co-located with USENIX '08, including: Xen Summit North America 2008 June 23-24, 2008 http://xen.org/xensummit/ First USENIX Workshop on Large-Scale Computing (LASCO '08) June 23, 2008 http://www.usenix.org/events/lasco08/ From adrian.cockcroft at gmail.com Mon Apr 14 11:53:02 2008 From: adrian.cockcroft at gmail.com (adrian cockcroft) Date: Mon, 14 Apr 2008 11:53:02 -0700 Subject: USENIX Annual Tech '08 Registration Now Open In-Reply-To: <480392FD.5060205@usenix.org> References: <480392FD.5060205@usenix.org> Message-ID: <3d9479a40804141153p62e98e47y31481bcad3c27ef3@mail.gmail.com> Note that I'm giving a half day training at Usenix, basically an updated version of the performance measuring and tuning content from my books, with some Linux content added to the Solaris details. I also see that Richard McDougall is giving a training class on VMware (he moved there from Sun last summer). Cheers Adrian On Mon, Apr 14, 2008 at 10:23 AM, Lionel Garth Jones wrote: > --------------------------------------- > 2008 USENIX Annual Technical Conference > June 22-27, 2008, Boston, MA > Early Bird Registration Deadline: June 6, 2008 > http://www.usenix.org/usenix08/proga > --------------------------------------- > > We're pleased to invite you to attend the 2008 USENIX Annual Technical > Conference. This year we're offering 3 days of training followed by a > 3-day conference program filled with the latest systems research, > security breakthroughs, and practical approaches to the questions and > problems you wrestle with. You'll also have many opportunities to chat > with peers who share your concerns and interests. > > http://www.usenix.org/usenix08/proga > > Training: Sunday-Tuesday, June 22-24, 2008 > The 3-day training program at USENIX '08 provides in-depth and > immediately useful training on the latest techniques, effective tools, > and best strategies, including: > > * Bruce Potter on Botnets: Understanding and Defense > * Peter Baer Galvin on Solaris 10 Administration > * Phil Cox and Brad Johnson on Securing Virtual Environments > * Alan Robertson on Configuring and Deploying Linux-HA > > Find out more at http://www.usenix.org/events/usenix08/training/ > > Technical Sessions: Wednesday-Friday, June 25-27, 2008 > The 3-day technical program begins with a keynote address by David > Patterson, Director, U.C. Berkeley Parallel Computing Laboratory, on > "The Parallel Revolution Has Started: Are You Part of the Solution or > Part of the Problem?" and includes other noteworthy invited talks, such > as: > > * Plenary Closing Session by Matthew Melis of the NASA Glenn Research > Center on "The Columbia Accident Investigation and Returning NASA's > Space Shuttle to Flight" > > * Drew Endy, Cabot Assistant Professor of Biological Engineering at MIT > and a co-founder of the BioBricks Foundation (BBF), on "Programming DNA: > A 2-bit Language for Engineering Biology" > > * Robert J. Lang on "From Flapping Birds to Space Telescopes: The Modern > Science of Origami" > > The USENIX '08 Refereed Papers Track is the leading forum for presenting > the latest in ground-breaking systems research. Be among the first to > check out the latest innovative work in the systems field. > > The Poster Session at USENIX '08 is an excellent forum for discussing > new ideas and getting useful feedback from the community. Poster > submissions should include a brief description of the research idea(s); > the submission must not exceed 2 pages. Send poster submissions to > usenix08posters at usenix.org by Tuesday, May 6, 2008. > > Finally, don't miss the opportunity to pose your toughest questions to > the experts in the Guru Is In sessions. Mingle with colleagues and > leading experts in the Birds-of-a-Feather sessions and at the various > evening social events, including a Poster Session & Happy Hour, vendor > BoFs, and the Conference Reception. > > USENIX '08 promises to be an exciting showcase for the latest in > innovative research and cutting-edge practices in technology. We look > forward to seeing you in Boston. > > On behalf of the USENIX '08 organizers, > > Rebecca Isaacs, Microsoft Research > Yuanyuan Zhou, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign > USENIX '08 Program Co-Chairs > usenix08chairs at usenix.org > > P.S. Don't miss the workshops co-located with USENIX '08, including: > > Xen Summit North America 2008 > June 23-24, 2008 > http://xen.org/xensummit/ > > First USENIX Workshop on Large-Scale Computing (LASCO '08) > June 23, 2008 > http://www.usenix.org/events/lasco08/ > > > > From sigje at sigje.org Thu Apr 17 11:59:21 2008 From: sigje at sigje.org (Jennifer) Date: Thu, 17 Apr 2008 11:59:21 -0700 (PDT) Subject: BayLISA meeting TONIGHT - April 17, 2008 Message-ID: <20080417115546.Y8131@slick.sigje.org> Location: Yahoo Building E (700 First Ave, Sunnyvale CA 94089) Time: Doors open, 7pm Presentations start, 7:30pm Topic: CTL: A new open source software project providing a cross-platform command dispatching framework for distributed application and system management. Presenter: Alex Honor, developer and open source project leader, ControlTier Software Rsvp: rsvp at baylisa.org For more information, http://www.baylisa.org. From bill at wards.net Thu Apr 17 12:00:07 2008 From: bill at wards.net (bill at wards.net) Date: Thu, 17 Apr 2008 12:00:07 -0700 Subject: NEXT WEEK: PenLUG meeting 04/24/2008 Message-ID: +---------------------------------------------------------------+ |Date: |Thursday, April 24th, 2008 | |---------+-----------------------------------------------------| |Time: |meeting 7:00 - 9:00 PM, social/networking until 10 PM| |---------+-----------------------------------------------------| | |Bayshore Technology Park | |Location:|1300 Island Drive | | |Redwood City, CA 94065 | | |Suite 106 - Training Room | +---------------------------------------------------------------+ David Fetter, DBI-Link and PostgreSQL Have you ever needed to get data from a spreadsheet and put it in a database? Have you ever wanted to do real queries on a CSV file? DBI-Link 3.0 makes these operations easy. For years, DBI-Link has been used in large production systems for communicating between Postgres and other data sources, not just other RDBMSs. Find out what's new in the latest version, and make your migration easier. David Fetter is based in the San Francisco Bay Area and has worked in various commercial enterprises, non-profits and educational institutions. He has worked extensively with Oracle, PostgreSQL, MySQL, Perl, PHP, PL/SQL, PL/PgSQL, PL/Perl and (of course!) vim on transaction processing and business intelligence systems. In his free time, he brews beer, rides his bicycle, and helps run several organizations for computer professionals including the San Francisco Perl Users' Group and the San Francisco PostgreSQL Users' Group. 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. GETTING THERE For information on getting to the meeting, please see: http://maps.google.com/maps?q=1300+Island+Drive,+Redwood+City,+CA http://www.penlug.org/twiki/bin/view/Home/DrivingDirectionsQualys http://www.penlug.org/twiki/bin/view/Home/TransitDirectionsQualys Traffic on 101 can be pretty bad in the evening, so we encourage you to check traffic conditions before driving by dialing 5-1-1 on your phone or visiting www.511.org, and if possible to take public transit (best bet: bicycle via Caltrain) or carpool to this meeting. MORE INFORMATION See www.penlug.org for more information. This notice is being sent to the following mailing lists: members at penlug.org announce at penlug.org sf-lug at linuxmafia.com balug-talk at lists.balug.org baylisa at baylisa.org svlug at lists.svlug.org svevents at yahoogroups.com Please reply to suggest any additions or other changes. From sigje at sigje.org Thu Apr 17 19:41:37 2008 From: sigje at sigje.org (Jennifer Davis) Date: Thu, 17 Apr 2008 19:41:37 -0700 (PDT) Subject: looking for a few good sysadmins; BayLISA July 17, 2008 Message-ID: <20080417193608.V10802@slick.sigje.org> Folks, We are organizing a "What makes a good Sysadmin" type presentation for the BayLISA July meeting to be held July 17, 2008. If you have some suggestions, or if you feel like you have something to contribute about what it takes to be a good sysadmin, please contact me off the list at sigje at sigje.org. One of the focuses will be taking some very specific problems, and walking through steps to debugging what is really going on. It will also include some of the soft skills that are important. This will be geared to two sets of people.. beginner types that are interested in system administration as a career and medium to expert types that want to kick their system skills up a notch. I'd especially love to get some folks involved that have solved interesting problems (Whether that's large scale with lots of systems, or managing to provide services to large amounts of people with small amounts of resources). -- Jennifer Davis http://www.baylisa.org - BayLISA events From lgj at usenix.org Mon Apr 21 14:12:26 2008 From: lgj at usenix.org (Lionel Garth Jones) Date: Mon, 21 Apr 2008 14:12:26 -0700 Subject: Update from the LISA '08 Program Chair Message-ID: <480D033A.8030207@usenix.org> Progress continues on planning for the LISA '08 conference. I'm excited to announce that representatives from the the U.S. Central Intelligence Agency have agreed to deliver the keynote address. Some invited talks submissions have already been received and acknowledged. Inquiries are coming in about the paper submission process and the refereed paper submission Web form will be open soon. Deadlines for paper and invited talk submissions are approaching in May. If you are thinking about submitting content for this year, now is the time to get organized and go for it. The quality of the conference depends in large part on the quantity and quality of content submitted by our community. I have all too often heard people tell me that they think they are doing interesting work, but are gun-shy about submitting. They don't know if it meets the "LISA standard" or are not sure if anyone else is interested in their niche. As the Program Chair of this year's conference, I encourage folks to *not* self-censor: be brave and submit your work. The LISA '08 organizers are here to help you with the content and presentation. Please email lisa08chair at usenix.org if you would like help getting your paper ready for submission. Important Deadlines Approaching: -- Extended abstract and paper submissions: May 8, 2008 -- Invited talk and workshop proposals: May 20, 2008 -- Guru Is In and Hit the Ground Running proposals: May 31, 2008 -- Poster proposals: July 16, 2008 Finally, USENIX offers discounts for organizations sending 5 or more employees to LISA. Please note this if you need to lobby your employer to allow you to attend. The Call for Participation with submission guidelines and sample topics can be found on the USENIX Web site at http://www.usenix.org/lisa08/cfpb We look forward to hearing from you! On behalf of the LISA '08 organizers, Mario Obejas, Raytheon LISA '08 Program Chair lisa08chair at usenix.org -------------------------------------------------------------------- Call for Papers LISA '08: 22nd Large Installation System Administration Conference November 9-14, 2008, San Diego, CA, USA http://www.usenix.org/lisa08/cfpb Extended abstract and paper submissions due: May 8, 2008 Sponsored by USENIX and SAGE ------------------------------------------------------------------- From david at catwhisker.org Tue Apr 22 14:47:11 2008 From: david at catwhisker.org (David Wolfskill) Date: Tue, 22 Apr 2008 14:47:11 -0700 Subject: Experiences w/ 10Gb Ethernet and FreeBSD? Message-ID: <20080422214711.GA79486@bunrab.catwhisker.org> At ${WORK}, we're thinking of using some 10Gb Ethernet stuff in the build infrastructure. As our build machines run FreeBSD, selecting a NIC that works well under FreeBSD (6.2-RELEASE, ideally, though we're working on clearing the last known hurdles toward adoption of 6.3 & 7.0) is important. By poking around a bit, I came up with: First, adaptors supported in FreeBSD 6.x, 7.x, and 8: Driver First_Commit Last_Commit Description cxgb 14 Mar 2007 19 Apr 2008 Chelsio T3 10 Gigabit Ethernet ixgb 28 May 2004 16 May 2006 Intel(R) PRO/10GbE Family mxge 19 Feb 2006 02 Apr 2008 Myricom 10GbE mode PCI-express NICs Then, adaptors supported only on FreeBSD 7.x and 8: ixgbe 12 Jul 2007 28 Nov 2007 Intel 10G PCI-Express Dual Port Network adapter (82598) inxge 29 Jun 2007 02 Nov 2007 Neterion Xframe-I and Xframe-II adaptors Indirection would be OK, too; please feel free to relay the query elsewhere. Comments? Thoughts? Warnings? Thanks! Peace, david -- David H. Wolfskill david at catwhisker.org I submit that "conspiracy" would be an appropriate collective noun for cats. 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USENIX Security '08 will help you stay ahead of the game by offering cutting-edge research on topics ranging from Web security through network defenses to cryptographic keys and more. * The USENIX Security '08 training program can help you learn the latest on topics such as: -- Botnets: Understanding and Defense -- Computer Forensics -- Understanding and Deploying Trusted Hardware Experts such as Bruce Potter, Simson Garfinkel, Radu Sion, and Sean Smith will give you the information, techniques, tools, and strategies you need to practice effective security today--and tomorrow. * Don't miss the keynote address by Debra Bowen, California Secretary of State * The invited talks cover a number of timely topics, including: -- "Hackernomics," by Hugh Thompson, People Security -- "Managing Insecurity: Practitioner Reflections on Social Costs of Security," by Darren Lacey, Johns Hopkins University/Johns Hopkins Medicine -- And more... * The 27 refereed papers present the best new research in a variety of subject areas, including voting and trusted systems, privacy, and botnet detection. * Join colleagues with similar interests for thought-provoking discussions at the evening Birds-of-a-Feather sessions. * Share a provocative opinion, interesting preliminary work, or a cool idea that will spark discussion at the poster session. To submit a poster, please send a 1-5 page proposal, in PDF or PostScript, to sec08posters at usenix.org by Friday, June 13, 2008. * Get a preview of next year's news or present your own new work and get audience feedback at the Work-in-Progress reports (WiPs) session. Speakers should submit a one- or two-paragraph abstract to sec08wips at usenix.org by 6:00 p.m. PDT on Wednesday, July 30, 2008. Whether you're a researcher, a system administrator, or a policy wonk, come to the 17th USENIX Security Symposium to find out how changes in computer security are going to affect you. Please see http://www.usenix.org/sec08/proga to register today! We look forward to seeing you in San Jose, July 28-August 1, 2008. For the USENIX Security '08 Program Committee, Paul Van Oorschot, Carleton University USENIX Security '08 Program Chair sec08chair at usenix.org P.S. Workshops will be held in conjunction with the main conference. EVT '08 will take place July 28-29. 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