From lgj at usenix.org Wed Jun 1 12:03:23 2011 From: lgj at usenix.org (Lionel Garth Jones) Date: Wed, 1 Jun 2011 12:03:23 -0700 Subject: Quick Reminder About Submitting Papers to USENIX LISA '11 Message-ID: <801E9B50-65E5-4E4D-A701-4A08D8988958@usenix.org> If you are busy like us, it may have slipped your mind that the deadline for the 25th LISA conference is rapidly approaching. It's important that you get your abstracts and proposals to us by June 9, 2011! https://papers.usenix.org/hotcrp/lisa11/ The LISA '11 theme is "DevOps: New Challenges, Proven Values." In essence, DevOps is "an umbrella concept that refers to anything that improves the interaction between development and operations." While DevOps is new, it embodies themes long popular at LISA: automation, performance, scaling, collaboration, and cooperation. However, papers not related to DevOps are also welcome. We bet you have a great idea for a paper. This is the year to write it! The conference's diverse groups of participants are matched by an equally broad spectrum of activities, and we invite proposals and ideas for them all: * Refereed papers * NEW! Practice and experience reports * Invited talks * Guru sessions * Poster session * Workshops * Training program * Birds-of-a-Feather sessions (BoFs) For complete descriptions and examples of these activities, please visit http://www.usenix.org/lisa11/cfpc/ Also, email lisa11chairs at usenix.org if you want to bounce ideas off us. LISA '11 takes place December 4-9, 2011, in Boston, MA. We look forward to hearing from you! On behalf of the LISA '11 Organizers, Thomas A. Limoncelli, Google, Inc. Doug Hughes, D.E. Shaw Research, LLC. LISA '11 Program Co-Chairs lisa11chairs at usenix.org ------------------------------------------------------------ IMPORTANT DATES Extended abstracts, papers, experience reports, and proposals for invited talks, workshops, and tutorials due: June 9, 2011, 11:59 p.m. PDT Notification to all submitters: July 11, 2011 Final papers and reports due: September 15, 2011 Poster proposals due: November 11, 2011 Submission guidelines and more information can be found at http://www.usenix.org/lisa11/cfpc/ ------------------------------------------------------------- From rnovak at indyramp.com Mon Jun 13 10:58:57 2011 From: rnovak at indyramp.com (Robert Novak) Date: Mon, 13 Jun 2011 10:58:57 -0700 (PDT) Subject: BayLISA this week: Short Topics + FreeNAS 8 Message-ID: Hi all, A reminder of this week's BayLISA general meeting. Thursday, June 16, 2011 at 7:30pm LinkedIN, 2029/2051 Stierlin Ct (end of Stierlin), Mountain View, CA If you are attending, please RSVP at http://www.meetup.com/BayLISA/events/16472356/ so we can plan meeting space, chairs, and refreshments. Remember to sign in when you get there, by putting the Meetup tag with your name on it, a business card, or a blank card with your name on it, into the card box. We'll have a drawing at halftime for some fun giveaways. ~~~~~~~~ ~~~~~~~~ ~~~~~~~~ ~~~~~~~~ ~~~~~~~~ ~~~~~~~~ ~~~~~~~~ ~~~~~~~~ About this meeting: We will open with Short Topics, or "Short but Cool." A few 10 minute presentations on various topics by (and of interest to) our members. Live demos or hands-on opportunities are very desirable. The fewer slides you have, the better. On the agenda so far: * Reminder to silence your cell phone/laptop * Force 10 bare metal provisioning demo * Arista Networks vmtracer demo * Logstash, with Jordan Sissel Our headline presentation for June is a demonstration and discussion of FreeNAS 8, the latest version of the FreeBSD-based SAN/NAS platform for PC hardware and heterogeneous networks. In addition to a demo of installation and configuration, James T Nixon III of the FreeNAS project will demonstrate networking features, volume management, sharing protocols, and additional services and features. He will also be discussing "the Joy of Django Development on FreeBSD" and will end with questions and answers. About the speaker: James T Nixon III is a developer in the FreeNAS project, member of the PC-BSD Team, and Webmaster for iXsystems. He spends his time tinkering with PC-BSD desktop usability enhancements, Django, and Joomla. He recently helped organize and MC the MeetBSD California conference and volunteers at the FreeBSD booth around the world. When AFK, James is usually playing the drums and watching documentaries. BayLISA thanks iXsystems for sponsoring James's presentation, and refreshments for the meeting. iXsystems, Inc, formerly known as BSDi, is an employee owned and operated maker of Linux and BSD servers and storage systems based in San Jose, California. iXsystems has long supported the FreeBSD, PC-BSD, and Slackware Linux communities. ~~~~~~~~ ~~~~~~~~ ~~~~~~~~ ~~~~~~~~ ~~~~~~~~ ~~~~~~~~ ~~~~~~~~ ~~~~~~~~ We're still asking around for a new board member for the BayLISA board of directors. However, if you haven't been asked and are interested, talk to any board member at the meeting (look for our green BayLISA nametags) or reply directly (not group reply) to me for more details. We have an opening for appointment through the November meeting/election, at which time you may run for re-election if you like. ~~~~~~~~ ~~~~~~~~ ~~~~~~~~ ~~~~~~~~ ~~~~~~~~ ~~~~~~~~ ~~~~~~~~ ~~~~~~~~ If you have any suggestions or questions about anything BayLISA-related, feel free to drop me a note. I look forward to seeing lots of you on Thursday night. Robert Novak BayLISA Secretary/Cheerleader From david at catwhisker.org Sun Jun 19 19:57:35 2011 From: david at catwhisker.org (David Wolfskill) Date: Sun, 19 Jun 2011 19:57:35 -0700 Subject: Migrating from screen(1) to tmux(1)? Message-ID: <20110620025735.GA6962@albert.catwhisker.org> While I've used screen(1) for some time, my usage of it is fairly simple -- quite possibly better-characterized as "primitive." Catalyzed by reports of cleaner code & smaller footprint, to say nothing of getting rid of the bug/misfeature of screen that causes displayed mail messages to be artifically padded with trailing spaces to the end of each line, I thought I might see if tmux(1) might work as well for my (perceived) needs. Unfortunately: * Nearly all I've found i the man page and online has gone on (and ON) about interacting with tmux in Neat and Cool ways -- and I Don't Care. * I don't find a way to perform a Google search in a case-sensitive way (let alone in a way that allows the searcher to use something similar to regular expressions). A fairly typical example of my use of screen is for running a curses-based mail client (mutt(1)). I do this (for home) on the mail hub machine in my home network. Thus, from wherever I am, I establish an ssh connection to the machine in question, and (currently -- using screen) issue: screen -dR mail 2>/dev/null Naturally, I have a script that handles connecting to the machine, creating an xterm window, and running the above screeen command. That particular way of invoking screen -- using -dR flags -- says "Reattach a session and if necessary detach or even create it first." Thus, I need not care whether or not such a session exists: if it doesn't, the above will create it, and in any case, will attach to it. The nearest approach I've found to thus using tmux is: tmux -q attach -dt mail || tmux -q new -s mail which doesn't work quite so well as (say) the argument to the -e flag in xterm(1). Yes, I could create a shell script to do precisely that -- but then I'd need to ensure that the script is present on the remote machine before I can use tmux in that way -- which I find to be an annoying restriction. Does anyone have any suggestions for how to accomplish the "create if necessary, then attach" function using a single invocation of tmux? If necessary, I could try hacking the code -- but I'd really rather avoid re-inventing the wheel. Thanks! Peace, david -- David H. Wolfskill david at catwhisker.org Depriving a girl or boy of an opportunity for education is evil. 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: 196 bytes Desc: not available URL: