| Ron Kaye Jr on 19 Nov 2012 10:47:49 -0800 |
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i would be interested. sounds great. Ron Kaye Jr 914-7294734 On 11/19/12, Lee H. Marzke wrote: I run a small data center / lab in my home office with a dozen servers that is 95% virtual and would be willing to give a talk on the selection of tools and dive into some of the servers and architecture. So would people be interested in a talk on how to setup a significantly sized data center/lab with separate DMZ, LAN, and SAN security zones on only one Dell 2970 host? This is an illustration of software defined networking, as most of the network is now just a virtual process itself. However it's not all Linux.... I use the latest vSphere 5.1 environment on one physical server, and everything including the BSD firewall, and Nexenta SAN storage are virtual. 2 Cisco switches bridge the virtual environment to the office with LACP trunking between the switches. VLANS for everything crossing from virtual to physical ( Verizon ONT, DMZ, LAN ) Of course there are several Linux servers for Apache, Plone and Mailman, etc. Lee From: "drc" <axcraig@gmail.com> To: "Philadelphia Linux User's Group Discussion List" <plug@lists.phillylinux.org> Sent: Monday, 19 November, 2012 8:16:45 AM Subject: Re: [PLUG] [plug-announce] PLUG West Winter meetings CANCELLED I think those are all great ideas. I think I mentioned before, that having talks about more general items can be more appealing and although there is a lot of experience in the room, I have found there is always something new to pick up on that maybe was forgotten or has gotten stale. I think it would be interesting how people set up their machines, do their partitioning, how they run multiple disto's, vim configs, cool scripts and aliases like Fred mentioned. Do you set up a start up config. If you use thunar, do you use custom actions and what are they. I've been using LaTeX lately, maybe a quick mention of that. Plus discussions such as these may elicit more questions. There are definitely lots of areas that may seem basic at first glance or not as fun as mythtv/mythbox, but when you dive in, there are treasures in there. Plus for new attendees or linux converts, a chance to share experiences, trials and tribulations, etc. ____ drew On Sun, Nov 18, 2012 at 7:41 PM, Fred Stluka <fred@bristle.com> wrote: PLUG West members, On 11/18/12 12:27 AM, Paul L. Snyder wrote: Due the unavailability of our regular meeting location at FIS in November and usual low attendance at winter West meetings, PLUG West meetings are cancelled for November, December, January, and February. There will NOT be a meeting on Monday, November 19. One way to boost attendance might be to have some talks that are more introductory. Rich Freeman made that suggestion a while back (see his post appended below Paul's). I think it would be a great way to reach out to potential new members. Currently, I think new people attending their first meeting may be intimidated by the expert level of most of the attendees, and the deep detailed issues we discuss. I see a lot of people come for one meeting and never return. Rich offered a couple of topics that he could speak on, but no one ever replied. He also offered a couple of very specific suggestions to boost attendance, like "bring a friend" to an intro talk. If Rich is not available, I could do an intro talk. I have notes at my Web site. I'd start with: http://bristle.com/Tips/Unix.htm#help and (not at the Web site) I have a whole outline of intro topics that I often use when training clients who've never used Linux before. Or I could do an intro talk on Unix security starting with: http://bristle.com/Tips/Unix.htm#unix_security which might tempt JP or someone to follow up with a more advanced security talk. Or an advanced talk on all the various forms of I/O redirection: http://bristle.com/Tips/Unix.htm#general_command_line_redirection Or an advanced lightning talk on rsync: http://bristle.com/Tips/Unix.htm#rsync and a lightweight historical overview of other networking commands: http://bristle.com/Tips/Unix.htm#unix_networking Or a relatively advanced talk on aliases: http://bristle.com/Tips/Unix.htm#csh_and_tcsh_aliases and maybe toss in some of my favorite shell scripts. Also, we could repeat some of the past talks. For example, I could give my "Intro to Cloud Computing" talk again: http://bristle.com/Talks/CloudComputing/current/ Thoughts? --Fred Fred Stluka -- mailto:fred@bristle.com -- http://bristle.com/~fred/ Bristle Software, Inc -- http://bristle.com -- Glad to be of service! Open Source: Without walls and fences, we need no Windows or Gates. On 11/18/12 12:27 AM, Paul L. Snyder wrote: Due the unavailability of our regular meeting location at FIS in November and usual low attendance at winter West meetings, PLUG West meetings are cancelled for November, December, January, and February. There will NOT be a meeting on Monday, November 19. If you're in need of a December event, the PLUG Central and PLUG North meetings are still on, and the Philadelphia Pinball Geeknic is coming up on December 15th. http://geeknic.org/?p=181 So, this gives us a few months to get next year's meetings planned out. I'd love to get some speaker volunteers on the books now for next year, to avoid the last-minute scrambles we've been having lately. If you can't commit to a date this early, that's fine...just send your topic idea to me or to the discussion list. Don't know what to speak about? Pick something you'd like to learn about...you'll have some motivation to learn about it in the next four months if you've got a presentation scheduled at the end! _______________________________________________ plug-announce mailing list plug-announce@lists.phillylinux.org http://lists.netisland.net/mailman/listinfo/plug-announce ___________________________________________________________________________ Philadelphia Linux Users Group -- http://www.phillylinux.org Announcements - http://lists.phillylinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug-announce General Discussion -- http://lists.phillylinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug On 9/5/12 10:41 PM, Rich Freeman wrote: Looking at the calendar it seems like we have a lot of gaps, at least at North. I was wondering if it wouldn't be a bad idea to shift gears and toss in the occasional newbie-oriented talk? Maybe aim at newbie-to-intermediate. I wouldn't mind doing a talk or two - we should space them out with the usual advanced talks, and there is no reason they couldn't be repeated from time to time. Some topics I could probably quickly prepare - if others also want to cover these no objections: 1. Disk Storage (basics of files/permissions/filesystems, then moving into partitioning, mdadm, lvm). 2. X11 (servers, clients, display managers, sessions, window managers, xauth, ssh forwarding, etc). 3. Getting around in the shell (common commands, redirection, very basic scripting, alternative shells, xterms, screen, nano/vi/wget/links, etc). Some other topics that others might want to cover: 1. A survey of distros (the big ones, families, etc). 2. Basic sys admin principles (for multi-user systems, servers, etc). 3. Software development on Linux. 4. A survey of common apps. It seems like I see new faces fairly often, but the material is almost always over their head unless they came for the topic. If I gave a talk for newbies I could probably toss a bone or two to the veterans but to get the most out of it we'd probably want to try to get everybody to bring a friend who is new to Linux / etc. On the bring a friend note, we could even have talks just to introduce Linux in general to those who have never used it. I'm not sure whether we'd actually draw enough of a crowd to make that worthwhile. That sort of thing wouldn't offer much to even a relative newbie. 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