KWLUG Meeting: Monday, June 4, 2018, 7pm

Living With the Linux Desktop, PostgreSQL

Meeting Date

2018-06-04T19:00:00

Note: For this meeting we are trying a new meeting location. See the 283 Duke St page for details.

James Kelsh will tell us about using the Linux desktop day to day, including work, fun, and maintenance. This presentation is intended to be accessible to new Linux users.

Hadi Moshayedi will discuss different indexing types available in PostgreSQL, discussing the pros and cons of each. He will cover B-Tree, GiST, GIN, Hash, and   BRIN indices.

2018-01: Roundtable

KWLUG members hold a roundtable discussion. They covered topics including MySQL replication, token ring networks, speculative execution in light of the Spectre and Meltdown vulnerabilities, the RowHammer vulnerability, and the geneology of operating systems. See kwlug.org/node/1108 for additional information, slides and other auxiliary materials. Note that this audio has had silences clipped.

2017-12: Curv, Mattermost

Doug Moen discusses the 3D modelling language Curv he is developing, and Jonathan Fritz discusses working at Mattermost, which is building a chat-ops open-source alternative to Slack. See kwlug.org/node/1106 for additional information, slides and other auxiliary materials. Note that this audio has had silences clipped.

2017-11: Large-scale Open Source Storage and Filesharing

Lori Paniak discusses how he planned and implemented a distributed file storage system using Ceph, ZFS and NextCloud. See kwlug.org/node/1106 for additional information, slides and other auxiliary materials.

2017-10: Astronomy

Khalid Baheyeldin discusses how he got into astronomy, and the software he uses to help him take pictures of the sky: Stellarium, Cartes du Ciel, and KStars. See kwlug.org/node/1011 for additional information, slides and other auxiliary materials. Note that this audio has had silences clipped.

KWLUG Meeting: Monday, March 5 2018

Laptop installation, Kubernetes

Meeting Date

2018-03-05T19:00:00

Jim Kelsh will demonstrate how to install Linux on a laptop. He may cover different installation methods and different distributions. This presentation is intended to be friendly to beginners to Linux.

Update: Jim's slides are here: 2018-03-05-linux-installation.odp

Charlie Drage will discuss his work (and contributions) to Kubernetes.

2017-09: Ruin Your Life with Shell Scripts, JOSM

Tim Laurence tells us how to ruin our lives with shell scripts, and Andrew Cant tells us how to map buildings in JOSM. See kwlug.org/node/1098 for additional information, slides and other auxiliary materials. Note that this audio has had silences clipped.