KWLUG Meeting: Monday, April 9 2018
Meeting Date
Update: Sandeep's slides are here: 2018-04-Linux_and_Me.pdf;, and Mike's presentation is linked here: http://telium.ca/?a:dd~id:kwlugpresentation.
Update: Sandeep's slides are here: 2018-04-Linux_and_Me.pdf;, and Mike's presentation is linked here: http://telium.ca/?a:dd~id:kwlugpresentation.
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.
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.
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.
Mary Loubele will lead an interactive demonstration of how to use Elasticsearch to visualize the Twitter API. Bring your laptop loaded with VirtualBox. You will also need a Twitter login to access the API.
To participate, please follow these instructions: http://loubele.org/instructions.pdf
The virtual machine for you to download is here: http://loubele.org/Elastic.ova
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.
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.
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.
Bob Jonkman sets up conference calling with FreeSWITCH and FusionPBX. See kwlug.org/node/1090 for additional information, slides and other auxiliary materials. Note that this audio has had silences clipped.
Update: Unfortunately, Joe had a serious personal situation come up, and won't be able to present this evening. There will still be a meeting but the topic is too be announced. In the worst case we will host a roundtable discussion. Our apologies for the last minute change.
Update: We had a roundtable discussion.