[plug-announce] *** October PLUG Seminar: "System Monitoring…

Hi all,

Just a reminder that the October PLUG seminar is this Tuesday, the
9th of October 2007 (apologies for the late notice!). We have two
speakers lined up for you.

Title: "Simple Ubuntu Tips and Tricks" and "System Monitoring -
Knowing When to Duck"
When: Tuesday, 9 October 2007, 7:30pm - 9:00pm.
Where: 'Futuresphere', Christ Church Grammar School, Queenslea Drive, Claremont
Presenters: Daniel Axtens and Adrian Woodley

It would be painfully obvious to anyone who's worked with computers
that they are far from perfect. Failures are forever prevalent and
often expensive. To mitigate the affects of these failures, monitoring
is essential. Adrian Woodley will present a talk covering several
monitoring packages available to *nix systems, how they work and how
to configure and use them; hopefully with a demonstration of each.

Adrian Woodley has been a Linux user for the past 8 years, both
professionally and as a hobby. He has worked on networks scaling from
small home setups through to Australia's largest ADSL2+ network.
Adrian currently works for iiNet as a Systems Engineer, and has 12
months experience working in iiNet's Network Operations Centre,
monitoring the iiNet network. With this presentation, Adrian reaches
the status of PLUG's most prevalent presenter!

Daniel Axtens will talk about setting up Ubuntu to play MP3s, watch
YouTube videos, play Flash games, and maybe a couple of other useful
things to make your new Ubuntu system feel like home. Some points from
the talk will be applicable to users of other GNU/Linux distros. This
is a beginner-friendly talk.

We will be ordering pizza for consumption when the talk is over, and
possibly adjourning to a nearby pub for general discussion and drinks
after the presentation. A gold-coin donation will be requested to
cover the costs of the pizza.

As usual, visitors and friends are most welcome.

Information (including a map to the venue) is also available on the PLUG
website: http://www.plug.org.au/events/seminar/.

See you there!

-Patrick
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