2007 Events

Deconstructing Lustre by Phil Schwan
The Lustre cluster file system provides a POSIX-compliant file system API for clusters of almost any size.

Autofs in the Linux Kernel by Ian Kent
Many large scale enterprise deployments include an automounter implementation. The automounter provides a mechanism for automatically mounting file systems upon access, and umounting them when they are no longer referenced. It turns out that the Linux automounter is not feature-complete, and there are cases where Linux is just plain incompatible with the implementations from other proprietary vendors.

Xen and virtualisation by Adrian Chadd
Adrian Chadd runs a web hosting business specialising in providing Xen virtual machines. He will be talking about his experiences in doing so, with the intention of making virtualisation seem less like black magic. The talk will cover various virtualisation methods and techniques, as well as some particular implementations (VMWare, Java, Xen, Linux KVM, jails). Or as he puts it, “Adrian will rant a bit like he normally does, you might pick up something useful.”

"Command Line Fu" and "Map The Planet" by Patrick Coleman, Cameron Patrick
Patrick will be presenting an introduction to using the Linux commandline - shells, shortcuts, common commands and whatever else he can think of on the night.

Cameron will be talking about open geographical data, why you’d want it and how you can help the Open Street Map project to map the planet.

"System Monitoring - Knowing When to Duck" and "Simple Ubuntu Tips and Tricks" by Adrian Woodley, Daniel Axtens
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!

Awesome Tools for Document Authoring by Davyd Madeley
Libre software provides a suite of excellent tools that really interact well together for creating top quality professional documents. Davyd Madeley will take the time to demonstrate some of these authoring tools, plus some awesome tools for information management.