January 2006
- Linux on supercomputers & tour of IVEC facilities by Stuart Midgley
Stuart will be talking about the new 160-cpu SGI Altix at IVEC, how Linux is different on this system, and what IVEC does generally. The talk will be followed by a tour of the facility.
February 2006
A few of those PLUGgers who were fortunate enough to attend linux.conf.au 2006 in Dunedin will re-tell the highlights of their time in New Zealand. If you missed out going to the conference, come to this session and hear first-hand accounts of how you could have been spending your January!
August 2006
- Virtual E-mail Hosting by Adrian Woodley
Adrian spoke to us about his experience at an ISP hosting e-mails for many domains on a single machine. There was a live demo including a working SMTP, IMAP and web-mail system. No slides or recordings are available.
September 2006
- Pushing a gigabit of web traffic from a single machine by Adrian Chadd
This month seminar will be presented by another Adrian with experience in the ISP industry. Adrian Chadd is a FreeBSD and Squid developer who has recently been working on improving web cache performance. He intends to have a speccy live demo to show off what can be done.