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.

Daniel’s slides are available in PDF format.