Using Ubuntu to Monitor Plants at the Foot of Mt. Hamilton
Michael Hamilton, Blue Oak Reserve
Michael runs a wireless sensor network on a flash application under Ubuntu. He says, "Interestingly, I'm running Ubuntu on a MacMini server that is virtualized with Parallels Server, so I can also run snow leopard server off the same hardware."
ATA Over Ethernet Technology: Solving the Storage Problem
John Masci and Alan Weisenburger, CORAID
ATA over Ethernet (AoE) is a network protocol designed for simple, high-performance access of SATA storage devices over Ethernet networks. It is used to build storage area networks (SANs) with low-cost, standard technologies.
Learn about a new storage infrastructure that eliminates bottlenecks such as costly controllers, addresses the right user requirement with the right disk solution, and can scale to Petabytes using the same platform, with linear scaling cost and performance.
Content Distribution Networks and Broadcast Video
John Sokol
John Sokol, our speaker, has considerable experience designing and operating content-distribution networks (CDNs) on free Unixes. He will talk to us about design and operation issues relating to all varieties of contents on CDNs, and then more specifically about issues unique to large-scale streaming of video.
How to Shoot Yourself in the Foot with MySQL
Jesse Monroy
The economy is rough. Jobs are temporary at best. Is this the time to start your own business, or help someone else do it? Is LAMP (Linux Apache MySQL PHP) the best route? Or do you see it failing?One BSD philosophy is "always allow enough rope to shoot yourself in the foot". The speaker demonstrates a working business and support sites, and "how to allow enough rope".
GNU Wget is a utility to retrieve content from Web servers. It supports downloading via HTTP, HTTPS, and FTP protocols, the most popular TCP/IP-based protocols used for Web browsing.Its features include recursive download, conversion of links for offline viewing of local HTML, support for proxies, and much more. It appeared in 1996, coinciding with the boom of popularity of the Web, causing its wide use among Unix users and distribution with most major Linux distributions. Written in portable C, Wget can be easily installed on any Unix-like system, and has been ported to many environments including Mac OS X, Microsoft Windows, OpenVMS, MorphOS, and AmigaOS. It has been used as the basis for graphical programs, such as GWget for the GNOME Desktop, KGet for the KDE Desktop, and VisualWget for MS-Windows.
At the July 2009 General Meeting Hank Skawinski promoted Ubuntu as a better operating system (OS) than Windows. Hank showed us his new netbook computer that dual-boots Windows XP and Ubuntu. He booted into Ubuntu and showed us many of its features. Hank noted that Ubuntu cannot run some critical Windows programs, such as TurboTax, Quicken, QuickBooks, and Photoshop. This keeps many users from considering Ubuntu.
Using a virtual computer, I am running Windows XP and Windows programs, including the above programs, in Ubuntu. As a timely follow up to Hank's talk, Hank and Jim Dinkey asked me to describe to the club members how I do this.
