October 2014 - luv-announce

LUV Main November 2014 Meeting: Raspberry Pi update + systemd
by Andrew Pam 30 Oct '14

30 Oct '14

LUV Main November 2014 Meeting: Raspberry Pi update + systemd Start: Nov 5 2014 19:00 End: Nov 5 2014 21:00 Event Link: http://luv.asn.au/2014/11/05 Location: The Buzzard Lecture Theatre. Evan Burge Building, Trinity College, Melbourne University Main Campus, Parkville. Location Link: http://luv.asn.au/meetings/map Please note that the November meeting is on Wednesday night rather than Tuesday night due to the Melbourne Cup. Speakers: * Alec Clews, Raspberry Pi update * Russell Coker, systemd Alec Clews, Update on Raspberry Pi Alec will be talking about the latest news from the Raspberry Pi world: The new Model B+ and A+* New Pi hardware add-ons from local Melbourne developers Native working cloud storage for the Pi. Ya! News from the Foundation Cool projects you may not have seen Pi set-up scripts (*The A+ is not released yet and anything I say will be based on reasonable conjecture only) Alec helped to break the Raspberry Pi order site when the product was released and founded Melbourne Raspberry Jam. He can be found online as alecthegeek in to many places. He drinks too much espresso, uses Linux as much as possible and wishes he was a better Go programmer. He also very proud of his Pi set-up scripts for IoT developers. Russell Coker, systemd What is involved with running systemd? What changes for a user? What changes for a system programmer? What are the benefits and problems? This talk will provide a high level overview of the changes. Russell Coker has been working on SE Linux since 2001. He writes most of the policy for Debian. He has done lots of other Linux development over the years, mostly involved with Debian development. The Buzzard Lecture Theatre, Evan Burge Building, Trinity College Main Campus Parkville Melways Map: 2B C5 Notes: Trinity College's Main Campus is located off Royal Parade. The Evan Burge Building is located near the Tennis Courts. See our Map of Trinity College. Additional maps of Trinity and the surrounding area (including its relation to the city) can be found at http://www.trinity.unimelb.edu.au/about/location/map Parking can be found along or near Royal Parade, Grattan Street, Swanston Street and College Crescent. Parking within Trinity College is unfortunately only available to staff. For those coming via Public Transport, the number 19 tram (North Coburg - City) passes by the main entrance of Trinity College (Get off at Morrah St, Stop 12). This tram departs from the Elizabeth Street tram terminus (Flinders Street end) and goes past Melbourne Central Timetables can be found on-line at: http://www.metlinkmelbourne.com.au/route/view/725 Before and/or after each meeting those who are interested are welcome to join other members for dinner. We are open to suggestions for a good place to eat near our venue. Maria's on Peel Street in North Melbourne is currently the most popular place to eat after meetings. LUV would like to acknowledge Red Hat for their help in obtaining the Buzzard Lecture Theatre venue and VPAC for hosting, and BENK Open Systems for their financial support of the Beginners Workshops Linux Users of Victoria Inc., is an incorporated association, registration number A0040056C.

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LUV Beginners October Meeting: Command Line
by Andrew Pam 13 Oct '14

13 Oct '14

Start: Oct 18 2014 12:30 End: Oct 18 2014 16:30 Location: RMIT Building 91, 110 Victoria Street, Carlton South Link: http://luv.asn.au/meetings/map Mike Hewitt will be introducing newcomers to Linux to the use of the "command line". Mike has been interested in programming and electronics since his early teens. He has worked on software and electronic projects using mainframes and microprocessors and enjoys hacking (crazy word) existing and new projects. He has been a keen Linux user since the Redhat floppy disk installs of nearly thirty years ago. He spent 9 years as a teacher and is now recovering from that experience and enjoying re-immersing himself in Linux. He enjoys communicating with amateur radio satellites. He enjoyed using CCNP and Dutch language skills to troubleshoot remote networks. He enjoys working with Raspberry Pi, Arduino and so on along with hardware recovered from discarded electronic equipment. He runs an electronics club in Altona. LUV would like to acknowledge Red Hat for their help in obtaining the Buzzard Lecture Theatre venue and VPAC for hosting, and BENK Open Systems for their financial support of the Beginners Workshops Linux Users of Victoria Inc., is an incorporated association, registration number A0040056C. -- mailto:xanni@xanadu.net Andrew Pam http://www.xanadu.com.au/ Chief Scientist, Xanadu http://www.glasswings.com.au/ Partner, Glass Wings http://www.sericyb.com.au/ Manager, Serious Cybernetics

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LUV Main October 2014 Meeting: History of MySQL, Content-Centric Networking
by Andrew Pam 03 Oct '14

03 Oct '14

LUV Main October 2014 Meeting: History of MySQL, Content-Centric Networking Start: Oct 7 2014 19:00 End: Oct 7 2014 21:00 Event Link: http://luv.asn.au/2014/10/07 Location: The Buzzard Lecture Theatre. Evan Burge Building, Trinity College, Melbourne University Main Campus, Parkville. Location Link: http://luv.asn.au/meetings/map Speakers: • Stewart Smith "A History of MySQL" • Hank "Content-Centric Networking" A History of MySQL When MySQL was owned my MySQL AB it was doomed because it was a "toy" database. Soon after Sun bought MySQL AB for $1billion there was concern that MySQL was doomed at Sun.... and when Oracle bought Sun things looked even worse. That being said, the truth is a lot more nuanced than what has been widely reported. We'll look at why MySQL development has been so centralized and where it may be opening up. Who is doing actual development? What are they working on and is it going to help you with new or existing applications? How are they interacting with distributions and has there been any change in adoption? Why have so many hardware and software "next big things" in the MySQL world just vanished and does this have an implication for the MySQL variants of today? This is an insiders look at where the MySQL world has come from and where it's going. We'll look at Oracle MySQL, MariaDB, Percona Server and other MySQL distributions. Why do options other than Oracle MySQL exist? Are they seeing any significant adoption and is Oracle's MySQL 5.6 seeing any adoption or when may it see any? Should you switch to MariaDB? Is MariaDB becoming an entirely different database server? What other options do you have? Stewart currently works for IBM in the Linux Technology Center on KVM on POWER and OPAL firmware, giving him a job that is even harder to explain to non-Linux geek people than ever before. Previously he worked for Percona as Director of Server Development where he oversaw development of many of Percona’s software products. He comes from many years experience in databases and free and open source software development. He’s often found hacking on free software, taking photos, running, brewing beer and cycling (yes, all at the same time). He once helped build a monorail in the middle of the desert. Content-Centric Networking This talk will discuss shortcomings of the TCP/IP-based architecture of the internet and present the general idea of content-centric networking as a viable alternative, as well as Xerox PARC's CCNx implementation of the concept and related academic efforts under the name of Named Data Networking. This will look at: • Scalability problems of TCP/IP and the concept of "intelligence at the edge of the network" • Content-centric networking as a new "thin waist" of the hourglass architecture Comparison with CDNs and other ad-hoc solutions • CCNx/NDN implementations: Questions answered and left open • Opportunities for machine learning • Scalability-stability tradeoff • Speculation on impact on business and society The talk is an invitation to join research in this area in a hands-on manner. Hank is a physicist by education and application programmer by vocation. Having joined the internet pre-WWW he thinks it all went wrong at some point and only disruptive changes will bring it back on track. The Buzzard Lecture Theatre, Evan Burge Building, Trinity College Main Campus Parkville Melways Map: 2B C5 Notes: Trinity College's Main Campus is located off Royal Parade. The Evan Burge Building is located near the Tennis Courts. See our Map of Trinity College. Additional maps of Trinity and the surrounding area (including its relation to the city) can be found at http://www.trinity.unimelb.edu.au/about/location/map Parking can be found along or near Royal Parade, Grattan Street, Swanston Street and College Crescent. Parking within Trinity College is unfortunately only available to staff. For those coming via Public Transport, the number 19 tram (North Coburg - City) passes by the main entrance of Trinity College (Get off at Morrah St, Stop 12). This tram departs from the Elizabeth Street tram terminus (Flinders Street end) and goes past Melbourne Central Timetables can be found on-line at: http://www.metlinkmelbourne.com.au/route/view/725 Before and/or after each meeting those who are interested are welcome to join other members for dinner. We are open to suggestions for a good place to eat near our venue. Maria's on Peel Street in North Melbourne is currently the most popular place to eat after meetings. LUV would like to acknowledge Red Hat for their help in obtaining the Buzzard Lecture Theatre venue and VPAC for hosting, and BENK Open Systems for their financial support of the Beginners Workshops Linux Users of Victoria Inc., is an incorporated association, registration number A0040056C. -- mailto:xanni@xanadu.net Andrew Pam http://www.xanadu.com.au/ Chief Scientist, Xanadu http://www.glasswings.com.au/ Partner, Glass Wings http://www.sericyb.com.au/ Manager, Serious Cybernetics

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