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Please note our meeting location: The IBM offices, at 400 Ellice Ave. (between Edmonton and Kennedy). When you arrive, you will have to sign in at the reception desk, and then wait for someone to take you (in groups) to the meeting room. Please try to arrive by about 7:15pm, so the meeting can start promptly at 7:30pm. Don't be late, or you may not get in. (But don't come too early either, since security may not be there to let you in before 7:15 or so.) Non-members are welcome, but may be required to show photo ID at the security desk.
Limited parking is available for free on the street, either on Ellice Ave. or on some of the intersecting streets. Indoor parking is also available nearby, at Portage Place, for $5.00 for the evening. Bicycle parking is available in a bike rack under video surveillance located behind the building on Webb Place.
Adam has made his presentation notes, in both OpenDocument Presentation and PDF format, available online.
Before the break, Mike Pfaiffer provided another brief
RTFM topic.
The df(1)
and du(1)
commands were covered this month,
as well as the (non-standard) open-source, ncurses-based
ncdu(1)
text-mode utility.
Mike has made a one-page hand-out, in
PDF format,
available online.
In this presentation, Darren Hildebrand and Sean Cody, from Prime Focus VFX, talked about the Jabber system and show how the eJabberd implementation can be used to provide closed instant messaging services in a secure, simple and client-application agnostic way. They also discussed what logging, auditing and authentication options are available. If you were ever interested in replacing or providing AIM/MSN/ICQ/gTalk functionality in your workspace, this presentation provided a lot of helpful advice.
Sean and Darren have made their Jabber presentation slides available online (edited to highlight content, removing transitions and hinted obstructions, and videos replaced with web links to content). The slides contain links, via bit.ly, for video uploaded to YouTube. Here they are, in order of appearance in the slides:
A VM image, with Jabber installed (for testing), is available upon request. The Bash script is also available upon request. (Contact Sean or the MUUG Board for more information.)
Before the break, Bill Reid demoed a
Sony eBook Reader,
and Gilbert Detillieux provided another
RTFM topic,
covering the use of hard and symbolic links,
the ln(1)
and rm(1) commands.
Gilbert has made his notes, in
PDF format, available online.
In the collaborative spirit of MediaWiki, this presentation was a joint effort between Kevin McGregor, Gilbert Detillieux and Michael Doob. Gilbert focussed on the packages needed to install MediaWiki, how to set up an instance of a wiki farm, and how to configure MediaWiki from a web browser. Kevin focussed on using MediaWiki, such as creating and editing pages using wiki text, and gave tips on managing it, such as setting up policies. Michael then showed a novel way he's using MediaWiki on a netbook to store and present class notes, complete with mathematical notation.
Some useful resources:
Before the break, since our scheduled presenter couldn't make it, Adam Thompson accepted the challenge and improvised an RTFM topic, looking at UNIX pipes (including named pipes). Thanks Adam!
John Lange demoed, from start to finish, the creation of a completely custom Linux distribution. He also showed the execution of such a distribution, both using a web-based interface to the virtual machine environment, and booting a live image installed on a USB memory stick. As a bonus, OpenSUSE 11.2 was just released and John used it for the demo, just to give us a little taste of what it's like.
There is an audio recording (large, 8.9MB, 30m1s MP3 format) of the presentation. However, it may be hard to follow without any visuals. (John mostly demoed the web interface as well as the execution of some of these virtual appliances, so there are no presentation slides to view.)
Before the break, as this month's RTFM topic,
Gilbert Detillieux covered
the find(1)
and xargs(1) commands.
Montana has made his presentation notes, in both OpenDocument Presentation and PDF format, available online. There is also an audio recording (large, 10MB, 31m MP3 format) of the presentation. (Synchronisation with the slides is left as an exercise for the listener!)
Before the break, as this month's RTFM topic, Adam Thompson covered
the cut(1)
and paste(1) commands.
Adam has made his presentation notes, in both OpenDocument Presentation and PDF format, available online. There is also an audio recording (large, 16MB, 54m MP3 format) of the presentation. (Synchronisation with the slides is left as an exercise for the listener!)
Before the break, as this month's RTFM topic,
Sean Cody prepared and gave a remote
video presentation
covering the at(1),
atq(1)
and atrm(1) commands.
Kevin has made his presentation notes, in both PowerPoint and PDF format, available online. There is also an audio recording (large, 14MB, 46m MP3 format) of the presentation.
Before the break, as this month's RTFM topic,
Samuel Pauls covered the
vim(1) command.
grep,
egrep and
fgrep)
including a brief look at regular expression syntax and usage.
Next up, Michael Doob presented the
sed command,
showing you how to take regular expressions a little further.
Finally, Mark Jenkins presented the
smartctl command,
for monitoring hard disk status and health.
Gilbert has made his presentation notes on grep, in both
PowerPoint and
PDF format,
available online.
There is also an
audio recording (6MB, 20m22s MP3 format)
of the presentation.
Michael has also made his presentation notes on sed, in
PDF format, available online.
(Due to a technical error, there is no audio recording of this presentation.)
Mark has also made his presentation notes on smartctl, in both
OpenDocument Presentation and
PDF format,
available online.
There is also an
audio recording (5MB, 16m28s MP3 format)
of the presentation.
(This work is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 2.5 Canada License.)
Brian has made a two-page outline, in PDF format, available online. The second page contains links to many useful resources. There is also an audio recording (large, 60MB, 1h27m MP3 format) of the presentation.
Before the break, as this month's RTFM topic,
Montana Quiring spoke about the
dmesg(1) command.
(Sean Cody and Gilbert Detillieux also added to the discussion on this.)
There is an
audio recording (large, 14MB, 19m MP3 format)
of the presentation.
Jonas has made his presentation notes, in both PowerPoint and PDF format, available online. There is also an audio recording (large, 15MB, 50m16s MP3 format) of the presentation. (Synchronisation with the slides is left as an exercise for the listener!)
Before the break, as this month's RTFM topic,
Adam Thompson spoke about the
awk(1) command.
There is an
audio recording (large, 8.4MB, 14m36s MP3 format)
of the presentation.
There is also an
audio recording (large, 22MB, 37m10s MP3 format)
of the roundtable session.
Please note our meeting location: The IBM offices, at 400 Ellice Ave. (between Edmonton and Kennedy). When you arrive, you will have to sign in at the reception desk, and then wait for someone to take you (in groups) to the meeting room. Please try to arrive by about 7:15pm, so the meeting can start promptly at 7:30pm. Don't be late, or you may not get in. (But don't come too early either, since security may not be there to let you in before 7:15 or so.) Non-members are welcome, but may be required to show photo ID at the security desk.
Limited parking is available for free on the street, either on Ellice Ave. or on some of the intersecting streets. Indoor parking is also available nearby, at Portage Place, for $5.00 for the evening. Bicycle parking is available in a bike rack under video surveillance located behind the building on Webb Place.