Category Archives: Meetings
Next Meeting – May 14th, 2013
We meet at 6:30pm on the second Tuesday of each month at the Farmington Community Library. Our Topics include: Raspberry Pi Raspberry Pi is a credit card sized computer that runs Linux for $35. It’s built to use peripherals that many homes or schools have lying around, and it’s got a set of general-purpose I/O pins that come in handy for the kinds of DIY electronics projects made famous by the Arduino and friends. Though initially inspired by the 8-bit … Read More »
Next Meeting – April 9th, 2013
We meet at 6:30pm on the second Tuesday of each month at the Farmington Community Library Big Data Speaker: Sharan Kalwani These days one cannot swing a dead cat without hitting the buzz phrase “Big Data”! So what is all this hoopla (or Hadoop) all about really? Many years of technology advances in processing power, cheaper storage, faster I/O capabilities, cheaper memory chips, greater WiFi coverage, widespread mobility have *all* contributed to a vast explosion of information in all shapes … Read More »
Next Meeting – Tuesday, March 12th, 2013
We meet at 6:30pm on the second Tuesday of each month at the Farmington Hills Library. Introduction to Ceph As the size and performance requirements of storage systems have increased, system designers have looked to new architectures to facilitate system scalability. Ceph is a fully open source distributed object store, network block device, and file system designed for reliability, performance, and scalability from terabytes to exabytes. This talk will describe Ceph architecture, the goals of the project, and why you … Read More »
Next Meeting – Tuesday, February 12th, 2013
Introduction to Puppet Sean Millichamp will present an introduction to Puppet, an open source systems and infrastructure management tool. Puppet allows you to declare, audit, and enforce a desired system state over the entire lifecycle of the system. He will introduce Puppet and discuss the architecture and design concepts in the product, including the various components in the Puppet ecosystem, what they are, and how you might use them. He will also show some relatively simple examples of Puppet code … Read More »
Next Meeting – Tuesday, January 8th 2013
IPV6 There’s a lot of buzz about IPv6. IPv4 depletion in Asia and Europe. LTE/4G devices bringing IPv6 to my perimeter network. US Internet backbone IPv6 penetration of over 2% with a 150% annual growth rate. Do we really need IPv6? How does it differ from IPv4? What’s the impact and when should I consider deploying it? What do I need to get started? Jim Small will help us dive into the why, how, where, what, and when of IPv6. … Read More »
Next meeting – Tuesday, December 11, 2012
Two Factor Authentication Michael Tiller will give a presentation on his thoughts and experience involving two-factor authentication. He’ll discuss a couple of different ways that two-factor authentication can be used to help reduce the risk of having your sensitive information and/or accounts compromised. Dr. Tiller was the head of IT for Emmeskay, a Plymouth based engineering consulting company. He’s currently the President of Xogeny, a local engineering software company. He’s been using Linux since version .95 OAuth OAuth, the Open … Read More »
Next meeting – Tuesday, November 13, 2012
Ubuntu 12.10 The Ubuntu Michigan Loco will discuss what’s new with Ubuntu 12.10. We’ll highlight new features with the OS, and have an open discussion about what to expect with the new release. We’ll also have Ubuntu 12.10 discs to hand out at the event. LTSP Stack Exchange Jim McQuillan would like to get a Stack Exchange site running for LTSP, and he needs your help! Jim will discuss the basics of Stack Exchange, and highlight what the LTSP Stack Exchange … Read More »
Next meeting – Tuesday, October 9, 2012
Aludra Fuse-based Filesystem Scott Balneaves, system administrator for Legalaid Manitoba, Canada has been working on a project to create a Linux filesystem backed by a postgresql database. The idea is, users can store their Openoffice documents in a filesystem hierarchy, but behind the scenes, the documents are actually being written to a database. Scott is using the FUSE (Filesystem in Userspace) feature of Linux to create a translation layer that converts the filesystem calls into sql instructions. Raspberry Pi The … Read More »
Next meeting – Tuesday, September 11, 2012
Juju Ryan Kather will be discussing Juju, a next generation service deployment and orchestration framework developed by Canonical Ltd. Juju has been likened to apt-get for the cloud. With Juju, different authors are able to create service “charms” independently that work well together. Computer Humor Craig Maloney will be running a session discussing computer humor throughout the ages. We’ll touch on older topics like the BOFH and the Jargon File, as well as more current-day sites like XKCD and the … Read More »
Next Meeting – Tuesday August 14, 2012
Impress.js Ryan Kather will be presenting on Impress.js, a presentation framework (think Microsoft Powerpoint) but open source and based on HTML5, CSS3, and JavaScript. It’s based on ideas from Prezi.com (scaling/zooming to dramatic effect). Developers are able to code good-looking presentations quickly with Impress.js without having to deal with Powerpoint or OpenOffice Impress. Presentations are also fully portable as all that is needed is a modern browser for viewing. Raspberry Pi Remember the “good ol’ days” programming on your Atari … Read More »