SCaLE U slides

When I taught at SCaLE U back in February, I promised my students that I’d post my presentation notes on lopsa.org — a promise I forgot until reminded just recently (thanks, Brad!). So without further ado, I’ve attached PDFs of my slides. A lot has changed in the world of Fedora DS since these slides….

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Slides from last month’s Atlanta Linux Enthusiasts, and tonight’s topics.

Last month’s Atlanta Linux Enthusiasts’ presenter, Michael H. Warfield, has posted the slides from his talk “The Brave New World of IPv6.” http://www.wittsend.com/mhw/2009/IPv6-BNW-ALE-2009.odp http://www.wittsend.com/mhw/2009/IPv6-BNW-ALE-2009.ppt http://www.wittsend.com/mhw/2009/IPv6-BNW-ALE-2009.pdf Tonight’s topics (7:30pm, Emory University) are: “A Demo of the Opensuse Build Service (OBS)” with Greg Freemyer – plus – “A Premier of the ALE OSPREX Deck” with Stephen R….

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Nagios Checker plugin for Firefox

I’ve started using Nagios Checker plugin for Firefox, which puts a little Nagios status indicator into the bottom right corner of your Firefox status bar. A green “no problem” if there is no problem, or an alert indicator if there are issues. You don’t have to be in your Nagios window or look at it…

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Hello everyone.

Just thought I’d say hi. So….HI! It’s friday, so you can’t expect to much from me. Later! -Jonathon

Example of using “ulimit” to limit memory usage

ulimit can be used to limit memory utilization (among other things) Here is an example of setting memory usage so low that /bin/ls (which is larger than /bin/cat) no longer works, but /bin/cat still works. $ ls -lh /bin/ls /bin/cat -rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 25K May 24 2008 /bin/cat -rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 88K May…

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LOPSA Elections: Call for Self-Nominations

The LOPSA Leadership Committee hereby submits a call for Board Candidate Self-Nominations. The LOPSA Bylaws (http://governance.lopsa.org/index.php/LOPSA_Bylaws) state: — An eligible member may stand for election to the Board if: A petition, signed by no less than 10 (ten) members of the Association in good standing, is submitted to the Chair of the Leadership Committee, no…

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