December 2009 - Roundtable

FON spots
by Dan Keizer 06 Dec '09

06 Dec '09

Hi there -- I know some of you (you know who you are :-) use the FON router ... with the mapview that's on their site, its always appeared that in order to locate the locations, you have to zoom in and then pan-around ... if you zoom out just a little bit, it disables the location display of the fon spots ... anyone know if this is adjustable or not? btw: the new fon 2.0 router -- anyone buy one yet and have any feedback? Dan.

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Fwd: USENIX TaPP '10 Submissions Deadline Approaching
by Gilbert E. Detillieux 02 Dec '09

02 Dec '09

FYI... -------- Original Message -------- Subject: [Board] USENIX TaPP '10 Submissions Deadline Approaching Date: Wed, 2 Dec 2009 10:29:26 -0800 From: Lionel Garth Jones <lgj(a)usenix.org> We're writing to remind you that the submissions deadline for the 2nd USENIX Workshop on the Theory and Practice of Provenance (TaPP '10) is approaching. Please submit all work by December 14, 2009, 11:59 p.m. PST. More information and submission guidelines are available at http://www.usenix.org/tapp10/cfpb TaPP '10 will bring together researchers and practitioners doing innovative work in the area of provenance. Provenance, or meta-information about computations, computer systems, database queries, scientific workflows, and so on, is emerging as a central issue in a number of disciplines. The TaPP workshop series builds upon a set of Workshops on Principles of Provenance organized in 2007-2009, which helped raise the profile of this area within diverse research communities, such as databases, security, and programming languages. We hope to attract serious cross-disciplinary, foundational, and highly speculative research and to facilitate needed interaction with the broader systems community and with industry. The Program Committee invites you to submit either full papers describing relatively mature work or short papers on ongoing work. We welcome submissions addressing research problems involving provenance in any area of computer science, including but not limited to: - Databases - Programming languages and software engineering - Systems and security - Workflows/scientific computation We look forward to receiving your submissions! Sincerely, Margo Seltzer, Harvard School of Engineering and Applied Sciences Wang-Chiew Tan, University of California, Santa Cruz TaPP '10 Program Chairs tapp10chairs(a)usenix.org ------------------------------------------------------------------ TaPP '10 Call for Papers 2nd USENIX Workshop on the Theory and Practice of Provenance (TaPP '10) February 22, 2010, San Jose, CA http://www.usenix.org/tapp10/cfpb Submissions deadline: December 14, 2009 Sponsored by USENIX in cooperation with ACM SIGOPS and ACM SIGPLAN ------------------------------------------------------------------

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MUUG Meeting, Dec 8, 7:30pm -- SuseStudio
by gedetil＠cs.umanitoba.ca 01 Dec '09

01 Dec '09

The Manitoba UNIX User Group (MUUG) will be holding its next monthly meeting on Tuesday, December 8. The meeting topic for this month is as follows: SuseStudio SuseStudio is an online virtual appliance builder based on OpenSUSE. "Build an appliance or your own custom Linux distro with a few mouse clicks. Customize it to your heart's content, and share it with the world!" It is quite astonishing what this site/tool can do with a few mouse clicks. John Lange will demo, from start to finish, the creation of a completely custom Linux distribution. As a bonus, OpenSUSE 11.2 was just released and John will be using it for the demo just to give you a little taste of what it's like. Before the break, as this month's RTFM topic, Gilbert Detillieux will cover the find(1) and xargs(1) commands. The group holds its general meetings at 7:30pm on the second Tuesday of every month from September to June. (There are no meetings in July and August.) Meetings are open to the general public; you don't have to be a MUUG member to attend. ********************************************************************** 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 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. ********************************************************************** For more information about MUUG, and its monthly meetings, check out their Web server: http://www.muug.mb.ca/ Help us promote this month's meeting, by putting this poster up on your workplace bulletin board or other suitable public message board: http://www.muug.mb.ca/meetings/MUUGmeeting.pdf -- Gilbert E. Detillieux E-mail: <gedetil(a)muug.mb.ca> Manitoba UNIX User Group Web: http://www.muug.mb.ca/ PO Box 130 St-Boniface Phone: (204)474-8161 Winnipeg MB CANADA R2H 3B4 Fax: (204)474-7609

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