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February 2015

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MUUG Meeting, Feb 10, 7:30pm -- SaltStack for SysAdmins
by Gilbert E. Detillieux 05 Feb '15

05 Feb '15

The Manitoba UNIX User Group (MUUG) will be holding its next monthly meeting on Tuesday, February 10. The meeting topic for this month is as follows: SaltStack for SysAdmins Theo Baschak will be presenting how to use SaltStack to make your life easier, whether you administer a few hobby servers or an entire fleet of corporate systems. Enforce good SysAdmin (planning/testing/backup) skills by publishing templated configs! Run security updates on all your systems at once. Run pre-defined distributed Nagios host/service checks via the new Nagios module! For those that haven't heard of SaltStack before, it is a configuration management system that enforces state. It is usually compared with Puppet and Chef, and has been gaining popularity over the last few years. 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 *NEW* meeting location for this month: Room 1M28, Manitoba Hall, University of Winnipeg, entrance on Ellice Ave. between Spence St. and Balmoral St. Parking is available on the surrounding streets and in the lots on nearby streets. Look for signage once you're at the building, or ask a security guard. ***************************************************************** 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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WTB (or WTR?) optical disc cases, ddr3
by Trevor Cordes 03 Feb '15

03 Feb '15

I'm in need to a few misc items that are pretty useless to most people these days. I'm willing to buy (WTB, ie cash) or "recycle" (WTR, ie take them for free) them if anyone has any. Can just meet up at a meeting, or if you don't make meetings I don't mind picking them up. - DVD-R / CD-R spindles: just the empty 50 or 100+ cartons that blank optical media comes in, you know the cylindrical things with the pole in the middle? - CD jewel cases: just the old-style audio CD ones, that software used to come in too. I need lots. (Normal size most needed, but the double and quad disc cases I can use too, as well as European "maxi-single" sizes. But "slimline" cases for CD-R's etc are not useful for me.) - Small DDR3 (1333+) sticks of RAM, like 1GB (or maybe 2G) sticks that are probably useless to most people now. I can only seem to buy 4G sticks these days. I'd take smaller than 1G but I don't think they ever sold 512's in DDR3. I only need a couple/few for testing purposes. Must be cheap. Plus, if anyone wants any 15 and 17" CRT (VGA-input) monitors that still work great, let me know, I have a few I need to clear out (free!), otherwise they are going into recycling. Thanks!

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