From muug-announce at muug.ca Tue Apr 4 15:44:21 2017 From: muug-announce at muug.ca (MUUG meeting announcements) Date: Tue, 4 Apr 2017 15:44:21 -0500 Subject: [Muug] MUUG Meeting, Apr 11, 7:30pm -- BTRFS and RTFM: man Message-ID: *** Please note the updated meeting location below *** The Manitoba UNIX User Group (MUUG) will be holding its next monthly meeting on Tuesday, April 11. The meeting topic for this month is as follows: BTRFS Paul Sierks will present BTRFS, the B-Tree filesystem. BTRFS is a copy-on-write filesystem that brings a number of improvements over the typical journaled filesystem and adds features previously missing such as snapshots, checksumming and pooling. RTFM: man Brad Vokey will present man(1), the UNIX manual page viewer. Additionally Brad will show how to quickly create a basic man page on your own. The group usually holds its 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 1L11* Lockhart 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: https://muug.ca/ Help us promote this month's meeting, by putting this poster up on your workplace bulletin board or other suitable public message board: https://muug.ca/meetings/MUUGmeeting.pdf -- Manitoba UNIX User Group E-mail: c/o Gilbert E. Detillieux Web: http://muug.ca/ University of Manitoba Phone: (204)474-8161 Winnipeg MB CANADA R3T 2N2 Fax: (204)474-7609 From muug-announce at muug.ca Tue May 2 14:29:47 2017 From: muug-announce at muug.ca (MUUG meeting announcements) Date: Tue, 2 May 2017 14:29:47 -0500 Subject: [Muug] MUUG Meeting, May 9, 7:30pm -- Linux on Azure Message-ID: *** Please note the updated meeting location below *** The Manitoba UNIX User Group (MUUG) will be holding its next monthly meeting on Tuesday, May 9. The meeting topic for this month is as follows: An Introduction to Linux on Azure Microsoft has made Linux a "First Class" citizen on Azure. In this presentation by John Lange, we'll cover some Azure basics, then dive into setting up your first Linux systems on Azure and reveal some of the hidden benefits of using public cloud to run and manage your Linux virtual machines. Time permitting, we will setup a small domain managed Linux cluster with load balancing and automated management. Daemon-Dash: Let's Encrypt Adam Thompson will give a short tutorial on Let's Encrypt: the up-and-coming, and free (as in beer), way to obtain hitherto costly SSL certificates for your web servers. The group usually holds its 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 2L17* Lockhart 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: https://muug.ca/ Help us promote this month's meeting, by putting this poster up on your workplace bulletin board or other suitable public message board: https://muug.ca/meetings/MUUGmeeting.pdf -- Manitoba UNIX User Group E-mail: c/o Gilbert E. Detillieux Web: http://muug.ca/ University of Manitoba Phone: (204)474-8161 Winnipeg MB CANADA R3T 2N2 Fax: (204)474-7609 From muug-announce at muug.ca Tue Jun 6 11:29:54 2017 From: muug-announce at muug.ca (MUUG meeting announcements) Date: Tue, 6 Jun 2017 11:29:54 -0500 Subject: [Muug] MUUG Meeting, June 13, 7:30pm -- BSDCan 2017 Report Message-ID: *** Please note the updated meeting location below *** The Manitoba UNIX User Group (MUUG) will be holding its next monthly meeting on Tuesday, June 13. The meeting topic for this month is as follows: BSDCan 2017 Report Adam Thompson will be reporting on his recent visit to the 14th annual BSDCan. BSDCan, a BSD conference held in Ottawa, Canada, quickly established itself as the technical conference for people working on and with 4.4BSD based operating systems and related projects. The organizers have found a fantastic formula that appeals to a wide range of people from extreme novices to advanced developers. Daemon-Dash: rsync In the Daemon-Dash segment, Wyatt Zacharias will demo the rsync daemon. When run as a daemon, rsync allows clients to directly connect and retrieve files, without the need for SSH encapsulation or shell access. The group usually holds its 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 2L17* Lockhart 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: https://muug.ca/ Help us promote this month's meeting, by putting this poster up on your workplace bulletin board or other suitable public message board: https://muug.ca/meetings/MUUGmeeting.pdf -- Manitoba UNIX User Group E-mail: c/o Gilbert E. Detillieux Web: http://muug.ca/ University of Manitoba Phone: (204)474-8161 Winnipeg MB CANADA R3T 2N2 Fax: (204)474-7609