http://capbug.org Capital Area BSD Users Group Thu, 08 May 2008 21:54:05 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en April's meeting consisted of a slightly larger than normal crowd. Having a guest speaker must have had something to do with that. The meeting opened with Todd Carson talking about his experience finding and submitting a bug which turned into an OpenBSD Errata entry. Following Todd's talk, Theo Schlossnagle, CEO of ... http://capbug.org/meetings/april-2008/ This month we'll be meeting on Tuesday, April 29, 6:30pm EST at Raba in Columbia, MD. Directions Theo Schlossnagle, CEO of OmniTI Computer Consulting, will give a talk on ZFS and Dtrace.  Both of these are available in FreeBSD, although many of the useful features are not integrated yet.  Theo ... http://capbug.org/news/april-meeting-zfs-and-dtrace/ The March meeting consisted of a brief presentation (given by me) about using CVS for Configuration Management. We had a fairly light crowd comprised of most of "the regulars". After talking about CVS, we also discussed Nagios and I gave a demo of how I'm using it to ... http://capbug.org/meetings/march-2008/ This month, we'll be meeting on Tuesday, March 25 at Raba in Columbia, MD. Todd Carson will give a brief talk on how his diff became OpenBSD 4.2 Errata entry 008. Todd will talk about his Errata submission next month. I will talk about using CVS to store your configuration ... http://capbug.org/news/march-meeting-from-diff-to-errata-configuration-versioning/ Our February meeting consisted of Sysadmin Games (the brainchild of Jason Dixon). Jason brought with him a "server" (beige box) running some form of Linux and VMware Server. He had prepared blank VMware guest systems ready to be loaded with Open, Net, Free or Dragonfly BSD. After ... http://capbug.org/meetings/february-2008/ This month, we'll be meeting on Tuesday, February 26 at Raba in Columbia, MD. Jason Dixon will be serving as BOFH for our first SysAdmin Games. As usual, we'll grab a beer and food after the meeting at either Green Turtle, Nottingham's or the Dog Pub. From Jason: The main ... http://capbug.org/news/february-meeting-sysadmin-games/ Our January 29, 2008 meeting marks CapBUG's one year birthday. We celebrated with a great Samba talk me Johan Huldtgren, a GNU/screen talk by me and a special BSD Cake that Patrick Thomasson brought for the group. After the meeting, we tried the Dog Pub for some pizza and beer. ... http://capbug.org/meetings/january-2008-happy-birthday-to-us/ This meeting marks CapBUG's 1 year anniversary. For this meeting, we'll gather at my office in Columbia, MD again. To celebrate occasion, Patrick Thomasson will be bringing a special cake. I will give a mini-talk about how I use GNU/screen, how I have it set up and how I ... http://capbug.org/news/january-meeting-screen-tricks-imitating-windows-services/ We will hold our Nov/Dec combo meeting on Tuesday, December 18 at 6:30 at the Raba Office in Columbia, Maryland (the usual place). We'll hit either The Green Turtle or Nottingham's afterwards. I will be giving a talk "Intro to Porting" mostly inspired by bernd@'s talk at OpenCON. http://capbug.org/news/novemberdecember-meeting-porting/ Due to unforeseen circumstances, we will not have a regular meeting this month and will just meet at Nottingham's for "Beer & BSD". We'll eat food, drink beer, maybe play pool and talk about BSD, if it comes up. See you there at 6:30 PM EDT. http://capbug.org/news/october-meeting-beer-bsd/