oxlug-announce November 2004

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Sunday 5th December: User Mode Linux as a hosting platform
by Dominic Hargreaves 29 Nov '04

29 Nov '04

Details for the talk on Sunday are as follows: ************************************************** User Mode Linux as a hosting platform Paul Warren & Chris Lightfoot, Mythic Beasts Date: Sunday 5th December Time: 6.30pm Venue: Denys Wilkinson Building, Keble Road (entrance up concrete steps and turn left) Afterwards: In the Lamb and Flag, St Giles' ************************************************** As the name suggests, User Mode Linux (UML) is a user-mode implementation of the Linux kernel. The result is a light-weight mechanism for creating virtual Linux machines. One of the more obvious and successful applications of UML is hosting virtual Linux servers, allowing users to take control of their own Linux installation without the expense of buying and maintaining their own server hardware. This talk gives details on the workings of UML and also describes the integration that we have done to implement a UML hosting service. Along the way, we will cover a diverse range of topics including: * Network bridging * Logical Volume Management (LVM) snapshots, for backups * Filesystem image manipulation * Sparse files * Bandwidth monitoring using MRTG We will also cover a number of tools that we have written, and (in most cases) released as open source projects, including: * blocksync, a utility for performing fast network backups of filesystem images * consolidate, a logging console manager * our server management scripts ... and explain how all this open source goodness fits together to make a viable hosting service.

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Tonight - Midmonth Meeting
by Jon Masters 17 Nov '04

17 Nov '04

Hi all, There will be a Midmonth meeting this evening. The venue suggested is: Far from the madding crowd - 19:30. Food has not been agreed yet but I shall be in Oxford this afternoon and am open to suggestions - I will try to announce anything beforehand or can be called directly on the following number for updates to the schedule when it's sorted: +447776131337 I am hoping some people will suggest a good curry house for us to meet in before 19:30 for some food. Otherwise I'll probably go to Zizzi at about 18:30 or thereabouts. Apologies that we've not yet finalised the food since this time has been a bit last minute. Cheers, Jon.

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Sunday 6th November - Pub meeting 7.30pm
by Alasdair G Kergon 05 Nov '04

05 Nov '04

No talk this month, instead join us in the Lamb and Flag on St. Giles from 7.30pm onwards. Also, on Thursday, 11th Nov, there's: A lively debate on the merits of Windows, Open Source and the future of Operating Systems "This house believes that the enthusiasm for Linux and Open Source is a triumph of hope over reality" For the motion: * Paul Wood-Robinson, Technology Strategist, Microsoft * Adrian Hillcoat, Director of Presales, CSG, HP Ltd Against the motion: * Malcolm Yates, Novell Alliances EMEA, SUSE Linux * Paul Tempest-Mitchell, Data Centre Practice Manager, Sun 19:30 (Tea and Coffee from 19:00) Computing Laboratory, Wolfson Building, Parks Road http://www.oxon.bcs.org/program2004-5.htm#Nov Alasdair -- agk(a)oxlug.org

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oxlug-announce November 2004