[SGVLUG] Re: Yes Solomon! U can B our Nxt speaker

Michael Proctor-Smith mproctor13 at gmail.com
Wed Oct 4 14:35:48 PDT 2006


On 10/4/06, Solomon K. Chang <skevin521 at yahoo.com> wrote:
> No, don't worry, it's not too short notice at all if I'm going to repeat 85% of my last
> talk. :)  There're two things I do expect from SGVLUG, though:
>
> My topic focuses strictly on a Linux platform.  People are welcome to SSH as root to my
> virtual master and slaves - people who do should know bash.  I would rather not field
> questions about navigating around the shell, but I probably shouldn't have to worry
> about it since this is a LUG, not a MSWUG. :)
> I expect people to know the basic MySQL CLI, as well as some fundamental SQL syntax.
> Knowing some of the parameters of my.cnf would be nice too, but I'll back up and
> explain if people have never touched this file before.
>
> Caveat for being Root: I always assume people are here to learn and have the best
> interests of the group at heart.  If you screw up anything, I will assume it was an
> honest mistake, even though it will cause a definite delay (few minutes) while I
> re-image the Master.  Yes, I could have just set up a ton of chroot jails, but I really
> want to give my hands-on listeners an environment where they have complete control as
> SysAdmins, albeit with the requirement of having to cooperate with other SysAdmins. :)
>
> My notes and slides will be available on the MySQL Master via port 80: anyone with a
> laptop can just go there with a web browser and move back and forth if they've missed a
> slide or want to see what's next.  The default home page contains instructions for
> setting up your machine as a slave to my master.  If you don't have MySQL running
> locally, you can always SSH to my slaves.
>
> On top of that, always have fun.  Thanks.

Wow I think that is a go then who ever is in charge of Promoting
meeting lets get on it! What a great topic!


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