[SGVLUG] October speaker? Anyone? Buelller?

[Christopher Smith]

I'm about ready to give a talk on my co-op's migration from User Mode
Linux to OpenVZ, if folks are interested.

--Chris

On Tue, 2008-10-07 at 11:37 -0700, Claude Felizardo wrote:
> Do we have a consensus on the topic for this Thursday?
> 
> Haven't heard how long an EC2 presentation and demo would take but I'm
> guessing it would take at least an hour so maybe we can do that next
> month.  Internet access is available in the room and Mike usually
> brings his WAP but I would suggest bringing your own AP just in case.
> 
> It sounds like Shang-Lin and Rae are ready to give a talk on the
> Seismo lab now so why don't we do that this month.  If there's time
> afterwards, then I can fill some time with a quick demo of the
> Squeezebox and their open source SqueezeServer.  Rae, if you could
> bring your box as well, I think that would make for a more interesting
> demo.
> 
> Let me know if that works for everyone or if there's a change.  I need
> to submit something to the Caltech Calendar like now.
> 
> claude
> 
> 
> On Mon, Oct 6, 2008 at 6:01 PM, Rae Yip <rae.yip at gmail.com> wrote:
> > Hi Claude,
> >
> > Shang-Lin and I are involved in the real-time data acquisition and
> > event detection pipeline for the Seismo Lab. If we were to give a
> > preso, it probably would take an hour; we might be able to vary +/- 15
> > min, but I doubt we could give a "lightning" talk. So, it should
> > probably be a separate night from the EC2 talk.
> >
> > Apparently SlimDevices has renamed what a Squeezebox Classic is, so I
> > probably have the same thing as you (a v3 Squeezebox). I'm running
> > slimserver 6.5.0-1 still.
> >
> > I'd be happy to bring my Squeezebox in for a demo, but I wouldn't want
> > to do the talking. "It plays music off the net, and has some plugins.
> > Yay." I honestly haven't done much hacking with it.
> >
> > -Rae.
> >
> > On Sun, Oct 5, 2008 at 7:07 PM, Claude Felizardo <cafelizardo at gmail.com> wrote:
> >> On Sat, Oct 4, 2008 at 11:49 AM, Charles N Wyble <charles at thewybles.com> wrote:
> >>> So let's do all of the suggested topics.
> >>>
> >>> Lightning talks if you will.
> >>>
> >>> EC2
> >>> Linux at Caltech
> >>> Squeezebox
> >>>
> >>>
> >>> Rae Yip wrote:
> >>>>
> >>>> I've got one of the newer Squeezeboxes. They're slick.
> >>>>
> >>>> I don't have my own weather station though; I just get it from the
> >>>> Internet. :)
> >>>>
> >>>> -Rae.
> >>
> >>
> >>
> >> I'd think that a EC2 demo would take at least an hour.  A squeezebox
> >> demo might take 30 minutes if that.  Don't know how long a talk about
> >> the Seismo lab would take.  We might be able to squeeze 2 of the 3 and
> >> still allow some time to talk misc stuff.
> >>
> >> Rae, what model do you have and would you want to present that as well
> >> as talk about Seismo lab?
> >>
> >> I was thinking of loading the latest version of the server software on
> >> my laptop (I'm still running 6.5.4-1 at home but I see that 7.2 is now
> >> available.  Then demonstrate the various clients (both the classic
> >> model and a streaming client app) and point out the various features
> >> such as the Web control.  As for the weather station, I use the
> >> Weather Underground plugin to access my data.   Perhaps you could
> >> bring your model and we could demo multiple clients?
> >>
> >> claude
> >>
> >