Our friends at Lanier Tech are holding a Linux / Ubuntu Install Fest
this coming Saturday, June 5th, 10am to 4pm (with final “start an
installation” deadline set at 2pm).
The Install Event is being held in their main building computer
classrooms (look for signs) on the Lanier Tech Forsyth Campus:
7745 Majors
Road Cumming, GA
(near Exit 13 off Georgia 400)
This is a follow up to Linux applications demonstrations at
their recent Student Appreciation Day picnic and should
be well attended.
Their event notice can be found HERE.
Map and directions links can be found at THIS PAGE.
(Note that Google maps is slightly off and shows the campus
entry on the opposite side of Ronnie highway.)
Persons interested in attending via Car Pool from the Decatur
area should contact Aaron Ruscetta:
arxaaron[at]gmail.com
404.315.0406
The feature presentation for the ALE Central Meeting
on Thursday, May 20th, at 7:30pm will be:
“Seat Belts and Air Bags for Bash”
presented by Michael Potter of
Replatform Technologies, LLC
Synopsis:
— This presentation will focus on the underutilized features of bash
that are critical to building production quality scripts. Demos will
show you how to turn on options and error trapping that expose
the hidden time bombs in the code.
Turning these features on should be considered a requirement,
much like turning on “strict” and “warnings” is considered a
requirement for Perl programs.
Also, as much of the bash syntax has become outdated, the
presentation will explain which syntax is best to use and which
syntax to avoid.
Knowledge of any of the common UNIX scripting languages
will be sufficient to understand the presentation and script
authors at all proficiency levels should find value in attending.
Although the presentation does not address differences between
Korn shell and bash, much of what will be discussed also
applies to Korn shell.
Bio:
— Michael Potter has been working in IT since 1989, when he
switched from programming automotive embedded systems.
Since that time he has been involved in projects related
to moving mainframe applications to UNIX and Linux using
open-source technologies. Projects have included
* a CICS emulator written in C,
* a source code control and configuration system,
* a DFSORT like set of utilities that work similar
to sed/grep/sort tools on unix,
* a JCL to bash conversion scheme, and
* a scheme to add web service interface to
mainframe applications.
Michael recently released his mainframe socket emulation
code as open source. This code will allow socket code
originally written on the mainframe to be recompiled
and run on Linux.
Michael recently moved his mainframe rehosting business,
Replatform Technologies, LLC, from Chicago to Atlanta.
And just for fun you can check out his Atlanta Startup Weekend
project here: www.instantloop.com
You can reach Michael at michael@potter.name
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We will be meeting at our usual venue, Emory Law School,
Gambrel Hall, rm 1C. Meeting time frame is 7:30pm to ~9:30pm
Directions to Emory Law School can be found at
[http://ale.org/?page_id=2].
The feature presentation for the ALE Central Meeting of
Thursday, April 15th, 7:30pm will be:
“An Overview of the CentOS Cluster Server”
presented by Ryan Matty of Prefetch Technologies
Synopsis:
— This presentation is geared to providing an introduction to clustering
and the CentOS cluster server by demonstrating the process of setting
up a basic 2-node cluster that utilizes GFS.
Bio:
— Ryan Matteson is a long time Linux user, and has been a member
of ALE for close to 9 years. He has also been a regular ALE presenter
on a variety of Linux topics, last year providing talks on UDEV and KVM.
In addition to hacking code, Ryan thoroughly enjoys evaluating new
technology and sharing his findings with the world through his blog
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We will be meeting at our usual venue, Emory Law School,
Gambrel Hall, rm 1C. Meeting time frame is 7:30pm to ~9:30pm
Directions to Emory Law School can be found at
[http://ale.org/?page_id=2].
The feature presentation at the ALE Central Meeting
for 7:30pm on Thursday, March 18th, 2010 will be:
Literate Programming:
Source Code for Human Beings
(Because geeks are people too!)
with Larry Felton Johnson
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Synopsis:
— Whether you’re writing a full fledged application or a short utility
shell script, really understanding the code and being able to modify
and maintain it (sometimes years after it was originally written) is
an important part of authoring a program. With the rise of group
coding environments, thorough and comprehensible documentation
of program code has become all the more important.
One of the most interesting systems for ensuring robust documentation,
and the quality code which that supports, is the Literate Programming
approach first proposed by Donald Knuth in a 1983 book of that name.
This presentation will be describing the Literate Programming system
and demonstrating some support utilities I’ve written using a combination
of perl and XSL. It will also look at some of the tools available on linux
systems which support Literate Programming.
Bio:
— Larry Felton Johnson has been a Linux user since early 1995, when
he downloaded an SLS distribution sufficient to fill 50 high density floppy
disks. He’s been a sysadmin for the past 15 years, mostly on Solaris, but
with a significant toe in the Red Hat waters. His great love is doing utility
programming in perl, particularly in the general categories known as
“scraping” (web, terminal, etc) and “data munging”.
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We will be meeting at Emory Law School in our
usual Gambrel Hall, room 1C venue.
Meeting time frame is 7:30pm to ~9:30pm
Directions to Emory Law School can be found
via the side bar link.
On SATURDAY, MARCH 6th, from 9am to 7pm,
we need any and all volunteers who can donate
some time and talent to
THE LINUX LAPTOPS FOR
HONDURAS PROJECT
hosted at the Railroad Earth Studios,
1467 Oxford Road NE, Atlanta, 30307
(RRE is the large gray stone house about 4 buildings
South of the entrance to Emory University at North
Decatur Road. Parking in the neighboring Saba lot
is fine, _except_ in front of the computer repair shop).
The goal of the day is to perform triage and light repairs
to recover as many working laptops as possible from a stack
of about 100 used units. Any systems that can be revived
to a functional state (hopefully 50 or more) will be installed
with a Linux OS Distro and packed up for shipment to South
America.
Volunteers are welcome to arrive and leave any time during
the day, but should be ready to volunteer for a minimum 2 hr.
shift. ANY AND ALL SKILL LEVELS of Linux use, Linux
configuration and hardware repair are welcome. Volunteers
with language skills in Espanol may be especially helpful.
Pizza lunch and soft drinks will be provided around 1pm,
BYOA (bring your own Ale) adult beverages are OK as well.
If interested in volunteering for this worthwhile charity
project, please RSVP to ArxAaron[at]gmail.com