Our Featured Presentation for the
Thursday, Nov. 15th , 7:30pm
ALE Central meeting will be
Reduction in a Land of
VMs and Small Devices
presented by
Brian MacLeod
Synopsis:
— Files everywhere, multiple computers in rooms, and a network that keeps
falling behind the times. Sounds like your workplace, right? For many
of us, this also describes our home.
— This maddening mix led to a reformulation of my digital home life that
scraps old servers and desktops for Virtual Machines and network “appliance”
devices to restore sanity, reduce power consumption, and improve reliability.
Armed with a little common sense and tools from the Linux sysadmin world,
engineering a better solution comes into reach.
:: Tools mentioned: NFS, Ansible, CFengine, SSH, OpenVPN
:: Tech level: beginner, overview
Bio:
— Brian MacLeod is a Systems Engineer with PACE at Georgia Tech, working
on OS management, storage, and backup infrastructure for researchers
to use in their computing needs.
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The meeting will be held at Emory Law School in our
usual Gambrel Hall, room 1C venue.
Our meeting time frame is 7:30pm to ~9:20pm
Directions to Emory Law School can be found at
http://ale.org/?page_id=2
The next ALE-NW@SPSU meeting is being held
Thursday, November 8th, 2012 at 7:30pm in room J-266
of the Atrium (J) building on the SPSU campus.
The feature presentation will be:
Getting Started with Linux
On the Amazon Cloud
with Orlando Karam
Abstract:
– Amazon Web Services are among the most popular
“infrastructure-as-a-service” offerings on the internet;
they let you easily run Linux (and other OSs) as virtual
machines on Amazon’s infrastructure. In this talk, we
will give a brief introduction to capability and pricing,
and talk about how to start VMs from the web or from
scripts with the boto python library.
Speaker Bio:
– Orlando Karam was born in the US but grew up in
Mexico. He got hooked up with Unix while a grad student
at Tulane University, and has been running Linux on
servers and laptops for more than 15 years. He teaches
computer science at Southern Polytechnic State University,
and is starting to use AWS for research and development.
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For a campus map and a link to directions please see
http://www.spsu.edu/visitspsu/campusmaps/index.htm
Parking in non reserved spaces in the P60 deck is best.
Building J, the Atrium building, is a short distance east
of the parking deck.
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ALE-NW@SPSU meetings are open events and we hope
you will join us! Also remember that topic suggestions
and presentation offers the meetings can be emailed to
[ jdp (at) algoloma (dot) com]
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The ALE CENTRAL meeting for Thursday, Oct. 18th,
2012 at 7:30pm in Emory Gambrel Hall room 1C will be a reprise
of last weeks ALE-NW presentation:
Securing a Debian Box to NISPOM Standard
presented by Jonathan Meek
Abstract:
In order for any computer system to hold classified data on a U.S. Government
system, it must be certified by the Defense Security System (DSS) which requires
the computer system to align to the National Industrial Security Program
Operation Manual (NISPOM) standards. By default, Red Hat Linux is the default
Linux operating system of choice by DSS and others are typically not passed. So
what does one do when a system is based on Debian and needs to meet NISPOM
standards? In this presentation, it will be shown the steps needed to meet
NISPOM standards on a Debian system.
Speaker Bio:
Jonathan Meek is a Research Scientist for Georgia Tech Research Institute, doing
work in the Quality Assurance Department of the Electronic Systems Lab. He holds
a bachelors degree in computer science and is currently working on his masters.
He started working with Linux in 2006 at the suggestion of one of his
professors. Previous to his work at Georgia Tech Research, he worked at King &
Spalding LLP on the IT Support team. His hobbies include running, writing, movie
trivia, and teaching the Computer merit badge to Boy Scouts. He holds
memberships with the National Eagle Scout Association, Association of Computer
Machinery and Pi Kappa Phi Fraternity.
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The meeting will be held at Emory Law School in our
usual Gambrel Hall, room 1C venue.
Our meeting time frame is 7:30pm to ~9:20pm
Directions to Emory Law School can be found at
http://ale.org/?page_id=2
The next ALE-NW@SPSU meeting is being held
Thursday, Oct. 11th, 2012 at 7:30pm in room J-266
of the Atrium (J) building on the SPSU campus.
The feature presentation will be:
Securing a Debian Box to NISPOM Standard
Abstract:
In order for any computer system to hold classified data on a U.S. Government
system, it must be certified by the Defense Security System (DSS) which requires
the computer system to align to the National Industrial Security Program
Operation Manual (NISPOM) standards. By default, Red Hat Linux is the default
Linux operating system of choice by DSS and others are typically not passed. So
what does one do when a system is based on Debian and needs to meet NISPOM
standards? In this presentation, it will be shown the steps needed to meet
NISPOM standards on a Debian system.
Speaker Bio:
Jonathan Meek is a Research Scientist for Georgia Tech Research Institute, doing
work in the Quality Assurance Department of the Electronic Systems Lab. He holds
a bachelors degree in computer science and is currently working on his masters.
He started working with Linux in 2006 at the suggestion of one of his
professors. Previous to his work at Georgia Tech Research, he worked at King &
Spalding LLP on the IT Support team. His hobbies include running, writing, movie
trivia, and teaching the Computer merit badge to Boy Scouts. He holds
memberships with the National Eagle Scout Association, Association of Computer
Machinery and Pi Kappa Phi Fraternity.
=======
For a campus map and a link to directions please see
http://www.spsu.edu/visitspsu/campusmaps/index.htm
Parking in non reserved spaces in the P60 deck is best.
building J, the Atrium building, is a short distance east
of the parking deck.
======
ALE-NW@SPSU meetings are open events and we hope
you will join us! Also remember that topic suggestions
and presentation offers the meetings can be emailed to
[ jdp (at) algoloma (dot) com]
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The featured presentation for our ALE CENTRAL
meeting on Thursday, Sept. 20th, 2012 at 7:30pm will be
a reprise of Orlando Karam’s excellent presentation from
ALE-NW in August:
Linux on ARM and the Raspberry Pi
Abstract:
— ARM is a family of computer architectures, different from x86,
and characterized for its low cost and low power consumption.
Many cell-phones and tablets run on ARM, and now there are many
low-cost low-power servers running on ARM. We will discuss some
of the available hardware and the status of the software, with a
special focus on the Raspberry-Pi, a $35 computer system designed
with a focus on education, but useful on many domains.
Bio:
— Orlando Karam was born in the US but grew up in Mexico. He got
hooked up on Unix while a grad student at Tulane University, and
has been running Linux on servers and laptops for more than 15 years.
He teaches computer science at Southern Polytechnic State University,
and has been exploring the potentials of his raspberry pi since it was
delivered to him about 10 weeks ago.
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The meeting will be held at Emory Law School in our
usual Gambrel Hall, room 1C venue.
Our meeting time frame is 7:30pm to ~9:20pm
Directions to Emory Law School can be found at
http://ale.org/?page_id=2