ALE NW will be held this Thursday, September 21st at 7:30PM at The Weather Channel in the Windy Hill Area.
We will start as soon as everyone has arrived and been escorted to the meeting room. As always, please try to be at the office by 7:15-7:30. We will proceed upstairs at 7:30 for the meeting.
This month’s presenter will be Raylynn Knight, ALE list regular.
The topic will be:
The Hobbit Monitoring System
Please do bring your questions, and we’ll see you there this Thursday!
Raylynn did a wonderful presentation on Hobbit. I’ve attached a link to his file for your convenience:
Our presentation for September 14th will be
“How to Cheat and Win with
Clustering for Fun and Profit”
presented by
Vernard Martin
Synopsis:
Linux is the current king of the high performance clustering market.
We’ll give a short history of clustering with Linux and talk about ways
to build an enterprise class cluster on a shoestring budget.
Bio: Vernard Martin is a founding member of ALE and a Senior Problem
Wrangler for the Rollins School of Public Health at Emory University
where he runs their computer server environment. He has been using
Linux longer than any sane human being would admit to and recently
retired from being a graduate student at GA Tech. He lives in Atlanta,
GA with with his cat Lietenant and of course, his own baby cluster.
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Some general background on Linux clustering may be found at
the Linux Clustering Information Center:
http://lcic.org
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Meeting time is 7:30pm to ~9:30pm
Directions to ALE Central meetings at Emory
Law School are linked on ALE.org side bar.
We will be shooting from the hip this month doing some playing around with Cacti and network monitoring tools. Very loose and informal as always.
The ALE Meeting will be at The Weather Channel this Thursday, August 17th at 7:30PM.
This week’s presentation will be a bit shorter than usual, but is a followup to Brian MacLeod’s Kickstart presentation of a few months ago covering PXE booting.
Please remember to be on time (around 7:15) so we can move everyone upstairs together, and make the move through security easier.
As I said, this week’s presentation will be a bit shorter than usual, so bring questions you need answered, and if you have any interesting work anecdotes, we can have a mini-presentation time where we yeild the floor to your stories.
See you there!
Our presentation for August 10th will be
“The Current State of Wireless Security”
with one of ALE’s top security experts,
Michael Warfield
Internet Security Systems Inc., Atlanta
Synopsis:
This session is an overview of the current state of
802.11* wireless standards, security profiles, developments
and practices.
Detail:
As hardware costs plummet, wireless networks are proliferating
rapidly. Many are badly configured and highly insecure, in spite
of improvements in standards and default configurations. This
talk on Wireless Security will be an update on the state of the
art in 802.11 [abgix] security and security practices. Included
will be some recent developments in standards, security
incidents, and developments in the field as well as
recommendations on securing wireless infrastructure.
Bio:
Michael Warfield is the Senior Researcher and Fellow on
the X-Force of Internet Security Systems, Inc. (ISS), a leading
global provider of information protection solutions that secure
IT infrastructure and defend key online assets from attack and
misuse. He is also an active member of the Samba development
team and is a contributor to the Linux Kernel and numerous Open
Source Software projects. Mike has published articles on both
Samba and on Security and is a respected cryptographer in the
Open Source community.
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Meeting time is 7:30pm to ~9:30pm
Directions to ALE Central meetings at Emory
Law School are linked on the side bar.