{"id":337,"date":"2012-11-12T12:19:40","date_gmt":"2012-11-12T16:19:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ale.org\/?p=337"},"modified":"2012-11-12T12:28:15","modified_gmt":"2012-11-12T16:28:15","slug":"ale-central-mtg-730pm-thursday-nov-15-2012","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ale.org\/?p=337","title":{"rendered":"ALE CENTRAL MTG. &#8212; 7:30pm Thursday, Nov. 15, 2012"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong><br \/>\nOur Featured Presentation for the<br \/>\nThursday,  Nov. 15th , 7:30pm<br \/>\nALE Central meeting will be<br \/>\n<font size=\"+1\"><br \/>\nReduction in a Land of<br \/>\nVMs and Small Devices<br \/>\n <\/font><br \/>\npresented by<br \/>\nBrian MacLeod <\/p>\n<p>Synopsis:<\/strong><br \/>\n&#8212; Files everywhere, multiple computers in rooms, and a network that keeps<br \/>\nfalling behind the times.  Sounds like your workplace, right?  For many<br \/>\nof us, this also describes our home.<br \/>\n&#8212; This maddening mix led to a reformulation of my digital home life that<br \/>\nscraps old servers and desktops for Virtual Machines and network &#8220;appliance&#8221;<br \/>\ndevices to restore sanity, reduce power consumption, and improve reliability.<br \/>\nArmed with a little common sense and tools from the Linux sysadmin world,<br \/>\nengineering a better solution comes into reach.<br \/>\n:: Tools mentioned: NFS, Ansible, CFengine, SSH, OpenVPN<br \/>\n:: Tech level: beginner, overview<\/p>\n<p><strong>Bio:<\/strong><br \/>\n&#8212; Brian MacLeod is a Systems Engineer with PACE at Georgia Tech, working<br \/>\non OS management, storage, and backup infrastructure for researchers<br \/>\nto use in their computing needs.<\/p>\n<p>============================<br \/>\nThe meeting will be held at Emory Law School in our<br \/>\nusual Gambrel Hall, room 1C venue.<br \/>\nOur meeting time frame is 7:30pm to ~9:20pm<br \/>\nDirections to Emory Law School can be found at<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/mail.ale.org\/?page_id=2\">http:\/\/ale.org\/?page_id=2<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>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: &#8212; 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 [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-337","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-ale-central","category-announcements"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ale.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/337","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ale.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ale.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ale.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ale.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=337"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/ale.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/337\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":344,"href":"https:\/\/ale.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/337\/revisions\/344"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ale.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=337"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ale.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=337"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ale.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=337"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}