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Meeting / 2008 - 11 Template:Meetings:Vitals placeholder Agenda Presentations << Presentation (1) >> “Serving dynamic webpages in less then a millisecond” by John Fremlin John Fremlin will introduce the web application platform he developed. The talk will cover issues like the greatest contributors to latency and how he dealt with them, as well as other issues he addressed in performance tuning. [ slides ] [ handout ] << Discussion (2) >> “designing and building high-performance HTTP systems” ...

Meeting / 2009 - 01 Template:Meetings:Vitals placeholder Itinerary Presentations Main Topic “AWS and deploying Linux with EC2” By Mauro Sauco This month, Mauro Sauco will be giving an introduction and demonstration of Amazon Web Services (AWS), and in particular will be showing how to deploy new Amazon Machine Instances (AMIs) to EC2. He will also explain how to manage instances. If you are involved in a project or have something you would like to talk about in this or a future technical meeting, we are always looking for presenters. ...

Meeting / 2009 - 03 Template:Meetings:Vitals placeholder Itinerary Presentations << Presentation (1) >> “Cracking Japanese text apart with Mecab” By Akira Kurogane Mecab is a well-regarded natural language processing library for Japanese text. Already it is an important tool for linguistic study and no doubt is used in many search tools, but a third use has been found- helping non-native readers learn nihongo as they read it (e.g. on the web). Some methodology explained, and some demonstrations given. ...

Meeting / 2009 - 05 Template:Meetings:Vitals placeholder Itinerary Presentations << Presentation (1) >> “Hypertext and Computer-Augmented-Thought (Xanadu and NLS)” By Matthew (Karamoon) Matthew (Karamoon) will give an overview of hypertext with reference to the work of Ted Nelsons and Doug Engelbart. Key concepts such as intertwingularity, transclusion, virtuality, linking and tumblers will be covered, as well as their relation to human-computer-interaction and augmentation. << Break >> Short break (maybe) << Presentation (2) >> “Semantic Web: Information wants to be useful” By Nicolas Raoul ...

Meeting / 2009 - 07 Template:Meetings:Vitals placeholder Itinerary Presentations << Presentation (1) >> “All your base are belong to us” by Marty Pauley Marty Pauley will talk about network security. In Marty's words "It's great to have a net connection almost everywhere. But when you read your email, are you the only one reading it? And while you may be happy with Google tracking your every move on the web, what about that guy sitting three rows behind you?" ...

Meeting / 2009 - 09 Template:Meetings:Vitals placeholder Itinerary Presentations << Presentation (1) >> “Using the shell effectively” By Zev Blut Zev will give a talk/demo/workshop about using the unix shell more effectively. His talk will include effective shell navigation with readline and history. "After a nice schooling about some shell navigation techniques at RubyKaigi, I figured I should share the love." Please bring your laptops! presentation slides << Break >> Short break (maybe) ...

Meeting / 2009 - 11 Template:Meetings:Vitals placeholder Itinerary Presentations << Presentation (1) >> “OpenBlockS 600 - an embedded Linux server made in Japan” By Martin Killmann and Daisuke Uraki Martin Killmann and Daisuke Uraki from Plat'Home, Japan's first Linux company, will introduce their latest embedded Linux server. The OpenBlockS 600 is a robust machine for network monitoring and many other server tasks. << Break >> Short break (maybe) << Presentation (2) >> “Programming Language Survey: Haskell” By Travis Cardwell ...

Meeting / 2010 - 01 Template:Meetings:Vitals placeholder Itinerary Presentations << Presentation >> “Revision Control for Managing Configuration Files, Part I” By Curt Sampson and Stephen Turnbull This month, Curt Sampson and Steve Turnbull will talk about revision control and how to apply it to managing Linux system configuration. We will describe what revision control is, show examples of at least two revision control systems (RCS and Git), explain what the issues are when using these to manage Linux system configuration files, and introduce etckeeper, which addresses those issues. ...

Meeting / 2010 - 03 Template:Meetings:Vitals placeholder Itinerary We will be running an Open Space style meeting[1]. Our theme for this gathering is The Tokyo Linux User Group, where we have been and where we are going this year. 1. http://www.openspaceworld.com/users_guide.htm << OPENING >> Introduction of new members << AGENDA SETTING >> << OPEN SPACE >> << ANNOUNCEMENTS >> News about Linux/Open Source, general announcements, Q&A Auction (bring any gear that would would like to donate to TLUG) Elections for Position of Vice President << OPEN SPACE >> << CLOSING >>

from 12 What happened on 10th of September? Food Place All you can eat Mexican in Shibuya. Meeting Place Ed's apartment and Linux pleasure palace. Thanks Ed! Crazed Members Present Andrew “Nori” Nishigaya anishi@twics.com Craig Oda craig@twics.com Steve Casmar casmar@twics.com Ed Harter eharter@twics.com Rainer Mager forejin@twics.com Jim Tittsler jwt@twics.com Summary of events After eating Mexican food till we were sick, we travelled to Ed's place and popped open a few beers. After the first one, Rainer sat down in front of Ed's computer and decided to reformat Ed's disk and install Linux again from scratch. Since Rainer was doing pretty well with his beer, we let him. Surprisingly, the installation went smoothly. ...