Legacy

Technical Meeting Date May 10, 2014 (Saturday) Time 14:00-17:00 (doors open 13:30) Location IIJ - Internet Initiative Japan Jinbo-cho Mitsui Bldg. 1-105 Kanda Jinbo-cho Chiyoda-ku, Tokyo 101-0051 Map Itinerary Presentations Living on the command line (by Kalin Kozhuharov) Ninja skillz for emergency Data Analytics or how to stay in command of when something hits the fan... What do you do when, out of the blue, you sense emergency in the air, but you have no exact idea what is coming, from where it is going to hit you and since when it has been lurking? You get the data, all the data you can, and analyze it to extract information. You may already have the data, but in hard-to-digest form, spread among people, servers and some backup tapes. Or you may not, so you have to go out and collect it first. Then analyze it. But not in emergency! You have to do all at once, with no sleep, some food and more caffeine, completely out of control most of the time. I help clients with security issues as may day (night?) job, digging into all kinds of (legacy) systems, trying to understand what happened (fancy named Digital Forensics), when and eventually who did it. I have to deal with all kinds of data, stored in multitude of (first seen this) formats/media, most of it _very_ badly formatted/(not) cleansed or simply missing. Usually starting on a Friday night, when most sysadmins had already had more than enough alcohol in their bloodstream to be useful. ...

Nomikai Date April 11, 2014 (Friday) Time 19:30 - 21:30 Event Eat and drink (primarily a social activity) Location Za Watami, Ginza-dobashi-ten 1-3-10 Shinbashi, Minato-ku, Tokyo [ Info (In Japanese) ] [ map ] Cost Costs will be shared equally among participants (usually between 3,000-4,000 yen) Details This event is open to all Linux users and friends, and is to promote casual Linux (and non-Linux) related discussions over a few cold ones. Even if you're not a Linux user or a LUG member, but want to hang out with Linux people, please come. ...

Technical Meeting Date March 15, 2014 (Saturday) Time 14:00-17:00 (doors open 13:30) Location KDDI Web Communications Sumitomo Fudosan Koujimachi Bldg. No.3 3-6 Koujimachi Chiyoda-ku, Tokyo 102-0083 Map J-Map(Google) Itinerary Presentations Programming Money (by Edmund Edgar ) Bitcoin is sometimes referred to as “programmable money”. It has a built-in stack-based scripting language that can be used to require multiple signatures to spend money, lock money up in escrow contracts and more. This talk will show you how transactions work, how to make them and what you can do with them. ...

*canceled* Snow is not that heavy, but the forecast is for strong winds and rain until tomorrow afternoon. Also, a few people told me they wouldn't be able to make it tonight, so we decided it's better to cancel it. See you at the next technical meeting or nomikai! Nomikai Date February 14, 2014 (Friday) Time 19:30 - 21:30 Event Eat and drink (primarily a social activity) Location Za Watami, Ginza-dobashi-ten 1-3-10 Shinbashi, Minato-ku, Tokyo [ Info (In Japanese) ] [ map ] ...

Technical Meeting Date January 18, 2014 (Saturday) Time 14:00-16:30 (doors open 13:30) Location KDDI Web Communications Sumitomo Fudosan Koujimachi Bldg. No.3 3-6 Koujimachi Chiyoda-ku, Tokyo 102-0083 Map J-Map(Google) Itinerary Presentations Raspberry Pi in Japan (by Masafumi Ohta) Ohta-san will present a report on the activities of the RPi community in Japan that took place throughout 2013. He will also talk about his plans to hold an event early in 2014, when Eben Upton is scheduled to come to Japan. ...

Nomikai *** bonenkai *** Date December 13, 2013 (Friday) Time 20:00 - 22:00 Event Eat and drink (primarily a social activity) Location Tengu Shinbashi 3-22-1 Shinbashi, Kawazaki Dai-ichi Bldg. B1F, Minato-ku, Tokyo [ Info (In Japanese) ] [ map ] Cost Costs will be shared equally among participants (usually between 3,000-4,000 yen) Details This event is open to all Linux users and friends, and is to promote casual Linux (and non-Linux) related discussions over a few cold ones. Even if you're not a Linux user or a LUG member, but want to hang out with Linux people, please come. ...

Technical Meeting Date November 23, 2013 (Saturday) Time 15:00-17:00 (doors open 14:30) Location IIJ - Internet Initiative Japan Jinbo-cho Mitsui Bldg. 1-105 Kanda Jinbo-cho Chiyoda-ku, Tokyo 101-0051 Map Itinerary Presentations Programming Smart Cards/SIM Cards (by Nikolay Elenkov) Programming and using Smart Cards on Linux. Nikolay will cover the basics of smart card programming and introduce some of the major open source middleware and tools available for Linux. Introduction to WebRTC (by Edward Middleton) Edward will cover the history of peer-to-peer technology in the web. He'll look at the WebRTC API's and protocols, and then cover some interesting open-source projects using WebRTC technology. ...

Technical Meeting Date September 21, 2013 (Saturday) Time 14:00-16:30 (doors open 13:30) Location KDDI Web Communications Sumitomo Fudosan Koujimachi Bldg. No.3 3-6 Koujimachi Chiyoda-ku, Tokyo 102-0083 Map J-Map(Google) Itinerary Presentations Running Android on the Beagle Bone Black (BBB) (by Nikolay Elenkov) This talk will introduce the BBB development board and describe some of the steps required to run Android 4.2 using the 3.8 kernel on it. It will then briefly introduce what ...

Nomikai Date August 15, 2013 (***Thursday***) Time 19:00 - 21:00 Event Eat and drink (primarily a social activity) Location Nihonbashi Mitsukoshi Dept Store Rooftop Beer Garden 1 address: Nihombashi Muro-machi 1-4-1 Chuo-ku, Tokyo map: http://www.mitsukoshi.co.jp/store/fcs/english/1010/map.html Cost Men: 3,701 yen / Women: 3,501 yen (all you can eat/all you can drink) Details This event is open to all Linux users and friends, and is to promote casual Linux (and non-Linux) related discussions over a few cold ones. Even if you're not a Linux user or a LUG member, but want to hang out with Linux people, please come. ...

Technical Meeting Date June 8, 2013 (Saturday) Time 14:00-16:30 (doors open 13:30) Location IIJ - Internet Initiative Japan Jinbo-cho Mitsui Bldg. 1-105 Kanda Jinbo-cho Chiyoda-ku, Tokyo 101-0051 Map Itinerary Presentations “Version Control Done Right” by Andreas Kieckens A brief explanation of what Version control is and why Andreas uses GIT and not another one. Then he'll describe a successful GIT branching system in detail and explain why you should use it. ...