Meetings

Meeting / 2007 - 09 Template:Meetings:Vitals placeholder Itinerary Presentations An introduction to Xen by Henri Servomaa Henri Servomaa will be giving an introduction to Xen, how it works, the main features and limitations and some usage examples, followed by a demo Lightning Talks From Lightning_Talk (Wikipedia) A Lightning Talk is a short presentation given at a conference or similar forum. Unlike other presentations, lightning talks last only a few minutes and several will usually be delivered in a single period by different speakers. ...

Meeting / 2007 - 11 Template:Meetings:Vitals placeholder Itinerary Presentations A Ruby script for backing up using Amazon S3 for data storage by Lars Kotthoff This month Lars Kotthoff will be giving a presentation on a Ruby script he has developed for backup using Amazon S3 web service. If you are involved in a project or have something you would like to talk about, we are always looking for presenters. Thanks to Edmund Edgar and Jeff Barr this months meeting will be simulcast in Second Life at the Conference Center at Amazon Developers 1. ...

Meeting / 2008 - 01 Template:Meetings:Vitals placeholder Itinerary Presentations e-Paper Display Technology & iRex iLiad e-Paper Reader by Jim Maricondo This month Jim Maricondo will be giving a presentation about upcoming e-Paper display technologies that one day soon may replace books and printed advertisements. You will learn about how to write your own applications for the iRex by iLiad, an E-INK based tablet e-book reader that runs Linux, X11, and Java Mobile Edition. ...

Meeting / 2008 - 03 Template:Meetings:Vitals placeholder Itinerary Informal Discussion “Copyright law in Japan” by Assoc. Prof. Hideaki Shirata[1] Main Topic “Automated configuration and change management with Puppet” by Tomoyuki Sakurai Presentations This month, Assoc. Prof. Hedeaki Shirata[1], a renowned expert in Cyber Law, will be discussing the differences between Japanese copyright law and those of the US and Europe. If there are things you would like to hear about please post your question to the list before the meeting. Please be aware that not all questions may be answered. ...

Meeting / 2008 - 05 Template:Meetings:Vitals placeholder Itinerary Elections TLUG officer elections: President Vice President Presentations NOTICE: schedule has been changed. Josh goes first. (1) “Test Driven Development with Eclipse” by Josh Glover (*) short break (maybe) (2) “TOMOYO Linux Overview” by TOMOYO Linux Project. (Approx. 50 min) Project Overview (Toshiharu Harada) 3min if you have gmail account, please join on-line TOMOYO Linux is a Mandatory Access Control extension to Linux. The project has been trying to have their code to be merged in the mainline Linux kernel. Recent LWN article by Jonathan Corbet, “TOMOYO Linux and pathname-based security” is a great summary of the past and the current status. If you are familiar with SELinux or AppArmor, the comparison chart should give the shortest way to understand TOMOYO Linux. LiveCD demonstration (Kentaro Takeda) Yes, it's easier than you think. You don't have to wait the tech meeting to try TOMOYO Linux LiveCD. http://tomoyo.sourceforge.jp/wiki-e/?TomoyoLive “Why” TOMOYO Linux? (Tetsuo Handa) Main architect of TOMOYO Linux, Tetsuo Handa, will give short talk on in-depth fundamental design of TOMOYO Linux for TLUG. Q&A Contact: haradats_at_gmail.com (Toshiharu Harada, project manager) ...

Meeting / 2008 - 07 Template:Meetings:Vitals placeholder Agenda Presentations << Presentation (1) >> “Reading Felica cards from Linux/BSD” by Lars Kotthoff This month, Lars Kotthoff will be explaining how to use libpasori[1] to read Felica cards from Linux. He will also demonstrate a Ruby application he wrote to read Suica/Pasmo cards and display information about the last 20 transactions[2]. [1] http://libpasori.sourceforge.jp/ [2] http://www.larsko.org/PasoriRuby << Break >> Short break (maybe) << Presentation (2) >> “Happy Tracing with DTrace” by Hisayoshi Kato ...

Meeting / 2008 - 09 Template:Meetings:Vitals placeholder Agenda Presentations << Presentation (1) >> “ModSecurity - A Web Application Firewall that actually works” by Tomoyuki Sakurai In this session, I will introduce ModSecurity[1], which is the most widely deployed Web Application Firewall, licensed under GPL. [1] http://www.modsecurity.org/ All vulnerabilities are bugs. The best way to fix the vulnerability is to fix the bug. However, sometimes we cannot do it for various reasons. Still, we have to do something to prevent bad things from happening. ...

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. ...