Technical

The April 11th meeting brought together over 65 Linux enthusiasts in Tokyo, including Tague Griffith of Netscape Communication’s I18N division and Cliff Miller, President of Pacific HiTech. We first met at 12:30 at the Yaesu Chuo ticket gate and then went to HSBC for Domino’s pizza. The total pizza bill was divided up among all those that ate. Joe Marchak, Ken Harada, and Craig Oda, (three of the infamous gang of five TLUG officers) hopped up and down in front of the meeting room to kick off this grand event. Ken gave an amazingly good simultaneous translation session. The bilingual meeting was an enormous success. Joe Marchak made an announcement that HSBC, and therefore the June TLUG meeting, is moving to a new building on the same street. The big things people were there for were Pizza, Linux, and Linux-Netscape. Shigeo Honda led a genki task-force to collate and order the proper number of pizzas. This came out to 1,000 yen per person. Shigeo volunteered to be the TLUG Snackmaster for the next meeting. We’re discussing ways to integrate this position into the core TLUG direction setting team. ...

from 1 Saturday, June 14 1997 The June 14th meeting was another success. It started off at Tokyo station where we dined on Okonomiyaki. Most peopled went for the mixed-yaki, Craig went for the gusto and ordered the oomori portion. John Little brought a camera and took a few pictures. We were all amazed at Joe Marchak's 20" color monitor on a Linux machine running Red Hat with Motif. Thank you Joe and HSBC for hosting the meeting. ...

from 1 What happened in January? Food Place Steak Kuishinbo near the CTI office: We enjoyed reasonably priced beef. I had the oroshi-steak set with salad, soup and rice for about 800 yen. Meeting Place Linux heaven! The CTI head offices with Linux machines coming out of the walls. Crazed Members Present Nori Nishigaya anishi at cyber.ad.jp, Craig Oda craig ay twics.com, Steve Casmar casmar at twics.com, Jim Tittsler jwt at shrine.cyber.ad.jp, Rainer Mager rvm at fore.com, Dave Madden dhm at vheissu.net.dcl.co.jp, James Ellison jellison at shrine.cyber.ad.jp, Joe Marchak (Get on the net Joe :-) Summary of events This month's theme was interpretted languages and Rainer (rvm@fore.com) was prepared with a TCL demo that showed various system performance statistics. We discussed TkPerl, Rex, and forth. Everyone is still looking for development languages that are cross-platform. We really want a PIGUI (Platform Independent Graphic User Interface), but have not found a suitable tool yet. TkPerl is still in alpha, so it might be best to stick to Tk/TCL. ...

form 1,2 January 28th technical meeting The next meeting of the Tokyo Linux Users Group (TLUG) is THIS SUNDAY. We will meet at 12:00 noon, Sunday 28Jan, near the police box and Burger King that are in front of Seibu's BIG BOX department store in Takadanobaba. BIG BOX is located immediately southeast of the main exit of the JR and Seibu Shinjuku line Takadanobaba stations (and one of the exits of the Tozai subway line). A map is available from http://shrine.cyber.ad.jp/~jwt/dskk.html ...

Meeting / 2001 - 01 Template:Meetings:Vitals placeholder Itinerary This months meeting will be a friendly round table discussion on various topics. It will be a good time to get to know others, discuss what current projects your working on, and have a laugh in the process. After the meeting, there will be a shin-en-kai at: Tengu New Akasaka Fujibayashi Bldg. B1 3-15-13 Akasaka, Minato-ku, Tokyo tel 03-3584-9745 ...

Meeting / 2001 - 03 Template:Meetings:Vitals placeholder Topics Inside an Electronic Dictionary This months topic will be presented by Jim Breen Visiting Professor, at the Institute for the Study of Languages and Cultures of Asia and Africa, Tokyo University of Foreign Studies, Japan. As Jim says..... In the talk I intend to cover three aspects of what I have been doing with electronic dictionaries and dictionary files over the last few years: ...

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 - 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” ...