BayLISA General Meeting - Jan 20, 2005 - Alan DuBoff, Solaris 10

[Jennifer Davis]

BayLISA Monthly Technical Talk & General Meeting

Please RSVP to rsvp at baylisa.org so that we can get an idea of how many 
will be attending.  This event is open to the general public. You do not 
need to be a member to attend, and there is no fee.

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Where: Apple Computer, Town Hall auditorium
Addr:  Four Infinite Loop, Cupertino, CA 95014
http://www.baylisa.org/locations/current.html
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Date:  Thursday, January 20, 2005
Time:  7:30pm - 9:30pm PST

This is the first general meeting of 2005.  We are introducing a Guru 
Guest Speaker slot to start off the meeting.  Our first Guru will be Mark 
Langston with the topic described below.  In addition, we have a lot of 
books to give out from our sponsors O'Reilly, and Addison Wesley/Prentice 
Hall PTR, in exchange for a review of the book.  BayLISA members get first 
dibs on books that are available.  Become a member now through the website 
at http://www.baylisa.org/cgi-bin/newentry.cgi.

Solaris 10 - Alan DuBoff

Alan will be talking about Sun's latest OS, Solaris 10. Alan will show 
some of the features of Solaris 10, along with key points of what is 
included in this release. Some of the features include DTrace, N1 Grid 
Containers, ZFS, X server(s), Java Desktop Systems, PXE install for 
x86/AMD64, StarOffice, as well as differences between this release and 
some of the previous releases. Solaris 10 supports SPARC processors as 
well as 32-bit x86 processors and 64-bit AMD64 processors.

About Alan DuBoff
Alan is currently working at Sun Microsystems with a role as a Solaris x86 
Evangelist, being a liaison between the Solaris Community and Sun's 
Engineering. He is actively working to help improve Solaris on x86/AMD64 
systems. Previous to joining Sun, Alan was one of the community 
representatives which met with Sun to discuss the future of Solaris x86. 
This was after Sun's infamous announcement that Solaris 9 on x86 would be 
indefinitely delayed. He has played a key role in turning their decision 
around as well as helping to make Solaris on x86/AMD64 one of the long 
term strategies in Sun's portfolio for volume systems.

Prior to joining Sun Microsystems, Alan was an independent consultant for 
more than 20 years, specialising on microcomputer architectures. He has 
consulted at many of the large companies in Silicon Valley as well as 
Japan where he lived for 5 years. He has been involved in open source 
software since it was called "public domain software", at which time 
people were using 300 baud acoustic couplers to transfer the sources 
around on BBS systems. Some of his previous clients have included, IBM, 
Cisco, Oracle, Sun Microsystems, Taligent, Puma Technologies, TellMe, 
WebVan, VA Linux Systems, 3Com, Kerbango, Power TV, Dai-Ichi Kikaku, NEC, 
J. Walter Thompson, and various others.

Guru in Session - Mark Langston

Mark C. Langston will discuss the evolutionary arms race between packet 
sniffers, sniffer detectors, and sniffer detector evasion.

Mark C. Langston has done a bit of everything: soldered, tape jockeyed, 
reported, maintained, upgraded, bought, sold, managed, developed, 
specified, wheedled, juggled, panicked, published, deployed, rolled back, 
instructed, led, followed, lectured, listened, caffeinated, crashed, 
secured, penetrated, backed up, and restored.

He's been a systems administrator for fifteen years in a wide variety of 
roles and environments, typically working with scientists, reserachers, 
and developers. He's recently decided to try his hand as a full-time 
software developer. Why not? He's caused them enough grief over the years.

Upcoming Events for February - Zach Levow, VP of Engineering and 
Co-founder of Barracuda Networks speaking on Spam Firewalls, and running a 
company based on Open Source software.

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BayLISA meets every month on the 3rd Thursday of the month.  A short
period of announcements of general interest to the sysadmin community
is presented, followed by a technical talk.  Anyone may make an
announcement; typical are upcoming presentations, user group meetings,
employment offers, etc.

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