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Fwd: NASA To Host Open Source Summit March 29-30 In California
by Gilbert E. Detillieux 11 Mar '11

11 Mar '11

FYI... -------- Original Message -------- Subject: NASA To Host Open Source Summit March 29-30 In California Date: Fri, 11 Mar 2011 13:45:27 -0600 From: NASA News <hqnews(a)mediaservices.nasa.gov> To: NASA News <hqnews(a)mediaservices.nasa.gov> March 10, 2011 Katherine Trinidad Headquarters, Washington 202-358-3749 katherine.trinidad(a)nasa.gov Gretchen Curtis/Jessica Culler Ames Research Center, Moffett Field, Calif. 650-604-3460/650-604-4110 gretchen.curtis@nasa.gov/jessica.culler@nasa.gov RELEASE: 11-070 NASA TO HOST OPEN SOURCE SUMMIT MARCH 29-30 IN CALIFORNIA WASHINGTON -- NASA will host a summit about open source software development on March 29-30 at the agency's Ames Research Center in Moffett Field, Calif. The event runs from 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. PDT on both days. NASA's first Open Source Summit will bring together engineers, policy makers and members of the open source community. Participants will discuss the challenges within the existing open source policy framework and propose modifications to facilitate NASA's development, release and use of software. "Open source brings numerous benefits to NASA software projects, including increased quality, reduced development costs, faster development cycles and reduced barriers for public-private collaboration to commercialize agency technology" said NASA's Chief Technology Officer for Information Technology Chris C. Kemp. "The full benefits of open source can only be achieved if NASA is able to establish the processes, policies and culture needed to encourage and support open source development." Goals for the summit include establishing a method to support collaboration with the public throughout the development lifecycle; exploring NASA's ability to release and develop software under varied open source licenses; determining whether and to what extent NASA can participate in open source software governance bodies; and gleaning best practices from private industry and other federal agencies. Guest speakers will provide insights into best practices and share valuable lessons learned in building and using open source communities. Confirmed speakers include Kemp; Pascal Finette, director of Mozilla Labs; Robert Sutor, vice president of Open Systems at IBM; Chris Wanstrath, CEO and co-founder of Github; and Brian Stevens, CTO and vice president of Worldwide Engineering at Red Hat. The summit will include sessions on licensing, government restrictions, such as the International Traffic in Arms Regulations, governance, and risk assessments. Seating at the event is limited. However, virtual participation is open to the public through online media, including live video streaming, electronic discussion and collaborative note taking. For more information or to register for the summit, visit: http://www.nasa.gov/open/source/ -end- To subscribe to the list, send a message to: hqnews-subscribe(a)mediaservices.nasa.gov

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MTS DSL.
by Sean Cody 09 Mar '11

09 Mar '11

It has been over 10 years since I cared to know but does anyone on this list have any experience with or know what DSL services are required to get a static IP (and a dynamic as well) from our friends at MTS (and I don't want to entertain a dyn-dns option, less knobs means less to break)? The only hard-wired broadband available in a particular area of Manitoba is MTS DSL so it's not like I have a choice. :P As well, with the new service... can you refuse their router to get a plain simple modem? Can one just go an buy a 2/2+ DSL modem? -- Sean (mobile)

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CPU upgrade
by Kevin McGregor 08 Mar '11

08 Mar '11

Does anyone know if/where I can get a AMD AM2 CPU such as a Athlon X2 5800+? The AM3 CPUs are socket-compatible, but I'm not confident about the BIOS support. Any thoughts?

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Fwd: Hot-ICE '11 Program Now Available
by Gilbert E. Detillieux 07 Mar '11

07 Mar '11

FYI... -------- Original Message -------- Subject: Hot-ICE '11 Program Now Available Date: Fri, 4 Mar 2011 16:03:47 -0800 From: Lionel Garth Jones <lgj(a)usenix.org> To: info(a)muug.mb.ca, gedetil(a)muug.mb.ca You're invited to join us at the first Workshop on Hot Topics in Management of Internet, Cloud, and Enterprise Networks and Service (Hot-ICE '11), which will take place in Boston, MA, on March 29, 2011. Hot-ICE '11 will bring together researchers and practitioners working on network and service management in the Internet, cloud, and enterprise domains. The scope of Hot-ICE includes all aspects of network and service management. The program includes sessions on cloud and resource management, service management, network management, and datacenter networking. In addition, a mini-panel will close each session. Check out the full program at: http://www.usenix.org/events/hotice11/tech/ Hot-ICE evolved from earlier Internet Network Management (INM) workshops, which more recently combined with the Workshop on Research on Enterprise Networking (WREN). As such, Hot-ICE, while a new workshop, is serving an established community, but with a broader scope, in recognition of the evolving concerns of the community. Hot-ICE '11 will be co-located with the 8th USENIX Symposium on Networked Systems Design and Implementation (NSDI '11), which will take place March 30-April 1, 2011. Find out more and register today at: http://www.usenix.org/hotice11/proga On behalf of the Hot-ICE Program Committee, Anees Shaikh, IBM Research Kobus Van der Merwe, AT&T Labs--Research Hot-ICE '11 Program Co-Chairs hotice11chairs(a)usenix.org ----------------------------------------------------------------------- Workshop on Hot Topics in Management of Internet, Cloud, and Enterprise Networks and Services (Hot-ICE '11) March 29, 2011 Boston, MA, USA http://www.usenix.org/hotice11/proga Sponsored by USENIX ------------------------------------------------------------------------

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UG News--Ebook Deal/Day: Save 50% on O'Reilly Editor Brian Sawyer's Geek Culture Picks
by Gilbert E. Detillieux 03 Mar '11

03 Mar '11

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Fwd: HotCloud '11 Submission Deadline Extended
by Gilbert E. Detillieux 03 Mar '11

03 Mar '11

FYI... -------- Original Message -------- Subject: HotCloud '11 Submission Deadline Extended Date: Wed, 2 Mar 2011 15:25:34 -0800 From: Lionel Garth Jones <lgj(a)usenix.org> To: info(a)muug.mb.ca, gedetil(a)muug.mb.ca The submission deadline for the 3rd USENIX Workshop on Hot Topics in Cloud Computing (HotCloud '11) has been extended to accommodate the HotOS XIII schedule. Please submit your work by March 14, 2011, at 11:59 p.m. EDT. http://papers.usenix.org/hotcrp/hotcloud11/ HotCloud brings together researchers and practitioners from academia and industry working on cloud computing technologies. There are many challenges in the design, implementation, and deployment of cloud computing, such as automated service provisioning, service monitoring and management, resource elasticity and interference/isolation between users, cloud programming models, economic models, charging and accounting, and service creation using virtual appliances. We believe that cloud computing will benefit from close interaction between researchers and industry practitioners, so that the research can inform current deployments and deployment challenges can inform new research. In support of this, HotCloud will provide a forum for both academics and practitioners to share their experience, leverage each other's perspectives, and identify new/emerging "hot" trends in this important area. Topics of interest include but are not limited to the following: * Platform as a service * Software as a service * Infrastructure as a service * Elasticity and availability in a cloud * Multi-tenancy * Storage cloud * Charging models and economics * Power-efficient ("green") computing for clouds * Monitoring, troubleshooting, and failure recovery * Cloud management and configuration * Programming models * Virtual appliance management and composition * Security and privacy in clouds * New applications for clouds * Mobile clouds * Cloud usage scenarios For more details on the submission process, please see the complete Call for Papers at http://www.usenix.org/hotcloud11/cfpb We look forward to receiving your submissions! Ion Stoica, University of California, Berkeley John Wilkes, Google HotCloud '11 Program Co-Chairs hotcloud11chairs(a)usenix.org --------------------------------- Call for Papers 3rd USENIX Workshop on Hot Topics in Cloud Computing (HotCloud '11) June 14, 2011 Portland, OR, USA Part of USENIX Federated Conferences Week, June 14-17, 2011 http://www.usenix.org/hotcloud11/cfpb Submission Deadline: March 14, 2011, 11:59 p.m. EDT

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Fwd: TaPP '11 Call for Contributions Now Available
by Gilbert E. Detillieux 02 Mar '11

02 Mar '11

FYI... -------- Original Message -------- Subject: TaPP '11 Call for Contributions Now Available Date: Tue, 1 Mar 2011 16:47:20 -0800 From: Lionel Garth Jones <lgj(a)usenix.org> To: info(a)muug.mb.ca, gedetil(a)muug.mb.ca The Program Committee for the 3rd Workshop on the Theory and Practice of Provenance (TaPP '11) invites you to submit short papers on ongoing work. TaPP '11 will bring together researchers and practitioners doing innovative work in the area of provenance. With the deluge of digital data we are currently experiencing, it has become increasingly important to capture and understand the origins and derivation of data--its provenance. Provenance provides important documentation that is an essential part of the quality of data, and it is essential to the trust we put in, for example, the data we find on the Web and the data that is derived from scientific experiments. The workshop may cover any topic related to theoretical or practical aspects of provenance, including but not limited to: provenance in databases, work flows, programming languages, security, software engineering, or systems; provenance on the Web; or real-world applications of or requirements for provenance. The Program Committee is determined to make TaPP '11 a real workshop at which new ideas are discussed and developed and where the participants can learn how other subjects make use of provenance. While the workshop will have online proceedings, the Committee does not want the workshop to become another "mini-conference" that has nothing but paper presentations. The Committee is eager to receive short papers and vision papers describing challenges for provenance research, brief descriptions of new applications, proposals for mini-tutorials, pie-in-the sky research ideas, and anything that will create a successful workshop. While brief and readable descriptions of research are encouraged, recycled conference submissions are strongly discouraged. Submissions are due April 8, 2011, at 11:59 p.m. PDT. More information and submission guidelines are available at http://www.usenix.org/tapp11/cfpa Tapp '11 will take place June 20-22, 2011, in Heraklion, Crete, Greece, the week after the meeting of ACM SIGMOD in Athens. We look forward to receiving your submissions! Sincerely, Peter Buneman, University of Edinburgh Juliana Freire, University of Utah TaPP '11 Program Co-Chairs tapp11chairs(a)usenix.org ------------------------------------------------------------------ TaPP '11 Call for Papers 3rd Workshop on the Theory and Practice of Provenance (TaPP '11) June 20-22, 2011, Heraklion, Crete, Greece http://www.usenix.org/tapp11/cfpa Submission deadline: April 8, 2011, 11:59 p.m. PDT ------------------------------------------------------------------

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MUUG Meeting, March 8, 7:30pm -- Distributed Operating Systems
by gedetil＠cs.umanitoba.ca 01 Mar '11

01 Mar '11

The Manitoba UNIX User Group (MUUG) will be holding its next monthly meeting on Tuesday, March 8. The meeting topic for this month is as follows: Distributed Operating Systems Most people have heard about Cloud Computing; developers may have heard about MPI systems. What about an operating system that was distributed? Robert Keizer takes a look at different distributed operating systems and their uses, with details pertaining to Linux single-system-images such as OpenMosix, Kerrighed, and OpenSSI. The door prize this month also includes two 4U fileservers with triple redundant power supplies. The group holds its general meetings at 7:30pm on the second Tuesday of every month from September to June. (There are no meetings in July and August.) Meetings are open to the general public; you don't have to be a MUUG member to attend. ********************************************************************** Please note our meeting location: The IBM offices, at 400 Ellice Ave. (between Edmonton and Kennedy). When you arrive, you will have to sign in at the reception desk, and then wait for someone to take you (in groups) to the meeting room. Please try to arrive by about 7:15pm, so the meeting can start promptly at 7:30pm. Don't be late, or you may not get in. (But don't come too early either, since security may not be there to let you in before 7:15 or so.) Non-members may be required to show photo ID at the security desk. Limited parking is available for free on the street, either on Ellice Ave. or on some of the intersecting streets. Indoor parking is also available nearby, at Portage Place, for $5.00 for the evening. Bicycle parking is available in a bike rack under video surveillance located behind the building on Webb Place. ********************************************************************** For more information about MUUG, and its monthly meetings, check out their Web server: http://www.muug.mb.ca/ Help us promote this month's meeting, by putting this poster up on your workplace bulletin board or other suitable public message board: http://www.muug.mb.ca/meetings/MUUGmeeting.pdf -- Gilbert E. Detillieux E-mail: <gedetil(a)muug.mb.ca> Manitoba UNIX User Group Web: http://www.muug.mb.ca/ PO Box 130 St-Boniface Phone: (204)474-8161 Winnipeg MB CANADA R2H 3B4 Fax: (204)474-7609

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FYI: mysqldump to create portable SQL
by Adam Thompson 26 Feb '11

26 Feb '11

FYI. When working with a MySQL database last year, I had to find a way to backup the database in such a way that it could be restored with reasonably low effort into any schema, any database, any engine. As of MySQL v5.0.77 (which is what ships with RHEL/CentOS 5.5) the closest I was able to get was this rather baroque set of command-line options to mysqldump: ========== mysqldump --user=${DBUSER} --password=${DBPASS} --skip-opt --add-drop-table --add-locks --create-options --comments --complete-insert --no-create-db --quick --routines --dump-date --result-file="${HOME}/${DB}.sql" ${DB} ========== In my case, the various values are hard-coded in root's crontab. (There's little on-host security, as it's a single-function, otherwise-untrusted system.) Figured I'd post it here since I've discussed it with several people in the group. Note that by using "--add-drop-table --add-locks --create-options --routines" several MySQL-specific features are introduced into the output file; these features are all easily removable using egrep/sed/vi/whatever as they are trivially regex-matchable. If you know you're going to be importing into a foreign DB, you might want to either not use those particular features, or be aware of the appropriate transform into the target SQL dialect. Furthermore, mysqldump uses "`" (backtick) to encapsulate namespace objects; other databases use '"' (double-quote) or [] (square-brackets). This, generally, must be handled by a postprocessing step. Note that the mysqldump documentation suggests that the "-Q" or "--quote-names" option is required to produce these quotes; that is not so in 5.0.77. I haven't yet found a way to disable quoting altogether. For that matter, "--skip-opt" is supposed to turn off several output features, but the observed behaviour does not match the documentation. The one critical feature it does correctly disable is "--extended-insert", which AFAIK is not supported by any other SQL dialect, and is non-trivial to transform in a post-processing step. -Adam Thompson athompso(a)athompso.net

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[BSA] Must view. Very Funny. Hitler gets mad about the state of Canadian broadband
by Bill Reid 25 Feb '11

25 Feb '11

Must view. Very Funny. Hitler gets mad about the state of Canadian broadband (RT @jacobglock@peternowak) http://youtu.be/y-Mg6pq33Zc

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