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The next regular monthly meeting of DLSLUG will be held: Thursday, June 3rd, 7-9PM at: Dartmouth College, Haldeman 041 23 North Main Street, Hanover, NH All are welcome, free of charge. Agenda 5:30 Pre-meeting dinner at EBA's. RSVP and bring cash. 7:00 Sign-in, networking 7:15 Introductory remarks 7:20 bcache: The best performance boost for hard drives under Linux! presented by Bill Stearns Bill Stearns will be introducing bcache, a new cache module for Linux. This code uses Solid State Drives (think flash thumb drives on serious steroids) to act as a cache for existing hard drives. In some early testing, bcache has shown the ability to double, triple, and even quadruple the drive performance of existing disks. We'll look at how it works and where it would be useful, discuss its current pros and cons and will also do a live demo. Come to hear an old hard drive scream! Bill is a System Administrator at Dartmouth College and consultant for Intelguardians. He is a content author and faculty member at the SANS Institute, teaching both the Linux System Administration and Perimeter Security tracks. Bill's background is in network and operating system security; he was the chief architect of one commercial and two open source firewalls and is an active contributor to multiple projects in the Linux development effort. His spare time is spent coordinating and feeding a major antispam blacklist, and assisting the technical community as a volunteer Incident Handler for the Internet Storm Center. Bill's articles and tools can be found in SysAdmin magazine, online journals, and at http://www.stearns.org . 8:50 New York Minute By popular request: bring your ideas, questions, advertisements, job offers/searches, etc., we'll go 'round the horn and make introductions and announcements. ----- Driving Directions Please see the website for links to driving directions. Refreshments We currently lack a refreshment sponsor. If you or your company would like to provide or sponsor refreshments, please get in touch. RSVP RSVP by replying to this e-mail so we can give any refreshment sponsor a count. Mailing Lists There are two primary mailman lists set up for DLSLUG, an Announce list and a Discuss list. Please sign up for the Announce list (moderated, low-volume) to stay apprised of the group's activities and the Discuss list (unmoderated) for group discussion. Links to the mailing lists are on the webpage. Tell Your Friends Please pass this announcement along to anyone else who may be interested. -- Bill McGonigle, Owner BFC Computing, LLC http://bfccomputing.com/ Telephone: +1.603.448.4440 Email, IM, VOIP: b...@bfccomputing.com VCard: http://bfccomputing.com/vcard/bill.vcf Social networks: bill_mcgonigle/bill.mcgonigle _______________________________________________ DLSLUG-Announce mailing list dlslug-annou...@dlslug.org http://dlslug.org/mailman/listinfo/dlslug-announce _______________________________________________ gnhlug-announce mailing list gnhlug-annou...@mail.gnhlug.org http://mail.gnhlug.org/mailman/listinfo/gnhlug-announce/ _______________________________________________ gnhlug-discuss mailing list gnhlug-discuss@mail.gnhlug.org http://mail.gnhlug.org/mailman/listinfo/gnhlug-discuss/