hey folks!!
Reminder: we are now 7 days out... Please RSVP if you plan to come!
Note also: I'll be covering some UEFI vs Bios for Solaris and Windows
co-habitation on the same laptop as well... You wont believe the grief
it's caused me...
So - the full program is:
- Jasmine talking Ansible; the good, awesome and not-puppetness of it all
- Nathan talking Flash devices (well, consumer SSD's) and some
startling performance surprises
- Nathan talking UEFI vs BIOS for laptops and dual-booting Solaris
(along with some irritating bootadm issues to boot... and by 'to boot',
I mean 'as well', and as in booting the laptop. ho ho ho. I'm witty, no?)
Sorry.
Cheers!
Nathan.
On 3/06/2015 3:24 PM, nathan wrote:
Hi folks!
We are back - and with 2 weeks notice for once!! :)
Important note first up: We are still meeting in the NTT office in the
World Trade Centre. (Address Below)
I'm also introducing the Monthly Mystery Door Prize (MMDP). It might
be great, it might not. It might be an SSD or SCSI card, or a can of
Pal, Whiskers or something else... you won't know month to month what
it is, or who will get it. I'll be writing some awesome code (in C of
course) to determine who wins, and what they win. ;) (and it'll be
available for open review to ensure it's not cheating, by always
awarding a Nyan Cat shirt to Richard)
This month, we have Jasmine Russell covering automation /
configuration management with Ansible - an alternative to Puppet. As a
member of a dynamic, fast moving organisation, Jasmine will be able to
provide some thoughts on just how fast one needs to move to stay out
in front these day, what they do with Ansible, some of their
challenges, and why puppet was tossed in favour of Ansible. Jasmine
has warned me that as their primary platform is Linux, there might be
less Solaris in this discussion than we are accustomed to, but pretty
much everything that's presented will be relevant to Solaris in
exactly the same way.
We'll also have me talking a little about SSD's and some lower level
performance characteristics that I was always somewhat aware of, but
had thrust in my face through recent experience. You will be stunned
at the delta in performance of some devices that look similar...
Finally - If you would like to present something - let me know. There
is still space on the bill.
So - come along, talk, listen, eat pizza and drink beer (and maybe
even eat Pal.). I dare you.
(Gavin - I'm *still* looking (As one other observer noted: Now using
my 'Gorgon Stare'(tm) ) at you and the vm2 subsystem one of these
days!! heh heh.) :).
Hope to see you there, and if you would like to present on anything in
S11.2 that you have already played with, let me know, and I'll make
space for you in the program!
For reference - On the list of what folks wanted to see - we
collectively decided we'd like to talk about the following in the
coming months:
DTrace stuff (including a re-intro/primer as we have a bunch of new
folks in the group), Solaris 11 (going deep into the new stuff), (eg:
ipadm, dladm, tuned versus vanilla, etc), OEL/OL (Oracle Linux)...
Anyone who wants to volunteer would be most welcome. :)
See below for topics/speakers.
If you want to get someone else subscribed to this list - send them here:
http://mexico.purplecow.org/m/listinfo/msosug
Please respond in the positive OR negative ASAP so Pizza and Drinks
can be planned.
Where?
The NTT office,
Level 7, Tower 4, World Trade Centre
18-22 Siddeley Street, Melbourne. (**NOTE: This is
NOT the oracle building any more**)
Walk in the front of the building, and head to the
lifts to the left past the security desk, go to level 7.
There is parking available close by, though I can't
speak to the price. I believe it's cheap
off-peak parking though...
When?
***Wednesday*** June the 17th at 18:00 for general
discussion and merriment.
Speakers start at 18:30 sharp, with Pizza arriving somewhere around
20:00ish.
I'm looking for Topics/Speakers for *next* month as well.
Soft drink, coffee/tea and Pizza will be available. (YES - FOOD.)
**If you plan to attend, please reply NOW to
[email protected] so that we
can plan for seating / pizza / drinks!**
To anyone who meets with or talks to folks interested in Solaris: Please
let everyone know about the meeting, the time and the date. We would
love to continue to continue to grow the group.
A note on access: The Lifts in the building and entrance to Level 5
automatically lock early in the evening, so access will be provided by
Oracle folks on-site. A sign will also be placed close to the ground
floor lifts with a contact number, should you arrive after the start of
the meeting.
If you are interested in Solaris, doing interesting things with, or on
Solaris, we want YOU!
Cheers!
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