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6 people showed up for the meeting. Topics Discussed: Xen Virtual Servers. Xen is a virtual server project that has both free and commercially supported bundle. Like Vmware multiple virtual servers can run on it. However, Xen does not appear to offer clustering or Disaster Recovery clusters like VMware does. Phishing emails. I explained a […] →Read more
About 7-8 people came to this meeting. Scripting Languages: We started the discussion talking about scripting languages. Dustin uses Perl for his Amanda project at work. He went in some detail on how they used the scripting language to run a bunch of different processes and encapsulates some of it in C. I mentioned that […] →Read more
About 6 people showed up for the meeting. At this meeting we had two new people. One person Bob, brought in his new Linux Laptop. The other, Perry, was interested in gaining more information about Real Time Linux for embedded systems. Since Patrick, our embedded systems guru was missing, we gave Perry some ideas on […] →Read more
About 8 people showed up for this meeting. We had to fight for chairs with the Annapolis Linux knitters who seem to be getting really big. Subjects Discussed: Amanda Tape backup system. Dustin, a new guy from Zamanada , gave a basic description of the Amanda backup system. In summary, Amanda does backups as if […] →Read more
I noticed that some robots are coming to the Kennedy Center. http://www.kennedy-center.org/programs/festivals/07-08/japan/events.cfm?genre_pick=MIS →Read more