March 27, 2013 / thomas / 0 Comments
System logs are great; you can see exactly what’s happened or what’s
happening on your system. The problem arises once you step up to more
than a handful of systems. The massive mass of massively massive log
files is simply too much for grep and/or your sanity to handle. This is
were Logstash comes in. In a nutshell Logstash allows any number of a
variety of inputs to then be modified to the user’s preferences (uniform
time-stamps for example) and then shipped out to plethora of outputs.
One of these outputs is ElasticSearch which indexes all of the entries
and makes them instantly searchable (All through a snazzy ui which will
also be covered)
February 23, 2013 / thomas / 0 Comments
Curious about Linux? Want to learn how to use a Unix environment on your own computer for class, for fun, or for your résumé? Attend InstallFest 52!
 InstallFest 52 will be on Saturday, February 23rd, 2013, in the Instructional Center (IC) room 109 11 AM to 5 PM. Map |
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February 20, 2013 / thomas / 0 Comments
Howdy, all! This week, Mike Imamura will be giving an introduction presentation on the git SCM (source code management) system.
Join us for this presentation, followed by general Linux Q&A, topped off with an optional social dinner at a local restaurant; 7pm at CoC (College of Computing) room 52.
October 3, 2012 / thomas / 0 Comments
Howdy, all! This week, Justin Filoseta will be giving a talk on SELinux:
Security Enhanced Linux (SELinux) is a mandatory access control implementation integrated into the main line kernel and supported by many of the major Linux distributions. It is enabled by default in Fedora and RHEL (including derivatives CentOS, Scientific Linux, …), and is provided in many others (Debian, Ubuntu, Arch, …).
As was once the case with firewalls, many people simply turn the additional security off because it gets in their way and they don’t know how else to fix it. This presentation will cover the basics of SELinux, enough to understand what it is, what it is doing, and how to get started using it (without pulling out your hair).
The talk will be targeted at those who are comfortable with the linux command line but know nothing about SELinux. In other words:
If you are not fluent with commands like “chown” and “chmod”,
you will be quite lost.
If “system_u:system_r:restorecond_t:s0” means something to you,
you will be quite bored.
Join us for a presentation, followed by general Linux Q&A; 7pm at CoC room 52.
September 5, 2012 / thomas / 0 Comments
The Linux Users Group at Georgia Tech presents:
Introduction Deb, Rpm/Yum, and Pacman package management systems by Daniel Wallace, Ryan Curtin & Thomas Holmquist
September 5th 2012, 7:00 PM
College of Computing building, room 102
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A large part of modern Linux distributions is the package manager. Just like almost everything in Linux, there are multiple competing options available for this task. This presentation will cover basic usage and commands for three of the most popular package managers. Presented by three people, all with their own packager preferences, we hope that you’ll end up with a better all-around feel for the various options available in different Linux distributions.
Afterwards we’ll vote on somewhere tasty to go eat dinner.
August 29, 2012 / thomas / 0 Comments
The Linux Users Group at Georgia Tech presents:
“Linux for Beginners” by Allen Hoffmeyer
Wednesday August 29th 2012, 7:00 PM
College of Computing building, room 102
Campus Map: http://gtalumni.org/map/index.php?id=50
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If you’re new to the world of Linux and are looking to build a foundation for the rest of your Linux career be sure not to miss this presentation on the basics of Linux.
We will cover topics such as:
-Basic commandline usage
-Common terms & acronyms
-File system structure
-Where to get help
-Common tools
-And more!
If you’re having any issue with your install, experienced LUG members will be happy to help you troubleshoot during the presentation. Afterwards we will vote on & migrate to a local eating establishment where we will consume food and be jovial.
August 22, 2012 / thomas / 0 Comments
The Linux Users Group at Georgia Tech presents
LUG Semester Planning Meeting
August 22nd 2012, 7:00 PM
College of Computing building, room 102
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This is the first meeting of the semester, so we will not be having a
presentation. Instead, we will be discussing which presentations we
would like to have this semester, planning for the dates of the
Installfests, and electing new officers.
If you are interested in the LUG but have never been (for instance if
you are a new freshman and found us at FASET this year), this is not a
“members only” meeting — after all, we don’t even have membership.
This is a great time to get involved, though, and as always after our
meetings we will be going out to get food as a group.
Hope to see you there!
April 21, 2012 / thomas / 0 Comments
Curious about Linux? Want to learn how to use a Unix environment on your own computer for class, for fun, or for your résumé? Attend InstallFest 51!
InstallFest 51 will be on Saturday, April 21st, 2011, in Skiles room 257 from 11 AM to 5 PM. |
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April 18, 2012 / thomas / 0 Comments
The Linux Users Group at Georgia Tech presents:
Epicycles, flywheels, and (widening) gyres: UNIX Network Programming in a Manycore NUMA World – by Nick Black
College of Computing building, room 102
Campus Map: http://gtalumni.org/map/index.php?id=50
Building Map: http://lugatgt.org/wp-content/uploads/2012/01/ccb-102.png
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It’s high time UNIX application developers had a robust, parallel, architecture sensitive unification of their various event sources, engineered with explicit consideration for manycore processing environments and nonuniform memory access.
I intend to provide it. Enter libtorque.
April 11, 2012 / thomas / 0 Comments
This week the LUG will be screen printing our club t-shirts. Join us and “compile” your own t-shirt by hand in traditional Linux fashion.
Cost
If you bring your own clean dark colored shirt (black or navy recommended) the price is zero. If you do not want to use your own shirt, we will have blank medium and large sized t-shirts on hand for $8 each.
Time and Location
For this event will be meeting up outside of the Technology Square Research Building (TSRB) at our usual time: 7PM on Wednesday. A map to the building can be found here. After forming up outside in front of the building we will move inside to work on the shirts. Please make it a point to be on time because it’ll be a lot easier to find us that way. If you’re reading this message while stuck outside of the TSRB during the meeting time, shoot me an email and I’ll try to remind future me to diligently check his email during that time.
Designs
Note: The color on these previews may be a little off; the ink color we’re aiming for is old gold 🙂
We’ll be using a high quality plasticized ink which will look great and hold up well.
What can we say? We love Tux 🙂
Questions?
If you have any questions about this event please email president@lugatgt.org or drop in our IRC chatroom: #lugatgt on irc.freenode.org
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