Past BLUG Events

Disk Based Backup with Rsync, Ssh and Dirvish

06/02/2005 at 12:00 AM

With the cost of disk drives becoming so cheep, many users are ditching slow and expensive tape based backup systems and replacing them with disk based backup.

I will talk about 3 linux based programs that can be used for disk based backup, rsync, a fast incremental file transfer program created by Andrew Tridgell of Samba fame. Ssh a secure network communication program, and dirvish, a perl script that automates network backups using rsync and ssh. If time permits, I will also go over configuring dirvish to work with Bran Hatch’s authprogs
program to create secure unattended network backups.

INSTALLFEST

05/06/2005 at 12:00 AM

This meeting will be an install fest hosted by blug. If you, or someone you know, wants help installing linux this is the place to come!

LinuxFest video footage showing

05/05/2005 at 12:00 AM

Matt Hartley will be showing some LinuxFest 2005 footage from the Google presentation done by Chris Dibona.

LinuxFest Planning

04/07/2005 at 12:00 AM

This meeting will be mainly focused on LinuxFest Northwest which is happening April 30th. here at BTC. We’ll have our regular linux Q&A and linux news followed by Fest planning. Everyone is invited, and encouraged to participate.

LinuxFest 04 Planning

04/01/2005 at 12:00 AM

This meeting will be a regular Linux news/events, Question and Answer, as well as an LFNW 04 planning meeting. We’ll talk about LinuxFest 04 and discuss strategies for volunteers and staff.

Increasing performance with rzip, z7a and lzop

03/03/2005 at 12:00 AM

How to use little known, but top performing, lossless data compression utilities to increase backup and bandwidth capacities by up to 400%.

While Linux’s best known data compressors may be “gzip” and “bzip2”, my research has found that
“lzop” is faster, “7za” compresses more, and “rzip” achieves some of both with extra memory, which is becoming more and more affordable.

Kingsley has been using computers for twenty nine years and Linux for eight . I’ve worked at IBM and Hewlett Packard and have written articles for Byte magazine, the L.A. Daily Journal and the First International Conference on Neural Networks.

http cache and expiration headers

02/03/2005 at 12:00 AM

Michael Titus will give a short presentation on HTTP cache and expiration headers that can be used to improve browser performance and reduce server workloads.     This presentation should be of interest to Apache administrators and to web developers using Java, PHP, and Perl.

Slides…
https://blug.org/presentations/titus/Http.html

Christmas Party

12/11/2004 at 12:00 AM

Saturday December 11th is the annual family potluck picnic sponsored by blug.org and friends. It’s from 5pm till 10pm at the Fairhaven Park Pavilion in Bellingham.
http://bellingham.kulshan.com/Washington/Bellingham/Outdoors/Fairhaven_Park.htm

It’s an OpenSource (potluck) event. The pavilion is dry, heated and has a full kitchen. We’ll also have the World Famous Blug Raffle with tons-o-prizes. For prizes so far we’ll have a ton of new
publications from O’Reilly, Prentice Hall, and Apress, A cool Linux keyboard, Linux clothing, software and much more. (donated prizes are welcome and all monies raised go to help fund linuxFest Northwest 2005)

Attendees are encouraged to bring family members.

INSTALL FEST!!!!

11/07/2004 at 12:00 AM

November’s meeting will be an install fest. This is a chance to bring your machine and have the BLUG crew help you with a fresh Linux install. It’ll be from 7pm till 9pm in D building room D-1 at Bellingham Tech. Soooo, seasoned Linux users bring yourselves and Linux newbies bring your machines.

There will be install CD’s of your favorite flavor of Linux available. Also, we’ll have our regular question and answer period, as well as, news about this year’s Christmas meeting(party).

Linux Games

11/04/2004 at 12:00 AM

John B will demo his flight simulator and I will bring my linux box and demo the linux version of Doom 3. Also, I think Michael Dodd will be doing a presentation on setting up a linux game server.

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