Past Meetings

July 28thFrom 10:00am to 12:00pmTopic, "Monitoring your hard disks status" Where, TIES Learning Conference Room Synopsis You have all that data, Gigs and gigs nearly a Terabyte, wouldn't it be nice to know how your disk drive is doing!  Thought you could only get those tools with big expensive server and raid/io equipment ?  Your average off the shelf ide/sata disk drive has had the ability to tell you information about the health of the drive for years, I will show you...

Linux Install Fest August 18, 2007 From 10:00 to 4:00 at TIES in the Grand Hall (Above the parking garage) (A/C and Wi-Fi included) We will be able to install most Linux version, and should be able to download any linux version you need. I was planing to have a talk about MythTV or Virtual Linux, but I have bee unable to prepare a presentation, so that will have to wait for the next meeting. Hope you an attend! Please, if you are bringing a computer to install Linux on have the hardware all r...

Our Next Meeting will Septemeber 29,2007 at TIES 1667 Snelling Ave. N., St. Paul, MN 55108 From 10:00am to 12:00pm About Virtualization with OpenVZ and a little bit about Kernel-based Virtual Machine. At TIES As of 9/14 Brian was not sure what he'd talk about, thinking either OpenVZ or MythTV. It will probably be whichever project he makes the most progress on! I (Fred Olson)  would be willing to talk about the saga of enlarging the s...

Saturday October 27th, 2007 from 10:00 to 12:00 at TIES MythTV This wasn't the presentation that gave, and this presentation isn't complete.  We had an open discussion about MythTV, and I hope to incorporate some of that into the presentation. What I need to cover     Myth History, others, comercial     Configurations        Single machine        Client/Server config     Hardware to us...

This meeting we will try and answer some Linux/Unix questions.  So come and bring your questions, and we will try and answer them. *** Note *** Our meeting this month will be in the Larpenteur room.  This room is above parking garage (see the picture) in the front of the garage on the side of the building facing Larpenteur.  You can go in the glass door under the skyway and take the stairs or the elevator to the second floor, then take the skyway to the parking garage a...

I am a Unix/Linux Professional here in the Twin Cites in Minnesota.  I have been using Linux/Unix sence 1986, starting out using AT&T System V R4 Unix System.  I have pretty much been using Unix since then. I have run the following Linux's day2day at different times.     Red Hat     Debian     Ubuntu     Slackware     IPCop In addition I have used a variety of Unix's since then including (but not limited ...