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Ceph
by Jason Couture 26 Feb '12

26 Feb '12

Has anyone here used ceph? I'm debating using it in a production cluster and would like input, alternatives, etc. Requirements: High availability, scales dynamically, fault tolerant, NO CODE CHANGES ( must appear as a posix compatible file system and be able to be mounted as such) nodes must be able to be added to the cluster at will. Prefer multi to multi copy for recovery (removed slow disk recovery bottleneck)

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Announce: March WLUG Meeting & Northeast Linux Fest
by Chuck Anderson 09 Feb '12

09 Feb '12

Hi folks, NEXT month, we will have our regularly scheduled WLUG meeting: Wednesday, March 14, 7:00PM but most likely in a slightly different location. Our current meeting room will be in the process of being annexed by the dining hall, so we'll most likely meet in our old/previous meeting room on the opposite side of the same building. ALSO, the Northeast Linux Fest is happening again this year: Saturday, March 17, 9:00AM at Worcester State University. I encourage you to register for free here: http://www.northeastlinuxfest.org/ Thanks, and see you next month! Chuck President, Worcester Linux Users' Group

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Announce: WLUG Meeting Wednesday 2/8 7PM
by Chuck Anderson 08 Feb '12

08 Feb '12

Hi folks, We ARE having a WLUG meeting tonight, Wednesday, February 8 at 7:00 PM at the WPI campus in Worcester, MA USA. The meeting room is in WPI's Morgan Hall (building 'H' on the campus map [1]), down the hallway to the right of the dining hall entrance. [1] http://www.wpi.edu/Images/CMS/WPI/walkingmap.pdf After the meeting, we'll go out for pizza. Chuck President, Worcester Linux Users' Group

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Postgres cluster
by Jason Couture 26 Jan '12

26 Jan '12

Could someone walk me through building a 3 machine postgres cluster with automatic fail over? I've searched and searched and I'm just not getting it. I currently have postgres 9.1 installed with 1 database as 9.1/main. I'd like to cluster this to provide ha and faster query times. Writes to the DB can be forced to the master only, so read-only slaves are okay (there are far more reads than writes) Can anyone help me out?

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Vintage Computer Festival East 2012
by Evan Koblentz 26 Jan '12

26 Jan '12

Hello, I'm writing to user groups and hackerspaces to inform your members of a very unique upcoming event -- the Vintage Computer Festival East 8.0, May 5-6, in Wall, New Jersey. If you're not familiar with the Vintage Computer Festival, then please take a moment to keep reading .... The event is run by a user group called MARCH (Mid-Atlantic Retro Computing Hobbyists) of which I'm president. Each day of the weekend-long show contains lectures/workshops (in the morning) and an exhibit hall (in the afternoon.) This year's keynote speakers include Dartmouth's Dr. Thomas Kurtz, who co-invented BASIC (on Saturday) and Apple's Daniel Kottke (Steve Jobs' college buddy, India travel companion, Apple 1 board builder in Jobs' parent's garage, and Apple II/III/Mac engineer), on Sunday. Both days, in the afternoon, is our hands-on exhibit hall. Imagine an antique car show -- the cars are nice to look at, but you can't touch anything, and you certainly can't drive. Well, that is no fun at all! Our exhibitors are required to have their systems up and running for live demos all weekend! People can see minicomputers, punch card machines, teletypes, homebrew-era computers, 8-bit micros, etc., all live and running. The venue for our event is the InfoAge Science Center, which is a grassroots, all-volunteer, non-profit facility. It contains a computer museum (run by my user group), along with museums for antique radio/TV, shipwrecks, military communications, amateur radio, etc. -- all operated by independent clubs. Best of all, our event is dirt-cheap to get in. Adult tickets are just $10 a day and $15 for the weekend. Kids are admitted for free. Proceeds benefit our museum, which is strictly educational in nature -- we're all volunteers. In fact, we all lament that our jobs and families interfere with our volunteer time. :) Details are frequently updated at http://www.vintage.org/2012/east/ and http://www.facebook.com/vcfeast8. We'd be very grateful if you could share this announcement with your group members. People attend the Vintage Computer Festival East from all around the U.S. and even from other countries and continents. For now, however, we're reaching out to our fellow user groups around the northeast and mid-Atlantic. Thank you, - Evan Koblentz (evan(a)snarc.net, cell: 646-546-9999)

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OPENINGS - C, Linux, Network openings - perm and contract in MA
by John Spencer 25 Jan '12

25 Jan '12

We have several openings with clients in MA for Sr or Prin level Linux engineers. Northwest of Boston - perm (strong networking/datacom/telecom background) Each bullet represents key skills for a different opening * C, Linux kernel, network drivers, network stack experience * C, layer 2, layer 3, strong TCP/IP * C, Linux, (Linux kernel is a plus), Ethernet switching Cambridge - perm * C, embedded Linux, some kernel work, Agile/scrum environment Contract - West of Boston (12+ months) * C, embedded Linux, consumer electronics, wireless experience Regards, John Spencer Connected Systems Partners Connecting Top Talent with Top Companies 978-455-5550 x208 978-621-9743 cell jspencer(a)connectedsp.com www.connectedsp.com <www.connectedsp.com%20%20%20> GET CONNECTED! Unless otherwise explicitly instructed by sender, all information in this email is considered confidential and intended for the view and use of the recipient(s) only.

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Embedded Linux Engineers contract openings
by John Spencer 20 Jan '12

20 Jan '12

Our client west of Boston has a couple of openings for strong embedded Linux engineers for long-term contracts. Must be US citizen or Perm Resident, must be local Embedded Linux (RTOS) Engineers (12+ mths contracts, west of Boston) Engineers will design, develop and deliver drivers and protocols for a wireless product. Engineer must have experience with low level embedded RTOS design and development including BSP's, board bring up and collaborating with the electrical engineers. Qualifications include: o Extensive experience with embedded Linux including kernel development (other RTOS's such as VxWorks, Integrity, Nucleus, etc. may be considered) o Experience with wireless embedded devices o Experience in audio technologies o Experience developing embedded apps for small devices with processing power a consideration. o Strong C/C++ skills. Assembly would be a strong plus o Experience with OOD. Regards, John Spencer Connected Systems Partners Connecting Top Talent with Top Companies 978-455-5550 x208 978-621-9743 cell jspencer(a)connectedsp.com www.connectedsp.com <www.connectedsp.com%20%20%20> GET CONNECTED! Unless otherwise explicitly instructed by sender, all information in this email is considered confidential and intended for the view and use of the recipient(s) only.

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Super Wifi arrives in Hanover County, NC
by Tom Poe 18 Jan '12

18 Jan '12

Just read that Hanover County, NC, is moving to the FCC's authorized use of unlicensed broadcast frequency ("white spaces"). So, maybe it's a good time to put a proposal together to get our state counties to do the same. Anyone know the technical specs that would lay out a viable solution our county commissioners can consider? If you're interested, please contact me, or maybe we could discuss this as a topic on the mail list (best). Thanks, Tom

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Where to find a software contractor?
by Andy Stewart 18 Jan '12

18 Jan '12

HI guys, I know a small businessman who is interested in potentially hiring somebody to write a piece of custom software. He is wondering where he would look to seek out contractors with the right credentials for this small project. He didn't mention too many details, but it sounds like the project will have something to do with bar code scanning, optical character recognition, and some type of graphical interface, most probably in a Windows environment. Where would you look if you were seeking a software professional on a short term contract basis? Thanks, Andy -- Andy Stewart (KB1OIQ) Founder: Worcester Linux Users' Group Founder: Chelmsford Linux Meetup Group President: PART of Westford, MA (WB1GOF)

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Re: [Wlug] Where to find a software contractor?
by Steven Greenberg 18 Jan '12

18 Jan '12

The Boston PHP group has job fairs and many members, some are software contractors. www.bostonphp.org -- Steven Greenberg Email: steve(a)ssgreenberg.name 251 Holland Rd. Phone: (774)241-0095 Fiskdale, Massachusetts 01518-1231 Web: http://www.ssgreenberg.name Other Email: s.greenberg(a)ieee.org ssg(a)alum.mit.edu

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