Announce: WLUG Meeting Wednesday May 12 7PM
Hi folks, Our next WLUG meeting is scheduled to be held on Wednesday, May 12 at 7:00 PM in Morgan Hall at the WPI campus in Worcester, MA USA. I'm pleased to announce that Jeff Moyer from Red Hat will be our guest speaker. He will be giving a talk on Solid-State Drive technology (SSDs): A Complete Guide to SSDs This talk explains the inner workings of solid state storage technology in an easy to understand manner. The innate properties of NAND flash are discussed in the context of current disk scheduling methodologies. Benchmark results comparing SSDs and traditional rotating media are presented. The talk further outlines changes in the Linux kernel and file system utilities that have been made to accommodate SSDs, and changes that are on their way. Finally, guidance is given on practical deployment of SSDs, including file system creation and mount options, I/O scheduler selection, and answers to some frequently asked questions. I look forward to seeing you there, Chuck President, Worcester Linux Users' Group
I'll be bringing about 30 technical books I'm giving away for free. Not sure how to handle it but maybe a raffle to determine order in which they are taken. Nothing fancy. Just trying to be fair. Not that these will cause a mad rush or anything. Anyway, here's a picture of them: http://s754.photobucket.com/albums/xx181/greymont/?action=view¤t=AvailableBooks.jpg
On 5/6/2010 10:25 PM, Doug Chamberlin wrote:
I'll be bringing about 30 technical books I'm giving away for free. Not sure how to handle it but maybe a raffle to determine order in which they are taken. Nothing fancy. Just trying to be fair. Not that these will cause a mad rush or anything. Anyway, here's a picture of them: http://s754.photobucket.com/albums/xx181/greymont/?action=view¤t=AvailableBooks.jpg
That's quite a collection - maybe we should only raffle away two or three per meeting to make 'em last? -- Frank Sweetser fs at wpi.edu | For every problem, there is a solution that WPI Senior Network Engineer | is simple, elegant, and wrong. - HL Mencken GPG fingerprint = 6174 1257 129E 0D21 D8D4 E8A3 8E39 29E3 E2E8 8CEC
On 5/6/2010 10:31 PM, Frank Sweetser wrote:
That's quite a collection - maybe we should only raffle away two or three per meeting to make 'em last?
Maybe. As long as someone else takes them home from this meeting. After all, my goal is to be rid of them. ;) I'll leave it up to Chuck how to handle it.
participants (3)
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Chuck Anderson -
Doug Chamberlin -
Frank Sweetser