[ug-glug] March 7th meeting of the OS-GLUG, Univ. of Chicago

Mon Mar 6 13:40:07 PST 2006

ya'all, i won't be able to be there.. but please take good care of jim 
for me..

thanks

linda

boutilier wrote:

>>...
>>The group has voted to have next Tuesday's meeting
>>(March 7th, 7pm) at the University of Chicago Graduate
>>School of Business (http://gsb.uchicago.edu/).
>>
>>Details forthcoming.
>>    
>>
>
>
>Here is a roll-up of the 3 messages detailing the location,
>directions, agenda, and other information.
>
>Subject: [ug-glug] March 7th Meeting
>Date: Tue, 28 Feb 2006 17:53:15 -0600
>To: ug-glug at opensolaris.org
>From: "Young, Darren" <Darren.Young at ChicagoGSB.edu>
>
>Everyone -
>
>Here are the details for the March 7th meeting at the University of
>Chicago Graduate School of Business. The address is 5807 S. Woodlawn
>Ave, Chicago, IL 60637.
>
>Some "official" maps and directions:
>  - http://maps.uchicago.edu/hydepark.shtml
>  - http://www.chicagogsb.edu/visit/hydepark/map.aspx
>  - http://maps.uchicago.edu/directions/car.shtml
>  - http://maps.uchicago.edu/campus.shtml
>
>>From the city (or I-55), take Lake Shore Drive south to the 57th Street
>exit (the museum exit). Follow that around for 2 blocks but note that
>once it veers south it becomes Cornell Ave. Keep following that as it
>veers to the right again and turns into Midway Plaisance Drive. Continue
>on "the midway" for 8 blocks until you reach Woodlawn Ave and turn right
>(heading north). The building is on the east side of Woodlawn just south
>of 58th street. Mapquest and Google return decent directions from other
>areas.
>
>Another option is to take the Dan Ryan south to the Garfield/55th street
>exit. Stay on the right side of the street which turns to Morgan Drive
>as it wanders though Washington Park. Keep following that until you pass
>the hospital and hit Midway Plaisance Drive heading east. Continue on
>that until you come to Woodlawn (about 5 blocks) and turn left heading
>north to the GSB building.
>
>If you're coming in on the Metra Electric line, take the UC/59th Street
>stop, that will place you just west of Stony Island Ave on 59th street.
>>From there walk west 6 blocks to Woodlawn then north to the GSB
>building. From the Michigan Ave station to 59th is around a 20 minute
>ride and quite inexpensive. If you take this option the GSB runs a van
>service from the building here to the 59th street station every day from
>5 to 10 PM. It's for staff and faculty but all I have to do is call in a
>pickup and they'll drop you off there.
>
>There is an L (red line I believe) stop by the Dan Ryan and from there
>you can cab here. If several people would be coming together this way we
>could probably arrange one of us with a vehicle to make a pickup.
>However, it is more than a mile away in a so-so area so most people that
>train in take the Metra Electric (hint hint, it is the south side).
>
>Parking is available along Midway Plaisance Drive as well as on
>Woodlawn, 59th and 58th. Note that Woodlawn is a 2-way street but 58th
>is 1-way heading west (to University Ave). Unfortunately, I was unable
>to work with security this late to obtain building parking, but it could
>be done in the future.
>
>No matter which way you get here, you can't miss the building, it's 5
>floors and almost all glass. See this page for pictures of the building
>but really, you can't miss it.
>http://www.chicagogsb.edu/about/index.aspx
>
>The main entrance to the building is on the NW corner, the one on
>Woodlawn and 58th Street. Come through the glass doors there to the
>security desk (the big round one). They'll know about the event and can
>show you where the meeting room is located. If you get a guard that's
>not sure what you're talking about, it's room 219.
>
>The room is reserved from 7:00 PM to 9:00 PM but the building and labs
>are open until 10 PM on weekdays. Feel free to come early if you'd like,
>we'll probably be able to have access as early as 6 PM. If you do show
>before 7 PM, give the guard my name and they'll phone me so I can come
>get you.
>
>Wireless access is available here, however there isn't enough time to
>provision accounts for people. So, if anyone needs 'net access I was
>planning on throwing a small switch in there so people can plug in. No
>accounts necessary for that to work. Sorry, have to use that annoying
>*cable* thing. Oh, and if you do want to plug be sure you have a
>firewall installed locally as there is *no* firewall on our public
>networks.
>
>We've arranged for (8) 4' tables with 3 chairs each that way people can
>take notes, set up laptops, etc as well as a projector for presenters
>(and spare tables and chairs). There is a cafeteria in the building
>that's open until 9:30 and serves decent food and Starbuck's coffee.
>
>If you have any questions, need more details or if I've left anything
>out, feel free to email me directly.
>
>Thanks and I look forward to this!
>
>Darren Young
>Senior UNIX Admin
>University of Chicago
>Graduate School of Business
>_______________________________________________
>
>
>Subject: [ug-glug] Guest Speaker at Next OpenSolaris Meeting, March 7
>Date: Fri, 03 Mar 2006 13:23:24 -0600
>To: ug-glug at opensolaris.org
>From: Chip Bennett <cbennett at laurustech.com>
>
>At the next OpenSolaris GLUG meeting, March 7, 7PM, Jim Fiori, engineer
>from Sun Microsystems, will be one of our speakers.  Jim is visiting us
>while doing a presentation on DTrace for the March Sun breakfast meeting.
>
>However, Jim's presentation to us will be different material from the
>Sun meetings.  Understanding that there probably won't be time to cover
>all of these subjects, Jim is prepared to cover any of the following
>topics at our meeting, depending on the direction the group dynamics
>drives the discussion.
>
>  1. How to approach problems with DTrace
>  2. DTrace Implementation Details
>  3. DTrace Case Studies (actual customer engagements)
>  4. USDT example (adding probes to your application)
>  5. More on DTrace Futures (over and above what's presented at the Sun
>     meeting)
>  6. Tuning the T2000 for UDP-intensive application using Nevada:
>         * Nemo project (GLDv3, link aggregation)
>         * Yosemite project (FireEngine for UDP)
>         * Soft rings project (for spreading interrupt processing)
>         * DTrace scripts used for this tuning effort
>
>Hope to see you there!
>
>Chip Bennett
>_______________________________________________
>
>
>Subject: [ug-glug] Presentation at Next OpenSolaris Meeting, March 7
>Date: Fri, 3 Mar 2006 14:37:11 -0600
>To: ug-glug at opensolaris.org
>From: Russell Rezaian <rrezaian at email.mot.com>
>
>Hello all,
>
>Just another announcement.  We also plan to have the first part of a
>series of short presentations on the Service Management Framework at
>this coming meeting.
>
>I'll be presenting on the SMF, starting out with a quick overview of
>what SMF is, and why it was developed.  I also intend to give the
>start of a short overview of how to use SMF.
>
>Future presentations will go into more detail on actually building services.
>
>SMF is the part of Solaris that replaces the familiar SVR4 style "rc
>scripts" with a more powerful and flexible framework.  SMF improves
>system boot time, and provides  more robust way of making sure OS
>services are not only started but kept in service too.
>
>If you've ever written an rc script you should find SMF interesting!
>If you haven't ever written an rc script you're still welcome to join
>in!
>--
>Russell Rezaian
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Linda Kateley              
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Sun Microsystems, Inc.                  
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