[Lula] Fwd: UUASC-LA August 2007 Program

[Peter Benjamin]

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                  UUASC-LA
Unix Users Association of Southern California
         Los Angeles County Chapter
             August 2007 Meeting

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            Data Center Management

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           Thursday, Aug. 2, 7-9 pm

            Sun Microsystems, Inc.
       222 N. Sepulveda in El Segundo
        10th Floor -- Martinique Room

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Many UUASC members have either worked or will work inside data centers. This
month we will focus on best practices for such work by having a couple of
experienced admins talk to us about the nuts and bolts of data center
operations.

At the August meeting of UUASC-LA, our own William Yardley who has proven to
be a valuable source of knowledge on this list for the past seven years along
with his colleague Jason Sydes will make their UUASC speaking debuts by
presenting to us methods to help effectively manage large numbers of servers
in a data center environment.

The speakers will share ideas that have proven helpful to them and advise us
as to which proceedures turned out to be problematic. After showing to us a
number of useful tips and tricks, they plan to welcome questions and
discussion from the audience.

William is a senior sytems administrator with seven years experience who runs
a top-secret number of  servers for PriceGrabber.com. Prior to that, he worked
at New Dream Network/DreamHost.

Jason is a co-founder and programmer at the startup Daiger Sydes Gustafson
(heydsg.com). He met William at DreamHost where Jason worked seven years in
various capacities including data center manager.

After the meeting, you are invited to mingle with many of the chapter members
at UUASC-LA's favorite dining and drinking spot. Details will be presented at
the meeting.

WARNING: People may take photographs of UUASC-LA meetings and social events.
If someone is absolutely opposed to having his or her photograph taken, that
person needs to please speak with the photographer.

Warning to photographers: You must have a person's permission to post
photographs in any public manner.

Directions:

>From the South via Interstate 405:

Exit at El Segundo Blvd. Turn left and proceed approximately three miles to
the intersection of El Segundo Blvd. and Sepulveda. Turn right (Northbound),
stay in the right lane. Skip to "Northbound on Sepulveda", below.

>From the North via Interstate 405:

Exit at El Segundo Blvd. Turn left onto La Cienega Blvd. (get into the right
lane). Turn right at El Segundo Blvd and proceed approximately three miles
tothe intersection of El Segundo Blvd and Sepulveda. Turn right (Northbound),
stay in the right lane.

Northbound on Sepulveda:

You should now be proceeding nortbound, in the right lane along Sepulveda
Blvd. The signal at the next intersection (Sepulveda/Grand) is an important
landmark. The meeting venue is in the Oracle building (222 Sepulveda) on the
Southeast corner, just before the intersection, on the right. The Free Parking
is *across* the intersection, in the Northeast corner on the right.

Parking:

Continue northbound across the intersection, turn into the first driveway on
the right, known as the LAX Business Park. Go through the raised gates, turn
right, find  a parking space close to the traffic signal.

Building:

Short stairs lead from the raised parking lot to the sidewalk. Walk across the
intersection heading south. The UUASC meeting venue (Sun Microsystems office)
is in the "Oracle" building, closest to the southeast corner of the
Sepulveda/Grand intersection. Entrances are located on the Oracle building's
North and South sides. However, after business hours, the North side is
closed; go to the South entrance.  If the doors are locked here, the security
guard can open it; politely knock on the door to get their attention.

Enter and sign in, inform the guard that you want to go to the Sun
Microsystems offices on the 10th floor. That means the elevators to the right,
and the guard will likely need to activate the elevator for you. The UUASC
meeting is in Sun's offices on the 10th floor.

For any questions on how to get there, call 310-607-2400. However, that number
won't be available after business hours (5:30). After that time, call
310-607-2560.

UUASC wants to especially thank member Matt Ingenthron of Sun for his
excellent hospitality.  And, UUASC wants to thank our host, Sun Microsystems,
for the continued support of our meetings.

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UUASC is for all persons using UNIX either personally or professionally, or
interested in learning more about UNIX. We recognize all varieties of UNIX,
including (without prejudice) SCO, Linux, SVr4, Solaris, AIX, HP/UX, and BSD.
This is a good place to meet others with similar interests and broaden your
skills and knowledge.

There are two UUASC chapters serving Los Angeles and Orange Counties. Meeting
locations for each chapter are detailed at our web site, http://www.uuasc.org.
Please visit our web site.

There are no dues or other membership requirements. More than 300 persons
receive our monthly meeting announcements. Meeting attendance varies to as
high as 75. Hershel Remer serves as UUASC president and leads a team of
volunteers who together manage the club. More volunteers are always needed.

Los Angeles County Chapter meetings are normally held the first Thursday of
each month from 7 to 9 pm ( or whenever we feel like stopping ). Generally,
meetings include a technical presentation on a hardware or software topic of
current interest to the UNIX community and a round-table discussion of current
topics of interest to the group. UUASC-LA needs future topic suggestions (and
volunteers)!!

Pete