NewTlug Meetings:2006-11-28
From GTALUG
This month's NewTLUG meeting will be held Tues Nov 28th., at the IBM offices 3600 Steeles Ave E.
Important This meeting is free and all are welcome, however,
all attendees will be required to have a security badge.
Badges should be prepared in advance.
If you plan to attend, please send your name to Paul
(off-list at <pmora@ca.ibm.com>), preferably by Monday Nov 27. ...and please be sure to return badges to the front reception at the end of the session.
Thanks: to Paul for helping NewTLUG not only by arranging for a room and hosting our meetings at IBM but also with looking after the badges.
Badges: please email Paul Mora <pmora@ca.ibm.com> to pre-register
Date: Tues Nov 28, Time: 7-10pm
Topics: 1) Xen Virtualization: see below.
2) "Command Line 101" ...a look at and discussion of useful or essential command line commands or operations. The tentative topic for this month is: "shell expansion" ie: - wildcards etc, - what to do when they fail
(xargs, find...|, perl's readdir etc)
also practical limits to directory sizes - scope of expansion (ie what gets passed to the command esp. if the expansion does not match any entries in the working dir)
Presenter(s): 1) Paul Mora <pmora@ca.ibm.com> and
2) TBA
Location: IBM offices 3600 Steeles Ave East, north side of Steeles at Pharmacy/Esna Park (between Victoria Park and Warden)
Directions: Meet at the front entrance well before 7:00pm (6:30 recommended) to pickup your ID badge. At about 7:00 we'll be escorted to the auditorium. Some provision will be made for anyone arriving a little late.
Parking: Free parking is available in the visitor parkade from 6:00pm to 11:00pm.
What is Xen Virtualization?
Xen is an open-source software project that provides high-performance, resource-managed virtualization on the x86 processor architecture. It allows multiple operating system instances to run concurrently on a single physical computer. Xen manages the computer's hardware resources so they are shared effectively among the operating system instances, called
domains. So what does all this mean? It means that by using Xen virtualization, you can run and use several different operating systems at the same time on a single computer.
from Linux Journal: http://72.14.205.104/linux?q=cache:MLYY8gOFS4MJ:www.linuxjournal.com/article/8812+xen+virtualization&hl=en&ct=clnk&cd=2
