Thomas, Taylor and I just returned from Bellingham, WA, where the LinuxFest NorthWest (LFNW) was held this past weekend. With over 800 attendees, this event is hosted by the Bellingham Linux Users Group with support from about 20 other Pacific Northwest user groups, the whole event runs pretty much on ...
Richard Bejtlich, who I know from my days at USENIX (he often teaches at their conferences), has a very interesting blog entry (well, at least to me) entitled "What the Feds Should Do" where he discusses how the Federal Government should implement digital security. Of particular interest is point ...
In some ways, the most interesting aspect of the BayLISA Monitoring SIG that's hosted here at GroundWork is the post-meeting socializing: while the meetings formally end at around 8:30 PM people typically hang around for a couple of hours after that.
For example: if you think _you_ have a distributed environment ...
I'm sure there are lots of examples of computing environments with "bursty" demand. For example, I once attened a talk by someone from the Stanford Linear Accelerator Center (SLAC) about the unique demands of capturing and logging data from atomic research experiments: the event of interest (typically, a particle collision ...
Ethan Galstad, Nagios®* Project Lead, has posted a soundfile with him pronouncing "nagios":
http://www.nagioscommunity.org/2007/02/20/nagios-pronunciation/
That's the way I've always heard it pronounced here at GroundWork.
*Nagios is a registered trademark of Ethan Galstad.
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