From sc at mailman.lug.org.uk Mon Sep 9 18:02:00 2002 From: sc at mailman.lug.org.uk (sc@mailman.lug.org.uk) Date: Mon Sep 9 17:02:00 2002 Subject: [Sc] [Fwd: [lugmaster] SBLUG Meeting : High availability computing] Message-ID: <38359.212.113.199.253.1031587529.squirrel@mail.e-corp.co.uk> -------- Original Message -------- Subject: [lugmaster] SBLUG Meeting : High availability computing From: Tim Williams Date: Mon, September 9, 2002 4:55 pm To: South Birmimgham LUG , , Hello, i'm advertising this to a much wider audience than normal because the subject matter being somewhat unusual might interest people outside of South Birmingham Linux user Group (SBLUG). If you know somebody who might be interested, feel free to forward this message. Tim W ------------------ SBLUG Meeting at 7.30pm on Thursday 19th September, School of Computer Science, University of Birmingham. Directions can be found on http://sb.lug.org.uk/meetings/ . Synopsis -------- The purpose of this discussion is to give the audience an overview of clustering, with particular attention to high availability clustering. Following the talk will be a demonstration of a highly available webserver using LifeKeeper on Linux. Content: Different types of clustering Measurement of availability of systems - how meaningful is it Differences between hardware and application Failover - different types of failover Hardware requirements for clustering Demonstration of highly available webserver using LifeKeeper on Linux. This talk is being given by Shobana Patel of Openminds. http://www.openminds.co.uk . --- Tim Williams BSc MSc GIBiol - Research Associate (Autotrain Project) University of Birmingham School of Computer Science Home Page : http://www.cs.bham.ac.uk/~tmw Tel : +44 (0)121 414 2214 (ext 42214 on internal phone) _______________________________________________ lugmaster mailing list lugmaster@mailman.lug.org.uk http://mailman.lug.org.uk/mailman/listinfo/lugmaster From sc at mailman.lug.org.uk Wed Sep 11 11:23:00 2002 From: sc at mailman.lug.org.uk (Richard Smedley) Date: Wed Sep 11 10:23:00 2002 Subject: [Sc] [Fwd: [lugmaster] Fwd: Embedded Linux Seminar] Message-ID: <3D7F0AAD.AD2B8617@futurenet.co.uk> Mark Lewis wrote: > > FYI... > > *********** BEGIN FORWARDED MESSAGE *********** > > On 09/09/2002 at 12:54 fiona@feabhas.com wrote: > > >Mark > > > >Regarding our embedded Linux seminar, 'Embed with Linux?' we now have the > >agenda and all the speakers finalised so could you put this out to the > >Linux > >User groups for me please. www.feabhas.com/linux > > > >Could you confirm if you can do this. > > > >Many thanks > > > >Fiona > > > > *********** END FORWARDED MESSAGE *********** -- Richard Smedley Production Editor, Linux Format Join us at LinuxExpo UK - 9-10 October 2002 - Olympia2, London - http://www.linuxexpouk.co.uk ________________________________________________________________________ This email has been scanned for all viruses by the MessageLabs SkyScan service. 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