[Chester LUG] Information Security talk & LUG Meet

[Les Pritchard]

That's the problem with modern servers / clusters - they just don't look
exciting enough! I think Sun were the last people to do servers that looked
like they cost loads, but even they didn't have people in white jackets and
clipboards walking around it :-)

On 19 January 2011 13:38, Stuart Burns <stuart.james.burns at gmail.com> wrote:

> Tbh its the first time I have seen it. You expect some huge Cray type
> thing. Its about the size of two racks side by side. Its the tape and disk
> cabs that tale the room. (tens of metres of them)
>
> Its used for running dozens of websphere instances and data warehousing
> stuff.
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> On 19 Jan 2011, at 10:06, Michael Crilly <mrcrilly at gmail.com> wrote:
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> I thought it would have been used for a World of Warcraft server. Silly me.
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> On 19/01/2011 10:05, Les Pritchard wrote:
>
> ...and it's all just used for SETI at Home :-)
>
> On 19 January 2011 09:16, Stuart Burns < <stuart.james.burns at gmail.com>
> stuart.james.burns at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>>  Best not tell you about the IBM mainframe then  ;)
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>> On 18 Jan 2011, at 22:49, Michael Crilly < <mrcrilly at gmail.com>
>> mrcrilly at gmail.com> wrote:
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>>   Lucky sod, Stuart.
>>
>> Les, I will be there. I'll go straight from work, although I'm not sure
>> what the traffic will like from Deeside to Chester after 6PM. Any ideas?
>>
>> I'll bring the Mac, but no Linux on it sadly - it's too shiny for that.
>>
>> See you later.
>>
>> - Mike.
>>
>> On 18/01/2011 21:13, Stuart Burns wrote:
>>
>> Love to go but stuck in a huge datacenter in exeter installing a 192 cpu
>> vmware cluster!
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>> On 18 Jan 2011, at 20:03, Les Pritchard < <les.pritchard at gmail.com>
>> les.pritchard at gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>>  Hi,
>>
>>  Just thought I should post this event here in case you're in Chester
>> tomorrow night and haven't got anything better to do! I'm going to be giving
>> a talk on Information Security and ISO 27001 for the BCS at Chester Uni (in
>> the same building we've had technical meets at). More info at <http://www.bcs.org/content/conWebDoc/38570>
>> http://www.bcs.org/content/conWebDoc/38570 starts at 7 with coffee and
>> biscuits from 6.30.
>>
>>  Of more relevance to the group; there's also going to be a Linux on the
>> Desktop event on March 16th with the world famous Dan Lynch speaking (you
>> can buy me a pint for that one Dan ;-)
>>  The idea of the event will be to promote Linux as a viable desktop OS and
>> it would be really good to have some demos of as many desktop environments
>> as possible. So get polishing your desktops and bring them along to show off
>> please!
>>
>>  Whilst I'm emailing it's worth reminding that the next LUG meet is next
>> Thursday (27th) at the usual location.
>>
>>  See you there.
>>
>>  Les
>>
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