Talks (was: Re: [YLUG] A basic question)

[Harry Mills]

They all sound interesting. More talks in the future would be great
provided people are interested and turn up. Last talk was great but only
3 people turned up for it (including Zoe who gave the talk).

Harry

On Fri, 2007-12-28 at 18:54 +0000, Alex Howells wrote:
> On 28/12/2007, Harry Mills <mail at hjmills.co.uk> wrote:
> > I'm interested in most stuff - what are your interests?
> 
> Pretty much anything which can be applied to system administration, so
> stuff like:
> 
>   *  Scalable spam prevention  -  anyone with a working solution
>       capable of handling *lots* of mails per day?  What software are
>       you using to accomplish it?  Any particular "tweaks" you came
>       across during testing which weren't well documented?
>       Is there an individual quarantine per user/domain, perhaps
>       accessible through a web interface?
> 
>   *  Scalable web hosting  -  deploying WWW services behind load balancers
>       and utilizing technologies like caching on dynamic content.
>       Would be particularly interested in hearing from someone who's
>       deployed a Ruby on Rails application in such a manner, given that
>       it appears such a c*nt to deploy in any sane fashion :-)
> 
>   *  Centralised management - anyone with 10+ systems probably knows how
>       much of a pain doing regular upgrades can be ;)  Adding accounts to
>       all the systems, ensuring 'old' accounts *are* deleted from all the
>       hosts; it's a regular pain in the arse :)  Particularly interested
>       in hearing from anyone using LDAP with SSH+LPK on Debian/Ubuntu,
>       although tactics for accomplishing the same using a tool like Puppet
>       or CFengine would also be cool :)
> 
>   *  Firewalls - minimo or maximo?  Anyone want to play devil's advocate
>       on whether all systems should run a firewall? :)  Prepare for heckling.
>       For those systems *with* a firewall, do you `-P INPUT DROP` and go
>       from there; or is your preference to operate just a blacklist?
>       If you don't advocate a firewall for the average system, why?
> 
>              <.. insert more geeky system'y stuff here ..>
> 
> I'm also open to interesting talks on other stuff ;)  Some of the
> above I've done a little/lot of before and am thus looking for a fresh
> viewpoint and some new ideas to take home, other stuff I'd like to do
> in future.
> 
> Oh, and the not-so-system-admin ones:
> 
>   *  Release Engineering - just how difficult is getting a new distribution
>       release out the door?  Last minute security blockers, developers not
>       delivering on time?  Does that really change within a company where
>       all the work isn't voluntary and unpaid?  Any tips or tricks to speed
>       up or automate the process; any tips or tricks to "managing" the whole
>       shebang so key trains of the process aren't dependent on one guy/girl?
> 
>   *  Continuous Integration - rather related to the above, I'm curious how
>       people use methodologies like CI in the "real world" ;)  I know that
>       Debian has buildd, for example, but what are the benefits and limits?
> 
>   *  Web Development Languages - someone advocating Ruby vs. another person
>       talking up PHP would be a hoot :)  It'd be particularly interesting
>       if the same people had deployment experience, not just development --
>       my lay understanding is that Ruby is a pain in the arse to deploy if
>       you're looking to handle >250 concurrent users, and PHP has the rep
>       for being easier to deploy, but easier to "break" (more sec. vulns).
>       Does something like Suhosin and suPHP address these concerns? What're
>       the performance impacts of both, given suPHP requires php-cgi, etc?
> 
> Um, cool hardware projects would be neat too.  Anyone got a working
> setup with >1 tuner to record TV in Linux?  What're you using in terms
> of cards and software?  Embedded hardware like an EFIKA - anyone got
> one?  What're you using it for?
> 
>                           <END WISHLIST>
> 
> Thank you Santa!
> Alex
> 
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