> ... > The group has voted to have next Tuesday's meeting > (March 7th, 7pm) at the University of Chicago Graduate > School of Business (http://gsb.uchicago.edu/). > > Details forthcoming.
Here is a roll-up of the 3 messages detailing the location, directions, agenda, and other information. Subject: [ug-glug] March 7th Meeting Date: Tue, 28 Feb 2006 17:53:15 -0600 To: ug-glug at opensolaris.org From: "Young, Darren" <[email protected]> Everyone - Here are the details for the March 7th meeting at the University of Chicago Graduate School of Business. The address is 5807 S. Woodlawn Ave, Chicago, IL 60637. Some "official" maps and directions: - http://maps.uchicago.edu/hydepark.shtml - http://www.chicagogsb.edu/visit/hydepark/map.aspx - http://maps.uchicago.edu/directions/car.shtml - http://maps.uchicago.edu/campus.shtml >From the city (or I-55), take Lake Shore Drive south to the 57th Street exit (the museum exit). Follow that around for 2 blocks but note that once it veers south it becomes Cornell Ave. Keep following that as it veers to the right again and turns into Midway Plaisance Drive. Continue on "the midway" for 8 blocks until you reach Woodlawn Ave and turn right (heading north). The building is on the east side of Woodlawn just south of 58th street. Mapquest and Google return decent directions from other areas. Another option is to take the Dan Ryan south to the Garfield/55th street exit. Stay on the right side of the street which turns to Morgan Drive as it wanders though Washington Park. Keep following that until you pass the hospital and hit Midway Plaisance Drive heading east. Continue on that until you come to Woodlawn (about 5 blocks) and turn left heading north to the GSB building. If you're coming in on the Metra Electric line, take the UC/59th Street stop, that will place you just west of Stony Island Ave on 59th street. >From there walk west 6 blocks to Woodlawn then north to the GSB building. From the Michigan Ave station to 59th is around a 20 minute ride and quite inexpensive. If you take this option the GSB runs a van service from the building here to the 59th street station every day from 5 to 10 PM. It's for staff and faculty but all I have to do is call in a pickup and they'll drop you off there. There is an L (red line I believe) stop by the Dan Ryan and from there you can cab here. If several people would be coming together this way we could probably arrange one of us with a vehicle to make a pickup. However, it is more than a mile away in a so-so area so most people that train in take the Metra Electric (hint hint, it is the south side). Parking is available along Midway Plaisance Drive as well as on Woodlawn, 59th and 58th. Note that Woodlawn is a 2-way street but 58th is 1-way heading west (to University Ave). Unfortunately, I was unable to work with security this late to obtain building parking, but it could be done in the future. No matter which way you get here, you can't miss the building, it's 5 floors and almost all glass. See this page for pictures of the building but really, you can't miss it. http://www.chicagogsb.edu/about/index.aspx The main entrance to the building is on the NW corner, the one on Woodlawn and 58th Street. Come through the glass doors there to the security desk (the big round one). They'll know about the event and can show you where the meeting room is located. If you get a guard that's not sure what you're talking about, it's room 219. The room is reserved from 7:00 PM to 9:00 PM but the building and labs are open until 10 PM on weekdays. Feel free to come early if you'd like, we'll probably be able to have access as early as 6 PM. If you do show before 7 PM, give the guard my name and they'll phone me so I can come get you. Wireless access is available here, however there isn't enough time to provision accounts for people. So, if anyone needs 'net access I was planning on throwing a small switch in there so people can plug in. No accounts necessary for that to work. Sorry, have to use that annoying *cable* thing. Oh, and if you do want to plug be sure you have a firewall installed locally as there is *no* firewall on our public networks. We've arranged for (8) 4' tables with 3 chairs each that way people can take notes, set up laptops, etc as well as a projector for presenters (and spare tables and chairs). There is a cafeteria in the building that's open until 9:30 and serves decent food and Starbuck's coffee. If you have any questions, need more details or if I've left anything out, feel free to email me directly. Thanks and I look forward to this! Darren Young Senior UNIX Admin University of Chicago Graduate School of Business _______________________________________________ Subject: [ug-glug] Guest Speaker at Next OpenSolaris Meeting, March 7 Date: Fri, 03 Mar 2006 13:23:24 -0600 To: ug-glug at opensolaris.org From: Chip Bennett <[email protected]> At the next OpenSolaris GLUG meeting, March 7, 7PM, Jim Fiori, engineer from Sun Microsystems, will be one of our speakers. Jim is visiting us while doing a presentation on DTrace for the March Sun breakfast meeting. However, Jim's presentation to us will be different material from the Sun meetings. Understanding that there probably won't be time to cover all of these subjects, Jim is prepared to cover any of the following topics at our meeting, depending on the direction the group dynamics drives the discussion. 1. How to approach problems with DTrace 2. DTrace Implementation Details 3. DTrace Case Studies (actual customer engagements) 4. USDT example (adding probes to your application) 5. More on DTrace Futures (over and above what's presented at the Sun meeting) 6. Tuning the T2000 for UDP-intensive application using Nevada: * Nemo project (GLDv3, link aggregation) * Yosemite project (FireEngine for UDP) * Soft rings project (for spreading interrupt processing) * DTrace scripts used for this tuning effort Hope to see you there! Chip Bennett _______________________________________________ Subject: [ug-glug] Presentation at Next OpenSolaris Meeting, March 7 Date: Fri, 3 Mar 2006 14:37:11 -0600 To: ug-glug at opensolaris.org From: Russell Rezaian <[email protected]> Hello all, Just another announcement. We also plan to have the first part of a series of short presentations on the Service Management Framework at this coming meeting. I'll be presenting on the SMF, starting out with a quick overview of what SMF is, and why it was developed. I also intend to give the start of a short overview of how to use SMF. Future presentations will go into more detail on actually building services. SMF is the part of Solaris that replaces the familiar SVR4 style "rc scripts" with a more powerful and flexible framework. SMF improves system boot time, and provides more robust way of making sure OS services are not only started but kept in service too. If you've ever written an rc script you should find SMF interesting! If you haven't ever written an rc script you're still welcome to join in! -- Russell Rezaian _______________________________________________
