[NCSA] NC*SA Monthly Meeting tonight: Deterministic System Administration (LiveStream)

[NC*SA Announcements List - Moderated]

*The next meeting of the North Carolina System Administrators
organization (NC*SA) is Tonight, Monday, May 11th, 2009. 

Details about the meeting are provided in this note.  
**We hope to see you there!
*
*Title: Deterministic System Administration

Speaker: Andrew Hume, AT&T Labs-Research 

Note: This presentation will be accessed 
via LISA2008 LiveStream.*


Brief:
The vision is clear and seductive: take a modest-sized specification of a 
computing environment and automatically derive all the stuff you actually 
need, from DHCP configurations to ordering cables. Is it possible to 
account for every box, every cable, every RAID box, every volume 
mounted, every OS deployed? I describe an attempt to do so, fighting 
the forces of Chaos and Nature, armed only with logical positivism, 
Ruby, little languages, and sarcasm.



Sponsors:
UNC-TV- http://www.unc-tv.org
TriLUG  - http://www.trilug.org

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Directions: http://www.unctv.org/aboutus/directions.html

 >From I-40 East (Chapel Hill/Greensboro/Charlotte):

    * Take Exit 279B (Durham Freeway/Highway 147 North).
    * Take the second exit (Alexander Drive).
    * Turn left at the traffic light at the top of the exit ramp.
    * Cross over the bridge and take the second right
      (approximately .5 mile).
    * At this point, you should see signs for UNC-TV.**

[Note: If traveling I-40 East, you will see Exit 279A (To Alexander 
Drive/Durham Freeway South). Please do not take this exit as you will be 
on the opposite end of Alexander Drive from UNC-TV and increase your 
travel time.]

 >From I-40 West (Raleigh/RDU Airport)

   1. Take Exit 279B (Durham Freeway/Highway 147 North).
   2. Take the second exit (Alexander Drive).
   3. Turn left at the traffic light at the top of the exit ramp.
   4. Cross over the bridge and take the second right
      (approximately .5 mile).
   5. At this point, you should see signs for UNC-TV.**

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Our meetings are free and open to anyone with an interest in the topic
of the evening and/or system administration.  We will be providing food
and drink for the evening. If you have any questions please contact the
Steering Committee at:

ncsa-steer at ncsysadmin.org
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Directions to the meeting are available on the web at
http://www.ncsysadmin.org/directions.