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Jun 14, 2011 - 3 minute read

Acanac Cable Connection is live

In a desire to get better internet speed, I decided to try out the Acanac Cable offering. I’m happy with the DSL service, so I decided to give the cable service a try. I went for the 15/1 service 15 down, 1 up and the whole install and online is supposed to take 7 to 10 business days. Roughly 5 business days after the request, I received the cable modem I ordered from Acanac, a Motorola SB5101N basic unit. Just plug it in and you should be online, once the cable connection is installed.

May 19, 2011 - 1 minute read

May Meeting - no presentation

Just a quick update in case you didn’t look at the calendar.

We will be having the meeting at The Second Cup in Bells Corners.

Topics:

  • BSDCan2011
  • FreeNAS and a couple of FreeNAS install media to give out
  • PCBSD 8.2 media i386 and x86_64 available
  • Discussion of future venues
  • BSD Magazine needs writers

Also, pgcon is on this week http://pgcon.org

May 7, 2011 - 2 minute read

Trying out the iOS client

Sitting down and trying a blog entry via iPad. The intent is to see if the app is useful or not, rather than the content of the entry. So far it seems to be of limited utility, as it has no useful formatting capability, just plain text.

I’ll have to see what the posts look like after this is published. It would be nice if I could inline an image from the camera or photo album.

Apr 22, 2011 - 2 minute read

April Meeting Follow-up (updated)

First off, I’d like to thank Yanick for the great presentation. It’s been a while since I looked at new features in perl and I’m inspired to install 5.12 and start utilizing all of the stuff that’s now available. Who knows, might be some good thinks for the $DAYJOB hiding in there. I did ask for a copy of the slides and as soon as I get them, I’ll post them to the download section.

Apr 14, 2011 - 1 minute read

April Meeting

Title: April Meeting
Location: Pythian
Link out: Click here
Description: Perl talk from Yanick Champoux, one of the Pythian SysAdmins Perl Hackers.

Synopsis:
One of Perls’ original raisons d’ętre was to be a sysadmin’s
best friend. Come and find out how to to leverage Perl for everyday
administrative tasks. We’ll cover

  • Perl’s command-line arguments
  • Well-known idioms for common situations
  • Perl as ‘sed’
  • Perl as ‘awk’
  • Perl as ‘find’
  • From one-liner to small script and back
  • Leveraging TAP as a system monitoring tool
  • Must-have modules
  • And much more.

Who should be attending?