content/events: fill in remaining 2008 events from mailing list archives

Author: jhenstridge

content/events/2008/_index.md

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-### **October 2008**
-LTSP for fun and profit, presented by Adon Metcalfe
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-### **November 2008**
-A look at Ubuntu Intrepid Ibex, Virt-Manager, KVM, VirtIO, FreeNAS and OpenArena, presented by Adrian Woodley
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-### **December 2008**
-The Eeepc: tips and tricks, presented by John McCabe-Dansted

content/events/2008/eeepc.md

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+title: "The Eeepc: tips and tricks"
+date: 2008-12-09T19:30:00+08:00
+presenters:
+  - John McCabe-Dansted
+---
+
+The Eeepc 701 is under a kilogram, and often under $300
+new. This makes it easy to have a full Linux pc with
+you where-ever you go. Despite the low weight and low
+cost the Xandros based OS is snappy for casual use.
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+Having used the Eeepc my primary desktop for two weeks,
+the limited nature of the Eeepc's screen, memory, flash
+storage, CPU and supported software was clear. I discuss
+ways of mitigating these limitations, such as;
+
+- Increasing the virtual resolution of the screen.
+- Compressing the memory with the compcache module.
+- "Overclocking" the CPU (without actually overclocking)
+- Adding Etch repositories safely with APT-pinning.
+
+Adding additional hardware to the Eeepc will also be
+discussed. Borrowing a proper keyboard, monitor can make
+the Eeepc much nicer to work with when traveling.

content/events/2008/ltsp.md

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+title: LTSP for fun and profit
+date: 2008-10-14T19:30:00+08:00
+presenters:
+  - Adon Metcalfe
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content/events/2008/november.md

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+title: "A look at Ubuntu Intrepid Ibex, Virt-Manager, KVM, VirtIO, FreeNAS and OpenArena"
+date: 2008-11-11T19:30:00+08:00
+presenters:
+  - Adrian Woodley
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+
+(Or "What Adrian's been playing with this week")
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+As most of you will be aware, Intrepid Ibex, the newest update to
+Ubuntu, was released last week. Overall there are only minor
+improvements on Hardy Heron, Intrepid does come with some new versions
+of some interesting systems.
+
+One of these in particular is Virt-Manager. Virt-Manager is a GUI
+front end for several hypervisors. Currently it supports Xen, QEMU and
+KVM. While possibly not suitable for large scale or server
+environments, Virt-Manager does make playing with virtual machines
+incredibly easy. I'll be focusing on using Virt-Manager with KVM and
+VirtIO.
+
+Having the flexibility of a virtual environment to play in has allowed
+me to try out a heap of software, systems and distributions which
+otherwise would have been painful and time consuming. I intend to
+demonstrate a couple that I've come across in the past week, including
+FreeNAS and Nexenta.
+
+On an entirely different tack, I've been having a play with some games
+which are packaged and available in Ubuntu, namely Open Arena, Alien
+Arena and Tremulous. If all goes well, we should be able to have a
+play of these on the big-screen.
+
+Lastly, I'd like to hold a bit of a discussion on an idea I've been
+thinking about lately; Distributed Network Monitoring. I'll elaborate
+more on my idea during the presentation and will be looking for some
+feed back on its usefulness and viability.
+
+(It should be noted that I haven't actually prepared any of this, so
+don't expect slides or any in-depth knowledge on any of the above
+topics! Patrick only approached me on tuesday to fill in.)
+
+Adrian is a Systems Engineer at iiNet. At iiNet he deals with the
+email network, ADSL network and security. Adrian currently holds the
+title of "Most prolific PLUG presenter", having previously presented
+"All the wonders of LDAP revealed!!! (Eggs and all major vegetables
+accepted.)", "Samba Networking", "Everything you ever wanted to know
+about VoIP, SIP and Asterisk, but didn't know who to phone", "Virtual
+Email Hosting" and "Network Monitoring".