[sf-lug] [PenLUG] NEXT WEEK: PenLUG meeting 01/26/2011

[Bill Ward]

NOTE - this meeting is CANCELED due to a booking conflict with the
facility.  Please check the site for the details of upcoming meetings.
 Sorry for the inconvenience.  We've secured the room for the
remaining dates in 2011.

Please do not reply-all to this, as it is crossposted to several
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On Wed, Jan 19, 2011 at 12:00 PM,  <bill at wards.net> wrote:
> PENINSULA LINUX USERS' GROUP (PenLUG) PRESENTS:
>
>   +-------------------------------------+
>   |Date:    |Wednesday, January 26, 2011|
>   |---------+---------------------------|
>   |Time:    |6:00 - 8:00 PM             |
>   |---------+---------------------------|
>   |         |Bayshore Technology Park   |
>   |Location:|1300 Island Drive          |
>   |         |Redwood City, CA 94065     |
>   |         |Suite 106 - Training Room  |
>   |---------+---------------------------|
>   |RSVP:    |Facebook: (coming soon)    |
>   |         |or mail rsvp at penlug.org    |
>   +-------------------------------------+
>
>   Note we are now meeting on Wednesdays! Since March 2010, we moved to the
>   fourth Wednesday of each month (except in November and December, when we
>   meet on the second Wednesday to avoid holiday conflicts). The meeting is
>   hosted by NewlineNoosh. There is no sponsor for food/drinks, so please
>   bring a potluck item to share.
>
>   Agenda:
>
>     * 6:00 PM Potluck snacks
>     * 6:15 PM Free book giveaways or other prizes
>     * 6:30 PM Presentation begins
>     * 8:00 PM Meeting ends
>
>  Blekko
>
>   Blekko is a new Web-scale search engine, offering focused searching using
>   "slashtags", which enable you to restrict search results to the specific
>   sites of actual interest. We'll use some open-source slashtags as
>   examples. The rest of the talk will focus on Map/Reduce done better, NoSQL
>   databases, tuning Linux for good performance, etc.
>
>  Greg Lindahl
>
>   Greg Lindahl is CTO at Blekko. He was previously a founder at PathScale,
>   where he was the architect of the InfiniPath low-latency InfiniBand HCA,
>   used to build tightly-coupled supercomputing clusters. Prior to
>   PathScale's founding in 2001, Greg worked on commodity Linux clusters at
>   HPTi, including the 1999 Forecast Systems Lab system, which was the first
>   time a Linux cluster won a conventional supercomputing procurement. Greg
>   started using Linux in 1996, while working on the Legion "grid"
>   distributed OS project at the University of Virginia, and you can trace
>   the history of his Linux laptop usage from the guides he's written at
>   linux-on-laptops.com.
>
> RSVP
>
>  Although it is not required, we like to have an idea of how many
>  people to expect, so if possible please email rsvp at penlug.org if you
>  are planning to attend.
>
> GETTING THERE
>
>  For information on getting to the meeting, please see:
>      http://maps.google.com/maps?q=1300+Island+Drive,+Redwood+City,+CA
>      http://www.penlug.org/twiki/bin/view/Home/DrivingDirectionsQualys
>      http://www.penlug.org/twiki/bin/view/Home/TransitDirectionsQualys
>
>  Traffic on 101 can be pretty bad in the evening, so we encourage you
>  to check traffic conditions before driving by dialing 5-1-1 on your
>  phone or visiting www.511.org, and if possible to take public transit
>  (best bet: bicycle via Caltrain) or carpool to this meeting.
>
> MORE INFORMATION
>
>  See www.penlug.org for more information.
>
>
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>
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