We are a BSD focused video pod-casting group based in New York. We are members of the New York BSD Users group and promote group activities as well as upload videos from our bi-yearly con.
From the NYCBSDCon brochure: Escaping the Database Doldrums, James K. Lowden Relational Theory describes information retrieval in mathematical terms. Yet its power -- simplicity of expression, verifiable correctness -- remains unrealized because the market and the vendors have agreed on SQL. The problems of the proprietary development model have resulted in generations of programmers skeptical of the Theory and resentful of the tools and libraries they're forced to use. The market is an idiot....
From the NYCBSDCon 2010 Brochure: If you wander into any bookstore, brick or virtual, you'll see books on Linux, Solaris, Macintosh, and even non-Unix-like operating systems. The BSD books are far between. We as a community need to address this if we're to expand our reach. This talk covers designing, selling, writing, and promoting your own technical book, with a special emphasis on BSD books. I'll cover everything that I wished I'd known before I started, common errors, where the "generally ...
From the NYCBSDCon 2010 Brochure:BSD Firewalling with pfSense, Chris Buechler pfSense is a FreeBSD-based firewall and router distribution. In this talk, one of the founders of the project discusses the latest developments with the project. How and why people are deploying it, recent developments, and plans for the future. Chris Buechler is the co-founder of the pfSense project, and makes a living working on it. He is the co-author of the book pfSense: The Definitive Guide, and a frequent prese...
From the NYCBSDCon Brochure: BSD Professional Certification Update: The Lab Exam, Jim Brown This talk provides an update on the BSD Professional Lab Exam including a recap of rapid developments on the lab exam during 2010. The format, content, and delivery of the exam are all discussed as well as our current experience with developing a hands-on lab using completely open source tools and methods. A preview of the lab exam format will be shown during the talk, and there will be an opportunity f...
This video was made from the slides and audio recording of a NYCBUG meeting in Jan. of 2010. From the NYCBUG site: This presentation gives a brief high level overview of Hadoop. Next, we hit the ground running with a quick practical example of how Hadoop solves a "big data" problem. We also discuss how the demonstrated Hadoop processing model scales out to terabytes of data and hundreds or even thousands of computers.
Dru Lavigne, Chair of the BSD Certification Group gives an informative talk about the differences between Linux-based and BSD Operating Systems. This talk covers the different BSD Operating Systems (PCBSD, DragonFlyBSD FreeBSD NetBSD & OpenBSD) and how they compare with the numerous Linux-based distributions.
Dru Lavigne, Chair of the BSD Certification Group gives an informative talk about the creation of the open source certification system for the BSD operating system. This talk covers the BSDA and BSDP certifications and the Psychometrically Valid testing process for confirming an in depth knowledge of the BSD operating system.
