Linux Users of Victoria is one of Australia's oldest Linux User Groups and has over 1600 members. LUV hosts talks in The Buzzard Lecture Theatre at Trinity College in Parkville, Melbourne on the 2nd Tuesday of the month.We try to record our meetings and share them with the world here.Find out more about us at http://luv.asn.au/
The Belle II project to increase the Luminosity of the KEKB collider by a factor 50 will search for Physics beyond the Standard Model through precision measurements and the investigation of rare processes in Flavour Physics. The data rate expected from the experiment is comparable to a current era LHC experiment with commensurate Computing needs. Both Belle the LHC experiments employ extremely large scale distributed computing clusters running Linux. Incorporating commercial cloud computing, s...
Some modern cars pack more processing power in their in-car entertainment system than the space shuttle does in its entire flight management system, and some of the things recent cars can do are pretty nifty. The electronics in a modern car is typically treated as an inscrutable black box but it's actually quite easy to connect a laptop up to most cars and see what is going on behind the scenes. In this talk Jonathan provides an introduction to the current state-of-the-art in vehicle electroni...
This presentation will be a whistle-stop tour of the Drupal underbelly. We start with a simple use-case of creating and displaying some custom content. Then we look at the basics of how Drupal achieves the result underneath the hood. What components come with Drupal core, and when we need contributed modules or custom code.Simon is a Drupal developer and consultant and runs a Melbourne based business called Em Space focussed on delivering solutions built with Drupal. Simon is also involved in ...
Modern geeks have a life. The trick is to keep it!Many people regard the existence and occurrance of "emergency situations" as normal and inevitable, and I choose to challenge this. We don't want to be woken up in the middle of the night or across a weekend by blipping mobiles. Really.Of course, I'm an argumentative Dutchie, but that merely explains why I don't shy away from a topic - challenging the premise actually makes sound business and commercial sense both for companies as well as their...
Cloud computing allows people to deploy services without regard to the exact amount of compute power. The number of servers used can be changed at will and even changed periodically (EG put on extra servers on the weekend if that is when your customers are active). Amazon EC2 is a commercial cloud computing service based on Xen and Linux. There is also potential for similar technologies to be used for non-profit use.Russell Coker is best known for his work on SE Linux. But of recent times most...
MediaWiki, the world's most widely used open source wiki software, is not just for Wikipedia... and hacking it is not just for developers! MediaWiki is designed in such a way that users can modify and extend its interface and functionality without ever needing to touch a line of PHP. This talk will reveal some of MediaWiki's highly useful but little known features, and cover some of the most interesting and popular ways it has been extended. Come by and find out how to get the most out of your...
