It has been official for some time, but I am just now announcing that I will be doing a course on virtualization at this year’s Southern California Linux Expo. I was kindly invited by the folks at LOPSA (the League of Professional System Administrators).

The course will cover some basics of virtualization (and related technologies). I will also do some in depth coverage of setting up and using Open Source Xen and talk about the innovation going on in the virtualization world. I am looking forward to it and hope to see a full room.

This is a duplicate post of my announcement on my new page.

The Great (blog) Chase

There was a time when there was considerable uncertainty about my longstanding Uberhip domain. I had intended that it be my eternal web and email presence. The catch was, it was owned by a buddy of mine who went of dog sledding north of the arctic circle for a while:

needless to say, I was unsure whether I was going to be able to keep the domain, despite paying to renew it several times. This caused some trouble for me (months of bounced emails, missing websites) but eventually he thawed up enough to help me with the domain transfer. Actually, thats not quite how it worked but close enough.

So uberhip.com is back to being my official home on the web. I will keep godber.org around for family purposes but 0xb will likely fall into disfavor (no offense blogger, but I don't really enjoy using the browser for an editor, though it IS convenient, and sometimes seems like a direct injection into Google's brain). The reliability was good (though when there was a problem I was helpless to resolve it which could also be considered a benefit) but I am converting my site and blog to be entirely static HTML so I wont have to worry about an upgrade treadmill or annoying operational complexity hampering my web maintenance.

So the new site is of course http://uberhip.com/ and my feed is handled by feedburner http://feeds.feedburner.com/uberhip.

I expect to do one last post here (which will be replicated at the new site). Hopefully today.

Happy new year to everyone, and you don't know how lucky you are for not having to suffer through all of the other stupid YouTube videos I resisted posting.

Ag

Daft Punk - Harder Better Faster Stronger Girls

Maybe I am way behind the times on this one (about one year it seems) but here is a awesome Daft Punk amateur video of Harder Better Faster Stronger by two girls who have written the lyrics on their bodies and dance to the tune by showing the appropriate lyic at the appropriate time.

If you are looking to kill some time, there are probably hundreds of variations on this theme. Good stuff ... AFFIRMATIVE

Note to self

On Leopard, if you want to see what process is listening on what port use lsof ...

lsof -ni | less

Netstat doesn't seem to have a -p option and my new favorite Linux tool for this is 'ss', which doesn't exist on OS X that I know of.

PLUG Virtualization Presentations

The last two weeks I have given two presentations to PLUG (Phoenix Linux Users Group). The first presentation was for the PLUG Developer meeting where I gave an Overview of Virtualization on Linux.

This week, I presented to PLUG's East Side Meeting about Xen Virtualization on Linux.

Both meetings went really well and I will likely cover Xen again on the West Side and maybe other virtualization platforms.

Austin

Trac JumpBox - Virtual Appliance

Pretty exciting times at JumpBox now-a-days. Our virtual appliance library has reached 9 and will grow even further. We have been getting lots of good feedback from our beta users and the people we have demoed to.

Last week we demoed the Trac Virtual Appliance at the Refresh Phoenix demo night. The other Refresh demos were great and I am glad to see people in Phoenix doing such quality work and caring enough to come out and pimp their stuff. The group had a real great reaction to the Trac JumpBox, but who wouldn't be excited to see a 30 second setup of Trac plus Subversion when it can be a real pain in the butt to do it yourself.

Phoenix Area Tech Group Calendar

About a year ago, I tracked down all of the Phoenix Area User/Tech Groups and posted links to their sites and created a calendar with their meeting dates.

Even though I nuked the drupal site with the post I still have the calendar ... as long as Google is still around you can find it here :

Hmm, drag, white background.