From: Breathnach, Proinnsias (Dublin) (breatpro at domain exchange.ie.ml.com)
Date: Thu 20 Jun 2002 - 14:59:11 IST
Guys and gals,
Looks like the agenda for the AGM (as mentioned on www.linux.ie) will be:
> 09:30 Gavin Hendrick - getting SME's (your boss?) to see the plus side of
> Linux
> 10:00 Dave Malone - filesystem improvements in FreeBSD
> 10:30 Dave Wilson - IPv6
> 11:00 Address by ILUG chair & ILUG Committee election
> 11:30 Karl Jeacle - ADSL
> 12:00 Padraig Brady - inconsistencies in the unix interface
>
We also hope to have a wireless server with a debian apt-gettable archive
courtesy of Mark Kilmartin for anyone who's got their 802.11 cards handy !
> These are the three abstracts we've gotten so far:
>
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> IPv6 in the real world - Dave Wilson
>
> IPv6 is out of the lab and has been working on well known operating
> systems for some time now - it just needs to be switched on. Reasons for
> the switch include taking the hassle out of address allocation and
> configuration of machines. Changes in the address format and DNS are
> discussed, followed by a run down of the different transition mechanisms
> available. Finishing is a walk through of the changes you need to make
> to get IPv6 running painlessly on any recent Red Hat or Debian system.
> eircom i-stream
>
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> ADSL - Karl Jeacle
>
> This talk will cover eircom's i-stream ADSL product. While there will
> be a brief overview of the current retail products, the main focus of
> the talk will be how Internet service is offered via ADSL, and what the
> technical requirements are for the customer to avail of the service.
>
> - Overview of current i-stream product offerings
> - Ethernet vs USB
> - Modems vs Routers
> - PPPoE and why you need it
> - End-to-end: Modems, DSLAMs, ATM and BAS
> - Contention rates and what to expect
>
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> Recent Filesystem Optimisations in FreeBSD - David Malone
>
> In this talk he summarises four recent optimisations to the FFS
> implementation in FreeBSD: soft updates, dirpref, vmiodir and dirhash. He
> then will give a detailed exposition of dirhash's implementation. Finally
> he will study these optimisations under a variety of benchmarks and look
> at their interactions. Under micro-benchmarks, combinations of these
> optimisations can offer improvements of over two orders of magnitude. Even
> real-world workloads see improvements by a factor of 2-10.
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> Recent Filesystem Optimisations in FreeBSD - David Malone
>
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