[GRLUG] Next meeting - volunteer anyone?

Szymon Machajewski smachaje at grcc.edu
Tue Nov 28 23:33:05 EST 2006


I would love to have a discussion about Oracle on Linux.  Especially
with Oracle Enterprise Linux distribution.  

How about we make it a next meeting item along with installations
(help/fest).  

On Tue, 2006-11-28 at 09:19 -0500, Al Tobey wrote:
> On 11/28/06, Szymon Machajewski <smachaje at grcc.edu> wrote:
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>         For now the Dec 4th agenda is confirmed at: 
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>          Linux in a AD domain - Al 
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>          Which database? Oracle, MySQL, MS Access, OpenOffice Base -
>         Szymon
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> One of the Priority Health DBA's, Kurian, can talk about Oracle on
> Linux.   He already offered to talk about HTMLDB and mabye RAC on
> Linux (we have some of both in production).    As a bonus, he already
> has to put together a small presentation for an internal meeting, so
> it's not a lot of extra work. 
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> If anybody is interested, let me know.
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> -Al
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>         I will bring my Fedora Core 6 laptop with xgl running.  Ahh,
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>         Sincerely,
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>         Szymon Machajewski 
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>         Solutions Engineer / DBA
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>         >>>"Szymon Machajewski" <SMachaje at grcc.edu> 11/17/06 4:38 pm
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>         We have the location for Dec 4th confirmed. 
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>         Also the first agenda item is taken care of by Al. 
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>         Do we have volunteers for other two presentations? 
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>         Maybe the approach should be to have fewer presentations
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>         Bill Creswell thank you for keeping Wiki updated about the
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>         We should also start planning forward to the Jan meeting (9th
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>         at IT.  Any requested agenda or presentation volunteers? 
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>         Szymon Machajewski 
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>         >>>"Al Tobey" <tobert at gmail.com> 11/12/2006 8:14:39 pm >>> 
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>         Priority Health Conference 
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>         Center<http://maps.google.com/maps?q=3111+Leonard+St+NE,+Grand
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>         it is at the corner of East Beltline and Leonard St. It is on
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>         On 11/12/06, Szymon Machajewski <SMachaje at grcc.edu> wrote: 
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>         >That sounds great.  This mean the Dec 4th meeting will be at 
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>         >darth_linux, could we do the next meeting at ITT?  This would
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>         >Jan 9th at 3pm ? (normally the first Tue of the month at 3pm
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>         >Which database? Oracle, MySQL, MS Access, OpenOffice Base 
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>         >>>>"Al Tobey" <tobert at gmail.com> 11/12/2006 2:56:46 pm >>> 
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>         >On 11/12/06, Szymon Machajewski <SMachaje at grcc.edu> wrote: 
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>         >Ok.    I think an intro to Kerberos and LDAP would be the
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>         >Ouch.   I'm looking forward to the SAMBA 4 stuff, since they
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>         >>>>"Al Tobey" <tobert at gmail.com> 11/8/2006 11:41:48 am >>> 
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>         >>On 11/8/06, Szymon Machajewski <SMachaje at grcc.edu> wrote: 
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>         >>>According to our previous plans the next meeting date is
>         Dec 4th 
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>         >>>The agenda: 
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>         >>>Linux in a AD domain 
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>         >>>Which database? Oracle, MySQL, MS Access, OpenOffice Base 
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>         >>>We need presenters and a location.  Al, did you have an
>         option 
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>         >>>Priority Health ? darth_linux how about ITT? 
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>         >>>Thank you. 
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>         >>>Szymon Machajewski 
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>         >>>Solutions Engineer / DBA 
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>         >>>Oracle Certified Associate 
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>         >>>www.grcc.edu/smachaje 
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>         >>Sorry for procrastinating.   I just put in the request to
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>         >>I can demo Oracle XE on Ubuntu, or do an abbreviated version
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>         >>MySQL talk I wrote for GR.pm. 
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>         >>If people are interested, I did a minimal AD integration for
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>         >>our *nix hosts at Priority Health about 1.5 years
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>         >>varying stages of integration, from simple password checking
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>         >>Once the room is solid and an announcement message is
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>         >>forward it to GR.pm and have somebody else send it to the
>         Oracle 
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>         >>-Al Tobey 
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