On Tue., 2006-07-18, Mark Ferlatte of Linden Lab will talk to BALUG about the technology beneath Second Life, and present techniques for managing large quantities of servers with only a few support staff. (Second Life is a 3-D virtual world entirely built and owned by its residents, population 200,000!) http://www.secondlife.com/

Note: Dates in calendar are closer than they appear: We're talking NEXT TUESDAY.

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For the August 18 meeting, we'll hear from Splunk, a company that claims to "Take the SH out of IT".

TOPIC: Splunk: Illuminating the issues in your Data Center.

SPEAKER: Patrick McGovern

BACKGROUND: Splunk, based in San Francisco, makes a Web-based AJAX-enhanced search engine that allows system administrators and programmers to search all their incoming log files in real time (any type of log files: Sendmail, Cisco, MySQL, syslog, etc.) with a browser. It's a powerful tool to allow people to 'see' inside their systems as they are running.

ABOUT THE SPEAKER: Patrick is Chief Community Splunker at Splunk, Inc. Prior to joining Splunk, Patrick McGovern managed SourceForge.net for five years for VA Software / OSTG.

Meeting time, location, etc. (also on the BALUG Web site): Tue 2006-07-18 7:00 P.M. PDT $11.00 fee for dinner Four Seas Restaurant 731 Grant nr. Sacramento., 3rd Floor Banquet Facility: "The China Room"* San Francisco

Feel free to join us as early as 6:30 P.M. at the bar for social chat, etc., before the main meeting.

*Sometimes we eat and/or meet in the main dining facilities on the 2nd floor; just ask where the BALUG meeting is when you arrive, and you'll be pointed to the appropriate place.

http://www.balug.org/