U of T Drupal Users Group

U of T Drupal Users Group Meetup

First gathering of U of T Drupalists to plot world domination one line of code at a time.
Symantec - Confidence in a connected world

Symantec Clustered Storage - FileStore and OFS (Object Based Filesystem)

Solution to enable scalability and performance for the most demanding storage requirements

Online Data Retrieval System in Java

Civil Engineering: Data Retrieval System in Java using the Apache Wicket Framework

U of T Drupal Users Group Meetup

Submitted by Greg Mount on February 9, 2010 - 12:32am
U of T Drupal Users Group
Date: 
February 25, 2010 - 4:00pm
Location: 
TBA (a pub, if I have anything to say about it)
Presenter/Moderator: 
Greg Mount

This will be the first meeting of what could become a U of T Drupal Users Group, as discussed in this thread. The agenda will be determined by event participants. Please signup and comment below on what you would like to discuss. This event description will be updated as things flesh out.

Greg Mount

Submitted by Greg Mount on February 9, 2010 - 12:28am
Greg Mount

Greg Mount is the IT manager at the Unversity of Toronto Faculty of Dentistry. He has been with the University since 1991 and has been working in IT since 1996.

Greg has been involved with the organization of the TechKnow Conference since inception and, in 2009, was the conference chair. He has been involved with several U of T IT initiatives over the years, which includes the creation and administration of the techknowfile.org website.

Upcoming PERC H700 and PERC H800 Cards block non DELL certified drives (reported on linux-poweredge mailing list)

Submitted by Steve Baroti on February 8, 2010 - 4:01am

Just read that newer DELL servers (R710) with PERC H700 /H800 cards would not accept (they block) hard drives which are not "DELL certified"!!
:-(

These are the threads:
http://lists.us.dell.com/pipermail/linux-poweredge/2010-February/041274....
http://en.community.dell.com/forums/p/19314432/19649799.aspx

Symantec Clustered Storage - FileStore and OFS (Object Based Filesystem)

Submitted by frank_currie on February 4, 2010 - 11:23am
Symantec - Confidence in a connected world
Date: 
March 11, 2010 - 10:30am
Location: 
TBD
Presenter/Moderator: 
Frank Currie

Symantec FileStore is an incredibly simple to install software-based clustered NAS appliance that offers the scalability and performance needed for the most demanding storage requirements. Examples of such storage requirements needs include geophysical data files (oil and gas exploration) and medical imaging records.

FileStore scales almost linearly with each added node, and supports up to 16 nodes and 2 PB of total storage. It will work with commodity servers and storage, resulting in high performance at low cost.

Frank Currie

Submitted by frank_currie on February 4, 2010 - 11:15am

Member of the Clustered Storage Group at Symantec. Focused on solutions to enable high performance NAS and Cloud storage infrastructure leveraging commodity hardware. Has worked for Symantec/VERITAS since 2000 in Support, Engineering and Product Management roles.

http://www.symantec.com/business/filestore

Email - frank_currie [at] symantec [dot] com
Ph - +1 416 768 3359

Hours after release, the FSF comments on the iPad

Submitted by Rouben on January 27, 2010 - 6:52pm
FSF activist dressed as Steve Jobs

Literally hours after its release, the Free Software Foundation already released their statement re: their general dissatisfaction with the inclusion of "digital rights management" controls in Apple's iPad operating system. They've made similar statements in the past (and then some) about the iPod touch and the iPhone platforms.

Note that "digital restrictions management" is FSF's creative misnomer of the proper term "digital rights management". Very creative indeed.

http://www.defectivebydesign.org/ipad

Intel's Technical Solutions for end user support

Submitted by Tamara Adizes on January 27, 2010 - 12:28pm
Dell
Date: 
February 10, 2010 - 3:00pm
Location: 
Bahen Centre, Room 1200
Presenter/Moderator: 
Brandon King

Dell is pleased to present Intel’s Technical Solutions Manager Brandon King to present a variety of topics that are relevant to those involved in end user support. Topic include: Alternative Computing, Intel vPro Management Technologies, Security, and Anti-theft Technologies.

Brandon King

Submitted by Tamara Adizes on January 27, 2010 - 12:22pm

Brandon King is a 14 year Intel veteran responsible for technical management of major accounts in the US Midwest and Eastern Canada. Brandon received his undergraduate degree from Indiana University in 1990 and began work for The Kroger Co. as a Network Manager. He joined Intel in 1996 as a Technical Marketing Engineer for the Systems Management Division and was responsible for product direction and execution for Intel management software. Brandon became the Territory Manager for Intel’s software division, managing the Great Lakes region.

The Information Commons License Software Office Now Available on UShop!

Submitted by Tamara Adizes on January 26, 2010 - 8:59am

Procurement Services is proud to announce it is launching a new UShop vendor, the Information Commons Licensed Software Office, also known on campus as the LSO. This partnership marks the first time that an internal UofT vendor is being offered online through UShop. The LSO has been offering software at educational prices to all UofT staff, faculty and students since 1990. They negotiate and administer software license agreements with various vendors in order to decrease overall software costs to the University.

U of T Drupal Users Group

Submitted by Greg Mount on January 26, 2010 - 12:44am
Drupal

Calling all drupalistas: Interested in getting together? There seems to be a growing number of drupal-based sites at U of T, so I'm curious to see if there are enough people to make critical mass on a user group. Alternately, there is a healthy Toronto DUG that meets close to the St. George Campus. We could always join up and send a U of T contingent.

If you are intersted in participating, reply to this thread.