Archive for May, 2009
Meeting #3: Distributed Version Control – better than you think it is
Topic: Distributed Version Control – better than you think it is
Speaker: Gary Pampara
Date: 1 June 2009
Time: 18:30 for 19:00
Venue: University of Pretoria, lecture hall 1-18 in the Economics and Management Science building (building 54 on this map: http://web.up.ac.za/interactivemaps/mapeng/maincampus.htm).
Feedback:
Thanks to Gary for a very interesting talk indeed. Thanks also to the 24 people who attended.
Gary’s [...]
ejabberd back up
After some technical difficulties it was unearthed that porting a Mnesia database (such as that used by erlang) from one machine to another is insanely difficult. I eventually gave up and as a result everybody has to re-register their accounts. Please do so under @tlug.org.za as I also took the opportunity to change the authoritative [...]
Server pics: old and new
This is cluon, the TLUG server. The old one was a AMD Duron 900Mhz with 512MB RAM and first 60, then 20GB of disk space. It was donated by Prof Barnard (then with Electronic Engineering) and it served us well for many years before it developed old-age instability.
The new server is a nice rack-mounted Intel [...]
Meeting #2: Extending Python in C/C++
Speaker: Simeon Miteff
Date: 4 May 2009
Our second meeting took place at the ULS offices again. Simeon talked about Extending Python in C/C++. Thanks to all who attended.
Presentation: tlug_4may09.pdf
Example source code: python-extension-talk_tlugtar.gz
Meeting #1: translate.org.za
Speaker: Walter Leibbrandt
Walter talked about what he is working on: Translate.org.za
The slides for this talk is available at:
http://download.translate.org.za/presentations/TLUG_6Apr09.pdf
Server Switch
As some comments on the “sample” post indicated a number of people noted that the server is no longer the server.
We’ve swapped out the server for a (hopefully) more reliable machine, with some extra RAM and HDD space. What happened to the forums was an unfortunate accident, the wiki is still available under /wiki but [...]