{"id":97,"date":"2016-04-12T23:40:35","date_gmt":"2016-04-13T04:40:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/npsa.parentreprise.com\/?p=97"},"modified":"2016-06-11T10:50:02","modified_gmt":"2016-06-11T15:50:02","slug":"2016-04","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kwnpsa.ca\/index.php\/2016\/04\/12\/2016-04\/","title":{"rendered":"2016-04: What to Celebrate"},"content":{"rendered":"

Location:<\/strong>\u00a0 The Working Centre<\/a> 58 Queen Street South, Kitchener, ON (plan<\/a>)<\/span>
\nDate:<\/strong> April 11th, 2016
\nTime:<\/strong> 7:00 PM<\/p>\n

As a counterpoint to last month’s terrifying meeting, let’s discuss the ways that system administration has gotten easier and more effective. We can share tools and techniques that have made a big difference in our systems administration practices, and talk about our glorious utopian future.<\/p>\n

====================================<\/strong><\/p>\n

Announcements<\/strong>
\n————-<\/p>\n

– Ubuntu Release Party: April 23?<\/strong>
\n+ not enough interest?
\n+ Sign up at https:\/\/framadate.org…<\/a>\u00ad<\/p>\n

– Laptop Rescue Mission: April 16, 4-8pm<\/strong><\/p>\n

Media Manipulation<\/strong>
\n– John Berger: Ways of Seeing
\n– ORLAN: Plastic surgery as performance art<\/p>\n

What Should We Celebrate?<\/strong>
\n————————-<\/p>\n

Open source<\/strong><\/p>\n

– It has lasted long
\n– Many companies have put FLOSS into hardware: TVs, fax machines
\n+ But these devices are locked up tightly
\n– Free Software movement wants to make the software reusable for anybody
\n+ But Android apps are often not FLOSS
\n+ Google has a layer on top of the kernel that is proprietary<\/p>\n

– Kik controversy?
\n+ There were some tools on a server including “Left-Pad”. He had one application called “kik”. The company Kik got mad.
\n+ The guy took down his repo
\n+ Then all the tools went away
\n+ But then Kik went down too!
\n+ Lessons: everybody is dependent on everything else on the Internet
\n* But now other people’s code need to be accessible
\n+ Lesson: Big companies can bully small companies
\n+ It was a trademark issue, not a copyright issue
\n+ Should free software include being able to use the name you want?<\/p>\n

Virtualization<\/strong><\/p>\n

– Makes lots of experimentation possible
\n– Software defined networking
\n– Can be done on small\/cheap machines
\n– eg Virtualbox
\n– The software is available for no cost
\n+ This is an outcome of FLOSS<\/p>\n

Computer Recycling<\/strong><\/p>\n

– Some people on limited incomes are running Linux?
\n– MRR program: Windows + Office for cheap (low income only)
\n– Linux machines running Xubuntu (for everybody)
\n– The cost ranges: $60 – 120 for desktops, $30 – 75 for laptops<\/p>\n

– Now people on limited incomes have phones<\/p>\n

– Desktops are cheaper and good for creating things<\/p>\n

Microsoft is less evil now<\/strong><\/p>\n

– More responsive to customers
\n– Powershell is good
\n– Microsoft is not FUDding FLOSS any more
\n+ you will be able to run Bash
\n+ .NET is being open sourced<\/p>\n

Looking up information<\/strong><\/p>\n

– Open forums
\n– Open bugtrackers
\n– Stack Exchange : superuser, stackoverflow
\n+ Sometimes the moderators are jerks, though
\n+ They are getting less good
\n– Technet is often good
\n– ss64.com for DOS commands<\/p>\n

You still need to weed out the garbage.<\/p>\n

Alternatives to Google<\/strong><\/p>\n

– startpage, duckduckgo: alternatives to search
\n+ Ixquick is dead<\/p>\n

Technology<\/strong><\/p>\n

– Cost is getting lower
\n– Storage is cheap enough that tapes are less necessary<\/p>\n

Remote access<\/strong><\/p>\n

– You can access a lot of servers remotely
\n– Communication: videoconferencing
\n– Collaboration tools<\/p>\n

IndieWeb, Self-hosting<\/strong><\/p>\n

– Mumble servers<\/p>\n

Maker culture<\/strong><\/p>\n

– Cheap computer (RaspPis, Arduinos)
\n– Kids are learning to hack and modify stuff
\n– Coding as basic literacy
\n– Easy programming languages like Python<\/p>\n

Demise of Flash and Java<\/strong><\/p>\n

– There are still diminishing but HTML5 is coming<\/p>\n

Package management<\/strong><\/p>\n

– Everybody has learned the lesson of apt
\n– Every application includes its set of dependencies?<\/p>\n

Accessibility of apps<\/strong><\/p>\n

– ninite.com
\n– App stores with thousands of apps
\n– Chocolatey, nuget
\n– WPKG
\n– Configuration management: Puppet, Chef, Ansible, Saltstack<\/p>\n

Software is cheap for nonprofits<\/strong><\/p>\n

– Techsoup
\n– Office 365<\/p>\n

Cheaper phone stuff<\/strong><\/p>\n

– VoIP
\n– Asterisk
\n– Alternatives to Bell\/Rogers
\n– Fongo<\/p>\n

Grand Conclusion<\/strong>
\n—————-<\/p>\n

Everything is all bad<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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