April 6th 2009 Meeting

Google Data Center

Network and Server Monitoring
- Update on ticketing system
- Update on server login scripts.

Network Gear Horror Stories and Recommendations
- Linksus (okay)
- SMC (not so good)
- Allied (fixed issues)
- General Suggestions
  - Keep network equipment cool.

ISP's in New Zealand
- Basically everyone is waiting for fibre.

Next meeting layout
- More group interaction facilitated by an extended break.

Documentation
- Email
- Clipboard
- Screencast
  - Jing (re-cap and discussion)
- Blog (WordPress)
- Wiki (demo) Multi user editing
  - MediaWiki
  - Dokuwiki (sites using Dokuwiki)
  - DokuWiki Plugins
    - Discussion
    - Blog

Moving forward with future new meetings
- Collaboration is good
- Networking is good
- Nice to get out and see what they are doing
- More people to bring along presentations and information
- Place to go to find out where there is more information
- More content (from different people)
- Summary : Communicate is a good meeting.

Hard Disk Reliability
- Disk to Disk backup
- Spinrite

Backup
- Retrospect
- Time Machine (Backup server via AFP)
- LBackup
- arRsync

Wireless Networking (speaking with Tim after the meeting)
- Apple Hardware
- OpenMesh
- FROM or FOM
- MonoWall VLAN project moving to gigabit.

TextMate Demonstration
- Templating for HTML and other languages
- Auto Completion
- Great way to learn a new markup / language
- Speed up the way you Edit Text
- Latex Support (just mentioned)

TextMate Lottery
- Congratulations to Dan (Winner)

Upcoming Dojo Programming Courses (28th-30th September 2009)
- Introduction to the Shell
- Introduction to Ruby

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