Title: January Meeting Location: Pythian Link out: Click here Description: First meeting of the new year. Nothing formal scheduled, but I do have an interesting video to show if there is interest. Topics: Automation Documentation Tools for the above Start Time: 19:00 Date: 2011-01-20 End Time: 21:30

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Title: Annual Social Location: The Lieutenant’s Pump Link out: Click here Description: Social event - food, talk, drink, etc. Bring SO’s, all welcome. I’ll see if I can arrange some extra goodies from LOPSA and/or Usenix. We have a reservation under ovsage. Start Time: 19:00 Date: 2010-12-16 End Time: 21:30

I saw a reference to a site on one of my emails or feeds earlier that gave this URL: http://www.quora.com/Linux/What-are-some-time-saving-tips-that-every-Linux-user-should-know In a fit of “might be something out there”, I had a look and discovered a bash built-in that I had never run across before, disown. Take a look at the bash manpage for this little gem, but the nutshell version is that it will take a command that you either forgot to run nohup on or screen before you ran it and with some optional parameters, you can take a long running process, background it, run disown -h <jobid> and all of a sudden, you can disassociate the job with your terminal, allowing it to ignore SIGHUP and continue on even if you log out.

We had a small turnout tonight, but that made it somewhat more casual (if that’s possible). Most of the discussion was about the LISA 2010 conference which two of us attended. As I have previously mentioned, it was a great conference and a lot of interesting things were presented. I think the most interesting item was the pervasive social media. Twiter, IRC, facebook, etc. were all in constant use. While this isn’t really a new phenomenon, this is the most blatant use I’ve seen.