SAGE-AU is pleased to announce the fifteenth annual Australian System Administrators’ conference (SAGE-AU’2007) will be held at the Sebel Parramatta Hotel, Sydney from 23rd to 27th July, 2007.
You can view the technical program by visiting http://www.sage-au.org.au/display/conf/Technical+Program for more information.
Date: Thursday 12th July 2007
Time: 7.00pm
Address
Hitwise Melbourne
Level 6, 580 St Kilda Rd
Melbourne
Expression Studio Round Up - Dave Glover - 7:15 - 8:00pm
Coinciding with the official release of Silverlight, Microsoft have recently launched a bunch of brand new tools for web development work called Expression Studio, with the express purpose of enabling collaboration between developers and designers in creating standards based websites. Featured in this suite of applications is Expression Web, a web authoring tool with comprehensive support for css and… PHP!
Dave Glover will be coming along to give us the low-down.
Doing Silverlight with PHP - Ben Cornwell - 8:15 - 9:00pm
Silverlight is Microsoft’s offering in world rich-client platforms like Flex and Open Laszlo. Based on XAML, Silverlight provides a framework for creating user interfaces for the web that are standards compliant, great looking and encompass complex animation, audio and video.
Ben’s presentation will provide an introduction to Silverlight and a live demonstration of how to create Silverlight interfaces with PHP and AJAX.
Socialising & Networking - 9:00pm onward
After the meeting we’ll be moving downstairs to the Cartel Bar, for an informal chat over a few cold ones.
Pizza, softdrink, tea, coffee and comfy swivel chairs will be provided with compliments of our major sponsor, Hitwise.
For more information, visit
http://phpmelb.org.
I’m taking a break from work for a few weeks, and even though I *won’t* be enabling an “out of office” reply, if I did, it might look something like this…
1. I am currently out at a job interview and will reply to you if I fail to
get the position. I may be a little moody so be prepared.
2. You are receiving this automatic notification because I am out of the
office. If I was in, chances are you wouldn’t have received anything at
all.
3. Sorry to have missed you, but I am at the doctor’s having my brain
removed so I can be promoted to our management team.
4. I will be unable to delete all the unread, worthless emails you send me
until I return from vacation on 4/18. Please be patient, and your mail will
be deleted in the order it was received.
5. Thank you for your email. Your credit card has been charged $5.99 for
the first 10 words and $1.99 for each additional word in your message.
6. The e-mail server is unable to verify your server connection and is
unable to deliver this message. Please restart your computer and try
sending again.
(The beauty of this is that when you return, you can see how many
in-duh-viduals did this over and over.)
7. Thank you for your message, which has been added to a queuing system.
You are currently in 352nd place, and can expect to receive a reply in
approximately 19 weeks.
8. Hi, I’m thinking about what you’ve just sent me. Please wait by your PC
for my response.
9. I’ve run away to join a different circus.
10. I will be out of the office for the next 2 weeks for medical reasons.
When I return, please refer to me as “Wendy” instead of “Will”.
(I have no idea where this list orginated, it’s been doing the email rounds)
I’ll be presenting “Overview of Adobe Apollo” to the Adobe User Group in Melbourne on Thursday 19th April 2007, you can read details about the meeting on their website.
Apollo is the code name for a cross-operating system runtime being developed by Adobe that allows developers to leverage their existing web development skills (Flash, Flex, HTML, JavaScript, Ajax) to build and deploy rich Internet applications (RIAs) to the desktop.
Apollo enables developers to create applications that combine the benefits of web applications – network and user connectivity, rich media content, ease of development, and broad reach – with the strengths of desktop applications – application interactions, local resource access, personal settings, powerful functionality, and rich interactive experiences.
More information can be found at: http://labs.adobe.com/technologies/apollo/.
There’s been quite a bit of interest in the event below so I thought it may be worth making the details available to a wider audience. Please note, you *don’t* have to be a SAGE-AU member to come along and join in.
SAGE-AU Victorian Chapter Meeting - Tuesday 17th April 2007
DATE: Tuesday 17th April 2007
TIME: 7:00 PM till 8:00 PM
VENUE:
Ground Floor Tutorial Room
Baillieu Library
The University of Melbourne
Parkville
AGENDA: “Spam Open Forum”
After every monthly meeting, the VIC chapter heads over to Lygon Street for dinner at Papa Gino’s. As expected, there’s plenty of technical talk among members, however the one constant topic that comes up month after month is spam.
This month’s meeting will focus on spam detection technologies, spam filtering and the various tools we all use to reduce the amount of unsolicited bulk email that constantly hits our networks.
Sendmail, Postfix and Exchange will be discussed and tools such as SpamAssassin and Razor will be sure to get a good mention. We’ll cover the issues surrounding blacklisting as well as talk about the various managed services such as Postini and MessageLabs. This will be an open forum session catering for all skill levels so please feel free to bring along your questions, stories, strategies and solutions.
PRESENTER: N/A - Open Forum
WEB: See http://www.sage-au.org.au/rg/vic/ for more info.
WHO: SAGE-AU Members, prospective members, and other people involved with system administration.
MENU: A carefully selected range of traditional SysAdmin fare (ie. pizza) is provided free of charge to attendees. Members with special dietary requirements should contact the executive prior to the meeting.
DIRECTIONS: To get to the venue by public transport, catch a University, No
8 (Moreland) or No 1 (East Coburg) tram up Swanston St or the number 19 tram (North Coburg) up Elizabeth St. The tutorial room is at the south end of the ground floor of the Baillieu Library.
FUTURE MEETINGS: The SAGE-VIC meetings are held on the 2nd Tuesday of every month except January. December is reserved for our Christmas party.
FUTURE TALKS: If you have any talks brewing, or topics you would like to see covered, please e-mail sage-vic-exec@sage-au.org.au for early consideration.
The SAGE-AU Victorian IT Symposium is a one day technical conference to be held in Melbourne. The symposium offers an educational event for systems administrators of all platforms and levels of experience. The symposium provides a forum for Systems Administrators, Systems Managers, Network Administrators, Developers of Systems Administration Software and Managers of such groups to meet and share their knowledge and experiences. You can find out more about the 2007 SAGE-AU Victorian IT Symposium at the SAGE-AU website.
Cost:
Non-Member $275.00 (inc. GST)
SAGE-AU member $165.00 (inc. GST)
(if you’re not a member, the saving alone is a good reason to join!)
Where:
Hotel Grand Chancellor
131 Lonsdale Street
Melbourne
When:
Friday 16th February, 2007
Talks:
* Daryl Sheppard : Basic Forensic Awareness for System Administrators
* TRT : Solaris in a Day
* Tim Hogard : Micro Data Centers on a Budget
* Jonathan Oxer : Escaping image storage hell
* Geoff Halprin : Test-Driven System Administration
* Neal Wise : Wireless Insecurity
* Lachlan Kidd : Threat Control and Containment
There will be an informal dinner and get together at the Imperial Hotel following the event.
Yet another OSDC conference has come and gone. It was a great chance to meet lots of cool people and learn stuff at the same time. Again, this local event reinforces the fact of how much talent there is in our own back yard. Thanks to everyone that attended my presentation on Web Application Security, I hope to see you all at the next Melbourne OWASP meeting!
The Open Source Developers’ Conference (OSDC) is back for it’s third year! OSDC will cover a diverse mixture of langauges, operating systems and technologies, pitched at all levels.
The conference will be held on December the 5th to December the 8th, 2006 at Monash University’s Caulfield campus in Melbourne, Australia. It will be an awesome event and I highly recommend attending. Check out the presentation proposals that have been accepted at http://osdc2006.cgpublisher.com/session_descriptions.html. I can’t wait!
Visit http://www.osdc.com.au for more information.
If you’re yet to hear about Google Sitemaps, here’s a quick overview of what it is and how it works. Keep in mind this is quite new, therefore subject to change. After all it’s Google Sitemaps Beta!
Google Sitemaps offers a new way for webmasters to have more control over the spidering (is that a word?) process. Not only can you now tell Google what you want to be indexed, but you can also tell Google the priority and update frequency of your content.
So how do you get started?
www.google.com/webmasters/sitemaps/ping?sitemap=sitemap_urlDepending on what tool you’re using, you may have to set up a scheduled job for this ( i.e. cron for UNIX folk).Here’s what your My Sitemaps page should now look like:
RUXCON is a conference for the Australian computer security community held at the University of Technology in Sydney. The list of speakers is quite impressive and the topics quite diverse. It is currently scheduled to be held on Saturday the 30th of September to Sunday 1st of October. You can find lots more information on the RUXCON website.