Meeting about Ubuntu Mini Meeting - 10 May 2017

Convened at 2017-05-10 18:30:42.407177 by chesedo in #ubuntu-za on freenode

Minutes

[18:30:42] STARTED (chesedo)
[18:31:06] TOPIC: Latest and Greatest News (chesedo)
[18:37:20] TOPIC: Local Job Openings and Help Wanted (chesedo)
[18:37:53] TOPIC: Education Project (chesedo)
[18:39:09] ENDED (chesedo)

Present

Raw Log

[18:30:42] <chesedo> Maaz: start meeting about Ubuntu Mini Meeting - 10 May 2017
[18:30:42] * Maaz gets out his memo-pad and cracks his knuckles
[18:30:52] <chesedo> Hi all and welcome to another mini meeting
[18:30:52] <chesedo> feel free to introduce yourselves to maaz using 'Maaz: I am <first, last name>'
[18:31:06] <chesedo> Maaz: topic Latest and Greatest News
[18:31:06] <Maaz> Current Topic: Latest and Greatest News
[18:31:18] <theblazehen> Maaz I am Jeandre Le Roux
[18:31:18] <Maaz> theblazehen: Righto
[18:31:19] <chesedo> off to the blazen
[18:31:42] <theblazehen> Alright, so Intel kinda screwed things up, http://www.pcworld.com/article/3195246/security/how-to-check-for-the-intel-active-management-exploit-that-lets-hackers-take-over-your-pc.html
[18:31:52] * chesedo almost though he was too quick
[18:32:00] <theblazehen> And https://blog.invisiblethings.org/papers/2015/x86_harmful.pdf is a great read as a general concept
[18:32:22] <theblazehen> https://www.theregister.co.uk/2017/03/31/researchers_steal_data_from_shared_cache_of_two_cloud_vms/ is rather interesting
[18:32:45] <theblazehen> https://blog.docker.com/2017/04/introducing-the-moby-project/ https://techcrunch.com/2017/05/02/red-hat-launches-openshift-io-an-online-ide-for-building-container-based-applications/ some docker stuff
[18:33:15] <theblazehen> Bootstrapping an OS on a computer with no OS
[18:34:01] <theblazehen> https://worldbuilding.stackexchange.com/questions/18295/how-would-we-compile-our-code-if-all-our-binaries-disappeared is another good read
[18:34:13] <theblazehen> https://github.com/dbcli/mycli Is cool for mysql
[18:34:29] <theblazehen> https://github.com/ankane/pghero Seems nice, haven't used it yet
[18:34:35] <theblazehen> https://crate.io/a/benchmarking-complex-query-performance-cratedb-postgresql/
[18:35:04] <theblazehen> http://dbeaver.jkiss.org/ Is a really nice GUI for multiple databases, even nosql
[18:35:17] <theblazehen> https://engineering.riotgames.com/news/running-online-services-riot-part-i more docker stuff
[18:35:30] <theblazehen> http://all-things-andy-gavin.com/2011/02/02/making-crash-bandicoot-part-1/ Really cool tricks needed
[18:35:53] <theblazehen> http://www.gamasutra.com/blogs/DaveBaggett/20131031/203788/My_Hardest_Bug_Ever.php Sometimes you expect hardware to "just work"
[18:36:04] * chesedo has heard about dBeaver before
[18:36:09] <theblazehen> http://www.gamasutra.com/view/feature/194772/dirty_game_development_tricks.php http://www.gamasutra.com/view/news/249475/More_dirty_coding_tricks_from_game_developers.php
[18:36:32] <theblazehen> Fun to read, especially like the "Thank you for playing Wing Commander"
[18:36:47] <theblazehen> That's about it then
[18:37:10] <chesedo> wow ty theblazehen
[18:37:20] <chesedo> Maaz: topic Local Job Openings and Help Wanted
[18:37:20] <Maaz> Current Topic: Local Job Openings and Help Wanted
[18:37:29] <chesedo> - Certified Scrum Master (JHB) -> http://obsidian.co.za/careers
[18:37:29] <chesedo> - Open Source Hadoop Consultant (JHB) -> http://obsidian.co.za/careers
[18:37:29] <chesedo> - Senior JAVA Developer with Middleware Experience (Jhb) -> http://www.lsd.co.za/senior-java-developer-with-middleware-ex
[18:37:29] <chesedo> - Java Middleware Magician (Jhb) -> http://www.lsd.co.za/java-middleware-magician
[18:37:29] <chesedo> - Senior Linux Administrator / Linux Architect (Jhb) -> http://www.lsd.co.za/senior-linux-administrator--linux-archi
[18:37:53] <chesedo> Maaz: topic Education Project
[18:37:53] <Maaz> Current Topic: Education Project
[18:38:35] <chesedo> Like i mentioned last, i am in exams so cannot check out the software considered here currently
[18:38:44] <chesedo> and thats all
[18:38:56] <chesedo> thank you all for joining
[18:39:05] <chesedo> and thanks again theblazehen for the news
[18:39:09] <chesedo> Maaz: end meeting