Minutes from 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 ======= * chesedo * Jeandre Le Roux (theblazehen) Raw Log ======= [18:30:42] 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] Hi all and welcome to another mini meeting [18:30:52] feel free to introduce yourselves to maaz using 'Maaz: I am ' [18:31:06] Maaz: topic Latest and Greatest News [18:31:06] Current Topic: Latest and Greatest News [18:31:18] Maaz I am Jeandre Le Roux [18:31:18] theblazehen: Righto [18:31:19] off to the blazen [18:31:42] 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] And https://blog.invisiblethings.org/papers/2015/x86_harmful.pdf is a great read as a general concept [18:32:22] https://www.theregister.co.uk/2017/03/31/researchers_steal_data_from_shared_cache_of_two_cloud_vms/ is rather interesting [18:32:45] 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] Bootstrapping an OS on a computer with no OS [18:34:01] https://worldbuilding.stackexchange.com/questions/18295/how-would-we-compile-our-code-if-all-our-binaries-disappeared is another good read [18:34:13] https://github.com/dbcli/mycli Is cool for mysql [18:34:29] https://github.com/ankane/pghero Seems nice, haven't used it yet [18:34:35] https://crate.io/a/benchmarking-complex-query-performance-cratedb-postgresql/ [18:35:04] http://dbeaver.jkiss.org/ Is a really nice GUI for multiple databases, even nosql [18:35:17] https://engineering.riotgames.com/news/running-online-services-riot-part-i more docker stuff [18:35:30] http://all-things-andy-gavin.com/2011/02/02/making-crash-bandicoot-part-1/ Really cool tricks needed [18:35:53] 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] 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] Fun to read, especially like the "Thank you for playing Wing Commander" [18:36:47] That's about it then [18:37:10] wow ty theblazehen [18:37:20] Maaz: topic Local Job Openings and Help Wanted [18:37:20] Current Topic: Local Job Openings and Help Wanted [18:37:29] - Certified Scrum Master (JHB) -> http://obsidian.co.za/careers [18:37:29] - Open Source Hadoop Consultant (JHB) -> http://obsidian.co.za/careers [18:37:29] - Senior JAVA Developer with Middleware Experience (Jhb) -> http://www.lsd.co.za/senior-java-developer-with-middleware-ex [18:37:29] - Java Middleware Magician (Jhb) -> http://www.lsd.co.za/java-middleware-magician [18:37:29] - Senior Linux Administrator / Linux Architect (Jhb) -> http://www.lsd.co.za/senior-linux-administrator--linux-archi [18:37:53] Maaz: topic Education Project [18:37:53] Current Topic: Education Project [18:38:35] Like i mentioned last, i am in exams so cannot check out the software considered here currently [18:38:44] and thats all [18:38:56] thank you all for joining [18:39:05] and thanks again theblazehen for the news [18:39:09] Maaz: end meeting