Since it’s inception, the primary metaphor of the Web has been one of location. By framing the Web as a collection of places, we have necessarily caused Web development to focus on servers. But people don’t get online to go to a server. They get online to get something done—achieve ...

The SLCC Miller Business Resource Center has some really good resources for getting your cool new technology going. Join Jeff for a candid discussion of what it takes to get your technology business going.

Container features have started appearing in the mainline Linux kernel but bit will be a few years before LXC (Linux Native Containers) reaches the functionality of much older, out-of-tree projects such as OpenVZ and Linux-VServer. This presentation will serve as an introduction to containers with an emphasis on OpenVZ and ...

The Computer Science department at Salt Lake Community College is in the process of significantly expanding its computer labs and remote access offerings. Learn from our experience how we've created an affordable desktop delivery method incorporating thin clients, remote access, virtualization, and the Omni Desktop Multiplier with new laptops and ...

Cobbler is an open source install manager. Puppet is an open source continuous configuration manager. The presenter uses these tools to manage dozens of machines with only a few hours per month of effort. This talk will introduce these two tools and discuss their use in automatically managing scalable infrastructures.

[Same as last year, plus some additions for what I've picked up since then] In large IT environments with many servers running a variety of operating systems there are times when connection to a machine does not require the full graphical environment (VNC, RDP, NX, etc.). There are times when ...

Once you have a Cobbler server installed there are many things you can do to make your environment much more efficient and powerful. Come learn some tips and tricks about Cobbler to make managing a larger installation environment less painful.

What started out as a means of competition among individual businesses which are geographically unable to compete is now a means of collaboration and business growth. In the past many Vantage dealers hired programmers to integrate 3rd party hardware with the Vantage home automation system. A small team of Vantage ...

This presentation would cover how to make a screencasts under Linux using Kdenlive. It would go over the actual capturing of the video itself, the voice-over recording, transitions, and rendering out to a file. This presentation will also be useful for anyone wanting to learn how to do general video ...

I would like to introduce beginners to HDR photography http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/High_dynamic_range_imaging using the digital cameras they already have, and open source software. We will touch on both how to take the source images, as well as how to create a final HDR image. Users will be encouraged to bring their cameras ...

This presentation will discuss the Open Source program mythtv, and will cover the following topics: *What is mythtv, and why should my wife care? *What parts do I need to build a functioning mythtv system? *I have the parts, now where do I get the software (and how do I ...