Meetings
We usually meet on the second Tuesday of every month, in Dublin. A talk is given, followed by a Q&A session. We then retire to a local hostelry for a quiet drink or two. Occasionally we also organize casino nights where we play poker, blackjack, and American roulette where we usually have a lot of laughs, discussions about everything, and generally just get to know each other better. And normally win some money if we are lucky.
Meetings are currently open to the general public. Please feel free to come along;
however, please note that some of our meeting venues require pre-registration
with site security.
We also hold regional meetings, usually in association with the ICT Division of the Institute of Engineers in Ireland.
Next Meeting
The next meeting is in December; the title and venue are not fixed.
Meeting Details
| Date | Speaker(s) | Topic |
|---|---|---|
| November, 2007 | Niall Murphy | Modelling IPv4 address exhaustion |
| October, 2007 | Robin Mc Cullough | Redundancy in Data Centres - and why techies should never be allowed to design them |
| September, 2007 | Dave Malone | Hiring System Administrators - a case study |
| June/July/August, 2007 | Social sessions | |
| May, 2007 | Colin Whittaker | The realities of building an LLU network in Ireland |
| April, 2007 | Sam Johnston | Google Applications |
| March, 2007 | Lee Damon | The Big Lies in System Administration: Truths That Aren't |
| February, 2007 | Mark Mulvany | Exchange Clustering and Local Continuous Replication in Exchange 2007 |
| January, 2007 | Meeting Cancelled | |
| December, 2006 | Jeroen Masser | Running SixXS - The Virtual ISP |
| November, 2006 | AGM | Annual General Meeting with the Committee |
| October, 2006 | Meeting Cancelled | |
| September, 2006 | John Looney | Managing Multi-million-machine Clusters |
| August, 2006 | No Speaker | Social Session - No Meeting |
| July, 2006 | No Speaker | Social Session - No Meeting |
| June, 2006 | Tom Limoncelli | Time Management for System Administrators |
| May, 2006 | No Speaker | No Meeting |
| April, 2006 | Aaron Clauson | Commercial VoIP Experiences |
| March, 2006 | Colm Mac Cárthaigh | Scaling Apache to 27,000+ users |
| February, 2006 | David Malone and Niall Murphy | DNS - It's not short for Domain Name Screwups! |
| December, 2005 | HEAnet Schools NOC | Interesting Technical Issues with the Schools Broadband Network |
| November, 2005 | Willie O' Connor | Windows Image Deployments |
| October, 2005 | Barry Flanagan | Xen - Server Virtualisation |
| September, 2005 | Martin List-Petersen | Asterisk |
| August, 2005 | Social Session - no talk | This is a social session - come along and join us for a drink, a bite to eat, and a chat |
| July, 2005 | Social Session - no talk | This is a social session - come along and join us for a drink, a bite to eat, and a chat |
| June, 2005 | Dave Wilson & Sharon Murphy | Presentations skills for Technical People & Documentation |
| May, 2005 | John M. Cassidy | Auditing |
| April, 2005 | John Tobin | Combatting Spam |
| March, 2005 | Derek Noonan | The Windows Installer |
| February, 2005 | Lt. Col Brian Mc Quaid & Comdt. Ciarán Motherway | A greenfield deployment to Liberia |
| December, 2004 | Ronan Kelly | Building MANs in the National Spatial Strategy towns and cities |
| November, 2004 | Ross Chandler | Deploying MPLS |
| October, 2004 | Tiarnán De Burca | The 2003 Special Olympics IT Infrastructure |
| September, 2004 | Colm Mac Cárthaigh | Scaling a web server to 20,000+ users |
| August, 2004 | Warren Daly | Security: using VPNs (L2TP/IPSEC) and AAA (RADIUS) technologies |
| May, 2004 | Mark Anderson | The Story of Troy - Email Filtering, Why and How |
| April, 2004 | Andrew Byrne | Multimedia technologies |
| March, 2004 | Mícheál Ó Foghlú and John Ronan | IPv6 Experiences, research projects and infrastructure. |
| February, 2004 | David Malone | "Time keeping and NTP" |
| January, 2004 | Willie O' Connor | "Migrating from Windows 2000 to Windows 2003 Server" |
| November, 2003 | Cillian Lyons, Dónal Cunningham and Ray Kelly | IT Security |
| November, 2003 | Dónal Cunningham | Best Practices in Network and System Administration |
| October, 2003 | John Lyons of HEAnet | Honeypots & deploying honeyd on a production network |
| September, 2003 | Ciarán Mc Cabe of OpenApp |
Open-Source software in the Enterprise |
| August, 2003 | (Many) | AGM |
| August, 2003 | Ronan Cunniffe | Long-Term Data Archiving |
| July, 2003 | Andrew Barnes | Backups and Data Recovery. |
| June, 2003 | Dave Malone | Forensics. |
| May, 2003 | Adrian Colley | Irish IT Law and the System Administrator. |
| April 2003 | Dónal Cunningham | Hacking Exposed |
| March 2003 | Dónal Cunningham and Liam Bedford |
Data Retention Symposium |
| February 2003 | Colm Mac Cárthaigh and Colin Whittaker |
A Case Study in Best Practices for OS Management |
| January 2003 | Andrew Barnes and Nick Hilliard |
Contract System Administration |
| December 2002 | Ann Harding | Network Management Principles |
| November 2002 | David Malone of CNRI | 802.11 and the Joy of Warcycling in Dublin |
| October 2002 | Justin Mason | Spam Assassin |
| September 2002 | Dónal Cunningham | Machine Room Design |
| August 2002 | Dave Wilson | IPv6 |
We usually bring copies of ";login:", the magazine of Usenix and SAGE, and "Sysadmin" magazine, for people to have a look at. We also have copies of the "Short Topics in System Administration" series, including the well-known (and well-thumbed) "Job Descriptions for System Administrators".