Presentations by Malcolm Beattie
Here is a list of some of the presentations and talks I've given whose
content is available
online. The list is sorted in reverse date order
so that the most recent presentation is listed first.
Given at the IBM zSeries Technical Conference at Noordwijk,
Netherlands, 13 May 2004. This presentation is subtitled "The RAS
features that put zSeries hardware in a league of its own and their
benefit for Linux". RAS is the acronym for Reliability, Availability
and Serviceability. The reference to Linux is really just because it
was included in the Linux track of the conference and the presentation
itself concentrates on the underlying hardware RAS. A lot of the
content is taken from the article RAS design for the IBM eServer
z900, L.C. Alves et al, IBM Journal of Research
&
Development, Vol 46, No 4/5, July/Sept 2002.
Given at the IBM zSeries Technical Conference at Munich, 4 June 2003.
Given at Guide SHARE Europe at
Warwick, UK, 30 January 2003. Covers
some ways of automating and authorising remote access to console and
dynamic disk addition.
Given at the Oxford University Computing Society at Oxford, 19 November
2002.
Given at the IBM zSeries Technical Conference at La Hulpe, Belgium,
June 2002. A mixed bag of tips and tricks for users and system
administrators of Linux systems.
- Not zSeries-specific...but not specific to non-zSeries
- Shell usage: auto-completion, events and script
- Common filters: cut, awk, sort counts, perl -i
- Cron, At, Batch
- Screen
- Filesystems: bind and loop mounts
- Processes and Performance
- Networking: iproute2, ip, tc
- Debugging simple TCP protocols
IBM Mainframe Hardware from a Linux Hacker's Viewpoint
Given at the UK Unix Users Group
Conference, Newcastle, UK, 8 Feb 2001.
Slides available online starting with the
thumbnail index or
the first slide.
A gzipped tarball) of
the HTML/images/text is also available. Printable copies are available
as one-slide-per-page PostScript
(gzipped) or
four-slides-per-page PostScript
(gzipped).
Apache, mod_perl and Embperl
Given at OxLUG, the Oxfordshire
Linux Unix Users Group
at Oxford on 3 October 1999.
Online talk.
Design and Implementation of a Linux Mail Cluster
Given at the UK Unix Users Group
Conference, Aston, UK, 25 Jun 1999.
Slides available as PostScript.
Current state of Linux development and commerce
Given at the IT Support Staff Conference, Oxford, 24 Jun 1999.
Slides available as PostScript.
The Perl Compiler and Development Environment
Given at the Perl Conference, San Jose, 20 Aug 1997.
Slides available as PostScript or
Gzipped PostScript.
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