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FreeBSD Multimedia Resources List
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Tag: suug
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Poul-Henning Kamp - GBDE -- Spook
strength disk encryption
Source: Swiss Unix Users Group Conference
2004
Added: 14 January 2007
Tags: suug, presentation,
gbde, poul-henning
kamp
Slides (113 Kb), Paper (104 Kb)
GBDE is a disk encryption facility designed with both usability and strength as
requirements and it attempts to protect both the user and the data. The talk is about
avoiding self-deceiving analysis, how to make real world usable cryptography and
generally protect yourself and your data. Required skill level: Laptop user.
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Hendrik Scholz - Performance bottleneck
detection and removal
Source: Swiss Unix Users Group Conference
2004
Added: 14 January 2007
Tags: suug, presentation,
performance, hendrik
scholz
Slides
(213 Kb)
Once a system is exposed to heavy load bottlenecks need to be addressed to prevent single
components from slowing down a complex installation. Highlighting various hotspots their
detection and removal gets discussed using real life examples.
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Max Laier - PF - Extended
Introduction
Source: Swiss Unix Users Group Conference
2004
Added: 14 January 2007
Tags: suug, presentation,
pf, altq, max laier
Video/MPEG
(94 Mb), Slides (1 Mb), Audio/MP3
(22 Mb)
The talk will introduce packet filter (pf) - a *BSD firewall system - and summarize its
history and projected future. After providing a short overview of pf's general
functionality and some firewall basics, it will concentrate on packet filter's advanced
feature-set from the administrator's point of view. The talk will also cover the
integration of ALTQ, a mature framework for traffic shaping and priorization. Finally it
will provide a short overview of the "Common Address Redundancy Protocol" (CARP) and its
integration in pf.
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Poul-Henning Kamp - Old mistakes
repeated (but you do get the source code now)
Source: Swiss Unix Users Group Conference
2004
Added: 14 January 2007
Tags: suug, presentation,
unix, mistakes, poul-henning kamp
Slides (65 Kb)
UNIX is the best operating system ever designed so everybody is running UNIX on their
computer, right ? This presentation takes a partisan looks a why UNIX never became a big
success in the eighties, failed to win the market in the nineties, and still struggles in
the market in the new millennium. Poul-Henning will take a critical look at the mistakes
of the past and the mistakes of the present and try to make it really clear what needs to
happen for UNIX to become a real success.