DragonFlyBSD Multimedia Resources List

Links on this page refer to multimedia resources (podcast, vodcast, audio recordings, video recordings, photos) related to DragonFlyBSD or of interest for DragonFlyBSD users.

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Tag: suug

• 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.

• 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.

• 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.

• 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 millenium. 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.