The Twin Cities System Administrators (TCSA) group meets monthly to discuss topics of interest to system and network administrators in the Twin Cities area of Minnesota. The meetings are free and open to the public. Check out our web site at http://www.tcsa.org/ TCSA meetings are on the third Thursday of each month at 7:00 pm. ----- Next Meeting: Topic: Introduction to dtrace Speaker: Linda Keteley, Sun Microsystems Date/Time: April 16, 2009 7:00 pm Location: France Place Main Floor Conference Room Synopsis: Linda will present an Intro to Dtrace with a short demonstration of how to work with dtrace. Dtrace is a scripting language which allows for realtime instrumentation of a system. It is systemically designed to solve most problems in days rather than weeks or months. About the Speaker: Linda Keteley is a Solaris Architect for Sun and spends most of her time helping customers use Solaris to solve problems. Linda has been working with Solaris for 18 years and has held several positions with Sun, including Systems Engineer and Trainer. Main Floor Conference Room France Place 3601 Minnesota Drive Bloomington, MN 55435 Tentative Meeting Schedule May 21, 2009 - June 18, 2009 - Directions: The France Place Building is at 3601 Minnesota Drive on the northeast corner of Hwy 494 and France Avenue in the Bloomington business district. From 494, go north on France Ave. to Minnesota Drive (the first streetlight north of 494). Take a right (east) onto Minnesota Drive and immediately take another right into the parking lot. The building sign is visible from 494 and shares a parking lot with Fuddruckers. France Place is a nine story brown brick building. - Parking Free parking is available in the main lot. - Web map is at: http://www.mapquest.com/maps/map.adp?address=3601+minnesota+drive&city=bloomington&state=mn&zipcode=55435 For more information on TCSA, check out our web site: http://www.tcsa.org/ To subscribe to the TCSA or TCSA-JOBS mailing lists, follow the TCSA or TCSA-JOBS link from: http://tcsa.org/mailman/listinfo For any other information, please send email to: djb at umn.edu or contact: Dave Bianchi 651-260-1770 -- Dave Bianchi djb at umn.edu 651-260-1770