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Cndnsd Vrsn: 4 PM Thursday 3/4 ACS Room 123- Broadband Media
The next meeting of the Front Range UNIX Users
Group (FRUUG) will be held at 4:00 P.M. on Thursday, March 4.
Scott Kipp will give a fun talk on
broadband digital audio, video and gaming in your home.
Scott's talk will be followed by a demonstration of local
Interact TV's
Telly, a new Linux-based entertainment server-- with
a pitch for open-source software developers to get involved.
For all of you who like to make sure that your home
has all of the latest technology, this meeting is for you.
Scott will begin the meeting by giving an overview of
how digital content is sent, stored, distributed,
and consumed in your home. He will cover the following topics:
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Types of Content:
Audio: mono - Surround Sound - Video: Black & White to HDTV -
Gaming: Pong to Xbox
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Examples of Home Entertainment Systems:
Current mess of analog and digital systems - Broadband Home
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Evolution of Entertainment Server:
Multimedia PC - Digital set-top box with Personal Video Recorder -
Gaming Consoles
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Entertainment Distribution:
Live performances - Over-the-air Broadcasts - Cable - Satellite -
Internet
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Growth of Bandwidth:
Analog Broadcasts - Digital broadcasts - Broadband Internet access
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Digital Television:
SDTV - DVD/EDTV - HDTV
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Conclusion:
The Internet and mass storage on entertainment servers offers
unprecedented choice for consumers.
Following Scott's talk,
Ken Fuhrman, CEO of Interact TV, will
demonstrate their Telly Linux-based home entertainment center
and discuss the possibilities for open-source developers
that it opens.
Scott Kipp is an author and electrical engineer with a wide
range of experience. He has built infrared satellites for Hughes
Aircraft, worked as an English teacher in Taiwan, developed X-ray
cameras at Lawrence Livermore Labs, tended bar in England, sold
fiber optic cables in Taiwan, and currently works as a software
architect for McDATA Corp. Kipp is the author of
four books, two of which are on storage
networking, and he is a champion for emerging broadband
technologies that are revolutionizing home entertainment.
He keeps up-to-date on current technology topics such as
entertainment servers, home networks, online piracy, digital
content, and future technology trends.
Kipp received his
Masters of Science in Electrical Engineering from Cal Poly in San
Luis Obispo, CA. He has written two books on storage networking
for the Fibre Channel Industry Association.
This meeting will be in room 123 of the CU Academic Computing
Center building at Arapahoe and Marine Streets in Boulder. Marine St intersects
Arapahoe at 38th St; the Computing Center is on the southwest corner.
At our January, 2004 meeting, Jeff Custard of NCAR
talked about the benefits and challenges of converting
NCAR's legacy PBX to a new IP technology system
from Cisco.
Slides from Jeff's talk, and also from
John Spiers' December talk are available on the FRUUG
Web site.
Announcements, presentation slides, and
writeups for past meetings are available in the FRUUG Meeting Archive.
www.fruug.org/mtgarchive/index.html.
Some of the meetings we've set up for the future include:
- April: A review of the MacOS X 10.3 (Panther) release
FRUUG Library Merit Badge
holders can sign up for give-away books by visiting the
FRUUG Web site and clicking on the give-away item in the sidebar.
FRUUG merit badge holders are eligible for our frequent
book give-aways, and all you have to do for a lifetime
membership is to review any book from the FRUUG library
and send the review to gaede at fruug.org.
We have two books to give away this month: Open Source
Network Administration, and J2EE Security for Servlets, EJBs,
and Web Services, both from Prentice Hall PTR.
If you're a FRUUG Library Merit Badge holder and would like
to have a copy of this book, please sign up at
www.fruug.org/library/giveaway.html
As usual, we have a
Gift Certificate to SoftPro Books
to give away to a FRUUG member
attending the meeting.
We have several new books in the library this month:
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Biometrics for Network Security,
from Prentice Hall PTR
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Essential Check Point FireWall-1 NG,
from Addison Wesley
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Malware-- Fighting Malicious Code,
from Prentice Hall PTR
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A Field Guide to WirelessLANs for Administrators and Power Users,
from Prentice Hall PTR
You may check out books using your business card as your
library card; you must be on the membership list to check books out. Books
are due at the meeting following the one in which they are checked out.
Remember that your FRUUG membership entitles you to discounts
on your book orders from both New Riders Publishing and O'Reilly &
Associates; refer to the FRUUG Web site for details.
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