presentations
Links to my recent presentations and talks.
My computer history
- Details on the most interesting pieces of hardware I got into my hands so far. #retro
Which BSD full fills my desktop requirements?
- Held at AsiaBSDcon 2023 in Tokyo
School, education in corona time
- How could school and education be moved to the web? Talks/help sessions done for a Japanese school, and the resulting material.
Similarities between former East Germany and Japan
- Some serious and some not so serious parallels between both countries
- Presented in 2021 to colleagues
Bit rot: would you notice if your harddisk lied to you?
10min talk at KichijojiKaigi #18
- What is 'bit rot'?
- Let's verify if our filesystems would warn you if bit rot occurs (it does not)
- Let's use dm-integrity and verify that it helps us to detect bit rot
- Ideas and approaches to correct bit rot, future.
Linux monitoring sensors (lmsensors)
Talk at PCP conference 2019 in Melbourne.
- Findings from my first foray into PCP - updating the lmsensors metrics (PMDA) code.
- The motivation for making these changes were discussed. I covered the various implementation stages, documentation, aids for new developers and ideas for further improvement.
Things about East Germany and Christian Horn
At a local association in a part of Tokyo/八王子 (Hachiouji). The association is educating locals with English, and helping foreigners in their life at Japan. My speech was in English.
- Self introduction
- Introducing my home town
- East Germany, and the German reunification.
VDO, the transparent deduplication/compression layer
- First presented at Tokyo Linux users group in July 2018: VDO slides, video recording
- I presented also about Linux@Nintendo switch, docs, video recording
i18n on Linux by example: Japanese
Internationalization/Localization on Linux, taking Japanese as example. Looking into the details I am hitting with Japanese on Linux.
- What are i18n and l10n? What is it good for?
- How to read files with “exotic” contents?
- What are character encodings, what are the most important ones? How to convert between them?
- Unicode output on Linux, locales
- Input of Russian and Japanese characters
- i18n for webpages and email, i18n in BIOS/console/UEFI
- Slides: pdf, LaTeX sources
A Sysadmins guide to Authentication and Authorization
- Contents: tech behind Kerberos/LDAP/directories. History, interaction between Unix and Windows worls, crossrealm trust
- first presented: May 2009
- Slides: pdf, LaTeX sources
What's up at the virtualization/emulation front?
- Contents: what's the tech behind virtualization and emulation? History, use cases.
- first time presented: January 2010
Using cobbler in a not so small environment
- Contents: details on using the Cobbler software to install Linux on systems, via network. Which alternatives were considered, how to setup and operate.
- first time presented: June 2010 @OpenSource Datacenter Conference in Nuremberg
- Slides as pdf, LaTeX sources
presentations.txt · Last modified: 2023/08/24 13:30 by chris