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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.
• slides

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.
• slides as pdf are on https://pcp.io/conference/2019/schedule.html

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 hometown
• East Germany, and the German reunification.
• slides as pdf: https://fluxcoil.net/files/speeches/20190315_Christian_Horn_Eastgermany.pdf

Presented at Tokyo Linux users group in July 2018:

• VDO slides, video recording
• I presented also about Linux@Nintendo switch, docs, video recording

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?
• Unicode output on Linux
• Coverting endocings
• Input of Russian or Japanese characters
• Locales: influencing behavior of programs
• i18n for webpages and email
• i18n in BIOS/console/UEFI
• slides as pdf: https://fluxcoil.net/files/speeches/latex_japlinux/japlinux.pdf
• latex-sources: https://fluxcoil.net/files/speeches/latex_japlinux/

• Audience: Sysadmins, People interested in Authentication/Authorization
• contents:
  • workings of kerberos/ldap/directories
  • historical view over software providing these services
  • interaction of unix/windows-worlds, crossrealm auth
• first time presented: May 2009
• slides as pdf
• latex-sources: https://fluxcoil.net/files/speeches/latex_authentication/

• Audience: Sysadmins, People interested in virtualization
• contents:
  • workings/basic technology of virtualization and emulation
  • historical view over software providing these services
  • summary of causes for virtualization
• first time presented: January 2010
• also presented at Easterhegg 2010 in Munich, link to recording link to the slides LaTeX sources

• Audience: Sysadmins, People interested in deployments
• contents:
  • explaining basic operation and terms of cobbler
  • why cobbler was chosen, alternatives
  • details on companys cobbler setup and the surrounding infrastructure
• first time presented: June 2010 @OpenSource Datacenter Conference in Nuremberg
• slides as pdf: https://fluxcoil.net/files/using_cobbler_in_a_not_so_small_environment__chhorn_1.77.pdf
• latex-sources: https://fluxcoil.net/files/speeches/latex_cobbler/