Using Sun tech at Strathclyde Sun@Strathclyde

Today saw the last tech demo before the easter break, this time about MySQL. I managed to forget to take videos of the past few demos, sadly (I blame Jason for being busy with other stuff - he's supposed to play cameraman, dammit), so you'll just have to take my word for it that they were really interesting!

I've got some news about our upcoming Linlithgow visit - more accurately, I have a date: Friday 17th April (that's the second week of Strathclyde's Easter holidays). I'm still in the process of working out an agenda with the folks at Linlithgow, so watch this space - and the Sun@Strathclyde OSUM page - for more info.

Update (10/4/09): I've now got the agenda and travel instructions up on the OSUM website - check there for more details as I receive them!

So I've just gotten home from a day's field work for my final-year project, and I find that my guest speaker for tomorrow's tech demo has had to cancel because the train service screwed up and he got stranded in Crewe.

Just what I need after an exhausting day - now I've got to spend the evening preparing a talk for tomorrow, not to mention telling everyone that there's been a change of plans. Worst of all, there's no way I can give the specific talk Michael was planning to give, so it's all a bit crap really :-(

Oh well, onwards and upwards. Time to crank up OpenOffice Impress!

I had initially planned to just talk about OpenSolaris Zones today, but I decided to squeeze in some VirtualBox goodness too since they're two different approaches to the same problem. As a result, today's talk was a pretty decent introduction to virtualisation in general, so that's the subject of this week's demo clips:

Next week should be entertaining on the video front, as there is some potential for mass destruction when Michael comes visiting. Watch this space for more details...