http://oclug.on.ca/ May Meeting: Disk Partitioning, Ubuntu LTS, Net Neutrality Date: May 6, 2010 at 7 p.m. Location: Algonquin College (Woodroffe Campus), room T117 Disk Partitioning Speaker: Lisa Lovchik Disk partitioning allows having a hard limit on the size of a given filesystem and allows having multiple operating systems reside on the same disk. The speaker will describe disk partitioning and demonstrate the use of some disk partitioning tools. Ubuntu 10.04 - what's new? Speaker: John Sebastien Taylor A new LTS (Long Term Support) version of Ubuntu will soon be released. The speaker will describe some of the features planned for Ubuntu version 10.04. 10 - 20 minutes Understanding Net Neutrality, and "Throttling" Speaker: Michael Richardson Phone and cable companies have started practicing illegal search (and seizure) of data flowing across their network ("throttling"), claiming it is to protect their networks. In reality, the problems on their networks are due to mis-design, and fundamental misunderstanding on their part about how the Internet works. We used to use highway metaphors to explain the Internet. This talk will re-adjust the metaphor to explain what was actually built, and why the results are so hostile to citizens and grassroots democracy. Approx 1 hour.