Hardware & WiFi for software guys

Rudi Van Drunen
Competa IT

Abstract

This talk will give you a little more insight into some of the hardware aspects related to modern systems. As most of you only view the systems environment from through the screen, and sometimes have not even seen the hardware in real life.

Getting more of an idea what is going on inside the machine, such as how do the signals "look" in the machine, aspects of cabling etc. will be discussed, as well as more physical stuff such as Radio Frequency.

The second part of the talk is dedicated to a piece of hardware recently aquired by the NLUUG: the conference wireless setup. I'll decribe the set- up and configuration of the new environment.

Biography

Rudi has done a and still does a lot in Technology. Starting off as a hardware design engineer, he has had many different roles all related to UNIX and/or C code one way or another. Nowadays he is the technical director of Competa IT.

Still also serving as senior UNIX consultant he likes to play around with complex technology of all sorts as well as ao. running conferences (USENIX, SANE, CompetaTechEvents) and managing his own small business (XlexIT).