The UNIX® CRONicle |
May 1997 |
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Online version: http://www.sluug.org/cronicle/
Wednesday, May 14, 1997 at 6:30 PM
Sunnen Products, 7910 Manchester
| 6:30 PM | Tutorial | "TBD" by Mike Kriz |
| 7:00 PM | Call For Help | (An opportunity for you to ask technical questions of the group) |
| 7:15 PM | Social, off-line conversations, & book sales | |
| 7:30 PM | Presentation | "The Future of Unix" by Mike Sanford, SCO |
"The Future of Unix" by Mike Sanford, SCO
Mike Sanford is the Area Systems Engineering Manager for SCO's Western Area and is based in Dallas, TX. Prior to joining SCO in 1995, he was the Technical Services Manager for a large systems integrator in Dallas that specialized in UNIX, Mainframe and LAN integration. He has over 10 years of experience with UNIX and with SCO products.
SCO is the world's leading supplier of UNIX server operating systems, and a leading provider of client-integration software that integrates Windows PCs and other clients with UNIX servers from all major vendors. SCO is committed to bringing the Internet Way of Computing to business-critical environments of all sizes. SCO Business Critical Servers run the critical, day-to-day operations of large branch organizations in retail, finance, telecom, and government, as well as corporate departments and small to medium-sized businesses of every kind. SCO sells and supports its products through a worldwide network of distributors, resellers, systems integrators, and OEMs. For more information, see SCO's WWW home page at http://www.sco.com.
"TBD" by Mike Kriz
| Main Meeting | May 14, 1996 at 6:30 PM Sunnen Products 7910 Manchester St. Louis, MO
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| Steering Committee | May 20, 1996 at 6:00 PM Daugherty Systems One City Place (2nd floor) Creve Coeur, MO
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| Linux SIG | May 15, 1996 at 7:00 PM Linux As An Intra/Internet Web Server, by Matthew Feldt, Linux SIG Chair Bridgeton Trails Public Library ROOM #2 3455 McKelvey Road St. Louis, MO 63044
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| CTI SIG | May 7, 1996 at 6:30 PM Telecommuting, by Gary Liming of Meridian Technology Bridgeton Trails Public Library ROOM #2 3455 McKelvey Road St. Louis, MO 63044
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The STL!/unix/usr/group meets the 2nd Wednesday of every month at Sunnen Products, 7910 Manchester Blvd, just east of Hanley on Manchester.
Directions From Downtown
The SLUUG Steering Committee meets the Tuesday following the general 2nd Wednesday meeting at 6:00 PM in the 2nd floor training room of Daugherty Systems, One City Place in Creve Coeur.
The SLUUG Linux SIG (SLUUGLS) meets the 3rd Thursday of every month at the Bridgeton Trails Public Library.
The SLUUG CTI SIG (SLUUG CiTI) meets the 1st Wednesday of every month at the Bridgeton Trails Public Library.
As our membership grows, we have had some inquiries about the possibility of having Special Interest Groups in several areas. If you are interested in starting or participating in a SIG for System Administration, Networking, C, Object Oriented Programming, a specific vendor, etc., please call Dave Mills at 230-5151, extension 103, or contact any officer of the group.
PRESENTATION: According to WebCrawler, 84% of HTTP servers are UNIX based and the most popular HTTP server software is Apache. A survey by Netcraft indicates that Apache has been the most popular web server software in the world for more than 12 months.
Over the past few years, Linux (a free UNIX operating system protected by the GNU public license that runs on Intel and RISC based machines) has matured to rival commercial UNIX offerings.
Matthew Feldt, Internet Project Manager for Mercantile Bancorporation and founder of the St. Louis Unix Users Group - Linux SIG, will discuss the advantages of choosing Linux as a Intra/Internet Web Server. The presentation will focus on the state and future of the Linux operating system and the feature set of the Apache Web Server. A notebook computer running Linux and Apache will be used in the presentation.
LOCATION DIRECTIONS:
Bridgeton Trails Public Library
ROOM #2
3455 McKelvey Road
| From 270: | Exit St. Charles Rock Road east, make right onto McKelvey Road, Library is on the right (west) hand side of McKelvey. |
| From Lindberg: | Exit St. Charles Rock Road west, make left onto McKelvey Road, Library is on the right (west) hand side of McKelvey. |
For more information on SLUUGLS refer to the WWW home page for the group at http://www.stllinux.org/ or contact Matthew Feldt at linux@www.feldt.com.
St. Louis-based Meridian Technology will discuss its new CTI product that directly provides a unique solution to organizations with telecommuting requirements. The presentation will discuss the need and deployment of telecommuting as well as the product. The product was co-developed with Data Race, Inc. The presentation will be given by Mr. Gary Liming, Vice President of Engineering.
Meridian Technology Corporation, founded in 1983, is a privately-held communication software company that continues to be managed by its founders. Meridian's senior management collectively applies over 100 years of industry experience to every corporate decision. The result is a technically proficient and fiscally sound company. Meridian's web site is located at http://www.meridiantc.com.
| Date/Time: | Wednesday, May 2, 1997; 6:30 PM - 8:30 PM (approx) |
| Location: | Bridgeton Trails Library (Rm #2) - 3455 McKelvey Road
St. Louis, MO (one block south of St. Charles Rock Road) (see map at http://www.ctitek.com/ctiusers/library_map.html) |
| Cost: | None. New members welcomed monthly free of charge. |
| Note: | All 1997 meetings will be held on the first Wednesday of the month. |
For more information on SLUUG CiTI contact Tony Zafiropoulos at tonyz@ctitek.com or (314)537-3959.
Welcome the the Digital Alpha / UNIX Special Interest Group (SIG) of the St. Louis UNIX Users' Group (SLUUG). It is nice to be back.
For more information about the Digital SIG contact Newton Love newton@mail.sluug.org or visit the Digital SIG home page http://www.sluug.org/~newton/asighome.html.
The Information Technology Exposition Conference (ITEC) is scheduled for May 21 and 22 (Wednesday and Thursday) this year, again at Cervantees Convention Center. Please plan on attending if at all possible, and be sure to encourage your co-workers to attend. We will provide free tickets at our May 14th meeting as well as information about online registration and how to get additional free tickets. Please get your tickets directly from us.
If you pre-register using ASM's web site, please be sure to indicate that you are with SLUUG and not your own company, as they will be tracking our attendance this year and we want a strong showing (it helps to reduce our costs).
Take advantage of the ITEC information on our web site (http://www.sluug.org) to learn more about working the booth, administrative progress, and general information including more detailed presentation information. You will be able to link to the ITEC web page from the SLUUG home page.
ITEC '97 will definitely be the best show we have done to date. Mark your calendars now!
SLUUG will sponsor the following presentations in Seminar Theatre 3 at the show. Time will be time set aside for questions at the end of each presentation and the presenter will visit the SLUUG booth after the presentation.
May 21, 1:30PM
Matthew Feldt - Internet Project Manager for Mercantile
Bancorporation and
founder of the St. Louis UNIX Users Group-Linux SIG will present "Linux as
a Web Server".
According to WebCrawler, 84% of HTTP servers are UNIX based and the most popular HTTP server software is Apache. A survey by Netcraft indicates that Apache has been the most popular web server software in the world for more than 12 months.
Mr. Feldt will discuss the advantages of choosing Linux as a ntra/Internet Web Server. The presentation will focus on the state and future of the Linux operating system and the feature set of the Apache Web Server.
May 21, 2:30PM
Please join John Zukowski, author of the "Java AWT
Reference" for a broad overview of Java, Java applets, it's
portability, how it is used for adding motion and interactivity to Web
pages, it's similarities to and differences from C and C++, Java
trends and directions, and how you can put Java to work for you in
your business.
May 22, 1:30PM
Please join John Zukowski, author of the "Java AWT
Reference" for an overview of JavaBeans, along with a demonstration of
how JavaBeans uses Persistence, Introspection, Customization, and
Event Delegation to build cross-platform reusable components.
May 22, 2:30PM
Robert Watson, System Engineer from Digital Equipment
will present UNIX/Windows NT Interoperability. UNIX and Windows NT
approach computing and networking with different standards, different
protocols, different resource naming conventions, even different
character sets in some cases. How will CIO's and IT managers cope with
these disparate approaches to computing? Mr. Watson will examine some
of the complexities involved in integrating networking protocols,
security, file systems, mail delivery, database access, system
management, and network monitoring in an environment where UNIX and
Windows NT are being deployed together.
Our booth is #1077 this year. Traffic will be high and could still use serveral more volunteers. Please consider working the booth, even if you can only spare an hour. Let us know even if it is tentative (sign up on the web, tell Dave Mills or Chris Wanta at the meeting(s) or send email to -- mills@mail.sluug.org or cfw1@mail.sluug.org.
We have an excellent event in store this year. We will see all of you there.
The SLUUG Steering Committee meets the Tuesday following the general 2nd Wednesday meeting at 6:00 PM in the 2nd floor training room of Daugherty Systems, One City Place in Creve Coeur. The guard can direct you to the meeting location. Anyone is welcome to attend. If you would like to become more involved in the planning of SLUUG, feel free to join us at the next Steering Committee meeting. Meetings usually last 1.5 to 2 hours.
For more information about sponsoring the St. Louis UNIX Users Group, contact Ed Wehner wehner@mail.sluug.org.
The St. Louis UNIX Users Group maintains a WWW page at http://www.sluug.org/. Visit us to learn more about who we are and what we do, visit other UNIX user groups' WWW pages, sign up for a SIG, or just to browse.
We publish other user group meeting schedules on a reciprocal basis. If you are a member of another non-profit group, please inform them of our policy and invite them to exchange meeting information with editor@mail.sluug.org, or call any of the SLUUG officers.
There's a new SIG in town! The St. Louis Java Special Interest Group is dedicated to promoting interest in and disseminating information about the Java programming language, Java development concepts and tools, and the use of Java for a variety of business and technical applications.
There are no membership fees to participate in the St. Louis Java SIG. Meetings are the second Thursday of each month, 6:30 - 8:00 PM. The first meeting is Thursday, May 8, 1997 at Sun Microsystems, 600 Emerson Road, Suite 301 (see http://www.ociweb.com/javasig/sunmap.htm for directions and a map). The featured presentation will be Java - What's All The Excitement About?, presented by Mark Volkmann of Object Computing, Inc. This is an introduction to Java, geared towards Java novices.
Meetings are open to the public, and novices to experts are welcome to attend. Please visit our home page at http://www.ociweb.com/javasig/ for the latest details.
The May 6th St. Louis Internet User's Group meeting has been canceled and rescheduled to coincide with the ITEC Expo. The St. Louis IUG meeting will be the afternoon of May 21st and repeated the afternoon of May 22nd. Additional information about the May meeting will be forthcoming. Information about the ITEC Expo is available at http://www.asmcorp.com. The topic for the May meeting is "Beyond the Firewall: Conducting Electronic Commerce on the Internet Securely," presented by Jym Barnes.
The first generation of Web sites were mainly marketing driven sites. The primary focus was providing a company marketing brochure online. The chief objective of second generation of Web sites will be conducting electronic commerce. A heightened awareness of security issues will become a major concern of second generation webmasters. This presentation will focus on security issues of conducting electronic commerce on the Internet. Technologies to be discussed include:
Hope to see everyone at the ITEC.
Meetings: Other than May, meetings are normally held the first Tuesday of the month, 6:30 PM, auditorium, lower level, One City Place on Olive Street Road in Creve Coeur.
Contact: Jym Barnes at (314)926-8672 (jym@stl.net) or visit their Web home page, http://www.stl.net.
| Address Changes and Membership |
Klaus Mueller | Home: +1 (573) 334-6477
331 S Spring Ave Cape Girardeau, MO 63703 mueller@mail.sluug.org
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| BBS Questions | Jim (Knight) Ford | knight@mail.sluug.org
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| Corporate Sponsors | Ed Wehner | wehner@mail.sluug.org
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| Newsletter Submissions |
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| Publisher: Sanjiv Bhatia | Home: (314)519-9272
Work: (314)516-6520 FAX: (314)516-5400 sanjiv@aryabhat.cs.umsl.edu
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| Editor: Steve Totten | Home: (618)931-0037
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| O'Reilly Books | Fred Govier | Work: (314)342-7846
govier@mail.sluug.org
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| Presentations | Rich Seibel | Home: (314)878-0394
Work: (314)515-2725 rich@mail.sluug.org
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| Steering Committee Information |
Gary Meyer | Home: (314)781-8644
gary@mail.sluug.org
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| SLUUG Treasurer | Steve Pautz | steve@mail.sluug.org
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| Special Interest Groups (SIGs) | ||
| Computer Telephone Integration (CTI) |
Tony Zafiropoulos | http://www.inlink.com/~itek
tonyz@ctitek.com
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| Linux | Matthew Feldt | Home: (314)429-5433
http://www.feldt.com linux@www.feldt.com
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The St. Louis UNIX Users Group has a new P.O. box. All official correspondence with SLUUG should now be sent to:
St. Louis UNIX Users Group
P.O. Box 1184
Fenton, MO 63026-1184