The UNIX® CRONicle |
June 1997 |
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Wednesday, June 11, 1997 at 6:30 PM
Sunnen Products, 7910 Manchester
| 6:30 PM | Tutorial | "TBD" |
| 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 | "Performance Management on a Shoestring Budget" by Jon Polland, Sun Microsystems |
"Performance Management on a Shoestring Budget" by Jon Poland, Sun Microsystems
Every systems administrator dreads the day when the user calls asking what has happened to the system and why is the application running so slowly. In this presentation, Jon Poland will show us what commands are already on our system to be able to be armed and ready for this phone call.
He will also discuss what are the most likely bottlenecks in a UNIX computer, how they interact, and how to monitor them.
Jon will present an awk program which drives gnuplot. The output provides clear, graphical descriptions of how your system is really performing.
Jon Poland is a UNIX guru. He has been known to debug the kernel of production systems in real-time (sometimes without causing a panic). One day before breakfast he wrote a hex disassembler and reassembler as a vi macro in order to fix a bug in an executable. Jon developed his performance management expertise while developing a high performance, replicated, highly available database application at a time when most people were thinking "relational" was a carryover from the 60's. Jon knows how to remove a file named "-rf /". He can speak for hours using only 2 & 3 letter words. Jon never confuses which is the X-client and which is the X-server. Jon's 8 year old son programs in PERL and sed. Jon's current project is to upgrade /bin/csh to /bin/Csh - the "clairvoyant shell": where !+1 is implemented. Jon is employed as a Systems Engineer by Sun Microsystems (at least until management finds out how he really spends his time.) Jon has been a member of SLUUG for nearly 4 years.
"TBD"
| Main Meeting | June 11, 1996 at 6:30 PM Sunnen Products 7910 Manchester St. Louis, MO
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| Steering Committee | June 17, 1996 at 6:00 PM Daugherty Systems One City Place (2nd floor) Creve Coeur, MO
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| Linux SIG | June 19, 1996 at 7:00 PM TBD Bridgeton Trails Public Library ROOM #2 3455 McKelvey Road St. Louis, MO 63044
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| CTI SIG | June 4, 1996 at 6:30 PM Call Producer Telephony Server, by Mitel and Tech Electronics Bridgeton Trails Public Library ROOM #1 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.
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.
Mitel and Tech Electronics to Jointly Demo the Call Producer Telephony Server
PBX manufacturer Mitel will be in town to assist St. Louis-based Tech Electronics in demonstrating their CallProducer Telephony Server. Tech Electronics has been a Mitel distributor since 1986. Mitel makes up approximately 1 in 5 of every PBX in the United States. Currently, Mitel has been effective at working closely with CTI developers.
| Date/Time: | Wednesday, June 4, 1997; 6:30 PM - 8:30 PM (approx) |
| Location: | Bridgeton Trails Library (Rm #1) - 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.
For more information about the Digital Alpha SIG contact Newton Love newton@mail.sluug.org or visit the Digital SIG home page http://www.sluug.org/~newton/asighome.html.
ITEC97 was an unqualified success! Once again with the help of many volunteers, SLUUG reached out to many potential members, answered questions, and promoted the open systems format.
Dave and I would personally like to thank all the volunteers who 'muscled' the boxes, manned the booth, sold lots of books, and answered numerous questions. A special thanks to Tom Parsons who covered for Dave and I throughout. Everyone was needed and truly appreciated. We made some wonderful contacts for the future.
All of our volunteers were kept busy from start to finish this year. There was an unprecedented volume of traffic continuously flowing into our booth. I don't believe anyone had a minute of boredom. We had quite a call for our books and there were many special offers in conjunction with our various presentations.
Our presentations had the highest observed attendance of all of the presentations. The Linux As An Internet/Intranet Server by Matthew Feldt (Manager of our Linux SIG) had 25 attendees. The JAVA Overview by John Zukowski (O'Reilly author of the JAVA AWT Reference) broke all records with standing (and sitting on the floor) room only and attendance of 52 people. The more targeted JavaBeans presentation (also by John Zukowski) had a very respectable 24 attendees. And the UNIX/NT Interoperability presentation by Robert Watson (SE Digital Equipment) had 23 attendees. The only down side was that the seminar rooms were on the ITEC conference floor, as temporary rooms without ceilings. This made for very poor acoustics, which will be corrected for next year (or else!).
Once again, thank you one and all for your support at ITEC97. Each of you provided a key element in our team.
Chris Wanta and Dave Mills
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.
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.
Next meeting details:
When: Thursday, June 12, 1997, 6:30 PM
Where: Novell, Inc., 600 Emerson Road, Suite 203
Topic: "AWT Event Handling in JDK 1.1" by Mark Volkmann,
Object Computing, Inc.
Be sure to visit the Java SIG's Web site at http://www.ociweb.com/javasig for the latest news about the Java SIG and an updated schedule of events. The Web site also includes presentation slides from the May meeting, a form for subscribing to the Java SIG mailing list, and a map to Novell. You may direct any questions about the Java SIG to javasig@ociweb.com.
The June St. Louis Internet User's Group meeting is canceled. The next meeting will be Tuesday, July 1st.
Meetings: 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 |
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| Steering Committee Information |
Gary Meyer | Home: (314)781-8644
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| SLUUG Treasurer | Steve Pautz | steve@mail.sluug.org
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| Computer Telephone Integration (CTI) |
Tony Zafiropoulos | http://www.inlink.com/~itek
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St. Louis UNIX Users Group
P.O. Box 1184
Fenton, MO 63026-1184