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UNIGROUP OF NEW YORK JULY 2001 ANNOUNCEMENTS
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1. UNIGROUP'S JULY 2001 GENERAL MEETING ANNOUNCEMENT
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When: Thursday, July 19, 2001
Where: The Chase Manhattan Bank
55 Water Street (enter at Old Slip)
South Tower
13th Floor, Conference Room C
Time: 6:15 PM - 6:30 PM Registration
6:30 PM - 6:40 PM Ask the Wizard,
Questions, Answers and Current Events
6:40 PM - 6:50 PM Unigroup Business
6:50 PM - 9:30 PM Main Presentation
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Topic: NetBSD: A Freely Available and Highly Portable Unix OS
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Speaker: Perry Metzger,
Wabasi Systems, Inc.
Meeting Introduction:
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Our topic for our July 2001 meeting is NetBSD and we are very lucky
to be able to have Perry Metzger present this topic to us. Perry
is a repeat Unigroup speaker, he gave us a presentation on IPv6 back
in 1996, before most people had ever heard about that technology.
Some of our members will remember the great talk we had on FreeBSD
last year. NetBSD, like FreeBSD and OpenBSD, is another variant
of Freely Available and Open Source Unix, based on the 4.4BSD Lite
release from UC Berkeley. Based on real BSD Unix, and Unix's 30
year history, these *BSD releases provide a good Open Source
alternative to Linux.
One of NetBSD's greatest features is that it has been ported to
at least 44 different architectures, and binary releases are available
for at least 21 of them. Some supported platforms are: alpha, amiga
hpcmips, i386, luna68k, mac68k, macppc, mmeye, mvme68k, news68k,
newsmips, next68k, pc532, pmax, prep, sgimips, sparc, sparc64,
sun3, vax and x68k. Bootable CDROM installations for many of these
platforms are freely downloadable off the net and are also available
in pre-packaged distributions. NetBSD is even available
for the MIPS based Windows CE PDA machines!
NetBSD version 1.5.1 was just recently released on July 11, 2001.
It is available for download from the main NetBSD site and its
various mirror sites around the world.
You can visit the web sites in the list below for detailed
information about the various Open Source *BSD Projects.
Web Resources:
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1. NetBSD http://www.netbsd.org
2. FreeBSD http://www.freebsd.org
3. OpenBSD http://www.openbsd.org
4. Small BSD Home Page http://www.picobsd.org
Description of Talk:
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This will be a general presentation about NetBSD, its various features
and functionality.
We also hope to be able to provide meeting attendees with NetBSD CD-ROM
distributions, but at this time we are not sure how many we will be
able to acquire for the meeting.
Please keep an eye on the Unigroup meeting page for a more detailed
outline of this talk and an update regarding potential giveaways
at this meeting. We will post this information as it arrives.
Speaker Biography:
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(from http://www.wasabisystems.com/about_us/our_team.html)
Perry Metzger founded Wasabi Systems after five years as President and
CEO of Piermont Information Systems, a New York based Internet and
security consulting company. With Piermont, Mr. Metzger specialized in
designing, developing, and deploying networking and security applications
for the financial community, involving the implementation of all aspects
of network infrastructure and security, including firewall systems, global
electronic mail systems, World Wide Web infrastructure, cryptographic
network security systems, and automated systems administration systems.
A member of the Internet and security communities since the mid-1980s,
Mr. Metzger is highly active in the work of the Internet's standardization
body, the Internet engineering Task Force, or IETF, where he was
instrumental in the design and standardization of several major Internet
security protocols, including the IPSec IP security protocol, for which he
served as co-author of the initial standards documents known as RFCs.
Additionally, from 1996 to 1997, Mr. Metzger served as an IANA
representative on the IAHC, a predecessor of ICANN, the organization that
controls the domain name system and Internet address assignment.
Mr. Metzger has been an active NetBSD developer since 1994, and served as
release manager for NetBSD 1.3 and 1.4. As a key member of the NetBSD
Project, Mr. Metzger has written large pieces of NetBSD itself.
Company Biography:
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(taken in part from http://www.wasabisystems.com/about_us/company_profile.html)
Wasabi Systems is a company founded by key members of the NetBSD Project
(including members of NetBSD Core) and a team of experienced consultants
and business service professionals to provide commercial-grade NetBSD
development solutions for a wide range of high-end user needs. Wasabi's
team of developers are among the world's foremost NetBSD developers,
including several members of NetBSD Core and release engineers for the
NetBSD Project. Wasabi Systems provides CD-ROM distributions, corporate
support, service contracts and full-scale customization for NetBSD.
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Complimentary Food and Refreshments will be served. This now includes
salads and sandwiches (eg. turkey, roast beef, chicken, tuna, grilled
eggplant, pasta salad, Caesar salad)!
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Directions:
55 Water Street is between Water Street & Front Streets at Old Slip...
about 7 blocks south of Fulton St. and the South Street Seaport.
Take 4 train to Bowling Green & Walk Due East;
Take 2/3 trains to Wall Street, Walk East to Water St.
then walk South 5 blocks;
Take M/J trains to Broad St., Walk East to Water St.;
Take N/R trains to Whitehall St., Walk North East to Water St.
There is parking on the street (after 6:30-7pm) and there is a lot
right in the building, entrance on Old Slip.
Walking from Wall St., follow William St. south which bends around
and leads you to Hanover Sq. and Old Slip is across Water Street.
Room Location Specifics:
Enter the building at Old Slip. To get to the South Tower of the
complex, you enter the building at Old Slip at the "North Tower"
doors. This entrance is is immediately to the right of the main
entrance, towards Water Street... ie. Use the right-most side doors
rather than walking straight ahead at the Old Slip entrance.
Go past the guard's desk (mentioning you are heading for Unigroup,
sometimes there is a sign-in) to the elevator bank and go to the 13th
floor. When you get to the 13th floor, follow the signs leading you
to the meeting room.
The signs will lead you from the elevator, through a set of doors
(soda machine will be on your left), then past the cafeteria. After
the cafeteria, you see another "lobby" area. Walk past the cash
machines, make a left and look for a sign marking the meeting room.
Conference Room C will be on your left.
If you come very early, we may not have the signs in place yet, but
hopefully these directions will get you to the meeting room.
If you arrive before Unigroup Board Members, please be patient and
wait for us to arrive.
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Fee Schedule:
Yearly Membership (includes all meetings): $ 50.00
* Non-Member Single Meeting: $ 20.00
Student Yearly Membership: $ 20.00
Non-Member Student Single Meeting (with ID): $ 5.00
Cash, Check, American Express.
* Employees of Chase (with ID) can attend general meetings at no charge.
==> Unigroup is the Greater NYC Regional Area Affiliate
of UniForum - an International Unix Users Group.
Our Joint Membership Program with UniForum is currently
on hold due to circumstances at UniForum.
For information about UniForum visit http://www.uniforum.org.
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Please mark this meeting on your calendar and join us!
Please tell your friends about Unigroup!
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2. UPCOMING MEETINGS
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We have a series of meetings in the works:
- Unix 30th Birthday Celebration
- Intrusion Detection
- IPsec and IPv6
- Linux Clustering Part 3: Beowulf version 2
- Building a Firewall using FreeBSD and Linux
- Unix Office Tools: Word Processors, Spreadsheets, Accounting Packages.
- Emacs
- PKI
- GNU Development Environments
- Meetings on a variety of Sun/Solaris/Java topics
Please let us know about any other meeting topics that you may be
interested in. Potential speakers on Unix releated technology topics
should contact the Unigroup board at uniboard@unigroup.org.
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3. PRIOR MEETING
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Our thanks go to Nick Carr of Mission Critical Linux who gave us a
nice technical overview presentation on various High Availability Cluster
Technologies, and in particular, the specific technologies being
used by the Linux community. The talk demonstrated how both a
distributed lock manager and a cluster file system can be implemented.
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4. ANNOUNCEMENTS FROM OTHER USER GROUPS (edited)
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The New York Enterprise Windows User Group meeting... has a Unix
related topic and does NOT conflict with Unigroup this month...
# =======================================================================
# New York Enterprise Windows User Group News
# 7/13/01
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#
# ******************************
# ***** IMPORTANT NOTICE ******
# ******************************
#
# Our July and August meetings will NOT be held at our regular location.
# Instead they will be held at:
# New Horizons Computer Learning Centers
# It is in The Grace Building at:
# 43 West 42nd Street at 8th Avenue (Street Level)
#
# These meetings will starting promptly at 6:30 PM. Call our 24-hour voice
# Hot Line at 212-643-NYPC for last minute changes. Use menu code EWN.
#
# Bill
# ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
# 1. July 26th meeting
# --------------------
# Jason Zions of Microsoft will present:
# Microsoft Services For Unix.
#
# Jason was part of the company that Microsoft acquired in order to
# produce this product. He is also a former member of this group.
#
# Location: New Horizons, 42nd St.& 8th Avenue.
#
# Note that This is also not on our regularly scheduled date either.
# ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
# 2. August 16th meeting
# ----------------------
# Donnie Hamlett will present Windows Xp Professional Features.
#
# Location: New Horizons, 42nd St.& 8th Avenue.
# ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
# 5. Citrix Users Group meeting
# NYC-Metro/NJ Citrix User Group Meeting
# Citrix NYC Executive Briefing Center, Eleven Penn Plaza,
# 20th floor, NYC NY (917) 286-4900
# July 31st, 2001 (9:00AM -11:00AM and 3:00PM -5:00PM)
#
# Topic: Enterprise Information Portals - "What's Your Web Strategy?"
#
# Please direct questions to Michael Barry
# michael.barry@citrix.com
# 800-437-7503 x8247
# ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
# 7. General membership information
# ---------------------------------
# Tell your peers about our group! All are welcome.
# For additional information on the New York Enterprise Windows User Group,
# or to be placed on the mailing list, contact Bill Zack at
# wzack@compuserve.com or Tony Iams at tony@dhbrown.com.
#
# The Enterprise Windows User Group is also a Special Interest Group of
# the New York PC User Group (NYPC). See http://www.nypc.org for details.
# ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
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The NYJavaSIG Meeting...
: Date: Mon, 16 Jul 2001 13:26:52 -0400 (EDT)
: From: fgreco@crossroadstech.com
: Subject: NYJavaSIG Next Meeting - BILL DAY - 07/23/01
:
: Next NYJavaSIG Meeting - 07/23/01, Monday
:
: We are very lucky to get BILL DAY, Technology Evangelist for Sun
: Microsystems on such short notice. As most of you senior Java
: developers know from scanning JavaWorld.com, Bill is very well
: known in the Java technical community.
:
: Bill will give us an in-depth presentation on the details of the
: third member of the Java 2 trilogy, J2ME.
:
: Please register ASAP. It'll close real quick.
:
: IMPORTANT: Its a Monday (yeah, I know)
: We are NOT meeting at Sun Microsystems this time.
:
: See you on Monday evening.
:
: Frank G.
: - www.CrossroadsTech.com
: - www.JavaSIG.com
:
: ******************************************************
: Developing Wireless Applications Using Java Technology
: ******************************************************
:
: What: Java and Wireless - A Programmer's Perspective
:
: Who: Bill Day
: Sun Microsystems, Inc.
: www.billday.com
:
: When: MONDAY July 23, 2001 (Note: Its a Monday)
: 6:00pm - 8:00pm
:
: Where: Starpoint Solutions (Note: Not at Sun Microsystems)
: 115 Broadway, 20th Floor
: 2 blocks SE from World Trade Center
: Thanks to Starpoint Solutions for the room!
:
:
: You MUST RSVP via www.javasig.com/sigjsp/meeting/info.jsp
:
: Refreshments courtesy of BEA Systems. Thanks!
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The Independent Computer Consultants Association NYC Metro Chapter
meeting...
> ICCA New York City Metro Chapter's Monthly Meeting:
> July 30, 2001, 6:30 PM Pete's Tavern, 129 E. 18th Street, New York, NY
> Speaker: Michael Brathwaite of Business Network International
> Topic: How to develop and cultivate word-of-mouth / referral business.
>
> Please visit http://www.iccanyc.org for further information.
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The next LXNY meeting...
% The next general meeting of LXNY will take place on Tuesday 7 August 2001.
%
% Thanks to support of the IBM Corporation, the 7 August 2001 meeting
% will be in their building at 590 Madison Avenue at East 57th Street
% on the Island of Manhattan.
%
% Jay Sulzberger
% Corresponding Secretary LXNY
% LXNY is New York's Free Computing Organization.
% http://www.lxny.org
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5. UNIGROUP INFORMATION
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Unigroup is one of the oldest and largest Unix User's Groups serving the
Greater New York City Regional Area since the early 1980s. Unigroup is a
not-for-profit, vendor-neutral and member funded volunteer organization.
Unigroup holds regular and special event meetings throughout the year on
technical topics relating to Unix and the Unix User Community. Unigroup
is also the Greater NYC Regional Area Affiliate of UniForum - an
International Unix Users Group.
Thanks to Chase, Unigroup holds regular meetings planned for the Third
THURSDAY of Odd Months at The Chase Manhattan Bank, 55 Water Street, NYC.
Chase has been a long time sponsor of Unigroup, allowing us the use of a
meeting room and presentation equipment.
Planned meeting dates are: 7/19/01, 9/20/01, 11/15/01, 1/17/2002...
Watch for our Special Event meetings at the various trade shows in NYC
as well as "field trips" to the facilities of local hardware and
software vendors.
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= For Unigroup Information, Events and Meeting Announcements be sure to =
= visit our World Wide Web Home Page: =
= http://www.unigroup.org =
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If you have recently attended a meeting and you are not receiving
Email announcements, please send us an Email and we will make
corrections to our lists.
Please Email the Board with any suggestions, especially potential meeting
topics and speakers. Unigroup welcomes contributions and content
suggestions for our newsletter. Unigroup is a volunteer organization and
we need your assistance! Please let us know if you can help!
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I hope to see you all at our next meeting!
-Rob Weiner
Unigroup Executive Director
unilist@unigroup.org
http://www.unigroup.org
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