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UNIGROUP OF NEW YORK MARCH 2002 ANNOUNCEMENTS
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1. UNIGROUP'S MARCH 2002 GENERAL MEETING ANNOUNCEMENT
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When: Thursday, March 21, 2002
Where: The Chase Manhattan Bank
55 Water Street (enter at Old Slip)
South Tower
13th Floor, Conference Room C
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YOU MUST RSVP TO GET PAST SECURITY, SEE BELOW!
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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: LTSP - Linux Terminal Server Project (including EtherBoot)
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Speaker: Andrew Williams,
VarTech Solutions; and LTSP
SPECIAL INSTRUCTIONS:
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* IN ORDER TO PASS THROUGH SECURITY AT CHASE, WE NEED YOU TO RSVP
* PRIOR TO THURSDAY, SO WE CAN GET YOUR NAME ON THE ATTENDEE LIST.
* ADVANCE REGISTRATION AND PHOTO ID ARE REQUIRED!
* RSVP DEADLINE 21-MAR-2002 08:00AM. <<<< PAY ATTENTION, DEADLINE!
Please RSVP if you know you are attending or if you think you may
be attending. This will help us arrange for a letter to security
for all of Unigroup. It will also help us to determine the correct
amount of food and refreshments.
To REGISTER for this event, please RSVP by:
a) If at all possible, please use the Unigroup Registration Page:
http://www.unigroup.org/unigroup-rsvp.html
This will allow us to have some automation in the RSVP process.
b) If you must Email us, send an EMail containing the FIRST and
LAST NAMEs of the persons attending to the Unigroup RSVP address:
unigroup-rsvp@unigroup.org
The Email subject should start with "RSVP".
You may optionally include your contact phone number (that day)
or other current information.
DO NOT simply reply to this email, sending us back the entire
announcement (we already have it); leaving the subject as it
was, and NOT containing the phrase "RSVP" as requested. In
that case, your message just looks like failed mail and it
makes it impossible to automate the RSVP process and get
you registered for our event.
Please continue to check the Unigroup web site:
http://www.unigroup.org
for any last minute updates concerning this meeting. Please
check your email for any last minute announcements prior to the
meeting. Note that only the Attendee First and Last Names will
be provided to Chase Security.
Description of Talk:
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The Linux Terminal Server Project (LTSP) and EtherBoot will be
discussed and demoed at this meeting. In a nutshell, LTSP provides
thin-client Linux diskless workstations. These workstations could
be built to have no local floppy, CD-ROM or hard drive, similar to
an X-terminal. Given a network card with boot ROM, all software
components of the Linux operating system would be downloaded from
a boot server and then NFS and X are used to provide access to files
and terminal sessions on one or more host computers.
LTSP version 3.0 has been recently released and it supports the
following Linux distributions: RedHat, Mandrake, SuSE, Debian,
Caldera and Conectiva. See the LTSP home page for further
information. The Linux Diskless Nodes How-To (see link below)
describes a variety of uses for diskless workstations.
EtherBoot is a software package for creating boot ROM images for
various network cards. The Boot ROM on an Ethernet Adaptor Card
(usually purchased from the manufacturer, or freely available via
EtherBoot) allows a computer to boot over the network, in a
similar manner as it would boot off of a floppy, CD-ROM or hard disk.
Web Resources:
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1. LTSP Project http://www.ltsp.org
2. EtherBoot Project http://www.etherboot.org
3. Rom-O-Matic http://www.rom-o-matic.net
4. Linux Diskless Nodes How-To
http://www.ibiblio.org/Linux/HOWTO/Diskless-HOWTO.html
Giveaways:
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O'Reilly has provided us with various giveaways (books, t-shirts, etc).
Speaker Biography:
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Andrew Williams has been using Linux for about 8 years, and has been a
member of LTSP since December 2000. He is a project tester, and takes
takes care of the Local Audio Package and WebCam packages. Andy said
the WebCam project was the first to provide a thin client live WebCam.
Andy was part of the LTSP team exhibiting at the last Linux Expo in NYC,
and he had set up the live WebCam from the LTSP booth.
Andy is also involved with the E-Stations Project in NJ, which is
being put together by the NJ Dept of Transportation, NJ Transit, NJIT,
Mayors office and Crest Community Development Network.
Company Biography:
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VarTech Solutions is a small computer consulting company located in
Newark, NJ. VarTech offers the following services: network services,
build and repair, system sales. VarTech also runs a CyberCafe type
environment, based on LTSP, which is available to the public and is
used for teaching inner-city youth the Linux Operating System.
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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.
Walking from Wall St., follow William St. south which bends around
and leads you to Hanover Sq. and Old Slip is across Water Street.
** Note the parking situation is TOTALLY UNKNOWN.
We believe that the parking lot inside Chase will be OFF LIMITS.
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:
- Zope (Web Page Development)
- High Performance Internet Servers / Web Acceleration
- Unix 30th Birthday Celebration
- 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 related technology topics
should contact the Unigroup board at uniboard@unigroup.org.
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3. PRIOR MEETING
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We need to "catch up" on some of our Thank You notes, so here goes:
a) For our November 2001 meeting:
Our thanks go to James Licata who gave us a great presentation
on Intrusion Detection and its importance as part of a
Best-Practices Approach to Security.
b) For our January 2002 meeting:
Our thanks go to Netscreen Technologies who gave us a presentation
on the principles associated with Stateful Inspection Firewalls.
Netscreen also sponsored the food service for our meeting.
c) For our February 2002 meeting:
Last month, we had a "field trip" meeting to Enterasys Networks
in midtown. Enterasys catered the meeting and provided various
tasty sandwiches, salads, fresh fruits and cookies. Andrew
Raver and Dang Nguyen gave us a very professional and technical
presentation on Wireless Technologies and Standards. As a bonus,
we were able to speak (via speaker phone) with one of Enterasys'
representatives to the Wireless Standards Committees.
d) O'Reilly has provided us with a couple of boxes of giveaways.
We have already started raffling them off. The first batch of
books to be given out were their Wireless books (given out at
our wireless meeting, of course). We also gave out O'Reilly book
catalogs as well as User Group Discount Coupons for use when
purchasing from the O'Reilly web page.
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4. 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: 3/21/2002, 5/16/2002, 7/18/2002, ...
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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unilist@unigroup.org
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uniboard@unigroup.org
To contact the Newsletter Editor, send an EMail message to:
editor@unigroup.org
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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