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This posting outlines the content of the AUUG Inc Canberra Chapter
Conference and Workshops, to be held on the 16th and 17th of February,
1993 in Canberra.  A hard-copy of this text may be obtained from John
Barlow (email jdb@canb.auug.org.au).

        Fourth Annual Canberra Conference and Workshops
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AUUG Inc. Canberra Chapter
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A conference on UNIX and Open Systems for the Canberra region.

16th - 17th February, 1993.  National Convention Centre.

Sponsored by:

        Hewlett Packard
        IBM
        Sun
        ATR
        Fujitsu
        Easams
        CISR, ANU


                        Conference
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                Wednesday 17th February, 1993

A conference on UNIX and Open Systems for the Canberra Region brought
to you by AUUG Inc.  Lunch is sponsored by Hewlett Packard.  Morning
refreshments are sponsored by IBM and afternoon refreshments are
sponsored by Sun Microsystems.

Who Can that Be Now?
David Baldwin, Australian National University
  This paper provides a description of a proposed implementation of an
  integrated identification card system including magnetic stripe,
  barcode and photo imaging.  The system integrates enrolment data,
  library lending and access to buildings across various systems
  including several flavours of UNIX and mainframes.  The system could
  be extended to include EFTPOS,  on-line enrolments ...

XmFm - An X/MOTIF File Manager
Jan Newmarch, University of Canberra
  XmFm is a file manager for UNIX workstations that uses the Motif
  graphical user interface.  Like other file managers it displays
  directory contents, using icons for files.  It supports drag and drop
  actions using features of Motif 1.2, and can interact with other
  applications using the same protocol. Its major difference with other
  file managers are that it supports an object-oriented approach to the
  actions that can be performed upon files, and the high degree of
  user-level configurability of the system.

POSIX and the Open Systems Environment
Peter Wishart, EASAMS Australia
  The Open System Environment (OSE) is the international standards
  community view of Open Systems.  POSIX and OSI are key components of
  OSE.  This paper looks at how OSE is developing within the standards
  community (through bodies like ISO and IEEE)  and user organisations
  like the Commonwealth Government.  It describes how POSIX, OSI and
  other standards fit into the POSIX proposed OSE reference model.  It
  looks at the profiles being developed to help people navigate the
  standards maze.

MUDs - Serious Research Tool or Just Another Game
Lawrie Brown, Aust. Defence Force Academy
  MUDs (Multi-User Dungeons)  have been getting quite a bit of press
  recently, much of it heated,  and much of it negative.  A MUD
  provides a controlled, user extensible environment in which a number
  of people can interact. This paper introduces the concepts and
  history of the MUDs,  and then provides an overview of some uses for
  MUDs.  These range from an on-line conference room in my own MUD,  to
  trialing garbage collection algorithms, experimenting with economic
  models,  simulating a Mars colony,  and investigating the psychology
  of user interactions on MUDs.

DOS access to UNIX Mail and News
Stephen Hodgman, Adept Software
  There are a number of DOS packages which can provide access to UNIX
  news and mail from a DOS machine via dialup services.  The packages
  provide a UUCP connection via dialup modems (or direct connection),
  various flavours of e-mail interfaces (including windows) and a
  USENET news interface.  The packages are currently available for use
  by AUUG Canberra members wishing to connect to our UNIX machine.
  This paper looks at several of the packages and relates experiences
  configuring under DOS and UNIX.

UNIX Resource Management Systems
Mathew Lim, ANU Supercomputer Facility
  With the incursion of UNIX into the commercial mainframe oriented
  world,  batch and resource management systems for UNIX will become an
  important issue.  This paper describes various batch and resource
  management systems for UNIX.  A case study will be presented on
  RASH,  a system developed by the ANUSF for resource allocation and
  accounting.  While this implementation was developed for a
  supercomputer environment,  many of the concepts used may be easily
  transposed into other UNIX environments where the fair sharing of a
  central resource is necessary.

UNIX Capacity Planning & Performance Measurement
Alan Scott, Australian Technology Resources
  Local Area Networks,  based on UNIX servers delivering data and
  application support to intelligent workstations,  be they DOS,  OS/2,
  Apple or UNIX based are a fairly recent approach to work group
  computing. Capacity planning and performance measurement of the LAN
  are vital in ensuring that growth is properly catered for,  and while
  in the mainframe world this has been elevated from an art form into a
  science, the "Open Systems"  world still has a lot to learn.  This
  paper discusses some of the issues,  and discusses how capacity and
  performance can be measured.

386BSD: A Look Under The Hood
Andrew McRae, Megadata Pty Ltd
  386BSD is a freely available port of the BSD Networking Release 2
  software to a 386 PC architecture.  It is a fully functional kernel
  with associated user programs and tools, albeit not yet a
  commercially stable release.  This paper presents a short description
  of the machine,  specific aspects of 386BSD,  and then discusses the
  strengths and weaknesses of this particular port,  and how well it
  fits onto the 386 and the PC hardware architecture.  Finally some
  areas of performance enhancements are discussed,  and what effect
  these have had on the working system.

Distributing C Compiles
Peter Gray, University of Wollongong 
  Given a homogeneous environment it seems desirable to offload as much
  work as possible from busy server machines onto relatively lightly
  loaded workstations.  This work describes a system which allows C
  compiles for users of the servers to be run on the workstations in a
  fashion which is totally transparent to the compiler user. The system
  comprises a RPC server to allocate compiles to workstations, a C
  server process and a C client process to co-ordinate the compile.  It
  is hoped the system will be used as the default C compiler for the
  computer science department in 1993.

Stockbroking with Open Systems
Gregory Bond, Burdett, Buckeridge & Young
  This paper begins with an examination of why a Stockbroker would
  choose an Open Systems solution.  It traces the history of the
  UNIX-based dealing systems over the five year history of the firm,
  looking at the choices made at each stage in the developing
  technology.  Special attention is paid to the decision to choose X
  terminals rather than workstations as the next evolutionary step;
  how we implemented this choice; and the results of the project.
  Finally,  it will present a technology wish-list to vendors who would
  like to sell into sites similar to ours.

Right Sizing ACT Transport Regulation
A.J. (John) Turner, ACT Roads and Transport
  Systems for motor vehicle regulation, drivers licensing and parking
  infringement processing were identified by the ACT government as
  needing replacement in 1990.  It was determined that these systems
  would be developed in a UNIX environment using relational
  technology.  This paper describes some of the business issues that
  needed resolution, and the technology and problems encountered in the
  implementation of the TRIPS system.


                        Workshops
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                Tuesday 16th February, 1993

This year we offer eight workshops.  These workshops are a quick and
enjoyable introduction to various technical aspects of UNIX systems.In
general both beginners and experienced users are catered for.  The
first session for workshops is from 9 am till 12 noon and the second
session is from 1:30 pm till 4:30 pm.  Morning and afternoon tea will
be provided.  The workshops will be held on the ANU campus, with easy
access to various luncheon spots.  You can attend the workshops without
attending the conference.  The size of each workshop is limited.
Spaces will be allocated on a first come basis.  We reserve the right
to cancel any workshop (if we cancel any workshop a refund will be
arranged).  For further information contact John Barlow on 2490747
(fax) or 2492930 (work) or jdb@canb.auug.org.au (email).



1. Security (half day)
John Barlow, ANU
  Is your computer security adequate? You will hear some horror stories
  illustrating common faults and their remedies.  Subjects covered
  include both standalone and networked security, dial up modems,
  passwords, file permissions and system administration utilities.

2. Everyday UNIX utilities (half day)
Ivan Angus, ANU
  UNIX contains a rich set of tools for the manipulation of data which
  can be applied to such diverse tasks as system administration, file
  reformatting and creating custom utilities. Such utilities as grep,
  sed and awk will be discussed and shell script programming will be
  illustrated.

3. Motif Programming (full day)
Jan Newmarch, University of Canberra
  Motif is the most widely supported GUI for the X Windows System. This
  workshop will cover programming using X with both Xlib and the Motif
  toolkit.  Jan Newmarch has written a book on X including Motif. He
  has also built a file manager using the Motif toolkit, which will be
  demonstrated during the workshop.

4. The X Window System (half day)
Bob Dynes, Labtam Australia
  An introduction to X11 Windows for beginner users.  This workshop
  will explore basic concepts of X11, window managers and fundamental
  X11 user programs such as xterm.  Various X11 applications and X
  Terminal configuration will be demonstrated.  This is a hands on
  workshop.

5. Network Management (half day)
Mark Turner, ANU
  Gone are the days where managing a network merely meant maintaining
  connectivity of a relatively small number of consistent network
  devices.  Today's manager is responsible for the operation of a large
  scale multi-vendor environment.  A case study will highlight, with
  emphasis on the UNIX platform, the strategies and tools available,
  and discuss the integration of public domain software and a
  commercial turn-key NMS package in a step towards the ideal
  management solution.   Topics discussed will include:  status
  monitoring; data collection for the purposes of planning and
  troubleshooting; traffic analysis; Management Information Bases
  (MIBs) and the Simple Network Management Protocol (SNMP); assorted
  UNIX tools.

6. The SVR4 Operating System Environment (+ day)
Kevin Mayo, Sun Microsystems
  This workshop will provide an overview of the SVR4 environment.
  Topics will include the genesis of SVR4, its features and functions,
  interoperability with and transitions from other versions of UNIX,
  and future directions. Features found in SVR4 and in its value as a
  standard in the UNIX world will be discussed.

7. Getting Connected to AARNet (half day)
Peter Elford, AARNet
  This tutorial is primarily technical, but also includes a large
  section on how to use the wide range of services that are available
  over AARNet/the Internet. A description of all the steps required to
  connect to AARNet will be covered in depth. Configuration and use of
  mail and news will be covered. Other services such as file transfer,
  remote login, information servers including Archie, WAIS and Gopher.
  ...and, of course, all your questions will be answered!

8. OLTP - On Line Transaction Processing (half day)
Mark Johnson, IBM
  Attendees will gain an understanding of OLTP systems theory,
  properties and requirements. The DCE, Encina and CICS environments
  will be discussed in detail.  Mark recently spent two years at IBM's
  International Technical Support Centre in Austin, Texas where he
  worked extensively with the developers of CICS for AIX.

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        AUUG Inc. Fourth Annual Conference & Workshops
                16th - 17th February, 1993

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John Barlow, Parallel Computing Research Facility, I-Block,
Australian National University, Canberra, 0200, Australia.
email = John.Barlow@anu.edu.au
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