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                        Meeting Announcement
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This is the official announcement of the next meeting of HUMBUG,
the Home Unix Machine, Brisbane User Group.  The club exists to get fellow
Unix users in contact with each other, to introduce people to Unix and
Unix like operating systems, to and to help users in operating those systems.
Everyone is welcome to attend.

                        HUMBUG Details
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Name:           Home Unix Machine, Brisbane User Group.

Fee:            $15/year.  Non-members will be charged $5 per meeting.
                This $5 will be put toward the membership fee, so after
                3 meetings a non-member automatically becomes a member.
                Those just wanting to come and have a look will not
                be charged for the first couple of meetings.

Operating
System:         As the name suggests, the club caters to Home Unix
                machines. The following Operating Systems all fall
                into this category:
                                        FreeBSD
                                        The Hurd
                                        Linux
                                        Mach
                                        Minix
                                        NetBSD
                                        OpenBSD
                                        Solaris(x86)

                The club is currently dominated by Linux users.
                Everyone is invited, whether you are a Unix user, are
                interested in becoming one, or would just like to see
                what this Unix thing is all about.

                        Next Meeting Details
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Where:  Hawken Lecture Room 3, at the University of Queensland,

Date:   Saturday, 25th of May, 1996.

Time:   3:00pm to 1:00am.  You don't have to stay the whole time :-)

Format: Usually we joke around, tell Unix horror stories, show off Unix
        knowledge, hang around on irc, etc.  The meetings are pretty 
        informal,  but we occassionally have talks on various topics. We 
        fix up all sorts of problems for new (and not so new :-) users.  
        Lately we have been installing Linux on people's computers on a 
        regular basis. :-)

Library: We have a library including Copies of the Linux Journal and CDs
         that club members can borrow from.  More CDs are expected in the
         near future.

Computers: I encourage all members to bring their machines to the next
           meeting.  Thankyou to all those people who have brought their
           computers before.

Food:   A great home style pizza place is a five minute walk away, or
        you can order in take-away for dinner.

Misc:   Humbug now has its own domain, humbug.org.au, and all members
        are entitled to have their computers registered in this domain.

Talk:   I'd like to congratulate Mark Suter on his talk on Latex at the 
        last meeting.  We all enjoyed the talk and many of us learnt a lot.  
        More talks are in the works.


                        Internet access
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Using the IP masquerading features of the Linux kernel, all computers
present can have a transparent proxy connection to the Internet.
i.e. The computers are actually behind a firewall, but all computers get a
live 10Mbit/sec connection to the Internet.  No special client software is
needed to use IP masquerading.

All users are allocated IPs on a reserved class C subnet for their computers.
Users should only ever use their own IPs to prevent clashes.
An up to date list of allocated IPs can be found at
http://student.uq.edu.au/~s316674/humbug.ip.html

Lets get as many machines there as we can.  The more unix machines we have,
the better for all of us.  Most users bring their machines.  Meeting 
attendance of both humans and computers is steadily increasing.  Those 
who wish to bring their computers, but have transport difficulties could 
attempt to organise a lift with a member by asking on the mailing list.  
This has worked many times in the past.

                        WWW Page for HUMBUG
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As poor old karanthia was down for about 6 weeks, our home page is
now some what out of date, so i won't put a pointer to it.  Our poor
Web maintainer hasn't had a chance to do an update yet.

                        Mailing Lists
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Mailing list:           humbug-l@mailbox.uq.oz.au
Subscription:           majordomo@mailbox.uq.oz.au

Email majordomo@mailbox.uq.oz.au with a message body
of: subscribe humbug-l you@somehost.somesite in order to join the list.
Email the same address with a message body of help for more details.

Email sent to humbug-l@mailbox.uq.oz.au will reach all the subscribers.

                        How to get there
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If you do not know where the Hawken Lecture Theatres are, meet me at
the phone box at the University bus stop at 2:45pm, or email me and we
can arrange to meet at another time/place.

Here are directions to reach the bus stop:

  To reach the bus stop after entering St Lucia, drive along Sir Fred
Schonell Drive until you come to a roundabout.  Turn right into
Coleridge St.  Turn left in to Carmody Rd at the T-junction.  Follow this
road until you get to another roundabout.  Turn left at the round about.
This will put you in Chancellors's place.  A HUMBUG member will be next to
the phone box, near the bus stops, which will be on the right hand side
as you enter Chancellors's place.

  I suggest anyone not familiar with The University of Queensland at
St Lucia consult a refedex, before attempting to find the bus stop.

  For further details, email me at s316674@student.uq.edu.au, or contact
the mailing list.
Cheers,
	-Robert

--Robert Brockway, email: ec531667@student.uq.edu.au
			  robert@karanthia.humbug.org.au
                     WWW: http://student.uq.edu.au/~ec531667
	Always a Groomsman, never a Groom :-)