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                  Capital Area Central Texas UNIX Society
                             CACTUS Newsletter
                                      
                     Volume 17, Number 8 - August 2001
                                      
Contents:

     * [1]August Meeting Program - Serarching for a Server Services
       Friendly ISP
     * [2]July Meeting Report
     * [3]Membership
     * [4]CACTUS Officers and Contacts
     * [5]CACTUS Sponsors
     * [6]Meeting Location and Map
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                           August Meeting Program
                                      
   Members are Encouraged to participate in a round table discussion
   about server-friendly ISPs. We can also share our experiences dealing
   with the lastest version of the Code Red Worm.
     _________________________________________________________________
   
   
                            July Meeting Report
                                      
                             by Lindsay Haisley
                                      
   Once again, our far flung adventuring program chair provided us with
   an excellent opportunity for CACTUS members to visit and get to know
   one another, which we did for an hour or so since there was no
   scheduled presentation. From the discussion among the officers, it
   appears that we may have missed the opportunity to schedule a
   presentation by Eric Raymond, however, other opportunities for other
   good speakers of interest to the community at large are available.
   Mike Rice stated that both the Spark 10 and the Network Appliance box
   are at his house. Some discussion ensued regarding possible placement
   of these resources online. Lindsay noted that we still hadn't managed
   a kernel upgrade on our online system at OuterNet (linux.cactus.org),
   however you can probably expect this to happen sometime this month,
   now that your scribe is actually back in town for a while, at least
   until the 25th of the month or so.
     _________________________________________________________________
   
   
   
                                 Membership
                                      
                               By Luis Basto
                                      
   Let's welcome John Abbey as the newest member to join CACTUS.
   
   To renew your membership, please send check or money order payable to
   CACTUS ($25/yr for regular membership and $96/yr for corporate
   sponsorship):
CACTUS
PO BOX 9786
AUSTIN, TX 78766-9786
       
   You can also pay in person at the general meetings. Please direct any
   inquiries or address changes to membership@cactus.org.
     _________________________________________________________________
   
   
   
                              CACTUS Officers
                                      
     * President: Michael Rice ([7]mrice@colltech.com)
     * Treasurer: Johnny Long ([8]longjy@thecb.texas.gov)
     * Membership: Luis Basto ([9]membership@cactus.org)
     * Programs: Ray Schafer ([10]schafer@tkg.com)
     * Publicity: M.H. Khan ([11]mhk@cactus.org)
     * Newsletter: Ron Roberts ([12]ronro@bga.com)
     * Scribe: Lindsay Haisley ([13]fmouse@fmp.com)
     * Members at Large:
       
     * -- Jack McKinney ([14]mckinney@cactus.org)
     * -- Gil Kloepfer ([15]gil@cactus.org)
       
Contact Information

     * officers@cactus.org Comments to CACTUS officers comments
     * admin@cactus.org CACTUS sysadmin volunteers
     * membership@cactus.org Membership questions and suggestions
     * newsletter@cactus.org Newsletter submissions and comments
     _________________________________________________________________
   
                              CACTUS Sponsors
                                      
Significant Contributing Sponsors

   Applied Research Laboratories/University of Texas at Austin
          [16]www.arlut.utexas.edu
          (Gil Kloepfer, Computer Science Division (CSD), 835-3771,
          [17]gil@arlut.utexas.edu)
          
   OuterNet [18]www.outer.net
          Internet service provider.
          
CACTUS Sponsors

   Auspex Systems [19]www.auspex.com
          (Paul Levine, [20]plevine@auspex.com
          Fastest reliable network fileservers.
          
   Flametree Corporation [21]www.flametree.com
          (David Maynard, 670-4090, [22]dpm@flametree.com)
          Internet and software consulting.
          
   Covad/Laserlink [23]www.laserlink.net
          (Chip Rosenthal)
          
   Multi Media Arts (MMA)
          (Lee Williams, 451-7191)
          Publisher of instructional materials for classroom and
          independent study.
          
Friends of CACTUS

   Applied Formal Methods, Inc.
          (Susan Gerhart, 794-9732, [24]gerhart@cactus.org)
          
   Austin Code Works
          (Scott Guthery, 258-0785, [25]info@acw.com)
          
   CASDNS, Inc. [26]www.casdns.net
          (Warren Brown, (800) 977-3475), [27]wlb@cas-com.net)
          A top-level domain name registrar, CORE member.
          
   CTG
          (Maurine Mecer, 502-0190 [FAX 502-0287])
          Professional recruiting.
          
   Compaq Computer Corporation [28]www.himalaya.compaq.com
          (Ron Boerger, 432-8000)
          Provider of scalable, high availability systems.
          
   EDP Contract Services
          (Mark Grabenhorst, 346-1040) Professional recruiting.
          
   Hewlett Packard [29]www.hp.com
          (Bill Sumrall, 338-7221)
          
   Hounix [30]http://www.texascomputers.com/hounix/
          (Marilyn Harper)
          Houston's Unix Users Group.
          
   Network Appliance Corporation[31] www.netapp.com
          (Frank Mozina, fmozina@netapp.com)
          
   O'Keefe Search
          Professional recuiting.
          
   Sailaway System Design
          (Chris J Johnson, 447-5243)
          
   Schlumberger [32]www.slb.com
          (Kathy O'Brien, [33]obrien@asc.slb.com)
          Technical services and products in over 100 countries.
          
   Silicon Graphics [34]www.sgi.com
          (Don Williams, 346-9342)
          
   Solid Systems
          (Pete Farrell, 442-2222)
          
   Sterling Infomation Group [35]www.sterinfo.com
          (Darrell Hanshaw, 344-1005, [36]dhanshaw@sterinfo.com)
          
   Sun Microsystems [37]www.sun.com
          (Rick Taylor)
          Supplier of Unix client-server computing solutions.
          
   Texas Internet Consulting [38]www.tic.com
          (Smoot Carl-Mitchell, 451-6176, [39]smoot@tic.com)
          TCP/IP networking, Unix, and open systems standards.
          
   Technow
          A Sun Authorized Training Center and a Hardware Reseller.
          
   Unison Software
          (Shelley St. John, 478-0611)
          Supplier of networked systems management solutions.
          
   UT Computer Science Department
          (Patti Spencer)
          
   UT Computation Center
          (Mike Cerda, 471-3241, [40]cerda@uts.cc.utexas.edu)
     _________________________________________________________________
   
                          CACTUS Meeting Location:
                           Applied Research Labs
                                      
   CACTUS meets on the third Thursday of each month at the Applied
   Research Labs (ARL) in the JJ Jake Pickle Research Campus (JJ PRC).
   We'll meet in the main auditorium located directly behind the guard's
   desk and main lobby.
   
   Please do not show up earlier than 6:20 pm on the specified day. Enter
   through the main entrance at 10000 Burnet Road for ARL:UT. Tell the
   guard that you are here for the CACTUS meeting. You will be required
   to sign a log book, but not required to wear a badge. The guards will
   direct you to the auditorium entrance. Limited parking in the front of
   the building is available, but more extensive parking is available in
   the large parking lot just north of the ARL building. After 6:30 pm,
   all entrances to JJ PRC, except for the Burnet Road entrance, are
   closed and locked. You can still enter the parking lot in front of the
   ARL building. No parking tags are necessary after 6:00 pm. See map for
   further details.
   
   Online maps are available at:
     * [41]http://www.utexas.edu/maps/prc/ -- J.J. Pickle Research Campus
       
     * [42]http://www.utexas.edu/maps/prc/areas/se.html -- South East
       Quadrant (ARL:UT)
       
   As always, please leave the facility as you saw it when you arrived.
   So let's clean up all pizza and soda items before we leave. Thanks and
   hope to see all of you there.
     _________________________________________________________________
   
                     Map to the Monthly CACTUS Meeting
                                      
                                                  | |     ^
        <---- to MOPAC                            | |     |
                                                  | |     | North
                                                  | |     | to Braker Lane
                                   ---------------+ |
                                   -+ /-----------+ |
                                    | |           | |
                                    | +--------+  | |
                                    |  Parking |  | |
                                    |    Lot   |  | |
                                    +----------+  | |
                                                  | |
                           +------------+         | |
                           |            | +-------+ |
                           |            | |   +---+ |
                           |            | |   |   | | Rutland
                           |    ARL     | |   |   | +---------
                           |            | |   |   | +---------
                           |            | |   +---+ |
                           |            | +---+---+ |
                           +------------+         | |  |
                                                  | |  | South
                                                  | |  | to US 183
                                                  | |  v

References

   1. file://localhost/var/www/www.cactus.org/docs/CACTUS/cn082001.html#meeting
   2. file://localhost/var/www/www.cactus.org/docs/CACTUS/cn082001.html#minutes
   3. file://localhost/var/www/www.cactus.org/docs/CACTUS/cn082001.html#membership
   4. file://localhost/var/www/www.cactus.org/docs/CACTUS/cn082001.html#officers
   5. file://localhost/var/www/www.cactus.org/docs/CACTUS/cn082001.html#sponsors
   6. file://localhost/var/www/www.cactus.org/docs/CACTUS/cn082001.html#location
   7. mailto:mrice@colltech.com
   8. mailto:longjy@thecb.texas.gov
   9. mailto:membership@cactus.org
  10. mailto:schafer@tkg.com
  11. mailto:mhk@cactus.org
  12. mailto:ronro@bga.com
  13. mailto:fmouse@fmp.com
  14. mailto:mckinney@cactus.org
  15. mailto:mckinney@cactus.org
  16. http://www.arlut.utexas.edu/
  17. mailto:gil@arlut.utexas.edu
  18. http://www.outer.net/
  19. http://www.auspex.com/
  20. mailto:plevine@auspex.com
  21. http://www.flametree.com/
  22. mailto:dpm@flametree.com
  23. http://www.laserlink.net/
  24. mailto:gerhart@cactus.org
  25. mailto:info@acw.com
  26. http://www.casdns.net/
  27. mailto:wlb@cas-com.net
  28. http://www.himalaya.compaq.com/
  29. http://www.hp.com/
  30. http://www.texascomputers.com/hounix/
  31. http://www.netapp.com/
  32. http://www.slb.com/
  33. mailto:obrien@asc.slb.com
  34. http://www.sgi.com/
  35. http://www.sterinfo.com/
  36. mailto:dhanshaw@sterinfo.com
  37. http://www.sun.com/
  38. http://www.tic.com/
  39. mailto:smoot@tic.com
  40. mailto:cerda@uts.cc.utexas.edu
  41. http://www.utexas.edu/maps/prc/
  42. http://www.utexas.edu/maps/prc/areas/se.html


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Ron Roberts ronro@bga.com or ronr@cactus.org Phone (512) 219-0043
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