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                  Capital Area Central Texas UNIX Society
                             CACTUS Newsletter
                                      
                    Volume 17, Number 9 - September 2001
                                      
Contents:

     * [1]Different Meeting Location
     * [2]September Meeting Program - TrueSAN Networks and the Future of
       Storage Visualization
     * [3]August Meeting Report
     * [4]Membership
     * [5]CACTUS Officers and Contacts
     * [6]CACTUS Sponsors
     * [7]Meeting Location and Map
     _________________________________________________________________
   
   
                New Location for September Meeting: Clay Pit
                                      
   Our usual venue, the auditorium at the University of Texas Advanced
   Reasearch Lab (UT-ARL), is being remodeled and is unavailable. On
   Thursday, September 20th, we'll be meeting at the Clay Pit. The Clay
   Pit is a restuarant located at 1601 Guadalupe Street. This is one
   block south of Enfield, which is also 15th Street. Guadalupe is about
   two miles west of IH-35, and about two miles east of MoPac. It's just
   northwest of the State Capital. Be aware that Guadalupe is a one-way
   street in this area heading north. If you miss it, turn West for one
   block to Lavaca, which is one-way headed South.
   
   When you get lost, call 322-5131 for directions. Munchies will be
   provided, buy your own beverage.
     _________________________________________________________________
   
   
                         September Meeting Program
                                      
   TrueSAN Networks invites us to learn about The Future of Storage
   Virtualization in a SAN Environment. During this presentation they
   will address the data management issues that are currently plaguing IT
   departments, defining storage virtualization and explaining why it
   will be the future of storage networking. They will also cover the
   importance of having solid storage resource management software and
   TrueSAN's approach to storage virtualization. An engineer from TrueSAN
   will attend to answer any questions we might have about how
   virtualization can impact an existing Linux/Unix environment.
     _________________________________________________________________
   
   
                           August Meeting Report
                                      
                             by Lindsay Haisley
                                      
   [This will appear soon. Under construction on a WEB page near you.]
     _________________________________________________________________
   
   
   
                                 Membership
                                      
                               By Luis Basto
                                      
   We want to thank Don Kassebaum, Walter Sinclair, and John Eastbery for
   renewing their membership.
   
   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 ([8]mrice@colltech.com)
     * Treasurer: Johnny Long ([9]longjy@thecb.texas.gov)
     * Membership: Luis Basto ([10]membership@cactus.org)
     * Programs: Ray Schafer ([11]schafer@tkg.com)
     * Publicity: M.H. Khan ([12]mhk@cactus.org)
     * Newsletter: Ron Roberts ([13]ronro@bga.com)
     * Scribe: Lindsay Haisley ([14]fmouse@fmp.com)
     * Members at Large:
       
     * -- Jack McKinney ([15]mckinney@cactus.org)
     * -- Gil Kloepfer ([16]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
          [17]www.arlut.utexas.edu
          (Gil Kloepfer, Computer Science Division (CSD), 835-3771,
          [18]gil@arlut.utexas.edu)
          
   OuterNet [19]www.outer.net
          Internet service provider.
          
CACTUS Sponsors

   Auspex Systems [20]www.auspex.com
          (Paul Levine, [21]plevine@auspex.com
          Fastest reliable network fileservers.
          
   Flametree Corporation [22]www.flametree.com
          (David Maynard, 670-4090, [23]dpm@flametree.com)
          Internet and software consulting.
          
   Covad/Laserlink [24]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, [25]gerhart@cactus.org)
          
   Austin Code Works
          (Scott Guthery, 258-0785, [26]info@acw.com)
          
   CASDNS, Inc. [27]www.casdns.net
          (Warren Brown, (800) 977-3475), [28]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 [29]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 [30]www.hp.com
          (Bill Sumrall, 338-7221)
          
   Hounix [31]http://www.texascomputers.com/hounix/
          (Marilyn Harper)
          Houston's Unix Users Group.
          
   Network Appliance Corporation[32] www.netapp.com
          (Frank Mozina, fmozina@netapp.com)
          
   O'Keefe Search
          Professional recuiting.
          
   Sailaway System Design
          (Chris J Johnson, 447-5243)
          
   Schlumberger [33]www.slb.com
          (Kathy O'Brien, [34]obrien@asc.slb.com)
          Technical services and products in over 100 countries.
          
   Silicon Graphics [35]www.sgi.com
          (Don Williams, 346-9342)
          
   Solid Systems
          (Pete Farrell, 442-2222)
          
   Sterling Infomation Group [36]www.sterinfo.com
          (Darrell Hanshaw, 344-1005, [37]dhanshaw@sterinfo.com)
          
   Sun Microsystems [38]www.sun.com
          (Rick Taylor)
          Supplier of Unix client-server computing solutions.
          
   Texas Internet Consulting [39]www.tic.com
          (Smoot Carl-Mitchell, 451-6176, [40]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, [41]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:
     * [42]http://www.utexas.edu/maps/prc/ -- J.J. Pickle Research Campus
       
     * [43]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/cn092001.html#new location
   2. file://localhost/var/www/www.cactus.org/docs/CACTUS/cn092001.html#meeting
   3. file://localhost/var/www/www.cactus.org/docs/CACTUS/cn092001.html#minutes
   4. file://localhost/var/www/www.cactus.org/docs/CACTUS/cn092001.html#membership
   5. file://localhost/var/www/www.cactus.org/docs/CACTUS/cn092001.html#officers
   6. file://localhost/var/www/www.cactus.org/docs/CACTUS/cn092001.html#sponsors
   7. file://localhost/var/www/www.cactus.org/docs/CACTUS/cn092001.html#location
   8. mailto:mrice@colltech.com
   9. mailto:longjy@thecb.texas.gov
  10. mailto:membership@cactus.org
  11. mailto:schafer@tkg.com
  12. mailto:mhk@cactus.org
  13. mailto:ronro@bga.com
  14. mailto:fmouse@fmp.com
  15. mailto:mckinney@cactus.org
  16. mailto:mckinney@cactus.org
  17. http://www.arlut.utexas.edu/
  18. mailto:gil@arlut.utexas.edu
  19. http://www.outer.net/
  20. http://www.auspex.com/
  21. mailto:plevine@auspex.com
  22. http://www.flametree.com/
  23. mailto:dpm@flametree.com
  24. http://www.laserlink.net/
  25. mailto:gerhart@cactus.org
  26. mailto:info@acw.com
  27. http://www.casdns.net/
  28. mailto:wlb@cas-com.net
  29. http://www.himalaya.compaq.com/
  30. http://www.hp.com/
  31. http://www.texascomputers.com/hounix/
  32. http://www.netapp.com/
  33. http://www.slb.com/
  34. mailto:obrien@asc.slb.com
  35. http://www.sgi.com/
  36. http://www.sterinfo.com/
  37. mailto:dhanshaw@sterinfo.com
  38. http://www.sun.com/
  39. http://www.tic.com/
  40. mailto:smoot@tic.com
  41. mailto:cerda@uts.cc.utexas.edu
  42. http://www.utexas.edu/maps/prc/
  43. 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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