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                            CACTUS Newsletter
                   Volume 13, Number 8 - Ausgust  1997

       Contents:
          o August 21st CACTUS Meeting
          o July Meeting Report O'Reilly Book Order II
          o Membership Report
          o CACTUS Officers and Contacts
          o CACTUS Sponsors

                        August 21st CACTUS Meeting

          o Program:  Linux Security
          o Speaker: Jack McKinney
          o Location: Applied Research Labs, UT JJ Pickle Campus [see map]
          o Time:
               o 6:30 pm for the informal get together with pizza and soda
               o 7:00 - 9:00 pm presentations
          o Cost: Free pizza and soda served at 6:30 pm.


              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:

          o   http://www.utexas.edu/maps/prc/ -- J.J. Pickle Research Campus
          o   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.



                 Location for the Monthly CACTUS Meeting
                       Applied Research Laboratory
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           <---- to MOPAC                            | |     |
                                                     | |     | North
                                                     | |     | to Braker Lane
                                      ---------------+ |
                                      -+ /-----------+ |
                                       | |           | |
                                       | +--------+  | |
                                       |  Parking |  | |
                                       |    Lot   |  | |
                                       +----------+  | |
                                                     | |
                              +------------+         | |
                              |            | +-------+ |
                              |            | |   +---+ |
                              |            | |   |   | | Rutland
                              |    ARL     | |   |   | +---------
                              |            | |   |   | +---------
                              |            | |   +---+ |
                              |            | +---+---+ |
                              +------------+         | |  |
                                                     | |  | South
                                                     | |  | to US 183
                                                     | | /


                           July Meeting Report

       An intimate crowd showed up for the to be announced program.
       President Jack McKinney forgot to order the pizza.  The
       tentative speaker was some guy from Oracle, who didn't show
       up for the third time.

       Jack and Lindsy Haisley  led an ad hoc discussion on the
       various flavours of Linux and why they prefer Debian.  Tom
       Painter showed up late, but updated us on the O'Reilly Book
       order [see below].  Jack promised to put together a
       discussion of Linux security issues for the August meeting.
       And promised to order the pizza!


                          O'Reilly Book Order II

                              by Tom Painter

       The second half of the book order has been placed.  O'Reilly
       has been slow in publishing/reprinting the books that we are
       waiting for.  At this time, 13 of the 25 books that we have
       on backorder are available.  So, I have released the hold on
       the order and should accept delivery before this letter gets
       out.  The remaining books will trickle in as they publish.
       I will contact each of you as I receive books.

       Contact me at bookorder@cactus.org with questions.



                            Membership Report
                              by Luis Basto

       Please welcome David Hobbs and Gene Cherry as new members of
       CACTUS. We also want to thank Tom Davidson and C.
       Unnikrishnan for renewing their membership. Special thanks
       go to Srinivas Varati for renewing a two-year membership.


                                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. The date
       on the upper right hand of the newsletter mailing label
       indicates when your membership expires.  Please direct any
       inquiries or address changes to membership@cactus.org.


                             CACTUS Officers


          o President:          Jack McKinney
            (president@cactus.org)
          o Scribe:        Ron Roberts (ronr@cactus.org)
          o Programs:           Ray Schafer (schafer@cactus.org)
          o Membership:         Luis Basto (basto@cactus.org)
          o Publicity:          Tom Davidson (davidson@cactus.org)
          o Treasurer:          Tom Painter (finance@cactus.org)
          o Members at Large:
                -- Lenny Tropiano (lenny@icus.com)
		-- Rodger J. Hutchins [Webmaster] (webmaster@cactus.org) 
		-- Johnny Long (longjy@thecb.texas.gov)


                              Contact Information

               o officers@cactus.org Comments to CACTUS officers
               o programs@cactus.org Meeting ideas, suggestions, comments
               o membership@cactus.org Membership questions and suggestions
               o newsletter@cactus.org Newsletter submissions and comments


                                CACTUS Sponsors

               o Applied Formal Methods, Inc. (Susan Gerhart,
                 794-9732, gerhart@cactus.org)
               o Applied Research Laboratories/University of Texas
                 at Austin, (Gil Kloepfer, Computer Science
                 Division (CSD), 835-3771, gil@arlut.utexas.edu)
               o Austin Code Works (Scott Guthery, 258-0785,
                 info@acw.com)
               o Auspex Systems (Paul Levine, plevine@auspex.com)
                 Fastest reliable network fileservers,
                 www.auspex.com
               o CTG (Maurine Mercer, 502-0190 [FAX 502-0287])
                 Professional recruiting.
               o EDP Contract Services (Mark Grabenhorst, 346-1040)
                 Professional recruiting.
               o Flametree Corporation (David Maynard, 670-4090,
                 dpm@flametree.com) Internet and software
                 consulting, http://www.flametree.com
               o Hounix (Marilyn Harper) Houston's Unix Users
               o Multi Media Arts (MMA) (David Mallis, 451-7191)
                 Publisher of instructional materials for the
               o O'Keefe & Assoc. (Joseph Beach, 343-1134)
                 Professional recruiting.
               o Paranet (John Smith, 343-4526) Unix and NT
                 consulting.
               o Real/Time Communications (George Wenzel, 451-0046)
                 Internet service provider, www.realtime.com
               o Sailaway System Design (Chris J Johnson, 447-5243)
               o Schlumberger (Kathy O'Brien,  obrien@asc.slb.com)
                 Technical services and products in over 100
                 countries, www.slb.com
               o Signet Partners (Bob Izenberg, bei@sig.net)
                 Internet Service Provider, www.sig.net
               o Sun Microsystems (Roger Waak, 343-0293,
                 roger.waak@central.sun.com) Supplier of Unix
                 client-server computing solutions, www.sun.com
               o Silicon Graphics (Don Williams, 346-9342),
                 www.sgi.com
               o Solid Systems (Pete Farrell, 442-2222)
               o Sterling Information Group (Darrell Hanshaw,
                 327-0090, dhanshaw@sterinfo.com).
               o Tandem Computers (Ron Boerger, 244-8000) Provider
                 of scalable, high availability systems,
                 www.tandem.com
               o Texas Internet Consulting (Smoot Carl-Mitchell,
                 451-6176, smoot@tic.com) www.tic.com TCP/IP
                 networking, Unix, and open systems standards.
               o Technow, a Sun Authorized Training Center and a
                 Hardware Reseller
               o Unison Software (Shelley St. John, 478-0611)
                 Supplier of networked systems management
                 solutions.
               o UT Computer Science Department (Patti Spencer)
               o UT Computation Center (Mike Cerda, 471-3241,
                 cerda@uts.cc.utexas.edu)
-- 
Ron Roberts ronro@bga.com or ronr@cactus.org Phone (512) 258-8340 
"Caution: the forecast is fair to partly clowny." bei@bob.org