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                        March 1998 Newsletter of the
                        Front Range Unix Users Group

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The Cndnsd Vrsn: 4:00pm Tuesday March 24 ACS Rm 123 - What's Happening at
SUN Microsystems?
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Contents:

   * This month's meeting
   * Meeting Location
   * Last month's meeting
   * Upcoming meetings
   * Library Notes

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This Month's Meeting: Three talks from folks at SUN Microsystems

Everybody is wondering what is going on with the opening of Sun's new
Broomfield facility.  Even though the facility is not slated to open until
late summer, Sun has already been staffing up in a variety of areas that are
far beyond the service and support organizations most often mentioned in the
media.  At this month's FRUUG meeting, we'll hear what's going on from three
different groups that are already operating in Broomfield, and we'll also
have a look at some of the architectural drawings and plans for their
facility. The talks are as follows:

   * Filesystems at Sun - As storage capacity continues to grow, the need to
     configure your storage and use it reliably has grown as well.  Traditional
     UNIX crashes due to media failure (i.e. "freeing free inode") now cost
     large sites millions of dollars in down time.  Andy Rudoff will describe
     Sun's approach to storage and filesystems.

     Andy Rudoff is the manager of Sun's Filesystems group in Broomfield, CO.
     He has over 15 years UNIX kernel internals experience (about 5 of those
     years at Sun).

   * Alternative Workplace Technology - Alternative Workplace Technology
     (AWT) is the "work from anywhere" group within Sun.  "We maintain
     traditional remote access to Sun's information resources with modem
     pools, ISDN, and other high speed connectivity.  In addition, we support
     Sun's new Virtual Private Networking project, Sun.Net, which allows
     access to mail, calendar, internal web sites and other applications
     from any computer, at any time, anywhere in the world for the price of
     a local phone call."

     Mark Monroe is the Program Manager for Sun.Net. Although new to the AWT
     group, he has been an active user and researcher of remote access
     technology for all of his 4 years at Sun.

   * Electronic Training Environments - The Sun Educational Services -
     Product Engineering group develops tools and applications required for
     web-based and intranet- and internet-based training environments. Most
     work is Java-based and they are using the advantages inherent in the Java
     Programming Model.  Our target customers are generally large organiza-
     tions with significant training needs. As is typical today, their
     computing environments are multi-platform and distributed.

     Scott Teel is the Chief Technology Officer for SunEd and the senior
     engineering manager for the Product Engineering organization. He has
     worked for a number of years on computer-based training applications,
     including the last two with Sun.

     Dave Linder is a frustrated meteorologist who found his way to Sun in
     1989 after years of working with antiquated computer equipment in the
     Federal government (can anyone say "8-year procurement cycle"?)

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Meeting Location

The next meeting of the Front Range UNIX Users Group will be in room 123 of
the CU Academic Computing Center building at Arapahoe and Marine Streets in
Boulder. Marine St intersects Arapahoe at 38th St; the Computing Center is
on the southwest corner.

       [See <http://www.fruug.org/~fruug/announcement.html> for map]
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Our Last Meeting

At the second February meeting of the Front Range UNIX Users Group Storage
Solutions Specialists, Inc., (SSSI) presented their ADSM family of software
products which integrate unattended network backup and archive with storage
management and powerful disaster recovery.

See the previous meetings page on the Fruug web site for more detail.

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Upcoming Meetings

Our next couple of months are pretty well nailed down:

   * On April 16, Bob Gray will be talking about Source Code UNIX, why and
     how you'd use it, and what the advantages are over using the commercially-
     available object-code only releases.  With this talk, we're sure that
     you'll come up with a dozen new uses for that old PC you have tucked in
     your closet.

   * In May, we're planning a session on legal issues.  We think that FRUUG
     members would be most interested in the kinds of issues that come up as
     employees of high-tech companies, namely copyright and intellectual
     property issues.  If you have any specific suggestions or questions
     you'd like addressed, please let us know at fruug@fruug.org.

   * In June, Kevlin Henney, who did our January talk on Designing Distributed
     Object Systems with CORBA will be in town again and has offered to talk
     on Java Patterns.  Date to be determined.

Contact the FRUUG Executive Committee at fruug@fruug.org if you have other
interesting topic ideas or are interested in presenting a fruug talk.

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FRUUG Library Notes

We have about two more feet of books to add to our crowded bookshelves this
month! The new arrivals include:

   * From Addison-Wesley, we have: The Design Patterns Smalltalk Companion,
     OSPF-- the anatomy of an Internet routing protocol, Web Security, and
     Hands-On Linux, including a CD-ROM.

   * From Caldera, OpenLinux Version 1.2

   * From O'Reilly and Associates: The Perl resource kit, which includes a
     CD-ROM and just about every book that O'Reilly has produced on Perl,
     and TCP/IP Network Administration, Volume 2.

   * And from the USENIX Association: Seventh USENIX Security Symposium
     Proceedings from San Antonio, January 26-29, 1997.

With the addition of these new titles, we're planning to retire several of
our older titles by giving them away to our members, so plan on a give-away
at the next meeting.

You may check books out using your business card as your library card; you
must be on the membership list to check books out. Books are due at the
meeting following the one in which they are checked out. If you don't return
your library books by the next meeting, you might find yourself on our
overdue book list. We count on you returning books on time so that other
members may have the chance to use them as well.

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FRUUG CONTACTS

The FRUUG "Executive Committee" is currently:
  * Tom Cargill (cargill@fruug.org, 494-3239), independent consultant
  * Mark Carlson (mac@fruug.org, 682-6473), Red Cape Software
  * Dick Dunn (rcd@fruug.org), Artifex Software Inc.
  * Steve Gaede (gaede@fruug.org, 444-9114), Lone Eagle Systems, Inc
  * Carol Meier (meier@fruug.org, 499-5940), .profile Consulting
  * Bill Meine (wmeine@fruug.org, 796-7100), Sun  Microsystems
  * Joe VanAndel (vanandel@fruug.org, 497-2071), NCAR
  * Wally Wedel (wwedel@fruug.org, 804-3073), Sun Microsystems

For FRUUG membership information, more contact information, and an ASCII copy
of the most recent meeting announcement, send mail to fruug-info@fruug.org
and you'll receive an automatic reply...or point your WWW browser to
http://www.fruug.org/fruug

For more FRUUG information, changes, additions, or deletions from the
electronic or US Mail mailing list, please send your request to
fruug-request@fruug.org.

If there are comments you'd like to send to the entire executive committee, you
can reach us with the address: fruug@fruug.org.

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