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Started by Robert Brockway
Wed, 29 Jan 1997 00:00
HUMBUG Unix club meeting 8-2-97
Author: Robert Brockway
Date: Wed, 29 Jan 1997 00:00
Date: Wed, 29 Jan 1997 00:00
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Meeting Announcement
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This is the official announcement of the 30th 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. No one is required to join, but joining
has all sorts of advantages (see later under membership).
Operating
Systems: As the name suggests, the club caters to Home Unix
machines. The following Unices have all been seen at
HUMBUG Meetings:
FreeBSD
Linux/i386
Linux/Sparc
Linux/8086
MkLinux/Powermac
NetBSD/i386
Solaris/Sparc
Solaris/x86
Ultrix
In keeping with the interrests of members concerning
unusual operating systems, a BeBox running BeOS has also
been seen at a HUMBUG meeting.
Linux users currently predominate in HUMBUG, but we
are seeing more and more FreeBSD,NetBSD and Solaris
users attending meetings, ensuring HUMBUG is able to
live up to its aim of being a generic Unix club.
Everyone is invited, whether you are a Unix user, are
interested in becoming one, or would just like to see
what Unix is all about.
Next Meeting Details
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Where: Hawken Lecture Room 3, at the University of Queensland,
Date: Saturday, 8th Feburary, 1997.
Time: 3:00pm to 1:00am. (You don't have to stay the whole time :-)
Format: The meetings are informal, but we are having more talks than
ever before. Club members are happy to help fix up all sorts of
problems for new (and not so new :-) users. Lately we have
been installing Linux on a regular basis. :-)
Talks: Our Vice President and mail/dns/etc maintainer, Bruce Campbell
will be doing a talk on DNS at this HUMBUG meeting.
Now that my voice has returned, I have rescheduled my talk on
fvwm2 configuration to the following meeting.
Library: We have a library including Copies of the Linux Journal and CDs
that club members can borrow from.
Computers: All members can access our 10Mbit/sec Internet link at
meetings.
Food: A great home style pizza place is a five minute walk away, or
you can order in take-away for dinner.
Membership
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The easiest way to join is to approach myself (Robert Brockway -
President) or our Treasurer (James Lever) at a club meeting. Joining
entitles you to gain access to all that humbug has to offer (see below).
Benefits of Membership
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Access to the HUMBUG library. Members can borrow
items from the library for 2 weeks, and may reborrow
for another 2 weeks. We have nearly 2 years worth of
Linux Journals, as well as CDs, cabling and even a
computer (our router hydra).
Access to our 10Mbit/sec ethernet link at meetings.
Email addresses in the domain humbug.org.au
You can choose the email address as long as it hasn't been
taken already).
Dns entries in the domain humbug.org.au under your own hostname.
Proposed HUMBUG Services
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Clarinet news service. This provides real news via Usenet.
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 someone by asking on the mailing list.
This has worked many times in the past.
WWW Page for HUMBUG
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http://www.humbug.org.au/
Mailing List
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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 large university information map across the road from the University
bus stop at 4:00pm, 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.
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 robert@zen.humbug.org.au, or contact
the mailing list.
Cheers,
-Robert
--Robert Brockway. email: robert@zen.humbug.org.au (preferred)
unrbrock@dingo.uq.edu.au, s316674@student.uq.edu.au
WWW: http://student.uq.edu.au/~s316674
"Old soldiers never die, young ones do" --Anonymous
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