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			Meeting Announcement
			--------------------

This is the official announcement of the next 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.

		Special General Meeting Announcement
		------------------------------------

This meeting will be a Special General Meeting to elect a new Treasurer.

I'd like to thank Craig Eldershaw for doing an excellent job as treasurer
over the last 14 months.  Craig has resigned as treasurer as he is soon
off to Canberra to take up study for a Ph.D at the Australian National
University.

			HUMBUG Details
			--------------

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
System:		As the name suggests, the club caters to Home Unix
		machines. The following Operating Systems have all been
		seen at HUMBUG Meetings:
					FreeBSD
					Linux/i386
					Linux/Sparc
					Linux/8086
					MkLinux/Powermac
					NetBSD/i386
					Solaris/Sparc
                                        Solaris/x86
					Ultrix

		Linux users currently predominate in HUMBUG.
		Everyone is invited, whether you are a Unix user, are
	        interested in becoming one, or would just like to see
		what this Unix thing is all about.

			Next Meeting Details
			--------------------

Where:	Hawken Lecture Room 3, at the University of Queensland,

Date:	Saturday, 11th January, 1997.

Time:	3:00pm to 1:00am.  (You don't have to stay the whole time :-)

Format:	The meetings are pretty informal, but we occassionally have talks on
	various topics. We fix up all sorts of problems for new (and not so
	new :-) users.  Lately we have been installing Linux on people's
	computers on a regular basis. :-)

Talks:	Brad Marshall is now maintaining a list of talks that are being
	planned by various people.  They will be announced here, as they
	come up.

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
			----------

The easiest way to join is to approach myself (Robert Brockway - President)
or our Treasurer at a club meeting.  Joining entitles you
to gain access to all that humbug has to offer.  This includes our
comprehensive library of Linux Journals, CDs (More Linux/*BSD CDs on the way),
and cabling for use at meetings.  In addition, members are allowed to
access our 10Mbit/sec link at meetings,and may have email and domain aliases
in the HUMBUG domain (humbug.org.au).  We are hoping to be able to provide
a Clarinet (Real news on usenet) service to members in the near future.

			Internet access
			---------------

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
			-------------------
http://www.humbug.org.au/

			Mailing List
			------------

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
			----------------

Unfortunately I will be unable to show people the way to the room this time
as I won't be at this meeting.

  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
Computers: Can't live with them, can't play Quake without them.