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Started by Robert Brockway
Sat, 02 Nov 1996 00:00
[Bris] HUMBUG Unix club meeting
Author: Robert Brockway
Date: Sat, 02 Nov 1996 00:00
Date: Sat, 02 Nov 1996 00:00
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Special Announcements
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Room change. We are in Hawken-1, _not_ Hawken-3.
The new constitution must be ratified at this meeting. Hopefully this won't
take long at all.
Meeting Announcement
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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.
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
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
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
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Where: Hawken Lecture Room 1, at the University of Queensland,
Date: Saturday, 9th of November, 1996.
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: We'll be discussing the new Constitution for a while.
Affilication to the University of Queensland Student Union will
be discussed.
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 Craig Eldershaw (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
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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/humbug/
Mailing Lists
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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 2:45pm, 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
Always a Groomsman, never a Groom :-)
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