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July 30, 2010 (Last Friday Of July)
11th Annual
System Administrator Appreciation Day
A sysadmin unpacked the server for this website from its box, installed an operating system, patched it for security, made sure the power
and air conditioning was working in the server room, monitored it for stability, set up the software, and kept backups in case anything
went wrong. All to serve this webpage.
A sysadmin installed the routers, laid the cables, configured the networks, set up the firewalls, and watched and guided the traffic for
each hop of the network that runs over copper, fiber optic glass, and even the air itself to bring the Internet to your computer. All to
make sure the webpage found its way from the server to your computer.
Ted In Wires
Fig. 1 Ted.
A sysadmin makes sure your network connection is safe, secure, open, and working. A sysadmin makes sure your computer is working in a
healthy way on a healthy network. A sysadmin takes backups to guard against disaster both human and otherwise, holds the gates against
security threats and crackers, and keeps the printers going no matter how many copies of the tax code someone from Accounting prints out.
A sysadmin worries about spam, viruses, spyware, but also power outages, fires and floods.
When the email server goes down at 2 AM on a Sunday, your sysadmin is paged, wakes up, and goes to work.
A sysadmin is a professional, who plans, worries, hacks, fixes, pushes, advocates, protects and creates good computer networks, to get you
your data, to help you do work -- to bring the potential of computing ever closer to reality.
So if you can read this, thank your sysadmin -- and know he or she is only one of dozens or possibly hundreds whose work brings you the
email from your aunt on the West Coast, the instant message from your son at college, the free phone call from the friend in Australia,
and this webpage.
Show your appreciation
Friday, July 30, 2010, is the 11th annual System Administrator Appreciation Day. On this special international day, give your System
Administrator something that shows that you truly appreciate their hard work and dedication. (All day Friday, 24 hours, your own local
time-zone).
Let's face it, System Administrators get no respect 364 days a year. This is the day that all fellow System Administrators across the
globe, will be showered with expensive sports cars and large piles of cash in appreciation of their diligent work. But seriously, we are
asking for a nice token gift and some public acknowledgement. It's the least you could do.
Consider all the daunting tasks and long hours (weekends too.) Let's be honest, sometimes we don't know our System Administrators as well
as they know us. Remember this is one day to recognize your System Administrator for their workplace contributions and to promote
professional excellence. Thank them for all the things they do for you and your business.
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Sorry to be late again this week.
Still filling in. Family emergencies and summer have been taking the
time of our editing staff.
HiLites = Android, Lotus Domino, Sales Tax Holiday, EPC sale...
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THURSDAY (TONITE) 6:30pm
ANDROID LINUX CODING.
A Crash Course in Android Game Development StL MobileDev
Meeting moved to Thursday 7/29/10 (due to a space conflict)
In this talk I will be demonstrating writing a simple Android game. If
you wish to follow along you can bring you laptop (totally optional),
please have Eclipse 3.5 and the Android SDK preloaded as I won't have
time to cover this. I will be using the 2.1 SDK (Cupcake) for this talk
but will only use features that have been available from 1.6 and later.
My main goals for this talk will be:
* How to create a View
* How to draw Bitmaps and Shapes in the View
* How to respond to user input
If we have extra time we might add a little game logic to the project. I
plan on spending about 2 hours on the subject.
by Joshua Frank
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On this day in 1947: ENIAC, the world's first general-purpose
electronic digital computer, was turned on in its NEW home at the
Ballistic Research Laboratory at Aberdeen Proving Grounds, remaining in
continuous operation until October 2, 1955. See en.wiipedia.org.
...1958: Pres. Eisenhower signed the National
Aeronautics and Space Act into law, establishing a new federal
non-military space agency known as NASA.
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FRIDAY
Academy of Science St. Louis
10:00am . 11:30am
OASIS . Center of Clayton 50 Gay Avenue, St. Louis, MO 63105
See http://www.academyofsciencestl.org/events/
>From Elegant Adventure to Necessary Nuisance: The Evolving Airline
Passenger Experience in America
Featured Speaker: Daniel L. Rust, Ph.D.
FREE to the first 10 registrants, $9 per person thereafter. OPEN to ALL.
Space is limited.
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SCORCC-I - Internet SIG
1pm . 2pm
Tesson Ferry Library Branch, 9920 Lin-Ferry Road, St. Louis, MO
63123
http://www.scorcc.org/
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...1965. President Lyndon B. Johnson signs the Social Security Act
of 1965 into law, establishing Medicare and Medicaid.
...1971. Apollo 15. David Scott and James Irwin on Lunar Module module,
Falcon, land with first Lunar Rover on the moon.
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SATURDAY & Sunday
The Great Train Expo
Jul 31 . Aug 1, 2010
Belleville, IL
Venue: Belle-Clair Fairgrounds Park
See http://www.greattrainexpo.com/
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...1790: First U.S. patent is issued to inventor Samuel Hopkins for a
potash process.
...1964: Ranger 7 sends back the first close-up photographs of the moon,
...1976: Viking 1 . NASA releases the famous "Face on Mars" photo.
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SUNDAY
See above for
The Great Train Expo
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POSSIBLE UNCONFIRMED!!!
CWELUG Cenral West End Linux Users Group
1pm . 5pm
4100 Shenandoah, St. Louis, MO 63110 (map)
ByteWorks
For current information see http://www.cwelug.org/ or
http://groups.google.com/group/cwelug/
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...1774: The element oxygen is discovered for the third (and last) time.
...1993: The Great Flood of 1993 comes to a peak.
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MONDAY & Tuesday
IamLUG 2010
Aug 2 . 3 2010
999 N. 2nd St., St. Louis, MO 63102
Venue: HotelLumiere
The Iam Lotus User Group
See http://www.iamlug.org/
Intended for Domino Administrators, Domino Developers, Domino Support
Specialists, IBM Lotus Decision Makers
Attending IamLUG is FREE, but seats are limited, so registration is
required for all attendees, sponsors and potential speakers.
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...1870: Tower Subway, the world's first underground tube railway,
opens in London.
...1939: Albert Einstein and Leo Szilard write a letter to Franklin D.
Roosevelt, urging him to begin the Manhattan project to develop a
nuclear weapon.
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More events on TUESDAY thru the wknd in our next issue however we point
in advance...9-11 days from now...
Missouri Sales Tax Holiday
Aug 6 . 8 2010 Friday thru Sunday
http://dor.mo.gov/tax/business/sales/taxholiday/school/faq.htm#q2
Starts on first Friday each August.
We are told EPC Computers in St.Charles will be having a sale.
I know, the weeks 1/2 over but...
Sorry about not getting it out sooner this week, and I'll just hit the
hi-lites.
(Gary's pick's =Wed's Perl Monger's Lightning Talks
Thurs' St. Charles LUG's HP's CTO
Thurs' StL Mobile Dev's ANDROID
MOVED to next wk
Sat's SLUUG Float Trip
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Wednesday
Noon SuSE Linux sig /Novell UG SNUG (No mtng. Summer hiatus.)
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6:30 PM Perl Mongers
Lightning Talks
This promises to be a great mtng!!!
Its a number of short (5 min?) talks
on varying topics by different speakers.
You are sure to hear something
interesting!
Where: Announce Media
6665 Delmar Boulevard
Saint Louis, MO 63130-4544
The Jimmy Johns provided for this meeting is sponsored by Cofactor
Genomics.
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Thursday
WCORCC - Technical SIG & Multimedia SIG
Where: Daniel Boone Branch Lib
http://wcorcc.tripod.com/
Technical Forum SIG - 10:00 AM
Multimedia SIG - 1:00 PM
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NOTICE CHANGE!!! IMPORTANT!!!
St. L. Mobile Dev's ANDROID mtng moved to NEXT wk!!
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6:30pm
St. Charles Linux LUG (This should be FUN!!)
Hewlett Packard's Open Source & Linux CTO, Bdale Garbee!
OpSource Sftwr for Model Rockets!
6:30pm - 9:30pm
200 Ft Zumwalt Square, O'Fallon, MO 63366
JJ's Restaurant, off of Hwy I-70, Exit 217, Hwy K South, take right at
first light signal.
Bdale Garbee is HP's Open source & Linux Chief Technologist,
as well as a model rocket and amateur radio enthusiast.
Also, he's been a big contributor to Debian for some time as a
maintainer and developer.
Bdale's website
http://www.gag.com/~bdale/
Bdale will give a talk on using open source software to control
the model rockets that he launches.
Here are some useful links:
Central States VHF Society
http://www.csvhfs.org/conference/index.html
Bdale and friends' model rocketry site
http://www.altusmetrum.org/
Bdale having Linus Torvalds as a barber!
http://lwn.net/Articles/316282/
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Friday
9:30am . 11:30am
Weber Road Computer Club
4444 Weber Road, St. Louis, MO 63123
Weber Road Branch Library
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7:30pm
SLSRC - St. Louis & Suburban Radio Club
3015 N Ballas Rd, St. Louis, MO
Nursing Institute building, Missouri Baptist Hospital Complex
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Saturday
~9am ~ 6pm
Possible SLUUG Float Trip
Upper Merremac? Huzzah? Steelville??
Watch DISCUSS list for more details &/or e-mail Gary Meyer.
(Possible move to Sunday if weather...)
"War driving to find WiFi hotspots on the river!
Or...
testing the waterproofing on your iPhone, HTC, Droid,..."
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2pm - 4pm
GAMP - Gateway Area Mac Programers
Kaldi's Coffee
120 S Kirkwood Rd, St Louis, MO 63122 (map)
http://www.gamprog.org/
St. Louis CocoaHeads
Mac & iPhone Programming
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Sunday
~9am ~6pm
Alternate/rain date
SLUUG Float trip
For this weeks StCLUG (Thursday at 1830), Phil Bunch was able to get Bdale Garbee to come by and speak. Bdale Garbee is HP's Open source
and Linux Chief Technologist, as well as a model rocket and amateur radio enthusiast. Also, has been a big contributor to Debian for some
time as a maintainer and developer. Check out his site for some more detail.
So definitely try to come on by!!
Bdale's website
http://www.gag.com/~bdale/
Thanks Phil!!!
Bdale will give a talk on using open source software to control
the model rockets that he launches.
Here are some useful links:
Central States VHF Society
http://www.csvhfs.org/conference/index.html
Bdale and friends' model rocketry site
http://www.altusmetrum.org/
Bdale having Linus Torvalds as a barber!
http://lwn.net/Articles/316282/
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5 Jul 2010 Monday - HOLIDAY - Independence Day (Observed)
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6 Jul 2010 Tuesday - ** *NO MEETING THIS MONTH* **
SCORCC-GM South County Older Residents Computer Club
http://www.scorcc.org/
** *Membership Fee Required* **
SCORCC General Meeting
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Tuesday - ** *NO MEETING THIS MONTH* **
GGUG - Gateway Groovy Users group
http://www.gatewayjug.org/
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Tuesday - ** *NO MEETING THIS MONTH* **
GJUG - The Gateway Java Users Group
http://www.gatewayjug.org/
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Tuesday - 6:00 PM - 8:00 PM
FLEX - STL Adobe Users Group, Flex and Fuse the Arch
http://fafta.groups.adobe.com/
Skeleton Key Consulting
3260 Hampton Ave., St. Louis, MO 63139
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Tuesday - 6:30 PM - 9:00 PM
MOSLUG - Missouri Open Source Linux Users Group
http://groups.google.com/group/moslug/web/welcome-to-moslug
Wired Coffee, 3860 S Lindbergh Blvd,
Sunset Hills, MO 63127
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Tuesday - 7:00 PM - 9:30 PM
ASEMO - Astronomical Society of Eastern Missouri
http://asemonline.org/
Beginners Meeting
Weldon Spring Interpretive Center
St. Charles County, MO
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7 Jul 2010 Wednesday - ** *NO MEETING THIS MONTH* **
SCORCC-WWP - South County Older Residents Computer Club
http://www.scorcc.org/
** *Membership Fee Required* **
MS Word and Wordperfect Special Interest Group
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Wednesday - 6:30 PM - 8:30 PM
STEERCOM - St. Louis Unix Users Group - Steering Committee
http://wiki.sluug.org/steercom/minutes
Officer reports and planning meeting
You can help decide what SLUUG does!
St. Louis Bread Company - Free Wireless
10550 Old Olive Street Rd, Creve Coeur, MO 63141
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Wednesday - 7:00 PM - 9:00 PM
SILUG-ME - Southern Illinois Linux Users Group - Metro East
http://www.silug.org/
The Computer Room
3720 Green Mount Crossing Dr., Shiloh, IL 62269
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Monday - 7:00 PM - 8:30 PM
STLGD - St. Louis Game Developers
http://www.meetup.com/St-Louis-Game-Developers/
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** *NEW GROUP - FIRST MEETING* **
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WorldKi Office
214 S. Bemiston Ave., St. Louis, MO 63105
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8 Jul 2010 Thursday - 10:00 AM - 3:00 PM
WCORCC-WE West County Older Residents Computer Club
http://wcorcc.tripod.com/
** *Membership Fee Required* **
MS Word Special Interest Group -- 10:00 AM
MS Excel Special Interest Group -- 1:00 PM
Daniel Boone Branch Library
300 Clarkson Rd. (south of Clayton Rd.)
Ellisville, MO 63011-2222
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Thursday - ** *NO MEETING THIS MONTH* **
SCORCC-F - South County Older Residents Computer Club
http://www.scorcc.org/
** *Membership Fee Required* **
Financial Special Interest Group
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Thursday - 3:00 PM - 11:00 PM
Franklin County Fair
http://www.fcyf.org/
** *DAY ONE OF FOUR* **
Family Pavilion, Union, MO 63084
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Thursday - 6:30 PM - 8:00 PM
STLJUG - St. Louis Java Users Group
http://www.ociweb.com/javasig/
TOPIC: Mockito Framework
By James Carr
CityPlace One Auditorium
Creve Coeur, MO 63146
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9 Jul 2010 Friday - ** *NO MEETING THIS MONTH* **
SCORCC-DTP South County Older Residents Computer Club
http://www.scorcc.org/
** *Membership Fee Required* **
Desktop Publishing Special Interest Group -
Photoimpact Special Interest Group -
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10 Jul 2010 Saturday - ** *NO MEETINGS THIS MONTH* **
T3 - Techies Teaching Techies
http://www.techiesteachingtechies.com/
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Saturday - 12:00 PM - 3:00 PM
DBUG - Data Bytes Users Group
http://dbug-stl.tripod.com/Home.htm
Thornhill Branch Library
12863 Willowyk Drive (off Fee Fee Road)
St. Louis, MO
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Saturday - 7:00 PM - 10:00 PM
ASEMO - Astronomical Society of Eastern Missouri
http://asemonline.org/
Weldon Spring Interpretive Center
St. Charles County, MO
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> 12 Jul Mon 6:00pm - 8:00pm STLCSHARP - St. Louis C# User Group
> 12 Jul Mon 6:00pm - 8:00pm STLRUBY - St. Louis Ruby Group
> 13 Jul Tue Patch Tuesday
> 13 Jul Tue 8:30am -11:00am STLSUG - St. Louis SharePoint Users Group
> 13 Jul Tue 1:00pm - 4:00pm STLSSUG -St. Louis SQL Server User Group
> 13 Jul Tue 5:30pm - 9:00pm GAMUG - Gateway Mac Users Group
> 13 Jul Tue 7:00pm - 8:00pm CCSL - Dinner Meeting Reservations Req
> 13 Jul Tue 7:00pm - 9:00pm ASEMO - Astronomy Beginners Mtng St.Charles MO
> 13 Jul Tue 7:00pm - 9:00pm LUCI-NB - Newbie Night - Springfield IL
> 14 Jul Wed 11:30am - 1:00pm SNUG - St. Louis Novell Users Group
> 14 Jul Wed 6:00pm - 8:30pm STLVBUG - STL Visual Basic Users Group
> 14 Jul Wed 6:30pm - 9:00pm SLUUG - St. Louis Unix Users Group
> 14 Jul Wed 6:30pm - 9:00pm STLPM - St. Louis Perl Mongers Group
> 14 Jul Wed HIATUS STLISACA - StL InfoSys Audit & Ctrl Assn
> 14 Jul Wed 7:00pm - 3rdWed GCC - Gateway Computer Club
> 15 Jul Fri 9:30am - SCORCC-GN - Genealogy SIG
> 15 Jul Thu 1:00pm - 3:00pm WCORCC-GM - General Meeting
> 15 Jul Thu 6:00pm - 9:00pm STLLUG - St. Louis Linux Users Group
> 15 Jul Thu 6:30pm - 8:30pm BSLUG - Blue Springs MO
> 15 Jul Fri 1:00pm - 3:00pm NCORCC - N.County Older Residents Computer Club
> 15 Jul Fri 7:30pm -10:00pm SLAS - St. Louis Astronomical Society
> 17 Jul Sat 9:00am - 4:00pm OLMOLUG - Old Monroe MO *Tentative*
> 17 Jul Sat 2:00pm - 5:00pm ROBOMO - St. Louis Area Robotics Group
> 17 Jul Sat 7:00pm - 9:00pm SILUG-ME - Shilo IL
> 18 Jul Sun 12:00pm - 4:00pm CWELUG - Central West End LUG
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