[ANNOUNCE] Events This Week. (including Thurs' Clusters.)

Editor's picks this week = Thurs' StL Linux mtng: Parallel Computing Using a Linux Cluster (@UMSL) Sunday's CWElug: Moves to a new home! ArchReactor's hacker space. ========================================================================== Thursday, September 16 1985 After he lost a boardroom struggle for control of the company to CEO John Sculley, Steve Jobs resigned as chairman of Apple Computer, which he co-founded in 1976. Jobs had recruited Sculley from Pepsi in 1983. 1997 Apple Computer announced that co-founder Steve Jobs had been named interim CEO. (He's back!) --------------------------------------------------------------------------- 1:00pm-3pm WCORCC - General Mtg Daniel Boone Branch, St. Louis County Library, 300 Clarkson Road in Ellisville West County Older Residents Computer Club http://wcorcc.tripod.com/ Contact Mary Ann (6363918123) or Gordon(6363916469) ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- 6:30pm STLLUG - St. Louis Linux Users Group Thu, September 16, 6:30pm . 9:30pm 4633 World Pkwy Cir, Berkeley, MO 63134 Venue: IT Enterprises http://www.stllinux.org/ Topic: Parallel Computing Using a Linux Cluster Speaker: Prof. Sanjiv K. Bhatia and George Gerules Background/Details/Abstract/Outline/Summary: The clock speed of CPUs has been the big performance measure used by the processor manufacturers in the past. However, there are limits to the speed at which the electrons can move through the circuitry. Lately, the computer manufacturers have been emphasizing the use of multiple cores to increase the performance and the clock speed has actually dropped. The new paradigm to get better performance is based on parallel computing. There are a number of techniques to take advantage of multiple processors that include multicore, cluster computing, and grid computing. Cluster computing provides us with an inexpensive way to create a scalable parallel computer with open source software. In this presentation, we'll talk about some basic theory behind parallel processing and present a way to build a cluster using off the shelf hardware. - - - And...we are meeting in the room next to UMSL's IT Enterprise's Cluster. So take a peek! Bios: Sanjiv Bhatia works as an Associate Professor in Computer Science in the University of Missouri -- St. Louis (UMSL). His area of research is Image Databases, Digital Image Processing, and Computer Vision. He has published several papers on image databases, large texture generation and its use in terrain modeling, and the application of knowledge-based techniques to information retrieval. He is also involved in sensor simulation and real-time target tracking. He regularly teaches classes in Operating Systems and Parallel & Distributed Computing. He is a member of ACM, Siggraph, and AAAI. He is also the former publisher of SLUUG's newsletter. - - - George Gerules has over 20 years of experience programming; this has been mostly in C/C++, although he has programmed in Java as well as some other languages that are now extinct. He has worked as a consultant with Arthur Andersen in the Silicon Valley and as a programmer with Mitek Industries in Chesterfield. Currently, he is pursuing the M.S. degree in Computer Science at UM-St. Louis. ------------------------------------------------------------------------- 7:00pm MWG - MidWest Geeks ------------------------------------------------------------------------- 7:00pm PHP - St Louis PHP Users Group ------------------------------------------------------------------------- 7:30pm SLRCFA - St. Louis Radio Control Flying Association ------------------------------------------------------------------------- 7:30pm STL Wordpress Users Group =========================================================================== Friday, September 17 1991 The first version of the Linux kernel, version 0.01, was released to the Internet by Linus Torvalds, a computer science student at the University of Helsinki. The source code of the kernel was 64KB large. 1997 IBM licensed the PalmPilot design from 3Com. -------------------------------------------------------------------------- 1:00pm-3:00pm NCORCC 915 Utz Lane Hazelwood, MO 63042 The County Older Residents Computer Club Prarie Commons Branch (between Howdershell and Dunn) http://www.corcc-stl.com/ --------------------------------------------------------------------------- 7:00pm - 8:30pm Great Forest Park Balloon Race's Balloon Glow See http://www.greatforestparkballoonrace.com/schedule.htm -------------------------------------------------------------------------- 7:30pm SLAS - St. Louis Astronomical Society Fri, September 17, 7:30pm . 9:00pm Washington University, McDonnell Hall Room 162, St. Louis, MO (map) http://www.slasonline.org/ The Phoenix Has Landed: Snowbird on Mars by Ms. Selby Cull Washington University NASA's Phoenix Lander spacecraft touched down in a north polar region of Mars on May 25, 2008. Phoenix was aptly named after the mythological bird that rises newborn from its own ashes. The Lander?s design was derived from the cancelled 2001 Surveyor mission. Its instruments are improved versions of equipment lost when the Mars Polar Lander failed to land successfully. Phoenix landed well, and for five months it sent back to Earth large quantities of images and data. The first results of early data analysis are now being reported. Ms. Cull will talk about the discoveries Phoenix has made and their importance to future human exploration and to the search for life, or fossil life, on Mars. Selby Cull is a Doctoral candidate in the Department of Earth and Planetary Sciences =========================================================================== Saturday, September 18 1989 NeXT, the company founded by Steve Jobs after his forced resignation from Apple, released the NeXTstep OS, a Unix operating system based on the Mach kernel. 1998 The Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN) was formed in California as a non-profit corporation to oversee Internet domain management on behalf of the United States Government. ----------------------------------------------------------------------- 9:00am Hiatus - OLMOLUG - Ol' Mo' Linux Users Group ----------------------------------------------------------------------- 12:30am ROBOMO - St. Louis Area Robotics Group Balloons into Near Space! September meeting time has changed due to scheduling conflicts. For September only the meeting will begin at 12:30pm September meeting special guest speaker. L. Paul Verhage of NearSys. Paul is an extremely active member of the near space ballooning community and is also involved in robotics. Visit his website at: www.nearsys.com ROBOMO's near space team... Successful launch and recovery 7/24/2010 of ROBOMO-1 balloon into near space. ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- 12:00pm - 6:30pm Great Forest Park Balloon Race http://www.google.com/url?q=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.greatforestparkballoonrace.com… -------------------------------------------------------------------------- 4:00pm-6pm SILUG-ME 3720 Green Mount Crossing Dr., O Fallon, IL 62269 Souther Illinois Linux Users Group - Metro East http://www.silug.org/ =========================================================================== Sunday, September 19 Talk Like A Pirate Day Unleashing Your Inner Buccaneer! http://www.talklikeapirate.com/ ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- 1982 Research Professor Scott E. Fahlman of Carnegie Mellon University posted the landmark suggestion that users on the local bulletin board use symbols, which would later become known as emoticons, to express emotions during discussion threads. The original reads: 19-Sep-82 11:44 Scott E Fahlman : -) From: Scott E Fahlman I propose that the following character sequence for joke markers: : - ) Read it sideways. Actually, it is probably more economical to mark things that are NOT jokes, given current trends. For this, use : - ( 1996 Microsoft released Windows NT version 3.51.1057 SP5, the last version of Windows able to operate on an Intel 80386 CPU. 2005 Microsoft acquired Alacris, a relatively unknown developer of identity and access management applications, and adopted its primary software product as Microsoft's Active Directory. -------------------------------------------------------------------------- 1:00pm-5pm CWElug Cenral West End Linux Users Group Venue: NO LONGER at ByteWorks! NEW LOCATION!!! Arch Reacto's hackerspacer, which is in the second floor of the Jefferson Underground building, 2400 S Jefferson, just North of Jefferson and Gravois. Take the door off the parking lot closest to the back of the lot. http://groups.google.com/group/cwelug/ =========================================================================== =========================================================================== Next Week ========================================================================== Monday, September 20 1954 First FORTRAN Program Runs. 1987 The first e-mail message sent from China was sent on this day to a recipient in Germany. 1988 Apple Computer and Quantum Computer Services jointly announced the AppleLink online service for Apple users. Released prior to the commercialization of the Internet, AppleLink offered many of the services only available online in years to come. AppleLink's fifteen minutes of fame will came when the crew of the Space Shuttle Atlantis used it to send the first email from space on August 28, 1991. ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Software Freedom Day Software Freedom Day (SFD) was initiated by a group of FOSS believers, Matt Oquist, Henrik Omma and Phil Harper with the idea of distributing The OpenCD to everyone. The idea of SFD is for everyone without a vested interest in proprietary software to unite and educate the world about the ideals of Software Freedom and the practical benefits of Free Software. August 28th, 2004, was the first ever Software Freedom Day. http://www.softwarefreedomday.org --------------------------------------------------------------------------- 1:00pm SCORCC-WK - MS Works SIG -------------------------------------------------------------------------- 6:00pm-8pm BDPA - Black Data Processing Associates 5 N. Jackson Ave., Clayton, MO 63130 (map) Washington University West Campus The Center for the Application of Information Technology CAIT - Room 24 5 N. Jackson Ave. at Forsyth Boulevard Clayton, MO 63130 http://www.bdpa-stlouis.org/ Nash Anwar of Edward Jones Enterprise Technology will speak at our September meeting on ... the Future of Outsourcing. He has some interesting comments on the how foreign cultures impact American productivity. ------------------------------------------------------------------- 6:00pm STLDNNUG - St. Louis DotNetNuke User Group 10330 Old Olive Street Rd, St Louis, MO 63141 (map) TricorBruan See http://stlouis.dnnug.com/ =========================================================================== Tuesday, September 21 -------------------------------------------------------------------------- 7:30am STLISSA - Information Systems Security Association -------------------------------------------------------------------------- 11:45am STLHDI - Help Desk Institute -------------------------------------------------------------------------- 1:00pm SCORCC-CM - Computer Media SIG -------------------------------------------------------------------------- 6:00pm HIATUS - stlOSug - St. Louis OpenSolaris Users Group --------------------------------------------------------------------------- 7pm-9pm ASEMO - Digital Imaging Class Weldon Spring Interpretive Center (ST. Charles Co.) http://maps.google.com/maps?hl=en&q=Weldon%20Spring%20Interpretive%20Ce… Description: Class teaching how to make high resolution images of Solar System objects using ASEM telescopes, cameras and free software. Three classroom sessions from 7:00 - 9:00 pm on monthly intervals: first meeting is a two hour session covering background, equipment and software. "Laboratory" sessions will be conducted at the Broemmelsiek Observatory on a weather dependent basis. The subsequent two classroom meetings will be review of students results, processing help, etc. Attendance at first session is mandatory to participate in whole program. No equipment other than a home (or laptop) computer is required. Primary prerequisite is a desire to learn and participate in modern digital imaging techniques for personal enrichment. ========================================================================= Wednesday, September 22 1:00pm SCORCC-MSW - MS Windows SIG ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- 6:30pm-9:30pm Vim Geeks 3720 Green Mount Crossing Dr., Shiloh, IL 62269 Venue: Computer Room http://www.vimgeeks.org/ Since this is our inaugural meeting, we'll try to figure out where everybody's experience level is, how often we should have meetings, etc. ============================================================================ Thursday, September 23 8:30am STLCRMUG - St. Louis CRM Users Group 10:00am WCORCC - Technical SIG Multimedia SIG 5:30pm STL-AITP - Association of Information Technology Professionals 6:00pm STLMD - St. Louis Mobile Dev --------------------------------------------------------------------------- 6:30pm StC LUG - St. Charles Linux Users Group 200 Ft Zumwalt Square, O'Fallon, MO 63366 http://stclug.sluug.org Meet at JJ's Restaurant, off of Hwy I-70, Exit 217, Hwy K South, take right at first light signal. Setting up DNS Masqerading by Jerry Stutte dnsmasq is a lightweight DNS, TFTP and DHCP server. It is intended to provide coupled DNS and DHCP service to a LAN. Dnsmasq accepts DNS queries and either answers them from a small, local, cache or forwards them to a real, recursive, DNS server. It loads the contents of /etc/hosts so that local hostnames which do not appear in the global DNS can be resolved and also answers DNS queries for DHCP configured hosts. Jerry Stutte has worked in molecular biololgy and bio informatics. ======================================================================== Friday, September 24 9:30am Weber Road Computer Club 1:00pm SCORCC-I - Internet SIG 7:30pm SLSRC - St. Louis & Suburban Radio Club ======================================================================== Saturday, September 25 2:00pm GAMP - Gateway Area Mac Programers