[ANNOUNCE] This Week's Events.

Editor's picks= Tues. Hadoop Users' Grp - Apache w thousands of nodes and PETABYTES of data. Wed. St. Louis Business Expo 11am - 6pm Come see the Expo! Come see SLUUG's booth! Come tell everyone you like SLUUG's booth. Come and volunteer a few minutes @ " " . Wed. STLPM - StL Perl Mongers Grp "Regular Expressions" by Steve Pritchard Thurs. StL Linux Users' Grp. "Postfix" by Craig Buchek. ============================================================================= Monday, October 18 ============================================================================== 1:00pm SCORCC-WK - MS Works SIG 1pm . 2pm Tesson Ferry Library Branch, 9920 Lin-Ferry Road, St. Louis, MO 63123 http://www.scorcc.org/ ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ 6:00pm Canceled - stlDNNug - St. L. DotNetNuke User Group ============================================================================ Tuesday, October 19 ============================================================================ 11:45am stlHDI - Help Desk Institute 11:45am . 1:15pm http://hdistlouis.com/ ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- 1:00pm SCORCC-CM - Computer Media SIG 1pm . 3pm County Government Center 4544 Lemay Ferry Road, 63129 St. Louis County Older Residents Computer Club http://www.scorcc.org/ ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- 2:00pm Hiatus - stlISSA - Information Systems Security Association ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- 6:00pm HIATUS - stlOSUG - StL OpenSOLARIS Users Group ** *NO MEETINGS UNTIL FURTHER NOTICE* ** See http://solaris.sluug.org/ ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- 6:30pm StL Hadoop Users' Grp 6:30pm . 8:00pm 6665 Delmar Blvd, Suite 300, University City, MO. 63130 http://www.stlhadoop.org/ APACHE's Hadoop is a software FRAMEWORK that supports data-intensive distributed applications under a FREE license. It enables applications to work with thousands of nodes and PETABYTES of data. Hadoop was inspired by Google's MapReduce and Google File System (GFS) papers. YAHOO is a major contributer. ============================================================================== Wednesday, October 20 ============================================================================== 9:00am Thornhill Computer Club 9am . 11am 12863 Willowyck Dr, St. Louis MO Thornhill Branch Library 314-994-3300 Questions about what you can do on the computer? ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ 11:00am St. Louis Business Expo 11am . 6pm 1 Convention Center Plaza, St Charles, MO 63303-2152 St. Charles Convention Center http://www.stlouisbusinessexpo.com/ Just come to cruise the booths and learn &OR PLEASE consider volunteering to help man SLUUG's booth for an hour. To volunteer mail to info(a)sluug.org or call Lee @ (314)997-4600 ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ 11:30am Top Layer Security - Lunch Seminar 11:30am . 1:30pm 1855 South Lindbergh Blvd., St. Louis, MO 63131 Flemings Steakhouse http://www.toplayer.com/stlouis2010.jsp ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ 11:30am Canceled - SNUG - StL Novell Users' Grp & SuSE Linux Lunch 11:30am . 1:15pm 9500 Manchester Rd, Rockhill, MO 63119 http://snug.sluug.org/ A lunch mtng about SuSE Linux & other Novelll sftwr. Gary Hollingsworth garyh(a)itinet.com *** OCT 2010 MEETING CANCELLED because we'll be at StL Business Expo*** ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 2:00pm stlISACA - StL InfoSys Audit & Ctrl Assn 2pm . 4pm http://www.isaca-stlouis.org/ ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ 6:00pm GCC - Gateway Computer Club 6pm . 8pm 10001 Bunkum Rd. Fairview Heights, IL 62208 Caseyville Township Bldg. http://gcc.signalhill.net/ ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ 6:00pm UMSL Free MS-Office 2010 Preview Night FREE! 6pm . 8pm 12837 Flushing Meadows Dr. Des Peres, MO 63131 UMSL West County Continuing Education Center http://www.cetc.umsl.edu/prenight.html ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ 6:30pm STLPM - StL Perl Mongers Grp "Regular Expressions" 6:30pm . 8:30pm 6665 Delmar Boulevard, University City, MO 63130-4544 Announce Media, LLC See http://stlouis.pm.org/ Regular expressions are one of the things that make Unix utilities (grep, sed, vi, etc.) and Perl so awesome. In this talk, we'll go over the various flavors of regular expression syntax, look at how to use regular expressions effectively, and look ahead to the cool additions to regular expressions available in Perl 6. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ 7:00pm StL ALT.NET 7pm . 9pm 161 Long Rd. #107, Chesterfield, MO 63005 International Tap House http://www.meetup.com/stlaltdotnet/ Mix .NET with a reach outside the mainstream to adopt the best of any community: Open Source, Agile, Java, Ruby, etc. ============================================================================== Thursday, October 21 ============================================================================== 1949 An Wang filed a patent for a magnetic ferrite core memory. Two years later An Wang found Wang Laboratories. ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- 1:00pm WCORCC - West County Older Residents Computer Club General Mtg 1pm . 3pm Daniel Boone Branch, StL Co. Library, 300 Clarkson Road in Ellisville http://wcorcc.tripod.com/ Contact Mary Ann (6363918123) or Gordon(6363916469) ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- 6:30pm STLLUG - StL Linux Users' Grp "Postfix" 6:30pm . 9:30pm 4633 World Pkwy Cir, Berkeley, MO 63134 IT Enterprises http://www.stllinux.org/ Postfix is a Mail Transfer Agent (MTA), which is used to send email across the Internet. It was originally written by Wietse Venema, a security researcher at IBM. Postfix attempts to be fast, easy to administer, and secure. It was written as an alternative to Sendmail, with a modular architecture and simpler configuration. In this presentation, we'll take a shallow dive, looking at how Postfix works, as well as some common configuration options. BIO === Craig Buchek has been Chair of the STLLUG for nearly a decade. You might have not seen as much of him in the past year though, because he's been pretty busy -- getting married, buying a house, and a starting a couple new jobs. This week, he's excited to be starting a new job as a Software Developer at Asynchrony Solutions. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ 7:00pm PHP - St Louis PHP Users Group 7pm . 9pm http://www.meetup.com/php-425/ ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ 7:30pm SLRCFA - StL Radio Control Flying Association 7:30pm . 9:00pm 13045 Tesson Ferry, St. Louis, MO http://www.slrcfa.com/ ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 7:30pm STL Wordpress Users Group 7:30pm . 9:00pm 7220 Lindbergh Blvd., Hazelwood, MO 63032 Lift Office http://www.meetup.com/stlwordpress/ ============================================================================== Friday, October 22 ============================================================================== 9:30am Weber Road Computer Club 9:30am . 11:30am 4444 Weber Road, St. Louis, MO 63123 Weber Road Branch Library ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ 1:00pm SCORCC-I - Internet SIG 1pm . 2pm Tesson Ferry Library Branch, 9920 Lin-Ferry Road, St. Louis, MO 63123 http://www.scorcc.org/ ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ 7:30pm SLSRC - St. Louis & Suburban Radio Club 7:30pm . 9:00pm 3015 N Ballas Rd, St. Louis, MO Nursing Institute building, Missouri Baptist Hospital Complex http://www.slsrc.org/. This month will feature a Weather Spotter Training Class conducted by Jim Kramper of the National Weather Service. ============================================================================= Saturday, October 23 ============================================================================= 9:00am OlMoLUG - Ol' Mo' Linux Users' Grp 9am . 4pm Computers & Things, 112 1st St (corner Elm & 1st), Old Monroe, MO 63369 Third Saturday, sometimes fourth (see exceptions). http://www.olmolug.org/ As much fun as you can have in Lincoln Co. & West St. Charles Co.! ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ 10:00am Quantum Mechanics and reality: Accepting the weirdness. 10:00am . 11:30am Crow Hall 201 (under the silver telescope dome), Wash U According to Quantum Mechanics, particles can behave as waves, waves can act as particles, objects can be in two places at the same time, and there is an "uncertainty principle" that limits how much we can know about a physical system. One of the Saturdays in October "no math" physics lectures. http://physics.wustl.edu/events/saturday-morning-lectures ========================================================================= Sunday, October 24 ========================================================================== 1861 The First Transcontinental Telegraph line across the United States is completed, spelling the end for the 18-month-old Pony Express. (and the beginning of Data Communications!) ========================================================================== Monday, October 25 ========================================================================== 12:00pm STLSSUG -StL SQL Server User Grp 12:00pm . 1:30pm Three City Place Drive, St. Louis, MO 63141 http://www.stlssug.org/ ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- 5:30pm STLDOTNET - StL .NET User Grp 5:30pm . 7:30pm Three City Place Drive, Creve Coeur, MO 63141 http://www.stlnet.org/ ============================================================================= ============================================================================= Coming next weeek ============================================================================= Tuesday, October 26 6:30pm HZWLUG - Hazelwood Linux Users Grp "Newbies" 7:00pm GAMUG-SP "Virtualize a Mac OS X Server!" "Parallels, VMWare, & VirtualBox." 7:00pm Gateway Older Adults PC Club 7:00pm LUCI General Wednesday, October 27 1:00pm SCORCC-MSW - MS Windows SIG 6:30pm VIM Geeks "Vim macros & Emacs Org-Mode vs. VimOutliner" 7:00pm TAP - Science on Tap "Chimpanzees" Thursday, October 28 8:30am stlCRMug - StL CRM Users Grp 10:00am WCORCC - Technical SIG Multimedia SIG 5:30pm stl-AITP - Assoc. of IT Pros. "The Evolution of Telephony" 6:00pm stlMD - StL Mobile Dev. "Scripting Android" "PhoneGap" 6:30pm StC LUG - St. Charles Linux Users Group Continuation of "Linux v. MS-Windows" by Noah Lance Saturday, October 30 10:00am Quantum Mechanics evidence- Why is Classical Mech inadequate? 2:00pm GAMP - Gateway Area Mac & iPhone Programers. Sunday, October 31 Halloween Monday, November 1 3:40pm CDT Last Launch of Space Shuttle Discovery Tuesday, November 2 !!!!! Election Day !!!!! 6:30pm MOSLUG - MO Open Source Linux Users' Grp