In January a small group of those that are bored with the tutorials will meet in the secondary room, behind the main presentation area. Attendance will not be by invatation; but, lurkers and wantabees will be embarassed and urged to leave. Subject matter will be refereed by Rich Seibel.

Suspenders and pocket protector optional. Bring your slide rules.

Do you have what it takes to run with the Guru?

Please contact Rich Seibel by sending mailto:rich@mail.sluug.org if you have suggestions for this experiment.

Card holders can request items the St. Louis County Library should acquire, and suggest items currently not owned by the library

Use this site to request items that are not in the catalog or titles that are on order.
http://www.slcl.lib.mo.us/iii/on_order_holds.htm

or if you prefer: http://199.181.178.210/

They have gotten four of the six books that I'v requested in the last two months. Linux books seem to be high interest, so not a problem. They apparently will usually not order any books that have tear out sections in them.

Non-Linux, Unix specific books above a certain price will require more demand before they start to order them. So, start requesting!

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Seen on Slashdot:

Windows hasn't increased computer literacy. It's just lowered the standard.

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As our membership grows, we have had some inquiries about the possibility of having Special Interest Groups in several areas. If you are interested in starting or participating in a SIG for System Administration, Networking, C, Object Oriented Programming, a specific vendor, etc., please call Dave Mills at 230-5151, extension 103, or contact any officer of the group.

Visit the Linux SIG home page (http://www.stllinux.org/) for the latest meeting details.

Indian Trails Public Library
8400 Delport Drive
(at Midland)
(314)-428-5424

For more information on SLUUGLS refer to the WWW home page for the group at http://www.stllinux.org/ or contact Matthew Feldt by mailto:linux@www.feldt.com

The CTI SIG is no longer having regular meetings and is currently using a webboard format.

The Computer Telephony Integration (CTI) Users Group is a non-profit organization open to developers, end-users, sales people, and others who share the common interest of melding the telecommunications and computing worlds.

For more information on SLUUG CiTI contact Tony Zafiropoulos by mailto:tonyz@ctitek.com or (314)878-9855.

The Digital Alpha SIG is for those interested in Digital UNIX and the DEC Alpha architecture. Visit the Digital Alpha SIG's home at http://www.sluug.org/~newton/asighome.html for more information.

The SLUUG Steering Committee meets the Tuesday following the general 2nd Wednesday meeting at 6:00 PM in the 2nd floor training room of Daugherty Systems, One City Place in Creve Coeur. The guard can direct you to the meeting location. Anyone is welcome to attend. If you would like to become more involved in the planning of SLUUG, feel free to join us at the next Steering Committee meeting. Meetings usually last 1.5 to 2 hours.

For more information about sponsoring the St. Louis UNIX Users Group, contact Ed Wehner, send mailto:wehner@mail.sluug.org.

The St. Louis UNIX Users Group maintains a WWW page at http://www.sluug.org/. Visit us to learn more about who we are and what we do, visit other UNIX user groups' WWW pages, sign up for a SIG, or just to browse.

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If you would like to submit an article to the CRONicle of general interest to the members of the St. Louis UNIX Users Group,send mailto:editor@mail.sluug.org The deadline for article submissions is two weeks before the next general meeting.

The St. Louis UNIX Users Group has a P.O. box. All official correspondence with SLUUG should now be sent to:

    St. Louis UNIX Users Group
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    Creve Coeur Post Office
    St. Louis, MO  63141-9998