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• Next Meeting Details
• Contest: Best Local Y2K Story with Gary Meyer
• Presentation: Can Unix Return to the Desktop? with F. David Sacerdoti & Dr. Roland Krause
• Book Special(s):
• Upcoming Events
• Meeting Directions
• Article(s)
  • ITEC 2000 Volunteer Progress!
  • New Mailing List
  • Quotations
  • Sponsor of the Month
  • Interesting Browsing
  • Personal Commentary
• Special Interest Groups (SIGS)
  • Linux SIG (SLUUGLS)
  • Computer Telephony Integration SIG (SLUUG CiTI)
  • Digital Alpha SIG
• Steering Committee
• Sponsors
• SLUUG on the World Wide Web
• SLUUG Administration is volunteer based.
• /usr/groups/other
• Contacts
• Submitting Articles to the SLUUG CRONicle
• SLUUG PO Box

Wednesday, April 12, 2000 at 6:30 PM
Sunnen Products, 7910 Manchester

Abstract:

Well, Y2K was a big disappointment. We were all disappointed that we still had to go into work after New Year's. Some of us were looking forward to a few days of mild chaos. But, then there must have been something that didn't get fixed.

So we're going to see if there are any local Y2K stories worthy of a chuckle or two. Maybe the biggest mess.

The winner gets an appropriate prize to be announced at the meeting.

For more info contact F. David Sacerdoti by sending mailto:fds@slinuxmachines.com or contact Dr. Roland Krause by sending mailto:roland@esrd.com

Title of the Month The 25% discount special will be on any Linux book and Programming with QT, 10% discound on all other books.

All regularly priced titles are 10% off retail cost at the general meeting. (Excludes featured, or specially priced or promotional items)

The O'Reilly and Associates line of books is available at each monthly general meeting as a convenience to our members.

Each month features a book related to that month's presentation or tutorial topic.

The STL!/unix/usr/group meets the 2nd Wednesday of every month at Sunnen Products, 7910 Manchester Blvd, just east of Hanley on Manchester.

Directions From Downtown

1. Take 40 West to the Hanley exit.
2. Turn left (south) onto Hanley.
3. Turn left (east) onto Manchester, then turn right ASAP into the Sunnen Products driveway.

See map at http://www.sluug.org/info/sunnen.html

(NOTE: A security guard from Sunnen is scheduled to be at the door from 6:20 PM to 7:20 PM to allow entry. After 7:20, the door will be unattended and attendees may not be able to enter.)

The SLUUG Steering Committee meets the Tuesday following the general meeting at 6:00 PM in the 2nd floor training room of Daugherty Systems, One City Place in Creve Coeur.

The SLUUG Linux SIG (SLUUGLS) meets the 3rd Thursday of every month at the Indian Trails Public Library.

See map at http://www.stllinux.org/linux/directions/

ITEC (Information Technology Expositions and Conferences) Expo 2000:

This year's ITEC Expo will be at the America's Center downtown on TUESDAY and WEDNESDAY, the 23rd and 24th of May. The show runs from 10am to 4pm each day.

* Our O'Reilly & Associates books will be sold there. The ITEC show sales volume generated is one of the reasons we continue to be able to offer the ORA books at our meetings.
* Free tickets for the members should be available at our 10 May SLUUG general meeting.

Our participation at ITEC allows us to let a lot of people know of the group's existence. Every year people that have been living in St. Louis first learn about our group from the ITEC booth.

We have had considerable committee activity preparing for the ITEC show. Up to date information can be gathered best from our mailing list. Along with these efforts general SLUUG (and Linux SIG!) member volunteers are needed to step up planning and finding tutorials and presentations for the monthly general meetings that follow. That is what we must do to keep new and old members coming back month after month.

We still need our booth to te staffed by our membership. If you can come to the show, plan an hour (or more ;-) to work our booth. Even one hour will give someone in the booth a break. It can be quite an enjoyable time. But the booth is not all of where we still need help, we always need volunteers to do other things.

The ITEC Committee looks forward to hearing from you.

Members should send mailto:itec@mail.sluug.org for details.

Refer to http://itec.asmcorp.com/ for general show info. If you pre-register indicate "SLUUG member" in remarks.

We have set up "e-com" as the e-commerce MAJORDOMO mailing list. The purpose of this list is discuss the "e-commerce" buzz word and how we can tie it into our presentations.

Ed Wehner is the proud owner of the list. We believe that the way the controlling e-com.config file is set up under MAJORDOMO will just advise Ed of new subscribers.

Our general discussion list is "discuss", although we had considered setting up one called "linux" for the linux SIG interests we find that the combined responses from users of other flavors of Unix provide considerable insite into all Unix-like systems. After all the Linux kernel is perhaps just two percent of what we know as a Linux distribution, the rest is very generic Unix under the GNU developed utilities and other POSIX compliant software.

Anybody can nominate anybody else to a subscription by sending mailto:majordomo@mail.sluug.org
A subject line is not relivant. The body text should read as in any one of the following examples:

subscribe e-com username@mail.someplace.dom
subscribe discuss user2@xyz.com
subscribe itec bill@ms.com
subscribe steercom willy@whitehouse.gov

The MAJORDOMO wrapper then sends a confirmation message to that email address, telling the subscriber how to verify subscription.

http://www.usenix.org/sage/jobs/jobs-descriptions.html - What the Unix System Administrator Does...

(Oracle of the pointy hair):
http://linuxtoday.com/stories/18812.html - VNU Net: Don't be scared of Linux, says Gartner
http://linuxtoday.com/stories/19371.html - JustLinux.com: Introducing vi
http://linuxtoday.com/stories/19221.html - Linux.com: The Mockery of Mattel
http://linuxtoday.com/stories/19092.html - ZDNet: Hackers settle Cyber Patrol suit
http://linuxtoday.com/stories/19073.html - Network World: Will Linux be a hit or miss on the corporate desktop?
http://linuxtoday.com/stories/19024.html - SiteReview.org: The Short Life and Hard Times of a Linux Virus
http://linuxtoday.com/stories/19046.html - ZDNet UK: Speaking Linux released
http://linuxtoday.com/stories/19232.html - LinuxDevices.com: Crash-safe filesystem [JFFS] for diskless embedded devices
http://linuxtoday.com/stories/19759.html - Wired: Getting Snooped On? Too Bad
http://linuxtoday.com/stories/19283.html - LinuxWorld: Protest draws attention to DMCA
http://linuxtoday.com/stories/19220.html - SF Gate: Software Licentiousness; UCITA gives new meaning to 'All Rights Reserved'
http://linuxtoday.com/stories/19336.html - E-Commerce Times: Internet Self-Regulation Dead on Arrival
http://linuxtoday.com/stories/19178.html - PRNewswire: VMware Signs OEM Agreement With Microsoft
http://linuxtoday.com/stories/19216.html - Wired: Geeks Protest, Nobody Comes
http://linuxtoday.com/stories/19141.html - DevShed: Vi 101
http://linuxtoday.com/stories/19297.html - Source code for Linux XFS now available!
http://linuxtoday.com/stories/19356.html - UPDATED: Joe Pranevich -- Wonderful World of Linux 2.4 - Final Candidate - 3/30/00 (aka the "Geek Pride" Edition)
http://linuxtoday.com/stories/19374.html - TechWeb: Win 2000 Server Contains Defect

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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/linux/ ) 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.stllinlux.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.

    St. Louis UNIX Users Group
    P.O. Box 411302
    Creve Coeur Post Office
    St. Louis, MO  63141-9998