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------ From gedetil(a)cs.umanitoba.ca (Gilbert E. Detillieux)
The Manitoba UNIX User Group (MUUG) will be holding its next monthly
meeting on Tuesday, March 13. The meeting topic for this month is
as follows:
Usenet News Readers
This month, MUUG member Chris Hill will be giving us a look at Usenet.
The session will cover a brief history of the Usenet and news groups,
how to get a new news group assigned in the hierarchy, how to use news
readers such as Pine, Pan, and possibly others, what uuencode is, what
the binaries news groups are, and the meanings of the hierarchies.
We're also expecting a talk from an IBM representative on IBM's Linux
strategy, particularly in regard to Linux running on mainframes. Think
of thousands of copies of Linux running under VM on one mainframe!
The group holds its general meetings at 7:30 PM on the second Tuesday of
every month from September to June. (There are no meetings in July and
August.) Meetings are open to the general public; you don't have to be a
MUUG member to attend.
Please note our meeting location: IBM Canada's offices in the TD
Centre, at the corner of Portage and Main. We gather in the lobby on
the main floor - please try to be there by about 7:15 PM. Steve Moffat
will then take us up to the meeting room just before the meeting
starts at 7:30. Don't be late, or you may not get in.
Parking is available either in the parkade behind the TD building,
off Albert Street, or in the ground level lot just north of the TD
building. Entrance to the lot is from Albert Street, behind the
parkade. Either way, parking is a $1.25 flat rate for the evening.
You purchase your ticket from a dispenser, so make sure you've got
exact change - a loonie and a quarter, or 5 quarters.
For more information about MUUG, and its monthly meetings, check out their
Web server:
http://www.muug.mb.ca/
--
Gilbert E. Detillieux E-mail: <gedetil(a)muug.mb.ca>
Manitoba UNIX User Group Web: http://www.muug.mb.ca/
P.O. Box 130, St-Boniface Phone: (204)474-8161
Winnipeg, MB, CANADA R2H 3B4 Fax: (204)474-7609
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The Manitoba UNIX User Group (MUUG) will be holding its next monthly
meeting on Tuesday, February 13. The meeting topic for this month is
as follows:
Locking Down Linux
This month, MUUG member Shawn Wallbridge returns with a follow-up to
the November meeting topic. The many benefits to using Linux also make
it a prime target for attacks. The power of Linux also increases its
usefulness to crackers/hackers.
This presentation will cover various tools and methods to secure your
Linux machine. Some tools covered will be the Bastille hardening
script, PortSentry, and Tripwire. We will take a basic installation
and lock it down to limit the risk of a remote exploit.
The group holds its general meetings at 7:30 PM on the second Tuesday of
every month from September to June. (There are no meetings in July and
August.) Meetings are open to the general public; you don't have to be a
MUUG member to attend.
Please note our meeting location: IBM Canada's offices in the TD
Centre, at the corner of Portage and Main. We gather in the lobby on
the main floor - please try to be there by about 7:15 PM. Steve Moffat
will then take us up to the meeting room just before the meeting
starts at 7:30. Don't be late, or you may not get in.
Parking is available either in the parkade behind the TD building,
off Albert Street, or in the ground level lot just north of the TD
building. Entrance to the lot is from Albert Street, behind the
parkade. Either way, parking is a $1.25 flat rate for the evening.
You purchase your ticket from a dispenser, so make sure you've got
exact change - a loonie and a quarter, or 5 quarters.
For more information about MUUG, and its monthly meetings, check out their
Web server:
http://www.muug.mb.ca/
--
Gilbert E. Detillieux E-mail: <gedetil(a)muug.mb.ca>
Manitoba UNIX User Group Web: http://www.muug.mb.ca/
P.O. Box 130, St-Boniface Phone: (204)474-8161
Winnipeg, MB, CANADA R2H 3B4 Fax: (204)474-7609
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The Manitoba UNIX User Group (MUUG) will be holding its next monthly
meeting on Tuesday, January 9. The meeting topic for this month is
as follows:
Network Load Tuning on a UNIX Server
You've just set up a publicly accessible FTP and/or Web server on a
UNIX box, and now have a hot commodity that people on the 'Net will
want to access. How do you keep the load from killing your poor little
server? Are you ready for the "Slashdot Effect" (or the "Red Hat
Effect" in our case)?
This month, Gilbert Detillieux will take you through some of the load
and usage monitoring utilities that are available for UNIX, such as
MRTG, and The Webalizer, as well as some of the parameters that can be
used in various server programs to limit access and throughput. The
focus will be on settable parameters in WU-FTPD, including a couple
useful patches, to fix the throughput feature, and to implement a
host-limit feature. Time permitting, we will also include a quick look
at Apache, rsync, and the Linux kernel traffic shaper utility,
shapecfg, and Class Based Queuing (CBQ).
The group holds its general meetings at 7:30 PM on the second Tuesday of
every month from September to June. (There are no meetings in July and
August.) Meetings are open to the general public; you don't have to be a
MUUG member to attend.
Please note our meeting location: IBM Canada's offices in the TD
Centre, at the corner of Portage and Main. We gather in the lobby on
the main floor - please try to be there by about 7:15 PM. Steve Moffat
will then take us up to the meeting room just before the meeting
starts at 7:30. Don't be late, or you may not get in.
Parking is available either in the parkade behind the TD building,
off Albert Street, or in the ground level lot just north of the TD
building. Entrance to the lot is from Albert Street, behind the
parkade. Either way, parking is a $1.25 flat rate for the evening.
You purchase your ticket from a dispenser, so make sure you've got
exact change - a loonie and a quarter, or 5 quarters.
For more information about MUUG, and its monthly meetings, check out their
Web server:
http://www.muug.mb.ca/
--
Gilbert E. Detillieux E-mail: <gedetil(a)muug.mb.ca>
Manitoba UNIX User Group Web: http://www.muug.mb.ca/
P.O. Box 130, St-Boniface Phone: (204)474-8161
Winnipeg, MB, CANADA R2H 3B4 Fax: (204)474-7609
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The Manitoba UNIX User Group (MUUG) will be holding its next monthly
meeting on Tuesday, December 12. The meeting topic for this month is
as follows:
Xmas Fun
This month, Kevin McGregor will be demonstrating some of the fun
things (i.e. games and other toys) available for Linux. Kevin will
discuss the gaming market for Linux and where it might be going, and
why it is important to the future of Linux.
The group holds its general meetings at 7:30 PM on the second Tuesday of
every month from September to June. (There are no meetings in July and
August.) Meetings are open to the general public; you don't have to be a
MUUG member to attend.
Please note our meeting location: IBM Canada's offices in the TD
Centre, at the corner of Portage and Main. We gather in the lobby on
the main floor - please try to be there by about 7:15 PM. Steve Moffat
will then take us up to the meeting room just before the meeting
starts at 7:30. Don't be late, or you may not get in.
Parking is available either in the parkade behind the TD building,
off Albert Street, or in the ground level lot just north of the TD
building. Entrance to the lot is from Albert Street, behind the
parkade. Either way, parking is a $1.25 flat rate for the evening.
You purchase your ticket from a dispenser, so make sure you've got
exact change - a loonie and a quarter, or 5 quarters.
For more information about MUUG, and its monthly meetings, check out their
Web server:
http://www.muug.mb.ca/
--
Gilbert E. Detillieux E-mail: <gedetil(a)muug.mb.ca>
Manitoba UNIX User Group Web: http://www.muug.mb.ca/
P.O. Box 130, St-Boniface Phone: (204)474-8161
Winnipeg, MB, CANADA R2H 3B4 Fax: (204)474-7609
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The Manitoba UNIX User Group (MUUG) will be holding its next monthly
meeting on Tuesday, November 14. The meeting topic for this month is
as follows:
Vulnerability Scanning
Do you want to know what the `Bad Guys' can find out about your
machine? There is no better way to find out what they can see than to
use the same tools they use. This month, MUUG member Shawn Wallbridge
will cover the basics of Vulnerability Scanning using Nmap, Nessus,
Whisker and Hping. With the proliferation of High-Speed, always-on
Internet connections, security is becoming more of a concern for the
average home user.
The group holds its general meetings at 7:30pm on the second Tuesday of
every month from September to June. (There are no meetings in July and
August.) Meetings are open to the general public; you don't have to be a
MUUG member to attend.
Please note our meeting location: IBM Canada's offices in the TD
Centre, at the corner of Portage and Main. We gather in the lobby on
the main floor - please try to be there by about 7:15pm. Steve Moffat
will then take us up to the meeting room just before the meeting
starts at 7:30. Don't be late, or you may not get in.
Parking is available either in the parkade behind the TD building,
off Albert Street, or in the ground level lot just north of the TD
building. Entrance to the lot is from Albert Street, behind the
parkade. Either way, parking is a $1.25 flat rate for the evening.
You purchase your ticket from a dispenser, so make sure you've got
exact change - a loonie and a quarter, or 5 quarters.
For more information about MUUG, and its monthly meetings, check out their
Web server:
http://www.muug.mb.ca/
--
Gilbert E. Detillieux E-mail: <gedetil(a)muug.mb.ca>
Manitoba UNIX User Group Web: http://www.muug.mb.ca/
P.O. Box 130, St-Boniface Phone: (204)474-8161
Winnipeg, MB, CANADA R2H 3B4 Fax: (204)474-7609
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The Manitoba UNIX User Group (MUUG) will be holding its next monthly
meeting on Tuesday, October 10. The meeting topic for this month is
as follows:
ACeDB
ACeDB is a freely-distributed object-oriented database package that
was developed for genome projects, but is a very general purpose
system. It is available for most computer systems (Unix, Mac, NT,
etc.), and binaries for ACeDB are available for most systems. Brian
Fristensky, from the Department of Plant Science at The University of
Manitoba, has used ACeDB in his lab for several years, and in his
recent Bioinformatics course. This month, he will be describing and
demonstrating this database for us.
The group holds its general meetings at 7:30 PM on the second Tuesday of
every month from September to June. (There are no meetings in July and
August.) Meetings are open to the general public; you don't have to be a
MUUG member to attend.
**********************************************************************
For this month only, the meeting will be held at the University of
Manitoba's Fort Garry Campus, in the Carolyn Sifton Auditorium, Room
130 Agriculture. An online campus map is available here:
http://www.umanitoba.ca/about/map/parking/index.shtml
From Fort Garry and points North, enter the campus from Pembina Hwy.
at University Crescent. From Winnipeg South and West, enter the campus
from Pembina Hwy. at Chancellor Matheson Road. Go East on Matheson to
University Crescent. Go south on University Crescent, and East on
Dafoe Road. The Agriculture Building is on the right at 66 Dafoe.
On-campus parking is free in the evening, and is available in lots off
of Dafoe Road, or off of service roads near Agriculture. Winnipeg
Transit busses 36, 60, 61, 62, 63, 72, 75, 76 and 78 all stop on the
U. of M. campus on Dafoe Road.
**********************************************************************
For more information about MUUG, and its monthly meetings, check out their
Web server:
http://www.muug.mb.ca/
--
Gilbert E. Detillieux E-mail: <gedetil(a)muug.mb.ca>
Manitoba UNIX User Group Web: http://www.muug.mb.ca/
P.O. Box 130, St-Boniface Phone: (204)474-8161
Winnipeg, MB, CANADA R2H 3B4 Fax: (204)474-7609
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The Manitoba UNIX User Group (MUUG) will be holding its next monthly
meeting on Tuesday, September 12. The meeting topic for this month is
as follows:
CDS Technologies - Wireless Networks
This month, Dolores Pirrie, Information Technology Specialist with CDS
Technologies, will present the company and the capabilities it has.
CDS Technologies specializes in wireless network connectivity. What
that means for the public and private sector, is that there is no
longer a need to cable offices! For example, if a company is highly
mobile, they would normally have to cable an office every time they
move. This can become extremely costly. With CDS, a company could go
wireless and if they move they would simply take the equipment with
them and set up in the new surroundings! It really is that simple. The
other facet of this business is the building to building connectivity.
They are capable of connecting two or more sites together, wirelessly,
for distances up to 25 km apart! All of this is achieved at speeds of
11Mbps per second.
The group holds its general meetings at 7:30 PM on the second Tuesday of
every month from September to June. (There are no meetings in July and
August.) Meetings are open to the general public; you don't have to be a
MUUG member to attend.
Please note our meeting location: IBM Canada's offices in the TD
Centre, at the corner of Portage and Main. We gather in the lobby on
the main floor - please try to be there by about 7:15 PM. Steve Moffat
will then take us up to the meeting room just before the meeting
starts at 7:30. Don't be late, or you may not get in.
Parking is available either in the parkade behind the TD building,
off Albert Street, or in the ground level lot just north of the TD
building. Entrance to the lot is from Albert Street, behind the
parkade. Either way, parking is a $1.25 flat rate for the evening.
You purchase your ticket from a dispenser, so make sure you've got
exact change - a loonie and a quarter, or 5 quarters.
For more information about MUUG, and its monthly meetings, check out their
Web server:
http://www.muug.mb.ca/
--
Gilbert E. Detillieux E-mail: <gedetil(a)muug.mb.ca>
Manitoba UNIX User Group Web: http://www.muug.mb.ca/
P.O. Box 130, St-Boniface Phone: (204)474-8161
Winnipeg, MB, CANADA R2H 3B4 Fax: (204)474-7609
------ End of Forwarded Article
This message is being sent out to all MUUG members (and a few potential
members) who have provided us with an e-mail address. In the future, we
will be sending these announcements only to people who subscribe to our new
mailing list, <muug-announce(a)muug.mb.ca>. This is an opt-in mailing list,
using the GNU Mailman list server, so you will have full control over
whether or not you wish to receive such messages.
However, this means that you have to subscribe to this list yourself if you
wish to continue receiving such announcements in the future. Do so today,
so you don't forget and miss announcements. (This new list will continue to
have a very low volume of traffic, so don't worry about getting more mail.)
You can subscribe through the convenient web-based interface:
http://www.muug.mb.ca/mailman/listinfo/muug-announce
You can also do so directly via e-mail, as follows:
echo subscribe | mail muug-announce-request(a)muug.mb.ca
To get help:
echo help | mail muug-announce-request(a)muug.mb.ca
My apologies to those who receive this twice. To date, we've only had 27
people sign up to the new muug-announce list, so we're giving those few
procrastinators among us another chance to sign up by repeating this message
on the old list too.
Hope to see you all on muug-announce and, of course, at the next meeting!
[Posted to man.unix.general and other news groups]
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------ From gedetil(a)cs.umanitoba.ca (Gilbert E. Detillieux)
The Manitoba UNIX User Group (MUUG) will be holding its next monthly
meeting on Tuesday, June 13. The meeting topic for this month is
as follows:
IBM VisualAge for Java
This month, Steve Banks from IBM in Winnipeg will present VisualAge
for Java. Steve is a Computer Engineering graduate from the U of M,
and a software developer with IBM. He has been using VisualAge for
Java for the past year in a team-based, collaborative software
development project.
At the meeting you will hear about: the VisualAge development
environment, the repository (the database used for revision control),
the debugger, Enterprise Java Beans, WebSphere and Servlets, and
Installation on Linux and Windows.
The group holds its general meetings at 7:30 PM on the second Tuesday of
every month from September to June. (There are no meetings in July and
August.) Meetings are open to the general public; you don't have to be a
MUUG member to attend.
**********************************************************************
Please note our meeting location: IBM Canada's offices in the TD
Centre, at the corner of Portage and Main. We gather in the lobby on
the main floor - please try to be there by about 7:15 PM. Steve Moffat
will then take us up to the meeting room just before the meeting
starts at 7:30. Don't be late, or you may not get in.
Parking is available either in the parkade behind the TD building,
off Albert Street, or in the ground level lot just north of the TD
building. Entrance to the lot is from Albert Street, behind the
parkade. Either way, parking is a $1.25 flat rate for the evening.
You purchase your ticket from a dispenser, so make sure you've got
exact change - a loonie and a quarter, or 5 quarters.
**********************************************************************
For more information about MUUG, and its monthly meetings, check out their
Web server:
http://www.muug.mb.ca/
--
Gilbert E. Detillieux E-mail: <gedetil(a)muug.mb.ca>
Manitoba UNIX User Group Web: http://www.muug.mb.ca/
P.O. Box 130, St-Boniface Phone: (204)474-8161
Winnipeg, MB, CANADA R2H 3B4 Fax: (204)474-7609
------ End of Forwarded Article
This message is being sent out to all MUUG members (and a few potential
members) who have provided us with an e-mail address. In the future, we
will be sending these announcements only to people who subscribe to our new
mailing list, <muug-announce(a)muug.mb.ca>. This is an opt-in mailing list,
using the GNU Mailman list server, so you will have full control over
whether or not you wish to receive such messages.
However, this means that you have to subscribe to this list yourself if you
wish to continue receiving such announcements in the future. Do so today,
so you don't forget and miss announcements. (This new list will continue to
have a very low volume of traffic, so don't worry about getting more mail.)
You can subscribe through the convenient web-based interface:
http://www.muug.mb.ca/mailman/listinfo/muug-announce
You can also do so directly via e-mail, as follows:
echo subscribe | mail muug-announce-request(a)muug.mb.ca
To get help:
echo help | mail muug-announce-request(a)muug.mb.ca
My apologies to those who receive this twice. To date, we've only had 17
people sign up to the new muug-announce list, so we're giving those few
procrastinators among us another chance to sign up by repeating this message
on the old list too.
Hope to see you all on muug-announce and, of course, at the next meeting!
[Posted to man.unix.general and other news groups]
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------ From gedetil(a)cs.umanitoba.ca (Gilbert E. Detillieux)
The Manitoba UNIX User Group (MUUG) will be holding its next monthly
meeting on Tuesday, May 9. The meeting topic for this month is as
follows:
Security on your home network: first steps
Michael Doob, of the University of Manitoba's Math department, will be
joining us again, to talk about home networks. First, this talk will
address the following questions: what information about internet
security is already on my computer and how can I get more if
necessary? Then we'll then look at some precautions and software
available to check who's doing what. Finally we'll see how to set up
and configure a firewall.
The group holds its general meetings at 7:30 PM on the second Tuesday of
every month from September to June. (There are no meetings in July and
August.) Meetings are open to the general public; you don't have to be a
MUUG member to attend.
************************************************************************
New Location: Once again this month, and until further notice, the
meeting will be at the ISM offices, at 400 Ellice Ave. (between Edmonton
and Kennedy). When you arrive, you will have to sign in at the reception
desk, and then wait for someone to take you (in groups) to the meeting
room.
Limited parking is available for free on the street, or in a lot
across Ellice from ISM, for $1.00 for the evening. Indoor parking is
also available nearby, at Portage Place, for $2.00 for the evening.
************************************************************************
For more information about MUUG, and its monthly meetings, check out their
Web server:
http://www.muug.mb.ca/
--
Gilbert E. Detillieux E-mail: <gedetil(a)muug.mb.ca>
Manitoba UNIX User Group Web: http://www.muug.mb.ca/
P.O. Box 130, St-Boniface Phone: (204)474-8161
Winnipeg, MB, CANADA R2H 3B4 Fax: (204)474-7609
------ End of Forwarded Article
This message is being sent out to all MUUG members (and a few potential
members) who have provided us with an e-mail address. In the future, we
will be sending these announcements only to people who subscribe to our new
mailing list, <muug-announce(a)muug.mb.ca>. This is an opt-in mailing list,
using the GNU Mailman list server, so you will have full control over
whether or not you wish to receive such messages.
However, this means that you have to subscribe to this list yourself if you
wish to continue receiving such announcements in the future. Do so today,
so you don't forget and miss announcements. (This list will continue to
have a very low volume of traffic, so don't worry about getting more mail.)
You can subscribe through the convenient web-based interface:
http://www.muug.mb.ca/mailman/listinfo/muug-announce
You can also do so directly via e-mail, as follows:
echo subscribe | mail muug-announce-request(a)muug.mb.ca
To get help:
echo help | mail muug-announce-request(a)muug.mb.ca
Hope to see you all on muug-announce and, of course, at the next meeting!
[Posted to man.unix.general and other news groups]
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------ From gedetil(a)cs.umanitoba.ca (Gilbert E. Detillieux)
The Manitoba UNIX User Group (MUUG) will be holding its next monthly
meeting on Tuesday, April 11. The meeting topic for this month is
as follows:
Why Linux on a Floppy?
Kevin McGregor, MUUG's ever-informative newsletter editor, will be
describing and demonstrating a few Linux distributions that go against
the current "bigger is better" trend. These are small, special-purpose
distributions optimized for minimal hardware requirements, usually
residing entirely on one or two floppy disks.
Why would anyone want to run an operating system from a floppy? And
how much functionality can you fit on one of those, anyway? We're not
talking even a Zip disk here! Kevin will answer these questions and
more.
The group holds its general meetings at 7:30 PM on the second Tuesday of
every month from September to June. (There are no meetings in July and
August.) Meetings are open to the general public; you don't have to be a
MUUG member to attend.
**********************************************************************
New Location: Once again this month, and from now on, the meeting will
be at the ISM offices, at 400 Ellice Ave. (between Edmonton and
Kennedy). When you arrive, you will have to sign in at the reception
desk, and then wait for someone to take you (in groups) to the meeting
room.
Limited parking is available for free on the street, or in a lot
across Ellice from ISM, for $1.00 for the evening. Indoor parking is
also available nearby, at Portage Place, for $2.00 for the evening.
**********************************************************************
For more information about MUUG, and its monthly meetings, check out their
Web server:
http://www.muug.mb.ca/
--
Gilbert E. Detillieux E-mail: <gedetil(a)muug.mb.ca>
Manitoba UNIX User Group Web: http://www.muug.mb.ca/
P.O. Box 130, St-Boniface Phone: (204)474-8161
Winnipeg, MB, CANADA R2H 3B4 Fax: (204)474-7609
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