The Manitoba UNIX User Group (MUUG) will be holding its next monthly meeting on Tuesday, March 8. The meeting topic for this month is as follows:
Thunderbird
Brad Vokey will be doing a presentation on Thunderbird, a free, open source, cross platform email, news, and chat client developed by the Mozilla Foundation. Brad will focus on how to customize Thunderbird with extensions (and other little known features) to take this email client into power user territory.
Topics will include the extensions: Keyconfig, Nostalgy, QuickFolders, Quicktext Pro, Signature Switch, Xnote, and Expression Search. He will also briefly cover tags, message filters, search folders, and other built-in tricks to help reduce the time you have to spend on email each day.
New Segment: Daemon-Dash
MUUG is proud to announce a new segment that has been dubbed: Daemon-Dash. The idea behind Daemon-Dash is to have a quick 15-25 minute presentation on a daemon, and dive right into the meat of the content. DD's will forgo the usual introductory theory and use cases, instead showing users how to start using the daemon right away.
Daemon-Dash: dnsmasq
For our first ever Daemon-Dash segment, Paul Sierks will be presenting dnsmasq. Geared towards small networks, Dnsmasq provides DHCP, DNS, and TFTP services. Written in C, it features a small CPU and memory footprint making it suitable to run on just about anything, such as a home router. It has been adopted by some distributions which have it configured as a DNS cache. Other use cases include BOOTP and PXE network booting.
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 *NEW* meeting location for this month: *Room 3M60* (3rd floor) Manitoba Hall, University of Winnipeg, entrance on Ellice Ave. between Spence St. and Balmoral St.
Parking is available on the surrounding streets and in the lots on nearby streets. Look for signage once you're at the building, or ask a security guard. ******************************************************************
For more information about MUUG, and its monthly meetings, check out their web server:
Help us promote this month's meeting, by putting this poster up on your workplace bulletin board or other suitable public message board:
http://www.muug.mb.ca/meetings/MUUGmeeting.pdf
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Gilbert Detillieux