October CACTUS Newsletter
Chris Nystrom
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Capital Area Central Texas Unix Society
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Volume 10, Number 10 - October 1994
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Contents:
1. Upcoming October 20th Meeting
2. Directions to Tandem
3. Austin Public Access Unix Systems
4. CACTUS Contacts
5. CACTUS Officers
6. CACTUS Sponsors
7. Other User Groups
8. Usenix Calendar
9. November Events
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October 20th CACTUS Meeting
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Topic: ISDN for Home Use: Trial and Tribulations by Lenny Tropiano
Tutorial: Unix Turbocharging Part One by Chip Rosenthal
Time: 7pm
Location: Tandem Computers (14231 Tandem Blvd)
Cost: Free
Note: Pizza and soda served at 6:30pm.
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October 20th Program
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Unix Turbocharging - Part One
General System Performance Analysis and Tuning
This tutorial is the first in a series on techniques to analyze
and improve Unix system performance. In this session, we will
examine what is involved in system performance analysis and discuss
the facilities provided by Unix. We will focus upon measuring
CPU utilization. Although CPU usage is but a small part of system
performance analysis, the statistics there provide a wealth of
information, and often point to specific performance problems that
lie in entirely different areas. This tutorial will be presented
by Chip Rosenthal of Unicom Systems Development.
ISDN for Home Use: Trials and Tribulations
What does it take to get wired, so to speak, with ISDN? Southwestern
Bell has announced their DigiLine(tm) ISDN service several months ago, we
ordered it for home use, and am now using it for Internet connectivity.
What steps did I go through in deciding hardware vendors for customer
premise equipment (CPE)? How was the process in getting it from
Southwestern Bell? After it was installed, what did we need to do? (ie.
wiring, hardware / software configurations, etc.) What kind of
performance should I expect from ISDN?
The program presentation will be presented by Lenny Tropiano of
ICUS Software Systems.
November 17th Program
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CACTUS Member Jason Zions of HaL Computer has volunteered to give a talk
on PGP(Pretty Good Privacy) public encryption tool. This is the second
talk from Jason in less than six months. We thank him for his dedication
to the group and hope other members will step up and share their knowledge
with the group like Jason has.
Please contact any officer with any ideas and hopefully a volunteer to do
the talk.
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Directions To Tandem
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CACTUS is now meeting at the Tandem Computer facilities in North
Austin. The Tandem facility is located on Tandem Blvd just north of
Wells Branch Parkway. Using MoPac, drive north past 183, Braker, and
Parmer. Two traffic lights after Parmer is Wells Branch Parkway
(Albertsons, Discount Movie Theater, Taco Bell, Exxon and McDonalds on
the corner). Take a right (east) at the light, drive 1 block and turn
left (north) on Tandem Blvd. Then take the first right at Non Stop Blvd
onto the Tandem property.
If you are coming on IH35, head north out of town, exit at the
Pflugerville exit (exit number is 247 - FM1825) and turn left (west)
under the highway onto Wells Branch Parkway. Take Wells Branch
approximately 3 miles and turn right (north) at Tandem Blvd. It is the
last right before you hit Burnet Rd.
Once you have entered the Tandem facility, park and go to the south
side of the building, where the pool is. Enter the gate marked
"Employees only" and you'll see the cafeteria on the left. We meet in
the cafeteria.
[Editor's note: Go into the courtyard where the pool is.]
Additional instruction:
0) If they ask you to sign in, please do.
1) Don't leave the Cafeteria and go into the main building.
2) Pick up your trash, leave the building clean and the chairs the way
you found them. This especially goes for the Pizza boxes and Soda
bottles.
3) Restroom access is available by going back out the door you came in,
and going to the next exterior door, through the gym to use one of the
gym restrooms.
We hope to see you all there!
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CACTUS membership is open to all who are interested in Unix and open
systems computing. Annual dues are $25 for regular memberships, and
$96 for sponsor memberships. Please send your requests to:
CACTUS
P.O. Box 9786
Austin, Texas 78766-9786
E-mail: membe...@cactus.org
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Austin Public Access Unix Systems
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Most of these you can obtain an account or find out further information
by logging in as 'new'.
bigtex.cactus.org 346-2339 Anon UUCP.
cactus.org telnet only Internet.
ccsi.com 467-9859 Fee. Internet.
eden.com 478-9963 Fee. Internet.
freeside.com 339-4466 Fee. Internet.
io.com 448-8950 Fee. Internet.
netcom.com 206-4950 Fee. Internet.
sig.net 306-1440 Fee. Internet
realtime.net 459-0604 Fee. Internet.
zilker.com 206-3854 Fee. Internet.
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CACTUS Contacts
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offi...@cactus.org Comments to CACTUS officers
prog...@cactus.org Meeting ideas, suggestions, comments
membe...@cactus.org Membership questions and suggestions
newsl...@cactus.org Newsletter submissions and comments
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CACTUS Officers
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President: Tom Painter (pai...@us.dell.com)
Scribe: Mike Cerda (ce...@uts.cc.utexas.edu)
Treasurer: Chip Rosenthal (ch...@chinacat.unicom.com)
Membership: Ronald Woan (wo...@austin.ibm.com)
Programs: Dewey Coffman (de...@sooner.ctci.com)
Librarian: Mike Cerda (ce...@uts.cc.utexas.edu)
Publicity: Dewey Coffman (de...@sooner.ctci.com)
Newsletter: Chris Nystrom (c...@medianet.com)
Members At Large: Marc Wiz (ma...@wiz.com)
Lenny Tropiano (le...@icus.com)
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CACTUS Sponsors
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American Interface Computers (Klaus Mueller, 327-5344)
Antares (Jerry Jackson, 323-0390)
Applied Formal Methods, Inc. (Susan Gerhart, 794-9732, ger...@cactus.org)
Austin Code Works (Scott Guthery, 258-0785, acw!info)
Clinical Resource Systems, Inc. (Andy Galewsky, 258-1977, an...@crs.com)
Commuter Communication (C.M. Rahmer Jr. 467-6591)
Control Data (John Herczeg, 467-0588)
Data General (Jana Stein, 835-9771)
Dell Computer Corporation
Hewlett Packard (Bill Sumrall, 338-7221)
Icon Computing (Desmond D'Souza, 258-8437)
The object-oriented education and consulting company.
Interactive Systems (Jim Kelsey, 343-0376, ji...@itx.isc.com)
Network technology, software development, consulting.
IWL Communications (Kelly Heath, 345-9207)
Majec Systems Inc. (Maryanne Moore, 452-1138)
Contract programming services, multimedia development.
O'Keefe & Assoc. (John O'Keefe, 343-1134)
Objective System Solutions (Charles Richter, 219-5182, ric...@cs.utexas.edu)
Consulting and training in object oriented systems.
Pencom Systems Inc. (Tom Morgan, 343-1111, pencom!psitx!tom)
Recruiting, programming, software development, test services.
Pencom/IBM (Steven Talmage, 838-8613)
Power Assist (Leigh R. Power, 219-9215, le...@power.com)
Consulting, training, evaluation, and programming services.
Real/Time Communications (George Wenzel, 451-0046)
Schlumberger
Technical services and products in over 100 countries.
Sun Microsystems (Roger Waak, 343-0293, roger...@central.sun.com)
Supplier of Unix client-server computing solutions.
Joseph D. Nall Jr. (Joseph Nall Jr., 454-1084, na...@manta.nosc.mil)
Silicon Graphics (Don Williams, 459-0994)
Solid Systems (Pete Farrell, 442-2222)
Sterling Information Group (Don Shafer, 327-0090)
Tandem Computers (Kay Kurio, 244-8000)
Texas Internet Consulting (Smoot Carl-Mitchell, 451-6176, sm...@tic.com)
TCP/IP networking, Unix, and open systems standards.
Turning Point Information Services (Tom Parish, 331-0813)
Unicom Systems Development (Chip Rosenthal, 482-8260, ch...@chinacat.unicom.com)
Unix business and technical system sales, support, engineering.
UT Computation Center (Mike Cerda, 471-3241, ce...@uts.cc.utexas.edu)
VideoTelecom Corp. (Marian Keith-Stasney, 834-2700)
Vindicator Corp. (Rob Mayoff, 314-1227, vind!may...@cactus.org)
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Other Texas Unix User Groups
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The DFW/UUG (Dallas/Ft. Worth UNIX Users Group) meets the first
Thursday of each month at the Hewlett-Packard facility in Las Colinas
Contact: Evan G. Brown (Phone: 214-519-3577 E-mail: evb...@dsccc.com)
The HOUNIX (Houston UNIX Users Group) meets the third Tuesday of
each month. Contact: John Gaver (Phone: 713-439-5757 E-Mail:
jga...@hounix.org)
The HUGS (Houston SunMicrosystems UNIX Users Group) meets at the
Houston Sun Office at 12 Greenway Plaza on the 15th floor.
The San Antonio UNIX Users Group meets the third Wednesday of each
month at the TECH Now Training Center.
Austin Internet User Group
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Meets last Tuesday of the month at various locations. Mailing list:
internet...@actlab.rtf.utexas.edu
Alternate:
Dues: $35/year.
Austin World Wide Web User Group
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Contact:
Mark A. Gaither
Acting Director
AWUG
c/o HaL Software Systems
3006A Longhorn Suite 113
Austin, TX 78758
Voc:(512)834-9962 x5429 Fax:(512)834-9962
Internet: ma...@hal.com
WWW: http://www.hal.com/~markg/index.html
EFF-Austin
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A non-profit organization dedicated to protecting the constitutional
rights of cyberspace. You can join by sending $10 ($5 for students) to:
EFF-Austin
PO Box 18957
Austin, TX 78760.
E-Mail: eff-a...@tic.com
Usenet: austin.eff
Voice Mail: 512-465-7871
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UPCOMING USENIX CONFERENCES AND SYMPOSIA 1994
For more details on any USENIX Meeting, please contact:
USENIX Conference Office
22672 Lambert St., Suite 613
Lake Forest, CA 92630
Telephone (714) 588-8649
Fax ( 714) 588-9706
Email: confe...@usenix.org
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VERY HIGH LEVEL LANGUAGES SYMPOSIUM (VHLL)
October 26-28, 1994, Santa Fe, NM
Program Chair: Tom Christiansen
This USENIX symposium will spotlight very high level languages and
usefulness in leveraging certain kinds of tasks. It will introduce
participants to concepts and approaches they haven't examined yet.
Programmers will learn about the relative strengths and extract the
key concepts that run through the various languages presented.
Dates for Refereed Paper Submissions
Submissions Due: June 30, 1994
Notification to Authors: July 27, 1994
Camera-ready papers due: Sept. 12, 1994
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USENIX SYMPOSIUM ON OPERATING SYSTEMS, DESIGN, and IMPLEMENTATION (OSDI)
November 14-17, 1994 Monterey, CA
Program Chair: Jay Lepreau, University of Utah
The first OSDI Symposium will emphasize innovative research and quantified
experience and results in operating systems. We seek papers describing
original research concerning the design, development, implementation,
and use of modern operating systems.
Dates for Refereed Paper Submissions
Submissions Due: June 21, 1994
Notifications to Authors: August 5, 1994
Camera-ready papers due: Oct. 4, 1994
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For registration, hotel and additional information please contact:
USENIX Conference Office
22672 Lambert Blvd., Suite 613
Lake Forest, CA 92630
Phone: 714/588-8649
FAX: 714/588-9706
email: confe...@usenix.org
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You can also get more detailed information about Usenix conferences, and
other USENIX membership services, from the Usenix automatic mailserver.
Address mail to: in...@usenix.org
In your mail message, send the line:
send catalog
and instructions on using the mailserver, and an overview of available
information, will be sent to you. If you have questions about the
mailserver, send them to info-...@usenix.org.
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November Events
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1-3 November Data Warehousing Conference by Digital Consulting Inc.
Phoenix Civic Plaza, Phoenix, AZ
Contact: DCI (508-470-3880).
6-9 November ISSRE (Software Reliability Engineering) by IEEE CS
Doubletree Inn Hotel, Monterey, CA
Contact: IEEE Computer Society (202-371-1013).
14-16 November Computer Security Conference & Exibition by CSI
Washington, DC
Contact: Computer Security Institute (415-905-2626).
14-18 November Comdex Fall 94 by The Interface Group
Las Vegas Convention Center, Las Vegas, NV
Contact: The Interface Group (617-449-5554).
28 Nov - 2 Dec Open Systems World / Fed Unix 94
Washington Convention Center, Washington DC
Contact: Open Systems World (301-953-9600).
29-30 November Mobile / E-Mail World by Digital Consulting Inc.
Hynes Convention Center, Boston, MA
Contact: DCI (508-470-3880).
Coming Up
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14-16 March 95 UniForum 95 by The Interface Group
Dallas Convention Center, Dallas, Texas
Contact: The Interface Group (617-449-5554 code 70).
WWW: http://www.uniforum.org
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