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Linux-Announce Digest #333
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Linux-Announce Digest #333, Volume #5 Fri, 20 Jan 2006 14:13:03 EST
Contents:
LOCAL NYC January Meeting of Unigroup of New York OpenSuSE Linux (Unigroup of New York)
First international SAGA GIS User meeting (aringel@gwdg.de)
Autistic GNU/Linux User Group (stephen.parkes@gmail.com)
Web pages in C/C++ for embedded systems (barbato@koanlogic.com)
ANN: FyTek PDF Products for Linux (mbernardo@fytek.com)
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Date: Fri, 20 Jan 2006 10:48:20 -0600
From: Unigroup of New York <ugny-0601@unigroup.org>
Reply-To: ugny-0601@unigroup.org
Subject: LOCAL NYC January Meeting of Unigroup of New York OpenSuSE Linux
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Unigroup's OpenSUSE Field Trip to Novell is THIS Thursday!
RSVP is Required...
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UNIGROUP OF NEW YORK - UNIX USERS GROUP - JANUARY 2006 ANNOUNCEMENTS
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1. UNIGROUP'S JANUARY 2006 GENERAL MEETING ANNOUNCEMENT
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When: THURSDAY, January 19th, 2006 (3rd Thursday)
Where: ** FIELD TRIP to Novell **
Novell NYC Office
1177 Sixth Avenue, 35th Floor
(between 45th & 46th streets)
Midtown, New York City
** RSVP is Mandatory! **
Time: 6:15 PM - 6:25 PM Registration
6:25 PM - 6:45 PM Ask the Wizard, Questions,
Answers and Current Events
6:45 PM - 7:00 PM Unigroup Business and Announcements
7:00 PM - 9:30 PM Main Presentation
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Topic: OpenSuSE Linux
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Speaker: Ross E. Brunson, Linux Solutions Specialist,
Novell, Inc.
INTRODUCTION:
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Happy New Year to all! As previously discussed and announced, we
pleased to say that our Field Trip to Novell, to learn about OpenSuSE
Linux, is finally happening this month... in fact, this week!
(Sorry for the short notice, on this holiday shortened week.)
Based on our speaker's bio (see below), this should be an interesting
meeting! Our speaker has a pile of credentials including: author,
speaker and cross-platform trainer.
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SPECIAL INSTRUCTIONS:
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To REGISTER for this event, please RSVP by using the Unigroup
Registration Page:
http://www.unigroup.org/unigroup-rsvp.html
This will allow us to automate the registration process.
(Registration will also add you to our mailing list.)
Please avoid emailed RSVPs, if at all possible.
Please continue to check the Unigroup web site and meeting page,
for any last minute updates concerning this meeting. If you
registered for this meeting, please check your email for any last
minute announcements as the meeting approaches. Also make sure
any anti-spam white-lists are updated to _ALLOW_ Unigroup traffic!
Please try to RSVP as soon as possible.
RSVP IS MANDATORY for this location.
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MAIN PRESENTATION OUTLINE:
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OpenSuSE Linux
(stay tuned for more details)
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Web Resources:
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Novell SuSE Linux http://www.suse.com
OpenSUSE Linux http://www.opensuse.com
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Speaker Biography:
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Ross Brunson:
Linux Solutions Specialist with Novell, Inc.
CNI, NCLP, LPIC1, SCSA, LCI, LCA, Inet+, Linux+,
CCNA, MCSA, MCP, MCP+I, MCSE4
Ross is currently a Linux Solutions Specialist for Novell Inc.'s
North East Division based in Albany NY. He serves on the Advisory
Council for the Linux Professional Institute and has authored three
books, including the best-selling LPIC Level 1 Exam Cram.
He began his IT career in the US Army in the early 1980's working
with battlefield simulation systems running on Unix platforms, and
quickly graduated to working with databases and network operating
systems. Ross began his formal training and consulting career in
the late 80's teaching Unix and NT Integration classes to government
and industry customers both in education centers and onsite. He
quickly became the technical editor and eventually the author for
his courses, soon achieving the organization's second highest
scores for an instructor. After a number of years conducting
TCP/IP, UNIX, Linux and Networking courses for Learning Tree,
Mastering Computers of Scottsdale and other training companies,
he took a courseware development and instructor position with
Computer Associates developing and delivering Windows 2000 and
Linux courses for delivery to many USA and International companies.
Ross then took a position with Thomson Learning's SAIR Linux
certification and courseware division as the Director of Courseware
Development and Instruction. He built an excellent instructor
force spanning 13 countries and 110 instructors in little over
a year. Ross and his team conducted certification seminars at
4 consecutive Linuxworld shows, with over 2500 people attending
and testing as a result of his team's efforts.
For the last 3 years, Ross has performed many Linux and Open Source
training events for various vendors in the Open Source training
industry, including The Training Camp with attendees drawn from a
who's-who of the technical industry. After 3+ years of conducting
Linux, Solaris and Cisco boot camps, he joined Novell/SuSE's
Advanced Technical Training Team as as the ATT Linux team's
development lead and Senior Technical Training Engineer focusing on
large industry and Fortune 100/500 customer training needs where his
clients included IBM, Intel, Merck and many other industry giants.
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Giveaways:
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We hope to be able to give away copies of OpenSUSE at this
meeting. Details still have to be finalized with Novell.
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Fee Schedule:
Yearly Membership (includes all meetings): $ 50.00
Non-Member Single Meeting: $ 20.00
Student Yearly Membership: $ 20.00
Non-Member Student Single Meeting (with ID): $ 5.00
Payment Methods: Cash, Check, American Express.
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Complimentary Food and Refreshments will be served.
We believe Novell will be sponsoring the food service for
this meeting. Details still have to be finalized with Novell.
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Directions:
** FIELD TRIP LOCATION **
Novell NYC Office
1177 Sixth Avenue, 35th Floor (between 45th & 46th streets)
Midtown, New York City
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Please mark this meeting on your calendar and join us!
Please tell your friends about Unigroup!
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2. UPCOMING MEETINGS
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We have a series of meetings in the works:
- Field Trip to Novell - SuSE/OpenSuSE Linux
- NO SPAM! (know any speakers?)
- Asterix / VoIP
- Field Trip to HP - Invited
- Are there too many Linux Distributions?
- Unix 35th Birthday Celebration (Sun has offered to host this!)
- IPsec and IPv6
- Samba
- DNS
- Unix Clusters and Clustered Databases
- Linux Clustering Part 3: Beowulf version 2
- Building a Firewall using FreeBSD and Linux
- High Performance Internet Servers / Web Acceleration
- Unix Office Tools: Word Processors, Spreadsheets, Accounting Packages.
- PKI
- GNU Development Environments
- iSCSI, Serial ATA, and other new peripheral technologies
Please let us know about any other meeting topics that you may be
interested in. Potential speakers on Unix related technology topics
should contact the Unigroup Board.
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3. PRIOR MEETINGS
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November 2005: Time Management for SysAdmins
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Unigroup would like to thank Tom Limoncelli from Cibernet Corp.
for his presentation of "Time Management for System Administrators."
Tom presented tips from his new book, "Time Management for System
Administrators," published by O'Reilly, and he had provided us with
discount coupons for pre-ordering his book. Tom also brought in some
t-shirts and books to raffle off to our meeting attendees. The
discussion at this meeting was lively and interesting, and the
audience participated by sharing some of their own tips for time
management.
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4. UNIGROUP INFORMATION
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Unigroup is one of the oldest and largest Unix User's Groups serving
the Greater New York City Regional Area since the early 1980s. Unigroup
is a not-for-profit, vendor-neutral and member funded volunteer
organization. Unigroup holds regular and special event meetings
throughout the year on technical topics relating to Unix and the Unix
User Community. Unigroup is/was also the Greater NYC Regional Area
Affiliate of UniForum - an International Unix Users Group.
Unigroup holds regular meetings planned for (at a minimum) the Third
THURSDAY of Odd Months. We generally try to hold Field Trip or
Vendor Specific Meetings on the Even Months, although we do have the
ability to hold monthly meetings at our new downtown meeting location.
Recently, we have been holding meetings on a more monthly basis.
Planned regular meeting dates are: 1/19/2006, 3/16/2006, 5/18/2006, ...
Watch for our Special Event meetings at the various trade shows in NYC
as well as "Field Trips" to the facilities of local hardware and
software vendors.
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= For Unigroup Information, Events and Meeting Announcements be sure to =
= visit our World Wide Web Home Page: =
= http://www.unigroup.org =
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For further information or to get on the Unigroup Electronic Mail Mailing
List send an EMail message to:
unilist (at) unigroup.org
To contact the Board of Directors of Unigroup, send an EMail message to:
uniboard (at) unigroup.org
If you have recently attended a meeting and you are not receiving
Email announcements, please send us an Email and we will make
corrections to our lists.
Please Email the Board with any suggestions, especially potential
meeting topics and speakers. Unigroup welcomes contributions and
content suggestions for our newsletter. Unigroup is a volunteer
organization and we need your assistance! Please let us know if you
can help!
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I hope to see you all at our next meeting!
-Rob Weiner
Unigroup Executive Director
unilist (at) unigroup.org or ugny-0601@unigroup.org
http://www.unigroup.org
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Date: Fri, 20 Jan 2006 10:52:51 -0600
From: aringel@gwdg.de
Subject: First international SAGA GIS User meeting
On the 6th of July, 2006, the first international SAGA GIS User and
developer meeting will be held at the AGIT Symposium in Salzburg.
SAGA (System for Automated Geoscientific Analyses) is a fast-spreading
Open-source GIS software, with a special "Application Programming
Interface" (API) for geographic data processing and a user-friendly
Graphical Interface. SAGA GIS supports raster data (e.g. digital
terrain models, satellite images), vector data, and tables. The global
development process yields a vast amount of application opportunities
and an ever-growing number of sets of geoscientific methods and
analysis tools, bundled in exchangeable Module Libraries.
The SAGA User Group e.V. (www.saga-gis.org) invites SAGA GIS users,
developers and collaborators, as well as prospective new users and
interested scientists, to attend the first international SAGA GIS User
Meeting.
Call for speeches
The SAGA User Group e.V. would like to invite you for participation and
speeches. Appropriate topics are:
* The role of open source GIS in geosciences.
* SAGA GIS in education.
* SAGA GIS in applied research.
* SAGA GIS in practice.
The deadline for submitting a headline and/or an abstract of your
presentation is February 28th, 2006. Abstracts should be not longer
then 1200 characters.
Submit abstracts to: user_meeting@saga-gis.org
Call for papers
In this context, we are planning to publish a collection of scientific
articles, dealing with different aspects of SAGA GIS and its
application opportunities. We are thinking of a collection of 10 to 15
articles, published in the 'Göttinger Geographische Abhandlungen -
GGA'. This GGA special issue Volume "SAGA GIS Analysis and
Application" will be hand out to the participants of the AGIT 2006 in
July 2006 in Salzburg and to all relevant geographical libraries in
Germany. However, the preparation of the GGA volume by the publisher
will take about 8 weeks, so we have to establish a deadline for paper
submission not later than early may.
Considering this, we would be very pleased if you are interested in
submitting a paper. Each publication should be not longer than 12 pages
(including all tables and figures). The page size of the GGA is 12.0 cm
x 19.5 cm (Times New Roman, 10 pt). If necessary, colored artwork can
be accepted. The submission of an article can be independent from the
speeches.
Submit abstracts to: user_meeting@saga-gis.org
Call for Sponsoring
You can maintain the "First international SAGA GIS User meeting" by
sponsoring or by advertising in the Göttinger Geographische
Abhandlungen (GGA) special issue Volume: "SAGA GIS Analysis and
Application".
For details see:
http://www.saga-gis.org/advertisement_in_the_gga.pdf
or contact the Organizers.
Conference Fee
Including coffee, refreshments, dinner, social event and conference
materials.
AGIT Special: SAGA GIS User meeting
(July 6, 2006) 90,- EUR
AGIT Special: SAGA GIS User meeting for Students
(July 6, 2006) 70,- EUR
AGIT Full Conference Fee
July 5-7, 2006
(Early bird registration before May 18) 220,- EUR
AGIT Full Conference Fee for Students
July 5-7, 2006 150,- EUR
Organizers and Contact:
SAGA User Group e.V.
Mr. Andre Ringeler and Mr. Frank (Bunny) Haselein
c/o Geographisches Institut der Georg August Universität Göttingen
Goldschmidtstr. 5, D-37075 Göttingen
Phone.: +42(0)551 398088
Fax.: +42(0)551 398005
E-Mail: user_meeting@saga-gis.org
Mr. Víctor Olaya
Universidad de Extremadura, Spain
Tel:(+34)657539593
E-Mail: user_meeting@saga-gis.org
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From: stephen.parkes@gmail.com
Subject: Autistic GNU/Linux User Group
Date: Fri, 20 Jan 2006 12:38:31 -0600
Hi,
With the help of lug.org.uk (the central linux user group community in
the UK) I have created the Autistic GNU/Linux User Group.
I am hoping to create a virtual community where users of free software
*nix who may feel uncomfortable with current LUGs or in social
situations can get help and mix with others in the same situation.
The free software community has long been a haven for those of us on
the Autistic Spectrum, in fact sometimes when you look at the history
of the community it's sometimes difficult to spot the people with no
autistic traits, but never the less I think there is a need for the
community we can build.
The news was first broken here http://sp.arkes.co.uk/autistic-lug/ and
it's possible to become a part of the community by joining the mailing
list here http://mailman.lug.org.uk/mailman/listinfo/autistic
Thanks for reading this message, thanks for considering joining this
new community and above all thanks in advance for your future
contributions.
Sorry to everybody who ends up reading this message in several
newgroups today.
sparkes
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Date: Fri, 20 Jan 2006 12:39:14 -0600
From: barbato@koanlogic.com
Subject: Web pages in C/C++ for embedded systems
Rome, Italy - Jan 11 2006
KoanLogic, a software development and consulting company in Italy, has
released KLone, a dual-licensed, fully-featured, multiplatform, web
application development framework, targeted especially for embedded
systems and appliances.
It is a self-contained solution which includes a web server and an SDK
for creating stand-alone WWW sites with both static and dynamic
content.
It blends the HTTP/S server application together with its content and
configuration into a single executable file.
The site developer writes his/her dynamic pages in C/C++ (in usual
scripting style: <% /* code */ %>) and uses KLone to transform them
into embeddable,compressed (and possibly encrypted) native code with
the native C/C++ compiler.
The result is then linked to the HTTP/S server skeleton to obtain one
single, ROM-able, binary file.
Given its nature, it can be linked natively to any C/C++ library
(database, XML, graphics, etc.), without an intermediate layer.
Its main (yet not sole) use case consists of providing NUIs for
configuration, monitoring and software upgrades of small devices.
For more information:
http://www.koanlogic.com/kl/cont/gb/html/klone.html
--
KoanLogic s.r.l. <http://www.koanlogic.com>
Software development and consulting
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From: mbernardo@fytek.com
Subject: ANN: FyTek PDF Products for Linux
Date: Fri, 20 Jan 2006 12:41:01 -0600
Company:
FyTek, Inc.
http://www.fytek.com
sales @ fytek.com
Products:
We have a variety of products for the creation and manipulation of PDFs
in Linux. All programs are compiled executables with the option of
purchasing source code.
PDF Report Writer - create PDF reports using HTML-like syntax.
http://www.fytek.com/products.php?pg=pdfrpt
PDF Forms - place text on top of a PDF or image template.
http://www.fytek.com/products.php?pg=pdfforms
PDF Optimizer - optimize large PDFs for web viewing.
http://www.fytek.com/products.php?pg=pdfoptimizer
Text 2 PDF - create PDFs from plain text or with mark-up.
http://www.fytek.com/products.php?pg=text2pdf
PDF Meld - perform a variety of functions on PDFs - merge, overlay,
resize, and much more.
http://www.fytek.com/products.php?pg=pdfmeld
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