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Topic(s): Massive Data Mining?

Topic(s): Writing for Technical Publication

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Date: Thursday, June 3, 2010 -- 7:00 PM -- [Note new later start time]

Topic(s): Data Mining, tentatively?

Speaker: % Ryan Quick with paypal.com

Date: Thursday, May 6, 2010 -- 7:00 PM -- [Note new later start time]

Date: Thursday, April 1, 2010 -- 7:00 PM -- [Note new later start time]

Backgrounder:

Topic(s): Writing for Technical Publication

Eric Schoenebelen

Our new meeting location is the IBM Innovation Center at 13800 Diplomat Drive.

Our May 6 meeting will be at IBM.

For directions to IBM:IBM Innovation Center in Dallas

Our new meeting location is the IBM Innovation Center at 13800 Diplomat Drive.

Our May 6 meeting will be at IBM.

For directions to IBM:
IBM Innovation Center in Dallas

Our new meeting location is the IBM Innovation Center at 13800 Diplomat Drive.

Our May 6 meeting will be at IBM.

For directions to IBM:
[IBM Innovation Center in Dallas -> http://www.dfwuug.org/wiki/Main/Directions]

Our new meeting location is the IBM Innovation Center at 13800 Diplomat Drive.

Our May 6 meeting will be at IBM.

For directions to IBM:
... IBM Innovation Center in Dallas

Our new meeting location is the IBM Innovation Center at 13800 Diplomat Drive.

Our May 6 meeting will be at IBM.

For directions to IBM:
IBM Innovation Center in Dallas

Our new meeting location is the IBM Innovation Center at 13800 Diplomat Drive.

Our May 6 meeting will be at IBM.

For directions to IBM:
IBM Innovation Center in Dallas

Our new meeting location is the IBM Innovation Center at 13800 Diplomat Drive.

Our May 6 meeting will be at IBM.

For directions to IBM: IBM Innovation Center in Dallas

Location: IBM Innovation Center in Dallas

Our new meeting location is the IBM Innovation Center at 13800 Diplomat Drive.

Our May 6 meeting will be at IBM.

Our new meeting location is the IBM Innovation Center at 13800 Diplomat Drive.

Our April meeting will be our last at the Sun Offices. We need to find a new place and need help from the members. Please post ideas to the discuss mailing list or email the newsite coordinator, Ralph Green.

Speaker:

This approach is highly effective, stable, and flexible. It can be a valuable toolkit for database migration.

Presenter’s Bio

Dale Young is a past president of DFWUUG, and has been active in database and system administration for more than 30 years. He is a certified Oracle Database Administrator and a certified Solaris System Administrator. Dale is currently a Director for Stonebridge over the Database Services Practice, where he is managing 10 DBAs.

In his spare time, Dale is also a certified Life Coach, specializing in the COREmap? assessment tool. Dale also volunteers for an organization called Pathways and is involved in his church.

1. Minimal downtime (less than 15 minutes)
2. Full DR (dataguard) protection outside of the downtime window
3. Ability to move 5 ETRM databases within the same downtime window
4. Extensive testing of all Calpine VBF’s at different level (unit, system, integration)
5. Extensive testing of datacenter infrastructure, Oracle database LPAR performance, Dataguard/DR operation before go-live

Backgrounder: by Dale Young

1. 1. Minimal downtime (less than 15 minutes)
2. 2. Full DR (dataguard) protection outside of the downtime window
3. 3. Ability to move 5 ETRM databases within the same downtime window
4. 4. Extensive testing of all Calpine VBF’s at different level (unit, system, integration)
5. 5. Extensive testing of datacenter infrastructure, Oracle database LPAR performance, Dataguard/DR operation before go-live

Date: Thursday, April 1, 2010 -- 6:30 PM -- [Note new earlier start time]

Database migration has become an IT routine that business must deal with for various reasons, such as technology refresh, datacenter/server consolidation. While many factors affect how database migration can be or should be done, the biggest concern to business is generally the service disruption. Downtime, according to Gartner, costs U.S. business 3.6% of their revenue. For a typical enterprise e-commerce the number is $7 million per hour, and for our client, Calpine, a power generation and trading business, it means ~$1 million per hour for big markets.

Stonebridge was engaged by Calpine to migrate ~80 Oracle enterprise databases from Solaris platform in Houston/Cyrus One datacenters to AIX platform in Omaha/Tempe datacenters. Among those databases, twelve are of vital business function ranging from ~8 GB to ~400 GB in size. The desired downtime is no more than 15 minutes. The migration is further complicated by WAN latency, At best 5 GB per hour file transfer rate is what was achieved.

Using Oracle streams, dataguard, rman, flashback databases, we developed a novel approach and successfully used it to meet the following migration objectives.

Topic(s): `Near Zero downtime in Database Migration?

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Topic(s): `Near Zero downtime in Database Migration?

Dale Young

Our time of meeting at the Sun Offices is coming to an end...

Our April meeting will be our last at the Sun Offices. We need to find a new place and need help from the members. Please post ideas to the discuss mailing list or email the newsite coordinator, Ralph Green.

Our time of meeting at Sun Offices is coming to an end...

Our April meeting will be our last at the Sun Offices. We need to find a new place and need help from the members. Please post ideas to the discuss mailing list or email the newsite coordinator, Ralph Green.

The Dallas Ft. Worth UNIX Users Group offers area UNIX users the opportunity to attend monthly meetings that include:

• presentations from industry experts,
• small break-out sessions for special interest groups,
• and free pizza!

If you'd like to get involved and increase your networking opportunities, join us for our next meeting!

Our time of meeting at Sun Offices is coming to an end...

Our April meeting will be our last at the Sun Offices. We need to find a new place and want input from the members. Please post ideas to the discuss mailing list or email the site coordinator, Ralph Green.

We have a chatroom! #dfwuug on server irc.freenode.net

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Meeting Main Presentation Schedule

Talk Presentation Slides

Electronic voting machines offer some compelling advantages. They can be more easy to use for people with disabilities. They allow quick counting of votes and are potentially very reliable. But, they also offer new opportunities for stealing and miscounting of the vote. If the only thing a voter does is press on a screen and a register is incremented in memory, how does the voter know their vote was cast as they wished? A proper voting system will reflect the votes of the voter accurately, and will also be transparent so the voter has faith in that accuracy.

Kurt Hyde believes he is the earliest known advocate for a paper trail in electronic voting equipment and I have not found any earlier advocates. He spoke about the need for what he called a "manually recount-able paper ballot", known better today as a Voter-Verifiable Paper Ballot, at a symposium that was held on the campus of Boston University on August 14th and 15th, 1986. This contributed to the nation's first paper trail law being passed in New Hampshire in 1994.

Kurt has since expanded his studies in elections to all aspects of elections. Kurt has written numerous magazine articles dealing with all aspects of election fraud as well speaking before numerous audiences.

Kurt was a recent candidate for public office, so I expect his research has not been purely academic. He is a former member of DFWUUG.

If you want to read more about this issue, I recommend the articles by Ed Felten on http://www.freedom-to-tinker.com/

Topic(s): `Computers in Elections -- `How to Prevent Fraud?

Topic(s): `Computers in Elections -- How to Prevent Fraud?

Topic(s): Computers in Elections -- How to Prevent Fraud?

Kurt is a former leader of the Security SIG for DFWUUG and a current candidate for political office. I will put up more background information later. If you want to read more about this issue, I recommend the articles by Ed Felten on http://www.freedom-to-tinker.com/

Kurt is a former leader of the Security SIG for DFWUUG and a current candidate for office. I will put up more background information later. If you want to read more about this issue, I recommend the articles by Ed Felten on http://www.freedom-to-tinker.com/

Date: Thursday, March 4, 2010 -- 6:30 PM -- [Note new earlier start time]

Topic(s): Election Security & ways in which elections are tampered with?

Speaker(s): Kurt Hyde

Speaker(s): Udi Fuchs

Backgrounder: by Ralph Green
Digital cameras are the norm these days. But, did you know that many digital cameras are capable of better quality pictures than the jpeg images we normally get? Some cameras offer the ability to save what are called raw images. These raw images contain all the information received by the digital sensor, which means greater color range and other features. Some cameras can save raw images right from the factory, and some can be modified to save them. In the latter category, CHDK adds many features to mainly Canon cameras, but that project is not part of this talk. I mention it because it is the project many will think of when you bring up raw digital camera images. UNIX users used to not have the tools to really handle these raw images easily. That was before UFraw and Udi is going to bring us up to date on this project. He is the project leader and currently resides in the Dallas area.

[Backgrounder]: by Ralph Green\\

[Backgrounder]: by Ralph Green
Digital cameras are the norm these days. But, did you know that many digital cameras are capable of better quality pictures than the jpeg images we normally get? Some cameras offer the ability to save what are called raw images. These raw images contain all the information received by the digital sensor, which means greater color range and other features. Some cameras can save raw images right from the factory, and some can be modified to save them. In the latter category, CHDK adds many features to mainly Canon cameras, but that project is not part of this talk. I mention it because it is the project many will think of when you bring up raw digital camera images. UNIX users used to not have the tools to really handle these raw images easily. That was before UFraw and Udi is going to bring us up to date on this project. He is the project leader and currently resides in the Dallas area.

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Topic(s): UFraw

Speaker(s): Udi Fuchs

Please note The elevators won't come up to the 7th floor after 7 pm, beginning March, 2010. Get to the meeting before then! Meetings now start at 6:30 PM

Please note You can't get up to the 7th floor after 7 pm, beginning March, 2010. Get to the meeting before then! Meetings now start at 6:30 PM

Date: Thursday, February 4, 2010 -- 6:30 PM -- [Note new earlier start time]

Date: Thursday, February 4, 2010 -- 6:30 PM -- [Note new earlier start time]

Date: Thursday, February 4, 2010 -- 6:30 PM

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Topic(s): "Git" revision control

[Backgrounder]: by Robert Pearson
The historical use of revision control - also known as version control (VCS), source control (SCCS) or (source) code management (SCM) - is the management of changes to documents, programs, and other information stored as computer files. It is most commonly used in software development, where a team of people may change the same files. A Release Control System (RCS) is now typically built into the VCS/SCM. A broader use of version control is to capture "Point in Time" images. Imagine you are tasked with reporting very accurately the resources being used at any "Point in Time" in your "Cloud" by any user? The "Cloud" is continuously allocating and de-allocating resources. Resource use is $money$.

Meeting Main Presentation Schedule - Past, Present and Future ^{Updated 020110}

Topic(s): "Get" revision control

Speaker(s): Patrick Michaud

The Dallas Ft. Worth UNIX Users Group offers area UNIX users the opportunity to attend monthly meetings that include presentations from industry experts, small break-out sessions for special interest groups, and free pizza! If you'd like to get involved and increase your networking opportunities, join us for our next meeting!

Please note The elevators won't come up to the 7th floor after 7 pm, beginning March, 2010. Get to the meeting before then!

We now have a chat room: irc.freenode.net #dfwuug

Date: Thursday, February 4, 2010 -- 7:00 PM

Main Presentation

Topic(s): The 'R' computing language

Speaker(s): Jim Burke,Manager with J.C. Penney

Normal Meeting Location

Location: Sun Microsystems in Dallas

Our meetings are always open to the public at no charge.

Please note You can't get up to the 7th floor after 7 pm, beginning March, 2010. Get to the meeting before then!

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Talk Presentation Slides - Past

The main presentation is followed by Special Interest Group (SIG) break out meetings,
except for the Career SIG, which meets at 6 pm, before the pizza and program.

Career SIG

Meeting Starts at 6:00 PM

Topic: Topics vary according to the presence of HR/Recruiters, the needs of the current group attending and IT Industry trends since the last meeting.

Speaker: Alvin Goats

Programmers SIG

Topic: TBD

Speaker: Jeff Rush

Security SIG

Topic: TBD

Speaker: Greg Hoare (greg.hoare at linuxmail.org) Security SIG Leader

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The Dallas Ft. Worth UNIX Users Group offers area UNIX users the opportunity to attend monthly meetings that include presentations from industry experts, small break-out sessions for special interest groups, and free pizza! If you'd like to get involved and increase your networking opportunities, join us for our next meeting!
---- Please note The elevators won't come up to the 7th floor after 7 pm, beginning March, 2010. Get to the meeting before then! ---- We now have a chat room: irc.freenode.net #dfwuug ---- Date: Thursday, February 4, 2010 -- 7:00 PM ! Main Presentation Topic(s): TBD Speaker(s): Patrick Michaud ---- ! Normal Meeting Location Location: Sun Microsystems in Dallas Our meetings are always open to the public at no charge. Please note You can't get up to the 7th floor after 7 pm, beginning March, 2010. Get to the meeting before then! ---- ---- Meeting Main Presentation Schedule - Past, Present and Future Meeting Main Presentation Schedule - Past, Present and Future ^{Updated 122309}
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except for the Career SIG, which meets at 6 pm, before the pizza and program. ---- ! Career SIG ---- Meeting Starts at 6:00 PM Topic: Topics vary according to the presence of HR/Recruiters, the needs of the current group attending and IT Industry trends since the last meeting. Speaker: Alvin Goats ---- ! Programmers SIG ---- Topic: TBD Speaker: Jeff Rush ---- ! Security SIG ---- Topic: TBD Speaker: Greg Hoare (greg.hoare at linuxmail.org) Security SIG Leader color=red font-size=9pt font-style=oblique font-weight=bold%^{Updated 061007}

The Dallas Ft. Worth UNIX Users Group offers area UNIX users the opportunity to attend monthly meetings that include presentations from industry experts, small break-out sessions for special interest groups, and free pizza! If you'd like to get involved and increase your networking opportunities, join us for our next meeting!
---- Please note The elevators won't come up to the 7th floor after 7 pm, beginning March, 2010. Get to the meeting before then! ---- We now have a chat room: irc.freenode.net #dfwuug ---- Date: Thursday, February 4, 2010 -- 7:00 PM ! Main Presentation Topic(s): TBD Speaker(s): Patrick Michaud ---- ! Normal Meeting Location Location: Sun Microsystems in Dallas Our meetings are always open to the public at no charge. Please note You can't get up to the 7th floor after 7 pm, beginning March, 2010. Get to the meeting before then! ---- ---- Meeting Main Presentation Schedule - Past, Present and Future Meeting Main Presentation Schedule - Past, Present and Future ^{Updated 122309}
(This page contains additional information about speakers, their companies and links to the products or subjects of their talks...) ---- !!!Talk Presentation Slides - Past ---- The main presentation is followed by Special Interest Group (SIG) break out meetings,
except for the Career SIG, which meets at 6 pm, before the pizza and program. ---- ! Career SIG ---- Meeting Starts at 6:00 PM Topic: Topics vary according to the presence of HR/Recruiters, the needs of the current group attending and IT Industry trends since the last meeting. Speaker: Alvin Goats ---- ! Programmers SIG ---- Topic: TBD Speaker: Jeff Rush ---- ! Security SIG ---- Topic: TBD Speaker: Greg Hoare (greg.hoare at linuxmail.org) Security SIG Leader color=red font-size=9pt font-style=oblique font-weight=bold%^{Updated 061007}

Please note The elevators won't come up to the 7th floor after 7 pm, beginning March, 2010. Get to the meeting before then!

Please note You can't get up to the 7th floor after 7 pm, beginning March, 2010. Get to the meeting before then!

Speaker(s): Jim Burke,Manager with J.C. Penney

Speaker(s): Jim Burke,Manager with J.C. Penneys

Date: Thursday, February 4, 2010 -- 7:00 PM

Topic(s): The 'R' computing language

Speaker(s): Jim Burke, J.C. Penneys

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Date: Thursday, January 7, 2010 -- 7:00 PM

Topic(s): PCI DSS

Speaker(s): William Chipman, Chipman Information Services

Please note Building entry will not be allowed after 7 pm, beginning January, 2010. Get to the meeting before then!

Please note Building entry will not be allowed after 7 pm, beginning January, 2010. Get to the meeting before then!

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Date: Thursday, December 3, 2009 -- 7:00 PM

Topic(s): Comparing 10 Linux Distributions

Speaker(s): Ralph Green, Jr

Normal Meeting Location

Location: Sun Microsystems in Dallas

Our meetings are always open to the public at no charge.

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Meeting Main Presentation Schedule - Past, Present and Future ^{Updated 120209}

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Topic(s): Comparing 10 Linux Distributions

Speaker(s): Ralph Green, Jr

Date: Thursday, December 3, 2009 -- 7:00 PM

Topic(s): TBA

Speaker(s): TBD

Meeting Main Presentation Schedule - Past, Present and Future ^{Updated 112409}

Speaker(s): Brandon Haynes, CraftLogic Software

Speaker(s): Brandon Haynes, CraftLogic?

Speaker(s): Brandon Haynes, Independent Consultant

Meeting Main Presentation Schedule - Past, Present and Future ^{Updated 110409}

Speaker(s): Brandon Haynes

Topic(s): Building a blog site with Ruby on Rails, and extending the app with Flex.

Date: Thursday, November 5, 2009 -- 7:00 PM

Topic(s): TBD

Speaker(s): TBA

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Date: Thursday, October 1, 2009 -- 7:00 PM

Topic(s): Rakudo Perl 6 : Confessions of an open source project leader

Speaker(s): Patrick Michaud

Meeting Main Presentation Schedule - Past, Present and Future ^{Updated 082909}

Date: Thursday, September 3, 2009 -- 7:00 PM

Topic(s): Asterisk How To's including installing and configuring the PBX like package

Speaker(s): Kevin Pate with Pate Consulting

Topic(s): Robust Scripting

Meeting Main Presentation Schedule - Past, Present and Future ^{Updated 080309}

Date: Thursday, August 6, 2009 -- 7:00 PM

Topic(s): TBA

Speaker(s): Danny Faught with Tejas Consulting

Meeting Main Presentation Schedule - Past, Present and Future ^{Updated 062809}

Date: Thursday, July 9, 2009 -- 7:00 PM

Topic(s): Sun's xVM OPS Manager

Speaker(s): Rebecca Holleron with Sun Microsystems

Meeting Main Presentation Schedule - Past, Present and Future ^{Updated 060409}

Topic(s): Metadata

Speaker(s): Dennis Simpson with August Associates

Date: Thursday, June 4, 2009 -- 7:00 PM

Topic(s): TBD

Speaker(s): TBD

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Topic(s): The use of Linux in Railroad Simulation Systems

Speaker(s): Steve Fuhrman with New York Air Brake

Meeting Main Presentation Schedule - Past, Present and Future ^{Updated 050309}

Date: Thursday, May 7, 2009 -- 7:00 PM

Topic(s): TBD

Speaker(s): TBD

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Topic(s): MySQL Clustering

Topic(s): MySQL? Clustering

Topic(s): My`SQL Clustering

Speaker(s): Kevin Pate, with Pate Consulting

Topic(s): My`SQL `Clustering

Speaker(s): Kevin Pate, with Pate Consulting?

Date: Thursday, April 2, 2009 -- 7:00 PM

Topic(s): MySQL? Clustering

Speaker(s): Kevin Pate, with Pate Consulting.?

The presentation will be in two parts. The first part will focus on why and how to move to Linux for your home computing needs. I will show Linux applications that serve the needs of what most people use a computer for, and show ways to run programs from other operating systems on Linux. The second part will be kind of like a workshop. If there is some program that is keeping you using the operating system from the declining vendor from Redmond, bring it up and we will see if we can help you find an alternative or way to use it in Linux or UNIX. We hope to assist not just members, but their family, as well. There will be follow up information, such as links from the meeting and answers to questions on the wiki. Migration Tips

The presentation will be in two parts. The first part will focus on why and how to push for inverse defenestration in the face of intra-familial resistance. I will show Linux applications that serve the needs of what most people use a computer for, and show ways to run programs from other operating systems on Linux. The second part will be kind of like a workshop. If there is some program that is keeping you using the operating system from the declining vendor from Redmond, bring it up and we will see if we can help you find an alternative or way to use it in Linux or UNIX. We hope to assist not just members, but their family, as well. There will be follow up information, such as links from the meeting and answers to questions on the wiki. Migration Tips

The presentation will be in two parts. The first part will focus on why and how to push for inverse defenestration in the face of intra-familial resistance. I will show Linux applications that serve the needs of what most people use a computer for, and show ways to run programs from other operating systems on Linux. The second part will be kind of like a workshop. If there is some program that is keeping you using the operating system from the declining vendor from Redmond, bring it up and we will see if we can help you find an alternative or way to use it in Linux or UNIX. We hope to assist not just members, but their family, as well. There will be follow up information, such as links from the meeting and answers to questions on the wiki.

Topic(s): Unix/Linux technical workshop (Family night) The presentation will be in two parts. The first part will focus on why and how to push for inverse defenestration in the face of intra-familial resistance. I will show Linux applications that serve the needs of what most people use a computer for, and show ways to run programs from other operating systems on Linux. The second part will be kind of like a workshop. If there is some program that is keeping you using the operating system from the declining vendor from Redmond, bring it up and we will see if we can help you find an alternative or way to use it in Linux or UNIX. We hope to assist not just members, but their family, as well.

Meeting Main Presentation Schedule - Past, Present and Future ^{Updated 030209}

Date: Thursday, March 5, 2009 -- 7:00 PM

Topic(s): Unix/Linux technical workshop (Family night)

Speaker(s): Ralph Green, former DFWUUG President.

Topic: TBD

Date: Thursday, February 5, 2009 -- 7:00 PM

Date: ! Thursday, February 5, 2009 -- 7:00 PM

Topic(s): Rich Internet applications

Speaker(s): Jon Campos, with United Mind Set

Speaker(s): Jon Campos, with United Mind Set

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Speaker(s): Jon Campos, with ???

Topic(s): Rich Net applications including Flex and Silverlight

Speaker(s): Jon Campos, with [[]]

Thursday, February 5, 2009 -- 7:00 PM

Speaker(s): Andrew Benrey, with Qlogic

Meeting Main Presentation Schedule - Past, Present and Future ^{Updated 010209}

Meeting Main Presentation Schedule - Past, Present and Future ^{Updated 010208}

Speaker(s): Michael Latino, with Qlogic

Speaker(s): Michael Latino, with Qlogic?

Topic(s): Fiber Channel Over Ethernet

Speaker(s): Michael Latino, with Qlogic

Speaker(s): To Be Announced

Thursday, January 8, 2009 -- 7:00 PM

Topic(s): To Be Announced

Meeting Main Presentation Schedule - Past, Present and Future ^{Updated 120408}

Topic(s): Latest News about Parrot

Speaker(s): Patrick Michaud

Topic: At this week's DFWUUG meeting on Thursday, Rusty and I will be presenting on speech synthesizers during the Linux/Programmers-SIG part of the meeting. Rusty will be bringing cool hardware gadgets that talk and I'll be addressing software options that run under Linux. I'll be talking about the software Festival (opensource) and Cepstral (closed source), the W3C? Standard Speech Markup Language (SSML) and perhaps the emacspeak sound-based UI. Being a programmer myself, I'll show Python source for actually driving speech, not just run canned demos.

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Topic(s): Fiber Channel over Ethernet

Topic(s): Fiber Channgel over Ethernet[blocked,restricted word]

Speaker(s): Jay Metz with Qlogic

Thursday, December 4, 2008 -- 7:00 PM

November was a departure from our normal theme of high tech presentations. I felt like a change of pace would be nice, for once and

The Dallas Ft. Worth UNIX Users Group offers area UNIX users the opportunity to attend monthly meetings that include presentations from industry experts, small break-out sessions for special interest groups, and free pizza! If you'd like to get involved and increase your networking opportunities, join us for our next meeting!

We now have a chat room: irc.freenode.net #dfwuug

Gene Saunders -- RIP

Gene Saunders, a well known member of the Unix community here in North Texas and elsewhere, died unexpectedly of natural causes on about September 19, 2008. He was 51 years old. A mailing list, FriendsOfGene@grommit.com, has been setup for those wishing to share stories and receive announcements related to a memorial gathering.

Friends of Gene

Date:

Thursday, November 6, 2008 -- 7:00 PM

Normal Meeting Location

Location: Sun Microsystems in Dallas

Our meetings are always open to the public at no charge.

Main Presentation

Topic(s): Top O' Hill C.a.s.i.n.o[blocked,restricted word] & the Texas Oil Rich

This will be a departure from our normal theme of high tech presentations. I felt like a change of pace would be nice, for once and this presentation will be an historical documentary, if you will, about some of the possibly mob-connected things that were going on, in the Dallas / Fort Worth area during the Great Depression. (Which may be known in the future, if things keep going badly, in this economy, as the first Great Depression. (sigh))

Speaker(s): Jim Gatewood, Author & Historian

---- Meeting Main Presentation Schedule - Past, Present and Future

Meeting Main Presentation Schedule - Past, Present and Future ^{Updated 101308}

Talk Presentation Slides - Past

The main presentation is followed by Special Interest Group (SIG) break out meetings,
except for the Career SIG, which meets at 6 pm, before the pizza and program.

Career SIG

Meeting Starts at 6:00 PM

Topic: Topics vary according to the presence of HR/Recruiters, the needs of the current group attending and IT Industry trends since the last meeting.

Speaker: Alvin Goats

Programmers SIG

Topic: Something Related to Python, Not Sure Yet

Speaker: Jeff Rush

Security SIG

Topic: TBD

Speaker: Greg Hoare (greg.hoare at linuxmail.org) Security SIG Leader

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The Dallas Ft. Worth UNIX Users Group offers area UNIX users the opportunity to attend monthly meetings that include presentations from industry experts, small break-out sessions for special interest groups, and free pizza! If you'd like to get involved and increase your networking opportunities, join us for our next meeting!

We now have a chat room: irc.freenode.net #dfwuug

Gene Saunders -- RIP

Gene Saunders, a well known member of the Unix community here in North Texas and elsewhere, died unexpectedly of natural causes on about September 19, 2008. He was 51 years old. A mailing list, FriendsOfGene@grommit.com, has been setup for those wishing to share stories and receive announcements related to a memorial gathering.

Friends of Gene

Date:

Thursday, November 6, 2008 -- 7:00 PM

Normal Meeting Location

Location: Sun Microsystems in Dallas

Our meetings are always open to the public at no charge.

Main Presentation

Topic(s): Top O' Hill C.a.s.i.n.o[blocked,restricted word] & the Texas Oil Rich

This will be a departure from our normal theme of high tech presentations. I felt like a change of pace would be nice, for once and this presentation will be an historical documentary, if you will, about some of the possibly mob-connected things that were going on, in the Dallas / Fort Worth area during the Great Depression. (Which may be known in the future, if things keep going badly, in this economy, as the first Great Depression. (sigh))

Speaker(s): Jim Gatewood, Author & Historian

---- Meeting Main Presentation Schedule - Past, Present and Future

Meeting Main Presentation Schedule - Past, Present and Future ^{Updated 101308}

Talk Presentation Slides - Past

The main presentation is followed by Special Interest Group (SIG) break out meetings,
except for the Career SIG, which meets at 6 pm, before the pizza and program.

Career SIG

Meeting Starts at 6:00 PM

Topic: Topics vary according to the presence of HR/Recruiters, the needs of the current group attending and IT Industry trends since the last meeting.

Speaker: Alvin Goats

Programmers SIG

Topic: Something Related to Python, Not Sure Yet

Speaker: Jeff Rush

Security SIG

Topic: TBD

Speaker: Greg Hoare (greg.hoare at linuxmail.org) Security SIG Leader

color=red font-size=9pt font-style=oblique font-weight=bold%^{Updated 061007}

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The Dallas Ft. Worth UNIX Users Group offers area UNIX users the opportunity to attend monthly meetings that include presentations from industry experts, small break-out sessions for special interest groups, and free pizza! If you'd like to get involved and increase your networking opportunities, join us for our next meeting!

We now have a chat room: irc.freenode.net #dfwuug

Gene Saunders -- RIP

Gene Saunders, a well known member of the Unix community here in North Texas and elsewhere, died unexpectedly of natural causes on about September 19, 2008. He was 51 years old. A mailing list, FriendsOfGene@grommit.com, has been setup for those wishing to share stories and receive announcements related to a memorial gathering.

Friends of Gene

Date:

Thursday, November 6, 2008 -- 7:00 PM

Normal Meeting Location

Location: Sun Microsystems in Dallas

Our meetings are always open to the public at no charge.

Main Presentation

Topic(s): Top O' Hill C.a.s.i.n.o[blocked,restricted word] & the Texas Oil Rich

This will be a departure from our normal theme of high tech presentations. I felt like a change of pace would be nice, for once and this presentation will be an historical documentary, if you will, about some of the possibly mob-connected things that were going on, in the Dallas / Fort Worth area during the Great Depression. (Which may be known in the future, if things keep going badly, in this economy, as the first Great Depression. (sigh))

Speaker(s): Jim Gatewood, Author & Historian

---- Meeting Main Presentation Schedule - Past, Present and Future

Meeting Main Presentation Schedule - Past, Present and Future ^{Updated 101308}

Talk Presentation Slides - Past

The main presentation is followed by Special Interest Group (SIG) break out meetings,
except for the Career SIG, which meets at 6 pm, before the pizza and program.

Career SIG

Meeting Starts at 6:00 PM

Topic: Topics vary according to the presence of HR/Recruiters, the needs of the current group attending and IT Industry trends since the last meeting.

Speaker: Alvin Goats

Programmers SIG

Topic: Something Related to Python, Not Sure Yet

Speaker: Jeff Rush

Security SIG

Topic: TBD

Speaker: Greg Hoare (greg.hoare at linuxmail.org) Security SIG Leader

color=red font-size=9pt font-style=oblique font-weight=bold%^{Updated 061007}

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The Dallas Ft. Worth UNIX Users Group offers area UNIX users the opportunity to attend monthly meetings that include presentations from industry experts, small break-out sessions for special interest groups, and free pizza! If you'd like to get involved and increase your networking opportunities, join us for our next meeting!

We now have a chat room: irc.freenode.net #dfwuug

Gene Saunders -- RIP

Gene Saunders, a well known member of the Unix community here in North Texas and elsewhere, died unexpectedly of natural causes on about September 19, 2008. He was 51 years old. A mailing list, FriendsOfGene@grommit.com, has been setup for those wishing to share stories and receive announcements related to a memorial gathering.

Friends of Gene

Date:

Thursday, November 6, 2008 -- 7:00 PM

Normal Meeting Location

Location: Sun Microsystems in Dallas

Our meetings are always open to the public at no charge.

Main Presentation

Topic(s): Top O' Hill C.a.s.i.n.o[blocked,restricted word] & the Texas Oil Rich

This will be a departure from our normal theme of high tech presentations. I felt like a change of pace would be nice, for once and this presentation will be an historical documentary, if you will, about some of the possibly mob-connected things that were going on, in the Dallas / Fort Worth area during the Great Depression. (Which may be known in the future, if things keep going badly, in this economy, as the first Great Depression. (sigh))

Speaker(s): Jim Gatewood, Author & Historian

---- Meeting Main Presentation Schedule - Past, Present and Future

Meeting Main Presentation Schedule - Past, Present and Future ^{Updated 101308}

Talk Presentation Slides - Past

The main presentation is followed by Special Interest Group (SIG) break out meetings,
except for the Career SIG, which meets at 6 pm, before the pizza and program.

Career SIG

Meeting Starts at 6:00 PM

Topic: Topics vary according to the presence of HR/Recruiters, the needs of the current group attending and IT Industry trends since the last meeting.

Speaker: Alvin Goats

Programmers SIG

Topic: Something Related to Python, Not Sure Yet

Speaker: Jeff Rush

Security SIG

Topic: TBD

Speaker: Greg Hoare (greg.hoare at linuxmail.org) Security SIG Leader

color=red font-size=9pt font-style=oblique font-weight=bold%^{Updated 061007}

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The Dallas Ft. Worth UNIX Users Group offers area UNIX users the opportunity to attend monthly meetings that include presentations from industry experts, small break-out sessions for special interest groups, and free pizza! If you'd like to get involved and increase your networking opportunities, join us for our next meeting!

We now have a chat room: irc.freenode.net #dfwuug

Gene Saunders -- RIP

Gene Saunders, a well known member of the Unix community here in North Texas and elsewhere, died unexpectedly of natural causes on about September 19, 2008. He was 51 years old. A mailing list, FriendsOfGene@grommit.com, has been setup for those wishing to share stories and receive announcements related to a memorial gathering.

Friends of Gene

Date:

Thursday, November 6, 2008 -- 7:00 PM

Normal Meeting Location

Location: Sun Microsystems in Dallas

Our meetings are always open to the public at no charge.

Main Presentation

Topic(s): Top O' Hill C.a.s.i.n.o[blocked,restricted word] & the Texas Oil Rich

This will be a departure from our normal theme of high tech presentations. I felt like a change of pace would be nice, for once and this presentation will be an historical documentary, if you will, about some of the possibly mob-connected things that were going on, in the Dallas / Fort Worth area during the Great Depression. (Which may be known in the future, if things keep going badly, in this economy, as the first Great Depression. (sigh))

Speaker(s): Jim Gatewood, Author & Historian

---- Meeting Main Presentation Schedule - Past, Present and Future

Meeting Main Presentation Schedule - Past, Present and Future ^{Updated 101308}

Talk Presentation Slides - Past

The main presentation is followed by Special Interest Group (SIG) break out meetings,
except for the Career SIG, which meets at 6 pm, before the pizza and program.

Career SIG

Meeting Starts at 6:00 PM

Topic: Topics vary according to the presence of HR/Recruiters, the needs of the current group attending and IT Industry trends since the last meeting.

Speaker: Alvin Goats

Programmers SIG

Topic: Something Related to Python, Not Sure Yet

Speaker: Jeff Rush

Security SIG

Topic: TBD

Speaker: Greg Hoare (greg.hoare at linuxmail.org) Security SIG Leader

color=red font-size=9pt font-style=oblique font-weight=bold%^{Updated 061007}

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The Dallas Ft. Worth UNIX Users Group offers area UNIX users the opportunity to attend monthly meetings that include presentations from industry experts, small break-out sessions for special interest groups, and free pizza! If you'd like to get involved and increase your networking opportunities, join us for our next meeting!

We now have a chat room: irc.freenode.net #dfwuug

Gene Saunders -- RIP

Gene Saunders, a well known member of the Unix community here in North Texas and elsewhere, died unexpectedly of natural causes on about September 19, 2008. He was 51 years old. A mailing list, FriendsOfGene@grommit.com, has been setup for those wishing to share stories and receive announcements related to a memorial gathering.

Friends of Gene

Date:

Thursday, November 6, 2008 -- 7:00 PM

Normal Meeting Location

Location: Sun Microsystems in Dallas

Our meetings are always open to the public at no charge.

Main Presentation

Topic(s): Top O' Hill C.a.s.i.n.o[blocked,restricted word] & the Texas Oil Rich

This will be a departure from our normal theme of high tech presentations. I felt like a change of pace would be nice, for once and this presentation will be an historical documentary, if you will, about some of the possibly mob-connected things that were going on, in the Dallas / Fort Worth area during the Great Depression. (Which may be known in the future, if things keep going badly, in this economy, as the first Great Depression. (sigh))

Speaker(s): Jim Gatewood, Author & Historian

---- Meeting Main Presentation Schedule - Past, Present and Future

Meeting Main Presentation Schedule - Past, Present and Future ^{Updated 101308}

Talk Presentation Slides - Past

The main presentation is followed by Special Interest Group (SIG) break out meetings,
except for the Career SIG, which meets at 6 pm, before the pizza and program.

Career SIG

Meeting Starts at 6:00 PM

Topic: Topics vary according to the presence of HR/Recruiters, the needs of the current group attending and IT Industry trends since the last meeting.

Speaker: Alvin Goats

Programmers SIG

Topic: Something Related to Python, Not Sure Yet

Speaker: Jeff Rush

Security SIG

Topic: TBD

Speaker: Greg Hoare (greg.hoare at linuxmail.org) Security SIG Leader

color=red font-size=9pt font-style=oblique font-weight=bold%^{Updated 061007}

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