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MUUG Meeting, June 12, 7:30PM -- The Return of BSD
by gedetil＠cs.umanitoba.ca 05 Jun '01

05 Jun '01

[Posted to man.unix.general and other news groups] ------ Forwarded Article <9fiut0$87h$1(a)canopus.cc.umanitoba.ca> ------ 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 12. The meeting topic for this month is as follows: The Return of BSD In the open source world, the word Linux is almost synonymous with Operating System. As of April 1999, 31.3% of the world's network-connected machines run Linux. Comparatively, 14.6% run BSD UNIX. Some of the world's largest web operations, such as Yahoo!, run BSD. The world's busiest FTP server, ftp.cdrom.com, uses BSD to transfer 1.4 TB of data per day. Even Microsoft's flagship Hotmail service used to run BSD. So what's the secret? Why isn't BSD more well known? This month, Roberto Urrea, Senior UNIX/NT Administrator with the University of Winnipeg's Technology Solutions Centre, will be talking about FreeBSD, about how it differs from Linux, and about running Linux programs on FreeBSD. FreeBSD, NetBSD and OpenBSD all include options to allow Linux binaries to run on these systems (at least for the Intel x86 architecture). 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: For this month only, we will be meeting at the University of Winnipeg's Duckworth Centre, which is located on Spence Street, across from the rest of the U of W campus, between Portage Ave. and Ellice Ave. The meeting will be in room 3B03, on the 3rd floor of the Duckworth Centre, which should be easy to find from the Spence Street entrance. This campus map should help you find the way: http://www.muug.mb.ca/meetings/UW-Campus-Map.gif Security personnel at the front of the main building at the U of W campus (Portage Avenue entrance) will be provided with information about this meeting, so you can always check with them if you're lost. There should be no parking problems after 5:30 PM. ********************************************************************** 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

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MUUG T-Shirts Anyone?
by gedetil＠cs.umanitoba.ca 01 May '01

01 May '01

Do you want a MUUG shirt? We are currently working on some designs for the shirts. If you would like to see what we have come up with, visit this page: http://www.maximum-geek.com/muug-shirts/muug_shirts.html If you would like to comment on a design (or have a design of your own) send an email to muug-shirts(a)home.com. The pricing we are looking at is around $15. If you think you might be interested in a shirt, please send an email to the address above. We are just trying to see what kind of interest there is right now, we will take official orders once the design has been confirmed. If you are submitting a design, please ensure it doesn't infringe on anyone's copyrights. The last thing we want to do is deal with lawyers because of a few t-shirts! In some cases (BSD daemon?), the permission can be obtained just by asking. -- Gilbert E. Detillieux E-mail: <gedetil(a)muug.mb.ca> Manitoba UNIX User Group Web: http://www.muug.mb.ca/ PO Box 130 St-Boniface Phone: (204)474-8161 Winnipeg MB CANADA R2H 3B4 Fax: (204)474-7609

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MUUG Meeting, May 8, 7:30PM -- Cable Modems
by gedetil＠cs.umanitoba.ca 01 May '01

01 May '01

[Posted to man.unix.general and other news groups] ------ Forwarded Article <9cmlv9$t4a$1(a)canopus.cc.umanitoba.ca> ------ 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 8. The meeting topic for this month is as follows: Cable Modems This month, Ron Dallmeier of Videon will be talking about cable modems, cable modem standards, and the Videon high-speed Internet infrastructure. 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

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Adobe User Group Tour
by Doug Shewfelt 24 Apr '01

24 Apr '01

The Winnipeg PC Users Group is hosting an Adobe User Group Tour presentation on Saturday, May 5th, from 1:00 pm to 4:00 pm. Their web site indicates that it will be held at Club Regent. They have invited members of the Manitoba UNIX User Group to attend. According to the announcement they sent us, "products to be demonstrated include Premiere 6, AfterEffects 4, GoLive 5, LiveMotion, Photoshop 6, Illustrator 9 and the latest Adobe new products." They would like to know how many people are interested in attending from our group. If you would like to go, please contact me by Friday April 27th at shewfelt(a)muug.mb.ca. - Doug Shewfelt Manitoba UNIX User Group

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[Muug-announce] Round Table discussion list
by Bill Reid 11 Apr '01

11 Apr '01

I have set up a new mailing list to allow continued discussion or follow up on issues raised at our meeting round table or during the presentation. Sean has already posted a reply to the question about logging and forwarding raised during his presentation on IP Tables. To subscribe or to see the archived messages: http://www.muug.mb.ca/mailman/listinfo/roundtable Thanks, Bill ____________________________________________________________ Bill Reid Page 993 Dorchester Ave. Network Consultant, Retired 935-1432 Winnipeg, MB R3M 0P9 University of Manitoba (204) 452-6590

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[Muug-announce] MUUG Meeting, April 10, 7:30PM -- Netfilter and the Linux 2.4 Kernel
by gedetil＠cs.umanitoba.ca 05 Apr '01

05 Apr '01

[Posted to man.unix.general and other news groups] ------ Forwarded Article <9aim3h$pli$1(a)canopus.cc.umanitoba.ca> ------ 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 10. The meeting topic for this month is as follows: Netfilter and the Linux 2.4 Kernel This month, Sean Walberg will be our guest presenter. The presentation will be about netfilter, the packet handling facility of the 2.4 kernel. Specifically, the differences between netfilter and ipchains, and using netfilter to do basic packet filtering, masquerading, and other fun stuff. 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

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[Muug-announce] MUUG Meeting, Mar 13, 7:30PM -- Usenet News Readers
by gedetil＠cs.umanitoba.ca 07 Mar '01

07 Mar '01

[Posted to man.unix.general and other news groups] ------ Forwarded Article <985ndm$meu$1(a)canopus.cc.umanitoba.ca> ------ 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 ------ End of Forwarded Article

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[Muug-announce] MUUG Meeting, Feb 13, 7:30PM -- Locking Down Linux
by gedetil＠cs.umanitoba.ca 02 Feb '01

02 Feb '01

[Posted to man.unix.general and other news groups] ------ Forwarded Article <95fbg8$dal$1(a)canopus.cc.umanitoba.ca> ------ From gedetil(a)cs.umanitoba.ca (Gilbert E. Detillieux) 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 ------ End of Forwarded Article

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[Muug-announce] MUUG Meeting, Jan 9, 7:30PM -- Network Load Tuning on a UNIX Server
by gedetil＠cs.umanitoba.ca 03 Jan '01

03 Jan '01

[Posted to man.unix.general and other news groups] ------ Forwarded Article <9304e7$arq$1(a)canopus.cc.umanitoba.ca> ------ From gedetil(a)cs.umanitoba.ca (Gilbert E. Detillieux) 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 ------ End of Forwarded Article

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[Muug-announce] MUUG Meeting, Dec 12, 7:30PM -- Xmas Fun
by gedetil＠cs.umanitoba.ca 05 Dec '00

05 Dec '00

[Posted to man.unix.general and other news groups] ------ Forwarded Article <90jk9h$7o1$1(a)canopus.cc.umanitoba.ca> ------ From gedetil(a)cs.umanitoba.ca (Gilbert E. Detillieux) 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 ------ End of Forwarded Article

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