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[Muug-announce] MUUG Meeting, Nov 14, 7:30pm -- Vulnerability Scanning
by gedetil＠cs.umanitoba.ca 06 Nov '00

06 Nov '00

[Posted to man.unix.general and other news groups] ------ Forwarded Article <8u7e33$l02$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, November 14. The meeting topic for this month is as follows: Vulnerability Scanning Do you want to know what the `Bad Guys' can find out about your machine? There is no better way to find out what they can see than to use the same tools they use. This month, MUUG member Shawn Wallbridge will cover the basics of Vulnerability Scanning using Nmap, Nessus, Whisker and Hping. With the proliferation of High-Speed, always-on Internet connections, security is becoming more of a concern for the average home user. 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 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 7:15pm. 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, October 10, 7:30PM -- ACeDB
by gedetil＠cs.umanitoba.ca 03 Oct '00

03 Oct '00

[Posted to man.unix.general and other news groups] ------ Forwarded Article <8rcuoi$aqp$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, October 10. The meeting topic for this month is as follows: ACeDB ACeDB is a freely-distributed object-oriented database package that was developed for genome projects, but is a very general purpose system. It is available for most computer systems (Unix, Mac, NT, etc.), and binaries for ACeDB are available for most systems. Brian Fristensky, from the Department of Plant Science at The University of Manitoba, has used ACeDB in his lab for several years, and in his recent Bioinformatics course. This month, he will be describing and demonstrating this database for us. 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. ********************************************************************** For this month only, the meeting will be held at the University of Manitoba's Fort Garry Campus, in the Carolyn Sifton Auditorium, Room 130 Agriculture. An online campus map is available here: http://www.umanitoba.ca/about/map/parking/index.shtml From Fort Garry and points North, enter the campus from Pembina Hwy. at University Crescent. From Winnipeg South and West, enter the campus from Pembina Hwy. at Chancellor Matheson Road. Go East on Matheson to University Crescent. Go south on University Crescent, and East on Dafoe Road. The Agriculture Building is on the right at 66 Dafoe. On-campus parking is free in the evening, and is available in lots off of Dafoe Road, or off of service roads near Agriculture. Winnipeg Transit busses 36, 60, 61, 62, 63, 72, 75, 76 and 78 all stop on the U. of M. campus on Dafoe Road. ********************************************************************** 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, Sept 12, 7:30PM -- CDS Technologies - Wireless Networks
by gedetil＠cs.umanitoba.ca 08 Sep '00

08 Sep '00

[Posted to man.unix.general and other news groups] ------ Forwarded Article <8pb0qa$m5s$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, September 12. The meeting topic for this month is as follows: CDS Technologies - Wireless Networks This month, Dolores Pirrie, Information Technology Specialist with CDS Technologies, will present the company and the capabilities it has. CDS Technologies specializes in wireless network connectivity. What that means for the public and private sector, is that there is no longer a need to cable offices! For example, if a company is highly mobile, they would normally have to cable an office every time they move. This can become extremely costly. With CDS, a company could go wireless and if they move they would simply take the equipment with them and set up in the new surroundings! It really is that simple. The other facet of this business is the building to building connectivity. They are capable of connecting two or more sites together, wirelessly, for distances up to 25 km apart! All of this is achieved at speeds of 11Mbps per second. 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, June 13, 7:30PM -- IBM VisualAge for Java
by gedetil＠cs.umanitoba.ca 06 Jun '00

06 Jun '00

This message is being sent out to all MUUG members (and a few potential members) who have provided us with an e-mail address. In the future, we will be sending these announcements only to people who subscribe to our new mailing list, <muug-announce(a)muug.mb.ca>. This is an opt-in mailing list, using the GNU Mailman list server, so you will have full control over whether or not you wish to receive such messages. However, this means that you have to subscribe to this list yourself if you wish to continue receiving such announcements in the future. Do so today, so you don't forget and miss announcements. (This new list will continue to have a very low volume of traffic, so don't worry about getting more mail.) You can subscribe through the convenient web-based interface: http://www.muug.mb.ca/mailman/listinfo/muug-announce You can also do so directly via e-mail, as follows: echo subscribe | mail muug-announce-request(a)muug.mb.ca To get help: echo help | mail muug-announce-request(a)muug.mb.ca My apologies to those who receive this twice. To date, we've only had 27 people sign up to the new muug-announce list, so we're giving those few procrastinators among us another chance to sign up by repeating this message on the old list too. Hope to see you all on muug-announce and, of course, at the next meeting! [Posted to man.unix.general and other news groups] ------ Forwarded Article <8hjppg$7ed$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 13. The meeting topic for this month is as follows: IBM VisualAge for Java This month, Steve Banks from IBM in Winnipeg will present VisualAge for Java. Steve is a Computer Engineering graduate from the U of M, and a software developer with IBM. He has been using VisualAge for Java for the past year in a team-based, collaborative software development project. At the meeting you will hear about: the VisualAge development environment, the repository (the database used for revision control), the debugger, Enterprise Java Beans, WebSphere and Servlets, and Installation on Linux and Windows. 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, May 9, 7:30PM -- Security on your home network
by gedetil＠cs.umanitoba.ca 03 May '00

03 May '00

This message is being sent out to all MUUG members (and a few potential members) who have provided us with an e-mail address. In the future, we will be sending these announcements only to people who subscribe to our new mailing list, <muug-announce(a)muug.mb.ca>. This is an opt-in mailing list, using the GNU Mailman list server, so you will have full control over whether or not you wish to receive such messages. However, this means that you have to subscribe to this list yourself if you wish to continue receiving such announcements in the future. Do so today, so you don't forget and miss announcements. (This new list will continue to have a very low volume of traffic, so don't worry about getting more mail.) You can subscribe through the convenient web-based interface: http://www.muug.mb.ca/mailman/listinfo/muug-announce You can also do so directly via e-mail, as follows: echo subscribe | mail muug-announce-request(a)muug.mb.ca To get help: echo help | mail muug-announce-request(a)muug.mb.ca My apologies to those who receive this twice. To date, we've only had 17 people sign up to the new muug-announce list, so we're giving those few procrastinators among us another chance to sign up by repeating this message on the old list too. Hope to see you all on muug-announce and, of course, at the next meeting! [Posted to man.unix.general and other news groups] ------ Forwarded Article <8eq8k0$cs3$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 9. The meeting topic for this month is as follows: Security on your home network: first steps Michael Doob, of the University of Manitoba's Math department, will be joining us again, to talk about home networks. First, this talk will address the following questions: what information about internet security is already on my computer and how can I get more if necessary? Then we'll then look at some precautions and software available to check who's doing what. Finally we'll see how to set up and configure a firewall. 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. ************************************************************************ New Location: Once again this month, and until further notice, the meeting will be at the ISM offices, at 400 Ellice Ave. (between Edmonton and Kennedy). When you arrive, you will have to sign in at the reception desk, and then wait for someone to take you (in groups) to the meeting room. Limited parking is available for free on the street, or in a lot across Ellice from ISM, for $1.00 for the evening. Indoor parking is also available nearby, at Portage Place, for $2.00 for the evening. ************************************************************************ 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, April 11, 7:30PM -- Why Linux on a Floppy?
by gedetil＠cs.umanitoba.ca 04 Apr '00

04 Apr '00

This message is being sent out to all MUUG members (and a few potential members) who have provided us with an e-mail address. In the future, we will be sending these announcements only to people who subscribe to our new mailing list, <muug-announce(a)muug.mb.ca>. This is an opt-in mailing list, using the GNU Mailman list server, so you will have full control over whether or not you wish to receive such messages. However, this means that you have to subscribe to this list yourself if you wish to continue receiving such announcements in the future. Do so today, so you don't forget and miss announcements. (This list will continue to have a very low volume of traffic, so don't worry about getting more mail.) You can subscribe through the convenient web-based interface: http://www.muug.mb.ca/mailman/listinfo/muug-announce You can also do so directly via e-mail, as follows: echo subscribe | mail muug-announce-request(a)muug.mb.ca To get help: echo help | mail muug-announce-request(a)muug.mb.ca Hope to see you all on muug-announce and, of course, at the next meeting! [Posted to man.unix.general and other news groups] ------ Forwarded Article <8cdcma$guc$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 11. The meeting topic for this month is as follows: Why Linux on a Floppy? Kevin McGregor, MUUG's ever-informative newsletter editor, will be describing and demonstrating a few Linux distributions that go against the current "bigger is better" trend. These are small, special-purpose distributions optimized for minimal hardware requirements, usually residing entirely on one or two floppy disks. Why would anyone want to run an operating system from a floppy? And how much functionality can you fit on one of those, anyway? We're not talking even a Zip disk here! Kevin will answer these questions and more. 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. ********************************************************************** New Location: Once again this month, and from now on, the meeting will be at the ISM offices, at 400 Ellice Ave. (between Edmonton and Kennedy). When you arrive, you will have to sign in at the reception desk, and then wait for someone to take you (in groups) to the meeting room. Limited parking is available for free on the street, or in a lot across Ellice from ISM, for $1.00 for the evening. Indoor parking is also available nearby, at Portage Place, for $2.00 for the evening. ********************************************************************** 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] test
by Bill Reid 03 Apr '00

03 Apr '00

This is the first test message

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