From phil at bolthole.com Fri Feb 25 15:32:36 2000 From: phil at bolthole.com (Philip Brown) Date: Fri, 25 Feb 2000 15:32:36 -0800 (PST) Subject: UUASC-LA meeting, March 2nd: RAID for databases Message-ID: <200002252332.PAA21885@shell3.ba.best.com> UNIX Users Association of Southern California - LA Program, March 2000 Tuning Disk Arrays for Database Performance Thursday, March 2, 7-9 pm These days, there are many options for disk allocation: single disks, software RAID, hardware RAID, and all kinds of permutations within those choices. Knowledgeable UUASC member, Brian Mann, a longtime MIS Director, will give a presentation on these issues, and offer recommendations, based upon extensive tests his company performed while conducting database performance analysis. Besides being an overview of RAID technology, Brian's program will answer "Why use RAID?" and "Which RAID is best for you?" and detail factors affecting selection of RAID types, including results of a documented case study at his company, CHA. Location: Cary Conference Room on first floor Merisel, Inc (the UNMARKED five-story building on the corner) 200 Continental Blvd (2101 El Segundo Blvd) El Segundo, California (This is about 2 miles south of LAX airport) Directions: Coming from the EAST -- Basically, you can take the 105 Freeway to Nash Street. Take Nash SOUTH, away from the airport for about five long blocks, and turn right on El Segundo Blvd. Take the first right, which is Continental Blvd. and the big ugly five-story building on that corner is where we will be meeting. Directions from other places are similar. Coming from the 405 Freeway - Exit on El Segundo, and head west. It is about half a mile, just past the overhead light rail track. Coming from Sepulveda Blvd, a.k.a. Highway 1 - Go east on El Segundo, which is the big traffic lights where the huge white "Pacific Corporate Towers" are located. Continental is then the first left, and Merisel is the first driveway on the right. Once again, go into the five-story, ugly, UNMARKED building on the corner, not the one actually labeled Merisel that is next to it. The door is on the east side, and has 2101 over it. There should be lots of "visitor" slots you can grab in the parking lots. -------------------------------------------------- UUASC is for all persons using UNIX either personally or professionally, or interested in learning more about UNIX. We recognize all varieties of UNIX, including (without prejudice) SCO, Linux, SVr4, Solaris, AIX, HP/UX, and BSD. This is a good place to meet others with similar interests and broaden your skills and knowledge. There are two UUASC chapters serving Los Angeles and Orange Counties. Meeting locations for each chapter are detailed at our web site, www.uuasc.org. Please visit our web site. There are no dues or other membership requirements. More than 100 persons receive our monthly email newsletter. Meeting attendance varies to as high as 40. Volunteers manage the club and more volunteers are always needed. Los Angeles County Chapter meetings are held the first Thursday of each month from 7 to 9 pm. Generally, meetings include a technical presentation on a hardware or software topic of current interest to the UNIX community and a round-table discussion of current topics of interest to the group. UUASC-LA needs future topic suggestions (and volunteers)!! From djb at tc.umn.edu Mon Mar 13 12:33:35 2000 From: djb at tc.umn.edu (Dave Bianchi) Date: Mon, 13 Mar 2000 14:33:35 -0600 Subject: TCSA meeting March 16 Message-ID: The Twin Cities System Administrators (TCSA) group meets monthly to discuss topics of interest to system and network administrators in the Twin Cities area of Minnesota. The meetings are free and open to the public. Check out our web site at http://www.tcsa.org/ TCSA meetings are on the third Thursday of each month at 7:00 pm. Next Meeting: Topic: Writing a Publishable USENIX/SAGE Technical Paper Speaker: Dave Bianchi, Collective Technologies Date/Time: March 16, 2000 7:00 pm Location: University Park Plaza Office Building (Onvoy/MRNet) Synopsis: Dave will give a presentation about writing a paper for a USENIX/SAGE-sponsored technical conference. The presentation was written by Josh Simon, a longtime USENIX/SAGE member who is a member of the Program Committee for LISA 2000. We will meet at University Park Plaza Office Building (Onvoy/MRNet office), 2829 University Ave. SE, in a conference room on the first floor of the building. Tentative Meeting Schedule April 20, 2000 May 18, 2000 Directions to University Park Plaza (Onvoy/MRNet): The Onvoy office is at University Park Plaza Office Building, 2829 University Ave. SE. It is a white-concrete, 9-story, hexagonal building (previously occupied by Group Health). The windows are distinctive, shaped somewhat like TV screens. University Park Plaza is on the north side of University Ave. (across from the Octopus Car Wash), about 3 blocks east of the intersection of Washington Ave. and University Ave. or about 3 blocks west of KSTP-TV. - From the South (35W) Proceed north on 35W, exiting onto Interstate 94 East. Continue in the far left lane on Interstate 94 East to the Highway 280 exit. Remain on Highway 280 until University Ave. Turn left on University, proceed 7 blocks west to SE 29th Ave. The building is on your right. - From the North (35W) Proceed south on 35W, exiting onto Highway 280 South. Continue on Highway 280 until the University Ave. exit. Turn right on University. Continue 7 blocks west to SE 29th Ave. The building is on your right. - From the West (94/394) Proceed east on 94, cross the Mississippi river and continue in the far left lane on Interstate 94 East to the Highway 280 exit. Remain on Highway 280 until University Ave. Turn left on University, proceed 7 blocks west to SE 29th Ave. The building is on your right. - From the East (94) Proceed west on 94, continue in the far right lane to the Highway 280 exit. Remain on Highway 280 until University Ave. Turn left onto University, proceed 7 blocks to SE 29th St. The building is on your right. - Parking Free parking is available in the visitor lot off SE 29th Ave. and in front of the building along University Ave. - Web map is at: http://www.onvoy.com/about_offices_upp.html For more information on TCSA, check out our web site: http://www.tcsa.org/ To subscribe to the TCSA mailing list (from a Unix system): echo "subscribe tcsa" | mailx majordomo at tcsa.org For any other information, please send email to: info at tcsa.org or contact: Dave Bianchi 651-644-7843 -- Dave Bianchi Collective Technologies djb at colltech.com A Pencom Company djb at tc.umn.edu http://www.colltech.com/ From phil at bolthole.com Thu Mar 30 16:40:00 2000 From: phil at bolthole.com (Philip Brown) Date: Thu, 30 Mar 2000 16:40:00 -0800 (PST) Subject: e-commerce conference, LA, april 6th Message-ID: <200003310040.QAA13542@shell3.ba.best.com> Hope people dont mind me doing these monthly announces. Just trying to build membership of this relatively new users' group. I think this presentation might have more people interested :-) This is a free meeting. UUASC-LA Unix Users Association of Southern California -- Los Angeles April 2000 Meeting ----------------------------------------------- E-commerce! ----------------------------------------------- Thursday, April 6th, 7-9:30 pm Merisel, Inc 200 Continental Blvd, El Segundo ----------------------------------------------- Topic: Peter Benjamin will be giving a presentation about the general challenges of setting up an E-commerce site. He will be joined by panel members who will discuss specific issues they encountered setting up their site. Current panel members: Toby Rider - credit card/payment verification Alexys Flores - real-time database issues with e-commerce sites We welcome more panel members! If you have a web site that does commercial transactions, and you are willing to share your experience with a 10-minute talk, please contact us. Location: Cary Conference Room on first floor Merisel, Inc (the UNMARKED five-story building on the corner) 200 Continental Blvd (2101 El Segundo Blvd) El Segundo, California (This is about 2 miles south of LAX airport) Directions: Coming from the EAST -- Basically, you can take the 105 Freeway to Nash Street. Take Nash SOUTH, away from the airport for about five long blocks, and turn right on El Segundo Blvd. Take the first right, which is Continental Blvd. and the big ugly five-story building on that corner is where we will be meeting. Directions from other places are similar. Coming from the 405 Freeway - Exit on El Segundo, and head west. It is about half a mile, just past the overhead light rail track. Coming from Sepulveda Blvd, a.k.a. Highway 1 - Go east on El Segundo, which is the big traffic lights where the huge white "Pacific Corporate Towers" are located. Continental is then the first left, and Merisel is the first driveway on the right. Once again, go into the five-story, ugly, UNMARKED building on the corner, not the one actually labeled Merisel that is next to it. The door is on the east side, and has 2101 over it. There should be lots of "visitor" slots you can grab in the parking lots. -------------------------------------------------- UUASC is for all persons using UNIX either personally or professionally, or interested in learning more about UNIX. We recognize all varieties of UNIX, including (without prejudice) SCO, Linux, SVr4, Solaris, AIX, HP/UX, and BSD. This is a good place to meet others with similar interests and broaden your skills and knowledge. There are two UUASC chapters serving Los Angeles and Orange Counties. Meeting locations for each chapter are detailed at our web site, www.uuasc.org. Please visit our web site. There are no dues or other membership requirements. More than 100 persons receive our monthly email newsletter. Meeting attendance varies to as high as 40. Volunteers manage the club and more volunteers are always needed. Los Angeles County Chapter meetings are held the first Thursday of each month from 7 to 9 pm. Generally, meetings include a technical presentation on a hardware or software topic of current interest to the UNIX community and a round-table discussion of current topics of interest to the group. UUASC-LA needs future topic suggestions (and volunteers)!! From djb at tc.umn.edu Wed Apr 19 21:50:12 2000 From: djb at tc.umn.edu (Dave Bianchi) Date: Wed, 19 Apr 2000 23:50:12 -0500 Subject: TCSA meeting April 20 Message-ID: The Twin Cities System Administrators (TCSA) group meets monthly to discuss topics of interest to system and network administrators in the Twin Cities area of Minnesota. The meetings are free and open to the public. Check out our web site at http://www.tcsa.org/ TCSA meetings are on the third Thursday of each month at 7:00 pm. Next Meeting: Topic: Short Topics in Systems Administration Speaker: Dave Bianchi, Collective Technologies and others Date/Time: April 20, 2000 7:00 pm Location: University Park Plaza Office Building (Onvoy/MRNet) Synopsis: Potential short topics: Tripwire, Linux Security/Firewalls We will meet at University Park Plaza Office Building (Onvoy/MRNet office), 2829 University Ave. SE, in a conference room on the first floor of the building. Tentative Meeting Schedule May 18, 2000 USENIX Outreach - David Parter June 15, 2000 Legato Topics Directions to University Park Plaza (Onvoy/MRNet): The Onvoy office is at University Park Plaza Office Building, 2829 University Ave. SE. It is a white-concrete, 9-story, hexagonal building (previously occupied by Group Health). The windows are distinctive, shaped somewhat like TV screens. University Park Plaza is on the north side of University Ave. (across from the Octopus Car Wash), about 3 blocks east of the intersection of Washington Ave. and University Ave. or about 3 blocks west of KSTP-TV. - From the South (35W) Proceed north on 35W, exiting onto Interstate 94 East. Continue in the far left lane on Interstate 94 East to the Highway 280 exit. Remain on Highway 280 until University Ave. Turn left on University, proceed 7 blocks west to SE 29th Ave. The building is on your right. - From the North (35W) Proceed south on 35W, exiting onto Highway 280 South. Continue on Highway 280 until the University Ave. exit. Turn right on University. Continue 7 blocks west to SE 29th Ave. The building is on your right. - From the West (94/394) Proceed east on 94, cross the Mississippi river and continue in the far left lane on Interstate 94 East to the Highway 280 exit. Remain on Highway 280 until University Ave. Turn left on University, proceed 7 blocks west to SE 29th Ave. The building is on your right. - From the East (94) Proceed west on 94, continue in the far right lane to the Highway 280 exit. Remain on Highway 280 until University Ave. Turn left onto University, proceed 7 blocks to SE 29th St. The building is on your right. - Parking Free parking is available in the visitor lot off SE 29th Ave. and in front of the building along University Ave. - Web map is at: http://www.onvoy.com/about_offices_upp.html For more information on TCSA, check out our web site: http://www.tcsa.org/ To subscribe to the TCSA mailing list (from a Unix system): echo "subscribe tcsa" | mailx majordomo at tcsa.org For any other information, please send email to: info at tcsa.org or contact: Dave Bianchi 651-644-7843 -- Dave Bianchi Collective Technologies djb at colltech.com A Pencom Company djb at tc.umn.edu http://www.colltech.com/ From djb at tc.umn.edu Tue May 16 20:35:56 2000 From: djb at tc.umn.edu (Dave Bianchi) Date: Tue, 16 May 2000 22:35:56 -0500 Subject: TCSA meeting May 18 Message-ID: The Twin Cities System Administrators (TCSA) group meets monthly to discuss topics of interest to system and network administrators in the Twin Cities area of Minnesota. The meetings are free and open to the public. Check out our web site at http://www.tcsa.org/ TCSA meetings are on the third Thursday of each month at 7:00 pm. Next Meeting: Topic: SAGE Update: Certification and other initiatives Speaker: David Parter, SAGE Executive Committee Secretary Date/Time: May 18, 2000 7:00 pm Location: University Park Plaza Office Building (Onvoy/MRNet) Synopsis: David will present the latest SAGE initiatives and news, and lead a discussion of the issues and concerns of sysadmins. About the Speaker: David is the Associate Director of the Computer Systems Lab at the University of Wisconsin Computer Science Department. He was the Program Chair for LISA 99 and was appointed to the SAGE Executive Committee last December. We will meet at University Park Plaza Office Building (Onvoy/MRNet office), 2829 University Ave. SE, in a conference room on the first floor of the building. Tentative Meeting Schedule June 15, 2000 Legato Topics July 20, 2000 Directions to University Park Plaza (Onvoy/MRNet): The Onvoy office is at University Park Plaza Office Building, 2829 University Ave. SE. It is a white-concrete, 9-story, hexagonal building (previously occupied by Group Health). The windows are distinctive, shaped somewhat like TV screens. University Park Plaza is on the north side of University Ave. (across from the Octopus Car Wash), about 3 blocks east of the intersection of Washington Ave. and University Ave. or about 3 blocks west of KSTP-TV. - From the South (35W) Proceed north on 35W, exiting onto Interstate 94 East. Continue in the far left lane on Interstate 94 East to the Highway 280 exit. Remain on Highway 280 until University Ave. Turn left on University, proceed 7 blocks west to SE 29th Ave. The building is on your right. - From the North (35W) Proceed south on 35W, exiting onto Highway 280 South. Continue on Highway 280 until the University Ave. exit. Turn right on University. Continue 7 blocks west to SE 29th Ave. The building is on your right. - From the West (94/394) Proceed east on 94, cross the Mississippi river and continue in the far left lane on Interstate 94 East to the Highway 280 exit. Remain on Highway 280 until University Ave. Turn left on University, proceed 7 blocks west to SE 29th Ave. The building is on your right. - From the East (94) Proceed west on 94, continue in the far right lane to the Highway 280 exit. Remain on Highway 280 until University Ave. Turn left onto University, proceed 7 blocks to SE 29th St. The building is on your right. - Parking Free parking is available in the visitor lot off SE 29th Ave. and in front of the building along University Ave. - Web map is at: http://www.onvoy.com/about_offices_upp.html For more information on TCSA, check out our web site: http://www.tcsa.org/ To subscribe to the TCSA mailing list (from a Unix system): echo "subscribe tcsa" | mailx majordomo at tcsa.org For any other information, please send email to: info at tcsa.org or contact: Dave Bianchi 651-644-7843 -- Dave Bianchi Collective Technologies djb at colltech.com A Pencom Company djb at tc.umn.edu http://www.colltech.com/ From djb at tc.umn.edu Wed Jun 7 19:59:29 2000 From: djb at tc.umn.edu (Dave Bianchi) Date: Wed, 7 Jun 2000 21:59:29 -0500 Subject: TCSA meeting June 15 Message-ID: The Twin Cities System Administrators (TCSA) group meets monthly to discuss topics of interest to system and network administrators in the Twin Cities area of Minnesota. The meetings are free and open to the public. Check out our web site at http://www.tcsa.org/ TCSA meetings are on the third Thursday of each month at 7:00 pm. Next Meeting: Topic: Legato Systems Update Speaker: Tom Davis, Legato Systems Date/Time: June 15, 2000 7:00 pm Location: University Park Plaza Office Building (Onvoy) Synopsis: Tom will lead a presentation and discussion on managing application and data availability for information continuance in an enterprise. Specific topics will include: data protection in a SAN, application availability in a SAN, and the future of storage management. Legato product directions will be discussed as well. About the Speaker: Tom is a Senior Systems Engineer at Legato Systems. We will meet at University Park Plaza Office Building (Onvoy office), 2829 University Ave. SE, in a conference room on the first floor of the building. Tentative Meeting Schedule July 20, 2000 August 17, 2000 Directions to University Park Plaza (Onvoy): The Onvoy office is at University Park Plaza Office Building, 2829 University Ave. SE. It is a white-concrete, 9-story, hexagonal building (previously occupied by Group Health). The windows are distinctive, shaped somewhat like TV screens. University Park Plaza is on the north side of University Ave. (across from the Octopus Car Wash), about 3 blocks east of the intersection of Washington Ave. and University Ave. or about 3 blocks west of KSTP-TV. - From the South (35W) Proceed north on 35W, exiting onto Interstate 94 East. Continue in the far left lane on Interstate 94 East to the Highway 280 exit. Remain on Highway 280 until University Ave. Turn left on University, proceed 7 blocks west to SE 29th Ave. The building is on your right. - From the North (35W) Proceed south on 35W, exiting onto Highway 280 South. Continue on Highway 280 until the University Ave. exit. Turn right on University. Continue 7 blocks west to SE 29th Ave. The building is on your right. - From the West (94/394) Proceed east on 94, cross the Mississippi river and continue in the far left lane on Interstate 94 East to the Highway 280 exit. Remain on Highway 280 until University Ave. Turn left on University, proceed 7 blocks west to SE 29th Ave. The building is on your right. - From the East (94) Proceed west on 94, continue in the far right lane to the Highway 280 exit. Remain on Highway 280 until University Ave. Turn left onto University, proceed 7 blocks to SE 29th St. The building is on your right. - Parking Free parking is available in the visitor lot off SE 29th Ave. and in front of the building along University Ave. - Web map is at: http://www.onvoy.com/about_offices_upp.html For more information on TCSA, check out our web site: http://www.tcsa.org/ To subscribe to the TCSA mailing list (from a Unix system): echo "subscribe tcsa" | mailx majordomo at tcsa.org For any other information, please send email to: info at tcsa.org or contact: Dave Bianchi 651-644-7843 -- Dave Bianchi Collective Technologies djb at colltech.com A Pencom Company djb at tc.umn.edu http://www.colltech.com/ From djb at tc.umn.edu Fri Jul 14 10:47:51 2000 From: djb at tc.umn.edu (Dave Bianchi) Date: Fri, 14 Jul 2000 12:47:51 -0500 Subject: TCSA meeting July 20 Message-ID: The Twin Cities System Administrators (TCSA) group meets monthly to discuss topics of interest to system and network administrators in the Twin Cities area of Minnesota. The meetings are free and open to the public. Check out our web site at http://www.tcsa.org/ TCSA meetings are on the third Thursday of each month at 7:00 pm. Next Meeting: Topic: Storage Area Networks Speaker: Tim Rassmussen, Datalink Date/Time: July 20, 2000 7:00 pm Location: University Park Plaza Office Building (Onvoy) Synopsis: Today's IT environments are increasingly characterized by non-stop (7x24) operation, exploding storage capacity, mission critical applications, and a drive toward centralization of management functions. These characteristics make it a significant challenge to manage, scale, and protect mission critical data, while optimizing performance and minimizing LAN saturation. By removing storage applications like backup from the LAN, IT managers can improve application performance, reduce backup windows, and eliminate the impact of daily backups on the messaging LAN. By introducing large-scale shared disk storage, IT managers can centrally manage and scale high performance storage. The presentation provides a detailed overview of Storage Area Networks, as well as an in-depth discussion of SAN-based backup and shared storage concepts and configurations. The presentation will cover the following topics: * SAN background information * SAN evolution * Storage Consolidation examples * LAN free backup examples * SAN Implementation case study * Review of RAID products from multiple manufacturers In addition to the presentation, time will be allocated for questions related to Storage Area Networks or specific product information. About the Speaker: Tim Rasmussen is Product Manager of Primary Storage at Datalink Corporation, a leading, independent networked storage solutions provider for open systems. Tim is responsible for managing Datalink's primary storage strategy as well as consulting, and designing enterprise storage solutions. He is part of a technical team that has successfully deployed numerous multi-terabyte solutions in Fortune 500 organizations. Tim has over 11 years of experience in the networked storage solutions industry. Before assuming his current role as Product Manager, Tim was a Senior Applications Engineer since 1993, focused on implementing and supporting Datalink's RAID product lines. Prior to joining Datalink, he was a Systems Engineer for four years at Electronic Data Systems, where he was responsible for installing and supporting open systems platforms for enterprise clients. We will meet at University Park Plaza Office Building (Onvoy office), 2829 University Ave. SE, in a conference room on the first floor of the building. Tentative Meeting Schedule August 17, 2000 September 21, 2000 Directions to University Park Plaza (Onvoy): The Onvoy office is at University Park Plaza Office Building, 2829 University Ave. SE. It is a white-concrete, 9-story, hexagonal building (previously occupied by Group Health). The windows are distinctive, shaped somewhat like TV screens. University Park Plaza is on the north side of University Ave. (across from the Octopus Car Wash), about 3 blocks east of the intersection of Washington Ave. and University Ave. or about 3 blocks west of KSTP-TV. - From the South (35W) Proceed north on 35W, exiting onto Interstate 94 East. Continue in the far left lane on Interstate 94 East to the Highway 280 exit. Remain on Highway 280 until University Ave. Turn left on University, proceed 7 blocks west to SE 29th Ave. The building is on your right. - From the North (35W) Proceed south on 35W, exiting onto Highway 280 South. Continue on Highway 280 until the University Ave. exit. Turn right on University. Continue 7 blocks west to SE 29th Ave. The building is on your right. - From the West (94/394) Proceed east on 94, cross the Mississippi river and continue in the far left lane on Interstate 94 East to the Highway 280 exit. Remain on Highway 280 until University Ave. Turn left on University, proceed 7 blocks west to SE 29th Ave. The building is on your right. - From the East (94) Proceed west on 94, continue in the far right lane to the Highway 280 exit. Remain on Highway 280 until University Ave. Turn left onto University, proceed 7 blocks to SE 29th St. The building is on your right. - Parking Free parking is available in the visitor lot off SE 29th Ave. and in front of the building along University Ave. - Web map is at: http://www.onvoy.com/about_offices_upp.html For more information on TCSA, check out our web site: http://www.tcsa.org/ To subscribe to the TCSA mailing list (from a Unix system): echo "subscribe tcsa" | mailx majordomo at tcsa.org For any other information, please send email to: info at tcsa.org or contact: Dave Bianchi 651-644-7843 -- Dave Bianchi Collective Technologies djb at colltech.com A Pencom Company djb at tc.umn.edu http://www.colltech.com/ From djb at tc.umn.edu Tue Sep 19 13:18:50 2000 From: djb at tc.umn.edu (Dave Bianchi) Date: Tue, 19 Sep 2000 15:18:50 -0500 Subject: TCSA meeting September 21 Message-ID: The Twin Cities System Administrators (TCSA) group meets monthly to discuss topics of interest to system and network administrators in the Twin Cities area of Minnesota. The meetings are free and open to the public. Check out our web site at http://www.tcsa.org/ TCSA meetings are on the third Thursday of each month at 7:00 pm. Next Meeting: Topic: Linux and IBM Speaker: Steven Logreira, IBM Date/Time: September 21, 2000 7:00 pm Location: University Park Plaza Office Building (Onvoy) Synopsis: The strengths of the IBM S/390 are well known in the mainframe world. Rock solid reliability, the ability to run multiple diverse workloads and highly scaleable technology make S/390 an ideal choice for hosting key e-business applications. Now Linux has joined the S/390 family of operating systems bringing a wealth of open source applications, middleware and trained talented developers to help you respond to your business challenges quicker than ever before. The presentation provides an overview of IBM's overall Linux strategy and a high level introduction to the strengths that S/390 brings to the Linux operating system. The presentation will cover the following topics: * What is Linux * IBM's overall Linux Strategy * Linux for S/390 high-level overview About the Speaker: Steven Logreira is a Sales Specialist for the IBM S/390. We will meet at University Park Plaza Office Building (Onvoy office), 2829 University Ave. SE, in a conference room on the first floor of the building. Tentative Meeting Schedule October 19, 2000 November 16, 2000 Directions to University Park Plaza (Onvoy): The Onvoy office is at University Park Plaza Office Building, 2829 University Ave. SE. It is a white-concrete, 9-story, hexagonal building (previously occupied by Group Health). The windows are distinctive, shaped somewhat like TV screens. University Park Plaza is on the north side of University Ave. (across from the Octopus Car Wash), about 3 blocks east of the intersection of Washington Ave. and University Ave. or about 3 blocks west of KSTP-TV. - From the South (35W) Proceed north on 35W, exiting onto Interstate 94 East. Continue in the far left lane on Interstate 94 East to the Highway 280 exit. Remain on Highway 280 until University Ave. Turn left on University, proceed 7 blocks west to SE 29th Ave. The building is on your right. - From the North (35W) Proceed south on 35W, exiting onto Highway 280 South. Continue on Highway 280 until the University Ave. exit. Turn right on University. Continue 7 blocks west to SE 29th Ave. The building is on your right. - From the West (94/394) Proceed east on 94, cross the Mississippi river and continue in the far left lane on Interstate 94 East to the Highway 280 exit. Remain on Highway 280 until University Ave. Turn left on University, proceed 7 blocks west to SE 29th Ave. The building is on your right. - From the East (94) Proceed west on 94, continue in the far right lane to the Highway 280 exit. Remain on Highway 280 until University Ave. Turn left onto University, proceed 7 blocks to SE 29th St. The building is on your right. - Parking Free parking is available in the visitor lot off SE 29th Ave. and in front of the building along University Ave. - Web map is at: http://www.onvoy.com/about_offices_upp.html For more information on TCSA, check out our web site: http://www.tcsa.org/ To subscribe to the TCSA mailing list (from a Unix system): echo "subscribe tcsa" | mailx majordomo at tcsa.org For any other information, please send email to: info at tcsa.org or contact: Dave Bianchi 651-644-7843 -- Dave Bianchi Collective Technologies djb at colltech.com A Pencom Company djb at tc.umn.edu http://www.colltech.com/ From djb at tc.umn.edu Fri Oct 13 15:44:10 2000 From: djb at tc.umn.edu (Dave Bianchi) Date: Fri, 13 Oct 2000 17:44:10 -0500 Subject: TCSA meeting October 19 Message-ID: The Twin Cities System Administrators (TCSA) group meets monthly to discuss topics of interest to system and network administrators in the Twin Cities area of Minnesota. The meetings are free and open to the public. Check out our web site at http://www.tcsa.org/ TCSA meetings are on the third Thursday of each month at 7:00 pm. Next Meeting: Topic: GFS and Linux Storage Clustering Speaker: Matthew T. O'Keefe, Sistina Software Date/Time: October 19, 2000 7:00 pm Location: University Park Plaza Office Building (Onvoy) Synopsis: The Global File System (GFS) is a shared disk cluster file system for Linux. GFS supports journaling and recovery from client failures. GFS cluster nodes physically share the same storage by means of Fibre Channel or shared SCSI devices. The file system appears to be local on each node and GFS synchronizes file access across the cluster. GFS is fully symmetric, that is, all nodes are equal and there is no server which may be a bottleneck or single point of failure. GFS uses read and write caching while maintaining full UNIX file system semantics. This talk will describe GFS and how it can be used to build storage clusters based upon shared storage, and the impact of storage clustering on application-level web and file services. More information about GFS can be found at http://www.globalfilesystem.org/ About the Speaker: Matthew O'Keefe received his Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering from Purdue University in 1990. He taught and performed research in storage systems and simulation at the University of Minnesota until 2000, when he founded Sistina Software, a company specializing in Linux storage management software. We will meet at University Park Plaza Office Building (Onvoy office), 2829 University Ave. SE, in a conference room on the first floor of the building. Tentative Meeting Schedule November 16, 2000 LISA paper preview, Steven Levy December 21, 2000 Cancelled January 18, 2001 LISA 2000 Highlights Directions to University Park Plaza (Onvoy): The Onvoy office is at University Park Plaza Office Building, 2829 University Ave. SE. It is a white-concrete, 9-story, hexagonal building (previously occupied by Group Health). The windows are distinctive, shaped somewhat like TV screens. University Park Plaza is on the north side of University Ave. (across from the Octopus Car Wash), about 3 blocks east of the intersection of Washington Ave. and University Ave. or about 3 blocks west of KSTP-TV. - From the South (35W) Proceed north on 35W, exiting onto Interstate 94 East. Continue in the far left lane on Interstate 94 East to the Highway 280 exit. Remain on Highway 280 until University Ave. Turn left on University, proceed 7 blocks west to SE 29th Ave. The building is on your right. - From the North (35W) Proceed south on 35W, exiting onto Highway 280 South. Continue on Highway 280 until the University Ave. exit. Turn right on University. Continue 7 blocks west to SE 29th Ave. The building is on your right. - From the West (94/394) Proceed east on 94, cross the Mississippi river and continue in the far left lane on Interstate 94 East to the Highway 280 exit. Remain on Highway 280 until University Ave. Turn left on University, proceed 7 blocks west to SE 29th Ave. The building is on your right. - From the East (94) Proceed west on 94, continue in the far right lane to the Highway 280 exit. Remain on Highway 280 until University Ave. Turn left onto University, proceed 7 blocks to SE 29th St. The building is on your right. - Parking Free parking is available in the visitor lot off SE 29th Ave. and in front of the building along University Ave. - Web map is at: http://www.onvoy.com/about_offices_upp.html For more information on TCSA, check out our web site: http://www.tcsa.org/ To subscribe to the TCSA mailing list (from a Unix system): echo "subscribe tcsa" | mailx majordomo at tcsa.org For any other information, please send email to: info at tcsa.org or contact: Dave Bianchi 651-644-7843 -- Dave Bianchi Collective Technologies djb at colltech.com A Pencom Company djb at tc.umn.edu http://www.colltech.com/ From jrl at usenix.org Tue Nov 7 14:33:18 2000 From: jrl at usenix.org (Jim Lawson) Date: Tue, 7 Nov 2000 14:33:18 -0800 (PST) Subject: No subject Message-ID: <200011072233.eA7MXIq23741@usenix.org> From jrl at usenix.org Wed Nov 8 12:13:41 2000 From: jrl at usenix.org (Jim Lawson) Date: Wed, 8 Nov 2000 12:13:41 -0800 (PST) Subject: empty email message from jrl Message-ID: <200011082013.eA8KDfN01851@usenix.org> Sorry to spam the list. My empty email message yesterday was apparently the result of mis-interaction between majordomo's configuration, the "approve" script, our (minimal) anti-spam measures, and my use of an unfamiliar shell. Needless to say, the first three could use a little work. Only time will address the latter. Thanks for your concern (and patience). From djb at tc.umn.edu Tue Nov 7 14:31:38 2000 From: djb at tc.umn.edu (Dave Bianchi) Date: Tue, 7 Nov 2000 16:31:38 -0600 Subject: TCSA meeting November 16 Message-ID: The Twin Cities System Administrators (TCSA) group meets monthly to discuss topics of interest to system and network administrators in the Twin Cities area of Minnesota. The meetings are free and open to the public. Check out our web site at http://www.tcsa.org/ TCSA meetings are on the third Thursday of each month at 7:00 pm. Next Meeting: Topic: Why the Documentation Sucks and What You Can Do About It Speaker: Steven Levine, SGI Date/Time: November 16, 2000 7:00 pm Location: University Park Plaza Office Building (Onvoy) Synopsis: System administrators often complain about documentation. It can be difficult to find just the right information in the circumstances you most need it. Why is this so? In my talk, I will discuss some inherent difficulties of writing administration documentation, presented from the point of view of a technical writer. I will also present proposals for how system administrators and technical writers can work together to improve the general state of administration documentation. This is a preview of an Invited Talk to be given by Steven at the LISA 2000 conference in December. About the Speaker: Steven Levine has been working as a technical writer for over twenty years, in a path that took him from Wang Laboratories to Teradyne to Cray Research to Silicon Graphics, with a few small stops along the way. In recent years he has been writing documentation primarily for system administrators. We will meet at University Park Plaza Office Building (Onvoy office), 2829 University Ave. SE, in a conference room on the first floor of the building. Tentative Meeting Schedule December 21, 2000 Cancelled January 18, 2001 LISA 2000 Highlights February 15, 20001 Directions to University Park Plaza (Onvoy): The Onvoy office is at University Park Plaza Office Building, 2829 University Ave. SE. It is a white-concrete, 9-story, hexagonal building (previously occupied by Group Health). The windows are distinctive, shaped somewhat like TV screens. University Park Plaza is on the north side of University Ave. (across from the Octopus Car Wash), about 3 blocks east of the intersection of Washington Ave. and University Ave. or about 3 blocks west of KSTP-TV. - From the South (35W) Proceed north on 35W, exiting onto Interstate 94 East. Continue in the far left lane on Interstate 94 East to the Highway 280 exit. Remain on Highway 280 until University Ave. Turn left on University, proceed 7 blocks west to SE 29th Ave. The building is on your right. - From the North (35W) Proceed south on 35W, exiting onto Highway 280 South. Continue on Highway 280 until the University Ave. exit. Turn right on University. Continue 7 blocks west to SE 29th Ave. The building is on your right. - From the West (94/394) Proceed east on 94, cross the Mississippi river and continue in the far left lane on Interstate 94 East to the Highway 280 exit. Remain on Highway 280 until University Ave. Turn left on University, proceed 7 blocks west to SE 29th Ave. The building is on your right. - From the East (94) Proceed west on 94, continue in the far right lane to the Highway 280 exit. Remain on Highway 280 until University Ave. Turn left onto University, proceed 7 blocks to SE 29th St. The building is on your right. - Parking Free parking is available in the visitor lot off SE 29th Ave. and in front of the building along University Ave. - Web map is at: http://www.onvoy.com/about_offices_upp.html For more information on TCSA, check out our web site: http://www.tcsa.org/ To subscribe to the TCSA mailing list (from a Unix system): echo "subscribe tcsa" | mailx majordomo at tcsa.org For any other information, please send email to: info at tcsa.org or contact: Dave Bianchi 651-644-7843 -- Dave Bianchi Collective Technologies djb at colltech.com A Pencom Company djb at tc.umn.edu http://www.colltech.com/