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Date: Wed, 16 Nov 2011 00:19:11 -0600 (CST)
Subject: [Cactus-News] CACTUS Newsletter - November, 2011
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                  Capital Area Central Texas UNIX Society
                             CACTUS Newsletter

                   Volume 27, Number 11 - November 2011

                               Next Meeting
                  Another Extraordinary CACTUS Meeting
                     Thursday, November 17, 7:00 PM

Contents:

     * November Meeting
     * Programs
     * Membership Report
     * CACTUS Officers
     * CACTUS Sponsors
     * Directions to Meeting Location

   The CACTUS Newsletter is a monthly publication, distributed to our
   members and other interested people. Visit the CACTUS Newsletter
   on the web at http://www.cactus.org/CACTUS/Newsletter/. There you
   will find archives of back issues, as well as instructions on how
   to subscribe to the e-mail distribution. We welcome newsletter
   submissions by our members. Please contact
   newsletter [at] cactus <dot> org for more information.
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November Meeting

   The next CACTUS meeting will be held on Thursday, November 17,
   2011 at 7:00 PM (doors open at 6:30 PM for beer and informal
   discussion) at the Highland Lanes Bowling Alley. It is located at
   the intersection of 183 and Burnet.

   The meeting room at Highland Lanes (aka The "Birthday" room) has
   enough seating for 20 or thirty people. Wi-Fi is available but the
   signal is weak. Cellular signal strength is good. Anyone who can
   tether their cell phone to a wi-fi router should bring it.

   One last note - CACTUS is having to pay a modest fee for this room
   and, consequently, will not be providing free food.
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Programs

   by Randy Zagar

   Bring your screwdrivers and power strips! I've got the rest of the
   parts for the CACTUS Cluster and it's time to put them all
   together!

   I'll be bringing the clusters' boot server and the parts for all
   three cluster nodes, plus some netgear switches, so we get to
   assemble the entire cluster and do some minimal testing.

   Bring. Your. Screwdriver.
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Membership Report

   by Mark Scarborough

   To renew your membership, please send check or money order payable
   to CACTUS ($30/yr for regular membership and $100/yr for corporate
   sponsorship):

   CACTUS
   PO BOX 9786
   Austin, TX 78766-9786

   You can also pay in person at the general meetings. Please direct
   any inquiries or address changes to
   membership [at] cactus <dot> org.
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CACTUS Officers

   The Officers for 2011 are:

   President:
          Johnny Long

   Treasurer:
          Ray Solanik

   Programs Chair:
          Brad Knowles

   Membership:
          Mark Scarborough

   Newsletter/Scribe:
          Randy Zagar

   Members at Large:
          James Howard
     _____________________________________________________________

CACTUS Sponsors

  Significant Contributing Sponsors

   CoreNAP, L.P.
          (Kenneth Smith, (512) 685-0010,
          kenneth [at] corenap <dot> com)
          Provides server colocation and high-speed Internet access
          to businesses in the Austin and central Texas area

   Newisys, Inc.
          (Tim Wood, (512) 340-9050,
          tim <dot> wood [at] newisys <dot> com)
          Development of enterprise-class servers

   Onramp
          (Chad Kissinger, president, 322-9200,
          info [at] onr <dot> com)
          Broadband Internet access, web design and colocation

   Outserv.net, Inc.
          (David Maynard, dpm [at] outserv <dot> net)
          e-Business Operations Service Provider

  Sponsors

   Dresser - Wayne
          (Steve Cox, (512) 338-8444,
          steve <dot> cox [at] dresser <dot> com)
          Provides instrumentation and services to the oil and energy

   Flowing Circles Engineering
          (Johnny Long, (512) 293-7894, longjy [at] fcei <dot> com)
          Taking advantage of grid computing to solve matrix
          engineering and energy conversion problems.

   IBM Corporation
          (George Kraft IV, (512)838-2688,
          gk4 [at] austin <dot> ibm <dot> com)

   Journyx, Inc.
          (John Madollozzo, (512)833-3274,
          john [at] journyx <dot> com)
          Web-based products to track time, expenses, and attendance,
          for project management and billing.

   Ray Solanik, Technical Consultant
          (Ray Solanik, solanik [at] cactus <dot> org)

   Starflight Corp.
          (Jon Roland, jon <dot> roland [at] the-spa <dot> com)
          Computer consulting, management solutions, documentation,
          and technical writing.

   TEKsystems, Inc.
          (Russell Labay, (512) 249-4912, (888) 598-5877,
          rlabay [at] teksystems <dot> com)
          A leading provider of strategic staffing and managed
          services for the Information Technology and Communications
          (IT&C) community.

   Veraci Inc.
          (Michael Shrivathsan, michael [at] veraci <dot> com)

   VoIPing, LLC
          (Lenny Tropiano, 512-698-VOIP (8647) or Brian Sinclair
          512-698-8031, info [at] voiping <dot> com)
          IT Consulting and Services, converged networks, Unix, and
          Voice over IP

  Friends of CACTUS

   Applied Formal Methods, Inc.
          (Susan Gerhart, 794-9732, gerhart [at] cactus <dot> org)

   Austin Code Works
          (Scott Guthery, 258-0785, info [at] acw <dot> com)

   BestRegistrar.com
          ((800) 977-3475, registrar [at] bestregistrar <dot> com)
          A top-level domain name registrar, CORE member

   Covad/Laserlink
          (Chip Rosenthal)

   CTG
          (Maurine Mecer, 502-0190 (FAX 502-0287))
          Professional recruiting

   EDP Contract Services
          (Mark Grabenhorst, 346-1040)
          Professional recruiting

   Hewlett Packard
          (Bill Sumrall, 338-7221)

   Hounix
          (Marilyn Harper)
          Houston's Unix Users Group

   Network Appliance Corporation
          (Frank Mozina, fmozina [at] netapp <dot> com)

   O'Keefe Search
          (John O'Keefe, john [at] okeefesearch <dot> com,
          512-658-9224 or 888-446-2137)
          Professional recuiting

   Rocksteady Networks, Inc.
          (Eric White, 512-427-1319,
          ewhite [at] rocksteady <dot> com)

   Sailaway System Design
          (Chris J Johnson, 447-5243)

   Schlumberger
          (Kathy O'Brien, obrien [at] asc <dot> slb <dot> com)
          Technical services and products in over 100 countries

   Silicon Graphics
          (Don Williams, 346-9342)

   Solid Systems
          (Pete Farrell, 442-2222)

   Sterling Infomation Group
          (Darrell Hanshaw, 344-1005)

   Sun Microsystems
          (Rick Taylor)
          Supplier of Unix client-server computing solutions

   Texas Internet Consulting
          (Smoot Carl-Mitchell, 451-6176, smoot [at] tic <dot> com)
          TCP/IP networking, Unix, and open systems standards

   Technow
          A Sun Authorized Training Center and a Hardware Reseller

   Unison Software
          (Shelley St. John, 478-0611)
          Supplier of networked systems management solutions

   UT Computer Science Department
          (Patti Spencer)

   UT Computation Center
          (Mike Cerda, 471-3241,
          cerda [at] uts <dot> cc <dot> utexas <dot> edu)
     _____________________________________________________________

Directions to Meeting Location

   CACTUS meets on the third Thursday of each month. This month, the
   CACTUS meeting will be held at the at the Highland Lanes Bowling
   Alley. It is located at the intersection of 183 and Burnet.