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UNIGROUP OF NEW YORK - UNIX USERS GROUP - NOVEMBER 2005 ANNOUNCEMENTS
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1. UNIGROUP'S NOVEMBER 2005 GENERAL MEETING ANNOUNCEMENT
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      When:  THURSDAY, November 17th, 2005    (3rd Thursday)

     Where:  Alliance for Downtown NY Conference Facility
             Downtown Center
             104 Washington Street
             South West Corner of Wall Street Area
             Downtown, New York City
             ** Please RSVP (not mandatory) **

      Time:  6:15 PM - 6:25 PM  Registration
             6:25 PM - 6:45 PM  Ask the Wizard, Questions,
                                Answers and Current Events
             6:45 PM - 7:00 PM  Unigroup Business and Announcements
             7:00 PM - 9:30 PM  Main Presentation

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     Topic:  Time Management for System Administrators
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  Speaker:   Tom Limoncelli,
             Cibernet Corp. 


   INTRODUCTION:
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   Tom Limoncelli was the speaker for Unigroup's May 2002 meeting
   on Internet Collaboration which discussed the various processes
   that Tom experienced/invented while writing his first book (with
   his co-author Christine Hogan) "The Practice of System and
   Network Administration".  This book encapsulated years of
   practical experience into a comprehensive text that many
   administrators would find a useful source of knowledge and
   experience.

   As System Administrators, we have all felt the time management
   problem, especially when supporting people from multiple groups,
   departments, or companies.  At our November 2005 meeting, Tom
   will share some of his insights into the time management problem,
   and we hope to learn useful information that spans both Tom's books.

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   SPECIAL INSTRUCTIONS:
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   To REGISTER for this event, please RSVP by using the Unigroup
   Registration Page:
         http://www.unigroup.org/unigroup-rsvp.html

   This will allow us to automate the registration process.
   (Registration will also add you to our mailing list.)
   Please avoid emailed RSVPs, if at all possible.

   Please continue to check the Unigroup web site and meeting page,
   for any last minute updates concerning this meeting.  If you
   registered for this meeting, please check your email for any last
   minute announcements as the meeting approaches.  Also make sure
   any anti-spam white-lists are updated to _ALLOW_ Unigroup traffic!

   Please try to RSVP as soon as possible.

   Note: RSVP is not mandatory for this location, but it does help
         us to properly plan the meeting (food, drinks, handouts,
         seating, etc.).

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   MAIN PRESENTATION OUTLINE:
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   Time Management for SysAdmins
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   Tom will be presenting tips from his new book,
   "Time Management for System Administrators," published by O'Reilly.

   Who has the time for time management!?  Users interrupt you
   constantly with requests, your managers want you to get
   long-term projects done but flood you with requests for
   quick-fixed, and the machines you manage just never behave,
   causing problems at the most inopportune moments.  Tom will
   discuss techniques he has developed over the last 15 years
   including:

     - How to find time to get projects done,
     - The best way to manage interruptions from users,
     - Open Source tools for tracking requests,
     - How to turn chaos into free time.

   Tom's new book is due out late in November, and it can be pre-ordered
   at Amazon (see below, for a 30% off coupon):
     http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/0596007833/tomontime-20

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   Web Resources:
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   Tom's first book "The Practice of System and Network Administration",
   and his blog:
     http://www.EverythingSysadmin.com

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   Speaker Biography:
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   Tom Limoncelli is the co-author of The Practice of System and
   Network Administration and author of Time Management for System
   Administrators.  He has more than 15 years experience as a
   sysadmin and has been invited to speak around the world on many
   topics.  Tom is a co-founder of $GROUPNAME, NJ's Unix Users Group.
   You can read his blog on http://www.EverythingSysadmin.com.

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   Giveaways:
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   O'Reilly has been kind enough to provide us with some of their
   books, which we will continue to raffle off as giveaways at our
   meetings.

   Addison-Wesley Professional/Prentice Hall PTR has been kind
   enough to provide us with some of their books, which we will
   continue to raffle off as giveaways at our meetings.

   Unigroup would like to thank both companies for the support
   provided by their User Group programs.

   Note: The chances tend to be about 1 in 5, that any attendee of
   our meeting will walk away with a fairly valuable giveaway
   (ie. most books are valued between $30 and $60)!

   ** We also still have some Sun Solaris 10 DVDs available from
      friends at the NYC Sun Office.

   Tom will bring O'Reilly t-shirts and books to give away, as well
   as a copy of his first book.  Since his Time Management book
   is not in print yet, he will give out coupons for a 30% discount
   on pre-orders of his book.

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   Fee Schedule:
       Yearly Membership (includes all meetings):      $ 50.00
       Non-Member Single Meeting:                      $ 20.00
       Student Yearly Membership:                      $ 20.00
       Non-Member Student Single Meeting (with ID):    $  5.00
       Payment Methods: Cash, Check, American Express.

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   Complimentary Food and Refreshments will be served.  This includes
   "wraps" such as turkey, roast beef, chicken, tuna and grilled
   vegetables as well as assorted salads (potato, tossed,
   pasta, etc), cookies, bottled water and assorted beverages.

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   Directions:

     Alliance for Downtown NY Conference Facility
     Downtown Center
     104 Washington Street
     Wall Street Area
     Downtown, New York City

   This building is located on the West side of the street, the
   second building north of Rector Street.  Cross Streets:
   Between Rector (South) and Carlisle (North) Streets.

   Our meeting location is in the Lower West Corner of Downtown,
   North of the Battery Tunnel, South of the Downtown Hotel,
   East of West Street, and West of Greenwich Street.  Walking West
   on Rector Street from Broadway, you pass Church, Greenwich then
   Washington Streets.

   There are multiple blocks of parking lots right there, between
   Washington and Greenwich Streets, starting at the Battery Tunnel
   and extending North for a number of blocks.

   Nearest mass transit stations, in order, are the '1/9' (Rector
   Street), 'R/W' (Rector Street) and the '4/5' (Wall Street).

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   Please mark this meeting on your calendar and join us!
   Please tell your friends about Unigroup!

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2. UPCOMING MEETINGS
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   We have a series of meetings in the works:

   - Field Trip to Novell - SuSE/OpenSuSE Linux
   - NO SPAM!  (know any speakers?)
   - Asterix / VoIP
   - Field Trip to HP - Invited
   - Are there too many Linux Distributions?
   - Unix 35th Birthday Celebration (Sun has offered to host this!)
   - IPsec and IPv6
   - Samba
   - DNS
   - Unix Clusters and Clustered Databases
   - Linux Clustering Part 3: Beowulf version 2
   - Building a Firewall using FreeBSD and Linux
   - High Performance Internet Servers / Web Acceleration
   - Unix Office Tools: Word Processors, Spreadsheets, Accounting Packages.
   - PKI
   - GNU Development Environments
   - iSCSI, Serial ATA, and other new peripheral technologies

   Please let us know about any other meeting topics that you may be
   interested in.  Potential speakers on Unix related technology topics
   should contact the Unigroup Board.

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3. PRIOR MEETINGS
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   September 2005: Computing Compliance
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   Unigroup would like to thank Athena Archiver, Inc., for giving us
   our presentation on Computing Compliance.

   We learned about the challenges that IT professionals now face given
   new regulations, laws and industry procedures regarding compliance and
   best practices.   Many industries now face enhanced requirements for
   reporting and information archiving.  The compliance marketplace was
   discussed, including features, benefits and drawbacks of various
   competing products.

   Various handouts and relevant article reprints were provided to those
   in attendance.  Athena Archive also sponsored the food service at
   this meeting!

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4. LOCAL EVENTS and TRADE SHOWS
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   A) Sun Microsystems Events: NYC + NJ
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      : ===============  Sun Customer Invite =========================
      : 
      : Solaris 10 Part V has arrived! Are you ready?
      : 
      : This Solaris deep dive session focuses on two topics. First, we cover
      : various virtualization technologies in the systems space. Technologies
      : such as Xen and the ability to run Linux applications on Solaris will
      : be covered.  You will also get a Containers update, specifically on
      : patching and packaging.
      : 
      : The second topic is Development Tools for Solaris. The latest set of
      : compilers from Sun significantly improve your application performance.
      : We will discuss the specifics, and show comparisons against gcc and
      : other compilers.
      : 
      : Please read below for agenda topics, speakers, dates and locations!
      : This event is sure to fill up fast, so please register!
      : 
      : DATE:
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      : Wednesday, November 16, 2005: (New York, NY)
      : Thursday,  November 17, 2005: (Somerset, NJ)
      : 
      : RSVP:
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      : http://sunsmart.sun.com/wma/
      : Event ID: techne
      : Password: sun
      : 
      : AUDIENCE:
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      : IT/Technology Professionals, CXOs/CTOs, Developers, Line-of-Business
      : Professionals
      : 
      : AGENDA:
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      : 8:45am - 9:00am     Registration and Continental Breakfast
      : 
      : 9:00am - 9:05am     Welcome and Specifics
      :                     Ambreesh Khanna,
      :                     Chief Technologist, Solaris Adoption
      : 
      : 9:05am - 10:15am    Sun's Server Virtualization Strategy
      :                     Matthew Baier, Senior Product Manager,
      :                     Solaris Interoperability
      : 
      : 10:15am - 11:00am   Xen and Solaris
      :                     John Danielson,
      :                     Senior Staff Engineer, Solaris on Xen
      : 
      : 11:00am - 11:45am   Solaris Application Environment for Linux
      :                     Nils Nieuwejaar, Project Lead,
      :                     Solaris Application Environment for Linux
      : 
      : 11:45am - 12:15pm   Lunch
      : 
      : 12:15pm -  1:00pm   Containers Update
      :                     David Comay,
      :                     Senior Staff Engineer, Solaris Engineering
      : 
      : 1:00pm -2:30pm      C/C++ Development Tools on Solaris
      :                     Don Kretsch, Director, Developement Tools
      : 
      : LOCATIONS:
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      : Wednesday, November 16, 2005
      : Sun New York Office
      : Grammercy Park Conference Room
      : 101 Park Avenue
      : 4th Floor
      : New York, NY 10178
      : 
      : Thursday, November 17, 2005
      : Sun Somerset Office
      : Sun Conference Room
      : 400 Atrium Drive
      : Somerset, NJ 08873
      : (732) 469-1000

   B) InfoSecurity Show 2005 at The Javits Center
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      Infosecurity New York
      December 6-8, 2005
      Jacob K. Javits Convention Center
      New York, NY

      Exhibit hours:
        Tue, December 6, 10:00 am - 5:00 pm
        Wed, December 7, 10:00 am - 4:00 pm

      For information and complimentary online registration visit:
        http://www.infosecurityevent.com

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5. UNIGROUP INFORMATION
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   Unigroup is one of the oldest and largest Unix User's Groups serving
   the Greater New York City Regional Area since the early 1980s.  Unigroup
   is a not-for-profit, vendor-neutral and member funded volunteer
   organization.  Unigroup holds regular and special event meetings
   throughout the year on technical topics relating to Unix and the Unix
   User Community.  Unigroup is/was also the Greater NYC Regional Area
   Affiliate of UniForum - an International Unix Users Group.

   Unigroup holds regular meetings planned for (at a minimum) the Third
   THURSDAY of Odd Months.  We generally try to hold Field Trip or
   Vendor Specific Meetings on the Even Months, although we do have the
   ability to hold monthly meetings at our new downtown meeting location.
   Recently, we have been holding meetings on a more monthly basis.

   Planned regular meeting dates are: 11/17/2005, 1/19/2006, 3/16/2006, ...
   Watch for our Special Event meetings at the various trade shows in NYC
   as well as "Field Trips" to the facilities of local hardware and
   software vendors.

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   For further information or to get on the Unigroup Electronic Mail Mailing
   List send an EMail message to:
        unilist (at) unigroup.org

   To contact the Board of Directors of Unigroup, send an EMail message to:
        uniboard (at) unigroup.org

   If you have recently attended a meeting and you are not receiving
   Email announcements, please send us an Email and we will make
   corrections to our lists.

   Please Email the Board with any suggestions, especially potential
   meeting topics and speakers.  Unigroup welcomes contributions and
   content suggestions for our newsletter.  Unigroup is a volunteer
   organization and we need your assistance!  Please let us know if you
   can help!

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I hope to see you all at our next meeting!

-Rob Weiner
 Unigroup Executive Director
 unilist (at) unigroup.org
 http://www.unigroup.org

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