From brando.fouts at gmail.com Wed Jan 7 09:04:14 2009 From: brando.fouts at gmail.com (Brandon Fouts) Date: Wed, 7 Jan 2009 09:04:14 -0800 Subject: [PSNUG.org News] Stroh's insight of wireless trends Message-ID: <609b18560901070904n59617085sf58f13a393ee6f73@mail.gmail.com> short and to the point - thought provoking as usual http://www.bwianews.com/2008/10/thoughts-on-nex.html -- =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= www.psnug.org Puget Sound Network Users Group Building Technical Skills Through Teamwork And Education. Helping members realize Open Standards and investigate Open Source. _____________________ PSNUG dues/food $35 per year -21st anniversary coffee mug that you can pickup at any meeting - no we don't ship. pay at monthly meeting or send checks payable to: PSNUG PSNUG c/o Brandon Fouts 9549a Olympus Beach Rd NE Bainbridge Island, WA 98110-3446 ==-==-==-==-==-==-==-==-==-==-== -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From brando.fouts at gmail.com Fri Jan 9 14:04:19 2009 From: brando.fouts at gmail.com (Brandon Fouts) Date: Fri, 9 Jan 2009 14:04:19 -0800 Subject: [PSNUG.org News] eWeek top 4 to watch Message-ID: <609b18560901091404k90e4cdbl4487269b1a3a4385@mail.gmail.com> *thanks to Steve for this heads up - iPaq 910 Business messenger* Hewlett-Packard's iPaq 910 Business Messenger combines 3G wireless speeds, GPS navigation, Wi-Fi and Bluetooth,as well as the ability to run powerful business-critical applications. Running Microsoft's Windows. *FactFinder* BlueStripe's FactFinder provides the ability to manage application performance and availability in virtualized data center environments by mapping physical and virtual systems for an understanding of applications and their interdependencies. FactFinder offers automatic discovery and mapping of application dependencies; measures health and performance; and performs analysis for triage capabilities. [ sounds like PlateSpin part of - http://www.novell.com/systemsmanagement/data-center-management/ - Profiles application workloads, evaluates whether they are virtualization candidates and provides direction on how to consolidate them for optimum resource utilization. - Can automate the consolidation process through physical to virtual (P2V) migration. - Enables companies to handle virtual to physical (V2P) migration ? an important function often missing from other virtualization providers' offerings. V2P is critical for customer support of independent software vendors (ISVs); for example, when ISVs don't overtly support their products in a virtual environment. V2P also provides flexibility for high availability and optimization. - Offers hardware-independent image capture and restore (and physical image to virtual image migration) that can be used for migrations and disaster recovery. - Offers relatively new disaster recovery functions that enable production environments to be virtualized and backed up for disaster recovery testing and implementation. ] *HYDRAstor HS8-2000* The NEC HYDRAstor HS8-2000 grid storage platform is a self-evolving storage solution. According to the company, each Accelerator Node provides performance of 300MB per second, raw capacity of 12TB and effective capacity of 157.5 TB (based on a 20-to-1 deduplication ratio with default protection 300 percent greater than RAID 5). *GroupWise 8* With multiplatform support?including Mac, Windows, Linux and the Web?Novell's GroupWise 8 boosts personal productivity capabilities; adds a customizable dashboard including e-mail, calendar, contacts and task lists; and offers Web 2.0 and team collaboration tools such as blogs, RSS feeds and wikis. http://www.eweek.com/c/a/IT-Infrastructure/Products-to-Watch-January-5-2009/ -- =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= www.psnug.org Puget Sound Network Users Group Building Technical Skills Through Teamwork And Education. 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But did you know the University of Washington has released a free, open source computer recovery system for Windows, Linux and Mac? Check out Adeona at http://adeona.cs.washington.edu/ . Randy Grein, Master CNE, CCNA From brando.fouts at gmail.com Tue Jan 13 17:00:38 2009 From: brando.fouts at gmail.com (Brandon Fouts) Date: Tue, 13 Jan 2009 17:00:38 -0800 Subject: [PSNUG.org News] BIOS Linux Message-ID: <609b18560901131700y13be2d0cu14a6c84f409e8097@mail.gmail.com> http://blogs.computerworld.com/everyones_free_linux_devicevms_splashtop Many laptops and mother boards already have. -- =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= www.psnug.org Puget Sound Network Users Group Building Technical Skills Through Teamwork And Education. Helping members realize Open Standards and investigate Open Source. _____________________ PSNUG dues/food $35 per year -21st anniversary coffee mug that you can pickup at any meeting - no we don't ship. pay at monthly meeting or send checks payable to: PSNUG PSNUG c/o Brandon Fouts 9549a Olympus Beach Rd NE Bainbridge Island, WA 98110-3446 ==-==-==-==-==-==-==-==-==-==-== -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From brando.fouts at gmail.com Fri Jan 16 07:36:45 2009 From: brando.fouts at gmail.com (Brandon Fouts) Date: Fri, 16 Jan 2009 07:36:45 -0800 Subject: [PSNUG.org News] Southern California Linux Expo - note Jan 19 registration deadline Message-ID: <609b18560901160736r1ad7332fy9b529567123d98b0@mail.gmail.com> see www.psnug.org to find link/URL for SCALE and note Jan 19 deadline for lower registration fee. This is one of the largest US events - also note Healthcare spin-off event I encourage you to visit SCALE web-site and you'll no doubt learn a few things. A lot of inexpensive Open Source events here on the West Coast - please help me add and events that you hear about to PSNUG home page. There are about half a dozen listed to far (not all events have banner ads, so read carefully) -- =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= www.psnug.org Puget Sound Network Users Group Building Technical Skills Through Teamwork And Education. Helping members realize Open Standards and investigate Open Source. _____________________ PSNUG dues/food $35 per year -21st anniversary coffee mug that you can pickup at any meeting - no we don't ship. pay at monthly meeting or send checks payable to: PSNUG PSNUG c/o Brandon Fouts 9549a Olympus Beach Rd NE Bainbridge Island, WA 98110-3446 ==-==-==-==-==-==-==-==-==-==-== -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... 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Message-ID: <4974F3B6.0D8B.00D2.3@wccg.net> This news from: http://seagate.custkb.com/seagate/crm/selfservice/news.jsp?DocId=207931 A number of Seagate hard drives from the following families may become inaccessible when the host system is powered on: Barracuda 7200.11 DiamondMax 22 Barracuda ES.2 SATA Once a drive has become affected the data becomes inaccessible to users but the data is not deleted. Seagate has isolated this issue to a firmware bug affecting drives from these families manufactured in December 2008. Hope this helps. Steve. From brando.fouts at gmail.com Thu Jan 22 08:51:23 2009 From: brando.fouts at gmail.com (Brandon Fouts) Date: Thu, 22 Jan 2009 11:51:23 -0500 Subject: [PSNUG.org News] FOSDEM 09 Message-ID: <609b18560901220851v1bfab2d3wb5c80186c38db944@mail.gmail.com> Good news - FREE Bad news - got to fly to Brussels You can watch VIDEOs - starting with 2008 events - http://fosdem.org/2009/ It may be easier to start here: http://fosdem.org/2009/media/video Check out the long list of speakers ! and many other things. Video recordings of talks held at FOSDEM editions 2005, 2006, 2007 and 2008 are available on http://video.fosdem.org -- =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= www.psnug.org Puget Sound Network Users Group Building Technical Skills Through Teamwork And Education. Helping members realize Open Standards and investigate Open Source. _____________________ PSNUG dues/food $35 per year -21st anniversary coffee mug that you can pickup at any meeting - no we don't ship. pay at monthly meeting or send checks payable to: PSNUG PSNUG c/o Brandon Fouts 9549a Olympus Beach Rd NE Bainbridge Island, WA 98110-3446 ==-==-==-==-==-==-==-==-==-==-== -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From ssinghose at wccg.net Mon Jan 26 22:58:24 2009 From: ssinghose at wccg.net (Steve Singhose) Date: Mon, 26 Jan 2009 22:58:24 -0800 Subject: [PSNUG.org News] PSNUG meeting reminder Message-ID: <497E4010.0D8B.00D2.3@wccg.net> Happy New Year everyone. This is your semiregular meeting reminder. The next PSNUG meeting will be Wednesday, January 28 The nice folks from Xiotech will be on hand to talk to us about their latest storage hardware and software. After last months e-mail archving (and other product demos from GWAVA) I think we are all in need of looking at additional storage. See you Wednesday at 1800 - http://www.psnug.org/directions.html Steve Singhose Vice-President Puget Sound Network Users Group (PSNUG) http://www.psnug.org 206-419-0829 From brando.fouts at gmail.com Fri Jan 30 10:29:52 2009 From: brando.fouts at gmail.com (Brandon Fouts) Date: Fri, 30 Jan 2009 13:29:52 -0500 Subject: [PSNUG.org News] 35 bits per electron and Pulsar discoveries Message-ID: <609b18560901301029j7b9a2eb5g1ce2e4a24c7f595e@mail.gmail.com> "How densely can you encode information on a computer chip?" said Hari Manoharan the assistant professor of physics who directed the work of physics graduate student Chris Moon and other researchers. "The assumption has been that basically the ultimate limit is when one atom represents one bit, and then there's no more room?in other words it's impossible to scale down below the level of atoms. But in this experiment we've stored some 35 bits per electron to encode each letter. So one bit per atom is no longer the limit for information density." http://home.slac.stanford.edu/pressreleases/2009/20090128.htm _____________________________________________ http://today.slac.stanford.edu/feature/2009/fgst-pulsars.asp Fermi Gamma-ray Space Telescope Discovers Slew of New Pulsars -- =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= www.psnug.org Puget Sound Network Users Group Building Technical Skills Through Teamwork And Education. Helping members realize Open Standards and investigate Open Source. _____________________ PSNUG dues/food $35 per year -21st anniversary coffee mug that you can pickup at any meeting - no we don't ship. pay at monthly meeting or send checks payable to: PSNUG PSNUG c/o Brandon Fouts 9549a Olympus Beach Rd NE Bainbridge Island, WA 98110-3446 ==-==-==-==-==-==-==-==-==-==-== -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... 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URL: From brando.fouts at gmail.com Sat Feb 14 10:57:05 2009 From: brando.fouts at gmail.com (Brandon Fouts) Date: Sat, 14 Feb 2009 13:57:05 -0500 Subject: [PSNUG.org News] Fwd: Linux SIG Feb 17, A+ Computer Recycle, more Message-ID: <609b18560902141057l5cec6a77if8a43962fe5ecca0@mail.gmail.com> ---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: Date: Sat, Feb 14, 2009 at 12:48 PM Subject: Remember to be at Linux SIG Feb 17, 2009, A+ Computer Recycle, more To: fox7777 at carlsonco.net The February 17, 2009 Linux SIG meeting is on the 3rd Tuesday of the month at the Lakewood Fire Station, 5000 Steilacoom Blvd SW,Lakewood, WA 98499 (by the water tower & on the West side of the complex) in Training Room #2. Doors open by 6:30 PM for setup. Super fast T-1 internet connections available. We will look at the newly released or upcoming Linux distributions including Mepis Linux 8.00 (which runs on Debian and adds improvements), Puppy Linux 4.1.2 for old/low capacity computers, flash drives, etc, Kubuntu 9.04 A4 & Fedora 10. We will explore Linux wireless security, Virtual Private Networks (VPN), such as Krdc, Krfb, Kvpnc, TightVNC or OpenVPN, and virtual online meetings using Gizmo, Skype, Ekiga or Yugma. Linux is quickly becoming the preferred computer operating system! Say good bye to expensive proprietary operating systems, viruses,worms, crashes, forced upgrades, infuriating pop-ups & get a better, complete Linux operating system with all the applications you need for a very affordable price. Now is the time to make the move to Linux. We welcome you to join us. Bring your used computer equipment for free to A+ Computer Recycle, 2724 Pacific Ave E, Olympia, WA 98501 (exit 107 North off I-5) the home of reconditioned computer systems (computer, monitor, keyboard, mouse) starting at $50. Also mark your calendars for LinuxFest, Bellingham Apr 25-26, 2009 and LinuxCon, Portland Sep 21-23, 2009. For details, see http://Linux-Now.us -- =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= www.psnug.org Puget Sound Network Users Group Building Technical Skills Through Teamwork And Education. Helping members realize Open Standards and investigate Open Source. _____________________ PSNUG dues/food $35 per year -21st anniversary coffee mug that you can pickup at any meeting - no we don't ship. pay at monthly meeting or send checks payable to: PSNUG PSNUG c/o Brandon Fouts 9549a Olympus Beach Rd NE Bainbridge Island, WA 98110-3446 ==-==-==-==-==-==-==-==-==-==-== -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... 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This joint solution delivers a tightly integrated suite of essential applications, including OpenOffice.org, web browser, multimedia tools, and email, collaboration and instant messaging software to drive productivity for business customers. For education customers, HP is working with Novell to develop and maintain a repository of more than 40 applications, including math, art and word games, to improve student learning. In addition, applications for school administration and instruction will be available for teachers and administrators. "We are excited to expand our work with HP to take advantage of the high-growth desktop Linux space," said Roger Levy, senior vice president and general manager, Open Platform Solutions, Novell. "As the best-engineered and most interoperable Linux desktop, SUSE Linux Enterprise Desktop helps customers increase security and improve productivity. With the focus on educational users, this affordable joint offering delivers a solid learning platform and prepares students with 21st-century technology skills." Pricing and availability The Mozilla Firefox for HP Virtual Solution is planned to be available worldwide by end of year at no additional cost on the new business desktop models referenced above, with the HP Compaq dx2390 available outside the United States. The HP Compaq dc5850 with SUSE Linux Enterprise Desktop is expected to be available Dec. 15 in North America at a U.S. street price of $519. (1) -- =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= www.psnug.org Puget Sound Network Users Group Building Technical Skills Through Teamwork And Education. 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Randy Grein, Master CNE, CCNA Begin forwarded message: > From: CreativeTechs > Date: February 16, 2009 6:14:51 AM PST > To: rgrein at mac.com > Subject: CreativeTechs QuickTips #239: InDesign Guides, AreMySitesUp? > > Graphics not displaying correctly? View this email in your web > browser. > > Video Clips: > > > > InDesign CS3/CS4 > Guides and Easy Math. > > InDesign CS3/CS4 > Access the Hand Tool While Editing Text. > > InDesign CS3/CS4 > Webinar Audience Q&A. > Each week we post free video clips from recent workshops and > webinars. You can also subscribe to our videos in iTunes orYouTube. > > > > > > Call it a creative stimulus package. On February 26th, CreativeTechs > is kicking off a free, 10-week, worldwide, Photoshop course. If > you've been meaning to improve your Photoshop skills, now is the > perfect opportunity: > > Free Photoshop Course > > > > Forward this email > Do you know someone who might be interested in receiving these > weekly tips? > > > Creative Tip: Quickly Delete All Page Guides in InDesign. > > > This week's tip was pulled from a collection of rapid-fire speed > tips for working with guides in Jason Hoppe's Moving Faster in > InDesign CS3/CS4 webinar. Ever need to quickly delete all the guides > on an InDesign page? Here's how: > > You can quickly select all the guides on your page by typing Command- > Option-G (On the PC, that's Ctrl-Alt-G). Then hit the Delete key to > delete them. > > A new feature in InDesign CS4 makes it even easier. Right-Click or > Control-Click on the ruler or a guide and choose Delete all Guides > in the pop-up menu. > > Tip: If some guides have been locked in position, select all guides > first and then choose Object > Unlock Position or type Command- > Option-L to unlock them. This technique does not delete guides from > Master Pages. > > Source: We captured an excellent recording of Jason's repeat > InDesign workshop last week. If you missed out, you can download the > full 2 hour recording, along with a 12 page PDF handout. > > The cost is $15. We've put together a simple PayPal purchase link > that takes you directly to a download page after paying. As a bonus > we were able to throw in an extra 45 minutes of audience Q&A. It's a > bargain! > > > Tech Tip: AreMySitesUp.com > > > The URL says it all. Here is a free site that monitors up to 20 of > your Web sites and notifies you if they go down: > > http://aremysitesup.com/ > > I've looked at a dozen similar services over the years, and this one > is as straightforward as it gets. You can also upgrade to a paid > account at $75/year that checks your sites more frequently, as well > as adding additional options to test for specific words or phrases > on your site. > > Source: I discovered AreMySitesUp some time ago at the excellent CSS- > Tricks blog. Sadly, we had the opportunity to see it in action last > week when this service notified us that the CreativeTechs blog was > down last Friday. That outage was caused by database connectivity > issues at our host Media Temple. > > > This Week on Twitter: Web Design Resources. > > I'm experimenting with Twitter as a way to collect, explore, and > share topics that I'm working into future tips. > > Follow me on Twitter and every day I'll share a quick link from the > growing stash of resources I perpetually collect. Occasionally > you'll get a sneak preview into a larger weekly tip that I'm > researching. Nothing big planned this week, just a random assortment > of web design resources and links. > > This coming week, Jordan and I are in Washington D.C. working on > some technical certifications for JAMF Casper Suite. Some big stuff > coming ? but that's a story for another day. Happy Presidents Day! > > > > PS. Since I've started twittering (tweeting? twitting?) I've needed > to explain what, exactly, Twitter is all about. 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Confirmed Keynotes and Roundtable Panels include: * Edward Screven, Chief Corporate Architect, Oracle * The Future of Mobile Linux and Moblin 2.0 Demo presented by Imad Sousou, Intel * Why Can't We All Just Get Along: Linux, Microsoft, and Sun: a roundtable panel with Jim Zemlin of The Linux Foundation, Sam Ramji of Microsoft, and Ian Murdock of Sun Microsystems * Linux Participation Panel--Measuring Community Contributions: a panel with Jono Bacon, Community Manager, Ubuntu; James Bottomley, kernel developer; Joe Brockmeier, Community Manager, openSUSE; and Dan Frye, VP of Open Systems Development at IBM * The Linux Kernel: What's Next: A roundtable panel with Jon Corbet, Greg Kroah-Hartmann, Andrew Morton, Keith Packard and Ted Ts'o To request an invitation to attend this powerful and thought-provoking event, visit: http://events.linuxfoundation.org/component/registrationpro/?func=details&did=2 ==> LinuxCon Call for Papers <== The Linux Foundation is pleased to announce the launch of LinuxCon, a brand new annual North American technical conference. The 1st Annual LinuxCon is taking place September 21?23, 2009 in Portland, OR. Registration and Call for Papers are now open. Linux is poised to become a $50-billion ecosystem by 2011. While there are many point developer conferences for Linux today, there is not a comprehensive and high quality gathering for developers and users of Linux to come together and collaborate. LinuxCon will do just this--bringing together the best and brightest the Linux community has to offer, including core developers, administrators, end users, community managers and industry experts. ( http://events.linuxfoundation.org/events/linuxcon) ==> Linux Foundation Announces Beta of New Website <== As the Foundation increases its web presence, changes have been made to all of the Foundation's web sites, including a complete redesign of the main Linux Foundation site. The public can get a sneak preview of the new site at http://beta.linuxfoundation.org/. The LF site's new system will allow for better collaboration among and between our workgroups and councils. The new Linux Foundation site will allow for easier navigation and a faster, more robust experience for LF site visitors. The new design is much more streamlined and graphic oriented, and all the LF sites share several common elements: navigation, tools, styles, and logos--while also keeping their own sense of identity. The Linux Developer Network (http://ldn.linuxfoundation.org), the LF Video site (http://video.linuxfoundation.org), and the LF Events site ( http://events.linuxfoundation.org/) already feature the new design. ==> "We're Linux" Video Contest Still Going Strong <== Many unique entries have been entered for the Foundation's "We're Linux" Video Contest, which will be open for entries until March 15. The entries thus far run the gamut of style, skillset, and messaging, and reflect the Linux community's creativity in interesting ways. If you haven't checked out the entries yet, you're invited to do so at http://video.linuxfoundation.org/category/video-category/-linux-foundation-video-contest. We think you'll enjoy much of what you'll find. ==> Linux Foundation in the News <== ZDNet Asia: Open Source Can Boost S'pore Innovation "Citing an October report by the Linux Foundation, [Harish] Pillay, [open source evangelist and sales training manager at Red Hat] said efforts poured into building free Linux community distribution, Fedora 9, would have otherwise cost US$10.8 billion. This figure was estimated based on the 204,500,946 lines of codes written for the software, 59,389.53 man-hours spent, and the average programmer's annual salary of US$75,662.08 as determined by the US Department of Labor." ( http://www.zdnetasia.com/news/business/0,39044229,62051160,00.htm) LinuxPlanet: How Many Linux Users Are There (Really)? "As Jim Zemlin, the executive director of The Linux Foundation, points out, 'I am not joking or trying to be trite, but the answer to this question is: every single person in the modern world every day. Everyone who searches Google, picks up a phone and uses telecommunication infrastructure, watches a new televisions, use a new camera, makes a call on many modern cell phones, trades a stock on a major exchange, watches a weather forecast generated on a supercomputer, logs into Facebook, navigates via air traffic control systems, buys a netbook computer, checks out at a cash register, withdraws cash at an ATM machine, fires up a quick-boot desktop (even those with Windows), or uses one of many medical devices; the list goes on and on.'" (http://www.linuxplanet.com/linuxplanet/reports/6671/1/) ==> From The Director <== I've written on Red Hat before and the confidence I feel in their operational strengths. It is one of the best run companies I've seen. Red Hat's leadership in the Linux space and its steadfast belief in open source software has been a key factor in Linux adoption in the enterprise. This year's numbers with Linux capturing greater than 20% of server shipments, a major success, are due in large part to Red Hat's competitiveness and hard work. One thing about great companies: they pick great partners. Red Hat is celebrated 10 years working with IBM today. In 1999, Red Hat had gone public and IBM was looking at Linux strategically. Since then, the dotcom bubble broke, and less prepared companies like Sun were hard hit while IBM and Red Hat are stronger than ever. In 2009, the partnership between Red Hat and IBM spans the globe, and both names are synonymous with Linux. 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Sara Radicati from the > Radicati Group, Michael Osterman from Osterman Research, and Richi Jennings > from Ferris Research. Their response has been extremely favorable. They were > especially impressed with the passion and energy that is associated with the > Novell community. > > We are already making plans for next year at the same time in the same > location. 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I'll do my best to respond to a couple points below. > > I will be attending LFNW, so please feel free to stop by the Postgres > booth, > or catch me in the hall track :) > > On Tue, Feb 17, 2009 at 12:27 PM, Keith Lofstrom wrote: > > > I don't know what kind of deal LoT got from the Oregon Convention > > Center for Bridge, but if the OCC people have an ounce of brains, > > they will realize that helping cross-disciplinary groups like LoT > > will turn that huge white elephant into a money maker. > > One tiny point -- Legion of Tech isn't running Open Source Bridge. > > Audrey and I were on the board of LoT last year, but decided not to run for > the board this year, and instead focus on OSB. > > Our team is listed here: http://opensourcebridge.org/about/ > > As far as what we're up to, I was very inspired by the Linux Plumbers > Conference, but was hoping to bring that same feeling to a larger > collection > of free/open source projects -- highly focused sessions, with groups of > talks that are curated and then introduced by the people who helped select > the talks. We're encouraging discussion during the sessions and trying to > emphasize collaboration and problem solving throughout the conference. > > Our third day will be entirely devoted to unconference sessions, with an > unconference bootcamp the night before for people who have never > participated in an open spaces-style conference before. > > We're also reserving rooms at our hotel for a 24-hour hackspace throughout > the conference, and, hopefully, dedicating spaces to projects for > hackathons. > > If you have any questions about it, please feel free to contact me! > -- > Selena Deckelmann > Open Source Bridge - http://www.opensourcebridge.org > PDXPUG - http://pugs.postgresql.org/pdx > Me - http://www.chesnok.com/daily > _____________ > Message: 2 > Date: Thu, 19 Feb 2009 16:51:37 -0800 > From: Jesse Keating > Subject: Re: [Fest-list] Open Source Bridge > > I'm still curious how this plays with LinuxCon, which will happen just > before Linux Plumbers Conference. > > -- > Jesse Keating > Fedora -- Freedom? is a feature! > > ------------------------------ > > Message: 3 > Date: Fri, 20 Feb 2009 09:11:42 -0800 > From: Mark Ashworth > Subject: Re: [Fest-list] Open Source Bridge > > > I'm still curious about who is paying the bill to rent the convention > center. 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Ok, it's not really new. We do something informal along this line regularly. This time, bring along your favorite product, tool or website and share with the group. Spend a couple of minutes describing what it does and why you like it. Should be fun and you might learn something. See you there. Steve Singhose Vice-President Puget Sound Network Users Group (PSNUG) http://www.psnug.org 206-419-0829 From randygrein at comcast.net Tue Feb 24 22:52:09 2009 From: randygrein at comcast.net (Randy Grein) Date: Tue, 24 Feb 2009 22:52:09 -0800 Subject: [PSNUG.org News] PSNUG Meeting annoucement In-Reply-To: <49A45267.0D8B.00D2.3@wccg.net> References: <49A45267.0D8B.00D2.3@wccg.net> Message-ID: <07DFBB8F-7636-4318-9B0B-199779636754@comcast.net> I'll certainly be there. One thing I'd like to discuss is this: http://www.addonics.com/products/nas/nasu2.asp Embedded devices - they're here, they're cheap - but are they any good? Randy Grein, Master CNE, CCNA On Feb 24, 2009, at 8:02 PM, Steve Singhose wrote: > Hi everyone. > > A reminder that tomorrow night, Wednesday February 25 will be the > next PSNUG meeting. > > Meeting begins with dinner at 18:00 at Kaleidoscope Consulting - http://www.psnug.org/directions.html > > Since my scheduled presenter is not able to make it tomorrow night > we will try something new; Show-And-Tell. Ok, it's not really new. > We do something informal along this line regularly. This time, > bring along your favorite product, tool or website and share with > the group. Spend a couple of minutes describing what it does and > why you like it. Should be fun and you might learn something. > > See you there. > > Steve Singhose > Vice-President Puget Sound Network Users Group (PSNUG) > http://www.psnug.org > 206-419-0829 > > > > _______________________________________________ > News mailing list > News at psnug.org > http://psnug.org/mailman/listinfo/news_psnug.org From brando.fouts at gmail.com Tue Mar 3 07:58:44 2009 From: brando.fouts at gmail.com (Brandon Fouts) Date: Tue, 3 Mar 2009 10:58:44 -0500 Subject: [PSNUG.org News] Opensource PDF Builder Message-ID: <609b18560903030758k21686a45g12ec13555d4f73e6@mail.gmail.com> from one of the list servers, thought you'd find interesting. Today's Topics: 1. Re: Opensource PDF Builder (Shaun) ---------------------------------------------------------------------- I have had a couple jobs that made made use of Openoffice 3.0's PDF building capabilities, and I was very impressed each time. Depending on your exact needs, it's worth a look. One recent job in particular required a tool for building multi-page print layouts for advertising literature. I didn't have Adobe's tools available at the time, and everything else I tried was inadequate, unstable, or otherwise ill-suited. Openoffice Draw 3.0 was accurate, stable, and efficient for the job, which ended up producing a ~350MB PDF that the print shop was then able to read using InDesign with no problem. -- =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= www.psnug.org Puget Sound Network Users Group Building Technical Skills Through Teamwork And Education. Helping members realize Open Standards and investigate Open Source. _____________________ PSNUG dues/food $35 per year -21st anniversary coffee mug that you can pickup at any meeting - no we don't ship. pay at monthly meeting or send checks payable to: PSNUG PSNUG c/o Brandon Fouts 9549a Olympus Beach Rd NE Bainbridge Island, WA 98110-3446 ==-==-==-==-==-==-==-==-==-==-== From brando.fouts at gmail.com Tue Mar 3 08:40:07 2009 From: brando.fouts at gmail.com (Brandon Fouts) Date: Tue, 3 Mar 2009 11:40:07 -0500 Subject: [PSNUG.org News] ODF Alliance Newsletter - 28 February 2009 In-Reply-To: <20090228181578.E2FC30D30322@elabs3.com> References: <20090228181578.E2FC30D30322@elabs3.com> Message-ID: <609b18560903030840t443e2e8bkee56f1f56f694d96@mail.gmail.com> FYI - ODF - Open Document Format - adoption update from around the world On Sat, Feb 28, 2009 at 1:15 PM, Marino Marcich wrote: > You can sign up to receive the free newsletter or download a PDF version: > http://www.odfalliance.org/mail_list.php > > -------------------------------------------------------- > > UNITED KINGDOM THE LATEST GOVERNMENT TO ENDORSE USE OF ODF > > The United Kingdom has joined the growing ranks of governments that have > now endorsed the use of ODF. Under the ?Open Source, Open Standards and > Re?Use: Government Action Plan? the UK government will specify requirements > by reference to open standards and require compliance with open standards in > solutions where feasible. The government indicated it will support the use > of ODF. It will also work to ensure that government information is available > in open formats, and it will make this a required standard for government > websites. > > http://www.cio.gov.uk/transformational_government/open_source/index.asp > > > -------------------------------------------------------- > > ODF-NEXT: SUBMIT YOUR IDEAS FOR THE NEXT-GENERATION ODF! > > Do you want to have input on the next major version of ODF? The OASIS ODF > Technical Committee invites you to help define the feature set of the next > major revision of ODF following version 1.2, provisionally named ?ODF-Next.? > The ODF TC has created the ODF Requirements Subcommittee, chaired by Bob > Jolliffe, to gather, categorize and prioritize proposals for ODF-Next, and > to report back to the ODF TC with recommendations. The target date for this > report is 1 May 2009. The work on ODF-Next will take place concurrently with > the finalization of ODF 1.2 (see below). > > http://lists.oasis-open.org/archives/tc-announce/200902/msg00007.html > > > --------------------------------------------------------- > > ODF 1.2 NOW A COMMITTEE DRAFT > > The OASIS ODF Technical Committee has recently finalized the approval of > technical proposals which will be included in ODF 1.2, the most significant > revision to the ODF specification since its approval as an OASIS standard in > May 2005. Once these proposals are integrated into the ODF 1.2 draft and > remaining editorial tasks are completed, the draft specification will be > sent on for Public Review (hopefully before the end of April) and then > finally onto a ballot for approval as an OASIS Standard. ODF 1.2 includes > support for extensible metadata, spreadsheet formula, and digital > signatures, among other enhancements. > > > http://www.oasis-open.org/committees/document.php?document_id=31264&wg_abbrev=office > > > ---------------------------------------------------------- > > NEED FUNDING FOR YOUR ODF PROJECT? CONTACT NLnet FOUNDATION > > The NLnet Foundation (in Dutch: Stichting NLnet), a philanthropic > organization, is seeking ODF projects in need of funding. The program is a > joint initiative of the Dutch government, led by the minister for Foreign > Trade Heemskerk and the State Secretary for the Interior and Kingdom > Relations Anna Bijleveld-Schouten. The deadline for submitting proposals is > 1 April 2009. The "Netherlands in Open Connection" action plan called on > the Dutch central administrations to be able to accept and use ODF files as > of April 2008 and all other government bodies in the Netherlands by January > 2009. > > http://www.nlnet.nl/news/2008/20080124-call-themes.html > > > ----------------------------------------------------------- > > LATVIA APPROVES ODF AS NATIONAL STANDARD > > Latvia's standards body, Latvian Standard (LVS), has officially approved > ODF as a national standard. Latvia now joins Sweden, Brazil, Croatia, Italy, > South Korea, and South Africa as countries whose national standards bodies > have formally approved ODF. Taiwan's approval of ODF by its Bureau of > Standards, Metrology and Inspection (BSMI) was announced 21 January 2009. > > > ------------------------------------------------------------ > > NEW OR IMPROVED ODF APPLICATIONS SUPPORT > > DataNucleus Access Platform 1.1.0, which provides access to a range of > datastores for Java applications, supports persistence/querying of > OpenDocument spreadsheets. > http://www.datanucleus.com/news/access_platform_1_1_release.html > > ShowDocument is a free service for online meetings with fully synchronized > co-browsing of any document in ODF or other file formats. > http://www.showdocument.com/ > > Gnumeric 1.9.4, the latest version of the Gnome office spreadsheet, is now > out. > http://projects.gnome.org/gnumeric/announcements/1.9/gnumeric-1.9.4.shtml > > SpreadsheetExport is a PHP library for exporting spreadsheet data into > different formats. Currently CSV and ODS (OpenDocument) are supported. > http://sourceforge.net/project/showfiles.php?group_id=253957 > > Sun ODF Plug-In 3.0 for Microsoft Office is now available, giving users of > Microsoft Office Word, Excel and PowerPoint the ability to read, edit and > save to ODF. > http://www.sun.com/software/star/odf_plugin/index.jsp > > Officeshots.org, a collaborative initiative of the Dutch government program > "Netherlands in Open Connection" (NOiV) and the OpenDoc Society, is a free, > web-based online tool allowing users to compare the output quality of a > large number of office suites and web-based productivity applications. > http://officeshots.org/ > > Universal Extractor allows you to extract files, including ODF, from any > type of archive. > http://worldforfree.net/2009/02/04/universal-extractor-1.6.html > > > -------------------------------------------------------------------- > > NEW ALLIANCE MEMBERS > > Please welcome the following new members: Naber Web Solutions (Germany); > Forex Direkt (Germany); Control Engineering Sweden AB; WWR systems (The > Netherlands); and Dr. Hellmuth Broda Consulting (Switzerland). > > > -------------------------------------------------------------------- > > EVENTS CALENDAR > > Netherlands Open in Connection (NOiV) Congress [5 March 2009 ? Utrecht, The > Netherlands] > http://www.ecp.nl/agenda/id=353/Het_NOiV_jaarcongres_2009.html > > GoOpen 2009 [16-17 April 2009 ? Oslo Norway] > http://goopen2009.friprog.no/ > > Archaeo FOSS 2009 [27-28 April ? Rome, Italy] > http://www.archeo-foss.org/ > > eLiberatica 2009 [23 May 2009 ? Bucharest, Romania] > http://www.eliberatica.ro/2009/ > > Berlin Open 2009 [22-23 June 2009 ? Berlin, Germany] > http://www.berlin-open.org/programm.html > > Gran Canaria Desktop Summit [3-11 July 2009 ? Canary Islands, Spain] > http://www.grancanariadesktopsummit.org/index.php/Main_Page > > > ------------------------------------------------------------------- > > ODF IN THE NEWS > > Thumbs up for open source as UK backs ODF [John E. Dunn|TechWorld] > > http://www.techworld.com/applications/news/index.cfm?newsID=111516&pagtype=all > > Britain Endorses ODF; Why Not The U.S.? [Charles Babcock|InformationWeek] > > http://www.informationweek.com/blog/main/archives/2009/02/britain_endorse.html > > Government expands support for ODF and open source software [Antony > Savvas|ComputerWeekly.com] > > http://www.computerweekly.com/Articles/2009/02/26/235038/government-expands-supports-for-odf-and-open-source.htm > > UK Government Endorses Open Source and ODF [Simon Phipps|Sun Mink] > http://blogs.sun.com/webmink/entry/uk_government_endorses_open_source > > Venice region settles on open source and open standards [Gijs > Hillenius|OSOR.eu] > > http://www.osor.eu/news/it-venice-region-settles-on-open-source-and-open-standards > > Looking for Good Ideas for ODF-Next [Rob Weir|An Antic Disposition] > > http://www.robweir.com/blog/2009/02/looking-for-good-ideas-for-odf-next.html > > To unsubscribe, send an email to: unsubscribe-224214 at elabs3.com with the > address: brando.fouts at gmail.com in the subject line. > -- =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= www.psnug.org Puget Sound Network Users Group Building Technical Skills Through Teamwork And Education. 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Helping members realize Open Standards and investigate Open Source. _____________________ PSNUG dues/food $35 per year -21st anniversary coffee mug that you can pickup at any meeting - no we don't ship. pay at monthly meeting or send checks payable to: PSNUG PSNUG c/o Brandon Fouts 9549a Olympus Beach Rd NE Bainbridge Island, WA 98110-3446 ==-==-==-==-==-==-==-==-==-==-== -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From randygrein at comcast.net Tue Mar 3 23:15:02 2009 From: randygrein at comcast.net (Randy Grein) Date: Tue, 3 Mar 2009 23:15:02 -0800 Subject: [PSNUG.org News] Fwd: Complimentary software verifies network service availability Message-ID: <59872558-9BA1-4571-8BE7-99F60C141D78@comcast.net> Something most of us will be interested in.... Randy Grein, Master CNE, CCNA Begin forwarded message: > From: "Fluke Networks" > To: "Randy Grein" > Subject: Complimentary software verifies network service availability > > > Welcome Randy Grein, > > Thank you for choosing Fluke Networks as your source for Network > SuperVision news you can use. Look below for an update on a topic of > interest you selected in your subscription. > > The following is the article topic: > * Service Availability Tool > > > Go here to view the full article: > http://www.tailorednews.com/r/b3JNw285sYtpCP.htm > > ...................................... > > Free > Download: Service Availability Tool > > Download Service Availability Tool > http://www.tailorednews.com/r/rkwDRjBtFSqznpY4r.asp > > > The Service Availability Tool helps network technicians and > administrators verify and troubleshoot network services quickly and > easily. Step 1: define key servers on your network or across the > Internet by name or IP address. Step 2: define the network services > running on those servers by application port number or service name. > It?s that easy. > > With the Service Availability Tool you can: > - Quickly verify service port status > - Measure response time > - Create a performance threshold for response time > - Run TCP trace routes > - Save lists of key servers > > Download Service Availability Tool > http://www.tailorednews.com/r/rkwDRjBtFSqznpY4r.asp > > > For more information about our Network SuperVision Solutions, call > 800-283-5853 or email info at flukenetworks.com. > .................................... > Subscription information: > > You are subscribed using the following email address: randygrein at comcast.net > . If you > wish, you can: >> personalize your subscription > http://www.tailorednews.com/fluke/EyeOnNetworks/TMSubsChg.ASP?i=vuwUmZXQ4Ev1 > >> unsubscribe > http://www.tailorednews.com/fluke/EyeOnNetworks/TMUnSub.ASP?i=vuwUmZXQ4Ev1&e= > > > Write us: Fluke Networks Eye on Networks, C.O. TailoredMail 155 108th > Ave NE, Suite 750, Bellevue WA USA, 98004 > > > Copyright 2009 Fluke Corporation. All rights reserved. Fluke Networks > respects your privacy, We do not rent, sell or exchange email > addresses. See our privacy policy for more information: >> > http://www.tailorednews.com/r/kVcSJ5rpv1meZT.htm > > > Visit > http://www.tailorednews.com/r/AqSJN9Wd1sBMTC.com > > From randygrein at comcast.net Thu Mar 12 21:35:32 2009 From: randygrein at comcast.net (Randy Grein) Date: Thu, 12 Mar 2009 21:35:32 -0700 Subject: [PSNUG.org News] Fwd: Need for Linux/Unix skills by students entering workforce References: Message-ID: <880029A3-9C42-4D1C-B162-D503A260EF64@comcast.net> Gentlemen, Edmonds Community College needs our help. Can you spare a few minutes to respond to their survey? Please do NOT hit reply, send it directly to Misty.... Randy Grein, Master CNE, CCNA Begin forwarded message: > From: "Misty Cline" > Date: March 11, 2009 9:16:04 AM PDT > Subject: Need for Linux/Unix skills by students entering workforce > > Hello; > > We offer Linux/Unix classes here at EdCC and our enrollments are > very low. We hear that there are lots of jobs yet we can?t seem to > get students. We have hired someone to ask industry professionals > such as yourselves about the need for Linux/Unix and to help us make > sure we are teaching the skills that are needed to help our students > get jobs. To that end, if you can help us answer the following > questions, it would be extremely helpful to us. > > Thank you in advance for taking the time to respond. > > > A current review of programming languages required for the following > IT positions (January 2009): > > ? Computer Programmer > > ? Network Engineer > > ? Programmer > > ? Programmer Analyst > > ? Unix, Linux, Java, Crystal Developer > > ? Web Applications Developer > > ? Web Database Developer > > ? Web Programmer > > Revealed that Unix and Linux were among the most requested languages > for a prospective employee. > > We would like your input as to: > > 1) What percentage of your job involves knowledge and reliance > upon the languages of Unix or Linux? > > > 2) If you didn?t know Unix and Linux would you be in your > current job? Why or why not? > > > 3) If you didn?t know Unix or Linux when you first started your > job, did you find you had to learn it to continue to effectively > perform in your job, or to advance into another position? Why or > why not? > > > 4) Even if you work in a primarily Microsoft product reliant > position, or company, do you believe your knowledge and/or use of > Unix and Linux has allowed you greater flexibility to understand key > issues and problem-solve in your daily work activities? > > > 5) What skills regarding Unix/Linux do you believe a student > needs to get a job? > > > 6) Further comments? > > PS. If there is anyone else that you think would have valuable > insight and be willing to respond, please forward this email to > them. Thank you. > > Misty Cline > > Program Manager, CIS/CMPSC Departments (Math/Science Division) > > Direct (425) 640-1902 Fax (425) 640-1189 > > mcline at edcc.edu > > > Edmonds Community College - 20000 68th Ave W - Lynnwood, WA 98036 > > > > -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From randygrein at comcast.net Thu Mar 19 18:10:20 2009 From: randygrein at comcast.net (Randy Grein) Date: Thu, 19 Mar 2009 18:10:20 -0700 Subject: [PSNUG.org News] Fwd: U.S. FTC urged to investigate Google's hosted services References: Message-ID: <34085CD1-571D-4C37-8C62-BA5E99A31FE3@comcast.net> Ow! Looks like Apple has a hole to fix. Randy Grein, Master CNE, CCNA Begin forwarded message: > > Researcher cracks Mac in 10 seconds at PWN2OWN, wins $5K > > Charlie Miller, the security researcher who hacked a Mac in two > minutes last > year at CanSecWest's PWN2OWN contest, improved his time today by > breaking into > another Mac in under 10 seconds. > http://cwflyris.computerworld.com/t/4597367/106251/176758/0/ From rmcken at mac.com Thu Mar 19 19:09:40 2009 From: rmcken at mac.com (Ross McKenzie) Date: Thu, 19 Mar 2009 19:09:40 -0700 Subject: [PSNUG.org News] Fwd: U.S. FTC urged to investigate Google's hosted services In-Reply-To: <34085CD1-571D-4C37-8C62-BA5E99A31FE3@comcast.net> References: <34085CD1-571D-4C37-8C62-BA5E99A31FE3@comcast.net> Message-ID: Don't they all... "According to Terri Forslof, manager of security response at TippingPoint, another researcher later broke into a Sony laptop that was running Windows 7 by exploiting a vulnerability in Internet Explorer 8" On Mar 19, 2009, at 6:10 PM, Randy Grein wrote: > Ow! Looks like Apple has a hole to fix. > > Randy Grein, Master CNE, CCNA > > Begin forwarded message: > >> >> Researcher cracks Mac in 10 seconds at PWN2OWN, wins $5K >> >> Charlie Miller, the security researcher who hacked a Mac in two >> minutes last >> year at CanSecWest's PWN2OWN contest, improved his time today by >> breaking into >> another Mac in under 10 seconds. >> http://cwflyris.computerworld.com/t/4597367/106251/176758/0/ > > > _______________________________________________ > News mailing list > News at psnug.org > http://psnug.org/mailman/listinfo/news_psnug.org From ssinghose at wccg.net Sun Mar 22 21:39:50 2009 From: ssinghose at wccg.net (Steve Singhose) Date: Sun, 22 Mar 2009 21:39:50 -0700 Subject: [PSNUG.org News] PSNUG Meeting reminder Message-ID: <49C6B026.0D8B.00D2.3@wccg.net> He everyone. It's that time of the month. This coming Wednesday, March 25 we will have Scott Brown, Development Manger for GroupWise from Novell with us. Should be a lot of fun finding out what's new in the latest version of GroupWise and what might be coming in the future. See you all then. Dinner arrives at 18:00 with the presentation starting around 18:30 http://www.psnug.org/directions.html Steve Singhose Vice-President Puget Sound Network Users Group (PSNUG) http://www.psnug.org 206-419-0829 From randygrein at comcast.net Sun Mar 22 22:31:43 2009 From: randygrein at comcast.net (Randy Grein) Date: Sun, 22 Mar 2009 22:31:43 -0700 Subject: [PSNUG.org News] PSNUG Meeting reminder In-Reply-To: <49C6B026.0D8B.00D2.3@wccg.net> References: <49C6B026.0D8B.00D2.3@wccg.net> Message-ID: <6BCBD15D-5817-4495-BA41-498AD197D0A3@comcast.net> That's right, confuse the civilians with military time. (grin) See you.... Randy Grein, Master CNE, CCNA On Mar 22, 2009, at 9:39 PM, Steve Singhose wrote: > He everyone. > > It's that time of the month. This coming Wednesday, March 25 we > will have Scott Brown, Development Manger for GroupWise from Novell > with us. > > Should be a lot of fun finding out what's new in the latest version > of GroupWise and what might be coming in the future. > > See you all then. Dinner arrives at 18:00 with the presentation > starting around 18:30 > > http://www.psnug.org/directions.html > > > Steve Singhose > Vice-President Puget Sound Network Users Group (PSNUG) > http://www.psnug.org > 206-419-0829 > > > > _______________________________________________ > News mailing list > News at psnug.org > http://psnug.org/mailman/listinfo/news_psnug.org From RANDYGREIN at comcast.net Tue Mar 24 06:06:52 2009 From: RANDYGREIN at comcast.net (Randy Grein) Date: Tue, 24 Mar 2009 06:06:52 -0700 Subject: [PSNUG.org News] Fwd: Why even IT pros are demanding Macs References: Message-ID: <1BD902DD-9453-4390-B7E1-A357ECDC06C1@comcast.net> From a weekly Infoworld newsletter. The management article addresses a question at last month's meeting. Randy Grein, Master CNE, CCNA Begin forwarded message: > Why even IT pros are demanding Macs > http://ifwnewsletters.newsletters.infoworld.com/t/4627159/250661856/177440/0/ > > How to manage Macs: An expert guide for IT > http://ifwnewsletters.newsletters.infoworld.com/t/4627159/250661856/177441/0/