Capital Area Central Texas UNIX Society
CACTUS Newsletter

Volume 15, Number 4 - April 1999


Contents:

April 15th CACTUS Meeting

March Meeting Report

by Darrel Long
 
Nineteen people were present, including six officers.  Jim Partridge, our scheduled speaker, called in sick. Jim Partridge would like to reschedule except that he has UDI user group meetings on the third Thursday through May or June.  If anyone would like more information on the Uniform Driver Intrerface they might try www.sco.com/UDI.  Also, anybody wanting to Beta test VMware can go to VMWARE.com and download a copy. We had two different people offering a wide range in different levels of Unix jobs.  But, we should always keep in mind that we have several sponsors listed below under sponsors that also have job positions if anyone is looking. Besides bringing up the
point that the Microsoft Windows will only stay up 46.1 days before crashing, we briefly discussed the major topics presented at the officers meeting.


 

Membership Report

by Luis Basto
 
We wish to welcome Francois Leclerc as a new member to CACTUS. We'd also like to thank Michael Rayburn, Ron Roberts, John Duncanson, Phil Wheatley, Johnny Long, Eric Jones, William Dodd,Don Kassebaum, Bryan Harold for renewing their membership.

In particular, we'd like to thank Michael Elder and Anwar Payyoorayil for renewing their long lapsed membership.

I have not yet done a complete audit, but it appears we have about 50 active members currently. I plan to complete it this month so all active members will get accounts on the new Linux.cactus.org machine.
 

Membership

To renew your membership, please send check or money order payable to CACTUS ($25/yr for regular membership and $96/yr for corporate sponsorship):
CACTUS
PO BOX 9786
AUSTIN, TX 78766-9786

You can also pay in person at the general meetings. The date on the upper right hand of the newsletter mailing label indicates when your membership expires. Please direct any inquiries or address changes to membership [at] cactus <dot> org.


 

CACTUS Officers

Contact Information

CACTUS Sponsors

CACTUS Meeting Location: Applied Research Labs

CACTUS meets on the third Thursday of each month at the Applied Research Labs (ARL) in the JJ Jake Pickle Research Campus (JJ PRC). We'll meet in the main auditorium located directly behind the guard's desk and main lobby.

Please do not show up earlier than 6:20 pm on the specified day. Enter through the main entrance at 10000 Burnet Road for ARL:UT. Tell the guard that you are here for the CACTUS meeting. You will be required to sign a log book, but not required to wear a badge. The guards will direct you to the auditorium entrance. Limited parking in the front of the building is available, but more extensive parking is available in the large parking lot just north of the ARL building. After 6:30 pm, all entrances to JJ PRC, except for the Burnet Road entrance, are closed and locked. You can still enter the parking lot in front of the ARL building. No parking tags are necessary after 6:00 pm. See map for further details.

Online maps are available at:

As always, please leave the facility as you saw it when you arrived. So let's clean up all pizza and soda items before we leave. Thanks and hope to see all of you there.

Map to the Monthly CACTUS Meeting

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        <---- to MOPAC                            | |     |
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