Capital Area Central Texas UNIX Society
CACTUS Newsletter

Volume 20, Number 9 - September 2004

Contents:

• September Meeting Program
• 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 email distribution.

September Meeting Program

The next CACTUS meeting will be held on Thursday, September 16, 2004 at 7:00pm (doors open 6:30pm for pizza and informal discussion), in the auditorium of UT Applied Research Laboratories. (See end of newsletter for directions to the facility).

It has been over a year since Lenny's & Brian's presentation that introduced us to the wonderful world of VoIP (Voice over IP) and IP Telephony. Thanks to their introduction, Gil Kloepfer at UT Applied Research Labs has been investigating and testing VoIP phones and the Asterisk Open Source PBX as a potiential replacement for their aging telephone switch. In his presentation Gil will be introducing Asterisk and how to get started with your own PBX. He will also discuss some of the challenges associated with deploying VoIP and Asterisk in an enterprise environment.

Membership

CACTUS Membership

We would like to thank David Wieboldt for renewing his membership for two years.

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. -->

CACTUS Officers

CACTUS Sponsors

Significant Contributing Sponsors

Applied Research Laboratories/University of Texas at Austin (http://www.arlut.utexas.edu/)

(Gil Kloepfer, Computer Science Division (CSD), 835-3771, gil [at] arlut <dot> utexas <dot> edu)

CoreNAP, L.P. (http://www.corenap.com/)

(Kenneth Smith, (512) 685-0010, kenneth [at] corenap <dot> com)
"Providing Austin and central Texas businesses and power users the best choice for server colocation and high speed Internet access."

OnRamp (http://www.onr.com/)

Internet service provider.

Outserv.net (http://www.outserv.net/)

IT operations and management solutions to small and midsized businesses.

CACTUS Sponsors

Dresser Industries - Wayne Division (http://www.wayne.com/)

(Steve Cox, steve <dot> cox [at] dresser <dot> com, (512) 338-8444)
A leading supplier of integrated retail solutions to the global petroleum and convenience store industries, including point-of-sale systems, fuel dispensers, and after-sale support services.

Journyx (http://www.journyx.com/)

Provider of workforce management software and services.

Prog Corp.

(David Mallis, prog [at] cactus <dot> org, (512) 451-7191)
Develops educational materials used for in-service training, classroom teaching, and independent study. They also provides consulting services for instructional program design, development, and implementation.

VoIPing, LLC (http://www.voiping.com/)

(info [at] voiping <dot> com, (512) 698-8647 or (512) 698-8031)

A Central Texas privately owned and operated partnership specializing in IT Consulting and Services.

Friends of CACTUS

Applied Formal Methods, Inc.

(Susan Gerhart, 794-9732, gerhart [at] cactus <dot> org)

Auspex Systems (http://www.auspex.com/)

Fastest reliable network fileservers.

Austin Code Works

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

BestRegistrar.com (http://www.bestregistrar.com/)

(Steve Locke, (800) 977-3475), swl [at] cas-com <dot> net)
A top-level domain name registrar, CORE member.

CTG

(Maurine Mecer, 502-0190 [FAX 502-0287])
Professional recruiting.

EDP Contract Services

(Mark Grabenhorst, 346-1040) Professional recruiting.

Hewlett Packard (http://www.hp.com/)

(Bill Sumrall, 338-7221)

Hounix (http://www.texascomputers.com/hounix/)

(Marilyn Harper)
Houston's Unix Users Group.

Network Appliance Corporation (http://www.netapp.com/)

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

O'Keefe Search (http://www.okeefesearch.com/)

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

Rocksteady Networks, Inc. (http://www.rocksteady.com)

(Eric White, 512-427-1319, ewhite [at] rocksteady <dot> com)
Dynamic bandwidth management and security enforcement.

Sailaway System Design

(Chris J Johnson, 447-5243)

Schlumberger (http://www.slb.com/)

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

Silicon Graphics (http://www.sgi.com/)

(Don Williams, 346-9342)

Solid Systems

(Pete Farrell, 442-2222)

Starflight Corp. (http://www.the-spa.com/jon.roland/)

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

Sterling Infomation Group (http://www.sterinfo.com/)

(Darrell Hanshaw, 344-1005, dhanshaw [at] sterinfo <dot> com)

Sun Microsystems (http://www.sun.com/)

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

Texas Internet Consulting (http://www.tic.com/)

(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 at the Applied Research Labs (ARL) in the JJ 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:

• J.J. Pickle Research Campus: http://www.utexas.edu/maps/prc/
• South East Quadrant (ARL:UT): http://www.utexas.edu/maps/prc/areas/se.html

As always, please leave the facility as you saw it when you arrived.