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CACTUS Meeting Schedule and Map |
CACTUS meets on the third Thursday of each month at The University of Texas' Applied Research Labs (UT:ARL) in the JJ Jake Pickle Research Campus (JJ PRC) in Austin, Texas. We'll meet in the main auditorium located directly behind the guard's desk and main lobby. The program starts at 7:00pm with refreshments served at 6:30pm.
Feb 21 Main Program: Mike Erwin (formerly of OuterNet Connection
Strategies, an Austin-area ISP) speaks about computer
forensics and security.
Chip Rosenthal, of Unicom Systems Development.
Recipient of Austin Chronicle's 1997 Tech Award for
"Best Usenet Watchdog & Helpful Guy" for his fight
against SPAM, will discuss his battle with a
California company that is attempting to commandeer
his primary domain that he has been using since 1990.
March 21 Chad Kissinger of OnRamp (onr.com) will speak about HR 1542,
the Tauzin/Dingell bill.
April 18 Tim Trader, of VERITAS Software, will be presenting
VERITAS Volume Manager and FIle System. These products work
across multiple UNIX platforms and provide a great deal of
functionality. The soon to be released version will now run
on Linux and AIX.
May 16 Larry Thompson and members of RFD Associates will describe
the the Argus-Systems PitBull LX product which provides
e-Commerce environments with the most formidable level of
protection, from the inside out.
June 20 Ralph Kirkley, head hunter extrodinaire with decades of
experience in the Austin area
July 11 Eric Raymond: best-selling author and noted open-source activist.
(2nd Thursday) See below for map and directions. (NB: no pizza this meeting.)
August 15 Bill Kennedy: A Child's Garden of Firewalls.
Sept 19 Ben Rafanello et al: Enterprise Volume Management System Project.
Backup program:
Bob Izenberg Sysadmin dot.bomb (presented Mar 21)
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Please do not show up earlier than 6:20 pm on the
specified day. Enter through the main entrance at 10000 Burnet Road for
Applied Research Laboratories of the University of Texas (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 on the J.J. Pickle Research Campus (JJ PRC). After 6:30 pm, all entrances to the JJ PRC, except for the Burnet Road entrance (Read Granberry) 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. |
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Last modified: 04 March 2002