Capital Area Central Texas UNIX Society
CACTUS Newsletter

Volume 14, Number 10 - October 1998

Contents:

• October 15th CACTUS Meeting
• About October's Presentation
• CACTUS Officers and Contacts
• CACTUS Sponsors
• Meeting Location and Map

October 15th CACTUS Meeting

• Program: DCE (Distributed Computing Environment) and client/server programming
• Speaker: Clay Boyd of LearningWorks, Inc.
• Location: Applied Research Labs, UT JJ Pickle Campus [see map]
• Time:
  • 6:30 pm for the informal get together with pizza and soda
  • 7:00 - 9:00 pm presentations
• Cost: Free (pizza and soda served at 6:30 pm.)

About October's Presentation

Clay Boyd of LearningWorks, Inc. has given about 50 presentations about DCE and client/server environments at technical conferences around the world. LearningWorks, Inc. specializes in training and consulting in the field of distributed computing (sometimes known as client/server progamming). Most of their customers are employees of Fortune 100 companies writing or managing large enterprise- wide systems based on Unix, Windows, MVS, OS390, etc.

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

• President: Jack McKinney (president [at] cactus <dot> org)
• Treasurer: Johnny Long (longjy [at] thecb <dot> texas <dot> gov)
• Membership: Lindsay Haisley (fmouse [at] cactus <dot> org)
• Programs: Kristi Lee (KLee [at] gw <dot> ctg <dot> com)
• Publicity: Rodger J. Hutchins [Webmaster] (roger [at] cactus <dot> org)
• Newsletter: Gil Kloepfer (gil [at] cactus <dot> org)
• Scribe: Ron Roberts (ronr [at] cactus <dot> org)
• Members at Large:
  • -- Tom Painter (painter [at] cactus <dot> org)
  • -- Lenny Tropiano (lenny [at] icus <dot> com)

Contact Information

• officers [at] cactus <dot> org Comments to CACTUS officers
• programs [at] cactus <dot> org Meeting ideas, suggestions, comments
• membership [at] cactus <dot> org Membership questions and suggestions
• newsletter [at] cactus <dot> org Newsletter submissions and comments

CACTUS Sponsors

• Applied Formal Methods, Inc. (Susan Gerhart, 794-9732, gerhart [at] cactus <dot> org)
• 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)
• Austin Code Works (Scott Guthery, 258-0785, info [at] acw <dot> com)
• Auspex Systems (Paul Levine, plevine [at] auspex <dot> com) Fastest reliable network fileservers, www.auspex.com
• CTG (Kristi Lee, 502-0190 [FAX 502-0287]) Professional recruiting, http://www.ctg.com
• EDP Contract Services (Mark Grabenhorst, 346-1040) Professional recruiting.
• Flametree Corporation (David Maynard, 670-4090, dpm [at] flametree <dot> com) Internet and software consulting, http://www.flametree.com
• The Kernel Group (TKG) (Ray Schafer, 433-3300) Professional services, http://www.tkg.com
• Hounix (Marilyn Harper) Houston's Unix Users Group.
• Multi Media Arts (MMA) (Lee Williams, 451-7191) Publisher of instructional materials for classroom and independent study.
• O'Keefe & Associates (John O'Keefe, 320-9191, jokeefe [at] okeefeassociates <dot> com) Professional recruiting. http://www.okeefeassociates.com/
• Sprint Paranet (John Smith, 343-4526) Consultants in Integrating Hardware, Software, Networks and People. http://www.paranet.com/
• Real/Time Communications (George Wenzel, 451-0046) Internet service provider, www.realtime.com
• Sailaway System Design (Chris J Johnson, 447-5243)
• Schlumberger (Kathy O'Brien, obrien [at] asc <dot> slb <dot> com) Technical services and products in over 100 countries, www.slb.com
• Signet Partners (Bob Izenberg, bei [at] sig <dot> net) Internet Service Provider, www.sig.net
• Sun Microsystems (Roger Waak, 343-0293, roger <dot> waak [at] central <dot> sun <dot> com) Supplier of Unix client-server computing solutions, www.sun.com
• Silicon Graphics (Don Williams, 346-9342), www.sgi.com
• Solid Systems (Pete Farrell, 442-2222)
• Sterling Information Group (Darrell Hanshaw, 327-0090, dhanshaw [at] sterinfo <dot> com).
• Tandem Computers (Ron Boerger, 244-8000) Provider of scalable, high availability systems, www.tandem.com
• Texas Internet Consulting (Smoot Carl-Mitchell, 451-6176, smoot [at] tic <dot> com) www.tic.com TCP/IP networking, Unix, and open systems standards.
• 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)

CACTUS Meeting Location: Applied Research Labs

CACTUS meets on the third Thursday of each month at the UT 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 maps for further details.

Online maps are available at:

• http://www.utexas.edu/maps/prc/ -- J.J. Pickle Research Campus

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

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

                                                 | |     ^
        <---- to MOPAC                           | |     |
                                                 | |     | North
                                                 | | B   | to Braker Lane
                                  ---------------+ | U
                                  -+ /-----------+ | R
                                   | |           | | N
                                   | +--------+  | | E
                                   |  Parking |  | | T
                                   |    Lot   |  | |
                                   +----------+  | | R
                                                 | | D
                          +------------+         | |
                          |            | +-------+ |
                          |            | |   +---+ |
                          |            | |   |   | | Rutland
                          |    ARL     | |   |   | +---------
                          |            | |   |   | +---------
                          |            | |   +---+ |
                          |            | +---+---+ |
                          +------------+         | |  |
                                                 | |  | South
                                                 | |  | to US 183
                                                 | |  v