Volume 25, Number 1 - January 2009
| Next Meeting |
CACTUS Officer Elections
Thursday, January 15, 7:00 PM |
Contents:
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/Newsletter/.
There you will find archives of back issues, as well as instructions on
how to subscribe to the e-mail distribution. We welcome newsletter
submissions by our members. Please contact
newsletter [at] cactus <dot> org for more information.
The next CACTUS meeting will be held on Thursday, January 15, 2009
at 7:00 PM (doors open at 6:30 PM for pizza and informal discussion), at
Mangia Pizza at the corner of Burnet Rd./Mopac service road and Gracy Farms Ln.
(See
end of newsletter for directions to the facility).
by Randy Zagar
It's that time again. Elections for new CACTUS Officers are happening
this month. There are several reasons for you to show up:
- You want to help CACTUS.
- You like pizza.
- You want to be there to refuse your nomination.
by Mark Scarborough
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.
- President:
- Randy Zagar (jrzagar [at] cactus <dot> org)
- Treasurer:
- Johnny Long (longjy [at] cactus <dot> org)
- Programs Chair:
- Brad Knowles (knowles [at] cactus <dot> org)
- Membership:
- Mark Scarborough (mscar-cactus [at] cactus <dot> org)
- Publicity & Webmaster:
- Lindsay Haisley (fmouse [at] fmp <dot> com)
- Newsletter:
- Randy Zagar (jrzagar [at] cactus <dot> org)
- Scribe:
- What Scribe? (dev-null [at] cactus <dot> org)
- Members at Large:
- Gil Kloepfer ( kloepfer [at] cactus <dot> org)
- Larry Rosenman (ler [at] cactus <dot> org)
Significant Contributing Sponsors
- CoreNAP, L.P.
- (Kenneth Smith, (512) 685-0010, kenneth [at] corenap <dot> com)
- Provides server colocation and high-speed Internet access to businesses in the Austin and central Texas area
- Newisys, Inc.
- (Tim Wood, (512) 340-9050, tim <dot> wood [at] newisys <dot> com)
- Development of enterprise-class servers
- Onramp
- (Chad Kissinger, president, 322-9200, info [at] onr <dot> com)
- Broadband Internet access, web design and colocation
- Outserv.net, Inc.
- (David Maynard, dpm [at] outserv <dot> net)
- e-Business Operations Service Provider
Sponsors
- Dresser - Wayne
- (Steve Cox, (512) 338-8444, steve <dot> cox [at] dresser <dot> com)
- Provides instrumentation and services to the oil and energy
- Flowing Circles Engineering
- (Johnny Long, (512) 293-7894, longjy [at] fcei <dot> com)
- Taking advantage of grid computing to solve matrix engineering and energy conversion problems.
- IBM Corporation
- (George Kraft IV, (512)838-2688, gk4 [at] austin <dot> ibm <dot> com)
- Journyx, Inc.
- (John Madollozzo, (512)833-3274, john [at] journyx <dot> com)
- Web-based products to track time, expenses, and attendance, for project management and billing.
- Ray Solanik, Technical Consultant
- (Ray Solanik, solanik [at] cactus <dot> org)
- Starflight Corp.
- (Jon Roland, jon <dot> roland [at] the-spa <dot> com)
- Computer consulting, management solutions, documentation, and technical writing.
- TEKsystems, Inc.
- (Russell Labay, (512) 249-4912, (888) 598-5877, rlabay [at] teksystems <dot> com)
- A leading provider of strategic staffing and managed services for the Information Technology and Communications (IT&C) community.
- Veraci Inc.
- (Michael Shrivathsan, michael [at] veraci <dot> com)
- VoIPing, LLC
- (Lenny Tropiano, 512-698-VOIP (8647) or Brian Sinclair 512-698-8031, info [at] voiping <dot> com)
- IT Consulting and Services, converged networks, Unix, and Voice over IP
Friends of CACTUS
- Applied Formal Methods, Inc.
- (Susan Gerhart, 794-9732, gerhart [at] cactus <dot> org)
- Austin Code Works
- (Scott Guthery, 258-0785, info [at] acw <dot> com)
- BestRegistrar.com
- ((800) 977-3475, registrar [at] bestregistrar <dot> com)
- A top-level domain name registrar, CORE member
- Covad/Laserlink
- (Chip Rosenthal)
- CTG
- (Maurine Mecer, 502-0190 (FAX 502-0287))
- Professional recruiting
- EDP Contract Services
- (Mark Grabenhorst, 346-1040)
- Professional recruiting
- Hewlett Packard
- (Bill Sumrall, 338-7221)
- Hounix
- (Marilyn Harper)
- Houston's Unix Users Group
- Network Appliance Corporation
- (Frank Mozina, fmozina [at] netapp <dot> com)
- O'Keefe Search
- (John O'Keefe, john [at] okeefesearch <dot> com, 512-658-9224 or 888-446-2137)
- Professional recuiting
- Rocksteady Networks, Inc.
- (Eric White, 512-427-1319, ewhite [at] rocksteady <dot> 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
- Silicon Graphics
- (Don Williams, 346-9342)
- Solid Systems
- (Pete Farrell, 442-2222)
- Sterling Infomation Group
- (Darrell Hanshaw, 344-1005)
- Sun Microsystems
- (Rick Taylor)
- Supplier of Unix client-server computing solutions
- Texas Internet Consulting
- (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)
CACTUS meets on the third Thursday of each month at the
Mangia Pizza (Gracy Farms location):
Mangia Pizza - Gracy Farms
12,001 Burnet Road at Gracy Farms Ln.
Austin, TX 78758
(512) 832-5550
http://www.mangiapizza.com/33/Gracy_Farms.html
This location is approximately 2 miles north of our previous
meeting location at ARL. Note that the Mapquest map on Mangia's
web site is slightly wrong.
Mangia pizza is on the north-east corner of the Mopac service
road and Gracy Farms Ln.
- From 183 north of Duval Rd.:
- Take the Duval Rd. exit on 183
and turn left onto Duval Rd. When you get to the intersection
of Mopac (Loop 1) and Duval Rd., make the left turn as though
you were going to get onto Mopac North (this is Gracy Farms Ln.).
You will see Mangia Pizza in front of you to the left
at the traffic light. Turn left and then make an immediate
right turn into the little store cluster.
- From 183 south:
- Take the Burnet Rd. exit on 183 and head toward
UT Applied Research Labs (ARL) as you would normally. Instead of
going to ARL, continue on Burnet Rd. In approximately 2 miles,
Burnet Rd. will fork - to the left will be Duval Rd. continuing
straight will bring you to a traffic light (at Gracy Farms Ln.).
You should see Mangia Pizza on your right. Continue through
the traffic light and make a right turn into the store cluster.
- From Mopac:
- Exit at Duval Rd./Burnet Rd. From the south, continue
on the service road. Continue straight at the traffic light
to the next traffic light just a little bit further up.
You will see Mangia Pizza in front of you to the left
at the traffic light. Turn left and then make an immediate
right turn into the little store cluster.
- From the north, make a left turn onto Duval Rd./Burnet Rd.
and then an immediate left turn (as though you were going to
make a U-turn back onto Mopac) and there will be another
traffic light where you will see Mangia Pizza in front of you
to the left. Turn left and then make an immediate
right turn into the little store cluster.
Note: If you pass Mangia Pizza, there is a U-turn on the left just a
little past the store cluster. Follow the directions for Mopac coming
from the north.
