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Cndnsd Vrsn: 4 PM Thursday 10/7 ACS Room 123- Java Desktop System
The next meeting of the Front Range UNIX Users
Group (FRUUG) will be held at 4:00 P.M. on Thursday, October 7.
Geoff Baysinger will talk about Sun's Java Desktop System
and some of the innovations that make it easy for large
organizations to centrally configure and manage their desktops.
Sun's Java Desktop System (JDS) is an integrated set of
desktop software and applications based on open-source
software including GNOME, Star Office, Mozilla, and Evolution,
an e-mail and calendaring package. Sun's goal in producing
the Java Desktop System is to provide a fully-functional,
comprehensive desktop system to run on existing
x86-architecture systems.
Geoff's talk will give a short background on Java Desktop
System, including Sun's philosophy, involvement in the
GNOME community, JDS goals, and basic components.
Geoff will talk about the innovations
in JDS that take it beyond just an assembly of open-source
software packages, and how Sun is feeding these
innovations back into the GNOME sources. He'll discuss
exactly how JDS administrators
can use the the JDS Configuration Manager and management
servers to customize and control desktop settings and
configurations, making it easy to centrally administer
large numbers of desktop systems across an organization.
Geoff will give a demonstration of the desktop system
that's focused on the JDS Configuration Manager. As a bonus,
He'll also give an overview of Sun's Control Station
software, and talk about future prospects for the
Java Desktop System.
Geoff works at Sun doing internal technical marketing for
the Java Desktop System. Prior to Sun, Geoff was a field
engineer for Cobalt Networks, a company acquired by Sun
several years ago. Before his involvement with Cobalt,
Geoff was an administrator of all trades for HiWAAY.net in Alabama.
Geoff's non-Linux and PC interests include poker, brewing mead,
motorcycles, cooking, traveling, and what seems like a new
random hobby every month.
This meeting will be in room 123 of the CU Academic Computing
Center building at Arapahoe and Marine Streets in Boulder. Marine St intersects
Arapahoe at 38th St; the Computing Center is on the southwest corner.
You've probably noticed that our last meeting was back in
March, and you may have wondered: "where have we been?"
FRUUG has never tried to have a monthly meeting schedule,
say the first Tuesday of every month, because we try our
best to schedule meetings when we have interesting speakers
on topics related to UNIX and other related technologies.
The fact is, we ran out of meeting topics and willing speakers
for a while. This happens from time to time, although this
recent gap in our schedule may be due in part to the fact
that many of the topics we once covered now overlap with
other local Linux, Java, and Internet user groups.
We continue to try to find interesting speakers to
talk about new technologies, and we can always use your
help! If you'd like to talk about the leading-edge work that
you're doing, if you have a topic that you'd like to see
covered, or know of someone who does, please let us know!
Talk to one of the executive committee members after the
meeting, or contact all of us at fruug at fruug.org.
At our last meeting, Scott Kipp talked about the various
ways that digital content is likely to be sent, stored, distributed,
and consumed in your home, and Ken Fuhrman of Interact TV
demonstrated their Linux-based Telly digital video recorder
Announcements, presentation slides, and
writeups for past meetings are available in the FRUUG Meeting Archive.
www.fruug.org/mtgarchive/index.html.
The next meeting we have lined up is:
- November 11: Killing Spam with Greylisting.
Barb Dijker will give us one of her periodic updates
on the endless war against spam, and how she's successfully
using greylisting to combat the problem at
Netrack.
FRUUG Library Merit Badge
holders can sign up for give-away books by visiting the
FRUUG Web site and clicking on the give-away item in the sidebar.
FRUUG merit badge holders are eligible for our frequent
book give-aways, and all you have to do for a lifetime
membership is to review any book from the FRUUG library
and send the review to gaede at fruug.org.
We have three books from Prentice Hall PTR to give away this month:
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How Secure is Your Wireless Network,
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Open Source Network Administration, and
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The Practice of Network Security.
If you're a FRUUG Library Merit Badge holder and would like
to have a copy of this book, please sign up at
www.fruug.org/library/giveaway.html
As usual, we have a
Gift Certificate to SoftPro Books
to give away to a FRUUG member
attending the meeting.
Our last meeting being in March, we've accumulated a huge
quantity of new books for our members to peruse and check
out until the following meeting:
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Advanced UNIX Programming, Second Edition,
from Addison Wesley
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C++ GUI Programming with Qt 3,
from Prentice Hall PTR
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Check Point NG/AI,
from Syngress
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Defend IT-- Security by Example,
from Addison Wesley
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The Design and Implementation of the FreeBSD Operating System,
from Addison Wesley
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Designing Software Product Lines with UML,
from Addison Wesley
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Exploiting Software, How To Break Code,
from Addison Wesley
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High-Tech Crimes Revealed, Cyberwar Stories from the Digital Front,
from Addison Wesley
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Install Anywhere Tutorial and Reference Guide,
from Addison Wesley
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Java Servlet and JSP Cookbook,
from O'Reilly
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Java Software Solutions,
from Addison Wesley
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Know your Enemy-- Learning About Security Threats,
from Addison Wesley
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Linux Programming by Example,
from Prentice Hall PTR
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Network Security Assessment,
from O'Reilly
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Open Source Licensing,
from Prentice Hall PTR
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Open Source Security Tools,
from Prentice Hall PTR
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A Practical Guide to Red Hat Linux,
from Prentice Hall PTR
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Samba-3 By Example: Practical Exercises to Successful Deployment
from Prentice Hall PTR
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Secure Architectures with OpenBSD,
from Addison Wesley
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Succeeding with Open Source,
from Addison Wesley
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The Tao of Network Security Monitoring,
from Addison Wesley
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Understanding the Linux Virtual Memory Manager,
from Prentice Hall PTR
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WarDriving: Drive, Detect, Defend,
from Syngress
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Wi-Foo, The Secrets of Wireless Hacking,
from Addison Wesley
You may check out books using your business card as your
library card; you must be on the membership list to check books out. Books
are due at the meeting following the one in which they are checked out.
Remember that your FRUUG membership entitles you to discounts
on your book orders from both New Riders Publishing and O'Reilly &
Associates; refer to the FRUUG Web site for details.
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