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From: robert@humbug.org.au (Robert Brockway)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.announce
Subject: [Brisbane,Australia] HUMBUG Unix Club Meeting
Date: 20 May 1997 05:17:17 -0500
Organization: University of Queensland
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Meeting Announcement
--------------------
This is the official announcement of the 38th meeting of HUMBUG,
the Home Unix Machine - Brisbane User Group. The club exists to get
fellow Unix users in contact with each other, to introduce people to
Unix and Unix-like operating systems, to and to help users in operating
those systems. Everyone is welcome to attend.
HUMBUG Details
--------------
Name: Home Unix Machine, Brisbane User Group.
Fee: $15/year. No one is required to join, but joining
has all sorts of advantages (see later under membership).
Operating
Systems: As the name suggests, the club caters to Home Unix
machines. The following Unices have all been seen at
HUMBUG Meetings:
Asterix
FreeBSD/i386
Linux/i386
Linux/Sparc
Linux/8086 (ELKS)
MkLinux/PowerMac
NetBSD/i386
NetBSD/sparc
NewsOS
Solaris/Sparc
Solaris/x86
Ultrix
Linux users currently predominate in HUMBUG, but we
are seeing more and more FreeBSD, NetBSD and Solaris
users attending meetings, ensuring HUMBUG is able to
live up to its aim of being a generic Unix club.
Everyone is invited, whether you are a Unix user, are
interested in becoming one, or would just like to see
what Unix is all about.
Next Meeting Details
--------------------
Where: Hawken Lecture Room 3, at the University of Queensland,
Date: Saturday, 31st May, 1997.
Time: 3:00pm to 1:00am. (You don't have to stay the whole time :-)
Format: The meetings are informal, but we are having more talks than
ever before. Club members are happy to help fix up all sorts of
problems for new (and not so new :-) users. Lately we have
been installing Linux on a regular basis. :-)
Talks: It has been decided to persue an informal tutorial style for most
future talks. This fits in better with the style of HUMBUG meetings
and needs of users than formal talks/lectures do.
Library: We have a library including Copies of the Linux Journal and CDs
that club members can borrow from.
Computers: All members can access our 10Mbit/sec Internet link at meetings.
Food: A great home style pizza place is a five minute walk away, or
you can order in take-away for dinner. A Takeaway shop well
known in St Lucia as the 'The Big Red Shop' sells delicious cheap
Chinese takeway and just about everything else (ok, we didn't find
any bnc terminators there :-)
Membership
----------
The easiest way to join is to approach myself (Robert Brockway - President)
or our Treasurer (James Lever) at a club meeting. Joining entitles you
to gain access to all that humbug has to offer (see below).
Benefits of Membership
----------------------
Access to the HUMBUG library. Members can borrow items from the library
for 2 weeks, and may reborrow for another 2 weeks. We have nearly 2 years
worth of Linux Journals, as well as CDs, cabling and even a computer (our
router hydra).
Access to our 10Mbit/sec ethernet link at meetings.
Email addresses in the domain humbug.org.au.
You can choose the email address as long as it hasn't been taken already).
DNS entries in the domain humbug.org.au under your own hostname.
Proposed HUMBUG Services
------------------------
Clarinet news service. This provides real news via Usenet.
Internet access
---------------
Using the IP masquerading features of the Linux kernel, all computers
present can have a transparent proxy connection to the Internet.
i.e. The computers are actually behind a firewall, but all computers get a
live 10Mbit/sec connection to the Internet. No special client software is
needed to use IP masquerading.
All users are allocated IPs on a reserved class C subnet for their computers.
Users should only ever use their own IPs to prevent clashes.
An up to date list of allocated IPs can be found at
http://student.uq.edu.au/~s316674/humbug.ip.html
This url will change in the near future, and will be found at
http://www.humbug.org.au/meeting.ip.html soon.
Lets get as many machines there as we can. The more unix machines we have,
the better for all of us. Most users bring their machines. Meeting
attendance of both humans and computers is steadily increasing. Those who
wish to bring their computers, but have transport difficulties could attempt
to organise a lift with someone by asking on the mailing list. This has
worked many times in the past.
WWW Page for HUMBUG
-------------------
http://www.humbug.org.au/
Mailing List
------------
We now have 3 mailing lists:
Announce: Meeting announcements and all other important information
is sent out on this list. It is assumed that all members
are on this list. This list is moderated.
On topic subjects: - Meeting announcements.
- Official social event announcements.
- Announcements of property lost at
a HUMBUG meeting/event.
- Job Advertisements that are directly
related to Unix and/or the Internet
(Web development, C programming, perl
programing,etc).
- Posts concerning events that are
of importance to HUMBUG members as a
whole (New stable version release of
Linux or FreeBSD for example).
This is not an exhaustive list of on-topic subjects, anything
worthy of being on the announce list will be approved by the
list admin.
General: This list is primarily for Unix/Linux questions and answers,
but as the name suggests it covers a wide variety of topics.
'Chat' is off topic here, and should be sent to the chat list.
On topic subjects: - Programing problems.
- Unix configuration problems.
- Answers to problems posted.
- Discussion about problems posted, and the
merits of posted answers.
- General discussion about HUMBUG itself
(organisational matters such as
incorporation vs Student Union affiliation
are an example here).
Chat: This is the 'social' list, and has the highest volume traffic
of the three. It is the same list as the old humbug-l list.
On topic subjects: - Unix Humour.
- Other Humour.
- Chat
As a general rule, attempt to keep lengthy discussions off the general list
and on the chat list. It is possible to considering moving a long discussion
from one list to the other.
Off topic for all three lists is anything commercial (except as mentioned
for the announce list).
When we created this new list structure recently, all people on the humbug-l
list were put on all three lists. They are then free to unsubscribe as they
see fit. This list structure was setup after lengthy debate, to allow
users to decide what volume of mail that wish to receive.
To join the lists: Email majordomo@humbug.org.au, with a message body
of:
subscribe announce you@somehost.somesite
and/or
subscribe general you@somehost.somesite
and/or
subscribe chat you@somehost.somesite
How to get there
----------------
The Hawken building is building 50 on the information maps distributed
around the campus.
If you do not know where the Hawken Lecture Theatres are, meet me at
the large university information map across the road from the University
bus stop at 2:45pm, or email me and we can arrange to meet at another
time/place.
Here are directions to reach the bus stop:
To reach the bus stop after entering St Lucia, drive along Sir Fred
Schonell Drive until you come to a roundabout. Turn right into
Coleridge St. Turn left in to Carmody Rd at the T-junction. Follow this
road until you get to another roundabout. Turn left at the round about.
This will put you in Chancellors's place.
I suggest anyone not familiar with The University of Queensland at
St Lucia consult a refedex, before attempting to find the bus stop.
For further details, email me at robert@zen.humbug.org.au, or contact
the mailing list.
Cheers,
-Robert
--Robert Brockway. Email: robert@zen.humbug.org.au, president@humbug.org.au
unrbrock@dingo.uq.edu.au, s316674@student.uq.edu.au
WWW: http://student.uq.edu.au/~s316674