[CLUE-Admin] RE: [CLUE-Announce] CLUE Newsletter

Tue Feb 11 15:32:26 MST 2003

Hi this is Will Stevenson, I am the technology leadership for OMI and am a
premier sponsor for you CLUE locally.

Any interest in some me having some massage therapy made available during
the 'fest?

I have friends who love the community and are certified and trusted...

-Will

-----Original Message-----
From: Joe 'Zonker' Brockmeier [mailto:clue at dissociatedpress.net] 
Sent: Tuesday, February 11, 2003 9:58 AM
To: Clue Announce
Subject: [CLUE-Announce] CLUE Newsletter

Greetings Cluebies!

This is the first newsletter of 2003, and the first CLUE newsletter
in a while.  I'm taking over editing the newsletter, and I'll
be trying to see that we actually have one a month. This month,
Jed Baer was kind enough to take notes at the DTC meeting so I'd
have something to report. Barring accidents, I'll be at the DTC
meetings each month from now on -- but if someone would like to
submit a summary of the CLUE North meetings, that'd be great.

This newsletter will be a bit on the shortish side while I warm
up. If anyone has any suggestions for what they'd like to see
in the CLUE newsletter, please feel free to drop me a note at
jzb at dissociatedpress.net. Thanks, and have a great January. See
you at the next CLUE meeting!

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Upcoming Meetings
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The next DTC meeting is scheduled for February 11 (that's today,
folks). See http://clue.denver.co.us/ for more info. This meeting
will be held at the usual location, in Hall-Kinion's building at
5613 DTC Parkway. The March meeting will be held at the Radisson
Hotel. Information and directions will be posted on the CLUE
website shortly.

The next CLUE North meeting is scheduled for February 27. See
http://clue.denver.co.us/north/ for more info.

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Installfest this Saturday
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Get ready folks. It's time for Installfest.

Now is your chance to impress your friends and by helping friends
install Linux, or if you have some troublesome hardware get help
taming it.

You may also want to bring some cash for donations for the projector
fund, a soda, or food. So mark your calendar for February 15,
2003. The fest goes on between 10AM and 5PM.

If you'd like to help with setup and takedown, show up at 9:30 AM
and stay until the last person leaves. To volunteer, sign up at
http:// clue.techangle.com/ContactForm.php?to=events. Jef Barnhart
is coordinating setup and takedown. We're looking forward to seeing
you there!

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DTC Meeting Summary
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These are edited down a bit from Jed's notes. Let me know just how
much detail that you'd like to see from each meeting.

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Meeting Sponsors
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Hall-Kinion Techangle SoftPro Books O'Reilly Books

Don't forget, folks, if you got a book or software at the meeting,
we'd like a short review of it once you've had a chance to read
or install it. (Depending on what you received, or course...) They
don't have to be lengthy, a short summary is fine -- though longer
reviews are okay too, of course.

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KISS Session
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Noting that the KISS session actually precedes the meeting, and
explaining that the KISS session is a short simple presentation,
and further noting that he would be the speaker, Jeff proceeded to
his presentation on configuring KMail.

Jeff's presentation was a "live" demonstration. Openning with the
usual "RTFM" admonition, Jeff ran the KMail program, demonstrating
the basic options, such as setting the background color and the font
for various display elements. He then showed how to set up Kmail
to use multiple e-mail accounts, identies, and mail folders. He
also demonstrated defining mail filters to deliver incoming mail
into specific folders. Discussion included questions about KDE in
general, address books, and HTML-formatted mail.

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Announcements
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If you have an announcement, feel free to send me a note at
jzb at dissociatedpress.net. We'll report the announcements given
at the CLUE meetings every month, but if you can't make it to the
meeting or inspiration strikes after the meeting feel free to drop
me a note with your announcement.

Call for CLUE presentations

Linux Fun-damentals is moving from their current location (The Parsec
Group) after this month's meeting. (Dave Wilson) Dave re-iterated
that Linux-Fun meets on the 1st and 3rd Wednesday each month.

CLUE-North topic this month will be a "Show & Tell" by the Hacking
Society.

Kevin announced that his employer had allowed him to donate 3 HP
Laserjet III printers for door prizes.

Bob announced the formation of new job prospect club in Aurora.

Jeff Barnhart is the new CLUE Events Coordinator.

The 1st quarter Installfest is being planned for February.

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Main Session
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Following the announcements and a short break, Jeff introduced
the main speaker, Scott Marlowe. Scott's topic was an overview of
PostgreSQL new features.

Scott's engaging and enthusiastic presentation gave rise to
lively discussion throughout. He started with a brief statement
of the origins of PostgreSQL at UC Berkeley, where it has a common
ancestor with the now commercial database product Ingres. PostgreSQL
is still maintained at UCB. Scott contrasted PgSQL with other
databases, particularly MySQL, DB2, and Oracle, mentioning that
one of its strengths are that it's transactional, and that it
uses a "Multi-Version Concurrency Control" mechanism for allowing
read-consistency to co-exist with updating. Scott summarized recent
improvements in PgSQL, such as:

* Schema support
* New "table" data type in stored procedures
* Prepared queries
* Dependency tracking
* Fine-grained privileges
* Multibyte and locale now on by default
* Logging is more fine-grained
* Many bugfixes

Scott concludes that these new features make PgSQL "indestructible",
and that a PgSQL server will now survive a "pull the plug" event
without data corruption.

Scott followed with a summary of PgSQL tuning techniques, mentioning
the most important build and startup parameters, and speaking to
database design and query construction.

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CLUE Calendar
---------------

You can see what's going on all month with CLUE at
http://clue.denver.co.us/calendar/calendarclue.html.

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That's all for now...
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If you have questions, comments, suggestions, submissions or whatnot
for the newsletter, email me at jzb at dissociatedpress.net.
--
Joe 'Zonker' Brockmeier
http://www.dissociatedpress.net/

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