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

[Jef Barnhart]

Will,

Yes bring her/him I for one would like to get a massage.

Jef

On Tue, 2003-02-11 at 15:32, Stevenson, Will/OMI/DNV wrote:
> 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!
> 
> ---------------
> Upcoming Meetings
> ---------------
> 
> 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.
> 
> ---------------
> Installfest this Saturday
> ---------------
> 
> 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!
> 
> ---------------
> DTC Meeting Summary
> ---------------
> 
> 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.
> 
> ---------------
> Meeting Sponsors
> ---------------
> 
> 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.
> 
> ---------------
> KISS Session
> ---------------
> 
> 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.
> 
> ---------------
> Announcements
> ---------------
> 
> 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.
> 
> ---------------
> Main Session
> ---------------
> 
> 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.
> 
> ---------------
> CLUE Calendar
> ---------------
> 
> You can see what's going on all month with CLUE at
> http://clue.denver.co.us/calendar/calendarclue.html.
> 
> ---------------
> That's all for now...
> ---------------
> 
> 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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