[CLUE-Admin] Newsletter, rough draft

Sat Jan 25 12:21:13 MST 2003

Zonker ... We also had books from Addison Wesley and New Riders.

Also please remind folks to write up reviews on the free books we get.

(New Riders were nice enough to send us 5 copies of your book to go
along with your talk!)

aloha,
dave
On Sat, Jan 25, 2003 at 03:39:51PM -0700, Joe 'Zonker' Brockmeier wrote:
> Quick rough draft of the newsletter, ignore the weird linebreaks... an
> html version is here:
> 
> http://www.dissociatedpress.net/clue/Clue.Newsletter.Jan.html
> 
> Comments, suggestions, other? 
> 
> 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. See
> http://clue.denver.co.us
> / for more info.
> 
> The next CLUE North meeting is scheduled for February 27. See http://
> clue.denver.co.us/north/ for more info.
> 
> ---------------
> 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
> 
> ---------------
> 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.
> 
> ---------------
> Other News
> ---------------
> 
> This is where you'll find book reports, links to other Linux news and so
> forth.
> Summaries of discussions on the mailing lists and other goodies.
> 
> 
> 
> -- 
> Joe 'Zonker' Brockmeier   -- Freelance Author
> Tel: (303) 695-0772       -- Cell: (720) 971-1742
> jzb at dissociatedpress.net  -- http://www.dissociatedpress.net/
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