From paul at iconoplex.co.uk Tue Sep 2 09:57:32 2008 From: paul at iconoplex.co.uk (Paul Robinson) Date: Tue Sep 2 09:57:39 2008 Subject: Apple Fry and I Scream (Manchester BSD UG tonight) Message-ID: The observant amongst you will have noticed I *DID NOT* forget to send out the reminder last week for the Manchester BSDUG meeting. It was just very, very small. Perhaps you missed it. It really was very tiny. Don't blame me if your eyesight is going there "Granddad", OK?! Plus the manchester@bsdgroups.org.uk mailing list is regularly stuffed and so I need to do Magic Things sometime Real Soon Now to restore normal service by moving us somewhere else. Many of you are getting this via BCC. Anyway, the - very clever, go on admit it - subject line refers to the fact that Apple-fan-boi Stephen Fry has been corrupted by Comrade Matt Lee into supporting this GNU malarky, and then the same said Comrade Matt Lee corrupted me into becoming an EU mirror for these mutterings in a format nobody has a codec installed for: http://vagueware.com/gnu/ Obviously I am an idiot in allowing my company name to be tarnished with such propaganda, but hey, it's almost Christmas. I know it must be almost Christmas, because on Sunday the boss of my local was showing me this year's Christmas decorations. They are lovely in the sense that only blue LEDs arranged in a shape reminiscent of the Star of David could be considered lovely. I digress. Today is the first Tuesday of the month. This is the matter at hand. That means tonight at the allotted hour of 1930 hours UTC+1 (-ish), I hereby request your attendance at the Briton's Protection public house on Great Bridgewater Street, Manchester, UK. We shall discuss: - The downfall of Stephen Fry - The propagandist Matthew Lee - Tacky Christmas decorations - Hitler penguins (no, really) - The fact Sam won't be in attendance because - I quote - "Tuesday is Yoga night" - Why as a Manchester City fan I want to cry today - Maybe some Unix stuff at some point? These discussions will continue until 2130 hours UTC+1 (double-ish), at which point we will disperse in a chaotic manner by way of perhaps another bar. -- Paul Robinson From george at ceetonetechnology.com Sat Sep 6 01:01:48 2008 From: george at ceetonetechnology.com (George Rosamond) Date: Sat Sep 6 01:01:59 2008 Subject: NYCBSDCon 2008 Message-ID: <48C1D1E4.2040104@ceetonetechnology.com> We are proud to announce the release of the speaker's presentations and that registration is now open for NYCBSDCon 2008 at http://www.nycbsdcon.org NYCBSDCon 2008 will be held at Manhattan's Columbia University on October 11 and 12 in New York City. The speaker line-up is an impressive list of developers and systems administrators from all the BSD projects. http://www.nycbsdcon.org/2008/presentations.html We strongly encourage everyone to register as soon as possible at: http://www.nycbsdcon.org/2008/register.html Early registration is $95, and includes not just the meetings, but also breakfast and lunch for both Saturday and Sunday. Walk-ins will be charged $145. With valid current identification, the Columbia University staff, students and faculty rate is $50. Other full-time students can also receive this discounted rate with valid identification. On Friday, October 10th, there will be a NetBSD developers summit. Please contact JSchauma@ that project for additional details. FreeBSD developers will also be gathering outside of the conference. Please contact GNN@ that project for more details. Friday evening, attendees will be gathering at Havanna Central at 2911 Broadway between 113th and 114th streets beginning at 7 pm. That will also be the location for the Saturday night social. The BSD Certification Group will be holding BSDA exams. There will be general Unix review cram sessions over the course of Saturday. There will also be a social gathering on Saturday evening at Havanna Central at 7 pm. Live on-site reporting of the conference happenings will be provided by BSDTalk's Will Blackman. Huge thanks are due to our sponsors for keeping the conference inexpensive and accessible. Current sponsors include New York Internet, DataPipe, Everest Broadband, Datagram, USENIX, iXSystems, Pearson Education and our small business sponsors Loftmail and PC Engines. And finally, thanks to our many media sponsors, who have provided support and publicity for the conference, including Columbia University's Network Security Lab, the BSD Certification Group, BSD Magazine, New York PHP, the Industrial Technology and Assistance Corporation and Gruppo Udenti FreeBSD Italia. Without the assistance of Columbia University's Angelos Keromytis and Matthew Burnside, the conference would not be possible. Any conference profits will be donated to the BSD projects, as done in years past. From paul at iconoplex.co.uk Mon Sep 8 19:00:14 2008 From: paul at iconoplex.co.uk (Paul Robinson) Date: Mon Sep 8 19:00:22 2008 Subject: New Manchester BSD UG list Message-ID: The new Manchester (UK) BSD User Group and mailing list is being relocated here: http://groups.google.com/group/manchester-bsd I hope you come and join us. -- Paul Robinson