From jeff at drinktomi.com Tue Feb 3 12:47:02 2004 From: jeff at drinktomi.com (Jeff Younker) Date: Tue, 3 Feb 2004 12:47:02 -0800 Subject: Social Hacking [was: "Strong Scripting Skills" - a definition?] References: Message-ID: <005f01c3ea96$e0d14170$8a34a8c0@ad.ofoto.com> > My own "hacking" has lately focused on revising my understanding of > successful resumes (having taught tech writing in the late 80's, I > knew I was out of date). If enough folks are interested, I can post > some brief comments regarding resume tuning. Or, perhaps some "rules" > I coined for myself from dealing with HR at a past job. A friend of mine told the following story this weekend. She had been looking for a job for about six months. She'd been spending hour upon hour upon hour sending out resumes to likely places. She had milked her social networks for everything they were worth. She had even taken a job as a mechanic's apprentice to lower her burn rate. Finally she changed the subject line of the resumes she was emailing out. She changed the subject from 'Java coder...yada yada yada' to 'American Citizen. Canadian trained engineer. Suma cum laude.' Within one day she had six responses. Four of those yielded interviews, and she had a job within a week. -jeff From dannyman at toldme.com Wed Feb 4 08:19:36 2004 From: dannyman at toldme.com (Danny Howard) Date: Wed, 4 Feb 2004 08:19:36 -0800 Subject: Social Hacking [was: "Strong Scripting Skills" - a definition?] In-Reply-To: <005f01c3ea96$e0d14170$8a34a8c0@ad.ofoto.com> References: <005f01c3ea96$e0d14170$8a34a8c0@ad.ofoto.com> Message-ID: <20040204161936.GE60974@ratchet.nebcorp.com> On Tue, Feb 03, 2004 at 12:47:02PM -0800, Jeff Younker wrote: [...] > Finally she changed the subject line of the resumes she > was emailing out. She changed the subject from 'Java > coder...yada yada yada' to 'American Citizen. Canadian > trained engineer. Suma cum laude.' My last two jobs came from posting my resume on Craigslist. But right before I accepted this one, I was asked to interview after I sent a poem in as a cover letter. :) -danny From peter at usestrict.org Wed Feb 4 09:06:10 2004 From: peter at usestrict.org (Piotr T Zbiegiel) Date: Wed, 04 Feb 2004 09:06:10 -0800 Subject: Social Hacking [was: "Strong Scripting Skills" - a definition?] In-Reply-To: <005f01c3ea96$e0d14170$8a34a8c0@ad.ofoto.com> References: <005f01c3ea96$e0d14170$8a34a8c0@ad.ofoto.com> Message-ID: <1075914370.1608.11.camel@zx.zbagel.net> On Tue, 2004-02-03 at 12:47, Jeff Younker wrote: > Finally she changed the subject line of the resumes she > was emailing out. She changed the subject from 'Java > coder...yada yada yada' to 'American Citizen. Canadian > trained engineer. Suma cum laude.' Without going into too much detail, does your friend have a name which might make a recruiter/hr person think she is not a US Citizen? My name is a bit of a doozie itself, but I'm not sure if it has ever impacted my job search negatively. However, I have been told by co-workers in the past (all in good fun, mind you) that they expected a Russian immigrant with a heavy accent to show up for the interview. For the record, I was born and grew up in the US and the only accent I've been accused of having is a slight Chicago accent. DAH BEARSSS;) Later, Peter From alvin at Mail.Linux-Consulting.com Wed Feb 4 12:11:25 2004 From: alvin at Mail.Linux-Consulting.com (Alvin Oga) Date: Wed, 4 Feb 2004 12:11:25 -0800 (PST) Subject: Social Hacking [was: "Strong Scripting Skills" - a definition?] In-Reply-To: <20040204161936.GE60974@ratchet.nebcorp.com> Message-ID: On Wed, 4 Feb 2004, Danny Howard wrote: > On Tue, Feb 03, 2004 at 12:47:02PM -0800, Jeff Younker wrote: > [...] > > Finally she changed the subject line of the resumes she > > was emailing out. She changed the subject from 'Java > > coder...yada yada yada' to 'American Citizen. Canadian > > trained engineer. Suma cum laude.' > > My last two jobs came from posting my resume on Craigslist. But right > before I accepted this one, I was asked to interview after I sent a poem > in as a cover letter. :) yup.. people always get hired due to "social issues" ( communication style, common hobbies/interests, get-along-skills other people get hired for better than average "technical abilities" - techie skills are easily hired and layed off good to see re-affirmations of the "how to get hired hypothesis" c ya alvin From vraptor at employees.org Thu Feb 5 09:57:39 2004 From: vraptor at employees.org (vraptor at employees.org) Date: Thu, 5 Feb 2004 09:57:39 -0800 (PST) Subject: Social Hacking [was: "Strong Scripting Skills" - a definition?] In-Reply-To: <1075914370.1608.11.camel@zx.zbagel.net> Message-ID: Piotr-- My guess (and that's all it is) was that since her degree was obtained in Canada, folks were assuming she was Canadian and required visa sponsorship. Though sponsorship of Canadians is easier and cheaper than H1B, some companies won't take the time/effort. My husband is Canadian and before we applied for permanent residency and received his work permit, he had to deal with this issue. =Nadine= On Wed, 4 Feb 2004, Piotr T Zbiegiel wrote: >On Tue, 2004-02-03 at 12:47, Jeff Younker wrote: > >> Finally she changed the subject line of the resumes she >> was emailing out. She changed the subject from 'Java >> coder...yada yada yada' to 'American Citizen. Canadian >> trained engineer. Suma cum laude.' > >Without going into too much detail, does your friend have a name which >might make a recruiter/hr person think she is not a US Citizen? My name >is a bit of a doozie itself, but I'm not sure if it has ever impacted my >job search negatively. However, I have been told by co-workers in the >past (all in good fun, mind you) that they expected a Russian immigrant >with a heavy accent to show up for the interview. For the record, I was >born and grew up in the US and the only accent I've been accused of >having is a slight Chicago accent. DAH BEARSSS;) > >Later, >Peter > From star at starshine.org Sat Feb 7 01:13:03 2004 From: star at starshine.org (Heather Stern) Date: Sat, 7 Feb 2004 01:13:03 -0800 Subject: SAT. 2/7 Samba's John Terpstra Meet 'N Greet Message-ID: <20040207091303.GB25816@starshine.org> Heather Fox of Prentice Hall asked me - as a well connected linuxer in this region - if I knew of some good plaves up there for a small meet and greet. (David Alban may be amused to know I mentioned the venues which SIG BEER WEST has enjoyed.) I know, most of us are simply not windows folks. But, if you like or want to know some current grit on Samba - especially if you missed Jeremy's talk around the time of the CIFS conference - then please enjoy this little meet and greet she has thrown together. John's got a limited time in town before his flight out. She encourages us to pass the word around, but does want the RSVP if you're in. . | . Heather Stern --->*<--- Starshine Technical Services ' | ` BALUG Webmaster ----- Forwarded message from "Fox, Heather" ----- From: "Fox, Heather" Subject: SAT. 2/7 TERPSTRA Meet 'N Greet To: "'star at starshine.org'" Hi Heather, good news. I think we've finally got our plans worked out for how/when/where people can meet with John Terpstra, Samba leader/developer/user extraordinaire, THIS Saturday afternoon, 2/7. Can you send the below blurb out, at your earliest convenience, to the BayLUG/BayLISA listservs? Anyone else you think might be interested? If you have any questions, just give me a shout. I think all the necessary info is listed below. **************************************************************************** "Come out THIS Saturday afternoon, 2/7, at around 2:30pm to meet with John Terpstra, one of the long-time gurus of the Samba-Team, who's in town for the day. John will be available to answer your leanest/meanest questions about Samba and its latest revision, Samba-3, which shipped last Fall. **Meeting place is Johnny Foley's, located at 243 O'Farrell Street, downtown San Francisco, a few blocks from Union Sq.** RSVPs to Heather Fox at heather.fox at pearsoned.com would be most appreciated, so we can have an idea as to how many people to expect. You can call Heather with any questions at 201-236-7139. Upon arrival on Saturday, just ask for the "Terpstra" party. Thanks" ************************* Heather Fox, Publicist Addison-Wesley & Prentice Hall PTR Mailing address: Pearson Education, 1 Lake St., #3K17, Upper Saddle River, NJ 07458 (phone) 201.236.7139; heather.fox at pearsoned.com ----- End forwarded message ----- From fscked at pacbell.net Sat Feb 7 15:07:58 2004 From: fscked at pacbell.net (richard childers / kg6hac) Date: Sat, 07 Feb 2004 15:07:58 -0800 Subject: The Illiterati In-Reply-To: References: Message-ID: <40256FCE.9080506@pacbell.net> vraptor at employees.org wrote: > >"These people" are not illiterate, nor are they ignorant. They are >*overwhelmed*. Recall the age of most managers (esp. 2nd tier and >above). These folks have little to no experience before the age of 20 >with computers. > How many tiers of management does a company need? However, ignoring that for the moment ... I beg to disagree. [1] I have been observing the phenomenon described, for nearly ten years now. [2] During this ten year period I have been -also- managing the increase in data. [3] -I- was using operating systems before multitasking was commercially available. [4] People have been organizing large amounts of data for centuries. [5] The individuals I refer to have no respect for others being overwhelmed. >p.s. As for your conspiracy comments, I do believe that America is >suffering from a general "dumbing down" as a result of changes in >education over the past several decades. But, that's a political >discussion that is not on-topic for this list. > > One would expect that access to computers and other tools of literacy would -increase- one's capacity to deal with complexities ... not decrease it. In answer to the question I posed previously, I think the answer can be found, in no small part, in the mail client universally found on management desktops: Microsoft Exchange. Recently I have been compelled to use Exchange. I found its behavior not dissimilar from Netscape Communicator; if I were blindfolded I might not be able to tell the difference ... except for the annoying insistence of Exchange to display the first few sentences of the email. People adept at using Exchange quickly learn to use this feature to their advantage, by putting everything into that first sentence or two. On the other end, many managers just read that first sentence and never actually bother to read the entire email. Much like the managerial insistence that any decision is better than appearing indecisive, this habit can lead to stupid decisions; and more often than not, it does. When this happens, the problems that ensue are, naturally, placed at the doorstep of the person who wrote the long, technical emails, for failing to clearly explain the problem to all interested parties. It would be easy to slant this as mindless Microsoft bashing, but in fact the same conclusion was reached by the NASA board of inquiry, after Challenger, and a crew of astronauts, was scattered across three or four states; NASA management had replied excessively upon Microsoft, PowerPoint, and Project utilities to do their thinking for them, and had allowed themselves to be reduced to committees, watching cartoons, carefully dumbed down to a level they were not threatened by. (Some might challenge that interpretation; but, hey, I'm trying to pack it all into a few short sentences.) Regards, -- richard -- Richard Childers / Senior Engineer Daemonized Networking Services 945 Taraval Street, #105 San Francisco, CA 94116 USA [011.]1.415.759.5571 https://www.daemonized.com From list at mindling.com Wed Feb 11 10:34:33 2004 From: list at mindling.com (Sebastian) Date: Wed, 11 Feb 2004 10:34:33 -0800 (PST) Subject: AS/400 training recommendations? Message-ID: <4276.12.43.57.178.1076524473.squirrel@ssl.sonic.net> Hi list, I'm a *NIX admin who has recently been handed responsibilty for administration of an iSeries machine. I have had little exposure to the 400 prior to this, so I'm seeking recommendations for some formal sysadmin training. Local (bay area) hands-on courses would be nice, but I'm not opposed to travel, or electronic methods either. Does anyone have any recommendations, good, bad, or otherwise? Thanks in advance. From extasia at extasia.org Mon Feb 16 17:07:21 2004 From: extasia at extasia.org (David Alban) Date: Mon, 16 Feb 2004 17:07:21 -0800 Subject: [baylisa] SIG-BEER-WEST this Saturday 2/21 in San Francisco Message-ID: <20040216170721.A11343@gerasimov.net> -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 SIG-beer-west Saturday, February 21, 2004 at 6:00pm San Francisco, CA http://extasia.org/sig-beer-west/ Beer. Mental stimulation. sig-beer-west is two years old this month. Happy Birthday sig-beer-west! This event: Saturday, 02/21/2004, 6:00pm, at Thirsty Bear Brewing Company, San Francisco directions: http://www.thirstybear.com/Directions.html beer: http://www.thirstybear.com/Beers.html food: http://www.thirstybear.com/Dinner.html Coming events (third Saturdays): Saturday, 03/20/2004, 6:00pm, location to be determined Saturday, 04/17/2004, 6:00pm, location to be determined Saturday, 05/15/2004, 6:00pm, location to be determined Saturday, 06/19/2004, 6:00pm, location to be determined San Francisco's next social event for techies and their friends, sig-beer-west, will take place at 6:00pm on Saturday, February 21, 2004 at Thirsty Bear Brewing Company[1] in San Francisco, CA. [1] http://www.thirstybear.com/ About the Thirsty Bear: Celebrator Beer News[2] says: Thirsty Bear takes its name from the headline of a 1991 news article that founder, co-owner and brewmaster Ron Silberstein, then a San Francisco attorney, spied in a local paper: "Thirsty Bear Bites Man for Cold Beer." It seems an escaped circus bear wandered into a neighborhood pub somewhere in the Ukraine, snatched a man's beer from him, drank a few glasses, then fell happily into a nap. The bitten pub patron, Victor Kozlov, earned his own beer at the new Thirsty Bear -- Kozlov Stout. [...] The beers are distinctively American, simple, classic styles modeled after the greats from England, Ireland, Belgium and the Czech Republic. [2] http://celebrator.com/9610/Freccia-ThirstyBear1096.html OpenTable.com[3] says: Spanish dishes with Catalan specialties are served alongside pints of house-brewed ales, lagers, and stouts. [3] http://www.opentable.com/restaurant_profile.asp?ID=2 wGuides.com[4] says: From the outside, this brew-pub has the look and size of a warehouse. The interior, however, has been designed with comfort in mind. Tables and stools offer plenty of room to relax, while pool and darts are available if you feel more energetic. The cuisine here is a fabulous mix of Spanish, Basque, and Catalan dishes which make for an exotic feast. They go perfectly with a spicy pint of dark ale. [4] http://www.wguides.com/city/39/128_8124.cfm I can personally vouch for the Kozlov Stout and the (seasonal) Winter Bock. And the tapas. Oh my goodness, the tapas... Festivities will start at 6:00pm and continue until we've all left. Directions to Thirsty Bear can be found on their directions page.[5] They're a ten minute walk from the Montgomery BART station. [5] http://www.thirstybear.com/Directions.html When you show up, you should look for some kind of home made sig-beer-west sign. We will try to make it obvious who we are. :-) Note: Please look for the sig-beer-west sign, not for a particular person. sig-beer-west may have different hosts from month to month. Everyone is welcome at this event. We mean it! Please feel free to forward this information and to invite friends, co-workers, and others (all of legal drinking age) who might enjoy lifting a glass with interesting folks from all over the place. Can't come this month? Mark your calendar for next month. (Do it now before you forget!) sig-beer-west occurs on the third Saturday of the month. Any questions, comments, suggestions of things to do later on that evening, or new venue suggestions ... email the current sig-beer-west Instigator. The Instigator's Username is extasia. The Instigator's email address is the Username at the Username dot org. sig-beer-west FAQ 1. Q: Your announcement says "techies and their friends". How do I know if I'm a techie, or a friend of one? A: Well, actually, you don't have to be a techie to attend. You just have to be able to find the sig-beer-west sign at this month's event. That's it. Simple, huh? 2. Q: I'm not really a beer person. In fact I'm interested in hanging out, but not in drinking. Would I be welcome? A: Absolutely! The point is to hang out with fun, interesting folks. Please do join us. 3. Q: Is parking difficult in the city, like maybe I should factor this into my travel time? A: Yes. (Note for February 2004: Thirsty Bear is a ten minute walk from Montgomery BART. You may want to consider BARTing[6] and not worrying about parking. [6] http://www.bart.gov/ ______________________________________________________________________ sig-beer-west was started in February 2002 when a couple Washington, D.C. based systems administrators who moved to the San Francisco Bay area wanted to continue a dc-sage[7] tradition, sig-beer, which is described in dc-sage web space as: SIG-beer, as in "Special Interest Group - Beer" ala ACM, or as in "send the BEER signal to that process". The original SIG-beer gathering takes place in Washington DC, usually on the first Saturday night of the month. [7] http://www.dc-sage.org/ ______________________________________________________________________ -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.3 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQFAMWfWPh0M9c/OpdARAqSwAJ9EA+bo29ls+5TYfidc/fOqngTMtACgrVWL zV8yu4rwRKUz0VHDuYBSfXE= =Qyod -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- From david at catwhisker.org Tue Feb 17 15:09:30 2004 From: david at catwhisker.org (David Wolfskill) Date: Tue, 17 Feb 2004 15:09:30 -0800 (PST) Subject: SF ACM Wed. -- Prof. David L. Dill on "The Battle for Accountable Voting Systems" Message-ID: <200402172309.i1HN9U4Y010885@bunrab.catwhisker.org> Some of you may already have seen the blurb, and I'm rather reluctant to spam the list (for various reasons), but here's an excerpt for those who may not have seen/noted it. I believe it's relevant to sysadmins because reliability of the computer systems in question lies at (or very close to) the heart of the matter, and as sysadmins, we tend to be rather more familiar with such issues than most. :-{ Excerpt follows: Date: Tue, 17 Feb 2004 13:06:00 -0500 Reply-To: Fran Sinhart Sender: ACM sanfran list 8/03 List From: Fran Sinhart Subject: ACM talk: "Battle for Accountable Voting Systems" (Wed 2/18/2004) To: SANFRAN at ACM.ORG Please forward this notice to a friend San Francisco Bay Area Chapter of ACM www.sfbayacm.HYPERLINK "http://www.sfbayacm.org/"org presents The Battle for Accountable Voting Systems Prof. David L. Dill Stanford University Department of Computer Science and Founder of VerifiedVoting.org Date Wednesday, Feb 18, 2004 Time: 6:30pm - refreshments, 7:00pm - talk Location: Hewlett Packard (see directions below), Pruneridge and Wolfe, Cupertino, Bldg. 48, Oak Room. Cost: Free and open to all who wish to attend, but membership is only $10/year. Touch-screen voting machines store records of cast votes in internal memory, where the voter cannot check them. Because of our system of secret ballots, once the voter leaves the polls there is no way anyone can determine whether the vote captured was what the voter intended. Why should voters trust these machines? .... Peace, david -- David H. Wolfskill david at catwhisker.org I do not "unsubscribe" from email "services" to which I have not explicitly subscribed. Rather, I block spammers' access to SMTP servers I control, and encourage others who are in a position to do so to do likewise. From jimd at starshine.org Wed Feb 18 18:51:58 2004 From: jimd at starshine.org (jimd at starshine.org) Date: Wed, 18 Feb 2004 18:51:58 -0800 Subject: SF ACM Wed. -- Prof. David L. Dill on "The Battle for Accountable Voting Systems" In-Reply-To: <200402172309.i1HN9U4Y010885@bunrab.catwhisker.org> References: <200402172309.i1HN9U4Y010885@bunrab.catwhisker.org> Message-ID: <20040219025158.GB26306@mercury.starshine.org> On Tue, Feb 17, 2004 at 03:09:30PM -0800, David Wolfskill wrote: > Some of you may already have seen the blurb, and I'm rather reluctant to > spam the list (for various reasons), but here's an excerpt for those who > may not have seen/noted it. > I believe it's relevant to sysadmins because reliability of the computer > systems in question lies at (or very close to) the heart of the matter, > and as sysadmins, we tend to be rather more familiar with such issues > than most. :-{ Not just reliability but also security! There's always been voting fraud and manipulation (including Jerry-mandering, and various forms of subtle polling place intimidation. However, computing technology in voting would be an irresistable target potentially allowing the attacker to swing any vote any way! I will probably never trust a voting system that could be deployed by our bureaucracy! ... > Touch-screen voting machines store records of cast votes in internal memory, > where the voter cannot check them. Because of our system of secret ballots, > once the voter leaves the polls there is no way anyone can determine whether > the vote captured was what the voter intended. Why should voters trust these > machines? This particular issue could easily be addressed, in theory. Each voter should get a private (secret) numerically indexed receipt which uniquely identifies her or her vote. All ballots, as recorded, should be published (electronically --- on a website) indexed by these votes. Each voter can, at any time after they've voted, check their vote and contest any errors. Several measures would be taken to preserve their privacy. The receipt numbers would not publicly identify the polling place (official electoral board aggregations of the data would be published as the are now) and a verification request would not be specific --- you'd round a couple digits off the end of the index number and get a batch of a hundred ballots in response. You'd then pick yours out of the line-up and verify it. Voters would have the option of anonymously registering a complaint (for cases where it would be unlikely to affect the outcome). That would allow the electoral officials to do statistical analysis to uncover some forms of fraud and probably most cases of defective equipment. Voters would also have the option of officially contesting the record of their ballot. In such a case the contents of the ballot would be removed from the official record (sorry, many copies might be lying in caches, etc) and a new ballot for them would be recorded. Measures would be taken to verify the person's ballot reciept, record that a contest had been filed, but UNDER NO CIRCUMSTANCE record the index number as part of the complaint. (Basically a form of double blind procedure --- I can't give the details here as they would probably be a bit elaborate). Voters would also have the option of (anonymously) verifying that their ballot was recorded correctly. For those choosing not to use a computer (web browser) for verification (for whatever reason) they could go to any counter recorders office and view a printed copy. Measures would be taken so they could view that one copy privately without any opportunity to tamper with it. The details are not germaine to this list --- but the basic idea is that it adds accountability to the process. I suspect that even as few as 5 to 10 per cent of the electorate doing the verification follow-up would thwart most attempts at fraudulent ballot modification. A 10 to 20 percent target would be ideal. Complaints and contests would be statistically analyzed (because, privately, the location and rough time of each record would be stored). Thus if compromises were localized to given polling places, precincts, or individuals it would probably show up. Of course out right modification or censorship of ballots is only one form of voting fraud. It's the least common. The infamous "graveyard vote" or "ghost constituency" (insertion of fraudulent ballots for "ghosts" --- people who are deceased, moved, or completely fictitous people) is another big problem. That's already addressed by a variety of techniques that are mostly unaffected by a proper electronic voting system. (Each ballot is recorded with the location and *approximate* time of submission --- statistical analysis and the reports and affidavits of each polling place volunteer provide a cross-check; so massive insertion of ghost votes would have to somehow jive with those cross-check figures. Each voting tablet should have a mylar spool copy of the receipt tape --- like we have with cash registers. One copy is printed and spit out to the voter, the other is wound into a sealed spool! These would be electronically readable by elections officials after breaking the seal before witnesses, etc) (Thus the records of each machine could be audited --- but normal practice would dictate that these be done statistically and that the association between voter receipt indexes and actual voting machine (and time) never be published). I'm not an expert in this field. I haven't even given the problem any formal analysis or research. These are just the obvious ideas that come to mind. Undoubtedly they'd need considerable refinement, adversial criticism, and probably some significant corrections before they could be trusted to deployment. However, I think that accountable systems are possible and I suspect that the primary mechanism would ultimately be similar to the one I've described here. My problems with that idea are: * It's unlikely to be implemented correctly. There are too many political and economic factors to push for some sort of 'paperless' system (AHHHRRRGHHH! NOOOOooooo!) * It's unlikely to get even 5% of the verification rate that I suspect is the bare minimum to deter significant fraud. * It would facilitate "vote purchasing." Existing systems prevent that on any scale since you can purchase my vote but have no way to confirm that I didn't simply take the money and vote with my conscience. Prevention of "vote purchasing" is why you're generally not allowed to have someone in your ballot booth with you as you vote. (There are exceptions made for the infirm). (Vote-by-postal mail schemes are also susceptible to this attack). If I spent some time in analysis of the problem I might also come up with more problem (and even some enhancements to mitigate them). For instance, in the case of vote purchasing; as the attacker I could detect that the people I bribed scammed me --- but I could only contest one of those in any jurisdiction since the whole system would watch for contestation fraud! (No individual should ever contest more than one ballot in the same election). Since the whole transaction is illegal I have no legal recourse regarding the people who took my money. I'm just like the loan shark who's been rooked. Going out and breaking legs is likely to get me arrested on assault. So, the vote purchasing exposure is a bit limited. Additionally it might be deemed to be illegal to possess multiple receipts --- like counterfeit money. I don't know the details. Anyway, I've thought (informally) about the issue before and have a wiki page up at: http://www.starshine.org/sysadmoin/VotingMachineSecurity ... for those who are interested. I've ranted in more detail on the topic there. -- Jim Dennis From trm at eskimo.com Thu Feb 19 15:51:39 2004 From: trm at eskimo.com (Tim Mitchell) Date: Thu, 19 Feb 2004 15:51:39 -0800 (PST) Subject: questions about differences between RFC822, RFC2822 Message-ID: <200402192351.PAA21147@eskimo.com> Could someone help me understand some of the differences between RFC822 and RFC2822 - summarize please? I am hoping to read the whole RFC2822 soon, but 48 pages is not quick. The issue is that my employer's MS Exchange MTA servers are having problems sending mail to an Internet site ( a huge one ) which choose to force compliance with RFC2822 instead of only RFC822. They will not accept a mesage body which is not RFC2822. I know that the Postfix MTA software which I use at home does work to this Internet site. Currently work is MS Exchange 5.5 if that helps, to be upgraded to MS Exchange 2003 "before long". Not my choice which MTA work uses. But Postfix works just fine at my home domain/MX server. Tim Mitchell trm at eskimo.com From chuck+baylisa at snew.com Thu Feb 19 18:44:47 2004 From: chuck+baylisa at snew.com (Chuck Yerkes) Date: Thu, 19 Feb 2004 21:44:47 -0500 Subject: questions about differences between RFC822, RFC2822 In-Reply-To: <200402192351.PAA21147@eskimo.com> References: <200402192351.PAA21147@eskimo.com> Message-ID: <20040220024447.GA24347@2004.snew.com> Quoting Tim Mitchell (trm at eskimo.com): > Could someone help me understand some of the differences between > RFC822 and RFC2822 - summarize please? I am hoping to read the whole er, 20 years? A lot of clarification? 822 and 821 could be a little vague (most DNS things post-dated it). Unfo, in my view, 2822 and 2821 still invoke 822/821 rather than entirely superceding them. I'd rather have a doc, after 20 years, repeat stuff where necessary and make me parse and backreference it's direct parent. I'm pretty sure I'd never put exchange directly on the Internet. I've certainly put proprietary systems behind solid Open Systems (ok, Unix) running real MTAs (ok, sendmail. perhaps postfix.) > RFC2822 soon, but 48 pages is not quick. The issue is that my employer's > MS Exchange MTA servers are having problems sending mail to an Internet site > ( a huge one ) which choose to force compliance with RFC2822 instead of > only RFC822. They will not accept a mesage body which is not RFC2822. I know > that the Postfix MTA software which I use at home does work to this Internet > site. It would help if you identified what was being rejected... Lots of folks interpret the RFCs, er, creatively. (see also djb and how qmail handle's an MX box that responds, but temp fails or refuses the connection (ie tcpwrappers). Easy ways to stop mail from qmail and certain Exchange 5.5*beta* servers). So they SHOULD be saying what's wrong such that they reject the mail. I'm not going to waste time guessing. It might be interesting to know what the (large) site that's demanding compliance is. On a guess (ok, I lied), I block illegal Message-IDs and other things like that. With aplomb. I enjoy that. I also started blocking cable/dsl dynamic ranges to my large client. Not delighted by that. But < 1% of mail coming from them even started to appear as legitimate. > Currently work is MS Exchange 5.5 if that helps, to be upgraded > to MS Exchange 2003 "before long". Not my choice which MTA work uses. But > Postfix works just fine at my home domain/MX server. "Up"grade? It's that like shooting better heroin? Smoking better crack? Eating higher quality mad cows? (introduced to the US in washington state - coincidence?) /me joyfully replace 10 AIX/Notes boxes with 1 (Sun) IMAP server + 2 netra's as MTAs and reduced delivery times from ~10min-6hrs down to 2-3 seconds. 40,000 users. 1 box (plus RAID boxes). But exchange/notes work better. And the calendar is part of email. Recall too that ALL anti-virus work you do should be charged to using Windows and ALL email borne viruses - that get automatically triggered - ALL are Outlook problems. They've patched the problems that run code in "preview mode." 4 times now. From chuck+baylisa at snew.com Thu Feb 19 18:59:14 2004 From: chuck+baylisa at snew.com (Chuck Yerkes) Date: Thu, 19 Feb 2004 21:59:14 -0500 Subject: SF ACM Wed. -- Prof. David L. Dill on "The Battle for Accountable Voting Systems" In-Reply-To: <20040219025158.GB26306@mercury.starshine.org> References: <200402172309.i1HN9U4Y010885@bunrab.catwhisker.org> <20040219025158.GB26306@mercury.starshine.org> Message-ID: <20040220025914.GC24347@2004.snew.com> Quoting jimd at starshine.org (jimd at starshine.org): > On Tue, Feb 17, 2004 at 03:09:30PM -0800, David Wolfskill wrote: > > Some of you may already have seen the blurb, and I'm rather reluctant to > > spam the list (for various reasons), but here's an excerpt for those who > > may not have seen/noted it. > > > I believe it's relevant to sysadmins because reliability of the computer > > systems in question lies at (or very close to) the heart of the matter, > > and as sysadmins, we tend to be rather more familiar with such issues > > than most. :-{ > > Not just reliability but also security! There's always been voting > fraud and manipulation (including Jerry-mandering, and various forms > of subtle polling place intimidation. Gerrymandering. From Mass Governor Gerry http://90.1911encyclopedia.org/G/GE/GERRYMANDER.ht m > However, computing technology in voting would be an irresistable target > potentially allowing the attacker to swing any vote any way! I will > probably never trust a voting system that could be deployed by our > bureaucracy! I don't trust closed source on this; I certainly don't trust it from a company whose leader has ties to a party (any party): O'Dell, in a fundraising letter on August 14th, committed "to helping Ohio deliver its electoral votes to the president next year" according to the Associated Press (many sources, you have google, use it). I think computer aided voting CAN be done well, security and verifiably. If that means that the computer aids me and prints out a card with my vote (barcoded would be fine). Verification/audits can be done by checking the votes against what the computer offers from its memory. If it has printed 200 votes for Buchanan and has stored 1705, then the machine is deeply suspect :) I'll pass on comments about Repumocrats and lack of actual choices. That's for another forum. From david at catwhisker.org Fri Feb 20 12:27:25 2004 From: david at catwhisker.org (David Wolfskill) Date: Fri, 20 Feb 2004 12:27:25 -0800 (PST) Subject: CfV [Call for Volunteer(s)] -- internal BayLISA stuff Message-ID: <200402202027.i1KKRPYW025766@bunrab.catwhisker.org> I've sent various versions of this out during the past week or so to more select groups; for those who have already seen it, I apologize. I'm asking for help getting some moderately-recent code compiled, up, & running on the BayLISA machine, which is a dual-CPU SPARCstation 10 running Solaris 8. It has GCC 2.95.2 as the available C compiler. The software?in question is some sendmail "milter"s (mail filters). There was a time when I was up for this sort of thing, but my Solaris box here at home has been exceedingly stable for a very long time -- enough so all I've needed to do is replace the boot drive a couple of times in the last several years. (Well, I did swap the chassis out from underneath it, but that wasn't required.) Point is, I haven't needed to actually build any software with significant dependencies on a Solaris box for a long time: nearly all of the software-building I've been doing in the last few years has been in a FreeBSD environment, and my patience for dealing with manually chasing down dependencies has diminished more than I had realized. I'll avoid going into the gory details further on this list, but I will point out the reason for the request: I want to do a better job of blocking unwanted mail. In particular, I believe BayLISA would be well-served by implementing ClamAV (which I have implemented here at home) -- not to protect BayLISA members from the worms/viruses/... themselves, but to reduce the amount of worm/virus/...-spawned spam that the machine processes. And ClamAV has some dependencies on certain libraries. I also intend to implement a milter that will permit me to at least block receipt of mail that mentions Web sites that are known to be spamvertised, as well as using regexen to block other forms of unwanted mail. Given the capacity of the machine, I think that's a better fit than a full-blown spamassassin implementation. Please reply to me; I will work with the volunteer(s) to get this done. Thanks, david (current hat: postmaster at baylisa.org) -- David H. Wolfskill david at catwhisker.org I do not "unsubscribe" from email "services" to which I have not explicitly subscribed. Rather, I block spammers' access to SMTP servers I control, and encourage others who are in a position to do so to do likewise. From aland at softorchestra.com Fri Feb 20 21:02:32 2004 From: aland at softorchestra.com (Alan DuBoff) Date: Fri, 20 Feb 2004 21:02:32 -0800 Subject: CfV [Call for Volunteer(s)] -- internal BayLISA stuff In-Reply-To: <200402202027.i1KKRPYW025766@bunrab.catwhisker.org> References: <200402202027.i1KKRPYW025766@bunrab.catwhisker.org> Message-ID: David, I can help you get it up and going. You say it has the gcc 2.95.2 compiler, and presumably that's from the Companion CD, loaded in /opt/sfw. I don't have a SPARC machine at home, but do have a Solaris x86 system running Solaris 8 02/02 with the latest Companion CD on it. Since I work at Sun I can get the Forte compiler also if that would be needed, but the gcc compiler might be ok. I don't use sendmail typically, and run exim, so I'll rely on your for that piece of the puzzle, if you want/need my help. ajd On Friday 20 February 2004 12:27, David Wolfskill wrote: > I've sent various versions of this out during the past week or so to > more select groups; for those who have already seen it, I apologize. > > I'm asking for help getting some moderately-recent code compiled, up, & > running on the BayLISA machine, which is a dual-CPU SPARCstation 10 > running Solaris 8. > > It has GCC 2.95.2 as the available C compiler. > > The software?in question is some sendmail "milter"s (mail filters). > > There was a time when I was up for this sort of thing, but my Solaris > box here at home has been exceedingly stable for a very long time -- > enough so all I've needed to do is replace the boot drive a couple of > times in the last several years. (Well, I did swap the chassis out from > underneath it, but that wasn't required.) Point is, I haven't > needed to actually build any software with significant dependencies > on a Solaris box for a long time: nearly all of the software-building > I've been doing in the last few years has been in a FreeBSD > environment, and my patience for dealing with manually chasing down > dependencies has diminished more than I had realized. > > I'll avoid going into the gory details further on this list, but I will > point out the reason for the request: I want to do a better job of > blocking unwanted mail. In particular, I believe BayLISA would be > well-served by implementing ClamAV (which I have implemented here at > home) -- not to protect BayLISA members from the worms/viruses/... > themselves, but to reduce the amount of worm/virus/...-spawned spam that > the machine processes. And ClamAV has some dependencies on certain > libraries. > > I also intend to implement a milter that will permit me to at least > block receipt of mail that mentions Web sites that are known to be > spamvertised, as well as using regexen to block other forms of unwanted > mail. Given the capacity of the machine, I think that's a better fit > than a full-blown spamassassin implementation. > > Please reply to me; I will work with the volunteer(s) to get this done. > > Thanks, > david (current hat: postmaster at baylisa.org) > -- > David H. Wolfskill david at catwhisker.org > I do not "unsubscribe" from email "services" to which I have not explicitly > subscribed. Rather, I block spammers' access to SMTP servers I control, > and encourage others who are in a position to do so to do likewise. > > -- Alan DuBoff Software Orchestration, Inc. GPG: 1024D/B7A9EBEE 5E00 57CD 5336 5E0B 288B 4126 0D49 0D99 B7A9 EBEE From aland at softorchestra.com Fri Feb 20 22:13:40 2004 From: aland at softorchestra.com (Alan DuBoff) Date: Fri, 20 Feb 2004 22:13:40 -0800 Subject: CfV [Call for Volunteer(s)] -- internal BayLISA stuff In-Reply-To: References: <200402202027.i1KKRPYW025766@bunrab.catwhisker.org> Message-ID: On Friday 20 February 2004 21:02, Alan DuBoff wrote: > David, > > I can help you get it up and going. You say it has the gcc 2.95.2 compiler, > and presumably that's from the Companion CD, loaded in /opt/sfw. > > I don't have a SPARC machine at home, but do have a Solaris x86 system > running Solaris 8 02/02 with the latest Companion CD on it. David, I went snoopin' around my Solaris 8 x86 install and see that I have gcc 2.95.3. Not that we need it, but if you want to run Solaris 8 on the BayLiSA server, you should really make it current and place the latest Companion CD on it. Do you know which MU the machine is rev'd at? Solaris 8 02/02 is the latest. If you have 02/02 (possibly MU 7 or MU 8) we can replace the Companion CD easy enough. Please let me know. If you don't prefer to do that, please give a reason why as I don't think it's good to run it with less than current patches. -- Alan DuBoff Software Orchestration, Inc. GPG: 1024D/B7A9EBEE 5E00 57CD 5336 5E0B 288B 4126 0D49 0D99 B7A9 EBEE From chuck+baylisa at snew.com Sat Feb 21 14:08:46 2004 From: chuck+baylisa at snew.com (Chuck Yerkes) Date: Sat, 21 Feb 2004 17:08:46 -0500 Subject: CfV [Call for Volunteer(s)] -- internal BayLISA stuff In-Reply-To: References: <200402202027.i1KKRPYW025766@bunrab.catwhisker.org> Message-ID: <20040221220846.GA5189@2004.snew.com> Quoting Alan DuBoff (aland at softorchestra.com): > On Friday 20 February 2004 21:02, Alan DuBoff wrote: ... > I went snoopin' around my Solaris 8 x86 install and see that I have gcc > 2.95.3. Not that we need it, but if you want to run Solaris 8 on the BayLiSA > server, you should really make it current and place the latest Companion CD > on it. Current? Solaris? you jest. vi from 1988? ftp unchanged in fucntion from 1985? inetd unchanged since SunOS 3.5? Can we talk about a smarter syslog? At least sendmail and bind are finally close to current. no no, you install solaris, then you spend 2-3 days bringing it up to the 90's (or perhaps the "uhoh"'s if motivated). I'm not bitter, I just tire of having to fight management to put tools default installed on MacOS X, Linux, BSD and others onto "production sun machines." sudo? a syslog that can filter? mtree? df/du that isn't a burden to use on 500GB partitions (counting triplets is less productive that "df -h" getting "12G free" rather than panicking about misreading 1.2gb free.) > Solaris 8 02/02 is the latest. If you have 02/02 (possibly MU 7 or MU 8) we > can replace the Companion CD easy enough. Or put on gcc 3.3.2 from sunfreeware or pkgsrc (from netbsd) for solaris. Perhaps when Sun moves to Ath64, they'll update their userland tools. I fear a "new tcp stack written from the ground up" in Solaris A. From aland at softorchestra.com Sat Feb 21 15:45:33 2004 From: aland at softorchestra.com (Alan DuBoff) Date: Sat, 21 Feb 2004 15:45:33 -0800 Subject: CfV [Call for Volunteer(s)] -- internal BayLISA stuff In-Reply-To: <20040221220846.GA5189@2004.snew.com> References: <200402202027.i1KKRPYW025766@bunrab.catwhisker.org> <20040221220846.GA5189@2004.snew.com> Message-ID: On Saturday 21 February 2004 14:08, Chuck Yerkes wrote: > Current? Solaris? you jest. vi from 1988? ftp unchanged in > fucntion from 1985? inetd unchanged since SunOS 3.5? Can > we talk about a smarter syslog? At least sendmail and bind > are finally close to current. > > no no, you install solaris, then you spend 2-3 days bringing it > up to the 90's (or perhaps the "uhoh"'s if motivated). No, I spend 10 minutes installing the Companion CD which Sun provides and has most all the tools I need. You spend 2-3 days because presumably you don't know where to get the Companion CD. If you want to talk about current, let's not use Solaris 8 on BayLISA, upgrade it to something a bit more current...not to mentioned a SPARC 10. The fact is, that's what BayLISA has. > I'm not bitter, I just tire of having to fight management to put > tools default installed on MacOS X, Linux, BSD and others onto > "production sun machines." sudo? a syslog that can filter? mtree? > df/du that isn't a burden to use on 500GB partitions (counting > triplets is less productive that "df -h" getting "12G free" rather > than panicking about misreading 1.2gb free.) Then why use Solaris 8 on the BayLISA machine to begin with? Why use a SPARC 10 even? > > Solaris 8 02/02 is the latest. If you have 02/02 (possibly MU 7 or MU 8) we > > can replace the Companion CD easy enough. > > Or put on gcc 3.3.2 from sunfreeware or pkgsrc (from netbsd) for solaris. pkgsrc will be how Sun moves in the future. I have an internal server running inside Sun with ~1700 packages built for both SPARC and x86. This doesn't help folks like BayLISA, because I don't think Sun should even continue to support Solaris 8. How long do other companies support their OS? There's still a lot of 8 in production though, maybe most of those customers haven't gotten your message, how about sending it to them! (i.e., start with BayLISA;-). -- Alan DuBoff Software Orchestration, Inc. GPG: 1024D/B7A9EBEE 5E00 57CD 5336 5E0B 288B 4126 0D49 0D99 B7A9 EBEE From alfw at slac.stanford.edu Mon Feb 23 10:50:17 2004 From: alfw at slac.stanford.edu (Alf Wachsmann) Date: Mon, 23 Feb 2004 10:50:17 -0800 (PST) Subject: 2nd CfP: AFS Best Practices Workshop Message-ID: **************************************************************************** 2nd Call for Papers and Participation AFS Best Practices Workshop March 24-26, 2004 at Stanford Linear Accelerator Center, Menlo Park, CA http://www-conf.slac.stanford.edu/AFSBestPractices **************************************************************************** This is a reminder that the early registration period will end this coming Sunday February 29, 2004. Late registration fees will apply thereafter. Please register your talk and your participation under http://www-conf.slac.stanford.edu/AFSBestPractices There are plenty of slots for talks left. Please send questions to AFSBest-Workshop at slac.stanford.edu From star at starshine.org Mon Feb 23 00:18:16 2004 From: star at starshine.org (Heather Stern) Date: Mon, 23 Feb 2004 00:18:16 -0800 Subject: CfV [Call for Volunteer(s)] -- internal BayLISA stuff In-Reply-To: References: <200402202027.i1KKRPYW025766@bunrab.catwhisker.org> Message-ID: <20040223081816.GC6456@starshine.org> > David, > > I went snoopin' around my Solaris 8 x86 install and see that I have gcc > 2.95.3. Not that we need it, but if you want to run Solaris 8 on the BayLiSA > server, you should really make it current and place the latest Companion CD > on it. Recall that physical access isn't exactly easy these days. Doesn't make it impossible :) > Do you know which MU the machine is rev'd at? > > Solaris 8 02/02 is the latest. If you have 02/02 (possibly MU 7 or MU 8) we > can replace the Companion CD easy enough. > > Please let me know. If you don't prefer to do that, please give a reason why > as I don't think it's good to run it with less than current patches. Thanks for offering to help, it's very much appreciated. I personally agree with Chuck's opinion of its vi... Mind you, I offered to set it up with Debian/Sparc, but at the time (when we switched to this hardware) it seemed very easy to continue to run on Solaris... seems like we have plenty of Solaris admins around in BayLISA, right? :) We'd planned to build the main useful things from upstream sources anyway. -* Heather Stern * President, BayLISA Board * http://www.baylisa.org/ *- From Jennifer.Padilla at veritas.com Mon Feb 23 17:27:05 2004 From: Jennifer.Padilla at veritas.com (Jennifer Padilla) Date: Mon, 23 Feb 2004 17:27:05 -0800 Subject: We want your feedback in VERITAS products .... We Want to Listen! Message-ID: [I approved this, based on my understandings of BayLISA and what the message is trying to accomplish. If you have a problem with its appearance here, please take it up with me or with the Board, but do not blame the author of the message, as she posted it in good faith, based on my representation of suitability for this forum. -- postmaster at baylisa.org] Hello, The VERITAS Software Usability Team is coming your way and we want to listen! We are providing a unique usability testing opportunity for a limited number of people. We would like to take a moment to invite you to a usability study for VERITAS Centralize Management product. This is not a sales presentation; we are not trying to get you to buy anything. In fact we will pay you for your time and effort. You will receive a $50.00 American Express Travelers Check for your time and effort, along with some VERITAS gifts. We want your comments and opinions on how we can improve VERITAS products, making them easier and more efficient to use. We believe this is a great learning experience for both you as well as VERITAS and with your feedback; we will be able to continue to build the world's best data protection products. There are two different events in which you may choose to participate: First - A usability test for the CLI component of the product ? Date: Monday the 1st or Tuesday the 2nd of March in our Mountain View office. We will work with you on booking an hour and fifteen minute block that works best with your schedule. ? This activity will allow you to use the actual product in its early stages to see how easy to use, efficient, effective and well you like it. ? For this activity, we are looking for System Administrators of volume management applications who are comfortable with writing scripts. Second - A focus group session for the Web GUI component of the product ? Date: Thursday, March 4th: 1:30-3:30 p.m ? This activity is a group centered discussion. We will engage in conversation about the early prototypes for this product. ? For this activity, we are looking for System Administrators of who are knowledgeable with VM objects and comfortable using a GUI when administering volume management tasks. Slots are limited so please contact me as soon as you can if you are interested in participating in our upcoming activity. Jennifer Padilla Usability Engineer VERITAS - Mountain View, CA (650) 527 3168 (Office) jpadilla at veritas.com From brigid at zna.com Wed Feb 25 10:26:40 2004 From: brigid at zna.com (Brigid Fuller) Date: Wed, 25 Feb 2004 10:26:40 -0800 Subject: Server Blade Summit Message-ID: <403CE8E0.2020000@zna.com> Server Blade Summit 2004, the conference and exhibition dedicated to the rapidly growing blade server market, will take place on March 9-11, 2004 at the Wyndham San Jose. This year's event (http://www.serverbladesummit.com), will feature more than 100 speakers from the leading suppliers of blade system solutions. Free Exhibits and Gear Raffle: The BladeS Interoperability Demo is open to the public at no charge at Server Blade Summit 2004, and will include a raffle for the demo equipment. The BladeS Interoperability Demo will feature a state-of-the-art clustered Intel-based blade server environment with stackable Fibre Channel switches connected to RAID storage systems. The interoperability demo features blade servers, switching infrastructure, racking hardware, storage, and management and application software from Blade Systems Alliance vendors. Register to win the BladeS demo gear at: http://www.bladesystems.org/usergroup.aspx From bill at wards.net Thu Feb 26 10:43:51 2004 From: bill at wards.net (William R Ward) Date: Thu, 26 Feb 2004 10:43:51 -0800 Subject: Peninsula LUG meeting tonight, Thu 2/26/2004 Message-ID: <16446.15975.491013.633904@komodo.home.wards.net> NOTE: We have a new IHOP to visit! There is one in Belmont which has a big back room we can use, and it even has electricity (just one outlet, so someone bring a power strip) if you want to plug in your laptop... Date: Thursday, February 26, 2004 Time: 7:00 - 9:00 PM Location: 100 Oracle Parkway Redwood Shores, CA 94065 Room 1op104 Agenda: 7:00 - 7:30: Nuts & Bolts presentation by Bernard Golden: "Open Source: The Next Five Years" 7:30 - 8:30: Keynote presentation by Farooq Khan: "Voice Over IP" 8:30 - 9:00: Business Meeting 9:00 PM: Adjourn to IHOP for social & food time Nuts & Bolts presentation by Bernard Golden: "Open Source: The Next Five Years" Bernard Golden, author of Succeeding with Open Source (Addison-Wesley, Fall 2004) will speak on where open source is today and where it will go tomorrow. Linux is now accepted as a viable choice for production environments. What about other open source products? What will it take for them to be accepted as well? Bernard will identify the key factors that enabled Linux to be accepted, discuss their availability for other open source software, and describe the changes IT organizations must make as they begin to take on other open source products. Open source is causing a massive shift of power from vendors to users. Bernard's presentation will discuss the implications of this shift for both parties. Keynote presentation by Farooq Khan: "Voice Over IP" Farooq Khan will tell us all about the latest developments in the emerging technology of using the Internet to communicate voice. Business Meeting We will discuss future directions for the group. Bring your good ideas! 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This live-demo course provides you with a comprehensive set of tools and techniques needed to identify and resolve LAN problems related to faults, performance, security and accounting management issues. You will improve your knowledge of using SNMP to troubleshoot, and maintain switched and routed networks. Participants will leave with a cheat sheet and a resource list for future use. With a better understanding of SNMP Network Management, you'll be much closer to better managing your data network. Who Should Attend This course is valuable for anyone involved in configuring and managing or maintaining data networks in both the enterprise and service provider environments. Network administrators, IT Directors and managers of network operations centers should all benefit from this half-day seminar. A basic knowledge of "Introduction to Internetworking" is assumed for participants in this seminar. Thursday, March 9, 2004 9 AM to 12 noon Sheraton Hotel, Sunnyvale, CA Cost: $69 Register here securely for the seminar in Sunnvyale, CA on March 9, 2004 http://www.acteva.com/booking.cfm?bevaid=62017%20 For more details, see http://www.networktools.org/SNMPnetMgmt.htm -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: Rajeev Seth (rajeev at networktools.org).vcf Type: text/x-vcard Size: 259 bytes Desc: not available URL: From staskh at comcast.net Fri Feb 27 16:14:57 2004 From: staskh at comcast.net (Stas Khirman) Date: Fri, 27 Feb 2004 16:14:57 -0800 Subject: Upcoming Silicon Valley Events ( March 2004) Message-ID: <0d9c01c3fd8f$e668bbc0$673da8c0@narus.com> Excerpts from Silicon Valley Events Calendar for March 2004. (see more at http://groups.yahoo.com/group/SVEvents/cal or for free subscription - http://groups.yahoo.com/group/SVEvents/join) -------------------------------------------- 3/1/2004 6:30 pm The Emperor Has No Clothes (RFID/SVCWireless) http://www.svcwireless.org 3/3/2004 4:15 pm Open for Change , by Matthew Szulik ,CEO, RedHat (Stanford U) http://www.stanford.edu/class/ee380/ 3/3/2004 4:30 pm Entrepreneurial Thought Leaders -Ken Wirt , palmOne, VP of Marketing http://etl.stanford.edu/ 3/4/2004 8:30 am Real-Time Signal Processing System Design with Simulink ( vendor presentation) www.mathworks.com/company/seminars/RT 3/4/2004 12:00 pm Modeling multimedia file-sharing traffic, and Quantifying the spread of spyware (Stanford Networking Seminar) (VERY RECOMENDED) http://groups.yahoo.com/group/SVEvents/message/462 3/4/2004 6:00 pm MI SIG: MPEG-4 and the Future of Mobile Video (VERY RECOMENDED) http://www.sdforum.org/SDForum/Templates/CalendarEvent.aspx?CID=1329&mo=3&yr=2004 3/9/2004 8:30 am SNMP Network Management http://groups.yahoo.com/group/SVEvents/message/453 3/10/2004 4:15 pm Daniel Robbins, Gentoo Linux ( Stanford U - CSLS) http://www.stanford.edu/class/ee380/ 3/11/2004 6:00 pm SCORE - Counselors to America's Small Business, part deux (ICCA) 3/15/2004 6:30 pm Social Networking Users Group - Inagurational Meeting http://groups.yahoo.com/group/SVEvents/message/442 3/16/2004 4:00 pm 3rd World Wireless Installations (WCA Monthly Meeting) www.wca.org 3/16/2004 6:30pm Transitioning to Agile (NetObjectives) (VERY RECOMENDED) http://groups.yahoo.com/group/SVEvents/message/461 3/16/2004 6:00 pm Concept to Company in Challenging Times(MIT/VLAB) http://www.vlab.org/401.cfm 3/24/2004 11:15 am Developments in Market Research: It is Brain Surgery, After All http://www.norcalbma.org/Events/meetingMarch.htm 3/29/2004 - 4/1/2004 Embeded System Conference http://www.esconline.com/ Communications Design Conference http://www.esconline.com/electronicaUSA/tech_conf/cdc/