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March 23

Warpdoctor Meeting Sunday March 24 at 3:00pm EST (20:00 GMT)
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As a reminder the WarpDoctor group meets Every Sunday at 3:00pm ET (20:00 GMT) visit http://www.timezoneconverter.com/cgi-bin/tzc.tzc for timezone help.

WarpDoctor IRC Discussions take place in the #WarpDoctor channel on the webbnet irc network.

If you are unfamiliar with the procedure of visiting a chatroom, there is a set of detailed instructions at http://www.warpdoctor.org/IRC_ChatProc.html

You may view the agenda for this meeting at http://www.warpdoctor.org/agendas/warpdoc_03242002.html
Walter Metcalf
WarpDoctor Co-ordinator

March 20

BayWarp monthly meeting announcment
Date: March 26, 2002
Time: 7:00 - 10:00 PM
Place: Help Desk Computers (WTW Group), 1456 Pollard Road, Los Gatos, CA 95032-1031
Hint: It's between the Mexican Restaurant and the Chinese Restaurant in the corner (Safeway is on the far right).

$5.00 per person to be collected for help with the munchies.
Agenda: we will discuss the following topics
* Flash v5, Multimedia, and The Browser (Open Floor)
* Chat Programs (IRC, ICQ, AIM)
* P2P (LimeWire)
* VPN (InJoy, IBM)
Web Page http://www.baywarp.org/

Contact Info

Neil Waldhauer, zonker@well.com

March 18

Atlanta OS/2 User Group Meeting Tomorrow (3/19)

The Luck o' the Irish is still shining upon us! There will be a demonstration of some of the most fascinating technological capabilities that OS/2 has to offer!

HERE ARE THE DETAILS:

Ever wish you could secure your OS/2 system from local access? Not satisfied with the WPS lockup screen and programs that provide security for WPS objects? Worried that anyone with access to a command line has FULL CONTROL over your system?

There is a solution.

Tuesday March 19th, Golden Code Development will preview the most complete OS/2 security subsystem ever. This software is not yet available, although it is planned to be made available for select customers by the end of 1Q02.

With this subsystem it is possible to:
- turn your local OS/2 system into a true multi-user system
- each user is authenticated and has a separate security account and access control - fully integrated and managed session management handling logon, logoff, lockup, unlock, shutdown and reboot - for each user you can implement full discretionary access control (RWCDAXN) over:
- every file, directory and drive in the system
- the launching of any application in the system, including VDMs
- dangerous kernel APIs controlling shutdown, process kill...
- CTRL-ALT-DEL
- protection of STARTUP.CMD
- resources can be managed using groups, like in LAN Server
- trusted application support
- simple program launcher/task switcher that can be used with or without the WPS - includes an integrated screen saver

Regards,
Roger Borrello
Atlanta OS/2 User's Group Secretary
mailto:rfb@GoldenCode.com
http://www.GoldenCode.com/atlos2/atlos2.html

March 18

VOICE IRC meeting tonight, Monday March 18, 8:00pm EST (Tuesday 01:00 GMT)

There will be a VOICE IRC meeting tonight, Monday March 18, 8:00pm EST (Tuesday 01:00 GMT) in the #voice channel on the WEBBnet IRC network. VOICE IRC meetings are held on the first and third Monday of the month and as always, everyone is welcome.

For more on VOICE meetings see http://www.os2voice.org/meetinginfo.html where there is information on IRC clients and their use, as well as a link to a time conversion page.

The agenda for tonight's meeting can be found at http://www.os2voice.org/agenda/voice_2002-03-18.html. Please read this so you will be prepared for the meeting.
Thank you,
Walter F. Metcalf
VOICE President
mailto:walter@rogers.com

March 16

Warpdoctor Meeting Sunday March 17 at 3:00pm EST (20:00 GMT)
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* Please note the new time *
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As a reminder the WarpDoctor group meets Every Sunday at 3:00pm ET (20:00 GMT) visit http://www.timezoneconverter.com/cgi-bin/tzc.tzc for timezone help.

WarpDoctor IRC Discussions take place in the #WarpDoctor channel on the webbnet irc network.

If you are unfamiliar with the procedure of visiting a chatroom, there is a set of detailed instructions at http://www.warpdoctor.org/IRC_ChatProc.html

You may view the agenda for this meeting at http://www.warpdoctor.org/agendas/warpdoc_03172002.html
Walter Metcalf
WarpDoctor Co-ordinator

March 15

Philadelphia OS/2 Mtg: Wed, Mar 20th

. PHILADELPHIA OS/2 USER GROUP
http://www.phillyos2.org

The Philadelphia OS/2 User Group invites all interested computer users to attend the March monthly meeting:
. WEDNESDAY, March 20, 2002 7:00 - 10:00 PM
. The Episcopal Academy, 376 N. Latches Lane, Merion, PA
. *** MARCH 20th MEETING AGENDA ***
. -- LIVE IBM RS/6000 WORKSTATION DEMO --

PLEASE NOTE: The March meeting will be on March 20th this year, the 3rd Wednesday of the month, in order to avoid conflict with religious observances during our usual 4th week meeting date.

The feature presentation at the March 20 meeting will be a live demo by Vadim Kavalerov, one of our PhillyOS2 leading gurus, of an IBM RS/6000 workstation (w/PowerPC) running the AIX 4.3.3 OS.

The introduction of IBM's pSeries Regatta systems in November 2001 with the Power4 microprocessor, PowerPC architecture was confirmed the world-leading high-performance computing platform.

The PowerPC and Power series line of the microprocessors have a decade-long history, and a large number of products shipped to enterprise customers. For example, the 43P line of RS/6000 workstations shipped over 1 million units since its introduction in 1996. Incidentally, this is precisely the kind of the hardware which was originally destined to run OS/2 5.0, cancelled weeks before its planned introduction early in 1996.

As such systems are replaced in various enterprise environments, they often find 2nd or even 3rd owners due to their unprecedented longevity. By PC standards, these machines are quite fast at 200-300 MHz CPU speed. Such systems can be purchased at used PC prices from a large number of dealers including IBM. The standard OS on RS/6000 is AIX (Advanced Interactive eXecutive), an IBM version of Unix.

The user interface of the RS/6000 is Common Desktop Environment (CDE), a standard on many other Unix systems. Generally, AIX is Unix, but there are a couple of significant differences that will be explained. IBM also added a system management interface (SMIT) that makes it easy even to someone unfamiliar with Unix to perform basic system management functions.

If you'd like to learn Unix, AIX might be just for you. There are hundreds of in-depth RedBooks available from http://www.redbooks.ibm.com/. You may also wish to browse the following related web sites, and bring your questions to the meeting:
http://www-1.ibm.com/servers/eserver/pseries/hardware/largescale/sp.html
http://www.austin.ibm.com/software/OS/aix43.html
http://www-1.ibm.com/servers/aix/products/aixos/
http://www-1.ibm.com/servers/aix/library/
http://aixpdslib.seas.ucla.edu/aixpdslib.html

Other agenda items include U/G business items, OS/2 news, new releases, Q&A session and raffles. The usual free refreshments will also be available.

Mark the date and time: Wednesday, March 20th, at 7:00pm. OS/2 meetings are open and free for OS/2 users, their guests and others interested in learning about OS/2 and associated technologies. We have a very full agenda, so also please try to be on time promptly by 7:00pm.

Further information, directions to Episcopal Academy, and other useful information about the OS/2 U/G activities may be found on our web site at http://www.phillyos2.org, or contact U/G Leader Larry Lavins: llavins@worldnet.att.net, or phone (215) 878-9609. - -

March 11

SCOUG meeting March 16: Addendum

Contact: Tony Butka tony@scoug.com

The next meeting of the Southern California OS/2 User Group (SCOUG) will be this Saturday, March 16, 2002 at 9:15 AM PST, at Regal Lanes in Orange, 1485 N. Tustin Ave.

Main presentation addendum

Courtesy of Networking SIG leader Steve Schiffman, you can bring your computer (as long as it has an Ethernet adapter) and download Virginia Hetrick's material for her "Coding Tidy HTML" presentation.

Programming SIG addendum

Harry Motin will explain the Open Watcom Project (open source C/C++ and Fortran compiler products). He'll discuss just what the Open Watcom Project is, how you can obtain the Watcom files, what you do to download them, installing (with the focus on the C/C++ products, not the Fortran product), and getting started. Harry will wind up by telling about some of his personal projects for Watcom C/C++.

Visit http://www.scoug.com/meetings.htm for all the info, plus a link on how to get to Regal Lanes.

March 02

Warpdoctor Meeting Sunday March 10 at 3:00pm EST (21:00 GMT)
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* Please note the new time *
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As a reminder the WarpDoctor group meets Every Sunday at 3:00pm ET (21:00 GMT) visit http://www.timezoneconverter.com/cgi-bin/tzc.tzc for timezone help.

WarpDoctor IRC Discussions take place in the #WarpDoctor channel on the webbnet irc network.

If you are unfamiliar with the procedure of visiting a chatroom, there is a set of detailed instructions at http://www.warpdoctor.org/IRC_ChatProc.html

You may view the agenda for this meeting at http://www.warpdoctor.org/agendas/warpdoc_03102002.html
Walter Metcalf
WarpDoctor Co-ordinator

March 08

SCOUG meeting Mar. 16

Contact: Tony Butka tony@scoug.com

The next meeting of the Southern California OS/2 User Group (SCOUG) will be next Saturday, March 16, 2002 at 9:15 AM PST, at Regal Lanes in Orange, 1485 N. Tustin Ave.

Coding Tidy HTML

Virginia Hetrick will introduce us to building Web pages including some new tools she's built using REXX and new WebSphere functions from IBM. She'll show us some really bad web pages and give us pointers to appropriate use of some tricks of the trade. For those who are interested in JavaScript or Java, she'll bring along some code samples of interest. Virginia will have things of value for each and every one of us.

It's Also Election Time

Last call for candidates! For the business portion of the meeting, we'll have a quick election. The current board is essentially running as a slate of (at least as of this moment) unopposed candidates.

Programming SIG

Harry Motin will give us a taste of what you need to do to set up Watcom.

And the Usual Fun & Games

Let's see.... we're talking about Q&A for any computer-type problems you might be having; a raffle; free coffee & donuts. Be there!

OS/2 Help Desk and Networking SIG, April 7th, 2002, 2 PM PDT, Chapman University in Orange: (note Daylight Savings Time is in effect)

Should you be in need of technical assistance, take your problem - and your system - to the in-person OS/2 Help Desk that's held once a month at Chapman University. SCOUG volunteers will help you work it all out.

While you're at the in-person Help Desk, find out what the Networking SIG is doing. If networking isn't part of your current strategy, it will be eventually. The SIG meets at the same time and place, and pursues issues related to network configurations and problem solutions.

How to get to Regal Lanes:

From the 55 freeway, exit Katella Ave. heading west. Turn right (north) at the first major intersection onto Tustin Ave. At the next signal you'll find Regal Lanes on your right. It's across from the Toyota of Orange dealership.

There's lots of parking on the south side of the building. Enter from the east entrance of the building (farthest from Tustin Ave.), not the main (front) entrance to the facility. Take the stairs to the 2nd floor; meeting rooms (and restrooms) will be on your left.

Handicapped access is via an elevator by the front door.

OR: Go to http://www.scoug.com/directions.html; there is a map to Regal Lanes, plus a more detailed map & driving directions from Yahoo!

How to get to Chapman University:
There are two ways to get directions:
1) Go to http://www.scoug.com/warpexpowest/sitemap.html
2) Go to http://www.mapquest.com/ and enter the address 400 N. Center Street, Orange, CA.

You can park in any of the University lots for free on Sundays, but if you part on the street, watch the signs carefully or else risk getting a parking ticket.

Come to Hashinger Hall Science Building, room 203. It's on the second floor and there's an elevator for you to bring up your equipment.

Come and join us!

March 04

VOICE IRC meeting tonight, Monday March 4, 8:00pm EST (01:00 GMT)

There will be a VOICE IRC meeting tonight, Monday March 4, 8:00pm EST (01:00 GMT) in the #voice channel on the WEBBnet IRC network. VOICE IRC meetings are held on the first and third Monday of the month and as always everyone is welcome.

For more on VOICE meetings see - http://www.os2voice.org/meetinginfo.html where there is information on IRC clients and their use, as well as a link to a time conversion page.

The agenda for tonight's meeting can be found at http://www.os2voice.org/agenda/voice_2002-03-04.html. Please read so you will be prepared for the meeting.
Walter F. Metcalf
VOICE President

March 02

Warpdoctor Meeting Sunday March 3 at 3:00pm EST (21:00 GMT)
*******************************************************************
* Please note the new time *
*******************************************************************

As a reminder the WarpDoctor group meets Every Sunday at 3:00pm ET (21:00 GMT) visit http://www.timezoneconverter.com/cgi-bin/tzc.tzc for timezone help.

WarpDoctor IRC Discussions take place in the #WarpDoctor channel on the webbnet irc network.

If you are unfamiliar with the procedure of visiting a chatroom, there is a set of detailed instructions at http://www.warpdoctor.org/IRC_ChatProc.html

You may view the agenda for this meeting at http://www.warpdoctor.org/agendas/warpdoc_03032002.html
Walter Metcalf
WarpDoctor Co-ordinator

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