>Envelope-to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] >Date: Fri, 20 Sep 2002 17:12:14 -0700 (PDT) >From: Marsee Henon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] >Subject: Newsletter from O'Reilly UG Program, Sept 20 > >O'Reilly User Group Program >Newsletter >September 20, 2002 > > >Spread The Word To Your Members... > >Highlights This Week: >---------------------------------------------------------------- >Book News >---------------------------------------------------------------- >-Dynamic HTML: The Definitive Reference, 2nd Edition >-BGP-Building Reliable Networks with the Border Gateway Protocol >---------------------------------------------------------------- >Upcoming Events >---------------------------------------------------------------- >-Visit O'Reilly at the 10th Annual Mac Computer Expo 2002 >-David Pogue will be at the Valley Fair Apple Store in California >October 2 >-The Columbia Java Users Group presents Scott Means October >28th >---------------------------------------------------------------- >Conference News >---------------------------------------------------------------- >-Day Passes are Available for the O'Reilly Mac OS X Conference >-Two New Keynotes Added to the Mac OS X Program >-Mac OS X Conference Sessions with iCal >-O'Reilly Bioinformatics Conference Call for Participation Extended >until September 23 >---------------------------------------------------------------- >News >---------------------------------------------------------------- >-O'Reilly author David Kelly is looking for User Group speaking >opportunities >-E-books on Amazon.com >-Help O'Reilly by posting your book comments on Amazon >-SpamShield: A Perl-Based Spam Filter for sendmail >-Shared Source CLI Essentials >-INETA Speaker's Bureau >-Java Programming on the Mac >-Getting Started with JXTA, Part 1 >-Let One Hundred Browsers Bloom >-Configuring sendmail on Jaguar >-Using PC Peripherals on the Mac >---------------------------------------------------------------- >Announcements From Your Peers >---------------------------------------------------------------- >-Ask Rob Wehrli to visit your LUG >-Henry Norr, SF Chronicle Columnist, to Speak at the GGCS's Sept 23 >Meeting >-The CF Underground 4 Conference is October 27 >-First Annual Southern California Linux Expo scheduled for Nov 2 > >================================================ >Book News >================================================ >Review books are available--please email me for a copy. >If you need your books by a certain date, please allow at least four >weeks for shipping. >Send or email me copies of your newsletters and book reviews. > >Don't forget, your members get 20% off any O'Reilly book they purchase >directly from O'Reilly. Just use code DSUG when ordering. > >Press releases are available on our press page: >http://press.oreilly.com/ > > >***Dynamic HTML: The Definitive Reference, 2nd Edition >Order Number: 3161 >This new edition has been updated to include complete reference >material on the latest specifications, including HTML 4.01, CSS Level >2, DOM Level 2, and JavaScript 1.5, as well as the latest browsers, >Internet Explorer 6 (Windows), Internet Explorer 5.1 (Mac), Netscape >Navigator 6 and 7, and Mozilla 1.0. >http://www.oreilly.com/catalog/dhtmlref2/ > >Chapter 2, "Cross-Platform Compromises," is available online: >http://www.oreilly.com/catalog/dhtmlref2/chapter/index.html > > >***BGP-Building Reliable Networks with the Border Gateway Protocol >Order Number: 2548 >This book is a guide to all aspects of BGP: the protocol, its >configuration and operation in an Internet environment, and how to >troubleshoot it. The book also describes how to secure BGP, and how BGP >can be used as a tool in combating Distributed Denial of Service (DDoS) >attacks. Although the examples throughout this book are for Cisco >routers, the techniques discussed can be applied to any BGP-capable >router. >http://www.oreilly.com/catalog/bgp/ > >Chapter 6, "Traffic Engineering," is available online: >http://www.oreilly.com/catalog/bgp/chapter/ch06.html > >================================================ >Upcoming Events >================================================ >***O'Reilly at the 10th Annual Mac Computer Expo 2002 at the Santa Rosa >Junior College September 21, 2002 > >Derrick Story (iPhoto: The Missing Manual) will have a book signing >from 1:30-3:00pm at the O'Reilly table and he will be presenting >"Creating Stunning Images for iPhoto" at 10:00am For event info: >http://www.ncmug.org/ > >Article this week from the "Press Democrat" about the event: >http://www.pressdemocrat.com/business/news/16macs_d1prerund.html > >iPhoto: The Missing Manual >Order Number: 365x >http://www.oreilly.com/catalog/iphototmm/ > > >***David Pogue will be at the Valley Fair Apple Store in California >Wednesday, October 2, 7:00pm >Store Directions: >http://www.apple.com/retail/valleyfair/ > >For more information on David Pogue and the "Missing Manual" series: >http://www.missingmanual.com/ > > >Derrick and David will also be speaking at our Mac OS X conference: >http://conferences.oreilly.com/macosxcon/ > > >***Columbia Java Users Group presents Scott Means October 28th at 6:30pm >Scott Means, author of "XML in a Nutshell," will give an informative >talk about XML, web services, and how they are both central to the new >open-source web services platform just released by his company, >Enterprise Web Machines. >For more information: >http://www.colajug.org/ > >XML in a Nutshell, 2nd Edition >Order Number: 2920 >http://www.oreilly.com/catalog/xmlnut2/ > >================================================ >Conference News >================================================ >***Day Passes are Available for the O'Reilly Mac OS X Conference >If you can't swing the whole conference, and can't bear to miss that >one session or keynote presentation, pick up a One Day Pass for Oct 1, >Oct 2, or Oct 3 for just $350.00. >http://conferences.oreillynet.com/cs/macosx2002/create/ord_mac02 > >***Two New Keynotes Added to the Program > >*Mac OS X, a Digital Rights Management Operating System >Tuesday, October 1 at 4:00pm >Dan Gillmor moderates a panel that considers the issues: Can this >distinctly pro-customer approach continue in the face of Hollywood's >ire and the entertainment industry's clout in Congress? Will Apple copy >Microsoft and build harsh DRM for copyright owners into the system? >http://conferences.oreillynet.com/cs/macosx2002/view/e_sess/3369 > > >*My Fantasy Hub >Thursday, October 3 at 3:30pm >Mark Frauenfelder presents a slideshow of imaginary devices he would >like to one day be able to plug into his iMac's Digital Hub. He also >answers questions about his experiences as an Apple Switch campaign >star. >http://conferences.oreillynet.com/cs/macosx2002/view/e_sess/3412 > > >Check out the list of speakers and sessions including James Gosling >(Java), Jordan Hubbard (Apple/FreeBSD), Wilfredo Snchez Vega (Darwin), >Sal Soghoian (Apple), David Pogue (New York Times columnist), Dan >Gillmor (San Jose Mercury News), Mark Frauenfelder (Author and >Illustrator), Cory Doctorow (EFF, BoingBoing.net), James Duncan >Davidson (Software consultant and author), and Rael Dornfest, Derrick >Story, and Tim O'Reilly from O'Reilly & Associates. >http://conferences.oreillynet.com/pub/w/19/speakers.html > > >***Mac OS X Conference Sessions with iCal >Mac OS X 10.2 users can now subscribe to our Mac OS X Conference iCal >to get the full conference schedule. We have also provided details and >a forum for your ideas and suggestions. >http://www.oreillynet.com/pub/wlg/2018 > > >***O'Reilly Bioinformatics Conference Call for Participation Extended >until September 23 >Individuals and companies interested in making presentations, giving a >tutorial, or participating in panel discussions are invited to submit >proposals. >For more information, please see: >http://conferences.oreillynet.com/cs/bio2003/create/e_sess > >The second O'Reilly Bioinformatics Technology Conference will be held >February 3-6, 2003 at the Westin Horton Plaza in San Diego, CA, USA. >http://conferences.oreilly.com/biocon/ > >================================================ >News From O'Reilly & Beyond >================================================ >--------------------- >General News >--------------------- > >***O'Reilly coauthor David Kelly (Practical VoIP Using VOCAL) is >looking for User Groups speaking opportunities. >He is available in the Bay Area--including Monterey and Sacramento--or >other parts of California (we can check). He will be in Vancouver >during the last week of November and in New York December 15-18. > >Please let me know if you are interested at [EMAIL PROTECTED] > >Practical VoIP Using VOCAL >Order Number: 0782 >http://www.oreilly.com/catalog/voip/ > > >***O'Reilly E-books on Amazon.com >A selection of O'Reilly's popular pocket references (including Apache, >PHP, and Javascript) and research reports is now available as e-books >in PDF format through Amazon.com. >Check them out at: >http://www.oreilly.com/ebooks/ > > >***We are looking for UG members to post their book comments online >with Amazon. You can post past or current book reviews. >Please let me know if you need more info at [EMAIL PROTECTED] > >--------------------- >Open Source >--------------------- >***SpamShield: A Perl-Based Spam Filter for sendmail >This article by Glenn Graham focuses on one viable solution to spam, >SpamShield 1.40. Learn how it works and how to install and configure it >on your server. >http://www.onlamp.com/pub/a/onlamp/2002/09/12/spamshield.html > >--------------------- >.NET >--------------------- >***Shared Source CLI Essentials >If you are trying to navigate the Shared Source CLI code, code-named >"Rotor," O'Reilly's upcoming "Shared Source CLI Essentials" provides a >roadmap through Microsoft's complex .NET platform. >Beta Chapter 1, "Introducing the CLI Component Model" and Beta Chapter >4, "Extracting Types from Assemblies" are both available online: >http://www.oreilly.com/catalog/sscliess/chapter/index.html > >***INETA Speaker's Bureau >If your group is a member of INETA, please check out the speakers >bureau and look for these O'Reilly authors: David Chappell, G. Andrew >Duthie, Ken Getz, and Juval Lowy. Let me know if you work something >out and I can send you promotional materials and copies of their books >for your group. >http://www.ineta.org/ > >--------------------------- >Web Development >--------------------------- >***Let One Hundred Browsers Bloom >David Boswell reviews some of the more interesting, and useful, >Mozilla-based browsers available now. >http://www.oreillynet.com/pub/a/mozilla/2002/09/12/mozilla_browsers.html > >David is coauthor of the upcoming book "Creating Applications with Mozilla" >Order Number: 0529 >http://www.oreilly.com/catalog/mozilla/ > >--------------------- >Java >--------------------- >***Java Programming on the Mac >http://www.oreillynet.com/pub/ct/45 > >***Getting Started with JXTA, Part 1 >In part one in this series of excerpts from "JXTA in a Nutshell," learn >about setting up the JXTA Java environment as well as JXTA class files, >shells, and peers. >http://www.onjava.com/pub/a/onjava/excerpt/jxtaian_2/index1.html > >JXTA in a Nutshell >Order Number: 236X >http://www.oreilly.com/catalog/jxtaian/ > >--------------------- >Mac >--------------------- >***Configuring sendmail on Jaguar >James Duncan Davidson helps you unravel the sendmail knot so you can >configure this awesome mail server on your Mac OS X system. O'Reilly >will release the third edition of sendmail in December. >http://www.macdevcenter.com/pub/a/mac/2002/09/10/sendmail.html > >James Duncan Davidson will be speaking at the O'Reilly Mac OS X >Conference >http://conferences.oreillynet.com/cs/macosx2002/view/e_spkr/246 > > >***Using PC Peripherals on the Mac >Much of the "Switch" discussion has focused on computers and software. >But what about those expensive peripherals Windows users have already >invested in? Do they get tossed out the Window with XP? Wei Meng Lee >says no. And he has the toys to back it up. >http://www.macdevcenter.com/pub/a/mac/2002/09/13/pc_peripherals.html > > >================================================ >Announcements From Your Peers >================================================ >***Rob Wehrli available for LUG presentations >Rob (Hawaii Linux User Group) provides free technical presentations of >topics focused on embedded Linux and embedded systems porting and >programming using uClinux! Free pizza and door prizes, too. >More Info: http://www.azpower.com/H8-uClinux/guest_speaker.html > > >***San Rafael, CA-- >Henry Norr, San Francisco Chronicle Columnist, to Speak at the Golden >Gate Computer Society's next meeting. His talk "The PC: Progress Report >for 2002 and Looking Ahead" will be at 7:15pm, September 23, 2002, >Embassy Suites, San Rafael, CA. >For more information: www.ggcs.org > > >***Lake Buena Vista, Florida-- >The CF Underground 4 Conference is being held Sun October 27 >10:00am-1:30pm at the Cabana Bar and Grill in Lake Buena Vista, >Florida. http://www.cfconf.org/cf_underground4/ > >CF Underground 4 banners for you to post: >http://www.cfconf.org/cf_underground4/spreadtheword.cfm > > >***Southern California-- >The USCLUG, SCLUG, and UCLALUG are proud to present the first annual >Southern California Linux Expo scheduled for November 2, 2002 at the >Davidson Conference Center on the University of Southern California >campus, the Southern California Linux Expo will bring together Linux >and Free Software companies, developers, and users. >For additional information: >http://www.socallinuxexpo.com/ > >If you would like to display a poster for this event, please contact >Lei Zhang, [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > >Until next time, > >Marsee
--- Dustin Puryear <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Puryear Information Technology Windows, UNIX, and IT Consulting http://www.puryear-it.com
