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May Nomikai from 1 Date: May 16th, 2003 (Friday) Time: 20:00-22:00 Place: Hokkaido Shinjyuku Tokyo-to Shinjyuku-ku Nishi-sinjyuku 6-5-1 IslandTower 44F http://r.gnavi.co.jp/g306000/map1.htm Event: drink and eat (primarily a social activity) Costs: will be divided up among participants see http://www.tlug.gr.jp/meetings/index.html for information on costs of previous events This event is open to all Linux users and friends, and is to promote casual Linux (and non-Linux) related discussions over a few cold ones. Even if you're not a Linux user or a LUG member, but want to hang out with Linux people, please come. ...

TLUG Technical Meeting Date Saturday, April 5th, 2003 Time 14:00-16:30 Place Wall Street Associates Japan Boardroom. 5/F Yam Building, 11-3, Ginza 7-chome. Chuo-ku, Tokyo, 104-0061, Japan Tel: (813) 5537 7211 Fax: (813) 5537 7213 map: http://www.wsagroupjapan.co.jp/ContactUs/images/WSA-MAP.gif (too large to insert here) Topics April meeting will feature: Sajjad Zaidi Using SSH to Bypass Firewalls and Run Remote Applications Securely </ol> <ol><b>Theo Logian</b><br /> will talk about nagios http://www.nagios.org, <br /> Nagios is a host and service monitor designed to inform you of network problems before your clients, end-users or managers do. It has been designed to run under the Linux operating system, but works fine under most *NIX variants as well. The monitoring daemon runs intermittent checks on hosts and services you specify using external "plugins" which return status information to Nagios. When problems are encountered, the daemon can send notifications out to administrative contacts in a variety of different ways (email, instant message, SMS, etc.). Current status information, historical logs, and reports can all be accessed via a web browser. </ol> <tr /> <td width="80" valign="top" /><b>After the meeting:</b></td> <td>We'll continue our meeting over some beer. (Place TBD)<br /></td> </tr> <tr /> <td width="80" valign="top" /><b>Contact:</b></td> <td> Mauro ......090-2492-0840 (Keitai)<br /> Baba ......070-5561-0255 (PHS)<br /></td> </tr> </td> </tr>

TLUG "nomikai" Date Saturday, January 18th, 2003 Time 13:30 (until around 17:00) Topics Spam Prevention: Attend if you run your own Linux mail server! <p>Jim Tittsler will speak briefly about some of the more recent spam detection/prevention/filtering techniques including <a href="http://www.SpamAssassin.org/">SpamAssassin</a> and <a href="http://SpamBayes.SourceForge.net/">SpamBayes</a> .</p> <p>[ <a href="http://www.OnJapan.net/notes/spam/" target="_blank">Jim's Note</a> ]</p> <li>Election</li> <img src="techmeeting.jpg" align="right" /> <p>This year, we're looking to elect new president who can serve the wonderful Tokyo Linux user community for the year 2003.</p> <p>President's job includes organizing technical meetings, (i.e., finding a meeting hall and speakers) set the general direction for the group, boss around the other officers (just kidding!) and promote the use of linux through technical meetings and drinking parties.</p> <p>Election Result:</p> <table border="0" cellpadding="2" cellspacing="1"> <tr><td>Position</td><td>2002</td><td>2003</td></tr> <tr><td>President<br />(domainname caretaker):</td><td>Ayako Kato</td><td>Mauro Sauco</td></tr> <tr><td>Vice Prez:</td><td>Mauro Sauco</td><td>Yoshihiko Baba</td></tr> <tr><td>Sysadmin:</td><td>Sajjad Zaidi</td><td>Sajjad Zaidi</td></tr> <tr><td>Listmaster:</td><td>Josh Glover</td><td>Josh Glover</td></tr> <tr><td>Webmaster:</td><td>Yoshihiko Baba</td><td>Yoshihiko Baba</td></tr> <tr><td>Auctioneer:</td><td>Jim Tittsler</td><td>Jim Tittsler</td></tr> <tr><td>Tresurer:</td><td>Tim Meggs</td><td>Tim Meggs</td></tr> <tr><td>ShadowPresident:</td><td>Alberto Tomita</td><td>Alberto Tomita<br />Ayako Kato</td></tr> </table> <li>Auction</li> <p> Thanks to the illegally parked Ulrich Plate, we had a successful auction of the remnants of the Jonathan Byrne Legacy Collection. People donated a total of Y6100 to TLUG. </p> <p> Thanks again to Ulrich for bringing along the items for auction... and then auctioning them off. And to everyone for participating and donating to the group. </p> <li>Project at OSDL Japan</li> <p>OSDL (Open Source Development Lab) currently hosts TLUG's server free of charge in their Yokohama datacentre, on the condition that TLUG proposes a Linux-based project with them, for which they will provide development environment. This is a great way to contribute to the open source community. </p> <p>If you have any suggestions, please bring them here for us to discuss and participate in. </p> <p>For more information please visit <a href="http://www.osdl.jp/"> http://www.osdl.jp/</a> </p> <li>TLUG auction and misc topics</li> <p>(Please see Jim's posting - our auctions are great fun!)</p> </ol> <tr /> <td width="80" valign="top" /><b>After the meeting:</b></td> <td>We'll continue our meeting over some beer. (Place TBD)<br /></td> </tr> <tr /> <td width="80" valign="top" /><b>Contact:</b></td> <td> Mauro ......090-2492-0840 (Keitai)<br /> Kato ......070-5591-7003 (PHS)<br /></td> </tr> </td> </tr> 📷 Meeting photos would appear here ...

Date December 13th, 2002 (Friday) Time 19:30-21:30 Event drink and eat (primarily a social activity) Cost will be divided up among participants   TLUG "nomikai" This event is open to all Linux users and friends, and is to promote casual Linux (and non-Linux) related discussions over a few cold ones. Even if you’re not a Linux user or a LUG member, but want to hang out with Linux people, please come. ...

 tlug.gr.jp   >> The Next Meeting   >> Previous Meetings   >> May 2002 Meeting Tokyo Linux Users Group Technical Meeting Date Saturday, May 11th, 2002 Time 13:30 - 17:00 Events 1. Linux Terminal Server and Diskless Clinets 2. Kickstart - Automating Linux Installs 3. Auction 4. Questions and Answers + News and Announcements Place Leading Edge Co. Seminar Room Once again our special thanks go to Leading Edge Co., Ltd. for letting us use their seminar room. Leading Edge offers IT consulting and IT placement services. Introduction As usual, we started the meeting with a brief introduction. We had 15 new members this time, each of whom introduced themselves to the group. Welcome to TLUG! Following the introduction, we made a couple of announcements: Listmaster/Web development contributors wanted TLUG server relocation   (The colocation plan is being negotiated between TLUG and OSDL) It was at this time that we took a quick poll of what the participants' Linux environment was like. The results are below: Your Distribution RedHat 10 Caldera 4 Mandrake 5 SuSE 2 Turbo 2 Debian 4 Darwin 1 FreeBSD 4 Cygwin 4 NetBSD/OpenBSD :-) <table width="100%"> <tr><td colspan=2><b>Your Browser</b></td></tr> <tr><td bgcolor=white>Mozilla</td> <td bgcolor=white align=right>7</td> <tr><td bgcolor=white>Netscape</td> <td bgcolor=white align=right>6</td> <tr><td bgcolor=white>Opera</td> <td bgcolor=white align=right>2</td> <tr><td bgcolor=white>Konqueror</td> <td bgcolor=white align=right>3</td> <tr><td bgcolor=white>Galeon</td> <td bgcolor=white align=right>3</td> <tr><td bgcolor=white>Lynx</td> <td bgcolor=white align=right>2</td> </td></tr> </table> </td></tr> <tr><td bgcolor=silver> <table width="100%"> <tr><td colspan=2><b>Your Text Editor</b></td></tr> <tr><td bgcolor=white>Vi (includes Vim)</td> <td bgcolor=white align=right>14</td> <tr><td bgcolor=white>Emacs / Xemacs</td> <td bgcolor=white align=right>3</td> </td></tr> </table> </td></tr></table> <table width="100%"> <tr><td colspan=2><b>Your Email Client</b></td></tr> <tr><td bgcolor=white>Mutt</td> <td bgcolor=white align=right>5</td> <tr><td bgcolor=white>Pine</td> <td bgcolor=white align=right>2</td> <tr><td bgcolor=white>Sylpheed</td> <td bgcolor=white align=right>1</td> <tr><td bgcolor=white>Wanderlust</td> <td bgcolor=white align=right>1</td> <tr><td bgcolor=white>Mew</td> <td bgcolor=white align=right>2</td> </td></tr> </table> </td></tr> <tr><td bgcolor=silver> <table width="100%"> <tr><td colspan=2><b>Your Desktop Environment</b></td></tr> <tr><td bgcolor=white>KDE</td> <td bgcolor=white align=right>9</td> <tr><td bgcolor=white>Gnome</td> <td bgcolor=white align=right>many</td> <tr><td bgcolor=white>ICEwm</td> <td bgcolor=white align=right>2</td> </td></tr> </table> </td></tr></table> What's new & What's cool From TLUG members who are always looking for cool things to try out.... Below are a few applicatoions Linux users may want to check out. Fluxbox - a new window manager based on BlackBox code. Multignome project - An enhanced version of gnome terminal which lets you switch between tabbed termnal windows. Ethereal - A graphical network analyzer with many filtering features. An essential tool for solving network problems! Presentations 1. "Linux Terminal Server and Diskless Clients" by Mauro Sauco 2. "Kickstart - Automating Linux Installs" by Alberto Tomita (I'll make the slides available as soon as I work out how :) ) Auction TLUG is a non-profit, self-supported organization. In order to cover occasional expenses, we hold auctions to raise funds. The proceeds are saved in the TLUG account and is used for server hardware maintenance, domain name registration, to rent a meeting space when a free venue isn't available, etc. As usual, May 2002 TLUG auction was a huge success. Many thanks to Jim Tittsler for running the auction, as well as people who brought in items and people who bid for them. The stuffed penguins are always very popular. Here is the summary. Item Category Price Internet Yellow Pages Book 50 Motherboard Hardware 1,600 Motherboard Hardware 1,200 Motherboard Hardware 500 CDROM drive Hardware 600 SPARC Classic Hardware 2,100 Mobile Phone Straps Accessory 600(*2) LPI Stuffed Penguins Accessory 1,900(*2) +100 RedHat neck strap Accessory 1,000 RedHat CDROMs Software 1,000 Total JPY 13,050 Announcements Mozilla Party to celebrate the release of version 1.0 will be held Saturday, 18th of May. LinuxWorld Invitation tickets were given out, courtesy of Leading Edge Co., Ltd. Nomikai After the meeting closed, about 25 of us walked to Shirokiya near Akasaka-Mitsuke Station. A few more members joined us at the izakaya. Here's the post-nomikai photo gallery ... enjoy! meeting notes by Ayako Kato (Email me at ayakat@tlug.gr.jp with corrections, comments etc. :)

from 1 April Technical Meeting All Linux lovers, and supporters of open source code and free software are invited to attend the next Tokyo Linux Users Group meeting. Membership is open to anyone. There are currently no membership dues or entrance fees. Date: Saturday, April 5th, 2002 Place: Wall Street Associates Japan Boardroom. 5/F Yam Building, 11-3, Ginza 7-chome, Chuo-ku, Tokyo, 104-0061, Japan Tel: (813) 5537 7211 Fax: (813) 5537 7213 map: http://www.wsagroupjapan.co.jp/ContactUs/images/WSA-MAP.gif Time: 14:00-16:30 ...

<TR> <TD COLSPAN=2> <U>December 2001 Meeting</U></FONT></TD></TR> <TR><TD><B>Date</B>:</TD><TD ALIGN="LEFT">14 December 2001</TD></TR> <TR><TD><B>Time</B>:</TD><TD ALIGN="LEFT"> 20:30 - (Unknown)</TD></TR> <TR><TD><B>Events</B>:</TD><TD ALIGN="LEFT">Nomikai (Bonenkai)</TD></TR> <TR><TD VALIGN=top><B>Meeting Place</B>:</TD><TD ALIGN="LEFT"> Tengu Tokyo EkiMae,<BR> Kyobashi 1-1-6, EchiZenYa Bld. B1/B2, <BR> Chuo-ku, Tokyo<BR> Phone: 03-3275-3691<BR> </TD></TR> Gallery 9.00pm     9.30pm   10.00pm 10.30pm     11.00pm

More photos... September 2001 Meeting Date:15 September 2001 Time: 13:30 - 17:45 Events:Roxen Web Server XEmacs Release Management Meeting Place: new venue Leading Edge, Co., Seminar Room Place Canada (Canadian Embassy Building, 1F) A special thanks to Leading Edge for allowing us use of one of their seminar rooms. Leading Edge offers IT consulting and IT professional placement services. Roxen Web Server and Pike Martin Baehr described and demonstrated the Roxen web server, and described Pike, its interpreted implementation language. He also mentioned the Caudium project which is a fork of the project dedicated to maintaining backwards compatibility with earlier versions of Roxen. Links Auction Among the items auctioned off this month was Hikari, the machine which has been the TLUG server over the past few years. Thanks to Jonathan Byrne for running the auction. XEmacs Release Management The Cathedral Brothel and the Bazaar Bathhouse Stephen J. Turnbull of the University of Tsukuba and XEmacs.ORG discussed the process that resulted in the release of XEmacs 21.4. He went on to offer a few early thoughts on how it might be possible to create a large-project open source development environment that is both fun and productive, without a benevolent despot. Last modified: Mon Oct 22 22:26:35 JST 2001 📷 Meeting photos would appear here ...

  July 2001 Meeting Date:14 July 2001 Time: 13:30 - 16:45 Events:Linux on iPAQ Linux Certification Meeting Place: new venue Akasaka Kumin Center 4-18-13 Akasaka Minato-ku, Tokyo A special thanks to linuxprobe for underwriting our use of the hall. Linux on the iPAQ PDA Jim Tittsler demonstrated Linux and QPE running on the Compaq iPAQ PDA. Handhelds.org project for running Linux and TinyX on PDAs Familiar distribution sized for internal memory Intimate distribution "full-blown Linux" sized for a microdrive QPE puts a frame-buffer QT Embedded and PIM applications on your Linux iPAQ PocketLinux Kaffe (Java) atop Linux on your iPAQ. Microwindows and Nano-X Auction The auction of donated items which has been the mainstay of TLUG funding continued again today. Special thanks to SAIR LinuxGNU Certification for donating several T-shirts, CD collections and countless pens, to Ximian for donating a pair of highly sought after Ximian monkey T-shirts, bean bag monkeys, and CD-ROMs, and Linux Professional Institute (Japan) for a stuffed Tux. And of course, thanks to the many members who brought surplus equipment to be auctioned off for the club's benefit. Linux Certification Kitano-san described the options available for Linux Certification in Japan. CompTIA Linux+ Certification Linux Professional Institute vendor-neutral testing Red Hat Certified Engineer Program (RHCE) SAIR LinuxGNU Certification Last modified: Tue Oct 23 20:52:55 JST 2001 ...

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