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TLUG November 2003 Meeting

TLUG Technical Meeting Date November 15th, 2003 (Saturday) Time 14:00-16:30 At Wall Street Associates Japan Boardroom. 5/F Yam Building, 11-3, Ginza 7-chome, Chuo-ku, Tokyo, 104-0061, Japan [ map ] IP attorney Douglas Steele will talk about SCO lawsuit claiming ownership of Linux (and probably BSD). Beyond their claims for code ownership, SCO also wants the court to void the General Public License (GPL). If SCO wins, the free/open source software ecosystem dies. ...

TLUG October 2003 Meeting

TLUG Nomikai Date October 17th, 2003 (Friday) Time 20.00 - 22.00 Event drink and eat (primarily a social activity) At Sakura-Suisan Shinjyuku-Koushukaido Tokyo-to Shinjyuku-ku Nishi-sinjyuku 1-20-1 HOURAI-bulding B1F (gnavi.co.jp) Tel 03-5339-2616 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. If you get lost, or simply want to get in touch with us, please call: Baba: 070-5561-0255 See you there! </td> </tr>

TLUG September 2003 Meeting

TLUG Technical Meeting Date Saturday, September 13th, 2003 Time 13:30-16:30 Place Wall Street Associates Japan Boardroom. 5/F Yam Building, 11-3, Ginza 7-chome. Chuo-ku, Tokyo, 104-0061, Japan Tel: (03) 5537 7211 Fax: (03) 5537 7213 map: http://www.wsagroupjapan.co.jp/ContactUs/images/WSA-MAP.gif (too large to insert here) Topics September Technical Meeting features: egenera CTC <a href="http://www.egenera.com">http://www.egenera.com</a> <a href="http://www.ctc-g.co.jp/new_htm/out_n2003_02/20030225_k1.html">http://www.ctc-g.co.jp/new_htm/out_n2003_02/20030225_k1.html</a> Tod McQuillin FreeBSD  <tr> <td width="80" valign="top"> After the meeting: </td> <td>We'll continue our meeting over some beer. (Place TBD) </td> </tr> <tr> <td width="80" valign="top">Contact:</td> <td> Baba ......070-5561-0255 (PHS) </td> </tr> Presentation Presentation Presentation Presentation Presentation Presentation Presentation Presentation Presentation Presentation Presentation Presentation Presentation Presentation Presentation Presentation Presentation Nomikai Nomikai Nomikai Nomikai Nomikai Nomikai Karaoke Karaoke Karaoke Karaoke Karaoke Karaoke Karaoke Karaoke Karaoke Karaoke Karaoke Karaoke

TLUG August 2003 Meeting

TLUG Technical Meeting Date Saturday, August 9th, 2003 Time 13:30-16:30 Place Wall Street Associates Japan Boardroom. 5/F Yam Building, 11-3, Ginza 7-chome. Chuo-ku, Tokyo, 104-0061, Japan Tel: (03) 5537 7211 Fax: (03) 5537 7213 map: http://www.wsagroupjapan.co.jp/ContactUs/images/WSA-MAP.gif (too large to insert here) Topics August Technical Meeting features: Kinichi Kitano Pre-boot Execution Environment Kinichi Kitano will briefly speak about PXE(Pre-boot Execution Environment). PXE is a protocol designed by Intel that allows computers to boot through the network. He'll speaks about what is PXE, how we can use PXE and how to set up a PXE server. Zev Ruby Ruby is an Object Oriented scripting language created by a Tokyo local, Yukihiro Matsumoto. Today's presentation will be a brief introduction to the programming language and development tools that make Ruby a pleasure to work with. <tr> <td width="80" valign="top"> After the meeting: </td> <td>We'll continue our meeting over some beer. (Place TBD) </td> </tr> <tr> <td width="80" valign="top">Contact:</td> <td> Baba ......070-5561-0255 (PHS) </td> </tr> Presentation 1 Zev in darkness Presentation 1 Presentation 1 Presentation 1 Presentation 1 Presentation 1 Presentation 1 Presentation 1 Presentation 1 Auction Trying to sell the rubbish Auction Trying to sell another rubbish Presentation 2 Kitano in darkness Presentation 2 Kitano in darkness Presentation 2 Presentation 2 Presentation 2 Presentation 2 Presentation 2 The audience Presentation 2 Presentation 2 Nomikai Nomikai Nomikai Kitano-san still explaining PXE Nomikai Nomikai Nomikai Omote-san, Zev-san, Baba (from left)

TLUG July 2003 Meeting

TLUG Nomikai Date July 11th, 2003 (Friday) Time 20.00 - 22.00 Event drink and eat (primarily a social activity) At Sakura-Suisan Shinjyuku-Koushukaido Tokyo-to Shinjyuku-ku Nishi-sinjyuku 1-20-1 HOURAI-bulding B1F (gnavi.co.jp) Tel 03-5339-2616 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. If you get lost, or simply want to get in touch with us, please call: Baba: 070-5561-0255 See you there! </td> </tr>

May Nomikai

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 January 2003 Meeting

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! 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> . [ <a href="http://www.OnJapan.net/notes/spam/" target="_blank">Jim's Note</a> ] <li>Election</li> <img src="techmeeting.jpg" align="right" /> This year, we're looking to elect new president who can serve the wonderful Tokyo Linux user community for the year 2003. 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. Election Result: <table border="0" cellpadding="2" cellspacing="1"> <tr><td>Position</td><td>2002</td><td>2003</td></tr> <tr><td>President (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 Ayako Kato</td></tr> </table> <li>Auction</li> 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. 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. <li>Project at OSDL Japan</li> 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. If you have any suggestions, please bring them here for us to discuss and participate in. For more information please visit <a href="http://www.osdl.jp/"> http://www.osdl.jp/</a> <li>TLUG auction and misc topics</li> (Please see Jim's posting - our auctions are great fun!) </ol> <tr /> <td width="80" valign="top" />After the meeting:</td> <td>We'll continue our meeting over some beer. (Place TBD) </td> </tr> <tr /> <td width="80" valign="top" />Contact:</td> <td> Mauro ......090-2492-0840 (Keitai) Kato ......070-5591-7003 (PHS) </td> </tr> </td> </tr> 📷 Meeting photos would appear here ...

TLUG December 2002 Meeting

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 May 2002 Meeting

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>Your Browser</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>Your Text Editor</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>Your Email Client</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>Your Desktop Environment</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. :)

TLUG December 2001 Meeting

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