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From: Marsee Henon <marsee at oreilly.com>
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Subject: Newsletter from O'Reilly UG Program, February 3
Date: Tue, 03 Feb 2004 17:46:29 -0800

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> O'Reilly UG Program News--Just for User Group Leaders
> February 3, 2004
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> -New O'Reilly User Group Wiki is Up and Ready for Action
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> O'Reilly News for User Group Members
> February 3, 2004
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> Book News
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> -Hardware Hacking Projects for Geeks
> -C# Cookbook
> -Security Assessment
> -Wicked Cool Shell Scripts
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> Upcoming Events
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> -Darryl León, Ph.D. ("Sequence Analysis in a Nutshell"),
> San Diego Bioinformatics Forum, San Diego--February 10
> -Jesse Liberty ("Programming C#," "Programming Visual Basic .NET"),
> .NET Face to Face, Atlanta, GA--February 20-22
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> Conferences
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> -Joe Trippi keynote added to Digital Democracy Teach-In
> -O'Reilly Emerging Technology Conference
> -OSCON 2004: Call for Participation--Last Chance
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> News
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> -Wireless Mesh Networking
> -Interviews with Digital Democracy Activists
> -The Ideal Digital Photographer's Workflow, Part 2
> -The New Breed of Version Control Systems
> -Why Run Free Software on a PDA?
> -Troubleshooting with Postfix Logs
> -What's New in Tomcat 5
> -Effective Forms Authentication, Part 1
> -Serialization in .NET, Part 1
> -The Macintosh's Twisted Truth
> -Smart File Sharing Between Macs and PCs
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> News From Your Peers
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> -San Gabriel Valley Linux Users Group Meeting, Pasadena, CA--February 12
>
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> O'Reilly New Releases
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> ***Hardware Hacking Projects for Geeks
> ISBN: 0596003145
>> From building a home arcade machine to creating a cubicle intrusion
> detection system, "Hardware Hacking Projects for Geeks" offers an array 
> of
> inventive, customized electronics projects for the geek who can't help
> looking at a gadget and wondering how it might be "upgraded." The book
> begins with less complex hacking projects then moves into more advanced
> hacks. Clear step-by-step instructions allow even those with no formal
> electronics- or hardware-engineering skills to hack real hardware in
> clever ways.
> http://www.oreilly.com/catalog/hardwarehks/
>
> Excerpts are available free online:
> http://www.oreilly.com/catalog/hardwarehks/chapter/index.html
>
>
> ***C# Cookbook
> ISBN: 0596003390
> "C# Cookbook" provides practical answers to day-to-day C# programming
> questions, using code recipes collected especially for developers working
> on the .NET platform. In addition to the complete, documented code 
> samples
> showing how to solve hundreds of specific problems, you'll find
> discussions of how the underlying technology works as well as material on
> alternatives, limitations, and other considerations where appropriate.
> This definitive collection of recipes will help developers of all levels
> solve problems now.
> http://www.oreilly.com/catalog/csharpckbk/
>
> Chapter 8, "Regular Expressions," is available free online:
> http://www.oreilly.com/catalog/csharpckbk/chapter/index.html
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> Publishing Partners New Releases
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> ***Security Assessment
> Publisher: Syngress
> ISBN: 1932266968
> The National Security Agency's INFOSEC Assessment Methodology (IAM)
> provides guidelines for performing an analysis of how information is
> handled within an organization: looking at the systems that store,
> transfer, and process information. It also analyzes the impact to an
> organization if there is a loss of integrity, confidentiality, or
> availability. This book shows how to do a complete security assessment
> based on the NSA's guidelines.
> http://www.oreilly.com/catalog/1932266968/
>
>
> ***Wicked Cool Shell Scripts
> Publisher: No Starch Press
> ISBN: 1593270127
> 101 useful, customizable, and fun Linux, Mac OS X and UNIX shell scripts
> that you can use to solve common problems and personalize your computing
> environment. Includes an interactive calculator, a spell checker, a disk
> backup utility, a weather tracker, a web logfile analysis tool, and much
> more. The cookbook-style examples are all written in Bourne Shell
> (sh) syntax.
> http://www.oreilly.com/catalog/1593270127/
>
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> Upcoming Events
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> ***For more events, please see:
> http://events.oreilly.com/
>
> ***Darryl León, Ph.D. ("Sequence Analysis in a Nutshell"),
> San Diego Bioinformatics Forum, San Diego--February 10
> Darryl will discuss "Bioinformatics: What is commercially viable
> and what is not."
> 5:30-8:00pm
> Diversa Corporation
> 4955 Directors Place, San Diego, CA 92121
> http://www.sdbioinfo.org/next.html
>
>
> ***Jesse Liberty ("Programming C#," "Programming Visual Basic .NET"),
> .NET Face to Face, Atlanta, GA--February 20-22
> Jesse is a featured speaker at this weekend conference for programmers
> working in .NET. Marriott Atlanta Century Center, Atlanta, GA.
> For Registration and information go to:
> http://www.mentor-network.com/
>
> ================================================
> Conference News
> ================================================
> ***Joe Trippi keynote added to Digital Democracy Teach-In
> Joe Trippi, the man whose ground-breaking use of Internet-based
> campaigning propelled Howard Dean from obscurity to early front-runner,
> has just signed on as keynoter at the Digital Democracy Teach-In. Former
> Dean campaign manager Trippi will take Teach-In participants inside the
> campaign's unconventional experiment in Internet politics, and look at
> both victories and lessons learned. While Dean may no longer be leading
> the pack, the other candidates are rushing to emulate Trippi's Internet
> strategy--as "Wired News" declared recently, "Internet politics is dead.
> Long live Internet politics." Trippi will kick off the Teach-In at 8:30 
> am
> this coming Monday, February 9, in San Diego, CA.
>
> Digital Democracy Teach-In
> February 9, 2004
> Westin Horton Plaza, San Diego, CA
> http://conferences.oreillynet.com/et2004/edemo.csp
> Co-located with the O'Reilly Emerging Technology Conference
>
> To register, go to:
> (Sorry, no user group discounts apply.)
> http://conferences.oreillynet.com/cs/et2004/create/ord_et04?x-t=edemo.create.form
>
>
> ***O'Reilly Emerging Technology Conference
> February 9-12, 2004
> Westin Horton Plaza San Diego
> San Diego, CA 92101
> http://conferences.oreilly.com/etech/
>
> Use code DSUG when you register, and receive 20% off conference pricing.
>
> To register for the conference, go to:
> http://conferences.oreillynet.com/pub/w/28/register.html
>
>
> ***Last Chance--OSCON 2004: Call for Participation
> Individuals and companies interested in making presentations or giving
> tutorials at next summer's O'Reilly Open Source Convention in Portland,
> Oregon are invited to submit proposals. This year's theme is "Opening the
> Future: Discover, Develop, Deliver." Tracks of interest run the open
> source gamut from Apache to XML, and we're also looking for proposals for
> sessions that help attendees add open source to their companies. The
> deadline for submitting proposals is February 9.
>
> To submit a proposal, go to:
> http://conferences.oreillynet.com/cs/os2004/create/e_sess
>
> ================================================
> News From O'Reilly & Beyond
> ================================================
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> General News
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> ***Wireless Mesh Networking
> Tomas Krag and Sebastian Buttrich take a look at some of the principles 
> of
> wireless mesh networking and they demonstrate how to install and run a
> mesh network on a Linux-based computer.
> http://www.oreillynet.com/pub/a/wireless/2004/01/22/wirelessmesh.html
>
> Tomas will discuss how wireless technologies can bring Internet and
> Intranet connectivity to the developing world at O'Reilly's upcoming
> ETech 2004.
> http://conferences.oreilly.com/etech/
>
>
> ***Interviews with Digital Democracy Activists
> On a recent NPR "Fresh Air" program, Terry Gross interviewed William
> Greene of RightMarch.com, as well as Wes Boyd and Eli Pariser of
> MoveOn.org. William and Wes will both be featured speakers on February 9
> at O'Reilly's Digital Democracy Teach-In.
> http://freshair.npr.org/day_fa.jhtml?display=day&todayDate=01/21/2004
>
>
> ***The Ideal Digital Photographer's Workflow, Part 2
> Ken Milburn follows up on suggestions he made in Part 1 of this two-part
> series about creating a minimally destructive workflow for the work you 
> do
> inside image-editing software. Here he offers five nondestructive editing
> steps to take once you've downloaded your images. Then he provides some
> second-stage editing techniques to enhance the impact your images will
> have on your clients, or your friends and family. Ken is the author of 
> the
> upcoming "Digital Photography: Expert Techniques."
> http://www.oreillynet.com/pub/a/javascript/2004/01/21/digital_photography.html
>
> ---------------------
> Open Source
> ---------------------
> ***The New Breed of Version Control Systems
> CVS, part of the glue that holds open source development together, is
> showing its age. Many competitors have emerged recently, fixing
> misfeatures and adding new ideas. Shlomi Fish explores several current
> open source version control systems that may be better for your needs
> than CVS.
> http://www.onlamp.com/pub/a/onlamp/2004/01/29/scm_overview.html
>
>
> ***Why Run Free Software on a PDA?
> As PDAs gain power and capabilities, embedded Linux is more and more
> attractive. Sharp's Zaurus is a popular Linux PDA. Why aren't more 
> palmtop
> computers running free software? Guylhem Aznar explores and evangelizes
> Linux on small devices.
> http://www.linuxdevcenter.com/pub/a/linux/2004/01/29/zaurus.html
>
>
> ***Troubleshooting with Postfix Logs
> Kyle Dent, author of "Postfix: The Definitive Guide," discusses Postfix
> logging in general, how to find all relevant information in the logs, and
> how to increase the amount of logging when more information is needed. He
> also suggests a few configuration guidelines that might help prevent
> problems from the start.
> http://www.onlamp.com/pub/a/onlamp/2004/01/22/postfix.html
>
> ---------------------
> Java
> ---------------------
> ***What's New in Tomcat 5
> In December 2003, the Apache Tomcat developers released version 5.0.16 as
> the first stable release of Tomcat 5. Jason Brittain looks at the latest
> features and offers insight into the goals established for version 5.0,
> which had a direct impact on development.
> http://www.onjava.com/pub/a/onjava/2004/01/28/tomcat5.html
>
> Jason is a coauthor of "Tomcat: The Definitive Guide."
> ISBN: 0596003188
> http://www.oreilly.com/catalog/tomcat/index.html
>
> ---------------------
> .NET
> ---------------------
> ***Effective Forms Authentication, Part 1
> ASP.NET offers several possibilities for authenticating users, but when
> you come right down to it, there's only one reasonable alternative for
> most applications: forms authentication. Mike Gunderloy takes you
> step-by-step through creating a forms authentication project and helps 
> you
> avoid the potholes.
> http://www.ondotnet.com/pub/a/dotnet/2004/02/02/effectiveformsauth.html
>
>
> ***Serialization in .NET, Part 1
> Serialization of data using built-in .NET support makes persistence easy
> and reusable. Dan Frumin reviews the support available for serialization
> and look at a couple of scenarios for using it.
> http://www.ondotnet.com/pub/a/dotnet/2004/01/26/serializationpt1.html
> ---------------------
> Mac
> ---------------------
> ***The Macintosh's Twisted Truth
> Here's a recent "Wired News" article abridged from Owen Linzmayer's new
> release, "Apple Confidential 2.0: The Definitive History of the World's
> Most Colorful Company."
> http://www.wired.com/news/mac/0,2125,61795,00.html
>
> Apple Confidential 2.0
> No Starch Press
> ISBN: 1593270100
> http://www.oreilly.com/catalog/1593270100/
>
>
> ***Smart File Sharing Between Macs and PCs
> There are lots of ways to share files between Macs and PCs, and most of
> them are aggravating at best. Wei Meng Lee shows you a method that's much
> easier and cleaner than just about every other solution.
> http://www.macdevcenter.com/pub/a/mac/2004/01/30/pc_share.html
>
> ================================================
> News From Your Peers
> ================================================
> ***San Gabriel Valley Linux Users Group Meeting,
> Pasadena, CA--February 12
> Come to the next meeting of SGVLUG to see "Hacking TiVo" by Claude
> Felizardo.
> This presentation will cover Tivo hacks, selection criteria, and 
> enhancing
> one of today's most popular consumer electronics gadgets--the TiVo.
> Time: 7-9pm
> Location: Guggenheim Building, Room 101 on the Caltech Campus in
> Pasadena, CA
> For directions and more information, go to:
> http://www.sgvlug.org/
>
>
>
> Until next time--
>
> Marsee
>
>
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