X-otic Computer Systems of San Antonio

"THE USERS GROUP FOR MULTI-PLATFORM POWER USERS!"




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JULY 16th 2001 MEETING FEATURES


  • X-otic Hardware #3: HAM Radio/Computer Interfacing, by
    Steven Humlicek is re-doing his presentation on HAM Radio/DSP stuff. Here's what he's doing:
    "Hams are using the sound card in a PC (which cost a couple bucks) as a DSP. Hams have written freeware software to decipher audio and convert it into text messages and vice versa, like a modem, But doing it with 31 baud. Yes this is slow but there are other modes like SlowScan TV (PICS). And anyhow how fast can someone type? I hope I didn't bore you last month."


  • X-otic Software HOW-TO: Setting Up Dynamic DNS with DHCP at Home, by Matt (the college guy ;)
    This is important for those of you using a cable modem or xDSL at home, behind a firewall or personal router. You're probably running a DHCP server and your client home PCs get their IPs from there. But how do you run your own DNS in this configuration? Come and find out. Matt should have HOW-TO info as well as his own insights on setting it all up. [Matt also provided info on HOWTO set up your own home network]


  • Free Schtuff!
    Tom has some extra Linux Journal magazine giveaways this month for those who are interested.


  • P I Z Z A - N - C O K E !
    If there is enough interest, Free Pizza and coke. But please show up before 7:30 if you plan on having pizza! ;)

    • Other local user groups are ALWAYS more than welcome to attend our meetings...
    No Charges or Dues...
    ever...




    The "XCSSA Files"

  • From requests from the March 2001 meeting, a review of Norton Ghost and Partition Magic. Good technical info!
  • Our February 2001 meeting's RAID-101 Slide presentation, in its native Star Office .sdd format and (for you Windowz folks) in MS Power point .ppt format. Let me know if the .ppt file is garbled.
  • Check out our own "Firewall & Broadband Research List". MUCH useful info.
  • Also, the popular "October-2000" DNS/Traceroute notes taken down by Daniel.
  • The XCSSA Archives: We have so much good stuff demo'd at our group, we've decided to start archiving the montly group pages. Check'em out! This is what we have from 2000-05 on and should give you a good idea about the type of stuff that we do on a regular basis...
  • Hardware Trouble Shooting Tools from the June 18th Meeting. Lists out specifics on what tools to use to t-shoot hardware problems from RAM, to CPU, to hard drive--and also lists a couple of great emergency recovery boot tools to fix hard drives, partitions, etc.!

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    SYSTEMS THAT INTEREST US
    

     

    		


  •  Linux, BSD, Solaris/x86, UN*X/POSIX Systems  
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  •  Power and Hybridized Amigas 
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  •  BeBox/BeOS and other PPC60x/x86 powered platforms
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  •  Vintage Machines and Computer Antiques
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  •  Multi Platform/OS Emulation
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  •  Palmtop, Hybrid Portables, & other PDAs and portable platforms
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  •  Creative Networking Solutions
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  •  Custom hacked machines & project designs
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  •  [---Add YOUR favorite power system here!---]
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    MEETING FORMAT
    

     "Open Forum" style SHOW & TELL! No old/new 
business or minutes! Just a central theme focus  
and free exchange of information!






    


    





    

    

    TIME / DATE
    

     

    		

      

    •  Monday, July 16th (every 3rd Mon. night)    
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    •  7pm (sharp-ish)   
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    -RECRUITERS LOOK HERE-
    


    Our user group's members are not your 
normal run of the mill geeks.  We pride our-
selves in having a wide array of technical and IT
professionals who excel in their fields.  I have found
that I can bring most any question to the group and get an
insightful answer, and thus, have begun point recruiters to our 
members as a service to both.  Feel free to contact the members below 
for job history and resume information.  They're a powerfully diverse resource!

    

    

    "Published" User e-List
    

    Member Name
    Email / Web
     
    Description
     
    

    Randal Klint
    		Email / Web Randal is a real entrepreneur!  He owns his own software programming company, Endicore and does in-house X-otic systems programming on various OS' (including BeOS)! 
    


    Thomas Weeks
    		Email / WebIT/Telecom-Geek.  Solaris, Linux, NT/9x, Integrator Guru.  Also President of XCSSA. See on-line Resume for details.
    


    Nicholas Borko
         		 --- / Web  A real Web/CGI/DB/Programming Guru!  One of our remote members, but this guy really knows his stuff.  Check out his on line resume!  
    


    Randy Baker
    		 Email / Web 
     One of our Air Force guys, Amiga lover, and fellow geek.  He toggles between the states, Saudi, and Germany (here as of late).
     
    
 
     -NOTE: We have more people in our group, it's just that not everyone wants to be advertized here or has an online resume/web page- 
     
    

    







    

    

    

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      Email The XCSSA "Reverse Dictatorially Elected Coordinator" Thomas Weeks: tweeksjunk@theweeks.org
    


    



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