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OPEN FORUM PLUS!

• Hacked I-Opener Running Linux
  The I-Opener is a home internet appliance that was designed by I-Opener. It's basically a 10"LCD, 180MHz, x86 computer that's been hardwired to give people dialup Internet service through the I-Opener parent company. The idea was that you buy their box for $99, and then subscribe to their ISP service for x-years. The cost of the hardware was offset by the assumed ISP subscription.

  However, hardware hackers quickly discovered what was inside these units, and how to modify them to run whatever OS they want! The cool part is, for $99 you could go out, but one of these, mod it, and have a cool LCD mini computer to use for whatever you want. Check out this FAQ for info on hacking these units to have them do your bidding.

  Some people use them as MP3 players, a kitchen web browser, a "Bathroom Research Node", etc... :) Come and see Nick Borko's tweaked out I-Opener running Debian Linux in all it's glory!





• Other X-otic Hardware
  John Baker (from Houston area) will be bringing a CAR LOAD (literally) of some of his cooler systems:

  His MVME167 "headless" VME card based system running BSD! This is a cool industrial strength "card subsystem" type of computer system that John runs various OSs on, and redirects the GUI X I/O to a LAN wired laptop. Pretty cool.

  P166MHz Running BSD...

  The Famous "$0 Laptop", running who knows what...

  An Amiga 3000 running BSD ?!?! And Networked!

  His multiboot Sparcbook (Sparc powered Laptop)!

  and will also be performing free BSD installs (not "FreeBSD mind you)

• Other X-otic Fallout...
  Tom will also be bringing his Mandrake Linux laptop if you want to check out any of the cool desktop quality applications that come installed with Mandrakei, or if you didn't get to see the WINE Demo from last month. Tom will also have a copy of Word-Perfect 8 for Linux if anyone wants to test drive that.

• 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...

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...

• Check out this month's SATLUG (Linux group) meeting! Happening soon!
• Things are looking up for the Amiga as it is sold to "Amiga.com" and the industry watches the domino effect of partnering and group efforts (including those like Sun Microsystems and Tao-Group) develop along with Corel & Red Hat Linux! More Info
  Techweb on Sun-Tao-Amiga.
  Sun/Java on Sun-Tao-Amiga
  Corel on Corel-Amiga.

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

TIME / DATE

Monday, May 21st (every 3rd Mon. night) 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 / Web	IT/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!
		-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-

RELATED CROSS LINKS

SATLUG: The San Antonio Texas Linux Users Group! CACTUS: The Captiol Area/Central Area UNIX Sosciety users group. Good UNIX group that offers their members a free UNIX account on their Sparc server! CTACS: The Central Texas Amiga Computing Sosciety user group out of Austin. Other X-otic Machine Links AmiWest2000: THE Amiga Convention of the west coast. Check out the details! The Complete Index of Computers Amiga Yellow Pages: Amiga YP is your one stop point of any and all Amiga related hard/software POCs... Check it out!

These Pages Have Been Accessed Times.

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