BayLISA Newsletter - November 2004

[Jennifer Davis]

November General Meeting
BayLISA's November general meeting is this Thursday, November 18 from 
7:30pm-9:30pm.  This month Mark Sobell (author of many well known 
'Practical Guide to' books)  will be presenting on "Programming 
bash".  We also have our yearly Board elections.  If you are a member (and 
you can join at the meeting!), you can vote.  ( You can also still run 
for Board!  ) 
This year's candidates are Mark C. Langston, and Heather Stern.  To view 
their candidate statements: http://www.baylisa.org/board/elections/2004/

Please show up before the meeting officially starts at 7:30 to vote. 
BayLISA meetings are held in the Apple Town Hall auditorium at Four 
Infinite Loop, Cupertino, CA 95014 (on the Apple Campus in Cupertino). 
Directions can be found here: http://www.baylisa.org/locations/

Two lucky attendees will win a copy of Mark's latest book "A Practical 
Guide to Red Hat Linux Fedora Core and Red Hat Enterprise Linux, 2nd 
Edition", thanks to Prentice Hall!  BayLISA members can also get 30% off 
this book and free UPS ground shipping when ordered through 
http://www.phptr.com/title/0131470248 with the promotion code SOBELL.  All 
that we ask of the lucky winners of the book is that they provide us with 
some thoughts of the book, a short (or long) review to be included on the 
BayLISA website, as well as sent on to Prentice Hall.

Review and Recommend Books
We also have a number of books donated by O'Reilly and Prentice Hall up 
for grabs.  BayLISA members get first dibs, but all are welcome.  Send an 
email to blw at baylisa.org with book requests.  Currently, we have some 
covering SpamAssassin, Snort, MySQL advanced tuning, Unix Shells, Linux in 
the Business Enviornments and many others.  We just ask that the 
recipients send us a review of the book, what they thought about it, how 
it helped, or what you learned.

O'Reilly Book Contribution Opportunity
Ever been frustrated by Microsoft Word?  If so, send your frustrations and 
irritations with the program (include the version of Word and OS you are 
using) to blw at baylisa.org. The list will be summarized, with a list of 
members who contributed to our O'Reilly contact.  Currently, O'Reilly is 
working on a book called "Word Annoyances".  In return, BayLISA will get 
copies of the book when it gets published.

December is our yearly Short but Cool topics.  Is there something you've 
been working on that you want to share? Or some cool useful tool that 
you've discovered? This year's best topic will win a prize!  Please send 
an email to blw at baylisa.org expressing your wish to participate (or see 
Heather Stern at the November general meeting tomorrow).

50% discount to Intermediate Perl training taught by Randal Schwartz at 
Hurricane Electric in Fremont for BayLISA members (only $99 after the 
discount!).  Attendees will receive a free copy of Randal L. Schwartz's 
O'Reilly Nutshell book, Learning Perl Objects, References & Modules.  If 
interested in attending please call Tiffany Morales at 510.580.4141 or 
email tmorales at he.net.  You need to let her know that you are a BayLISA 
member to get the discount.

Upcoming Talks!
Alan DuBoff, a Sun Solaris x86 Evangelist, will be discussing Solaris x86 
and Open Source in January.  Zach Levow, VP of Engineering for Barracuda 
Networks will be presenting on Building your own Spam Firewall using Open 
Source and free packages in February.