News from PANUG/BizNix - September 30, 2003
http://panug.org - http://biznix.org


UPCOMING MEETINGS

The October BizNix meeting on October 9 will feature
a look at a potential replacement for the SMTP
protocol that promises to solve the problems of spam
and other problems due to the weaknesses in SMTP.
It's downward compatible with SMTP and uses current
e-mail addressing thus allowing new and old e-mail
systems to exist side-by-side and easy migration.

The October PANUG meeting on October 16 will feature
a look at sealed systems - this in response to a
request from members at the last meeting. Sealed
systems are highly resistant to attack, trivial to
install and upgrade with little or no user interaction,
can automatically detect whether they've been
compromised, and dramatically reduce the level of
technical support required.


JOB

Clean Water Services in Hillsboro, OR has a small
12-person IT department with 3 people responsible for
the network-side of things. We currently have 7 sites
throughout Washington County which are connected via
Comcast fiber. One of the Network Analysts has had an
injury and is working a shortened work week through
November. We are looking for a temporary person that is
experienced in the Microsoft environment and preferably
has experience with IBM hardware and Tivoli backup
systems to help get us through the next few months. The
pay is dependent on one's abilities and experience. 
Please send your resume with references to
sorensenb@cleanwaterservices.org. 

Bridget Sorensen
IS Supervisor
Clean Water Services


TRAINING DISCOUNTS

Touchstone Technology is offering 50% discounts on all
its classes in October. 503-699-6997 or 800-589-3174 or
tvoshell@touchstonetech.com.


LINUX TRIVIA
by Dick Pilz
PANUG President

It's a good thing I didn't latch onto these for last
month's trivia contest:

The Linux Dictionary: http://panug.org/43
TLDP Guides: http://www.tldp.org/guides.html


FEEDBACK

There was some feedback on the Cybersecurity report
mentioned in the previous broadcast. Here's the URL
in case you missed it:

http://www.ccianet.org/papers/cyberinsecurity.pdf

Patrick Corrigan said that this was the best document
of its kind he'd seen and that all of us should
distribute it far and wide - such as the decision
makers in our companies.

Ken Barber said that one of the authors of the report,
Dan Geer, was fired from his company for his part in
producing a report that was critical of Microsoft's
products. Some of you may recall that Ken was victim
of this kind of punishment for promoting the use of
Open Source software in Oregon State government.

A few PANUG members have, in the past, said privately
that they too are in delicate political situations
where their job would be in jeopardy if they were
critical of Microsoft products.

We received no feedback saying that the report was
not true, biased, etc.


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