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The next meeting of the Southern California OS/2 User Group (SCOUG) will be next Saturday, Mar. 18, at 9:00 AM PST.

NOTE: We have a new meeting location: we will be meeting at Eastside Christian Schools (Heritage Campus) in Anaheim at 2528 W. La Palma Ave.

Super-fast Internet with DSL ~Elections

We are still awaiting confirmations, but at the March main meeting we expect to have a DSL extravaganza. You'll find out all you ever wanted to know about DSL, and what services are available to SCOUG members. This presentations promises to be a blockbuster, and is brought to you by popular demand.

Lest you think that the program will be the only excitement, think again. March at SCOUG means elections, and you'll have a chance to choose new board members and officers. Be sure to be there!

After the presentation and elections, we'll have Q&A to help you with your questions ~problems, and then a raffle. After a short break, then the Saturday SIG meetings:

Programming SIG: Will look at using CVS and RCS for managing software development projects with multiple contributors. The group will be using these programs to manage the future SIG projects.

Check back here http://www.scoug.com/programming/index.html as it gets closer to the meeting date. There will be some resources available to you to download which you'll want to get somewhat familiar with before the meeting!

General Interest Group: We will take a stock Win95 system and actually do an OS/2 install along with creating a maintenance partition. Time permitting, we will also get into DSL and cable modem hookups.

Internet SIG chats happen several times each week. Join them!
(For further information, go to http://www.scoug.com/chat/index.html)

Monday, March 20, 7 PM PST meetings at Eastside Christian Schools (Heritage Campus):

The OS/2 Help Desk will have volunteers to give you hands-on assistance solving your hardware and software problems.

The Networking SIG will be meeting at the same time/place as the Help Desk in the new computer lab. They will continue the DSL topic of our General meeting. We will learn about the DSL service connecting the Eastside Christian School to the Internet, including the specifics of the DSL router that was installed. Utilizing the new DSL line, we will configure our OS/2 clients to use the DSL connection to the Internet. In addition, we will install and configure the InJoy Gateway product on the SCOUG WiseManager server to provide proxy capabilities for the OS/2 clients and learn why we would want to do this.

Thursday, March 23, 7 PM PST meeting at Eastside Christian Schools (Heritage Campus):

The Sundial SIG will meet in the computer lab. The topic is Mesa 2 macros and how they can make your life so much easier.

How to get to Eastside Christian Schools (Heritage Campus):

The Eastside Christian School (Heritage Campus) in Anaheim is at 2528 W. La Palma Ave. It is on the south side of the street (about 200 ft. E of Magnolia) on the Grace Baptist Church property. It's a 2-story office building close to La Palma Ave. with the address of 2528 up near the roof. (It's between 2 large apartment complexes and can be easily missed). Look for the SCOUG banner (if you are driving eastbound on La Palma Ave.) and/or a sign with the words "New Hope Christian Center". Turn in (south) there. Park in the front lot. For the general meeting, go up the stairs in the middle of the building along the parking-lot side. For the weeknight SIGs, go in at the middle on the ground floor and down the hall to your right.

Freeway exits: (subject to change due to freeway construction on I-5 and the 91 freeways):

1) North I-5 (from central/south Orange County): the La Palma exit has re-opened. Get off at La Palma and turn left (going west over I-5). The school/church will be on your left side.
2) South I-5 (from Los Angeles): take the Magnolia exit and turn right going south. Turn left on La Palma Ave; the school/church will be on your right side.
3) West 91 freeway (from the Inland Empire, etc): take the Magnolia exit and turn left going south. Turn left on La Palma Ave; the school/church will be on your right side.
4) East 91 freeway: take the transition to I-5 south. Stay to your right and take the Magnolia exit. Turn right going south. Turn left on La Palma Ave; the school/church will be on your right side.

OR: Go to http://www.scoug.com/directions.html; there is a map to the school, plus a more detailed map ~driving directions from Yahoo! Come and join us!

Important! Special Day! 2nd Thursday in lieu of 2nd Wednesday (Please see details below.)

Topic: Thin Client and Telephony Computing with Serenity Systems International and TouchVoice Corporation

Date: Thursday, March 9, 2000
Time: 6:30 p.m. - 9:00 p.m.

R.S.V.P.: Henry Ferlauto ferlauto@mindspring.com

Location: IBM Building - 590 Madison Avenue, New York, NY 10022-2524 (Southwest corner of 57th Street and Madison Avenue)

Directions (via Subway):

+ 4, 5 or 6 to 59th Street (~Lexington Avenue) - Walk two blocks south to 57th Street and then two blocks west to Madison Avenue.

+ N or R to 5th Avenue (~60th Street) - Walk one block south to 59th Street, then one block east to Madison Avenue.

For complete subway and bus maps and schedules, please visit the MTA web site @:

http://www.mta.nyc.ny.us/

Meeting Details:

First and explanation of the special day. As many of you may know the NYPC moved its General Meeting to the 2nd Wednesday of the month late last year. This was because of scheduling issues with P.S. 41, where the meetings take place. March is always election month at NYPC and we want to give everyone the opportunity to vote at the meeting for those who choose not to vote by mail. During our Q&A time on Thursday, we will discuss the possibility of permanently moving the day to a different day of the month. The NYPC General Meetings are starting to become "more diverse" (i.e. not just Windows this, Windows that) and thus there may be more appeal to attend the General Meeting. It would be unfair to the membership to have to choose between two good meetings. Again we will discuss this matter openly at our meeting during the Q&A session, so be sure to get there on time.

Now for the March Meeting:

We will have not one, but two special guests, Kim Cheung, Executive Director, Serenity Systems International, Marketing Directory TouchVoice Corporation; and Chris Stumpf of C.S.E. Computer Services, a Serenity Systems Channel Partner.

They will be demonstrating various software packages from the Serenity product line. How they're going to fit everything in to two and a half hours, I have no idea; but I'm sure everyone will be anxious to find out.

Ever want to run a PC based PBX System and have the rock solid reliability of OS/2 as the foundation? Then come and see WisePath and TouchVoice's other products. You will see a PBX system so mean and lean it runs on a computer that in today's world most people would just call a boat anchor.

And if that's not enough they will also demonstrate how to manage ALL of your clients (OS/2 ~Windows) from one very special Warp Server.

Links:

+ Serenity Systems International
http://www.serenity-systems.com

+ TouchVoice Corporation
http://www.touchvoicecorp.com

+ IBM OS/2 Warp Home Page
http://www.ibm.com/os2

+ Warpstock
http://www.warpstock.org

+ Gotham NYPC User Group
http://www.nypc.org

And finally....

If you like what we have to offer, please join NYPC as member. For your $45 membership you will have access to the most diverse group of Special Interest Groups (SIGs) and the people who care that make them tick. We now have over two dozen SIGs, including Cisco, Palm Pilot, Investing, iMac, Speech Recognition, Web Development, Streaming Media, C++ and much, much more. All this in addition to our favorite SIG, OS/2. So please do your part to help out the organization that makes all this possible. Thank you.

"I pushed one button and deployed a network in 29 seconds per node. It was worth my trip to Atlanta to see the vision of network computing delivered by Serenity Systems' technology based on IBM's OS/2."- Peter Coffee in PCWeek,

http://www.zdnet.com/pcweek/stories/columns/0,4351,2377721,00.html

On March 9, PC users can come to NYC and see what excited Peter Coffee and had members of the audience "falling out of their chairs" at an earlier SCOUG meeting

http://www.scoug.com/presentations/serenity9903.html

The presentation in NYC will go further than any public demonstration, yet!

Kim Cheung, Excecutive Director of Serenity Systems, will be previewing Release 2.0 of WiseManager, the most powerful tool in the computing industry for building and managing networks. For the first time there will be a public demonstration of the e.ComStation, a server managed, remote boot client based on Warp Server for e-business.

While this is extremely significant, so is the ability to remote boot and manage Win9X, Win3.1, and DOS workstations. Part of the planned and exclusive cross platform support is the ability to provide Win9X diskless RPL workstations ... as opposed to an implementation which requires starting with an installed Windows fat client PC.

WiseManager blazes through the tasks associated with building a network, which so impressed Peter Coffee. But consultants and LAN Administrators will be amazed at the features of WiseManager which support operational tasks. For example, drag an application's icon and drop it onto a folder of users. That application is now part of desktop for that department, or a single user. Slick enough, but now comes the "grunt task" of updating Warp Server's Access Control List ... but wait ... this is WiseManager! WiseManager automatically updates ACLs when that icon was dopped the onto that folder of users. This is almost too easy!

With planned support for Windows workstations, WiseManager makes the best case available for using Windows workstations, better than fat clients, better than Windows Based Terminals, better than Citrix. And you don't even need OS/2 workstations on the network ... but, if you have OS/2 workstations ... they will dazzle.

Kim Cheung is also a principal with TouchVoice Corp, a leading CTI vendor with OS/2 based products. Here, OS/2 shines because of its reliability, responsiveness and low costs. The WiseTalker products, available through Serenity Systems, are commercial products without equal in the industry. The REXX support in WiseTalker products makes the ability to customize the system so strong ... that the answer to every question is, "Yes. We can do that."

Kim will discuss this business opportunity, for both users and consultants. Watch for announcements from Serenity Systems to support channel partners internested in the revenues available with auto-attendant voicemail and WiseTalker Database Server with IBM DB2 6.1.

Plan on making the trip to the March 9 UG meeting, 6:30 PM, IBM building at 590 Madison Ave. If you can't get there, plan on contacting Serenity Systems at www.serenity-systems.com ... everyone managing a workstations should have an evaluation copy of WiseManager in their hands. Serenity Systems will be making an announcement shortly regarding an update to the Evaluation Kit program.

Dateline : [WEBBnet #voice] Speakup with the WARPTECH2000 TEAM
Date : Monday, February 21, 2000 Time: 8:00PM EST (01:00GMT)

The WARPTECH2000 captain just hours ago has confirmed to VOICE a scheduled speakup on Monday, February 21 - 8pm EST (01:00GMT)

This important speakup will be on the WEBBnet as always on #VOICE. Should you need more information on using the webbnet and IRC, assistance is available 24/7. at:

http://www.os2voice.org/meetinginfo.html

VOICE extends an open invitation to one and all to Speakup about WARPTECH2000 on WEBBnet #VOICE Monday, February 21st 8pm EST (01:00GMT).

For information about VOICE visit:

http://www.os2voice.org

Abel McClendon
secretary@os2voice.org

The February Meeting of the Triangle OS/2 Users Group will be held on Tuesday, February 22nd, 2000 7:30 PM

IBM Sales Office 5th Floor
4800 Falls of Neuse Rd.
Raleigh, NC 27609

Since that happens to be George Washington's birthday... I cannot tell a lie! It really is last months meeting that was canceled because we had a 20" snowfall the night before!

We love getting together to discuss OS/2, but not under those conditions!

The meetings main topic will focus on how we can eliminate unnecessary OS/2 files to make more space on our hard drives.

The site's web page is :

http://www.ncneighbors.com/199

Steve Kissell
Treasurer

Contact: Mark Abramowitz Mark@scoug.com

SCOUG Presents Security Smash With KeyRing/2

Security, security, security. Your antivirus software protects your system, your firewall protects your network, you don't expect anybody to stick their nose into your \tcpip\dll\ directory where you've secretly stashed those half-dozen pictures of Pamela's Private Party, and you hope nobody opens and reads your MyPasswords.txt file.

How can you protect those passwords? You have one for your online banking, three for your credit cards, your eBay account, the one for the online casino where you play the ponies, and don't forget your membership password for Pamela.com.

KeyRing/2 will keep those passwords safe.

"SCOUG's February meeting is the national rollout for KeyRing/2" says Mark Abramowitz, Program Chairman for The Southern California OS/2 User Group (SCOUG). "IDK Software's head honcho will be demonstrating KeyRing/2 and all its advanced features this coming Saturday, February 19."

Join OS/2 users, SCOUG members, maybe even Pamela and members of her "private party" for an intensive security demonstration at the upcoming SCOUG meeting. There's a NEW MEETING SITE for this main event -- see the map and directions at:

http://www.scoug.com/directions.html

"This is a major piece of security software," adds Abramowitz. "The INF file alone is almost 2 MB. Anyone who uses the Internet should attend this meeting. It's useful, it's important, and we're glad it's being released only on OS/2."

Saturday, Feb. 19, 9 a.m. - mark your schedule now for SCOUG and KeyRing/2.