The 3ourn l of AUUG Inc. Volume 25 ¯ Number 4 December 2004 Features: A Convert to the Fold 7 Lions Commentary, part 1 16 News: Minutes of AUUG Annual General Meeting, 1 September 2004 54 AUUG 2005 annual conference: CFP 58 First Australian UNIX Developer’s Symposium: CFP 59 First Digital Pest Symposium 60 Regulars: Editorial 1 President’s Column 3 My Home Network 4 This Issue’s CD 29 The Future of AUUG CDs 30 A Hacker’s Diary 31 AUUG Corporate Members 56 Letters to AUUG 56 About AUUGN 61 Chapter Meetings and Contact Details 62 AUUG Membership Application Form 63 ISSN 1035-7521 Print post approved by Australia Post - PP2391500002 AUUGN The journal of AUUG Inc. Volume 25, Number 3 September 2004 Editor ial Frank Crawford <
[email protected]> Well, after many, many years of involvement with mittee, preparing each edition. Curr ently, this AUUGN, I’ve finally been roped into writing the consists of Greg Lehey and myself, but we are editorial. In fact, AUUGN has a very long and keen to expand this by a few more, in an effort to distinguished history, providing important infor- spr ead the load. And as with previous changes, mation to generations of Unix users. During that we have a “new” approach to finding contribu- time, therehave been a range of editors all of tions. AUUG has a huge body of work, from whom have guided it through ups and downs. both the Annual Conference and regional meet- Certainly you will know many of the recent ones, ings that should be seen morewidely, especially such as David Purdue (current AUUG President), by those who weren't able to attend these events.