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font-family:Arial'>Hi Everyone,</span></font></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 face=Arial><span style='font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:Arial'>I'd just like to thank everyone for coming to the meeting
last night and especially for the people that presented.</span></font></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 face=Arial><span style='font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:Arial'>It was amazing to see how Dustin from Cymfony (<a
href="http://www.cymfony.com/">http://www.cymfony.com</a>) handles all the
massive amounts of data! it's was actually pretty humorous to hear</span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 face=Arial><span style='font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:Arial'>that the smallest database server has "only" 8G of
ram and 300G of disk space :) ..and right now he "just" has 20
database servers!!</span></font></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 face=Arial><span style='font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:Arial'>Ron Browning definitely gave us excellent insight in the
less known databases of Cloudscape and Firebird. Quite Interesting.</span></font></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 face=Arial><span style='font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:Arial'>Brad Bartram from Dyrect Media Group (<a
href="http://www.dyrectmedia.com/">http://www.dyrectmedia.com</a>) convinced
many of us (including me!) to start using postgres..</span></font></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 face=Arial><span style='font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:Arial'>Our local celebrity, Jeremy Garcia from the amazing
LinuxQuestions.org (<a href="http://www.linuxquestions.org/">http://www.linuxquestions.org</a>)
site and from Choice One Online (<a href="http://choiceoneonline.com/">http://choiceoneonline.com</a>)</span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 face=Arial><span style='font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:Arial'>showed a lot of the real-world uses and customizations of using
mysql in such highly trafficked sites, along with being so generous with giving
away free LinuxQuestions.org shirts! (We all love free stuff!! :) )</span></font></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 face=Arial><span style='font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:Arial'>A few other key points I’d like to mention:</span></font></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 face=Arial><span style='font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:Arial'>1. I will be getting more posters of the "History of
Programming Languages" and "History of Unix" to hand out in the
next meeting.</span></font></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 face=Arial><span style='font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:Arial'>2. There was interest in the next meeting focusing on
"Hardening a Linux Box”. If this is still of interest, we will do
it.</span></font></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 face=Arial><span style='font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:Arial'>3. The presentations will be up and on the website in a few
days.</span></font></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><b><font size=3 face=Arial><span style='font-size:12.0pt;
font-family:Arial;font-weight:bold'>4. IMPORTANT: For any non-meeting
announcements, I'm going to ONLY be posting to the bplug mailing list. Many
people are getting duplicate mail messages because I also cross-post to the nflug
mailing list. </span></font></b></p>
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10.0pt'>The Buffalo Professional Linux Users Group is focused on the use of
Linux and Open Source in professional business environments. We have organized
presentations and seminars, and bring up topics that are of interest to people
that use or would like to use Linux as part of a corporate solution set. We
disseminate practical information and proven solutions from IT professionals
who have successfully tackled a wide range of enterprise Linux deployment
challenges. It’s a rare opportunity to benefit from the experience and
insight of peers from companies that are both local and national.</span></font></p>
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