From sulrich at botwerks.org Fri Sep 16 07:07:42 2005 From: sulrich at botwerks.org (steve ulrich) Date: Fri Sep 16 07:09:15 2005 Subject: [tcwug-list] administravia: o'reilly and assoc. newsletter References: Message-ID: <3E347F32-B630-4B6F-91B6-9E20E0FE1AC8@botwerks.org> all- recent ORA newsletter below... ================================================================ O'Reilly UG Program News--Just for User Group Leaders September 14, 2005 ================================================================ -Want in invite to O'Reilly Connection? 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Filled with practical advice for avoiding scrams, what to do if an item doesn't sell, how to list items effectively, choosing an auction type, and how to get the best price. http://www.oreilly.com/catalog/1593270631/index.html ***GarageBand 2: The Missing Manual Publisher: O'Reilly ISBN: 0596100353 Now revised to reflect GarageBand's latest features, this authoritative, witty guide provides you with all the know-how you need to produce commercial-quality musical recordings entirely on your own. This top-selling book by David Pogue explains how to maximize the program's entire set of tools, including pre-recorded loops, sampled sounds, and live recordings. Easy-to-understand language makes it ideal for serious musicians and novices alike. http://www.oreilly.com/catalog/garageband2/ ***Photoshop Retouching Cookbook for Digital Photographers Publisher: O'Reilly ISBN: 0596100302 This book tells you everything you need to know to adjust, correct, retouch, and manipulate your photographs, without making you learn everything there is to know about Photoshop CS2 first. These straightforward, easy-to-follow recipes cover everything from fixing problems with exposure, color, and focus to hand-tinting, adjusting lighting, adding special effects, and restoring faded and damaged photos. oreilly.com/catalog/photoretouch/ ***The Debian System Publisher: No Starch ISBN: 1593270690 "The Debian System" introduces the concepts and techniques of the Debian operating system, explaining their usage and pitfalls, and illustrating the thinking behind each of the approaches. The book's goal is to give the reader enough insight into the workings of the Debian project and operating system so that they will understand the solutions that have evolved as part of the Debian system over the past decade. http://www.oreilly.com/catalog/1593270690/index.html ***RT Essentials Publisher: O'Reilly ISBN: 0596006683 This comprehensive guide shows you how to customize RT to better fit your organization's business needs. After introducing you to what ticketing systems are, the book shows you how to install and configure RT. From there, it explains how to perform simple tasks that will turn your RT server into a highly useful tracking tool. http://www.oreilly.com/catalog/rtessentials/ Chapter 3, "Getting Started," is available online: http://www.oreilly.com/catalog/rtessentials/chapter/index.html ***Making Music on the Apple Mac Publisher: PC Publishing ISBN: 1870775953 Making music on the Mac is now easier than ever. This book provides advice on setting up your studio and configuring your audio and MIDI interfaces for optimum performance. Step-by step projects show you how to record with GarageBand, and when your masterpiece is complete, learn how to organize your music, create playlists, burn CDs, and publish your music on the net. http://www.oreilly.com/catalog/1870775953/ ***XSLT 1.0 Pocket Reference Publisher: O'Reilly ISBN: 0596100086 This handy pocket guide quickly gets you up to speed on XSLT so you can convert XML like a seasoned pro. It covers topics such as stylesheet structure, template rules, result trees, conditional processing, number formatting, and more. Best of all, its concise approach saves you time, aggravation, and effort. http://www.oreilly.com/catalog/xsltpr/ Chapter 3, "How XSLT Works," is available online: http://www.oreilly.com/catalog/xsltpr/chapter/index.html ***Essential Business Process Modeling Publisher: O'Reilly ISBN: 0596008430 This guide gathers all the concepts, design, architecture, and standard specifications of Business Process Management (BPM) into one concise book, and offers hands-on examples that illustrate BPM's approach to process notation, execution, administration, and monitoring. You'll also learn about BPM design patterns and best practices, as well as underlying theory. Chapter 2, "Prescription for a Good BPM Architecture," is available online: http://www.oreilly.com/catalog/essentialpm/chapter/index.html ***Stealing the Network: How to Own an Identity Publisher: Syngress ISBN: 1597490067 The first two books in this series have become classics in the hacker and infosec communities because of their chillingly realistic depictions of criminal hacking techniques. In this third installment, the all-star cast of authors tackle one of the fastest growing crimes in the world: identity theft. Now, the criminal hackers, who readers have grown to both love and hate, try to cover their tracks and vanish into thin air. http://www.oreilly.com/catalog/1597490067/ ***MAKE Magazine Subscriptions Available The annual subscription price for four issues is $34.95. When you subscribe with this link, you'll get a free issue--the first one plus four more for $34.95. 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For location and parking information: http://www.ncmug.org/mce.html ***Jack Herrington ("Podcasting Hacks"), NCMUG, Rohnert Park, CA--November 15 Jack will walk through the basics of podcasting starting with audio recording using a variety of equipment that he will bring along. Then into multi-track editing and mixdown with Audacity. Conversion to MP3 and upload to a podcasting enabled blog that integrates into iTunes. http://www.ncmug.org/events.html#nov ================================================ Conference News ================================================ ***ETech 2006 CFP Now Open O'Reilly's Emerging Technology Conference 2006 is scheduled for March 6-9 in San Diego. We invite technologists, strategists, CTOs, chief scientists, researchers, programmers, hackers, standards workers, business developers, and entrepreneurs to lead sessions and tutorials at ETech. 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Students can earn a Certificate for Professional Development from the University of Illinois' Office of Continuing Education upon completion of a selected series of courses. For more information, go to: http://learninglab.oreilly.com/ ***User Group Members receive a special 50% discount Learning Lab Courses As an O'Reilly User Group member, you save on all the courses in the following University of Illinois Certificate Series: -Linux/Unix System Administration -Web Programming -Open Source Programming -.NET Programming -Client-Side This offer ends December 31st, 2005. To redeem, use Promotion Code "ORALL1" to save 50%. Each course comes with a free O'Reilly book and a 7-day money-back guarantee. Register online: http://learninglab.oreilly.com/ ***GAO Report: Tim O'Reilly's Letter to Congressman Wu The GAO recently announced the findings for a report on the cost of college textbooks requested by Congressman Wu of Oregon. Tim O'Reilly wrote this letter to Congressman Wu referencing O'Reilly's solution: SafariU. SafariU empowers professors to create and publish their own textbooks, costs professors nothing to use, and offers their students more focused course content at less cost. http://www.oreillynet.com/pub/a/oreilly/tim/news/2005/09/09/gao-tim- oreilly-letter-congressman-wu.html ***Michal Zalewski on the Wire What motivates a hacker? Perhaps curiosity, the pursuit of knowledge, or the simple joy of saying "Hmm, that's funny! What happens if I ...?" Eccentric security researcher Michal Zalewski exhibits these traits. Fearless interviewer Federico Biancuzzi recently talked with Zalewski about his curious approach to computer security, the need for randomness, and how the hacker mind works. http://www.oreillynet.com/pub/a/security/2005/08/25/zalewski.html ***State of AJAX Where is AJAX headed? What does all the hype mean? http://www.sitepoint.com/blogs/2005/08/21/state-of-ajax/ ***RSS Feeds: More Hype Than Reality Only 11% of Bloggers actively use RSS Feeds according to a recent study of 1000 blog readers. Two-thirds didn't even know what RSS is! This is a wake up call to all bloggers to better educate their readers. http://www.sitepoint.com/blogs/2005/08/21/rss-evokes-blank-stares/ --------------------- Open Source --------------------- ***The Next 50 Years of Computer Security: An Interview with Alan Cox Alan Cox is well known for his long-standing work on the Linux kernel, but at O'Reilly's EuroOSCON (October 17-20), he will speak about computer security. According to Alan, we're just at the beginning of a long journey into getting security right. Eager for directions and a glimpse of the future, O'Reilly Network interviewed him about his upcoming keynote. http://www.oreillynet.com/pub/a/network/2005/09/12/alan-cox.html ***Perl Internationalization and Haskell: An Interview with Autrijus Tang Self-proclaimed "Net activist, artist, and anarchist" Autrijus Tang will be a featured speaker at this October's EuroOSCON. He discusses one of his conference topics--Haskell--extensively in this interview with O'Reilly Network. Autrijus also covers Gettext bindings, Perl internationalization tools, CPAN, and more in this wide-ranging conversation. http://www.perl.com/pub/a/2005/09/08/autrijus-tang.html --------------------- Mac --------------------- ***An Introduction to Tiger Terminal, Part 4 In part four of our introduction to Tiger Terminal, you'll learn how to tap the power of shell scripting to automate repetitive tasks. Mary Norbury-Glaser (MacinTech UG) walks you through the process, step by step. http://www.macdevcenter.com/pub/a/mac/2005/09/09/terminal4.html ***What Is Automator (and Can It Make Your Life Easier) Automator provides an intuitive drag-and-drop workbench for quickly streamlining repetitive tasks. Here's a look at creating workflows and working around Automator's inherent limitations. http://www.macdevcenter.com/pub/a/mac/2005/09/06/what-is-automator.html --------------------- Windows/.NET --------------------- ***What Is .NET .NET is probably one of the more muddled and mismanaged brands in the history of Microsoft. Elucidator James Avery clarifies things by describing the two chambers at the heart of .NET: the Common Language Runtime (CLR) and its essential components, and the Base Class Library (BCL) and its major features. http://www.ondotnet.com/pub/a/dotnet/2005/09/06/what-is-dotnet.html ***Using Your Webcam for Surveillance Webcams can be used for more than videoconferencing--they can be used for surveillance as well. Wei-Meng Lee shows you how to do it in a few easy steps. http://www.windowsdevcenter.com/pub/a/windows/2005/09/06/using-your- webcam-for-surveillance.html --------------------- Java --------------------- ***Announcing the 2005 ONJava Reader Survey The 2005 ONJava Reader Survey is underway. This is your opportunity to steer the site by helping us understand what you use, what you're interested in, and where you think Java is going. http://www.onjava.com/pub/a/onjava/2005/09/07/2005-onjava-survey- advancer.html ***Building J2EE Projects with Maven Vincent Massol offers some real-life experience building J2EE applications with Maven. Using the example of a Petstore app, Massol shows you how to generate J2EE artifacts (EJB JARs, WARs, EARs) with Maven. He is coauthor of "Maven: A Developer's Notebook." http://www.onjava.com/pub/a/onjava/2005/09/07/maven.html --------------------- Digital Media --------------------- ***Hosting Your Podcasts Once you've created an MP3 of your podcast, where do you store it? And since podcast files are much larger than HTML files or JPEG images, what about bandwidth? Jack Herrington offers several solutions to the podcast hosting problem, from using a dedicated service to reusing your blog or using your own ISP. Jack is the author of "Podcasting Hacks." http://digitalmedia.oreilly.com/2005/09/07/hosting-podcasts.html ***Top Ten Digital Photography Tips You have a digital camera and have taken the typical shots of family and friends. Now what? Here are ten tips to make your next batch of digital images so impressive that people will ask: "Hey, what type of camera do you have?" Guess what? It's not the camera. http://www.macdevcenter.com/pub/a/mac/2002/10/22/digi_photo_tips.html --------------------- MAKE --------------------- ***Inside Katrina MAKE author Dave Prochnow sent us an exclusive writeup of his experiences "inside the eye" of Hurricane Katrina, being off the grid for 11 days, and using his maker skills to get through the trauma. http://www.makezine.com/extras/25.html MAKE Show Archive: http://www.makezine.com/blog/archive/make_podcast/ ***For more information on MAKE, go to: http://www.makezine.com/ ================================================ From Your Peers ================================================ ***Don't forget to check out the O'Reilly UG wiki to see what user groups around the globe are up to: http://wiki.oreillynet.com/usergroups/index.cgi -- steve ulrich sulrich@botwerks.org PGP: 8D0B 0EE9 E700 A6CF ABA7 AE5F 4FD4 07C9 133B FAFC From josh at joshwelch.com Fri Sep 16 11:36:01 2005 From: josh at joshwelch.com (Josh Welch) Date: Fri Sep 16 11:39:21 2005 Subject: [tcwug-list] Wireless point-to-point gear Message-ID: <432AF471.6060002@joshwelch.com> Looking for any thoughts, opinions or (prefereably) real world usage stories of wireless point to point gear. It would be for a short distance, pretty much across the street, but need it to be reliable and stock, don't really want to go the custom firmware on a WRT54G with a Pringles can antenna route. I'm looking at Proxim's 5.8 GHz gear, which claims a 20Mbps throughput, so I'm assuming I should be able to get a reliable 5 - 10. The QuickBridge 20 Wireless Outdoor Bridge seems like a good solution for a couple grand. How much would weather have an impact on something like this? Thanks, Josh From dieman at ringworld.org Fri Sep 16 12:11:02 2005 From: dieman at ringworld.org (Scott Dier) Date: Fri Sep 16 12:11:20 2005 Subject: [tcwug-list] Wireless point-to-point gear In-Reply-To: <432AF471.6060002@joshwelch.com> References: <432AF471.6060002@joshwelch.com> Message-ID: <432AFCA6.8030802@ringworld.org> Josh Welch wrote: > Looking for any thoughts, opinions or (prefereably) real world usage > stories of wireless point to point gear. It would be for a short > distance, pretty much across the street, but need it to be reliable and > stock, don't really want to go the custom firmware on a WRT54G with a > Pringles can antenna route. > > I'm looking at Proxim's 5.8 GHz gear, which claims a 20Mbps throughput, > so I'm assuming I should be able to get a reliable 5 - 10. The > QuickBridge 20 Wireless Outdoor Bridge seems like a good solution for a > couple grand. How much would weather have an impact on something like this? http://www.cisco.com/en/US/products/ps5861/products_data_sheet09186a00802252e1.html I've not actually used them, however, but I do like the radios (802.11g, same as whats in the 1200 units I do have) and they are outdoor mountable. This is 802.11g 54mbps gear. I'm pretty sure you can configure the root bridge to choose a channel based on local interference, but I'm not sure if it will change channels if it needs to. There is a command to ask what the interference is on all channels, too, however. (dot11 dot11Radio 0 carrier busy, and then show dot11 carrier busy) Output looks like this: Frequency Carrier Busy % --------- -------------- 2412 1 2417 10 2422 23 2427 5 2432 12 2437 18 2442 16 2447 8 2452 2 2457 3 2462 4 The integrated antenna should 'just work' for across the street. The injectors for these units use an interesting dual-coaxial (75ohm F-connector, even !?!!?) design that also brings ethernet to the unit. You can ground at the unit and the entry point and the injector includes lightning protection to protect the inside gear and power infrastructure. My guess, for a bridge, is that you can just setup wpa-psk with a long key for security. Looks like $850 per unit with power injector (AIR-BR1310G-A-K9-R). They have a kit for doing the mounting and outdoor stuff, but the equipment is mostly standard except for the mounting equipment, so you'll need one of these too. (AIR-ACCRMK1300, $160-175?) -- Scott Dier From gregdaigle at mac.com Fri Sep 2 17:11:55 2005 From: gregdaigle at mac.com (Greg Daigle) Date: Sat Sep 17 20:05:57 2005 Subject: [tcwug-list] Minneapolis conference on muniwireless Message-ID: <1993485663b021af95db04f06a1234bb@mac.com> To TCWUG Members, The University of Minnesota's Digital Technology Center and Digital Watershed are hosting a conference on the topic of community arts and services for unwired cities on October 6 & 7 in Minneapolis. The conference is focused upon wireless networks and tools for collaboration over wireless networks. The city of Minneapolis, already one of the top ten "unwired" cities in the U.S., is planning a city-wide wireless cloud, to be implemented by 2007. This conference will bring awareness to the city about the potential of creating collaborative arts and projects in urban spaces. For example, there are many community-oriented uses of collaborative wireless: - Use a WiFi social network to collaboratively plan a community project. - Plan with others an expansion of a neighborhood community garden as you take photos of your prize zucchini. - Broadcast a live video blog of your school's science fair, asking the community for responses to the science projects. Presenters - Here is a partial list of confirmed presenters: - Andrew Odlyzko Director, Digital Technology Center - Dr. Costis Toregas President Emeritus, PTI.org Speaking on the Wireless State of the Cities - Mia Garlick Creative Commons Speaking on Legal and Legislative Issues - Adrian Herbst Partner, Baller Herbst Law Group Speaking on Legal and Legislative Issues - Catherine Settani Director, Digital Access Project Speaking on Bridging the Digital Divide - Will Craig CURA Speaking on Bridging the Digital Divide - Nora Paul Institute for New Media Studies Speaking on Wireless Arts and Culture - Daniel Gumnit Director, IntermediaArts Speaking on Wireless Arts and Culture - Angela Beesley Trustee Board, Wikimedia Speaking on Social Networks - Charles Ribaudo Co-founder, Jambo Networks Speaking on Social Networks - Noah Fields Researcher, MIT Media Lab Speaking on Social Networks Plus a collaborative Music performance - organized by Douglas Geers Interest groups and breakout topics for discussion organized via Jambo Networks Our conference Web site can be found at: http://www.dtc.umn.edu/seminars/symposia/wireless2005.php You can also find out more at our organization's Web site: http://www.digitalwatershed.org/conference.html Greg Daigle Executive Director Digital Watershed m 612 636-7227 gdaigle@digitalwatershed.org www.digitalwatershed.org -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: not available Type: text/enriched Size: 2430 bytes Desc: not available Url : http://shadowknight.real-time.com/pipermail/tcwug-list/attachments/20050902/1899b8a3/attachment.bin From dumitru.roman at deri.org Sat Sep 10 06:25:17 2005 From: dumitru.roman at deri.org (Titi Roman) Date: Sat Sep 17 20:06:04 2005 Subject: [tcwug-list] CfP - ICIW 2006 || ICIWA / WEBSA / ENSYS / P2PSA / ONLINE 2006 Message-ID: <4322C29D.1020109@deri.org> ============== CALL FOR SUBMISSIONS ============== (Please accept our apologies if you receive multiple copies of this CFP) Call for Papers International Conference on Internet&Web Applications and Services ICIW'06 February 23-25, 2006 Guadeloupe, French Caribbean Location: Guadeloupe, French Caribbean Submission deadline: September 30, 2005 Notification: October 28, 2005 Camera ready: November 15, 2005 Conference: February 23-25, 2006 The ICIW 2006 will have the following conferences: See: http://www.iaria.org/conferences/ICIW06.html ICIWA 2006Internet and Web-based Applications and Services ENSYS 2006Entertainment Systems P2PSA 2006P2P Systems and Applications WEBSA 2006Web Services-based Systems and Applications ONLINE 2006 Online Communications, Collaborative Systems, and Social Networks We would like to cordially invite you to contribute to the conference with some of the following: - Distribute the Call for Papers and solicit contributions - Submit papers - Organize a special session - Propose a panel or tutorial - Review paper submissions Submit: http://www.iaria.org/conferences/SubmitGuadaICIW06.html GENERAL INFORMATION The ICIW 2006 (International Conference on Internet and Web Applications and Services) inaugurates a series of co-located events that covers the complementary aspects related to designing and deploying of applications based on IP&Web techniques and mechanisms. The main conference focuses on several tracks concerning Web technologies, design and development of Web-based applications, and interactions of these applications with other types of systems. Management aspects related to these applications and challenges on specialized domains are aided at too. Evaluation techniques and standard position on different aspects are part of the expected agenda. The call for submissions covers both theoretical and experimental topics. Authors are invited to submit complete unpublished papers, which are not under review in any other conference or journal in the following, but not limited topic areas. Industrial presentations are not subject to these constraints. Tutorials on specific related topics and panels on challenging areas are encouraged. TOPICS OF SPECIAL INTEREST (but not limited to): ICIWA 2006: Internet and Web-based Applications and Services Web technologies, frameworks, languages, mechanisms Web applications design and development Interaction with/from Web-based applications Web-based applications? features Management of Web-based applications Evaluation of Web applications Specialized Web applications Aggregating multimedia documents E-business, appliances, and services IP Grid Management and Grid Services IP-based convergent solutions and next generation networks Standards, case studies and special groups on web-based applications ENSYS 2006: Entertainment Systems Developing entertainment systems and applications Platforms for entertainment systems Speech technology & its usability for entertainment systems Networking requirements for entertainment systems Traffic generated by entertainment applications QoS/SLA on entertainment systems Reliability and high availability of entertainment systems Identify aspects in entertainment systems Real-time access to entertainment systems Customized access entertainment systems Navigation and entertainment systems Integration and interoperability aspects in entertainment systems Entertainment systems and applications Networking and system support for entertainment systems Wireless and mobile technologies for entertainment Wireless multimedia for entertainment Systems for music and movie distribution Games on mobile and resource-constrained devices Mobile video entertainment systems Car/flight/train entertainment systems Ubiquitous entertainment systems Interactive television Technologies for sport and entertainment WiFi wireless home entertainment systems Wearable technologies for entertainment P2PSA 2006: P2P Systems and Applications P2P architectures, techniques, paradigms P2P programming and data handling P2P security features Data and compute intensive applications P2P networks and protocols P2P management P2P Trust and reputation management Fault tolerance in P2P, quality of availability, accounting in P2P Self-adaptiveness in P2P overlay networks Self-configurable P2P systems Case studies, benchmarking Copyright and intellectual property, Electronic marketplace, Digital asset management and trading systems Platforms, environments, testbeds WEBSA 2006: Web Services-based Systems and Applications Web services foundation, architectures, frameworks, languages Web services architecture and business continuity Special Web services mechanisms Semantic Web, Ontology, and Web services Web service applications Data Management aspects in Web Services Autonomic e-Business integration and collaboration Web service based Grid computing and P2P computing Web services based applications for e-Commerce Multimedia applications using Web Services Automatic computing for Web services Web services challenges on trust, security, performance, scalability Enterprise Web services Web services discovery, announcing, monitoring and management Platforms, technologies, mechanisms and case studies Grid architectures, middleware and toolkits ONLINE 2006: Online Communications, Social networks Theory, frameworks, mechanisms, and tools for online communication Methodologies and languages for on-line communications Web services and XML use for online communications Tools for assessing online work, distributed workload Shared business processes Collaborative groups and systems Theory and formalisms of group interactions Group synergy in cooperative networks Online gambling, gaming, children groups Identity features, risks, jurisdiction for online communications Specifics emergency and e-coaching on online communications B2B and B2E cooperation Privacy, identify, security on online communications Individual anonymity, group trust, and confidentiality on online groups Conflict, delegation, group selection Community costs in collaborative groups Building online social networks with popularity contexts, persuasion, etc. Technology support for collaborative systems Techniques, mechanisms, and platforms for remote cooperation INSTRUCTION FOR THE AUTHORS The ICIW 2006 Proceedings will be published by IEEE Computer Society Press. Important dates: Submission deadline: September 30, 2005 Notification: October 28, 2005 Camera ready: November 15, 2005 Only .pdf or .doc files will be accepted for paper submission. All received papers will be acknowledged via the EDAS system. The files should be sent via http://www.iaria.org/conferences/SubmitGuadaICIW06.html Final author manuscripts will be 8.5" x 11" (two columns IEEE format), not exceeding 6 pages; max 4 extra pages allowed at additional cost. The formatting instructions can be found via anonymous FTP site at: ftp://pubftp.computer.org/Press/Outgoing/proceedings/8.5x11%20-%20Formatting%20files/instruct.pdf Once you receive the notification of paper acceptance, you will be provided by the IEEE CS Press an online author kit with all the steps an author needs to follow to submit the final version. The author kits URL will be included in the letter of acceptance. Technical marketing/business/positioning presentations The conference initiates a series of business, technical marketing, and positioning presentations on the same topics. Speakers must submit a 10-12 slide deck presentations with substantial notes accompanying the slides, in the .ppt format (.pdf-ed). The slide deck will be published in the conference?s CD collection, together with the regular papers. Please send your presentations to petre@iaria.org. Tutorials Tutorials provide overviews of current high interest topics. Proposals can be for half or full day tutorials. Please send your proposals to petre@iaria.org Panel proposals: The organizers encourage scientists and industry leaders to organize dedicated panels dealing with controversial and challenging topics and paradigms. Panel moderators are asked to identify their guests and manage that their appropriate talk supports timely reach our deadlines. Moderators must specifically submit an official proposal, indicating their background, panelist names, their affiliation, the topic of the panel, as well as short biographies. For more information, petre@iaria.org Looking forward for your contributions, ICIWA / WEBSA / ENSYS / P2PSA / ONLINE 2006 Chairs: Karim El Guemhioui, Universit? du Qu?bec en Outaouais, Canada, karim.elguemhioui@uqo.ca M?rio Freire, University of Beira Interior, Portugal, mario@di.ubi.pt Sergiu Dascalu, University of Nevada at Reno, USA, dascalus@cs.unr.edu Rafael Dueire Lins, Universidade Federal de Pernambuco, Brazil, rdl@ufpe.br Abdelhakim Hafid, University of Montreal, Canada, ahafid@iro.umontreal.ca Joaquin Keller, France Telecom, France, joaquin.keller@francetelecom.com Dumitru Roman, Digital Enterprise Research Institute, Austria, dumitru.roman@deri.org Abdelhamid Mellouk, University of Paris XII - Val de Marne, France, mellouk@ieee.org Vladimir Tosic, Lakehead University, Canada, vladat@computer.org =================================================== From joe.goggins at gmail.com Thu Sep 22 12:56:52 2005 From: joe.goggins at gmail.com (joe goggins) Date: Fri Nov 4 20:37:27 2005 Subject: [tcwug-list] Wireless Security Project Message-ID: <2511e6e9050922105427857648@mail.gmail.com> Hello TCWUG, We are a group of U of M computer science students conducting a research project on the strengthes and weaknesses of various wireless security and privacy standards (such as WEP and WPA). We are hoping to construct a project that will fulfill our research goals and also possibly provide some useful work and information that could help TCWUG as well. If there are some particular areas where you think our efforts would be best directed please let us know, we'd like to help out if we can. Thanks, Joe Goggins (gogg0010@umn.edu) Ruinan Zhang (zhan0339@umn.edu) Bob Brazeau (braz0024@umn.edu) Mike Franz (fran0561@umn.edu) -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://shadowknight.real-time.com/pipermail/tcwug-list/attachments/20050922/7fdbc9b2/attachment.htm