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For the October table of contents make the Subject line: 70.00 1050 5013 To subscribe or unsubscribe, send email to Majordomo@flashback.com unless FlashBack comes to you through a local redistribution alias. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Contents: 1051: NOVEMBER Advanced Systems Magazine Table of Contents 1052: LOTUS NOTES: AGONY & ECSTASY - from Advanced Systems 1053: NTX: System Management Tool for Large Networks. 1054: REDIVIEW - The Report Distribution and Viewing System 1055: JSS/UNIX, The Job Scheduling and Control System 1056: Sbus T1 WAN Access Card for Sun SPARCstations 1057: Technology for Information Security Conference 1058: SLED's Four11 Online User Directory 1059: SPARC-FLASH 9/94: Table of Contents 1060: The SPARCShop Library of Documents and Design Licenses 1061: BudTurbo from PDC ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ 1051: NOVEMBER Advanced Systems Magazine Table of Contents Advanced Systems, the product magazine for Unix professionals, is published each month by International Data Group (IDG) and specializes in comparative product reviews. Cover story: Lotus Notes: The Agony & the Ecstasy NEWS Sun gets clustering fever REVIEWS 18 Unix statistics, math, and visualization packages compared and scored; code coverage tools Veritas Vista and ASA Hindsight. TECHNOLOGY Doing Busines on the Internet COLUMNS Michael McCarthy on Fear of Testing; Hal Stern on keeping RAID safe; Brian Fromme on configuration management; Edgar Saadi on conquering career complacency; Harris & Randy on keeping sysadmin order without autocracy; and David Card on how so many Unix vendors can all be Number One at the same time! (Includes information on qualifying for free subscription.) ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ 1052: LOTUS NOTES: AGONY & ECSTASY - from Advanced Systems Excerpted with permission from Advanced Systems Magazine November 1994 issue Advanced Systems, the product magazine for Unix professionals, is published each month by International Data Group (IDG) and specializes in comparative product reviews. This is a review of Lotus Notes for Solaris 1. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ 1053: NTX: System Management Tool for Large Networks. NTX, the Network Task Expert, is a sophisticated tool for system administrators. It lets them run UNIX commands or shell scripts interactively on dozens or even hundreds of machines -- simultaneously and securely. NTX removes the repetitive, error-prone process of "login"-ing to multiple systems and manually entering and re-entering the same command. Command results are displayed in real-time in the NTX front-end, can be logged to files or recorded in NTX's integrated database. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ 1054: REDIVIEW - The Report Distribution and Viewing System REDIVIEW is a powerful report distribution system designed to help distribute information quickly and efficiently. REDIVIEW permits you to take your existing reports and tailor them to fit your information needs. It is designed to save you time and money by reducing, or even eliminating, paper generation, and simplifying the task of distributing whatever paper is generated. It additionally improves the accessibility of important report information. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ 1055: JSS/UNIX, The Job Scheduling and Control System The Job Scheduling and Control System is a simple to use, yet powerful system that will submit batch jobs according to special instructions. It supplements the UNIX standard operating system batch job submittal features by allowing jobs to be SCHEDULED, MONITORED and CONTROLLED. The system can be used directly by 'casual' users to schedule any jobs that they desire, or by operations personnel to keep tight control on production jobs. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ 1056: Sbus T1 WAN Access Card for Sun SPARCstations Newbridge Microsystems announces the SPRITE 212, the first T1 wide area Internet access card for Netra Internet Servers and Sun SPARCstations. The SPRITE 212 incorporates the ease-of-use, simple installation/configuration and network manageability that Sun has successfully designed into the Netra Internet Server. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ 1057: Technology for Information Security Conference Technology for Information Security December 5 - 8,1994 Galveston, Texas The NASA Johnson Space Center Mission Operations Directorate (MOD), the Texas Gulf Coast Chapter of the Information Systems Security Association, and the Mission Operations Directorate AIS Security Engineering Team are pleased to present the 1994 Technology for Information Security Conference on Managing Risk The conference is unique, in that the Mission Operations Directorate AIS Security Engineering Team (MOD ASET), at NASA's request, is responsible for assessing current technologies, enhancements, safeguards and protection mechanisms. Selected speakers were invited by MOD ASET to ensure that only the best and most current issues are presented and discussed at the conference. Pre-Conference Workshops December 5, 1994 o Firewalls o Client/Server Security o UNIX Workstation Security (ISC)2 Certification Presentations on December 6-8, 1994 o Internet Security Issues o Intruder Management Panel with "A. Darkside Hacker" o Introduction to Firewalls Security Awareness o Internal Audit o Computer Crime Cases Penetration Ethics & Laws The o Importance of Professional Certification o Up to 40 CEU Credits ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ 1058: SLED's Four11 Online User Directory SLED Corporation's recently announced Four11 Online User Directory answers the cry of many Internet users: "How can I find someone's e-mail address?" Basic access to this directory, of almost 1/2 million Internet users, is provided as a free service to the Internet community. The highly interactive directory is easily searched by e-mail, through the use of e-mail forms, or the Web, by using browsers such as Mosaic or Lynx. A rich collection of search features includes: search by name, search by location, search by old e-mail address, Group Connection, and wildcards. Group Connection is an innovative feature which makes it possible to enter searches for: "Bob at Garden Computers", "Jane in New York City who graduated from Tuckahoe High School", or "Paul who's going to Columbia University". ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ 1059: SPARC-FLASH 9/94: Table of Contents The following is the table of contents for SPARC-FLASH, the monthly email bulletin from SPARC International. If you would like to receive a free subscription to SPARC-FLASH, please send your full name, title, company and email address to sparc-flash-request@sparc.com. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ 1060: The SPARCShop Library of Documents and Design Licenses Interested in developing SPARC-based products? Need to implement a version of the SPARC Architecture? Want a listing of the latest SPARC-related products? Look no further - SPARC International's SPARCShop has what you need. SPARCShop offers a range of technical documents that provide valuable information for developers and users of SPARC technology. Review the list below and contact SPARCShop at 800-453-6657 or, e-mail: to place an order. (A brief description of each document follows the order form.) Credit cards are accepted! Quantity discounts are also available. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ 1061: BudTurbo from PDC PDC has announced the availability of a new non-proprietary software product--BudTurbo(TM)--that backs up and restores large servers faster and more reliably than any other utility of its type. Time savings for system administrators and network managers are impressive. The first such utility for UNIX workstations, BudTurbo not only backs up large servers quickly and safely, it is the only way to take advantage of higher performance tape drives. PDC product trials indicate BudTurbo outperforms all other backup products by up to 10X. Typically, it moves 3.5 to 7 GB of data per hour per tape; with high performance hardware, it moves up to 60 GB/hour. ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ The Sun FlashBack - A Full-Text On Demand Newsletter John J. 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