sunflash-Distributed to mailing list sun/NC/north-carolina sunflash-Send requests, problems to owner-sunflash@suntri.east.sun.com ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Founded December 1988 The Florida SunFlash The SunFlash Monthly Digest SunFlash Digest February 1994 ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- 62.00 The SunFlash Montly Digest February 1994 A montly summary of messages posted to the SunFlash mailing list. Articles of interest to the Sun Microsystems community (end-user, developers, admins, OEMS, VARS, Sun employees, etc) are posted to SunFlash's 130,000+ direct subscribers. 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Indirect Distribution --------------------- o consists of weekly and monthly digests posted to comp.sys.sun.announce and o an email auto responder for requesting the full text of SunFlash articles. o A separate mailing list for the indirect distribution has recently been created. If you see the weekly SunFlash digests in a newsgroup but would rather have them emailed to you, please send email to flash@sun.com and ask to be added to the SunFlash digest list. Direct Distribution ------------------- Direct subscribers receive the full text of the SunFlash articles as they become available. Direct subscribers also receive the monthly digest. Direct subscribers do not receive the weekly digests. If you are a direct subscriber and you would like to be emailed the weekly SunFlash digests, please send email to flash@sun.com and ask to be added to the SunFlash digest list. 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Place the vol.part in the subject line. e.g. $ mail flashadm@sun.com Subject: 53.06 53.07 53.04 ^D $ Notes: - more that 1 vol.part allowed in subject line - for multi-article messages (such as 55.17 which has 6 articles), you will get the whole message. - leave the body of message empty ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Subject: Titles ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Article Size In Title Number Kb lines 62.01 5 99 Sun Number One in Process Control 62.02 12 298 SunATM Adapter 62.03 11 260 SunFastEthernet Adapter 62.04 7 155 ComNet New Product Achievement Winners 62.05 5 95 New SBus/SCSI Developer's Kit 62.06 5 92 SMCC Offers MP Development Tools 62.07 9 218 Books from SunSoft Press 62.08 6 133 New Sun Uni-directional Microphone 62.09 14 384 SMCC Announces Localized Solaris 2.3 62.10 6 105 Upgrades to SPARCstation LX System 62.11 8 183 Packaging Options for SPARCserver 1000 62.12 20 453 Sunergy Newsletter #13 (part 1 of 2) 62.13 28 581 Sunergy Newsletter #13 (part 2 of 2) 62.14 17 286 20-Way SPARCcenter 2000 Support 62.15 6 104 Sun: World's Best-Run Computer Company 62.16 10 238 DataCenter 20-GB 4mm Tape Auto Loader 62.17 10 220 DeskTop 20-GB 4mm Tape Auto Loader 62.18 10 191 Sun Management,Organizational Changes 62.19 8 143 Suns Used in Olympics Security System 62.20 11 223 Sunergy Satellite Broadcast #9 62.21 7 133 Olympics Results Through Mosaic 62.22 4 75 J. Phillip Samper, SMCC President 62.23 4 71 1994 SOLARIS DEVELOPER CONFERENCE 62.24 15 343 New 2.1-Gb 3.5-inch Disk Drive 62.25 5 98 O'Reilly's X Resource : Issue 9 62.26 3 80 AI Database on CD-ROM 62.27 49 1364 FAQ: Big Dummy's Guide 1.4 62.28 5 90 O'Reilly Vol. 6A: Motif Programming 62.29 7 151 Prime Time Freeware's PD CD-ROMs 62.30 27 740 1994 SANS III CONFERENCE 62.31 4 74 New satellite usenet receiver 62.32 10 221 The Internet Shopping Mall 62.33 7 154 Third Party Information/Product Digest 62.34 6 142 EOL SPARCompilers and SPARCworks 2.0.1 62.35 5 85 WIDE/FAST SCSI From PT 62.36 8 208 US Sendmail Training Seminars 62.37 6 110 BEST/1 Product Information from BGS 62.38 3 64 Real-Time Cluster Performance Monitor 62.39 3 70 Storage Management Software (HSM) 62.40 13 254 Mainframes, Networked Computers Share 62.41 3 61 Mail*Hub from Control Data Systems 62.42 5 113 Stalker Security and Accountability 62.43 7 167 Information/Product Digest 62.44 4 95 RUMBA for PC-NFS 62.45 7 159 PC-NFS 5.0 German, French Products 62.46 18 489 SBus/SCSI Developer's Kit, Release III 62.47 5 101 SunNet Manager 2.2 Repricing 62.48 6 138 New SPARCcluster 1 System Pricing 62.49 4 73 Removal Of SunLink IR Software Product 62.50 5 119 Sun Information/Product Digest 62.51 6 108 SPARCserver 1000: Best Product of Year 62.52 15 415 SPARCstation 10TurboGX System 62.53 6 113 Lotus Notes Bundled with SPARCservers 62.54 6 150 Enterprise Computing Summit 62.55 6 100 Tivoli Selected by X/Open Systems 62.56 6 118 Tivoli Products, Services and Alliances 62.57 2 53 IBM-compatible tape drives 62.58 8 147 Demo of Fast Ethernet Products 62.59 4 94 12 Port Sbus Terminal Server 62.60 6 114 Centralized Unix Administration 62.61 7 150 Information/Product Digest Total: 535 Kb 12065 lines ( about 183 US Pages) 62.d1 The Florida SunFlash Weekly Digest January 31 to February 6 1994 62.d2 The Florida SunFlash Weekly Digest February 7 to February 13 1994 62.d3 The Florida SunFlash Weekly Digest February 14 to February 20 1994 62.d4 The Florida SunFlash Weekly Digest February 21 to February 27 1994 58.00 October 1993 SunFlash Table Of Contents 59.00 November 1993 SunFlash Table Of Contents 60.00 December 1993 SunFlash Table Of Contents 61.00 January 1994 SunFlash Table Of Contents 62.00 February 1994 SunFlash Table Of Contents ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Subject: Abstracts ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- 62.24 New 2.1-Gb 3.5-inch Disk Drive Sun's Mass Storage for the Desktop Doubles - New 2.1-GB 3.5-inch Fast SCSI-2 disk drive doubles the expansion storage capacity on the desktop - Multi-Disk Pack now offers up to 8.4-GB of storage in the same compact footprint - New 2.1-GB drives included in Server Pack Options (343 lines) 62.25 O'Reilly's X Resource : Issue 9 From: Brian Erwin Proceedings of the 8th Annual X Technical Conference Edited by Adrian Nye Winter 1994 256 pages The X Resource is a quarterly working journal for X programmers that provides practical, timely information about the programming, administration, and use of the X Window System. It is published quarterly in January, April, July, and October by O'Reilly (98 lines) 62.26 Intelligent Technologies Database on CD-ROM SilverPlatter Information, in conjunction with the Turing Institute of Glasgow, has announced the addition of the Intelligent Technologies database to its range of CD-ROMs. The database provides coverage of the world's literature and leading edge research in a range of advanced computing topics. One of the leading databases in its field, Intelligent Technologies contains over 80,000 records with abstracts, providing access to technical literature, applications, overviews, case studies, product information, developing trends in the industry, and conference papers. (80 lines) 62.27 FAQ: Big Dummy's Guide 1.4, Life, and Everything... From: joke@ls11.informatik.uni-dortmund.de (Joerg Heitkoetter) This posting tells you everything you ought to know about an exciting project that helps so-called Newbies to survive their first year on The Net. It gets you softly into most of the often severe details of mindboggling complexity that popup when you're hooked into The Net. It is also intended to help you get around the trap doors, avoid pitfalls and other non-funny things (e.g. local gurus that laugh at you), you'll encounter during life as a Netizen in Cyberspace. It is styled after a FAQ list, ie. "Frequently Asked Questions and their respective Answers". (1364 lines) 62.28 O'Reilly releases Vol. 6A: Motif Programming Manual From: Brian Erwin The manual for writing applications using the Motif toolkit from the Open Software Foundation (OSF). It goes into detail on every Motif widget class, with useful examples that will help programmers to develop their own code. It has been updated to Motif 1.2, but is still usable with Motif 1.1. (90 lines) 62.29 Prime Time Freeware's January 1994 line-up From: rdm@cfcl.com More that 5000 MB of public domain source code in the two-disc set. Issue 3-1 contains updated versions of most of the packages found on previous PTF issues. It also contains nearly 100 *new* packages. Prime Time Freeware for UNIX (PTF4U), Issue 3-1 $60 Prime Time SDK for UnixWare (PTS4U), Issue 2-1 $60 XFree86-2.0 for UnixWare (XF4U) $40 (151 lines) 62.30 1994 SANS III CONFERENCE From: toni@usenix.org (Toni Veglia) Organization: USENIX Association, Berkeley, CA The Third Annual System Administration, Networking, and Security Conference April 4-8, 1994 (Cherry Blossom Season) Washington, D.C. USA (740 lines) 62.31 New satellite usenet receiver From: norman@pagesat.com (Norman Gillaspie) Organization: Pagesat Inc. PageSat Inc. has announced a significant enhancement to the already popular Satellite Delivered Usenet Newsfeed. 45+ megabytes of Usenet news each day via satellite. The complete system allows you to receive 4500+ Usenet Newsgroups available on the Internet, and wireless email delivered directly to your domain. (74 lines) 62.32 The Internet Shopping Mall [dated 13 Feb, 94] From: taylor@netcom.com (Dave Taylor) A monthly list of commercial services available via Internet This listing is maintained by Dave Taylor, who is responsible for the specific prose in each listing. If you disagree with anything stated, have good or bad experiences with any of these services, or, most importantly, have additional services to add to this list, please send electronic mail to taylor@netcom.com. (221 lines) 62.33 Third Party Information/Product Digest This digest contains brief descriptions of non-Sun products or informative announcements. You may request the full text of any of these articles by sending mail to flashadm@sun.com with a list of 1 or more article numbers (e.g. 62.32) in the Subject line. -johnj 110Kb 8 articles 2818 lines (about 40 US Pages) 62.34 Removal of SPARCompilers and SPARCworks 2.0.1 From the Price List Due to the availability of the new software development tools announced on January 25, 1994, the old SPARCompilers and SPARCworks 2.0.1 will be removed from the Price List. (142 lines) 62.35 WIDE/FAST SCSI on SBus From Performance Technologies From: ljw@pt.com (Leah Wilson) Performance Computer Introduces New SECOND Generation WIDE/FAST SCSI-2 Adapter For SBus (85 line) 62.36 Sendmail Training Seminars across the US From: Constance Harker Harker Systems is proud to announce two seminars on sendmail: "Sendmail Made Simple" which covers the operation of sendmail, sendmail.cf file, rewriting rules, and debugging of sendmail "Advanced Sendmail & Electronic Mail Domains" covers setting up mail subdomains, DNS and MX records, IDA sendmail, and using sendmail compilers (208 lines) 62.37 New BEST/1 Product Information from BGS. From: borisg@aix2.bgs.com (Boris Geller) Newsgroups: comp.newprod BGS Systems, Inc. demonstrated Enterprise-Wide Performance Assurance, a consistent approach to managing performance and capacity across multiple platforms. Performance Assurance is a process supported by an integrated suite of products for guaranteeing acceptable service to critical business systems at optimal cost. o day-to-day performance, o long term performance by trending and forecasting o Predicting the impact of change by test-driving configurations (110 lines) 62.38 Cluster Monitor, X Windows-based Real-Time Performance Statistics From: jas@Scalable.COM (Jeff Schmidt) Newsgroups: comp.newprod, comp.sys.sgi.announce, comp.sys.sun.announce Cluster Monitor is a full-color X Windows-based monitoring tool that displays real-time performance statistics of up to 50 of your machines at one time. With Cluster Monitor, you can instantly see which of your machines are down, which are loaded with too many users, which have too little memory, swap, or space in /tmp, which have too many NFS requests and which ones are idle when the rest are bursting at the seams. (64 lines) 62.39 Full Product Line Of Storage Management Software (HSM) From: "Roman P. Schwemin" IBZ offers software packages for hierarchical storage management, backup and archiving supporting the full range of optical and/or tape libraries. The modular design of IBZ's software allows greatest flexibility in the implementation of a comprehensive storage strategy and full client/server operations within heterogeneous network environments. (70 lines) 62.40 Interlink Allows Mainframes, Networked Computers To Share Resources From: Diane McGary Interlink Computer Sciences, Inc. has released a new suite of products that transparently link networked computers to mainframe resources -- allowing IS organizations to build enterprise systems that exploit the availability, recoverability and maintainability of mainframe systems. New Interlink products also provide mainframe users and applications a means of accessing printers and file services located across local- and wide-area TCP/IP networks. Interlink products implement TCP/IP as a native facility running on MVS hosts so that mainframes and TCP/IP network devices can communicate on a 'peer-to-peer' basis. Using Interlink products, IS organizations can achieve mainframe/network interoperability that leverages the widely-deployed TCP/IP networking communications protocol. This allows customers to move away from proprietary schemes like IBM's System Network Architecture (SNA), toward open networks that support a wide range of vendor and product choices. (254 lines) 62.41 Mail*Hub from Control Data Systems From: Greg Saunders (greg.saunders@Central.sun.com) Control Data's Mail*Hub solutions and services meet the integrated electronic messaging needs of virtually any computing environment. The Mail*Hub product suite provides a complete integrated messaging solution to support enterprise wide information exchange. X.400, SMTP, X.500, gateways that allow for information exchange among legacy systems, open systems, and PCs and Macintosh systems (61 lines) 62.42 Stalker Security and Accountability Software For Sun From: Steve Smaha Stalker (TM) is the first distributed Unix security and accountability software for automatically detecting system misuse, intrusions, and abuse. (113 lines) 62.43 Third Party Information/Product Digest This digest contains brief descriptions of non-Sun products or informative announcements. You may request the full text of any of these articles by sending mail to flashadm@sun.com with a list of 1 or more article numbers (e.g. 62.32) in the Subject line. -johnj 47Kb 8 articles 965 lines (about 15 US Pages) 62.44 RUMBA for PC-NFS Premier 3270 connectivity solution for MicroSoft(TM) Windows and has been designed and configured especially for PC-NFS and TCP/IP networks - Pre-configured for PC-NFS users - Automatic file linking - Full featured Telnet terminal emulation - Easy customization - Instant printing - Support for DDE and EHLLAPI - Network administration simplified - PC-NFS Style Licensing (95 lines) 62.45 PC-NFS 5.0 German And French Localized Products SMCC announces German and French localized versions of PC-NFS(R) 5.0 software (159 lines) 62.46 SBus/SCSI Developer's Kit, Release III o Comprehensive reference for SBus and SCSI Developers o Guide to SBus card development under the IEEE 1496-1993 specification and guide to multiprocessing hardware architectures o Guide to Solaris 2 device driver development with represent- ative sample drivers and extensive man page excerpts o Covers OpenBoot PROM Rev. 2 and FCode language extensions o Available worldwide either in Kit form or as individual manuals (490 lines) 62.47 SunNet Manager 2.2 Repricing Effective March 1, 1994 SunNet Manager 2.2 will be repriced. - Simplified installation and configuration - Automated options for data requests - Improved display functions and graphical display - Simple Network Management Protocol v2 early adaptors' implementation - AnswerBook support - Migration Path to Project ENCOMPASS - APIs Dynamically Linked (101 lines) 62.48 New SPARCcluster 1 System Pricing New prices on select SPARCcluster 1 models and SPARCcluster 1 add-on options: - Up to 7% price reduction on SPARCcluster 1 Model 2: P38 - Up to 9% price reduction on SPARCcluster 1 Model 4: P29 - Up to 10% price reduction on SPARCcluster 1 Model 4: P39 - Up to 11% price reduction on Network Expansion Rack - Up to 20% price reduction on SPARCcluster 1 Expansion Rack (138 lines) 62.49 Removal Of SunLink IR Software Product SunLink IR (Internet Router) will be removed off the SMCC price list. The recommended replacement options for SunLink IR are SunLink PPP 1.0 (for Solaris(R) 1.x) and SunLink PPP 2.0 (for Solaris 2.x). (73 lines) 62.50 Sun Information/Product Digest This digest contains brief descriptions of Sun products or informative announcements. You may request the full text of any of these articles by sending mail to flashadm@sun.com with a list of 1 or more article numbers (e.g. 62.32) in the Subject line. This is the third 'daily digest' style article that I have posted to SunFlash. If you have any comments about this style please send your comments to flash@sun.com -johnj 62.51 SPARCserver 1000 Named Best Product of Year Unixworld's Open Computing and Advanced Systems magazine selected the SPARCserver 1000 as one of the best products of 1993. Based on its leading performance and open technology approach to meeting user needs, the SPARCserver 1000 system was the only server selected by Unixworld's Open Computing. (108 lines) 62.52 SPARCstation 10TurboGX SYSTEM - New TurboGX accelerated color graphics card, available on standard SPARCstation 10 systems, boosts windows and 2-D vector performance by up to 50% - SPARCstation 10TurboGX replaces SPARCstation 10GX as Sun's entry-level system - TurboGX graphics card is 100% compatible with GX graphics (415 lines) 62.53 Lotus Notes Bundled with SPARCserver Systems Sun Microsystems Computer Corporation (SMCC) today announced that it is bundling Lotus Notes, the de facto standard for collaborative workgroup computing, at no charge with every SPARCserver system shipped in the United States, United Kingdom, Canada and Germany through June 30, 1994. (113 lines) 62.54 Invitation to Sun's Enterprise Computing Summit You are invited to attend an Executive Forum on Computing for the New Enterprise: April 6, 1994 9:00 A.M. - 6:00 P.M. Moscone Convention Center San Francisco, CA Reservations 1-800-646-2264 Features Scott McNealy, William Raduchel (CIO SMCC), J. Phillip Samper (President SMCC), Curt Wozniak (VP SMCC), Don Tapscott (Author of 'Paradigm Shift..'), John Naisbitt (Author of 'Megatrends') (150 lines) Subject: SunFlash Email addresses --------------------------------- flash@sun.com The SunFlash Editor sunflash-info@sun.com Automatic Information About SunFlash info-sunflash@sun.com Automatic Information About SunFlash flashadm@sun.com Administrative Issues flashadm@sun.com Article Requests sunflash-request@sun.com Requests to be addes to the list Subject: SunFlash Archive Sites and Locations --------------------------------------------- For each SunFlash volume (or month), there is a compressed tar file of the messages from that month. 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