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North Carolina System Administrators
NC*SA is a not-for-profit organization dedicated to
furthering
the professional education of computer system administrators.
Next Meeting:
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Topic:
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SUNFREEWARE.COM: Past, Present, and Future
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Speaker:
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Steven M. Christensen, Ph.D., sunfreeware.com
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Time:
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Monday, July 13, 2009
7:00 - 9:00 PM
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Place:
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UNC-TV
RTP, NC
directions
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Abstract:
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In this presentation, Dr. Christensen will talk about his sunfreeware.com web site and
how it works. Sunfreeware serves over 400,000 Solaris users in more
than fifty countries providing packages for Solaris 2.5-10 and higher.
He will go into some detail about why he started the project and what
the difficulties -- as well as the joys -- of running such a site are.
Other projects he does for Sun and others will also be discussed.
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Biography:
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Steve Christensen is the founder and maintainer of the Sunfreeware.com
web site.
He is a theoretical physicist by training and a former professor at
UNC-Chapel Hill and the University of Illinois, where he was also
a Senior Research Scientist at the
National Center for Supercomputing Applications in its first five years.
He created and moderates the Mathematica newsgroup
comp.soft-sys.math.mathematica and is co-author of
the MathTensor software system for doing tensor analysis by computer.
He is a consultant in science, mathematics, and computing and
is currently working on a book on relativity theory for fun.
Christensen received his BA in physics and mathematics from Augustana
College in Illinois and his Ph.D. at the Center for Relativity Theory at
the University of Texas at Austin.
In addition to UNC and the University of Illinois, he has held
positions at Harvard, UC-Santa Barbara, and King's College-London.
He lives in Durham, and has been doing computing for forty-four years.
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Slides available:
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Slides for Simon Karpen's June 2008 presentation on
High Availability Storage for Low Dollars
are now available on the
Past Meetings
page.
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Upcoming Meetings:
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We have some things in the works. But, if you have any ideas
or suggestions for presentations or topics, please contact the
Steering Committee!
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