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Today and tomorrow we will be sending out email notifications to all the great members of our community who took the time to submit their abstract for MWLUG 2012.  We received over 60 submissions this year which is 40% more than last year.  Unfortunately, we only have a limited number of slots available for this conference and we are pushing it as usual in what we can fit in.  There were so many great submissions. Hope to see everyone there.

We are please to announce that the MWLUG 2012 IBM Opening General Session Speaker will be Louis Richardson, IBM's Worldwide Social Business Evangelist.  I am glad we were finally able to get Louis to speak at MWLUG .  Louis is a great speaker and extremely knowledgeable about how companies are using social collaboration to drive they business.  Louis will be presenting on the Thursday's OGS along with our two other MWLUG 2012 OGS speakers which we will be announcing soon.

Today is the last day to submit your presentation abstract for MWLUG 2012.  If you are interested in submitting an abstract, please go to: http://www.mwlug.com/mwlug/mwlug12.nsf/Abstract.xsp before the end of today.

Since October 2011 my home network has been plagued by slowness in the network.  I suspected that I had some type of malware on the network or our wireless network was compromised.  Each time I scanned the computers I would find Trojans.  After removing the Trojans, everything worked for awhile and then it started slowing down.  Something was stealing my bandwidth.  Even after performing rootkit scanning and removal, drive cleansing, and even replacing the routers and new passwords and security settings the issue would come back. So finally I was fed up and decided to see if I could replace Windows with Linux for my home use.  I had already move most of our servers to Linux at work.  The concern that I had was that I would not have all the tools and applications that I normally used in a Linux environment.  I decided to install Ubuntu 12.04 LTS Desktop to replace my Windows operating system.  If it did not work, then I can cleanse the drive...

Registration for MWLUG 2012 is now opened.  Sorry for the slight delay.  Technical issues you know.  To register for MWLUG 2012 goto: http://www.mwlug.com/mwlug/mwlug12.nsf/Register.xsp . 

As requested to help our friends with their busy schedules, the deadline for abstracts has been extended to Thursday, May 31 at 5:00 PM. So there is still time for you to submit your MWLUG 2012 abstract !!!  See everyone there. MWLUG 2012 Abstract Submission

If you are interesting in speaking at MWLUG, abstract submission for MWLUG 2012 is now open.  This is your chance to speak at a major LUG conference.  Each year we reserve a number slots for new speakers. So take this opportunity to speak at MWLUG 2012.  To submit your abstract goto: http://www.mwlug.com/mwlug/mwlug12.nsf/Abstract.xsp Thanks again to Mike McGarel and Roy Rumaner for all their hard work in getting the abstract submission database ready.  Abstract submission will close on May 21, 2012.