SEMiSLUG 11 April 1996
Question and Answer Sessions
- Crosstalk -- what to do?
- Tell them "I have a noisy line." Repeat until they get tired and fix it.
- lp with SGI?
- 5.3 it's easy to get lpr with an lp interface. 5.2 (or earlier?) lp is flakey.
- IPX tunneling through IP? Cheap?
- Win NT 4.0 beta has an IPX gateway. Might be able to hack something together with FreeBSD (or Linux?).
- NFS3 -- any reason to run?
- Doesn't sound like it.
- Image map sites?
- http://www.careersite.com http://infoseek.go.com/ [if anyone has any sites that archive icons and backgrounds, let me know -- Gabe]
- Is it just Gabe or is it hot in here?
- It's hot in here.
- Win 3.11 TCP dead?
- Probably.
- Netscape -- timeouts?
- Only in the beta versions.
- Windows NT 4.0 beta trashing IP by claiming do be a network server. Help?
- Hmm ... this was asked last month. No more answers since last time this was asked.
- DNS looping -- what's going on?
- The authoratative server appears to be run by idiots. Worst case, drop in a packet filter and ignore the offending site; secondary offending site in your db.
- Perl 4 on SunOS v4.0.13?
- Don't optamize; trust Perl. - or - Compile Perl 5, put \ in front of all your @'s. Be happy.
- Netscape 2.0 & Apache cache problem?
- Apache is doing a sneak x-bit hack. Turn the group execute bit on for all the pages in question. (not everyone believes this. time for experimentation.) [Followup: The bug is related to the way Netscape handles Daylight Savings Time. setenv TZ EDT04. For full information, go to http://www.InstantSports.com/DSTfix.html -- Chad Childers]
- Microsoft software avoidance hints?
- WINE continues to be a rumour. Some sites run OS/2 to provide Windows compatibility.
- MS Access -- what about it?
- Other relational DBs are available with little cost; PCFile, MSQL, for example.
- Any experience moving the root partition under Solaris?
- Never mind.
- How/Why does Troy do that?
- Natural ability.
- Why don't we have anything interesting to talk about?
- Not enough suggestions.
- BSDI 2.x?
- Mike Wayne has a copy in his car. Who wanted to know?
- Netscape versus Explorer?
- No comment.
- QNX news software?
- No real experience.
- Real-time Linux rumours?
- None.
- What else do we need on SEMiSLUG site?
- Send ideas to Iain (ec@intranet.org) or Gabe (gabe@mystery.com).
- What bar?
- Arbor Brewing Company.
- New HTTP protocol?
- Rumours, but no names. Netscape is probably supporting it already. Keep an eye open for Netscape Atlas.
- Timezone: under Linux, EST changed to EDT, but the clock didn't change.
- Some newer CMOS clocks do their own daylight savings time handling.
- What are seven forbidden words under CDA?
- Go search Alta Vista.
- Used routers?
- None offered.
- What ISPs do ISDN?
- IDNet and Msen spoke up.
- How to let clients customize their websites remotely. Looking for such a server that doesn't run under DOS or Windows.
- CGI.pm (Perl 5). Look into this.
- What's an applet?
- A Java-induced hiccup.
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Presentation
After sitting and staring at each other for a while, we moved straight
into the Answer session.
Ideas for future presentations:
- AGIS (or other NSP)
- Personal ISDN (cheap bandwidth)
- Wireless LAN
- Access/services for K-12
- Nathanial's latest (e.g. SafeTCL vs. Java)
- Converence reports
- IPv6
- INN v5
- Where's Unix going?
- Making SAMBA, NetTalk, etc. work
- Firewall security for us
- What to do on intranet?
Rumor and Innuendo (no names, please)