SEMiSLUG 13 June 1996
Question and Answer Sessions
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- Where is Gabe? Pop? Cookies?
- Finishing Pepper & Onion Vindaloo and Chicken Tandoori.
In the trunk of the Scorpio.
With the pop.
- How do you get to the mailing list? Secretly?
- majordomo@msen.com
- Wanna do NT net stuff?
- Get ahold of Paul Haas (paulh@hamjudo.com).
- Want a job?
- Talk to joe_mcconnell@storagetek.com.
- Want to consult on SCO?
- Doesn't sound like it.
- Why HPUX? Should I upgrade to 9.07 or 10.10?
- Lots of suggestions. Talk to Chad to find out what he decided.
- Got IRIX 6.2 on CD?
- Iain says "yes."
- PICS via interlock?
- Talk to Chad and see if he found anything out.
- Better than icverify for credit card web transactions? Something PD?
- Talk to Mike Wayne.
- Notes 3 clues?
- Microwave the CD. rm -r /
- Why YP? What should I know about NIS?
- DNS and password shuffling. Steve Simmons: "YP vs. DNS. If all you're doing is host names, DNS is the answer. YP, if set up correctly, provides a way to push administrative info around domains (user ids, etc.). If you can't run a firewall, don't run YP." If you can't run a firewall, contact Steve Simmons.
- Floating frames: evil stuff supported by Microsoft? Anybody played with this?
- Not yet.
- Status of intranet.org?
- A happenin' place with happenin' people. It's their's and they're not giving it up.
- Does SEMiSLUG stand for anything?
- Depending on who you ask, SEMiSLUG stands for: ... South-East Michigan Sun Local User Group
... copy and convert
...
- Why no 3D boxes?
- Why?
- Want used IRX boxes?
- See Mike Wayne.
- Netscape for the Mac?
- Mostly broken.
- Anyone using SSH? (Secure shell)
- A few people are and they like it. SSH encrypts the entire session, S/key does just the password.
Presentations
WWW5
A few lucky soles went to WWW5 at Paris, France. They had a good time.
They got Ultimate Pocket Protectors.
Focused on:
- Internationalization
- Software Development Tools
- Intranet
- Collaboration (the original idea behind the Web)
- Miscellaneous
"We got to watch vacation slides." -- mjo
Chad's notes can be found at http://www.msen.com/~chad/WWW5/
Tcl -- Clif Flynt
Tcl is neat. Simple, regular syntax. All sorts of handy language
constructs. Extensions for GUI, process automation, distributed
processing, database access, HTML.
Learning: two workable methods
- Read books
- download the tutorial (TclTutor.tk)
Tutorial can be found at http://www.msen.com/~clif/
Rumor and Innuendo (no names, please)