SEMiSLUG Notes
13 August 1998
Question & Answer Sessions
- Any luck getting MediaOne cablemodems to work with anything other than
Windows?
- Red Hat 5.x doesn't seem to work, but 4.x did. Try turning off the
firewall features of the kernel. Check the MDLUG archives.
- Installing normal man pages under SCO -- is there an easy way to do
this? Without having two man systems?
- No idea. And no one knows why SCO does things the way they do. Ask
Bela at SCO (bela@sco.com) for assistance.
- Has anyone ever done native Solaris 2.6 PPP -> PAP dail up?
- Troy gave up and bought Morning Star PPP.
- Who will pay people to play with Linux?
- I wish. Ed Vielmetti can't remember the name of the place. Write
and ask him later. Cygnus might be talked into it, if anybody.
[Follow-up: Joe McConnell (mccon@ic.net) mentioned that
Instrumentation Labs (ex: Malinkrodt) here in Ann Arbor is developing
medical devices based on Linux.]
- Is there a version of top for SMP Linux (that will show the multiple
processors)?
- Try the latest Bill LeFavre version at http://www.groupsys.com/.
- Any suggestions for someone who's about to overload an AIX box? Many
gig-o-realtime-data to be processed as fast as possible.
- The outlook is not promising.
- Would we be interested in Cisco coming out to talk about voice over data
and other nifty things?
- Yup. Yes. Sure.
- Can you do IPSEC with dynamic IP addresses?
- No good ideas at the moment. Talk to Ed later for more ideas.
- Why isn't _ allowed in bind?
- The relavant RFC's don't allow it. The '_' has different
representations depending on which ASCII implementation you use.
(Old historical problem.)
- Could someone clean up the mail exploder at Msen?
- Gabe will deal with this.
- Has Solaris fixed their stupid, broken finger program? Does it now spit
out more than 100 bytes of the .plan files?
- MJO insists that this is not normal behaviour. Paul thinks this has
been fixed.
- Should MJO shave the beard?
- No, bleach it. Or shave your head and trim the beard down to a
goatee.
- Anyone dealt with a place that is doing so many rsh (300+) that the
system starts to fail? How do you deal with it?
- Find a newspaper, roll it up, and swat them with it.
- Does Red Hat 5.1 Linux fix the problems introduced in version 5.0?
- "I hate 5.1. I hate 5.0. I love 4.2." -- Troy
- Does anyone know of a potential housemate for Troy?
- Yes.
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Presentation
Paul Haas brought in a Klutz/LEGO kit. It was an interesting distraction.
MJO almost had a presenter, but something happened.
Rumor & Inuendo
- Look for rswap, a tool for remote manipulation of rolled-up
newspapers, to come out in the not-to-distant future.
- GM is integrating dealings with all of their dealers, so it'll be
easy for them to have a consistant face to the world.
- http://www.semislug.mi.org/ is being updated again.
- This is a lite meeting. How much inuendo did you expect?