SEMiSLUG Notes
8 April 1999
Question & Answer Sessions
- Any ideas for buying a phone system for about 10 people?
- Panasonic makes a nice little phone exchange for around $1000.
It's got simple voice mail. AT&T Merlins are another possibility.
- Does anyone actually use lockd with linux 2.2.x?
- No. Not yet, anyway.
- Anyone have any experience with Resonate under Solaris 2.6 on a Sparq?
- Not really. Not yet, anyway. Chad says the box running it "keels
over" after a while. A fair amount of speculation takes place, but
no real solution has emerged.
- What is Resonate?
- Load balancing software that Sun sells.
- Linux and USB: does it work yet?
- SGI has done a fair amount of work on USB support; it's being a
pain. There have been a lot of changes to USB code in the last
two months; check the most recent kernel.
- Imagine a 24-port high-end hub (Ungerman-Bass); downstream is a
cheap-ass 8 port hub (Kingston). Suddenly, absolutely nothing gets
passed from the 8-port back to the 24-port. Any idea why? Repowering
the 8-port hub didn't fix it. It was fixed by plugging a Linux box into
the drop from the 24-port hub. Any idea why?
- The Ungerman-Bass may be suffering from sync drift. Recommend it
be replaced. Cisco 24-port hubs/switchs aren't that expensive.
- Linux server on a cable modem: any experience? (In Dearborn.)
- They filter certain services to prevent it from being used for
heavy-load situations. They don't want to be carrying anything that
smells of commercial service. Check the MDLUG site for possible
information.
- Has anyone used an ATM card with Linux?
- It is very CO-centric. If you're more than 1.5 miles from the CO,
you're going to run into performance problems with ADSL.
- RJ45/CAT-5 for home: good source for cable and wall jacks? Etc.?
- "Wolverine Alarm in Taylor." Ask Becki for more information.
Or RN in AA.
- Linux and a Titan-III motherboard has poor IDE performance. Any idea why?
- Some Titan-III chip sets have DMA problems and the kernel will turn
off DMA. (Possibly without telling you.)
- How well does Sun document viewer work for MS Word/Excel documents?
- Well enough.
- Jobs offered? Wanted?
- Sun's hiring. Look for something on the mailing list tomorrow.
UMI and Borders are both hiring.
- What is the deal with Netscape 4.5 so pokey when doing POP3? In happens
under NT, but not under Linux.
- There may be a DLL with NT that may need updating.
- Does anyone here work for UMI? Ever? Or know anyone who has?
- Don't answer that. It's a rhetorical question.
- Chad's looking for a wired house. Got one? Who is making Chad move?
- No comment.
- Interested in sharing a house in the Ann Arbor area?
- If so, talk to Troy.
- Netscape 4.5 again (on HPUX this time): With plain HPUX, it's find. With
Ford's patches, it crashes. Any idea why?
- Nope.
- Is AIX 3.2 a version?
- Not without a lot of patches. Don't even _ask_ MJO about this.
- How ready is the Ford network for low end video conferencing?
- HA, HA, HA! Pointcast crashed it.
- WWW8?
- Anyone what to go to Toronto during May 11-14?
- Why is Becki's hair green?
- Water collects in the coarse, hollow hairs. The green color actually
comes from algae in the . . . no, wait; that's polar bear's hair.
Didn't realize that blue and blond comes out green. You don't want to
know the rest of the story.
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Presentation
Presentation ideas:
- Worst-User Horror Stories.
- SEMiSLUG Goes To The Movies.
- rmach@umich.edu about Beowolf.
- Someone from SGI
- Someone else from SGI
- Someone to talk about ADSL
- MJO needs talk to the MediaOne people
- We really should get Sun in here
- EMC has interesting products; Troy will try to find out who can talk
to us
- Ask Dorian Kim to come talk about whatever he's up to at the moment
- See if Dr. Honeyman wants to talk about CODA
- See if SCS wants to pre-present one of his presentations
- ANX?
Rumor & Innuendo (No names, please)
- See Gabe later; ask him for recipes.
- Concentic will have a DSL available shortly.
- Dell is hiring Linux support people