SEMiSLUG Notes
8 November 2001
Question & Answer Sessions
- IPv6 aliasing on a Linux box?
- No one here has done it. Hacking up an add rule might work.
- Weather-safe enclosure for a couple notebooks and a UPS?
- A dog house might do the trick.
- Is anyone using IPv6? Really? If so, why?
- No body seems to be using it for anything other than playing with
it. ("I'm using it for job security.")
- Why does The Gimp work better on Win98 than under Linux? (It moves around
smoother under Win98.)
- The X support for the SiS sucks. Try a different graphics card
(3Dfx Voodoo has good X support). Check with the X folks.
- Ultimate geek Christmas presents?
- HP has a new printer that takes Flash cards and prints 4" x 6"
pictures directly.
Go to ThinkGeek.com and fill out the wish list.
- Jobs?
- Wolverine Tech Staffing has some positions in AA. According to
on person, "They're not very useful."
- What Sun bug did Becki find today?
- DiskSuite uses a very evil device in it's examples that'll screw up
the drive if you use actually specify it.
"There are three kinds of lies: lies, damn lies, and manuals." -- SCS
- Anybody got an old ATX (ASUS P5, for example) board they don't want?
- MCRS (on Industrial) might have some cheap, older boards that'll
work.
- What's the cheapest way to get a non-running car from Rochester, NY
to Troy, MI.
- Redefine Troy, NY to be Troy, MI. Find a carrier to haul it on
a return trip.
- How did Troy get that monitor here on his bike?
- Bungeeeeee!
- Looking for truly dumb gigabit switches ... that only do gigabit switching
and nothing else. (No spanning, no flow control, no management.) Any ideas?
- Look for something from one of the low-end manufacturers.
Mike Wayne seems to recall something, but can't remember it
right now.
- Hooking up Foundry switch to more than one ISP?
- Despite the vendor's assertions, you don't need to be an AS if you
aren't going to run BGP. (Have them configure it for BGP using a
private AS, then shut BGP off.)
- Is there a market for co-lo space in Gabe's basement?
- Sure. Tell us more.
- Where _do_ we eat? And do we bring a beer?
- Let's try Grizzly Peak. (And "No.")
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Presentation
Matt Bing talks about NFR and what the Rapid Response Team is up to.
Neat stuff. Neat enough that I didn't get any typing done.
Check out http://www.nfr.com/ for more info.
Might try getting slides from mbing@nfr.com.
Rumor & Innuendo (No names, please)