🚀 go-pugleaf

Just a short note to summarise last Friday's SLUG meeting....

The usual question / answer / discussion session kicked off.

Two people made interesting short talks. The first (who's name
I didn't catch) gave us some interesting info on modems, particularly
V34 and V34bis, and why Telstra is a bit coy about 33.6K.

Specifically there was mention of line distances and how certain
speeds were only garaunteed for very short total exchange <-> modem
distances.

Charlie Brady gave a very interesting exposition of qmail, Russel Nelson's
project for a sendmail replacement. The two main criticisms of sendmail,
complex configuration and large size (leading to security problems)
are targetted by this new package.

Russel Nelson is famous for the work he did for the DOS packet drivers.

After the break, Graham gave a short 'What is Linux' talk for the many
people who had never been to slug before.

Ken Yap then gave his presentation on dialing up to an ISP, covering
SLIP, CSLIP and PPP, also shell accounts....
The slides from Ken's talk should be available off the slug page
(http://www.slug.org.au)

There was some talk of another 'flag day' or newbie afternoon, perhaps
in early December. The idea is to provide a one off oppurtunity to
bring a machine in and show off / discuss problems. 

Baulkham Hills TAFE was touted at one point, with more information
to come in. Graham has been doing a lot of work out there, getting them
going. If not there, there are other sites (community centres) which 
we can use - e.g.  Woodstock at Burwood.

Someone mentioned 'better advertising' for SLUG meetings. We are limited
to the 'Net usually, however I'll try to get a mention in the 'Diary'
section of the Aus for the newbie 'noon, and of course, if you work
in an institution with a notice board, print out an advance notice
and pin it up!

All in all, another good evening. Lots of new faces. Hope to see you all
next time!

Regards,
Jamie