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Summary of SLUG Meeting held at UTS, 27th September.

We started our meeting, as usual, with a question / answer session.

I continue to be surprised at the depth of knowledge that members
bring to these discussions. Often simple questions lead to very 
detailed and knowledgable discussions.

We had a surprisingly long Q/A session this month, I guess those
who were particularly interested in the Caching WEB systems will have
seen Graeme's followup.

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I gave the talk this month. As pointed out on the mailing list, the
HTML I used to generate the slides can be found at:

	http://www.slug.org.au/vidconf.html

This includes a useful set of references.

There may be several errors. I may not have gotten all the details about
CuSeeMe correct, since it's been a while since I studied it, but the broad
description of how it works is true enough.

Several things I mentioned in the talk are not in the notes. I did mention
the cameras / capture systems.

I had this to say about Connectix cameras:
they are:
cheap, easy to install (they plug into the printer port), low quality
and slow.

I mentioned the Miro 20TD capture card (PCI), but this costs approx $1000.

I said that I hadn't come across a good cheap capture system. I suggested
avoiding anything that was ISA bus based.

One other point that I think came across in the talk is the changing nature
of the Internet. The 'webflame' reference written by Van Jacobsen 
reflects these `concerns'.

One other point that came up towards the end was Anthony Rumble's
suggestion that Telstra may deploy multiplexing devices on analogue
phone lines to a greater extent, making high speed modem conections
impossible on such lines.

It may be a bit premature to run around saying the 'sky is falling'
but we'll all watch developments with great interest.

Some people pooh-hooed my suggestion that cable modems could well be
important. Time will tell.

Thanks for all those who attended, and for your patience when I strayed
into areas that left you a little blurry eyed. I hope
it was of some value.

Next month is newbie month again. I believe this month we will talk
about setting up PPP connections. We could possibly expand this
into modems in general. In any case, anybody who would like to give
a little talk, perhaps even just their own experiences, is more than
welcome to email myself, graeme or ken with an offer!

Regards
Jamie


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	Note as discussed Squid is a better cache with more options and freely
	available, whereas Harvest is now a commercial product.

	http://harvest.cs.colorado.edu/harvest/

	http://www.nlanr.net/Squid/

	with Squid mirror sites in Australia being:
	Australia: http://electraglide.geog.unsw.edu.au/packages/squid/ 
	Australia: ftp://ftp.tas.gov.au/unix/squid/ 
	Australia: ftp://www.unimelb.edu.au/pub/cwis/servers/unix/squid/ 
	Australia: ftp://ftp.mel.sprint.com.au/pub/unix/www/squid 

	I have found the unsw and sprint sites best throughput from my ISP (zip)
      
	Enjoy & Cheers Grahame
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