Score! No clue where it should be but the when I have some thoughts on. How bout at least a month from now. George Gambill wrote: > I am willing to try co-coordinating the next InstallFest. Hopefully Michael > will also be willing to co-coordinate it with me. > > My philosophy on managing a project within a volunteer organization (no > legitimate authority) such as PLUG, is to provide answers and allow the > powers that be (members) to shoot (refine) them down as needed. > > Such things as: > We have selected a preliminary date of xx/xx/xxxx. > Speak now or forever hold your peace. > > We have selected xyz as the location. > Speak now or forever hold your peace. > > However, we are going to need help (read volunteers). > > Volunteers like Michelle who seems to have found an attractive location > (site). > > Volunteers to coordinate such things as who will provide how many of which > distros to give away. > > Volunteers to .... > > Together I think we can pull this off with minimum burden to any one person. > > All those in favor ... > > All those opposed ... > > -----Original Message----- > > Subject: Re: Next InstallFest > > Am 25. Jun, 2003 schw=E4tzte George Gambill so: > > >>Is there anything working on a "next" InstallFest? > > > We have had an offer to host from "The Front" in Peoria. I believe they als= > o > have other locations around town. Maybe run mini-InstallFests at multiple > locations? Probably too much work at this point, though. > > We also have an offer from elite pc in Tempe, but I think their facility is > too small for a full-sized InstallFest. > > We've also been invited back to SCC and I'm betting we can get into GCC > again as well. > > What we need are volunteers to run the project. To be fair to Michael, who > was going to lead it, I was slow in responding before, plus we lost our > offer at U of Phoenix due to the department that was sponsoring us getting > slashed. > > Also, bring the box down to the GNU/Linux Stammtisch. We help people every > month. That's the 3rd Tue night of every month at Bandersnatch in Tempe. > > ciao, > > der.hans > --=20 > # https://www.LuftHans.com/ http://www.AZOTO.org/ > # The only way for a woman to change a man > # is if he's wearing Depends[TM] - der.hans > > > --__--__-- > > Message: 12 > From: "Thomas Cameron" > To: "PLUG" > Subject: Re: Cable/Dial-Up failover > Date: Fri, 27 Jun 2003 09:47:13 -0500 > Reply-To: plug-discuss@lists.plug.phoenix.az.us > > I wrote a watchdog for a client that ran via cron (can't find it now, and > the client no longer uses dialup). Every minute it pinged the next hop 5 > times. If the ping failed, it ran ifup ppp0 and changed the default route > to the ppp0 route. > -- > Thomas Cameron, RHCE, CNE, MCSE, MCT > Cameron Technical Services, Inc. > (512) 454-3200 Main > http://www.camerontech.com > > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "Bryce C" > To: "PLUG" > Sent: Thursday, June 26, 2003 11:44 PM > Subject: Cable/Dial-Up failover > > > > --__--__-- > > Message: 13 > Subject: Re: COX blocks outbound smtp > From: David Mandala > To: Plug > Organization: THEM > Date: 27 Jun 2003 09:22:05 -0700 > Reply-To: plug-discuss@lists.plug.phoenix.az.us > > Noticed a new fun feature that COX has implemented. If you connect to > their SMTP severs from outside their network to relay mail they don't > refuse it, they black hole it and dump the mail. They don't properly > refuse it just accept it and dump it! > > That is a big problem. My wife's notebook had been setup with the > necessary forward command and then she took the laptop to her new job. > Fortunately the first email she sent was to me, when she did not hear > back from me she called. > > I checked her mail logs, saw the message was sent and accepted for > delivery. It NEVER arrived. Then I reset her mail server to send > directly and had her resend the mail, I got it in seconds. > > Anyway long story short, be careful if you use a laptop or you may lose > outbound mail. > > Cheers, > > Davidm > >