> 4. A good backup software suite for Linux. Care to expand on that? I'm interested and skilless. I mean, skillful. I mean... care to expand on that?
On 7/29/05, John Hampton <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Renegade Penguin wrote: > > I'm starting to be sorry I joined the lists. I hoped to meet other > > people who had an interest in Linux, not people who call each other > > demons and the like. > > Yeah, I think he speled it incorrectly. I think he meant daemons :) > > <snip> > > > Why doesn't ONE group take the higher road and offer to change your > > name? PLUG.org (as pointed out) belongs to the Provo Linux Users Group. > > Egos, logistics, apathy, etc. > > > I'm disappointed that I got two responses about interesting projects > > such as rolling your own (or ANY other interesting project going on), > > but there are 76 (as of this writing) regarding NAMING (or is that > > flaming?). > > A little more along the lines of your original post: > > No, I haven't been thinking about rolling my own distro (though I did at > one time). However, I've got a ton of projects that I'd like to do. > For starters: > > 1. A nice interface for managing virtual domains in postfix with LDAP > and cyrus. Similar in concept to Phamm[1] but without the ugly > interface and specific to virtual mail hosting and not the other stuff > > 2. Work on building better enterprise management tools for Gentoo. > > 3. A good interface for configuring and managing a samba server that is > setup to be a PDC for an NT domain. > > 4. A good backup software suite for Linux. > > 5. Thunderbird plugin for my spamfilter > > 6. A Kerberos KDC on a bootable CD with the key databasestored on a > flash drive with an encrypted filesystem > > 7. A good configuration and management tool for IPSec tunnels in Linux > > I've got plenty more. If you're interested in any of them (and that > goes for anyone) let me know, and maybe we can start a "public service" > for others. > > > I like how Josh is trying to make POSITIVE distinctions. How about > > changing to Columbia River Linux Users Group, or something that doesn't > > have a .com/.org attached already? It's almost painless to change the > > nameservers and domain registration. > > Now are you refering to Josh, or Josh, or Josh, or Josh? Were there only > 3? Damn, they should all change their names so it isn't so confusing. > > > How about Yet Another Portland Linux Users Group? It stays within geek > > tolerance levels for most. Members could be Yappies (as it seems that > > there certainly is a lot of talking). FOR THE MOST PART, I've seen that > > Linux users like to talk, and generally like each other, and often poke > > good-natured fun of themselves. > > That's actually quite clever! > > > I could suggest two dozen names if you don't like any of these. > > Have at it, I'm sure people will read. You know, us being flame and > confussion junikes and all. > > -John > [1] http://phamm.rhx.it/ > > P.S. Please read this message, minus the project ideas, with a big huge > fat :) > _______________________________________________ > PDXLUG (a Portland Linux user group) mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.pdxlug.org/mailman/listinfo/pdxlug > IRC: irc.freenode.net #pdxlug & #orlug > -- -NKO- _______________________________________________ PDXLUG (a Portland Linux user group) mailing list [email protected] http://lists.pdxlug.org/mailman/listinfo/pdxlug IRC: irc.freenode.net #pdxlug & #orlug
