On Mon, Dec 08, 2014 at 11:32:01PM -0500, Anthony de Boer wrote: > Lennart Sorensen wrote: > > On Mon, Dec 08, 2014 at 12:47:51PM -0500, D. Hugh Redelmeier wrote: > > > According to <http://gtalug.org/> : > > > > > > "GTALUG is currently looking for speakers for the 9th December, 2014 > > > meeting. If you are interested in speaking please contact our talks > > > coordinator." > > > > > > Let's brainstorm on this. Here's a poorly organized dump of some of my > > > thoughts. > > > > > > - I'd love to hear Lennart talk about what he's learned working on > > > routers. > > > > How many hours do you have? > > Be careful what you ask for, Hugh! > > > Or Anthony could talk about all the legacy sysadmin disasters of mine > > he has had to clean up so far. > > First rule of work club is what happens at work stays at work.
Yeah probably better that way. Although I am sure some of it could be very educational and entertaining. > > > - I'd like to hear how people have set up their internet gatways. > > > What's worth doing, what's easy, what's hard. > > > (It's time for me to revisit this after having a pretty static > > > setup for a decade. I'd be willing to talk about what I've done > > > but it is pretty stale.) > > OpenWRT seems to Just Work, though my setup isn't very current by now. For some reason I am still running stock firmware on my DIR-825. Of course by forwarding ssh and http to somewhere else inside I haven't really needed it to do anything complicated. > > > - I'm interested in setting up my in-house services like a cloud. > > > Perhaps <http://owncloud.org/>. Motivation: I want to keep control > > > of my own data as much as possible. Can anyone speak to this? > > > > > > - Subproblem of above: I run MediaWiki already. Tips and tricks (eg. > > > from Drew) about care, feeding, and use would be welcome. > > Take a good look at ikiwiki; it's a lot simpler, keeps history in git, > and you can edit pages in your favourite editor, commit them, and see > them show up formatted. > > > Pretty sure I am not making the meeting this month. > > Nor I. > > I had been parking at Yorkdale for the trip downtown, but then the TTC > parking there got closed for renovation shortly after our meetings moved > away from the Spadina line. Will have to come up with a revised plan. Wilson has lots of parking and is just on the other side of the 401 from yorkdale. -- Len Sorensen --- GTALUG Talk Mailing List - [email protected] http://gtalug.org/mailman/listinfo/talk
