Re: Potential Meeting Topics

[Erich Schroeder <erich@museum.state.il.us>]

Hi,
  I think that these are good topics. I also want to note that our new 
linux-based server is up and running. It came with redhat 5.0 
pre-installed. Among other things I note that postgres is running on it. 
I sure would like to have someone who has worked with it guide me through 
at some point. I may try it myself, but...seems daunting. 

  I'm interested in this as I'm (more or less) in charge of developing a 
museum-wide method for dealing with collections data. We are at the very 
beginning of planning, and I'm wondering if a linux-based system would be 
good for linking together all this stuff. We'll see.

  There are a few applications that I've dealt with that might be of 
interest. One that comes to mind is the collaberative software "habanero" 
which is under development over at NCSA. 

I'll comment on a few of Marks suggestions...

On Fri, 30 Jan 1998, mwb wrote:

> 
> 
> As I said at the meeting, I have several ideas for topics that I
> would find interesting.  Some of the ideas will fall under different
> categories, and may be listed more than once.
> 
> IP Protocol
>    IP names
>    Configuring email - to send to local ISP
>    netmask, network, broadcast, and why NT doesn't
>          use newtwork, netmask (or so I've been told)

Netmask. I've had a mental block on non-base-10 systems since the 8th 
grade, so I could use a explaination of the numbering.

> Email
>    Procmail filtering
>    Demonstrate different mail packages-
>       pine, mutt, emacs mail -
>       Then give your biased opinion on them

I had procmail filters in place (under AIX) for a while. I stopped when I 
found that I was missing some messages. The were just lost (didn't show 
up in the backup folder *or* in the log file).

> Emacs
>    Using Gnus
>    Using Gnu mail
>    Using W el
>    Using the lisp interpreter
>    Writing config files

I've never seen Emacs running until I tried it out on this new machine. I 
had no idea of what to do, so I would also like to see a demonstration.

> Kernel Stuff
>    Compiling kernels
>    Applying patches to the kernel
>    Module - like the modversion stuff
>        And plenty of biased opinion

I never got modules to work on my box. This is a good topic.

> X stuff
>    Setting XDM up to run X terminals
>    Setting up Linux to run as an X terminal
>    Doing the above with two linux boxes

Also sound good. I would like to find out if a linux box could take the 
place of an old textronix term here in the GIS lab. I've never run XDM. I 
just got back from getting one of our Mac users set up with the MI/X 
x-server software. I was wondering if XDM on the linux box would apply 
here also?

> NFS
>    Show how to set it up as a server & client
>
> Samba

I have had good luck with a combination of NFS and Samba under AIX, 
SunOS, and Linux. I can add to a discussion of this, but I would not 
count myself as an expert.
 
Erich

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