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