On Sat, 18 Aug 2001 12:41:29 +0100 (BST) "D.I. Redhouse" wrote:
On 16 Aug 2001, MJ Ray wrote:
Mark Elliss mark.elliss@btinternet.com writes:
Ok I'll stop lurking and introduce myself too.
Hooray! Oh, and hello too.
Ooohhh, OK.
My name is David. I provide computing support to a humanities department at a University somewhere in south-east England.
Hello, welcome, from your cam.ac.uk address I am assuming you are from Cambridge Uni.
I administer Netware, NT/95/98/2000, Solaris, Linux, OpenBSD and Macintrash boxen. None of them very well. Also, anything with a plug on it.
Cool, Netware still lives, just out of interest which of the above is your favourite?
I am a big fan of Oracle Applications, NT Roaming Profiles, and IIS.
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A long, long time ago in a galaxy far, far away I was a Field Archaeologist, and have been responsible for introducing 22 tonne tracked excavators to some of Britain's less interesting Scheduled Ancient monuments.
I'm not going to ask.
Possibly my least interesting experience to date was trying to work out why `the internet isn't working' via mobile phone whilst standing on top of a Bronze Age barrow somewhere in the Fens.
Have you tried using a real networking technique, if you can get a little bit of height and some big twigs yoy could use 1-11Mbps wireless ethernet to connect these up, we have had success with over 8 miles per link!
On occasion I work in central (i.e. the sticks of) Sicily. I /was/ going to use this experience as the basis of an article on computing in the field. I /was/ expecting to do some nifty juggling with English modems, the Italian phone system and NAT/IP Masquerading, but when I arrived a very nice man just connected me to his 100Mbps switched network. Which was nice.
Perhaps you can lend advice to a poor student who has be accused of being a wireless network expert and given the task of connecting a field somewhere in the bottom left hand corner of belguim a network connection for a week so a large quantity of geeks in various states of soberness can connect to the web! bugger!
Thanks
D
-- David Redhouse
On Sat, 18 Aug 2001, David Freeman wrote:
Hello, welcome, from your cam.ac.uk address I am assuming you are from Cambridge Uni.
Blimey David, that was an amazing bit of detective work ;-)
A long, long time ago in a galaxy far, far away I was a Field Archaeologist, and have been responsible for introducing 22 tonne tracked excavators to some of Britain's less interesting Scheduled Ancient monuments.
I'm not going to ask.
I would like to know the details, sounds like the Eddie Izard method of archaeology!
Perhaps you can lend advice to a poor student who has be accused of being a wireless network expert and given the task of connecting a field somewhere in the bottom left hand corner of belguim a network connection for a week so a large quantity of geeks in various states of soberness can connect to the web! bugger!
Heh, you don't have to worry about this David, all you have to do is get the wireless LAN to talk to the other bit, I can do all the Masquerade for the campsite and the networky bits and get all the DNS working etc. etc..... that (in answer to your question from irc last week) is what sys-admins are for and what sys-admins do!
Adam
On Sun, 19 Aug 2001, Adam Bower wrote:
On Sat, 18 Aug 2001, David Freeman wrote:
Hello, welcome, from your cam.ac.uk address I am assuming you are from Cambridge Uni.
Blimey David, that was an amazing bit of detective work ;-)
Damn his Ju-jitsu devilry. He has circumvented my l33t h4><or information hiding system.
I would like to know the details, sounds like the Eddie Izard method of archaeology!
S'probably off-topic, but keep an eye out for volumes XVII and XVIII of my memoirs, coming soon from a vanity press near you.
Perhaps you can lend advice to a poor student who has be accused of being a wireless network expert and given the task of connecting a field somewhere in the bottom left hand corner of belguim a network connection for a week so a large quantity of geeks in various states of soberness can connect to the web! bugger!
I try to avoid giving advice, as people (quite unreasonably) start holding me to account for it. I'm just here to leech off you knowledgeable lot.
Heh, you don't have to worry about this David, all you have to do is get the wireless LAN to talk to the other bit, I can do all the Masquerade for the campsite and the networky bits and get all the DNS working etc. etc..... that (in answer to your question from irc last week) is what sys-admins are for and what sys-admins do!
<shudder> Mmmmm. Wireless. </shudder>
On Sat, 18 Aug 2001, David Freeman wrote:
I administer Netware, NT/95/98/2000, Solaris, Linux, OpenBSD and Macintrash boxen. None of them very well. Also, anything with a plug on it.
Cool, Netware still lives, just out of interest which of the above is your favourite?
OpenBSD innit. Install in 10 minutes, configure in 5. But I'm quite fond of Netware as well. Its a pipe-smoking, cardigan-wearing, mild-mannered kind of an OS with hidden depths and high reliability (IME).
I've got Mandrake 8.0 with the latest Freq pack on my laptop. I bought it because the PowerPack comes bundled with ViaVoice, but at the moment it segfaults during the first `training' session. I haven't had time to give it the kicking it deserves, but I'm worried that all those years of Capstan full-strength have put my dulcet tones beyond 21st technology.
Mandrake's OK, but part of me wishes I'd stuck with my RedHat 6.2 install and tried to bodge ViaVoice on to that.
On Sun 19 Aug, David Freeman wrote:
On Sat, 18 Aug 2001 12:41:29 +0100 (BST) "D.I. Redhouse" wrote:
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Possibly my least interesting experience to date was trying to work out why `the internet isn't working' via mobile phone whilst standing on top of a Bronze Age barrow somewhere in the Fens.
Have you tried using a real networking technique, if you can get a little bit of height and some big twigs yoy could use 1-11Mbps wireless ethernet to connect these up, we have had success with over 8 miles per link!
I saw this being setup at the only meet I've attended, at the UEA, but didn't manage to find out any detail. In company with another Linux user that occasionally lurks here, I attend meetings of another local computer group and this seems like it would be useful for us. If this isn't the right place for the detail, perhaps you could email me privately.
Thanks.
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