On Fri, 9 Aug 2002, Paul Sladen wrote:
> http://www.paul.sladen.org/notlug/site/
Will look later when I get home.
> *And* saying why this is better than Windows "Internet Connection Sharing"
> and having to leave your latest Windows XP machine with its noisey AMD3000+
> processor on all night just so you mates can still use the 'net.
Also, these things can be made fairly transparent - I stuck in a few
random routers/firewalls over the last year with ext3 and some customised
recovery stuff to cope with the notion of "jsut hit reset" to any and all
issues that might randomly occur with service - worked well too. I do
wonder where a few of my machines are right now though, having leant them!
> It would be good if a company would be willing to sponsor a 100m of Cat5 and
> a bag full of RJ45 jacks, the latter cost 15p/20p each so if anyone can find
> someone willing to fund a tenners worth and do all the hassle of actually
> *getting* them, that would be great.
I will likely oreder a few hundred meters for general person use and
could probably bring along a load for an evening of messing about. Let's
not forget to get really pedanty over different wiring conventions...
> We could also do with a couple of prizes--Phat O'Reilly or Wrox Press
> books tend to go down well, and T-Shirts even better.
I'll see if any previously reviewed books are lying around fr such use.
> Wednesday, 4th December 2002 - Making Windows crash without touching it
Doing nasty things with USB cables normally does the trick for me.
> Any other ideas--SHOUT THEM OUT!! Don't worry about them sounding stupid,
> we already stupid in that several of us couldn't come up with *three* topics
> in one night... ;-)
I'll wait to see how my bank balance is doing before one of my
suggestions... ;-)
Jon.
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