VLUG Meeting Minutes 1998.12.08
36 people on the "who is here?" list:
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Matthew Skala
Kosta A.
George Pearce
Randy Esdon
Jonathan Oshun
Mark Bannar-Martin
Chris Halsall
Chris McLean
David Lee
Oliver McDonald
Mark Elrod
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Ron De Beck
CaroLyn Schneider
Jim Thomson
Chris Hanlon
Horst Kobialka
Mike Folthek
Gerald Crimp
Les Benson
John Charlesworth
Art Kefle
Mark McLaughlin
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André Steinhausen
Carl Nordstrom
John Baine
Colin O'Connor
Deid Reimer
Campbell Good
Mike Thorpe
Thom McVeigh
Andrew Willard
Brian, Earl, Art, Ian, and Sandy Illegible-Surname
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The meeting got underway around 7:10pm with a meet and greet
introductions session.
Business
Discussion of the upcoming installfest, and where to hold it. We won't
have the UVic lab we've used in the past. Cyberstation seems like a
good place to do it.
COMDEX! The deadline for being an official VLUG volunteer is already
past, but members are still encouraged to show and lend their support.
The club will be providing accomodation for those volunteers who are
staying in Vancouver overnight, but volunteers will pay their own
transportation, meals, and other expenses. See discussion of meeting
conflict, later.
Andrew spoke about the things he's been working on, which could be
collectively described as merchandise . He's got the information for the
"Got Linux?" T-shirts worked out and will post it to the list. Discussion
of stuffed Tux dolls; we like the Linux Mall 6" ones best, and will
organize a bulk order of many 6" Tuxen for members. Discussion: who is
Tux and penguins are endangered . Membership cards: are coming soon.
The next monthly meeting, scheduled for January 12, 1999, will be during
COMDEX. Discussion and decision to move it a week later to make it easier
for people to go to both.
New business
A vote of thanks to the people behind the club CD-ROM project.
Presentation
Chris McLean, on web servers in general and Apache in particular.
BREAK
CD and raffle ticket sales.
Draw for the boxed RedHat 5.2 set. Andrew Willard won.
Command Of The Month: grep , with Mike Thorpe
Q&A session
What are the Y2K issues with Linux?
- The OS itself doesn't care about Y2K at all because it has never used a
decimal calendar (it may have some complaints in the year 2038 when the Unix
binary calendar will run out on machines with 32-bit signed time_t).
Individual applications may have Y2K problems if so written; even
well-written applications may have problems if they must deal with limited
file formats or connections to other applications that have Y2K problems.
Are viruses a threat under Linux?
- Viruses as such are not a threat, but as with any networked
multiuser system, security issues in general are very significant.
DNS for Wave users?
- Spread into a discussion of dynamic DNS in general and
services like those that Monolith provided until recently.
Meeting adjourned for pizza and beer around 9:20pm.
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