[Dev-sig] Saturday's meeting.

[Tom Emerson]

On Thursday 29 September 2005 18:45, Jason Riker wrote:
> Hello All,
>
> I received a call from the Library saying that our request for internet
> access had been approved.  I spoke with Elizabeth who said she would
> have a sheet containing all the particulars ready when someone arrives
> Saturday.

The "sheet" was a slip of note paper inside of a luggage tag (really!) that 
specified -one- IP address [in the 172... range], two DNS entries in the 
10... range, and a gateway address -- there is no "dhcp" set up to provide 
this, so it took a few minutes to remember all the ifconfig particulars :)

It also appears outbound port 25 is blocked -- I tried to send an e-mail, and 
had specified pacbell's "smptauth" server, but could not connect.  That's 
when I found out the java-based "chat" application on yahoo's support site, 
(written by Cisco of all people,) just plain SUCKS.  It wouldn't start under 
konquerer, and under firefox it claimed it needed to install a jvm, however 
it did work without installing what it wanted.  as for "chatting", however, 
it UPSHIFTED everything I typed, ignored all special characters (like periods 
in internet addresses or server names), and even though it showed everything 
I typed, it DROPPED MORE AND MORE LETTERS AS I TYPED, resulting in the tech's 
first response to me as "please type your response in english" -- I literally 
had to type with a single finger (brought back memories of typing on a 
teletype -- no faster than 11 chars/second [110 baud] or the thing would 
jam...)

> As I will not be there I wanted to make sure to pass this 
> along.  Please check with Elizabeth if you want to use internet in that
> room.

fortunately only Bob and myself were there, so there wasn't much discussion 
that needed network access.

One big note for future meetings:  There is a sign outside the door that reads 
"meeting room entrance" -- do NOT use this door -- you'll get "yelled" at [in 
a nice way]  It seems that between the time the sign was installed and now, 
"procedures have changed" and they (may) need to be aware of exactly how many 
people are in the room.  Although if a meeting will run past closing time for 
the library, they'll give out a key to the back door [a different door -- the 
handicapped entrance in fact] and lock the inner door to the library proper 
(yeah, that didn't make sense to me either when she was explaining it...)

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