[Liverpool] Any ideas for next week?

[Sebastian Arcus]

On 30/08/17 20:53, Dan Lynch via Liverpool wrote:
> Hello all,
> 
> You can probably guess what I'm going to ask here but there should be a 
> LivLUG meeting a week today. Does anyone have anything they'd like to 
> demo or talk about? Doesn't have to be a formal talk. Or perhaps even a 
> topic they'd like to debate?

I'm working on two little things at the moment which might be of some 
remote interest to some people. After years of staying away from it, I 
had to end up configuring the sending of emails directly from my own 
server/IP address at home (no smart relaying through the hosting 
provider's SMTP server) - and it, surprisingly, actually works. It 
involves a bunch of steps to make sure other servers accept the outgoing 
emails directly. I think we briefly touched on this topic in the past in 
casual conversation with Neil.

The second one is a USB based relay switch to power off-and-on again my 
router if it disconnects from the Internet. This is a simple device 
controlled directly from Linux on my server - no Arduino or other 
smarter bits involved. Again, I believe Neil has something like this 
already sussed for a while now - so maybe I should be in my usual role 
of asking questions on this one :-)

If there is any interest in either topic, we could organise a 
mini-conference on it :-)