[Nottingham] LAN party Sunday

Joshua Lock incandescant at gmail.com
Sat Oct 8 20:06:13 BST 2005


Martin wrote:
> Michael Erskine wrote:
>> Seriously: perhaps we should put some thought into physical security. 
> 
> 
> Its an upstairs room, so a thief would have to be very brazen. There's 
> only two points of entry/exit so easily guarded. We just ensure someone 
> not blinded by gaming is always on hand at the "welcome desk".

I'm willing to do a shift. I can look rather thhuggish and I'm a laptop 
user so I can spare a few cycles. Perhaps when I'm attempting to build a 
custom kernel?

> We'll have to do our own policing.
> 
> The internet connection is directly out to the 'big bad net'. If someone 
> can set up a firewall, then very good. Worse case, I could set something 
> up with shorewall on my fileserver box. I'll see if I can dig up a spare 
> nic from somewhere.
>

I may have a spare NIC, I'll bring along anything I can find just in case.

> See you folks there tomorrow (Sunday).

Indeed!

Cheers,

Josh



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