[Preston] New arrival in the area

[Guy Heatley]

Hi Godwin,
Certainly any ideas, directions and contributed expertise for meetings
would be most welcome.

I don't personally know of anyone who comes as far away as Horwich
although my knowledge may not be exhaustive.

I think one of our members knows a bit about getting WPA to work under
Linux. I'm sure he'd be prepared to tell you what he has discovered so
far.

Best regards,
-- 
Guy

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On 01/10/2007, Godwin Stewart <gstewart at bonivet.net> wrote:
> On Mon, 1 Oct 2007 14:52:35 +0100, "Guy Heatley" <guy.heatley at gmail.com>
> wrote:
>
> > Firstly apologies for such a tardy response to your original email! I
> > pretty much run the PLUG and I work at the University here in Preston.
> > The month before the students return is a busy time of year for us in
> > the Information Systems dept!
>
> No problem. I had pretty much given up hope of a Preston contact but hey,
> this is a nice surprise, right?
>
> > We meet on the 1st Tuesday of the month so there will be a meeting
> > tomorrow.
>
> I'm already in Horwich now but tomorrow is rather short notice so I really
> doubt I'll be able to attend the October bash. November is certainly more
> on the cards provided I can get back here with public transport - unless
> there are any PLUG members from Horwich or nearby (Blackrod?) with an empty
> seat in their car, hint hint nudge nudge...
>
> > The general idea of "a theme" is that someone (the host for that
> > month) picks something they know a little about and throws together a
> > few interesting points about the subject. Its not a lecture as such
> > (although sometimes it is ;-), and I prefer to think of it as an "open
> > workshop" where users discuss interesting points around the topic and
> > chip in with what they know.
>
> Well I can certainly put together presentations on using iptables as a
> firewall and/or running a mail server with sendmail combined with BIND as a
> local DNSBL. Anti-spam measures are kind of my speciality and I used to be
> a volunteer admin for a well-known but somewhat controversial DNSBL
> (no, not SPEWS). There are probably a couple more topics too that don't
> spring to mind at this very point in time. If I can contribute in any way
> then that'd be great.
>
> One area where I'd be interested in receiving information is setting up a
> WiFi NIC on my laptop. Don't yet have the NIC in question but should do by
> the end of the week. This said, the guy who's sending it to me has also
> pointed me to a forum posting where getting it up and running with WPA is
> described. So, we'll see if I manage it or not.
>
> Anyway, I've been here for most of the past fortnight and am enjoying life
> back in the UK after over half my life in France. Hopefully the Linux scene
> over here will be a little more, erm, "active" than over there.
>
> Best regards,
>
> --
> Godwin Stewart -- gstewart at bonivet.net
>
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