[Watford] Nice to meet you all...

[Cliff Deamer]

Hi David,
Where are you starting from?
Cliff

On Wed, 2007-07-04 at 22:21 +0100, David Pead wrote:
> Hey chaps,
> 
> Thanks for the warm welcome yesterday eve. It was great to hear what  
> some of you are into and get a taste of what to expect. It seems you  
> guys are obviously very switched on with many aspects of Linux and I  
> look forward to hopefully gleaning at least some skills from what you  
> have to share.
> 
> Steve, great demo, well presented, though I must admit most of the  
> aspects of what you showed were new to me and completely over my  
> head! However, I did find it fascinating and remember being rather  
> stunned at some of the dialogue between you and others within the  
> group regarding aspects of the install/build. Matt did endeavour to  
> reassure me that the demo was probably one of the most techie thus far.
> 
> There are clearly aspects of linux that you guys take for granted  
> which I haven't yet sussed out. I guess it's like driving a car. You  
> guys are racing around, not even thinking about how to change gears,  
> whilst I'm still trying to to pull away in first without stalling the  
> motor! However, don't dumb things down too much on my behalf, I'm  
> sure over time I'll get at least into second gear and perhaps even  
> third or fourth!!
> 
> Cliff, as I mentioned, the link to the mailing list seems to take you  
> to a page on the wiki rather than the mailing list URL which I have  
> down as:
> 
> http://mailman.lug.org.uk/mailman/listinfo/watford
> 
> rather than
> 
> http://www.watford.lug.org.uk/wiki/index.php/Mailing_List
> 
> Just a suggestion because if folks are wanting to find out a bit more  
> about wlug or ask some questions its not as simple as perhaps it  
> might be?
> 
> I look forward to next months meeting all things being well....  Neel  
> (sp?), I owe you a pint!
> 
> Best regards,
> Dave
> 
> PS Easy ones for y'all. Now Steve has answered my question on making  
> sure linux boots on start up (its not dual boot but always seemed to  
> stop at the bootloader and require me to tap return), how do I check  
> that sshd is set to run on boot and how about setting up my 'have-a- 
> go box' to use a static IP rather than one set by my DHCP router  
> (Netgear DG834G v2).
> 
> I have no monitor connected to the box usually (it's under the  
> stairs) and use ssh to get in. When I've restarted in the past I've  
> lost the ability to ssh in for whatever reason. I've thought it's  
> probably the router giving it a different IP or sshd not running on  
> boot, so I want to cover all the bases before I give it another go.  
> Plus then I can power it down on occasions and just tell the wife to  
> switch it on if I need to get at it whilst at work or whatever.
> 
> It's a pain in the ar*e to wire up a monitor and physically log in to  
> check/start everything...
> 
> PPS Ubuntu 6.10 server edition
> 
> 
> 
> 
> 
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