Re: Meetings and all things morlug.

s booting into a live cd going to ruffle any feathers?  no more AD concerns
then.

On 9/29/06, Michael Bond <[email protected]> wrote:
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> This is true, however, many university departments that have public
> machines use an Active Directory to lock down which programs are allowed to
> be run by users. If this is the case we wouldn't be able to do that without
> renaming putty.exe to winword.exe, and i'm not willing to let MorLUG break
> lab rules to use putty.
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> Mike.
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> On Sep 28, 2006, at 12:03 PM, Thomas I Higgins wrote:
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> Hi Mike.  I just wanted to let you know I just learned of Putty and I use
> it off a USB stick.  Since it is simply an executable, it doesn't even
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> "loaded".  All you need to do is give the connection information, run the
> executable, and go from there.  Glad to have gotten things rolling
> today...Looks like a few thoughts have gotten stirred ;-)
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> Thomas Higgins
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> Great!
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> I am going to look into the feasibility of holding meetings in the large
> group viewing in the library as well. There are no  computers on the
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> there, but it has drops and a WAP in the room and an instructors machine
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> front ... I'd be able to hook a linux box up to the podium or provide
> connections for a laptop.
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> Unfortunately I don't think I'll be able to reserve our computer lab since
> it is now open to the public during the evening hours.
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> If using the large group viewing room in the library falls through we
> could defiantly make use of your room.
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> Would it be possible to get putty loaded on the lab machines? I could
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> a box for SSH access and give everyone a username/password to use during
> the meeting.
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> Mike.
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> On Sep 28, 2006, at 10:36 AM, JC Doll wrote:
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>       Hey Michael,
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>       I actually tired to attended, but do to the road construction and
>       trying to find parking it was 7:40 before I made it down to the
>       building.  Sadly only to find no one there.
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>       We normally do not offer this to Student Organizations for regular
>       meetings, but I spoke with my Manager and he did not have a problem
>       with it.  Since Murlug meetings are computer releated and can be
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>       as training, Academic Information Services can make available to you
>       our High Technology Rooms.  Our rooms at White Hall Computer Lab can
>       handle up to 44 people, and the one at Evansdale can handle 16
>       people.  We would not be able to load Linux on the PCs, but Laptops
>       can be hooked up to the projector system.  We have wireless access
>       available at the Evansdale Lab.  White Hall has limited access.
> I've
>       not tested to see if we have reception in the classrooms, but I'll
>       check on that.
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>       If you would like to talk about it, I can be reached at 293-4664 x1.
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>       J.C. Doll
>       Information Technology Consultant
>       Academic Information Services
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> Michael Bond <[email protected]> 9/27/2006 8:46 PM >>>
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>       This is going to be a bit of a rant, but an important one.
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>       This is both a WVU student group and a community group. We rely on
>       everyone to do their part, to help, to plan and to share their
>       knowledge. This evening is a good example of how this all broke
>       down.
>       Only myself and one other person showed up for the meeting this
>       evening.
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>       As advisor to the group I have been extremely lax/passive/informal
>       about how things get done. That's just how I am, I believe that if
>       you have a group on intelligent people who can ask the right
>       questions little needs to be done by an advisor or supervisor.
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>       This, sadly, doesn't seem to be the case with MorLUG for whatever
>       reason. As such, we will have to become more formal.
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>       First, next wednesday was supposed to be an installfest. I haven't
>       even seen if we actually have the room reserved or not. I also
>       haven't seen any advertising. I suggest we postpone it to a later
>       date.
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>       Next, we need members. We have 2 regular student attendees. We need
>       3
>       officers to be elected in January, that means we need more student
>       members attending meetings so that we can vote.
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>       I hate saying this but it needs done, If we do not have enough
>       students to hold an election in january I will be stepping down as
>       advisor for the following school year. Finding new blood is the
>       students of the groups job via word of mouth and advertising. Use
>       facebook to your advantage. Hang fliers, etc.
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>       The meetings need to be announced to the mailing list with an
>       agenda.
>       I've been doing this, but again, i'm not here to run this group. I'm
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>       here to advise, and I advise you to select someone to announce
>       meetings and agendas several days before hand.
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>       We have a list of topics in the last meeting minutes. Talk to the
>       people, find out when they can do it and schedule it. I will add a
>       topic to the list now: "Using IPTables to secure a linux box" ...
>       its
>       the one i worked on this evening.
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>       If another meeting is cancelled because of complete lack of planning
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>       i will be very upset. I want to see discussion on the list and a
>       decision about who will be posting announcements and agendas within
>       the next 2 weeks. I also want to know what the plans will be to
>       advertise each and every meeting, and our up coming special events.
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>       Mike.
>       [email protected]
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