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The "Ask the Experts" panel consisted of:
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Brad Doctor, SysAdmin and Networks Expert
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Cricket Liu, DNS and Networks Expert
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Paul Kooros, Perl, Java, JavaScript and Networks Expert
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Evi Nemeth, SysAdmin and Networks Expert
Barbara Dijker, President of SAGE (The USENIX Association's System
Administrator's Guild), announced the formation of a local group to
complement FRUUG. She also announced a mailing list supporting
Colorado-SAGE, and passed out a sign-up list. Interested parties
can check
http://www.NeTrack.NET/co-sage/.
The session format was not restricted to any topic threads,
and many topics were discussed, from the microcosm of
implementation details, to philosophy on big-picture issues.
Aproximately 65 people were in attendance.
Some of the more notable topics included:
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(The obligatory) Y2K issues of note.
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Download vendor recommended patches.
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Sun Y2K patches are being frequently augmented.
=> Download and install often
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Probably the same for other vendors
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Some vendors are bundling many non-Y2K patches in with
the Y2K patch sets, reason unclear.
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Most "experts" thought Y2K would not be a big deal,
although "well, you never know" was heard often.
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Fragility of the Windows2000 DNS implementation and deployment.
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Win2k depends entirely on DNS. If DNS hangs, so does it.
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Win2k DNS should probably exist in its own subdomain.
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Cricket discussed the coexistance issues.
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Cricket: 4th edition of O'Reilly DNS book coming soon; this
will be the topic of a spring 2000 FRUUG meeting.
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When will the 3rd Edition of Evi's SysAdmin Handbook be out?
Evi: Real soon now... working on it furiously.
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Techniques of remotely managing groups of workstations discussed:
No one really uses NIS+
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Nifty-neato tools or things that "experts" recently noted included:
rrdtool, vim, MySQL, samba, make -p, and the free StarOffice.
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Privacy implications of Netscape 4.x's "What's Related" feature.
The browser transmits (to Alexa) every URL visited.
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Many other topics.
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