VicLAN Information.

[kyzen]

Hey Guys, Looks like the old Database is gone! So many posts sacraficed to the anger and greed of the internet gods. Sorry that their has been no updates as of late, don't worry though, our commitment isn't flailing, me and spot have been in meetings and getting more information, we want this set up right from the start so nothing comes back to bite us in the butt later on.
So guys, lets not lose the momentum that we had built up, you'll have to re-register unfortunately, sorry about the inconvinience, nearly as inconvinient as driving all the way to Geelong for nothing ;) /me looks at Mark sideways :p

[SPOT]

hahah BAM!!

EVERYBODY LOVES HYPNOTOAD!!

[cherrypopper]

Yeah i will see if i can find my list of stuff again.... Then i will post it.

Admit it you just wanted to see my similing face... thats always worth a drive to Geelong :-)

[madcap_magician]

Kyzen, how can i register myself and my LAN for VICLan?

i would really like to be able to help out and support this org.

any help would be craze!

peace

[kyzen]

The constitution and structure hasn't been put in place yet, I'm still in meeting, and me and spot are looking at non profit organisation support groups etc.

[SPOT]

don't worry guys VicLAN is on the edge of blowing up y'all!!
kenny and me are going through all the setup stages of getting VicLAN right.
and once done BAM!! its all gravy beatch!

[IIVIIandrake]

Mmmmmmmm gravy!!!!!!! YUmmmmmmmmmmmm

[Zenon]

nice

[madcap_magician]

Kyzen/Spot :- is there going to be another VICLan meeting at the end of X6 or LAN69? i would really like to get to know more about the VICLan

[kyzen]

All is looking excellent at the moment, we "SHOULD" be starting our small business course next week. Info will follow, and membership details will be us as soon as the constitution is changed, which is a big deal. Pages and pages and pages of legal stuff that we have to do!
But we can say that one of the biggest things that we will do is offer public liability insurance for members.

[Zenon]

nice very nice im sure the folks at lan-zilla will love to get their hands on this shit all the way

[kyzen]

Well, me and Spot walked in, and went BAM at the selection panel. They went w00t and we got into NEIS, we lay all the other contenders to waste, there was about 50-60 people applying, and 20 places! We got the funk! We start on monday.

[madcap_magician]

Werd! Congrats Kenny, VICLan is the BoMb yo!!

so when can someone apply to join VICLan?

[SPOT]

well we haven't put all the lan membership stuff into place yet and there are a few things we still have to do.

but memberships will definetly be available by the end of the year.
so just hang on a little longer mayne.

[baikes]

NEIS - New Enterprise Incentive Scheme (for al those that don't know)

Any word on the minutes from the first meeting lads?
We need a mailing group created I think (suggestion).

[madcap_magician]

agreed, i missed that, i was fucked, but yea chuck me down for the mailing list ....Peace

[kyzen]

Originally posted by baikes
NEIS - New Enterprise Incentive Scheme (for al those that don't know)

Any word on the minutes from the first meeting lads?
We need a mailing group created I think (suggestion).
Hey Champ, there is a mailing list, and you just got on it ;) It's linked to this forum, which will become the VicLAN forum, LANX, LAN69, and any other member lan that needs a fast rad forum will be sub forums :)

[baikes]

Nice.
TNW doesn't need a forum, but you could link to ours if you want...

[kyzen]

Where are you hosting your site? I can set up subdomains for LAN's that are interested, i.e. http://tnw.viclan.org.au Up to you guys though.

[madcap_magician]

werd! thanks for that kyzen, and yea next when we have our revamped website for LAN-ZillA, a quicker location would own, ie. not off the crawleytech 56k linux server, god bless that server

[baikes]

I'm hosing my site at home.
1.5Mb ADSL Linux Server.
Its a little beast that wont give up the ghost.

[kyzen]

Originally posted by madcap_magician
werd! thanks for that kyzen, and yea next when we have our revamped website for LAN-ZillA, a quicker location would own, ie. not off the crawleytech 56k linux server, god bless that server
But I haven't put up the new LANX site yet?! How could you have ripped it off already? :p

[madcap_magician]

ROFL!!!@$@#

Um....yea i'm personal sorry about that kyzen, we just did'nt know how to handle something like that, and well, we kinda saw urs and it was great, think of it more like a loan to help out some gamers who put not only there time, and a there own cash out on the line to get a LAN up and started...agian, very sorry :(

Linux Severs Rule!!!

[kyzen]

That's OK darl :homo










Don't let it happen again! :no

[baikes]

Two weeks and nothing.....no additions??

[kyzen]

Aye! :o LANX was on this weekend! You know how busy you get around LAN time ;)
We have been looking into using XBOX's as our linux network server! They are cheap, and will do the job well. Dave's dead sexy linux model is going to be great, we had a trial with an "alpha" version at LANX, and it was solid as!

[baikes]

How did the xbox dedicated linux box perform??

[SPOT]

we haven't tested it yet, as i am still waiting on the funds to get the stuff i need to do it.

but hopefully i'll get a chance to do it by the end of the year, and then i'll fill ya in on how it goes!

[baikes]

Nice. I look forward to the specs.

Being that this is the NEWS section....
I would like to make notice that I and recently passed MY RHCT Exam.

I'm now a RedHat Certified Technician.
RHCE >> November.

[kyzen]

WD mate, congrats on that, we use TrustIX for our servers, awesome :)

Hey spot, you run a LAN, shouldn't you have money coming out of your orifice's? Cause you know all that money that you collect off people, you should have heaps :rolleyes:

[baikes]

The only thing I found about TrustIX is about its security....and a few warnings....

What say you?

[kyzen]

Solid, thats about all I can say :)

[radass]

Trustix is a very clean distribution, with a focus on security and only essential services configured to start by defualt. I got pissy at distributions that carry 5 different applications for each purpose and installing a ton of bloat ...

Plus the distributions are maintained for a long period of time, and it's very simple to securely update packages as new versions are released or patches are back ported. On top of that there is a great low noise mailing list and active community ... the company makes it's money with commercial support contracts.

Works for me.

Just renamed to Tawie Server Linux (still TSL)

http://www.tawie.net

[cherrypopper]

This distro looks interesting, i am downloading it now and will give it a go.

Have you had any issues with it so far?

[radass]

well, nothing i would call an issue.

Until recently, Trustix 1.5 was the most recent version, and because that in itself had been around for a while, it was based upon the 2.2 kernel (and hence no iptables). So my standard setup involved a 2.4 kernel build, that's no biggie. Seriously, these guys do a great job of keeping it solid as a rock.

There has been a few minor issues with the 2.0 release, mainly just the ironing out of setup bugs and these are being dealt with as they emerge. To be expected of a .0 release really. I'd still use 2.0 in a production environment, no worries (If i had any reason at all to replace the 1.5 servers which have been running no worries for a year or so). But if you don't need the more advanced features of 2.0 (2.4 kernel, SMTP Auth, DSL out-of-the-box etc) then 1.5 is still worth a red hot go, as it will still be supported (kept up to date) for a long time yet. They still update their 1.2 release apparently.

The only thing i'd change about it, is to change the MTA to exim instead of postfix. Exim, if you haven't checked it out, is amazing. Well worth the time it takes to understand how it works.

Oh, and maybe chroot a few more services ...