Meeting.2007.05.05
Other than my bacteria infestation, here's what went down during May's meeting:
There you have it. Until next time! Hopefully I won't have any germs this time around.
- CodeWarrior poses the question of how to control billing in ISPs.
- There was a mini discussion on scaling issues with regards to firewalls.
- Cisco's router failover protocol: Does it transfer sessions?
- Why are internet rates so high here in Lebanon when the services are usually craptastic?
- Laurent mentioned some pretty interesting spam incidents.
- What's better, NAT'ing or IPV6?
- Programmers have lots of options when it comes to depositing code: cvs, svn, mercurial..etc.
- How is our group composed; the ratio of programmers to administrators.
- Chady's experience with PHP and Perl.
- A comparison between coding languages/tools such as GTK, Mono, Python, and C#.
- Beryl vs. Compiz.
- Mohammed's experience with Ubuntu.
- Updating packages in a few Linux distributions and suggestions on how it could be done efficiently.
- How various distributions handle wireless support.
- Why don't we have a form of "IT Day" at the LAU? Or any form of event, at least once a year.
There you have it. Until next time! Hopefully I won't have any germs this time around.