http://leglug.org/articles/2007/05/05/meeting-2007-05-05 en-us 40 Lebanese GNU/Linux Users Group Other than my bacteria infestation, here's what went down during May's meeting: <ul> <li>CodeWarrior poses the question of how to control billing in ISPs.</li> <li>There was a mini discussion on scaling issues with regards to firewalls.</li> <li>Cisco's router failover protocol: Does it transfer sessions?</li> <li>Why are internet rates so high here in Lebanon when the services are usually craptastic?</li> <li>Laurent mentioned some pretty interesting spam incidents.</li> <li>What's better, NAT'ing or IPV6?</li> <li>Programmers have lots of options when it comes to depositing code: cvs, svn, mercurial..etc.</li> <li>How is our group composed; the ratio of programmers to administrators.</li> <li>Chady's experience with PHP and Perl.</li> <li>A comparison between coding languages/tools such as GTK, Mono, Python, and C#.</li> <li>Beryl vs. Compiz.</li> <li>Mohammed's experience with Ubuntu.</li> <li>Updating packages in a few Linux distributions and suggestions on how it could be done efficiently.</li> <li>How various distributions handle wireless support.</li> <li>Why don't we have a form of "IT Day" at the LAU? Or any form of event, at least once a year.</li> </ul> <br>There you have it. Until next time! Hopefully I won't have any germs this time around. Sat, 05 May 2007 18:36:00 +0000 urn:uuid:a9ed9369-67bd-4bf8-9d5a-00f952f7331f http://leglug.org/articles/2007/05/05/meeting-2007-05-05 Meetings meetings minutes