[KLUG Members] KLUG Meeting Notes - 11/12/2002

[members@kalamazoolinux.org]

>Andrew Thompson, Peter Buxton, and Dirk Bartley did the
>installmaster duties tonight helping a Linux newcomer, but
>a Unix power user, get Red Hat v8.0 installed and configured.
>He happens to work at Bell Labs.  He told us they are still
>a Unix-based organization despite selling Unix to SCO!  We

We have a Bell Labs facility in the Kalamazoo area?!

>One member was getting help with Cyrus IMAP installation and
>configuration.  Heard this fellow had not just one, but two, 

Cyrus IMAP rules!!!  Did you get it figured out?

>disastrous system hardware failures this week and he IS still
>walking upright!  Both his laptop and a desktop... wasn't the
>fault of the rock solid Linux OS!  He was getting plenty of
>empathy from the digital veterans who heard his tale of pain
>and shock learning...  It is not IF you will have a hardware
>failure, it is WHEN!  It has happened to most of us and you
>either rebuild from scratch or reload that tape backup!  The
>last guy I saw who rebuilt from scratch... he still has night
>terrors about it.  

Yep, I do.  But I'm getting counseling now.  If only those angels would stop
whispering in my ear instructions for building bombs.....