Meeting.2007.05.05

Posted by Maieve Sat, 05 May 2007 18:36:00 GMT

Other than my bacteria infestation, here's what went down during May's meeting:
  • 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.