[olug] Newbie stuff

[David Walker]

I'm a vegetarian so I'll have to bite the head off a live carrot or something.

On Wednesday 01 May 2002 01:17 pm, Jonathan Warren wrote:
> geek (gk)
> n. Slang
>
> 1. a. A person regarded as foolish, inept, or clumsy.
>    b. A person who is single-minded or accomplished in scientific or
> technical pursuits but is felt to be socially inept. 2. A carnival
> performer whose show consists of bizarre acts, such as biting the head off
> a live chicken.
>
> I think 1.b is close to describing what I think a geek is.  Wonder why a
> geek must be socially inept though.  Doesn't really seem fair.
>
> -Jon W
>
> On Wed, May 01, 2002 at 11:24:05AM -0500, David Walker wrote:
> > The poor guy in Portland has been objectified.  No longer an individual
> > he is now known to his friends only as 'unix-geek'.  (I guess that's
> > better than "Pink Booties" or "Neo-Geo")
> >
> > On Wednesday 01 May 2002 10:36 am, Tanya Loughead wrote:
> > > I'm with you, Eric...  But I sure am glad that there are some people in
> > > the world who know what the heck is going on with regards to these
> > > friend-and-foe  machines of ours!
> > >
> > > BTW, I e-mailed this string to my 'unix-geek' in Portland, as his
> > > specialty is UNIX programming with servers, ftp, etc.... I couldn't
> > > possibly respond coherently, but I know he could.
> > > As for me, I'm still just trying to get my word processor on Red Hat up
> > > and running.  Anyone know if there are footnote and thesaurus plugins 
> > > for Abiword yet?  I only heard that they were "on the way."
> > > --Tanya
> > >
> > > > -----Original Message-----
> > > > From: Eric Penne [mailto:epenne at yahoo.com]
> > > > Sent: Wednesday, May 01, 2002 10:30 AM
> > > > To: olug at olug.org
> > > > Subject: [olug] Newbie stuff
> > > >
> > > >
> > > > For all of you that didn't understand a single word of what matthew
> > > > said except "my white hairs must really be showing" please email me
> > > > and tell me i'm not alone.  :)
> > > >
> > > > Eric
> > > >
> > > > --- "Matthew G. Marsh" <mgm at midwestlinux.com> wrote:
> > > > > On Tue, 30 Apr 2002, Nate Rotschafer wrote:
> > > > > > I know we have several people on here who have probably done
> > > > > > this, especially Mr. Marsh.
> > > > >
> > > > > Hmmm - my white hairs must really be showing... ;-} Really -
> > > > > Matthew is
> > > > > fine.
> > > > >
> > > > > Anyway - Definitely read Bart's Advanced Routing HowTo (Phil gave
> > > > > the link) - ignore most of the Policy Routing stuff (he and I have
> > > > > issues...)
> > > > > but the TC Traffic Control parts are very well done.
> > > > >
> > > > > Also I have a kernal patch (part of the PakSecured Master Kernal
> > > > > Patch)
> > > > > that will allow you to use the u32 filter as a nfmark engine as
> > > > > well as
> > > > > for Ingress Control. My bet is that you are actually looking for
> > > > > Egress
> > > > > structures only so that may not be needed. Also if you need only
> > > > > simple
> > > > > multi-stream filtering (if this is related to the stuff we talked
> > > > > about a
> > > > > week ago) then definately check out Devik's HTB queue. It is easier
> > > > > on the
> > > > > configuration and works quite well.
> > > > >
> > > > > > I want to limit the bandwidth usage on my
> > > > > > server...not just apache but FTP and other stuff.  The easiest
> > > > > > way
> > > > >
> > > > > to do
> > > > >
> > > > > > this I think is some type of policy routing/traffic shaping but I
> > > > >
> > > > > dunno so
> > > > >
> > > > > > I'm trying to get some ideas if anyone has some.
> > > > > >
> > > > > > Thanks for the help,
> > > > > > Nate Rotschafer
> > > > > >
> > > > > > P.S.  If any more info is needed just let me know and I will post
> > > > >
> > > > > it.  The
> > > > >
> > > > > > site that I want to do this for is http://www.geniussystems.net
> > > > >
> > > > > btw.
> > > > >
> > > > > --------------------------------------------------
> > > > > Matthew G. Marsh,  President
> > > > > Paktronix Systems LLC
> > > > > 1506 North 59th Street
> > > > > Omaha  NE  68104
> > > > > Phone: (402) 932-7250
> > > > > Email: mgm at midwestlinux.com
> > > > > WWW:  http://www.midwestlinux.com
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