[GLLUG] gentoo user with questions..

[Matt Graham]

On Thursday 10 April 2003 20:22, after a long battle with technology, 
Aaron Massey wrote:
> 1)  I'm very interested in contacting someone at MSU about setting up
> an official gentoo linux mirror. 

This would be nifty.

> how should I connect to the Internet?

T3.  Oh, wait... you want something that doesn't cost $50,000/month?  
*sigh*

> there a good ISP in the area?  How fast is cable modem access?

AT&T/Comcast/whoever it is this week caps upstream at 32Kbyte/s, 
downstream at (roughly) 150-200 Kbyte/s.  They made threatening noises 
in their TOS about "running servers" but they haven't said a word about 
my (very low-traffic) Apache, my (non-open-relay) Postfix, and the 
everpresent sshd.  DSL is available if you live on the east side of 
town, possibly with better upstream and/or less evil TOS.  Price is 
about the same,  $50-70/month for the bandwidth described above.  
Quality of service varies with location; I have barely had any problems 
at all here on the west side while Ed G. on the east side had his 
connection drop every few hours.  I haven't investigated much since I 
only have a choice of evil AT&T cablemodem or dialup in my current 
apartment.

Jeff is trying to get some wide-area wireless things going.  

> 3)  I'm curious if there are any other gentoo users out there.  I'm a
> Site Admin at http://forums.gentoo.org and I have seen several people
> from Michigan posting there.  Does anyone else visit those forums
> frequently? If so, what's your handle?

I use Gentoo, but I prefer Usenet to web-based forums.  (When web-based 
forums became popular, many of the total idiots devoted their time to 
web-based things rather than Usenet, and there was much rejoicing.)

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