[GLLUG] Two new articles and call for presentations

[Alec Warner]

Do you want to just receive mail, or receive and send?  IIRC ssmtp does 
not let you receive mail, you need postfix/qmail/e-something for thing.

Caleb Cushing wrote:
> a mail server. I want to know how to set a mail server. Specifically I'd 
> really like a good tutorial for ssmtp. It the default mailer on gentoo 
> and it's not configured nore is there a good how to do it.
> 
> On 4/9/06, *Alec Warner* <warnera6 at egr.msu.edu 
> <mailto:warnera6 at egr.msu.edu>> wrote:
> 
>     Caleb Cushing wrote:
>      > I can do a demo on getting linux to work on an HP Pavillion
>     zv6000 for
>      > EDUARDO. LOL. Hey maybe I can get that blonde to do the demo so I
>     know he
>      > would pay attention. lol.
>      >
>      > Here's an Idea for an open source project, that could help a lot
>     of new
>      > linux users, a wiki that helps break people into linux.
>      >
> 
>     I was actually thinking about doing something like that, but I haven't
>     had time other than installing drupal on my webserver and playing with
>     all the modules ;)
> 
>      > (note: when I say other I assume that there isn't any other)
>      > I'd like to see demo's on more networking things, like
>     apache(other web
>      > servers), squid (other proxies), iptables (other firewalls),
>     SQL... if I
>      > come up with more....
>      >
>      > On 4/7/06, Charles Ulrich <charles at idealso.com
>     <mailto:charles at idealso.com>> wrote:
>      >
>      >>We have two new articles posted to the GLLUG website:
>      >>
>      >>A Day in the Sun by Frank Dolinar
>      >>Desktop Linux Overview by Caleb Cushing
>      >>
>      >>Go check them out at http://www.gllug.org if you get the chance. I'd
>      >>like to point out that anyone on the mailing list or attending the
>      >>meetings can send me their articles for publication on the website.
>      >>
>      >>And speaking of contributions, we're very nearly dry on meeting
>     topics
>      >>for April and beyond. If you have anything you'd like to present,
>     please
>      >>let me know. The meeting topic doesn't have to be a presentation
>     per se.
>      >>If you'd just like to have a Q&A session, that's fine too. We can
>     even
>      >>spend the evening just talking about something or working on a
>     problem.
>      >>
>      >>In short, I'm putting it to the group to toss out a few ideas.
>     Not long
>      >>ago, Jeff suggested that we, as a group, start or contribute to
>     an open
>      >>source project. This is a good idea, but experience has shown
>     that most
>      >>people attend for the information and the socializing. Most of the
>      >>actual work done on a project or workshop at a meeting is done by
>     one or
>      >>two people. Maybe after Penguicon, we could start up something like
>      >>that, but it definitely won't take over the meetings. June has an
>     extra
>      >>Thursday in it, so maybe we could do a BBQ that month.
>      >>
>      >>It won't be a train wreck if we just spend a meeting here and there
>      >>socializing. But if we don't have some direction for most of the
>      >>meetings, it'll be hard to maintain and expand our membership.
>      >>
>      >>Here are a few topics worth considering:
>      >>- Databases
>      >>- Basic command-line concepts (since we have a few newer Linux users
>      >>attending regularly)
>      >>- Virtualization
>      >>- Networking
>      >>- Desktop environments (KDE, GNOME, your favorite window manager)
>      >>- Security concepts
>      >>
>      >>Any other topics that you would like to see covered?
>      >>--
>      >>Charles Ulrich
>      >>Ideal Solution, LLC -- http://www.idealso.com
>      >>
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