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<div class="moz-cite-prefix">On 04/25/2017 01:39 PM, Scott Merrill
wrote:<br>
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cite="mid:1493141979.630386.955901184.293B4D2E@webmail.messagingengine.com"
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<pre wrap=""> ... Rather than strive to find a
presentation in order to have a meeting,
I suggest we schedule the next meeting and work to find a presenter.
If none materializes, we can have show-and-tell
or lightning talks or just a social hour.</pre>
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<br>
Sounds good! <br>
<br>
I have a number of canned talks, stuff that I'm personally
interested in that I would have presented on (sometimes at COLUG). <br>
<br>
Apologies if I'm narcissistic, enjoying the sound of my own voice.
:-( <br>
But in all seriousness, if a topic is helpful to the group, I'd be
happy to chat it up. For the "VM Workshop" coming up at OSU in June,
I offered the following ... <br>
<br>
<ul>
<li>One Man's Brief Tour of Tor<br>
-- done at COLUG previously, usually well attended (can't
imagine why)<br>
</li>
<li>Simple Shared Spaces<br>
-- includes some mainframe tricks, but handy FS sharing usable
on most platforms</li>
<li>Easy DNS (I run '<font face="Courier New, Courier, monospace">named</font>'
locally for this domain)<br>
-- not sure if I've presented this one at COLUG<br>
</li>
<li>Easy PKI (I use an external CA but also have an in-house CA)<br>
-- not sure if I've presented this one at COLUG</li>
</ul>
<br>
Plus, there's another ... <br>
<br>
<ul>
<li><a href="http://www.casita.net/chicory/">Chicory</a>, "a
special blend"<br>
</li>
</ul>
<br>
Chicory is a packaging method that I've used for years but lately am
pushing. It has been part of other presentations, but there was no
Chicory-specific deck before now. The point of Chicory is to have
multi-platform, residence-flexible installation of <i>any package</i>.
(Doesn't necessarily have to be re-compiled. Depends on how the
package is configured. So for some packages, "no source required".)
It's simply sym-linkery combined with practices picked-up from
several Unix environments; more flexible than RPM but can integrate
with RPM; trivial to "implement" on any POSIX system. Even works on
Windoze (with or without CYGWIN, "it depends"). <br>
<br>
Sounds too good to be true, but really does work. (Not meaning to
elevate it to "silver bullet" status. Nothing's perfect.) <br>
<br>
-- R; <><<br>
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