[wellylug] hi from Tokyo

[Jethro Carr]

On Wed, 2006-09-13 at 13:20 +0900, scott wrote:
> First of all, I'm really grateful for all of the kind welcome mail,
> etc.
> Thank you! I'm pleased to meet you all. In comparison to our Tokyo
> Linux
> Users Group, it seems like everybody is much more relaxed and
> friendly-
> the Tokyo list is sometimes overwhelmingly pedantic and nit-picky
> about
> netiquette (if you top-post they throw you to the dogs).

beware, that can still happen here sometime.... :-)


> Once I
> accidentally used the word "hacker" when I meant "cracker" and was
> almost excommunicated... so it's nice to not have to worry too much
> about insignificant and oftentimes arbitrary protocols. 

ouch.

We are much more causal here. :-)


> We are flying in to Auckland on either the 18th or 25th of November. 
> From there we plan on renting a car and taking a couple of days to
> drive
> down to Wellington. I'll send the exact dates when they are finalized.
> Although I won't be down in time to attend the meeting, maybe if
> anyone
> is free we can hook up for a drink and talk geek. 

sounds cool.


> Incidentally, I've heard broadband costs in Wellington are around 125$
> monthly- is this correct? The server I'm sending this mail from
> (slackisland) is currently in my kitchen and if possible I'd like to
> migrate it as well to NZ, but I'm wondering about broadband and ISP
> costs. Do ISPs there allow leasing of a single dedicated IP and let
> you
> set the hostname for those reverse DNS resolution issues? What are you
> all doing for your servers? If it's too expensive then I'll resort to
> renting a server from some other provider, but the server that I'm
> running now is really awesome and I'd like to keep it: It's a homemade
> dual core AMD64 with software Raid5 on 4 SATA drives, and check this
> out, it is liquid cooled with one of these:
> 
> http://www.amadeus-oberasbach.de/Bilder-Ebay/andreas/zalmann-
> neu/reserator01.jpg

*drool*. :-)

In terms of internet, it's not as high as you have quoted about. About
half that can get you decent cable connection.

Basicly, if you are going to run a server, cable is the best residential
option.

The ideal solution, is to try and find an employer that will let you
hook your box up to their network. :-) Cable is good, but it's not
always the most reliable. (it's a residential connection technology -
it's not a core technology)

cheers,

-- 
Jethro Carr

www.jethrocarr.com
www.jethrocarr.com/index.php?page=cv/cv.php
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