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<TT>Hi everyone,</TT><BR>
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<TT>First of all, I'm really grateful for all of the kind welcome mail, etc.</TT><BR>
<TT>Thank you! I'm pleased to meet you all. In comparison to our Tokyo Linux</TT><BR>
<TT>Users Group, it seems like everybody is much more relaxed and friendly-</TT><BR>
<TT>the Tokyo list is sometimes overwhelmingly pedantic and nit-picky about</TT><BR>
<TT>netiquette (if you top-post they throw you to the dogs). Once I</TT><BR>
<TT>accidentally used the word "hacker" when I meant "cracker" and was</TT><BR>
<TT>almost excommunicated... so it's nice to not have to worry too much</TT><BR>
<TT>about insignificant and oftentimes arbitrary protocols. </TT><BR>
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<TT><FONT COLOR="#737373">> When abouts are you going to be around in November? We have a meeting on</FONT></TT><BR>
<TT><FONT COLOR="#737373">> the 13th of November you might be interested in attending. :-)</FONT></TT><BR>
<TT><FONT COLOR="#737373">> <A HREF="http://www.wellylug.org.nz/index.php?page=meetings/meetings.php">http://www.wellylug.org.nz/index.php?page=meetings/meetings.php</A></FONT></TT><BR>
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<TT>We are flying in to Auckland on either the 18th or 25th of November.</TT> <BR>
<TT><FONT COLOR="#737373">From there we plan on renting a car and taking a couple of days to drive</FONT></TT><BR>
<TT>down to Wellington. I'll send the exact dates when they are finalized.</TT><BR>
<TT>Although I won't be down in time to attend the meeting, maybe if anyone</TT><BR>
<TT>is free we can hook up for a drink and talk geek. </TT><BR>
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<TT>Incidentally, I've heard broadband costs in Wellington are around 125$</TT><BR>
<TT>monthly- is this correct? The server I'm sending this mail from</TT><BR>
<TT>(slackisland) is currently in my kitchen and if possible I'd like to</TT><BR>
<TT>migrate it as well to NZ, but I'm wondering about broadband and ISP</TT><BR>
<TT>costs. Do ISPs there allow leasing of a single dedicated IP and let you</TT><BR>
<TT>set the hostname for those reverse DNS resolution issues? What are you</TT><BR>
<TT>all doing for your servers? If it's too expensive then I'll resort to</TT><BR>
<TT>renting a server from some other provider, but the server that I'm</TT><BR>
<TT>running now is really awesome and I'd like to keep it: It's a homemade</TT><BR>
<TT>dual core AMD64 with software Raid5 on 4 SATA drives, and check this</TT><BR>
<TT>out, it is liquid cooled with one of these:</TT><BR>
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<TT><A HREF="http://www.amadeus-oberasbach.de/Bilder-Ebay/andreas/zalmann">http://www.amadeus-oberasbach.de/Bilder-Ebay/andreas/zalmann</A>-</TT><BR>
<TT>neu/reserator01.jpg</TT><BR>
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<TT>Geek out!</TT><BR>
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<TT>Anyway thanks again for your kindness and advice.</TT><BR>
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<TT>Cheers,</TT><BR>
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<TT>Scott in Tokyo </TT><BR>
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