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<DIV class=OutlookMessageHeader dir=ltr align=left><FONT face=Tahoma
size=2>-----Original Message-----<BR><B>From:</B> scott
[mailto:scott@slackisland.org]<BR><B>Sent:</B> Wednesday, 13 September 2006
4:20 p.m.<BR><B>To:</B> Wellington Linux Users Group<BR><B>Subject:</B> Re:
[wellylug] hi from Tokyo<BR><BR></FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><TT>Hi everyone,</TT><BR><BR><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><BR><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><BR><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><BR><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><BR><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><BR><TT>Geek
out!</TT><BR><BR><TT>Anyway thanks again for your kindness
and advice.</TT><BR><BR><TT>Cheers,</TT><BR><BR><TT>Scott in
Tokyo <BR><SPAN class=892123005-13092006><FONT face=Arial
color=#0000ff size=2>[Peter
Jones] </FONT></SPAN></TT></DIV>
<DIV><TT><SPAN class=892123005-13092006><FONT face=Arial
color=#0000ff size=2>You can get cable (as opposed to ADSL)
in Wellington and Christchurch so that gets you a static IP
as a matter of course.</FONT></SPAN></TT></DIV>
<DIV><TT><SPAN class=892123005-13092006><FONT face=Arial
color=#0000ff size=2>ADSL is provided by Telecom (with other
ISPs sub leasing, so to speak) and that gets you a
dynamic IP</FONT></SPAN></TT></DIV>
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<DIV><TT><SPAN class=892123005-13092006><FONT face=Arial
color=#0000ff size=2>The cable service is provided by
TelstraClear. This page gives their current
terms </FONT></SPAN></TT></DIV>
<DIV><TT><SPAN class=892123005-13092006><FONT face=Arial
color=#0000ff size=2><A
href="http://www.telstraclear.co.nz/products-res/packages/residential_pricing.cfm">http://www.telstraclear.co.nz/products-res/packages/residential_pricing.cfm</A></FONT> </SPAN></TT><BR><BR><BR><BR></DIV></TD></TR></TBODY></TABLE></TD></TR></TBODY></TABLE></TD></TR></TBODY></TABLE></BLOCKQUOTE></BODY></HTML>