Firstly, kudos and thanks to Carl Cerecke for his lucid and entertaining talk on Regular Expressions. Your experience in teaching shows, you explain clearly and present well.
Secondly thanks to Volker for coming along ready to present something on iptables. Its a pity we didn't have time to get you started, but your suggestion of a discussion on needs for future meetings was valuable. What arose? Don requested a lot of information on networking and distro management, from basic up to intermediate level, a lot of it perhaps not strictly relevant to Volker's proposed iptables talk. (Actually Don I think you need to read a good book on TCP/IP, as many of your questions were not linux/unix tool specific. Nick Rout to undertake a talk on more advanced multimedia stuff, getting into more nitty gritty about video editing, format/codec conversion and Video-DVD authoring, all in the linux environment. Andrew Turner is to talk on BSD. Differences and similarities to Linux, ports system etc. Rik requested a talk on "The Unix Specification" and how linux differs from unix, how much linux complies with the spec etc. No one felt qualified to speak on this, but if someone on the list is interested in speaking on this, please stand up now. John Carter is to speak on a presently unknown topic (next month?). Can we have details John? There were a few other suggestions, but I didn't make a note, this is from memory. People can add suggestions to this thread, but please also add them to the new wiki page I just made. http://clug.net.nz/index.php/ProposedTopics
